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Classic Arcade Game Discussion / Re: Vampire (1983) added to MAME
« Last post by Weehawk on Today at 12:46:38 am »
the current theory about this game is that it was shadow developed by Hara Industries, the makers of Jack the Giantkiller, and they may have also been responsible for Joinem and Uncle Poo (!!!). You be the judge...


Interesting, I hadn't heard the theory about Hara Industries. Anybody that had anything to do with Uncle Poo is alright with me, though. It was a lot of fun for a game that didn't apparently make production.

https://www.classicarcadegaming.com/forums/index.php?topic=2486.0

To be honest, Vampire doesn't look like a great game, but an interesting concept and from a flyer and magazine article from the 80's it has been one of my most desired finds for quite a while. I guess Bouncer will always be the real Holy Grail.
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Classic Arcade Game Discussion / Re: Vampire (1983) added to MAME
« Last post by BBH on Today at 12:38:47 am »
the current theory about this game is that it was shadow developed by Hara Industries, the makers of Jack the Giantkiller, and they may have also been responsible for Joinem and Uncle Poo (!!!). You be the judge...

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Classic Arcade Game Discussion / Vampire (1983) added to MAME
« Last post by Weehawk on Today at 12:23:09 am »


A PCB from 1983 that some of us have been hoping to surface for quite a while recently did and has been added to MAME 0.264.

Info on the game here: http://www.slither-gdi.net/vampire.htm

I've got it working but can't play it much as I haven't been able to get my gamepad to work with the most recent MAME versions yet. I'll probably offer a bounty for some quality gameplay on it in the near future in case anybody wants to start practicing.

ROMset available at archive.org: (DMCA exempt, so it shouldn't be a problem to link it)

https://archive.org/download/mame-merged/mame-merged/vampire.zip

WolfMAME 0.264 available here:

https://github.com/mahlemiut/wolfmame/releases/tag/wolf264

If anybody is in contact with former TG Head Referee Robert Mruczek, you might let him know about it. He is the only person I have ever been aware of reporting to have played it on location back in the 80's.
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General Donkey Kong Discussion / Re: I came up with a Donkey Kong hack idea
« Last post by Sock Master on March 25, 2024, 09:47:29 am »
Ethan/f_symmbols suggested exactly this a few years ago and it's been percolating in my head as a possible thing I could do ever since then.

It would certainly be neat, interesting and useful for such a thing to exist.

Technically speaking, it would be more complicated than a simple graphics swap because the sizes/shapes of some of the hitbox ranges wouldn't necessarily be constant or fit inside the tiles of the character/sprite data - so it would require some... calculated reprogramming but it would certainly be something that is possible to do.
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General Donkey Kong Discussion / I came up with a Donkey Kong hack idea
« Last post by homerwannabee on March 24, 2024, 08:56:08 pm »
Why not have a hack that removes the graphics of Mario and his enemies and put a black box where the hit box exactly is?
So, instead of jumping over barrels and Firefoxes, you jump over hit boxes?

In fact, you can have black box hit boxes for all video games.  It doesn't need to stop at Donkey Kong  8)
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Donkey Kong High Score Lists / Re: DK Score Submissions
« Last post by xelnia on March 24, 2024, 03:37:51 am »
I made a new 1-1... too bad the rest of the game wasn't good. xD

WolfMAME 0.263


https://rumble.com/v4kpjec-donkey-kong-1-1-10600-personal-best.html

Verified and updated on the Level 1-1 HSL! Congrats!
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Donkey Kong High Score Lists / Re: DK Score Submissions
« Last post by xelnia on March 24, 2024, 03:37:01 am »
New pb. 455,900
WolfMAME .220
21 March, 2024

Twitch recording and zipped .ini attached
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2097437224

Nice score, sir! Verified and updated on the HSL. Congrats!

kongtrac.kr summary
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Donkey Kong High Score Lists / Re: DK Score Submissions
« Last post by xelnia on March 24, 2024, 03:35:49 am »
Submitting my first kill screen!

Kosmic
834,400
WolfMAME 0.261
03/13/2024

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2090332758

INP Attached

Wow what a jump! Some hair-raising moments towards the end there...but you made it! Verified and added to the HSL! Congrats!

kongtrac.kr summary
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Other High Score Lists / Re: Donkey Kong 3 Submissions
« Last post by xelnia on March 24, 2024, 03:32:34 am »
Score: 1,826,600
Difficulty: 1 - Marathon
MAME: WolfMAME 0.230
Date: 13/03/2024
Video: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2089497069

wow go go go. Verified and updated on the DK3 HSL! Congrats!
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Donkey Kong High Score Lists / Re: DK Score Submissions
« Last post by chungy on March 21, 2024, 04:13:42 pm »
I made a new 1-1... too bad the rest of the game wasn't good. xD

WolfMAME 0.263


https://rumble.com/v4kpjec-donkey-kong-1-1-10600-personal-best.html
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