DKC Atlas Forum

This is pretty minor, but a small (and I mean small) section of DK64's DK Island theme can be heard in one of Viva Pinata's "Day" background songs. Yeah, I noticed that too,. I also noticed another one the other day in VP:Trouble in Paradise; practically the entire Angry Aztec theme from ...

Great game in my opinion. Hope you enjoy it.

Because you used the official photo upload. I assume Rawk's have been done in a different manner.

Anyhoo, I went back through the game for all 131 jiggies the other week finally, but I'm still sitting at 960G since I can't be bothered going for 20 wins online.

'appy Birthday, Missus Qyz.

Maybe let her know I said hi, Qyz. Since she's only really posted in the banana recipes forum, haha.

^ 'twas alright. The jump at 1.35 was the source of a lot of pain for me when I first ran through.

Well, there is stuff like Pokemon Trainer and Mystery Dungeon if you want to try those out.

There's a hack for the Orange Islands done in the R/B/Y engine I believe, but it was pretty rubbish. Would you really want to be getting badges in ways aside from battles? Pretty much all of Ash's badges from the first season of the anime were earned because the leaders pitied him but saw he had a '...

I really don't know why people would join a forum and stay with it if they didn't like it.

Okay, I can agree with you on Bulbasaur now... can't believe I would never have seen the pun in those names.... jeez. :lol: Chikorita though... I wouldn't say so. It's family are all based off herbs and spices and there isn't really anything there that shouts reptile to me. If you're talking about B...

Hey, I'm sorry; it's just been frustrating trying to advertise this place everywhere and not really having anybody interested in the project yet.
Thanks for the feedback, flame0ram (and welcome to the forums by the way).

I find it amusing that you're still calling him Joe all these months after he cleared that up to Qyz but whatevs... I guess you didn't get the memo.
I wish it wasn't so hard to get people interested in this sort of stuff these days. :/

He's saying that Bulbasaur, Chikorita, Treecko, and Turtwig are all reptillian. Not sure what your perception of reptile is... I just didn't think that the 'cute thing with flower bulb on its back' and 'cute thing with leaf on its head' were reptiles necessarily. Charmander was a reptile, Squirtle ...

Everyone makes typos and I'm sure I could go back over your posts and look for corrections to make if I was feeling like enough of a jerk. If you don't want to view the site or have nothing relevant to add to the topic then don't post. Simple as that.

Yay for blatant advertising: http://www.gridlineproductions.com Anyway... I basically got together with this guy I know on another site the other day who has been trying to kick off his own personal site for game reviews and such for awhile now. He's planning to add a few more features in the near f...

-I don't like how they take Pokemon that used to be badass and give them more badass evolutions, thus making the first one seem less badass in retrospect. Onix/Magmar/Electabuzz all come to mind... -Same goes for Pokemon that are utterly useless, and then get evolutions that are just as useless. Li...

Thanks, Kiddy!

epic image and title My god, I love you... :lol: I sort of feel like I'm repeating the stories I've told several times already now with these topics. I loved DKC3 the most for quite some time since I had grown up with it, but when I purchased another SNES along with the trilogy DKC2 won me over. An...

Qyzbud wrote:

CaptainEddie wrote:Congrats, Simon32!

Kowbrainz wrote:Congrats, Simeon

Nice, guys... way to both spell his name wrong.

Hey, I don't make a fuss when people call me kowzbrainz or kowbrains or whatever, Quizbudd.

gamer_boy: Yeah, Poison Pond is where I always used to mess up, even if I started doing segmented runs. The other levels aren't too bad, although Manic Mincers can get a bit annoying with Rambi.

Great choice, Qyz. Congrats, Simeon - you've certainly deserved it. =D

Hi 5's for listening to Triple J and not any of the other rubbish Australian stations. ^_^

My highschool's bands have performed video game music a few times in the past. Shame the Mario theme tune is the only one that practically everyone can identify with.

There used to be a site named BK Base last year... until it got hacked. :/

I don't really care about the story to be honest, since most platforming games aren't trying to be ambitious with their storylines in the first place and you shouldn't be looking that far into them. Bowser stole the princess, you have to get her back. That's that. You're not supposed to think outsid...

It's good to see DKC3 up.

It's not so good to see my browser acting all funky and not displaying the level info pages again. Agh.

Decided to keep going with this thing: http://au.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=3A592DDB8B1063B0 There's five more videos there. If you'd like to see more glitches and/or tricks, you can request them here and I'll see what I can do. I'll say it now though, there's a rather weird one in part 9 that cam...

I'm not saying that; I'm saying that this guy would have more experience with running DK64 and would probably know a lot more tricks than most people here. When you get serious about speedrunning you need to start researching tricks to use in your runs, so I have no doubts that he would have seen a ...

Above: Go to the topic on SDA and you might get better help. Another guy is planning a new 100% run soon to beat his old one by 30 minutes so you might get some help there. That said, I doubt you'll be able to get past if it's an invisible barrier unless you find some way to get underneath the level...

