DKC Atlas Forum

Getting Diddy in Brawl wasn't a prize, it was a given. Every one of your other points were a given too, in that most playable characters got just as many if not more representation than Donkey. It's impressive if one just compares the number of DK features to Melee, but still lousy compared to what...

Mattrizzle, that's amazing! I can't believe there is so much unused stuff left in the game, along with missing frames of animation. Some of this stuff, like the fish, was put back in for the Game Boy Advance port. Could you check out the sprite data for K. Rool at some point? I wonder if it actually...

It's just a popularity contest. And the occasional whim of the developer, as the case was with Ice Climbers. Little regard is given to the actual importance and relevence of a given series. Donkey gets screwed for a number of reasons: 1) Nintendo doesn't think he's a high-priority franchise, 2) He h...

Yes, I actually mentioned a few of those cases in my emails to him. Another instance would be King K. Rool, who had extra frames in his animation cycles that weren't there in the original, making them a lot smoother.

That's correct Simion, and you can read a bit more info on that matter here: http://www.dkc-atlas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=95" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; To follow that up, I had in fact got a reply from Nintendo about the matter. Their response boiled down to "Proba...

No, only by this post could you call it truly complete.

Sorry, I said I wouldn't do this, but... DKC2 ending avatar, 102 posts, you understand.

Actually, I may have evidence that Nintendo has indeed retained all the old DK resources. Some may have seen this before, but it's a Japanese commercial of DKC3 for the GBA. http://youtube.com/watch?v=IZ_myU3lGI0&feature=related" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Gaze at those pristi...

I just felt like pointing out this is my 100th post.

That said, no more references to landmark posts shall be made.

I hope they still make that shampoo I like.

Pre-rendered automatically means "Rareified"? I see.

As for Soniccuz's initial review, agreed wholeheartedly.

Au contraire, plenty of new things were added to the DKC port. Most of them worthless and unnecessary, as port tradition dictates, but it's still something. For example, every boss besides K. Rool had a new attack pattern. Not bad at all.

That's nice and all, but they're still changes for the worse whether you care about it or not. Personally it kills my enthusiasm for the series because the characters don't look or act the way they should; whereas other people such as yourself would be merely content with their presence. Anyway, I'v...

Um... are you talking about the Paon designs? If so, you better get used to them. From the looks of it, they're not going anywhere. Better yet, I'll continue pointing out how crap they are. You don't simply embrace a problem if they're not going to correct it. The Simplistic Paon designs I can get ...

I just want to know about the next Donkey Kong game. I will bet cash money they'll use those horrible redesigns.

The PS3 and 360 hardware has reached a point where you could make a 3D Donkey Kong game that looks almost as good as the official renders. While it would be nice if Nintendo retained the incredible fun of swinging a controller around, I do hope they finally reach that level of graphic and processing...

It's probably a regional thing. Australia has the common term 'bushfire' while US and some other countries use the term 'brushfire' or 'wildfire'. A few years ago I was surprised apon noticing a new deck of Pokemon cards had been called a 'brushfire' deck, figuring out the reason later on.

Well folks, the RWP shoutout thread is once again a flop. And for that extra kick in the testes, all queries toward Rare turned out to be a waste of time. For a while it seemed like there was a chance - after all, the DKC ports utilized DK64 sound effects, and there were even a few frames of sprite ...

Terrible is right. I'm sure the sprites can be implemented better than that, but this is par for the course in MUGEN really.

With regards to wanting a sport/party game at all: it would depend on how well the integrity of the world was maintained. Take Donkey Konga for example. If it was actually filled exclusively with DKC music and remixes, had good animation and visuals, and was generally faithful to the series in all r...

Holy hell, I have NEVER seen that first image before. That's beautiful.

It really gives you a good idea of what K. Rool's Keep looked like, beyond the tilesets used in the game. Thank you so much, Kiddy.

I could have sworn this exact same topic was posted some time ago at the DKU, grammar and all.
With regards to the criticism, I completely disagree. 'Dixie isn't a charasmatic character'... sheesh.

Sounds excellent. I loved watching that Banjo-Kazooie run on SDA. Best of luck to you!

Played it, loved it. Easily the most enjoyable indie game I've ever witnessed.

So what if you're moving around on wheels instead of feet, and the moves and abilities come from a bigger 'character' than before? I believe we've talked about this before. To avoid a circular discussion, let's just cut it short here. You don't believe anything of value has been lost, where I belie...

Cyclone wrote:I came across this commercial the other day. Kinda cheesy animation but I wonder if that Donkey Kong model is the actual one used in the game?

Looks like it, but the rendering isn't nearly as good as the official art. That and the animation is, well, crap.

About this time last year, I recieved a ripped model of K. Rool from Donkey Kong 64. From what I understand, it's essentially a 3D screen capture during gameplay. This model was ripped, I believe, during the cutscene where K. Rool struts around his throne room. http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y125/...

Another unreasonable comparison. Metroid Prime had an FPS twist, but it was nonetheless extremely faithful to the Metroid series and boasted the same style of gameplay, design and atmosphere. Nevermind that though. From what we've been shown, there's little reason to doubt Nuts & Bolts will be e...

