

(for example, what's 5A on the CPU board on the 2 board set is located at 5K on the 4 board set). The ROM's themselves on later 4 board sets are identical to the 2 board sets, just in different locations on the board. To answer Bender's question, the ROM on the 4 board set depends on whether it's an early or late. Note Crazy Kong also has the slow elevators on level 1 (and also the same level order as the Japanese sets) It also has the kill screen at level 22, since it's pretty much the same basic code. They look the same on level 2 on either US or Japanese sets. The reason the first elevators are slow on the Japanese sets and not the US is because they don't appear on the US version until level 2. On the US Sets, it goes like this:Ĥ: Barrel, Conveyor, Barrel, Elevator, Rivetsĥ (thru 21): Barrel, Conveyor, Barrel, Elevator, Barrel, RivetsĪll versions have the kill screen at level 22, but obviously you can score alot higher on the US sets, since on level 4 you have an extra board and 5 and on, 2 extra boards. Every level goes Barrel, Conveyor, Elevator, Rivets. All the Japanese sets also have a different level order. It has the jump cheat, where you can jump off the right side of the screen near the ladder on the 2nd row, and go thru the bottom, clearing the barrel board, and it also says "How High Can You Try?" rather than "How High Can You Get?".

I'm not sure what the difference between set 1 and set 2 Japanese are though, set 3 must be an early one, as it has some of the same goofs that Crazy Kong has. The way to tell the difference, if you see a real machine, the early sets with the ladder cheat only say "1981 Nintendo" on the title screen, whereas the later sets (and the one required by TG) says "1981 Nintendo of America". Not all 4 board sets had set 2 though, as Nintendo continued to make the 4 board sets for the cocktails (I have one). Some of the early machines (which had 4 board sets) had set 2, which allows the ladder cheat (where you can sit at the top of a ladder, and the barrels won't come down. US Set 1 in MAME is the regular set you'd typically see on a machine in the US. So.which version do you guys play, and what is your high score? are there any other differences that i missed? I am assuming that the US sets are what would be found on real cabinets in the US.so is it safe to assume that the US version of the mame rom is the same as the version that they were playing? (i am not fortunate enough to have ever run across a real DK cabinet in the wild) I was watching the king of kong a few months ago and i know that the world record high score is ridiculous.
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(also it lets you enter your full name instead of just 3 initials) this, in theory makes the japanese version a little easier. i also noticed that in the jap set 1, the elevators and springs are slower in that stage, and that the barrels do not come down a ladder that you are on. upon looking around at DK stuff online, i discovered that the us version plays the levels out of order, compared to the japanese version.

we have been really playing it alot.on both cabinets, we play the US set 1. Hey guys, a few friends and i recently really got into donkey kong.right now i have the high score on my cabinet, at 57,000 even, and my friend has the high score on his cabinet at 56,400.
