Author Topic: Rare Donkey King PCB found (Read 9207 times)

RobinHolland · « **on:** October 23, 2008, 11:32:53 am »

I have a rare donkey King PCB found

Info from the unmamed site

Donkey King (Bootleg, 81)
This is a bootleg of Falcon's "Crazy Kong". Cabinet and marquee can be found at KLOV.
Info from Chuck Cochems:
It is (a clone, but) not a carbon copy of Crazy Kong.
1) It has a unique, but cosistent color scheme. The third level, for example, had RED girders on it, as I recall. it also didnt' do the "half the elevators missing" thing.
2) I recall the jumpman in that version having a much more angular jump that covered more distance than the normal donkey kong jump. This was probably their workaround to the old crazy kong cheat.
3) it has it's own bug with the bonus count routine, where you will get a huge bonus if the timer has the right number on it.
4) getting the top score earns you a FREE GAME.

More info later

Level42 · « **Reply #1 on:** October 23, 2008, 12:51:07 pm »

You bought this from Marktplaats ? I saw it but thought you were offering it !

How's the Galaxian doing ?

TOK · « **Reply #2 on:** October 23, 2008, 01:31:31 pm »

Here is another thing to try... In some bootlegs, if you were on the ladder with just your hand sticking up, the barrels wouldn't come down on you. I used to play a bootleg called Congorilla that did this. I'd get well into the 300,000's on it. I can seldom break 100k on a real DK.

RobinHolland · « **Reply #3 on:** October 23, 2008, 04:50:47 pm »

More info

ps: level42 galaxian is ok , only the control panel must be done and a new monitor
I am busy with my pacman cab , i have the twobit art for the cab

Ummon · « **Reply #4 on:** October 23, 2008, 06:00:56 pm »

Such weird colors in those clones. I remember seeing CK back then and, not knowing about clones, thought 'what the hell is this?....and why did they use that 'old-looking' color scheme?....and those tinkly sounds?'

RayB · « **Reply #5 on:** October 23, 2008, 07:12:48 pm »

Seeing those reminds me of the Simpsons episode with the cheap TVs like "Sorny" and "Magnetbox"

Mauzy · « **Reply #6 on:** October 24, 2008, 08:38:40 am »

I always wanted to start a bootleg collection, but I was always apprehensive when looking at these boards because they are often untested. Usually there isn't any repair info out there. I have a half dead Gallag board that no one knows how to repair and its a common bootleg! Also, if you aren't completely sure what it is when you buy it, how do you figure out the pinout? Such a mess...

mrclean · « **Reply #7 on:** October 24, 2008, 10:47:12 am »

I know "Jr. King" bootleg is in MAME is Donkey King in MAME ?? if not send this out to the guru to dump so we can all play it!

Level42 · « **Reply #8 on:** October 24, 2008, 11:55:08 am »

Robin, if you are willing to share this version for MAME, there is no need to send away the board, I can read the EPROM's at work. Or I can take them to Luc (will visit next sunday). He has a really expensive "do it all" EPROM reader/burner that can also read the PROMs.

RobinHolland · « **Reply #9 on:** October 24, 2008, 12:16:36 pm »

Roms already read

Level42 · « **Reply #10 on:** October 24, 2008, 12:49:09 pm »

Would sure like to play it

kayoteq · « **Reply #11 on:** November 07, 2008, 09:50:47 am »

Heh. Crazy Kong defined what a bootleg is to me in the day. Something weirdly appealing about all the hacks the programmers would use to make that Galaxian or other board run their program. Plus the bonus that they'd use the Japan levels, so I got to see all those boards that would take a really lucky game to get to on the US version.. early on.
I got better.

Level42 · « **Reply #12 on:** November 07, 2008, 12:25:17 pm »

Crazy Kong was _not_ a bootleg. It was licensed by Falcon here in Europe. It was however illegal to import CK's into the US and on top of that there were also bootleg CK's.....

RayB · « **Reply #13 on:** November 07, 2008, 02:49:20 pm »

Quote from: Level42 on November 07, 2008, 12:25:17 pm

Crazy Kong was _not_ a bootleg. It was licensed by Falcon here in Europe. It was however illegal to import CK's into the US and on top of that there were also bootleg CK's.....

You've only got half the story.
AFAIK, Crazy Kong started off as a bootleg. Nintendo could not keep up with demand for Donkey Kong, and Crazy Kong was starting to sell a little too well. So they (Nintendo and the company making CK) came to a licensing agreement for a specific region of the world.

Ummon · « **Reply #14 on:** November 08, 2008, 04:40:32 pm »

Crazy Kong sell to well? Wonder of wonders. I think I only happened to see one in a sub shop or something a year or so after DK's release.

RayB · « **Reply #15 on:** November 08, 2008, 06:36:15 pm »

Clarification: Sell well in markets Nintendo was not supplying. Which is why they agreed to a license in the end, so Falcon could sell it in those markets Nintendo didn't distribute to.

More info from Wikipedia:

Crazy Kong is another example, a clone manufactured by Falcon and licensed for some non-American markets. Nevertheless, Crazy Kong machines found their way into some American arcades during the early 1980s, often installed in cabinets marked as Congorilla. Nintendo was quick to take legal action against those distributing the game in the U.S.[48] Bootleg copies of Donkey Kong also appeared in both North America and France under the Crazy Kong or Donkey King names.

Level42 · « **Reply #16 on:** November 17, 2008, 01:51:33 pm »

Could you make a video on youtube Ronbin ? I wonder how this one looks and especially sounds like....Crazy Kong sounds _SO_ different from DK and I wonder how this one is....

zaphod77 · « **Reply #17 on:** June 06, 2009, 12:58:33 pm »

Having looked at the pictures, this looks similar, but not identical to the game i remember.

The screenshots there make it look like Monkey Donkey, and i remember it looking more polished when I saw it played.

I would like to see and hear this in action on real hardware.

That said, when I played it, it DID sound like all the other crazy kong games did, except that the notes took much longer to decay, like the early emulations did.

Yes, i'm Chuck Cochems.

CrazyKongFan · « **Reply #18 on:** May 02, 2010, 12:24:09 pm »

I know this is an old thread, but did the ROM's ever get submitted to the MAME team?

I have a Crazy Kong board that I've had for years (15+) but never had a way to test it. I just recently dumped the ROM's on it, and it turns out it also has a different version that's also not in MAME. Mine looks just like the Alca bootleg (colors are very similiar to yours), but on the barrel board, it's missing the 1st ladder on the 2nd row (the one right behind Mario in your 1st pic) I've also found 2 Congorilla games for sale on ebay over the last year that had that same version, so I know it's just not a ROM error on mine. Mine is actually on a Falcon board labeled FCK-01.

THE POKER BRAT · « **Reply #19 on:** May 03, 2010, 11:51:54 am »

wanna sell the pcb<...(DONKEY KING)...?

dezbaz · « **Reply #20 on:** January 29, 2011, 09:02:14 am »

Late bump

I just got one of these PCBs and didn't realise it was actually like CK, as opposed to DK jr

THE POKER BRAT · « **Reply #21 on:** January 30, 2011, 05:57:53 pm »

im looking for the ((KRAZY KONG JR)) version.made by falcon,...anyone have it?


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