NES Remix Miiverse Contest Cancelled Due To Emergence Of Exploit

Well, I'd at least like to know how to do this cheat.

I would never cheat at anything like that.

Mario Kart VII-2

Lol, of course right? Dern cheaters!

Didn't participate in the first place, but I can't stand when little contests like these have to get ruined by some cheater.

Darn those cheaters!!! I hate them.

I am too busy playing better Wii U games to care

Curious as to what the cheat is not that I would use it, don't own the game either. Wonder if it's something that can be fixed with a patch like the Mario kart 7 glitch

Nintendo's been screwing the pooch lately [or having glitches occur often]...zz

I've read somewhere that the exploit is to keep pausing the game constantly to cheat the clock.

GoombaJMR - Same as just about every other developer then? Having games that are glitch-free is nigh on impossible and it's very rare for Nintendo games to have game-breaking glitches and when they have they've been patched quickly. That being said I'm surprised Nintendo's response here doesn't give any indication that they intend to patch this NES Remix exploit.

NES remix remixed......kind if ironic that some people took it a step too far and made 'their own challenges'

When I first heard about the competition I kinda figured somebody would find a way to exploit the game to their advantage.

Never underestimate people that put their time and dedication into uncovering these things.

@GoombaJMR software bugs are pretty common occurrence, no matter the talent behind it. But this isn't a Nintendo studio, they farmed this out to an indie studio

Ill never understand why some people find it fun to cheat.
Such an "event" is called challenge for a reason.

@MAB Wow, Call of Duty must really be fun -.-

Even today, NES games have some glitch in them. Some things never change...

eh in a way i kinda saw this coming since they are part of old game i figured maybe they use cheats that been posted for the original game or something but even so come on for a small contest to be ruined is mess up not like i was planning to join on the contest so oh well

@Einherjar Actually, you will find Knytt Underground is far more challenging and awesome... I don't do dudebro

@Kingface Very rare huh! Need I remind you of 3 that I thought of right off the bat. Skyward Sword, Metroid Other M, and Pokemon X/Y. There are plenty of others that aren't as offensive but still suck.

@MAB I simply cant get over Knytts artstyle to be honest. Maybe ill pick it up someday in a sale, but for now, im not interested in the slightest. Which does in no way mean that its a bad game

But nothing ever beats retro challenge goodness

@Einherjar Until you play Knytt then your tune will change for the greater good of everything that is awesome

@MAB I dont know, i saw a couple of gameplay vids and i have to say that neither the art style nor the humor is really my cup of tea.

@Spoony_Tech You can add Pikmin 3 to that list, anyone can break that game and finish it in 5 days I believe (could be less).

What gets me is the last part. So they either know who cheated or they are just trying to be nice. I hope it is the latter, as if it is the former they could only disqualify the people who cheated. You don't cancel a Pokémon Tournament because some people have altered Pokémon.

Also, are the rest of the games so exploitable that they could not use a new challenge instead?

It's time for people to stop playing crud like NES Remix and start supporting 3rd party and indie developers... We didn't buy a WiiU to play a chopped up VC casual game that should have been released 30 years ago

What is the difference between what is happening here and what the guy did to finish Ocarina of Time in 20 mins its the same type of thing.

@unrandomsam The difference is that one is a speedrun in which the community agrees on a set of glitches and bugs that they can use to exploit the game and get the fastest time. These usually take actual skill to execute. You are EXPECTED to cheat the game to beat it that fast. Most speedrunners do it for the fun and the community, not just to win.

This is a competition in which there was no agreement upon bugs or glitches that could be used, and along with that, the way they say it makes it sound like it was a Miiverse posting bug rather than a game exploit. This WAS purely a competition to win, and as such, things like this arent allowed.

Speedrunning and cheating in a competition are NOT the same thing.

@unrandomsam You realize that most games that are speedrun have multiple categories.

@MAB Well said. It's bad enough making do with a lack of 3rd party support but it will only get worse if people flock to 1st party filler titles and ignore the better 3rd party games. I recommend:
Castlestorm
Deus Ex
AC4
Toki Tori
NFS MW
RE Revelations
Rayman

I just bought the game yesterday but I didn't know anything about this contest. Too bad it got cancelled. I would love to participate!

