Rom Hack Source Code?

[hooch66]

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?

[PaulGoes]

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

[PaulGoes]

Direct link to the disassembled code:

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

Paul

[hooch66]

Awesome. Thanks for the reply!

Direct link to the disassembled code:

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

Paul

[raulito]

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

[furrykef]

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.

[PaulGoes]

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.