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Posted: 4/1/2023 4:33 AM

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This topic is for the purpose of discussing #8164: EZGames69's Arcade Big Kong (Galaxian hardware) in 01:31.69

Posted: 4/1/2023 7:37 AM

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It existed on real hardware.

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Posted: 4/1/2023 8:51 AM

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Oh wow, you're right. It's a bootleg of Crazy Kong which is a bootleg of Donkey Kong, even. Spooky...

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Posted: 4/1/2023 9:01 AM

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Patashu wrote:

It's a bootleg of Crazy Kong which is a bootleg of Donkey Kong

https://www.mariowiki.com/Crazy_Kong https://strategywiki.org/wiki/Crazy_Kong Actually, it's not :P

Posted: 4/1/2023 10:49 AM

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Oooh, okay. Wild.

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Posted: 4/1/2023 11:52 PM

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This is one weird run, but I didn't see anything wrong with the input, heh

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Posted: 4/2/2023 4:31 PM

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Alright, it's not April 1st anymore and I got time. This one was a bit tricky to get working due to some file shenanigans. If whatever version of bkonggx (the version used for this TAS) found doesn't seem to run in MAME, there are files in ckongg (unencrypted Galaxian hardware version of Crazy Kong) that share the same hashes of the missing files but not the file names MAME's looking for to run bigkonggx. These were the files that had to be taken and renamed from ckongg to bkonggx:

ckongg	bkonggx
ck_cp.bin	mmi6331.6l
ckvid10.bin	gc.h1
ckvid7.bin	gc.k1

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Posted: 4/2/2023 4:56 PM

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Darkman425 wrote:

Alright, it's not April 1st anymore and I got time. This one was a bit tricky to get working due to some file shenanigans. If whatever version of bkonggx (the version used for this TAS) found doesn't seem to run in MAME, there are files in ckongg (unencrypted Galaxian hardware version of Crazy Kong) that share the same hashes of the missing files but not the file names MAME's looking for to run bigkonggx. These were the files that had to be taken and renamed from ckongg to bkonggx:
ckongg bkonggx
ck_cp.bin mmi6331.6l
ckvid10.bin gc.h1
ckvid7.bin gc.k1

A better solution is using a newer MAME ROM set, which contains bigkonggx inside ckong.zip if it's merged, or as separate archives if split.

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Posted: 4/2/2023 5:07 PM

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So about that. I had problems getting it to run from the merged set before I figured out that MAME checks for names rather than hashes. Wherever I found my merged version had the right file hashes but didn't have the names MAME was looking for to run bkonggx so I had to deal with renaming some files.

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Posted: 4/30/2023 12:54 PM

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