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It would be like Super Mario Bros. 4 without Bowser You have clearly never played Super Mario Bros. 2, then, since it doesn't have Bowser. So, by your logic, it's bad because it's different. Makes a lot of sense. So DKCR and DKC:TF don't have Kremlings. This "flaw" (I wouldn't call it tha...

Earler today, I went to a Best Buy that featured a demo of DKC:TF, and I was able to play it for five minutes. (The line that I waited in was ridiculously long, by the way -- I waited for two hours!) The first thing that I will say is that the demo only used the Wiimote/Nunchuk, just like DKCR. I do...

Whoa, in the first new video (in the first post), the part starting at 1:05 definitely reminds me of Chase from DKC3 GBA. I wasn't expecting that. Awesome that Wise is subtly remxing parts of past songs into new ones! (Though this isn't the first time this has occurred, either )

I also hope this game is as difficult as DKCR. After playing DKCR, then subsequently playing the previous games, they feel too easy now. I also got used to the motion controls after a while -- and from what I heard about DKCR 3D's ridiculous button mapping (pressing R to grab, seriously?), I would a...

Seconded with Enguarde. He's always been my favorite animal, partly because swimming is a lot easier with him. And he looks so cool! Seeing him completely absent in DKCR was odd to say the least -- the only other game where Enguarde was missing was DKL. I'd also like to see Winky make a return. He o...

After being disappointed in Nintendo overall for more than two years, having no reason to get a Wii U (until now), and seeing ports of three-year-old games like DKCR, I am really excited to see this. Finally, I have a reason to get a Wii U! It looks great -- the dynamic camera angles will allow for ...

In light of a recent video with footage of a prototype version of DKL2 , I decided to look for some commercials of various DKL games on YouTube. And, I found a couple interesting ones of DKL3. The first one is this Dutch commercial. I actually discovered this one years ago, but I had forgotten about...

I think splitting the topic into three smaller topics (for DKC3, DKL3, and DKL2) would be a good idea, especially when most people looking into this topic are mainly interested in DKC3.

(Though my post before would be hard to split...)

Wow, I found a ton of differences in DKL2 within the minute of footage (not even) that was in the video! The footage starts at around 10:15. Here's a list of things I've found: ⋅ The title here is Donkey Kong Land II: Diddy's Kong Quest. The Diddy's Kong Quest subtitle was never present in...

I know I've said this to Qyzbud before, but now I'll say it to everybody: I'm really glad to finally see DKL maps on this site! I also like that, for the first time, boss stages have been added to the site! (At least for DKL, anyway.) I do hope to see the other two games soon. Now for the main reaso...

Hey look, this level looks unfamiliar to me. Maybe this port has some new levels after all. Though it does look like a hybrid between Canopy Cannons and King of Cling. How interesting...

I realize this topic is over half a year old, but I just found out that DKL2's cheat codes don't work in the Japanese version of the game. I'm curious to why they were removed... usually, Rare makes the Japanese versions of their games easier (like Donkey Kong Country and Battletoads) , but ...

While I can understand where people would prefer button controls, I wouldn't buy the game again just for that. And while motion controls certainly can take me time getting used to, so did the analog stick back in the N64 days (for me), yet nobody else seems to complain about that. Anyway, it turns o...

Thanks! While I do seem to get a few people more interested in DKL3, I doubt the prototype would be completely forgotten if I didn't spend my time hacking DKL3... Also, I fixed the bugs I caused in some of the bonus stages. It turns out that the bonus stages do use different sprite tables after all....

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A couple of updates: 1. In DKC1 North American v1.1, the Star Barrel in Coral Capers is in the same place as it is in v1.0 (i.e., it's lower than some other versions). It's v1.2 that made the change to raise it by 10 pixels. (I haven't checked any other version here.) 2. In DKC3, this glitch was par...

Wow, I long forgot to answer this... but no, the only device that I use to access this entire website (including the forum and chat) is my laptop. Just to be clear, it only happens when I use the chat, not in any other circumstance. Also, I noticed there's a problem in this topic ... it stops render...

