The Biggest CHEATER in Pokemon History was Finally Caught

over the last year speedrunner jwi would set 10 records across four different games in the Pokemon series a feat very uncommon today as the Pokémon games have been speedrun and optimized for over a decade but it turns out that jwi only accomplished this because he was cheating perhaps worst of all he almost managed to steal $88,500 worth of bounties with his cheated records so let's start by looking at the run that first raised suspicion and led to J's world of fake records to come crashing down on November 17th 2023 jwi was streaming attempts of Pokemon Sapphire any% glitchless a game he first completed a run in Just 4 days previously with a time of 2 hours and 39 seconds the Run he was currently on had an even better pace and when it finished he had achieved a second place time that was 5 Seconds off the current world record if we look at J's timeline with the game we see between his first run and second place time only 4 days had passed with another Runner commenting that a 2-hour time is insane for a first attempt jwi replied that he had been practicing every split of the game for several days and was close to a 202 in his previous attempts but that he struggled with the bike sections aside from these two runs and Discord comments with only the second place run even having a video there wasn't any other evidence of Jade's progress with the game while he did have history with other games in the series his less than a weak grind to Second Place didn't sit well with one person in particular the world record holder wave Warrior and he set to work analyzing J's run since jwi admitted to having problems with the bike this was one of the first things wave Warrior checked in particular he scrutinized a trick that lets you skip spinner trainers called runto bikes when you approach a spinner they behave differently based on how you're moving if you're walking or on the bike they will pick a random direction to look every 32 frames but if you're running they will always look in the direction you're traveling when you enter their hearing radius meaning a spinner will always catch you when running this mechanic can be exploited to always pass a spinner provided you can execute the requirements fast enough when a spinner picks a direction to look they will remain stationary for 31 frames on the 302nd the random Direction calculation is run again this gives you a window of 31 frames to pass a spinner with zero risk of being caught so players run into the hearing radius to force a certain direction then get on the bike which takes 16 frames start moving which is 8 frames with each additional tile of movement being four frames this sequence adds up to 28 frames giving you a six Frame Window to come to a complete stop after running as you can't Mount the bike while moving this is a very demanding trick with top Runners being able to pull it off more often than not but when the seven run two bikes in J's run were analyzed it turned out that none of them were safe he was so late on one of them that the NPC turned before he was safely passed and on a second he did the movement wrong and continued traveling in its line of sight meaning had it turned he would have been caught this didn't look like the movement execution of a world record level Runner so wave Warrior dug deeper into the run this time analyzing the three manipulations that take place and what he found didn't add up either while this speedrun was beginning to look questionable one thing you don't want to question is the factuality of your news and this video sponsor ground news can help in that regard ground news is a platform and app I use to stay up to date on events around the world with it combining articles from local and international sources in one place for easy access part of the reason I find this so useful is that it sources articles from across the political spectrum and displays Which Way a particular Source leans take the recent achievement in Tetris for example you 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to take place mudkip kogre and wingle manip wingle manip is used to force an encounter and catch with the Wingull having specific stats so it can One-Shot a Geodude to perform it you need to save and soft reset then press continue on a certain frame to get RNG on a known value then follow a specific path you'll know if you're on the right seed by checking the NPC movement but there is another factor and that's step count as every 128 steps the game has a 50% chance to advance the Friendship mechanic which will change your RNG and coincidentally this happens during wingle manip so your step count matters so what does this have to do with ji's run when he's leaving little route town he walks straight up which triggers mom to walk over to you this not only wastes time compared to talking to Mom yourself but also Alters the step count this put his step count at minus 7 compared to the established route meaning he had to make a correction on the fly to save the manip since he's on an odd number this meant he needed to do one of the correcting steps in the door of the market as it's the only place where a single step can be adjusted jwi doesn't do this however and takes two steps above a ledge instead resulting in a step count of minus5 according to top Runners this spot isn't where you'd make a correction for wingle manip so this was most likely a movement mistake but a