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posted by martyb on Friday April 13 2018, @12:26AM   Printer-friendly
from the what-a-wicked-web-we-weave-when-first-we-practice-to-deceive dept.

Twin Galaxies, the long-running video game high score tracker recognized by Guinness World Records, has banned Billy Mitchell and removed all of his past scores from its listings after determining that two million-plus-point Donkey Kong performances he submitted were actually created with an emulator and not on original arcade hardware as he consistently claimed. The move means that the organization now recognizes Steve Wiebe as the first player to achieve a million-point game in Donkey Kong, a question central to the 2007 cult classic documentary The King of Kong.

Nearly two months ago, Mitchell's scores were also removed from the leaderboards at Donkey Kong Forum. Forum moderator Jeremy "Xelnia" Young cited frame-by-frame analysis of the board transitions in Mitchell's Donkey Kong tapes, which showed visual artifacts suggesting they were generated by early versions of the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator (MAME) and not original Donkey Kong arcade hardware.

[...] The ban has no effect on the current world record in Donkey Kong, which currently sits at the 1.247 million points [score] set by Robbie Lakeman in February.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/04/premiere-game-scoreboard-bans-billy-mitchell-in-donkey-kong-cheating-scandal/


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  • (Score: 1, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Friday April 13 2018, @08:37AM (1 child)

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Friday April 13 2018, @08:37AM (#666364) Homepage Journal

    I always wanted to own a circus. My father, as everybody knows, owned Coney Island. And we had a great time demolishing it. He threw a party -- with so many sexy ladies -- and we all threw bricks. Tremendous! Many people say I'm the greatest showman in the history of the world. And if I had a circus it would be the greatest show. P.T. Barnum. We need P.T. Barnum a little bit, because we have to build up the image of our country. I have to be a cheerleader for our country. And an entertainer. Big, big parts of my job. The biggest. I thought Obama, when he got elected, would be a good cheerleader. That's the one thing I said. I said, you know, he'll unify the country, whether it's African American and white and all. You know, he'll unify. He didn't unify. He's been a great divider. I think it's on everybody. But he was the leader. He was the leader. He could've been a great cheerleader and he wasn't. And that's too bad.

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday April 13 2018, @02:33PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday April 13 2018, @02:33PM (#666474) Journal

    My father, as everybody knows, owned Coney Island.

    Sorry dude, but not everyone knows that. Some of us never heard of you until you did that moronic television show. Some of us even detested you because of that show. People who detest you don't bother to learn about your parent's possessions - unless maybe they want to sleep with you. Since you're not my type, that was straight out the window.

    Many people say I'm the greatest showman in the history

    Yeah, I guess maybe they do. And, those people are probably those same people who wanted to sleep with you for your money. I don't know anyone who says such things about you.

    if I had a circus

    If you had a circus, you would be one of the attractions from which children are barred.

    I have to be a cheerleader

    Quinton Peron and Napolean Jinnies would probably welcome you to the Rams. I have no idea if the Rams have any standards, or what they might be. Maybe they'll accept an old homely white bastard such as yourself.

    Imagine that. The man was elected president of the US, and he still aspires to make something of himself. Do you intend to join the circus first, or the cheerleaders?