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For those out of the loop, people have been sharing screenshots of the screen transitions from Mitchell's videos and MAME since at least 2018 as evidence he che
by gurchik 4y ago
For those out of the loop, people have been sharing screenshots of the screen transitions from Mitchell's videos and MAME since at least 2018 as evidence he cheated. This isn't new information. What is new is that rather than simply showing the screenshots, Tanner Fokkens has dissected the code from the original Donkey Kong ROM to prove that the footage could not have been generated from the original cabinet. He then analyzed the MAME code to demonstrate why MAME renders the way it does to prove that Mitchell's footage matches a version of MAME that would have been available to download at the time the footage was recorded.
This is similar to when the speedrunner OmniGamer analyzed the source code to Dragster to prove that Todd Rogers faked his world record footage and subsequent Guinness record.
- flatiron 4y agoI wonder if had used a MiSTER instead of MAME if he would have been caught. I don’t think it was out in 2018 though.
- HideousKojima 4y agoMitchell's video was from pong before 2018, the screenshot comparisons showing he used MAME are from 2018.
- adrianmonk 4y ago> pong before 2018 This wins the thematically-appropriate typo of the week award.