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Yeah, let me just buy some premade food in a plastic container that causes cancer, Bruh talk about a failed sponsor. You realize heating things in plastic containers allows TPI and BPA to seep into the food. Which causes cancer. But as long as you get paid right? Would you eat or drink out of an asbestos cup? I didn't think so same thing with plastic. It's horrible for you.
I remember a friend coming into work one day in tears . We thought his wife had finally had enough of him playing runescape 12 hours a day and had left him. It was actually because his account had been banned for botting.
@@JohnMelon-qg9tjyour netflix account has been perma banned by your personal info, you can never watch netflix again no matter what you try. All you do is watch netflix, this news is justifiably devastating. Just substitute your favorite form of entertainment for runescape and netflix, Why lol? Why ever lol at other people suffering? Just wrong, man. Wrong for a better world tomorrow, wrong for world peace, human happiness and advancement. Every little contribution matters and adds up. Why ever lol at someone's sad story, even if you think it's sad for another reason? I try to make other people happy, not myself, by ruining other people's happiness. One type makes for a better earth, the other type makes earth worse for everyone in the long run. So why lol? This was effortless on my part, Im like a janitor for shitty people. Leave earth, make my job easier.
@@pickledokra2963 They won't. Too many players just want anything new added that they will accept literally any dogshit idea. Sailing was an April fools joke for a reason.
“It’s impressive RuneScape cheaters were using AI in 2005,” AI isn’t just stuff like ChatGPT and Midjourney. Your autocorrect is an AI. Simple forms of AI have been apart of computing for decades now
Nah fam ai refers to the modern ability for programs to scavage the internet in order to find an answer. What you are referring to is simple a+b=c coding
AI has been actively researched since 1956, and has been an extremely impactful technology for the last 50 years at least. Modern large language also models also don't require an internet connection at all, they're just slower to run on your shitty laptop than on a big corpo's servers
SCAR was my first introduction to scripting languages. It launched me on the path to the programming career I have today. I owe it all to Jagex and Kaitnieks, but ultimately RuneScape :D
I am just starting out like you did in the past, been writing runescape scripts for a year now and have 2050 total all done via my code. Not sure if I will stop once maxed but all I need to figure out now is slayer which is very hard for me to code. I am not sure if I will go on to work with code as a career but I'll definitely keep leaning these skills to have under my belt.
Bots amaze and interest me. But I'd love to learn how people decrypt the code mainly, but also then figure out what to inject into the client. I have a phone game, ffbe, that has a bot. API based game. I'd love to just know how the guy decrypted what was sent to the server. Capturing the traffic is probably easy enough with Wireshark or something, but I could be wrong with what they use to do that as well. We use Wireshark commonly to capture network traffic in my line of work, but I only got a year or 2 programming experience.
@@ProfessionalGasLightingI think if you swap the t and the second k, you'll be in business (Or, I guess out of business, since you'll be losing your bank account.).
@@hemis1861 Es to dzirdu, brāli No one really gets how strange it feels to see a word, name or place show up with a tie to Latvian language. There's not many of us left, I think 2m globally, and as such it almost feels like an Easter Egg specifically for me whenever I clock a reference.
I remember hearing a story about the first guy to get 99 woodcutting ended up getting banned for botting so he took his PC to Jagex to show them that his computer was running language translation software and not botting software. He ended up getting unbanned. I’m not sure if it’s actually true or if I remembered it correctly but it would be cool to hear a story on that if it is 😊
@@Brother_James legitimately is when dog shit creators decide to shovel out dog shit sponsors which more than 80% of people drop within the first year.
I went to high school with one of the "Cheating Scum gets banned" players. He was really high level and smug and gave me so much satisfaction to see him banned lol
I was the original creator of RuneBot. I created it by decompiling the Runescape client which was in Java, and made modifications to the actual client to allow recording of macros and various other tricks such as casting spells rapidly. Runebot was free at first, but I was harvesting user name and passwords into a database, which I eventually sold to another player for a thousand dollars. I used this money to buy my first truck. I then decided to make Runebot cost 5 dollars, and the day after enabling the paywall was the day Jagex banned everyone using bots. I then left the Runescape scene and never looked back, until this video popped up in my recommended feed.
I remember the taxi bots that would loop between lumby, fally, varrock. It was a godsend for noobs because walking was so slow, and for me with dial up internet, the lag lines took 30-45 seconds a piece :'D. Getting lost was such an enormous waste of time, those bots were so helpful.
@erickchristensen746 lmao for real. I remember seeing a ladder and my curiosity got the best of me. I click it, screen starts loading, I hopped on my scooter and did 2 laps around my house trying to beat the loading screen. Then when there was nothing, go back down ladder and repeat. Sometimes a lag line went beyond 60 seconds and Id log out from too much afk
The main challenge Jagex introduced was automatically changing the message structure on every release, and obfuscating the code. That meant on every RS release (~weekly), the bot makers have to figure out all new packet structures and ordering.
@@MAORIATLAS Yeah, if I recall correctly. I don't think I ever did because they only had flax, and others jumped on it so quick, but it was fun nonetheless.
RuneScape just had that kind of hold on us (mostly kids I imagine). Had I known about a way to leave the game running while I was at school I would have been beyond ecstatic back in the day 😂 Also, the amount of grinding required for the skills back in the day was just wild in hindsight. Not sure how it is these days.
