Can You Spot The Fake Speedrun?
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Do you think you have what it takes to spot a fake speedrun? In today's video we put your skills of observation to the test. Good luck!
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"Do you have what it takes to spot a fake speedrun?"
No.
69 nice
@@asiannoddles *Nice*
"One of the messages had a grey outline."
Me: "Wait, that outline was grey? Uh oh."
I was like "I bet their both fake!" even if it was stated 1 is real and 1 fake :p
asian noodles *no one cares*
Shoutouts to the fake smb1 any% submission that actually lead to the current rng manipulation for bullet bill glitch in 8-2
Oh it’s the guy who goes through tube snakes.
That happened? geez who knew cheaters were useful for once
cheaters being useful for once we love to see it
Hello, Kosmic!
Ah yes.. I understand this terminology. Bullet bill..
I swear the cola and pizza are a staple of speedrunning memes now
How are you top comment with 5 likes
@@simanolastname2399 I am?, I don't know, ask TH-cam 😂
You profile picture is cool
@@lix3r yeah how are you top comment 🤣🤣
I was actually just having a sip of my cola as I read this! Truly a coincidence.
Teacher: The test isn't that hard, it 3 true or false questions
The test:
This meme variation is pretty cool.
"And a unhealthy understandig of a game's mechanics."
I think, that quote is the best description of the essence of speedrunning i ever heard.
Not sure if you're joking, but I also thought I'd heard that, but I'm pretty sure he meant "an healthy " :D
@@natanaelvicenteferreira590 No I definitely said unhealthy lol
Karl Jobst, thank you for correcting me, you absolute legend :)
"Speedrunning is the most degenerate ACT man has ever come up with"
@@karljobst most on the nose thing I've heard in a while. Grats on the Frigate wr btw :P
"The color gradient wasnt blue but instead grey"
That was insane to even notice. I truely wonder how many faked speedruns are out there due to these extremly subtle clues
I still could only barely see it after he pointed it out
@@T-1001 i could not, lol
That's a running issue. There have been times where highly respected runners have been caught cheating repeatedly after getting away with it for years.
Or no clues at all. If a moderator, chosen because of his depth of knowledge in the game, best knows what can be looked for, what's to stop him from faking his own run? Nobody would suspect a learned player from cheating, but they tend to be the ones who want the record the hardest.
On the DOOM one I noticed that there wasn't a frame where the time went from 0-4, but straight to 4. On the real DOOM run, it showed the number increasing to 4 for a frame or 2
i did, in the thumbnail, one of them have a red circle around it and one doesnt.
Nailed it.
I mean
"The games are Super Mario Bros..."
*Okay, I might be able to do this.*
"...Doom and Golden Eye."
*_Okay, I won't be able to do this._*
I got doom and Mario correct but not golden eye
I got none of them correct.
I got DooM and Golden Eye
@@Howie09 same
I got doom (luck) and I knew the Mario bros one because the fpg was not realistic which I knew prior
As a casual on speedrunning, the only one i could identify was the mario one, the others were simply too much for me lol
unlike me that spotted the other two but Mario's. each to their field I suppose
Yeah i only spotted mario. Probably from being subbed to Kosmic on twitch for 8 months haha
The doom one for me, the file just looked... Weird? Like, the acceleration at the start just seemed slightly off
@@firedrake110 I just thought the screen kinda flicked as he used the doorhit momentum on the 2nd run. My brain probably screwed me and got it right by luck.
Same, I’ve done the flagpole glitch and considering it’s the only trick in the run, I watched for the one with the setup. Felt good.
How do you explain high-level speed running?
“An unhealthy understanding of the game’s mechanics”
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I feel like this whole video is an elaborate roast on Babadun
"Look at these fake runs! You could've done better faking Bababoy!"
This is almost 69
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babadun? don't you mean badabun?
@@undefishin or Bakabun
@@Dark_Wolf0626 😒
"Do you have what it takes to spot a fake speedrun?"
My reaction was: No i don't, but im gonna watch anyway.
same
When you spend 15 minutes analyzing each one, getting them all correct, but for the wrong reasons.
