Submission #287: alexpenev's SNES Donkey Kong Country (SNES) in 48:18.95

Console: Super NES
Game name: Donkey Kong Country (SNES)
Game version: NTSC v1.0
ROM filename: Donkey Kong Country (U) (V1.0) [!].smc
Movie length: 48:18.95
Re-record count: 13545
Author's real name: Alex Penev
Author's nickname: alexpenev
Submitter: alexpenev
Text last edited at: 2004-08-27 21:05:17
Text last edited by: Bisqwit
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Status: published
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Submission instructions
Author's comments and explanations:
A 101% game time of around 39:40 (shown as 0:39, because seconds are not displayed by the game, but they are kept track of).
- Uses in-game warp barrels, plus a few minor and one major warping glitches.
- Completes all levels and enters all bonuses.
- Takes damage and loses bonus games to save time.

Strategy acknowledgements:

  • Snapdragon - Enguarde's location in Poison Pond and Coral
Capers. Final autobarrel in Barrel Cannon Canyon. Slipslide Ride bonus order.
  • Deviance - Barrel Cannon Canyon end-section, Snow Barrel
Blast and Ice Age Alley start-sections. "Rope jumping" and " tunnel warping"!!
  • Michael Fried - much of Coral Capers and Reptile Rumble
(DKCCC strategies). Trick Track Trek and Tree Top Town warps.
  • Bas "Iron Knuckle" van de Ven - Vulture Culture and
Millstone Mayhem warps. Barrel Cannon Canyon midsection. Manic Mincers end-section.
... the rest is my own.


The movie is worth watching because it's almost perfect, shows the optimal strategies, and shows all the known warps.

PS. The NTSC version is about a minute faster overall than the PAL cartridge, according to our experiments. In PAL you can execute a few extra shortcuts because Diddy jumps a bit further, but it's not enough to redeem it.


Bisqwit: Processing this as well. Both of these movies look excellent.

Bisqwit: Done. Took some time because libavcodec didn't like cmp=6 setting this time and I had to do many encodings to find a working solution.


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