JWeinCom said:
Well I have to be careful about discussing this lest I be taken to court... But yeah he cheated. Essentially the way MAME (or another emulator) will load levels and such is different than how the original arcade boards will load screens. So there are certain little visual things that happen on MAME that will not happen on legit hardware. In the videos for at least two of his million+ scores there are certain visual effects that happen on MAME but not arcade hardware. It seems pretty open shut. Of course there's the possibility that he played on an emulator but still didn't cheat, but the use of emulators itself is a no-no, and leads to suspicion. The videos show what they show so whoever he's essentially placing eye witness testimony against video evidence, and the video evidence is going to win out. |
Actually, they were never able to definitively prove that MAME was used. Just that they were sure the scores were not recorded from an unmodified board arcade board.
- While we know for certain that an unmodified original DK arcade PCB did not output the display seen in the videotaped score performances, we cannot definitively conclude that what is on the tapes is MAME.
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