I swear the HUD for the second SMB speedrun looked off and that's what made me pin the blame
I thought the second doom one had a splice at the end 😂
@Otto Tamkivi i litterally guesed example 2 of doom was fake because for me the end screen when it showed the par,time,and total sound effect was too fast for me
The only one I got right was Golden Eye but only because I thought example one looked too clean and perfect. When he pointed out the editing with the text, I felt like an idiot lol
I thought the GoldenEye speedrun was spliced TBH
I saw him bump the door in the first DOOM example and was like "Aha! I saw it!", and then I saw him bump the door again and realized I know nothing.
I missed it in the first doom clip, but saw it in the second. Thought I was on to a winner... oh, well...
The only difference I think I saw was that the start of the first clip had significantly less momentum at the start than the second clip while both having equal times. So either the first one was the fake one, removing some frames here and there along the way, or the second one was faked, removing some frames early on.
The first time I saw the second I said, "hol up this too fast, and how he not lose momentum after hitting the door"
Same
I got the doom one right
Bond just shoots a few guys, casually lobs the tracker.
"Aight, I'mma head out."
Last day on the job before going on holiday
I like how cheating in DOOM is a forbidden art that cannot be revealed.
forbidden jutsu
foreign taekwondo
And also almost useless since they can check every frame and imput so it would be pretty obvious lol
@@harleck9119 As far as I understand, demo files *only* contain input, which the game then replays. This means it should actually be fairly easy to create fake perfect replays for someone who's familiar with the file format and with editing binary files.
Also, I think Karl is just meme'ing when he says it's secret and "censors" the message explaining it. It's still obvious from the un-censored part of the message that the issue is some sort of signature placed into the demo files when you create them with a certain piece of TAS software. You can download the demo files and open them in Notepad and see said signature right there.
I haven't even played any Doom game once in my entire life but as a programmer I think I could create a world record demo after a few days of fiddling LOL.
Makes sense that they require you to stream even your failed attempts.
@@taylankammer I have understood (from other Karl's videos) that moderators, and usually people that know deeply about DOOM, can see which inputs were pressed every frame of the run, so using a TAS would expose certain behaviours that are virtually impossible for a human to permorm in a real time run.
I'm not a programmer so I don't want to "invalidate" your words lol but since you haven't played DOOM at all, you won't be able to recreate a realistic run that could pass as a real WR (nevertheless probably you could fabricate a crazy run tho)
Karl said in that same video that when you get to know what inputs are realistic to permorm in order to try to cheat a run, you could just try to get the time you want to fake because it would be easier lmao.
That's what I can recall from a Karl´s video that exposes DOOM cheaters, I strongly suggest it, very good content ;)
Plot twist: They were all faked, they just haven't been caught yet.
got eem
Got emm
Ugh fine...
*GOT EM*
got emm
Acquired them
10:44
Your video about this Badabun guy was how I found out about your channel in the first place, it's disgraceful seeing people like that taking credit for Kosmic's speedrun
I think that was the first ever video I saw of his and that's what gotten me into watching speedrunning videos. Karl is the absolute legend.
I say welcome to the club, have a seat and enjoy your stay
Saaaaame bro. Glad I did though
Same
Why are you everywhere wtf
Karl: i want you to tell me the difference between these two runs
Me: they're the same run
Same lol
"You can't guess which one is fake without going into the files"
Me: *guesses the right one*
_I'm something of a genius myself._
I also spoted the doom one myself
Even I was surprised.
*if you listen really quietly, you can almost hear my genius*
sometimes my genius is almost frightening
same
It’s 5am. I haven’t slept. But I gotta be called an absolute legend by my favorite human
7 am but we out here
8AM, haven't either
I've never related more to a TH-cam comment in my life. Though, I am tired and delirious, so I might be unintentionally exaggerating, idk
Go to sleep Alex
@Jef if you say green is your favourite colour, does that mean you own green?
No.
Every single speedrun comparison:
Me: They're the same picture.