That speaks to the game, not the players. RuneScape is an AFK game that bans people for being AFK. You WILL stare at the monitor for thousands of hours, with barely anything to do!
It could have been rolled back from dvd or other backups if it needed to be. The issue with rolling back the server would be that it would have set a precedent that the servers could be rolled back at any point in time due to severe bot exploits which rightfully may have causing players to lose confidence in their progress being saved. Botting, as the video demonstrated, was rampant meaning that players would have been on edge of a rollback occurring in the future whenever any new cheat/hack was discovered. Losing confidence in your progress being saved in an MMO would be very unsettling for a player.
@@norgepalm7315 Why would you backup 8.5 gigabytes of data to 13 cds when you could use a single dvd? PC compatible optical disk drives were released in November of 1996. Autorune was released in September of 2002. I distinctly remember this due to building my second computer in 2001 and being excited that I'd have a dvd drive for watching movies and backups. Even crazier, the first Blu-ray prototype was unveiled by Sony in October 2000 !
You should do a video on the Reinet/wartnet era of runescape cheating(2005-2009) haven’t seen anyone do a video on that yet. Awesome videos man, keep it up!
Reines/Jamie was the actual runescape cheating God. Starting with ST (skulltorcha) and then STS (skulltorcha scriptable) was such a huge stride in cheating. Warthog was a literal nobody, not even involved in scripting or coding anything. I say this as a former tARC ("the AutoRune Crew") member since the near beginning. Though, IXBot, which was basically modified AutoRune code was superior, it was very hard to gain access to, until it got cracked and leaked of course, leading to everyone and their brother having autocatch and cast scripts while PKing.
I remember 2005 era I got my grandpa to buy a $5 AutoMiner off Ebay via Paypal, I was about 11 years old then. That thing had so many viruses on our family computer and it didn't even work. Looking back it was probably a later version of Ashey or AutoRune that had been patched by Jagex some years earlier. There was also a money making guide in there that was outdated even for 2005-2006 era. Things like pickup lobbies at Karamja in F2P worlds, kill Hill Giants for big bones. What a time it was to discover video games.
~13:00 Machine learning has always been prevalent, but only just recently we have learned to use hardware in its fullest extend to be able to actually achieve previously theoretically goals (due to lack of hardware that could support such massive amounts of data)
Jagex banning bots because they used a FREE trial version of it and not just forking over $10 is a classic and enduring reason why theybare clueless to bots today.
@@digi3218 People who think its schizo that Jagex doesn't have at least a foothold on the bot market are delusional. Maybe if they didn't sell bonds would I remotely consider that not to be the case. There's simply no way the company survives on your ten dollars a month. They need a little bit of cushion for the cold in these savage streets. HAHAHAHHAHAHAHA o WOW
Best start ever to my school day was waking up and still seeing my character fishing and cooking, or mining all night without SCAR screwing up. Wow what a great start to the day.
I remember after a while of performing the same style of task, you would be taken to a 'minigame' to see how you reacted. I remember three spinning things you had to line up, and then fight a dragon or something.
The Taxi / Uber bots sound like actual fun, as you can chat as you go with others that are following too. They definitely need to come back, that would be awesome if they added it as like an NPC that does that.
I dont even play runescape anymore but man your videos bring me such nostalgia takes me back to a good time.. tried to go back to runescape and osrs but even osrs didnt feel the same anymore.
Honestly, the Runescape Express bots should be an actual group of NPC's. It would be incredibly useful for both new and experienced players who lack teleport spells (or their runes), or give players a chance to view the map in an almost cinematic way.
The Sleepwalker and Fatigue programs are the most inventive solution Ive ever seen. Literally creating a community of botters that essentially are doing the work for you if you contribute. Thats so fucking cool in my opinion.
@@ColonelloRS how do you find all this information? Do you just dive deep into old forums, archieves, and publicly available info? Or do you actually find and talk to the old osrs legends themselves?
I actually enjoyed the fatigue system, it's basically how I learnt to spell things =p you could still gather items you just wouldn't get the xp, so botters could bypass the system completely by having auto pick up items etc not gaining xp but they would gain value which is my theory why they scrapped the system because it only bit one head of the metaphorical hydra
I remember my first time seeing one of those walking bots in a line. I walked around with them for an hour shouting with them until my buddy watched my stream and told my it was a bot lmao.
Coolest thing about the auto taller besides only happening to type what you want it to say ones.. and it would automatically type it out as fast as you wished. It had to color words saved into the auto taper so you didn't have to remember the old color commands Like it was. Cyan: whatever you want and it would come out light blue it basically help start color typing in RuneScape Rain: Scroll: Flash: Red: So on...
When the Christmas cracker glitch happened, i got a pink party hat and immediately sold it for 16 dragonstone amulets. Flipped those into 1.5mil gp lol
Unfortunately, Tobias Lütke, co-founder of Shopify, seems to fit Colonello's description. So not just an e-commerce store, but the go-to product for any small business looking for an online storefront.
