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.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by tekk on Friday April 13 2018, @11:42AM
My understanding is that was very intentional. There have been accusations of Billy cheating for years and years, but with the whole Twin Galaxies deal it's only now *officially* blowing up. The fact that the referee for many of Billy's scores was the guy found to have cheated on hundreds of 2600 records sealed it, before Twin Galaxies was able to fall back on "Well our ref seemed to think things were on the up and up" before he was revealed as a massive cheat.