Editing Sonic Wave (section)

=== Race to verify and remakes ===
Following Cyclic's confession in hack-verifying most of his achievements, Riot, Mefewe (both had been attempting the level since the buffdate's unveiling) and several other players attempted to become the first to beat the level legitimately.

Mefewe has been making progress since before Cyclic's confession. His first progress was on 11 October 2015, getting 24%. Ten days later, he got 64-100%. Mefewe would make good progress on Sonic Wave for a month, even adding buffs to the level. He would get 72% on this version on 8 November 2015. However, Mefewe buffing Sonic Wave would soon become a fatal mistake.

Riot was getting bored of Sonic Wave and asked Viprin to make a special remake for him: Sonic Wave Infinity. This remake made the level slightly darker and used 2.0 decorations and effects. While Sonic Wave Infinity was being developed, Mefewe achieved a new best of 98% on his own buffed version of Sonic Wave on 25 March 2016, which at the time was considered the worst ever fail in ''Geometry Dash''. However, this devastating fail gained him more popularity, and he later asked FunnyGame and Serponge to create another Sonic Wave remake: Alter Sonic Wave (later renamed Sonic Wave Rebirth). This level gave Sonic Wave a fresh design while staying the same gameplay-wise. Two other players, Surv and Sunix (known as Deam at the time), were also practising, both of them making good progress.

Afterwards, Manix648 and LazerBlitz created the third Sonic Wave remake: Auditory Breaker. With high-quality designs and incredibly realistic decorations, it was considered the best-decorated Sonic Wave remake by many people. Although, it lost its categorization as a Nine Circles level. Manix648 chose Surv as the verifier of this level. However, Surv eventually turned down Auditory Breaker mainly because of being the choice as the verifier of Yatagarasu. Riot also made further progress on Sonic Wave, getting a record of 96%, while Sunix achieved a record of 88%. But soon after that, Sunix agreed to let Riot verify Sonic Wave first. However, six days after Sunix's 88% fail, Sunix finally verified Sonic Wave on 25 November 2016, effectively breaking his promise with Riot.

Later, Sunix apologized to Riot and stated verifying the level was unintentional. Sunix only wanted to see how far he could get during one of his streams after removing the start position.<sup>[''citation needed'']</sup> However, that did not stop other players like Aurorus from being angry with him. A few days later, Aurorus made a video claiming Sunix used macros and auto-clicking hacks to verify Sonic Wave.<sup>[''citation needed'']</sup> Eventually, the accusations were disproved. After Aurorus withdrew his claims, Sunix became recognized as the first official player to beat Sonic Wave, boosting his popularity significantly.