After 44 Years, Someone Beat the Donkey Kong Kill Screen

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[Kosmicd]

And if you're interested in competitive Donkey Kong, check out DonkeyKongForum.net

[while_coyote]

The year is 2030: ten year old speedrunner LordAppleSmaX is casually on Donkey Kong level 999 where all the colors are bugged out shades of magenta and dayglow green and Mario's head has glitched to become a flaming barrel. He's telling his chat this is a bad run.

[Monnn_]

Billy Mitchell will claim it as his I fear.

[bakethedbean]

legend has it that if you progress 20 levels past the kill screen, the arcade machine will display a lawsuit from Billy Mitchell for daring to be better than him.

[drkpaladin]

Billy Mitchell did this back in the early 80’s in front of a live studio audience and the Nintendo board of directors who personally checked his cabinet’s board for authenticity. Unfortunately, solar flares affected the RNG of all existing Donkey Kong machines so the feat could never be reproduced. Those same solar flares also wiped his tape. Luckily, top military scientists have been able to salvage and verify the original footage. The techniques used to restore the tape were a classified government secret, and Billy’s deep sense of patriotism prevented him from mentioning them for over 40 years. However, they are about to be declassified and verified in front of Congress in the near future.

[qedsoku]

The crazy part is that you may not have even investigated further if you didn't get super lucky the first time

[DeekerJones]

Billy Mitchell did this back in 1980 at the World's Fair PacMan Arcade Expo in front of a crowd of over 9 billion spectators. A VHS of him performing the feat arrived at the Whitehouse just moments after this video aired. You will be hearing from his lawyers shortly.

[VectorJW]

22:00 "This WILL not happen for real"

That's speedrunner slang for "give it 10 or 15 years"

[ahscott]

If I've learned anything about speedrunning, it's that "impossible" just means "until someone finds the right glitch."

[TheRadicalOneNG]

16:49 I've lived my entire life up to this point without knowing Donkey Kong could actually *run out of barrels* to throw at you.

[ibiscuitnyan]

Billy Mitchell already did this back in 1492 while driving a Honda Civic hatch in 2nd gear across the Atlantic Ocean. The VHS is currently in a maximum security prison for arson.

[PierceArner]

It's really impressive how just a lucky 1/32 delay is what kept this from being uncovered in 2013. Hats off to all the crazy work everyone put in to not only pulling this off, but digging through the code to figure out what was happening and why.

[christopheauguste]

"you can't humanly press buttons that fast!"
Tetris player : "roll my beer!"

[nosuchthingasPerfection]

5:16 He just passes out, after like 2 hours straight of running, jumping, dodging, swinging hammers, unbolting rivets, and climbing ladders, he is out of power, out of juice, he just immediately passes out, he can’t handle any more.

[elpozolero]

The fact that this was posted a few hours before Karl Jobs made another video about Billy Mitchell just makes it even funnier

[CreamyItalian]

1 in 40 octillion...so you're telling me there's a chance. -Lloyd Christmas

[ReverendTed]

Even describing the 1/32 odds of getting the long delay by itself fails to mention this is at the end of a run that's reached the killscreen, a feat in and of itself.

[BohepansTheThird]

A few years ago, everybody knew humans couldn't reach the killscreen in Tetris. Last year, everybody KNEW the blue dog couldn't win in Majora's Mask! And 30 minutes ago, you knew that nobody could beat the kill screen in Donkey Kong. Heh... Imagine what you'll _know_ ...tomorrow.

[speedymatt]

First, NES Tetris has their “Rebirth” screen beaten.
Second, the Blue Dog in Majora’s Mask finally got his first legit win in the race.
Now this monkey business! Another primal arcade challenge that must be harder than beating Grobda 1cc!

[suzikumieda]

22:38 I know this is someone's home setup, but you're still banned from the arcade forever.