This FAQ is also available via FTP (ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/vi/vidgames/faqs/dkc.faq), courtesy of GamePro magazine's Andy Eddy.

This FAQ has three major sections:

1. "Frequently Asked Questions" about things other than bonus rooms and hard-to-find items.
2. A list of the locations of all 67 bonus rooms.
3. A list by level of all hard-to-find objects (icons, crates, letters).

Frequently Asked Questions - about things other than Bonus Rooms

Questions:

1. How do I beat the bosses?
2. How many levels are there in Donkey Kong Country?
3. How can I tell if I've found all of the bonus rooms in a level?
4. How can I jump for extra distance (horizontally)?
5. How can I grab things out of a pit without falling to my death?
6. What's the "Diddy controller code"? How does it work?
7. Where are the special "2x" icons?
8. Are there any ways to bypass parts of some levels?
9. Does the ending change depending on the percentage of completion?
10. Is the original "Donkey Kong" game hidden within DKC?
11. Are there any "warps"?
12. Are there any Game Genie codes?
13. Other controller codes
14. How do I finish Slip Slide Ride?

Q-1: How do I beat the bosses?

1. Very Gnawty - Jump on his head five times. While he is standing still right after being hit, he is temporarily invulnerable. Wait until he starts jumping around again.

2. Necky's Nuts - Jump on his head five times. Before he spits the coconut, he is invincible. You must get him between when he spits the nut and when his head leaves the screen.

3. Bumble B Rumble - Hit the bee with a barrel five times. While the bee is red (right after being hit) it is temporarily invincible. Just avoid it then.

4. Really Gnawty Rampage - Jump on his head five times.

5. Boss Dumb Drum - Avoid the drum (which will try to squash you) and then kill the monsters that it dumps. Repeat for five sets of monsters.

6. Necky's Revenge - Jump on his head five times. This one is just like "Necky's Nuts," except it spits more nuts after each hit (one the first time, two the second time, etc.).

7. K. Rool - you have to dodge several things in various stages (K. Rool's thrown crown, by jumping over it; cannonballs, by running between them; K. Rool himself running, by jumping over him; and K. Rool jumping, by moving under him). Jump on K. Rool's head when his crown is off. It takes nine hits to finish him off.

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Q-2: How many levels are there in Donkey Kong Country?

The "friendly" areas and the first six bosses do not count towards the percentage total. The remaining 101 areas (33 levels, 67 bonus rooms, and the very last boss in "Gangplank Galleon") each count as 1% towards the completion total.

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Q-3: How can I tell if I've found all of the bonus rooms in a level?

(e.g., "Ropey Rampage" becomes "Ropey Rampage!" when all of its bonus rooms are found.)

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Q-4: How can I jump for extra distance (horizontally)?

In "Jungle Hijinks," there is a red balloon above the group of trees is just past the [K] icon. There is a second red balloon over the next group of trees beyond that, and if you move quickly you will find a green balloon over the third group of trees.

But the trees are spaced too far apart for Diddy to jump from group to group, even with a running start. Also, the second and third sets of treetops can't be reached from the ground.

How do you collect the second and third balloons? By rolling off a tree, and then jumping from mid-air... which increases the total horizontal distance which can be covered in a single jump.

In detail:

1. Position Diddy on the right-hand edge of the first group of trees, where you collected the first red balloon.

2. Press "right" on the control pad and the "Y" button (approximately simultaneously), and Diddy will cartwheel off the tree towards the right.

3. At any time before Diddy finishes the cartwheel move, (the later, the better), press and hold the "B" button to jump as high as possible. (Don't forget to continue to hold "right" on the control pad so that you jump to the right!)

If your timing is good, you will land on the left edge of the next group of trees just in time to jump up and collect the second red balloon (before it floats away).

With practice, you will be able to jump these large gaps quickly and easily. This technique comes in handy later in the game -- there is at least one bonus room that I can't reach without it, and at least one more that is far easier to reach with this technique. But it is not stricly necessary to be able to cartwheel-jump, to get to the end of any level (or "win" the game with less than 101%).

Unrelated note:

This example, incidentally, is a good way to pick up lives very quickly. In "Jungle Hijinks"... pick up the balloon in Donkey Kong's tree-house and then these three treetop balloons, for a total of five quick lives. Then quit the level with pause- select (and re-enter to repeat as ofter as desired). I'm able to earn extra lives more quickly this way than with the "DYDDY" controller code (which is discussed later in this file).

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Q-5: How can I grab things out of a pit without falling to my death?

In "Stop & Go Station", the golden letter [O] icon sits just below the level of the surrounding land, in a pit which kills Diddy or Donkey Kong should they fall into it and off the screen.

How do you go about getting the [O] without losing a life? By cart-wheeling (or barrel-rolling) into the pit, falling partway down (far enough to collect the [O])... and then jumping upwards out of the roll in mid-air, to get back onto solid ground.

In detail:

1. Position Donkey Kong (or Diddy Kong) at the left edge of the pit, facing to the right.

2. Press "right" on the control pad and the "Y" button approximately simultaneously, and Donkey (Diddy) will barrel roll (cartwheel) to the right and slightly downwards into the pit.

3. Once Donkey (Diddy) touches the [O] and collects it, press and hold the "B" button to jump up to the ground level on the opposite side of the pit. (Don't forget to continue to hold "right" on the control pad so that you jump to the right!)

This is a move which requires some practice, but it isn't too difficult once you get the hang of it.

Again, it is not strictly necessary to be able to do this in order to "win" the game, but you can't get "101%" or pick up some of the interesting items (e.g., also the [K] in "Forest Frenzy", and many other letter icons and bananas, especially in the later parts of the game) without it.

Unrelated note: Not every item in a pit requires this strategy. Sometimes an item in a pit, especially a vertical line of bananas, is a hint that there is a hidden barrel cannon off-screen.

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Q-6: What's the "Diddy controller code"? How does it work?

The code is "DYDDY" (down, Y, down, down, Y). Enter that exact sequence of directions and buttons on the controller, during the introductory screen that shows Cranky Kong turning the handle on a record player.

In order to collect lives in this special area and then take the collected lives into a game, it is necessary to perform one extra "setup" step before entering the special bonus room: first get the "GAME OVER" screen by losing your last life IN A LEVEL THAT IS COMPLETED.

(For more information on the meaning of "COMPLETED", see [NOTE 1] below.)

(In a two-player game, the player who died last must press "start" to dismiss the "GAME OVER" screen; then "Player #1" -- the player using the controller plugged into the left-hand side of the unit -- must enter the "DYDDY" code, play the bonus games, and exit.)

(For more information on start-select, see [NOTE 2] below.)

The main map will not "forget" any of "unsaved" progress that was made before your death. Also, you will still have all of the lives and spare animal icons which you collected in the special bonus room.

(If you think you are following the instructions and still cannot get out of the special area, see [NOTE 3] below.)

[NOTE 1] Dying in a "COMPLETED" level

• It is not necessary that you find any or all of the bonus rooms in the level.

• It is not necessary that you die in the level which you completed the most recently, or a level which you completed since starting your current game. (i.e., it can be a level which you completed long ago, saved in a completed state, and had not revisited until you went in there and died.)

