One more point, if I may...
"BUT BILLY JUST REDID THOSE SCORES, SO HE'S PROVEN HE'S LEGIT." - After the dispute, Billy began streaming Donkey Kong on Twitch. Over the course of months, he eventually scored an even one million, before "duplicating" his 1,047,200 and 1,050,200 scores. First, it should be pointed out that neither score was actually "duplicated". The first score actually overshot the target by 300 points due to a stray fireball, and an untimely death caused the second score to come up 100 points short. This is noteworthy in that the original scores were meant to be demonstrations of overwhelming prowess, including the ability to hit exact scores on demand (such as getting exactly 100,000 more than Steve Wiebe). It should also be pointed out that, unsurprisingly, the game play used was significantly different than in Billy's MAME submissions, relying now on proven strategies rather than the hope of getting absurd luck and never dying in live arcade play. But more to the point, as with all advancements in video game play, scoring one million in the modern era of 1.2 million scores says nothing about one's ability to score one million back when that would have been a world record, back when the game and its strategies were less understood. This is an attempt to reframe the question to one of talent: "Why would Billy cheat if he's good enough that he doesn't have to?" The answer to that is that the cheating is simply proven, as explained above. Perhaps, as indicated by his bizarre game play, he didn't know how to score one million at the time without chicanery. Perhaps he knew the secrets but was unable to execute on them. Or perhaps he was merely unable to dedicate the time and focus fairly required of his competitors to grind out a valid score. Only Billy can explain why he chose to cheat. All we can do is prove that he did.
RTM REPLY - this is actually most ironic !! Back when Roy Shildt's MC scores were under fire one of the exact points that I made at the time in public posts was that Roy getting a million now did not mean that he got a million back then...he may have simply got better over the past twenty years.
Considering that Roy was Billy's nemesis and how more than a decade since Roy's scores were under fire and the Bill-vs-Steve years, it is almost fittingly ironic that the very SAME statements are being made now about Bill's recent 1M performances.
Wow, talk about "what goes around comes around" !!
