These Donkey Kong Arcade Hacks are Incredible! 

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

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!

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 👍

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.

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

The DK Remix collapsing levels gimmick reminds me of BurgerTime.

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!

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Ayyy Gruz vid at work. Nice.

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

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!

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

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

Hell yeah! New gruz video

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

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

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

0:52 hey look, it’s Wendy!

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!

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

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

Really enjoyed

I would love some Mario Bros. and Ice Climber hacks

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

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

Very cool 😎

Imagine if these existed when the game was still new

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

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

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

You need to talk about Vector Kong for the Vectrex

Awesome!

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

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.

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

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

I actually thought Donkey Kong 2 Jumpman Returns was real.

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

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

Hey gruz… How high can you get?

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

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

Very cool video. I never knew anything about this.

REAL COOL

Awesome I knew Mario was in the first game

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.

Nice

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

cool

Do more donkey Kong hack videos

cool 👍

What about the 20th anniversary?

Is there a rom out there yet for the Remix?

I like D2K!

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.

Maybe Billy Mitchell could offer some more hacks.

There is story behind the Ice Cream hack and its existance

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.

Christmas Donkey Kong is too precious

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 😂

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

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

Does HB MAME have a mac version?

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

All I hear is "Mark's Pizzeria!"

Make your jack to play as dk!

Where can I get these?

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!

How do you get rom hacks

The Atari 2600 version was awesome at the time.

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

Did mario just congo bongo DK's foot?

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How do i play it

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

I want DK level editor😢

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

1:09 That was bad?

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

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.

Our lord and savior is back

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.

Mario no jumpman

The Atari 2600 version was fake?

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. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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

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

Enthuseists

“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.

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

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 :)