The statement comes days after Courthouse News reported that Mitchell and Twin Galaxies had reached a confidential settlement in a defamation case surrounding Mitchell's 2018 removal from the Twin Galaxies scoreboard.
In its statement, Twin Galaxies relies on recent testimony from Dr. Michael Zayda, who was presented as an expert at the trial. Zayda's testimony concluded that Mitchell's submitted gameplay "could in fact depict play on original unmodified Donkey Kong arcade hardware if the hardware involved was malfunctioning, likely due to degradation of components."
That finding runs counter to those of the score-chasing community Donkey Kong Forum, which removed Mitchell's scores in 2018 after discovering what it said were telltale signs of emulator use in the video of some of Mitchell's high score performances. Twin Galaxies relied heavily on that evidence in its 2018 investigation, which found that three of Mitchell's high-scoring Donkey Kong performances between 2007 and 2010 were not "from an unmodified original DK arcade PCB [printed circuit board] as per the competitive rules."
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