These Donkey Kong Arcade Hacks are Incredible!

My top 5 favorite hacks for the classic 1981 Nintendo arcade game Donkey Kong. If you're a fan of the original arcade game, you've GOT to see these! These games feature new stages, enemies and boards.
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Paul Goes Hacks:
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Donkey Kong Remix:
www.dkremix.com/
Donkey Kong II: Jumpman Returns
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#Nintendo #DonkeyKong #Arcade

[@SmeddyTooBestChannel]

Jumpman Returns is so good that it's Funspot in New Hampshire's ONLY repro cabinet, and even then it's really authentic looking in and of itself!

[@mjdxp5688]

I've actually been there and I played it myself! Definitely super cool, I was actually kind of confused when I saw it.

[@atrain818]

It's just a regular DK machine with the D2K daughter board. A new bezel, CPO, marquee and sideart.

[@basiccatplush5247]

@@atrain818 does not make sense

[@atrain818]

@@basiccatplush5247 it is a regular nintendo donkey kong arcade machine. It just has an extra computer chip and different stickers on the cabinet.

[@elmoredneal5382]

This is an extremely challenging game. I'm pretty good at original Donkey Kong but this one kicks my ass!

[@paulgoes]

Always great to hear that people enjoy the results of that weird hobby of mine!

[@pedroangelsaezhernandez5347]

I was amazed when I saw your DK hacks. What you were able to accomplish is just amazing. Glad to see folks like you give this old relic some love, especially since arcade games barely get any significant hacks when compared to other retro systems. I'm currently building a mini bartop with tate support, and now I have some new games to try, so thanks!

[@cold_warrior]

Now that is something I haven't really seen anyone cover. ROM hacks in itself is a pretty obscure topic, let alone arcade ones. Great video 👍

[@hdofu]

not as obscure as you'd think

[@leroyvisiongames2294]

DKII: Jumpman Returns is by far my favorite DK arcade hack. However, I do kinda wish they’d added a continue feature to accommodate for the significant increase in difficulty and the fact that the game actually adds an ending screen.

[@gitgeronimo9375]

It should have an unlimited lives option. It’s so GD hard!😂

[@basiccatplush5247]

@@gitgeronimo9375 bro what

[@gitgeronimo9375]

@@basiccatplush5247 I SAID IT SHOULD HAVE AN UNLIMITED LIVES OPTION. IT’S SO GD HARD!😂

[@Demeech]

Fun fact. Donkey Kong II: Jumpman Returns was at Disney Quest. I had fun playing it.

[@johneygd]

Whoooaaah are you serious, playing videogames in disney quest wich does not belong to them and even being not an official nintendo game in this case??? Holy motherfucking shit,that really blows my mind.

[@megamix5403]

Fancy seeing you here Demeech :p

[@fan0]

No way, real Demeech!

[@badcatalex]

Pfft. RIP DisneyQuest tho.

[@lorienmyers7643]

@@badcatalex Agreed. 😢

[@SomeGuy712x]

(5:27) Reminds me of Burgertime. So, I guess this would be... Girdertime? (7:41) Nice death montage.

[@megamix5403]

I didn't knew these hacks even existed. I was only aware of Krazy Kong tbh, and that one was weird as hell. lol I'm glad the original DK is getting some love after all these years and these hacks seem like they're definitely worth checking out. Appreciate the review!

[@seancdaug]

The DK Remix collapsing levels gimmick reminds me of BurgerTime.

[@gillkong9469]

I've played all these games. There all great. I'm by far a Remix fan. I'm 1 of 3 people to have killscreened Remix. 1,194,000. SockMaster also has a rom hack for Donkey Kong Jr Remix . Great video.

[@PNNYWZEPRODUCTIONS]

Ive been a subscriber for some time now, and i just wanna say congrats on sticking with your channel and concept all this time. Success is rarely immediate, and im glad youre finally starting to see some.

[@Alurith]

This video was so interesting, I looked up other arcade rom hacks on KZbin. This was the only video that popped up...

