> Mruczek says he's worried that the handling of the Wiebe rec-ord has set a dangerous precedent that could set back the community to the '80s, when people would claim records that were impossible to achieve.<p>I'm not sure if this quote has aged like wine or milk. Possibly both.<p>For context, we now know the Billy Mitchell score at issue was almost certainly made on an inaccurate version of MAME. It has emulation artifacts, and no sound, which MAME couldn't emulate well back then. Twin Galaxies <i>does</i> accept emulation scores, but they have to be verified in a different way, and they go on a different leaderboard. The way Billy recorded it without the additional emulator verification would have made it trivially easy to play an input file and claim a just-slightly-higher score for pure ego reasons.<p>For legal reasons, I'm not saying Billy Mitchell actually did this, but I <i>am</i> saying he sued Twin Galaxies when they removed the score at issue.<p>There's a few other particularly suspect high scores that were purged from Twin Galaxies; notably Todd Rodgers' literally impossible time on 2600 Dragster. That score and Todd's explanation for it is now a speedrunning in-joke.