#Donkey Kong Country Corruptions

[smallmariofindings]

In the Krockhead Klamber level in Donkey Kong Country 2, if the player collects 100 bananas in such a way that the lives counter updates when the specific giant cattail plant in the middle of this screenshot is on screen, the cattail will become glitched for a few frames, appearing as a corrupted jumble of green and orange pixels.

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Fave Game Over Screens

Ocarina of Time

Prince of Persia: Warrior Within

Shadow The Hedgehog

Resident Evil 4

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

Nier

Metal Gear Solid

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

GTA V

Devil May Cry 3

Super Metroid

Metroid Prime

Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

Mass Effect

Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards

Sonic The Hedgehog

Super Mario Bros

Super Mario 64

Luigi's Mansion

Donkey Kong Country

Banjo Kazooie

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Dark Souls

Gears of War 2

Final Fantasy VIII

Final Fantasy IX

Final Fantasy XII

AeternoBlade II

[ashleytrashly]

I’ve been gaming a bit again.

Vice City. Of course. As if I play any other game, when I do randomly decide to break out my ps2.

During Covid lockdowns I started playing again. My memory card was somehow corrupted and I had to start the game over.

I’m on demolition man. Again. My fucking nemesis. It took me WEEKS I think I beat it the first time. I’m also struggling to get through Guardian Angels again too.

I wasn’t too much further along I don’t think. I’m almost to Diaz and I think the last one I completed before I just stopped playing was stealing the speed boat.

I’d like to get back into it for real. Try and actually get deep into the game.

The only gta game I completed was gta 2. So many hours of my life spent on that game. So many good memories tied to it.

I never got another console after that. My aunt got a game cube and then a wii and I would sometimes play those. Usually Mario party on the cube and I downloaded the OG Donkey Kong Country and Super Mario AllStars and played those on the wii.

But I personally never upgraded consoles, because I so infrequently played games I couldn’t justify the cost of it. Either of my own money. Or someone else’s, if I asked for it as a gift.

So San Andreas was the last GTA game I played.

But my boyfriend has an Xbox 360. AND GTA IV and GTA5 are playable on Xbox 360. I’m gonna ask him if he’d be cool with me using it to play them.

Id be so down for new GTA! Especially with VI (supposedly) coming next year.

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"Hello I'm Global-Trance, often just called Global or GT. Been a Vinesauce and friends watcher since the first Donkey Kong Country corruptions. Time flies! Glad to be part of the community and we hope you like what we create!"

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GAMES COMPLETED ON NINTENDO WII

The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword

Metroid Prime 3 Corruption

Lego Star Wars Complete Saga

Lego Indiana Jones

Goldeneye

Monster Hunter Tri 3 Ultimate

Megaman 9

Megaman 10

Resident Evil The Umbrella Chronicles

Silent Hill Shattered Memories

Red Steel

Donkey Kong Country Returns

Call of Duty World at War

Call of Duty Modern Warfare

Metroid Other M

Deadrising Chop Till You Drop

The Force Unleashed

The Force Unleashed 2

Castlevania 2 Simon's Quest

Super Metroid

Super Mario RPG Legend of the Seven Stars

Wii Sports

Castlevania Rebirth

New Super Mario Bros

The Conduit

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Movies I watched this Week #107 (Year 3 / Week 3):

It looked like Cataz was disappearing from the internet’s faceless face, so I started using Squeezebox, a new scraper as a replacement. So far it looks clean. 

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Maggie Cheung in 1996 X 2:

🍿 Comrades, Almost a love story, a magical, under-rated romantic story about yearning from Hong Kong with Maggie Cheung. Before she became magnificently glamorous, she was so peachy, seeing her makes me cry. So sweet that I wanted to watch it very slowly and took frequent stops all evening to savor it longer. The first half of two people trying not to fall in love was comparable to ‘In the mood for love’ which came four years later, but unfortunately Leon Lai was no match to the iconic Tony Leung and the story got sappier during the second half. 7/10.

Now I’m listening to Teresa Young singing Tian Mi Mi...

