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Donkey Kong 2 DOES work with MAME 140-Hi!!

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wp34:

--- Quote from: Hoopz on October 22, 2010, 12:18:30 pm ---Donkey Kong sucks anyway.   :duckhunt

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Blasphemer!!!!!!!     >:D

Haze:

--- Quote from: Frigo on October 22, 2010, 11:06:40 am ---Hey, I know that monkey! His name is Donkey!

Seriously, cool news, but I'm kind of hesitant to do this. I know I'll probably come off as a hypocrite, but I actually don't feel we should be pirating off of an independent developer who just recently released this game to the general public. If there were some sort of fee involved with paying for the rom to download it, I would feel a little better about this.

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The game is a pirate / hacked copy of Donkey Kong with new levels...

It might have been a fair amount of work to create, but you'd be pushed to say he owns the rights to it because most of the code he's selling isn't his..

If you take something made by somebody else (Donkey Kong) change a few things (new levels) it doesn't really make it yours to sell.  Independent developer is probably pushing it a little.  Independent rom hacker maybe ;-)  If reports are to be believed he was a complete arse over people wanting the bugfixed versions too, not simply allowing people to program their own by sending them the updated ROM, but insisting the whole thing was returned and/or they pay for the upgrade chip which is reportedly why somebody who did pay for it put it online, for others to use.  If that's true I have little sympathy for him, sorry.


FrizzleFried:
I bought it for my AS board... but I'm pissed that I have to beg Steve every time I want to re-install it...

...---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- happens though.

It does make you wonder why a hack is in official MAME though...

Haze:

--- Quote from: FrizzleFried on October 22, 2010, 02:28:05 pm ---I bought it for my AS board... but I'm pissed that I have to beg Steve every time I want to re-install it...

...---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- happens though.

It does make you wonder why a hack is in official MAME though...

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It found it's way into some arcades.  I'd argue not enough to care about, but others disagree.

Frigo:

--- Quote from: Haze on October 22, 2010, 02:25:03 pm ---
--- Quote from: Frigo on October 22, 2010, 11:06:40 am ---Hey, I know that monkey! His name is Donkey!

Seriously, cool news, but I'm kind of hesitant to do this. I know I'll probably come off as a hypocrite, but I actually don't feel we should be pirating off of an independent developer who just recently released this game to the general public. If there were some sort of fee involved with paying for the rom to download it, I would feel a little better about this.

--- End quote ---

The game is a pirate / hacked copy of Donkey Kong with new levels...

It might have been a fair amount of work to create, but you'd be pushed to say he owns the rights to it because most of the code he's selling isn't his..

If you take something made by somebody else (Donkey Kong) change a few things (new levels) it doesn't really make it yours to sell.  Independent developer is probably pushing it a little.  Independent rom hacker maybe ;-)  If reports are to be believed he was a complete arse over people wanting the bugfixed versions too, not simply allowing people to program their own by sending them the updated ROM, but insisting the whole thing was returned and/or they pay for the upgrade chip which is reportedly why somebody who did pay for it put it online, for others to use.  If that's true I have little sympathy for him, sorry.




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Fair enough.  :cheers:

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