Finding Ditman: The Glitch That Changed Resident Evil 4 Forever
15 years ago a mysterious GameFAQs user called Ditman333 casually posted about a discovery he’d made in Resident Evil 4. He had stumbled upon a glitch that allowed the player to move 50% faster. All of a sudden, the emerging Resident Evil 4 speedrunning community took notice and the glitch became a revelation.
But speeding up the player wasn’t the glitch's only use. Ditman had opened up a Pandora’s box of glitches that allowed speedrunners all over the world to expose new exploits and even bypass entire sections of the game altogether. Resident Evil 4 speedrunning exploded in popularity, with new finds and records still being set to this day, all thanks to Ditman’s simple discovery.
But in 2007 the original post has been purged from the forum. Today, there’s no evidence of its existence. Ditman333, apparently no longer an active presence on the internet, has since faded into rumour, myth, and eventually legend.
The ghost of Ditman333 has left a legacy. The exploit was dubbed The Ditman Glitch and it’s a name that still stands today, strong as ever. And so, in a quest to learn the true story behind the glitch’s origin, there’s only one thing for it: it’s time to find Ditman.
This is the inside story of Ditman: the mysterious gamer and glitch that changed Resident Evil 4 forever.
In 2005 the long-awaited return of Resident Evil arrived in the shape of the genre-defining Resident Evil 4. Along with the return of fan favourite character, Leon S. Kennedy, the game — under the stewardship of series creator Shinji Mikami — took a brave new turn into an over-the-shoulder playstyle, abandoning many of the played-out ideas that had made the series so successful. The change paid off: Resident Evil 4 was immediately a smash hit out of
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