Players Caught Cheating In Smash Bros Tournaments 

Broke: wait for Sakurai to buff your character. Woke: buff the character yourself.

Switching controllers mid game is such an anime move.

I thought we were talking about Ultimate because I legitimately forgot Pichu was in Melee

I’m just waiting for Raid Shadow Legends to sponsor a smash tournament

pichu: *heals self* everyone: yo that might be cheatin idk

The creator of Doki-Doki literature Club used to be an intense Smash Bros player. Some things you just never expect to hear in a sentence

"Cheaters never win" Yeah, it's because they get disqualified.

"This video is sponsored by-" *sigh* Go on...say it... "Kritikal Reboot." ..............Oh it's not Raid. Okay.

"Oh. Those moves are supposed be in there and whatnot and that guy should shutup" -Nintendo

Dan Salvato, creator of Doki Doki Literature Club, was once a Melee youtuber. What a timeline.

"Pichu kid" as the region came to know him as, was actually a really close friend of mine. it was only until after I moved out of the region that he started using his own modded version of the game to beat people. Something to know about him was that he suffered really bad depression and other mental things that I dont want to talk about publicly. He wasn't a bad kid, but he thought melee was like the only thing he had going for him. The funny thing was that he was actually getting really good with fox but not at the level that he could beat people who were on the PR. Anyways, if you were wondering, he would always suggest that people played on his setup because he claimed "hey I want to record our set so that I can upload it to youtube or study my vods and most people would agree with it. this is how he got away with getting onto his own cheated version of the game. And he was beating alot of people. but he never cheated against the number one in the region (being 4% a puff main who remained at the top for years of NEOH) because he knew that, in his own words "noone would believe that I could beat him with pichu". Kind of crazy stuff man, I believe he also gave back (was forced to) alot of the money that he won from these local tournaments as well as recieved a lifetime ban

Come round the campfire children Listen to Grandpa Zero tell Smash stories from ye olden days If we're lucky maybe he'll rave dance at the end

A skilled hacker can beat any melee community

Damn bro been losing alot of weight man keep it up man Nice video btw

Sakurai: *doesn't buff character* Hacker: Fine, I'll do it myself

Melee Community: “Wavedashing is illegal!” Nintendo: *”Working as intended.”*

Zero out here cheating on Raid Shadow Legends.

*"Overall the Melee community is very accepting and trusting"* Well that article's credibility just sank like a rock.

I look forward to the day Zero says “Today’s episode is sponsored by Nintendo! WHOOO”

The closest I've had to playing against a cheater is this Zelda main who insisted we play local multiplayer for our set instead of just pairing his joy-cons. So we had to play with input lag that he was used to but I had to adjust to. So I camped his ass out.

This dude’s trying to make Ultimate Pichu into a real thing

I was expecting the sponsor to be Raid Shadow Legends lmao

If there's anything JoJo has taught me, it's that it's not cheating if you don't get caught. Be big bræn

Zero, just wanted to say I haven't watched yours or any Smash videos in awhile but you look a lot healthier and I just wanted to give you props for it

The problem: Pichu is a low tier in Melee. The solution: Buff Pichu yourself.

6:54 "Overall, the Melee community is very accepting and trusting" Hold up

The man who made a game that featured one of the characters editing the game files made a video on a melee player cheating by editing the game files. Nice.

Next video: *INFANT CHEATS AND WINS EVO*

The whole pound thing, like, it's not really his fault that he couldn't pay the winners, he got screwed over by external factors.

07:54 yooooooo that's me!!!

Honestly, mad props for this guy being so secretive and putting in so much effort to make this work. Ik its shitty that he did this for money most of the time, but the fact he did so much to make this work is kind of hilarious.

honestly, swapping controllers in doubles should be a valid move as long as you're not bumping or interfering with your oponent. it's too sick not to

The files they were comparing were ISO files, meaning it's a copy of the disc, with one of them being a modified copy. So that's how they likely used it to cheat, rather than the memory card mod, they probably loaded the ISO via SD or USB on the Wii. A memory card mod might also be possible, but it's more limited in what it can do and in terms of file size, I think it's also more complex to develop.

