Peggle 2

Thanks, KILLING5PR33.

+1

Works great, and with the new achievement snap function you can check the progress bar right next to the game and you do not even need the SG app.

The best level to do this on is peggle instituation mission 5 is far quicker to do this

Is it likely to get banned from doing this? I mean if you have the achievement before the DLC comes out?

No you will not get banned for doing this. The achievements are live there is no issue there at all.

Achieveman needs his mommy to sort his butthurt. +1 from me.

Respectful comment. Thanks Snowed.

Cheers for the guide, I got the 180 objectives legit on this game, mainly because it wasn't that hard and also because I wasn't aware of this workaround. I will probably get the levels and trials done and then see what's needed from there.

Now, my tuppence worth on the previous comments, and this is just my opinion (remembering that opinions are like arseholes, everybody has one.

The Achieveman
If you don't like challenge, just play easy games.

Snowed
Congrats on getting a completion on a game you didn't complete.

I don't think I have ever seen hypocritical posts of such quality on this site yet.

You two should probably get off your high horses. You have both boosted games, it's a bit rich to come with that attitude to this game but you apparently give yourselves carte blanche to any of the games you have 'completed' via boosting sessions.

Well done fellas, my hat goes off to you both.

also if you did delete your save file and start again so you could re do it all you would get the credit for it as well so i dont see why people are angry, its flawed and it will get fixed in time but for now the devs and i believe microsoft probably know about this by now as it seems to be the case with a few games

Gregor Lenko,
NGD,
Scarecrow3682,

Thank you all.
+1

Gotta love those butthurt "ratio sluts" that would lick someone's anus for a high ratio Achievement but then bitch when someone else finds an easier solution to getting the Achievement.

Thanks for the laugh guys!

Thanks Snowed and Noble 360 for yours commentaries. You're right. Those who used the cheat, they bury their head in the sand.
We don't condemn the guides, but the way used here.

Originally, in this game, we can do each objective just once. When we succeed an objective and we finish the level (or we quit the level), the objective is indicated as succeeded (with a rainbow) and not realisable again. Now we have 240 objectives so we need to do all the 240 objectives for the achievement.

One player discovered that just when an objective is succeeded, it is counted and saved for the achievement. So this player decided to close the game just when an easy objective is succeeded like that it is not validated by the game. It's a flaw of this game, something that the developers didn't imagine.

We have in the solo menu a counter for the objectives who say "x objectives succeeded/240" as we have only 240 objectives (for the moment) in the game and each objectives can be done once each one. So the achievement for the 240 objectives its unlocks when the counter say "240/240". If we do the cheat, 1 objective 240 times, the counter say "1/240". Without the cheat, as we can do each objective just once, this repetition of objective is impossible which indicates that the achievement requests to do all the 240 objectives.

That's why at the outset just few players has completed the game when the cheat was unknown !

In any case, we don't use an option in the game or a voluntary cheating menu from the developers to ease a challenge. Take advantage of a flaw of a game to avoid doing everything that requests an achievement is cheating.
I know players who haven't even try objectives and they throw themselves on the cheat. Moreover, they did the game only when they heard about this cheat, whereas before the game doesn't interest them (due to the difficulty of some objectives).

I don't talk about all the bugs or the glichtes. We must see if the bug or glitch enables to avoid doing everything that requests an achievement.

Problem is - "Cheat" is such a strong word in my opinion - I'm sure you don't personally agree with it and that's absolutely fine - I'm not devaluing your opinion - However I don't agree with personally calling other people out who have used it and calling them "Cheats" - I feel that's a bit harsh since this is a glitch/problem in the game - Glitches and problems have been on every game and taken advantage of since the beginning of time.

If you think that people doing this is BS and that they're s**t at the game - Then that's fine (...I guess?) - But don't start throwing the word "Cheater" around.

This is a single achievement out of thousands and thousands and I can't understand the fuss behind it - If it's Ratios you're worried about than look at it like this.

