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Title: Who owns a Donkey Kong Cab?
Post by: AwesomeAlbert on September 13, 2007, 11:43:38 pm
I bought a Donkey Kong Cab a few month ago that I plan to restore. I been searching the forum looking at examples and project announcements, gathering information and parts. I noticed a lot of people own, restored or are in the process of restoring a Donkey Kong cabinet. I just wanted to know,

WHO OWNS A DONKEY KONG CAB?

Jeff AMN, Markrvp, Saint, dstone, spacies, leapinlew, more cowbell, frizzlefried, Neilyboy,Frog, Nostalgia, hatrick, audiomidiman

AwesomeAlbert
Title: Re: Who owns a Donkey Kong Cab?
Post by: Hawk Daddy on September 14, 2007, 12:23:55 am
Does dk jr count?

Hawk
Title: Re: Who owns a Donkey Kong Cab?
Post by: Jeff AMN on September 14, 2007, 12:42:29 am
I have one, what do you need to know?
Title: Re: Who owns a Donkey Kong Cab?
Post by: markrvp on September 14, 2007, 12:43:42 am
I have one that I restored:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=51522.0 (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=51522.0)



Saint has a Double Donkey Kong board in a DK cabinet.


I think a Donkey Kong is a requirement for any classic arcade game room.  8)
Title: Re: Who owns a Donkey Kong Cab?
Post by: AwesomeAlbert on September 14, 2007, 12:51:57 am
I have one, what do you need to know?

Nothing, i was just curious how many members have one. Maybe we can start a club, get matching shirts with our names on it  :P.
Title: Re: Who owns a Donkey Kong Cab?
Post by: dstone on September 14, 2007, 01:26:13 am
I've got two (no DK boards though), a blue one and a red one. The red one currently has my Mario Bros setup in it; I'm working over the blue one (sanded down to bare wood and going to repaint red) to move the Mario boards into it. I was told the red one was a Nintendo VS red cabinet and not a DK (it did have VS side art on it), but it has a DK s/n plate and a DK sticker on the PCB cage, so who knows.
Title: Re: Who owns a Donkey Kong Cab?
Post by: spacies on September 14, 2007, 01:29:04 am

I have scratch built a few.
Title: Re: Who owns a Donkey Kong Cab?
Post by: BrentRadio on September 14, 2007, 04:09:40 am
I have a DKjr that I am converting into a DK Multi Kit. It will have DK, DK2, DK3, and DKjr with the Double DK kit, all switchable through the coin door.

Brent
Title: Re: Who owns a Donkey Kong Cab?
Post by: leapinlew on September 14, 2007, 07:05:03 am
I have had a couple. I have gotten the art from Twisted Quarter. I usually go with a Mame setup.
Title: Re: Who owns a Donkey Kong Cab?
Post by: More Cowbell on September 14, 2007, 10:46:35 am
I have had a couple. I have gotten the art from Twisted Quarter. I usually go with a Mame setup.

I have one. I have gotten the art from Twisted Quarter. I went with a Mame setup.

Title: Re: Who owns a Donkey Kong Cab?
Post by: RayB on September 14, 2007, 04:44:00 pm
Search "Project Announcements". Should be a few in there.
Title: Re: Who owns a Donkey Kong Cab?
Post by: FrizzleFried on September 14, 2007, 06:34:21 pm
I have a Double Donkey Kong Plus (running the 4-way and 2-way games of a 48-in-1) and a Nintendo VS Unisystem currently with Excitebike in it...

(http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa111/PapaFriz/PICT0001.jpg)
Title: Re: Who owns a Donkey Kong Cab?
Post by: frog on October 04, 2007, 08:35:17 pm
I have a blue DK. It is a MAME right now until I get another cab. Anyone have a Nintendo cab in  the Milwaukee area they want to let go / sell. I want to build a different MAME and put the DK back to original. I think it only needs a cap kit to fix the monitor. The screen took a half hour to warm up, really dark at first then after it was warmed up but still a little dark the left side of the picture would flicker. The game worked when I took it apart. Years ago some moron told me you can fix it. His quote was "It's not like you can put a new monitor into an old game like that. Use it until it breaks and throw it out" Thinking I couldn't fix it and learning about MAME, well you get the idea.
Title: Re: Who owns a Donkey Kong Cab?
Post by: Nostalgia on October 04, 2007, 08:37:57 pm
I have one. Just finished a restore. Its one of my favorite games. If you have any restore questions, PM me.

(http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff35/descrentl/games-1.jpg)

Title: Re: Who owns a Donkey Kong Cab?
Post by: Apollo on October 04, 2007, 08:47:58 pm
I don't have a cabinet (there were no dedicated DK cabinets imported to New Zealand) but I play the game a lot, can I be in the club too?!
Title: Re: Who owns a Donkey Kong Cab?
Post by: saint on October 04, 2007, 10:10:32 pm
I have one that I restored:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=51522.0 (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=51522.0)



Saint has a Double Donkey Kong board in a DK cabinet.


