Grand Kirby posted...

Reposting my thoughts from the general topic.

Grand Kirby posted...

The evidence that he lied is pretty good, but there are some minor quibbles about his behavior that I found noticeable:

1. Apparently he has NEVER been seen getting over 1 million points live. There've been people who have said they've seen him do it, and he's claimed to have done it in front of crowds, but it's never been proven to actually been seen by the general public. I especially like this video where he is about to set a record in public and someone "accidentally" unplugs the machine:


2. All of Billy's 1 million+ score videos are direct feeds, which is odd enough, but the process of setting up a direct feed on a DK arcade machine is extremely complicated (http://donkeykongforum.com/index.php?topic=1413.0) to the point that it's possible only one person has actually done it. Billy has said before he doesn't know much about the hardware, but he supposedly does this when playing on machines set at conventions and stuff? If someone else is doing it for him, then they've never been mentioned or have spoken up.

3. Donkey Kong on MAME apparently has minor, but noticeable, audio inconsistencies compared to the real version. And for "some" reason Billy's direct feed footage of his records completely lack sound...

Like, it's one thing to have smoking guns that heavily stack against him, but these points alone should make him extremely suspect. Just like with Todd Rogers I'm astonished how anyone could get away with stuff like this and still be considered credible, even if you couldn't prove them wrong.

With respect to the video, if he was "setting a record" in a public place, and it was unplugged right before he set it, what does this prove? (I am genuinely asking... this video is only 2 minutes long, and doesn't provide much context)
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Billy Mitchell's direct feed recordings are MAME generated

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