DKC Atlas Forum

My first go on the cart, I get a score 2197, probably thanks to dying a couple of times in problem. but I have played the levels a ton of times anyway, so yeah. To you, it is bad.

The record at the competition was something around 5900, which has been broken anyway long time ago.



Post your scores here and what level you got to. Make sure you provide screenshots.

3,332 is my highest score after playing the competition cart a few times today. I made it to the crawlspace just before the Continue Barrel in Bouncy Bonanza.

This is just a rough test I did quite recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqKIMUnNdnU

It was mainly meant to show off some faster strategies than I saw at TwinGalaxies. I didn't really time anything to see when it is faster to waste time for more points etc.

Also: I did that with save states on an emulator, so it doesn't count anyway! Just for show =).

Here's a breakdown of how many points various events add to your score:

1	Each Banana collected
10	Red Extra Life Balloon collected Continue Barrel broken Barrel broken Animal Crate broken (except for Enguarde's, which gives 0 points) Each Letter collected Kritter defeated Gnawty defeated Krusha defeated Klaptrap defeated Slippa defeated Manky Kong defeated Klump defeated Coconut-throwing Necky defeated (flying Necky awards 0 points) Army defeated Chomps defeated Chomps Jr. defeated Bitesize defeated
25	Zinger defeated
50	Green Extra Life Balloon collected Bonus Area entered
100	Blue Extra Life Balloon collected All 4 Letters collected
250	Level completed

Whoa, kinda weird how Enguarde's crate gives 0 points, when the others give 10

I assume that's because you can't jump on it or hit it with a barrel?

The flying Necky giving no points is also odd, although I guess they just forgot about it, haha

Somewhat correct.

I placed an Enguarde crate in Jungle Hijinx, and got no points for jumping on it (furthermore, had to jump on it twice to break it, couldn't do it at all!), however I DID get 10 points from throwing a barrel at the crate.

Thanks for posting a scoring breakdown, Mattrizzle; it's great to have that for reference.

I haven't played this version of the game in a while, and I don't recall my scores. I think I was always more interested in seeing how far I could get (which I also can't remember ), but I do like having the score tracked as an extra challenge.

CountryFan wrote:I placed an Enguarde crate in Jungle Hijinx [...] had to jump on it twice to break it, couldn't do it at all!

Ah, interesting experiment! That is very peculiar... the only "two hits required" things I can think of in the game* are the Manky Kongs in the Japanese version of DKC, and that's with Diddy's attacks rather than DK's. I wonder if this Enguarde crate behaviour is the same in vanilla DKC...

[...] however I DID get 10 points from throwing a barrel at the crate.

Presumably that'd be more to do with breaking the barrel than the crate, though — right?


*Armys don't really count because it's not about the number of hits — it's about the Army's current behaviour.