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08/11/00
Where'd you find the render of Honker?
-Devin529@prodigy.net
Ps. I like cheese.
Chad: Page 17 of the CPT instruction booklet
P.S. I agree, save in the case of Swiss. Too bitter.
Remember that contest at the UK magazine where somebody is naming the Coal
Guy, the pig in the shark cage and the old fox prospector? Well, the results
are in. First the boss of Hailfire Peaks. Remember that nursery rhyme where
there's this guy who's a "jolly old soul" and had three fiddlers? Well, the
guy made of coal is named "Old King Coal"! That may be his name now, but he's
no jolly old soul like that guy in the nursery rhyme! Now... the pig in the
cage. You know, the one in the B-T Screenshots, Screenshot Analysis, and Good
Guys Checklist? Well, do you also remember the newbie M&M Crispy? Well, the
pig's name is Chris P. Bacon (say it fast). As for the fox prospector, his
picked name is Bullion Bill. The winners aren't announced yet. Well, that's
my two cents. See yo later, guys!
-NES Boy
PS: By the way, in the first update of every month, why do you link to the
update archives in the update even though it at the bottom of the updates
page?
PPS: I still think you have to disembowl Old King Coal.
PPPS: Now two of the B-T bosses are kings (King Woo Fak and Old King Coal). Can it get any weirder?
PPPPS: How did you find out about Patches' name?
Slush: Thanks for the news brief. I'm not sure if I like all of those names or not, but it's a lot better than I originally thought when I heard they were letting people outside of Rare name them in a contest. I thought for sure we'd see names like "Foxhound McGreggor" and "Calhoun O' Flame."
PS: Because it's something we updated, of course.
PPS: Well, I still think you have to wine and dine him.
PPPS: They could constantly try and cut themselves with their toenails. That would be weirder.
PPPPS: I'm pretty sure we got it from Nintendo.
Hello guys,
As Mario Tennis nears it release date I get more and more excited. The only things that are holding me off are the Mets Games that are coming here to Arizona and two movies, Coyote Ugly (Oooh Mama!) and Godzilla 2000 (Japanese Actors w/dubbed voices and guys in rubber suits. How could you go wrong!?).
Well, anyways, I'm glad to see Luigi get some attention by bringing him his sweety Princess Daisy and his out of no where, silly named new enemy Waluigi. Sure he could have been better but who knows what kind of game could come from these characters?
Then comes Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr. This marks the first time Rare's Kong and Nintendo's Kong meet. Of course they are the same Gorilla but I like how they put both versions of DK in the game. I was kind of hoping for Diddy to be one of the secret characters but Shy Guy and DK Jr. seemed like good choices.
Well, I guess this letter makes no sense, just rambling about Mario Tennis. Wait, now I remember why I was sending a letter. I wanted to know where the tennis courts would be located in the game. Or is it just going to be in one place for every match. I certainly hope they have different locations.
And while I'm already emailing I might as well thank you guys for the message board. It's very nice and I look forward to many Mario Tennis posts there. I also want to thank Aussie Ben, SirNick, Gizmo, Boned Headed Rambi, Zinggy, Juno, Santiago, Rare Dan, Zubba, and the rest of you guys making the boards worth going to everyday.
Signed,
-Little Luigi
P.S. I just like to put P.S. at the end of my letters.
P.S.S. "Wizards!"
P.S.S.S. "Don't call me Junior!"
P.S.S.S.S. "Albert Einstein gave me this... Nice man, Nice Man! Made a fortune out of physics."
P.S.S.S.S.S. "You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll kiss three bucks goodbye!"
P.S.S.S.S.S.S. Ok, name what movies those lines are from! You'll probably get the first two but just try the last two. TRY!!!!!!
Chad: Glad you're excited about Mario Tennis. Coyote Ugly looks retarded, but I'll agree with you about Godzilla 2000. The American version sucked so horribly, I'm glad the Japanese are righting the wrong and bringing back rubbery suits and crazily moving lips. That movie will rule.
I'm also glad Luigi's getting a bit more action (both physically and sexually) than in the past. With Waluigi, the DKU is going to get massive.
Camelot's lucky that our resident "No Prize" Award-winner, Slush, was able to make sense out of the whole ordeal. I'd rather they chose Diddy. And in light of Baby Mario indeed being Mario as a baby rather than the baby of Mario, we still don't know if his sperm works.
