Donkey Kong Arcade Cabinet NES Conversion

[MrMurphy1025]

dude thats sweet.........i wana build a miniature, portable one like this

[uhfnutbar1]

to cheep to buy a real donkey kong board

[Jorbz150]

How the heck did you get an arcade cabinet for just 50 dollars?

[jedistormtroop]

im building a bartop nes cabinet with the new powerbak to have multiple games on one cartrdge and where do i go to find good side art

[metakight4]

i would get one of these it's just that there too expensive =C

[IHDesigns]

What size is the screen art and the cabnite from side to side

[IHDesigns]

How'd u wire it up can u explain in detail pleasse

[AissurDrol]

I hope to get some good quality wood soon to make one of these from scratch.

I have an NES and a N64 and a TV that would probably fit in that sized box. I could make a combo arcade system :D

Well yours looks cool so good job dude!

[ArcadeGamer10]

HOW DID U DO THAT!!!

[hamuto243]

wow this is awesome. I wonder how long it took you to restore it?

[PenguinNintendoAge]

About 2 months of on and off work.

[hamuto243]

@PenguinNintendoAge thats cool

[gozer5454]

dude, this is a very nice conversion for this cab. Looks good and I'm sure its fun to play. Also like the way you left the cabinet arts intact, instead of scrapping it's original charm.

5 stars

[shaynebraid]

His name is Steve Wiebe!

[Lachlant1984]

Did you repaint the NES and replace the power on LED?

[jb2134]

Great looking cabinet.

Have you ever been to the funspot arcade in new hampshire? It was featured in the king of kong documentary. Looks like an amazing arcade.

[EvilWeevilAnime]

Nice cabinet!

[awesomepivots]

u should definetly make a tutorial on how to hook up a donkey kong joystick, to an nes

[morgangamer22]

COOL

[thenintendogamer]

sucks that the nes version is missing 1 level :/

[Alphasys]

Next time you make a video, I hope you have a more steaday hand. I liked this though.

[glennzone12]

the NES version of donkey kong is much easier

than the arcade version :)

[superCds64]

50 bucks? nice

[EarthwormJim55]

I wish I had an arcade machine to convert into an NES but I can't find one. What arcade machine would you recommend to convert into an NES?

[ArcadeGames]

Pac-Man Jamma board?

[PapaFrizArcade]

(A) You should have dropped a PC and ran MAME or simply run a 48-in-1 multiboard that has DK, DKJR, DK3 and a number of other games all on it...you can get em for $75.00 now a days.

(B) Take that Super Mario Bros topper off that cab...that's a VS Unisystem topper.

(C) See (A)

Fail...

[PenguinNintendoAge]

lol, if I wanted to I could have, but I did not know about MAME at the time.

[medicwheat69]

@PenguinNintendoAge eh, I like this, it's like a play choice ten in a way, instead of a doppy Mame....sure MAME is great, but you were going for something diffrent and that wasn't a fail to me....I've wanted to do what you did, I'm just waiting on finding a cab to work off of.

[Rasenganfan2]

That was ridiculously awesome! Just to let you know, the mini arcade version is a Game & Watch tabletop. That's actually a VERY VERY expensive and amazing item right there. Both of them are.

[NintendoCollector]

His challengers name was Steve Webie lol :P

[bamjo6127]

man i pay more for anes game

[bamjo6127]

and how many did you pay for this ???

[PenguinNintendoAge]

$50 for the beat up cabinet, and I put in about $150 in parts and labor/paint. So only about $200. :)

[matthewtysoncox]

Pretty cool dude. As a matter of fact, during open house at where I go to college, the game design class had a cabinet just like that and it ran the game Karate Champ. The guy who owns it said that he traded his X-Box for that machine.

[agent11071917]

my ancwer

watching my mario games

[fuzzywzhe]

Why did you do an NES conversion instead of MAME? Just cheaper?

[PenguinNintendoAge]

The cabinet was water damaged when I got it so all the circuitry inside was dead.

[fuzzywzhe]

> The cabinet was water damaged when I got it

> so all the circuitry inside was dead.

Ok, but why not MAME?

The NES version was a conversion, the MAME simulator is the real deal.

[amiga2000]

The NES certain boots up faster than a PC with mame. Although, running mame would be more authentic. still looks cool though.

[fuzzywzhe]

> The NES certain boots up faster than a PC

> with mame. Although, running mame would be

> more authentic. still looks cool though.

Throw in an ATOM based board in there, using SDRAM for your storage, and a FreeDOS based version of MAME, it will boot lickity split.

I dunno - depends on how much effort you want to put into it. I wouldn't personally go through that much trouble, but I would also never get a cabinet for just one game either.

[cp48ace]

were did u get all that stuff

[DKongfreak]

Can you please make a movie for the Colecovision hand held Donkey Kong machine?

[PenguinNintendoAge]

I'll try and get a movie made this week if I have time.

[StarBoy62]

U ROCK!!!!

[delusional2971]

Great machine. Although you may consider purchasing a real Donkey Kong board to raise it's value. Then you can wire an A/B switch to play the real thing or the NES. Just a thought. But great job!

[woreer9]

yo know there is a pouint where evrey one dies

[pvcrash2500]

Does the Donkey kong game for the nes (like the one you have) have all 22 levels or does it just have 4 levels? Because some D.K games just have 4 levels?

[BuddyDale]

Steve Wieby is his name I believe

[amiga2000]

Very nicely done and narrated!

[VaderNES]

I would have restored it. 5202 yen plus maybe 2000 yen for a new board, and at the most 10000 yen for a new monitor equals 17202 yen for a working Donkey Kong cabinet, a good deal for playing Donkey kong again at home without emulation or crappy ports. Plus new side art will still make it less than just buying a working cabinet for at least 50000 yen.

[PenguinNintendoAge]

If money were not a problem I probably would have fully restored it, but I actually get a lot more use out of it being able to play all my NES games on it.

[VaderNES]

Yes, but 17202 yen is about 172 dollars, which is not a lot, and well less than 50000 yen (500 dollars), and 172 dollars is very good for a working Donkey Kong cabinet that is better than the Famicom/NES version.

[PenguinNintendoAge]

New moniters alone are $325, let alone getting the boards which run around $150. which puts it closer to the $500 range. This is just temporary, it can be converted back in the future which is what I will probably do when I open my own arcade some time down the road. :P

[VaderNES]

The boards don't cost 15000. I've seen them go for only 2500 yen for Donkey Kong. And you could repair the old monitor (fixing burn in is easy, just run it on a white screen for a while.

[mistyfreak]

Great machine! I'm going to steal it! hahahahhaha