@@KoraOSRS 😜 I thought it sounded like Shopify when Colonello said he co-founded an ecommerce website builder that's been around for over a decade so I did a quick Google. Kaiteneks retired from RS cheating in 2004 - Tobias Lütke co-founded Shopify in 2006. Kaiteneks is a Latvian word - Lütke was born in Germany, just a couple countries away from Latvia. His Wiki page says his parents gave him a computer when he was 6 and he was modding games at 11 or 12. Anecdotally, he moved to Canada in 2002, which is the same year Autorune was made. I'm probably reaching, lol.
@@KoraOSRSLutke started coding young, eventually leaving school for a programming apprenticeship. He met his wife gaming online, visited Whistler with her, then moved to Canada to be with her in 2002. Lacking a work permit, he started his own business: an online snowboard shop. In 2006, he used the e-commerce platform he built as the base for Shopify.
My brother in christ. I have never once in my life played Runescape, and I never plan to. But, I am enamored by your vids. If you can pull people like me in, you're doing something right. Keep. Fucking. Going. at this. You've got a future. You may consider stretching outside just RS. You honestly have the perfect voice and editing style for this informative type of content outside of RS, or even gaming in general. Something to consider for your future. In the meantime tho, I am very much enjoying learning the history of RS from the players perspective through your stories. I love the world of gaming and these types of stories it makes, and you're pretty damn good at presenting them. I look forward to your future work. :)
I remember finding SCAR through Scythe forums. Didnt care for it, i was just looking for fun exploits to get to areas you usually couldn't. I did enjoy the RSbot forums for RS2. I use to bot quite a bit when i found it. Usually when I went to school. Those accounts were always banned, but i never used my OG accounts and never even transfered my cash. It was just for fun, watching the levels go up. Give away the money or I just gave them all the logs/ores/fish. Ended up creating a Yanille Iron Ore script. Allowed Powermining or Banked. This was when bots were becoming a bit better. Changing the route and having your mouse click different areas and not the same pixel. The RSbot script became a bit popular amongst the botting community. It was fun for a bit, but I was only using it for the mining skill. I dont really care about botters in general anymore nor do i bot. I only come back to do the new quests in OSRS. The only playing i do now.
I pressed like the second you mentioned it in the video and now I'm having an existential crisis, cheers. Great vid though, never played runescape but I'm always into MMO-related chaos.
I learned of SCAR not from RuneScape, but from an obscure 2.5d game called Endless Online. It was my first indoctrination into scripting, and I love seeing it mentioned almost 16 years after I found it.
That final message from Kaitnieks was wild lmao. Remember everyone: Just because you're the first person to do something doesn't mean you're either the best at doing that nor does it mean you're different from everyone else.
Well, by definition, doing something as the first person, does make you different from the rest. History always remembers "the first ones" (and this video is a testament to that).
If only they invented a teleport system in the game that could take you to specific spots to increase in-game exploration without taking runes. You could even keep the old teleport spell to make it instant and keep an edge, if so you would wish. Perhaps they could even add l o d e s t o n e s as anchors for these locations. That would be neat.
Maybe you know something I don't, but my understanding of the bearded lady phenomenon is that it was a glitch with the makeover mage that was later patched. I didn't think it had anything to do with nefarious software.
Ah man i remember the community train system ♥Back in old f2p when rs2 first started(this is when i first started playing), people did this a lot for folks since Lumbridge was flooded with new players all the time. Old times man...
24:31 FYI you/anyone is able to use 8 seconds of audio that is copyrighted, only 8 seconds though, 9-10 seconds of constant audio will trip the detection system and will also become non transformative. If a claim comes up you are within your right as a content creator to dispute it if the audio is under a certain threshold. When you produce music you know these things like the back of your hand, you also can set the algo to trip detection within percentages, aka 99% leniency would result in an instant claim.
Regarding the item duplication glitch, every story is always that someone has the chance to get away with something but either can't keep it to themselves or can't stop doing it until they get caught. But I guess the people who do get away with it because they were responsible, we just don't hear about.
the persons who appear to have the biggest ego, most often have none, it just looks like vast sky, but when you investigate you´ll see nothing at all. Stating one is different from others is just honesty and knowing oneself. Both rare talents.
As an RS player who hasn't played in almost 2 decades..I remember Fatigue being brought in and it absolutely killed the game for me. Genuinely doing the grinding tasks became that much longer with the added hurdle of finding a bed to sleep. At 10:15 I don't quote understand what @Colonello meant when he said 'Every 45 actions...the game client would send a secret command to the server.' I would have thought to run Auto-Rune you would need the client open at the same time? Keen to understand this process if anyone could clarify
Just for the record, any game crypto can quite easily be broken, even in OSRS and RS3. The legitimate client has to know the real encryption key otherwise it can’t perform the encryption and decryption, so you just need to modify the right part of the real client to log its encryption key.
A good way to explain why your not entirely right here is this, Imagine you click to move, The client will encrypt this packet with a public key, Once encrypted, it will be forwarded to the server, once the server receives this packet, it can decrypt it with its own "Private key" or "Master key" and verify the command. This key is known only to the server, and is NEVER sent back. Basically the server sends back an "okay, no problem" (Also encrypted) back and the movement is processed for the client.
@@lward53 yes it will encrypt using the public key from Jagex, but the original value is known in the client and the public key is also known, so all an attacker has to do it hook the encrypt function and modify the values before they are encrypted. It doesn’t matter that they can’t decrypt the encrypted value because they can control what is encrypted and encrypt arbitrary values.
