• Light/Dark
  • Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.

Billy Mitchell's >1m scores in Donkey Kong were done on emulator, not standard hardware, maybe faked

ItWasMeantToBe19

ItWasMeantToBe19

Banned
Oct 26, 2017
20,440
http://donkeykongforum.com/index.php?topic=2055

Mitchell also claims that he has broken 1m points three times in public but no one has been able to verify those scores.

Mitchel has reached 940k points in a publicly verified event so he's not a complete fraud, but this is a very bad look to lie about what he was playing Donkey Kong on as that was taken super seriously in the past. And if these scores were spliced together, that's even worse.
 
HStallion

HStallion

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
62,262
Steve Wiebe was always the real King of Kong

image_1.jpg
 
Funny Valentine

Funny Valentine

Banned
Nov 1, 2017
2,904
After all that Todd Rogers and Twin Galaxies stuff I'm sure we'll see more suspect high scores come to light.
 
Yasumi

Yasumi

One Winged Slayer
Member
Oct 25, 2017
4,570
Man, so many speedrunners and record holders getting exposed recently. Kind of nuts.
 

Deleted member 15538

User requested account closure
Banned
Oct 27, 2017
3,387
The whole scene was amazing in that king of the kong docu, that referee, the little slimy sidekick. I almost pissed my pants.
 

Deleted member 6436

User requested account closure
Banned
Oct 25, 2017
951
Y'know I was on a panel full of people signing autographs at a Video Games Live show back in 2012 and Billy Mitchell was there too. He brought his own pictures to autograph of himself surrounded by what looked like Las Vegas showgirls and kept signing things like "First Perfect Pac-Man Game."

Ever since then I've always thought he was just a littttle too into himself.
 
GitarooMan

GitarooMan

Member
Oct 27, 2017
703
On a related note I read the article on Todd Rogers and Dragster and it is fascinating. It's amazing how long the record was listed even though there was no supporting evidence of any worth
 
HStallion

HStallion

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
62,262
After watching Adam Sandler's Pixels (its not as bad as I was expecting) I think Peter Dinklage should play Billy Mitchell if they ever make a movie about him.

l5NG04h.png
 
Soul Skater

Soul Skater

Member
Oct 25, 2017
10,201
If I can't believe in the trustworthiness of mulleted' hot sauce salesman than I'm not sure who I can believe
 
Scythesurge

Scythesurge

Member
Oct 25, 2017
228
Hey look it's almost like Twin Galaxies is catching up to SDA level of validation from last decade!
 
Fularu

Fularu

Member
Oct 25, 2017
10,609
While those may be suspect, Billy Mitchell IS insanely good at Donkey Kong and his public record isn't that far off 1 million
 
John Dunbar

John Dunbar

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
6,229
what about wes copeland and robbie lakeman, who according to wikipedia are the best donkey kong players?
 
HStallion

HStallion

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
62,262
Razor Mom said:
I love dinklage as much as the next guy, but isn't one of Mitchell's most distinctive features his... Massive height?
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

If the Hobbit can make Gandalf look like he's towering over the hobbits then a King of Kong movie can make Peter Dinklage large and in charge. I'd also say his height isn't his most distinctive feature lol.
 
HStallion

HStallion

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
62,262
Serene said:
So why are emulator high scores not allowed?
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

A lot of these old school gamer records are based on playing the game on the original hardware so recreate it as it was back in the day. Emulators can sometimes run things a little differently than the original arcade cabinets and cause discrepancies, sometimes one's that can aid the player in some ways.
 
synic

synic

Member
Oct 27, 2017
371
NJ
That's insane since for years everyone always talked like he was untouchable.

Not saying he's not skilled, but it's obvious emulation isn't hardware.

I wonder if he will release a statement.
 
OP
OP
ItWasMeantToBe19

ItWasMeantToBe19

Banned
Oct 26, 2017
20,440
Fularu said:
While those may be suspect, Billy Mitchell IS insanely good at Donkey Kong and his public record isn't that far off 1 million
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

I mean, I stated that in the OP, lol. It's insane to get a world record in 1984, hold it for decades, and then come back and regain the world record in 2004. But Mitchell falsely claiming these >1m scores were done on real hardware is super bad form.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.