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A new patch (v1.3) is released -- on the 10th anniversary of the original English patch! See the post above for changes. The link is below: https://www.mediafire.com/file/ya7a02rucugz35w/DKL3_-_English_v1.3.zip/file Note that this comes two sets of patches (e.g. one of the "Original" title...

As I previously mentioned, I have been working on making a new version of this patch with some new additions. This means that there will be a new v1.3 patch, and this is the first patch since 2014. It is planned to be released on October 13 , 10 years after the first patch. Here are the changes: &sd...

This project might seem dead, since there hasn't been a new version since 2014... but I've made a few improvements to this ROM hack. I have a couple of screenshots attached to show some of the new additions since the last version. I am also working on some other changes (such as other graphic improv...

There was a Discord all this time and I didn't know it?

I wonder if it makes sense for there to be a Discord to complement this forum. I'm not the first one with this idea, but I know a couple or so people (excluding myself) who already use Discord. It would solve the issue of new people being unable to register (which apparently has been an issue in thi...

As of November 21, Donkey Kong Country Returns is now 10 years old!

Earlier this month, prototypes of two different Donkey Kong games for the Game Boy (Color) were leaked (this seems to be a common theme in 2020!). The prototypes are of a Japanese version of Donkey Kong Land III, as well as Donkey Kong Country (GBC). The Japanese prototype of Donkey Kong Land III ca...

I haven't been here myself in a while but that's mainly due to being busy with life for a long time. I mainly focus on ROM hacking and I've slowed down a lot in the past two years due to being busy, so I haven't had much to contribute, if anything (though I really want to release an improved version...

So, it has come to my attention that there exist reproduction carts of various ROM hacks of the DKC games (as well as DKL3). Many DKC trilogy ROM hacks on this site have been made into reproduction carts on the Internet and they're sold on sites like eBay, Etsy, and Amazon. I'm not going to give any...

I've known this for about a year and a half now, but I still find this fascinating nonetheless. It's worth noting that in the ROM, the internal names for the Funky mini-games are referred to as Cobra Tracks (e.g. Cobra Track 0, Cobra Track 1, etc., all the way up to Cobra Track 4), which is an obvio...

Today (February 21) is the 3rd anniversary of Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze. That means that I got a Wii U three years ago from today. Since I've had a Wii U for three years now, I feel that now is the time for me to reflect on this dying console. Initially, I had no interest in the Wii U. It...

Well, I never considered that this music would be used in the two-player contest mode, because I've never played that mode before. So, I learned something new from this thread. Nice find! Though, I hope I didn't get people's hopes up with the false alarm of discovering unused music. I wonder if DKC ...

This topic will cover everything about the demos in DKL2 and DKL3 that appear after waiting on the title screen. Like many other things about these two games, the demos are programmed similarly. I haven't looked at DKL yet, but if that is programmed similarly, I may document that game as well. Initi...

When you say english version you do mean the En,Fr version right? Or was there another english version of the game? I actually said the US version, which was intended to disambiguate from the European version. I haven't looked at the latter version, so that's why I tried to make it clear that the p...

Hello! I think I may have found unused level fanfare music in the SNES version of DKC3. To explain: the ROM offsets $C38D-C418 (in the US version, at least -- I haven't looked at other versions yet) contain a data structure of songs to be played in the hidden music test (accessed by pres...

And now for a minor hack for the SNES version of DKC3: This fixes Kiddy's color palette in bonus screens when the COLOR cheat is used. Specifically, in the retail game, Dixie's color palette was properly adjusted to dark purple, but Kiddy's is still blue. This hack makes Kiddy's palette green as it ...

Nintendo seems really aggressive about fan creations of their franchises in the past year or two. There have been many takedowns lately, and the most recent is an ambitious Pokémon ROM hack called Pokémon Prism which had been in development for about eight years . It makes me worry if Nintendo will ...

