The Humgate Scandal (permanent copy - by turska/Eerokurkisuo/MegaPulse)

Humgate feat. Veresdon (EeroKurkisuo is the author of this licensed pastebin, find me on Instagram!)

Listen closely at the start of the below video and you'll hear a hum that gradually gets louder:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYFJ0sO53jw

Another sample:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfp2VzjC7uw

Observe the phantom hum at the very start of the stream, as well as during many silences. Note that there is no mic on this stream, or any apparent audio source aside from the emulator - which should not be producing hum like this, especially with the game's FM music turned off entirely at the start of the video.

This hum isn't present in any recordings of PoDD being played in Anex86 (or in any other emulator) inspected, so the first question would be what exactly it is. Its inconsistency and varying loudness is another mystery.

The hum by itself is not a surefire indicator of foul play, however. We just don't know what the fug it could be, and it seems unique to Veresdon's PoDD streams and recordings for some reason.

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However, there are audio anomalies besides this strange hum in Veresdon's recordings.

Mima 134m:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia6ynUmP1h0

Reimu 1cc:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKoJOFcZIYg

These are both vids from Veresdon's YT channel. If you pull the audio from these in Audacity and compare what the audio waveform looks like during the silences between stages when zoomed in - you will spot a quite large difference between the two.

I've been told that the Reimu 1cc is considered a legit, non-spliced replay while the 134m Mima is one that is suspect - these recordings are both from the same player, yet the audio content of inaudible high-frequency noise during the silences between stages differs dramatically.

It's all inaudible noise so I wouldn't consider it a smoking gun, but it is curious that there would be such a noticeable difference between these two recordings of the same player, presumably on the same emulator & setup.

Spotting splices that are presumed to be made during silence between stages in an emulator recording should be technically impossible, if the splices were executed perfectly. That there is a consistent difference in these silences between this Reimu 1cc, and Mima 134m, does raise questions as to why such differences are occurring - it may be a symptom of badly done splicing or some other kind of unknown anomaly or difference.

I've not observed the specific patterns found in Veresdon's suspected PoDD recordings in any other PoDD recordings so far, including his own presumed legit ones such as this Reimu 1cc video.