I think a Donkey Kong is a requirement for any classic arcade game room.  8)

You remembered! :)
Title: Re: Who owns a Donkey Kong Cab?
Post by: saint on October 04, 2007, 10:11:30 pm
I have a DKjr that I am converting into a DK Multi Kit. It will have DK, DK2, DK3, and DKjr with the Double DK kit, all switchable through the coin door.

Brent

Document your switcher! I'm seriously thinking of building one with the new ROMs that are out...
Title: Re: Who owns a Donkey Kong Cab?
Post by: Apollo on October 04, 2007, 11:11:32 pm
What the hell is Donkey Kong 2?




P.S. Donkey Kong 3 is poop
Title: Re: Who owns a Donkey Kong Cab?
Post by: frog on October 05, 2007, 12:51:06 am
Someone said Donkey Kong poop. 

I just saw the D2K. I'm impressed. I have the foundry level for my MAME, but I didn't know about this. 

http://jeffsromhack.com/products/d2k.htm

Is this still a upgrade, like the foundry and high score save?



Title: Re: Who owns a Donkey Kong Cab?
Post by: Level42 on October 05, 2007, 01:30:30 pm
I've got a red Radarscope cab that is half converted to Mario Bros. Awaiting testing a MB PCB set I have laying around here for months.....sigh......

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=62884.0


dstone, got any pictures of your red MB ?

I keep having mixed feelings about this cab. There is a strong feeling that I must make this a DK cab. The fact that the monitor is still in vertical position doesn't help :D
Title: Re: Who owns a Donkey Kong Cab?
Post by: hatrick on October 05, 2007, 02:06:08 pm
I just picked up a DK to restore last weekend.
I've already started tearing it down and will hopefully be putting a cap kit on the monitor this weekend.
Title: Re: Who owns a Donkey Kong Cab?
Post by: Jeff AMN on October 05, 2007, 03:15:05 pm
I just picked up a DK to restore last weekend.
I've already started tearing it down and will hopefully be putting a cap kit on the monitor this weekend.

Hey! Isn't that Foxen's cab?!!?!  :laugh2:
Title: Re: Who owns a Donkey Kong Cab?
Post by: audiomidiman on October 05, 2007, 03:26:52 pm
I just restored one back in the early part of the year. I have a Double Donkey Kong upgrade but am trying to figure out HOW to get both a Donkey Kong PCB and a Donkey Kong Jr. PCB running at the same time so I can run D2K http://jeffsromhack.com/products/d2k.htm

Before
(http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/2422/dscn3483jp0.jpg)

After
(http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/5205/dscn3563ad4.jpg)
Title: Re: Who owns a Donkey Kong Cab?
Post by: audiomidiman on October 05, 2007, 03:27:38 pm
I just picked up a DK to restore last weekend.
I've already started tearing it down and will hopefully be putting a cap kit on the monitor this weekend.

Hey! Isn't that Foxen's cab?!!?!  :laugh2:

Yeah, where is Foxen? Please explain yourself.
Title: Re: Who owns a Donkey Kong Cab?
Post by: FrizzleFried on October 05, 2007, 04:19:36 pm
I just picked up a DK to restore last weekend.
I've already started tearing it down and will hopefully be putting a cap kit on the monitor this weekend.

Hey! Isn't that Foxen's cab?!!?!  :laugh2:

I dunno...I knew I had seen that cab SOMEWHERE!
 
Title: Re: Who owns a Donkey Kong Cab?
Post by: hatrick on October 05, 2007, 05:13:11 pm
I just picked up a DK to restore last weekend.
I've already started tearing it down and will hopefully be putting a cap kit on the monitor this weekend.

Hey! Isn't that Foxen's cab?!!?!  :laugh2:

Foxen sold it to me for $5  :laugh2:
Title: Re: Who owns a Donkey Kong Cab?
Post by: melarky on October 05, 2007, 06:04:12 pm
I built one for scratch (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=60545).  I scaled mine down a little since it was for my kids room, but I'm still really proud how it turned out.  It was really fun to build.
Title: Re: Who owns a Donkey Kong Cab?
Post by: Kremmit on October 06, 2007, 12:16:19 am
I have a DKjr that I am converting into a DK Multi Kit. It will have DK, DK2, DK3, and DKjr with the Double DK kit, all switchable through the coin door.

Brent

Document your switcher! I'm seriously thinking of building one with the new ROMs that are out...

I'll be watching that project as well.  I'd love to do one of those with Jeff's D2K art.