New Music Discovered In Donkey Kong For Arcade

[Anonymous No.2012170]

http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/14/10/17/2348251/new-music-discovered-in-donkey-kong-for-arcade?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

http://tcrf.net/Donkey_Kong_%28Arcade%29#Unused_Music

[All Glory to Christ the Lord No.2012210]

First Banjo, now this???

[Anonymous No.2012212]

Donkey Kong is such a unique sounding game. How did they get the game to sound like that? It's like the music is being played on pipes

[Anonymous No.2012230]

I find it funny how many of these generic "geek" sites don't care about this kind of obscure trivia unless it somehow involves Nintendo.

[All Glory to Christ the Lord No.2012261]

>>2012230
You mean that company that has made it their personal mission to reinvent this industry every generation since the 80's and who once were all but synonymous with the term "gaming?" Yeah I wonder why too. No wait, you're just insecure about your preferences.

[Anonymous No.2012268]

>>2012261
>You mean that company that has made it their personal mission to reinvent this industry every generation since the 80's and who once were all but synonymous with the term "gaming?" Yeah I wonder why too. No wait, you're just insecure about your preferences.
alright, now go back to your WiiU thread on /v/

[Anonymous No.2012272]

>>2012261
>You mean that company that has made it their personal mission to reinvent this industry every generation since the 80's and who once were all but synonymous with the term "gaming?"
More like they too ideas from other game developers and try to hog all the credit.
> Yeah I wonder why too. No wait, you're just insecure about your preferences.
All I said is that these geek sites never bother to cover any gaming trivia that isn't Nintendo-related. Sounds that you're an insecure Nintendo fanboy who can't handle the fact that not everyone puts them in a pedestal.

[Anonymous No.2012414]

>>2012230
Yeah. That TCRF site has plenty of interesting unused stuff from all sorts of games (I myself have found and contributed several things there), but unless it's muh Nintendo no one really seems to care.

[Anonymous No.2012550]

>The following text is hidden in the Japanese game (c_5k_b) at 0xF00:

>CONGRATULATION !
>IF YOU ANALYSE
>DIFFICULT THIS
>PROGRAM,WE WOULD
>TEACH YOU.*****
>
>[contact info]

>The American build has most of this text, but the first three lines were overwritten.

Wow, one cut and it translates from verbose Engrish to concise Yoda.

[Anonymous No.2012735]

>>2012261
No, he meant Nintendo.

[Anonymous No.2012768]

>/vr/ doesn't like donkey kong

[Anonymous No.2012770]

>>2012550
Was that like a job ad for people who had reverse engineered the game?

I've heard stories of programmers hiding their phone number in the code and asking people to call if they can crack the copy protection.

[Anonymous No.2012775]

>>2012768
They just can't handle being shit at it compared to the hot sauce baron.

[Anonymous No.2012839]

>>2012770
That's exaqctly what it is.

[Anonymous No.2012842]

>>2012775

I'm pretty sure all of his records have been beaten.

[Anonymous No.2012883]

>>2012735
#rekt

[Anonymous No.2012910]

>>2012842
He'll always be the first person to complete a perfect game in Pac-Man though

[Anonymous No.2012938]

they were never beaten the way he beat them anyone can download an emulator nowdays and practice a game imagine going to an arcade to get good at something and only being able to play it on an arcade machine. most of his records that have been beaten have been done on a cumputer not an arcade machine

[Anonymous No.2012943]

>>2012212
Emulate the sound patterns of a xylophone.
It's a lot simpler than making voices talk.

[Anonymous No.2012954]

>>2012775
I don't think he cares.

[Anonymous No.2012993]

>>2012938
Indeed. Playing on an emulator is not the same as playing the real PCB. Most arcade games on MAME have many inaccuracies that have not been corrected yet.

[Anonymous No.2013019]

>>2012938
Is MAME 100% accurate? I doubt it is because of how generic it's programmed.

Also, fuck Joyce Meyer, stupid fundie bitch.

[Anonymous No.2013049]

>>2013019
>Is MAME 100% accurate? I doubt it is because of how generic it's programmed.
I'm not sure about Donkey Kong, but certain other games (like Contra) have inaccurate A.I. behavior.

