Donkey Kong: Pauline Edition

My three year old daughter and I play a lot of old games together. Her favorite is Donkey Kong. Two days ago, she asked me if she could play as the girl and save Mario. She's played as Princess Toadstool in Super Mario Bros. 2 and naturally just assumed she could do the same in Donkey Kong. I told her we couldn't in that particular Mario game, she seemed really bummed out by that. So what else am I supposed to do? Now I'm up at midnight hacking the ROM, replacing Mario with Pauline. I'm using the 2010 NES Donkey Kong ROM. I've redrawn Mario's frames and I swapped the palettes in the ROM. I replaced the M at the top with a P for Pauline. Thanks to Kevin Wilson for giving me the lead on the tools and advice.

Download the DK Pauline patch! Note: You need the original ROM and XDELTA to apply it. Enjoy! http://codemystics.ca/downloads/DK_Pa...

Some of you were asking about the details on the Game Boy marriage proposal I hid in a game years ago. Kill Screen did an article on it right here: http://killscreendaily.com/articles/a...

Check out the world premiere of DK Pauline Edition @ Ground Kontrol in Portland! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b5zUC...

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[Human Reverend]

Cool fuckin' dad alert. Now make Donkey Kong save Donkey Kong from Donkey Kong.

[Eeman5555]

Can you be MY daddy?

[CutThroatConcierge]

Good grief, a guy makes a simple mod so his daughter can play as Pauline rather than Mario and that apparently leads to a comment section debate about feminism and gender politics. Personally, I agree with gender equality but feminism is just a anti-male ideology some people pedal and those people would be viewed as a disgrace by the great people who fought for gender equality like Susan B Anthony and Emmeline Pankhurst.

[themagicalgamer]

Good Parenting.

[Zanee Prr]

I love you *-*

[AutoAxpert]

The fact that you're debating something on a video doesn't automatically make it related to the subject. And I'm not saying that politics must stay out of the gaming world, don't twist my words to suit your argument better. You're saying that this is a political act, I don't agree. Case closed, more power to everybody.

[breaks0]

Ok I think it's inherently a political issue, otherwise we and other people commenting on this video wouldn't be debating or discussing it. And I'm therefore not reading too much into it, if you don't like cultural/gender politics debates in your gaming, suit yourself. Imo the dad's progressive by definition as shown in his actions, they SHOW the values I'm talking about in practice, otherwise he wouldn't do it. TYT=the young turks nerd alert channel, look it up if you want.

[MrJoshbumstead]

Thats different. 

[SaitoKojima]

I think the better question is:

How did you get a version of NES Donkey Kong that has all four stages?

[AutoAxpert]

This isn't a matter of political values, you're just reading too much behind it. You're basically saying that he made this hack to express a political view, I say that he made it because his daughter wanted to play as a girl (which is understandable, I'm not arguing with that). Again, it's not a matter whether or not I agree with your ideas (and trust me, I agree with the inter-gender equality principle), it's a matter of leaving politics where it belongs. Also, what does w/tyt's means?

[ZsagisZ]

Dad of the year award goes to you! No doubt! :O

[Isa Ixpata]

Where can I get those games!? Please respond!