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General Donkey Kong Discussion => General Donkey Kong Discussion => Topic started by: SunDevilDog on February 13, 2015, 04:42:31 am

Title: The DK Cabaret is no more!
Post by: SunDevilDog on February 13, 2015, 04:42:31 am

I sold it to make room for my newest addition, a 2005 Namco Donkey Kong Trio!

I know, sacrilege! However, the cabaret never got played and I knew someone who really wanted the cabaret, so off it went.

(http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk119/USMCLobo/dkallfinal_zps8093dfe6.jpg) (http://s278.photobucket.com/user/USMCLobo/media/dkallfinal_zps8093dfe6.jpg.html)

Now, this Namco cabinet has a 25'' CRT mounted vertically and features continues on Donkey Kong and DK Jr. (not on Mario Bros though). The question is, since they modified the code for the continues, and they modified the Mario Bros code to fit into the vertical screen, did they fix the kill screen so you can keep on playing past Level 22? I am going to have to have Robbie Lakeman come and find out!

Here is a quick video tour of this machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqcxLrTAU9w (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqcxLrTAU9w)

Title: Re: The DK Cabaret is no more!
Post by: WCopeland on February 13, 2015, 07:04:31 am

Cool machine! I have heard from a technician that the kill screen was patched on this cabinet, so I'm about 99.9% sure it will just keep on going.

Title: Re: The DK Cabaret is no more!
Post by: Evunz on February 13, 2015, 07:46:38 am

Cab DK.Jr and Mario Bros. is very fun ! :)

Title: Re: The DK Cabaret is no more!
Post by: marky_d on February 13, 2015, 09:44:29 am

I've played one fairly recently, and I know for Junior anyway the killscreen still happened. I didn't quite make it to the end on DK, but I reckon the game ends on L=22 as well.

Title: Re: The DK Cabaret is no more!
Post by: ChrisP on February 13, 2015, 10:49:00 am

Definitely unpatched.

There was a guy on YouTube showing the end of his game on one of these boasting a kill screen, and he was called out in the comments for using continues. ;D

Title: Re: The DK Cabaret is no more!
Post by: marky_d on February 13, 2015, 11:08:38 am

Quote from: ChrisP on February 13, 2015, 10:49:00 am

There was a guy on YouTube showing the end of his game on one of these boasting a kill screen, and he was called out in the comments for using continues. ;D

Donkey Kong 905,500 Kill Screen (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7vi1P-LqUY#)

Title: Re: The DK Cabaret is no more!
Post by: SunDevilDog on February 13, 2015, 11:59:35 am

Thanks all for the positive replies!

I have another DK arcade / project that I am going to post up here soon!

Title: Re: The DK Cabaret is no more!
Post by: lakeman421 on February 13, 2015, 02:15:55 pm

Sweet!  Ive seen these online but never in person.  Sad to see the cabaret go, but this is a nice replacement.  If that bezel is glass make sure to never let  <Billy> play it Kappa

Title: Re: The DK Cabaret is no more!
Post by: ChrisP on February 13, 2015, 02:22:06 pm

Watching <Billy> bezel-punch is what gave me the courage to start doing it myself.

Title: Re: The DK Cabaret is no more!
Post by: marinomitch13 on February 13, 2015, 08:45:08 pm

I can confirm that the 3-in-1 is not patched. I KSed it back in the day using continues (the one I played on reset the score with each continue, but I'm not sure if there is a setting or not to keep the score with the continues... any chance you can see if such a setting exists?).

Title: Re: The DK Cabaret is no more!
Post by: ChrisP on February 13, 2015, 10:57:07 pm

I'm surprised that this board isn't emulated in MAME, but it's modern hardware which means that it might be such that the system resources necessary to emulate it would bring PCs to their knees.

(Try running the 60-in-1 iCade ROM in MAME to see what I mean  ;D )

Title: Re: The DK Cabaret is no more!
Post by: SunDevilDog on February 14, 2015, 01:13:14 pm

Quote from: marinomitch13 on February 13, 2015, 08:45:08 pm

I can confirm that the 3-in-1 is not patched. I KSed it back in the day using continues (the one I played on reset the score with each continue, but I'm not sure if there is a setting or not to keep the score with the continues... any chance you can see if such a setting exists?).

When I go into the test menu, it does not have any option like this. It says Software Revision G, so maybe there was a later version that did this?