DKC Atlas Forum

The millstones reuse multiple tiles across their animation frames, but I can't recall if they're compressed with the terrain graphics for the temple or uncompressed elsewhere in the ROM.

The animal tokens should be uncompressed in the ROM in 4bpp SNES format just like the map icons and bananas.

Are the barrels made up of two sprites overlay ed? Yes. In DKC1 and 2, the DK emblem is separate from the shaking barrel. DKC3 modified the sprite rendering function so that certain sprites can use two palettes for their tiles, so the emblem and barrel are combined in that game. Aside from the Gnaw...

Yes. They differ only in what VRAM offset and palettes are used by each sprite (determined by a table in RAM starting at $0C69).

They look good now!

I couldn't find the coordinates for the map sprites... They're at 227F7D-227F7E for sprite ID $0088, 5 bytes after the start of the header. Look at the hex editor image in my last post. OAM X- and Y- coordinates always come after the header bytes, even when there aren't graphics. Here is one with m...

The head appears near the upper left corner of the 256x256 image you uploaded. Based on the proper coordinates (X:128, Y:120 or $78 $70 in hexadecimal) it should appear near the center. The arrangement of the tiles don't look weird in this case because it's made up of only one 2x2 OAM tile and nothi...

Close, but the coordinates don't look right. Since DMA bytes don't exist for sprite IDs less than $008C, the tile x- and y- coordinate array begins immediately after "1x1 offset (group 2)", as shown highlighted in blue below: dkc1_sprite_0088_header_and_coords_in_hxd.png The rest of the he...

The graphics for the map icons start at $20000 (SNES $C20000). They do not have a header.


These header bytes don't exist for sprite IDs under $008C:

The map heads share sprite ID $0088. IDs less than $008C (D.K.'s first one) are handled differently from the others in that they do not load their own graphics.

The first of these is difficult to see without zooming in, but you can see the green line above his foot when doing so:


The second is more obvious, though it's only shown for 4 frames in-game (1/15 of a second):

More likely than not, Rare had a tool to automate the conversion of the 3D models to sprites and optimize the OAM usage in the process. Regions consisting of a handful of only dark pixels were likely the first to be filtered out by this tool. Most stages have something dark enough to mask these cut-...

I don't have the energy to get captures from all versions this time, but to show that it isn't just that way your ROM or the US 1.0, here is Japan v1.1:

Here's to the start of a another decade of your life, Qyzbud! Belated Happy Birthday, !

Here's a screenshot from each of the 8 SNES/SFC versions of the game. These were all taken in Mesen 2: USA (1.0, 1.1, 1.2) https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/scl/fi/ddscb62roec470nbt3urr/Donkey-Kong-Country-USA-_003.png?rlkey=am6gg3ampb12jvt6hwfyfjlhl&st=20chigr0&raw=1 https://dl.dropboxuserc...

After watching multiple YouTube videos, the sprite in question is indeed missing that chunk out of his shoulder. It mostly goes unnoticed because of the speed of the animation, and the fact that the background is often darker than DK. Here's one video in particular where it is very visible (at 2:27)...

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(I'm here, sporadically. Edit: Also, it just occurred to me that the forum's clock is delayed by about 20 minutes.)

It also doesn't work for me in Windows 7 either. The right pane is always blank, just like rainbow's screenshot.

Of course, the original hlp version still works in 7 ...

Diddy and Timber are also brothers in the sense that their father is Kevin Bayliss, since he created both of them.

It's a modern online battle royale game on the Nintendo Switch based on the original F-Zero for the Super NES. 99 players race on the tracks simultaneously.

It can be downloaded for free if you have a Nintendo Switch Online subscription.
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products ... 99-switch/

In F-Zero 99, I'm at Level 35 and Skill level S-, but still don't have a single win to my name. I have finished 2nd place in at least one race with 3 out of 4 of the machines. The Blue Falcon is ironically the most difficult for me to get the hang of. Because it doesn't have any strengths, I always ...

Dang, Super Luigi! is INSANE at F-Zero 99.

Given they already named a baddy the name Booty Bird , I don't see why not. Also, did you see who is joining Mario Kart 8 Deluxe's character roster in Wave 6 of the Booster Course Pass DLC? Diddy and Funky make their non-mobile return, while Pauline and Peachette make their non-mobile debut! People ...

It was mentioned here around three months shy of two years ago: http://www.dkc-atlas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=17&p=45083#p45083 Why is the link in "Talk about our maps on the DKC Atlas Forum: Mapping Project topic" a spam redirect? That link now redirects to spam because it s...

It doesn't happen consistently for me across all devices, but when it does I usually do the following: Right-click, open Inspect and search for the <!--Twitter Timeline--> comment tag in the source. Immediately below this is a <div> tag with the class name "hovershow". Delete this node, an...

The Atlas itself does not have a virus, only a link that leads to one. Qyzbud let the dkca.net domain name used by the short links expire a few years ago. It was then bought by someone else, who made it link to a malware site. DKC Atlas is not responsible for--nor is it infected by--this malware. In...

There's a Pro Action Replay code you can use to force yourself to transform into Squawks: http://www.dkc-atlas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=303#p5527 Spitting an egg/nut at Kleever does affect his hit counter, but it's very buggy. Sometimes, a single projectile will defeat him, presumably becau...

30 giant bananas in my hoard,
30 giant bananas!
One more goes to Eddie,
Yes, that mean old yeti,
29 giant bananas in my hoard!

