Fake Super Mario 64 World Record Caught After 12 Years

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[karljobst]

I've had some time off this month but I've got some really cool vids planned for April. Hope you've all been well.

[soupcake]

Mario, blink 2 frames early if you're in a spliced run.

[rizmkw]

you either die a speedrunning hero or live long enough to see Karl Jobst make a video about you...

[abandonwareguru]

I giggle every time I see "Billy Mitchell" in the list of patrons.

[andrewwales]

The blinking thing is something that Columbo would come up with and whip out with a "...just one more thing!" to catch the killer.

[syndrac]

Bro literally got caught by the old "Blink twice if you're held against your will"

[Karanthaneos]

Dude held his spliced record unnoticed for 12 years.

Ghost of Tsukushima

[prodfrxsty]

i’m afraid of people who can memorize frames and compare it to gameplay even if i am doing nothing wrong

[jnub]

its nuts how people know so much about this game that they now have an essentially bulletproof way to detect splicing based off of the player character blinking. insane.

[LeoA]

Queenpwnsalot simp/husband or w/e: "Why is her blindfold run being looked at with the highest of scrutiny compared to everyone else?"
Speedrunning community: Lets take a look at a Super Mario 64 record from 12 years ago and pay attention to the 64th frame blink.

[NeoSaturos]

I love the phrase "SM64 scientist Pannenkoek". So absurd-sounding, such a perfect descriptor.

[deltalord]

Maybe the real cheated speedruns were the frames we spliced along the way

[TheShinyTresasLW]

If shigeru has been proven to not splice his runs, and he achieved tsukishima cycle shortly after the faked run, i think we should call it shigeru cycle from now on!

[DetectiveJones]

I bet when making Super Mario 64 that whoever was involved with making the blinking animations thought it would just be a cool little detail that might not be noticed or appreciated. Only to have it be the key detail that exposes Speed runners decades after the games release.

[Historicalweapons]

Love the word choice “ancient” for gaming context. For historians we use approximately 2000 years ago

[Groundlord]

It makes me sad to wonder how many legitimate world records have been missed because of cheaters.
Where a player finished their run, only to shake their head and delete the footage because it "wasn't quite good enough"... only for them to later learn that the time they were trying to beat was never legitimate in the first place.

[snowduck]

I really love how formal Karl sounds. For me, it feels like I'm in a business meeting and my boss is talking to me about speedrunning.

[SpilledShelf]

There's going to be a point where cheating detecting is so advanced scores from the 1800s are going to be absolutely pounded

[MRKapcer]

"Looking for anomalies in the" -Splice- "audio track."

I saw what you did there. I appreciated it.

[orion.]

Its nice to see a sponsor thats actually good. I loved the first 2 books in the series and ill read book 3 soon.