• It is not necessary that the completed state of the level be saved. (i.e., even if it IS a level which you have completed since the last "save," and it will revert to "uncompleted" status if you reset the game, it still counts as completed for the sake of returning from the special bonus room.)

[NOTE 2] How to use start-select

This is the same controller sequence which is used in both this game and Super Mario World, to exit a level which you have previously completed. The sequence allows you to exit from anywhere in a level, even from inside its bonus rooms.

If you aren't sure you are using start-select properly, try playing the game and using it to exit any completed level. If you can exit an already-completed level with this sequence, then you are doing it properly and should be able to exit the special bonus room in the same way (...providing that you had set-up your entry to the special bonus room properly).

[NOTE 3] Still can't get there?

1. Be sure you are trying to exit from the special bonus room itself. "start-select" is always disabled while playing any of the animal bonus games... so it is never possible to exit from them.

2. Be sure you are using start-select properly. Test yourself by using it to successfully exit from a "COMPLETED" level while you are playing a normal game (see [NOTE 2]).

3. Be sure you are dying in a "COMPLETED" level to get the "GAME OVER" screen before entering the special bonus room (see [NOTE 1]).

4. Try having an even number on your "life counter" when you exit. There are two versions of the cartridge; even though most people do not report such a problem, there remain persistent rumors that an even number of lives is necessary in order to be able to exit.
   (If you find that an even number of lives IS necessary on your cartridge, please contact me.)

5. If all else fails... try following the steps below, exactly and carefully, to test yourself and/or your cartridge. These steps reproduce a situation which is known to permit many different people to exit the special bonus room:
   1. Erase one of the three saved games, and start that game as a one-player game. (This resets the game to a known state.)

   2. Finish "Jungle Hijinks" by walking through the exit door, so that the level is marked with Donkey/Diddy Kong's head instead of a Kremling's. (It does not matter whether you visit any of its bonus rooms.)

   3. Backtrack to "Jungle Hijinks" and re-enter it. (If you have not done so yet, this is a good place to test your ability to exit a completed level with "start-select".) Kill yourself off. Keep re-entering "Jungle Hijinks" and killing yourself, until you lose your last life in "Jungle Hijinks" and then see the "GAME OVER" screen.

   4. Press "start" once to dismiss the "GAME OVER" screen, and wait for Cranky Kong to appear.

   5. When Cranky appears, enter the "DYDDY" sequence to get to the special bonus room.

   6. After winning at least one life in the various animal games, use "start-select" (see [NOTE 2]) when inside the special bonus room, to exit it.

   Following Step 6... you should be returned to the map area, back in your brand new one-player game. "Jungle Hijinks" should still show as "COMPLETED", even though you didn't "save" the game between completing that level and getting the "GAME OVER" screen. Your "life counter" should show all of the lives that you collected in the special bonus room.

   (If this sequence does NOT work for you, contact me, and we will decide what to try next.)

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Q-7: Where are the special "2x" icons?

Expresso

The icon is at the extreme right-hand end of the level, beyond where the level appears to end. (Go to the third (last) area to the right, stand on the last step on the right-hand wall, and jump as high as possible AND flap once for extra height, to get through an off-screen break in the wall.)

Enguarde

The icon is in a hidden room at the bottom-center of the area. It is straight down from Enguarde's starting position. (Go through an apparently solid wall.)
Incidentally, there are three other hidden rooms in Enguarde's area. (One in the top-center, straight up from Enguarde's starting position; one at the left-center, straight left from Enguarde's starting position; and one at the right-center, straight right from Enguarde's starting position.) These rooms contain groups of the golden enguarde icons.

Rambi

The icon is at the extreme right-hand end of the level, beyond where the level appears to end. (Jump on top of the entrance door, stick to the highest ledges while moving across the whole level to the right, then jump over the right-hand cliff and head down into the special area.)

Winky

The icon is at the extreme left-hand end of the level, beyond where the level appears to end. (Cross to the left-hand side, climbing up to the top of the level, and jump over the left-hand wall.)

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Q-8: Are there any ways to bypass parts of some levels?

• Barrel Cannon Canyon

  To skip some of the first half of the level: Walk up above the entrance (bounce off the "Kritter" to get up on top of the doorway) and jump into the barrel cannon hidden at the extreme left. Jump into the overhead barrel cannon of the tree that it deposits you on. You'll be transported to the last barrel cannon sequence before halfway point of the level.

  To skip most of the second half of the level: just past the continue barrel, use Diddy to bounce consecutively off a few purple "Kritter"s (in the vicinity of the second bonus room) and then off a green one while he is still standing on a small hill at the extreme right-hand end of the land area.

  After hitting the green "Kritter", bounce left and up as high as possible, to land on a nearby treetop. From there it is possible to jump into a high (usually off-screen) "barrel cannon", which blasts into a horizontal sequence that ends just short of the exit.

• Mine Cart Carnage

  To skip nearly the entire level: Jump over the barrel cannon that's just beyond the entrance (the one which blasts you into the first mine cart), and fall down as far to the left as possible (against the cliffside). You'll fall into an off-screen barrel cannon that deposits you in a mine cart shortly before the exit (there is one "Krash" cart coming the other way that you'll have to jump).

  [Source: Dave Kliman]

• Stop & Go Station

  To skip nearly the entire level: Walk back through the entrance door to be transported to a few screens short of the end of the level.

• Snow Barrel Blast

  To skip most of the second half of the level: in the barrel cannon sequence that is just past the golden Rambi icon (which is above a rotating barrel cannon with two "Zinger"s), blast straight down from the third barrel cannon. You'll land in a sequence of horizontal-blasting barrel cannons which kick you up and out just short of the exit.

• Slipslide Ride

  To skip about two thirds of the level: on the ledge above the entrance (where the first bonus room is located) there is a barely-visible on-screen barrel cannon above the entrance to the bonus room. (It is hard to see because it is the same color as the background.) When you jump into it, you will emerge a short distance before the end of the level.

• Trick Track Trek

  To skip the entire level: At the beginning, use Diddy and walk to the right edge of the wooden ramp. Do a cartwheel-jump to the right and up away from the ramp's edge, above the first soon-to-be-moving platform. You will get sucked up into a hidden barrel cannon which will deposit you onto the exit ramp of the level.

  [Thanks to Eric and Patrick Mulac]

• Poison Pond

  To skip a few sets of mincers: head straight to the left after picking up the [N], past a single side-to-side mincer and then a "room" with three rotating mincers. Go straight across this room and through the left-hand wall. Upon entering a hidden room, go through its left-hand wall to appear in the middle of the last vertical shaft before the exit.

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Q-9: Does the ending change depending on the percentage of completion?

Upon winning the game with less than 101% complete: just at the start of the endgame sequence, Cranky says a few lines about being sure there are some things you haven't found yet.

Upon winning the game with 101% complete: at the same point of the endgame, Cranky will instead congratulate you for finding everything.

All of the rest of the endgame stays the same.

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Q-10: Is the original "Donkey Kong" game hidden within DKC?

There have not yet been any solid reports in r.g.v.n about how to get there, and I personally doubt that it is present.

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Q-11: Are there any "warps"?

