Unintentional video game passwords
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ย. 2024
- Many of the early NES games utilized password systems to store game progress. Turns out most of these systems can be manipulated quite easily. I demonstrate that on several NES games by creating passwords that contain human-readable phrases.
![[TAS] NES Metroid by The8bitbeast in 07:57.38](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/haq7c3rXpIA/mqdefault.jpg)
_Please enter your password_
*AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA*
_Please enter your password_
*BUTT HOLE*
inb4 the AVGN, in a fit of rage types "AAAAAA AAAAAAA SSSSSS SSSSSSS"
into Battle of Olympus's password system, and watches it actually work.
Please *"enter"* your password
*"BUTT HOLE"*
;-;
Password Accepted. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
"Not very creative...?"
The "we're sorry but your password must be over 8 characters long and include an uppercase letter, a lowecase letter, a number, a non-alphanumieric character, a smiling emoji, ascii art, and the horn of a unicorn" of the 90s.
I would still take that over typing in long ass passwords from the NES era.
And the blood of a virgen
Imma steal this joke for future conversations...
And the ACE script for Pong
i can't type emojis
but i can paste them...
I have an IRC bot that informs you when your message happens to be a valid Metroid password.
I want this now.
Rena Kunisaki Is this a valid password?
Marco Fantasy missing about 3 characters there.
I NEED THIS RIGHT NOW.
Rena Kunisaki I want that bot.
For some reason, the word "FUCK" always gives amazing results in these password systems.
Social studies brings you to a brick wall
Nice
Why am I seeing you all over the place lately...?
Good question, but I'm afraid I don't have an answer
I suppose some questions are like that. Some have answers, and some simply don't.
The glitch is in an endless loop
History repeats itself
*If social studies brings you to a brick wall then math must bring you to hells gates*
I remember the very first password system I ever "cracked" (partially), which was Lord of the Rings Vol. 1 on SNES. I noticed that the structure was very simple, where there'd be groups of three alphanumeric characters, and each group of three was attached to a character in your party, and it was easy to discover who was who, because characters you did not have were blank, and then there was the inventory code (Labeled as such as on the password screen!) and then a last line.
Well, what I did was I took a starting character out, and gained 1 levelup then I checked the password and I noticed that both the checksum (back then I didn't know what this was called, but I discovered the apparent role it played in the password) and one of the character's letters in their code incremented by a certain amount. It didn't take me long to also discover that it increments differently on Lv10, 20, etc.
Well, I was eventually able to give myself Lv50+ characters at the beginning of the game.
.....and I did this when I was a teenager at the time. lol. I also did this with no internet, and no resources, I didn't even have a PC at the time. Just Me, and my SNES.
Dhalin Awesome!
Those were the good old days.
Impressive most impressive
R/thatactuallyhappened
Wow this comment got almost 150 likes lol. Wasn't expecting that. But here's a fun fact that I didn't include in my original comment:
You can actually give Frodo Lv50 by manipulating the password in this way and if you do, you can actually kill the Ring Wraiths outside of Bree. But you can't skip the Barrow Downs, because the door to Bree will be closed and locked (and you can't go East of Bree either) until some point in the Barrow Downs that causes it to change.
I discovered the Rambo 0000 password on my own as a kid. If you just walk to the right long enough, you will eventually escape purgatory and end up near the end of the game - AS LONG AS YOU NEVER PRESS LEFT. Once you press left you are stuck.
LUCKY DUCKY
MAKES ALICE
HEFTY
Some Paranoid Medic MSWTF B00BS
B00BS B00BS
BUTT HOLE
That felt like something Metal Gearish, for some reason. Or maybe I'm weird
MARKET ELEVEN
PROVEN SIXTYF
yes, that is a real password in metroid
Someone please try tututu tututu
mumumu mumumu
"Enter the words of god"
In a game about a polytheistic society.
Enter the word of Gods
I died thanks
@@Anafyral666 of the gods*
Realistic. The authority of God didn't start when His son was born.
@@KopperNeoman Nobody asked
CLASSY FLYING VERBAL BUTLER
AGiLE-EaGLE1994 also valid on scribblenauts!
Sounds like a .hack level name.
That password spawns you on Tourian with Mother Brain already defeated.
Quite classy if you ask me.