Hear me out for a sec: I hate the fact the dude cheated and I'm glad he got caught. Still,I wish there could be a universal patch to the game to buff some of the low tier/unviable characters in the game. Wouldn't it be fun to see the shake up in Melee by making those characters viable and see new players join the fray? Nothing against the Gods,but I want to see something new for once,but that's just me. Can't wait to get yelled at by a Melee player after I post this.

Honestly when you're far in a tournament its not worth it to cheat at that point

Proof that Melee is an unbalanced mess: “Pichu winnin’? Yep, hacks, no doubt about it.”

The controller switch being banned surprises me given how averse Smash has been to banning anything. You can only do it (for free) between stocks and you need to limit your picks to what both players can play

I personally main Pichu due to my love of the character. Guess I gotta start getting into competitive melee now. Good Video Zer0. You’ve inspired me to get off my lazy butt and do things outside of being a viewer.

How is it planks fault that the melee players literally broke the rules of the hotel.

Zero talking about smash while Shantae music is playing in the background. This is what peak performance looks like.

"Overall the Melee community is very accepting and trusting" Yea lemme call bullshit

What was impressive is not how he modded the game, not how he covered it up so well, but the fact he took time to learn Pichu.

*Raid Shadow Legends leaves the chat.*

"The Melee community is very accepting and trusting" Also smash community: disses hungrybox for playing jigglypuff

When Sakurai doesn't buff your character Melee player: fine I'll do it myself

"...And then the guy shut up" Those guys didn't watch any anime. Friends are rivals so beat them at your competition.

What about Mike Haze?

Didn't Leffen consider playing Pichu at one point? Is this slandering?

Modify with the same code they used for prepatched pichu in ultimate.

not gunna lie back in highschool me and my buds played a lot, i mean a lot of project M. I had one friend who didn't like to play as much because he wasn't as good as everyone else. So to get him to play more thats what I did. I modded his character yoshi and just made everythign about yoshi slightly better. My other friends were raging and were so mad because he was beating all of them in 1v1s it was kinda amazing

Splitting is something that happens in Magic all the time in local stores. The stakes are alot smaller though its like 1st is like 5-6 booster packs and 2nd is like 2 packs you can split it 4-4 or 3-3 depending on the payout.

*Pichu slowly walked into the room...*

When I heard "today's video is sponsored by" I just about had a heart attack because I thought Raid shadow legends had gotten its greedy hands on you.

LOL imagine expertly and secretly buffing a character in in a game with a secret cheat code type thing to win a prize pool of like 80$

I thought ZeRo would of mentioned that one tournament in smash 4 when the launch rate was at 0.9 for some reason

The culprit of this whole incident has reformed and is a way better person now. He is still regularly active in some Melee discords, one of which I'm a moderator in. He's also been unbanned from his local tournaments.

Now I can say it without guilt: Zero looks like morning breath in human form.

The image shown that was "hard evidence" is a checksum, since the two strings of values are different it means that the files are different.

Rat mains are rats

Zero: Here are some players cheating in smash bro’s tournaments Also Zero: Cheating in online tournament with piranha plant

Also I checked Dan Salvato's video, and this was 3 years ago, wow.

Just a cool little fact, the MD5 Checksum value is like a unique ID for the file, meaning that the files being different shows that changes were made to it. The MD5 algorithm is also known to have extreme security vulnerabilities which probably contributed to them being able to change the game files

Finally, a sponsor that isn”t Raid Shadow Legends!

Idea to get *others* banned: instead of buffing yourself, buff your opponent You might lose, but honestly getting them banned is a waaaay better reward in my opinion because they cant play in tournaments anymore

I just came here after 10 months, man.... it feels wierd

The fact that it would be so easy to do... Like, just increase the knockback a tiny bit, decrease the lag by 1 or 2 frames, maybe even mess with the RNG of moves like Misfire or Turnip Pull, increasing the chance by a 1 or 2%. Project M as well, there’s no stopping that with PM.