@Deadstanley Yeah, and scores like those are the exact reason why leaderboard scores don't really interest me, as the top scores are always taken by people who exploit the game.

@Kingface @element187
I wasn't meaning anything negative with that, and I do indeed know that all developers make mistakes - I'm just stating the fact that more issues like these have been appearing in the last 3 months compared to before. If you took it negatively, I apologize ^^

Also thanks for telling me that it was dished to another developer, I DID not know that!

one of the reasons why I do not like competitive gaming - too many cheaters.

I would like to take this opportunity to say a big fat SCREW YOU to all hackers and cheaters.

So much for the contest, they could had just disqualify the cheater or something.

They should ignore the cheaters record and give the win to the person playing fairly. Unless everyone was using the cheat to win.

Stupid cheaters

Not expecting a patch, erasing peoples' high scores doesn't sound like it'd be worth the effort. Especially since you only have one top score per level and there's no leaderboard.

@MAB While I agree with part of what you said (people need to support more indie games etc etc), these companies need to be given a chance.

On the other hand I don't think I have skimmed a single news articles comment section without finding you trash talking whatever the article is about. Haha.

The article is about cheaters ruining video games, (as always) not about if people should be playing third party games over an 8-Bit Remix. Believe it or not people have different tastes.

And I would've gotten away with it too! If it weren't for those meddling Nintendos

@MAB You do realize that NES Remix is a third party project, right?

@Jazzer94 No I didn't. Thought the only rule was you cannot use something like an action replay and you have to use real hardware.

Cheaters are the main reason I find hard to like games' competitions or play online. You never know if the ones who are beating you are to praise for play better or to blame for using some tricks that have nothing to do with "ability".

A shame that even a light competition like this had to be cancelled cause an exploit people can't resist to use even in an official challange -.-

@MAB

Who says you can't have both?

I agree there are some good 3rd party games that are worth picking up, but I wouldn't go so far as to call games like NES Remix "crud". I was raised in the 8-bit era and even I have trouble going back and playing alot of the retro games. NES Remix is the first time in like, Idk, forever, that I was actually enthusiastic about playing such primitive games.

I read your comments about Knytt Underground, and now I'm considering picking it up. The one thing that kind of threw me off was that each screen was separately loaded, in the vein of Wario Land Shake It.

@Spoony_Tech

What was the deal with Other M?

@Spoony_Tech No, you don't need to remind me of those, I'm aware of them and when you consider the sheer amount of games Nintendo have made, those are rare exceptions. Again rarer than is the case for a lot of other developers.

Also Skyward Sword's required a very specific circumstance to trigger.

While this game exploit doesn't require modifying hardware or software to do, when done in competitive environments it's downright cheating.

I always find it amazing how people can discover such advantageous software bugs.

Many companies visibly ignore outright if someone posts 'impossible' luck on a game, like 99 W 0 L or similar, until they say, for example, you can win $1,000 worth of console hardware for posting the highest score on the leaderboard.

Nintendo are damn well in the right to say that they cannot trust the times. Just like they're damn well in the right when they say that all POKeMON transferred onto the Bank must be genuine and similar.
It makes me sick to go onto any game and find the best time on a time trial is less than a second, when I personally do a time trial with friends and less than a full minute is expert level timing.

I watched someone use bugs and glitches all the time to get lightning fast times on Sonic Generations. What was special about those lightning fast times were they showed the person knew the levels like the back of their hand, not what particular parts of the game had a good-bad bug.

Nintendo closed this competition since the exploit they used was not just a way to 'sequence break' or similar, it was a way to get a score that even the dev team found 'too good'.

@Nintenjoe64
I strongly recommend Deux EX for the Wii U completed it last night wow amazing game!

@Genesaur You just pause a whole bunch. I don't know if it's anything more sophisticated than that. The bad news is now not only is this contest cancelled, but no other contests will be held, presumably. To give credit where it's due, the guy who first used the exploit admitted it and explained what it was in the contest. I don't think Nintendo or indieszero had any idea what was going on.

@turnmebackwards Hey, me too! What are the odds. I'm guessing you also picked it up on/just after Christmas.