minus5 step count still has a 50% chance of success and The manip Works in ji's run later in the run is Kyogre manip very similar to Wingull as you sof recet set then use a timer to Aid in catching a kogre with a first turn great ball with this being considered the hardest manip in the Run jwi also hit this manip on his first try and we'll come back to why these two manips are significant as well as look at the Mudkip manip in a bit as there are three healing decisions he made that also raise red flags across the run there are only five potions that you'll have access to so Health Management and knowing when to use one are extremely important but if we analyze ji's use of potions we don't see the actions of someone with intimate knowledge of the Run instead we see someone that doesn't know what they're doing in pelberg woods after the wingle manip There's A Team Aqua member with a poocha that Runners call the aqua Pooch going into this fight his Mudkip is at 19 of 25 HP and he decides to use a potion to top it up this decision makes no sense as you're not in danger of dying in this fight unless you're at 13 HP and any experienced Runner knows this but it's not even the only instance on his way to the fifth gym he heals his martop from 50 out of 81 before fighting the delca the delca only has double slap as a damage move which deals six per hit and if you're taking enough damage in this fight that you have to heal you likely lost significant time to its non-damaging moves as well which is a reset anyway on top of this it's more beneficial to heal before the next fight as a leenon can raise its attack and do significantly more damage the most egregious heal however is at the end of the game when he tops up his kogre from 64 the most damage that Steven Skarmory can do is 45 with its aerial Ace meaning the only thing to worry about is a crit by healing here he also changes the decisions that scarm Mor's AI can take which opens him up to a potential turn stall the crit is only a 3% chance and what makes this worse is that he decided to heal while on world record Pace no top Runner would play around the crit with world record on the line and this decision puts his ability to be a second place runner in serious doubt with the theory being that he topped up his HP to make it easier to splice in each instance while a top Runner wouldn't make the movement or healing mistakes that jwi did these are only circumstantial evidence and don't prove concretely that the Run was cheated but there's one more detail that wave Warrior focused on and that's judi's attempt count if we look at the splits from his first run on November 13th we see he has a total of 256 attempts and when he achieved the second place time on the 17th his attempt count went up to 1126 with these being the only runs he ever finished that's 870 attempts over the course of 4 days and he was called out about this in the Discord with his response being that he played 14 hours a day but let's analyze this with a session time of 14 hours across 4 days we get a total of 56 hours since there aren't any vods of his attempts we can't know for sure but let's take his word and assume this is correct the earliest reset point in the run is Mudkip manip as it occurs directly at the beginning to execute it you need to perform a soft reset then use a timer to confirm the the Mudkip on a certain frame to obtain the naughty nature with specific stats you won't know if the manip worked until the battle with the pooa if it's gender is male you were a frame early and have the wrong Mudkip but if you're a frame late the genders of both Pokemon and mudkips HP will be identical to the correct frame the frame early reset is about 3 minutes and 20 seconds with the frame late reset being closer to 5 minutes as you need to play longer to verify the Mudkip but let's be generous and assume that ji reset at the 3 minute 20 Mark each time 870 attempts resetting at the earliest possible Mudkip minip gives a total minute count of 2900 or just over 48 hours this leaves 8 hours of time to perform any run that made it Beyond Mudkip manip which equates to four full attempts that didn't die with one of those resulting in a second place run you can adjust the calculation in J's favor a bit by accounting for attempts that reset before Mudkip minip due to error wave Warrior offered 100 such attempts in his original calculation and attributed no reset set penalty to them as well despite this the time jwi had for anything but Mudkip manip only goes from just under 8 hours to a little over 13 hours meaning he spent 43 Madness inducing hours grinding mudkip manips and only saw beyond the first 3 minutes of the game for a total of 13 hours or 6 and 1/2 full runs of the game at record Pace this is not a lot of time especially when you consider that the game is full of high variance fights that can end a run but jwi is questioned about his attempt count and has this to say 50% of my attempts did not pass Roxanne and 45 of the remaining 50% did not pass tat and Lisa roxan is the first gym leader with the fight taking place just over 15 minutes into the Run given that he has a huge attempt count this is a clever thing to say but as we saw with the math it doesn't make any sense Sapphire is a hard game to get a run going in given the various run Killers with top Runners spending entire streams not getting anything beyond the mid game and given that jwi had a budget of 13 hours the only conclusion is