The first hack was done by dropping the weapon in that Christmas tree map where items never despawned and couldn’t be looted by other players, and then sending a packet via packet editor that basically told the server to scroll your item while it wasn’t in your inventory so if it blew up it would be safe since it was on the ground, Im pretty sure it only worked in that map since the item was tied to your account in that map and even though it was on the ground it was technically still in your inventory to the server hence why it let you scroll it, and as soon as your left the map everything you dropped would be in your inventory still.
Amazing video, this is a long story but a pretty wild one: It happened in Brazil Maplestory and was the cause of it breaking and closing. Right before the server closed, a meso dupe method was released in the public forums of the game and everyone started using it, it required you to have a Shadower with Meso Guard skill, the hack used a packet edit to reverse the logic of the Meso Guard skill to instead of using mesos to reduce the damage you receive it GAVE u mesos instead, people used another packet hack to insta kill ur character with an enormous amount of dmg like 1b dmg, since the logic of the skill was tempered, part of the damage was converted in mesos on your inventory, so people kept repeating the process over and over again, each time gaining a huge amount of mesos. It was old Maplestory so the meso cap was 2b and something, to circumvent the low meso cap, people went to a merchant that used to be in a certain floor of Ludibrium left tower(the one that goes to Omega sector), this merchant used to sell a scroll for 4th job adv for 10m each and u could sell it back to the merchant with no loss in mesos and could stack 100 of them per slot. So people meso dup until cap, go to this merchant, buy a bunch of scrolls and repeat the process until u full of 10m scrolls. There was this old tale that people used to tell, that a guy not long after BMS post beta release, got access to the game database information during a maintenance, he got access to all accounts information, he was known in-game by the ign Faelz, he was a member of a very high end guild, the strongest one in the game, but he never level up, his character was very low level. The few times he appeared in the game was to show off some insane item on FM, he was the first one to have illbis, a lot of them, and plenty of other high end absurd item. Time pass, when the dupe hack was made public and everyone was going crazy duping mesos, ruining the market and the game itself, this guy, idk his motivation, maybe in an attempt to "save" the game, started hacking a lot of active accounts that had a shadower on it, he started straight up deleting every single Shadower in active accounts, I had a level 60 Shadower on my account at the time, I didn't used the dupe but I was online when I heard people talking about this mass hacking and straight of nowhere this Faelz guy appeared on my screen and I got booted of the game, I tried to come back but it said "already online", after like 2-3 mins I got access to my account back and there it was, my level 60 Shadower was deleted lmao. A few weeks after this incident, the company that managed the game here decided to close the servers to focus on another game called Grand Chase.
Eu sinto saudades do BMS, apesar de todos os problemas que tinham la e da dificuldade ridícula pra upar, era bom demais, agora to jogando muito MapleRoyals que é a mesma versão mas tem pirata, e muitas outras coisas que não tinham no BMS, até hoje procuro por hack de copiar item, ou algo que me deixasse com muito dinheiro, mas nunca achei nenhum, e não sei como funciona em servidor privado, tenho certeza que algumas pessoas no servidor usam, e tem um povo que é absurdamente rico e mesmo sendo nível alto não faz muito sentido o dinheiro e os itens dos caras, pode ser que seja trocar na vida real, realmente pagando em dolares pra ter o item, mas acho que tem algo de estranho sem pano, e você até citou o GC ali no comentário, usei muito hack no GC era bem fácil de instalar e fazer, porem no Maple nunca consegui, o máximo foi abusar de algum bug em evento ou algo do tipo que acabou me banindo.
Sadly a petty fight between rival hackers made this public sounds absolutely ridicilous as i type this. But alot of exploits were made out of spite not only out of spite of some players but also for nexon. Players hating eachother is nothing new. but nexon's incompetance wasn't helping them. as far as banning innocent people who had nothing to do with anything. Naturally some of these players created exploits and some of them joined hacking communities. Being banned back then for "Suspicious activity" was very common with no evidence. Some players tried appealing their bans on the forum but were often shotdown or with met silence. As far as Meso Guard exploit goes. Buying scrolls wasn't efficient enough at the given moment it was more efficient to dupe these scrolls eventually with the merchant and storage exploits. There were scripts that would make entire accounts from start to finish and put them in FM (you could use a teleport with packets) which was by far easier to use you could just run this overnight fill all the chars in that given account up with meso and offload it to websites that would buy and sell meso this is what happend in most cases before it was public. Given that during that period as far as EMS goes 1m was equal to 1€ (if you were to buy that from a website) offloading tons of meso the website you would get very little for it because not only were they suspicious they didn't want to risk losing money by buying illegitimate meso and account. It was very common for sellers to sell to players for (NX codes) which implies paysafe cards or they would simply charge nx on a alternate account for you. which seems like it wasn't worth the effort but times were different back then. As far of of the guy deleting chars was just a attempt to save his exploit by using the remote hack which would esssentially sniff out packets being send back and forth with your info. That might have been the nail in the coffin for BMS but this goes way further in EMS after the meso guard exploit. Tho i must say the GM's were very VERY incompetent this might have to do with resources at the given time and how simple HEX - DEC was. and having a GM contact you was nothing out of the ordinary which often the people who did get contacted were misguiding them leading them to believe things that weren't true to continue their practices. allegedly ofcourse! :)
I'm a bit surprised you didn't mention disconnect hacks. They had a huge effect on the game's economy (although not as much as duping) and made the game unplayable for anyone unfortunate enough to be targeted. How it worked was that a user could use a script to overload a target's client with an unmanageable amount of whispers. The target would be forced to the login screen. This could be used to indefinitely make a player unable to login. Major bosses were also locked to specific channels at that time, and exploiters used this to make it so only they and their friends could fight those bosses. This allowed exploiters to own the market on item drops exclusive to those bosses. IIRC there was a point that Horntail-exclusive mastery books like Genesis 30 and Maple Warrior 30 went over 1 billion mesos EACH in price, and even books for lesser played classes like Snipe 30 still cost hundreds of millions.
