At the Top, 9s are Wild
We received a couple news tips about it earlier this week, and now TSSZ News has confirmed at least the appearance of some funny business across the board on the leaderboards of Sonic Colors for Wii in individual stages.
In those stages, some less than reputable players have posted maxed out scores of 99,999,999. Some areas are affected more than others. A glaring example is the final boss in Terminal Velocity, where 9 of the top 10 slots are occupied by the max score.
The problem is that even though Sega may have more control over the matter than they did when Sonic 4′s XBOX 360 leaderboards were compromised, much of those within the company who can rectify the situation–as well as liaisons to them–have taken off for the Holidays. So if it’s fixed at all, it may not happen until the new year. Interestingly enough, there hasn’t been nearly the uproar over this leaderboard compromise as there was over Sonic 4. Maybe it’s lack of interest. Maybe it’s that the rest of the game is good enough that most of the attention is directed elsewhere. In any event, we’ll let you know if Sega does anything to make things right.
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Sega must’ve forgotten about the infamous Homebrew Channel makes anything possible.
but I thought the score 99999999 is possible?
It’s possible in Challenge Mode, not in individual levels. I had actually completely forgotten about the leaderboards for this game, cause like Tristan suggested, I just don’t care ’cause this game is awesome!
@GoldenHedgy: Nah, don’t blame the Homebrew Channel. It’s easy to hack games without installing anything.
i do not own the game yet. was it a lot better than the other more recent games such as The Black Knight and Unleashed? Please say so.
@ sonicnerd101 Sonic Colors is WAY better than Sonic and the Black Knight. Whether or not it’s better than Unleashed, it depends. Colors is better than the Wii and PS2 versions of Unleashed at least.
Lol the game is terribad anyway. Cheaters really have no life hacking THIS leadersboard.
@Sonicnerd
Best 3D Sonic game ever made by an awfully wide margin, no contest.
Nintendo is not gonna do shit on leaderboards especially on Mario Kart Wii. The only hackable console now that Microsoft is taking action with the xbox 360.
On my first run through of challenge mode, I got my score around 65,000,000. Which was impressive to me. Anyways, these guys just want a cheap high that comes from hacking their scores.
@flame
If you’re referring to Colors being terribad, then you are probably trolling, especially considering the fact you don’t even say the game sucks in your opinion.
-Sigh- Why does Sega choose easily hackable leaderboards over online multiplayer? I mean Colors DS had it, why not Colors Wii (and going even further, Sonic 4)? Hell, even the co-op levels could have had online support. (At least we had multiplayer OVERALL, though).