I'm not sure if anyone actively dove into this yet, I only saw one farmer complain that it didn't give too much information. They were probably retarded.
If you actually do search for "Wayne Beckett" you'll find plenty of very convincing references that this is an actual person/project manager for a company that works on a field closely related to what byuu/Near did. Let's follow the trail. Use DuckDuckGo and follow along.
First result I got was a LinkedIn directory:
10+ "Wayne Beckett" profiles | LinkedIn
The Wayne Beckett that stands out here is at Datapower Development in Hong Kong. It's not Japan, but at least somewhat close. Wayne talks about "People in the Tokyo office" so there's multiple locations of their company. Datapower sounds at least somewhat related to IT stuff.
Way down the list is a link to a 2012 ArsTechnica article that strikes gold:
How the new Game Genie lets you hack your PS3 saves | ArsTechnica
This is as close to what byuu/Near did with emulation as you can get. Of course they might not have been save game hacking or whatever, but it's console related, pretty deep reverse engineering stuff.
The ArsTechnica article mentions that Wayne works for Hyperkin, probably another or earlier business name for Datapower Development. If you then search "Hyperkin Wayne Beckett" on DuckDuckGo you find all kinds of references to Wayne in their position as a project manager related to console hacking and emulation. Here's a few samples:
https://github.com/ekeeke/Genesis-Plus-GX/issues/111
https://patents.google.com/patent/US5941775A/en
https://patents.google.com/patent/US6042478A/en
https://firmfasr946.weebly.com/how-to-hack-ps2-save-games.html
And one of the more smoking guns:
https://github.com/snes9xgit/snes9x/issues/264
Where Wayne is again quoted as is, but with the Datapower company name and referring to a distributor in Japan. And related to Snes9x.
I think you all sure left a lot of investigation on the table. The above doesn't prove that
@Wayne Beckett is real life Wayne Beckett, but given their statements, the subject topic and context it does kind of start to connect together. No hard facts, but I think there's a bit of credibility building to the entire story. Some of the links above go back many years, nobody in the world would be planning a fake trail with fake names and fake companies for a fake persona that didn't exist yet for that long I think.
Fact is that "Wayne Beckett" is an actual person. Working at a company that is closely related to byuu/Near's field of expertise. Having at least a main office in China. Referring to a subsidiary in Japan. Even though KF
@Wayne Beckett might be an imposter, the trail itself does start to make sense and starts to connect to byuu/Near.
Next up would be to prove that byuu/Near worked for Datapower Development, Hyperkin or a subsidiary. And maybe dig for office photos. (Half joking there.)
Edit: Hyperkin would be a great company for byuu/Near to work at/with. See
https://www.hyperkin.com/