@@pentestical8265 You seem to be misunderstanding the encryption thing (Partially my fault, based on how i said it, I forgot to mention the entire session is already encrypted, thus impossible* to grab...). This encryption is happening within the client LONG before you even click. The entire process is likely to be encrypted... The Public Key is on the client, not the server. The server likely doesn't even know the clients Public key (Since it has the Private Key/Master Key)... So, It is 'Not Possible' to catch and hook the packets editing them before they're sent, They're encrypted the exact moment the client even begins. The TL:DR is, The Packets are encrypted during the entire session, and they're never given a chance to be modified because of this. Just because its called a "Public key" Doesn't mean its known or readable to you or me.
@@pentestical8265 Bro, I dont know any other words to explain that even a public key will be encrypted and un readable without its decryption key. If you dont understand i give up
i just glanced over at the right moment and saw that when you said "I don't know if you pressed the like button", the like/dislike button had a rainbow flash around it. That new? Pride month themed or always rainbow/RGE gamer? Hrmmm
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Yeah, let me just buy some premade food in a plastic container that causes cancer, Bruh talk about a failed sponsor. You realize heating things in plastic containers allows TPI and BPA to seep into the food. Which causes cancer. But as long as you get paid right? Would you eat or drink out of an asbestos cup? I didn't think so same thing with plastic. It's horrible for you.
Anyone viewers ever tried this stuff? I'd consider it for a couple weeks
Where is the link in the description for the first rune scape song
@@roughtoast the 4th line in description, not including spacing
XD gg that's the subscription to the food thing
I remember a friend coming into work one day in tears . We thought his wife had finally had enough of him playing runescape 12 hours a day and had left him. It was actually because his account had been banned for botting.
lol
@@JohnMelon-qg9tjyour netflix account has been perma banned by your personal info, you can never watch netflix again no matter what you try.
All you do is watch netflix, this news is justifiably devastating.
Just substitute your favorite form of entertainment for runescape and netflix,
Why lol?
Why ever lol at other people suffering? Just wrong, man.
Wrong for a better world tomorrow, wrong for world peace, human happiness and advancement.
Every little contribution matters and adds up.
Why ever lol at someone's sad story, even if you think it's sad for another reason?
I try to make other people happy, not myself, by ruining other people's happiness.
One type makes for a better earth, the other type makes earth worse for everyone in the long run.
So why lol?
This was effortless on my part, Im like a janitor for shitty people.
Leave earth, make my job easier.
@@pianoman7753 Lol
You know Dovydas irl??
Probably saved his marriage
Wait... taxi bots need to come back wtf.
Should be an official feature with NPCs walking around that you can follow or pay to walk you somewhere
They still do it in Oldschool F2P but that's about it.
Do that instead of sailing lmao
@@AutisticWimpyKidBro it looks so terrible it's crazy. Hoping they change course and just make it a mini game.
@@pickledokra2963 They won't. Too many players just want anything new added that they will accept literally any dogshit idea. Sailing was an April fools joke for a reason.
I'm in touch with Kaitnieks, let me know if you want to interview him. I think it would be great to get things from his perspective
Would be amazing to hear this side
+1
Tell him get on this shit and snitch on himself already!!
is he Latvian?
Wow this would be so cool to see
“It’s impressive RuneScape cheaters were using AI in 2005,” AI isn’t just stuff like ChatGPT and Midjourney. Your autocorrect is an AI. Simple forms of AI have been apart of computing for decades now
Nah fam ai refers to the modern ability for programs to scavage the internet in order to find an answer. What you are referring to is simple a+b=c coding
@erikstrand9876 wrong. AI is just code
Young kids are just researching the old days, you cant blame them.
AI has been actively researched since 1956, and has been an extremely impactful technology for the last 50 years at least. Modern large language also models also don't require an internet connection at all, they're just slower to run on your shitty laptop than on a big corpo's servers
Even elon musk said a lot of ai and really good high end coders came from runescape! It's awesome
SCAR was my first introduction to scripting languages. It launched me on the path to the programming career I have today. I owe it all to Jagex and Kaitnieks, but ultimately RuneScape :D
Same except I didn't follow a career in programming. But my beginning in programming was RuneScape clients and SCAR
I am just starting out like you did in the past, been writing runescape scripts for a year now and have 2050 total all done via my code. Not sure if I will stop once maxed but all I need to figure out now is slayer which is very hard for me to code. I am not sure if I will go on to work with code as a career but I'll definitely keep leaning these skills to have under my belt.
programming bots for games is one of the most rewarding and exciting ways to learn programming tbh... what a great way to learn.
Bots amaze and interest me. But I'd love to learn how people decrypt the code mainly, but also then figure out what to inject into the client. I have a phone game, ffbe, that has a bot. API based game. I'd love to just know how the guy decrypted what was sent to the server. Capturing the traffic is probably easy enough with Wireshark or something, but I could be wrong with what they use to do that as well. We use Wireshark commonly to capture network traffic in my line of work, but I only got a year or 2 programming experience.
@@partickstar1135are you interested in having some testers?😂🥹
Fun fact : Kaitinieks was Latvian and his name literally translates as - a pest/someone causing harm.
