D.K. VCS

[LS_Dracon]

Sloped girders is a much needed as it is part of the game design.

I agree that looks worse because the single color, anyway it's only on first screen, you can use multi colored girders on others stages. I don't recomend to flicker the PF, I tryed and looks realy bad.

For better looking, the horizontal girders on first screen need to be single colored too.

 

It's my suggestion, if you don't mind :

 

Edited January 19, 2013 by LS_Dracon

[sqoon]

Well, the recent Wii/3DS version with the pie factory is out there too... and is about as legal.

 

Nothing illegal about the DK Pie Factory game ROM. Nintendo programmed it for release on virtual console.

[raindog]

Nothing illegal about the DK Pie Factory game ROM. Nintendo programmed it for release on virtual console.

 

Ripping the ROM out of the Wii game and passing it around the Internet is, though, and people have done that. That's what I meant by "out there".

Edited January 20, 2013 by raindog

[sqoon]

Funny thing though is that Nintendo has to know about Retrozone and nothing has been said.

[Raygunn]

OK, OK I had to do this...

[Joe Musashi]

Very cool

 

BTW, the font that I used to make the VCS logo can be found here (MumboSSK).

[Joe Musashi]

The atari 8-bit version uses fractional positioning too:

00A0 = 0001	 ptxl	ds	 1			 ; fractional jumpman X position
00A1 = 0001	 ptxh	ds	 1			 ; integer jumpman X position
00A2 = 0001	 ptyl	ds	 1			 ; fractional jumpman Y position
00A3 = 0001	 ptyh	ds	 1			 ; integer jumpman Y position

 

See http://www.atariage....y kong source for the source.

 

Thanks for digging that out! It should be particularly helpful for designing the enemy AI.

 

I checked with MAME and it seems that the horizontal jump speed of the original is one pixel every two frames (or 0.5 pixel/frame on average). That's easy to implement. Unfortunately, the arcade version has square pixels, and this then translates to one pixel every four frames for rectangular pixels on the VCS. I tried that and it results in the correct jump distance, but it looks horrible. Like Mario is shivering when jumping.

 

Before I do that I will first see if I can cheat and instead of decreasing the horizontal speed try making the vertical movement faster or less high. Just so that Mario cannot jump over the elevator gaps.

[Joe Musashi]

Sloped girders is a much needed as it is part of the game design.

I agree that looks worse because the single color, anyway it's only on first screen, you can use multi colored girders on others stages. I don't recomend to flicker the PF, I tryed and looks realy bad.

For better looking, the horizontal girders on first screen need to be single colored too.

 

It's my suggestion, if you don't mind :

 

 

Very nice! It's a bit too optimistic for my kernel, though. The best I could probably do would be:

 

 

That came out better than I thought. I might try it at some point to see how it looks. But it's very inconsistent with the style of the other levels. Compared to the other levels, for me it feels sort of like going from the Centipede title screen to the game screen

[LS_Dracon]

Very nice! It's a bit too optimistic for my kernel, though. The best I could probably do would be:

 

 

That came out better than I thought. I might try it at some point to see how it looks. But it's very inconsistent with the style of the other levels. Compared to the other levels, for me it feels sort of like going from the Centipede title screen to the game screen

 

Looks good enough!

Perhaps make all levels with single colored girders. You always loose things when design a game for atari 2600. The sprites, new levels, title and intermission screens will worth the remake.

[+Omegamatrix]

The sloped girders look sweet! If you got rom space you might consider writing some individual kernels to switch the PF color mid line and get the ladder all white. If not, perhaps you could improvise by making those ladders "broken" by missing a few rungs. I don't remember off hand what ladders were broken in the arcade version, as I just grew up with the Colecovision version of DK.

 

Great progress here!

Jeff

[Csonicgo]

The sloped girders look sweet! If you got rom space you might consider writing some individual kernels to switch the PF color mid line and get the ladder all white. If not, perhaps you could improvise by making those ladders "broken" by missing a few rungs. I don't remember off hand what ladders were broken in the arcade version, as I just grew up with the Colecovision version of DK.

 

Great progress here!

Jeff

 

It might be my shoddy memory, but I remember the "broken" latter positions changing from game to game.

 

Also, when the barrels are coded in, this really will take off. that was the most fun part about the first level... well, that and the hammer!

[atarilovesyou]

What a great looking game so far...keep it up!

[Andromeda Stardust]

OK, OK I had to do this...

 

Those box screenshots were definitely false advertising, unless you Photo Shopped/ GIMPed them. I always thought the girders in Coleco VCS DK looked like roach poop. Why couldn't they have been red like in the Arcade? And maybe they could have made the graphics a little better and possibly added an extra stage had they not totally cheaped out and insisted on placing it on a 2k ROM.If the final game turns out half as good as Pacman 4k, I will be a happy camper. Of course, until that day comes, I can always pop in my "DK Pie Foundry" RetroUSB cart into the NES for a more arcade-like gameplay experience.

[xybot67]

I realize that I am a pain, but "Bump!". Any new progress to report?

[Joe Musashi]

There is, but "Tease!"

[xybot67]

There is, but "Tease!"

Hey, I'm just happy that its not turning into vapoware! I look forward to seeing what you have done.

[Andromeda Stardust]

Take your time, but new screenshots, demo ROMs, etc would be appreciated...

[BalloonFighter]

This is just amazing! Even if it's not completed yet, it still blows me away. Best of all, Kong doesn't look like the Gingerbread Man . Can't wait for the finished game. Keep up the great work! :thumbsup:

[Andromeda Stardust]

Best of all, Kong doesn't look like the Gingerbread Man

The original VCS DK never looked like a gingerbread man. Actually he looked more like Poo-Poo Man!

 

I'm sure this new game will be a vast improvement, much like Pacman 4k is a vast improvement over the original VCS game.

[BalloonFighter]

I think DK looks more like poo (or a weird brown smiling frog, whichever one you see first) in the original Coleco Intellivision port of Donkey Kong. Thankfully though, like this cool VCS homebrew, someone decided to not let retro gamers play that junky INTV port and made DK and D2K Arcade.

Edited February 4, 2013 by BalloonFighter

[Joe Musashi]

To celebrate over one hundred downloads of the last version, here comes another update.

The game is still very easy, but this time you have to work if you want to see the ending sequence.

 

Changes include:

• Small fixes in the Mario and Kong animations.
  
• Non-flickering dots in the game over screen.
  
• No more flickering dots in the ending sequence (another crazy RES banging kernel that can display 28 dots per row).
  
• Moving conveyor belts in the 50 m stage. Speeds are fixed for now.
  
• The 100 m stage now features removable rivets.
  
• A new 75 m stage.
  

The new stage is experimental and has been designed to work within the limits of the current engine. Obviously there is no support for moving elevators, but there are also no platforms in the middle of corridors, no ladders of varying size, and no support for more than four gaps per floor. Also the stage should be one floor higher. I will definitely implement the elevators, the rest will depend on the available resources.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Enjoy!

D.K.VCS_130204.bin

[xybot67]

Wow, this just keeps getting better and better! Great job

[Raygunn]

Here's the box and labels from the silver age-

 

[dr. kwack]

This is the most amazing thing I have ever seen on a VCS. Dude, I am going to open a church to you. All may come and hurl their Coleco DK's into the pit of fire. We shall all dance as when we were young when our parents took us to KB toys or Children's Palace. And all shall say "Huzzah! The Kong is 'just like the real arcade game'! Suck it, oh snotty rich kid down the street with a ColecoVision!"

 

This is fantastic- seriously. How cool.

[tep392]

Amazing work! Simply amazing!