*Every single top speedrun. Mine are easily distinguishable 😜
Deus Ex Machina
Because they don't look like speedruns?
@@autisticduck3071 ayyyy
Can we get a sequel to this? It's a fun game trying to pick the fake run and having you explain it all is great.
Smh they ain’t using tas or tricks they just start in second gear
Well, if you think about, that's kind of it.
In Super Mario Brothers, both RTA and TSA runners use tricky inputs to accelerate to full speed faster.
In Goldeneye, there's an exploit that involves holding the stick forward on the second controller to accelerate faster.
And I'm pretty sure there's some comparable technique that allows you to accelerate faster in Doom.
Hell, even the Mario Kart games have mechanics to start the race in full speed, and it's actually an intended mechanic. It's called the "Rocket Start".
"This video is sponsored by Ra-"
"no no no no"
"-ycon"
"Fine."
I think Rusty cage made this exact joke with one of his ads lol.
Nice
Raycon shadow legends
I haven't seen a raid ad in a long time
can someone explain ?
Karl this week: The fact that "Objective A: Complete" appears on the screen at all would quell most suspisions.
Karl next week: Watch this fake speedrun where one of my subscribers photoshoped "Objective A: Complete" in comic sans onto fake Goldeneye gameplay before trying to submit it to the leader boards.
At least it had a blue gradient ^^
Imagine having speedrun top secret info that needs to be redacted. Wild
My therapist: jacked Karl isn't real he can't hurt you
Jacked Karl: 1:30
"Can You Spot the Fake Speedrun?"
Me, 20 mins later: "That's gonna be a solid no from me, boss."
If I already know before watching that the answer is no. Am I making the video pointless as a broken pencil to watch?
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I did but the last one I cought the glitch and thought it was cheating so 😑
I hate when people do fake speedruns. Because sometimes they don’t get caught, and then they get rewarded for faking something. Not deserved...
Exactly. And the people that actually do real SpeedRuns don’t get credited as much as the fake ones smh
Who knows? Maybe even the speedruns that we think are real are actually fake. Now that would be shocking
Welcome to life.
Also if it's hard to spot the fake spots of the speedrun, legitimate runners could spend a lot of time trying to replicate the strategy with no success.
@@ayomgamingii8939 reputation is only relative to speedrunner and their abilities as well and honour..
I love the emphasis on the *will*
"I WILL see you on the next video"
16:10 Bro I litteraly just closed my eyes and the run is already over lmao.
I yawned, realized i missed Run #1 and legitimately said out loud "Are you fucking serious?" Shit was *STUPID* fast, you could literally miss it if you closed your eyes for even a second
Me: *Low Selfsteem*
Karl: "Hello absolute legends"
Me: FeelsGreatMan
Low prizeasteam
Low loqasteasm
Goldeneye: Couldn't tell.
Super Mario: Nope.
Doom: *flashing back to my earliest days of memory where my dad constantly played Doom on our giant computer and I watched over his shoulder before he dragged me over and started teaching me about how the game code was executed from the files within and what role each one played to run the game.* Thanks, dad.
@@mctooch That "Little ball" Controls the mouse cursor, which would be used to turn DoomGuy.
they called the level "frig it" to remind everyone not to swear on stream when the hostages frig up again
just no...
Yeah gonna agree with TechnoReaper that was pretty trash mate. I see what you were going for, you in execution it failed.
Just wanted to say thank you for reminding me about the headphones. I’ve been looking for some and I just used your code to but the blues one. Keep up the amazing content.
guessed all 3 right, didnt have the correct reason on any of them lmao
1/8 chance hits ^^
I got the first 2, golden eye I thought it was bullet count, I was wrong there lol, Mario though, he goes into the pipe at 380, and comes out at 377
Me too bruh but the hardest one for me was the Doom one because I didn't know what was supposed to really happened, but I guessed it right.
I did the same. The reasons were wrong tho. Guess I just got lucky
Only got the Mario one right.
Karl Jobst is the REAL Sherlock Holmes
"Elementary, my dear absolute legends."
