DKC Atlas Forum

I have a couple of suggestions for any possible future versions of the DKC - Boss Blitz and perhaps for the DKC2 one: 1. Since a lot of people seem to be trying to get their best times on specific bosses, perhaps you could create a secondary timer that shows how much time you've spent on the current...

I have to agree that DKL1's controls were pretty bad. Sure, it had new levels, worlds, and enemies, but all of that new-fangled stuff gets bogged down when you have a hard time experiencing it without dying due to cheap controls. There was an unusual, overly-weighted feel to the physics in DKL, in t...

I always found those suckers to be a pain too, although I never really thought much of poor hit detection until you brought it up. That first bonus barrel was so darn hard to get to safely, I'd just grit my teeth and run into them just to get through. What gave me the most difficulty was the awkward...

I have something to contribute that may shed some light on how SNES games were released. I've been fiddling around a bit with a hex editor on a game called Mr. Nutz for the SNES. This game has four versions: USA, PAL E, JAP, and what seems to be an NTSC BETA. Interestingly, each version of Mr. Nutz ...

These are three conditions I can think of that would be considered to determine whether a character is an individual or a species: 1. How many times we see this character appear in a single stage/level. 2. How many instances of the character appear on screen at once. 3. If the character(s) has an of...

Jomingo , I used to find the DKU not describing the purple parrot in DKC3 to be a bit irritating (piled on top of all the fanon material they made up anyway.) Especially strange considering that the parrots between games have different abilities, which makes you wonder why they didn't investigate m...

There are some differences with K. Rool in DKC (may be worth looking into for other bosses): 1. In the NTSC versions, after K. Rool stops dropping cannon balls, he'll just stand there for a bit before throwing his crown. However, in the PAL versions, he'll throw the crown immediatly. 2. In the Japan...

As a correction, 'Beneath the Brambles' was fixed in all PAL versions... it only appears in 1.0 of the USA and JAP versions. While I was confirming this, I noticed that the Japanese version has the sound setting set to 'Stereo' by default (interestingly, DKC2 is the only DKC game that doesn't save y...

There really is no way to conclusively end this issue, since it would depend on what one would consider canon. A person’s personal preference on what is and isn’t canon could vary, like assuming that in-game evidence is more valuable than instruction manual evidence, or that the latter shouldn’t eve...

It's kind of difficult trying to make sense of all the different animal buddies between DKC universe games. For example, it's possible for there to be two Enguarde's in Coral Capers, not to mention two Rambi's in Pirate Panic. Rareware seems to have tried different things to limit these odd duplicat...

Two more differences between the versions of DKC3: 1. When you start a new data, the game asks you to input your name. If you play a '1P Game', it'll only ask you for one name, and if you play it in either '2P Team' or '2P Contest', it'll ask you for two names, for each player. If you leave the name...

True, but this topic is about things that were in DKC1 and 3, and were on hiatus in DKC2.

In the Japanese version of DKC, sometimes the Manky Kongs require two jumps/cartwheels from Diddy in order to defeat them. However, it seems to be random and glitchy; it might take just one hit from either, or it he might require two from a jump but only one from a cartwheel. I don't fully understan...

There are interesting bits of information that can be taken from the last scene in DKC2: Sinking Crocodile Isle.png This image shows Crocodile Isle facing Donkey, Diddy, and Dixie. But DK Island is behind CI. So whatever island that the three kongs are watching CI sinking from can't be DK Island, an...

I did consider mentioning the 'Heavy Kong' element returning, but I figured that it wasn't particularly profound, nowhere near the differences that you saw between Donkey and Diddy. From my experiences playing DKC3, Kiddy ran as fast as Dixie, jumped as high as her, and jumped as far as her (nixing ...

As far as game mechanics go, the Krumple is pretty much DKC3's version of the Krusha, and even though Kruncha kinda filled that role in DKC2, he was quite a bit different (no heavy Kongs, and he got mad.) It's also interesting that you brought up the fact that DKC3 had coral levels like DKC. Every w...

