_Please enter your password_ *AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA*

The "we're sorry but your password must be over 8 characters long and include an uppercase letter, a lowecase letter, a number, a non-alphanumieric character, a smiling emoji, ascii art, and the horn of a unicorn" of the 90s.

I have an IRC bot that informs you when your message happens to be a valid Metroid password.

For some reason, the word "FUCK" always gives amazing results in these password systems.

I remember the very first password system I ever "cracked" (partially), which was Lord of the Rings Vol. 1 on SNES. I noticed that the structure was very simple, where there'd be groups of three alphanumeric characters, and each group of three was attached to a character in your party, and it was easy to discover who was who, because characters you did not have were blank, and then there was the inventory code (Labeled as such as on the password screen!) and then a last line. Well, what I did was I took a starting character out, and gained 1 levelup then I checked the password and I noticed that both the checksum (back then I didn't know what this was called, but I discovered the apparent role it played in the password) and one of the character's letters in their code incremented by a certain amount. It didn't take me long to also discover that it increments differently on Lv10, 20, etc. Well, I was eventually able to give myself Lv50+ characters at the beginning of the game. .....and I did this when I was a teenager at the time. lol. I also did this with no internet, and no resources, I didn't even have a PC at the time. Just Me, and my SNES.

Social studies brings you to a brick wall Nice

LUCKY DUCKY MAKES ALICE HEFTY

I discovered the Rambo 0000 password on my own as a kid. If you just walk to the right long enough, you will eventually escape purgatory and end up near the end of the game - AS LONG AS YOU NEVER PRESS LEFT. Once you press left you are stuck.

Anyone gonna speedrun "Butt hole" % in Rambo?

"Enter the words of God" sOcIaL sTuDiES SocIAl StUdIES thanks god

CLASSY FLYING VERBAL BUTLER

"Enter the words of god" In a game about a polytheistic society.

I feel as if the Rambo “All 0s” could have been easily avoided if the developers just made that the password for a brand new game... Not really sure why they wouldn’t think of that.

That's pretty much how I remember feeling about social studies.

...Who else thought passwords were literal as a kid? I seriously thought that passwords were intended to keep your siblings out of your save files, like a password on your youtube account. It never occurred to me that the game didn't actually save anything. So, whenever I ended up getting game over after entering a password, I didn't know that I could reenter the same password - I always just started the game again. I also noticed that San Francisco Rush on the Nintendo 64 has a password system (a password game on the N64?! WTF!) but it didn't use a password if saved to the controller pak. Of course the REAL reason is that the cartridge can't actually save, but the controller pak can - but as my 12 year old self didn't know that, I ended up sending a letter to Nintendo (I also didn't know what developers were) claiming that they were exploiting only children into forcing them to buy controller paks just to disable "sibling protection".

This is so cool. If kids back in the day found out that "Oddish Tauros Mewtwo Vulpix" was a valid Metroid password, they would shit their pants.

if you enter the official name for the samus clones from metroid fusion into the password screen on the original metroid, it starts you at the beginning with no items. like a clone of samus

Metal Gear NES: Skip to Final battles with the Supercomputer and Big Boss: FUCKM E1111 11111 11111 Yes, this is real.

9:14 Angry Video Game Nerd has a message for all the viewers

I didn't realize until later that this wasn't redfuzzydice. welcome back ZZAZZ!

I remember figuring out the password system to Ice Age GBA on vacation a while ago. It felt like such a great accomplishment! There are 10 levels, which you can get a golden acorn on if you gather enough acorns, but can also beat without doing so. The password saves up to which level you've beaten, and also saves on which levels you got golden acorns. It was awesome to me to make up a password that had levels 1-3 beaten, and a golden acorn on level 4. In fact, it's even possible to save golden acorns on levels you haven't yet unlocked, and you'll have a golden acorn right when they do unlock!

I remember river city ransom. Geez, I swore those passwords might as well be nuclear launch codes, given the effort needed to input them. Also, with the first Megaman X for the SNES, I remember I used to randomly input numbers if I was bored. The results, while not game-breaking, where hilarious at times. Like somehow have the helmet, but not the boots booster. (For those that don't know, you needed the boots to get the helmet).

Dictionary-based brute forcing. Sounds like what my teacher usually did. T: Any questions? S: *Raises hand* T: Good, next thema.

Enter the words of God: *SOCIAL STUDIES* *SOCIAL STUDIES* Divine wisdom has been parted with us mortals

Not going to talk about the NES Metal Gear's final level password, which is "fuck me 11111111111111111111"?

