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Recently, you have noticed me being on here less...this is due to a new addiction:
Donkey Kong

I currently can get about 100,000 points, and I think I am pretty good!

I've searched online for places to buy a Donkey Kong machine, and it seems that $1,700 is about the standard price...

I am very willing and wanting to save up for this.

Soo, I have a few questions:
1-Do you have any money-making ideas?
--my parents won't let me get a 'regular' job, so that's out of the question for the moment...during the summer, however, I could work somewhere...

2-What's your high score on Donkey Kong??

3-How long do you think this will take to raise?

4-Is it worth it?
--I would not give up cubing, but would pretty much not spend ANYTHING on cubing(money-wise) untill I get my DK machine.


Thanks for your time! :)

-Stachu Korick


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actually, I checked on eBay and could def. get a working machine for about 600 w/ shipping, so that helps....alot....
and I don't want to really build anything...just want a DK machine...maybe tetris and nibbler before I die, too(still got a long ways :p)
 
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instead of spending money on a new cube, sign up for cubelagoon and get your next one free, or sell it on ebay. you could get $20 for a 5x5 eastsheen. you probably already do this though.

btw, donkey kong is mega hard. I once watched a tv documentary about serious donkey kong players. some people can actually complete all of the levels, it's insane.

good look on your money making quest.
 
Stachuk1992 said:
1-Do you have any money-making ideas?
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Not really, I'm afraid - if I did, I'd probably be doing it myself. That's the problem with money-making ideas. :)

Stachuk1992 said:
2-What's your high score on Donkey Kong??
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I don't remember, but it's somewhere slightly over 100,000. I have a friend who I believe I remember getting over 500,000, but he can't remember getting over 250,000 or so. It is fun trying to get good at it.

Stachuk1992 said:
4-Is it worth it?
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What my friend did was to build a MAME emulation machine, and then he bought an old circuit board on the Internet for a pretty small amount (like $100) so that he had the ROMs. He figured that gave him legal permission to use the ROMs for MAME. If you felt you could be happy with this, you could just settle for buying a board like that and running MAME on your PC (assuming you have one) until you get REALLY good and actually need a real Donkey Kong machine to go the final distance. The biggest problem is probably getting the feel for the springs on a real Donkey Kong screen, as opposed to a computer monitor. When it gets fast, the springs are the toughest part. The barrels aren't that bad once you learn to trick them out, which my friend was good at, although sometimes they're still just evil, and it takes a lucky game to get a really good score.
 
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Mike Hughey said:
What my friend did was to build a MAME emulation machine, and then he bought an old circuit board on the Internet for a pretty small amount (like $100) so that he had the ROMs. He figured that gave him legal permission to use the ROMs for MAME. If you felt you could be happy with this, you could just settle for buying a board like that and running MAME on your PC (assuming you have one) until you get REALLY good and actually need a real Donkey Kong machine to go the final distance. The biggest problem is probably getting the feel for the springs on a real Donkey Kong screen, as opposed to a computer monitor. When it gets fast, the springs are the toughest part. The barrels aren't that bad once you learn to trick them out, which my friend was good at, although sometimes they're still just evil, and it takes a lucky game to get a really good score.
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I'm actually not too bad on the spring stages(elevator stages)...
I do currently have MAME.
How much did it cost him for his entire MAME machine (time and money) to make??

I'm somehow really good at the barrel stages already, unless there are some really nasty wild barrels...
I can also control the foxfires pretty well...

The only hard part for me is the pie factory, which I need to practice alot...


Thanks Mike!
 
Stachuk1992 said:
How much did it cost him for his entire MAME machine (time and money) to make??
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I could ask him for the amount - I think it was somewhere around $500-600. He used an old arcade machine of some sort that he got really cheap - that was a significant part of it - and he used some bits of computer he already had lying around and bought a new motherboard. He put a LOT of work into it. And it seems like something goes wrong with it fairly often. I'll see if I can get the details from him sometime in the next few days.
 
Um...get a job?

Or do reward sites get something like an xbox or guitar hero and sell on ebay. I do this sometimes i've gotten just a little over $1000 after 3 copies of guitar hero and 2 xbox consoles and a PS3.

not into DK that much

$1000 in less than 4 months is easy
 
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waffle=ijm said:
Um...get a job?

Or do reward sites get something like an xbox or guitar hero and sell on ebay. I do this sometimes i've gotten just a little over $1000 after 3 copies of guitar hero and 2 xbox consoles and a PS3.
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What kind of sites are you talking about? The only site that I can find to be any good at getting stuff is Live Search Club.. but you can only get 1000 tickets a day and an Xbox360 costs 55000 :(

On topic: I think that if you really like DK, than I don't think that it would be a waste of money.
How long to raise? Probably a couple hundred years.
Ideas... cutting people's lawns? During winter I made over 150 dollars by shoveling just my neighbor's driveway :D They are an old couple, so they can't really do it themselves. Leaf raking season in autumn. That's the kind of stuff I do.
I don't play DK, so I don't have a high score.
 
Hmm, pickup some programming books and write software on the side? Perhaps do some unofficial graphic design and website design work for some companies from home? If you've the skills they wont care :-P

You could resort to fixing peoples computers @ $50 a piece :-P

Sure beats wasting hours on "reward" sites.

Tim.
 
TimMc said:
Hmm, pickup some programming books and write software on the side? Perhaps do some unofficial graphic design and website design work for some companies from home? If you've the skills they wont care :-P

You could resort to fixing peoples computers @ $50 a piece :-P

Sure beats wasting hours on "reward" sites.

Tim.
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I can already program 'fairly well' in VBasic, C++, Java, HTML, and am learning ASP.Net, so that might work out...

Yeah, but where could I get jobs for graphics/web stuff?
Craigslist?
 
Stachuk1992 said:
Recently, you have noticed me being on here less...this is due to a new addiction: Donkey Kong
I currently can get about 100,000 points, and I think I am pretty good!
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As addictions go, it's not a bad one to have! I spent a large part of the early '80s playing Donkey Kong. My high score is a little over 250,000 but I don't play it regularly. My poison is Defender!
Stachuk1992 said:
I've searched online for places to buy a Donkey Kong machine, and it seems that $1,700 is about the standard price...

I am very willing and wanting to save up for this.
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No need: build yourself a M.A.M.E. cabinet for $100! Here's mine.

mamecab-lrl06-3.jpg
 
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