that at best his attempt count is fake and at worse the entire run is suspect in a message to another Runner jwi claims that he doesn't save any of his splits and that he sets the attempt count by hand each time he starts a grind it is possible he grinded 14 hours a day and put the attempt count in wrong but there's no way of verifying if this claim is true or false if we go back to Mudkip manip we also see another glaring issue given that he would have spent 43 hours on this trick alone it reveals another fact jwi is extremely inconsistent at performing manipulations if jwi is this bad at Mudkip manip then it's safe to say he's likely not great with wingle manip either and assuming he talked to Mom and used the minus5 step count in every attempt only three of six frames on this step count produce a wingle this means he would have been failing the manip 50% of the time even if he executed it properly Kyogre manip is likely harder to perform than the other two as well especially with the added pressure of being on good Pace with each failed attempt costing 45 seconds but jwi hits this first try despite spending over 40 hours resetting on Mudkip manip he also played on the DS console which isn't Hardware top Runners prefer to play on as it's slightly slower than the Game Boy Player for GameCube resulting in final times that are about 10 seconds slower due to the frame rate difference meaning had he played this on the optimal Hardware it would have been world record by 5 Seconds none of this sat well with wave Warrior but since he couldn't find a splice or other definitive method of cheating he kept this to himself fortunately he only had to wait a month before more people became suspicious as jwi laid claim to the most prestigious record in all of Pokemon the current Red any% glitch list record was set on January 26th in 2023 and was a result of almost a decade of grinding by poke guy Not only was Poke gu's time Monumental but it beat the previous record by over a minute and came just 3 seconds away from what many believe to be the game's final minute barrier his time was so good that a Community member offered a $5,000 Bounty for anyone that could beat it before February 1st 2024 with an additional Bounty of $1,000 being offered for anyone that set a 143 on boxing day 2023 jbi would stream a run of any% glitchless that beat the record by 11 seconds but instead of being celebrated it caused a wave of Suspicion across the community and if we look at his history with the category we can start to see why looking at his grind between June 7th and 10th he improved his PB by a minute each day this is unusual as it normally takes Runners months to drop their time by a minute this close to the record with PBS usually resulting in a gain of 10 to 20 seconds for jwi the opposite was true a gain of a few seconds was rare with leaps of over a minute being a regular occurrence and looking at his attempt count during June we see his 147 came on his 119th run another anomaly as most top Runners near this time have an attempt count in the thousands this rapid progression did raise some questions but nobody suspected that he could be cheating and when he resumed this category in September it's worth noting that the only run he provided with video proof was the 14752 he'd set a fourth place time that came 5 days after a record in blue no save corruption and if we look at his attempt count we see that it's now at 1230 with his last PB having a count of 851 meaning he did 371 attempts in the span of 5 days this brings us to the record and as soon as the final split was hit wave Warrior proof called jwi in chat by asking him to hard reset the emulator to prove the Run was done Live and Not pre-recorded but instead jwi ended stream and went into the Pokemon Discord he first posted a screenshot of his run with the caption getting lucky is not a crime then 10 minutes later address the proof call I just saw my chat on the replay I didn't have it during the run I just saw the hard reset request now I'm sus sus indeed is setting a record this prestigious after a week-long grind with with thousands of dollars of bounties on the line then dodging the proof call isn't exactly Behavior the community expects and with more than one person now doubting his accomplishments an investigation was launched by the moderation team given that he didn't stream many of his attempts the mods instead focused on three different pieces of evidence his sum of best segments his stream layout and messages he had with the person issuing the bounties if we look at his sum of best we see that in his record it's at 14054 but in the 10 runs he streamed leading up to this his sum of best was a 14124 between his 10th stream and the one where he got the record there was a gap of 50 minutes and top Runners are in agreement that setting 30 seconds of gold splits in an offline attempt in this amount of time isn't possible so what happened when jwi did stream it wasn't always on Twitch and looking at archives of deleted streams he did on YouTube we see that a few days prior to December 21st his sum of best steadily improved before arriving at a 1405 4 the same number that was seen in his record when questioned about this he offered two explanations between the 21st and 22nd he mve locations to his parents house and due to using a different computer his splits file was out of date the move itself isn't disputed and on the surface this appears to be a good explanation