I wonder if there are any weird mystery dungeon wonder mail codes

I'd be interested to see how the Secrets system in the Oracle Zelda games could be exploited this way.

God: Social Studies Me: *sOcIaL sTuDiES*

Little Samson has an interesting thing, where a bunch of passwords (including &&&&) will all take you to the endgame in easy mode (which doesn't happen in the real game) given these are just level selects, I'd guess it's just a specific string check and they were left with a few unused entries, which were dummied out to this

Is Correct Horse Battery Staple a valid password in any game?

Some relativly modern games have funky password systems too! On the GBA version of Spongebob: Battle for Bikini Bottom, I remember as a kid I attempted to input a random password and found I could relaibly get very advanced games (Sometimes with many lives- as many as 27) from just picking chacters out in a certain patern. I bet someone can do it on an emulator. Though, depending on your tendancies, you might find it difficult. Luck may have just found me.

8:23 is this the power of「Gold Experience Requiem」

it's unfortunate that it has no ironic following outside Japan, but Hoshi wo Miru Hito has a pretty awful password system that, considering the game's incredible level of bugginess and lack of polish elsewhere, is probably pretty exploitable.

"Hello, welcome to the ROCKET hideout. What's the password?" "Classy Flying Verbal Butler"

WTF BOOBS BOOBS BOOBS Ah yes, my favorite password.

“enter the words of god” is the best password screen i have ever seen

Huh, this is actually pretty interesting. I've actually seen some similar things in Animal Crossing on the Gamecube. There were "Universal Codes". Which gave you... pretty much any item you wanted in the game. However, some of the codes were pretty weird. Like David Boreanaz being in one of them? Pretty odd. But they were both useful, and amusing.

10:46 what a nice and pleasant attack animation

Wait... Battle of Olympus has a password named "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS" But, when the AVGN screams, he says "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS" Guys, the Nerd played Battle of Olympus and started using this for the next episodes :o

Closest I ever got to this as a kid was realising that the flash game "ronin: spirit of the sword" had a password system in which you could easily modify all stats, level, difficulty etc.

"Here's a different, very interesting password." "Butt hole"

When I was a kid I found out that in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, entering a password that's all the same letter will sometimes give you a bunch of items. Doesn't work with every letter though.

9:20 I like how that password describes the exact noises you would hear if you spawned into that situation in real life.

Rivercity ransom has cool passwords too, but need a exceptional and deep investigation , like max stats, skills, inventory and difficulty

Man, I remember doing this as a kid. I would always type in the random passwords to see what would work, most of the time I would get invalid password message, but sometimes I would get access to the game and it be all glitchy like this. Oh the nostalgic times.

*Guilty unless proven medusa* where do I find snake hair?

In Devil's Crush for TG-16, you can just button mash random passwords and they'll often work. It's better than choosing new game because you'll sometimes get infinite lives. Although it gets disappointing how often you instantly win and don't even get to play.

FRENCH POLICY TOWARD PEEEING

Would it be possible to reverse this and figure out a way to play a game until the password screen plays a specific phrase?

Enter the words of god: *AAAAAA AAAAAAA ssssss sssssss*

~Enter the words of God.~ "sOcIaL sTuDiES SocIAl StUdIES" "choice between thirty payolas" "AAAAAA AAAAAAA ssssss sssssss"

*_MOTHER BRAIN?_* *_FUCKIN TOASST_* also please do a sequel

And finally, after a long and perilous struggle against subscribing to your channel, I finally give in. Damn it, ZZAZZ Glitch, not only are your videos informative, they're funny as hell.

classy flying verbal butler is a valid password, but correct horse battery staple isn't? OUTRAGEOUS!

Aaaand with some button-pressing skills, you may be able to play first part of the Cheetahmen theme on Bomberman password input screen.

"Classy verbal flying butler" Alexa in a maid's outfit with a rocketbelt?

2:18 when you don't have enough of pokemon glitch city, and must fulfill your addiction with every game you can find

Now I wonder if you could play the games normally from the start, get the exact items or number of items needed, exact score, exact level, exact everything (at least what it does store in the password), and then have the game generate one of those readable passwords by itself when you save or reach a save point! Well, at least the ones that don't glitch anything, like Metal Gear, for example.

Hey, I found a glitchy Metroid password! HYPHEN ATEDZz ------ ------

*GUILTY UNTIL* *PROVEN MEDUSA*

Samus’s jumping sounds like Earthbound Beginnings’ PK Thunder

This is so cool, I had no clue that these password systems had valid passwords that would create glitch levels!