Karl is a damn beast. Production quality, explanations, everything spot on. Fascinating stuff
this feels like one of those riddles where you’re trying to remember everything but keep forgetting information
"Super Mario bros is a game that needs no introduction"
*Still gives introduction*
What an absolute legend
Attempt 1:
"Hah it's totally Example 2 because the sound was different!"
>It was a Gameshark thing and photoshop, Example 1 is fake
Attempt 2:
"Hah it's totally Example 1 because the inputs sound way too delayed for some reason!"
>Polejump had no slowdown, Example 2 is fake
Attempt 3:
"No way I'll fuck up on this one, it's Example 2 because Example 2 had a really weird speed preservation going on, you lose all movement speed if you bump into doors!"
>Shit had nothing to do with the speed preservation, but Example 2 is fake.
Not to brag or anything, but that's 1/3 correct guesses... I'm something of a speedrunner myself, you know?
I also got two on doom because of the door and because I thought it lasted slightly longer than example one and so I assumed it was the fake. Good to know I wasn't alone in my thinking (:
9:05 Super Mario Brothers is a game that needs no introduction
*Gives introduction*
17:53 What level of clearance would one need to view these redacted messages
You'd have to be part of the O5 Council
@@swineherd_ No, the ethics committee.
You need to find the secret green keycard
Probably Clearance level: Q. 🤣
That side angle in ad was like “holy shit I didn’t know Karl was jacked”
Same yo wtf swoon
@Liam Castañeda we'll tell you when you're older, 6
@Orange's Dead Body Yo why are you here. TH-cam was going to shut us down because of kids like you.
"He's talking to you on Twitch, i don't think he's amish"
I'm really glad I'm not the only person who's absolutely obsessed with Mass Effect's soundtrack lol
In the Mario one I noticed one slowed and the other didn't, so I was like "no way one would pick a speedrun where Mario slows down if normally people don't do it".
I think I nailed it.
11:06 "unhealthy understanding of a games mechanics"
You mean its not helpfull for society to play a game for 20000 hours and know how every line of code works?!?
It's entertaining for others if you filmed it, and it makes the speedrunner more happy, so he's probably gonna make society more happy too.
Technically if you're speedrunning, yes. But to not to that extent, ya just need to have a good amount of knowledge about glitches and movement
"obviously, when you exercise..."
"uhh, excuse me, but we're gamers here."
Don't woooosh me here
I am a gamer that excersizes
@@osmosisv9502 You are lying
"Now, before we go on, this video is sponsored by 'Ra-"
*Immediately expects to hear "-id Shadow Legends"*
"-ycon."
*_Oh. Please continue._*
There's a cold truth to this reality: It takes a criminal to catch a criminal.
LuigianoMariano Or a very good detective?
Tell that to most Homicide divisions around the world mate.
Me, a casual player watching this for plain entertainment not able to understand a single difference.
U n me both brother.
I will use these knowledge to fake my own Dragster speedrun
Just do the glitch where you start in second gear. Of course since the Atari 2600 uses a camera to detect how many people are watching you play, this only works when you’re alone
I understood that reference
The quality of your videos is outstanding. Its so interesting to watch these.
- Timestamps -
00:00 Introduction
01:07 Raycon Sponsor
02:07 GoldenEye 007
09:05 Super Mario Bros.
14:40 Doom
18:11 Conclusion
19:10 Patreon Legends And Outro
I wad able to spot the Mario one, solely due to remembering that humans need to slow down to perform the flagpole glitch. I only know that, because of you roasting Darbian's fake run.
Edit:Badabun's fake run.
Darbian faked a run? Damn I loved this guy
platinum10000 I think he meant to say Badabun
@@teeks8713 Yeah probably, I found nothing against darb fortunately. But hey thanks to that I just learned that he recently started streaming again!
@@platinum10000 thanks for the heads up
@@SullySadface 👍 my pleasure
14:04: "Example 1 clearly shows this momentary slowdown."
Uh, yeah. Clearly. I can totally see that, yep, with my own perfectly working eyes. Haha. Yep, clear as day. \*glances around nervously\*
It's easier to see when you do the trick thousands of times and then see someone go through it without doing anything
I'm with you lol
This really inspire me to practice speedruns, very well-thought out, entertaining, and informative at the same time.