The last DLC released around 35% of the people who own that DLC have the achievement for completing all the challenges - I know that some of those people who got that achievement got it through this method, let's guestimate and say around 20% of people used this method on the previous DLC - The ratio would shift maybe 60 to 150 - It's not going to be a huge difference.

So crying about a Ratio shift/loss is absolutely ridiculous especially when you're personally calling out or insulting other people about it - Other games have similar methods of completing a relatively hard task in a easy fashion and nobody complains about them (Glitching in the corner on Borderlands against the extremely difficult DLC crab boss springs to mind) so why should this be any different - If you don't agree with this particular method then that's fine - Give it a negative rep and move on.

I know people out there care about TA Ratio, but honestly - One or two achievements with a valid/easier method shouldn't be slammed nor the creator insulted - People completed Hardcore mode on games like Dead Space by using a USB stick to backup save files - I did all the Dead Space games on Hardcore legit without backing up my save - Should I get mad at other people for doing it in a different way than me and in the way it wasn't intended? No - Because that's their choice and more power to them, I didn't personally think that was the fun thing to do but different people find fun in different ways and maybe some people like completions but didn't want to spend hours of frustration trying to do this "Legit".

"Then Don't Do It Then, Deal With No Completion!!!!!"

If they like to try and complete all their games and this method best suited their interests then I think we should be alright with that - Unless it's blatant game hacking, game saving (using other people's saves) or using third party software then I don't see the problem.

I'm not disputing that this method is questionable at best but I don't think it should be called a cheat - Simply a glitch that people have used to further themselves in the game, I don't think anybody should be accused of being a cheater (as I think that's a very negative and strong title to assign to somebody) for taking advantage of BAD CODING.

And I feel that we punish more the way used than that it enables to do. If we had used the gamesaving to do 240 times the same objective instead of to do all the 240 objectives, we would have said that there was cheating. If it's a flaw, we say nothing ?!
To do 240 times the same objective instead of to do all the 240 objectives it's to do 240 times the same objective instead of to do all the 240 objectives, regardless of the way used as long as it's not voluntary from the developers.

The Achievement says that is 25% completed but I completed all 240 objectives? Some one help please?? It's really bothering me!!!

DLC is finally up! +1

The achievement states complete 240 objectives! Not complete 240 different objectives! Stop crying someone's found a way round an achievement, big deal find a harder achievement and go and do that! Props to Machewski for the great solution!

For anyone who wants to use the exploit to get the challenges the 6th level on the dlc requires you to just load up the level and press A to get a super slide.

I downgraded because it's the same solution someone else has on the site with no credit given. For shame.
Nah I keed....or do I??

This is so confusing.... I got all 240 objectives but the achievement says it's at 25% Done. This is so Dumb

@Cpl Flynn. Try deleting your save and performing the exploit 240 times. Flow @ALeXoTiC's comment on one the DLC levels and repeat the process. That should sort your achievement out.

-double post. Can't edit my comment on my phone.

*follow not flow, lol.

How do I do that??? @Machewski

Never mind thank u

I did this the conventional way. The objectives are not hard. It'll take maybe 2 hours tops if you have bad luck. Multi-ball Madness requires you to have Jimmy Lightning's power active during fever. Free Ball Frenzy requires at least two balls to be collected for a free ball.

Thanks for all the laughs ratio whores are funny

Just don't throw all of us ratio whores into one basket. I do enjoy ratio and all but I don't go out of my way to make posts like the first comment here (I find comments like that hilarious), nor do I care when someone posts a solution like this. This solution is great and I would give it a positive vote if I could.

I heard a rumor they fixed this glitch, is that not true? Can anyone confirm or deny this please? Thanks!

Still works Phrozan... just tried it... now im sucked into getting the rest i need lol

Also snap achievements makes this easier now

Can't play it offline anymore... It says to make sure you are signed I to xbox live. So looks like you can't play arcade games that you've downloaded when your offline anymore. Which sucks. Anyone else confirm?

Got this today and although it shows unlocked on my console and on Xbox.com the score hasn't been added to my gamerscore. :(

so I went from 201 to 210 last night doing this method, then today I start again and my 210 counter in the achievements app hasn't moved, any ideas?

nevermind, seems TA was slow to track it, its showing 218/240 now.