It sounds like a racist slur lol
feels surreal anytime i hear latvian representation in random videos lol
@@ProfessionalGasLightingI think if you swap the t and the second k, you'll be in business
(Or, I guess out of business, since you'll be losing your bank account.).
@@hemis1861 Es to dzirdu, brāli
No one really gets how strange it feels to see a word, name or place show up with a tie to Latvian language. There's not many of us left, I think 2m globally, and as such it almost feels like an Easter Egg specifically for me whenever I clock a reference.
That would be kaitēklis
I remember hearing a story about the first guy to get 99 woodcutting ended up getting banned for botting so he took his PC to Jagex to show them that his computer was running language translation software and not botting software. He ended up getting unbanned.
I’m not sure if it’s actually true or if I remembered it correctly but it would be cool to hear a story on that if it is 😊
LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT: INSTEAD OF COOKING A MEAL MYSELF LIKE SOME PLEB I CAN HAVE A FROZEN TV DINNER SHIPPED TO ME AT 10X THE COST???
Had to stop watching the video after ur comment, guy just taking bad sponors for money knowing we shouldnt be buyinf ofer priced tv dinners
@@RickochetBO6Ain't no way it's this deep for you 😂
Welcome to post COVID world
Only if you straight bruh
@@Brother_James legitimately is when dog shit creators decide to shovel out dog shit sponsors which more than 80% of people drop within the first year.
9:47 RuneScape gotta be the only game where you can be sent to purgatory instead of just getting banned for cheating
That shook me for some reason
Lmao they sent his booty to jail
Honestly I wish this was a thing in more games, that would be hilarious
I love the documenting of RS history. I always look forward to a good Colonello upload.
I went to high school with one of the "Cheating Scum gets banned" players. He was really high level and smug and gave me so much satisfaction to see him banned lol
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@@Real_Ivan_oozeflap
@@KarlosIsKewl wap
@@Real_Ivan_ooze slap
Crap
I was the original creator of RuneBot. I created it by decompiling the Runescape client which was in Java, and made modifications to the actual client to allow recording of macros and various other tricks such as casting spells rapidly. Runebot was free at first, but I was harvesting user name and passwords into a database, which I eventually sold to another player for a thousand dollars. I used this money to buy my first truck. I then decided to make Runebot cost 5 dollars, and the day after enabling the paywall was the day Jagex banned everyone using bots. I then left the Runescape scene and never looked back, until this video popped up in my recommended feed.
Did you ever regret harvesting usernames and passwords?
you are a loser
Lol goated play😂
So specific it has to be true.
The sonic 06 joke was unexpectedly good
Agreed, Caught me off guard! 10/10 comedy
nah. the game is overhated
I feel like inserting a Sonic '06 joke into an unrelated video in 2024 is actually the lamest joke you could make.
@@Eira_99it actually works for modern day sonic games too 😂
@@etherealradar did you time travel here from 2010 or something?
I remember the taxi bots that would loop between lumby, fally, varrock. It was a godsend for noobs because walking was so slow, and for me with dial up internet, the lag lines took 30-45 seconds a piece :'D. Getting lost was such an enormous waste of time, those bots were so helpful.
You fired up my ptsd with the dial up...Ugh i cans till hear the AOL booting sound
@erickchristensen746 lmao for real. I remember seeing a ladder and my curiosity got the best of me. I click it, screen starts loading, I hopped on my scooter and did 2 laps around my house trying to beat the loading screen. Then when there was nothing, go back down ladder and repeat. Sometimes a lag line went beyond 60 seconds and Id log out from too much afk
The main challenge Jagex introduced was automatically changing the message structure on every release, and obfuscating the code. That meant on every RS release (~weekly), the bot makers have to figure out all new packet structures and ordering.
God, I miss luring flax bots into the bats by Keep Le Faye. Those were the days.
Hey when the bot went down could you loot the bodies?
@@MAORIATLAS Yeah, if I recall correctly. I don't think I ever did because they only had flax, and others jumped on it so quick, but it was fun nonetheless.
What year was this?
That was you??? You were the bane of my existence 😂
You just unlocked a core memory
so much effort to not play a game
RuneScape just had that kind of hold on us (mostly kids I imagine).
Had I known about a way to leave the game running while I was at school I would have been beyond ecstatic back in the day 😂
Also, the amount of grinding required for the skills back in the day was just wild in hindsight. Not sure how it is these days.
Not really
So much effort to sell a product to not play a game
That speaks to the game, not the players. RuneScape is an AFK game that bans people for being AFK. You WILL stare at the monitor for thousands of hours, with barely anything to do!
@@bluedistortions that's not true at all you must not play it man we get it
Jagex not rolling the game back after the duplication glitch was a very bad idea lol
Did they even have a way of doing it back then?
@@kingjasko Sounds like they did from the way Mod Ash talked about it.
It could have been rolled back from dvd or other backups if it needed to be.
The issue with rolling back the server would be that it would have set a precedent that the servers could be rolled back at any point in time due to severe bot exploits which rightfully may have causing players to lose confidence in their progress being saved.
Botting, as the video demonstrated, was rampant meaning that players would have been on edge of a rollback occurring in the future whenever any new cheat/hack was discovered.
Losing confidence in your progress being saved in an MMO would be very unsettling for a player.