Ah yeah that's kind of included in the packet manipulation section, but you're right it went much further than map crashing. Hard to cover everything! Thanks for the memories 😁
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I remember back then the ultimate explorer exploit where you could create an ultimate explorer from nothing lvl 120 with a nx hair/eyes. I remember nexon wiped them all from the game, i had one, got deleted and i sent a ticket to them implying that mine wasn’t created from the exploit and they gave it back. I still have it in my reg account. Classic
What an absolutely entertaining video, i love that there were always videos or images to accompany what you were saying so that even those that didnt know can see them. Genuinely appreciate the efforts to document the lost history of maple
I played maple from v18 and was creating hacks starting v33. Although these were some great hacks and I love that you are talking about old Maple hacks, there are so many more such as power guard hack that was a complete game changer, along with the multiple vac hack methods we created every time maple tried to patch them. We definitely made nexon work!
Wow, man you just reminded me after 2 decades, why the game held so much tension, why it was so FUN to play, you knew you were at risk playing, I remember there used to be animated fictional game stories on youtube where players get robbed, kidnapped, abused, and those animated stories weren't far from the truth of the game. It REALLY DID feel like that to play, you were always open to violation, and had to be careful, everything you do in the game was treasure, but just like in real life it can get stolen from you, or worse. Heh, I remember those times fondly. I wish there was this level of action today, even though it was painful.
There is actually video footage of this on youtube! I think it's attributed to remote hack though, a lot of times if they got the guild leader they would disband it :p
I remember this one and being terrified. I remember playing ALL day telling my guildies NOT to go to the free market or our guild will be disbanded. I remember my mom trying to get me off the computer and being like "NO MOM THIS IS LIFE OR DEATH" haha
The thing I miss the most is being in the Free Market 24/7. Spamming items with the “@@@@@“, go from bottom room to top room - cc1 to cc20 looking for the best deals. God, the FM was my life and I loved it.
Maybe it's just nostalgia, but man I really miss the old progression where you'd be excited for getting your next weapon/etc. I remember being really hyped to get to use my white neschere on my sniper hahah. Nowadays only a few of the weapons are relevant for most people. Basically just pensalir/von leon until you get CRA, then absolab, then arcane. A lot of the 110 and under weapons are really cool too :(
i was still playing in Scania when the hack number 5 (high star EQ) was around. I remember it was 2013 so it is indeed during that year. I remember at that time the meso cap was still 2b and people (at least in Scania) uses white scrolls to trade instead of mesos. Each white scroll equals to 2b (kind of like how private servers people trade to overcome the 2b cap) I've seen high stars items being sold for few hundred and even into thousands of white scrolls which is essentially more than 1k USD at that time if u convert the mesos using meso seller rates. Nexon did alot of ban waves and deleted alot of those Equips back then through countless server checks so I think there's either none left or those remain as private collections in a lv100 mule somewhere.
We did put the items we was going to scroll into trade and sent scroll package. When they was in trade they could be scrolled but not removed from inventory. So even if boomed, they stayed :D
It was when equipment enhancement came out like 2011-2012. I bought a 301 attack Craven for like $200 in NX. I had it for a couple months before Nexon deleted them all. The next day I quit LOL
Surprised the no delay Familiar attacks wasn't mentioned in number 2. In the lion king castle days around the same time as the hacked items, you could hack familiars and have even weak ones melt HP bars of crockies and bearwolves.
Heres some more: 1. Hacking bosses like Hard Magnus. Back then nobody was strong enough to kill it legit. 2. Bored hackers flying in ludi PQ waiting room. We called them heroes and tried to defame them. 3. Wolf spider and Blaze wizard botters. 4. When Mercedes came out everyone could instantly get level 200. Not sure how it worked, but it was a bug, not a hack.
you made some really unusual maplestory content. and it was really well made! (apart for the memey parts which is masterpiece on it's own.) yo make some more content and it was also really well edited for what seems like a new youtuber
Duped and hacked items definitely affected the big servers the most. It completely ruined the market especially for those who actually took the time to merch and make legit scrolled items. This really brings back a lot of memories both good and bad. Loved your video btw. :D
Not really the biggest issues was the donation exploit where you donated negative amounts and got max mesos straight away and nexon did not do a rollback. they later even unpatched the exploit so it affected the game several times. You also had "Remote hack" where you took control over other players which meant that when you open your inventory you open their and stole their stuff. All you did was waiting for your target to CC then you replaced your ID with theirs The duping and botting did ruin the economy but didnt really affect other players
I got back into it more recently and my main is 229, I've got 4 level 200s. I would definitely recommend Adele. Its a blast and I got lost in the class
I started the game post beta and the highest I’ve gotten is 203 I’ve mostly just gotten characters to lvl 200 at most to get my legion up…. But I think when I get to 8k I’ll progress higher 200s but that’s a big maybe
Wonderful video, great to reminisce on some wild times. As a kid there was nothing more interesting to me than seeing something go horribly wrong ingame! edit: And I really would love to see more stuff like this for Maplestory, we have a lot of great gameplay narration/guides but I never really see people talking about the game's history/oddities!
