DKC Atlas Forum

Does anyone know the purpose of that barrel under the platform immediately after the section of diagonal barrels, located at about 4545,465 (x,y)? It's under the platform with the mid-way barrel.

This does NOT work reliably. Sometimes your Kong will miss the hidden barrel. It works better with DK, if I recall correctly.

Presumably the game occasionally doesn't load the hidden cannon into memory before the Kongs pass that point (going backwards can cause object loading glitches).

Also, I should note that the Barrel Cannon that fires you to the bonus/safety-return is one of the very few Barrel Cannons that fire left (the other three are used in Jungle Hijinxs, Poison Pond, and Croctopus Chase, respectively):

D227 = Barrel Cannon (AutoFire) [Shoots: LEFT, Distance: JUGGERNAUT]
D543 = Barrel Cannon (AutoFire) (NO PAL) [Shoots: LEFT]
D559 = Barrel Cannon (AutoFire) [Shoots: LEFT, Speed: BERSERK]
DC47 = Barrel Cannon (AutoFire) [Shoots: LEFT, Distance: ULTRA-WEAK]