as to why his splits file rolled back for his attempts on Christmas and boxing day but why did his sum of best change in the world record run ji's answer to this is that in the 50 minutes between his 10th and 11th run he went back through his vods and added his correct gold splits so that his sum of bests would be correct this claim seems dubious at best since he could have done this before grinding any attempts at his new location but if we analyze his stream layout we can cast even more doubt on this claim this is his stream layout for the 10 streams he did prior to the record and this is the layout of his world record stream which looks almost identical except when you lay it over his previous 10 streams you see that his Liv split shifted a couple of pixels people change their stream layout all the time but making a minor adjustment like that between attempts is a bit odd and if you compare the layout from his world record to a layout from his old location you can see that they're an exact match the only way this could have happened was if while he was editing his sum of best between his 10th and 11th runs He adjusted the Liv split layout to pixel perfectly match his layout from before the move given that he dodged a proof call and the sum of best and layout from his record match a stream before he moved the mods were of the opinion that he pre-recorded this run and passed it off as real during his twitch live stream they didn't have a Smoking Gun however as no splice or use of Tas had been found but this was just the tip of the iceberg and they shifted their focus to other records he had set if we go back to the end of November we see that jwi was involved in three different races for Diamond and Pearl any% manipis where he set a 10559 in the first race and a 5946 in the second the 105 is a very good time for a race but the 5946 is very significant as not only is it a world record but it's also the first sub 1hour time in the category's history this was one of the first runs the team looked at after the investigation was launched and there are a number of things wrong with it so let's begin with an overview the no manipulation category requires you to complete the first two gyms along with two Team Galactic encounters before an outof bounds glitch can be used to get you to the Hall of Fame cut scene the Run relies heavily on your starting Pokémon having good stats with Chimchar being selected but that's not all it needs the PowerHouse move of the run is hidden power and in Gen 4 its type and power are determined by the user's IVs which are just the values that determine a Pokémon stats since you can't manipulate this makes getting a good Chimchar a reset intensive Endeavor with a few different combinations of stats and hidden Powers being viable but the best type to get by far is grass since you can't check your hidden power to see what stats it has you need to test it in battle and in Jade's world record we see that against the Rival Starly it wasn't very effective but against the PIP plop it was super effective this indicates that it's grass type and given the high damage output the base power is also high as well at this point he has a lead on the other Racers but even with a grass type hidden power the recommended route is to get some extra experience before taking on the gym but jwi doesn't do this and head straight for Roark leaving the extra XP on the table is a risk and doesn't make much sense given that this was a race but you could always say that jwi stopped caring about the race and wanted to go for record given his great start so this isn't the most convincing evidence when he finishes the Run he's beaten the previous world record by over a minute and a half but given the investigation it no longer passed the sniff test so the mods investigated this time it would be minnow that analyzed the run and not finding anything on its face that was wrong he broke out some tools that would help him identify the RNG seed of the Run itself solving for for the initial RNG seed of a diamond or Pearl run isn't very difficult as the seed is composed of three different variables the first two digits are calculated by the calendar date and minute plus second value of the DS clock with the third and fourth digits being calculated by the hour value the final four are the number of frames since the game booted up plus the last two digits of the year the seed is generated the frame you clear of the TV cutscene with the frame since boot being counted from the first White frame after doing a soft reset but calculating J seed was difficult for two reasons first minow didn't know what year ji's DS clock was set to but since it can only be a finite number this just means that his calculation will involve a range of seeds rather than a single and second jwi hit his DS clock from the video choosing to have the calculator active Instead This is a strange decision as most Runners won't ever change this setting but fortunately the qua is the default option when you receive the Poke atch so there was an instance where the DS clock was active on dwe screen this let minnow get a range of seeds that only varied by the year variable so he put them into a tool called pokefinder which let you enter RNG seeds and in turn it spits out the frames that a certain Pokémon will appear on this was only part of the equation however as he also needed the IVs of the Chimchar which can be calculated by looking at its stat increases