I was around the scene when most of these were out, most of them were possible through packet editing, the star force hack was a logged packed that held the success chance in it I believe, so when you sent it over and over the system didnt have a check for it and you’d succeed 100% for all the stars
That's wild, sounds totally plausible. I can't believe Nexon would make a blunder like that. Considering that someone else confirmed the remote hack was also the result of packet editing via storing player ID entering a map I'm not surprised honestly
@@DuskTheHero well they didnt think people would break the law… packet sniffing and manipulation was very illegal… idk if it is anymore, but it could land charges
I remember when the duplication hacks were happening and being told not to accept any drops or be very careful about trades because GMs might ban you for having it even though you weren't the one who duplicated it. Back then in MS were scary times but my small child brain didn't comprehend xD
The easiest "Hack" was editing gamefiles. 15 years ago there was not detection for that. We edited Zakum DPS so he wouldnt do any damage, sold Zakum helmets for 10€ Paysafe-cards to little kids over skype or Elitepvpers. Good times. Made alot of bucks off 12 year olds. Sometimes we even went that far and told them we can Powerlevel your account, just to get it banned and them spending another 10€ to get a new zhelmet xD Also remembering editing skill values for certain classes. I dont remember the name but we leveled to 100 in literally 2 days with .. Dragon knight or something? You could edit the skills so they would just hit EVERYTHING on screen. One very popular zone iirc was an area that had like flying gargoyles or shit. Set up a macro, play something else 10h, come back to 50 level ups. You could also edit Dropvalues for certain mobtypes, guaranteeing insane drops. Good times. Always had the freshest micro transaction Shop-Clothes because Nexon wasnt able to check if people fucked with gamefiles and us gettin rich from it. At one point we were so bored because we got hundrets of those fancy green Ski-weapons, kebab-sticks, golden apples and whatever that sold for millions on the market 15 years ago, but noone would buy them anymore cuz we overflooded the market so bad. All on Official servers. They just didnt gave a fuck lol. Felt like they were inviting us to abuse their game. First level 200 on server was "itsMiauz" from our group. Everyone thought we were legit lol. Keep in mind iam talking 2005-2008 Maplestory, where you had to wait 30 minutes for a group dungeon to be finished only to not gettin access because of other players spamming clickmacros to enter. Basically the reason we started looking into game editing and stuff.
I remember when the familiar system was rolled out and replacing a file caused your familiar to 1-Hit KO. Everyone at LHC had one and it was chaos for weeks.
Great job on this video. I remember wz editing to allow me to heal golems on my cleric so I could train at FOG. There was also fun ones like dcing and “locking players” with packet sending bypassing the whisper chat limit. There was this one guy named YTMS in broa, my friend claimed that he took his stuff by hacking him and never gave his info. So naturally I /find him and yelled at him. The next day all the stuff on my account was gone too. I wonder if this is part of the remote hack because I still don’t know how he logged into my account
I think that was when the MTS was around. From what i heard there was a way to hack players by having them buy an item you were selling on MTS, so hackers like YTMS would lure people into buying duped 301 cravens and then people that bought it gave him their info
But nah I definitely got peer pressured by my guild into using the 600+ att stonetooth back in the day. After a patch it became a clean one and rightly so. (I was a hero who hit 120 not long after big bang). Not sure if it counts as a hack but I also clearly remember the whole glitch where decent skills on items could be kept permanently, and decent skill service was a sellable commodity.
My friend still has his EE exploited gun. It was never duped and the total stars got reduced to 12, despite the fact the gun can only be starred up to 8 with today's starforce system.
@@DuskTheHero i.imgur.com/44JgFQ8.jpg Here it is back in 2016. I don't remember how much atk it had, but it was among the leagues of the Craven and Stonetooth.
I use to be one of the biggest and most well known hackers back in the day in Bellocan. I made so much money off Maple story as a child. Great memories lol
My favorite, not hack, exploit was one not many people knew about. Just during BIG BANG there was the famous Alien visitor party quest. This party quest was giving out some of the coolest looking end game gear and weapons we had ever seen. My team was the first to complete the PQ and we received ... a chair. Nevertheless we continued doing the PQ so much that I knew it inside and out. So now youre wondering, whats the exploit? The exploit is that this party quest was only supposed to be done once a day. I was able to get my team in countless times by just changing the party leadership around to a mule, changing back, booting the mule. Simple as that. P.S. This gear was really cool at the time, it was level 120 and the new potential system wasnt what it is today. Unique level 120 gear could have stat lines of 15% not 12% (this is pre legendary, just unique potential) I could go on about all the exploits I had fun with in maple. From smuggling PQ pieces out of orbis party quest to even duping like they mention in this video. yeah duping was more of an exploit for some users. no third party program was needed. awesome video
Dude holy shit I haven’t played maple story in like 7 years but I was on the day of when that hacker came on and started making announcements and summoning giant pink beans. I haven’t thought of that memory in so long man...
so, i havent played maple in years like half the items in this list were new/happened recently when i last seriously played the game. i can also say after logging in i still have SOME of these items. i have the racc mask, gold earrings, stone tooth (weaker non SF version), red craven (same thing), and a pink advanturer cape, all still intact.
The pet level up I abused the hell out of, but there was one guy in FM who I gave my info to and he somehow got me a level 100 ice lightning mage with royal hair and eyes. It only took about 5 minutes it was insane and I have no idea how he did it, apparently he was doing it for a lot of people.
Reminds me when there was a hack around the time monster summons got introduced. People on ladders at lion heart castle leeching while hackers would 1hitko the entire map.
Ah yeah I've thought about this one, and in hindsight I wish I would've talked about it. There was two things going on, one was a no-delay for familiars and other summons that would insta kill the map. There was another around the same time that was related to wild hunter summons. You could force it to "summon" any mob and so people would summon pink bean which could also glitch the map to make spawning faster if I remember correctly
Nice info bro gosh those hack item were godly back in the days like damn soo crazy amount of meso just to own one thought they bring good time back in old ms also I miss the old maple trade system nx maker 🤣
I still have a cannoneer with about 10 buffing skills from other classes binded to number keys. Its shoots his range up by LOADS. also he has like 50 high quality dimension gloves which are not worth much anymore.
Amazingly done video man. That was all interesting shit I really never knew, maybe cuz I was a person who only visited forums to get quest or item info. Either way cool shit, I'm here for the ride.