Note that it must be a accomplished with a single press of the "B" button at exactly the right time (I have not been able to get into the warp by constantly and furiously pressing "B").

The only paths with bends in the whole game are:

• between "Jungle Hijinks" and "Ropey Rampage" (warps to about the middle of "Orang-utan Gang")

• first bend between "Cranky's Cabin" and "Reptile Rumble" (warps to the middle of "Ropey Rampage")

• second bend between "Cranky's Cabin" and "Reptile Rumble" (warps to just past the middle of "Orang-utan Gang")

• between "Coral Capers" and Funky Kong (I don't know where this goes yet.)

Once you have warped, it is not possible to get back to the early levels of the game -- except by winning the entire game, which returns you to "Jungle Hijinks". (Since the intervening levels are not marked as completed, the "flight path" from "Monkey Mines" to "Vine Valley" is never made available.

[Source: Patrick McBride]

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Q-12: Are there any Game Genie codes?

GAME GENIE CODES FOR SUPER NES(tm)--FINAL VERSION

(c) 1994 Lewis Galoob Toys, Inc. All Rights Reserved.  Excerpts
from Game Genie(tm) Code Updates made available for the private
use of Game Genie owners. NO COMMERCIAL USE WITHOUT AUTHORIZATION.
This file may be freely distributed FOR PRIVATE, NON-COMMERCIAL
USE as long as it is not altered and all text remains intact.

Game Genie is a product of Lewis Galoob Toys, Inc., and is not
manufactured, distributed or endorsed by Nintendo of America Inc.
Super NES is a trademark of Nintendo of America Inc. Game titles
are trademarks of their respective owners.

Game Genie is a trademark of Lewis Galoob Toys, Inc.
U.S. Patent No. 5,112,051.

Donkey Kong Country(tm) Game--FINAL VERSION

THERE ARE 2 VERSIONS OF THIS GAME. IF THE FIRST CODE DOESN'T
WORK ON YOUR GAME, THEN TRY THE SECOND CODE

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Lives:

C2C9-4E2C  [Alternate: C2C1-4A9C]  Infinite lives

D568-C34D  [Alternate: D568-C33D]  Start with 8 lives
DC68-C34D  [Alternate: DC68-C33D]  Start with 11 lives
DE68-C34D  [Alternate: DE68-C33D]  Start with 16 lives
FB68-C34D  [Alternate: FB68-C33D]  Start with 26 lives
7468-C34D  [Alternate: 7468-C33D]  Start with 51 lives
0868-C34D  [Alternate: 0868-C33D]  Start with 76 lives
1768-C34D  [Alternate: 1768-C33D]  Start with 100 lives

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Invincibility:

EE65-C37E  [Alternate: EE66-C27E]  When your last Kong
	is hit, the other one returns--must have had both Kongs
	at some point in the level for code to work--reset if
	you get stuck.

1DCC-CA7A  [Alternate: 1DCA-C2EA]  Almost invincible--Switch
	off if you get stuck.

D76B-337E  [Alternate: D76C-327E]  Get both Kongs back
	on the map screen after dying (doesn't work when you
	fall off screen).

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Number of bananas needed to win an extra life:

DBC1-3D6D + DCC1-34AD  [Alternate: DBC9-340D + DCC1-3D6D]  10 bananas
F6C1-3D6D + FBC1-34AD  [Alternate: F6C9-340D + FBC1-3D6D]  25 bananas
7FC1-3D6D + 74C1-34AD  [Alternate: 7FC9-340D + 74C1-3D6D]  50 bananas
0CC1-3D6D + 08C1-34AD  [Alternate: 0CC9-340D + 08C1-3D6D]  75 bananas

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Jumping:

A081-1273  [Alternate: A086-13E3]  High jump for Donkey Kong
2D81-1273  [Alternate: 2D86-13E3]  Super jump for Donkey Kong
3D81-1273  [Alternate: 3D86-13E3]  Mega-jump for Donkey Kong

8081-1E73  [Alternate: 808B-1AE3]  High jump for Diddy Kong
AD81-1E73  [Alternate: AD8B-1AE3]  Super jump for Diddy Kong
2D81-1E73  [Alternate: 2D8B-1AE3]  Mega-jump for Diddy Kong

A08F-C273  [Alternate: A087-C3E3]  High jump for all animals
2D8F-C273  [Alternate: 2D87-C3E3]  Super jump for all animals
3D8F-C273  [Alternate: 3087-C3E3]  Mega-jump for all animals

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Miscellaneous:

1D6B-3FDD + 196A-333D  [Alternate: 1D6B-3D6D + 196A-3ECD]
	Keep animals between stages (keeping fish on a non-water
	stage or others on a water stage will cause problems).


DD8B-C28A  [Alternate: DDB0-34A4]  In the 2-player team
	mode, the inactive player can get control at any time
	by pressing A or SELECT on their controller.

DDB9-3DD4  [Alternate: DDB0-34A4]  Pressing Start and then
	Select will exit any level, including those not yet
	completed.

[Source:  Joe Sewell]

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Q-13: Other controller codes

BARRAL:

When the 'erase game' line is highlighted on the game select screen, press 'BARRAL' -- B-button, A-button, R-button (on front edge of controller), R-button, A-button, L-button. You will hear a chime if you entered the code correctly.

When you select and start a game, you will have 50 lives. (Current reports are not clear on whether or not you must select a slot where there is a game already saved.)

DARBYDAY:

When the 'erase game' line is highlighted on the game select screen, press 'DARBYDAY' -- down (control pad), A-button, R-button (on front edge of controller), B-button, Y-button, down (control pad), A-button and Y-button. You will hear a chime if you entered the code correctly.

This enables the sound test mode. Pressing 'select' will cause the game to cycle through the various musical selections that it plays.

BADBUDDY:

When the 'erase game' line is highlighted on the game select screen, pretty 'BADBUDDY' -- B, A, down (control pad), B up (control pad), down (control pad), down (control pad), Y. In a two-player team game, the inactive player will be able to "steal" control.

[Thanks to Ian Eure]

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Q-14: How do I finish Slip Slide Ride?

Near the end of the level there are two side-by-side ropes. In order to get to the exit, it is necessary to get to the top of the ropes. These are "moving" ropes which carry the monkeys downwards quickly.

The key is to jump back and forth from one rope to the other, landing slightly higher each time, to reach the top. By holding down the "run" button and "up" on the control pad you will hold your position on the ropes; at least you won't lose any ground between jumps.

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Location of all bonus rooms

Following are short, semi-vague descriptions of the locations of all DKC bonus rooms and their contents.

