DKC Atlas Forum

1477. Rambi

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...

Also I noticed editing the sprite only changes the DK sprite that is displayed on the world map(DK Island) and not the sub world maps. For the Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong world map sprites, there are two different sizes: the smaller ones are used on the DK Island Map, while the slightly larger ones ...

In a novel that I own of the first game, the animal buddies can talk, but I'm not sure if this should be considered canon. Not only does Squawks talk, but Rambi, Expresso, and Enguarde do as well. Poor Winky doesn't even get a single mention in the story however. Funky and Candy don't either...

Yes, but the Kremlings already raided it once. The lazy oaf of a bodyguard didn't put up a fight, nor did he even know it was raided until after the fact. (This answer may not be stupid enough, as it makes sense in the context of one game if you think about it.) What on Earth are they making in the ...

PG-13 answer incoming...



In the SNES version of DKC3, why is Swanky always standing inside a barrel?

Rainbowsprinklez and I were joking in the two replies before yours. As my subtle text in parentheses indicates, I don't really recommend leaving your console running for that long. It's hard to tell how a failing battery might behave (other than the fact that it will inevitably cease to work altoget...

So EZ! Never urn off your console again! I'm sure there are no adverse side effects in that scenario! This. You won't lose your DKR save data, but you'll never be able to play a different N64 game ever again! :twisted: (Honestly though, this can't be good for the health of a game console.&#...

My theory: It's a leftover of an earlier design.

That particular flag is a sprite, unlike all other Jolly Rogers in the game which are on the background layer. For this reason, it was likely overlooked when the rest of them were updated to use the final Kroc and Krossbones (Jolly Krocker?) design.

I don't mean to crush your hopes, but sometimes a failing battery can still work briefly. It just means it hasn't gone completely kaput. In this case, if you save, power off, then return to it a few minutes later, there's a chance (but no guarantee) your progress will still be there. I witnessed thi...

Is this where you downloaded from? https://www.zeldix.net/t1598-donkey-kong-country-3 You have to download the patch via one of the links under the blue heading, along with at least one of the PCM sets under the red headings. Typically, the PCM sets are separate from the MSU-1 patch itself, so that ...

Velcro. Lots and lots of Velcro.

Who stole Donkey Kong's shower? He had one before DK64 was released.

Disabling the checks will indeed enable the tracks, which is what the Pro Action Replay(PAR) codes do in the linked TCRF article. However, it's not quite as simple as that. The changes result in some undesired side effects, one of which is also mentioned in the article.

This death music is stored and loaded in the same data block as the Crocodile Cacophony music track, along with unused renditions of Diddy and Dixie's victory music. https://tcrf.net/Donkey_Kong_Country_2:_Diddy%27s_Kong_Quest_(SNES)#Unused_Music This indicates they would be used in a level where Cr...

Much of the content in that Super Mario Wiki page wouldn't exist if not for our findings in this forum, so it seems redundant to link it here.

Due to all 8 of the sprite palettes lines being used in his screen, Funky's surfboard has to share its palette with something, so the devs chose Dixie's palette. It wasn't always intended to be like this, though, as an unused palette matches up with Funky's higher-res render for the game. More detai...

Bumping this topic reminded me that I need to fix all of the broken image links in the first post yet again. I will edit this post once I have. EDIT (1/18/2023): I fixed the links in the initial post yesterday, and added a few links to other posts within this topic that have discoveries from users o...

You can throw it at something, but it won't roll like a normal barrel will. DK Barrels might also behave this way. Throughout the DKC series, DK Barrels mostly break on impact when thrown, but if I recall, in DKC3 there are oddly a few exceptions to this rule. Somewhat related to this: DKC3 is the ...

All three games have a placeholder level in ID 00. In addition to those you mentioned, DKC1 has a copy of Jungle Hijinxs with Reptile Rumble's objects under this ID. It's possible these were once used as test levels had unique level and object layouts, but the layouts were deleted in the final versi...

When it comes to starting a blog with tidbits of information like this, the thought has crossed my mind more than once. Think about a cross between Supper Mario Broth and Sonic 3 Unlocked , but with more of a focus on Donkey Kong (though not completely limited to those games). It could also be an ou...

Of the Animal Buddies to which appear in more than one DKC, Enguarde received the fewest changes. Aside from his hurt sprite changing by a few pixels between 1 and 2 (why?), and him gaining the sprites used for the charging up his Superstab attack, his sprites are identical between all three games i...

I'll need to confirm. Many of the waveforms for Diddy's sounds in DKC1 are just DK's pitched up. It makes sense that Diddy's sounds for DKC2 would still use these, even though DK doesn't exist as a playable character. The video uses a glitched sound effect. Squawks's spitting sound is technically a ...