The remote hack was done through just getting the person's in-game Id packet and filtering your own to theirs as they changed into your channel. Nexon dropped the ball massively on that one.
i remember the old empress masacre in windia, someone summoned her and minibosses in henesys and everyones dying including me... and also remember the jett/pirate 2nd job skill hitting all the map in haunted mansion
I remember ekko hacking a gm in Khaini LOL And my main I got banned for packet editing the perfect pitch event to use arrows to generate infinite chaos scrolls
I remember a hack that came out around the time mechanic/battle mage and wild hunter were released. Where you would get to level 120 in less then 2 minutes using a pink bean and wild hunter dont remember how it worked but there’s probably a video on youtube
I played the game in late 2010 to 2011 and I had 2 of those insane starforced items, the red dagger and the stonetooth sword, they where very popular back then, idk how much back they go from 2010 but yeah, they're very old. And I believe there is still some of those items in the game, I remember a few years back a very popular player called Santa made an equipment video and he was using the SmirnoffRed's claw, he even got called out for having that item, idk if the video still up in his/her channel.
Oh, I didn't know about the hacking thing. I know that wasn't online, but I remember chatting to people about it and felt so cheated that I missed it. I thought it was so cool. A little too optimistic.
If I remember correctly at a point familiars all had Vac. All you had to do was remove a certain file in the game. Everyone was doing it so not a lot of people got banned I could be wrong LOL.
Actually I had one of the VIP alien daggers with those stars. Some got removed from the game but my dagger stayed BUT got its star number nerfed to 12. It's still somewhere in Bera, just recently sold it because it's very crappy without hundereds of stars on it lol. I didn't actually hack it or duped it. Got it from a friend that quit years ago along with some crappy Osfa scrolled for luk.
Also there are some star’d items in the game and there is something that I believe is semi similar (on paper). Also, I think one of my meso hacks were on par lol (not duping, but looping quest rewards). I can give a lot more insight and proof. I dont mess with MS since I quit so long ago
Loved the video, more oldtime Maple chaos would be nice. It's always fun to hear about the crazy ride this game have taken its playerbase on through the many years 🤣
You forgot to mention the 2010 Donation King meso exploit that myself and Firev2 from game killer discovered and used for 2 weeks before it got patched. Instant 2.147bil by manipulating the Donation King NPC dialogue and donating negative mesos. Literally one of the most damaging exploits of all time, causing massive hell bans.
remember when there was a hack that could duplicate the frenzy totem skill with out having frenzy totem the good ol days where you could use different class skills on a class that didnt have that skill short time but it did happen
There was 1 point in v182.2 that was almost as crazy as remote hack. It was called the hyper skill exploit. Basicly you could have permanent max damage and every skill including gm and even nameless and icon-less skills and bugged skills but im not sure if I even should be mentioning this 😅 but yeah the tutorials were mostly taken down and removed because it was patched but why would patched hacks get deleted off the web? Maybe not completely but atleast the detailed tutorials on how it was done and the crazy thing is nobody got banned besides the players that got caught using Gm skills in front of lots of people or events
Nice Video, My only Problem with Maplestory is that it isnt that Maplestory i knewd with 12 Years.... I loved the Party Quests earlyer ingame.. i miss dem idk why they made the PQs so useless atm... i loved how u need to Pq that hard in Kerning to get level 30 it took u like a Week xD and now like 5 minutes to get level 30... sad story and sure the story quests seems to be interessting but nothing for me sadly
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"I'm posting this on basil and sleepy" those were the days... Lool
I wish I could contact mr.basil... the things I would do for a dump of every screenshot uploaded to basil market :(
@@DuskTheHero he's on Twitter fyi
The first hack was done by dropping the weapon in that Christmas tree map where items never despawned and couldn’t be looted by other players, and then sending a packet via packet editor that basically told the server to scroll your item while it wasn’t in your inventory so if it blew up it would be safe since it was on the ground, Im pretty sure it only worked in that map since the item was tied to your account in that map and even though it was on the ground it was technically still in your inventory to the server hence why it let you scroll it, and as soon as your left the map everything you dropped would be in your inventory still.
Amazing video, this is a long story but a pretty wild one:
It happened in Brazil Maplestory and was the cause of it breaking and closing.
Right before the server closed, a meso dupe method was released in the public forums of the game and everyone started using it, it required you to have a Shadower with Meso Guard skill, the hack used a packet edit to reverse the logic of the Meso Guard skill to instead of using mesos to reduce the damage you receive it GAVE u mesos instead, people used another packet hack to insta kill ur character with an enormous amount of dmg like 1b dmg, since the logic of the skill was tempered, part of the damage was converted in mesos on your inventory, so people kept repeating the process over and over again, each time gaining a huge amount of mesos.
It was old Maplestory so the meso cap was 2b and something, to circumvent the low meso cap, people went to a merchant that used to be in a certain floor of Ludibrium left tower(the one that goes to Omega sector), this merchant used to sell a scroll for 4th job adv for 10m each and u could sell it back to the merchant with no loss in mesos and could stack 100 of them per slot. So people meso dup until cap, go to this merchant, buy a bunch of scrolls and repeat the process until u full of 10m scrolls.
There was this old tale that people used to tell, that a guy not long after BMS post beta release, got access to the game database information during a maintenance, he got access to all accounts information, he was known in-game by the ign Faelz, he was a member of a very high end guild, the strongest one in the game, but he never level up, his character was very low level.
The few times he appeared in the game was to show off some insane item on FM, he was the first one to have illbis, a lot of them, and plenty of other high end absurd item. Time pass, when the dupe hack was made public and everyone was going crazy duping mesos, ruining the market and the game itself, this guy, idk his motivation, maybe in an attempt to "save" the game, started hacking a lot of active accounts that had a shadower on it, he started straight up deleting every single Shadower in active accounts, I had a level 60 Shadower on my account at the time, I didn't used the dupe but I was online when I heard people talking about this mass hacking and straight of nowhere this Faelz guy appeared on my screen and I got booted of the game, I tried to come back but it said "already online", after like 2-3 mins I got access to my account back and there it was, my level 60 Shadower was deleted lmao. A few weeks after this incident, the company that managed the game here decided to close the servers to focus on another game called Grand Chase.