Index:

1. Kongo Jungle bonus rooms
2. Monkey Mines bonus rooms
3. Vine Valley bonus rooms
4. Gorilla Glacier bonus rooms
5. Kremroc Industries, Inc. bonus rooms
6. Chimp Caverns bonus rooms
7. General notes and strategy hints
8. Sample description interpretation
9. Kinds of bonus rooms
10. Acknowledgements

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BR-1. Kongo Jungle bonus rooms

• Jungle Hijinks

  1. First right-hand wall after the Rambi crate.
     LEVEL: red balloon

  2. Right-hand wall in the pit under the tree with [G]. It's just after a big hill -- or just about where the first bonus room exits, if that route was taken instead.
     MATCH: Rambi, Expresso, Winky, Enguarde icons

• Ropey Rampage

  1. Low off-screen barrel cannon, just to the right of the tree with [O]. (Walk to the right off of the [O] tree, fall straight down into the barrel cannon.)
     LEVEL: [N]

  2. Low off-screen barrel cannon, just left of the red arrow signpost. (Fall into the pit just before the red arrow sign.)
     FIND: red balloon

• Reptile Rumble

  1. Right-hand wall, immediately below [K].
     LEVEL: red balloon

  2. Visible barrel cannon above and left of a "DK" barrel on a hill, between [K] and [O]. (The barrel cannon is only visible when standing on the hill. There is a second similar hill after the continue barrel, which does not have a barrel cannon nearby.)
     LEVEL: only bananas

  3. Right-hand wall of two-"Slippa" pit, just past the continue barrel and the [N] icon.
     LEVEL: only bananas

• Coral Capers

  <None>

• Barrel Cannon Canyon

  1. Hidden doorway on the cliff-side just past [O]. (It is not possible to get to the doorway carrying a barrel. It is necessary to blast straight into the cliff-side -- intentionally missing the moving "connecting" barrel cannon -- immediately after collecting the [O] icon.)
     BLAST-SIDEWAYS: DK barrel and red balloon

  2. Right-hand wall of the pit that is between the 2nd and 3rd purple "Kritter"s after the continue barrel.
     BLAST-UP: top off-screen prizes: Enguarde icon on the left, red balloon in the center, and a bunch of bananas on the right.

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BR-2. Monkey Mines bonus rooms

• Winky's Walkway

  1. Visible barrel cannon above "Necky", just after continue barrel.
     LEVEL: [N]

• Mine Cart Carnage

  <None>

• Bouncy Bonanza

  1. Right-hand wall of the pit under a pair of "Zinger"s, between the [K] and the [O].
     MATCH: banana, bunch of bananas, Winky icon, red balloon

  2. Visible overhead barrel cannon, above the moving platform that is between [G] and exit.
     BLAST-UP: only bananas

• Stop & Go Station

  1. First right-hand wall after continue barrel. It's a short distance past the steel-rim barrel that can be picked up.
     BLAST-AROUND: only bananas

  2. High off-screen barrel cannon at LEFTmost position the first movable tire can reach (the left edge of a wide, shallow pit with three "Klaptraps"). The path up to the barrel cannon is marked with three bananas in a vertical line.
     BLAST-UP: top off-screen prizes: bunch of bananas on the left and in the center, and Enguarde icon on the right.

• Millstone Mayhem

  1. High off-screen barrel cannon above the entrance door. (Use the tire to bounce up on top of the entrance, then jump upwards from there.)
     BLAST-UP: top off-screen prizes: DK barrel on the left, bunch of bananas in the center, and [K] on the right.

  2. Visible barrel cannon over 3rd millstone. (Get the movable tire between the first and second millstones, by using the barrel cannon hidden in the pit to knock out the tire from the spot to its right.)
     SPELL: "RARE" for Enguarde icon

  3. Right-hand wall below the fifth millstone. FIND: green balloon

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BR-3. Vine Valley bonus rooms

• Vulture Culture

  1. High off-screen barrel cannon at the right edge of the land area with a coconut-thrower sitting on a movable tire. The path up to the barrel cannon is marked with three bananas in a vertical line.
     SPELL: "KONG" for Expresso icon

  2. Left-hand wall in the land area that is just past a sequence with a barrel cannon and two "Necky"s; before the continue barrel.
     JUMP: 2 blue "Klaptraps" for red balloon

  3. Left-hand wall beside a single coconut-thrower on stair-step "hill."
     BLAST-SIDEWAYS: DK barrel, red balloon

• Tree Top Town

  1. Visible barrel cannon up and LEFT of entrance. (Can get high enough by having Diddy bounce off Gnawty.)
     MATCH-KONG: red balloon

  2. Low off-screen barrel cannon in the second barrel cannon sequence past the continue barrel. (From the last of the three barrel cannons, blast low sideways at the lone banana, instead of trying to blast high to land on the platform.)
     BLAST-UP: top off-screen prize: only [N] in the center.

• Forest Frenzy

  1. Barely visible barrel cannon at bottom edge of screen when hanging on a moving rope. It's early in the dodging-flying-"Necky"s part that's shortly before the end of the whole level.
     FIND: Rambi icon

  2. Last left-hand wall before exit. (There is a barrel that can be used to open the wall, available at the extreme left end of this same chunk of land.)
     LEVEL: Enguarde icon

  [Thanks to: "Big Bad Harvey" for help]

• Temple Tempest

  1. Right-hand wall after the first pit. The first millstone will stop covering this entry. (The millstone can be made to vanish if it is in the way, by walking to the right until its clicking sound stops. Upon returning to the left, the millstone will be gone.)
     LEVEL: Expresso crate

  2. Low off-screen barrel cannon - straight down off the middle of three ropes. Just past the continue barrel and before the hidden [N], there's a downward-pointing arrow made of bananas marking it.
     JUMP: one blue "Klaptrap" for Rambi icon

• Orang-utan Gang

  1. Open off-screen doorway under the vine where the level begins. (Use Expresso to fly left from the low-lying land level where the first DK barrel is found.)
     SPELL: "WINKY" for Winky icon, then "RAMBI" for Rambi icon, then "ENGUARDE" for Enguarde icon, then "EXPRESSO" for Expresso icon.

  2. Right-hand wall under vines past the [N] icon. (Use Expresso to fly to the right from [N], under vines. At the rightmost point, there is a cliff-side with the hidden door, and a barrel which can be used to open it.)
     LEVEL: bounce off of tire to reveal DK barrel

  3. Left-hand wall in a small pit, under the last vine before the exit.
     LEVEL: bounce off of tire to reveal only bunches of bananas

  4. Right-hand wall past the small pit with the entry for the previous bonus room, just before the cliff that ends under the last vine before the exit.
     LEVEL: bounce off of tire to reveal [G]

  5. Right-hand wall immediately before red arrow signpost. (The barrel just before the last vine can be used to open every one of the final three exits. They are all in the same area, and the barrel returns after going through a bonus room.)
     LEVEL: Expresso crate and red balloon

  [Thanks to: "Big Bad Harvey" for help]

• Clam City

  <None>

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BR-4. Gorilla Glacier bonus rooms

• Snow Barrel Blast

  1. High off-screen barrel cannon directly above entrance. (Stand on the entrance and bounce off the slow "Necky" when he gets near.)
     FIND: Winky icon

  2. Low off-screen barrel cannon in the pit a short ways left of the continue barrel. (Watch carefully: an earlier barrel cannon will blast the player past this area and onto the continue barrel -- it is necessary to backtrack from that point.)
     BLAST-UP: top off-screen prize: only [O] in the center.