After we're done with this, we can restart with "99 golden bananas in my hoard"

34 giant bananas in my hoard,
34 giant bananas!
K. Lumsy's right hand,
makes K. Rool's ship eat sand.
33 giant bananas in my hoard!

I've observed similar oddities before when I used an emulator's rewind function after crashing one of the DKC games. The DMA uploads to VRAM for the sprite tiles (chars) failed to work, but the OAM (tilemap/tile arrangements) would still update. The results were similar to this, only not with Japane...

Belated Happy Birthday, Geno ! There is in fact a DKC Atlas Discord. It's linked at this topic: http://www.dkc-atlas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2410&p=43074&hilit=Discord#p43074 Jungle (the original creator and one of the administrators of the Discord server) made the invite link, but...

Not saying you took this route, but this is what I always fear about buying retro physical games online. There's no way to inspect them before you buy, and they often don't give you good, hi-res photos of the physical media. So far, I've only bought retro games from locally-based brick-and-mortar ga...

Candy would be the most obvious choice due to being DK's love interest, but there aren't a whole lot of sprites of her.* As for Baby Kong, I don't think it would be good to depict Kaptain K. Rool binding up an infant and shooting them repeatedly at close range. Sure, there's already Kiddy, but at le...

This might be sacrilege to many people here, but to be honest, I haven't watched the DKC cartoon very much since it first aired in the US on Fox Family around 1998-1999. I still have recordings of multiple episodes on videocassette which often have early episodes of Pokémon between them (during its ...

If we're talking about his DKC3 SNES theme, from the time I first heard it, I always thought it was "D'you do that?" Nowadays, it sounds different to me.

"Kick a doodad"

It's probably just some random scat with no real meaning.

With my version of the zero-music patch, music track changes still occur, but all tracks have their sequence data for all channels replaced with looping rests.

2028. "," "Walnuts, peanuts, pineapple smells, grapes, melons, oranges, and coconut shells! Ahh yeah!" Klump steps in and tosses a grenade while the lines above are sung the second time, with the explosion happening at the start of third time, cutting off Walnuts at "Wa-&quo...

Based on the main map, the background is the rocky cliffside of Crocodile Isle, as well as dead trees that flank Kremland's entrance. To the right of the entrance, there appears to be a shorter cliff with a bit of moss or grass and jagged rocks on it. There is also some fog in front of it. Not sure ...

Cranky does have lines for talking directly to Diddy, but they're unused just like the level hints: Diddy boy! Where's Donks? Diddy, you young pup! Boy, I can't believe how much you've grown! These were probably scrapped for being out-of-character. This didn't stop some of them from bein...

Zeroing out the music in this way might cut out some of the time it takes to load a level or transition to a different music track, so I would think it would be illegal in terms of speedrunning. Anything that potentially modifies how many frames a process takes is going to be scrutinized by that com...

Here's my own personal remake of the Zero-Music Patch, which I've been sitting on for years. DKC Zero-Music Patch (Mattrizzle remake).ips ROM requirements are the same as Simion32's version . Differences from Simion32's version: ⋅ Music is silenced everywhere (including the intro and map s...

Not counting the Animal Token bonuses: ⋅ Rambi appears in Jungle Hijinxs, Oil Drum Alley, and Manic Mincers (3) . ⋅ Enguarde appears every underwater level in DKC1: Coral Capers, Clam City, Croctopus Chase, and Poison Pond (4) . ⋅ Winky appears in Winky's Walkway, Bounc...

And how does this relate to SNES games? Generally, does the console contain something similar to the above description when a cartridge isn't detected or refuses to boot, due to faulty receptors, a bad battery or corrupted ROM. All the console does is display a black screen. But some games do spit ...

Invisible objects are an anomaly. They shouldn't exist. When an object is carried, a pointer to the carried object exists in RAM address $0D7A. This is supposed to reset to zero when no object is being carried, but the Castle Crush glitch involves picking up an object at the same time it is destroye...

WesternTanager794 wrote:The Rare Witch Project website is for sale?!

Their really old domain that hasn't been used for many years (http://rarewitchproject.net/) says it's for sale, but the website still exists on the same URL it's used since at least 2010, https://www.therwp.com/.

Now that you mention it, Funky would have been perfect for DKR. He's already known for transportation, including planes and hovercraft!

I think the main reason Tiny was redesigned was for Diddy Kong Racing DS, so that she could replace Banjo and be in the same weight (or size) class as him. Not that I approve of it. Why not use Donkey, Funky, Chunky, or even Candy instead? Out of all of the character designs, Tiny's original design ...

I asked ChatGPT to come up with an idea for a new Animal Buddy for the Donkey Kong Country video game series. It responded with this: "How about a mischievous raccoon named Rascal who can climb trees, jump across platforms, and use his sharp claws to swipe at enemies? Rascal could also have the...

WesternTanager794 wrote:- Funky is Tim Taylor?! Interesting.

Lol, I can hear that with his music in the original SNES version of DKC3 as well. That funny sounding voice that features in Hangin' At Funky's reminds me a bit of Tim Allen's infamous grunt from Home Improvement!

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Mario('s disembodied head) in DKC1?
He's headbanging in sync with the music!

My answer is a question: Have you ever seen or heard of a spider harming a crocodile by jumping on it in real life?

Why does Cranky go from using one walking stick in DKC1, to two canes in DKC2, then back to one cane in DKC3?