[@itsgruz]

Glad you enjoyed it! There were so many great arcade games, you'd think there'd be a lot more hacks out there! 🤷‍♂️

[@pinfarmer]

Can't wait to play these. The DK for gameboy could also use a nice hack. Good stuff.

[@AnimationMaster167]

All of these hack of Donkey Kong Arcade are so good!

[@brucefields7009]

Very interesting video! Had no idea there was a market for arcade hacks, much less Donkey Kong arcade hacks. In any case, I'm glad these exist and I enjoyed your video!

[@jdiluigi]

This was amazing thank you for all the work. I would watch hacks featured from any classic games if you were up for it.

[@itsgruz]

I'm glad you enjoyed the video! 😁

[@teknix1]

Thank you again gruz, amazing content. Hoping to see new GameGenie videos that are not SMB1. Although I really enjoy those too.

[@raabm5292]

Ayyy Gruz vid at work. Nice.

[@torrent9666]

That DK in the Dark hack really reminds of the Blackout Basement level from Donkey Kong Country.

[@Lanausse]

Hell yeah! New gruz video

[@yoshi18super]

The hacks look really fun! Especially dk remix, i that spring thing looks cool

[@CDiArcade]

This was a cool video! I never knew there were hacks for these games at all.

[@Seegtease]

Nice, never really though much about DK hacks, and now I have!

[@gitgeronimo9375]

Yessss! I picked up a MINT DK arcade machine at the beginning of COVID, so this video is everything!! I have the DK2+Save kit installed. DK2 is HAAAAARD! I have to bump that one up to start with extra lives!

[@atrain818]

The default # of lives 4 D2K is 6. It is pretty tuff tho

[@atrain818]

Have you made it thru the 1st loop? It gets tuffer. The foundry board the 2nd time thru has flying fireballs that erupt from the fire pits. She's ruff.

[@gitgeronimo9375]

@@atrain818 I can’t get past the conveyer stage. 😂

[@TheSameGoobyGuy]

0:52 hey look, it’s Wendy!

[@rayrizzling]

to funny, I am working on a DK rom hack atm and you upload this video funny xD

[@paultheretrogamer]

Really enjoyed

[@90sNath]

1:12, honestly always perfered the 2600 verison over the original, it controls so much better

[@FunkyStudios]

I find it funny that a few of these hacks were installed on DisneyQuest arcade cabinets.

[@heroknaderi]

Very cool 😎

[@riversarcadereview385]

you forgot to mention that in Donkey Kong REMIX, if you grab the 'blue hammer", you can jump while holding it

[@123456RaulMorales]

And the uploader forgot to mention about the Donkey Kong Remix killscreen also, where Donkey Kong is in a "deranged" mode. Very hard to prevail, unlike the original DK killscreen. And about the Donkey Kong Deranged Edition also,where difficulty is way harder after the 5th level,also created by Sock Master. The reason why Sock Master chose not to create the ROMs of Donkey Kong Remix (regular version), Donkey Kong Deranged Edition, Donkey Kong Junior Rremix and even Donkey Kong Junior Trainer is because the Roms in MAME are, can and will be a liablilty for his sales, and he is STILL actively selling the "High Score Save Kits" daughter boards that are designed only for the Real Hardware.

[@jaydub8085]

I loved dunky kung and mayo! Rum hats? Go to a liquor store. Again. Like you do every day.

[@AndrewAmbrose]

Awesome!

[@giftsofgrace]

By the way in Jumpman returns that cut scene you showed was from sega’s Congo bongo

[@Geno2733]

Somehow I missed this video amongst all the chaos as of late.

[@giuseppegamer4090]

Fun fact:there’s a homebrew version of donkey Kong remix on intellivision called D2K Arcade that has same levels

[@OOZTIN]

i remember playing jump man returns thinking it was the official sequel (i was 4 years old) i played it a lot and it truly was a fun experience. could you tell me how to play the game? i had forgot

[@heatherharris7098]

Is there a rom out there yet for the Remix?

[@idabomb00]

Imagine if these existed when the game was still new

[@BERO17071991]

I would love some Mario Bros. and Ice Climber hacks

[@scottrose8417]

Does HB MAME have a mac version?