  3. Low off-screen barrel cannon on ledge, below the barrel cannon with three bananas and a yellow "Zinger" -- the last one before the land area with the Rambi icon. (Blast down from the "Zinger" barrel cannon, and head to the right, along the ledges.) On the way to the bonus room, the player is blasted through the [N], picking it up automatically.
     BLAST-SIDEWAYS: only bananas

• Slip Slide Ride

  1. Left-hand wall at top of the very first blue up-rope nearest the entrance. (Have Diddy bounce off a "Kritter" to reach the rope.)
     MATCH-KONG: red balloon

  2. Left-hand wall at bottom of first red down-rope. (There's a barrel halfway along the down-rope, in a small alcove on the right.)
     SPELL: "NINTENDO" for red balloon

  3. Visible barrel cannon at top of a blue up-rope. It's the third rope in the group of four that are found a short distance past the continue barrel.
     LEVEL: Expresso icon

• Ice Age Alley

  1. High off-screen barrel cannon on a ledge; follows a string of "Necky"s which sit beyond the landing point from the first set of ropes. When continuing along the ground level, it is possible to see the bottom of the barrel cannon's ledge when passing under it. (Use Diddy to bounce off the "Necky"s and over to the barrel cannon. It is also possible to get there with Expresso, but necessary to dismount him in mid-air in order to get onto the ledge.)
     LEVEL: Expresso icon, Expresso crate

  2. High off-screen barrel cannon on a ledge; the ledge is above the series of downward ledges with "Klaptraps" that follow the peak with a steel barrel. When jumping down the "Klaptrap" ledges as usual, it is possible to see the bottom of the barrel cannon's ledge when passing under it. (With Expresso, fly to the right from the very top of the steel barrel peak.)
     MATCH: red, green, or blue balloon

• Croctopus Chase

  <None>

• Torchlight Trouble

  1. Right-hand wall past the continue barrel. (There is a barrel that can be used to open the wall, immediately before the wall with the hidden door.)
     MATCH: banana, bunch of bananas, red balloon

  2. Left-hand wall just before the exit.
     JUMP: one blue "Klaptrap" for Rambi icon; the [G] icon is also in the room.

• Rope Bridge Rumble

  1. Visible barrel cannon in center of the second pit.
     LEVEL: Winky crate

  2. Off-screen barrel cannon above the second tire beyond the red arrow signpost. It is marked by a single banana at the very top of the screen.
     MATCH: Rambi, Enguarde, Winky, and Expresso icons

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BR-5. Kremroc Industries, Inc. bonus rooms

• Oil Drum Alley

  1. Off-screen barrel cannon under the first flaming oil drum. (Blow up the drum with the TNT barrel that is available by jumping off the rope very near the entrance.)
     BLAST-UP: top off-screen prize: only a red balloon in the center.

  2. First left-hand wall after the [K], a very tall wall. (Open the door with the barrel that is available from jumping down off the top of the tall wall.)
     MATCH: banana, bunch of bananas, Winky icon, red balloon

  3. Right-hand wall of the previous bonus level. (Match the single banana in that bonus level, to get a barrel which can be used for breaking the wall. Have Diddy carry the barrel and jump against the wall.)
     SPELL: "DONKEY" for red balloon, then "KONG" for green balloon, then "COUNTRY" for blue balloon.

  4. Right-hand wall of the pit under the first mid-air flaming oil drum. It is shortly after the second "Manky Kong" following the continue barrel. (Manky Kong has a useable barrel sitting behind him on his platform... which is useful for opening the area if the player does not have Rambi.)
     BLAST-SIDEWAYS: [N]

• Trick Track Trek

  1. Visible barrel cannon under the wooden ramp at the midpoint, just before the continue barrel. (Use Diddy and cartwheel-jump from the left, standing on the right-hand edge of the first-half moving platform as it falls away.)
     LEVEL: only bananas

     Note: Some people report that the first-half moving platform comes to a stop and does NOT fall away. It is still possible to jump to the barrel from the stopped platform. There are two versions of the DKC cartridge; perhaps this is one difference between them.

  2. Visible barrel cannon up beside a platform with two "Gnawty"s. The platform is about halfway between continue barrel and end. (Jump to the "Gnawty" platform while the moving platform is still left of it and on a higher section of track; then jump from there to the barrel cannon.)
     JUMP: one purple "Klaptrap" for red balloon

  3. Off-screen barrel cannon below the Manky Kong on the exit platform. (Once he is killed, just walk past where he was sitting -- off the edge to the right -- without jumping up to the level of the exit.)
     MATCH: red, green, and blue balloons

• Elevator Antics

  1. Off-screen open door, reached via the first rope that is just to the right of the entrance. (Use Diddy to jump left from the second rope, which can be reached from the ground. The second rope moves slowly back and forth a short distance -- jump when it is at its leftmost point.)
     MATCH-KONG: red balloon

  2. Off-screen open door in a hidden off-screen hallway, up and to the right of a three-rope segment with one ascending/descending "Zinger" along each rope. It's the next-to-last multi-rope segment before the continue barrel. (Jump up and to the right from the top of the third rope -- landing on an off-screen ledge. Continue to the right while off-screen, to get to the bonus room.)
     BLAST-SIDEWAYS: [O], Expresso icon, green balloon

  3. Off-screen open door, reached via the last "elevator" before the exit. (Stay on the elevator and ride it down below the level of the exit. Jump off into a small alcove on the right-hand side.)
     BLAST-UP: only bananas

• Poison Pond

  <None>

• Mine Cart Madness

  1. High off-screen barrel cannon at gap in bananas on upper track. (Reach the mine car on this high track via the rope.) It's shortly before continue barrel, I think.
     LEVEL: Rambi icon, red balloon

  2. Visible barrel cannon just past the big downhill which follows the [N] icon. (Jump from the mine car while it's still up the hill a ways, to reach a mid-air tire; bounce to the barrel cannon.)
     MATCH: Rambi, Expresso, Enguarde, and Winky icons

  3. Visible barrel cannon under the peak of the big hill immediately before the exit. (Jump from the mine car on the downward part of the hill, or jump to the left from the exit platform, to reach any of three mid-air tires under the track; bounce up and left to the upper-leftmost tire, and then to the barrel cannon.)
     LEVEL: only bananas

• Blackout Basement

  1. Low off-screen barrel cannon under the last falling platform -- the fourth of a group of four -- beyond the continue barrel. It is marked with a low banana. (Just stand in the center of the platform as it falls.)
     BLAST-AROUND: [N]

  2. Left-hand wall, the last one before the exit. (Easiest way to get here: ride the steel barrel that appears upon exiting the first bonus room, and never get off. The steel barrel will automatically bounce off the right-hand wall before the exit, open the opposite left-hand wall, and send the player into the bonus room.)
     FIND: red balloon

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BR-6. Chimp Caverns bonus rooms

• Tanked Up Trouble

  1. Off-screen barrel cannon below the first vertical track section. (Avoid the first fuel can and stand in the middle of the moving platform as it runs out of fuel and falls off the track.)
     FIND: red balloon

• Manic Mincers

  1. Right-hand wall of a pit with a single "Krusha", shortly after the continue barrel.
     JUMP: three blue "Klaptraps" for red balloon

  2. Right-hand wall under a stacked pair of stationary mincers, which are just before the exit. (It is possible to get a barrel to carry by going up and through a doorway shortly before the mincers. I don't think the upper-doorway-to-get-the-barrel counts as a bonus room, but it acts like one in some ways -- for example, when "dying" in there, the player is returned to the level without losing a life.)
     FIND: red balloon

