The History of Hacking in Geometry Dash
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- Опубліковано 23 бер 2022
- Patreon: / therealtempesta
Twitch: / istormflyi
here we go, months and months of work crammed into an hour long video. this is by far the biggest project i have worked on so far and the approach to making this was very different than the usual with new music, new editing methods and new video structure. research on this video began last year and took well over 3-4 months to finish this off. this was brutal to finish, so by all means enjoy this video as much as you can
Music Used:
Amnesia: The Dark Descent/Penumbra Trilogy Soundtrack - Mikko Tarmia
www.mikkotarmia.com/
Elden Ring/Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice Soundtrack - Yuka Kitamura, Tai Tomisawa
www.imdb.com/name/nm6517135/
www.imdb.com/name/nm9465240/
Bloodborne Soundtrack - Ryan Amon, Tsukasa Saitoh, Michael Wandmacher, Yuka Kitamura, Cris Velasco, Nobuyoshi Suzuki
www.imdb.com/name/nm3375122/
www.imdb.com/name/nm1453116/
www.imdb.com/name/nm0910800/
www.imdb.com/name/nm1516926/
www.imdb.com/name/nm8083302/
Amnesia: The Fugitive 3 Soundtrack - Logan Felber
kurton.bandcamp.com/
Morning at the Village Square - Silentwulf4
silentwulf4.newgrounds.com/ - Ігри
After a few of you have pointed this out to me, I wanted to correct a mistake at the FPS Bypass section at 39:04 - 39:35
While I am correct in saying that a game needs a properly implemented deltaTime setup for the game to run properly, I didn't consider that GD already has this but it's more likely just not implemented properly. A friend of mine; Cvolton did describe the more likely issue of that is that the physics differences is caused by floating point inaccuracies in relation to the deltaTime variable. In short, the algorithm shown in the video is already implemented, just not properly.
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"Don't cheat for fame, you will not get away with it anymore"
Well that couldn't have aged worse
For real
kid named spaceuk
Brooo desticler be spitting fax tho(big fan btw)
SpaceUK got exposedtho
Spaceuk joined the chat
54:58 and ofc, nobody ever used it to cheat and make his way to the top of the demonlist, overshadowing real top 1 players and faking the verification of a former top 1, and get caught by 64 pixels
absolutely, that would never happen.
and he wasn’t of british descent
Very interesting to hear about all this, especially the more recent botting stuff, because I didn't know much about that until now. Awesome video dude, always love the documentary type videos!
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i have a small confession:
back in early 1.9 when i first heard of the empty level glitch i wanted to try it out and have a small bit of fun with it so i logged out of my account for 2-3 days, and in that time went and gained thousands of stars as a unregistered user, and by the time i reached Zephyr in stars (i dont have very clear memory but he was in top 20 and in the ballpark of at least 10k stars) i changed the in game name and my icons to match his, and took a screenshot of 2 Zephyrs with near identical stats in the leaderboards (i really wish i still had this screenshot but the phone i played on i havent used in 7 years so its probably gone)
afterwards i deleted all stats and logged back in to my account which at the time had only about 1k stars, never done any cheating before or afterwards, never told this anywhere before but since the empty level glitch came up on this video figured i might as well tell now
very nice video either way
damn
im progressing on the level Zephyrs Madness so this is quite coincidential as well
Stormy: I have an endless list of ways people have tried cheating the game, but if I went through them all, we would be here all day.
Me: You have no idea how much I would want a 12 hour video talking about different cheating methods and how they were exposed.
skyblock player
yea but you have no idea how boring it is to sit there and write a script that takes 12 hours to read about hacking methods and how they got exposed lol
Wow I really didn’t expect u to be here!
