Kane's Crazy Kong Killscreen Quest

[kane]

With all the Donkey Kong playing lately, I reckon I'm practiced up enough to have a serious crack at getting to the killscreen of Crazy Kong in MAME, so I thought I'd post up a thread here to keep track and set a goal for myself that I can work towards.

I'll be using ckong.zip Crazy Kong Part II (Set 1) starting with 3 lives and not using any cheats like the stage skip tricks, just like the Twin Galaxies rules.

I havn't really played this game that much, mostly DK, but I think with CKs easier difficulty that a killscreen might be doable, has anyone ever got there before? What's everybodies high scores?

I find that if you set a goal like this for a game you like you can get in the zone when playing and enjoy it a lot more. If anyone else wants to join in on my quest, feel free to post up some scores!

Stay tuned and I'll post up my scores as I get them...

[DKong]

Sounds good, will give me an excuse to give my LAI CK a workout

[wingtipvortex]

Sounds good, will give me an excuse to give my LAI CK a workout

Is your board the ckong.zip Crazy Kong Part II (Set 1)? Or the Alca bootleg?
There are differences with CK roms, as in gaps between girders and so on.

[cardini]

completely coincidentally......

one of the local councils here on Sydneys northern beaches is having a council clean up. all sorts of junk is on the streets in preparation for the garbage trucks to pick up and take away.
On my way home last night I noticed on top of a pile of junk was a table top!!??!?!?!

it is a Tatio type.... assuming it would not work I thought I would assist the clean up guys and I brought it home to clean up and plug in.

To my surprise after a little manipulation of the connectors to the board..... the game fired up

Its a Crazy Kong which appears to be a bootleg of Donkey Kong. After watching 'King of Kong' too many times I might very well attempt a kill-screen myself.

PS is there any value in this original board?
the game plays fine. the screen needs to be replaced. It is over 30 years old???

thinking of replacing the screen with a LED and dropping a multi-game board into it.
any thoughts?

I will post something in the appropriate area.
interesting coincidence for the game

[lexmark]

I reckon I'm practiced up enough to have a serious crack at getting to the killscreen of Crazy Kong in MAME,

Good luck with your quest for the KS. Are you going to record your attempts in WolfMAME 106, so that you can submit it to Twin Galaxies??


john

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[kane]

Good luck with your quest for the KS. Are you going to record your attempts in WolfMAME 106, so that you can submit it to Twin Galaxies??


john

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To start off with I'll just try to get to the KS without any risks or point pressing, if I can make it there then I might try to start recording for Twin Galaxies submission while maxing out the points. Maybe I'm dreaming, we'll see...

[rod71]

completely coincidentally......

one of the local councils here on Sydneys northern beaches is having a council clean up. all sorts of junk is on the streets in preparation for the garbage trucks to pick up and take away.
On my way home last night I noticed on top of a pile of junk was a table top!!??!?!?!

it is a Tatio type.... assuming it would not work I thought I would assist the clean up guys and I brought it home to clean up and plug in.

To my surprise after a little manipulation of the connectors to the board..... the game fired up

Its a Crazy Kong which appears to be a bootleg of Donkey Kong. After watching 'King of Kong' too many times I might very well attempt a kill-screen myself.

PS is there any value in this original board?
the game plays fine. the screen needs to be replaced. It is over 30 years old???

Tin arse! lol. We need pics of that. What a cool find!

Board is worth between 50 and 80 bucks if clean and working fine.

Crazy Kong by Falcon was actually licensed by Nintendo for Export countries outside Japan and the US. So if it's the Falcon version, technically it's not a bootleg

[Hollo]

I'm all Kong-ed out at the moment to join in, but I will be keeping an eye on your progress and cheering from the sidelines.

Cardini, amazing find! Yep, pics are a must.

[Jesder]

Good luck with your quest! Will be interested to see your progress.

And as for that road side table top - Awesome luck! But who throws out a working machine? Even not working, someone would buy the shell. Surely? Amazing

[Jed]

Good luck Kane - hope you get there! I'll have a crack at this as CRazy Kong was the Kong I played. Best in Arcades was up around 280k from memory, so I've no hope of a kill screen though.

I hope Kane, you have someone on standby to pop his head around to others and say 'Crazy Kong kill screen coming up, if you're interested'

Cardini - noooo dont take out the screen and put an LED/LCD in there - you've scored a working original if the screen is OK then keep it, even if you do put a multi-board or Mame machine in there ultimately, you'll still end up with far more authentic looking games if you keep the original arcade monitor