What game is Pac Kong?

[Skatepunk60]

I know most of the pirates are just US releases w/ different titles. But what is PacKong a copy of? or is it an original? Anyone have screenshots?

[King Atari]

I've been wondering about this game, too. What is it?

[Skatepunk60]

Maybe mario in a pacman maze or dk vs. pacman who knopws

[Skatepunk60]

EDIT sorry posted twice

 

[ 04-28-2002: Message edited by: skatepunk60 ]

[liquid_sky]

its weird.. your a little man who i dunno.. is perusing a pink pile of shit that shoiots smaller piles of shit down at you?? ive never been able to figure the damn thing out, but its not very fun

[King Atari]

Anywhere to get a ROM?

[Skatepunk60]

Thanks for reminding me. I got one and played it , its like dk and its fun

[liquid_sky]

it is NOT fun!

 

aa should have the rom

[weaselbrains]

Game description:

 

The big octopus prevents the two treasured boxes in a high tower from being stolen. An explorer trys to get the boxes. The big Octopus will bear many little octopi with poison gas. If the explorer smells the gas he will be dizzy and fall down.

 

- The explorer must get up to the top in 100 seconds, or he will die

 

- Just when the explorer gets up to steal the box, a new video appears

 

- The poison gas blows through the five stories in a random way

 

- The explorer has five chances to get the treasured boxes

 

Scoring:

 

The higher the explorer gets, the greater the scores. If the explorer falls down from the third story, he earns 330; the fourth, 440; the fifth, 550; If he reaches the top to get the box, 999.

[Paul Slocum]

The closest thing I can think of is King Kong.

 

-paul

[Eduardo]

I had a Pac-Kong cart until last year. I traded it for other items.

 

The game was Donkey Kong.

Inside the PCB had a black blob instead of the regular ROM chip, no RF shield, the plastic case looked cheap and it was lighter and shorter than original carts.

The label showed some sort of Transformer Robot, I heard that other Pac-Kong carts either came with Pacman, an original PacKong game or Donkey Kong like mine. Perhaps the Pac-Kong label was used for generic purposes.

[Thomas Jentzsch]

According to CloneSpy Pac Kong (AKA Spider Kong AKA Karate) is no hack of any other existing game and seems to exist in PAL only.

 

And IMO the game sucks!

[Eduardo]

That's so weird, in my cart there was Donkey Kong, as I stated before maybe the Pac-Kong label was used for several titles. I was curious enough to open the cart just to see if the PCBs were swapped or something but no, the PCB inside had the black blob and everything looked intact.

[MattyXB]

I hate this game too, but I know an other game too. Here this is the same:

 

AtariAge Inca Gold (Zellers)

 

PS: I have 2 diffrents Pac Kongs, with diffrent graphic. One with small man and one with big man. And I think the guy at the top look diffrent too.

But the gameplay is the same. By Inca Gold too.

 

[ 04-30-2002: Message edited by: MattyXB ]

[Thomas Jentzsch]

quote:

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Originally posted by MattyXB:

AtariAge Inca Gold (Zellers)

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Hm, if you download the ROM, it says Pac Kong on the bottom of the screen, and Good2600 identifies this also as Pac Kong.

 

So they packed games in a different box without even bothering to change the onscreen name? Weird!

[MattyXB]

So this is no NTSC version? Only a PAL.

 

First I have not know, that Inca Gold is as ROM release. Most Zellers games are like other games, so the ROMs calls like the originals. But here calls the zip IncaGold.zip. But if this is only PacKong, they have maybe use the same game, or this is a wrong ROM dump?

 

But it sound more like it the same as Pac Kong and with diffrent lable and box.

[Thomas Jentzsch]

quote:

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Originally posted by MattyXB:

So this is no NTSC version? Only a PAL.

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Yes, this version is PAL (306 lines).

 

But there exists one dumped NTSC version (279 lines), Good2600 simply calls it "Pac Kong (PAL)" (wrong name!), which is very closely (CloneSpy: 99%) based on "Pac Kong (Starsoft) (PAL) [!]". Probably it was only hacked for NTSC.

[atarimastermarty]

Im confused.

[Ze_ro]

There is definitely an NTSC version of Inca Gold, as Zellers sold this game in Canada. A close friend of mine has a copy of it.

 

--Zero

[Eduardo]

@Marty

 

The Pac-Kong game the german surfers are talking about here looks like this:

 

 

There are at least two or more variants of the Pac-Kong ROM (PAL, NTSC, big man, small man,etc)

 

I had a cart with a Pac-Kong label (Robot) but the game inside was Donkey Kong NTSC:

 

 

That means that the Pac-Kong label was used for generic purposes for several titles, like PacKong, PacMan and Donkey Kong.

 

I hope that clears up everything.

 

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[Thomas Jentzsch]

quote:

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Originally posted by Atari master marty:

Im confused.

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Don't worry, this is confusing. With all those pirated games, it's hard to understand what was going on.

 

That's one reason why I wrote CloneSpy.

[MattyXB]

@ Thomas Jentzsch,

 

your programm is great, I have make a test with it. I have use it with Super Nintendo ROMs. It work, you must only rename them with bin at the end. Maybe some more will work.

 

The only probleme, if I use to many ROMs at the same time the programm crash. But I can close it and use again. But only some ROMs not all.

 

But now I look only all games that me intresting and it work great.

[Thomas Jentzsch]

quote:

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Originally posted by MattyXB:

your programm is great, I have make a test with it. I have use it with Super Nintendo ROMs. It work, you must only rename them with bin at the end. Maybe some more will work.

 

The only probleme, if I use to many ROMs at the same time the programm crash. But I can close it and use again. But only some ROMs not all.

 

But now I look only all games that me intresting and it work great.

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Thanks.

 

I am very surprised that the program is being successfully used for something else than Atari 2600. And I am quite sure that it will very often crash if it's "abused" that way. It's only a quick Turbo Pascal hack, which does it's special job. I don't know how large NES ROMs are, but everything greater 16k will be a problem. Perhaps I should rewrite it in C++.

 

The crash with too many ROMs might be solved with a slight modification I made recently (sorry, not online yet).

[MattyXB]

Not NES, Super NES. 16 bit. And the ROMs I try are 1MB big. Maybe it was luck? But it work fine I think.

[jahfish]

here's 4 different variations of pac kong !!!!

 

greetings