Well done, Jeeves.
We should *Ask* Jeeves how he did it.
...Who else thought passwords were literal as a kid?
I seriously thought that passwords were intended to keep your siblings out of your save files, like a password on your youtube account. It never occurred to me that the game didn't actually save anything. So, whenever I ended up getting game over after entering a password, I didn't know that I could reenter the same password - I always just started the game again.
I also noticed that San Francisco Rush on the Nintendo 64 has a password system (a password game on the N64?! WTF!) but it didn't use a password if saved to the controller pak. Of course the REAL reason is that the cartridge can't actually save, but the controller pak can - but as my 12 year old self didn't know that, I ended up sending a letter to Nintendo (I also didn't know what developers were) claiming that they were exploiting only children into forcing them to buy controller paks just to disable "sibling protection".
Who ever read that letter must have gotten a good laugh
Were you the kid who ate glue?
..aaaaaAAAAAYYYYYYY mario 65
Wow you must have ridden the short bus
"Enter the words of God"
sOcIaL sTuDiES
SocIAl StUdIES
thanks god
God is Gamzee
*_social studies_*
And it kills you.
god gave no fucks about studies
*_𝙃𝙊𝙉𝙆 :o)_*
This is so cool. If kids back in the day found out that "Oddish Tauros Mewtwo Vulpix" was a valid Metroid password, they would shit their pants.
This was before pokemon existed, but pokemon names were used.
I feel as if the Rambo “All 0s” could have been easily avoided if the developers just made that the password for a brand new game...
Not really sure why they wouldn’t think of that.
That's pretty much how I remember feeling about social studies.
*stray cat*
stray cat
stray cat
Anyone gonna speedrun "Butt hole" % in Rambo?
This made me laugh really hard, and I hope someone does
Butt hole%
You know it
Why am I laughing.
yes pokemon glitch
I didn't realize until later that this wasn't redfuzzydice. welcome back ZZAZZ!
i love redfuzzydice.
Have you guys noticed that redfuzzydice sounds exactly like MagicScrumpy?
Almost like they're the same person 🤔
nah, can't be. Magic Scrumpy is neither red, fuzzy, nor dice. Just doesn't fit the profile at all.
I thought this was the latest Cracking Videogame Passwords by Bisqwit!
Though a redfuzzydice video would also be fine. :)
Or even what it actually is, a ZZAZZ video.
· 0xFFF1 check magicscrumpys newest video
if you enter the official name for the samus clones from metroid fusion into the password screen on the original metroid, it starts you at the beginning with no items. like a clone of samus
Do you know those passwords?
@@bennel3588 No.
Metal Gear NES: Skip to Final battles with the Supercomputer and Big Boss:
FUCKM E1111
11111 11111
Yes, this is real.
Hooded Roxas You made my day.
also, I've heard that this might be actually intentional
I remember figuring out the password system to Ice Age GBA on vacation a while ago.
It felt like such a great accomplishment!
There are 10 levels, which you can get a golden acorn on if you gather enough acorns, but can also beat without doing so. The password saves up to which level you've beaten, and also saves on which levels you got golden acorns.
It was awesome to me to make up a password that had levels 1-3 beaten, and a golden acorn on level 4. In fact, it's even possible to save golden acorns on levels you haven't yet unlocked, and you'll have a golden acorn right when they do unlock!
9:14
Angry Video Game Nerd has a message for all the viewers
AAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSS
This game is
AAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAA
SSSSSSSSSS SSSSSSSSSS
This game is
AAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAA
SSSSSSSSSS SSSSSSSSSS
I remember river city ransom. Geez, I swore those passwords might as well be nuclear launch codes, given the effort needed to input them.
Also, with the first Megaman X for the SNES, I remember I used to randomly input numbers if I was bored. The results, while not game-breaking, where hilarious at times. Like somehow have the helmet, but not the boots booster.
(For those that don't know, you needed the boots to get the helmet).
Dictionary-based brute forcing.
Sounds like what my teacher usually did.
T: Any questions?
S: *Raises hand*
T: Good, next thema.
“enter the words of god” is the best password screen i have ever seen
Not going to talk about the NES Metal Gear's final level password, which is "fuck me 11111111111111111111"?
