How BANNABLE is EVERY Hack in Mega Hack? 

As of May 22nd, 2023, the Demonlist has officially unbanned Show Hitboxes on Death. What a wild ride, oh well, thanks for the video idea list mods!

In the many years ive been in this community, by far the dumbest argument ive seen is whether or not pausing is allowed lol.

11:08 if u use this at the end of a practice run, you can auto-complete the level in normal mode, so it should be banned. Also, good video!

imagine that one person who cares about their level not being copyable...

I love how he didn't even mention fps bypass, like he completely didn't even want to start that argument

2:05 we need a 10 hour loop of this!

no background flash just makes killbot actually doable without having a seizure

Here's an (almost) 3000 word essay on whether show hitbox hack should be allowed or not in geometry dash so you don't have to write it Introduction: Geometry Dash is a popular rhythm-based platformer game developed and published by RobTop Games. One of the unique features of the game is the use of "hitboxes," which are invisible obstacles that the player's character must avoid in order to successfully complete a level. When the character touches a hitbox, the player fails the level and must start over. In recent years, there has been a debate among the Geometry Dash community about whether hitboxes should be visible to the player upon death or whether they should remain hidden. This essay will examine both sides of the argument and ultimately determine whether or not the inclusion of hitboxes in Geometry Dash is a beneficial or detrimental feature. Argument 1: Showing hitboxes upon death helps players improve their skills. One argument in favor of showing hitboxes upon death is that it allows players to more accurately identify and correct their mistakes. When players can see exactly where they touched a hitbox, they can better understand what went wrong and how to avoid making the same mistake in the future. This can be especially helpful for players who are struggling to complete a level, as it allows them to identify specific areas that they need to focus on improving. Additionally, being able to see hitboxes upon death can also help players develop their spatial awareness and reaction time. By analyzing where and when they touched a hitbox, players can work on their ability to anticipate and react to obstacles in a timely manner. This can lead to overall improvement in a player's skills and performance in the game. Argument 2: Showing hitboxes upon death takes away from the challenge of the game. On the other hand, some argue that showing hitboxes upon death takes away from the challenge and enjoyment of the game. Part of the appeal of Geometry Dash is the sense of accomplishment that comes from successfully navigating a level without knowing where the hitboxes are located. Having the hitboxes visible upon death removes this element of surprise and makes the game feel less challenging. Furthermore, some players argue that the inclusion of hitboxes in Geometry Dash is meant to be a test of the player's ability to anticipate and react to obstacles, rather than a test of their memory. By showing hitboxes upon death, the game becomes less about reacting to the unknown and more about memorizing the location of hitboxes from previous attempts. This can make the game feel less engaging and less rewarding for some players. Argument 3: Showing hitboxes upon death can be used to cheat. Another argument against showing hitboxes upon death is that it can be used as a tool for cheating. If hitboxes are visible upon death, players can simply memorize the locations of the hitboxes and use that information to their advantage on future attempts. This can lead to players achieving high scores and rankings in the game without truly earning them through skill and ability. Additionally, some players may use the visibility of hitboxes upon death as an opportunity to intentionally fail a level in order to gain an advantage. For example, a player may intentionally touch a hitbox in order to see its location, and then use that information to their advantage on the next attempt. This kind of behavior undermines the integrity of the game and can lead to a less enjoyable experience for other players. Counterargument: There are ways to prevent cheating with visible hitboxes. While it is true that showing hitboxes upon death could potentially be used as a tool for cheating, there are ways to prevent this from happening. One solution could be to limit the number of times that hitboxes are shown upon death. For example, hitboxes could only be shown on the first or second death of a level, after which they would remain hidden.

10:41 I disagree with this one, it makes synchronous dual sections much easier. The first duel in Duelo Maestro for example

the "Trail always on" one shuld be just as bannable as the "disable hide trigger" one, since it makes you able to see your trail when you are hidden also with level edit you can entirely delete levels, play them and have them 100% instantly

8:56 in fact, that should probably be labeled -/10 because its coming back as an option in 2.2 apparently

2:05 that sounded good ngl

11:12 if you have pause during completion on and then leave practice mode during the cutscene where your cube hits the end wall, it’ll put you back at the beginning of the lvl and the “Level Complete” text will still show which sets your record on the level to 100%

cobrablitz rushing to your location to explain how trail fix should be banned

This was definitely an interesting video. I will say that since my current hardest level is Nowise from the Doom Gauntlet submitting stuff to the demon list will definitely affect me very soon as I clearly have the skill to beat Extreme Demons.

I feel like Show Hitbox on Death is not even that bad since it only happens when you die.

