10 Times Video Games Hackers GOT TOO CREATIVE



Sometimes video game hardware hackers do really amazing things. Here are some of our favorite examples of brilliant gaming technical trickery.
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https://www.youtube.com/user/Terzoft

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/06/new-hack-runs-homebrew-code-from-dvd-r-on-unmodified-playstation-2/

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https://youtu.be/B_vCFKuXrQo

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/10/hack-temporarily-turns-wow-towns-into-piles-of-corpses/

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-10-08-hackers-massacre-thousands-instantly-in-world-of-warcraft

08.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/11/heres-how-to-run-homebrew-on-your-3ds/

07.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/03/xbox-live-points-hack-cost-microsoft-thousands-not-millions/

06.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/03/hacker-reduces-gta-online-load-times-by-over-70-percent/

hacker blog: https://nee.lv/2021/02/28/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times-by-70/

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https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/03/how-a-hacker-snuck-a-game-onto-steam-without-valves-knowledge/

hacker page: https://medium.com/swlh/watch-paint-dry-how-i-got-a-game-on-the-steam-store-without-anyone-from-valve-ever-looking-at-it-2e476858c753#.6hk3m58lr

04.

https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/2wh35u/if_i_draw_a_dot_on_my_monitor_with_a_permanent/

03.

https://youtu.be/4BlpONgj74A

02.

https://www.inverse.com/article/44106-nintendo-switch-hack

https://gbatemp.net/threads/paperclip-rcm-jig.502087/

01.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HOBQ7HifLE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUwSOfQ1D3c

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25 thoughts on “10 Times Video Games Hackers GOT TOO CREATIVE”

  1. Idk why you aint just say hackers are better than actual paid game developers which is insane & sad.
    All that money cuntstar has & they couldn't fix or find something that minor with thousands of employees & billions of dollars but 1 guy could.

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  2. i was playing burnt games on ps2 in 2006, you just had to get that tool offline that had a cd with the BIOS on it and had a tool that slipped under the disc tray and move the lock to the left and open it, put the burnt game in, and relock it.

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  3. When I was in middle-school is when CD/DVD burners were cheap enough for regular consumers to afford. I can remember this one guy would buy all the newest PS1 games, make copies, and sell those copies for $10 a piece. He made a lot of money! And he would tell everyone how to get them to work. Kids would save their lunch money up for a week or so just to get bootleg copies of the new games.

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  4. My first hack was in the long, long ago when cable boxes used rotary dials to change channels. My dad called the cable company to add a pay channel. They came out, opened the box, did something to the inside of the box and now we had an extra pay channel.
    That got me thinking. So I tried opening the box but they had those tamper resistant hex bolts. So I found the hex bit that fit them, clamped it into a vice, and drilled out the center. I was in.
    After examining the box for about 10 seconds I saw that some of the leads on the dial were scraped so there was no contact. I almost just scraped all the leads but thought better of it, what if, when my dad turns in the box later, they notice he has all the channels but wasn't paying for them.
    This was the light bulb moment, I took an index card and inserted it between the contact and the dial. I now had all the channels. I put the box back together and experimented with bending the index card end, inserting it into the box and pulling it back till I found the exact right position and bend amount to slide it in and pull it back so it slid in between the contact and the dial. It took awhile but when I finally got it working I took a knife and cut the card so it was just sticking out of the box.
    When my dad came home from work he was turning through the channels and saw we had all of them. He was like, "Oh damn, they screwed up and gave us all the channels!" And I was like, "Cool!" I never told him I hacked the box. I was eleven.

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  5. The PS2 hack looks the same as a disc swap, that I used to use where you partly load a game and then you pull the drive out manually and swap the disc back in 2003! hmm, is this not the same?😜😲😁

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