DKC Atlas Forum

We may never know. This is all speculation. Bosses may have been swapped around, so Kreepy Krow could have even been the boss of Krem Quay. I can picture the level without the rain in Slime Climb's palette. It just seems weird to have a ship mast sticking out of the ground at the end of Gloomy Gulch...

Am I the only one who finds it strange that Jungle Hijinks was originally called Jungle Hijinxs? Hijinxs as a plural form of hijinx isn't even recognized in any dictionaries as far as I'm aware. Nope! In fact, I mentioned that around one page back in this very thread . Though it was never named Jun...

My theory: Perhaps Kackle was originally created as the boss of Krem Quay? He seems awfully large for a minor enemy who appears in one level. This would definitely line up with his earlier design where he appears to be a higher-ranking official. A pirate ghost fits with the theme of a shipwreck in a...

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What is the yellow (controller?) thingamajig in the back? I found a clearer image and it looks like Expresso! Look at the shoes! It is indeed the large golden Expresso token from Expresso's Animal Bonus room in DKC1. In the earlier version of the render, a smaller golden Rambi token is in its spot....

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You are still a quality member to me, Tanager, just like Mattrizzle. Don't forget how important you two are, even if you don't think about it much. Older folks like me wouldn't have come out of the woodwork if not for you two* breathing life into this place! :ck-tf: It isn't much fun posting in a f...

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WesternTanager794 wrote:Are you going to participate in the count to 5000 frequently, Matt?

Just wait and see ...

No. He'd get cuddled too.

If a fox existed in a DKC game, what sound would it make when defeated?

148. No animal can have nine tails (Cat O' 9 Tails).

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Kinda late, I know, but congratulations, Sledgehammer!

WesternTanager794 , that movie is one to two years older than you. :scratch: What's wrong with that? I watch movies even older that all the time with my family. Also, pixar movies today are terrible. :parry: Nothing's wrong with it. Just an observation. :thumbs: I have watched countless movies olde...

Congratulations, Tanager! After almost 15 years, I don't even have half that amount.

140. Vultures (or any other birds) cannot use their wings to throw coconuts (or any other heavy objects).

WesternTanager794 wrote:Can water bears survive, Matt?

Sure, if they exist in the DKC universe. They haven't been proven to.

130. Primates (or most any living creature) would not be able to survive inside a lava-filled volcano. The air temperature is far too hot.

126. Snakes cannot bounce like pogo sticks.

Since I saw that MrsQyzbud's birthday is today (Happy Birthday!), I was reminded of this thread. If either of you two are still out reading this after nearly a decade, did you ever tie the knot for real?
Qyzbud?

I know the movie, but I'm disqualified from answering the question because I used Google to get it...

WesternTanager794, that movie is one to two years older than you.

I suppose this video is safe to share. As of writing this, H4v0c didn't include any external links in the video description or comments. 5r-x3xvFoWc This is from three weeks ago, before my involvement. Since then, the weird palettes seen throughout (with DK and the DK Barrels, the latter of which cy...

A jape is a practical joke. Hijinks refers to carefree antics or horseplay. They can be synonyms of each other. I haven't been as active lately since I've been assisting with a hacking project started by H4v0c21. It is a successor to my DKC2: Donkey's Kong Quest hack, but I can't share it here becau...

I would ask the following: ⋅ Why is Kongo Jungle the only map to have bends in its paths between levels? (I know the technical reason is that each of these bends have to be assigned a level ID. These IDs have special checks in code so that they can't be stopped on, don't show a name or ico...

It's always bothered me that the first DKC level is named Jungle Hijinxs, not Jungle Hijinks or Jungle Hijinx. It's as if the person who changed the name forgot to remove the letter s at the end. This wouldn't be too farfetched, as its original name was Jungle Japes. The change also made it one of t...

According to an illustration from a Nintendo-licensed novel, the hoard was brought back to the cave in mine carts. I need to scan this page along with the accompanying text.

I voted for Funky

Contrary to popular belief, I'm not a DKC character (or a Rare employee)...

Now we need someone to break the tie, or two more to vote for Parry and make it a three-way tie.

I remember it being mentioned that the volcano archetype was planned to appear in DKC1 originally. I can't find any evidence for this, but it may have been in a Scribes post on Rareware's website from the '90s or early 2000s. Someone referenced this in DKVine's DKU forums over a decade ago, but they...

Hell is bad, but that didn't stop some people from naming a town in Michigan after it...
(Also, don't forget about Lanky!)

Why do Gnawties take the Kremlings' side?

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Sorry, Sledge. I promise you that I won't make any more replies if the number will be a multiple of 100, except potentially if it's a multiple of 1000. Either way, I won't be claiming number 2000.