I was originally going to hold off on the Switch until there was a game that I really wanted for it. But it seems that moment has actually happened, since Yooka-Laylee won't make it to the Wii U now -- it will be on the Switch instead. So I'll likely get a Switch for that game. (And I hope that the ...

Here's a small hack that I made for DKL3 GBC -- this one replicates the behavior in bonus stages in the SNES versions of DKC2 and DKC3, in that when you're running low on time in a bonus stage, the music will continually speed up. Specifically, the music tempo will speed up once the timer reaches 10...

This topic seems dead... but Super Mario Maker is not! Some of you are probably aware of this already, but Super Mario Maker will get a port for the 3DS. Nintendo really loves to make us buy the same game twice... though the 3DS version won't let you upload your levels online (I have no idea why), s...

I have a DSTWO as well, which works well for DS games/homebrew, though I don't like how fragile it appears. And I have used Lameboy for it, which I recall working fairly well, except the sound quality is somewhat iffy if I remember right. I believe the DKL games are all playable on Lameboy, for one ...

I'm glad you're interested! I'd like to upload a video of it, but I gave up on YouTube years ago and have no intention of going back. Maybe if there's a better alternative to YouTube, I'll consider making a video of this hack...

Some time ago, I got an Everdrive GB, a flash cart for the Game Boy / Game Boy Color. As you might guess, it can play the vast majority of licensed GB/GBC games (all the Donkey Kong games for GB/GBC that I've tried, as well as numerous other games, work flawlessly), and is compatible with most Game ...

Here's a little teaser for something that I am in the middle of working on... custom demos for Donkey Kong Land III! For now, I am providing an .ips patch which contains four custom demos in the GBC version, viewable on the title screen: http://www.mediafire.com/download/o7rj3r4j0cx84ql/DKL3+-+Custo...

Yeah, I've been slowly unlocking the costumes myself. As I don't have any amiibo, I've had to do the 100 Mario Challenge to unlock everything. I've beaten Easy 19 times, Normal 32 times, and Expert once (all for a total of 52 costumes, not counting event courses). Expert is dreadful, because many of...

I uploaded a few levels since the last time I posted here. Check them out: ⋅  SMB2J World A Remix (C9D0-0000-0086-3E46) This is World A from the Lost Levels condensed into one big level, and in the SMW style. It will be hard, especially when I added some enemies in certain places. Worth no...

Here is a small hack for DKL2 and DKL3 that lets you keep the Banana Coins and Bear Coins you have collected, even after turning off the game. Normally, when you turn on either game and select a save file, your Banana/Bear Coin count resets to 0, but with this hack, the count will be whatever it was...

I planned for a while to post my own levels here, and now that there is a topic for this, it's a good time for me to post mine! ⋅  Underground (C3FB-0000-001B-A3A7) This is the first level I made in Super Mario Maker, so don't expect much. Have fun with the large Koopa at the end! Also, so...

I am slightly late to mention this, but after waiting for several months, autumn is finally here! (In the northern hemisphere, anyway.) I welcome the arrival of fall, especially when this summer was absolutely awful where I live. Anybody who lives in the northwestern US will probably agree with me t...

Holy cow, Nintendo's E3 presentation this year was absolutely awful. The only good games were ones already revealed last year (like Super Mario Maker and Star Fox Zero); the rest of them were spin-offs of good franchises (like Metroid Prime and Animal Crossing), assuming the franchises were acknowle...

In a similar vein to the DKC revision difference topic , I thought it would be a good idea to make a similar list for the DKL trilogy. While there aren't as many changes across DKL revisions as there are for DKC, they still exist and some people are probably unaware of them. Also, some of you who go...

So I downloaded Donkey Kong Land 2 on the Virtual Console the day it was released in North America (which wasn't too long ago), and I noticed a change in Lava Lagoon, Glimmer's Galleon, and Clapper's Cavern. In those levels, whenever there is any flashing going on (such as when the level is about to...