I don't remember which battery the cart takes (was it CR2016?). Many sources say CR2032. WesternTanager, It may benefit you to get a battery with pre-soldered tabs. Either way, there will still be some soldering to be done, but that's one less step you'll have to do. Note: I'm not speaking from exp...

I've never heard of needing a Rumble Pak to save in Diddy Kong Racing. I have never owned one for my Nintendo 64, but could always save just fine. DKR does require a Controller Pak (a.k.a. a Memory Pak or Memory Card) to save Time Trial ghost data, but progress is saved in the cartridge itself. Unfo...

In addition, the cartoonish look of shock the Kongs have when encountering a boss is a reference to Battletoads.

In the official soundtrack CD released shortly after the release of the original SNES game, DK Island Swing is the name of the jungle music track as heard in the game, while Jungle Groove is a higher-quality arrangement of this track, exclusive to the soundtrack. The tracks were unnamed in the game ...

I still stand by the idea that they were meant to be used when losing a bonus game, as DKC2 doesn't use an animation for that. My theory is that scrolling would lock, and the characters would sulk while walking off the screen, as the bonus lose fanfare played. Another user found a small raincloud th...

Despite all the complainers, I'm looking forward to seeing this on its opening weekend! My main gripe with the second trailer is that we don't get to hear D.K. or Cranky speak at all. Surely they wouldn't have hired Seth Rogen and Fred Armisen to just make ape sounds? I know this has been said numer...

WesternTanager794 wrote:This is probably a ridiculous question, but I read something about a cut scene where the kongs hang a rare logo on a Christmas tree. Is this actually in the game?

No. The closest thing to this is the render Rare made for their 1996 Christmas card:

The quickest way is to use the XOR (exclusive OR) bitwise operation. In Windows calculator, bitwise operations are in the dropdown labeled "Bitwise" just above the keypad. Simply type your address, click the "Bitwise" dropdown, select XOR, type in the value to the right of XOR ab...

Entities with certain behavior types have flags which can be set so that they will jump when the player does (e.g. the Purple Klap-Traps in Loopy Lights), or can ride platforms (e.g. several baddies in Platform Perils). I can't recall how the animal crates are made unsmashable, but I remember encoun...

Cyclone, you mentioned with some music can cause the tire sound to be messed up. Well, from my own experience of ROM hacking, I have encountered that issue with Credits Concerto. If this pertains any importance, it was in an altered Oil Drum Alley. I have a guess that Gangplank Galleon would also m...

Probably... to be honest, I skipped many of those steps by replacing Donkey with Dixie, instead of adding. On several of the steps, I previously had ", replacing Kiddy's", but it got repetitive. There definitely isn't enough space to add another Kong alongside the other two, short of gett...

To replace a character, you would need to make the following changes: ⋅ Import all sprites of the character from the source game into DKC3 ⋅ Convert and import the collision data for these sprites into DKC3 ⋅ Create, convert, and import custom sprites for animations tha...

Tell Qyzbud to change the link to this topic bcz spam is bad and why he put spam in this website Wish it was that easy. I know of no way to contact him outside of here. A private message could be sent, but who knows how long it could take for him to respond, if at all. (EDIT: Qyzbud mentioned his e...

Do you mean the German v1.1 of DKC2? DKC2 has no v1.2. The versions released in Germany with English and German language options are 1.0 (CRC32 checksum 4C794A4D) and 1.1 (CRC32: 2EB33785), and the rest of Europe received only v1.1 with English and French language options (CRC32: 2EA6B7E8).

Sorry,, Matt. I'm ignorant. Can you please explain what the wave form is? 'Waveforms' here refers to the raw bit-rate reduced (BRR) Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation (ADPCM) sound "files" used in the music and sound effect sequences. I wrote "files" in quotes because S...

The backgrounds often use separate palettes stored in the ROM, but the tinted sprite palettes are nearly always created by copying a large chunk of the sprite palette data into RAM, ANDing each of the color channels to get them separated, and performing various arithmetic operations on each of them....

Made a reply to your post at romhacking.net without realizing that you also made a thread here, and that rainbowsprinklez wrote a reply before I did. Anyway, these offsets are correct, but only for (U) revision 1.2. Most other documentation is for U R1.0, which also happens to match U R1.1 in this c...

Cyclone wrote:Hi, I just have a question about the location of a pointer for Cranky's dialog.

I have this text block....

Gnawty the beaver can
be rolled or jumped on!

I can't seem to find the pointer for this text block.

Any ideas? Thanks!

That text block isn't used anyway.

1064. "wretched"

1062. "." (End of sentence)

I skipped 1061 because I accidentally counted 1045 a second time at the beginning of this page.

1053. "to"

1051. "caused"

As Qyzbud has been largely AWOL for years, I would say this is dead. Since he is the site's webmaster, I doubt any new features will ever be added. That link now redirects to spam because it seems that he let his URL shortening service lapse, and they repurposed the URL. It originally redirected to ...