My 2 cents:
I don't have a bone to pick on the Mitchell Drama. Honestly, i wouldn't doubt that he cheated. I don't really care about world records for video games.
With that said, i do have a major issue with some of his detractors, especially the so called "Arcade experts". A few of my friends have brought up this in discussion. You have one group of people who simply hate Mitchell because of the way he portrays himself. That really has nothing to do with his hi-score really. If you don't like him, that's fine. I can see where people could dislike him.
The mame theorist pool of people really don't have much to go on tho. mame has changed so much over the years; This includes the DK drivers. In the period since the footage was made, Mame has hit 3 graphics core milestone releases. Anyone that has used mame for any extended period of time will also notice that there are games, even ones with matured drivers will act differently between releases. To make a long story short, the folks claiming he is using mame have either given out vastly vague and even false info. Most importantly none of them can seem to pinpoint which version of mame he was using nor which romset. Not one soul that i have seen speak in depth about Mitchell using mame has even definitively tested mame and a DK romset circa 2004, the year the footage was supposedly taken.
You also have another third fringe e-celeb gamer crew. A prime example of this is a person well known in the hobby that got schooled on the Twin Galaxies live chat a few weeks back. The person in question has a pretty major following as an "Arcade collector" and gamer; Goes to all the cons etc but had no clue about how direct feed works. This person then began asking monitor questions comparing the "Nintendo monitor" as they called it to a G07. As the chat progressed it was clear this person had no clue about the 20EZ, G07 or just how monitors worked in general.
I don't have a bone to pick on the Mitchell Drama. Honestly, i wouldn't doubt that he cheated. I don't really care about world records for video games.
With that said, i do have a major issue with some of his detractors, especially the so called "Arcade experts". A few of my friends have brought up this in discussion. You have one group of people who simply hate Mitchell because of the way he portrays himself. That really has nothing to do with his hi-score really. If you don't like him, that's fine. I can see where people could dislike him.
The mame theorist pool of people really don't have much to go on tho. mame has changed so much over the years; This includes the DK drivers. In the period since the footage was made, Mame has hit 3 graphics core milestone releases. Anyone that has used mame for any extended period of time will also notice that there are games, even ones with matured drivers will act differently between releases. To make a long story short, the folks claiming he is using mame have either given out vastly vague and even false info. Most importantly none of them can seem to pinpoint which version of mame he was using nor which romset. Not one soul that i have seen speak in depth about Mitchell using mame has even definitively tested mame and a DK romset circa 2004, the year the footage was supposedly taken.
You also have another third fringe e-celeb gamer crew. A prime example of this is a person well known in the hobby that got schooled on the Twin Galaxies live chat a few weeks back. The person in question has a pretty major following as an "Arcade collector" and gamer; Goes to all the cons etc but had no clue about how direct feed works. This person then began asking monitor questions comparing the "Nintendo monitor" as they called it to a G07. As the chat progressed it was clear this person had no clue about the 20EZ, G07 or just how monitors worked in general.