TOADSTAR
I thought u quit gd
Minor correction for 56:23: inconsistencies in the way the game is rendered or the way botted clicks are processed can be used to detect bots, as well as quite a few bots having their own watermark or detection method. I know myself (and a couple other botters) have worked with the list teams to make sure botting can't make it on to the list without significant effort!
ah okay, my bad. thanks for the correction c:
fig-sama~ why are you here?
good point
@@Stormfly oBot in this video is owned by midget and its 100% accurate, and now we have abot that uses another engine outside from GD called HARE (Hyper Accurate Replay Engine). but server side hacks will always be better than client side
@@newlineschannel obot aint 100% accurate
16:40 Just some extra info that isn't really publicly known that I think is relevant in my case.
Interestingly, a lot of the instructions EndLevel put in his pastebin were entirely false (75% volume made no sense, nor any difference to detectability), and the "play with smooth fix on" instruction as said by End, was intentionally put there by him to catch people out since smooth fix would make it glaringly obvious that someone was speedhacking. The main innovative thing with his method was the speedhacking of certain songs (and for those with start times after 0s; you would have to engineer so the song would start going 0.5x speed at the moment the level itself begins, or at the moment you put the start pos down, because otherwise it would be completely out of sync) and speedhacking the .ogg files such as the death sound, level complete sound, and level play sound.
He also said that you can't post comments after you beat a level on 0.5x speed, because it would mess up 50% of the time??? - also untrue and an unquestioned dogma relating to this method which I was able to manipulate to duck hacking accusations because "how else would I be able to post comments?". I also intentionally hacked levels that would be hard to speedhack (i.e. not short levels, or nine circles levels). I also edited in steam screenshot sounds at the level complete screen when beating levels to make it seem more legit, since while speedhacking the game and then speeding up the audio later in hitfilm, taking an actual screenshot would make steam screenshot sound in 2x speed (since it was completed in 0.5x speed, and I had to speed up the game audio). Ultimately, the thing that actually got me caught was the inconsistencies in jumps for my Zodiac completion when counting my attempts at the end, since in previously hacked levels I had done, they were all released levels that had victors already, so I could calculate the average jumps per attempt across a few victors to make it seem realistic but since Zodiac was a verification, my predicted average jumps per attempt was significantly off, which was apparent when comparing to Technical's and Mycrafted's current attempts at the time. The steam screenshot thing and the average jumps per attempt calculations were an addition to Endlevel's method from me. Additionally I think a big part to the believability of my legitimacy and how I even got that far in the first place was because I had a track record of beating 2 top 10s at the time WITH clicks, so it wasn't like I came out of nowhere either. After the whole controversy with me though, a few months later the list understandably added the click requirements in mid-2019 iirc.
they added the clicks req in mid-2020*
@@alphaary oh damn so it was a while then, I think the policy after was just asking for clicks if people were sus then
@xander If I have understood correctly, they still accept records without clicks if they are sure that the record isnt hacked.
@@Vedertesu u need either clicks or raw, unless its likely that u cheated, at which point u need both
75% would increase detechability if there are any pauses in the video. A user that was using 75% music volume and 50% SFX volume would instantly be suspicious, would they not?
49:51
My old username is surely hard to pronounce 🤣
I would also like to give some extra addition to the story that you might find interesting.
After me and AndxArtZ stopped working at xBot, I ended up making my own bot, a solo project called TASBot (it was around the same time as beta testing of yBot that TASBot is actually getting beta tested aswell). It is the first bot that actually use frame by frame input method and I heavily took inspiration from TASing in SMB games. Other bots soon follow through but it ended up taking me months to finally release TASBot publicly due to me wanting to make the bot works perfectly and irl stuff. I ended up releasing it publicly 2 months after zBot is released.
Assbot best bot
Killbot soon!?😲
I use gdhm and I can say tasbot is really good
Chapters list: (Spoiler!)