🍿 Irma Vep, my 5th by Olivier Assayas, from the short period when Maggie Cheung was his wife, the lucky bastard. She plays a fictional version of herself, as “Maggie Cheung, a Chinese actress” who’s acting in a French movie in Paris. It’s a blatant showcase of her radiant cat-woman face, but the story is impressionistic, unfocused and confused ‘Filming of a film’ process, reminiscent of Truffault’s much better ‘Day for night’, down to the casting of Jean-Pierre Léaud. 4/10.

With my favorite Ali Farka Touré’s Soukora on the soundtrack!

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I loved Cristin Milioti as Sarah Wilder in ‘Palm Spring’ so much that I saw it about 10 times. So as soon as I heard that she stars in The Resort, a new TV-series, created by Andy Siara who was the writer for ‘Palm Spring’, I dropped everything to binge on its 8 episodes.

It started unexpectedly well with a couple who arrive at a Yucatan resort to celebrate their 10th anniversary. But the wife is obviously unhappy, and their relationship is missing something serious. Then she finds an old phone in the jungle, and unspools a mystery of two teens who disappeared there 15 years before. The couple start detectiving, but are soon being pulled into a complex metaphysical plot of ‘Time Portals’ and ‘Suspended conscientious’ and ‘Memory Leakage’ and what have you.

I wanted to like it, but every episode became stupider and more outrageous than the previous one. I did love though the many times when Cristin Milioti repeats the exact same speech intonations and voice mannerism from ‘Palm Spring’. 5/10.  

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3 Polish masterpieces, 2 with the extraordinary Joanna Kulig:

🍿 ��..[My father] mistook me for my mother, so I used a knife to show him the difference...”

It’s been a year and a half since I discovered Cold war, Paweł Pawlikowski’s devastating masterpiece, and this is the first time that I’ve watched it since. I’m surprised to realize that it’s so much shorter (88 minutes), simpler and straight-forward. I remembered it as intricate, over-layered and complex. But the tragically-restrained love story is still sublime, breathtakingly melancholic and epic, one of the most lyrical romances I’ve ever seen.

How Zula sings ‘Two hearts, four eyes’ differently each time. 10/10.

🍿 In the controversial Clegy, Joanna Kulig plays a completely different character, that of a pregnant housekeeper with no agency. The story is about the utter debasement of the Catholic church, as exemplified by three priest friends. God’s servants are sinners and criminals, hypocritical, potty-mouth, abusive, transgressive alcoholics. And this is before they get into the systematic child-abuse story that engulfs all ranks, from the cynically corrupt Bishop to the local country priest. Shocking, angry, and unforgiving. 9/10. 🍿 Jerzy Skolimowski’s latest, EO, the story of a lowly donkey’s dreams and adventures. Not as spiritual as Bresson’s ‘Au Hasard Balthazar’, it’s still deeply humane. Films about sufferings, whether people or animals, whether abused or just neglected, are tough to sit through. But not this one: It’s simple but not obvious, full of surprises and heart. The protagonist was played by 6 different real-life donkeys.

These 3 were my best film events of the week!

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Jonathan Mehring’s short Walls Cannot Keep Us From Flying follows two young Palestinians who have found freedom in skateboarding while surrounded by walls & barbed wire and facing harassment from the fascist Israeli occupation as well as their own communities. Please don’t get me started...

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Bad words, Jason Bateman’s politically-incorrect directorial debut. A black comedy about a 40-year-old unsympathetic asshole with photographic memory who discovers a legal loophole in the rules of the National Spelling Bee, so they have no choice but allowing him to participate in it. 4/10.

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7 more marijuana films (none of which I saw before):

🍿 It started innocently enough with a random pick, Tim Blake Nelson’s dark & funny Leaves of grass (one of the four feature films he had written and directed). Ivy League professor Edward Norton gets tricked into going back to Tulsa, Oklahoma by his twin brother the pot farmer, and gets tangled in his brother’s scheme to take down a Jewish drug lord. It starts with a fake lecture about the philosophy of Socrates and, like a Coen Brother plot, changes its tone to black comedy, to deadly action, to dreamy romance and other surprises. Susan Sarandon plays again the estranged pothead mom (like she did in ‘Ride the eagle’). 6/10.  

