Billy Mitchell, the video-game fraud, has just had his records reinstated, according to Pat the NES Punk (through my anonymous friend).
If you recall, Mitchell was the idiot who used dodgy referees and probably picture editing to scam a number of records on the Twin Galaxies leaderboards -- some of which were PROVEN impossible.
He got his records reinstated this week by the Guinness Book of World Records.
Mitchell is suing Twin Galaxies and YouTuber Apollo Legend that he got his "records" on Donkey Kong on a MAME emulator rather than a full legit Donkey Kong machine.
It appears, according to Pat the NES Punk, that Mitchell also sued Guinness to have his recognition, and Guinness folded their tents.
Someone actually claimed that they could duplicate a lot of what Mitchell did legitimately.
(Which WASN'T the fucking question, Guinness... Unless you could duplicate the game, at least, on an ACTUAL ARCADE MACHINE, which, of course, the guy never tried to check on to verify Mitchell's scores...)
Which has been VERIFIED as to not be the case!
A Guinness spokesperson has called the claims of Jace Hall and Twin Galaxies in this regard abject lies!
The claim is that you could never put an emulator into an arcade machine to pass the former off as the latter...
Shall I laugh at your absurdity now, Guinness spokesperson, or after I'm done? You could do any number of things to make it look as such -- all it would take is a decent understanding of how to put what where as far as the controls, and you probably could make a pretty good approximation of a PC computer in there if you could get the controls right!! (As Pat and Ian speak of later!)
In fact, there is a company which sold, until the coronavirus pandemic shut down the antique store in my town, similar emulation situations in arcade cabinets out of a booth at a local antique store!!
So we mow have probably Mitchell vs. Hall and Legend in a court of law, coming to you if people ever get head out of ass so the lawsuit can be heard.
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