Assigning the cheat in player 4 already kinda gave it away lol if it was in player 2 maybe it wouldn't have been too obvious

Genesis 2 was also rife with some shade: When I was there, the then PR'd Brawl Pika player in my region (Brick) got screwed over in pools because M2K sandbagged against a smasher named Sade, which almost eliminated Brick. M2K picked Ganon and basically let Sade win. On top of that, one of the TOs for Genesis 2 almost ran off with the entire prize pool of money (a melee Sheik player who coincidentally moved to my region after his ban). The other TOs caught him though, and he got banned.

Nah bruh he had spirits on

I was legit just about to make a joke about how the Blue Goggles alt was the best alt and was the true source of the rogue Pichu's power. Then 6:00 happened...

No raid shadow legends? Nice

"This is part of the game code or something"... Dude, it's a hash function comparing his modded ISO, and the retail melee ISO. They are obviously not the same hash, so there is a modification present.

Anyone else watching old videos to remember the good times? No, just me? Ok :'(

ZeRo needs a Head & Shoulders sponsorship

It is super cool that the guy from the one tournament was eventually able to give the players their owed money.

Plot twist: ZeRo has been cheating this whole time

Lol I love the DJ Nintendo/The Moon strategy 😂

I love how it’s specified that it’s a Pichu player

The mods are basically equivalent to performance enhancing drugs in professional sports

Video starts at 0:43

This is probably the first time I've seen a game ad and I'm genuinely interested in it, thanks zero!

Nice sponsorship ✌️

Saw this title and was like, "Oh, I remember reading about that."

Story about Bracket Manipulation and Player Manipulation: In college the week after finals the SGA put on a game day, no cost to play. One of the members was to host a smash tournament, and he posted $10 to play in it. This wasn't meant to be as the SGA board stated that it was free. Regardless, 20 people entered including the host. He casually stayed on the sides of matches to spectate, before the tournament began some of the faculty were walking around. The matches were going well until a teacher caught him pocketing the cash. Stating that what he was doing was wrong, and was asked to stop what he was doing. When the teacher left he said nothing to anyone like it never happened. It got to top 4 with the host, Me and 2 others. Before the match begins security takes the host to the front office. He refunded everyone, was escorted off of the campus, and expelled from the college campus. Never to be seen again, but that's the price you pay I guess when you try to be a scumbag

damn i miss you

I kinda want to see a side doubles tournament where the players swap controllers now, maybe couple it with stage morph or something

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I've always wondered about this topic because there's very little to no protection against cheating at smash tournaments. Like the thing that made me think is at most tournaments you can bring your own controller. Which could be modified or be able to inject code into the console. Also you're allowed to bring your own beverages which could be laced with stimulants or something. So you could have players high on coke and stuff like that who basically had bullet time during tournaments. There's no real regulation against these possibilities and I just want to know which players would do this.

“Cheater!” - Wario Bros

That wasnt just any wikipedia page, it was a smashwiki page that I helped contribute to

I had a friend who asked me to help him cheat the brackets in a mtg local draft. So when we came up against each other. I countered the deck he built to kill him without being hit.

When you’re so bad you have to hack to win

Dude. talking about the Brawl Locals bracket manipulation takes me way back. In my local locals, a buddy of mine would do that. Enter singles and doubles and we both leave half of 2 pots richer. I think the best we ever did was like $200 at a local game shop.

Bruh rip Zero

Imagine if he'd just increased every stat by like 2%. No one would have ever noticed and all of those would add up.

no ally and captainzack talk?

In Doki Doki if you stay with Monika instead of deleting her character file, eventually you will see references to smash bros appear in her dialogue

Wait, the maker of ddlc plays smash?!

One of my friends was in an Ultimate tourney the other day, and lost to a cheater. His opponent turned on some kind of handicap when he went to the washroom, so a Power Geyser from Terry didn't kill at 110%. Wasn't caught.

Bruh a sponsor that actually made me want to check it out... that’s the first