"get fucked mate, and don't come back 🙂"
"wha?"
I don't know why but this absolutely cracks me up.
On the Super Mario Bros. speedrun, I was going frame by frame, so didn't notice the speed change. However, I noticed Mario spawned before the 400 in the timer did, so I knew it was the fake one. Definitely a good exercise, loved the video :)
This video demonstrates perfectly why the methods of adjudication used by organizations like Twin Galaxies have bred so many high profile examples of cheating. Having a team of referees or moderators that oversee any and all games just doesn't work. You need an intimate knowledge of the games mechanics and speed tech to accurately detect fake runs and I'm glad that the speedrunning community has almost entirely moved towards having experienced and knowledgable members of their game's community be the ones verifying runs.
it would be really interesting to gather all the top speedrunners of a game and have them act as one person
then they would stream all there attempts and rapidly get "better" at the game and the last run would be a perfectly edited wr run
so it would basically be impossible to tell if the wr speedrun is fake other then people doing these runs leaking it out
or people thinking that the "one player" is getting good at game way to quickly compared to other runners
the thing im talking about actually happened in the game geometry dash once a player named Qwer a south Korean player that actually turned out to be a bunch of players in the gd community
audio discrepancies would get them, in fact a lot of splicing these days are caught by audio, the footage might be of the same game but it was recorded in different places with different devices
Love your videos, ALL OF THEM, can’t wait for more
9:48 "I'm so smart that I'm the *only person to ever notice* that the sprites in these several frames overlap." The problem isn't ignorance. The problem is arrogance.
Experts are wrong sometimes, a lot of times actually, they shouldn't be allowed to respond to criticism by telling people that they are idiots and they should shut up. The problem is ignorance, these people aren't informed on how these games work, or the fallacy of them being likely to spot a difference like that, and they should be informed.
There was nothing arrogant there, the piranha plants are an oft-cited piece of "evidence" of cheating by people who don't know how wonky the hitboxes are (and SMB1 WRs are probably the speedruns that have the most mainstream appeal so there's a lot of people watching who wouldn't know that). In Kosmic's Any% WR vids he puts an FAQ in the description and it's the first entry there. And in a video about spotting fake speedruns, it's very relevant.
Especially that even with a lot of modern games, models often still tend to overlap to a point where most games just use the good old pill shaped hitbox for players, even if the model is slightly too large for that hitbox. Shooters being pretty much the only outlier there since they need to account on what does and doesnt count as a hit, and hitting the air between someones legs being a killing blow would raise a lot of eyebrows.
So essentially, it is ignorance. People who claim that have either only played shooters, or they simply havent played games enough to encounter something like that.
Arrogance is more like the dunning-kruger effect, where the more ignorant you are, the more arrogant you tend to be on a subject, untill you have studied the subject enough to know all the variables and only then will arrogance show up again, but educated arrogance, in this case, would be the mods.
No your not alone
@@Predated2 there's no "hitbox" for piranha plants while Mario is still accelerating upwards. Game back then were super weird
Anyone else thought he was about to say Raid: Shadow Legends when he said Raycon? When I heard Rai I was like "No. Not you too."
Thank god I wasn't the only one.
@@dragoneye6229 can relate
They got us in the first half, not gonna lie
@@mansifacio5458 Ditto. I feel like buying the Raycon just to spite Raid.
Didn’t he already do a video sponsored by raid? Lol
The first one I didn't notice the color change in the Golden Eye videos but I did notice how #1's objective A appeared faster than seemed normal which is what clued me in. The mario one was obvious as that is a game I'm entering with the goal of sub 5 min. The doom one was impossible for me, until you mentioned the door trick, which let me know it was #2.
This was actually fun. I downloaded the files and examined each one.
Since I am no expert I did not really know what to look for so naturally I was incorrect on all accounts. I can definitely see why it can be complicated to detect a fake run from a real one. I applaud the moderators.
