As a seasoned gamer with over three decades of gaming under my belt, I must say that I find myself torn by the recent events surrounding the Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition. On one hand, I appreciate the creativity and skill it takes to uncover and utilize glitches in games – I’ve done it myself back in the days when cartridges were still a thing. However, in this case, seeing a glitch user take the top spot feels somewhat like salt being rubbed into the wounds of fellow competitors who played fair and square.
As a gamer, I recently jumped into the Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition on my Switch last month. One of the coolest aspects of this game is the weekly challenges in the World Championships mode. Every week, players strive for the fastest times in a rotating set of tasks, spread across various games. Last week’s batch included Barrel Roll, a challenge from the NES Donkey Kong game. The goal was to reach the top of the first stage in Donkey Kong as fast as humanly possible. The results were announced earlier this week, and it looks like someone exploited a glitch to claim the top spot!
According to X/Twitter user @MetroidMike64, the first-place victor clocked a time of 00:15.68 seconds in the challenge, earning an S-rank. But here’s the catch – they exploited an “invisible ladder” trick to achieve this speed. This glitch enables players to ascend nonexistent ladders on the right side of the screen. Typically, only girders one, three, and five have ladders on the right, making players traverse girders two and four to reach the left-side ladders. However, by mastering the “invisible ladder” glitch, the player could magically create invisible ladders on girders two and four, enabling them to reach the top much quicker.
Observing a player who exploited a game glitch claim victory has left many competitors discontented on the Switch subreddit. Some users contend that this glitch shouldn’t have been accepted as valid in the competition, as most players were unaware of it while striving for the top position. As a result, they feel slighted and believe they were unfairly denied their rightful victory. However, it is important to note that the highest spot in this challenge doesn’t offer any tangible rewards beyond bragging rights; still, it’s understandable why people are feeling agitated.
In other words, is exploiting a game bug considered cheating? That’s somewhat ambiguous. Game bugs, or “glitches,” have been prevalent in competitive gaming for a long time, and it’s not unusual to observe players leveraging them in games like the Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition. Nevertheless, some argue that this act goes against the game’s intent. It will be intriguing to see how Nintendo responds to this issue. They might choose to rectify it through a software update that eliminates the glitch, or issue a statement about future challenges.
[H/T: Nintendo Life]
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2024-08-01 16:10