Donkey Kong, Junior, and 3 - Related Games, Clones, and Bootlegs

[xelnia]

Mitch suggested putting together a list of known Donkey Kong bootlegs, clones, etc. so here's what I've been able to drum up from MARP and Progetto EMMA. I'd like other people, especially Chris Psaros, to weigh in with what they know regarding all these game variations.

Game                                                ROMset        First available in MAME
Donkey Kong (US set 1)                              dkong         0.003   
Donkey Kong (US set 2)                              dkongo        0.062 
Donkey Kong (Japan set 1)                           dkongj        0.021   
Donkey Kong (Japan set 2)                           dkongjo       0.053   
Donkey Kong (Japan set 3)                           dkongjo1      0.036b13   
         
Donkey Kong Foundry                                 dkongf        0.129   
Donkey Kong II (V1.1) - D2K                         dkongx11      0.139u2   
Donkey Kong II (V1.1) - DK                          dkongx11      0.139u2
Donkey Kong II (V1.2) - D2K                         dkongx        0.139u2   
Donkey Kong II (V1.2) - DK                          dkongx        0.139u2


Crazy Kong Part II (set 1)                          ckongpt2      0.002 ("ckong" from 0.002 through 0.138, this is THE Crazy Kong)
Crazy Kong Part II (set 2)                          ckongpt2a     0.027   
Crazy Kong Part II (alternative levels)             ckongpt2b     0.084u1   
Crazy Kong Part II (Japan)                          ckongpt2j     0.131u1   
Crazy Kong Part II (Jeutel bootleg)                 ckongpt2jeu   0.025   
Crazy Kong                                          ckong         0.138u3 (this is NOT the standard version that is played)
Crazy Kong (Alca bootleg)                           ckongalc      0.03   
Crazy Kong (bootleg on Galaxian hardware)           ckongg        0.113u4
Crazy Kong (bootleg on Moon Cresta hardware)        ckongmc       0.119
Crazy Kong (Orca bootleg)                           ckongo        0.035b1   
Crazy Kong (Scramble hardware)                      ckongs        0.018   
         
Big Kong                                            bigkong       0.095   
Donkey King                                         dking         0.147u4   
Monkey Donkey                                       monkeyd       0.031   
Kong (Brazil)                                       kong          0.145u5   
         
Donkey Kong Junior (US)                             dkongjr       0.005   
Donkey Kong Junior (Japan?)                         dkongjnrj     0.029 
Donkey Kong Junior (Easy)                           dkongjre      0.029   
Donkey Kong Jr. (bootleg)                           dkongjrb      0.03 
Donkey Kong Jr. (Japan)                             dkongjrj      0.053   
Donkey Kong Jr. (bootleg on Moon Cresta hardware)   dkongjrm      0.063   
Donkey King Jr. (bootleg of Donkey Kong Jr.)        dkingjr       0.143u2
Junior King (bootleg of Donkey Kong Jr.)            jrking        0.124u1
         
Donkey Kong 3 (US)                                  dkong3        0.011
Donkey Kong 3 (Japan)                               dkong3j       0.036b9
Donkey Kong 3 (bootleg on Donkey Kong Jr. hardware) dkong3b       0.74u2

[marinomitch13]

Holy cats, Batman! I didn't think there'd be that many!

Basically, I was hoping that we could get a list put up with all different variations and then we could eventually flesh out some short descriptions of each of the bootlegs on how they are different from the main game. Nothing more than a few sentences each at most. Hopefully we have people here on DKF that can help fill in the data for each, or else play versions we know little about in order to get this data.

Thanks for posting the list, Jeremy!

[xelnia]

I was going to add a couple of columns to that table that indicated whether each version has a killscreen and in what manner the boards progress...but there wasn't room. 

[marky_d]

There would be another Junior variation available if a certain someone would dump his roms. 

[Mr. E]

I see on xelnia's list that all of the ROMs are MAME, but I personally consider the very best Donkey Kong clone to be an old DOS game called: "CHAMP Kong." It has a very good replication of all the original DK levels, but also has 5 new "CHAMP mode" levels which include variations of all 4 original levels as well as a bonus level.

Here's a link to a webpage about the game . . .http://web.archive.org/web/19970102193344/http://www.champgames.com/kong.htm

And here's a link for online play . . . https://archive.org/details/msdos_CHAMP_Kong_1996

If you've never heard of this game, I suggest you check it out. It's worth a look.

BTW, the game is available for (free) download and can be installed on Windows. If you have a Mac as I do, it can be installed in 'Boxer' (and it runs great).