There isn't hacking online already is there?

[FieryRebirth]

One of my strangest 1v1 FG matches was against a Bowser vs my Robin. I quickly got him to a high percentage and kept pressure on him even with exhausted Side B and Neutral B. Then what happened next had me thinking ''(oh no...).'' First, the unfocused, aggressive Bowser player suddenly decided to keep max distance from me before I could make an attempt to take that stock from him and stayed in the air to avoid projectiles...and suddenly the match turns into a slideshow as severe lag hits us.

In 2 second intervals the game would respond and in this instance I acknowledge the cumbersome lag, the Bowser player was gunning at me and was taking advantage of the time frame REALLY WELL. It was like I was facing an MLG player all of a sudden. Sadly, my attempt at adapting to the sudden lag was met with failure as input lag plagued my normal timing as I tried to force the ''new'' Bowser player into openings that only met with him managing to take one stock from me and was easily landing F Smashes and even Down Bs on me. I was flabbergasted. When I decided to forfeit my last stock as I walk off the edge, not intending to recover, my opponent started taunting, using two different taunts. I decided to recover and manage to cling to the edge as this tidal wave of frustration and continued unresponsiveness and managed to take that one stock of his before I decided to truly throw the match. I was just glad I got to bruise the guy's ego even though I lost.

I wanted to save the replay so I could investigate to what I believed, based on my opponent's behavior, that some sort of hack was in play. Cliche and atypical to be quick to suspect that, I remembered replays are based on AI and doesn't record ''lag''.

Even if it was some sort of lag-switching hack in that match, it doesn't make sense since the connections in Smash online are peer-to-peer, right? I don't want to appear or be paranoid despite how much I like to observe player behavior. I assume this guy was a master of playing in 3k latency?

 

[Jrzfine]

What you described sounds like nothing more than a player used to lag spikes. Input lag drastically reduces tech skill, so its only natural for you to start losing. If it was his connection that caused the lag, then he's probably used to the lag and used it to his advantage. And to answer your question, no. The WiiU as a system has yet to be completely 'cracked' by hackers, let alone Smash 4.

 

[PKBeam]

You can't play Wii U Backups.
You can't put hacks on a disc.
No-one has modified the SSB4 ISO to be capable of that stuff.
The Wii U ckey.bin is not easily accessible.
There isn't even Wii U homebrew,

One quick check on GBATemp would've told you all this....

Sometimes one person gets lag and the other doesn't. Happened to me once. Might be to do with internet upload and download speeds. Maybe there were two people there.

 

[Jrzfine]

You can't play Wii U Backups.
You can't put hacks on a disc.
No-one has modified the SSB4 ISO to be capable of that stuff.
The Wii U ckey.bin is not easily accessible.
There isn't even Wii U homebrew,

One quick check on GBATemp would've told you all this....

Sometimes one person gets lag and the other doesn't. Happened to me once. Might be to do with internet upload and download speeds. Maybe there were two people there.

Yeah, these are the technical reasons.However, there is never one sided lag. Connection is peer-to-peer, so if one lags, the other's screen will freeze until the other player catches up.