• Misty Mine

  1. Open off-screen door beside the bottom of a long rope. The rope is just past the continue barrel, and its path crosses a DK barrel. (Climb down to near the bottom of the rope and wait until it stops moving.)
     LEVEL: [K], [O], [N], [G], and Expresso crate

  2. Right-hand wall near the end of the level -- the first right-hand wall beyond: the Expresso icon, a tire jump over a high wall with a "Klaptrap" drum halfway up, and a TNT barrel. (Carry the TNT barrel to the right, being careful to avoid enemies, over to the first right-hand wall. Unlike some other levels, the drums won't spit out anything while the player is standing on them.)
     MATCH: Rambi, Expresso, Enguarde, and Winky icons

• Loopy Lights

  1. Off-screen barrel cannon in the first pit after the entrance. The pit is marked with some bananas in a vertical row.
     BLAST-SIDEWAYS: [K]

  2. First right-hand wall after the coconut-throwing "Necky". (Carry the barrel that is directly under "Necky", avoiding coconuts which could shatter it, down the steps to the right; jump one pit, and avoid the one "Klaptrap" just in front of the wall. Alternative: carry a DK barrel from earlier in the level, to kill the coconut-throwing "Necky" so that he can't destroy the barrel which you will use to open the wall.)
     LEVEL: Expresso icon, [N]

• Platform Perils

  1. Visible barrel cannon underneath the entry walkway. (Once the moving platform has moved about its own length, jump from it to an off-screen moving platform that is directly under the starting position of the visible moving platform.)
     MATCH-KONG: red-balloon

  2. Off-screen barrel cannon underneath the exit walkway. (Jump as far to the right as possible from one of the moving platforms that is near the exit and just below its level. The lower walkway doesn't stick out to the left nearly as much as the exit walkway does.)
     FIND: Enguarde icon

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BR-7. General notes and strategy hints

• Entries to all bonus rooms are: (1) doorways -- either needing a barrel to break a wall to expose them, or ones which are already open but not visible because they aren't usually on the screen; and (2) barrel cannons, which may or may not be visible on the screen.

• The skill of putting down a barrel (other than TNT, which explodes after a while when set down) is helpful because it lets enemies be dispatched without losing the barrel. To set a barrel down: press and hold "down" on the control pad before releasing the Y button.

• If it is necessary to carry a barrel (especially a TNT barrel) a long ways, it's easiest to go ahead and kill the enemies first, then backtrack and pick up the barrel. (Providing that it is possible to backtrack in the level, of course.) Then there are no worries about losing the barrel by touching an enemy while carrying it.

• Since Diddy carries barrels low and in front of himself, they will automatically break when he brushes up against a breakable wall. When having trouble finding a breakable wall, go through the level once to kill off everything, and then backtrack and have Diddy carry a barrel around.

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BR-8. Sample description interpretation

1. Low off-screen barrel cannon, just to the right of the tree with [O].
   LEVEL: [N]

The first bonus room is entered via a barrel cannon that's not visible because it's off the bottom of the screen. It is immediately to the right of the tree where the golden letter "O" icon is found.

The type of bonus room is a "LEVEL" (see Section BR-9 for a description of different kinds of bonus games and the names I've assigned to them). This bonus room contains the golden letter "N" icon.

It also probably contains some bananas -- but bananas are so easy to find, they are present in so many of the bonus rooms, and they are worth so little... that they aren't mentioned specifically in this list.

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BR-9. Kinds of bonus rooms

BLAST-AROUND

There are four or eight rotating barrel cannons in a square (if there are four, they are arranged as the corners of the square; if there are eight, they are arranged as a tic-tac-toe board excluding the center square). There are various objects in between that can be picked up by blasting from one barrel cannon to another. (There may be an exit platform in the bottom right-hand corner of the room, which may also have something useful to pick up.)

There are three BLAST-AROUND bonus rooms, one of which has an Expresso crate on the exit platform. Two of the three have something other than bananas to collect.

BLAST-SIDEWAYS

There is a horizontal line of barrel cannons that blast left-to-right, with various things in between that can be picked up. For those barrels which don't rotate when the player is in them, it is possible to zip through the levels collecting everything, by quickly and constantly tapping the "B" button.

There are six BLAST-SIDEWAYS bonus rooms, five of which have something more significant than bananas to collect. (One has a letter icon, an animal icon, AND a green balloon -- but it is a very tricky one where the barrel cannons rotate very quickly.)

BLAST-UP

starts with the player in a barrel cannon at the bottom of the screen; the barrel cannon may be sliding back and forth, or spinning, or both. There are bananas on the screen, and one to three hidden objects just off the top of the screen (left, center, right). These objects can be reached by blasting straight up (when the barrel cannon is at the left, center, or right).

It isn't always possible get all three top items -- only one at a time can be collected, and the player must fall back into the barrel cannon or the bonus level is over.

In some of these rooms, the control pad does not affect the player's flight at all, and in others you can only move a little left or right on the way back down. Generally, only blasting up in the center allows the player to easily return to the barrel to try again.

There are eight BLAST-UP bonus rooms. In most cases, the most desirable top object (if any) is in the center, so that is the way to go. (In the few cases where the desired object is to the left or right, you'll see where it is on the first try, and usually be able to collect it on the second.)

FIND

An object flashes among four barrels; once it stops flashing around and vanishes, pick the barrel in which it last appeared (by jumping up to touch that barrel). Upon guessing correctly, the object is awarded to the player.

For those "FIND" rooms which award balloons, I find it easier to watch the white "string" at the bottom of the balloon, than to try to watch the balloon itself. In many cases, the contrast between the string and bonus room background is greater than the contrast between the balloon and barrel.

There are eight "FIND" bonus rooms. Four award red balloons, and the remaining four each give a different reward: a green balloon, a Rambi icon, a Winky icon, and an Enguarde icon.

LEVEL

A mini-level (generally not-reused for any other bonus rooms) in which there are various things to collect.

There are 20 bonus rooms which have been designated of type "LEVEL", but as a group they do not really have much in common. This is really a catch-all label for those bonus rooms which do not match any of the eight other common types.

JUMP

You must bounce on one or more "Klaptrap"s (the mini-alligators with big mouths). They spit up bananas when hit, and also move more quickly after each hit. The bunches of bananas stay on the screen for only a few seconds, then disappear.

The first bunch which you manage to collect (by running over it when the bananas are on the screen) will be worth one banana, the second worth two, and so on. The object of the bonus game is to pick up ten bunches (the last being worth ten bananas), at which point the "Klaptrap"(s) vanish. Then the player is rewarded with something more significant.

There are five "JUMP" bonus rooms. Three of them give red balloons for completing the game, and the other two award Rambi icons.

MATCH

Objects flash on three barrels in a rotating sequence (e.g., banana, bunch of bananas, banana, Winky icon, banana, red balloon, [repeat]). Each barrel freezes on what it is displaying when touched by jumping up against it. If all three barrels are frozen displaying the same object, that object is awarded to the player.

There are eight "MATCH" bonus rooms. Four match any animal icon (Enguarde, Expresso, Rambi, Winky). Two match red, green, or blue balloons (one, two, or three extra lives). The two others match a single banana, a bunch of bananas, a Winky icon, or a red balloon.

