Board Thread:Site Discussions/@comment-6858788-20141226203042/@comment-6858788-20150218020128

Itanu-Ryarod wrote: MrBreada wrote: My original idea for this was that someone competed to get the HIGH SCORE of Sonic 1. They would have to  post a picture (taken by phone, not computer) to ensure it's not photoshopped. In itself, a reasonable proposition, and one that could work, provided that players are honest.

The flaw I take note of in the hyopothetical case of utilizing this method, however, is that someone with a certain degree of computer literacy, and unburdened by good sportsmanship and the ethic that gives it progeny, could very easily use De-bug mode or other cheating methods based around hacking, mid-game, well before that conclusive frame shown of the High-Score. A photograph of that key moment immediately proceeding the triumph over Scrap Brain Zone's final boss, and the score attained at that point, cannot account for whether or not one spawned 1500 rings in Green Hill Zone.

This, of course, is just my opinion. Debug mode glitches up the score, preventing players using that method from getting a high score.