Cheater Faked His Death

Summary

Mario Kart Wii featured real-time worldwide top-10 leaderboards for all 32 tracks. After the Wii Homebrew Channel made cheat codes possible, players could manipulate times by speeding up inputs, slowing the game, or replaying another player’s inputs. Because Nintendo couldn’t reliably verify submissions, the community maintained its own trusted leaderboard and investigated suspicious records.

In 2010, a player using the name PT Walter posted a time that closely matched a world record, including identical racing lines and lap splits. The community concluded that he had copied someone else’s run using live replay. Walter continued submitting cheated times under different identities, but players monitoring the community leaderboard repeatedly recognized and rejected them.

His aliases included RS Black, who claimed to be from Australia, and Razer. Walter also created the account RL Star Mia, supposedly belonging to his girlfriend, and used it to post an implausible record with a rarely used Mii character. The community suspected the account was another of his disguises.

When Razer’s records were removed from Nintendo’s leaderboard in 2011, a YouTube video titled “Goodbye Razer” appeared, presenting him as a deceased top player. The memorial was staged: Walter was alive and had created it as part of an attempt to hide his identity. Two months later, he returned to the community, denied being Razer, and dismissed Razer’s records as fake.

In 2014, posting as Blackie Boy, Walter admitted to cheating. He described copying other players’ ghosts, using alternate accounts, and combining slow-motion code with live replay to construct runs frame by frame. He said he wanted to show his friends that he was among the top players and prove he was “cool.”

The story didn’t end there: Walter later posted another suspiciously fast Mario Kart Wii time and, years afterward, uploaded TrackMania videos with world-record claims. The video’s takeaway is that official leaderboards can be vulnerable to cheating, while community-run boards can help verify records through scrutiny and shared knowledge.

Gamers and Sources Featured

• Walter, also known as PT Walter, RS Black, Razer, and Blackie Boy — the player who admitted to cheating.
• RL Star Mia — an account presented as Walter’s girlfriend, which the community suspected was another alias.
• TNP Ronnie — the channel that posted the “Goodbye Razer” memorial video.
• Zilla — the creator of the Mario Kart Wii history video discussed in the commentary.
• penguinz0 — the channel providing the commentary.
• Daniel Powter — whose song “Bad Day” accompanied the memorial video.