at level up but in this case jwi was using a tool that displayed the stats on screen so minow plugged them into pokefinder along with the range of RNG seeds he calculated and what do you think happened when he hit the find button the Chimchar that jwi used did not appear in any of the RNG seeds a clear indicator that the Run had been spliced this wasn't the only RNG analysis that mnow performed however as the trainer ID that appears when you enter the Hall of Fame is also tied to the seed when he reverse engineered the seed from the trainer ID the specific ID appeared in a handful of seeds but only one of these can occur when the DS clock is at Hour 1 which we know was J's clock time if we look at when he received the Poke atch and subtract his run time this seed has a slightly higher delay than was expected of J's run given that minnow frame counted what his delay should be and if we look at the Chimchar that the trainer ID seed can generate the hidden power grass with a hasty nature isn't one of them that makes two pieces of conclusive evidence that the Run was cheated but minnow took it a step further and injected the trainer ID seed into a run the point of this was so he could compare NPC movement between the seed observed at the start and the seed generated from his trainer ID as NPCs will always move the same on a given RNG seed in Jade's run we see that the NPC outside of Mom's house starts facing left then looks up but on the trainer ID seed the NPC starts looking right then switches to left then looks up this proves that his trainer ID doesn't match the seed in the beginning and that even if this was the correct trainer ID the Chimchar doesn't exist on this seed or the seed observed at the start this was The Smoking Gun the mods were looking for and before we move on to his other runs let's look at some of his behavior around this one on November 30th after he set the 105 he went into s chat and said he should try for a sub hour time as we know now he achieved the feat the very next day with his fake run so he was foreshadowing his own accomplishment in another runner's chat then returned to gloat after he successfully passed off the fake run I spoke to some of the runners involved in the race as part of my own investigation and asked them who organized the three races and in each case it was jwi who organized them showing that not only did he fake a run but he calculated the when and where of how he would show it off one of them even says that looking back his tone of voice during the Run doesn't sound authentic which lines up completely given that we know the Run was pre-recorded and to help hide this fact he made tapping sounds on his DS during the race to make it seem like he wasn't playing a recording jwi had a previous record in this category as well and he even points out that the time difference between them was almost identical but I guess that's not hard to accomplish when you're faking runs and setting up races to pass them off as legit but this Pearl run was just the beginning if we look at ji's timeline since he started speedrunning we see that he began with pearl then moved on to various categories in gen one with his first record coming in red any percent a run of pure execution that uses save corruption to credits warp he had posted some times with video proof prior to this record so it didn't raise any suspicion a lot of his runs between August and early October did not have video proof but that would change after he finished running gold as he started setting records very quickly most of them were in short categories he was considered good at so they didn't raise many eyebrows but no save corruption is a different story at the time when it was performed it was generally believed to be legitimate but insanely lucky run however once the investigation started some serious doubt was cast on its legitimacy the run is a mix of RNG and execution as you need to play to vidiian Forest before before you can activate the credits warp glitch which requires the Rival fight and going through the tall grass on Route One three times for the Rival fight the fastest thing that can happen is for the Squirtle to use tackle five times to KO your Charmander with it having about a 50% chance to select tackle over tail whip this equates to about a 3% chance of getting the optimal RNG with some edge cases bumping the odds up a bit but they're still low when it comes to the Tall Grass you need to pass through 41 tiles of it with each tile having a tile value of 25 to decide if you get an encounter the game rolls a number between 0 and 255 with an encounter being generated if the number rolled is less than the tile number this gives odds of about 2% for zero encounters with combined odds of about 5% to get that and a good Squirtle fight and this RNG is required for any potential World Records after that you need to manipulate a speo catch as it's a better Pokémon than Charmander for clearing the trainers in the forest once you have speo you're now ready for the most difficult manipulation in all of Pokemon speedr running it involves manipulating zero Encounters in the forest so you can trigger a Pikachu fight as you enter a trainer's line of sight this gets the game in a state where your actions now edit the code itself which is known as arbitrary code execution or Ace the manipulation doesn't end at the Pikachu however a runner named grogar developed it so that you carry it through two more bug