MATCH-KONG

similar to MATCH, except there are four barrels and the rotation is [K]-[O]-[N]-[G]-banana. The object of the bonus game is to spell "KONG" across the four barrels.

There are four "MATCH-KONG" bonus rooms. All four award a red balloon for winning the game.

SPELL

jump and hit the flashing letter from among several letters that are flying around in a circle; the sequence of letters spells a word. If the letters are hit in order without error, a reward is given (which may be related to the word).

There are five "SPELL" bonus rooms, each with a different reward. Three of the rooms play the spell game for only a single word and a single reward (Enguarde icon, Expresso icon, red balloon). Of the other two, one gives the player up to three words for each of the three colors of balloon (though any error in any word terminates the level), and the other gives four words for each of the four animal icons.

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Location of all hidden or hard-to-find objects

Following are short, semi-vague descriptions of the locations of all hard-to-find objects.

Locations of all animal icons and animal crates are provided, even if they are visible; locations of [K]-[O]-[N]-[G] letters are only specified in cases where they are out of sight or in bonus rooms.

Index:

1. Kongo Jungle hard-to-find or hidden objects
2. Monkey Mines hard-to-find or hidden objects
3. Vine Valley hard-to-find or hidden objects
4. Gorilla Glacier hard-to-find or hidden objects
5. Kremroc Industries, Inc. hard-to-find or hidden objects
6. Chimp Caverns hard-to-find or hidden objects

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OB-1. Kongo Jungle hard-to-find or hidden objects

• Jungle Hijinks

  Red balloon in Donkey Kong's treehouse at the beginning of the level

  Hidden Steel Keg revealed after jumping down following the arrow of bananas from the second group of treetops past the treehouse.

  Visible red, red, and green balloons along the treetops just past the letter [K] icon. (See section Q-3 for detailed information on collecting these balloons.)

  Visible Expresso icon below the coconut-throwing "Necky" that sits a short distance past the continue barrel.

  Visible Rambi crate just beyond the Expresso icon.

  Hidden regular barrel revealed by jumping down and right from the tree with the [G] icon.

• Ropey Rampage

  [N] is at the end of the first bonus room (just past the [O]).

  Visible Rambi icon on treetop left and up from first swinging rope.

  Hidden movable tire revealed upon landing after jumping as far as possible to the right over the "Zinger" that is just past the [N].

  Hidden Winky icon revealed upon landing on hilltop a short distance past the (above) tire. The tire is needed to jump with sufficient height to reveal the icon.

• Reptile Rumble

  Visible Enguarde icon between last bonus room and red arrow signpost.

• Coral Capers

  Hidden banana room, entered by moving down through the wall under the first "Croctopus"'s area.

  Visible Enguarde crate. Continue to the right of the first "Croctopus", following the floor, to reach the crate in a lower- right corner where the path turns upwards.

  Red balloon on the right-hand side of the second "Croctopus" area. (Use Enguarde and pick up the balloon, then reverse direction to avoid the "Croctopus".)

  Visible Enguarde crate. Follow right-hand wall downwards after the continue barrel, to pick up the crate in a bottom right corner where the path turns to the left.

  Hidden Expresso icon, entered by moving to the right through a wall beside a "Chomps". The "Chomps" is in the final vertical shaft, which ends with the [N] at the top.

• Barrel Cannon Canyon

  Visible Winky icon, picked up by a cartwheel-jump (Section Q-3) off the low-lying land area just beyond the [K].

  Visible Rambi icon, just past the pit containing three "Kritter"s, that is on the land area before the [O]. (Picked up by bouncing off a "Kritter"'s head up to the treetop.)

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OB-2. Monkey Mines hard-to-find or hidden objects

• Winky's Walkway

  Visible Winky crate on platform a short distance before the continue barrel.

  [N] is in the only bonus room of this level.

  Visible Expresso icon in mid-air a short distance before the [G] It can be reached easily when jumping with Winky, or with some difficulty by jumping with Donkey Kong only (Diddy is too short).

• Mine Cart Carnage

  Visible Enguarde icon on the track a short distance before the continue barrel.

• Bouncy Bonanza

  [N] is in the upper path just beyond the continue barrel. (To get there you have to push the movable tire onto the vertically moving platform, then jump up and to the right.)

  Winky crate where upper and lower paths converge. (Jump onto the ledge which is on the right-hand side of the vertical path where the two rejoin, in between the two paths in height. Walk through the door to the right.)

  Matt Baker tells me that there is a way to get Rambi here. He writes: "Get Winky, go back into the cave, get Winky again, get off Winky, exit cave, and get RAMBI!"

• Stop & Go Station

  Barely-visible Expresso icon between the [K] and [O]. (Jump onto the single vertically-moving ledge with a "RockKroc"; when the ledge is at the peak of its height, jump up and left to collect the icon.)

• Millstone Mayhem

  [K] is in the first bonus room.

  Hidden Winky crate on a ledge above the temple area which has the [N]. (Roll a tire onto the horizontally-moving platform that goes under a vertically-moving millstone, then bounce off the tire and onto the steps above the millstone. Continue to the right.)

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OB-3. Vine Valley hard-to-find or hidden objects

• Vulture Culture

  Hidden [K] which is revealed by jumping down and to the right from the hill that has a coconut-throwing "Necky" standing on a tire. (Use the tire to gain enough height to expose [K].)

  Hidden regular barrel to open the third bonus room, revealed by jumping down and to the left off a stair-step-like platform on which sits a coconut-throwing "Necky".

• Tree Top Town

  [N] is in the second bonus room.

  Visible Expresso icon suspended in a pit, a short distance before the exit. (Use the cartwheel-jump -- see Section Q-4 -- to pick it up without falling to your death.)

• Forest Frenzy

  Hidden "DK" barrel shortly before the [O].

  Visible Enguarde icon at the end of the second bonus room.

• Temple Tempest

  Hidden Rambi icon directly above the entry door. (Bounce off Gnawty to get up on top of the door and jump up to collect it.)

  Visible Expresso crate at the end of the first bonus room.

  Hidden [N] just after the big hill following the second bonus room. (Bounce on a tire to get to the top of the hill, jump down and to the right to expose the icon.)

  Off-screen [G] immediately before the exit. (Fall down the right- hand side of the pit immediately in front of the exit door; you will collect the [G] and be blasted back up to the exit area by an off-screen barrel cannon that sits below the [G].)

• Orang-utan Gang

  Visible Expresso crate at top of the first big hill (about 1/3 of the way past to the end of the level).

  [O] is very low in the same land area as the Expresso crate, almost directly under the crate and very difficult to get to.

  Hidden Enguarde icon on the left-hand side of the second big hill. (You need either Expresso or exit from first bonus room to get to the top of the hill; bounce off the movable tire onto the extreme left-hand edge of the hilltop to expose Enguarde.)

  Hidden "DK" barrel on the right-hand side of the second big hill. (You need either Expresso or exit from first bonus room to get to the top of the hill; bounce off the movable tire onto the extreme right-hand edge of the hilltop to expose Enguarde.)