I noticed this oddity the first time I beat DKC2! My theory is that all Click-Clacks were supposed to use the ending palette in-game, but they were made brighter to stand out against darker surroundings and whoever was responsible for coding the cast roll either didn't get the memo, forgot to change...

Not meaning to expand this hack's scope too far beyond what it was originally, but if you wanted to go forward with this, you could also give Diddy Dixie's ponytail twirl, only have it go slowly upward instead of downward.

Didn't you do level design on Reloaded? The sole reason I'm credited in Reloaded is for converting the title screen for insertion into the game. I also did the version/credits screen that replaces the © 1994 Nintendo screen in the hack. In retrospect, both screens look ugly, but they worked then......

I haven't made a single custom level for a hack, unless you count this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ5GDAEEkdg I also haven't modified a single byte of any game not on one of the following consoles: Arcade*, NES, Game Boy, Sega Genesis, Super NES, Sega CD*, Sega 32X*, PlayStation, Nintendo 64, ...

This reminds me of that Dankey Kang meme. Just make D.K. blue and change the bananas to rings.

I am the one who initially identified some of the unused 2D graphics/textures featured in Beta64 video (though Wwwarea found the code to make some of them appear, according to this post by runehero123 ), as well as the unused instrument channel in the character select theme which seeming corresponds...

Funky!

Space is somewhat of a concern (I wasn't sure how to compress background images until Kingizor made tools), but the latter three are the bigger issues. Phyreburnz's sprites exist, but converting them, creating hitboxes and animation scripts for them isn't trivial. Sprites for certain actions still h...

This info has been in my profile for awhile, but unfortunately, due to the many challenges that have presented themselves in the development of Donkey's Kong Quest , I have shelved it for now. Here's a screenshot of the last two things I worked on before putting things on pause years ago: https://ww...

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Sorry, I've got this one!
And yes, rainbowsprinklez, I took it very seriously! You should be ashamed!

j/k

A rare, now-extinct species of snakes that could inflate their heads just like balloons to float. Unfortunately, they all died from suffocation...

Why did Cranky change his name from Cronky?

How come the bottom half of the 9th 2x2 char isn't loaded on the 3rd row? Right before the chars in blue? I almost grasp this, just hasn't 'clicked' in my head yet... It wouldn't be possible to go from the fourth row to the third, as the chars in ROM are always stored in the order they are DMAed to...

Happy Birthday, Simion32!! Hope you've had a great day!

Simion32 seems to be a mashup of System32, simian, and ion (correct me if I'm wrong!), though Simion is a real name as well.

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Everyone is generally likeable here!

How come offset group 1 is 22? Shouldn't it be 18? Also how come there ins't a group 2? There are 9 2x2 chars. 9 * 2 = 18 (0x12 in hexadecimal) Remember, only 16 (0x10 in hex) chars fit in one row. This means the top halves of the first 8 2x2 chars will fill this space (0x0-0xF). Also, since 2x2 ch...

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I need to go back and combine the posts like I've done in the past. This won't be a trivial task though, given the number of posts that have been made since the last time.

Clothes are optional in Donkey Kong Country universe. The Kongs just wear whatever they want. (Bonus answer) For convenience when they umm...have to go. Have you ever seen a toilet anywhere that the Kongs and Kremlings travel? Those bananas have to be digested at some point. What were Rambi, WInky, ...

Rainbow ninja'd me, but since I put so much effort into this answer, I'm posting it anyway :mrgreen: can you help me with the below example? I tried (5 * 2 + 6 = 16) Rainbow alluded to something similar to this example when he asked you " Why did the big banana not have a dma group 2? " Op...

I figured out what the largest single sprite in the entire DKC trilogy is (This is spoilered for Cyclone. Don't look at this without understanding rainbowsprinklez's examples!): It's the Banana Bird Queen's huge egg from the true ending of DKC3 (sprite #$3B33)! dkc3_banana_bird_queen...

Whoa, I didn't expect that! Not too bad for a first attempt. One particular image I need to make into a sprite is over 128 pixels wide by over 32 pixels tall. If using only 8x8 tiles, that would use more than 64, or over half of OAM! In all three DKC games, K. Rool is the largest character made enti...

Unfortunately, the way I do it is convoluted as DKC formats sprite data in such a way that they can optimally transfer the data with dma calls. if I recall correctly, mixing and matching 8x8s and 16x16s gets really boggling! I'm not sure I am the best to describe that... Matt? Ugh, tell me about it...

Thanks Mattrizzle. To the point as always! It turns out the Palette I used for the DK Map sprites was wrong. I was using rainbowsprinkelz editor. But the palette in your screenshots seems correct. Yes. Your palettes were wrong. Palette makes a BIG difference. There is no array of available palettes...