So whats the opinion on Twin Galaxies here?

[ballboff]

I don't trust anything in the media. I think before someone records a documentary they already have a pretty good idea of which side they are on, and the recording usually focuses on that one side and tries their best to paint them in that light. I think billy has had a lot of rap in the past, but I suppose a cheat is a cheat. And it only makes the character in "pixels" more like billy. It's true that I also just referred to him as the guy in a suit with long hair in arcade videos, until I looked up his proper name.

[RedBatman]

@ballboff Pixels was okay, not great but it was okay for the time.

[kikinaak]

Eh, I understand competition and all that, but the only opponent I care about beating is my old score. I look at these professional E-sports teams and leagues and I just think, playing games is supposed to be fun, not a job. More powah to ya if you want to compare epeen with strangers across the planet, I'll just stick to enjoying the game.

As to how to stop score cheating, the only way is to control the environment. Nintendo has that one down with the world championships back in 90 and in recent years at E3. Lets roll with that. If theres this much interest in it, theres probably also enough money in it to be worth either digging up original arcade boards, or cutting a deal with whoever holds the copyright to run a rom for purposes of the event.

Right. And monkeys might fly out of my a...nyway, maybe a custom retropie build with checksums of officially allowed roms, emus with savestates disabled, and that pings an official server every so often with a timestamp and game state to check for tampering. Think of it like a closed B-net for competition emu players.

[RedBatman]

Well Billy Just lost his scores.

https://www.destructoid.com/billy-mitchell-s-scores-have-been-wiped-from-twin-galaxies-498411.phtml

[mediamogul]

@redbatman

I had multiple people call me today to see if I had heard. Every call was so manically charged it was as if they were asking if I had heard about a terrorist attack. Apparently people really don't like that guy.

[dankcushions]

i still can't get my head round his grift. a bunch of these scores were achieved in front of an audience (presumably a twin galaxies representative was there??), so is he miming playing a dk cabinet with a mame rig inside, playing back the perfect game?

[lilbud]

@dankcushions I believe a few of his scores were acheived in public, but not normally.

Billy set up at a mortgage brokers convention and set a record live, but no one truly saw him play. He played in a backroom and the video from his cabinet was split to go to the next room.

[mediamogul]

My brother's a comic book artist and this weekend he's signing some of his books at a convention in North Carolina. People were just beginning to set up their booths this morning when a guy walked by who caught his eye. My brother pulled the guy aside and commented that he was without a doubt the best Billy Mitchell cosplayer he had ever seen. The guy responded by saying, "I hope so. I am Billy Mitchell". They talked for a while and then he began setting up his own booth a few tables down. Apparently he's there with his own 'Donkey Kong' cabinet, signing autographs and representing the red, white and blue like only he can.

[RedBatman]

@mediamogul That's pretty funny

[mediamogul]

@redbatman

He ended up trading two signed hot sauce bottles for a print my brother had done of Wonder Woman. They took a picture together and what's really funny is that I've seen pics of my brother with actual celebrities, completely unfazed and this might very well be the only time I've seen him with that funny, half-way embarrassed grin you get when you're a legitimate fan of someone. Meanwhile, Billy's shooting a thumbs up with a look meant to convey just how truly awesome it is to be Billy Mitchell on any given Saturday afternoon.

[BobHarris]

I've never heard of the guy..on the pictures with fans he reminds me of Buddy Christ (Dogma):

[edmaul69]

@mediamogul i had gotten 1 of only 10 autographed pac-man / rocky mountain pinball showdown habanero hot sauces in a raffle. I was moving and it fell out of a box and shattered all over the sidewalk. I also had an autographed poster too. No clue where that went. I got 2 king of kong dvd’s, a playing card and a donkey kong jr marquee autographed by steve weibe when i watched him get the kill screen in donkey kong at the 1up bard here in denver.

[mediamogul]

@edmaul69

Very cool. Especially the live kill screen. I was thinking the other day that out of all these guys, I'd really like to meet Walter Day. He seems like a nice enough guy and I bet he's got some stories.

[Clyde]

@edmaul69 said in So whats the opinion on Twin Galaxies here?:

I was moving and it fell out of a box and shattered all over the sidewalk. I also had an autographed poster too. No clue where that went.

Some people would weep over the loss of such memorabilia. 😱

[edmaul69]

@mediamogul i would love to meet him. Dont know if there would ever be enough time for all the stories.

[RedBatman]

@edmaul69 I would like to meet him too. Also I would like to meet some of the twin galaxies officials and hear what happened behind the scenes.