🍿 Reefer Madness (Originally called ‘Tell your children’) the maniacal cult classic, a piece of anti-marihuana propaganda of North Korean magnitude. “Women cry for it - Man die for it!”. The beginning of the century-long racist “War on drugs”. What a horrible, destructive misdirection that cost so much since. Psychedelically-colorized.

🍿 Ice Cube’s hood masterpiece, Friday about two friends sitting on the front porch in South Central, getting stoned and talking shit. Unabashedly funny. “Bye, Felicia”. 7/10.

🍿 “That is where corn chips come from!”

Smiley Face, my first by Gregg Araki. An unusual stoner comedy, because it’s about a spaced out female pothead. She is such an uninhibited toker, that the story turns unbearably paranoiac, as she stumbles from one train rack to another, until the hilarious last 10 minutes. 4/10.

🍿 The X-rated Paddington, Seth MacFarlane’s directional debut Ted. A cute and often funny fairy tale about a friendship between two lazy slackers, one a grown up slacker and one a party-hardy, raunchy pothead/alcoholic teddy bear. Not exactly Disney stuff. With Norah Jones as the bear’s old lover, and Giovanni Ribisi in his scariest role. (Photo Above). 7/10.

🍿 Amy Heckerling’s Fast Times at Ridgemont High, the ‘classic’ coming of age in Southern California mall life. I always thought it was a about the always-stoned Jeff Spicoli surfer dude, but actually it was about high-school kids searching for love and sex. Many early roles for young actors who later went to bigger (and better) things, Nicolas Cage, Eric Stoltz, Forest Whitaker, Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh. 3/10.

🍿 And finally, not a movie, but the full recording of The Marijuana-logues (sound only) from their 2004 show. I saw Doug Benson and friends performing it life at a comedy club in Rancho Cucamonga, and loved it.

High-ku’s like: “My girlfriend thinks that I smoke too much pot. I, on the other hand, don’t think I smoke enough pot, because if I did, I’d be finished. And I’m not. Look, we all have our vices: I like to smoke a little weed; she likes to feed the baby. Different strokes for different folks”...

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Ahmad rolled us a really strong joint, then he rolled his first sushi ever, and then we stone-watched the epic Goodfellas again. Deservedly and still one of the finest American movies of all time, and the most recent of the BBC top 20. It’s a rich, frenzy saga, with exhilarating direction, editing, cinematography, soundtrack and depth.

Also a terrific cast that includes bits by Billy Batts’ Frank Vincent, Samuel L. Jackson as Stacks Edwards, Michael Imperioli as ‘Spider’, Mike Starr, Illeana Douglas, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Kevin Corrigan, Etc. Also, Scorsese’s real dad & mom (and her famous painting of John Weaving and his two river dogs). 9/10

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Un-related, Jefferson Airplane’s Triad from their ‘Crown of Creation’, an old favorite. I just learned that David Crosby “gave it to them”. RIP, David Crosby.

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Throw-back to the art project:

Jefferson Airplane Adora.

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(My complete movie list is here)

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#this one bug is so facinating #does anyone know why this happens? #and the outcomes are so all ovet the place

via @capriquarians

Not an expert, so take this explanation with a major grain of salt, but after doing a little research it looks like the initial glitch is a very common glitch in games of the era that allowed the player to carry objects. (In Super Mario 64, for example, it's commonly known as cloning, although that name is somewhat misleading).

These games set aside a block of memory to hold all the currently loaded entities. Each currently loaded entity takes a "slot" in that list to store its data. When entities despawn, they mark their slot as unused. When new entities spawn they find an unused slot in the list, overwrite the previous data with their own data, and mark the slot as used.

When the player starts holding an entity, the entity's data is updated so it knows to behave like it's being held (usually this means stuff like "become invisible" and "do not move", so that the player can be responsible for rendering and movement), and the player remembers "I'm holding the entity in slot #6" (for example). All good so far, but the problem happens if there's a way for the player to grab an entity at the same time as it's despawning, without the game noticing. As I said, this bug shows up in lots of games. In Donkey Kong it sounds like it's caused by picking a throwable barrel up right as it breaks on a moving platform.