TAS's... I believe not. It's a completely different skill: being able to speedrun a game and make a decent quality TAS. I just took first spot on Banjo-Kazooie's leaderboards on the Xbox Live Arcade with a time of [2:38:46], so I suppose I can now vote in the 'perfect' option, although I'm not too s...

I can’t remember exactly how fast I can type, or the score I used to get from those typing programs in schools, but I do know that I’ve improved a lot since then – mainly due to my increase in time spent on the computer I suppose. So right now I’ve tried to type as many words as I can within a minu...

K. Rool's all like, "Yo, Kongs. We are totally like so much better than you guys at barrel racing!", and DK's like, "Naw dawg, we're the better ones!", and Funky's like, "Word." So they race. I can just imagine it now... DK and K.Rool in their pimped up rides racing un...

The poll is so vague I don't think you even need it. Besides, what you see as 'pretty good' is going to vary enormously between your perspective and the perspective of someone who runs the game at a WR level. Case in point - if you ask me about Banjo-Kazooie, I will tell you that anything under 3.30...

I haven't even checked, but okay. Now that I've beaten it I have really little motivation to do everything else in terms of jiggy challenges, to be honest. I just got the final trolley part today and it was a big let down after seeing that I couldn't do any of the awesome things Grunty used it for. ...

I dunno about you guys, but most games today are roughly twenty hours long each if you're expecting value for your money, and that isn't too long at all. Super Mario World was not that long, and neither was any game on the SNES except RPGs. DKC was significantly shorter. SMW had a lot more levels an...

What is what happened to them? The fact that Grunty's Revenge feels more Banjoey to me in this sense really has nothing to do with how long it's been etc. Rare's just been stupid. I beat the game yesterday. Quite disappointing, really. They've left the chance of a sequel quite open though. There was...

Yeah, they even 'confirmed' Tiptup for the game in Rare's scribes. Maybe Gregg was thinking of Tanktup.... :/ Remember that old piece of art they had with several character's heads on it? It featured Boggy's kids, but they were scrapped too, presumably since Boggy could do all their roles on his own...

Anyway, I should be having this argument with a DKC disliker, not a DKC "fan" whose stirring up trouble on my holy day just for the heck of it. Who cares if other people think its overrated? They can play their games, and I'll sit here and play DKC in piece. I don't need everyone to like ...

I have a bit of a break a week earlier than my family, so I'm making use of the time and have migrated the 360 to the living room with the HD telly. So far, it's more or less what I expected. It's not like the originals, and while there's certainly a good concept there and it's fun, it does have its...

I would give you a list of everything that's changed, but Spiral Mountain's being laggy right now. There's a whole handful of minor changes, but nothing that's really gameplay affecting to be honest. Not being able to skip all text can be a bit of a bummer though. The achievements are easy to unlock...

All pretty graphics eh? I love Super Mario World, but there was as much gameplay in DKC1 as there was in SMW. That's like saying Super Mario 64 is the gameplay compared to the graphics of Ocarina of Time...hmm... (Odd comparison I know, but it's roughly the same concept. Yeaah... Ocarina of Time ha...

Jomingo wrote:Just chill, no need to over react. I'm not entirely up to date with every internet phenomenon, but what exactly constitutes a "rickroll"?

Where have you been, under a rock for the last two years?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_roll

Yeah, I liked the old one better too, but I think that's purely because of nostalgia and because that logo represented a golden age for Rare in terms of their game development. Since they've been using the new logo their games haven't been quite the same as before, so sometimes you sort of look at t...

Again, something which hasn't been done before isn't necessarily innovation. Please tell me how exactly these barrel cannons from DKC have shaped the rest of the games industry in terms of platform games. They've been a gimmick which has always been unique to Donkey Kong Country, and is essentially ...

November 24th was DKC day.

I played Banjo-Kazooie on the XBox Live Arcade.

Finished BK XBLA this morning. I have top 5 times in all levels right now but some people have glitched Bubblegloop Swamp and managed to get 103/112 notes there, so yeah... hope the thing gets fixed. Otherwise I'm now shooting for the top of the leaderboards.

Gimmicks =/= Innovation. FLUDD was a gimmick: it didnt really enable the platforming genre to go in any new directions, it simply allowed Mario to maneuver through levels more easily with the hover function while serving as a tool to clean up stuff. The gravity in Mario Galaxy was innovation: lookin...

I think that Minecarts and Barrels are probably the most innovative platformer mechanics in 2D platforming history. If anyone can name something more innovative and more copied through gaming history, then let me know. Minecarts aren't a gameplay mechanic; they're used in gimmick levels to mix thin...

Banjo-Kazooie on the Xbox Live Arcade.

Some say the physics in DKC are bad. Example: You pound the ground and bananas come out. SMW has it's flaws too: Why do mushrooms make you big? Why do feathers give you a cape that allows you to fly? How does a flower allow you to throw fireballs... without getting burnt? Not all video game physics...

I'm not just talking about Mario fanboys by the way.

Example of people thinking tis overrated: link

Obviously this is a topic that's going to be very hard to bring up on a DKC fansite without getting the same responses. Either way, I was looking through the article on Wikipedia the other day when I noticed a few links to some features on certain sites, where DKC had landed itself in the top 25 and...