Having watched this documentary in the end you saw a couple of people setting new scores, but looking at the Twin Galaxies website these don't seem to be there. Wondering why this is the case?
Elijah Hayter's score would not pass Twin Galaxies historical submission rules. Not sure about the modern interpretation, and peer review process. My guess is yes, since most wouldn't have a clue as to why it shouldn't pass. It HAS passed the process for Aurcade.com and is officially their record. In talking to Elijah he's acknowledged the score wouldn't pass, and added he doesn't even have a recording of the score, and couldn't submit it now even if he wanted to.
Rick Carter was paid by Mark Alpiger to travel to Chicago and beat the high score at Logan's Hardware. As per their agreement, Mark retained all rights to Rick's score for is classicarcadegaming dot com web site and score board. So Rick is contractually obligated, and unable to legally submit his score to Twin Galaxies based on his agreement with Mark.
I've watched the documentary yesterday, and it was really amazing. Congratulations on your achievement. One question:
Dwayne Richard has published yet another analysis on his Nibbler board on his Youtube channel, and it does seem like a freak accident with the CPU clock. Yet, he has claimed not to be able detect the abnormal speed of the game. The documentary doesn't explain when the speed difference was first identified - after playing the game for so many times, didn't you immediately notice the difference? Didn't anyone? Didn't anyone see the footage?
"You keep him in here, and make sure HE doesn't leave!"
Something that wasn't quite clear to me from the movie: Was it just the respawn time that was accelerated, or was gameplay sped up as well-- a'la Mc. Pac-Man Turbo? In the former instance, I can see legitimately not realizing that respawn time has been decreased, especially if it's by a relatively brief amount of time. On the other hand, you DEFINITELY know if you've gone into turbo mode.
Dwayne came to my house after he got his billion. I watched the footage with him. I never noticed it. I'm pretty sure I've put in more hours, and played more levels on this game than any player that's ever lived... and I never noticed it.
Just watched the documentary; I've seen the other ones, including "King of Kong". This one has a lot of interesting aspects - the marathon, the speed of the boards, etc.
TG has fallen on some bad times recently... The new owners suspended certificates for high scores, and a thread on their forums has them promising that they're "working on them" for almost two years now. For a period in the early 2000s, I was actually the Tetris world champion; unfortunately I was in college at the time and kept putting off buying the certificate for financial reasons. By the time I got around to buying the certificate, they were no longer available. Really sucks; it was no small achievement and I'd like to have my brief moment in the sun memorialized, just in that small way.
I don't want to give away my identity on IMDB, but suffice to say that I had a million-plus score on Tetris for the Nintendo Wii. Was the world champion for about six months before I was very brutally crushed. I practiced for three solid months before my attempt, playing for three plus hours on my days off from work/school and at least an hour every night the days I did work or go to class... Never even got CLOSE to the guy who beat me. But, still, that was six months I was the reigning Tetris champion-- aggregating all of the Tetris scores on TG, for every system, I was 7th overall, which isn't too shabby, either.
On top of my Tetris score, that was the same six-month period that I graduated college, got engaged, spent a really awesome Summer with my brother just hanging out and going to the movies and having fun... It was a great period for me and a Tetris certificate would be a nice little memento of it.
Dwayne came down to visit shortly after getting that score. I watched the end part of the game, the billion rollover, and the end.
Nope. Never crossed my mind. Didn't notice it. I promise you, I've played more wavs on that game than any human on the planet, and I never noticed it.
When Tim and Andy showed me the side by side footage... my jaw hit the floor.
At no point in time did I ever think Dwayne cheated. I've always maintained that he's a diehard gamer. He's proud of his gaming accomplishments. I can't see him taking any short cuts. Why tarnish a long earned reputation as one of the toughest competitors ever in classic gaming?