Splicing Super Monkey Ball Speedruns - Why It's Almost Impossible to Cheat

Make sure to read the description before commenting. Here I've made some minor corrections, outlined a couple more important points and provided useful links for all clips used in this video:

𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧:

Taking inspiration from Apollo Legend and retro, who both posted videos showcasing how seemingly easy it is to get away with splicing a run, I decided to counteract this by going in depth with the many difficulties of trying to splice a Super Monkey Ball speedrun.

This video explores multiple potential methods of splicing the run, and all of the game features to analyze which can prove a spliced run to be fabricated. The video is fairly in-depth, however there are still a few possibilities which I didn't cover, but would lead to the same result anyway.

Thanks for watching and leave your thoughts / questions in the comments.

𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬:

As of right now, I don't know of any.

𝐀𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐬:

05:33 - Here I mention how a cut in the game music would give away the splice. I am aware that the game music sometimes glitches, however when this does happen the music cuts out entirely. The difference between this glitch and a music cut from a splice would be easily decipherable.

07:15 - Here I mention that it's basically humanly impossible to intentionally have an exact score at an exact point of the run, and likewise with the banana count. I didn't consider that use of the debug menu may allow you to edit these values and keep them consistent, but I'm not entirely sure as I am unfamiliar with the menu myself.

08:01 - Here I mention it's unrealistic to work around the fluency of the monkey head tilt, but it is important to note that when the player has no extra lives remaining, no monkey heads display here. Even though this solves the issue with the head tilt, it also requires dying multiple times, which is a big time loss, and would already make getting a run faster than the world record impossible.

Thank you to Gonquai for providing this additional information.

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𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐬:

00:00 - Introduction / Splicing Explanation
02:04 - Mid-Stage Splice
05:11 - Stage Transition Splice
05:44 - Game HUD Giveaways
08:16 - Bonus Stage Splice
09:53 - Unlikely Splices
11:41 - Conclusion
12:44 - Credits

𝐎𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐬:

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