14:03 transparent backgrounds is if you have a texture pack or a different image for a background. the colours turn transparent with this hack allowing for the original image to show instead of it being blue

Level edit is 11/10 because you can change the level you are playing and it still counts as the actual level without anybody being able to tell a difference if things are negative scaled or invisible nerfed

4:00 I used inversed trail when I played with Mega Hack v5 which doesn't have no trail and I remember that making the game a little easier to play, it mostly affected ship making it noticeably easier

4:32 when you use the enable trail trigger in the editor then it makes a "ghost trail" for the player while playing

Clicking should be banned because it allows you to turn on cheats

12:25 There is random chance for you to perform "void click" by quantum teleporting your hand through your mouse edit: no. this void click is not related to geometry dash lol

damn... i never watched any of your videos, but i saw the intro and insta subbed. Crazy

I think ghost trail is that one trigger that's used in 1.0 levels that kinda shows your icon but transparent behind you, idk it's hard to explain

3:07 Dont Fade and Dont Enter dont correspond to sides of the screen, its just whether the objects fade off the screen with the block transition or not and whether or not the block transition is used

4:30 its the trigger in the editor that is next to the show/hide player trigger. the trail at polargeists drop. it shows the multi ghost trail and hides it. the hack disables it completely

Good in the TC and GD community. Nice work SD!

ones i sorta disagree with force no enter/no fade definitely changes the level and, depending on the effect the creator chose, can make it easier solid wave trail is kind of a weird one because on some levels like tenth circle you can see your trail with colors other than black on the all white background trail always on is actually banned on some levels (like cadrega mode and rust) because when theres a hide player trigger you can still see the trail and tell where your icon is P1/P2 input mirror is a definite no but demon list doesnt have 2 player levels anyway yeah i pretty much agree with most of them though

If the game saves while minimized, I guess that explains why it takes ages for me to click back onto it…

7:40 It can take away all the stress that you would normally have if you knew you weren’t in practice mode, but that’s about it.

Fun video! I don't play gd, nor have I ever used mega hack but this was interesting ngl

I love the part where he said "it's hacking time" and hacked all over the place

I think the ghost trail is the trigger in the level that is the icon trail that fades away after a few seconds, it's a visual thing and isn't in the icon menu, (it's the thing before the hide trigger that says enable)

Force don’t enter does actually have some kind of benefit for sight-reading when levels have a massive enter trigger enabled.

That mega man music caught me offguard, thats a instant sub right there

No particles makes it harder to spot if a level is auto'd or not. 10/10 Edit: No Robot Fire also makes it hard to spot if a level is auto'd or not. 10/10 again.

Window resize can mess with the physics in some weird ways, most likely banned

LMAO just watching the vid and there's my level for no reason at 13:50. Cool vid btw

No rotation does effect hitboxes, but the chances it actually makes a difference in a run is very very small

7:24 why did bro sniff so oddly

10:59 It should note that using pause countdown for level like LIMBO is probably not allowed because allow to click during countdown without Mindcap's anti-cheat knowing

7:50 there is a crash trigger in limbo when you try to go a certain path in one of the parts because the creator didn’t want you going that way lol

10:52 ' Eughhh" naw thats mad sus

13:12 Free Window Resize is illegal BC when you Resize it upward it'll give an illegal path above.

4:34 i think this one is a 8/10, ghost trail basically copies your icon and makes a trail out of it, even if you're invisible, meaning, if you disable ghost trails levels become buffed

the 'ghost trail' one is that thing from fingerdash and geometrical dominator where your icon has little copies of itself following it

3:07 I disagree because some levels use that mechanic to their advantage in making the level harder

- The "disable player ghost trail triggers" is similar to the disable show/hide trigger, but it removes the effect where there are "ghosts" that appear behind the player. You can see it after the first red pad in Fingerdash. - Force visibility, as seen, literally allows every single png or sprite that is available to be shown on the screen/menu to be visible. - The transparent bg hack is for people with custom ones, it removes the blue filter above the image so the color isnt affected

free window resize would definitely be banned because it affects the ceiling too so in stuff like ship and wave you could just go above the level and beat it. it's actually technically possible to beat silent circles with this although you need to pass the entire first wave but someone could do it one day

4:32 no ghost trail means the game doesnt show the semi transparent fading icons behind your cube, which is enabled by a trigger in the level, like in the end of silent clubstep

Wave trail on death should be >1 since it would help to see where you actually die on a fast wave transition

As we all know, Verify hacks are used to upload impossible levels without ever suffering

No Ghost Trail removes the effect that you see in the first drop in Polargeist. So that COULD make the demon list mad.

nice video bro new sub

Regarding the wave trail disable cosmetic tweak: Isn't the wave trail-lines how some people have been exposed for hacking? If so, surely the disable trail cosmetic would easily get entirely banned.

i read the title as "How BANANABLE is EVERY Hack in Mega Hack?"