-Intro 0:00
-Secret Ways 1:25
-Practice Mode Glitch 2:13
-Speed-hacking (SB Game Hacker) 3:44
-Blue Orb Glitch 5:02
-HMANN Server Attack 6:30
-Arduino Bot 7:50
-Video Cutting 8:52
-GameGuardian Exploit 10:39
-Cheat Engine 12:16
-Empty Level Glitch 17:14
-MgostIH Exploits 18:24
-Invisible Auto 20:19
-Anaban 24:54
-The Pizzabot 26:42
-GDBot 28:48
-TeamHax Scandal 31:13
-No-Clipping 34:15
-FPS Bypass 35:50
-Piepass 40:23
-Mega Hack 42:16
-TAS Bots 48:03
--xBot 48:46
--yBot 50:38
--zBot 54:04
--DDHOR-Bot 55:13
-Final Discussion 56:44
-Outro 57:51
Edit: Thanks for 35 likes i guess
Edit 2: Thanks for 70 likes 🗿
Edit 3: Thanks for 100 likes 🥶
Edit 4: Thanks for 200 likes 🤯
Waiting for the chad to finish
Oh he finished
@@MikeIce4SG ... how did you reply before he commented
@@m0destuffs94 he did comment. I think we both watch this vid at the same time and I saw his comment newly fresh
@Rylix Mods SFC What it has to do with this comment exactly?
@Rylix Mods SFC u are the only one in the chat which did not put @ in their comment so all what we are seeing is that you are chatting with yourself which is really freaking cringe bro
Really nice video, there are small interesting things missing but overall was nice to watch
Holy shit you were the mf I got GD from originally
what a masterpiece of a video, not only this is an incredibly interesting topic, but the way you tell things and edit it all together is just perfect, it grabs your attention, and suddenly, an entire hour passed by, i love this types of videos, and no one does it better than you c: ❤️
well well well
Usual documentary makers: History of *big player*
Stormfly: History of hackers
I love content creators making documentaries on GD. It allows players who are new or have never interacted in the community to learn something and thats awesome!
I can already see how great this video is going to be. Good job, Stormy! :)
This hour felt like 15 minutes, it's amazing how many story a cube game has
Amazing video
Yeah, it is amazing to see the huge book of Geometry Dash history, and the unsolved mysteries about it.
I didn't even realize this was 1 hour
Could only wonder why I'm getting this im my recommended now
This Video is actually amazing. I dont even play GD much anymore but I never got bored. Good Job!
I think Robtop's biggest mistake is not adding convenience functions and bans against hackers. Megahack is more convenient to use than official games, so everyone buys and uses it. In addition, since bans were not imposed on hackers in the early stages of the game, there was a scene where they were caught and apologized after gaining fame while using hack.
Cause i used translatior, It might be incorrect. But I say definitely hackers are trash.
I actually hack for practice music, am I trash? I use hitbox hack to know if I build something possible.
@@dyltan not hack, just convenience
@@thetechnovoid yeah, as long as you have fun I think hacking is okay
Time to add another to the roster😅
Wow another quality GD documentary... you're one of the best youtube channels on GD Stormy!
Such a blast to watch, really love your videos. And them coming out rarely because of research and editing time is also not a big issue as it makes them more special and always a little gift if I see it in my sub box. Thanks for making content and hope you're doing well.
I feel like GD's security and exploit journey (as in the history and evolution of mostly harmless exploits) could be easily compared to the 3DS's. Upon release, you were able to use pre-existing exploits that were not originally designed with the specific thing in mind and eventually, people started learning more about the inner workings and soon enough someone made an exploit specifically designed with that thing in mind, which pretty much set everything into motion. People were able to learn from the first exploits and they just built on each other, becamoing more and more complex and improving with time, eventually becoming "the norm" because of a severe lack of updates (though in the 3DS's case, the system was dropped almost entirely as opposed to being stuck in an update with a new one in the works)
the message anaban gave at the end of bloodbath gives me the chills dude i hope anaban is happy he seems like a really good bud
One more has happened to put in... and it is one of the biggest crisis in the Modern Geometry Dash History...
