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Check out the technical analysis linked to from the article: But even if that happened, and there was no intentional deceipt at all it should still be stricken from the record if it could be proven it wasn't the original hardware. Hell, it's at least theoretically possible (in general at least) that if the unit wasn't his, and he wasn't looking for it, that he might not even have known it wasn't real hardware. Which given that records for the two are kept separate would still be dishonest, even if he didn't use MAME to actually cheat. but merely that he used MAME and then claimed it was the original hardware. So the contention here is not really that he used MAME to actually cheat. As far as I know, he legit played the game start-to-finish in one pass without any cheats. (I admit im speculating, and would love to know for sure, but i expect im in the right ballpark.)Īnd furthermore, although MAME does allow things like pause/rewind/save/restore of state, or playing with the clock timing to simply slow it down a bit, as far as i know nobody accuses mitchell of actually having done any of THAT in this case. I expect it was originally recorded on VHS 20+ years ago, likely copied from tape to tape to tape, and then likely digitized from that copy of a copy of a copy at some point, and that's what they've got to work with now.

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'Would you not be able to catch the stitching with automated forensics tools that consider artifacting?'Ĭatching Artifacting? What source are you thinking they are analysing here? It's not some mp4 that they suspect mitchell stiched together from video taken on his new iphone pro and then submitted. From the game's point of view there was never an interruption at all, right down to the game's internal clock showing a continuous uninterrupted game. On an emulator you can restore the entire machine state to _exactly_ what it was before you made a mistake, and then resume from there. 'Could you not implement state on the real hardware, by adding more hardware?' 'MAME scores which are passed off as coming from original arcade are disqualified,' Fokkens wrote in his report. The crux of the controversy and accusations against Mitchell is that he claimed to have scored those records on original Donkey Kong arcade hardware, while his critics accused him of using MAME, an emulator that is recognized as a legitimate way to play the game, but records scored on these two different platforms are recognized as two different categories of records. His report was backed by five other experts. The author of the analysis is Tanner Fokkens, a hardware engineer and a competitive Donkey Kong player. The new technical analysis focuses on Mitchell's Donkey Kong records of 1,047,200 and 1,050,200 points. For years, some people in the retro arcade game community have accused Mitchell of lying about his Donkey Kong records, prompting Twin Galaxies, an arcade game community that keeps track of high scores (among other things) and the Guinness World Records to strip Mitchell of its recognition, though the organization later reversed its decision. From a report: The controversy revolves around Billy Mitchell, a well-known player who holds several records on classic arcade games such as Donkey Kong and Pac-Man, and the main character in the documentary King of Kong. A new forensic analysis of controversial Donkey Kong world records claims those records were scored on an emulator and not on original hardware, essentially accusing the record holder of cheating.