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Haze
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Re: Original Donkey Kong Officially Emulated for First Time?
06/20/18 05:23 PM


> Nintendo just released the arcade version on Switch:
>
> https://twitter.com/nintendoamerica/status/1007299196674715648?s=21
>
> Is this the first time it has been officially emulated? I know the story behind it
> with the lawsuit by the original coder, which is why the NES has always been
> considered by Nintendo to be the definitive version. As such, this release is a bit
> surprising.

Maybe on a home system, but the recently dumped Donkey Kong multi-game arcade looks like an emulation, or partial emulation at least, and that was a licensed product.

Will be easier to tell once we actually have a good dump tho, but even from the bad dump you can see it has "rom.z80" type stuff in there.

Given the legal dispute that's actually surprising.







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Subject Posted by Posted on
* Original Donkey Kong Officially Emulated for First Time? Qun Mang 06/15/18 05:34 AM
. * Re: Original Donkey Kong Officially Emulated for First Time? Haze  06/20/18 05:23 PM
. * Re: Original Donkey Kong Officially Emulated for First Time? jonwil  06/15/18 11:35 AM
. * Re: Original Donkey Kong Officially Emulated for First Time? JimmyU  06/15/18 11:06 PM
. * Re: Original Donkey Kong Officially Emulated for First Time? Haze  06/16/18 12:22 AM
. * Re: Original Donkey Kong Officially Emulated for First Time? TServo2049  06/18/18 07:34 PM
. * Re: Original Donkey Kong Officially Emulated for First Time? Haze  06/18/18 08:34 PM
. * Re: Original Donkey Kong Officially Emulated for First Time? smf  06/15/18 08:57 PM
. * Re: Original Donkey Kong Officially Emulated for First Time? Foxhack  06/15/18 06:53 AM
. * Re: Original Donkey Kong Officially Emulated for First Time? Worluk  06/15/18 08:22 AM
. * Re: Original Donkey Kong Officially Emulated for First Time? fortuna_chan  06/15/18 08:21 AM

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