I've noticed that in most games, when something is removed from one installment of the series, it tends to never be brought back in later sequels. In the case of DKC, we used to have Winky and Expresso, but they pretty much disappeared from DKC2 except for a few in-game text references and backgroun...

I think being story-like would be more colorful and interesting to read, and be rather apt for a website focused on the concept of an atlas, where the explorers describe the details of the level through their own eyes. I don't know about a factual summary so much. In practice it might sound like a g...

I dislike all the water levels. I'm not a big fan of them in the series anyway, because I like the platforming levels more, and it made the water levels feel dull in comparison. DKC's are the worst because of one annoying fact: The camera, for some reason, positions the Kongs in the MIDDLE of the sc...

I would eventually like to give DKC2 and 3 a shot with translation, but I'm not sure if I'd be able to fit the text all in the ROM without overwriting the other languages' texts, but I haven't checked them out too much, so I could be wrong about this. It might work if you could somehow remove the la...

Oh, wow! It was that simple?!

Thanks a lot.

I've been attempting to change the font of DKC because I'm working on a translation of the English script to Brazilian Portuguese with a couple of my Brazilian contacts. But, Portuguese uses extra characters that aren't included in DKC's font, so I want to replace the unused characters with the acce...

Found another change made in the Japanese versions... Manky Kong needs to be jumped on twice by Diddy in order to be defeated. Although, sometimes I noticed that it only requires a single 'Diddy' jump for some strange reason, which is probably a glitch of some kind (ironic, a revision brings its own...

My guess is that Rare decided to balance the difficulty by the time they began work on the Japanese versions (which were probably developed last.) I don't think they did it because they were trying to appeal to a particular audience, but rather were 'touching' things up when they got the chance to d...

Yeah, I highly recommend anyone with a copy of the Japanese versions of DKC to play it, since there are a lot of interesting level-based changes from their western counterparts. For example, I've discovered SEVERAL changes in DKC JAP's Slipslide Ride alone: - The zinger between the third and fourth ...

I always found the handslap to be rather useless in the American/European versions, since it's slow to perform and almost universally inferior to the roll, and the single banana rewards are really negligible. It's possible that Rareware noticed this too and decided to make it more useful while makin...

Rockkroc DIES.png In both Japanese versions of DKC, you can use Donkey's handslap to kill Rockkrocs while they're "stopped". When a Rockkroc dies, he makes the Krusha dies/Rambi gets hit sound, bounces up, and falls off-screen. You don't get anything for killing one, though (except an eas...

It's a valid question, really. Although, some of us may believe them to be inferior to the DKC's, and thus most automatically assume they aren’t canon. Others, such as the DKU, from my experience, consider the series canon. What are your reasons for (not) considering the DKL’s canon? From my persona...

In both revisions of the Japanese version of DKC, every third time Donkey hand slaps an enemy that gives bananas as a reward will be a banana bunch. In all the other versions, the reward is always a SINGLE banana. As if the Japanese version wasn't easy enough. ;) That version difference with Snow Ba...

As any veteran DKC player should know, when you complete a level with a particular Kong, that Kong's mugshot replaces the Kremling that represented an incomplete level on the map. The glitch is rather simple... if a level is 'Donkey-completed' and you finish it with Diddy, save, and replay that data...

The boss banana hoards are handled rather oddly. When Donkey/Diddy kills a boss, a single, giant banana with a "Nintendo" label falls down, and the Kong gets excited about it. Is there some sort of significance to this? And I can certainly agree with the fact that K. Rool kidnapped DK in e...

SIXTEEN empty level slots which actually fade-in to a gray screen or crash... I sense a cover-up! Are you suggesting that the empty slots which freeze could actually still contain level data? Or are they just pointing to the wrong place in ROM or what? Be funny if the Pacifica levels were still in ...

