SNESNESCUBE64 | 541 Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 (edited) Last week I picked up a Congorilla cabinet. For those who may not know, it is a Donkey Kong bootleg. The in game title is actually Crazy Kong. If you aren't familiar with the story, it is super interesting and is something worth looking into. The TLDR with Crazy Kong is that Nintendo was struggling to keep up with demand of Donkey Kong machines, so they licensed it out to Falcon for sale in Japan. Falcon broke the license agreement and was selling these now bootlegs internationally in Europe and North America as 'licensed' units. So companies like Orca (the one who made this one) even made their own implementations of the hardware. There was lots of legal fun things and Nintendo even put ads in magazines to try to track down anyone involved in the manufacture, sale, or operation of these cabinets. Anyway, this one is in suprisingly good shape. I don't know the status of the boardset yet, I was told that it mostly works but haven't built a harness for it. Right now I am bringing up a K4600 monitor. I also made a jamma adapter so I can test the board on my bench before I address anything else. I also am debating about keeping the switcher power supply setup in it or rebuilding the original supply. The original design is kinda crappy, so I am not sure what I'm gonna do yet. The hope is to get this thing up and running sometime this summer. The control panel artwork was painted on and is worn away in several spots. It is also a bit rusty so I will have to figure out a new overlay solution. But that might be a down the road project. Edited April 16 by SNESNESCUBE64 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RH | 4,908 Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 (edited) I've never heard of this, but that's amazing to see! It's sad to see the original are on the side is only half-present. What's the other side look like? EDIT I see now that was the full side art, so that's cool. So is the overall condition good, then? Edited April 16 by RH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNESNESCUBE64 | 541 Posted April 16 Author Share Posted April 16 1 hour ago, RH said: I see now that was the full side art, so that's cool. So is the overall condition good, then? The sides are like a vinyl woodgrain. Both sides have intact artwork and are in fairly good shape. Couple dings and bruises, nothing worth redoing the whole thing for. There might be a little water damage on the bottom, but nothing significant. One thing about the artwork that is interesting is that there is a cutout on the top for an "orca corporation" identification. I've never seen that before, no idea what the deal with that is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNESNESCUBE64 | 541 Posted April 16 Author Share Posted April 16 The first thing I had to do was address the half-assed monitor mounting. They used a horizontal-frame k4600, but only mounted it on the bottom. So I got brackets and used a k4600 cross bar found commonly in midway cabinets to properly mount the top part so it is safer to transport. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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SNESNESCUBE64 | 541 Posted April 16 Author Share Posted April 16 (edited) Jamma adapter I made for bench testing since I gotta do a PCB order soon. Also made a crowbar circuit in case I use the original power supply since it is kinda crummy. Edited April 16 by SNESNESCUBE64 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNESNESCUBE64 | 541 Posted April 25 Author Share Posted April 25 Got the board working. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNESNESCUBE64 | 541 Posted Friday at 11:58 AM Author Share Posted Friday at 11:58 AM So I did a video of big kong on the Orca hardware yesterday. Reason I did such is because I was deconverting back to the original orca crazy kong set because I am gonna do the multi kit anyway. So you might be thinking, how do you convert Orca Crazy Kong to Big Kong. You just have to burn a new set of program ROMs. The only pain is that you have to run a wire from the 74ls42 decoder chip at 2E pin 5 to the sixth rom's chip select and then stack the sixth ROM on top. But anyway, everything is now working as normal crazy kong. So everything is ready for the cabinet. I also took the time to rebuild the power supply even though there is a likely chance I will be using a modern switcher since the original supply isn't the best design. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNESNESCUBE64 | 541 Posted Sunday at 07:46 PM Author Share Posted Sunday at 07:46 PM Installed the hardware and did some of the wiring yesterday. I decided to go the switcher route for power. I think I'd rather deal with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverspoonGaming | 332 Posted Sunday at 08:28 PM Share Posted Sunday at 08:28 PM That cab is super rad! I will be following... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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