DKC Atlas Forum

Tiles are either 2bpp, 4bpp or 8bpp (bpp = bits per plane). For 2bpp you basically have 8 pairs of bytes, so 16 bytes in all. The bits in the 1st byte would be the low bit of the resulting shade for each pixel in the top row of the resulting tile, then the 2nd byte would contain the second lowest bi...

Yes, it's the standard DKC2/DKC3 one. Almost all the background tilesets in the game use it and most of the tilemaps do too. The single screens don't have compressed tilemaps in DKC2 if I recall, but maybe I'm wrong about that. There are a handful of decompressors, but the only standalone compressor...

I definitely knew about that one. I think it came up during the mapping for that level, although I can't think why because the maps all use the US placements anyway. [...2 minutes thinking...] I don't remember anything about finding it. I did play one of the Japanese versions quite a lot, so maybe I...

Hey! Where the heck did everyone go?

You have sprite entries in OAM. The entry contains position and so on, but also points to a tile (or multiple tiles) in VRAM that contains the shades. The OAM entry will also declare which "palette" of 16 colours to use for those tiles. The tile shades are used as a lookup in CGRAM when de...

There are a few ways to do the mirror-wrench sequence. You only need the mirror to get the wrench from Barter, but you can also give it to Baffle to get the Sewer Stockpile clue. Whether you give it to Baffle or Barter first, you can later buy back the mirror to give to the other one. Barter of cour...

Have you played Donkey Kong today?

It's a bit misleading the way it describes the 64KB RAM, stating that it has to hold the entirety of music and sound effects for the whole game. Most games will upload whole songs with all the required samples as they need them, so it's fairly common to overwrite the old data and start afresh. Say y...

BPS (and UPS) patches have a checksum check to ensure that the file being patched is the correct one. The idea is that most older ROMs (i.e. smc) would be distributed with an unnecessary copier header that would interfere with patching. So you'd want to use a ROM that does not have a copier header. ...

The attached file is a RAR archive. Typically people would use 7zip or WinRar to open these to extract the files within. The message you're getting is due to some other software running on your computer. A few minutes of Googling suggests it might be some kind of administration software, i.e. someth...

The title tileset uses the "standard" tile compression in DKC2 and DKC3, so the encoder from the SDK2 editor should work in theory. The tilemap however uses another compression scheme specific to DKC3 for which no unofficial encoder exists as far as I know. 0C:FE3D - Title Screen Tileset 2...

I'd maybe think about making connections based on corners. Imagine you're placing some tile g: a b c d e f g h i When you're scanning for valid connections during setup, ensure that there are valid solutions for each corner based on the adjacent tiles. So if for example you have some tile d that can...

The last time registration was open for more than a mere few minutes we were inundated by a bazillion kinky Soviet spybots, or so I'm led to believe.

Still, it probably wouldn't hurt to press our own red fellow some more on the matter. Qyzbud

Those Jungle Hijinx images at 5:34 seem to be a perfect match for the carefully orchestrated objet d'art we all know and love. In particular, the alignment and scaling of the background layer make it stand out as being an unmistakable Qyzbud original. So yes, that one and the other five levels proba...

I didn't have much finesse in those days. If memory serves, I found these values by modifying every instance of 6400 in the ROM one at a time and checking the results. :oops: More experienced eyes identify the hex snippet as a code segment. ?? 60 00 - SBC #$6300 (Probably SBC) 30 24 - BMI +$24 AD 7B...

I know a few people who've tried bleaching and highlights, but I've never been into that sort of thing myself.

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There should be a language option in one of the menus. Depending on your setup there might be a minor issue at the moment with permissions as explained here.

1. Bonus entrances and exits are numbered if I recall. For each level there is a list of destinations. Bonus Barrels have a number associated with them and will generally take you to the corresponding numbered area in the destination list; a bonus barrel marked "Bonus Barrel 1" will take y...

VGMTrans claims to be the successor of RareSPC and a number of other tools, but I'm not able to run it and I'm not sure whether it'd produce substantially different than RareSPC. Stickerbush Symphony, Bad Bird Rag and Steel Drum Rhumba produced various warnings complaining about pitch either being ...

Not sure what you mean by database files. Markster was following the wikibooks tutorial or possibly the updated version on superfamicom.org . I never had much luck with tutorials beyond setting tools up at the very beginning. I've found that they tend to either gloss over important details or simply...

Text is stored plainly it I recall, so overwriting it with any old hex editor should do the job as long as you stay within the space limitations for each message. Anything more advanced than that would require finding a pointer table if one exists and editing it to accompany the new lengths and offs...

It's probably a good idea for people like him to keep on topic not to alienate their fanbase. I had to stop watching a certain tech channel because the host was spending an increasing amount of time whining about how much he hates Christmas trees every damn week. YL's position is probably to avoid c...

Try to keep things civil yo. :funky: The statement "GroupA commits more crime than groupB" could be unreliable based on interpretation of the statement. It might depend on how you measure crime. Consider situations where someone commits a relatively minor crime (e.g. Keep off the grass), b...

Challenge:

Read controller input and change the screen to a different colour depending on the button pressed.

There should be a "save" directory in your ZSNES folder and a "save" directory in your Snes9x folder. You should only have to copy your save file from one to the other. It should have a ".srm" extension, so it would be called "DonkeyKongCountry2.srm" or someth...

