World's Most Infamous Donkey Kong Player Caught Cheating!

[Music] the worst thing that could happen would be to give somebody the credibility of a score it doesn't deserve it Billy Mitchell may be best known for his appearance in king of Kong a documentary released in 2007 which shows Steve Wiebe ease attempts to top Billy score which was the record at the time billy ox very bold and confident when he speaks you can tell he thinks highly of himself and that this king of Kong title is very important to him does this have my name on the back or something it says you have a yearning for perfection there's a level of difference between people and it translates into some games world record headquarters gonna help you I'm Billy Mitchell always has a plan in this video I'm going to explain why all three of his Donkey Kong records over 1 million points are invalid I'll be showing first-hand testimony that Billy threatened those who questioned his scores we're going to take a look at a video which clearly shows Billy and his friends doctoring evidence and then last I'll show you Billy's complete denial of everything and how it makes no sense whatsoever so here we go here's how the world's most infamous Donkey Kong player got caught cheating Billy was the first recognized player to score over 1 million points in public with a score of 1 million 47,000 200 you can watch this tape released in king of Kong as Steve Wiebe is attempting to break 1 million points live a tape mysteriously shows up from Billy Mitchell they play the tape which shows Billy's new world record as soon as they finish watching it some of the refs are already asking questions Walter day who owned Twin Galaxies question Billy himself over the phone about some of the oddities of the tape like the random flashing over the score even though this tape seemed odd just 10 minutes later they entered it into the Twin Galaxies database as the new world record curious isn't it that Twin Galaxies would enter Billy score so quickly while so many questions about the tape remained unanswered well just like Todd Rogers Billy was heavily connected to Twin Galaxies in Todd's case he was just a ref who entered his own scores but Billy he was actually supporting Twin Galaxies financially I got several internal Twin Galaxies documents from Katherine to Spira and the first thing I noticed while reading them was Billy Mitchell's name all over them Billy was at the very top of the food chain over at Twin Galaxies so you can be sure he got preferential treatment when it came to verifying his scores the good news is the video of this record of his is public which has opened it up for a closer examination on February 2nd zel Nia aka Jeremy young made this post between galaxies which goes into great detail about Billy's million point scores when running this game on the original arcade cabinet each level will load from the left and right sides inwards kind of like a curtain closing motion but while running this game on MAME which is an arcade emulator the level loads in pieces like this here's some test footage from Jeremy young here's the emulator and now here's a clip from Billy Mitchell's first million point score quite clear evidence that billy's score was run on main now why is this an issue there's a lot you can do with an emulator so there are several different ways you could cheat the most obvious way would be to create saved States to replay levels over and over until you get a score you're happy with then you just have to stitch the footage together and you're done you know a lot of people use emulators to speedrun just because you're playing on an emulator doesn't mean you must be cheating the issue with this really isn't that Billy used an emulator it's that he's been lying about it this entire time and is still claiming he's never played on ma'am my easy answer is that I've never played it on Maine my easy answer is that I've never played it on me never played it on me never played it on name such a clearly shows he's hiding something another thing to note is that name at this time couldn't emulate audio very well so a very easy way to check would be to just listen to the audio but for some reason this record has no audio whatsoever I wonder why Billy's second million point game has issues too this is footage from his other former record 1 million fifty thousand two hundred points here's a clip of another level loading from Jeremy young on an arcade cabinet here's the same level loading on MAME and here's Billy's video so that's two times he's played on emulator and lied about it being an arcade cabinet this video actually came with audio attached so I decided to open it up in audacity and man isn't messed up random cuts holes with no audio at all giant leaps in volume this thing has been cut up and not very well but Billy also has one more record over a million points which is his most absurd Billy's official all-time personal best is a score of 1 million sixty-two thousand eight hundred points first of all there's no video of this record none the only evidence we have for this score is the testimony of one former Twin Galaxies employee who has recently been wiped from their website and permanently banned that's right the only person to witness this so-called record of Billy's was none other than the human element mr. Todd Rogers himself what's even crazier is immediately after setting this new Donkey Kong record Billy swapped out the board for a Donkey Kong jr. board and set a new record for that game as well and after a little trouble as there normally is I managed to play and I managed to set in the world record I said one more thing I got to take care of and I started to gave a Donkey Kong jr. I saw an opportunity that would maybe make me be able to get my very highest personal best so I played it right to the end right at the dining last breath and I eat my own personal record so those were both done on Saturday and I was quite a static as you might get there is no video of either these records but oddly enough there is a short video taken right in between the two records being set in this video Billy and his friends claim to remove a Donkey Kong board and then replace it with a Donkey Kong jr. board I'm gonna play the video for you I want you to pay attention to how strange this acting is [Music] [Music] jonghyun record back-end it's a good thing we got route here because as good as I can play this game I couldn't switch the board out or switch aboard okay that's good okay what we now have is Donkey Kong jr. [Music] did you guys notice anything other than the super obvious acting let's go back to the beginning okay here he is taking out the board now fast forward wait a minute that's the same exact board that's why this whole thing is so weird this whole video is just for show they didn't actually switch anything there are a couple ways to tell Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong jr. boards apart but I find the easiest is to look at this section right here you'll notice on the Donkey Kong board it's white while on the Donkey Kong jr. board is yellow and