I Raced My 1st Hacker in Mario Kart... 

Has this ever happened to you?! 13:20 is where the madness starts Also, recorded this before wave 6 trailer so it'll be the last vid with the funky kong outro (IT WORKED TY)

The hacker’s name at 20:44 translates to “The Tiananmen Square massacre and the Uyghur genocide are real”. I never expected to see something like this in a TWD98 video of all things lmao

It looks like it's tied to his flag/name. Like, a character that he can type or a custom graphic that's just HUGE. The layering behind people ranking lower than him in races, it only happening when his name pops up. It's probably a custom graphic flag.

Fitting he's cheating with Wario 😂

MKWii racing online from 2008-2014 in a nutshell. 10/9/23 Edit: No one will care at all, but 16 days later and this is my first comment on RU-vid to reach 1,000 likes.

Looks like the hack is related to the name tag. The screen goes red only when you can see their name tag and flag. Looking back will always show players' tags (as long as you are in front of them). When Troy was right behind the hacker his screen was red. When Troy was right in front of them and looked back his screen was red. Then when Troy was really far away from the hacker his screen was fine. And during the results screen when everyone's name tag was visible the red happened again. As noted in other comments, they also seem to have item hacks (or is really lucky). It doesn't seem to matter because the hacker still sometimes finishes towards the bottom. Probably uses hacks because they're not good at the game lol.

The obstructive red thing is probably an enormous character in his name, since it seems to be coming from his direction. I would guess it's a giant text character on display.

I think that what impresses me the most is that he recognised the Belarusian flag.

Pay attention real closely at 21:49, the hacker is the one who blue shelled Troy from 2nd place after using a bullet.

I’ve played with this guy recently. His name is Quaashie and he’s been with the MK8D community for awhile, in fact we used to grind VR together a couple years back! He uses codes that are just cosmetic and don’t technically affect his gameplay at all, one that will randomize his flag and some sort of code to modify the color/size/length of his username.

Honestly I love finding hackers because they’re so rare, and you know you’re gonna have one heck of a time

that was a cute hacker Didnt hack items (at least not constantly), didnt get first place everygame etc. I love how troy thinks the hacker had full control about the red screen

my guess is that they found the internal endpoint that is used to set the username on a nintendo account, and they call this repeatedly to switch name & flags. it looks like players’ names are updated between races, not during races, which is why the name cannot rapidly change during a race. in addition, many text renderers have special characters added to them, that you can use to change the color, size, font, of text, or add in special untypeable characters. The ONLY hack used here is changing nintendo account information to include too many characters, special characters to change color and font-size (the gradient covering the screen is either text scaled up to large to cover the whole screen, or a very weird untypeable character), and to select flags that are not available in the user interface, but still have names and icons. this is revealing of some of nintendo’s security issues / mario kart internals! apparently mario kart has some of these special characters programmed in (although im not aware of any intentional uses of these outside of the “tilt controls” symbol), nintendo account information is modifiable even after creation (without limit), all of the limits on usernames (name length, which characters are allowed, which flags are allowed) are ONLY defined client-side, meaning a bad actor like this player can override this behavior if they send bad data directly to the server, and (although this is very minor) the render order of UI elements in mario kart is partially shown here, depending on which parts of the screen are covered or not by this hack! very cool.

From what seems to be happening, the name tag is shown larger which means he's layered behind the bottom racers despite his actual higher position. This then allows the hacker to pull normally stronger items that are obtainable towards the botom of the pack, to which he then uses them for a greater catch up. I'm usually in for the usual rng online but having hackers is just a palm in the face.

I find it too fitting he plays wario. Heard the voice line "Cheater!" And he's like, that's my main

I feel like the screen obstructing is part of his car, when he is left of you it gets more obstructed

I love hackers who just clown around instead of actually cheating.

The screen obstruction is literally just a character in the name that isnt normally available in the text characters table. but because it does exist the game pulls it from out of bounds data, leaving you with this strange visual effect, which is a result from the text renderer trying to figure out what to do with the invalid character.

Imagine hacking and still not winning.

It looks like the obstruction is activated by proximity to the hacker. The reigning theory of it being a modified character in his player tag makes a lot of sense.