Eu sinto saudades do BMS, apesar de todos os problemas que tinham la e da dificuldade ridícula pra upar, era bom demais, agora to jogando muito MapleRoyals que é a mesma versão mas tem pirata, e muitas outras coisas que não tinham no BMS, até hoje procuro por hack de copiar item, ou algo que me deixasse com muito dinheiro, mas nunca achei nenhum, e não sei como funciona em servidor privado, tenho certeza que algumas pessoas no servidor usam, e tem um povo que é absurdamente rico e mesmo sendo nível alto não faz muito sentido o dinheiro e os itens dos caras, pode ser que seja trocar na vida real, realmente pagando em dolares pra ter o item, mas acho que tem algo de estranho sem pano, e você até citou o GC ali no comentário, usei muito hack no GC era bem fácil de instalar e fazer, porem no Maple nunca consegui, o máximo foi abusar de algum bug em evento ou algo do tipo que acabou me banindo.
Just read this story. If u have any other ones would love to hear it.
Sadly a petty fight between rival hackers made this public sounds absolutely ridicilous as i type this.
But alot of exploits were made out of spite not only out of spite of some players but also for nexon.
Players hating eachother is nothing new. but nexon's incompetance wasn't helping them. as far as banning innocent people who had nothing to do with anything.
Naturally some of these players created exploits and some of them joined hacking communities.
Being banned back then for "Suspicious activity" was very common with no evidence. Some players tried appealing their bans on the forum but were often shotdown or with met silence.
As far as Meso Guard exploit goes.
Buying scrolls wasn't efficient enough at the given moment it was more efficient to dupe these scrolls eventually with the merchant and storage exploits.
There were scripts that would make entire accounts from start to finish and put them in FM (you could use a teleport with packets) which was by far easier to use you could just run this overnight fill all the chars in that given account up with meso and offload it to websites that would buy and sell meso this is what happend in most cases before it was public.
Given that during that period as far as EMS goes 1m was equal to 1€ (if you were to buy that from a website) offloading tons of meso the website you would get very little for it because not only were they suspicious they didn't want to risk losing money by buying illegitimate meso and account.
It was very common for sellers to sell to players for (NX codes) which implies paysafe cards or they would simply charge nx on a alternate account for you. which seems like it wasn't worth the effort but times were different back then.
As far of of the guy deleting chars was just a attempt to save his exploit by using the remote hack which would esssentially sniff out packets being send back and forth with your info.
That might have been the nail in the coffin for BMS but this goes way further in EMS after the meso guard exploit.
Tho i must say the GM's were very VERY incompetent this might have to do with resources at the given time and how simple HEX - DEC was. and having a GM contact you was nothing out of the ordinary which often the people who did get contacted were misguiding them leading them to believe things that weren't true to continue their practices.
allegedly ofcourse! :)
amazing insight, ty for sharing.@@mvluhh9323
You know you're old af when you remember all of these
how old am I if I dont have a clue what those stars are
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I'm a bit surprised you didn't mention disconnect hacks. They had a huge effect on the game's economy (although not as much as duping) and made the game unplayable for anyone unfortunate enough to be targeted.
How it worked was that a user could use a script to overload a target's client with an unmanageable amount of whispers. The target would be forced to the login screen. This could be used to indefinitely make a player unable to login.
Major bosses were also locked to specific channels at that time, and exploiters used this to make it so only they and their friends could fight those bosses. This allowed exploiters to own the market on item drops exclusive to those bosses. IIRC there was a point that Horntail-exclusive mastery books like Genesis 30 and Maple Warrior 30 went over 1 billion mesos EACH in price, and even books for lesser played classes like Snipe 30 still cost hundreds of millions.
Ah yeah that's kind of included in the packet manipulation section, but you're right it went much further than map crashing. Hard to cover everything! Thanks for the memories 😁
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I remember back then the ultimate explorer exploit where you could create an ultimate explorer from nothing lvl 120 with a nx hair/eyes. I remember nexon wiped them all from the game, i had one, got deleted and i sent a ticket to them implying that mine wasn’t created from the exploit and they gave it back. I still have it in my reg account. Classic
I was waiting for someone to write this. I made so many of them 😅
What an absolutely entertaining video, i love that there were always videos or images to accompany what you were saying so that even those that didnt know can see them. Genuinely appreciate the efforts to document the lost history of maple
I played maple from v18 and was creating hacks starting v33. Although these were some great hacks and I love that you are talking about old Maple hacks, there are so many more such as power guard hack that was a complete game changer, along with the multiple vac hack methods we created every time maple tried to patch them. We definitely made nexon work!
Wow, man you just reminded me after 2 decades, why the game held so much tension, why it was so FUN to play, you knew you were at risk playing, I remember there used to be animated fictional game stories on youtube where players get robbed, kidnapped, abused, and those animated stories weren't far from the truth of the game. It REALLY DID feel like that to play, you were always open to violation, and had to be careful, everything you do in the game was treasure, but just like in real life it can get stolen from you, or worse. Heh, I remember those times fondly. I wish there was this level of action today, even though it was painful.
Great video! Number 1 takes me back. I was shocked to not see the guild hack being mentioned, where guilds were being disbanded without warning
There is actually video footage of this on youtube! I think it's attributed to remote hack though, a lot of times if they got the guild leader they would disband it :p
I remember this one and being terrified. I remember playing ALL day telling my guildies NOT to go to the free market or our guild will be disbanded. I remember my mom trying to get me off the computer and being like "NO MOM THIS IS LIFE OR DEATH" haha
The thing I miss the most is being in the Free Market 24/7. Spamming items with the “@@@@@“, go from bottom room to top room - cc1 to cc20 looking for the best deals. God, the FM was my life and I loved it.