@Derekzparty dvd lol. Think you mean cd kid
@@norgepalm7315 Why would you backup 8.5 gigabytes of data to 13 cds when you could use a single dvd?
PC compatible optical disk drives were released in November of 1996.
Autorune was released in September of 2002.
I distinctly remember this due to building my second computer in 2001 and being excited that I'd have a dvd drive for watching movies and backups.
Even crazier, the first Blu-ray prototype was unveiled by Sony in October 2000 !
1:21 never have I ever lost all respect for someone, only to then regain it tenfold. You got me.
3:19 skip ad intro
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Use sponsorblock. It's not 2006 anymore.
Honestly thanks, I'm sick of having to wait 3-5 minutes before actually getting into the video
conveniently, the sponsorblock comment was deleted. nice.
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You should do a video on the Reinet/wartnet era of runescape cheating(2005-2009) haven’t seen anyone do a video on that yet. Awesome videos man, keep it up!
Reines/Jamie was the actual runescape cheating God. Starting with ST (skulltorcha) and then STS (skulltorcha scriptable) was such a huge stride in cheating. Warthog was a literal nobody, not even involved in scripting or coding anything. I say this as a former tARC ("the AutoRune Crew") member since the near beginning. Though, IXBot, which was basically modified AutoRune code was superior, it was very hard to gain access to, until it got cracked and leaked of course, leading to everyone and their brother having autocatch and cast scripts while PKing.
As an owner of a bearded lady account, this take me way back to my childhood. Good old days.
16:16 "Dylock's Sex Tips" for teens? WTF?
Incels are creeps
It was a child grooming forum too
early 00's internet was a wild place.
I love these stories of early-tech arms races! They show such creativity & ingenuity on the part of both the hackers and the game devs.
"My favorite cheat was for Sonic '06" ngl you had me in the first half
Seeing TKS and Bluerose13x @11:00 was like looking at a historical tablet from Egypt
This video made me feel old instantly, I was around for all of this.
Thinking back to the feeling of playing the original rs makes me feel nostalgic and fuzzy inside. It's a pleasant memory!
I remember 2005 era I got my grandpa to buy a $5 AutoMiner off Ebay via Paypal, I was about 11 years old then. That thing had so many viruses on our family computer and it didn't even work. Looking back it was probably a later version of Ashey or AutoRune that had been patched by Jagex some years earlier. There was also a money making guide in there that was outdated even for 2005-2006 era. Things like pickup lobbies at Karamja in F2P worlds, kill Hill Giants for big bones. What a time it was to discover video games.
15:07 I didn't knew that when it say press the like button in the video the like button light up !!!
Tripped me out 😅
Filet mignon in the microwave is a crime against humanity ;-;
yeah that steak looked so fucking sad lmao
@@oneeyedguy99 😭😭
Came here to say this
This man microwaving steak that is vile
More like bovinity
I lovveeee these videos! RuneScapes history is so interesting! Wish I was there during classic!
15:07 what kind of sorcery is this
I'm glad someone else saw that. Thought I was going crazy for a second.
Fascinating
Love these type of videos, the history of this game is unrivaled.
~13:00 Machine learning has always been prevalent, but only just recently we have learned to use hardware in its fullest extend to be able to actually achieve previously theoretically goals (due to lack of hardware that could support such massive amounts of data)
It's been 12 years since I've actually played RuneScape. Crazy how much it's changed.
That Napstablook reference didnt go unnoticed
I played RS from 2002 to 2009. It's insane all these memories I had completely forgotten!
Take me backkk the best days! 😫
Jagex banning bots because they used a FREE trial version of it and not just forking over $10 is a classic and enduring reason why theybare clueless to bots today.
They can't ban all the bots today as they bring in too much money - my opinion.
@@digi3218 People who think its schizo that Jagex doesn't have at least a foothold on the bot market are delusional. Maybe if they didn't sell bonds would I remotely consider that not to be the case. There's simply no way the company survives on your ten dollars a month. They need a little bit of cushion for the cold in these savage streets. HAHAHAHHAHAHAHA o WOW
id like to shake a hand of a chef who is working on these shitty tv dinners
Your RuneScape vids are really hitting my binge sweet spot tonight 👌
9:20 "went on a rampage and attacked bankers" 🤣 what a menace to society
Best start ever to my school day was waking up and still seeing my character fishing and cooking, or mining all night without SCAR screwing up. Wow what a great start to the day.
I remember after a while of performing the same style of task, you would be taken to a 'minigame' to see how you reacted. I remember three spinning things you had to line up, and then fight a dragon or something.
3:03 threw up from the schill
The Taxi / Uber bots sound like actual fun, as you can chat as you go with others that are following too. They definitely need to come back, that would be awesome if they added it as like an NPC that does that.
Dude was way ahead of his time. Cutting edge stuff!!
Man how time flies seeing all this classic footage
That Sonic 06 joke just got you a sub, well done. Seriously though, great content.
Bots on RSClassic was when it was the most fun. Turn on a bot and go to school, come back and you have so much to work with.
Not the Sonic 06 strays 🤣
I dont even play runescape anymore but man your videos bring me such nostalgia takes me back to a good time.. tried to go back to runescape and osrs but even osrs didnt feel the same anymore.
I really enjoyed the fact that developer created a backdoor when he sold the software in case source code got into wrong hands.
