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General Donkey Kong Discussion => General Donkey Kong Discussion => Topic started by: hooch66 on August 31, 2019, 02:08:11 pm

Title: Rom Hack Source Code?
Post by: hooch66 on August 31, 2019, 02:08:11 pm

To all of you making all these interesting Donkey Kong hacks. Are you all reverse engineering the code or is there some dump or code base that everybody uses as a basis for their projects?

Title: Re: Rom Hack Source Code?
Post by: PaulGoes on September 03, 2019, 05:00:45 am

Hi,

For my rom hacks I used the Donkey Kong disassemble from the Donkey Kong hacking kit on GitHub:

http://github.com/furrykef/dkdasm

Without it I would never been able to create the hacks.

Paul

Title: Re: Rom Hack Source Code?
Post by: PaulGoes on September 03, 2019, 05:04:42 am

Direct link to the disassembled code:

http://github.com/furrykef/dkdasm/blob/master/dkong.asm

Paul

Title: Re: Rom Hack Source Code?
Post by: hooch66 on September 03, 2019, 06:12:27 am

Awesome. Thanks for the reply!

Quote from: PaulGoes on September 03, 2019, 05:04:42 am

Direct link to the disassembled code:

http://github.com/furrykef/dkdasm/blob/master/dkong.asm

Paul

Title: Re: Rom Hack Source Code?
Post by: raulito on November 30, 2019, 11:02:52 am

Quote from: PaulGoes on September 03, 2019, 05:04:42 am

Direct link to the disassembled code:

http://github.com/furrykef/dkdasm/blob/master/dkong.asm

Paul

And which programs are the best and the most used in order to make the mods? 

Raul

Title: Re: Rom Hack Source Code?
Post by: furrykef on April 08, 2020, 02:38:02 pm

Wow, I'm a little surprised and embarrassed that people are using my repository. Unfortunately I don't have much intention of maintaining it anymore, since I've mostly lost interest in DK hacking. (It turned out to be harder than I thought it was going to be, even with all the great reverse-engineering work that has been done.) I would still certainly look at pull requests, but nobody ever makes any...

By the way, I want to make it clear that very little of the work on dkong.asm is mine. This disassembly is from a wiki that I think no longer exists; I made a start at cleaning it up in a way that makes it easier to hack, but there's just too much work left to do.

dkong-snd.asm is entirely my work, though, and I'm damn proud of it. :)

Title: Re: Rom Hack Source Code?
Post by: PaulGoes on August 26, 2021, 02:36:37 pm

Hi furrykef,

I don't know if you are also on the Kong League Discord, but I have used the information in the dkong-snd.asm to make my rom-hack 'Donkey Kong - Anniversary Edition' play Happy Birthday.

The disassemble was a great help in understanding the sound capabilities of the Donkey kong hardware.

The melody uses both sound channels A and B. So it plays a max of two notes simultaneously. The melody is based on the right hand part of the attached sheet music.

(http://)