8:24 the music fits way too perfectly

That's really cool! Have tried tinkering with passwords to try and set up arbitrary code execution/credits warps?

By taking a look at the infamous ENGAGE RIDLEY password for metroid, I was able to make a version that works instead of crashing or resetting the game (or that one result on 3DS) everything else in the password makes sense, except for the game age, its way to high. if you want to see what ENGAGE RIDLEY would do without breaking the game, this is a functional version that places you in brinstar instead of the invalid area 4imwYS sUyG40 ebAaCf 6ga02J

Magic: Ring Of Elf *_Death_*

9:25 the password took you to that part of Zelda 2 where you're in the dratini cave

Really interesting and informational video! It was neat to see all these different games get "break".

Weird how I'm studying Computer Architecture and Computer Network this semester and understand some of the concepts like checksum and address, never thought those subjects would be this relevant lol

GUILTY UNLESS PROVED MEDUSA

I've tried doing these things before and I say I was freaked and amazed at that time

It would really suck if you entered any of those longass passwords and your mom tells you to power off the game

Image what we can do if pokémon have a password system to store the progress

"Classy Flying Verbal Butler" has no right being as funny as it is.

I remember a Smurf game on GameBoy that had less than 5 passwords if i recall correctly... and I think the Lion King game too was using passwords. But this makes me think about TLOZ Oracle of Ages/Seasons that has new game +, new game ++ and rings codes that could be tricked that way. You could give Link and the baby weird glitchy names...

Playing around with the zelda oracle games, I eventually found the part of the ring transfer password that contains the actual inventory data and got a bunch of rings I didn't actually have (though I just did it by entering random characters into the correct part). I also accidentally made a typo (swapped a "$" with an "S") that changed the spelling of the file name. I decided to restart using the proper password as I was concerned that I would have issues later.

Maybe at Bomberman, not to try destroy the door, your game not will be freeze ;)

YES THE ULTIMATE CHANNEL Your stuff is awesome man Very interesting and organized

"Hey dude, whats your favorite video game level?" *"butt hole."*

I don't see why developers _didn't_ want words in their passwords. If I were an NES game developer, I would've only put checksums for curse words.

The Zelda games Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages on GBC have a second quest by using a PASSWORD from the other game. Could you get some funny effects from exploiting those?

I tried the _Metroid_ password at the very end of the video. Apparently the first room of Tourain is as far as you can go because the door to the rest of the place is unopenable. Seriously, it's orange and nothing works on it.

brb, changing my Discord name to OrthomolecularFleetness

AAAAAA AAAAAA SSSSSS SSSSSS Two noises you'd certainly hear if you teleported into a room of snakes!

AAAAAA AAAAAA ssssss ssssss AVGN approved!

Now that's more like it! I can't even tell what I'm doing!

6:56 you tried to burn the exit door. Good job.

'ortho' Me: orhodontist? 'othomolec' Me: orthomolecule? 'orthemolecular' Me: oh... okay? 'orthomolecularfleet' Me: what 'orthemolecularfleetness' Me: seriously

Fun fact, if you put in the "GUILTY UNLESS PROVEN MEDUSA" code into the release of Metroid on the Nintendo Switch Online NES, instead of crashing the game, it gives an error message.

Yes going to talk about the NES Metal Gear's final level password, which is

I would have loved a voice over to read the text.

Hey TheZZAZZGlitch since you seem to have looked in to how these games check all of these, care to give us some documentation? I'm interested in what could be generated for some of these games.

Classy Flying Verbal Butler Nice.

A password system is also used on some games on Scratch Btw, there is another password with Pokémon and Mario: MEWTWO PINSIR CROBAT MARIOt

In the Gameboy Color Game..uh Crazy Castle, I found a String that always worked and just changed the first 2 Letters, to essentially skip Levels and Worlds.. xD Its so cool yet so...bad 'D (and heck..the childishness.. im delighted xDD)

What about Metal Gear's "Fuck Me" code?

One of the easiest passwords to brute-forces is the NES/Famicom: "Banana Prince", its contain somekind of checksum, but with only total 65,536 possibilities which allow me to bypass the quiz boss stage because i didn't understand Japanese.

that bomberman crash is caused by bombing the door

i feel like justin bailey came from a guy who modded his metroid and his password just carried it over

*Gets Metal Gear flashbacks* AHHH! I NEED A MEDIC BAG