But if you're able to dump such a cartridge, it's usually sufficient to fix the header values to allow it to work normally in emulators (as long as it has no other copy protection). It was relatively common for unlicensed companies to set deliberately incorrect values in the header, providing a simple deterrent to casual piracy. However, emulators and copiers usually rely on the header to figure out how to handle a given ROM - meaning they will fail if these values are incorrect.

A cartridge with incorrect values in these positions will run just fine on a Game Boy. So the reason the raw dump doesn't work in many emulators is that Makon used a PRETTY clever variant on a common protection trick.Īs a little background, the Game Boy ROM header contains some metadata, such as ROM size and cartridge type, which is never actually read by the console. It seems to have been built on Sonic 3D Blast 5 (even sharing its header name) and will run in any emulator that supports that game.ĭownload: Super Donkey Kong 3 (Unl) (Multicart Rip).zip Needless to say, this release was often overlooked (including by me) as being nothing more than a pirate copy of Donkey Kong Land 3, and has remained fairly elusive.īut! JP Ronny recently picked up a multicart containing this game, was cool enough to lend it to me, and I was able to extract it! So here we go: This was basically an attempt at porting 4 stages from Donkey Kong Country 3, with the typical bad colour palette found in most early Makon GBC games.īut it wasn't the original! Before that there was a mono version with a different stage order, simply titled 'Super Donkey Kong 3' (the same name as the Japanese version of DKC3) and released on a single cart even more simply titled 'Donkey Kong 3'.

So quite a while back I posted a video of a game entitled Super Donkey Kong 5 by Makon.

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