God: Social Studies
Me: *sOcIaL sTuDiES*
SoCIAL STUdIES... Heh. More like Mother Brain? *FUCKING TOASST*
spicy
*insert spongebob chicken here*
Rillie Wevillame good meme
The fact that this passwort causes you to respawn and die over and over again really says a lot
Enter the words of God:
*SOCIAL STUDIES*
*SOCIAL STUDIES*
Divine wisdom has been parted with us mortals
Yes, and god also said AAAAAA AAAAAAA ssssss sssssss.
Little Samson has an interesting thing, where a bunch of passwords (including &&&&) will all take you to the endgame in easy mode (which doesn't happen in the real game)
given these are just level selects, I'd guess it's just a specific string check and they were left with a few unused entries, which were dummied out to this
Cool cats and square doors 🚪
Wait... Battle of Olympus has a password named "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS"
But, when the AVGN screams, he says "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS"
Guys, the Nerd played Battle of Olympus and started using this for the next episodes :o
XD
Some relativly modern games have funky password systems too!
On the GBA version of Spongebob: Battle for Bikini Bottom, I remember as a kid I attempted to input a random password and found I could relaibly get very advanced games (Sometimes with many lives- as many as 27) from just picking chacters out in a certain patern.
I bet someone can do it on an emulator. Though, depending on your tendancies, you might find it difficult. Luck may have just found me.
8:23
is this the power of「Gold Experience Requiem」
Nice Jojoke 👍
this is what diavolo wakes up to
YOU WILL NEVER REACH OLYMPUS, DIAVOLO
I want someone to make a gif of this, with the character being Diavolo
"Hello, welcome to the ROCKET hideout. What's the password?"
"Classy Flying Verbal Butler"
I'd be interested to see how the Secrets system in the Oracle Zelda games could be exploited this way.
I remember trying when I was younger without much luck, but I should try again, for sure.
Nintendo Nadnerd I believe passwords save players name, animal friend, and the name of Bipin and Blossom's son.
Try this: Start a new game with a secret password in either Oracle game. Use the password NNNNN NNNNN NNNNN NNNNN. Glitchy fun!
Nintendo Nadnerd It starts a non-linked Hero file, so you can choose the animal.
Ashura Kusanaga Doesn't work for European version. I tried it.
9:20 I like how that password describes the exact noises you would hear if you spawned into that situation in real life.
Closest I ever got to this as a kid was realising that the flash game "ronin: spirit of the sword" had a password system in which you could easily modify all stats, level, difficulty etc.
WTF BOOBS BOOBS BOOBS
Ah yes, my favorite password.
Huh, this is actually pretty interesting. I've actually seen some similar things in Animal Crossing on the Gamecube. There were "Universal Codes". Which gave you... pretty much any item you wanted in the game. However, some of the codes were pretty weird. Like David Boreanaz being in one of them? Pretty odd. But they were both useful, and amusing.
I wonder if there are any weird mystery dungeon wonder mail codes
rzeka finally met someone that played mystery dungeon.
Tuxedo Pig I have played Pokemon Mystery Dungeon as well.
Tuxedo Pig I think most people who play Pokemon have played the mystery dungeon games
You either underestimate how many people play Pokemon or overestimate how well known the Mystery Dungeon games are. I doubt most people who play Pokemon have even heard of them.
Now you've made me curious.
it's unfortunate that it has no ironic following outside Japan, but Hoshi wo Miru Hito has a pretty awful password system that, considering the game's incredible level of bugginess and lack of polish elsewhere, is probably pretty exploitable.
10:46 what a nice and pleasant attack animation
When I was a kid I found out that in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, entering a password that's all the same letter will sometimes give you a bunch of items. Doesn't work with every letter though.
"Here's a different, very interesting password." "Butt hole"
the nard dog gitch bombman
Enter the words of god:
*AAAAAA AAAAAAA ssssss sssssss*
It seems he is running from a snake.
@@masomirmanic3771 he is, the level it transports you to has snakes on the first screen
Man, I remember doing this as a kid. I would always type in the random passwords to see what would work, most of the time I would get invalid password message, but sometimes I would get access to the game and it be all glitchy like this. Oh the nostalgic times.
Is Correct Horse Battery Staple a valid password in any game?