catcher fights with the requirements being frame perfect inputs and short windows to clear text boxes which leaves a lot of spots from mistakes across the two-minute manipulation in ji's run not only did he get a five- turn death with the Rival but he also had zero encounters before the speo manip and when it came time to execute grogar's new manip not only did he perform it but he also got two unmanipulated crits on the final two bug catcher fights when grogar first developed the extended manipulation it took him weeks to get a below average consistency with it but if we look at J's proficiency with a comparable manip we don't see much reason to be confident in his abilities the triple extended manip in red glitchless requires you to manipulate a nean encounter and catch continue it into a Pidgey encounter and catch then extend it into a zero encounter Forest until you fight the bug catcher where you force one final event by having its Weedle you String Shot it's agreed by top Runners that while this manip is hard Grog gears in the no save corruption category is harder and when it came to Jade's execution at the triple extended we see that he often dropped it at the Pidgey catch as happened in his 43 this doesn't mean he can't execute the harder manip but it does cast doubt on his ability to be able to hit it while under the pressure of finally getting the five- turn death and zero encounter start a further problem is that by Jade's own admission he only had five or six runs that were five turn zero encounters but that he failed the extended manip in all of them meaning the only run he had beyond the manip was this one after the manip there are still some actions you need to take and jwi proceeded to get the best RNG possible with with two unmanipulated crits the faster of two possible fights a fast bug catcher dialogue and a non- crash Ace warp with the combined odds of these events being 1 in 800 you may have noticed a pattern developing where jwi always finishes a run if he gets a good start with there only being a handful of examples where he posted screenshots of dead runs and this wasn't lost on the mods as They carried out the investigation while they couldn't find a splice they did acknowledge that despite every world record in Pokémon requiring exceptional luck jwi rarely spent more than a week grinding any category before achieving a record and in this run the single attempt he managed to get through the manipulation received the best luck possible with their verdict being that it was likely achieved through illegitimate means there's also the red glitchless Classic record he set on November 21st Just 4 days after his second place time in Sapphire when he last ran the category his attempt count was 164 and the earliest he could have started this grind was Midday on the 17th when he got the record his attempt count was 622 meaning across 3 and 1/2 days he did 458 attempts if we run a calculation and assume he played 14 hours a day as he claimed in Sapphire we see that he was averaging 7 minutes per attempt which doesn't make a lot of sense as most runs in this category are getting to Brock which is at the 11-minute mark this run also didn't have any identifiable splices in it but given all the other evidence this Run's legitimacy was also doubted by the mods and not wanting to alarm jwi in case he tried to hide evidence they didn't inform him of this investigation when it started along with analyzing his runs they also gathered statements he made in Discord and various twitch chats and one that consistently appeared was jwi claiming he didn't lose runs in the late game because he was better at execution and handling pressure he says that if you gave his RNG to other Runners they wouldn't be able to execute then complains about people calling him lucky when he sets a record but congratulate others when they do but getting called lucky shouldn't have surprised him given that he finished his best Pace Ever every single time he got it after his 145 and glitchless he acknowledges that other players who have spent more time grinding than him and have worse times are better Runners than he is it's almost as if he's telling on himself and then goes on to say that if he wins the $1,000 Bounty he would give half to two different Runners he's asked at one point why he doesn't upload any of his runs to the leaderboard with jwi replying that he doesn't have a Game Boy Player and can't run on emulator because his computer sucks which brings up another point when jwi wasn't streaming attempts he never locally recorded any of his runs Pokemon Red is not a CPU intensive game to stream let alone record in fact it could be ran on a TI 84 calculator that uses a processor from 1974 and one member of the community even plays and Records attempts on a Lenovo t420 a PC pad that's 13 years old the first Game Boy emulator released in '96 and one of the first screen recording softwares fraps released in 99 raps doesn't require much processing power by today's standards and its 3.0 version has Min specs of a Pentium 4 processor which is Hardware available in the year 2000 given this the fact that he didn't record runs and made excuses for why he couldn't makes zero sense as a PC that's older than he is can perform the required operations without overheating or maxing out on memory given the hard evidence in Pearl the mountain of evidence from Sapphire and other games and all of these statements the mods were confident