Yes, looks like a bps patch inside that rar archive. Try beat or Flips to patch.

Those files should be in the "Mapchips for DKC2" directory. Platinum should be able to find them if they are in the same folder as your exported .ppj file.

You might also want to take a look at Super Gorilla Maker 2.

You have to specify the full filename including the extensions. Something like "waterfall.fmf", "waterfall.hdr" and "waterfall.sdk" should work. Also make sure you have file extensions visible in Windows Explorer.

Even if it's not functional in MAME yet, the known ROMs are still listed in the driver . pss63 = DKC + Super Tetris + Bombliss pss64 = DKC + Super Bomberman 2 The hashes for the DKC segments both seem to be the same as the common Japanese v1.1 version (3ADEF543). I think that SFC-Box thing more or l...

If there are only seven EEPROMs it seems there is one missing from the board. (7x 512KB = 3,670,016, I should have realised that earlier) :roll: The unusual ROM size might be the reason it didn't boot in emulators before. Most emulators will try to detect the mapper type by the ROM size and internal...

Even if the ROM is different the size should be the same. "Donkey.smc" is only 3,670,016 bytes compared to the correct size of 4,194,304 (4MB), so it seems like you're missing some data. If the ROM tries to load code or data from a high region and can't find what it needs it would almost d...

The bps patch format requires that the file to be patched is the same as the one the patch was made for. Some patchers can ignore this rule, but it's generally not a good idea to do that unless you know what you're doing. In this case the ROM to be patched should be the clean, unheadered v1.0 USA ve...

There are a few ways. The simplest would probably be viewing hidden caches directly on the map pages here by enabling the bonus overlays layer in the hud. Alternatively these can also be viewed directly with DKCRE . The latest release of DKCRE is also capable of generating json files with lists of e...

There is a Klubba's Kiosk render in the gallery. Lots of useful things in there.

The ship deck backgrounds are a bit complicated. The game loads a default background and alters scrolling values line by line to make it look as if it's moving, so it's not really possible to convey the whole thing as a single image. The untouched image would be this pastel-y one . The custom one us...

DK coins (a.k.a. Hero coins) don't actually count towards the percentage total, they're only required for the completely optional "Cranky's Video Game Heroes" ranking. Percentage breakdown: 1% for each of the 39 levels. (39%) 1% for getting all the bonuses in each level. (78%) 2% for each ...

For sprites there is only limited space for each level, which makes it difficult to add more. There is some extra space that theoretically could be used, but it would mean having to rewrite pointer for each level so they don't overlap. The SDK2 editor cannot do this and it would be too difficult to ...

The editor is originally designed for the Japanese version of the game, which only has Japanese text. USA and Europe versions have multiple languages where the area names are stored together sequentially. When the editor runs out of space for the English name, it starts to overwrite the foreign name...

The background thing seems to be a known issue (it seems that any resource specified in CSS won't get saved along with everything else, which is rather unfortunate). Firefox for instance has had it listed as a bug since 2001, but other browsers seem to behave similarly. I'm 99% sure it worked for me...

Browsers are traditionally more geared towards photographs rather than pixel art and by default will attempt to resample an image when the page is zoomed in or out by any amount. The technique is good for photographic images since it help reduce blockiness or make an image appear smoother, but it's ...

An antivirus present on your system may be quarantining executables such as DKCRE, preventing it from accessing files on the filesystem and therefore preventing it from accessing the ini file it needs to function properly. If this is the case, disabling your Antivirus temporarily could make a differ...

Everything required for DKCRE to run should be included in the provided zip found in the release topic . The error message suggests something is wrong with at least one of the ini files you have. First thing to try would be to redownload the program and try running it again to see if you get the sam...

They're not organized very well, but here they are: DKC: Jungles , Caves , Walkway , Mines , Factory , Underwater , Temple , Snow , Crystal Caves , Mine Cart , Treetown , Bosses , Forest , Gang-Plank Galleon DKC2: Ship Deck , Ship Mast , Ship Hold , Forest , Hive 1 , Hive 2 , Fairground 1 , Fairgrou...

All levels of a given type are usually stored together in the same layout. The game loads a layout and then uses a coordinate system (left, right, top, bottom) to determine which tiles to belong to current level. That unused area isn't part of what the game considers to be Kreepy Krow, it just happe...

Names are a bit harder, since you can only go by the sound. I imagine Google Translate wouldn't fare well since it would try to produce something into proper English words. ス - su コ - ko ー - emphasis on previous syllable ク - ku ス - su Actually, it turns out I had the character meaning "one"...

I was under the impression that it was generally accepted that DKC2's second parrot was "Flapper" while "Quawks" was the one in DKC3, but that seems far from the case. That wiki page is a bit all over the place, only providing two somewhat questionable citations. The first is an ...

I believe there was some chatter around that time about how to differentiate the enhanced URLs from the normal ones. It seems like those links weren't updated, but the page can still be accessed here.

I'm not aware of any other similar hacks that have been released for DKC3 (yet). I imagine most people wouldn't want to release an incomplete hack, and hacking an entire game is rather time consuming. Even this one didn't quite get finished for various reasons. This hack only uses basic object modif...