@Kingface Its been a while since I played it but I believe it was a save file glitch which if it happened you needed to start from the very begining. It happed to me but by that time I was able to dl a save file off the internet at just about were I was so I didn't really lose anything. The glitch was in the last 2/3rds of the game as well.

I would guess it has to do with rapidly pausing the game so that the timer doesn't count as fast. I remember a few NES games and Arcade machines had the same issues.

In Megaman you could take out the bosses easily by pressing select right after the boss took damage, unpause and fire again to get extra hits.

CHEATER CHEATER PUMPKIN EATERS!

@JustinH The pause thing is a very obvious thing to check for for a developer. (One of the main exploits for Duck Hunt involves pausing and I knew about it. Some of the others are particularly funny that I found out when I was checking I remembered it right like using a magnifying glass.)

Doesn't happen on the ps4 or xbox one. yay.

@kolz It will one day.

On the other hand, it isn't very nice of those cheaters to do that. Everyone deserves their fair share.

cheaters gonna cheat

@MAB The irony behind that statement is that it was developed by an indie developer...indieszero which quite literally has indie in their name as well.

The difference is that this was funded by Nintendo with all highly inflated proceeds going to Nintendo

Kinda reminds me of all the wannabes blasting into the river on Maka Wuhu Mountain or whatever it was in MK7. There were some bizarre Time Trials exploits in Mario Kart Wii as well.

The sad thing is that even knowing they ruined the entire contest won't make the cheaters feel bad. If they're crappy enough to cheat in a contest just to make themselves feel good, they're too crappy to care about ruining things for others in the first place. They'll just cheap on the next one too.

@MAB I honestly think I'll pick up Kyntt, but I have to agree with Einherjar on oneaspect and its just one part of the art style and that's the character models, they're so weird and freak me out. The game looks fantastic and I love the backgrounds and foregrounds, can't wait to play it...but those character designs...bleck.

But I thought Nintendo gamers only cared about gameplay not graphics

@MAB @Nintenjoe64 C'mon guys, you know that's nonsense. NES Remix is a top quality title that's very reminiscent of the Warioware games.

Before you gun me down, I've got a ton of Wii U games including Wonderful 101, Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor's Edge, Deus Ex: Director's Cut, Tekken Tag Tournament 2 and Sonic Lost World, alongside loads of downloaded third party indie titles like Giana Sisters Twisted Dreams and BIT.Trip Runner 2. Nintendo are allowed to support their own machine as well though, and NES Remix is a great short burst game to play in between lengthier bouts on those others I've mentioned.

Only reason I haven't picked up Knytt Underground so far is that I spent so much on third party download games over Xmas...Steamworld Dig, Edge, Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D and the likes. Will get it soon.

@ToxieDogg When you do get it you will be awesomed

@MAB We care about graphics (well, as a nintendo fan, I do), but the amount we care for it isn't very high. If the gameplay is wonderful and the graphics are meh, then it's still obviously a great game. Having good graphics is just another little thing that would make the game just a bit better than a game without good graphics. On the other hand, good gameplay is what nintendofans are most keen on. imo

@sinalefa They won't cancel a Pokemon tournament, but Game Freak can and will cancel Pokemon Bank due to hacked Pokemon.

@GoombaJMR Knytt Underground does have good graphics, gameplay, sound, atmosphere, story and puzzles... MAB has forsaken it 10/10

Man what a bummer, I was excited to buy NES Remix & enter into these mini-contests. I'll still buy NES Remix & share my best times on Miiverse but still, takes a little away from the experience.

Ah, cheaters! Don't you love them?!

This is why we can't have nice things.

too many people got 7.1 seconds anyway

Kinda glad I didn't rush to buy the game and enter now!

@MAB Statler and Waldorf: "Dohhhhohohohoho!"

@JustinH
I got it for a Christmas present I was so gripped by the game really enjoyed it. Loved how the gamepad was a map & really helped me plan my moves. Anyone thinking about getting this do it's such an epic sci-fi game. It's cool that you can keep all the augmentations onto a new game once finished as well makes me want to play it again.

Just like the leaderboard cheaters. I've gotten used to them so much I just ignore the top scores/times and just focus on the scores near me. I do remember the days of being in the top 20 on Mario & Sonic 2008, those were the days. I'm scared to check where I'm at now.

@MAB The NES most of the time had rubbish gameplay and graphics.