looking back at Billy's video you can see both times the board was shown it was a Donkey Kong jr. board so when this guy clearly states twice that this is a Donkey Kong board as he removes it he's lying straight to your face and they're all going along with it it does make you wonder why would these guys purposely create false evidence by passing off a Donkey Kong jr. board as the Donkey Kong board maybe Billy's been playing on MAME so much he doesn't even own a normal board so they had to create this to try to make it look like Billy was playing legit I don't know whatever the reason this is super shady you don't create fake evidence unless you're trying to hide something obviously there were massive issues with the score people had questions and Billy had no evidence so what did he do he started threatening the refs who questioned him here's a short section from kotaku who spoke with former Twin Galaxies employee David Nelson in a phone call with Kotaku Nelson described a talk with Mitchell Waring he outlined concerns with the verification process according to him the conversation was initially cordial before taking a turn the conversation started getting a little ugly Nelson said he seemed like his plans were being threatened Nelson claims Mitchell threatened to make things bad for Twin Galaxies I'm gonna read that one more time Nelson claims Mitchell threatened to make things bad for Twin Galaxies and that's something I heard from several other employees as well as soon as people started asking questions Billy started making threats directly to those who worked under him and that really shouldn't surprise anyone since this is the same guy who sued Cartoon Network for making fun of him he lost that lawsuit by the way [Music] with all of this blowing up Billy's been under a lot of pressure to respond everyone's been pushing him to make a statement so he went public and gave an interview on the east side Dave show this has got to be one of the most embarrassing interviews I've ever seen I'm completely serious and not for Billy look at how sad this Dave guy is he is a Donkey Kong legend I've seen handsome people in my life Billy Mitchell is one of them okay bring him up Billy you're a star and I agree with you if there's no Billy Mitchell there's no PlayStation there's no Nintendo he put video gaming on the map what does this tell you that after being seriously accused of cheating Billy's only willing to give an interview to the guy who kisses his ass harder than anyone else on the planet but let's get to Billy's response it's this snakes name is Jeremy young he was the one who has said that Billy has pardoned me for even using his words these are his words not mine Oh cousin faked a high score and told people it was a regular arcade machine when it was in fact a home machine that perhaps was even tampered with I shudder when I hear this you wouldn't do something like this now can you address what this Jeremy young is talking about that you perhaps faked a high score when I was at Funspot I said I was going there I said I was going there to do a perfect score there was a camera a camera was behind me there were fun spot people there they were terrific they were so accommodating okay okay there were as news people there there was a crowd there I think there were people there that eventually became referees referee people yeah people matter is I did it there I called it there it all happened it was all awesome it was all one again I considered it a bulletproof environment and that's actually his response go watch the interview for yourself after confronted with clear evidence that he's been setting his records on an emulator he turns into Trump and starts talking about his crowd size and how wonderful everything is I said I was going there to do a perfect score the camera was behind me there were fun spot people there they were terrific there were as news people there there was a crowd there I did it there I called it there it all happened it was all awesome it was all wonderful doesn't even say yeah okay was main but I didn't use safe States he's got nothing he ignores the entire issue and says it's legit because he says lots of people saw it and Billy seems to think that's enough thankfully he also just gave an interview to Empire TV last night and again he's only willing to talk to people who are supporters but at least this time he actually addressed the claims that he used an emulator do you play Davey ever play Donkey Kong on MAME well my easy answer is that I've never played it on name but I'll give you a more serious answer when we were in California there was a company called Ark a PC owned by Conway the first time I ever played against Steve Wiebe that was on Conway's Donkey Kong and that was a main machine with a computer inside mm-hm so the fact is have I ever played Maine well if we push that kind of circumstance aside the answer is no have ever sat at a computer and played Maine not a chance none if I'm sitting there or razor's edge a thousand points in front of somebody else well I guess you'd really want to make sure the score is correct but since it's number 12 in line and like I said this has so very little to do with the success and the fun in the excitement that I do in the gaming world it's it's nearly irrelevant so finally we get a response out of him no I never used name and if I did it wouldn't matter no and no you did use Maine Billy I'll keep playing these gifts it could not get any clearer we have video proof that you set these records on ma'am it's not a question and it does matter that you use maybe that's why Twin Galaxies has it separated onto a second leader board it's all you doesn't know this of course he knows people would care that's why you lied about it in the first place serious what is going on Twin Galaxies first of all where do you find these people these guys are hilarious but for real how do you list these scores on your website and not feel embarrassed the dude used an emulator clear as day and continues to lie about it my easy answer is that I've never played it on name the only defense he has is to say that other people saw it there were as news people there it was a crowd there I did it there I called it there it all happened it was all awesome it was all wonderful then he goes and creates a fake board swapping video threatens employees not to talk the only record that has audio was clearly spliced and the only person who can say they witnessed his all-time best score is a serial cheater himself who just had his Guinness world record revoked it makes no sense you guys know it makes no sense why is this guy still on your website I'll have these people not been banned I really would like to give Twin Galaxies another chance but it's hard because every time I look deeper I keep finding more and more corruption I sincerely hope you guys can come to the right decision on this but who knows maybe I'm wrong what do you guys think is this guy legit or is he a cheater let me know in the comments until next time see ya won't make it they'd like it if I lose I gotta try losing some time

