Alysso Rooder Appeal

[Alysso Rooder]

Hi,

today I logged in on SteamHunters after a long time and I noticed the line "Not listed on the leaderboards", so I wandered why: is it a bug because I logged in during maintenance or I'm actually marked as a cheater?

I have used SAM in the past, but I already got clean back in the day (years ago) with an appeal on Astats:
I relocked Joe Danger 2's DLC achievements and got them legit after discovering the depot method, that as far as I know is still the only method.

It's not rare that I use unorthodox cheesy ways to get achievements if I stumble upon them, like in Borealis, a guy even blocked me on Steam because he thought I cheated it, not letting me explain.
(I will not spoil the trick here, it was really fun to find out)

If I have to guess, I would say Mable & The Wood is suspicious, since I would be the only one who finished it on Astats and SteamHunters:
many achievements were bugged, so I opened many threads on the Steam forum about them, but I didn't had a reply from the developer until I looked for his email online;
I contacted him and he agreed on fixing them with my feedback, he did it patch after patch, but I'm not surprised if doing so something else broke and people still can't 100% it.

Please let me know if there is something else that needs clarification.

Thanks

[Hikikomori]

You can see what you're invalidated for here. https://steamhunters.com/profiles/76561 ... dated=true

[Alysso Rooder]

You can see what you're invalidated for here. https://steamhunters.com/profiles/76561 ... dated=true

Ok, I've seen the related rule as well, and it's right, I did use the .dll fix that was linked in a guide on Astats.
The guide even says:
"This is a specifically AStats approved fix, but some other trackers may invalidate/ban you for using these fixes."
but I overlooked it, sorry.

I would have never thought about that, thanks for pointing it out.

If it's ok with you, I would relock it using SAR as explained here:
https://achievementhunting.com/guides/relock

I was going to do it, but the important note stopped me.

[Hikikomori]

correct, you should follow the guide and relock it now and restart it to make sure it doesn't continue to unlock again when you start the game.

[Alysso Rooder]

correct, you should follow the guide and relock it now and restart it to make sure it doesn't continue to unlock again when you start the game.

The game has 2 identical achievements, so I had to guess which one was the broken one... I made the wrong choice, so it repopped when tested.
Then I relocked the other one and it stayed locked as it should be.

[Hikikomori]

Hi, do you recall playing these games and if anything strange happened while playing them?

https://steamhunters.com/profiles/76561 ... t=unlocked
https://steamhunters.com/profiles/76561 ... t=unlocked
https://steamhunters.com/profiles/76561 ... t=unlocked
https://steamhunters.com/profiles/76561 ... t=unlocked

[Alysso Rooder]

Hi, do you recall playing these games and if anything strange happened while playing them?

https://steamhunters.com/profiles/76561 ... t=unlocked
https://steamhunters.com/profiles/76561 ... t=unlocked
https://steamhunters.com/profiles/76561 ... t=unlocked
https://steamhunters.com/profiles/76561 ... t=unlocked

Hi, this is what I remember:

Joe Danger 2:
the only issue was with DLC achievements, I had no problem with the base game;
as stated in my first post, I used SAM to unlock them (it was the first and last time I have used it), Astats made me understand that it was wrong and I relocked it, months (years?) later I discovered the depot method and got them.

Offspring Fling:
it's a game without cloud save, so when I changed PC I had to copy the save file and paste it in the new one, however I don't see how this would affect achievements;
if the problem is about achievements with same timestamps, for this game I followed video walkthroughs, so I have played almost every level only once until "perfection", that is I got gold and platinum together.

AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! for the Awesome:
I'm not sure about this one, but I totally remember thinking that this game was almost the same of "AaAaAA!!! - A Reckless Disregard for Gravity", so I looked for a way to bring the progress from a game to the other one;
to jog my memory I looked up in Steam discussions and I have found that the devs did implement a way to export data from the first game, I have just installed both games to try and it's in the options.

Felix the Reaper:
I can't remember anything in particular about this one, it was a straightforward game, especially because when I got bored I used a guide;
looking at the time stamps I notice that the "you got all the others" achievement came 10 minutes later, but nothing comes to my mind.

About achievements not unlocking properly, there are few things I just try right away because sometimes might work:
close and restarting the game, verify integrity of save files, tweak game options, retrying to trigger it (replay any level could be enough).

If anything of these worked, it might explain why Felix the Reaper didn't stick into my mind, however I'm still looking for info trying to remember.

Thanks for your time, I understand there is a lot to look into.

[Alysso Rooder]

About Felix the Reaper, looking for someone else not being able to unlock the last achievement has been a deja vu, I probably did it that day and then I did my routine how explained in my previous message.