The Mario Kart Wii Cheating Epidemic

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• AB

  @Abyssoft · 2 years ago · pinned

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• EI

  @Eimlin · 2 years ago (edited)

  I remember seeing those absurd 1 second times back then and somehow thinking they were legit, so I replicated the nonsense driving that was shown in the replay thinking that hitting the obstacles in a certain order would be a secret way to get a time like that

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• SL

  @slouch186 · 2 years ago

  razor pretending to have died and posting his own memorial video is so insanely funny

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• OM

  @Omnicrom · 2 years ago

  Cheating in a TAS is next level dishonesty.

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• II

  @iilikecereal · 2 years ago

  Back in the day there was a clan of hackers here on YouTube that exclusively played Toadette, but they didn&apos;t cheat on the leaderboards or cheat to win races, they just cheated to be silly out of bounds during races (like transforming into giant bullet bills and driving in circles in the background of a race). I wish more people did stuff like that instead of just cheating to win and ruin everyone&apos;s game.

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• TO

  @ToastyFruitcake · 2 years ago

  Around that time of early internet access games, no matter what the game was, if there was a high score list it was always full of impossible times and scores. It was so common growing up that I just can&apos;t take a list like that seriously to this day, I absorbed it as a fact of life: &apos;if theres a list, someone HAS cheated to be at the top.&apos;

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• NE

  @NemesisOgreKing · 2 years ago

  Razor, Mia, Ronnie, safe to assume that cheater liked Need for Speed Most Wanted (2005).

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• VA

  @vabold_ · 2 years ago

  waltuh... put your tools away waltuh... I&apos;m not accepting your <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFa_koOtCFs&amp;t=102">1:42</a>.155 on DDR right now waltuh

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• ZD

  @zdelrod829 · 2 years ago

  The most annoying part, is that when the online service was discontinued, the entirety of the leaderboard was frozen, which was pretty bloated with cheated times. You can still see the leaderboards today through the Mario Kart Wii Channel, which can be installed via Mario Kart Wii.

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• EL

  @elbarnes · 2 years ago

  Razor’s bizarre commitment to cheating in the most drastically high-effort ways makes him loop back over to him being a lovably crazy community villain for me. Cheating a TAS of all things is both very annoying but also incredibly funny

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• TH

  @TheFrantic5 · 2 years ago

  This is absolute slander.<br><br>Funky Kong would never cheat.

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• EJ

  @EjayB · 2 years ago (edited)

  What&apos;s even more interesting (and hilarious), is that Black&apos;s Dry Dry Ruins TAS is actually spliced, which can be seen at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFa_koOtCFs&amp;t=77">1:17</a> in the video on his own channel (not the in-game timer). The view of the camera shifts way too much in the span of the ~0.1 seconds that is skipped in the video, so it&apos;s not even just recording lag.

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