Donkey Kong arcade port on C64

[Oliver Lindau]

Hellos,


at last X party a new port of Donkey Kong was released by Oxyron. coded by Peiselulli, titletrack by Linus (SID version of Donkey Kong Country) and graphics by me.

It may seem a bit useless because there are already two official versions existing for the C64 and at least the Ocean release was solid. Well, this homebrew version is a proof-of-concept-project and is literally based on the arcade version. So the main process was translating the Z80 code to 6502 by using a patched MAME and rebuilding that version for the Commodore. Rebuilding because some specs of the arcade version are a too much to handle for the C64, but they do not affect the gameplay - like using upper border for the playfield, reducing the ape to 4 sprites, and similar things...

The game supports also NTSC systems, so it is possible to play the game at 60fps like the original (which is shown in the video).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV62blSezGs

Btw Indie Retro News came up with a nice version comparison screen:
http://www.indieretronews.com/2016/11/donkey-kong-x2016-version-jumpman-is.html#more

The game can be downloaded at CSDb
http://csdb.dk/release/?id=151272

or as crack if trainer is needed
http://csdb.dk/release/?id=151257

[Gryzor]

The CPC version may be arcade perfect, but this really looks cute!