Anyone know if this is still working?

worked for me a couple weeks ago. I'm surprised how high a ratio it still has. It's very easy to cheese.

^ High Ratio because it's still time consuming.

Still Working as of January 2015

can confirm that. won it 2 days ago

Will it work with an objective of completing a level with a certain character

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Ok I was going for this legit when I got to 210 objectives my achievement didn't pop, when I checked the cheevo progress it was at 99% complete although the game shows 210 objectives complete. I used this guys method to gain the seemingly glitches missing objective an cheevo popped, so big thumbs up from me

still works 3/20/2015

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Hey guys what do I need to have exactly to go this route ? Just the Xbox one smart glass app ?

June 7th, 2015. still works. w00t. +1

I would say so. I also did the 360 version legit, so I will be using this method on the one. I will do the DLC ones legit on One though for legitimacy.

And to the people whining, how does this affect you in any significant way? I did all of MCC LASO, which is WAY more difficult than doing these challenges legit, and you don't see me whining about people who used the checkpoint sharing to do it.

And to the people whining, how does this affect you in any significant way? I did all of MCC LASO, which is WAY more difficult than doing these challenges legit, and you don't see me whining about people who used the checkpoint sharing to do it.

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Holy crap this works. Why have I been trying to do them all legit?

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6/29/2016 = still works, and will probably always continue to work.

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This isn't the first achievement to go cumulative. I remember Dead Island would count the same collectible over multiple characters for the achievement (because for me at least I ran all 4 characters through act 1 for the associated achievement). I believe Final Fantasy Type-0 also has a cumulative achievement of you were to restart the game.

Garbage, pure garbage. Your gamer scores mean nothing if you exploit like this .. Just did this legit, not that difficult. Learn to actually play games not put up false numbers... Lmao! Scores prove who is lazy!

^^ work smarter, not harder. Lolz, if devs are too lazy to have properly working achievements, then best believe I'm going to be lazy and do the work around!!

TransparentDime, what does gamerscore really mean anymore anyway? I can get 1000 points just by watching a Telltale game.

This method still works as of 27/02/17

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Aww yiss...

I can confirm this still works as of May 2017 (and therefore probably forever). Plus you can use the new achievement tracker now instead of smartglass!

Too many comments, don't want to read them all, as most of what I read is nothing to do with the achievement. Can someone confirm - if you disconnect from the internet, delete your local save, etc, then work on this until you're at, say, 239, then connect to live again, will that work too? As it stands, I have 120 completed, but I'd rather not quit out after each one if I don't have to. Just wondering if both methods work, and if so, which do you feel is easier?

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@shadowninja25. I tried this method by clearing the first chapter on a new save, when I connected to live again it added them on to the achievement progress. Likely will just keep starting new games instead of quitting out repeatedly.

I can confirm that as of Oct. 10, 2018 that this method still works

As of May 10th, 2019 this method still works! I think this will stay in the game since it has been out for 6 years and hasn't been patched yet. Happy achievement hunting!

As of the 11th of September 2021 this still works.

Still works as of the 14th of October 2021. Worth noting you can still obtain these (240 and 210 optional objectives) without owning the DLC which is great. Still a grind but much much easier than completing them all. Thanks for the tip!

Still works, 17th Oct 2021. I thought it didn't but you have to quit before you get to the summary screen and the Peggle game ends.

Stills works in March 2022.

Got it today. still works October 2022

still working as of 07/19/2023

Pour moi j'ai réussi à avoir les 240 arc en ciel 🌈 mais le succès m'est pas tombé

Wonderful

Perfect. I tried this on a challenge I already beat and it didn't work.

Then I used a long shot challenge that hadn't been beaten and it worked. Just remember to dashboard quit. Not exit from pause menu

It's not exactly an easy way, because it's not a easy way to do all the 240 objectives (as requested by the achievement), it's a cheat to do 240 times the same objective.