3:45 Search > find copyable version of the level you want to play > go into the editor > use “hide” trigger on the first grid row. Play level

8:20 auto music sync itself just fixes lag in the song now if you use corrective then speed portals matter

I use show layout a lot (not on demons) because my computer is so shit that levels with more than 30,000 objects lag the hell out of my game :(

Why would they ban the show hitboxes on death? Like, it doesn't change the gameplay of the level, it's just a QoL change that lets you learn the level in less attempts. It isn't an advantage over other people too as there's no demon list grinder with no megahack so everyone could use it. It's the same with some of the others, for example, the start pos one, it only saves time and doesn't actually affect the gameplay... I just don't understand.

greta video sd slayer 👍

4:30 "no ghost trail" is for that trail that is like the cube in 20% opacity in a level, it's a trigger and yeah not that noticeable

macro left the chat

11:16 this aged like milk 🥛

GG man, you got 999K views, keep going!

6:55 how is this "-/10"? Unless I'm thinking of the wrong thing, this lets you edit any level and you can publish the changes This means you can do whatever you want to the level and have it saved

I now feel obligated to ask about your opinions on Show Hotboxes On Death. Reading a 3000 word essay about a GD hack is a great way to procrastinate on schoolwork

6:07 my normal day

3:07 i don't think that's how don't fade/dont enter work (but i don't use mhv7, maybe it's different) but those definitely do provide an advantage on levels that use it, not a 1 imo

Ghost trail is the one trigger that gives that trail effect behind you in a level. Still doesnt change gameplay tho

7:40 i would argue its not the same thing, alot of the nerves i get come from the fact i do it in normal mode and if i were to do it in practice mode it would take away some of them, making it ALOT easier to not die at the end, i dont think it should be banned since it doesnt hide anything as noclip accuracy does, if you get a 100% accuracy run it should be banned since with cheat indicator it could hide other hacks being on

freeze player can be turned on and off to i guess manipulate downward acceleration because you still acelerate downward while the player is frozen

There is a rule in speedhack youre allowed to beat a level faster then 1 because you increase the difficulty (but! Only if you've already beated the level) and if you play it slow then you have to use safe mode or once you did a new record with it on a rated level you get leaderboard bann and or acc bann its a hard topic to make the rule on it but in OSU there is a pointing system with the speed which is the similar same thing i said at the beginning

the everthying hurts one is actually possible on old flappy bird levels (flappy hexagon has deco which kills you...) so you gotta find a one from 1.4/1.5

5:07 Queen Elizabeth hack

9:56 the high fps rotation fix corrects a bug that only happens when your FPS is greater than 720, which is twice the max list allowed FPS anyway, so it should be -/10 ig

very very epic, I remember watching this a while ago

For background effect something like sw needs the flashing dark background because it adds to difficulty

For the verify hack, is it still bannable if it was legitimately beaten, published fairly. But then u make like a deco update or somethin

thanks for informing me about a new megahack update :D

Mega hack is a really handy and useful tool to have, but some of its features are... Less than acceptable in an actual game, to say the least... Honestly, I'm happy to see a tool that literally has ''hack'' in its name and is a hack at its core is not viewed very skeptically by both the moderator team and the experts of the game. Even the truly unacceptable things like speedhack and show hitboxes are allowed on some level (Namely to be used as a playtesting tool the editor) as they can be handy when building levels, which I think is very cool.

ghost trail is the trigger that gives you the cool effect from the pink section in polargeist

2:15 i love this bit for some reason its just the *AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA*

7:09 smooth editor trail toolbox button bypass VERIFY HACK.

3:16 theres a skip on silent circles that utilizes window resizing, so I can see how it could get banned

I'd like to get this hack just because some of the features are fun like the speedhack cause they make me look like im the best player ever. I don't even have an account and literally just build levels. i almost don't play online levels. Anyways, i don't try to install it because since it's so banned or whatever i'm afraid trying to download it will get me a virus or anything. Nice video

In my opinion, the demonlist need van the texture pack, because can be a help un some levels

10:10 nice description

Thanks for this video, good info ❤

8:27 It's more so of a quality of life change as some levels lag. Causing the music to be completely off sync, which is straight up unfair

force don't enter could be considered an advantage because it lets you see further into the level, aiding in sight reading

2:16 text length AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

4:33 that's hella bad, like the end of Silent Clubstep you have "Ghost Trail", you only see the player's trail, if you turn it off, you're literally invisible

8:27 you can actually find secret ways with auto music sync which is pretty cool.

In the impossible series by EVW, it was shown that ldm can change gameplay, but I'm pretty sure that is only in an extension so it probaly doesn't count.

9:46 I think freeze player should be banned as you can use it as a pause buffer

2:13 SAMMEEE IT'S SO LOUD

1:47 Yes there is. Some icons, like the 5 ice shards cube, give the player better judgement for hitboxes and such, also white is used in demons as well and there is the weak argument that the demon completion is invalid since it uses icons and colors the player didn't legitimately unlock. But again, it's a VERY weak argument.

the ghost trail its a trail that your icon leaves that has the same figure as the icon itself and there are triggers that activate and activate that trail, hope i explained it right.

4:35 nah I know what this is from creating for years