I feel like the explanation of FPS Bypass completely misses the whole point of why it's a thing. I'm a poor (not really) schmuck that can't afford to drop $600 on a 360hz monitor. I want to become good at the game. Should I be prevented from that because I don't have money? FPS Bypass levels the playing field imo. Not to mention: laptops. The highest refresh rate I've ever seen on a normal, non-gaming laptop is 120hz. I prefer playing GD on a laptop, again, should I be denied the same advantages people with thousands of dollars to spend on this game? Finally, a lot of the hardest demons (Tartarus comes to mind) are straight up impossible on 60hz.
incredible video, Stormfly! got me hooked from beginning to end, hope to see more content like that in the future :))
Hey stormfly HUGE congrats on getting this video out i know youve been working on this for a LONG time so its nice to see that you were able to get it out, also this video is very well done! It was interesting to see the different methods of hacking that people have used like some of the older mobile hack apps and gd bugs, and also the clever electro auto method, was also interesting to learn about the bots too like the very old bot you showed at near the beginning and how some of the more recent bots that allow you to record the gameplay of the level in practice mode and then play it back to you without the errors (i based off of what i got from the vid i think thats one way it works anyways 😂) so yeah id say your efforts paid off! I wish you good luck for the rest of the year and hopefully none of your future projects will take you as long as this one!
hello sethdash
@@jack--- hello! Hru?
@@sethdash1906 im good thanks! dont know if you remember but you commented on my acu video a while back and i recognised ur name in this comment section lol
@@jack--- yeah your name looked familiar glad you’re doing well!
15:54 I am more than 100% sure endlevel was just mocking. There is no way this works only under these insanely specific conditions. My guess is he wanted to catch people following these steps to immediately conclude they are hacking.
I have huge respect for you Stormy because I can’t get myself to make a video longer than it takes to go pee.
Yo KaiGuy sup
thats awesome kaiguygd
i hate to agree with a gd shorts youtuber, but that is so true
as a early fan of conix, he was exposed for hacking before vsc as in the early extreme demon megacollab verification, as he was exposed by me and another viewer for no clipping all the progress he had on the level. he later deleted the level, leaving little to no trace of the level existing
May need an update now lol
This is a great video, i can tell you have done an equally great job as on your GD bugs video, amazing job !!
I love this level so much, it makes me so happy!
I do think the camera effects can be a bit much but this is a very good level!!
It's strange how a simple mobile game can have a big history with hacks development, and as always, great video stormfly, I don't know how you can make an hour video that doesn't makes you sleep lmao, all of your videos are fun to watch and show us that you should never judge a book by its cover
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Yeah I love how the simple hackers (like only music hack) and the normal players are able to coexist
this is such a good video and it really shows how much you care about your channel and videos! thanks for making such detailed and interesting videos!
2:43 This wasn't a bug, this was actually a feature. If you read the terms for verification in 1.0, it will explicitly state to "beat the level in normal mode or practice mode to verify the level!"
Dude the hype i get when i look down at the length and its over 30 minutes and you already know it is gonna be so interesting.
I find it hilarious how the list team banned 144hz bypass over a microsecond click delay back in the day but then allowed something even more unfair with piepass, and now we have 1000's people you've never heard of beating list demon in less than 5k attempts on 360FPS, I also find it quite frankly gross how a person can cheat with piepass through bypassing to a frame rate that 99.9% of players don't even legitimately own (288, and especially 360.) and get the same amount of list points as someone on 120hz who can't, or chooses not to use piepass.
It's one thing to bypass to 144, but the thing is a large quantity of players actually have 144hz, but 360hz?? I've literally never legitimately seen a player with a real 360hz monitor or even 288 for that matter.
One of the most in depth and interesting gd documentary style videos I've seen, nice work!
It's always good to see you upload something, whether it be a super expert or documentary I'm always here to watch it. Again you've made another banger of a video :D
i'm watching this at midnight and the bgm, dated footage, tech-looking background, obscure stories and the overall topic gives me chills
About the Empty Level Glitch, on the 2.2 started working again, but I don’t recommend using it because you probably will get banned.
