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I'm a bit late to the 'game' on this because I don't follow it much anymore, but this guy reclaimed the WR for DK in January:

There are some facebook conversations starting up where the long time WR holder Robbie Lakeman is claiming that he can prove the randomness of the fireballs can be controlled by lowering the voltage to your DK board where VCC to the chips furthest away from the edge connector is at 4.63. He is pushing the theory that the current WR did this after examining the game footage. He's saying the fireballs appear to stay closer to the bottom on boards when the voltage is set in this way. A young engineering student chimed on the FB thread pretty much saying thats impossible and the only way to control the randomness would be to modify the rom code and posted some technical data to back that up.

I know many of you don't care about the bickering, but from a technical perspective I am genuinely curious if Robbie's statement has any validity? I would think there would be MORE randomness in terms of stability of your board starving for power - I don't see how lowering it aside from perhaps a lucky logic misfire could really do this?

Looking at the WR run I don't see anything out of the ordinary with how the fireballs are roaming but then again I haven't dedicated years of my life to play at the level Robbie does. Robbie apparently can replicate the problem and is working on proving this theory.

Robbie also pointed out that TG rules don't specify voltages need to be checked so its possible this is a 'legal' way of cheating - assuming there is some truth to it.

What do you think ARCADE NERDS?
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