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11-14-2020 at 12:49 AM

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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

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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A legendary find for sure!

"This discovery might make one wonder what other old famous performances may still be waiting for discovery in an archive somewhere... "

You holding out on us? ;)


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Quote Originally Posted by Barra
You holding out on us? ;)

Probably linked to https://www.twingalaxies.com/entry.php/8726

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Awesome !!!! So many lost scores. Now that the most egregious fakes are removed I look forward to the most egregious removals being restored

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It's MAME. To soon??

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I hate hearing stories like this. Though I am new to participating here, I have followed TG for nearly 20 years. I just had a whole herd of children (6) so I didn't have time to really play games, or be a part of the community. I really admired the work that was done, and thought it would be cool to be a part of it someday.

Over the past few years I have slowly learned that many of the people I held in high regard did not perhaps deserve to be held there. Even through it all I had held out hope that Walter was above reproach. That perhaps he was just a loveable trusting man who a few knuckleheads had learned to take advantage of. Stuff like this make that harder to believe.

I would still love to someday meet him and shake his hand. I would still ask for an autograph. Despite whatever shortcomings may have been exposed, he is still a legend and the founder that brought all of this together. In my eyes his pedestal just stands a little shorter than it used to.

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Quote Originally Posted by JWillard

I hate hearing stories like this. Though I am new to participating here, I have followed TG for nearly 20 years. I just had a whole herd of children (6) so I didn't have time to really play games, or be a part of the community. I really admired the work that was done, and thought it would be cool to be a part of it someday.

Over the past few years I have slowly learned that many of the people I held in high regard did not perhaps deserve to be held there. Even through it all I had held out hope that Walter was above reproach. That perhaps he was just a loveable trusting man who a few knuckleheads had learned to take advantage of. Stuff like this make that harder to believe.

I would still love to someday meet him and shake his hand. I would still ask for an autograph. Despite whatever shortcomings may have been exposed, he is still a legend and the founder that brought all of this together. In my eyes his pedestal just stands a little shorter than it used to.


first and foremost the whole not "be a a part of the community". You are. I still feel new, however, it seems turn over is rather high, so i guess i'm actually not new anymore now that i think of it (5 years ofbieng VERY active where i pretty much read ALL the old forums). it frustrate me to no end the old boys mentalisty that existed to some degree even when jace took over. no no jace wasnt part of that, but of course the new members were the old memembers and they brought their attitude with them. a socre is a score is a score regardless of how new or old the player is. a good point is also equally valid regardless of new or old. old tg was small, and frankly only famous cause of kok which only existed cuase of the corruption. the idea that your senioirty has ANY ranking on your respect or legitmate standing is the old way and needs to die. you're one of us.

as for walter, i'm gonna save my negative views for PM. i felt like you at first. further walter and i have the same religous beliefs which is pretty rare for americans, my messages to him were about that and not games. so yeah it hurts to learn more. but hey, he allowed me to immortalize my cat on the card he made for my tapper record. when marcade die peer choice awards, he gave cards to those players as well. there are defintley good things we can say about walter. he's not the saint we were led to believe, but there was some good and i'm grateful for it. I also fully believe in time jace will have ALL of walters benefits and none of his shortcomings. jace's tg just gets better and better.

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Whenever Steve Wiebe does anything in DK, Tim Sczerby knows.

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