(06:15) Hello its Velocci,
ahhh its been quite a while since I've played GD but i'm quite surprised to see Vega here lol!
With Vega me and the people who I collabed with used the lil portal technique to transfer the save to eachother to continue the collab, basically allowed us to not instantly get tp'd to the top and allow us to just either test the parts people made or to just verify it to transfer it to other people working on the level.
The glitch we basically forgot to remove when it came to verifying it, Railgunner verified the whole thing without even realising the glitch was there.
Once people discovered it I was in a mad panic tryna get it sorted and patched :P
Bless to Railgunner I must say, he reverified it twice after that to prove he done it all legit, then I had to get him to reverify it again to add coins.
Ngl tho, the reverify of it and fix of the bug made soooo many new players send me some rather horrid dms because they wanted their free demon, which for us, was a complete accident!
Vega also caused me to make like 3 spin-offs of it Vega I, Vega II and Vega Rebirth (Rebirth was yeeted) - 2 was never rated, there was a Vega III in the works but that fell short
Anyways, i guess this video is like 2 seconds of fame xD Was not expecting to hear my name or Vega at all!
Great video btw, very good storytelling overall, pretty much bang on with everything, reminds me of all the drama back before i stopped playing :)
prediction: "at 100% speed does this look possible to you?" will be in this video
NOOOOOO 😭😭
at least he included the video though 🥺
LOL
day ruined
@@TheMuteTroll WTF LOL HI
Amazing work dude, your videos make GD seem so interesting
Your documentary-like videos are very entertaining and interesting to watch, with this one being no exception.
- Timestamps -
00:00 Introduction
01:24 Secret Ways
02:13 Practice Mode Glitch
03:43 Speedhacking (SB Game Hacker)
05:01 Blue Orb Glitch
06:29 HMANN Server Attack
07:50 Arduino Bot
08:52 Video Cutting
10:38 GameGuardian Exploit
12:17 Cheat Engine
17:13 Empty Level Glitch
18:22 MgotsIH Exploits
20:18 Invisible Auto
24:54 Anaban
26:41 The Pizzabot
28:44 GDBot
31:13 TeamHax Scandal
34:13 No-clipping
35:48 FPS Bypass
40:23 Piepass
42:12 Mega Hack
48:02 TAS Bots
48:45 xBot
50:37 yBot
54:05 zBot
55:12 DDHOR-Bot
56:42 Final Discussion
58:05 Outro/Video Editor/Researcher/Resources/Music Used/Patreons
Are you going to edit it again
@@InfinityGaming864 yes i will, it is taking an incredibly long time
Ok
I fell bad lol
Correction 57:04
Obot used to be public last year, but it went private due to some drama with vernam. It’s still widely used, though
Yeah I wish I could’ve gotten it but I was away from gd at the time so I didn’t know about it
dude, i started watching you a little while ago and you have definitely made the best GD documentaries i have ever watched🥇
Amazing video Stormfly :)
Ayyyy its cob
57:45 oh yeah? What about oceanUSA?
I love your channel dude, keep up the good work
A method I found similar to the electro method is by using invisible scale hacked gravity portals. The portal will be large enough that you can hit it without the center being onscreen, making the circle effect that portals generate also being offscreen. This can also be done with pads, but they need a much larger size for that.
Annabans last message was genuinely heartwarming
Silent Clubstep got verified...
This was a pretty entertaining video and pretty information there were many different hacks, methods and bots I never heard of before
New stormfly video can't wait to watch this when I get home 🙏
Absolute heater vid, thanks for putting this all into one
6:55 I never knew that the cude Dorabae is using is in the game. I haven’t seen anybody use it before 💀
Love your vids man, amazing job :)
I literally accidently encounter the empty level glitch in 2.2 I'm glad it was patched and only used on recent tab levels lmao
I've been working on a demon level the last 3 days, this actually gives a lot fo advice about demons and levels in general, so thank for the tips!
words can never express my great appreciation to your great efforts and whoever helps you in ur very technical detailed historic videos
I love how being accused of hacking back then was not only common but also used to be the equivalent of being called a murderer but nowadays it's more common to suspect/accuse a GD player of being a ped0 than being a hacker.
