Anyone know how to increase the timer on the DKC competition game?
Or better yet, have multiple timers you can choose from???
Supposedly if you use a cheat code to freeze the timer the game eventually crashes after something like the 13th level. I can't be sure the exact level number, but even if you had more time, the game eventually crashes.
It's possible to alter the given amount of time and even have some kind of menu to select it. But the bigger problem would be what to do when you run out of levels.
Well, I can't make it out of the first world in 5 minutes. I'd like to change it to 10 minutes and see how far I get. I'd be cool to have a 5 minute and 10 selection.... Orrrrrrrr maybe have 3 competition carts--- a competition for DKC1,2 & 3. 5 minutes of DKC1, then switches to DKC2, etc...
Anyways, for now, I'd just like a little more time.
Zsnes has a cheat search tool but I think that's only for values in the snes ram. Maybe you could use a corruption tool on different address sections to narrow down the location of the counter?
But once you do find it in RAM, you can set a write breakpoint on that location to see what initializes it. I wouldn't jump straight to corruption.
Change $A295 to #$0A for 10 minutes of play. Change it to a higher number for more time. It won't display minutes higher than 9 though.
For unlimited time, patch at $A2B9 the values $CE,$73,$05 to $EA,$EA,$EA. This will prevent the minutes from ever decreasing.
Relevant to the topic,
http://www.mariowiki.com/Donkey_Kong_Co ... _CartridgeWhen cheating for more time, if you get 3 animal tokens it appears to zero your score counter which is the same as the bonus level counter. Also if you reach the end of Croctopus Chase and exit the level the game goes black and hangs. You can't see anything but the music plays on. I didn't investigate to see if the game is supposed to do that or if it actually crashes which seems more likely.
The later levels which I don't think they figured anyone would reach seem less altered. More animal tokens to be picked up.
I set the counter to 9 minutes and got to the vine levels where the gorilla rolls the barrels faster and faster on the tight-rope vines. I almost cleared that level with 9 minutes.
Edit: Orang an gang is the one I almost cleared