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11-14-2020 at 12:49 AM
There was a recent post in our forums announcing that a score performance from Steve Wiebe which was believed to be lost, has now been found.
TG member @FBX said:
On August 30th, 2001, Steve Wiebe recorded a score on Donkey Kong of 885,900. I recall receiving this tape in a box of various tapes from Walter Day, and when I informed Walter about it, he seemed to go into a weird panic and asked me to ship it back immediately. The tape was never seen or heard from again (I have no idea what TG/Walter did with it). However, I have some exciting news from an archival perspective:
Before sending the tape back (and I completely forgot my brother and I had even done this), we made a digital backup recording of the entire run. My brother (Mike), was doing some file cleanup on an old hard drive and actually found the digital backup we made! The digital recording documents the entire run from start to finish, so I'm pleased to have recovered something thought to have been completely destroyed and long gone! Here's the link (better to download the file than to try to watch it):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cl9...ew?usp=sharing
Before sending the tape back (and I completely forgot my brother and I had even done this), we made a digital backup recording of the entire run. My brother (Mike), was doing some file cleanup on an old hard drive and actually found the digital backup we made! The digital recording documents the entire run from start to finish, so I'm pleased to have recovered something thought to have been completely destroyed and long gone! Here's the link (better to download the file than to try to watch it):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cl9...ew?usp=sharing
You can view the forum post and the responses here:
https://www.twingalaxies.com/showthread.php/222893-Steve-Wiebe-s-885k-DK-recording-recovered
This discovery might make one wonder what other old famous performances may still be waiting for discovery in an archive somewhere...
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