I've seen hacking in the original Mario Kart 8 (mainly that on the second lap, the hacker would instantly complete the race) but I never thought I'd see it happen to 8 Deluxe. I've heard of hacking tools in Splatoon 2 and Splatoon 3 but most hackers generally play in private rooms to avoid bans which is interesting.

The same hack appeared in hydreixs viewer tourneys! You should also collab with him, that would be great!

this is probably one of the best hackers I have ever seen, he doesn't abuse too much out of the things he can do (like spamming bullet bill or just infinite shock) he plays fair (so he doesn't always go for the win, or at least it seems). And overhaul is entertaining, 9/10 hacker. Could use more "spice", could do a little bit more chaos without abusing it too.

34:34 has meme potential. Put a random image or video over the green section of the screen and watch hilarity ensue

Honestly impressed Troy knows his flags lol

I've played with Quaashie before. They use *cosmetic* mods, and like to modify their username to do a bunch of silly stuff. The screen blockade is likely a HUGE red character in their username just not being able to fit on the screen. You can see that it always comes from the right, and moves in relation to where their username tag is. They don't hack the items or modify gameplay online, but have also used texture/model/music mods that only they can see on their own screen. It's just that username mods can be seen by everyone. Even those who aren't modding the game themselves.

Day 1 of asking for a Mario kart collab with Troy Also was talking about this issue the other day. Is why do we never see hackers in this game?

I think I figured it out... they didn't have no name, they had a HUGE name. That's why the "blockage" only showed up with them on screen and the results screen. As for why it only worked sometimes... maybe if they set it too large then we only see the little space before the first letter? I think litterally all they could do with it was change their name with no restrictions Honestly pretty creative, wish they used that drive for something else though

Bro imagine still losing with cheats 😭😭😭😭, they can’t even cheat right

I’m encountered that Quaashie guy before in normal MK8. He always uses flags from random countries.

Nintendo really does not like this kind of stuff, ruins the experience for players which in turn harms Nintendo. I am willing to bet there will be a patch for this in Wave 6. Online hacking/exploiting on Switch is also extremely risky because Nintendo bans on a software AND hardware ID level for both the system and the game card (if there is one), so they would need to get a new Switch and game to keep doing it, which would be prohibitively expensive in the long run. However, the easiest way to avoid this stuff right now is probably to keep your VR low (either lower it yourself or make a fresh user), and if you have high VR, then queue for regionals or tournaments. Also, just leaving lobbies will work as well, though that sucks if you are in a good room.

There used to be loads of amazing hackers on mario kart DS,they could force the game to play tracks that werent supposed to be playable online or unfinished tracks and stuff.so much fun

I just love how this man somehow finds the slightest bit of luck while playing MK8D. I can't imagine what that would be like.

20:44 Their name in Chinese translates to “Tiananmen Square and Uyghur transmigration / genocide is real”. My guess is to why he picked that name is because discussion of those topics is forbidden in China, and will trigger the authorities to kick you off-line (affecting any Chinese player in the lobby).

4:23 3ds rainbow road and koopa cape 2 of my favorite tracks that almost never get chosen

Funny how Troy still says “click this video or Funky Kong won’t be added to Mario Kart 8 Duluxe” when he was already announced 😂

It’s definitely the hackers name that makes the screen change colors because it doesn’t happen when he’s not on screen

I think the screen obstruction is based on how close you are and where you're camera's pointed. Every time you passed him and kept pushing into higher placements the screen clears up, whereas when you were right behind him your screen would get more obstructed

For what it’s worth, I’m just happy you finished more times AHEAD of the cheater. Serves them right!

11:30 Rare W moment from an American knowing Geography 🙃

It's hard to tell if the cheater is using item hacks or not - the bullet into blue shell just looked like a smuggle from a shock dodge, but it could've been cheated. I'm going to assume innocence on that side just because if they're being this obvious with the name change cheat to obstruct people's view they'd probably also be way more obvious on other forms of hacking too if they were doing it. It feels more likely to me that either A - they only know how to change their name to add illegal characters like the red overlay thing that covers the whole screen or special colored text and modding anything else would get anti cheat detected and they'd get kicked and banned, or B - they can do other mods but they were just looking for actual races and wanted to show something mostly harmless to the rest of the room. Personally I think having a super long name is funny and distracting, but I'd never blame someone's name being long for giving them an unfair advantage from mere distraction. Covering half the screen whenever your tag displays on someone's screen, though, yeah, thats obviously at least slightly unfair. I do have to wonder what the limit is, though. Like, could you have your name be a whole paragraph, like a copypasta or something?