[@cantcit]

You need to talk about Vector Kong for the Vectrex

[@TheAdventuresOfJimiJaden]

I actually thought Donkey Kong 2 Jumpman Returns was real.

[@hdofu]

Oh there are Donkey Kong Rom Hacks on the NES... all the way back to the early days, Pink Floyd the Wall, Wilfred Kong, whatever that weird one was where donkey kong was turned into a giant ass.

[@jodyjohnson265]

I would be really cool to see someone make a packman championship adtion for the arcade version of packman

[@melissawarner6528]

Growing up my stepdad fixed arcade games for a living in fact that's how my mom and him reconnected (They met in high school) my mom and her younger sisters were at the bar when my aunt recognized him and pointed him out I was 5yrs old and my sister was 4yrs old. Growing up we lived every kids fantasy growing up around arcade games we had uprights, cocktail sizes, pinballs he also knew how to recover pool tables and repair foosball games. We had arcade games everywhere in the house, in the backyard (nobody jacked them when we were at home or not), my parents bedroom, the deck. When my parents bought a new arcade game there were times my dad didn't want me, my younger sister my 2 brothers (followed by my third brother 3wks before my sweet 16) allowed to play them so I was 7yrs old when I picked the lock to the upright game shocking my parents my stepdad didn't like who taught me this ability. When it came to Donkey Kong I remember several cheats on completion to that particular level that I discovered that shocked my parents because they had no idea about. When nes came out you're damn right my parents bought it along with other classics. My oldest brother did the impossible: growing up he watched my stepdad fix arcade games and followed in his shoes so he bought an empty hallowed out upright and he downloaded EVERY arcade game, every nes, every super nes, every Sega genesis, and every game boy games ever created my stepdad told my brother it.wouldn't last and it would crash and to even consider every download and install it into a computer tower was risky. And it did crash 4x my brother is very tenacious and unrelenting and he proved my dad wrong my brother was an electronic genius he was 8yrs old when he successfully fixed his first arcade game my stepdad bought a broken arcade game from a liquidation auction my dad tried working on it for 4mths but to no avail my brother was asked to give it a shot 15min later he had it up and running. The game he fixed: donkey kong 1978

[@bigdbusiness8092]

REAL COOL

[@LuigiStrikeForceChaz]

Those are pies?! How does one die from a pie then? No pun intended about the Spongebob episode

[@ZipplyZane]

Some people treat them as cement. But I've always heard them called pies.

[@jaycurtis5036]

Where can I get these?

[@DissociatedWomenIncorporated]

Hey gruz… How high can you get?

[@donjaun540]

Very cool video. I never knew anything about this.

[@NitroTheCat]

Nice

[@maricthehedgehog]

The cutscenes from DK 2 remind me of the ones from Pac Man & Ms Pac Man

[@tiky_plus]

there is even another dk rom hack named dk advanced and for me its on my top 3 best dk hacks

[@borger4867]

How do you get rom hacks

[@Dreakoh]

What about the 20th anniversary?

[@aceking7424]

Do more donkey Kong hack videos

[@alexistramirez]

Awesome I knew Mario was in the first game

[@SpeedyNinja1152]

I wonder if there's an Arcade Hack that removes the Cement Factory level so it becomes like the NES Version.

[@IzludeTingel]

DK3 on NES or whatever the heck it's supposed to be.. has an ebola and a naked rom hack, hilarious but just sprite edits.

[@marioandsonicfan465]

cool 👍

[@jasonh7094]

cool

[@zach.0]

I wish Donkey Kong II didn't resort to the perfect timing challenge that a lot of romhacks for many games like doing. It was so good until that part.

[@randomcomputer2010]

How do i play it

[@randysmith7094]

Hacking the actual platforms in NES DK is very hard to do. You can't just find the tile addresses and change the girders. Like you would do for Pac Man or Ms Pac. Mario will not follow the modified girders, he runs on invisible rails. I can change the code to make him walk into the air but that's about it.

[@RobotKid2000]

Maybe Billy Mitchell could offer some more hacks.