I got all three (Kinda)! Here's my breakdown:
1. I'd correctly guesstimated that the Objective A message was the culprit, but instead of noticing the iffy outline I noticed the second example's Objective A message had some artifacting the first example didn't have (Some slight colour-changes between frames), making it more likely the first example's Objective A was added in post.
2. I did pretty much hit the nail on the head with this one, knowing the flagpole skip required a setup for RTA.
3. This one barely counts, I'd guessed "The second run is fake because the last turn to hit the end button felt unrealistic", so I chose the correct run but for the wrong reason. Oh well! Still proud I got the other two!
Hey
Hey Viva
Part 5 when? (JK)
"Is a game that needs no introduction."
Proceeds to give introduction! :P
I LOVE how you put Mass Effect 2 Music... It gives SOOOO MUCH nostalgia
PLEASE MAKE A PART 2 OF THIS!
I swear you're like a professor when it comes to speedrun legitimacy
This guy is the OG absolute legend!
Wow, I never noticed what an absolute unit you were until the treadmill side profile. Smart, skilled, and incredibly solid. Keep up the fantastic content!!!
8:42 I would never have thought to look for those sorts of things.
I Actually guessed the super mario speedrun due to exactly that wow
Person: “Psh, I can spot a fake a mile away”
Karl: “Here’s a video about it”
Person: “Wait, that’s illegal”
@Trevor Sechrist Hmmm... steamed clams. :P
1:29 Damn you are jacked 💪🏼💪🏼 😂🤣
Really breakin a sweat there bud lol,you legend
Me: *got all of them right by guessing*
Also me: wait- that one is actually fake?
Karl: this video was sponsored by ra-
Me : oh no, oh please no
Karl:raycon
Me: thank goodness
This video in particular must have taken a lot of work. Good job, thank you for this insight into how hard it is to spot faked runs.
the moment i saw the flagpole glitch with no setup it hit me
"yeah, this is big brain time"
I never expected to be able to detect a fake, since I can see how complex these runs are, and holy shit, I was very very right
Please keep doing this into your advanced years.
The thought of hearing your octogenarian voice, eloquently breaking down SRs like a weathered veteran, turned historian, brings me great joy!
You would literally be, an absolute legend.
My favourite part of your vids is when you add your personal emphasis on "Legends". The speedrunning stuff is a nice added touch.
I like these kinds of videos lol. I wish it was longer.
Me: "eeee... example 2 maybe?"
Karl " Number 2 is the fake one"
Me " Im a genius :) "
"Now, before we go on, this video is sponsored by ra-"
NOOOOOOO
"-ycon"
Oh, at least it's not raid.
@@imjc1c oh whoops LOL. Fixed!
Here i am, watching content about something i never cared about, because somehow your never-short-videos keep me entertained
It's amazing how you make your videos so interesting, to the point someone who never was into the speedrunning, now can't stop watching
Congratulations, you make great content, your are the original absolute legend
PD: Sorry for my bad English
"Oh, ah, just one last question. See, something was just botherin' me a little, watchin' your speedrun. Cutscenes in Goldeneye, they use the same weapon you were holding in gameplay, right?"
"Yes..."
"So why was Bond holding a different weapon during the fadeout than when you were playing?"
"You're... very observant, detective."
I guessed why the Goldeneye speedrun was fake, now I truly feel like an absolute legend
A relative foot.
10:03 - 10:18
Unless it's a Ghost n' Goblins run, it seems.
Yup
Nice way to joke about that TAS run that was posted on there years ago.
Could you do another one of this video please, I had a lot of fun trying to work out which ones were fake
Quality video as usual man!!
"do yo have what it takes to fake a speedrun"
people who are at good photoshop: are you challenging me?
Eyyy I spotted the SMB one, I'm so proud of myself! I was like "huh, he didn't really do any kind of setup for the flagpole glitch, did he?"
I really appreciate that you made a comment about being able to make a fake and then went and did it, idk why but the continuity of the videos is cool to me
Hey Karl, absolutely love your videos mate! Have you ever watched a super metroid speedrun?