What happens now is that the player still remembers "I'm holding the entity in slot #6", but the entity data is marked as unused. This means that a new entity can spawn, see that slot #6 is unused, and take the slot. Now the player is holding a completely different entity, possibly one that they were never supposed to hold. The player still thinks that they're holding a normal entity, and the entity doesn't know that it's being "held".

So when the player throws the entity, it looks like an unrelated object suddenly warped to the player. Worse, the player will try to update the thrown entity's data as if it were a normal thrown object. If the entity was never supposed to be thrown, this can corrupt the entity in all sorts of fun ways.

Exactly what happens at this point depends on the game and I'm not very familiar with DK Country, but it sounds like this is used to corrupt the data of an animal transformation barrel. Probably the animal barrel stores what kind of transformation to use at position X in its data, but throwable barrels use position X for speed or rotation or something. When the player throws the barrel, it overwrites that area in a way that would have made sense on a throwable barrel, but causes the animal transformation barrel to have an unexpected transformation type. Then when the player uses the corrupted barrel all hell breaks loose. Beyond that you'd need someone who knows the game code to explain exactly what goes wrong.

In Donkey Kong Country 2, a severe glitch exists in the Castle Crush level where a barrel can cause any of an extremely large variety of glitch effects by being broken against a specific wall in the level.

One of these effects transforms the playable Kongs into a black sword (the sprite used for the Kleever boss, with a completely black palette). The sword, surprisingly, can still be controlled by moving left and right.

However, a Neek rat enemy will fall down from the top of the screen shortly after the transformation. In an unexpected interaction given how the sword visually appears much more dangerous than the rat, the Neek kills the sword instantly upon touching it.

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Dissociate (No Country for Donkey Kong) [2015] \\ SNES ROM Corruption \ Donkey Kong Country

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This is so sad

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Donkey Kong’s Bizarre Adventure

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for anyone curious (timestamped) https://youtu.be/UD0gaKy7ZBc&t=7097

based on this donkey kong country corruption specifically, though i referenced some other music corruptions from throughout this stream (also timestamped) https://youtu.be/s5ed9cFNByw&t=3644

has anyone else ever made a remix of a song that came from a game corruption (like the ones vinny shows off) or is it just me that did?

[smallmariofindings]

In the prototype of the Game Boy Advance version of Donkey Kong Country 3, the background in the Kong-Fused Cliffs level is corrupted, with a blue line and scrabled tiles appearing at the very top of the level, near the finish flag.

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Donkey Kong Country 3 / Pokemon Colosseum remix

made using rave.dj thumbnail made by me

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The Donkey Kong Country cartoon’s songs in a nutshell

Donkey Kong, in an incredibly pleasing, soulful voice: With my banana slamma in hand, I’ll kick K. Rool’s butt~

Diddy Kong: AnD i’Ll CaTcH hIm If He RuNs AwAy!!!!!

[dededaio]

Who is the ultimate "Anti-Dedede"? A character with a history as lengthy as Dedede's, maybe even debut around the same time, with similar antogonistic qualitities, but developed in the complete opposite directing. Instead of becoming more humble, only becoming more bitter and jealous. Instead of learning to value others over oneself, they only see others as expendable tools and minions. Instead of being the manipulatee, they are the manipulator. Is there any character like that?

The closest thing I can think of is King K. Rool from Donkey Kong Country series.

His debut is eerily similar to Dedede, he simply just stole all bananas from Kongs for lulz (he doesn't even like bananas, apparently) and nothing else much was at stake in the first game.

But his every subsequent appearance was him getting more genuinely villainous and crazier, in DKC2 alone he kidnapped Donkey Kong himself, when we find him, K. Rool is seen beating Donkey Kong. And by "beating", I mean firing cannonballs at him while he's tied up, in DKC3 he manages to kidnapp Donkey and Diddy at the same time, in Donkey Kong 64 he plans to DESTROY DONKEY KONG ISLAND WITH A LASER??? It's not even going into certain spin-off games which genuinely had some insane stuff with him lol

So yeah, from comical nearly harmless villain he certainly got corruption arc of the century. If there was any Anti-Dedede, that would be it. If he were to be brought back in another modern DK game he'd likely get another villain upgrade.