I didn't neg the solution as there's no reason to "make a statement" like Achieveman by negging you. If you hadn't made the solution, someone else would have anyway.

But to say this isn't cheating is just ridiculous. It's just not cheat that anyone is going to punish you for. At the end of the day, no one but you cares about your achievements except you. If you can look at this achievement and say "yeah, I earned that" then more power to you, but you're only deceiving yourself. Congrats on getting a completion on a game you didn't complete.

For me, that would weigh on me. This game is great and I have no problem doing it legit, but if I couldn't do it? I'd rather it take down my completion % (and make no mistake, I am a completionist) than falsely gain credit I have not earned.

That is what Achieveman feels as well, he just has no idea how to speak like a normal, respectful person.

I Think why people get butthurt is due to it messing with the values when a lot more people unlock it when in reality most wouldn't so the values would be a lot higher.

it's cheating in my eye's i really do hope Microsoft recognise this as cheating down the line then hopefully TA removes tracking priveleges. I don't care what anyone say's to defend their actions it's system cheating plain and simple...PS MotoXmouth has no skill

Scorch, it IS cheating by the definition of the word. You defraud the system into thinking you did something you did not. That's a literal definition of the word cheat.

I for one am not at all proposing anyone be punished for it. That would be ridiculous. But I don't think this is any more justifiable than using game saves on 360. The only difference is one is arbitrarily condemned and one is not. You're effectively doing the same thing.

Maybe so - But what makes this achievement any worse than other solutions?

Restarting the checkpoint to reset your death counter on Max.
Glitching in a corner so you cant be hit by a boss.
Backing up saves so you can beat hardcore mode.

Then by definition all these are cheats but I don't see the same kind of hate on other threads, These comments have been completely blown out of proportion on this solution - For the sake of the owner's inbox shall we just agree to disagree - You believe it's a cheat and I disagree. We could continue our back and forth forever but we're not going to change each others minds.

And Snowed, Thanks for giving your argument in a non-insulting and educated way (It's refreshing as opposed to "LOL RATIOFAG or SO BUTTHURT HAR HAR", They don't really help their argument when insulting people at the same time) - I see your point and you give it across in a very reasonable fashion but if we continue exchanging a back and forth we're never going to stop - We've all made our points clear and I don't think there's anything else that can be said that hasn't been already from either of us.

Still works thank you

Sorry to bump an old discussion, but I would like to know what the people considering this solution cheating thinks about this: I have completed this game on the 360 completely legit (where this method doesn't work), but I intend to make use of the exploit in this version of the game. Have I "proven my worth" by completing it once and thus gain a free pass, or am I still just as bad as the other ones?

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This was such an easy way to do this. Thanks. Dont know why the many downvotes. But after reading this thread. People like Eurydace and Achieveman are the reason. Baby girls hah.

Confirming that as of April 1, 2020 (no, this is not a joke) this still works! Literally just went from 104 to 240 challenges.

Level 4 in Peggle Institute (Purple Pegs Provide Points), Master - Bjorn, Free Ball Skillz. Easy AF

All this conversation sounds funny to me...

To all thinking this sounds like cheating I would suggest to have a look at yourself and also to the definition of cheating...
This whole fabulous website is about providing Guides / Solutions / ways to get achievements, in some point we could define any guide as a cheat...

To be clear cheating is supposed to be: using non-standard methods for creating an advantage beyond normal gameplay

Well looking at a videoguide or reading a solution sounds like an advantage beyond normal gameplay.

And regarding this specific achievement let's imagine the following scenario you play the game finish multiple levels and get multiple achievements then you deleted savegame because could be for any particular reason. Then you will realize you get achievements regarding objectives before expected as this is cumulative (cross savegames). So you could blame some who did it on purpose but not someone who didn't... Strange way of thinking...
Of course I don't imagine about moving system dates :)

To my mind this guide could be named as a workaround as there is multiple methods to get this. This achievement is cumulative
Using this guide or not is a personnal choice like using this website or not, looking at any guide or not...
Many thanks to Machewski for this guide