[@CAJames902]

"Introduced us to unforgettable characters like Mario and Billy Mitchell." wut

[@nsixties4380]

"This is the game that introduced us to unfrogetable characters like Mario and Donkey Kong" Pauline: *sits there crying*

[@whitty9877]

for the last time its not pauline

[@VOAN]

@derpboi101 Then what's her name? Remember these three characters are suppose to be Popeye (Jumpman), Brutal (Great Ape), and Alice (Daisy).

[@whitty9877]

@@VOAN its suprisingly lady (I guess nintendo was running out of ideas

[@vizuren]

I like D2K!

[@MaryPizzaPop]

There is story behind the Ice Cream hack and its existance

[@opinian1068]

I had a cabaret version of Crazy Kong that a friend left me when moving out of state. Player 1 side was glitchy, and the game was overall awful! Terrible sound and no music. I sold it 😂

[@philgreco4196]

I like Crazy Kong more of the donkey Kong originale of Nintendo,the sound and the colours are differenti🍺😎👾

[@Ansem198]

Christmas Donkey Kong is too precious

[@tonyzatkos8165]

All I hear is "Mark's Pizzeria!"

[@Freddy39978]

Make your jack to play as dk!

[@omh20]

There was a rom hack I played for Donkey Kong NES. It was a graphics hack based on Pink Floyd the wall. Yes I’m not joking!

[@scottbakanumba1heathen313]

The foreign Crazy Kong is hysterically awful - especially the sounds.

[@iamsemjaza]

The Atari 2600 version was awesome at the time.

[@greenboy5404]

I want DK level editor😢

[@nebulapig]

Did mario just congo bongo DK's foot?

[@andrewsalamun7680]

👍

[@hellodude7008]

I want hacks of Donkey Kong '94 on the game boy

[@dillon5285]

Is there a hack where you can play as Popeye and olive oil against Bluto

[@johneysupergd7796]

I am farmiliar with crazy kong 1 & 2,big kong,donkeykong advanced and donkeykong 2 etc,,, Now am sure that even if nintendo did got the rights for popeye in 1981,eventually those rights would expireand nintendo would,ve been forced to come with characters as a replacement for it and mario & donkeykong would,ve still be born but at a later time.

[@johneymute]

I bet that even if nintendo wasn’t a success in america,sega & atari would,ve been successful because it was nintendo who played monopoly in america ,also even if nintendo failed in the us ,they still would,ve been successful in japan,even without donkeykong,and what if the game market crashed in the us in 1983,they still would,ve success in japan and It’s success would,ve still decided to try again in america but this time in co,operation with atari as a distributer, Now apart from that, Next i want to see radar scope hacks,because that game deserves more attention then it eventually did.

[@jeremystewart678]

Our lord and savior is back

[@the8thark]

Jumpman. Not Mario. Seriously Gruz, I thought you knew this.

[@shyguy85]

they're the same character, and donkey kong jr referred to him as mario

[@joeywomer]

The Atari 2600 version was fake?

[@jadsi]

1:09 That was bad?

[@arieltorales9777]

Mario no jumpman

[@klm82006]

More like wasn't for the ground work Atari made who knows where gaming would be today. Atari pretty much started it all.

[@cold_warrior]

Sorry man, I cannot support you anymore because of sanctions. It's really none of my fault and I don't know how it's supposed to punish me, by not paying you money. Just wanted to let you know, so you don't blame yourself

[@BrainSlugs83]

This is very cool; thanks for sharing these hacks. The reason there aren't many good hacks for the NES version of Donkey Kong is because it's terrible. -- The NES version of DK is missing half the levels; so it might as well be the 2600 version. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@stefanschanzenbacher9513]

Enthuseists

[@johneygd]

