I cannot even comprehend donating your money to some youtuber all for the sake of a fucking video game score argument.
you burn the rice, you pay the price
Nah, none of Billy's scores were impossible. We just never have any concrete proof he did them on original hardware, as he claims.
I do like how this shit has turned everyone into official arcade cabinet hardware experts, as if the stakes are higher than the fucking Zapruder film or some shit.
on the flipside we do have proof that he didnt since his footage contained loading screens that only appear on mame
Oh no, I get it. My problem with it is that speedrunning has so many retarded rules and regulations but people are constantly disregarding them like safety on a job site.
he got the high score in one of the first arcade video games ever made, and in the 50 years since he's used pretty much every tactic available to him from buying out an entire organization dedicated to video game high scores to schmoozing with journalists and book publishers to codify the title as "the best video game player in the world" because he has the top score in the 1981 video game "donkey kong"
People who understand the actual hardware made pretty lengthy write-ups that go through the evidence step by step und show how and why the video evidence of his high-scores was showing MAME emulation instead of original arcade hardware.
Karl Jobst makes speedrun content. Speedrunners and the people who are infatuated with it are autistic troons. So yes this is a very big heckin deal to them.
oh, most certainly, that's how people like billy operate. it's all kayfabe. it was probably specifically brought up because he knew he was guilty of it but it was a pointless technicality that didn't matter or negate the end result, so he probably feels a little tickle of mischief every time it gets brought up that he could break the pointless and arbitrary rules he set for other people
Can one of these nerds do something actually useful with their lives and come over to my house and fix the CD drive/laser in my playstation?
No court found OJ Simpson guilty of killing a white woman, but it's all he is actually known for anymore. At this point Billy's entire reputation is "that weird litigious hot sauce salesman who cheats at Donkey Kong." More people have probably seen the Regular Show parody of him than his actual record-breaking gameplay footage.
There a 4 hour video by Vertias that goes over it pretty extensively, but the TLDR answer is yes Billy cheated. If you don't wanna watch the whole thing then the first bit gives a good explanation on why MAME and arcade look different despite running the same code.
Because Billy, likely, insisted they go through and check everyone else's scores for legitimacy if his were taken down. Which is a fair demand, whether you like him or not.
And nobody claimed that he isn't good at the game or could achieve the scores by playing normally.
And they should have accepted that. Folding pretty much means the organization is unreliable and worthless in its primary function.