The quality and amount of work you put into your videos never fails to amaze me, great job once again!
Wow, this video is fantastic! Even though I've been modding GD myself for over a year now, this still contained a lot of info I didn't know previously. Really well-made video, huge props for finishing such a massive project!
HJfod here 😳😳😳
An hour-long Stormfly video? Let’s go.
It’s crazy how the community has both gone through cracking down on hackers and also embracing hacking methods as a part of the game culture as well. Having hacked some of of my biggest achievements only to praise during the 2.0 and 2.1, this video brought back some nostalgia about just the development of hacking strategies to create the most seamless gameplay videos which would hopefully look legit. The community has definitely gotten smarter in looking for these hacks, and it’s been astounding looking at both the developments of the hacks and the hackusations of several players. Thanks for the trip down memory lane Stormfly :)
Very cool video Stormy!
You should do a video talking about these "scary" based levels, and why Rob don't rate, possible solutions for issues etc.
Would be cool ;)
7:50 listen closley, you can hear whispering??
very in depth video great work!
57:34 so, enter spaceuk
Amazing and super interesting breakdown! Thanks! I have to say though I really think people underestimate how infinitesimally small the advantage in input lag one will recieve by running gd in 480fps vs 360fps. Especially on a monitor that cannot display those fps values anyway. It's going to be a very tiny difference! It could still help on these insane extremes I suppose but the difference would be minimal
Stormy back with the documentaries DAMN
Awesome documentary as always!
I lost my unregistered green user because of the teamhax server attack
so even If I did have my old mobile device the damage was done and any levels progress etc are wiped and gone forever
Sorry for you bro
This video is really nostalgic for someone like me that has been on the community since 2014, i remember the majority of this controversies and hacks, but some of them i didnt know, like i didnt know the cheating method of electro, i knew he cheated but i never knew how he did, very interesting, great video as always stormy.
this was a wave of memories about all those hacking scandals and exposals over the years
Good video and very informative. Was interesting.
Your FPS bypass bit a bit confusing, it feels like youre trying to argue against it, which is obviously ridiculous, and the reasoning "its technically an exploit" falls flat on its face afterwards.
Pretty long and cool documetary! One of the most interesting on channel
Great video as always. It's interesting to see how people were able to get away with cheating
When I was younger I made an "impossible" level with really hard gameplay that I never actually tested. I used the ldm feature to remove some blocks and made a secret way, and when you go to the level on the server, the ldm button doesn't appear, at least not for me.
My first ever demon was relativo when it was in its free demon state and I never knew I would find it again until now. Thank you so much for helping me find it again
You need to add SpaceUK now
this video truly shows that certain people go to unspoken lengths against other people just over a simple game, really well made video stormfly :D
another level that used the blue orb glitch was SW50ZXJzdGVsbGFy by Mazl, which was rated with it for a few days before it was fixed with Mazl claiming that "he had no idea that it existed" despite the portal for the ship being in just the right place for it to work lol
this was how i "beat" my first hard demon (which i have since uncompleted)
Incredible video I love your content :)
Very interesting video, well done!
your videos are probably the best gd documentary videos
8:50 I actually remember this video, thanks for the nostalgia
WOW
so this is what you've working on, nice :))
35:52 car rides on a highway with hitboxes be like
XD TRUE
Babe wake up! New epica Stormfly video! Can’t wait to watch it when I get home :DDDD
let's go.. New stormy upload?? And long?? Let's go
I hope some good player doesn’t abuse the use of a bot, oh wait
great video, would be cool if u talked about likebotting (particularily when that one guy was on top of gd trending for like a month promoting some weird likebot program)
Space uk. Probably watched this vid and was horified.