I'm quite late to reply to this, but thanks to both of you! I just updated the first post slightly, and I added ROM offsets for music in various screens in both DKL2 and DKL3 (e.g. the title screen, bonus stage screens, etc.), in case anybody wants to know how to change those (like changing the bonu...

So I recently discovered a glitch that makes it possible to enter the Lost World without neeing 35 DK Coins. This glitch will only work in the English versions (v1.0, v1.1, and the prototype will all work), not the Japanese version. There are also some prerequisites that you need to be aware of: &sd...

I know that some people have wanted to see this for a while, but I present to you all... maps of the entire DKL series! I used custom ripping tools to accomplish this -- the tool for DKL2 and 3 can be found here , and I'll eventually release the DKL map ripping tool. These maps cover every level ...

Thanks! I'm glad someone appreciates my hard work. :D I will create a new topic about it. I didn't before because I didn't want to clutter the forum with map topics XD I already made that DKL2/3 Map Dumper topic a while back, after all. But in any case, I'll go ahead and made a DKL map topic. (Which...

That would be cool if the map page can imitate the night transition effect the way it does in the games. One thing, though, is that the levels have lots of color per palette, so it would be a lot of colors to work with! Also, the transition is gradual (i.e. it doesn't change instantly from color A t...

This looks like a hoax when I see a level from DKCR in there. It looks as though someone went on Wikipedia, took a screenshot there, and edited it to fit the 3DS's resolution. But if there is a new DK game for the 3DS, I guess I will have to get a 3DS now... (And I was also hoping it would be a...

OK, after some observation for weeks, I've figured out what forces me to be logged off. It occurs whenever I have a tab open for the chat, and my computer hibernates while leaving the tab open (which occurs whenever I step away from my computer for hours). When I turn on my computer again, I'm alway...

I've looked at some of the maps -- while I am impressed at the ripping job (it must have been hard work), I do have to mention one thing -- I noticed that various areas that are off-screen look odd, and are generally incomplete. Rocket Rush exemplifies this issue, where there are lots of off-screen ...

No, I'm not making this up. At ROM offset 0x6F7A (in both the English and Japanese versions of Donkey Kong Land), you can find a PFLOYD string. It's followed by four other bytes, 00 00 05 03, and this ten-byte string is copied to AA00-AA09, AA40-AA49, and AA80-AA89 in RAM, for each of the three save...

I have Windows 7 64-bit, and it finished without crashing.

Thanks for getting around to adding that DKC2 difference! Now I'm posting to mention a DKC3 difference that I recently found... It's in Krevice Kreepers, not too far into the level. In the North American version, there is a floating balloon in a gap to the right of some Klasps. On the top of this ga...

I'm getting logged off constantly, even when I have the checkbox to keep me logged in checked. It happened all day yesterday and it also just happened now, so it's an ongoing issue. It seems to happen often when I enter the chat room and then leave, but I'm not 100% sure if this is the cause.

It's nice that this has finally been released to the public! I like this build better than the 2003 build, even though it is far from finished. It makes me wonder how this would have turned out if Rare just stuck to this and didn't completely revamp it (let's face it, even if it wasn't turned into B...

Gaz is sure going to have a field day over this This will mean as much to him as the DKL3 prototype did to me.

I've actually taken notes on this for quite a while, but I finally decided to post this information to others to use. Since DKL2 and DKL3 are programmed similarly here, I'm combining these notes together. DKL2 music IDs ⋅ 00 - (Silence) ⋅ 01 - (Silence) ⋅ 02 - Stronghol...

Thanks, everyone! This was hard work -- in fact, I started it before there was even any public knowledge of the DKL3 prototype. (Incidentally, I had to do very little to make the tool work on the prototype -- mainly, I made the program create a separate folder for it once it was released.) The tool ...

Thanks! While I can't say exactly how much time I spent on this, it's significant and I often spent at least 10 hours a week (sometimes even more) when I was working on this. It involves: - Learning ASM (not that I did that just for this project, but it's still necessary). - Finding the graphics for...

