Can we please fucking stop the debate about "MAME isn't REALLY cheating"? Because yes it is. It's been addressed several times in the thread.
There are inherent advantages to playing on MAME.
-The
8 way controls alone leads to numerable advantages at high end play.
-You can rebind keys to do two things at the same time, or just rebind them to be a more ergonomic way for yourself.
-MAME suffered from bad input lag for a brief time, but by the time those tapes were made there were already ways to get it to not only match but get negative input lag from PCB Arcade.
-Different MAME versions and hacks exist to change the intensity of barrels and fireballs among other things.
With all of that said, if you still think to yourself "Well Dwarf Lord maybe he just wanted to play more casually and not at an arcade PCB" well good thing there was already a fucking category he could've been submitting in for that. He wanted the "fame" and "honor" of winning in a category that he wasn't playing in while playing in another category which offers various advantages.
We can all laugh at Karl Lobst but we don't need to turn into hypocritical, revisionist faggots at the same time. Billy doesn't seem like a bad guy, it's a meaningless dumb video game lie from decades ago, but it's still a lie, and no amount of kvetching is going to change it.