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World Rankings Cheaters -- The
scenario, I'm sure, is quite familiar to all of us. Practice until
you're as blue in the face as Sonic himself, memorize every nook and
cranny in the Zone to the point where you can literally play the
whole thing in your head backwards and forwards, and antagonize
years off your life just to win a place in one of the notorious
Sonic Adventure World Rankings. And yet no matter how
well you do or how good you are, there is always going to be some
SCHNOOK who can lick your absolute all-time best score by twenty
stinking seconds. From the beginning we all knew someone was doing
some cheating, but nobody knew exactly how. It was suspected that
people were taking advtanage of various glitches, which may still be
the case, but it turns out that's not the entire problem...
Recently posted on the SA World Rankings splash
page is the truth. A certain third-party controller available in
some parts of the world actually allows the characters to move
faster than would be possible with other controllers. This is
due to differences in the calibration of the analog components.
Here's the official message as it appears on the SA website:
| "Thank you for your
participation in the Sonic Adventure community.
Recently, it has been discovered that a non-standard
controller sold in some parts of the world allows players to
move slightly faster than those using standard Dreamcast
controllers. (This is due to different analog output values in
the non-standard controller.)
In order to keep the World Rankings fair for contestants
worldwide, we ask that all participants only use standard
Dreamcast controllers in all future competitions. We apologize
for any inconvenience this may cause.
Also, for future World Ranking events, we will select
competitive events and stages very carefully, to minimize any
differences caused by the use of non-standard controllers.
We ask for your cooperation in making sure that Sonic
players worldwide can enjoy these competitions."
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Unfortunately, there is nothing Sega can do
about this except to request that all contestants play fair. We
wish. If you've been using a third-party controller to play the
World Ranking events, you may have had an advantage over those of us
using standard controllers. I trust everyone reading this will
switch to the standard DC controller for all future World Ranking
competitions. Please, let's keep these contests fun and fair for all
Sonic players worldwide. If you had to cheat to win, then you've got
nothing to be proud of.
I haven't a clue as to which peripheral
controller(s) is/are the culprit, but if anyone has any ideas,
please lemme know so I
can report 'em here.
-- Green Gibbon!
Compiled and arranged by Jared "Green Gibbon!" Matte. Make
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