Fun fact Sts bot, and 3rxbot were also major bots on rsc
Wow, i remember seeing the Runescape express as a kid. At the time I thought it was just someone being silly.
Colon, what a beautiful video my brother. Keep up the good work
Thank you, I will :D
Dude these videos are super entertaining. Keep it up!
Honestly, the Runescape Express bots should be an actual group of NPC's. It would be incredibly useful for both new and experienced players who lack teleport spells (or their runes), or give players a chance to view the map in an almost cinematic way.
Man i never played rune scape at all but i love binge watchimg this videos 😂
1:18 SOLID sonic 06 dis
Ha! He got out of the RuneScape criminal underworld and went clean! 😆😆
as far as we know, for all we know he could have backdoors in his product or something.
The Sleepwalker and Fatigue programs are the most inventive solution Ive ever seen. Literally creating a community of botters that essentially are doing the work for you if you contribute. Thats so fucking cool in my opinion.
Asking them for information, promising a membership and then just banning them is DIABOLICAL work 😂
I am blown away by how you learn this information and present it. Fantastic vids man. Love these. And I’m not even a current player right now. 😂
I spent 1,000 hours programming a bot that saved me 1,000 hours. Great success!
Absolute banger video as always Colonello, i love your content discovering all this lore about runescape i never new existed
Keep dropping bangers G!
Will do, thank you!!
@@ColonelloRS how do you find all this information? Do you just dive deep into old forums, archieves, and publicly available info? Or do you actually find and talk to the old osrs legends themselves?
I actually enjoyed the fatigue system, it's basically how I learnt to spell things =p you could still gather items you just wouldn't get the xp, so botters could bypass the system completely by having auto pick up items etc not gaining xp but they would gain value which is my theory why they scrapped the system because it only bit one head of the metaphorical hydra
RuneScape could’ve just been a very cool idle game with lots of extra features
I've now watched 3 videos in a row... Never been so interested in a game I'm never planning on playing 😂
love your videos dude, keep em up
I remember my first time seeing one of those walking bots in a line. I walked around with them for an hour shouting with them until my buddy watched my stream and told my it was a bot lmao.
Coolest thing about the auto taller besides only happening to type what you want it to say ones.. and it would automatically type it out as fast as you wished. It had to color words saved into the auto taper so you didn't have to remember the old color commands
Like it was.
Cyan: whatever you want and it would come out light blue it basically help start color typing in RuneScape
Rain:
Scroll:
Flash:
Red:
So on...
When the Christmas cracker glitch happened, i got a pink party hat and immediately sold it for 16 dragonstone amulets. Flipped those into 1.5mil gp lol
That cut when you say "Filet Mignon" is hilarious 😹
"All you could really do here is lay on the ground and feel like garbage" woah I didn't know they used to send bots to my apartment
So much for Kaitniek’s intellectual superiority lol, dude leaves with THAT for a speech, and proceeds to open an e-commerce store lmao
Unfortunately, Tobias Lütke, co-founder of Shopify, seems to fit Colonello's description. So not just an e-commerce store, but the go-to product for any small business looking for an online storefront.
@@Dryblack1 You believe Kaitniek to be the co-founder of Shopify?
What leads you to this? Can you substantiate? I'm super interested now haha
@@KoraOSRS 😜 I thought it sounded like Shopify when Colonello said he co-founded an ecommerce website builder that's been around for over a decade so I did a quick Google. Kaiteneks retired from RS cheating in 2004 - Tobias Lütke co-founded Shopify in 2006. Kaiteneks is a Latvian word - Lütke was born in Germany, just a couple countries away from Latvia. His Wiki page says his parents gave him a computer when he was 6 and he was modding games at 11 or 12. Anecdotally, he moved to Canada in 2002, which is the same year Autorune was made. I'm probably reaching, lol.
@@KoraOSRSLutke started coding young, eventually leaving school for a programming apprenticeship. He met his wife gaming online, visited Whistler with her, then moved to Canada to be with her in 2002. Lacking a work permit, he started his own business: an online snowboard shop. In 2006, he used the e-commerce platform he built as the base for Shopify.
hes co-founder of mozello@@name927
My brother in christ. I have never once in my life played Runescape, and I never plan to. But, I am enamored by your vids. If you can pull people like me in, you're doing something right. Keep. Fucking. Going. at this. You've got a future.
You may consider stretching outside just RS. You honestly have the perfect voice and editing style for this informative type of content outside of RS, or even gaming in general. Something to consider for your future. In the meantime tho, I am very much enjoying learning the history of RS from the players perspective through your stories. I love the world of gaming and these types of stories it makes, and you're pretty damn good at presenting them.
I look forward to your future work. :)
I remember finding SCAR through Scythe forums. Didnt care for it, i was just looking for fun exploits to get to areas you usually couldn't.
I did enjoy the RSbot forums for RS2. I use to bot quite a bit when i found it. Usually when I went to school. Those accounts were always banned, but i never used my OG accounts and never even transfered my cash. It was just for fun, watching the levels go up. Give away the money or I just gave them all the logs/ores/fish.
Ended up creating a Yanille Iron Ore script. Allowed Powermining or Banked. This was when bots were becoming a bit better. Changing the route and having your mouse click different areas and not the same pixel.