I havent played maplestory for years and I found this video by accident. Your editing and commentary style is very nice!
Maybe it's just nostalgia, but man I really miss the old progression where you'd be excited for getting your next weapon/etc. I remember being really hyped to get to use my white neschere on my sniper hahah. Nowadays only a few of the weapons are relevant for most people. Basically just pensalir/von leon until you get CRA, then absolab, then arcane. A lot of the 110 and under weapons are really cool too :(
I may make a video on this exact concept, the progression of this game is completely different especially with equips.
@@DuskTheHero that would be awesome. This video is really well done, by the way. Narration and editing are top notch
I'm so happy videos like this continue to be made for Maple :) 🍁
Been playing maple on and off since 09 but never knew about some of this stuff, really enjoyed this vid!
i was still playing in Scania when the hack number 5 (high star EQ) was around. I remember it was 2013 so it is indeed during that year.
I remember at that time the meso cap was still 2b and people (at least in Scania) uses white scrolls to trade instead of mesos. Each white scroll equals to 2b (kind of like how private servers people trade to overcome the 2b cap)
I've seen high stars items being sold for few hundred and even into thousands of white scrolls which is essentially more than 1k USD at that time if u convert the mesos using meso seller rates.
Nexon did alot of ban waves and deleted alot of those Equips back then through countless server checks so I think there's either none left or those remain as private collections in a lv100 mule somewhere.
I completely forgot the GM acc getting hacked! That was crazyyy. Basil went wilddd.
We did put the items we was going to scroll into trade and sent scroll package. When they was in trade they could be scrolled but not removed from inventory. So even if boomed, they stayed :D
It was when equipment enhancement came out like 2011-2012. I bought a 301 attack Craven for like $200 in NX. I had it for a couple months before Nexon deleted them all. The next day I quit LOL
Thanks for helping me relive the good old days of maplestory
Surprised the no delay Familiar attacks wasn't mentioned in number 2. In the lion king castle days around the same time as the hacked items, you could hack familiars and have even weak ones melt HP bars of crockies and bearwolves.
Heres some more:
1. Hacking bosses like Hard Magnus. Back then nobody was strong enough to kill it legit.
2. Bored hackers flying in ludi PQ waiting room. We called them heroes and tried to defame them.
3. Wolf spider and Blaze wizard botters.
4. When Mercedes came out everyone could instantly get level 200. Not sure how it worked, but it was a bug, not a hack.
This is so nostalgic
Saw you at 999 subs and had to sub :D good content homie and grats on the 1k!
Great editing! Very entertaining, but not too overwhelming! Super high quality video.
Also regarding no delay. There was a DK named “Ganjaholic” who sold Big Foot leech. He ended up being a no delay hacker 💀 now that goes way way back
you made some really unusual maplestory content. and it was really well made! (apart for the memey parts which is masterpiece on it's own.) yo make some more content
and it was also really well edited for what seems like a new youtuber
Duped and hacked items definitely affected the big servers the most. It completely ruined the market especially for those who actually took the time to merch and make legit scrolled items.
This really brings back a lot of memories both good and bad. Loved your video btw. :D
Not really the biggest issues was the donation exploit where you donated negative amounts and got max mesos straight away and nexon did not do a rollback. they later even unpatched the exploit so it affected the game several times.
You also had "Remote hack" where you took control over other players which meant that when you open your inventory you open their and stole their stuff. All you did was waiting for your target to CC then you replaced your ID with theirs
The duping and botting did ruin the economy but didnt really affect other players
"15 years and not even lv250" i feel attacked
I played maple a lot for the music and the quests. I enjoy grinding but I love the small stories in it.
I played since kindergarten and im still lv215
i started playing since October of 2005, and my highest is probably last year with my Ark lvl 203 -.-
I got back into it more recently and my main is 229, I've got 4 level 200s. I would definitely recommend Adele. Its a blast and I got lost in the class
I started the game post beta and the highest I’ve gotten is 203
I’ve mostly just gotten characters to lvl 200 at most to get my legion up…. But I think when I get to 8k I’ll progress higher 200s but that’s a big maybe
very well put together video, thoroughly enjoyed it
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when the GM put his info up on notice and echo got his account haha
Wonderful video, great to reminisce on some wild times. As a kid there was nothing more interesting to me than seeing something go horribly wrong ingame!
edit: And I really would love to see more stuff like this for Maplestory, we have a lot of great gameplay narration/guides but I never really see people talking about the game's history/oddities!
I was around the scene when most of these were out, most of them were possible through packet editing, the star force hack was a logged packed that held the success chance in it I believe, so when you sent it over and over the system didnt have a check for it and you’d succeed 100% for all the stars
That's wild, sounds totally plausible. I can't believe Nexon would make a blunder like that. Considering that someone else confirmed the remote hack was also the result of packet editing via storing player ID entering a map I'm not surprised honestly
@@DuskTheHero well they didnt think people would break the law… packet sniffing and manipulation was very illegal… idk if it is anymore, but it could land charges
yooo we talked about like everything here! super cool to learn new stuff!
Subscribed and definitely make more I watched the whole thing!
Solid video, and yes the 4th one was triggering. Still miss my 200 DrK and 166 MM, both got hacked and deleted. RIP! ❤️
awesome video man! nice seeing ur guild around.
