Here’s the technology used to create the nearly 20-foot-tall Donkey Kong cabinet.

Working with Nintendo and perhaps the dreams of copycat fans, the National Museum of Gaming in Rochester, New York intends to present a nearly 20-foot, but playable version of the 1981 classic. Donkey Cong This summer.

The cabinet, built on barrel-thrower-gorilla scale, will be part of a $65 million, 90,000-foot expansion of the museum that will open June 30. The museum, which hosts the World Video Game Hall of Fame and features According to the press release, Giga intends to make the cabinet “as true and authentic to the original game as possible,” among the most iconic items in the game’s history.

The cabinet is built from an aluminum frame with MDF fiberboard. As suggested by Strong’s rendering, you don’t play the game on a step stool or ladder, but at human level, with the hip height control panel above ground level. You can then defeat the vertical construction site where Donkey Kong holds court and captures Pauline. The game works on the original “motherboard”. Donkey Cong Cabinet “as a strong museum.

We asked the Strong Museum for a list of tech stacks that have only been mentioned in the wider press. Shane Reinwald, senior director of public relations at the Strong Museum, described the plan for the system as follows.

Donkey Kong TKG-4 Original Motherboard -> Nintendo to JAMMA Adapter -> Home Arcade Supergun -> Mycomsoft Framemaster XRGB-Mini Upscaler -> Nanolumens Processing Box -> Nanolumens Nixel Display

I ran this with Ars’ Aurich Lawson, a noted arcade enthusiast (and someone I can reach on Slack). JMMA, named for the Japan Amusement Machine and Marketing Association, explained that the wire gauge was not introduced until 1985. Cabinets require much less soldering and setup. Adapters are available for many pre-JAMMA board styles, including Nintendo. Cong– Related boards. He held up one of the sets to illustrate.

Expand / JAMMA adapter, used to help a Golden ax PCB interface with most modern cabinets.

Eric Lawson

With the board properly JAMMA-fied, it can be loaded into the Supergun. The Supergun, as described in the Fighting Game Glossary (video pictures provided by Lawson), is basically a miniature cabinet connector that allows you to connect video output and controls to a mostly exposed board, without a human-sized box body. Used in this fashion, it allows you to connect the controllers and generate basic results, even if they aren’t ready to go giant yet. AAS (Home Arcade System) is a unique brand of Supergun. No one knows for sure why it is called “Supergun”, although it could easily be the first popular product and a Chinese company that sticks to its name.

Expand / AAS Super Gun, up to three (3!) Stuck. Street Fighter II: Hyper Combat Arcade PCBs.

Aurich Lawson / Fighting Game Dictionary

At that point, according to Lawson, you’d have a 15 kHz video signal—”what we think of as 240p”—from Donkey Cong PCB, stands for CRT screen. Modern LCD screens can’t handle it; Those who try to increase the size will be slow to increase and will not look good, especially at 370% size. You’ll need one that’s higher up, preferably one that has less lag. Before we hear from a solid museum, Lawson’s guess is OSSC, an open-source scan converter. OSSC takes a signal and multiplies it, without buffering or processing. Multiply 240p by five, and you’re at 1080p. The museum’s selection, the Framemeister XRGB-Mini, works differently, taking snapshots of video frames and exporting them. A wiki suggests that while the Framemeister process adds 20ms of latency, it can prevent the inherent lag that occurs when some monitors handle 240p signals. There are many variations, but both are commonly used to make arcade symbols ready for a modern display.

The museum is not using a conventional modern display in this Donkey CongBut that’s why NanoLumens technology creates an LED-based Nixel video wall inside the cabinet.

Hard workers told Gizmodo that their 20-foot version “played as close to the original as possible,” submitting their work to the company and working directly with Nintendo to ensure they were accepted. It’s a befitting tribute to the original. Donkey CongHe himself was an exchange for all that was not sold Radar scope Cabinets Nintendo were sitting in furniture. Creating a game that would run on the same hardware fell to Shigeru Miyamoto, who was new to Nintendo at the time. He wanted to make a Miyamoto-centric game. Popeye’s Bluto, Popeye, and Olive Oil, but they couldn’t get a license for those characters. Bluto became the gorilla, Olive Oil became Pauline, and Popeye became the world’s most recognizable video game character.