I do like the idea of doing binary comparisons. It will be an ambitious project (mainly due to ROM offset documentation, and the large number of versions that exist), but it's a surefire way to find every difference, including possible differences that we haven't discovered yet. I actually attempted...

I realize that this thread is almost seven years old, but I have things to mention that haven't been mentioned yet. ⋅ First, I've heard this glitch (which I find VERY annoying, by the way) occur on my SNES cartridge, which is American v1.0. I know it's v1.0 based on things listed here (...

It's about time that NOA releases the DKC and DKL games on the eShop. Seriously, why the hell did it take them so much longer than Nintendo of Europe or Japan? Then again, this isn't the first time they've screwed up (see SMB3, SMBDX, Wario Land 1-3, and the small New 3DS). But anyway, it's nice tha...

Nintendo of America has FINALLY used their head and released all six DKC/DKL games on the Virtual Console. It only took them over three months after everybody else. Here's a link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWDFolSymws I have no idea why it took them so long, but at least it's better late than ...

So, today is February 21, which is the first anniversary of Tropical Freeze! It's hard to believe that it's been a year already, but time sure flies. A year ago, I got a Wii U just so I can play this amazing game. And I don't regret it! While the game is very difficult, on par with Returns, I have a...

I have heard about this before and I am glad to see this happening. Rare may not be the company it once was, but at least the people who used to be there are still making games! There's one thing I'd like to know, though... is there any mention of which consoles this game will come out on? I hope, a...

I'm glad to hear it! Let me know when you get around to doing your Let's Play of this game. I am happy that people like my patch! And now I have some good news -- the newest patch has been released! The link is on top of this page. Or if you don't feel like scrolling all the way up, you can click he...

Happy birthday, Gaz!

I first saw the unused Manic Mincers room when looking at this page ; I hadn't noticed that you also made a post about it earlier (or included it in your map terrain). That page also has a bunch of other unused room layouts that aren't in your post, such as the mine or temple layouts. And no, I didn...

I always thought that Mincer room was odd in the SNES version. It felt so out of place in that version. Though in the GBC and GBA versions, that room has the normal bonus stage music instead of the cave music. I am not sure if the room is required to get 101% in those versions, though. Also, I faint...

So, after over a year since the last time I updated this patch, I have a new one coming out soon! This makes a few improvements over the last patch, and I'm sure that people will be happy with them. The most notable change is that Bear's animation has been restored! It was originally only present in...

One name that caught my attention was Cheato. I do remember those books that would fly in one of the rooms in Creepy Castle, and they definitely reminded me of Cheato from the Banjo-Kazooie series... so it's funny to see that its Japanese name actually is Cheato! At the same time, it's a bit weird, ...

I hate Nintendo of America nowadays. They refuse to release any Donkey Kong games on the Virtual Console here (at least the ones worth playing). Japan got all three DKL games earlier this year, and Europe got all DKC and DKL games this month... and meanwhile, North America gets NOTHING . What an ins...

Happy birthday, Qyzbud!

12 years ago from today (September 24), Microsoft bought Rareware and effectively ruined them... and I remember the time when there weren't any good Donkey Kong games for over a decade back in the 2000's (except for maybe those inferior GBA ports of the DKC games). I mentioned this before, so I will...

¡Feliz cumpleaños, Kiddy14! I hope you have a great day today!

I know I'm very late to post this, but I do find it odd that the .elf file is perfectly acceptable to link to, but the .gba file isn't. This seems rather inconsistent and arbitrary... Naturally, I won't give a .gba link just to be safe, but I still feel the need to mention this...

Is the SNES capable of changing palettes while the screen is drawing, between scanlines? If that makes sense at all... Since Funky's surfboard is positioned above Dixie, maybe it is possible to do an ASM hack where the one of the sprite palettes is initially the one intended for the surfboard. Then,...