Oh wow. :) No guesses for where that came from :D
are you implying that xkcd is wrong?
No lmao I love xkcd
More like having my kinda password.
Eldar Iskanderov in metroid you can use hoorse and it will work
FRENCH POLICY TOWARD PEEEING
Rivercity ransom has cool passwords too, but need a exceptional and deep investigation , like max stats, skills, inventory and difficulty
In Devil's Crush for TG-16, you can just button mash random passwords and they'll often work. It's better than choosing new game because you'll sometimes get infinite lives. Although it gets disappointing how often you instantly win and don't even get to play.
*Guilty unless proven medusa* where do I find snake hair?
You could probably just get a snake tattoo on your forehead and a mask over your eyes. **shot**
Go ask the Classy Flying Verbal Butler for help on that.
That should have been a Kid Icarus password
its funny that this exact password froze the game
~Enter the words of God.~
"sOcIaL sTuDiES SocIAl StUdIES"
"choice between thirty payolas"
"AAAAAA AAAAAAA ssssss sssssss"
And finally, after a long and perilous struggle against subscribing to your channel, I finally give in. Damn it, ZZAZZ Glitch, not only are your videos informative, they're funny as hell.
*_MOTHER BRAIN?_*
*_FUCKIN TOASST_*
also please do a sequel
Actually, that password is kinda good.
Once you get past the mother brain part and "finish" the game, you'll get acess to the New game+ with the Varia Suit and Ice beam equipped
Also Screw Attack
The funniest part of this Password is that once you reach mother brain, she'll also be already Fucking dead.
Aaaand with some button-pressing skills, you may be able to play first part of the Cheetahmen theme on Bomberman password input screen.
This is so cool, I had no clue that these password systems had valid passwords that would create glitch levels!
classy flying verbal butler is a valid password, but correct horse battery staple isn't?
OUTRAGEOUS!
"Classy verbal flying butler"
Alexa in a maid's outfit with a rocketbelt?
Would it be possible to reverse this and figure out a way to play a game until the password screen plays a specific phrase?
*GUILTY UNTIL*
*PROVEN MEDUSA*
It would really suck if you entered any of those longass passwords and your mom tells you to power off the game
2:18 when you don't have enough of pokemon glitch city, and must fulfill your addiction with every game you can find
Really interesting and informational video! It was neat to see all these different games get "break".
Yeah, they really used passwords to the practical limit
GUILTY UNLESS
PROVED MEDUSA
Now I wonder if you could play the games normally from the start, get the exact items or number of items needed, exact score, exact level, exact everything (at least what it does store in the password), and then have the game generate one of those readable passwords by itself when you save or reach a save point! Well, at least the ones that don't glitch anything, like Metal Gear, for example.
"Classy Flying Verbal Butler" has no right being as funny as it is.
Samus’s jumping sounds like Earthbound Beginnings’ PK Thunder
8:24 the music fits way too perfectly
Tabbender Because it's the death sound
"Hey dude, whats your favorite video game level?"
*"butt hole."*
Magic:
Ring Of Elf
*_Death_*
Hey, I found a glitchy Metroid password!
HYPHEN ATEDZz
------ ------
resets the game :(
Here's one with the reset bit not set (unfortunately it still resets): HYPHEN ATEDZj ------ -----t
And without redundant bits (also resets): HYPHEN ATE0WD ------ --uVyG
And without making it look like you started a game with no time wasted as in 0 seconds (still resets): HYPHEN ATE0WD --u000 01uVyK
And with shift byte 0 (everything resets): enCedB bEd0G6 --y000 00y00L
Now that's far off from my original.
Altrenatively, unrelated to my original,
The "VERY MUCH TIME" save (all game age bits set): 000000 000000 003--- --003y
Samus Aran decided to go on a Pokemon journey and caught ODDISH TAUROS MEWTWO VULPIX. Samus Aran wishes that she had an Eevee and a Mew.
Also, theres another Metroid Password.
MARKET ELEVEN
PROVEN SIXTYF
'ortho' Me: orhodontist?
'othomolec' Me: orthomolecule?
'orthemolecular' Me: oh... okay?