Hello everybody, I have created a program that rips level maps from Donkey Kong Land 2 and 3. Yes, it works for two games at the same time, since DKL3 was heavily built off DKL2 (not too surprising, it has the same physics, similar graphics and sound effects, etc.) It works for all versions of these...

I have a new version of the English patch! It comes with numerous improvements, many of which have been backported from the Spanish patch. ⋅ The world maps are now animated! They were animated in the English GB version, but for some reason, this was removed in the Japanese GBC version. But...

I don't know how SNES headers work, but I'm wondering if the DKC3 prototype header is similar to the final DKC3 header (minus the checksum, assuming the SNES uses one like the GB does, since the data will likely be different). Reading this prompted me to compare DKL3's prototype header with the fina...

Nintendo does love to deny plans for future games, even if they come to light eventually. They've had a long history of this, but who knows if we'll see a Donkey Kong game for the 3DS. It (or Pokémon, whichever comes first) would actually encourage me to get a 3DS in the first place (assuming the ga...

Wow, I didn't know about that situation with SMB2. While I did know about the prototype from years ago, I didn't realize that the person who dumped the ROM backstabbed the person who let him use it. That is a dishonest move, and now I sorta see why the DKC3 prototype costs so much. Still, $8000 is v...

Pressing A+B+Select+Start is definitely part of the software if that's what you're talking about. To the hardware, it's not any more significant than any other button combination. The software recognizes the A+B+Select+Start button combination and decides to branch based on that -- basically going t...

I recently discovered a glitch that can occur after beating K. Rool's Last Stand. Basically, if you turn the game off or press A+B+Select+Start on the screen where K. Rool admits defeat and gives you his six watches, unpredictable results occur with your save file. When I pressed A+B+Select+Start on...

Yeah, it does sound like the same patch. I guess Gaz just took the link from my YouTube video and didn't realize it was the same one... that said, if anybody wants a patch that only restores the Boss Bossanova music, I can do that. Now, an explanation of why certain songs are silent... the short ans...

Yep. I already mentioned this in my first post, and I also mentioned that I have plans to eventually update the English patch with restored animations. Finally, a couple of features that were inexplicably removed in the Japanese version have been restored in this Spanish translation. This includes t...

Thanks to you both! It was hard work by both of us, so I'm glad you two like it. And the funny thing was that I didn't plan for this to be released on DKC Day, but with all the time we spent on it, it ended up nearing completion earlier this week, so the 21st ended up being a good day to release it....

A little more than a month ago, I made an English translation of the GBC version. Now, there is a Spanish translation as well! This was a collaborative effort done by Kiddy14 and me. Kiddy14 did all the translating, while I did all the hacking. The result is amazing. Since the DK games generally use...

I've heard about this before. While I couldn't care less about the Virtual Console, this sounds ridiculous. Why would they remove games from there? Isn't the VC lacking enough to begin with? It's not like these are obscure games, either. I can see this angering a lot of people. Also, I can imagine i...

Sorry I've been slow to find updates lately... but I've been busy (as usual). I am still looking for differences, but in the meantime I found that Whiplash Dash's required time was raised in the final version. In the prototype, it's 0:45.00, and in the final, it's 0:46.00. (Prototype on left, final ...

I'll get around to the animation later. In the meantime, I found some other differences. I don't have screenshots yet, but I'll just list them for now: Seabed Shanty - There is a secret set of blast barrels that launch you through a wall, after the first bonus barrel (needed to get 1:20 in Time Atta...

Thanks for adding it! And yes, crediting me as "Blaziken257" is perfectly fine. I noticed another difference: The animation when grabbing a balloon is glitchy. The balloon takes a while for it to actually pop. Also, if the balloon started out as invisible (like a couple in Seabed Shanty), ...

Thanks for posting the article!! That is a huge list of differences -- much more than I anticipated. I wonder if I would have even noticed some of them if I didn't see the article... it's interesting how much things have changed. I'm trying the prototype as I'm writing this, so if I find anything mo...