I remember when the duplication hacks were happening and being told not to accept any drops or be very careful about trades because GMs might ban you for having it even though you weren't the one who duplicated it. Back then in MS were scary times but my small child brain didn't comprehend xD
Nexon: We got him boys
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The easiest "Hack" was editing gamefiles. 15 years ago there was not detection for that. We edited Zakum DPS so he wouldnt do any damage, sold Zakum helmets for 10€ Paysafe-cards to little kids over skype or Elitepvpers. Good times. Made alot of bucks off 12 year olds. Sometimes we even went that far and told them we can Powerlevel your account, just to get it banned and them spending another 10€ to get a new zhelmet xD
Also remembering editing skill values for certain classes. I dont remember the name but we leveled to 100 in literally 2 days with .. Dragon knight or something? You could edit the skills so they would just hit EVERYTHING on screen. One very popular zone iirc was an area that had like flying gargoyles or shit. Set up a macro, play something else 10h, come back to 50 level ups.
You could also edit Dropvalues for certain mobtypes, guaranteeing insane drops.
Good times. Always had the freshest micro transaction Shop-Clothes because Nexon wasnt able to check if people fucked with gamefiles and us gettin rich from it.
At one point we were so bored because we got hundrets of those fancy green Ski-weapons, kebab-sticks, golden apples and whatever that sold for millions on the market 15 years ago, but noone would buy them anymore cuz we overflooded the market so bad. All on Official servers. They just didnt gave a fuck lol. Felt like they were inviting us to abuse their game.
First level 200 on server was "itsMiauz" from our group. Everyone thought we were legit lol.
Keep in mind iam talking 2005-2008 Maplestory, where you had to wait 30 minutes for a group dungeon to be finished only to not gettin access because of other players spamming clickmacros to enter. Basically the reason we started looking into game editing and stuff.
Heartwarming look back into things that were going on outside of my safe Henesys zone, even being a newb, great time ^0^
I remembee buying 32 someting attack Violette Snow shoes back then hahaha nice video man .
Just an excellent video loaded with a tons of memories
This video is epic. I love seeing the history of game breaking bugs in maplestory
I remember when the familiar system was rolled out and replacing a file caused your familiar to 1-Hit KO. Everyone at LHC had one and it was chaos for weeks.
Yep that's one I wish I would've remembered during creation 😭
*sweats*
hehehehe
Great job on this video. I remember wz editing to allow me to heal golems on my cleric so I could train at FOG. There was also fun ones like dcing and “locking players” with packet sending bypassing the whisper chat limit. There was this one guy named YTMS in broa, my friend claimed that he took his stuff by hacking him and never gave his info. So naturally I /find him and yelled at him. The next day all the stuff on my account was gone too. I wonder if this is part of the remote hack because I still don’t know how he logged into my account
I think that was when the MTS was around. From what i heard there was a way to hack players by having them buy an item you were selling on MTS, so hackers like YTMS would lure people into buying duped 301 cravens and then people that bought it gave him their info
@@Yakiniq-n7o it’s possible. He was a very mysterious guy
I clicked on this thinking "the stonetooth better be in here".
>Literally the first one mentioned
LOL
But nah I definitely got peer pressured by my guild into using the 600+ att stonetooth back in the day. After a patch it became a clean one and rightly so.
(I was a hero who hit 120 not long after big bang).
Not sure if it counts as a hack but I also clearly remember the whole glitch where decent skills on items could be kept permanently, and decent skill service was a sellable commodity.
My friend still has his EE exploited gun. It was never duped and the total stars got reduced to 12, despite the fact the gun can only be starred up to 8 with today's starforce system.
That's crazy! I would love to see a screen shot of it if you can convince your friend!
@@DuskTheHero i.imgur.com/44JgFQ8.jpg Here it is back in 2016. I don't remember how much atk it had, but it was among the leagues of the Craven and Stonetooth.
@@koopatroopa so cool to see!! Thanks man
I use to be one of the biggest and most well known hackers back in the day in Bellocan. I made so much money off Maple story as a child. Great memories lol
This video takes me back. Thanks for making it. I’m glad I’m gone from this game though, lol.
after searching many different queries on youtube and google, I can not find coobs content. Is their channel deleted? Do you have any links?
Unfortunately it looks like he either made his stuff private or deleted it. I can't find anything on Reddit that he shared either :(
you've earned yourself a new sub man i really enjoy the way you make your videos. :D
I remember buying the 301atk craven ($20) and giving free leech at LHC man felt so good to level up others for FREE!
My favorite, not hack, exploit was one not many people knew about. Just during BIG BANG there was the famous Alien visitor party quest. This party quest was giving out some of the coolest looking end game gear and weapons we had ever seen. My team was the first to complete the PQ and we received ... a chair. Nevertheless we continued doing the PQ so much that I knew it inside and out. So now youre wondering, whats the exploit? The exploit is that this party quest was only supposed to be done once a day. I was able to get my team in countless times by just changing the party leadership around to a mule, changing back, booting the mule. Simple as that.
P.S. This gear was really cool at the time, it was level 120 and the new potential system wasnt what it is today. Unique level 120 gear could have stat lines of 15% not 12% (this is pre legendary, just unique potential)
I could go on about all the exploits I had fun with in maple. From smuggling PQ pieces out of orbis party quest to even duping like they mention in this video. yeah duping was more of an exploit for some users. no third party program was needed.
awesome video
the okie bye bye at the end was cute as fuck
Dude holy shit I haven’t played maple story in like 7 years but I was on the day of when that hacker came on and started making announcements and summoning giant pink beans. I haven’t thought of that memory in so long man...
old times man u know u been playing for a long time when u remember these
Very nostalgic video. Very love it man
No cap man, this is such a high quality video! Just subbed and hope to see more stuff like this c:
P.S. Don't get discouraged. You make good content!
You forgot the familiar hack! it gets your familiar to one-shot the full map when he attacks.
The phantom getting Nexon/GM equips reminds me of the wild hunter glitch where if you typed a command you would get +10 levels
Underrated channel holy smokes.