It looks like the color thing was tied to his nameplate, altering it to suddenly show a block of color

Genuinely impressed by your flag knowledge.

I’ve played against that exact same hacker with the colored name! Had the same flag, but what he did was making the track all yellow

I never race online in part for this reason. I'd rather avoid hacking by playing with friends directly, of which i have none on the switch

4:30 poor snow land 5:35 haha they happy the shock happened 9:35 wow that horrible time shock The slow transition from a normal game play too progressively more hacked is pretty cool Hacker wario 28:10 collects two coins but gains three? 28:50 perfectly cut screams 32:50 pony missiles Cool video

anyone's first reaction to a hacker is reporting them, troys, "it gives me content ^^" the only real hacker I've experienced is a guy that was on 99,999 vr and even when he came last and lost 30 vr the next race he was on 99,999 again

Moonview Highway is the best track to play online. Especially on 200cc

My guess is that he is a kid who downloaded a mod to make his name tag "cooler" putting colors, exceding character limit and changing size and what happened is that he just set charater size to maximum and all you could see on his nametag was a huge letter that blocked half of the screen, he thought it was like super funny and left it that way, i dont know if he will get banned for that or no, but if he gets banned nintendo can literally block access to online services from his console, although I don't think that will happen, I would love to see his reaction when he tries to go online and gets the message "nintendo switch online services have been blocked for this console" and see how he desperately tries to change his account and profile but the message keeps popping up.

“I raced my first hacker in Mario Kart” So that Item Hacking FlounderFest was just a joke?

I feel like it’s proximity based. It always seemed to flair when you were right next to him, and when he was behind you is when your rearview would be red too. Really scummy thing to do especially online, but I’m very intrigued by how it works. Great content as always, keep it up!!!

it's only when hes on screen so he's probably triggering some rendering debug or error signal that is actually present in a server game

This is like the least offensive Hacker. It seems like he races as honestly as possible in every manner, just spruced up his name with custom letters and accidentally is obstructing others. It's like using a spray bottle for crimes

This happened to me the other day, half my screen was just a yellow blur 😂

It looks like he's using ANSI escape codes. It's actually a really old technique from back in the text terminal days where you can change your text color with special "escape" characters. If you didn't reset the color manually, it would stay that way. You could also change the background behind the text (which normally was black.) If you changed the background red and cleared the screen, the whole screen turned red. Not sure how he was able to implement ANSI codes in his name, but that's impressive.

Lmao I have that guy in my friend list instantly recognized the mii, he’s a mk8dx modder 😆

I've actually heard of Quaashie before. I think he might've been in some of Mankalor's videos (or someone else, don't know for sure)

I think the closer you are and where he is compared to your character is how bad the screen gets like when he’s behind you and you would look back if he was right there it would obstruct the screen. Or when it problem first started on yoshis island you were right next to him. And when your screen was like 80% full it was because you were like super close. I do think that as the rounds went on he mad teir worse and worse for people closer to him though! Edit:It probably blocked the whole screen when choosing the map because he was testing it out

The speed of your star depends on the speed of your vehicle and the amount of coins you have

You know, it's bizarre to me seeing a hacker in MK8D. I was sure I'd never see one in this game EVER, but Mr. Obstruct 40% - 90% of your screen here proves me wrong. Hopefully you don't encounter any more hackers, Troy. This was undeserved. Love the videos btw! #FunkyKongMK8D

37:59 He’s ALREADY added, Troy! Our Mario Kart wishes came true!

any one else see their name? it was at 18:38 so if someone wants to report them they can, it looked kinda long.

As a modded switch user I’ve never seen screen hacks, RGB name etc. 💀

Okay I'm reading everyone's theories and came up with my own There's probably a way to trick Nintendo's servers into adding way more characters than expected, also adding "special characters" that could do stuff like change size and color Honestly, impressive! Now I wonder how exactly was this pulled off...