“If it wasn’t for the ground work that this game laid,who knows what gaming would,ve be today” I don’t think that donkeykong was perse groundbreaking and changed the game’s industry for good, no,because there was pacman,sheriff,space invaders,space panic,frogger,pole position,galaga,radar scope among many others, Who says that if donkeykong and mario didn’t existed that the whole game’s industry would,ve been different now? That’s bullshit,because nintendo would still have zelda,metroid,punch out,ice climbers among many others,they still would,ve come with a cartride based game console since they already had the idea back in 1980, also we must not forget that space panic was the first platformer and donkeykong formed the evolution of it, BTW,radar scope did became a success in japan,BUT if radar scope did also became a success in the us,then nintendo would,ve shipped more units of it and/or they would,ve eventually come with clu clu land and devil world once they saw pac man,while in the meantime namco did came with pac land and nintendo would took inspiration from it (whether to make a popeye or a mario platformer)but even if nintendo did got the rights for popeye in the first place,those rights would,ve eventually expire and so nintendo did had to come with mario & donkeykong as a replacement either way,so they would,ve come making their appearence anyway.

[@AshleyTMDW]

Donkey Kong was a major financial success for Nintendo both in terms of cost cutting via reusing unused stock of arcade machines and by how popular it became. That is what allowed them to work on developing their console, as just because you have an idea it doesn't mean you can afford to work on that idea. Without Donkey Kong, you also have no Mario. Mario was in 18 games before Super Mario Bros 1 according to the channel you commented on, so thats immediately 18 games changed with some outright obliterated. Super Mario Bros took from many prior releases to make one great game, such as the turtles and coins from Mario Bros and the springs from DK. Without Mario, Nintendo is now Mascotless, which means SEGA doesn't need to make Sonic and so they probably don't, Alex Kidd remains SEGAs big name, that also impacts the console wars significantly since their entire marketing was how fast Sonic was compared to Mario. No real console mascots means third party mascots either have higher prominence or don't exist at all either. Sega also doesn't feel the need to compete in the technology aspect so that's no SEGA CD which means no Night Trap, without which there's still going to be ratings for video games but Night Trap was cited as a big reason for it at the time. And let's talk about Sony now, because here's where things get really interesting. Sony would probably be making consoles with Nintendo in this timeline, meaning instead of the 64 you get the Nintendo Playstation, this is a documented thing that would've happened had Nintendo not then gone to Phillips afterwards. The deal was that Nintendo would have control over stuff made for the cartridge port and Sony got control of the disc games, they share the profits and share the losses. Mario 64 isn't made so 3D platformers would probably all use tank controls for at least five years until someone figures out a better control scheme.

[@johneygd]

@@AshleyTMDW mario was origibalky called jumpman (probably a derivation of pac man) but hey likely they didn’t called him ‘walkman’ or otherwise they would,ve got sony walking after their asses,hahaaa🤣 It was that for the us they decided to call him mario because of the boss from from a nintendo rented wearhouse at that time was also called mario with his last name segal,BUT i bet that even if they kept the name jumpman,then it still wouldn’t had any negative impact of any game from it,then we would,ve call all those mario games ‘super jumpman bros,super jumpman world,super jumpman sunshine etc,,,

[@jaydub8085]

The first part of game, is gay...... Think aboodit.....

[@socialistsuccubus822]

I would never pay money for a rom hack in physical chips, so I wouldn't recommend that one to people. They're profiting off of Nintendo's works under their logic, the logic that piracy is theft completely goes out the window when you are, in your own logic, a thief. He should definitely release a ROM for free seeing as he's already being a thief :)

[@ZipplyZane]

I can't agree at all. They are selling an accessory that can add on to something that already exists. We do this in the physical world all the time. Is a custom motor specifically designed for my car profiting off the original car manufacturer? Are third party iPhone cases profiting off of Apple. As long as their actual product doesn't use any of Nintendo's own code, and is just designed to add on to it, they aren't stealing anything. It is, however, is kinda silly. People who want to play the ROM aren't going to go out and buy the original arcade game and a conversion kit instead. You're not going to lose any money providing a rom patch instead. And it's not like people aren't going to make a ROM of it and distribute it for free anyway. But it isn't stealing, or profiting off of Nintendo's work. Heck, there were tons of third party conversion kits back in the day.

[@socialistsuccubus822]

@@ZipplyZane I mean personally I don’t believe in intellectual property at all, but that’s aside the point. I’m arguing from the standpoint that intellectual property is even real