'orthomolecularfleet' Me: what
'orthemolecularfleetness' Me: seriously
I remember a Smurf game on GameBoy that had less than 5 passwords if i recall correctly... and I think the Lion King game too was using passwords. But this makes me think about TLOZ Oracle of Ages/Seasons that has new game +, new game ++ and rings codes that could be tricked that way. You could give Link and the baby weird glitchy names...
"NNNNN NNNNN NNNNN NNNNN" Good times with the Oracle password system.
Maybe at Bomberman, not to try destroy the door, your game not will be freeze ;)
9:25 the password took you to that part of Zelda 2 where you're in the dratini cave
Weird how I'm studying Computer Architecture and Computer Network this semester and understand some of the concepts like checksum and address, never thought those subjects would be this relevant lol
By taking a look at the infamous ENGAGE RIDLEY password for metroid, I was able to make a version that works instead of crashing or resetting the game (or that one result on 3DS) everything else in the password makes sense, except for the game age, its way to high. if you want to see what ENGAGE RIDLEY would do without breaking the game, this is a functional version that places you in brinstar instead of the invalid area
4imwYS sUyG40 ebAaCf 6ga02J
I don't see why developers _didn't_ want words in their passwords. If I were an NES game developer, I would've only put checksums for curse words.
Well, it looks like some developers used curse words for the entire codes: th-cam.com/video/NUMZMkKkhqo/w-d-xo.html
The checksums aren't for detecting whether there are words in the code or not; in practice all a checksum is meant to do is ensure that only the software itself is able to generate working codes, since the algorithm for calculating checksums and encoding/decoding the passwords isn't generally made public knowledge. The fact that a few passwords that are detected as valid happen to contain English words in them is a complete coincidence.
I've tried doing these things before and I say I was freaked and amazed at that time
Image what we can do if pokémon have a password system to store the progress
YES
THE ULTIMATE CHANNEL
Your stuff is awesome man
Very interesting and organized
I tried the _Metroid_ password at the very end of the video.
Apparently the first room of Tourain is as far as you can go because the door to the rest of the place is unopenable.
Seriously, it's orange and nothing works on it.
That's really cool! Have tried tinkering with passwords to try and set up arbitrary code execution/credits warps?
I did find out at one point that one of the home console ports of Another World (a.k.a Out of This World) has a credits warp password that's never given to the player at any point.
AAAAAA AAAAAA
SSSSSS SSSSSS
Two noises you'd certainly hear if you teleported into a room of snakes!
6:56 you tried to burn the exit door. Good job.
Now that's more like it! I can't even tell what I'm doing!
So if I ever get in an awkward situation, if I say "French Policy Towards Peeing" then the day will reset? SWEET
In the Gameboy Color Game..uh Crazy Castle, I found a String that always worked and just changed the first 2 Letters, to essentially skip Levels and Worlds.. xD
Its so cool yet so...bad 'D
(and heck..the childishness.. im delighted xDD)
am I the only one who thought this would be a top 10 list?
I would have loved a voice over to read the text.
Fun fact, if you put in the "GUILTY UNLESS PROVEN MEDUSA" code into the release of Metroid on the Nintendo Switch Online NES, instead of crashing the game, it gives an error message.
Playing around with the zelda oracle games, I eventually found the part of the ring transfer password that contains the actual inventory data and got a bunch of rings I didn't actually have (though I just did it by entering random characters into the correct part).
I also accidentally made a typo (swapped a "$" with an "S") that changed the spelling of the file name. I decided to restart using the proper password as I was concerned that I would have issues later.
brb, changing my Discord name to OrthomolecularFleetness
i feel like justin bailey came from a guy who modded his metroid and his password just carried it over
AAAAAA AAAAAA
ssssss ssssss
AVGN approved!
Game "Enter the words of a god"
Me " 'what if the haters dab back?' "
The Zelda games Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages on GBC have a second quest by using a PASSWORD from the other game. Could you get some funny effects from exploiting those?
Thumbnail: ODDISH TAUROS MEWTWO VULPIX
Me: *instantly clicks*
that infinite death loop password is cursed
"Enter the words of God"
My Channel is Cringy.
I repeat.
My Channel is Cringy.
*Gets Metal Gear flashbacks* AHHH! I NEED A MEDIC BAG
Classy Flying Verbal Butler... It gives us the Zero Suit PLUS instant access to Tourian? Count me the hell in!