Speedrunning, Glitches & Game Hacking Videos Hacker News Recommends

explainer#34

SM64 - Watch for Rolling Rocks - 0.5x A Presses (Commentated) [OUTDATED]

pannenkoek2012

“This guy literally has a PhD in SM64. It's insanely complicated, and surprisingly lucid.”

13 HN recommenders · 2016–2024

talk#43

Reverse emulating the NES to give it SUPER POWERS!

suckerpinch

“are a must watch.”

12 HN recommenders · 2018–2025

demo#149

MarI/O - Machine Learning for Video Games

SethBling

“his brief videos give a really nice introduction to the topic that should be accessible to most people”

10 HN recommenders · 2015–2026

demo#255

SNES Code Injection -- Flappy Bird in SMW

SethBling

“By hand. No savestates. It took forever and the run through is really and truly fascinating”

9 HN recommenders · 2016–2025

explainer#376

FIXING the ENTIRE SM64 Source Code (INSANE N64 performance)

Kaze Emanuar

“amazing video about refactoring Mario 64 to reach 30 FPS and render 6x faster on N64”

7 HN recommenders · 2022–2025

documentary#722

MyHouse.WAD - Inside Doom's Most Terrifying Mod

Power Pak

“Just click the link and watch. One of my favorite YouTube rides of all time.”

4 HN recommenders · 2023–2026

explainer#728

How lucky is too lucky?: The Minecraft Speedrunning Dream Controversy Explained

Stand-up Maths

“It not only exposes the cheater, it also gives some intuition into negligible probabilities.”

5 HN recommenders · 2021–2025

demo#1098

[TAS] Pokémon Yellow - Arbitrary Code Execution

MrWint

“One of the crazier uses of ACE in Gameboy Pokemon games exploits”

4 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

demo#1215

TasBlock at AGDQ 2017: TASBot

TASVideosChannel

“TASBot which always makes a great GDQ watch”

3 HN recommenders · 2019–2025

commentary#1283

Did Nintendo really forget to Optimize Super Mario 64 ? | MVG

Modern Vintage Gamer

“ModernVintageGamer did a video discussing the topic that's pretty well-researched”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2022

explainer#1315

Walls, Floors, & Ceilings

UncommentatedPannen

“each longer than half an hour (and both of them extremely interesting)”

3 HN recommenders · 2017–2018

documentary#1330

[Epilepsy Warning] Choco Mountain: The History of Mario Kart 64's Most Infamous Track

Summoning Salt

“I didn't realize I cared about speed-running until I saw this YouTube video from Summoning Salt”

3 HN recommenders · 2018

documentary#1770

Sega Saturn CD - Cracked after 20 years

debuglive

“Related and _very_ inspiring; how the Sega Saturn CD was cracked after 20 years.”

3 HN recommenders · 2016–2021

demo#1781

"Devs Play" S1E06 - Psychonauts "The SMK Speedrun" [1/1]

Double Fine

“They had a speedrunner running their game in front of the development team which is hilarious.”

3 HN recommenders · 2019–2022

demo#1893

Super Mario World -- Credits Warp in 5:59.6 (First Time Ever on Console)

SethBling

“his brief videos give a really nice introduction to the topic that should be accessible to most people”

2 HN recommenders · 2015–2022

explainer#1898

How We Solved the Worst Minigame in Zelda's History

Linkus7

“is a fun video about reverse-engineering Zelda to predict the randomness in a minigame”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2024

talk#2076

Console Hacking 2016 (33c3)

media.ccc.de

“This is a good watch, it goes into detail on the architecture of the PS4”

4 HN recommenders · 2017–2024

documentary#2336

The Complete History of the A Button Challenge

Bismuth

“The amount of knowledge and abuse of bugs these guys are performing is insane.”

3 HN recommenders · 2023–2024

demo#2351

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Speedrun in 22:38, live at AGDQ2013

CosmoSpeedruns

“The level of reverse-engineering is impressive.”

2 HN recommenders · 2013–2015

talk#2406

How I Fixed a 10 Year Old Guitar Hero Bug Without the Source Code

ExileLord

“One of the best though, for me, has to be this one on fixing a Guitar Hero bug”

2 HN recommenders · 2017–2025

demo#2485

Ocarina of Time TAS by dwangoAC, TASBot, Savestate, Sauraen in 53:05 - Summer Games Done Quick 2022

Games Done Quick

“absolutely blew me away”

2 HN recommenders · 2022–2025

talk#2507

RustConf 2020 - Closing Keynote by Siân Griffin

Rust Programming Language

“I really enjoyed the RustConf 2020 Closing Keynote”

2 HN recommenders · 2020–2022

talk#2902

27c3: Console Hacking 2010 (en)

Christiaan008

“I recommend watching the Console Hacking talk at 27c3 by the fail0verflow team”

2 HN recommenders · 2019–2026

explainer#3085

How a Laser-Shot Disk Defeats Hackers & Pirates (Coding Secrets)

GameHut

“I thought the two methods described in this video were both good”

2 HN recommenders · 2018–2024

explainer#3187

Why does PUNCHING Sonic 3D trigger a Secret Level Select?

Coding Secrets

“For those who don't know, Burton explains this in depth here”

2 HN recommenders · 2021–2023

commentary#3269

The Fall of Minecraft's 2b2t

FitMC

“it details a story of gaslighting, 3 years of player data, and some really really impressive technical work”

2 HN recommenders · 2021–2023

documentary#3362

The History of Tetris World Records

Summoning Salt

“made a great video that covers the history of Tetris world records”

2 HN recommenders · 2024–2026

explainer#3472

Super Mario World Credits Warp Explained

Frieze

“Detailed explanation of how the credits warp exploit works”

2 HN recommenders · 2015–2025

demo#3553

[TAS] [Obsoleted] GBC Pokémon: Yellow Version "arbitrary code execution" by Fracta[...] in 03:14.15

TASVideosChannel

“One of my favourites”

1 HN recommenders · 2013

explainer#3589

How the Minecraft Title Screen Seed was Found

SalC1

“it'll blow your mind”

1 HN recommenders · 2020–2024

talk#3823

DCEmu Reviews - 27C3 - Chaos Communication Congress 2010 - fail0verflow - FULL VIDEO

1KIND Reviews

“talk[1] at 27C3 on jailbreaking the PS3 is really fun, and they discuss this in detail.”

1 HN recommenders · 2011–2015

demo#3865

Raycasting engine in Factorio (vanilla 0.17) - Facto-RayO v1.0

arrow in my gluteus maximus

1 HN recommenders · 2019–2021

explainer#4207

VACNET Anti-cheat

3kliksphilip

“Valve uses deep learning model called VACnet to "watch" every player on their servers”

1 HN recommenders · 2019–2023

demo#4260

Quake done Quick - Quake done Quickest

Quake done Quick

“I highly recommend one of the”

1 HN recommenders · 2011–2014

demo#4517

Armok Invaders

BaronWable

“Though I see he has a new project (Armok Invaders) that looks pretty awesome.”

1 HN recommenders · 2016–2025

demo#4571

TASBot plays Brain Age by micro500, xy2_ in 20:06 - Awesome Games Done Quick 2016 - Part 154

Games Done Quick

“It's stupidly funny.”

1 HN recommenders · 2019–2022

explainer#4581

New NES Tetris Technique: Faster Than Hypertapping!

aGameScout

“fascinating 9-minute YouTube video that explains the latest NES Tetris competitive tech”

1 HN recommenders · 2021–2024

demo#4713

First NetHack bot ascension

Jan K

“Video of the winning game”

1 HN recommenders · 2015–2022