It has been bothering me that I used the word ‘fake’ in the title rather than something more-accurate such as ‘misleading’. It is possible to achieve records using emulation, and can still be an accomplishment IF there’s no abuse of emulation features that allow “rewinding” or other cheats not possible in the “regular” course of gameplay.
There’s a huge amount of drama that goes along with these records and Billy Mitchell that I have zero stake in - as mentioned in the submission the aspect I found most-interesting here was the breakdown of MAME vs original.
It has been bothering me that I used the word ‘fake’ in the title rather than something more-accurate such as ‘misleading’. It is possible to achieve records using emulation, and can still be an accomplishment IF there’s no abuse of emulation features that allow “rewinding” or other cheats not possible in the “regular” course of gameplay.
There’s a huge amount of drama that goes along with these records and Billy Mitchell that I have zero stake in - as mentioned in the submission the aspect I found most-interesting here was the breakdown of MAME vs original.