[Anonymous No.2013125]

>>2012938
His PAC man was beat same day with higher score and quicker time

[Anonymous No.2013156]

>>2012210
There's unused banjo music?

[Anonymous No.2013164]

>>2012938
Official records are only accepted if high scores were obtained on original hardware. All the big record holders own arcade units. All the officially recognized scores (including those that beat Mitchell's) were done on real hardware, with witnesses.

The little dots in my sentences are called periods. They mark the end of a complete clause.

[Anonymous No.2013169]

>>2012230
>read a thread about a donkey kong game
>conflate it with the entire site only caring about nintendo games

>everyone agrees

[Anonymous No.2013236]

>>2012768
Donkey Kong's great. I just think it's silly how that TCRF is site is so full of all sorts of amazing material that largely goes ignored by the web at large.

[Anonymous No.2013243]

>>2013019
>>2013049
MAME's stated goal is to be as accurate as possible. That's not to say that it always achieves that goal, but compared to a lot of other emulators out there it puts a lot of effort into replicating the original hardware as best as possible.

[Anonymous No.2013259]

>>2013236
considering the web at large gives no fucks about video games unless they can claim it hurts their feelings, it's not really surprising

[Anonymous No.2013675]

>>2012212
On my last Laptop Donkey Kong was the only game that actually used my bass.

I didn't even knew I had one until I was playing MAME and went like "wut" , looked under, and lo and behold.

[Anonymous No.2013701]

>>2012230
I will never see these posts as anything but eurofag butthurt.

[Anonymous No.2013745]

>>2012775

>Hot wife
>Has a couple kids
>Owns his own business
>Formally a top tier arcade gamer

Billy may be a cocky bitch, but he at least earned the right to be cocky.

[Anonymous No.2013793]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned this game wasn't actually -made- by Nintendo, but rather by a company called Ikegami Tsushinki. There's plenty of proof out there, but it seems to be a lesser known factoid. And they said people don't buy Nintendo hardware for third party games. HAH. The Game Boy had Tetris, which while ported by Nintendo, it was a third party game. The Game Boy also had Pokemon, which was made by GameFreak, and at that point they were a third party. And Donkey Kong, the game that made Nintendo into who they are, was programmed by a third party.

[Anonymous No.2013805]

>>2012230
That's interesting, people seem to care about Nintendo's past far more than they do about their current stuff. Everyone remembers and reminisces about the NES, but hardly anyone cares about the Wii U, much less any Nintendo home console past the SNES.

[Anonymous No.2013980]

>>2013745
Only the last thing is unusual, and I wouldn't call that bragworthy.

[Anonymous No.2014020]

those unused jingles are pretty cool i guess.
>checking tcrf
>end up at dk64
>they found a cinema involving the beta banjo kazooie fridge
>it transports you to crystal caves
the ice key being used in dk64 was real

[Anonymous No.2015110]

>>2013805
Nah, the N64 gets a ton of love.

Too much to be honest since I think the PSX had 3 times more good games than Nintendo's console

[Anonymous No.2015506]

>>2012261
Nintendo has never done anything impressive besides be massive stealing jews, they're pretty much the Gainax of videogames.

[Anonymous No.2015794]

>>2015506
Now we get the other extreme of retard spectrum.

[Anonymous No.2016042]

>>2012943
if it's so simple why is donkey kong the only arcade game that sounds like that?

[Anonymous No.2016052]

>>2012414

i always lol at hidden messages in old games

[Anonymous No.2016058]

>>2012261

i love nintendo games, but you should take out miyamoto cocks from your mouth once in a while. This aint /v/ nigga.

[Anonymous No.2016098]

>>2016058
I love instead of showing the actual hardware of first using that idea they show the Nintendo version.

[Anonymous No.2016103]

>>2016058
Nintendo did scaling and rotation with arcade Punch-Out!! (1984).

[Anonymous No.2016121]

>>2016058
That picture is so stupid. Who is claiming Nintendo invented all those technologies?

If Nintendo was able to implement them successfully and bring them to mainstream attention then that's an achievement in itself.

[Anonymous No.2016130]

>>2016058
I like how almost nothing cited is enduring or memorable today

It's one thing to do something for the first time, it's another to do something right for the first time

[Anonymous No.2016135]

>>2016058
I like how you say this isn't /v/ but your writing style and picture both belong on /v/.

