Not Double Donkey Kong...Multi-Kong?

[FrizzleFried]

Arcadeshop is selling marquees for both Double Donkey Kong and "Multi-Kong"?!

The Multi-Kong version includes Stew (I think his name is),  the character from Donkey Kong 3,  indicating there is some way to hook up not only DK and DKJr in the same cabinet,  but DK3 as well.

Does anyone know how this is done?

Who does this upgrade?

Any info would be appreciated.   I actually like DK3 better than DKJr.

Thanks!

[Kaytrim]

Google, Google, Google

I found the following links that might help you out.

http://www.gamehourz.com/Shop-Programable-Jamma-Donkey-Kongs-ftopict182917.html
http://www.brasington.org/arcade/

Looks like it was a project that failed to be completed.  You might want to contact Arcadeshop to see it they continued or are continuing the work because the project was passed on to them.

[ahofle]

The Multi-Kong version includes Stew (I think his name is),  the character from Donkey Kong 3,

Whoa, I never knew that was a different character.  I always thought it was Mario after some hair dye.

[FrizzleFried]

The brasington site offered DOUBLE DONKEY KONG kits...now Mikes Arcade does.   But other than a hack with a selector a guy built custom,  I have not seen any kind of multi donkey kong (all 3 games) kit?

The other link,  gamehourz...loaded to a blank page for me?

EDIT: I can get in to the gamehours MAIN page,  as soon as I try any other page,  it loads to a blank page.

[leapinlew]

Yeah, he was all nutty too... buck teeth and everything.

[Kaytrim]

The brasington site offered DOUBLE DONKEY KONG kits...now Mikes Arcade does.   But other than a hack with a selector a guy built custom,  I have not seen any kind of multi donkey kong (all 3 games) kit?

The other link,  gamehourz...loaded to a blank page for me?

EDIT: I can get in to the gamehours MAIN page,  as soon as I try any other page,  it loads to a blank page.

Here is the quote from the gamehours site.  I hope it helps good luck on finding a solution.

I have an extra Nintendo cab and was thinking about converting it to a
Multi Kong. I was going to use a DK Jr. Board and have Mike's Arcade
convert it to a Double DK. Then I saw that Arcade Shop's programable
Jamma board supports both DK and DK Jr. and also DK 3 and the new DK
"Rivet Factory" hack. I guess I'd rather have a new monitor, switching

PS, and Jamma harness anyway and this seems like the way to go for
reliability. I've used the programable Jamma in my Multi Williams and
am happy with it. Any thoughts? Has anyone played any of the DK's on
the programable Jamma? Is it the same?

[FrizzleFried]

Thanks Kaytrim...

...not a good solution though.  The price is steep $360 for the board,  add a switcher PS,  harness,  programming cable,  additional power supply for programming and the price is more like $450+....

...plus it just plays the friggin' ROM file...that you load in...I may as well just MAME the darned cabinet if I was going to do it...I could MAME it cheaper!

...argh...

[Kaytrim]

Yea, you wouldn't need much computing power for those old games.  Could probably get by with MAME .68 (not sure of version) and an old PII or PIII processor running DOS or Win98.  If you go that route then you can add other 4-way, one button games as well.

However IMHO a nice classic like the one you have would be best honored as a restored cab not a MAME cab.

TTFN 
Kaytrim