The RSbot script became a bit popular amongst the botting community. It was fun for a bit, but I was only using it for the mining skill.
I dont really care about botters in general anymore nor do i bot. I only come back to do the new quests in OSRS. The only playing i do now.
Love everything RSC. Thanks man! 💚💚💚
I’ve never even played RuneScape, but this is extremely entertaining
The more videos I watch of yours I can tell you are a big H3 fan lol!!
instead of botting, I wanna create coffee, maybe as a ports reward
I pressed like the second you mentioned it in the video and now I'm having an existential crisis, cheers. Great vid though, never played runescape but I'm always into MMO-related chaos.
i dont play runescape anymore but learning how codes work on MMORPG is insane!
A 28min video, we've been blessed
0:25 I am not affiliated with this site and it’s just a coincidence my username is similar
I learned of SCAR not from RuneScape, but from an obscure 2.5d game called Endless Online. It was my first indoctrination into scripting, and I love seeing it mentioned almost 16 years after I found it.
That final message from Kaitnieks was wild lmao.
Remember everyone: Just because you're the first person to do something doesn't mean you're either the best at doing that nor does it mean you're different from everyone else.
Well, by definition, doing something as the first person, does make you different from the rest. History always remembers "the first ones" (and this video is a testament to that).
If only they invented a teleport system in the game that could take you to specific spots to increase in-game exploration without taking runes. You could even keep the old teleport spell to make it instant and keep an edge, if so you would wish. Perhaps they could even add l o d e s t o n e s as anchors for these locations.
That would be neat.
Maybe you know something I don't, but my understanding of the bearded lady phenomenon is that it was a glitch with the makeover mage that was later patched. I didn't think it had anything to do with nefarious software.
That sonic 06 line was cold. Bro sonic tried his best to be fun
Ah man i remember the community train system ♥Back in old f2p when rs2 first started(this is when i first started playing), people did this a lot for folks since Lumbridge was flooded with new players all the time.
Old times man...
Remember Remember the 25th of November.
Turns out V for vendetta was actually about runescape
24:31 FYI you/anyone is able to use 8 seconds of audio that is copyrighted, only 8 seconds though, 9-10 seconds of constant audio will trip the detection system and will also become non transformative. If a claim comes up you are within your right as a content creator to dispute it if the audio is under a certain threshold.
When you produce music you know these things like the back of your hand, you also can set the algo to trip detection within percentages, aka 99% leniency would result in an instant claim.
When you're a small creator, you have no leverage to argue. Your only option is to obey them or take them to court.
Regarding the item duplication glitch, every story is always that someone has the chance to get away with something but either can't keep it to themselves or can't stop doing it until they get caught. But I guess the people who do get away with it because they were responsible, we just don't hear about.
the persons who appear to have the biggest ego, most often have none, it just looks like vast sky, but when you investigate you´ll see nothing at all. Stating one is different from others is just honesty and knowing oneself. Both rare talents.
Nah that's cope.
As an RS player who hasn't played in almost 2 decades..I remember Fatigue being brought in and it absolutely killed the game for me. Genuinely doing the grinding tasks became that much longer with the added hurdle of finding a bed to sleep.
At 10:15 I don't quote understand what @Colonello meant when he said 'Every 45 actions...the game client would send a secret command to the server.' I would have thought to run Auto-Rune you would need the client open at the same time? Keen to understand this process if anyone could clarify
Just for the record, any game crypto can quite easily be broken, even in OSRS and RS3. The legitimate client has to know the real encryption key otherwise it can’t perform the encryption and decryption, so you just need to modify the right part of the real client to log its encryption key.
A good way to explain why your not entirely right here is this, Imagine you click to move, The client will encrypt this packet with a public key, Once encrypted, it will be forwarded to the server, once the server receives this packet, it can decrypt it with its own "Private key" or "Master key" and verify the command. This key is known only to the server, and is NEVER sent back.
Basically the server sends back an "okay, no problem" (Also encrypted) back and the movement is processed for the client.
@@lward53 yes it will encrypt using the public key from Jagex, but the original value is known in the client and the public key is also known, so all an attacker has to do it hook the encrypt function and modify the values before they are encrypted. It doesn’t matter that they can’t decrypt the encrypted value because they can control what is encrypted and encrypt arbitrary values.
@@pentestical8265 You seem to be misunderstanding the encryption thing (Partially my fault, based on how i said it, I forgot to mention the entire session is already encrypted, thus impossible* to grab...). This encryption is happening within the client LONG before you even click. The entire process is likely to be encrypted... The Public Key is on the client, not the server. The server likely doesn't even know the clients Public key (Since it has the Private Key/Master Key)...
So, It is 'Not Possible' to catch and hook the packets editing them before they're sent, They're encrypted the exact moment the client even begins.
The TL:DR is, The Packets are encrypted during the entire session, and they're never given a chance to be modified because of this.
Just because its called a "Public key" Doesn't mean its known or readable to you or me.
@@pentestical8265 Bro, I dont know any other words to explain that even a public key will be encrypted and un readable without its decryption key.
If you dont understand i give up
i just glanced over at the right moment and saw that when you said "I don't know if you pressed the like button", the like/dislike button had a rainbow flash around it.
That new? Pride month themed or always rainbow/RGE gamer? Hrmmm
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