Raccoon Sam wrote:People take advantage of this by ripping N64/PSX models and optimizing them so they can have real-life Videogame models

That's awesome. Makes me wish I had a better K. Rool 64 rip.

Personally I'm not keen on fanwank, preferring actual facts and evidence to wild theories, but different strokes and all that. At least we can reasonably say the Kongs eat bananas, which was the original point of the topic.

K. Rool refers to them as Golden Bananas long before they actually steal them, unless you're referring to bananas originally stolen in DKC. Really though, that German manual is almost certainly an innaccurate translation, with more than a little liberty taken. Much like Japan's interpretation of K. ...

Is it really all that different? Yes. Any sorry platformer follows the generic platforming staples you described. The difference is in the actual execution. Nuts & Bolts follows the Banjo-Kazooie mold in an extremely superfluous manner - driving is analogous to talon trot! Buzzing around in a h...

Donkey Kong's the only one we know who stockpiles bananas; it's his personal hoard, and it's never been implied that he trades them for anything. Cranky Kong for example doesn't give two hoots about it. "Banana Milkshakes" have been mentioned on more than one occasion, so the Kongs almost ...

Wha... I swear I intended to write 'second post' there when composing that. Oh well. Yes the thread is long gone, and I've now made a new topic in what's hopefully a more relevant forum. This one, to be specific. Fingers crossed, I guess...

Well Quyzbud, as I mentioned in the first post of this thread... I tried asking at the Rare Witch Project, but no luck. I suppose I could try again, though. (sighs) Anyway, here you go, Raccoon Sam. All of these renders can be found either at The DKU Gallery or at the Gamehiker Image Gallery.

Interesting point Simion... if a music modifier can be made I'm sure a SFX version can be made too. Anyway, sure, I guess it couldn't hurt to upload the ones you've found. Are any of them related to K. Rool, by any chance?

I have PJ64, but it's useless on this end. I couldn't even run the game for the longest time; even now, it runs like absolute hell. It would take a lot of time just to get it to a playable state, if such a thing is even possible with this PC's hardware. I also have no knowledge of code whatsoever, h...

Thanks for the update!

You can disable the music anyway by going to the options menu and turning BGM to zero. The real problem you'll find is with ambient sound effects, such as the constant static in K. Rool's throne room, and the roaring crowd in the final boss battle.

Since it's been two weeks since the last post, a status update wouldn't hurt. Any luck, Quyzbud?

Planets and gravitational puzzles? Who would've thought that'd work in a Mario game? But it did, and the game stands as a distinct and different Mario platformer, because it built on its own new foundations; that of ball-shaped levels and gravitational pulls. And that also sets itself up well for a...

Not that I'm knocking the building mechanic, oh no. It's the most critically important aspect of the game to get right. So important, in fact, that everything else about Banjo must be compromised to accomodate it.

It's like Humba's gone from Native American tribal shaman to Native American yuppie. Much like Mumbo's transition from witch doctor to grease monkey. Just another example of this game sucking every ounce of mystique out of the series. Every gorgeous enviroment is entirely artificial, with the only s...

As Jomingo said before, you've made your point clear. I just completely disagree with it, for reasons that have been stated here and elsewhere. Really, it seems there's little left to discuss about the matter.

Kowbrainz, you might be taking this a little too personally. There's no need to warn me of becoming a "GameFAG" naysayer when the criticism is targeted towards the facts we know about the game. In simplest terms: some tolerate or even embrace the changing of fundamental aspects in a much-l...

DKC3's reception was diminished because everyone's attention was on the just-released Nintendo 64 and its flagship Mario title. It's a completely different scenario. And it should be noted that Super Mario Galaxy managed to innovate in a big way, without completely retooling the Mario world or its c...

You're about a year and a half late for complaining about the looks. :P Of course, it's not news. That's simply the reason the game's development doesn't captivate me, something I never mentioned here or elsewhere. Looking at these new screenshots, it might deliver in other areas such as gameplay a...

Banjo looks hideous. I'm sorry, but he does. I can't believe Rare screwed with his design that badly - apparently for the sake of being less kiddy and cutesy, whatever THAT means. I loved the Banjo games. The exquisite visual style had a lot to do with that, which I believe is an inseperable part of...

Flipped images are exceedingly common in pretty much any media.

So far my success rate in aquiring K. Rool's voice files is a big fat 0%.
DK hackers, I implore thee! Let us take up arms and march onward, to confront the beast that is Kong 64!

Cyclone: THANK YOU.

Man, I've been dying to see a better shot of that DKC2 boxart render. Lo and behold, there it is.

And that Baron K. Roolenstein render? Brilliant, just brilliant. Finally, a high-quality picture of him.

Once again, I took an expedition deep into the forgotten realm of Rarewhere. Although there was no sign of anything I was looking for, I did at least find some other nifty, hard-to-find DKC renders. http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y125/CMAugust/bellamy_side_jar.gif http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/...

And Qyzbud makes the save. Whoosh!