Channel: Apollo Legend

Views: 4,457,250

Rating: 4.8074055 out of 5

Keywords: Donkey Kong, Nintendo, Arcade, Video Game, Billy Mitchell, Todd Rogers, Twin Galaxies, Cheating, Gaming, Apollo Legend

Id: 234Y76_3YPE

Length: 14min 38sec (878 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 17 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/JoaquinOnTheSun]

Twin Galaxies being financially supported by Billy Mitchell is all you need to know about why they cover for Billy’s cheating.

Why they’re even considered a legitimate source for video game high scores is really the question that needs to be answered.

[u/Upoopinmybutt]

I'm picturing Billy on his death bed calling his son over and whispering in his ear,

"I cheated. The donkey Kong scores are a lie."

"Dad... nobody cares."

"Thank you..."

"No, I mean nobody cares about Donkey Kong. I'm selling your hot sauce business."

[u/Budpets]

Twin galaxies how do you host these scores and not feel embarrassed

Because money and old friends, they were struggling for a long time

[u/monotoonz]

As much as I played arcade games as a kid, I had no clue about the "scene". I was just into the games themselves and more often than not playing with random kids/strangers. I didn't know who this Billy dude was until the Regular Show episode. I was like, "Who are they making fun of? It's gotta be someone real."

Fair to say, he is definitely "something else". He essentially equates being on top of a world leader board to curing a disease. Don't get me wrong, legit records are cool, but GTFOH with that crazy egotistical bullshit.

[u/lukeLOL]

Hey guys, kill screen coming up.

[u/rdmetzger1]

Name a legit person with a ridiculous haircut like Billy's... you cant. Record busted.

[u/themanagement123]

He looks a like a big douchey version of Peter Dinklage.

[u/Myshakiness]

stroke the beard of garrett bobby ferguson

[u/bpoag]

Mitchell literally has nothing left.

Midway knows of two people got to the kill screen in Pac Man before Mitchell did. A copy of one such congratulation letter still exists, even.

Both of Mitchell's high scores for Donkey Kong are now invalid.

He's basically just a mulletted douche selling hot sauce now.