This is pretty interesting and I find it funny just because he was treated as kind of douche bag in the documentary King of Kong. Turns out he submitted a score to Twin Galaxies that was made with the emulator MAME instead of real hardware. It was found to be from MAME based on how the screen was regenerated for each frame. In MAME, each item is placed on the screen piece by piece. On real hardware, the screen is drawn by making a pass across it.

http://www.twingalaxies.com/showthread.php/176004-Dispute-Jeremy-Young-Arcade-Donkey-Kong?p=946633&viewfull=1#post946633

I just find it funny that a 50+ year old guy needs to cheat on a video game to feel good about himself. Steve Weibe pushed to break the record I think just to prove to himself that he could do it.

I have some pretty legit scores on some games that I own. Mostly driving games. I am only better than most at games that require fine touch. I haven't submitted them because of the hassle but I like TG or better youtube to just know where I am in the hierarchy. Two records that I would love to break would be the Pole Position and Super Sprint records. The Super Sprint record is brutal because of how hard it is to pass the computer if you give up the lead. You really can't make a mistake. Pole Position is similar but at least it is only like a 5 minute game. When I watch the videos online, I am pretty confident everything on youtube is legit for driving games just because you can watch someone drive and know how competent they are.

None of the scores on my pinball machines comes within a factor of 10 a record. Some might be off by a factor of 100. ;(