in their in investigation and were ready to move forward with their decision but before they could jwi posted that he was retiring from speed running he cites an increasing school schedule as the main reason as he won't have time to do 14-hour a day grinds anymore and says that with the free time he does have he will be focusing on speed cubing which is solving Rubik's Cubes incredibly fast on top of this he's out of shorter categories to run as he doesn't have the mental strength to do longer runs and needs breaks every 2 hours which seems odd given that he would spend spend 14 hours a day grinding according to his own statements he then goes into a story about how he was bullied as a child due to a medical condition I'm not going to dispute this or go into it Beyond highlighting that he cites these experiences as to why he didn't stream much during his grinds he ends with a final shot at another Runner then rides off into the sunset or so everyone thought because the next day the mods informed him that as a result of their investigation he had been banned from the Discord and leaderboards not informing him about the investigation was a smart move because immediately after this he began deleting Discord messages and videos but luckily the mods had already backed up everything he replies to this message the next morning stating he would wait for the report to be released before commenting but just 2 hours later he released another paste bin it opens with GG quite impressed with the effort to find out how I cheated and goes into why he cheated his first run which was the blue no save corruption claiming he did perform 3,000 attempts but became frustrated he couldn't get the record he admits to using save states to splice the run together then says that he didn't cheat for bounties and that he felt terrible about cheating and didn't like lying to people but when he saw the Run wasn't scrutinized he decided to cheat more as he wanted to make the most of his remaining time speedr running he admits to sapphire red classic and red glitchless being cheated and even claims to have had a Save State Ready in case he was proof called for the 143 then offers a single apology and claims again that he didn't care about the bounties and had he re received them he would have given half to the runners he promised to distribute the $11,000 bounty to and that the other 7500 would have been given to his parents this statement is absolutely ludicrous and should be reason enough to doubt anything he said as it's contradicted in the very pacin itself if he didn't cheat for the bounties then why cheat the runs that award you the Bounties in the first place and more importantly he didn't say that he would have refuse the money but instead claims he would have taken it and given it to other Runners and his parents if he didn't care about the bounties then why message one of the bounty posters asking if you can stream the runs on Discord instead of on Twitch this is in direct conflict with his Pace bin since why would you ask if you can claim a bounty if you didn't care about them never mind asking to stream your runs in a less public method interestingly enough he never admitted to cheating the Pearl run despite that one having direct hard evidence nor did he admit to the red or yellow any% runs being cheated likely because of the time of the mods informing him of the ban they hadn't released the report so jwi didn't actually know what they had caught and what they hadn't after his past bin he did admit to using save states to splice the Pearl run together and you might be wondering how no splices were able to be detected and the answer is that jwi is very familiar with video editing software he had other YouTube channels where he created Music Photoshop tutorials and edited Challenge videos around Pokémon the challenge video channel has since been scrubbed but using the Wayback machine you can see that it did have content at one point so the answer to how he was able to splice undetected is that he was very skilled at using equipment that can create spliced runs and with the Pearl run in particular he claims he did it on a flash card which has faster load times than the DS if you look at the loads in the video however they are about the same as you'd expect on ads meaning he accounted for this discrepancy when splicing the run this also defeats his earlier claim of not being able to locally record because of his PC being potato quality as any computer that can run editing software certainly has the capacity to run an emulator with recording software all of this goes to show the lengths he went through not to get caught so the mods deserve congratulations in Catching this before he was able to claim bounties as while getting lucky may not be a crime succeeding in stealing almost $10,000 with fake videos almost certainly is and who knows maybe I'll be making a video on a speed cubing cheater later this year thanks for watching and don't forget to support me on patreon or become a member 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Channel: Abyssoft

Views: 1,485,380

Keywords: pokemon, cheater, cheating, speedrun, jadiwi, jawad, french, france, paris, speedrunning, gen1, psr, gen2, any%, classic, glitchless, red, blue, gold, silver, sapphire, pearl, diamond, abyssoft, splice, tas, fake, cheat, world record, bounty

Id: GM6GkY1Swqc

Length: 35min 55sec (2155 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 21 2024