There will be the traditional grass, clay, and asphalt courts, and bonus courts will include a Donkey Kong one, a Mario Bros. one, and a Bowser court which has electric chains and tilts. Sweet.
Yes, the boards seem to be taking off quite nicely, don't they?
P.S. I don't.
P.S.S. There are a LOT of movies that could have come from.
P.S.S.S. The Last Crusade (Indiana Jones and)
P.S.S.S.S. That's very familiar, but I can't think of it offhand.
P.S.S.S.S.S. More like seven bucks nowadays.
P.S.S.S.S.S.S. I could only get one of them, sorry.
Hi Slush
Someone mentioned about DKC4 where you get to play as Donkey, Diddy, Dixie and Kiddy which was never released but you can play on computer.
Is it just a rumour like everything else RARE does?
Do you know where I can DKC4?
-B.H Rambi
Slush: There is no official or real version of DKC4. I'm sure there are a few homemade computer versions though not developed or licensed by Nintendo or Rare. And no, I have no idea or desire to know where you can find DKC4.
Chad: I downloaded that game (can't remember where I got it though). It turned out to be a 2-meg demo that consisted of collecting a banana bunch on a non-scrolling black screen. I sure won't be downloading the full version.
What is LORD HARRY I think it's american beacause i never heard of it
and I AM CANADIAN.
-export@ns.sympatico.ca
P.S. i like play ing with colour text.
P.P.S.ASFGHJKL;'HW.
Chad: Lord Harry = Satan = Crap DKC Show. And it was first broadcast in Canada before it started poisoning the youth of America. Damned Nelvana Entertainment.
P.S. I like playing with........ er..... never mind.
P.S.S. I agree.
Hey, Great Site with a lot of good humour anyways I have a few questions
1. What exactly is the DKC competition edition cartridge ?
2. To get 105% do you just have to beat the game on tufst and hardr or do you have to beat it in under a certain amount of time ?
3. Where did you get those great graphics for your site ?
4. Not really a question but I think theyshould make a GBA dkc game where you can be everybody ! Like you could be Donkey,Diddy,Dixie and Kiddy but not lanky or tiny.
Thanks for your time
-(don't include my email adress please)
Slush: My answers are as follows...
1. The DKC Competition Edition isn't really an actual game. It's just one of those promotional cartridges Nintendo sometimes whips up and lets you play at booths in places like Blockbuster and Toys 'R Us. This particular one is from Blockbuster, and it's just you racing through the normal levels trying to collect as many bananas as possible while a timer ticks down. However, you don't even have enough time to get out of the Kongo Jungle. Chad got this from eBay, I believe.
2. All you have to do is type in the codes and beat them. The time has nothing to do with the actual 105%.
3. Chad. He's the graphical engineer of the site, while we both have a creative role.
4. No Lanky? Lanky rocks. Don't hate the playa' just because he was one of the new Kongs in DK64.
aRE YOU STUPID NEITHER OF SQUEAKS OR FLAPPER ARE EVIl
-export@ns.sympatico.ca
cHAD: aRE U STUPID CAN U NOT UNEDRSTAND SARCAsm1!!!1!@
hey I just thought if I beat dkc1 100%, does anything happen? If so,
what?well i gotta go. see ya later.
a pretty big fan of dk myself,
-gr8dbatr
p.s. Is there any rareware dk movies coming out?thanks
Slush: Nope, not a thing happens when you get 100 percent in DKC....except a mini-game that opens up where you get to pummel David Arquette into 1-800 Call ATT bliss.
p.s. Nope...but hey! There's always the Legend of the Crystal Coconut if you want to murder yourself and need a reason to do so.
Oh another thing, i have never sawed or even heard of the DKC series i mean,
everybody in the vine is talking about how is this and that and doesnt look
like this, and heard like that and etc. etc. ....when do they show it, and
at what tv station???
-Santiago
Chad: It's a crap French attempt at cashing off on the DKC series' success. The show has been moved to an hour where no one in their right mind would voluntarily be awake. And trust me, I'm doing you a favor by not telling you when and where it's on.
Scroll Of Desire
In the previous edition of Letters, Chad posted a screenshot of the Scroll of Gameplay on the pillar in Creepy Castle. We're finally ready to spill the beans on how YOU can unlock this, but first lets look at just a sample of the letters we've recieved since last time concerning the topic.
