{"id":12601,"date":"2018-02-09T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/02\/donkey_kong_scorekeeper_rubbishes_billy_mitchells_claims_of_fabricated_footage"},"modified":"2018-02-09T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T11:00:00","slug":"donkey-kong-scorekeeper-rubbishes-billy-mitchells-claims-of-fabricated-footage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/02\/09\/donkey-kong-scorekeeper-rubbishes-billy-mitchells-claims-of-fabricated-footage\/","title":{"rendered":"Donkey Kong Scorekeeper Rubbishes Billy Mitchell&#8217;s Claims Of Fabricated Footage"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Thumbs up?\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/02\/donkey_kong_scorekeeper_rubbishes_billy_mitchells_claims_of_switched_footage\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/02\/donkey_kong_scorekeeper_rubbishes_billy_mitchells_claims_of_switched_footage\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Thumbs up?\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The saga of Billy Mitchell&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/arcade\/donkey_kong\">Donkey Kong<\/a><\/strong> high score continues to rumble along following <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/02\/billy_mitchells_donkey_kong_high_scores_come_under_doubt_amid_accusations_of_monkey_business\">accusations from\u00a0score-verifier Jeremy Young<\/a> that Mitchell &#8211; who was a key figure in the cult movie <strong>King of Kong<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0used MAME to record his record-breaking runs on the game, as opposed to original hardware, as Mitchell has claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell was quick to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/02\/billy_mitchell_reacts_to_accusations_of_fake_donkey_kong_high_score\">respond to the claims<\/a>, stating that he&#8217;d never played MAME and suggesting that the footage he had submitted had somehow been switched. Young has now responded to Mitchell&#8217;s comments, pointing out the sheer implausibility of what he&#8217;s claiming.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>And the film footage that he has, that Jeremy has, shows MAME play. Now, I contend, that if he gets the original tape, or he gets the original room shot, he will see that what I say is true. I\u2019m not disputing what he says. What I\u2019m disputing is the fact that I want him to have the original tape.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to Young,\u00a0the only person who could have possibly switched the tapes is Dwayne Richard, a\u00a0world-record holder in several games on Twin Galaxies:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Claiming the video footage in the evidence is not real does not make sense to me. In regards to video sources and their potential fabrication, I would label that so unlikely as to be impossible. The amount of foresight, patience, and technical knowledge required would be staggering.<\/p>\n<p>Dwayne claims [the Mitchell tapes] were given to him directly by [disgraced competitive gamer Todd Rogers], by request of Billy Mitchell. Dwayne uploaded a copy of [the 1.047 million run] to YouTube a couple of years ago&#8230; All of this uploaded footage directly matches segments shown in both the theatrical release of\u00a0King of Kong\u00a0and a screener version that has circulated over the years.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In fact, Mitchell&#8217;s entire defence rests on the idea that Richard swapped the tapes. Young explains why this is highly, <em>highly<\/em> unlikely:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>By my reckoning, Dwayne would have to:<\/p>\n<p>1) Know, for over a decade, this bug existed in MAME, and not tell anyone<br \/>2)\u00a0Know every potential independent source that would,\u00a0in the future, publish clips of Billy\u2019s gameplay, know exactly what that footage would contain, and whether that footage would contain the MAME signature<br \/>3)\u00a0Either: A) know that the press conference video is also MAME, or B) organize a conspiracy to swap the tapes being shown that day.<br \/>4)\u00a0In the case of 3A\u2026why wait this long?<br \/>5) In the case of 3B\u2026he would have had only a few days to craft a full performance of TWO games (DK and DKJR) faithful enough to fool Billy himself AND convince someone to swap the tapes at the event.<br \/>6)\u00a0Apart from 3A, he would need to craft at least 2 full-length (~2.5 hours) games to match the independent footage. These would have to match Billy\u2019s original gameplay, pixel-for-pixel, frame-for-frame.<br \/>7)\u00a0Wait, for years, for the right amount of general skepticism and technical knowledge to coalesce.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mitchell will no doubt respond to these comments in due course, and you can sure this isn&#8217;t the last we&#8217;ve heard of this saga. It&#8217;s a sorry end for one of the most famous figures in the world of video game high score-chasing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The saga of Billy Mitchell&#8217;s Donkey Kong high score continues to rumble along following accusations from\u00a0score-verifier Jeremy Young that Mitchell &#8211; who was a key figure in the cult movie King of Kong &#8211;\u00a0used MAME to record his record-breaking runs on the game, as opposed to original hardware, as Mitchell has claimed. Mitchell was quick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}