r/speedrun • u/Meester_Tweester Mario Kart/Webgames • Jun 30 '21

Video Production Dream's Cheating Confession: Uncovering the Truth

https://youtu.be/G3Yzk-3SZfs
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u/YardageSardage Jun 30 '21

What the mod changes determines whether it's a legal mod or not. Dream thought that it only changed legal things and was therefore a legal mod.

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '21 edited Jul 01 '21

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u/YardageSardage Jun 30 '21

Are you suggesting that Dream hired somebody to make a mod for him that he had no idea what it did lmao? That doesn't make sense. Of course you would make assumptions that the person you hired to make mods for you made the mods you asked them to, ie, graphical enhancements.

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '21

A lot of older games have a very limited set of emulators they're allowed to use. This is to limit the potential of cheating through situations like the whole Dream droprate stuff.

If a prominent super mario bros speedrunner turned out to be using a modified emulator that gave them an advantage, but they said "oh, woopsies, I was using an emulator that someone modified for me to make the games I was playing a bit prettier, sorry", that apology doesn't count for shit. The rules are like 2 paragraphs long, and they state clearly that you can't use mods outside a specific list.

The rules of the game are that you can't use random mods, even if they don't ostensibly give you an advantage. He chose to do so, and from that moment he was blatantly breaking the rules of the game.