Just find it a bit hypocritical that there is so much drama about this workaround on a website dedicated to earning achievements and helping others to do so. You can do your objective completions the legit way, just because this guide is posted doesn't mean that you have to follow the method, nobody is holding a gun to your head and forcing you. Do it this way or legit, whatever helps you sleep at night, but don't give the author of the guide a hard time with your "my Gamerscore and achievements are holier than thou" philosophy. Some people game for the enjoyment of playing the game, others simply for "trophies" or "achievements". Whatever the reason, the choice to use this guide or not is entirely on the reader.
+1 Machewski. I for one will be exploiting this glitch, as although Peggle 2 is fun, it is what it is and eventually gets boring.

I'm not crusading for high ratios. I do not care about the ratio of an achievement when it's possible to cheat.

What I am arguing for is increased integrity and self-respect within the community. Obviously everyone here finds value in gaining achievements. Why not see that value well-earned? Or, really, how could you find value in it after cheating?

As for whether this is cheating, it clearly is. I had a long discussion on it on x360a. If you look up the definition of the word cheat and the definition of the word fraud, you will see that this MUST necessarily be cheating. There can be no debate about that.

As for how I can justify boosting while not finding this ok: Boosting still has you get all the intended goals of the achievement, just in an unorthodox way. I may play 1000 wins just because the team quit out on the other side every game, but I did win 1000 times. Not so here. The clear and obvious intent of the developers is that you have completed every objective in the game. When you rig the system to allow you to complete the same objective 240 times, you are cheating.

How is this any different to using other bugs and glitches that TA has clearly stated as "Not Cheating" in their policy, I'm sure ALL of you have done in other games? You could argue that this is "Cheating" but it's simply a glitch and a programming issue with the game that was a developer oversight - it's not our faults it's there nor have we gone out of our way to "Trick" the system - That just how it's been setup BY DEFAULT.

As I said above - By definition of the TA Cheating Policy - This is in no way considered "Cheating" from the standpoint of this website. Maybe you personally consider this cheating and that's fine, it's your opinion but hoping people get banned or their tracking privileges removed from a website they love over this is absurd.

We're not hacking, we're not typing a code in or using third party software to somehow trick the system into thinking we've done something - It's the way the developers have set the achievement tracking up and they evidently haven't done anything to fix it so maybe this was intended.

What about the people who deleted the game, didn't choose to sync and started over - They started re-completing challenges and the achievement unlocked because of the way the game tracks the achievement - Are they cheating because it gave them an achievement for completing challenges that they just happened to get along the way with a new save? No they're not and you probably wouldn't berate them for this.

I would be inclined to agree if it said "Complete 240 UNIQUE Challenges" then you could say that was the final intention - But it doesn't - You could argue that it's obvious what is meant to be done with the achievement and I respect the people who do it legit but at the end of the day this guide serves its purpose for the people who want to get it this way - It's not going to hugely affect the ratio and I'm sure in a few weeks you'll forget all about it - Life continues and all that (Only 200 people out of 15,000 currently have done it).

All I'm saying is NOBODY here is innocent of not taking advantage of a glitch somewhere in their gaming lifetime so don't start acting like complete hypocrites - It's not an attractive quality - If you were going to get banned for every glitch or exploit you took advantage of (which are developer oversights) then you would ALL be in trouble. Stop being nasty to other people and respect their choice even if you consider it the wrong one.

Thanks for the tip. I had my game completed at 240/240 but smart glass tracking at 238. Followed your tip and it unlocked after completing the first level and 2/3 objectives after restarting the game

Absolutely worth it. I hit the wall at 176 optional objectives in my first run through and refused to keep replaying the same levels dozens of times each especially on the Celestial set.

I want comment that this 100% still works as of 9-24-22. For anyone still trying to get this achievement

Does this method still work? I’m closing in on the objective grind and would love to know before I delete my save.

@Ayzic and anyone else, yes it still works. I got all 240 and the achievement was stuck at 99% and wouldn't unlock. Deleted my save and opened the game up. Got all pegs on the first one. Once I got the optional objective done, it unlocked for me