I think the red mist might be tied to being close to him or something along those lines, it only really seems to appear when you're in a certain range

i’m surprised troy didn’t catch on to the fact that the screen only got obstructed when he was near the hacker, and if he was behind you that’s when it would mess up your screen when you looked back after looking at the comments it seems like it’s something to do with their username that’s causing it which makes sense

=FLAG OF BELARUS,THO =AND COME ON, THE DUDE DIDNT DO ANYTHING SERIOUS..........LIKE ENDLESS RED SHELLS OR SO.....

Wow I've seen my fair share of hackers before but not one like this, I kinda wanna run into one when I do my race videos now XD

It's not that Nintendo can't stop them, it's that they won't.

I delt with one who fairly often on regional. At first I thought they were just insanely good until they started making it very obvious by using mushrooms and red shells before we ever got to the first set of boxes.

3:21 double shock?

estonia!

The green, white and green one is actually Nigeria. Well done Troy!

I play with that Brazilian Lim >_< all the time in regionals! Granted, as a Brazilian I play with the same 30 people basically every day I click Regional lol

This is came compared to the kinds of hackers I get on MK7. Bomb spam out of the gate. One of them even held up the entire race by spamming bombs in the narrow part of SNES Rainbow Road, preventing anyone from driving thcough.

The red screen IS his name, is just extreamly big. This is why he has "no" name, the letters are just huge and the red screen is just the first letter, or at least, all we can see of it since its so big it doesnt fit in the screen.

33:10 the hacker stops in his tracks in the middle of blue section, only to then jump all the way to first 🤯

So is no one gonna talk about how the red shell just got obliterated by the air at 26:40 ? I mean, I get that it's probably just a boomerang but like, I don't see it

20:43 “The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre and the Urumqi 7-5 Uiguer massacre were real.” What a chaotic username.

i just experienced the same hacker issue but two of them. they switched their names, flags and their points!!! from 30k to max! 😱 wth nintendo?

Bro run from Belarus to Nigeria in 8 seconds

the hacker teleported in mute city!

The only time I ever played a hacker in a game was in Smash Wii U when someone had the battle take place on the Trophy Rush stage. But it was basically just a normal match just on an unusual stage since the Trophy Rush stage is shaped similar to the stages normally seen on For Glory. But I have never seen anything like this where they use hacks to obstruct my view or disadvantage me or other players in some way.

That's my GOAT the texture hacking LEGEND this guy makes the legit most unhinged cursed mods and he's legit so good at what he does too. He's done stuff like make the entire road of MKS a animated image he's legit crazy. He's also an actual goofball hacker. Welcome to the Quaa experience

Troy do you think you’d enjoy doing a video going over your favorite shortcuts and how you do them? Like mushroom gorge gap cut, dk summit double cut, and the infamous bangkok rush and so on? I feel like that’d be really entertaining to watch

given his name is invisible at the same time as the screen covering shenanigans, I think it's a corrupted character that is entered into the name, which somehow causes this.

Troy not realizing its his name that causes it hurt my soul poor troy

I have never seen anything like this before! I feel so bad for you man! Hopefully, nintendo monitors this stuff and have a solution. Besides that, hopefully you enjoyed making this lol!

I was playing as the Really? guy and my brother was Damien². Also a really big fan of you TWD 😉

I have never experienced this. Not even in Team Fortress 2 where cheaters run wild. This is wild.

I imagine he changed his name to a bunch of characters which correspond to the code which makes the screen change colour.

Literally never knew hacking MK existed. What a bum lol.

I’ve played against Quaashie (the hacker) before in Regionals, never had this happen, but in the selection lobby his name was pretty big and in-game it was pretty small. He always had the flag of Greece too.

I went against a hacker peach in mk7 online who made the mushroom gorge jump so hard she hit the wall on the other side with no mushroom.

I feel like he might have been using speed hacks, cause on the turn on Choco mountain he was going insanely fast. And yes I know that it was 200

People are correct that its the name tag, in some text fields you can use code to make coloured names, kind of like minecrafts coulored text, he is using this code to make a huge gradient, it is actually just text. I wouldn't really call it a "hack" but it does give an unfair advantage.

Mario Kart Wii was FULL OF HACKERS! I remember me and my big brother playing online and this player with the balloon symbol suddenly appeared and used the shock... 10 TIMES IN ONE RACE! It was hilarious 😆

I'm always voting for dk summit. People are surprisingly bad at the doublecut even above 20k VR over here

It seems to appear when ever he is visible on your screen

As a Geometry Dash player I am legally obligated to say killbot