When are
you going to put the pillar info???
-Santiago 85
Chad, a quick question. eh... that screenshot from tiny's pillar, is that a
real screenshot??? How did it happened??? Please respond the sooner you can
to
santiago_85@htomail.com
If you don't know tell me what were you doing or how many time have you been
playing please, thanx!!!!! a lot!!!!
-Santiago 85
Chad,
So i finished my drawings. Well, im actually thinking on drawing dixie and
kiddie, but since i became a real fan since dk64 (i was already a fan but
wasn't obsessed or anything) its a probability less than i draw dixie and
kiddy, even though i am getting bored i am thinking on drawing them. I would
draw dkjr. but i dont have any picture just from him so......
well anyway thanks for hearing and please im getting desperate with the
scroll of gameplay!!! And what about the DKC tv show or whatever's it's name???
-Santiago
Im acting like an ass??? Me??? Or you??? Ok you. C'mon. Well if you had put
the pillar info in the first place i wouldnt be here!!! Now im gonna have to
find another site that is more interesting than this dk vine crap, yeah you
heard right DK VINE CRAP!!!! So goodbye. But i can and i will still send you
DELETE ME!!! messages
DK VINE STINKS!!!DK VINE IS pure CRAP!!!
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-Santiago Lopez
Dear Chad,
You said that you found that scroll of gameplay, but how did you do it? I'm still trying to find it!
-Chuckie
Dear Slush,
I must have accidently sent you a letter about the scroll of gameplay
that was supposed to be for Chad. I'm sorry! Now about that screenshot, is
it fake? Otherwise, would you please tell me how to get that scroll?:( I've
seen that pillar a lot, yet it doesn't seem to do anything. Check out these
DK forums for some more info. Total Gaming Forums
Thanks!
-?????? ????
Slush: Okay....as we promised, this is how you get the Scroll of Gameplay in Donkey Kong 64! Take the image of a dungeon map from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, paste it on a picture courtesy Our Friend of the pillar in Creepy Castle, and viola! Instant Scroll of Gameplay.
I hope everyone has learned their lesson. THERE IS NO SCROLL OF GAMEPLAY. Heh heh...we're such mean bastards. Hey, are we allowed to say bastard without censoring it?
Our Friend: You're your own boss! Do what you please.
Why don't you ever answer me about the dkc tv show??? Well, anyway i already
saw all of my drawings on the vine and i am working on another one right now
as soon as finish it ill send it!!
answer
-Santiago Lopez
Chad: C'mon, let's have a Dixie and Kiddy picture to match our lovely embossed background image.
Is this site for kids?
-ChuckP@coastalnet.com
Slush: Of course it is...if the kids like the boobie.
And what about the DKC tv show or whatever's it's name???
-Santiago
Chad: (scowl)
Hyvää iltapäivää, Slush (and that's "good afternoon" in Finnish, even though
I'm not sure what time of the day it is when you get this e-mail)
Hey, it's been three months since I wrote my last letter - the one about least
favourite DKU games and Our Friend - and all this time I've been thinking a
lot
about new subjects to post about. Your site is definately one of my favourites
in the Internet (along with "Rarewhere" and a few others, in case you're
wondering), and I really wish I could come up with enough interesting stuff
to write more in Letters, like many of those other regular visitors do...
Okay, I finally found something! I think I've always been paying almost as
much
attention to video game details as you three, and here's a small Donkey Kong
Country-related detail that might require a small correction in your boss
biographies. You see, you wrote that Very Gnawty and Really Gnawty were the
same character, as well as the two Master Necky bosses. If you look at the
"character parade" during the ending of DKC, however, you'll see that Very and
Really Gnawty are presented individually, as well as Master Necky and the
other
Master Necky, who, if you didn't notice, was titled as "Master Necky Snr.".
Compare this to DKC2's "character parade" ending. In this game, you fight Krow
and K. Rool two times, but they both only make one appearance in the parade,
since they are the same two characters in those battles (as opposed to four).
Using this logic, I've always figured that those similar-looking bosses in DKC
were, in fact, all different characters - and I think it's quite certain that
Master Necky Snr. is supposed to be the mother/father of the first Master
Necky, considering that the battle level is named "Necky's Revenge". Does this
make sense to you in any way? If not, I guess some of those names and scenes
were only intact in the European version of DKC which I own...