  [G] is in the fourth of five bonus rooms, the entrance of which is pretty much directly underneath the last Manky Kong in the level.

• Clam City

  [K] is in a hidden room through the left-hand wall at the top of the first vertical shaft in the level.

  Enguarde crate in the same hidden room as the [K], through the left-hand wall at the top of the first vertical shaft in the level.

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OB-4. Gorilla Glacier hard-to-find or hidden objects

• Snow Barrel Blast

  [O] is in the second bonus room, just left of the continue barrel.

  Visible Rambi icon above a barrel and two "Zinger"s, just past [N].

• Slipslide Ride

  Hidden Enguarde icon in the dark spot on the floor a short distance past (and above) the continue barrel.

  Visible Expresso icon at the end of the third bonus level.

• Ice Age Alley

  Expresso crate to the left of the entrance point.

  [K] is also to the left of the entrance point.

• Croctopus Chase

  [O] is in a hidden room through the right-hand wall just beyond the first set of barrel cannons. (After exiting the cannons, move through the right-hand wall below and right of the cannons. Go up and over to the left to collect a "DK" barrel and the [O].)

  Enguarde icon in a hidden room near the top of the first vertical shaft beyond the continue barrel. (Go through the left-hand wall just short of where the "Croctopus" stops at the top of the shaft.)

  Winky icon at the bottom-right corner of a loop a short distance past the Enguarde icon. (The third "Croctopus" after the continue barrel chases you to a four-way intersection and goes straight through it. You should go up, let the "Croctopus" pass, and follow him to the right and down to collect the Winky icon.)

  Enguarde crate and a red balloon in a hidden room in the tunnel off of the area where the first "Croctopus" past [N] chases you. (Near the top of the third vertical shaft after the [N], go through the left-hand wall; you'll enter a hidden room with a red balloon in the top center, and the Enguarde crate at the lower left.)

• Torchlight Trouble

  Squawks crate immediately in front of the entrance point.

  [G] is in the bonus room just before the end of the level. (Only Diddy can collect it, by bouncing off the "Klaptrap".)

• Rope Bridge Rumble

  Winky crate at the end of the first bonus room.

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OB-5. Kremroc Industries, Inc. hard-to-find or hidden objects

• Oil Drum Alley

  Hidden Rambi crate and tire at the bottom of the first vertical shaft after the continue barrel. (After the continue barrel, jump down and walk across to and up the stairs, past the flame on / flame off oil barrel, and to the edge of the platform. Instead of jumping across the vertical shaft, jump down into it. You will land next to a Rambi crate and tire.)
  [Thanks to Eric and Patrick Mulac]

  [N] is in the last bonus room.

  Hidden [G] shortly before the exit. (Jump down and to the right off the big oil drum that's at the extreme left-hand edge of the platform with the exit, to expose it.)

• Trick Track Trek

  Off-screen Winky icon on the right-hand side of the platform that is beside the barrel cannon which leads to the third bonus room.

• Elevator Antics

  [O] is in the second bonus room.

  A visible Expresso icon is also in the second bonus room.

  [N] is on a ledge way down off the screen, against the left-hand wall of the second set of elevators past the continue barrel. (From the continue barrel, pass the first pair of elevators to get to a steel barrel on a small land area. Walk off the right-hand end of this land area and fall against the left-hand wall of the pit, to land down on the [N]'s ledge.)

• Poison Pond

  Enguarde crate in a hidden room that is just left of the entrance. (Go through the left-hand wall from the starting position, to enter the hidden room and pick up Enguarde.)

  A second Enguarde at the extreme right-hand edge of the area that is directly to the right of the continue barrel. (From the continue barrel, head right past two mincers, then continue to the right where a trail of bananas heads upwards. Head downwards shortly afterwards, under two mincers, and then upwards to the Enguarde crate.)

  Rambi icon in a hidden room in the second half of the level. (From the continue barrel, pass two vertically moving mincers then head upwards. Pass one horizontally-moving mincer in a horizontal shaft, then head upwards. At the top of a vertical shaft, there is a "room" with three mincers rotating in a big circle. The top center of this room has a fake wall which permits entry to the hidden room with the Rambi icon.)

• Mine Cart Madness

  Visible Rambi icon in the first bonus room.

  Off-screen Enguarde icon on a low track. Immediately after passing the [O] icon, do not jump out of the cart at the next break in the track. The cart will fall down to a hidden track, and you'll go right through an Enguarde icon.

• Blackout Basement

  Visible Enguarde icon at the bottom of the screen, under the highest of a set of three small platforms a distance past the [K]. (I don't know how to collect it without dying.)

  [O] is hidden in the platform immediately before the continue barrel. (You can bounce high off the tire to the left of the platform, in order to land hard and expose the [O].)

  [N] is in the first bonus room, which is below a set of four falling platforms most of the way to the end of the level.

  There's a steel keg hidden in the floor on the last platform of the level (just past the first bonus room entrance), but it can only be exposed by exiting the first bonus room.

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OB-6. Chimp Caverns hard-to-find or hidden objects

• Tanked Up Trouble

  Enguarde icon suspended high in mid-air, just before the continue barrel. To collect:

  Jump off the moving platform just before it gets to the hanging wooden platform with a kritter walking back and forth on it. As you fall, follow the banana trail and you will land in a barrel cannon which will shoot you up in the air and into a fuel barrel. Once you get the fuel barrel, fall back onto the moving platform.

  Do not jump onto the kritter on the hanging wooden platform. Instead, stay on the moving platform. It will continue up and off of the track, then to the right, and finally down, passing across the Enguarde icon. You can then jump off the moving platform and walk to the continue barrel.

  [Thanks to Eric and Patrick Mulac]

• Manic Mincers

  Rambi crate a short distance beyond the [K].

  [G] is at the end of the level inside the open doorway a short distance before the exit. (It's on the side of the hill which has a "DK" barrel and TNT barrel.)

• Misty Mine

  Visible Rambi icon below a drum, about 1/4 of the way through the level.

  [K], [O], [N], and [G] (all four) are located in the first bonus room of the level.

  Visible Expresso crate at the end of the first bonus room of the level.

  Visible Expresso icon near the exit of the first bonus room (on the second land area past the continue barrel).

• Loopy Lights

  [K] is in the first bonus room (entered via a barrel cannon in a pit a very short distance beyond the entrance) between the last pair of horizontally-blasting barrel cannons in the bonus room.

  [N] is in the second bonus room, on the third platform that you can jump to in the dark.

  Visible Expresso icon in the second bonus room on the next platform after the [N].

• Platform Perils

  Off-screen Winky icon on the middle of three falling platforms that are under a long platform between the [K] and [O].

  (From the [K]: head to the right until you reach the second adjacent pair of short stable platforms, on a slightly different level from each other. They are the fourth and fifth non-falling/moving platforms beyond [K]. To the right of this pair, there is a falling platform followed by a "Necky", and then a long stable platform with a barrel on its left-hand edge.

  Jump onto (or past) "Necky", but do not land on the platform with the barrel. Instead, fall under its left-hand edge. You'll land on a falling platform a short distance below. Jump quickly to the right to the next falling platform, which is where the Winky icon is located; and then jump to a third platform which will take you upwards, back onto the long stable platform above you.)

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