How to adapt Donkey Kong to Speccy mode

[redballoon]

The answer is no. It does not work at all.

[RMartins]

Hi!!!!

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But this method is very slow, the buffer ocuppies almost the full screen of the Spectrum, and I think it won't work with this game, where I need very high speed with barrels, fires, etc.

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Doesn't need to be slow, but you might need to loop unroll some of that code, or make special versions for some or all of the sprites.

[Art]

As highrise is working on Donkey Kong, too, and his version looks very good, Bubu's version development is stopped for now (he has some other Spectrum projects to do). So I would just like to show some graphics I made for Bubu's Donkey Kong in the Art Studio. I was making it as accurate as possible to the arcade version.

[Lee Bee]

Art's graphics are exceptional and I hope Bubu finishes his game. Or, could the two projects somehow be consolidated into one?

[Bubu]

I agree, Art is pure art I'm very happy with our cooperation. And I haven't stopped my developmet, I'm in it, but I'm developing 2 games at the same time

This is how DK's round 1 is by the moment:





Brilliant!!!!

[highrise]

hey guys

yes, I started work on a DK conversion back in 2017, and have been going back to it on and off since then. I decided to work on it in private since I wasn't sure if I would be able to make it work at the level I wanted. Having finished Asteroids I was more confident of getting it right and once I saw you guys were also doing one I thought I should let you know about it. For me it's very much a labour of love, this specific game is the one I've always wanted to convert, so it's a bit of a personal mission that I really want to complete myself. Art's graphics look very nice so I hope I'm not treading on your toes too much, I think they are sufficiently different to my own work (posted) to be distinctive. These are very much 'in progress' as they are being converted from the older versions I did before.

[Art]

Very nice. Good luck with your development, but please, make a different title screen, so we can easily distinguish two DK versions.

[highrise]

I'm afraid I've already agreed to use the artwork by Mark Harrison that he made more than a year ago, I always use the arcade cabinet artwork in this series, as you would expect. It will be changed in a few places, but it's already a finished piece that was published.

[Art]

Oh! Well, never mind, it's OK. I see that sometimes it's good to show work in progress, sometimes maybe not. So, probably we will have two similar versions. Better more than none.

[highrise]

Our tileset for Kong has been significantly overhauled so I thought I'd share it here. Still quite different from yours, these are pretty close to final versions now.