Anyway, thank you for your time.
-Panu Vihavainen (why exactly did I put the text "from Finland" in here last time? I think it was clear enough already... Oh well...)
P.S. Oh, and because the next edition of Letters will probably be out near the
first anniversary of your site, I think this is a good time to say
"CONGRATULATIONS! Keep up the fantastic work!" When I first discovered
the Vine in January, and recognized the name of SirSlush2 from several
classic Scribes letters, I knew this site had to be fantastic. And I was
more than right.
Slush: No, no, no....you see, there's a perfectly good explanation to why they're not seperate characters. You see...oh, screw it. You caught us. For some reason I was violently opposed to admitting that Very Gnawty and Really Gnawty (and Master Necky and Master Necky Sr.) were two different characters. I've forgotten the reason why. For catching us and making me realize how absent minded I am, you get a Mr. Mooney Award of intelligence. Ye-us!
P.S. Thanks for the kind words. We try our hardest to make this a different kind of DK site for our readers; as most of the others either only focused on one game, never updated, or closed down a few months after launching. It's always great to get positive feedback. Thanks again.
I saw dkgbad.mpg (the Australian DKC commercial) and it was funny! I got one
question... What if the same thing that happened to DK (getting caught in an
atomic purple explosion and getting you fur blown off) happened to Pikachu?
-NES Boy
P.S.: Why didn't you add a link to my Wizpig VS. Sirius (from Bomerman 64)
WAV file? It's extremely funny!
Chad: I supose Pikachu's fur would also get blown off. (Hah, ye were digging for a Pikachu picture with this one, weren't ye? We've said it before and we'll say it again..... the DKU characters don't torture the rat on request.)
P.S. It was around two megs and we felt that the sound equivalent of clipart didn't fit in on the site. We wouldn't want those snooty MP3s from the Melodies feature to shun it, now would we?
What is Dk Junior doing in a game with DK in it?
Same as Baby Mario.
You can't just bring a younger version of someone into the present.
It could screw up time, what was rare thinking?
-Frankie
Slush: This letter almost won a shameful Mr. Mooney Award. Rare wasn't thinking much of anything, as it's Camelot who's developing Mario Tennis. As for the chance of a time paradox, if they characters being brought forth are babies, then the chances of something screwy happening are slim. Babies and toddlers don't remember much of that period in their lives, so they probably won't remember meeting their older selves. If no physical harm is done to them, and they return back to the past safely, it probably won't screw up the continuim.
DK is a stamp in Game Boy Camera, I do not see that here.
-Dantv64dan@aol.com
Slush: The original DK arcade game was released for Game Boy prior to DKC's release. In that game, DK Sr. wore a tie similar to what Donkey wears today. In fact, he looked near identical. Renders of characters are possible with Game Boy Camera, and that DK wasn't rendered. It's the old school DK.
Deductive reasoning is a thorn in your side this time, Dan!
This is for the people who still think that Diddy is DK's nephew!
If you go to page7 of your instruction book under "Diddy Kong", you'll see that it say "Donkey's little nephew wannabe" !! He wants to be DK's nephew. If he was, he would be Swanky Kong's child, and Swanky's too young to have a preteen son!
Why did Rare put "nephew wannabe" instead of little buddy or sidekick anyway?
-Chuck Roast (formerly known as ChuckP)
Slush: Well Palumbo, I think the reason is Rare or Nintendo or SOMEBODY wanted to make the term "Kong Family" become literal around the time of DK64's release to avoid confusion. It pretty much flopped, and while explanations have surfaced since then undoing the damage, I hope we won't have to go through that kind of crap again.
How do you get a Mr. Mooney Award?
-Chuck Roast
Slush: By either writing an extremly dimwitted (not on purpose though) letter, or an intelligent letter that impresses one of us. Letters such as "DUH! WE WANT THE CHEESE WITH THE NACHOS ON MY YAMMED HAMS!" don't cut it. I hope that was helpful, Palumbo.
Slush: Mmmmm... for no rhyme or reason, here's a hungry Pikachu eating JELLO! OH DEAR LORD NO! That wasn't JELLO! It was a slime blob drone from Conker's Pocket Tales! What that Pikachu won't get in to....
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