[Anonymous No.2017854]

>>2016058
>Lock-on targeting
>Tomb Raider
Yeah, no. Automatically shooting the closest enemy is nothing like what Z-targeting was.

[Anonymous No.2017984]

>>2016058
not to say nintendo hasn't stolen ideas, but just because they didn't invent all their own tech doesn't mean they're stealing everything little thing from someone else. its not like nintendo has a room full of old consoles that they dig through and say "gee, thats cool, lets tack it onto our new project!".

[Anonymous No.2018041]

>>2012230
TCRF has a bunch of Sega stuff. Unless you're talking about Slashdot but even simple searches of "Sega" and "AtarI" gets quite a bit of results

[Anonymous No.2018054]

>thread about an arcade game turns into console wars

why

[Anonymous No.2018067]

>>2013156
Grant Kirkhope uploaded it on Bandcamp and you can get it for free there.

[Anonymous No.2018079]

>>2017854
..that's exactly what Z-targeting was, only it was automatic

[Anonymous No.2018108]

>>2018041
>Unless you're talking about Slashdot
Yes I was.

[Anonymous No.2018130]

>>2012993
>Most arcade games on MAME have many inaccuracies that have not been corrected yet.

A good example of this would be Bubble Bobble. Despite being one of the most popular arcade games of all time, it wasn't until recently when they finally figured out how the enemies behaved. For the longest time they used the pirate's version of the interpreter, which was a crude emulation of the game's own interpreter which was written in a high level language.

[Anonymous No.2018950]

>>2018054
because nintenyearold's

[Anonymous No.2018984]

>>2018950
The ball got rolling when someone came to a thread about Donkey Kong discoveries and whined that it was too Nintendo-centric.

[Anonymous No.2018994]

>>2018984
That's not what I wrote, idiot.

[Anonymous No.2019002]

>>2018994
You're blaming Nintendo fans for derailing a thread when someone complaining about Nintendo's ubiquity (in a thread about a flagship Nintendo arcade) instigated things.

[Anonymous No.2019003]

>>2018130
I've been wondering: what is more accurate, Mame or console ports?

I know its probably different for each game, but it just seems that Mame would generally be the closer.

[Anonymous No.2019015]

>>2012210
That banjo music has always existed in the minusf rip, which you can find online. All those extra tracks are there

[Anonymous No.2019018]

>>2019003
It really depends on the game. Most 8-bit and 16-bit console ports of arcade games were more like remakes than proper ports. By the time the PlayStation and Saturn came out, game consoles were more capable of doing pixel-perfect ports.

MAME is pretty much the only choice when it comes to games that never got proper console ports (like all those CPS beat-'em-ups), outside of owning the original PCBs.

[Anonymous No.2019029]

>>2019002
I said geek sites had a bad habit being too Nintendo-centric when it comes to classic gaming. That's not a dig against Nintendo, but numerous games have unused content in them and they hardly get any coverage.

[Anonymous No.2019047]

>>2019029
And for the most part, that stuff's been uncovered for a long time now. This is fresh, which is amazing given the game's age, and also happens to be in an iconic game. Next time something gets newly discovered in an old non-Nintendo game that isn't mediocre, I'm sure it'll get its due.

[Anonymous No.2019261]

There is some funny stuff in some roms. Like the voice samples in DJ Boy. It sounds like the ramblings of a drunk hobo. They can be played with the Bridge M1 player or M1 in M+ GUI.

[Anonymous No.2020230]

>>2018079
Auto-Targeting =/= Z-targeting

[Anonymous No.2020293]

I refuse to believe anyone discussing console wars or brand loyalty is over 13 years old. Seriously, just fuck off from /vr/

[Anonymous No.2020332]

>>2020293

there's nothing wrong with brand loyalty as long you learn to take criticism and be civilized. People posted a bait image, and all the Nintendo fans went apeshit. People have to learn theres vidya outside the main companies.

[Anonymous No.2020350]

>>2012170
You know what's so sad about all of this, /vr/..

We will never experience unused game leaks like this ever again. Modern gaming already has hackers leaking everything off the data disc from day one.. All from the upcoming DLC and the rest of the spoilers..

[Anonymous No.2021979]

>>2012212
Heavily filtered triangle waves. They'd might as well be sines.