Softman25 will be along shortly with his contribution to the elite summing up all the variances in audio during this run.
Anyways, unlike the Surface 2 video where it was 1/1000 possible to replicate what Henning's video showed, there is NO POSSIBLE WAY what happens here is duplicable.
How does motive matter if the run really is fake?
How does motive matter if the run really is fake?
It doesn't really but you should still disregard things like " I will stand up as the honourable Ned Stark-like man I am" LOL. A more accurate analogy would be "I'm willing to stab anyone in the back in order to move up a place as the Walder Fray-like man I am."
-Watch what the audio does in between the Silo and Frigate loading scenes
-Watch again what the audio does in between Bunker 2 and Statue
Softman: Sorry dude, I didn't want to insult you. You are a cool guy but you took some collateral damage from my refusal towards how those topics are presented. The "100% PROVEN FAKE, REMOVE NOW" because of unsought (but reasonable) indications is annoying.
Goose: Grow up idiot. Frig 24 had A on screen btw, the Euro splice syndicate has reached a new level I guess.
Run is probably fake though. (http://f.666kb.com/i/cfilkcf0gd38vdsqb.png) The jump to constant zeros is an uncommon thing in LowFi A/D conversion in general and at the GE level music start in particular (you can tell by watching a lot of other level start audio signals - all of them have a smooth or even overlapping waveform transition without any pause). I also compared with an Illu 00A 43:20 run as a trusted vid, and things are looking bad for Henning's case, most of all the Archives start.
This isn't a definite judgement, it could still be some specific of the encoding or re-encoding used at the time that neither me nor anyone here knows about or even some detail about GE or N64 sound. But I doubt it, the deviation of the waveforms is really big on a 0.2s scale (which is an eternity in 44kHz audio).
I have some more chumbersome investigation steps in mind, but I won't bother for at least the next few weeks so feel free to do your own tests.
In my opinion, Henning is now the most untrustworthy person in the community (aside from Troll-accounts which affect nothing) and is deserving only of permanent erasure.
Why the hell are any of his times still on the rankings? Is Henning paying people on the admin council or something? Over the past 12 years of being at The Elite, I've seen cheaters come and go and the Elite has dealt with the issues on a case-by-case basis how they see fit, but I mean wow, how can anyone take this community seriously anymore? We should not be seeing "HB" anywhere on the Elite rankings, let alone the front page still.
We shouldn't just be removing times that Henning has confirmed to be fake. ALL of his times should be removed. The solution regarding him being backrolled to his times prior to 2010 isn't fair.
Why are there fake times still on the rankings?
Axel even suggested that the only reason Henning started faking is because I kept trolling him, saying he only had 1 untied, and he felt pressure to get more! (MEGA LOL!)
This site is a complete and utter joke. Only gaming community on the planet where a proven cheater doesn't get removed from the rankings. The elite council is mainly full of the most spineless cowards you'll ever come across in your life. How do you expect a bunch of spinless losers to remove a top player from the site? They haven't got the balls, simple as that, and they fucking run this site.
Update:
The council is currently deliberating over what to do about Henning, and I can say that there is a lot of support for both sides. Those sides are:
1. To ban Henning from ever submitting new times to the-elite, and to backroll all his times to before his first known instance of cheating, which currently stands as his 00 Agent single-segment run, submitted in March 2010.
2. To erase all of Henning's times from the rankings, and ban him from ever submitting new ones. The basis of this is that Henning can't be trusted, and we can't be certain whether any of his times are real or fake; he's lost the privilege.
Henning recently confessed to Statue Agent 2:19, Control SA 4:09, and his A/SA/00 single-segment runs being fake. This is a separate confession from him admitting his Frigate times were fake, and some Council members think there could be more fakes as yet undiscovered.
The hardest part about this entire decision-making process is that there is a lot of emotion involved.
IRRELEVANT!!
There are plenty of people who have met Henning and know that a lot of times are actually legit.
IRRELEVANT!!
If we fully ban Henning like the rest of the Elite is calling for, we are conceding the last few years of Henning's rise to the top was a complete and utter waste of time, fake, and absolutely erased from the memory of the Elite.
EXACTLY!! THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT HE DESERVES!!
We are throwing in the towel that we at the Elite have failed.
ABSOLUTELY WRONG, JIM!! IN FACT, THE EXACT OPPOSITE IS TRUE!! THE ELITE IS PROVING IT'S VALUE AND WORTH BY NOT TOLERATING THIS BEHAVIOR!!
That's hard to accept, and for guys like myself and Axel who hold roles as historians and proof moderator, it's not considered the best decision even if everyone else wants him gone.
BANNING HENNING FOR LIFE WOULD DO ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO EITHER YOURS OR AXEL'S HISTORIAN STATUS!!!
My personal suggestion is to backroll him to whenever it's deemed that he was still 100% genuine - late 2009. With this backroll comes a full ban of Henning; his board account will be banned and erased, he is never allowed to submit new PRs ever again, and his name will be made an example of in the Elite's proof policy in all the negative connotation that comes with being the perpetrator.
If you're going to accuse Axel of being a biased, spineless proof admin - then you have to throw me in there too. The Elite Rankings will always be a compilation of rankings that have tracked the progress of each player throughout time, and without this tracking, what do we have? One cannot just simply completely eradicate Henning from the history of the Elite, that's not how we work.
My personal suggestion is to backroll him to whenever it's deemed that he was still 100% genuine
That's hard to accept, and for guys like myself and Axel who hold roles as historians and proof moderator, it's not considered the best decision even if everyone else wants him gone.
1. I want the records he legitimately achieved to be documented forever for keepsake.
2. I don't give a fuck at all if Henning remains on the rankings, I only care about not erasing a part of Elite history (records-wise).
Many people in the council want Henning permanently banned, and wanted it done months ago. There is debate and discussion taking place, but I don't know what it's about, or what possible case you could make for Henning.
He cheated. He's gone. He gets to keep absolutely nothing.
The end.
If the council takes extra long to deliberate on this, don't blame all of us.
I like splicing very very fine,
2010 Henning. Control 4:09.
Many people in the council want Henning permanently banned, and wanted it done months ago. There is debate and discussion taking place, but I don't know what it's about, or what possible case you could make for Henning.
He cheated. He's gone. He gets to keep absolutely nothing.
The end.
If the council takes extra long to deliberate on this, don't blame all of us.