Quoted from truemagoo102:Someone did flash the ROMs- it's up on ipmd. Someone should really remake this. Only issue would be the rights to "King Kong" that no one seems to know who owns (https://comicbook.com/movies/news/wild-and-complicated-story-of-the-rights-to-king-kong/) - who owns the rights to old Data East properties though?
I don’t know about Data East, but as long as a game did not use any element from any of the movies (1933, 1976, or 2005), and at least on paper said the game was based on the novelisation, whoever (re) made this would be free and clear. That’s not to say Universal wouldn’t TRY to sue… but they don’t have much of a leg to stand on as far as character rights after the Donkey Kong thing.