Donkey Kong PAL prototype (with Pie Level) released!

[nensondubois]

http://www.lupinthethird.net/forums/index.php?topic=1492.0

[jpx72]

Anyway, it's great, I never heard about it, it's like one of the levels in the gameboy version....

[petik1]

Just played it. Now, we wait for people to put it on carts and start selling it on ebay as "R@RE DONKEY KONG EXTRA LEVEL NES OMG RARE RARE RARE!!!1!!1!!1111!!!!!".

Can someone PLEASE dump the SMB with "25" blocks?

[nensondubois]

As lame as it is, retrousb has reproductions available.

Sooner or later it will dumped.

Edit: Here is the SMB25th
http://ponrevival.blogspot.com/2010/11/wii25thsmb.html

[satoshi_matrix]

Great, thanks! I really appreciate you sharing this with us. I'll definetely write a review soon!

I can't wait to put this on my powerpak. I can now demo this before I buy a repro from somewhere. I wonder if pirates will get wind of this and we'll see it showing up in a few months?

[petik1]

I'm definentely buying the repro from retrozone. And if they have a repro of SMB with "25", consider that sold too.

Also, the repro can play on NTSC consoles. Awesome.

[satoshi_matrix]

Back in the early days of home console ports of Donkey Kong, stages were missing from seemingly all of them. From the 2600, Collecovision C64 to Famicom versions, at least one of the boards was missing. The 2600 and perhaps collecovision ports were understandably missing stages due to extremely low memory available, but why didn't the Famicom version have all four stages? was it again a memory size issue?

[cubelmariomadness]

They could have done it in the style of Ice Climber and made the ground move. I think that's how they did it in Crazy Kong.

[satoshi_matrix]

Retrozone's stuff as of late is definitively legally gray to be sure, but Nintendo has either eased up on cracking down on this kind of thing, they are unaware, or they chose to ignore it due to how small a market retrozone has. Sad as it is, a new copy of Donkey Kong for the Nintendo Entertainment System doesn't have mass market appeal in the same way the Wii Virtual Console release does.