Well, I sadly wasn't able to find the glitch again for some reason, but with the help of the Warp Modifying PAR code '7E00C0 XX', I was able to warp to the level that the weird rocket warp glitch sent me to. I believe it was level $00, and it does contain a few sprites, which I didn't remember at th...

Wow! I think this helped me find that weird level I was sent to in Rocket Rush!

I think Donkey leaving the bananas as a trail in DKC2 is certainly a possibility, despite the logical problems of a single gorilla having that many bananas on hand to leave behind (of course, this game has floating barrels that can shoot you out, so anything is possible.) Although, I don't think it ...

This is a rather odd question to ask, but I've been thinking about it... I can't think of an instance from the top of my head where the Kongs are mentioned to have ever eaten bananas (except possibly where bananas are regarded as 'delicious') let alone actually seeing one eat a banana. It seems that...

In all honesty, I made my description for my YouTube video before I watched Quirino26's version of performing this trick, and he does it WITHOUT getting in the barrel cannon at all. Better update my description accordingly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1RYHHKJfFg

That's a YouTube video of that ZMV movie so everyone can see it (in addition to a much more in-depth description for performing the glitch.)

This trick takes very precise timing and speed, so it'll take a lot of practice to execute correctly: 1. To perform the trick, you must have both Kongs in the party and Kiddy must be the one in control. You'll need to have Kiddy get hit by the Red Buzz so that you'll gain temporary invincibility fra...

This is basically the same glitch as the "Donkey Humps a Metal Donkey" in Jungle Hijinx with Rambi, except you do this one with Expresso at Orang-utan Gang... Hot Ostrich Action!.PNG There are a couple notable differences with this particular glitch compared to the Jungle Hijinx one: 1. If...

I assume that the "Black Ice" part of the level's name refers to the sudden and unseen dangers that you encounter in the level, since you make a lot of perilous drops in this level and get less time to respond to obstacles than because you can't see what's below you when you fall, as oppos...

I can't really think of any immediate uses for this trick except for possibly the challenge in completing Slime Climb backwards, since falling using the crouch is significantly faster than just sinking. It sadly doesn't protect you against Snapjaw.

A somewhat neat little trick that's probably a glitch. To Crouch Anchor, you must be at either a ledge which is right above water or in a location where water will rise over it while you're standing there. The latter one is easy to do; all you need to do is stay crouched. For the ledge, you'll need ...

Incomplete Knockaboom.PNG I'm going to guess that this Knockaboom is probably still in the game, and is fully functional as an enemy. I think the reason we never saw it in DKC3 is because the level designers just didn't have any immediate use for it in any of their levels, and didn't get a chance t...

I used YY-CHR to look through the ROM and found sets of images of this guy: Knockaboom.PNG This seems to be the "Knockaboom's" sitting position before he runs out and attacks your Kongs. I'm pretty confident that this isn't an image of the Klasp, due to the lack of arms coming out of the t...

Rather interesting stuff. I've always noticed how weird this particular level is when I played it on my SNES, which was American 1.0. I never really played DKC3 extensively in any other version, so these subtle level differences sort of missed my radar. It seems that every other revision of DKC3 has...

The only levels that were originally intended to have water were the water ( ;)), cavern, river, and lakeside levels. There seems to be exceptions to this, actually. I tried the water code in several different levels, and some have different effects associated with water. But some weren't dependant...

Someone should try the code on Demolition Drain-Pipe, then. What's the AR code for swimming anywhere, anyway?

I forgot to mention that the ports of DKC and DKC2 don't contain new levels like the DKC3 port. Which is odd, because DKC seems like it could have used more levels than what DKC3 did. However, if we assume that the coding for the new Pacifica elements were dummied in DKC3 SNES, than it makes sense w...

I've was always a bit intrigued by the extra amount of work that went into DKC3's port compared to it's predecessors. Especially when it comes to this port's newly added world, Pacifica. Now... I think DKC3 SNES was somewhat rushed in its development, and as a result, ended up being shorter than wha...