Thanks, I really appreciate it! I've got another good one cookin', hopeing to have it out within the next few weeks
8:04 hey! that was Aranforlife1! nice! also, i was afraid to click on the video.
don't play the game anymore but always a supporter of unique content! good luck mate
point 2 and 1 is basically one. those are feature of gm panel which common in every mmo like create item, create npc, login as user, block/ban etc.
so, i havent played maple in years like half the items in this list were new/happened recently when i last seriously played the game. i can also say after logging in i still have SOME of these items. i have the racc mask, gold earrings, stone tooth (weaker non SF version), red craven (same thing), and a pink advanturer cape, all still intact.
The pet level up I abused the hell out of, but there was one guy in FM who I gave my info to and he somehow got me a level 100 ice lightning mage with royal hair and eyes. It only took about 5 minutes it was insane and I have no idea how he did it, apparently he was doing it for a lot of people.
Reminds me when there was a hack around the time monster summons got introduced. People on ladders at lion heart castle leeching while hackers would 1hitko the entire map.
Ah yeah I've thought about this one, and in hindsight I wish I would've talked about it. There was two things going on, one was a no-delay for familiars and other summons that would insta kill the map. There was another around the same time that was related to wild hunter summons. You could force it to "summon" any mob and so people would summon pink bean which could also glitch the map to make spawning faster if I remember correctly
Love the video definitely hope you do more maplestory videos in the future to come.
White scrolls were the most common currency besides mesos for several years. They were commonly used to get around the 2147483647 meso cap
Nice editing man! More maple videos!
Nice info bro gosh those hack item were godly back in the days like damn soo crazy amount of meso just to own one thought they bring good time back in old ms also I miss the old maple trade system nx maker 🤣
I still have a cannoneer with about 10 buffing skills from other classes binded to number keys. Its shoots his range up by LOADS. also he has like 50 high quality dimension gloves which are not worth much anymore.
Amazingly done video man. That was all interesting shit I really never knew, maybe cuz I was a person who only visited forums to get quest or item info. Either way cool shit, I'm here for the ride.
The remote hack was done through just getting the person's in-game Id packet and filtering your own to theirs as they changed into your channel. Nexon dropped the ball massively on that one.
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i remember the old empress masacre in windia, someone summoned her and minibosses in henesys and everyones dying including me... and also remember the jett/pirate 2nd job skill hitting all the map in haunted mansion
i remember the wildhutner hackers that would spawn a captured pink bean and after it died it gave the whole map the pb buff
I remember ekko hacking a gm in Khaini LOL
And my main I got banned for packet editing the perfect pitch event to use arrows to generate infinite chaos scrolls
I remember a hack that came out around the time mechanic/battle mage and wild hunter were released. Where you would get to level 120 in less then 2 minutes using a pink bean and wild hunter dont remember how it worked but there’s probably a video on youtube
I played the game in late 2010 to 2011 and I had 2 of those insane starforced items, the red dagger and the stonetooth sword, they where very popular back then, idk how much back they go from 2010 but yeah, they're very old. And I believe there is still some of those items in the game, I remember a few years back a very popular player called Santa made an equipment video and he was using the SmirnoffRed's claw, he even got called out for having that item, idk if the video still up in his/her channel.
Oh, I didn't know about the hacking thing. I know that wasn't online, but I remember chatting to people about it and felt so cheated that I missed it.
I thought it was so cool. A little too optimistic.
remember all of this like it was yesterday
If I remember correctly at a point familiars all had Vac. All you had to do was remove a certain file in the game. Everyone was doing it so not a lot of people got banned I could be wrong LOL.
Actually I had one of the VIP alien daggers with those stars. Some got removed from the game but my dagger stayed BUT got its star number nerfed to 12. It's still somewhere in Bera, just recently sold it because it's very crappy without hundereds of stars on it lol. I didn't actually hack it or duped it. Got it from a friend that quit years ago along with some crappy Osfa scrolled for luk.
Also there are some star’d items in the game and there is something that I believe is semi similar (on paper). Also, I think one of my meso hacks were on par lol (not duping, but looping quest rewards). I can give a lot more insight and proof. I dont mess with MS since I quit so long ago
I had a star hacked stonetooth. I bought it $350 and sold it for $550. Made it through the reset . Was truly legendary
Loved the video, more oldtime Maple chaos would be nice. It's always fun to hear about the crazy ride this game have taken its playerbase on through the many years 🤣
You forgot to mention the 2010 Donation King meso exploit that myself and Firev2 from game killer discovered and used for 2 weeks before it got patched. Instant 2.147bil by manipulating the Donation King NPC dialogue and donating negative mesos. Literally one of the most damaging exploits of all time, causing massive hell bans.
That's absolutely wild, makes perfect sense how it could work. I had never heard of that one before!
great video! i remember it all like it was yesterday lol
The hacked cravens are the only reason we cleared HT in under 2 hours
remember when there was a hack that could duplicate the frenzy totem skill with out having frenzy totem the good ol days where you could use different class skills on a class that didnt have that skill short time but it did happen
To this day alot of those duped items are still around
There was 1 point in v182.2 that was almost as crazy as remote hack. It was called the hyper skill exploit. Basicly you could have permanent max damage and every skill including gm and even nameless and icon-less skills and bugged skills but im not sure if I even should be mentioning this 😅 but yeah the tutorials were mostly taken down and removed because it was patched but why would patched hacks get deleted off the web? Maybe not completely but atleast the detailed tutorials on how it was done and the crazy thing is nobody got banned besides the players that got caught using Gm skills in front of lots of people or events
That stonetooth sword is now a joke of an item in current maple
It's true lol the endgame items are getting crazy. Even a one-handed arcane can whoop it now
Nice Video,
My only Problem with Maplestory is that it isnt that Maplestory i knewd with 12 Years.... I loved the Party Quests earlyer ingame.. i miss dem idk why they made the PQs so useless atm... i loved how u need to Pq that hard in Kerning to get level 30 it took u like a Week xD and now like 5 minutes to get level 30... sad story and sure the story quests seems to be interessting but nothing for me sadly
What a great vid, this really is a blast to the past, be it a bad one :D !