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11/04/00
From my last letter. Not Conga as in a conga line. I mean Conga as in Conga
the gorilla from Banjo-Kazooie. And why is in the sequel anyway? Personaly
Conga's not that popular and totally sux!!!! Also I'll make sick pictures of
Klungo being killed too.
HOW DO YOU LIKE THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-Ness554@aol.com
Slush: Oh, really? I had no idea you weren't referring to a Conga line. For you see I'm a non-sarcastic maniac, telling things as it is all day and everyday. Go ahead and make pictures of Klungo being killed as well. He needs the publicity.
Chad,
In your FAQ, there is a question that asks where is spiral mountain,
right??? Well, i remembered in the rareware banjo-kazooie rumour mill a
question that said
Q: Is there anything in the cave above the waterfall in Spiral Mountain?
A: This cave is empty IN BANJO-KAZOOIE. Sorry!
You answered that Spiral Mountain is laying to the east of Razor Ridge in
the Northern Kremisphere and show a little map. In that map the waterfall is
touching the lake, which means that the waterfall is produced by the lake,
but rareware says that the cave isn't opened in banjo-kazooie, and i think
it will be opened in b-t (???)
Santiago, santiago_85@hotmail.com
P.S. Just making you pass a bad time, ha
Chad: Right, I think the cave will lead to Jinjo Village, home of Bottles' family. You must keep in mind that there is a river in between the two locales on our makeshift map. We just didn't include it for space's sake. The river very well may branch off, leading to Jinjo Village (or wherever it ends up going), as well as Razor Ridge. The Razor Ridge bit will more than likely be blocked off in B-T. Ah, well.
P.S. You can not make me, ha
can you send my a completed Znes Savegame of DKC 3 ? its a SMR file !
thx DDM
Slush: For the last time, we don't do that. We like things nice and legal around here.
Our Friend: Slush, c'mon buddy, you know that's a lie!
Slush: Damn straight, but if we don't want people to know, why do we keep typing it?
Our Friend: Beats me. Maybe you should ask Chad, since everybody thinks I'm him.
Slush: Yeah. I can't wait until our plan to kill him is finished.
Our Friend: That should be especially sweet. But now we can't, as you just gave away that we had a plan to kill him.
Slush: Good point, my floating friend.
Our Friend: That's Our Friend, to you.
hey...my name is mary, i was just playin donkey kong land2 on gameboy and i
came across a problem, wut exactly does the spider in that leveL do??..i
have to jump across this cliff and over this mountain..but the spider does
not jump high or far enough...so please help meeh...=)...email meeh back
yyt@andrew.cmu.edu
Chad: Do you have the instruction booklet? If not, then there lies your problem. It serves the purpose of explaining how to control Squitter in full. On the DKL series, all you have to do is press select once to shoot a web (which kills Kremling drones), and press it again to turn the projectile web into a platform. Be warned, though, as the first platform disappears a few seconds after you make a new one. You have to keep jumping.
Dear Slush,
I must say, that Time Vine is very creative and accurate; I must applaud
you guys at the DK Vine. Yet, I think there are some errors on it. Here are
my explanations, so correct me is I'm wrong.
First of all, K. Rool has never been arrested. It says so here, under channel 4
in K. Rool's bio. And another thing, the timeline doesn't include the Donkey
Kong 3 arcade. In this game, Mario defeated DK (Cranky) and DK Jr. (DK).
Also, the Time Vine makes it sound like DK Jr. (DK) is undefeated. That is
not true; Mario has beated him in some games like Donkey Kong for Gameboy.
That game is not just a remaking of an old game; it has an expanded story and
expanded worlds. To conclude with, you can't just conclude that DK won
everything in the Mario Competition Games (examples: Mario Kart 64, Super
Smash Brothers). Many other character are capable of beating DK. Still, I
must say that the Time Vine is very interesting. Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
?????? ????
P.S.: Don't forget the The Hunger
Site : Donate Food for Free to Hungry People in the World !
Slush: Thanks for the compliments on the TimeVine. We just couldn't live with some glaring holes in continuity, so we tried our best to fix them. For the K. Rool/Arrest thing, we just concluded that he had to have been arrested. Do you think the Kongs would have just left him laying at the end of DKC? Of course not! We learned a long time ago to not listen to Nintendo, as they still think the original DK is the current DK. As for the events of pre-DKU (the Donkey Kong Arcade games), we only included the ones that have so far effected the current DKU. DK3 (with Stanley the Bugman) has never been alluded to once, so we're not sure if it exists in current continuity. Oh, and the reason we conclude DK won everything in the Cameo Games is because we're a DK site. It's our job to shill out for DK.
Dear Slush,
Oops! I forgot to mention something in my other letter. Let me remind
you that I like the Time Vine; I just think that there are a few mistakes.
The mistake that I forgot to mention was the use of the Gangplank Galleon.
In DKC2, the Ganplank Galleon already became half sunken, as mentioned in the
instruction booklet. That means that K. Rool couldn't have used it to sail
away when Crocodile Isle sank. Eventually, K. Rool got his new ship, the
Gloomy Galleon. That is all. Sorry if I annoy you guys with all of these
letters.
Sincerely,
?????? ????
P.S.: Don't forget to visit: The
Hunger Site : Donate Food for Free to Hungry People in the World
P.S.S.:Do you think that the original Crocodile Isle will ever be restored?
I miss Kremland!
Slush: While it was half sunken with a fat hole in it, we're positive it was still sailable. Safe? No. But in DKL2, the Gangplank Galleon was seen again, this time docked on the OTHER side of Crocodile Isle (where DK Island wasn't in view in the background). Currently we presume that Klubba and other pirate Kremlings sailed away on it, having not seen it since. The Gloomy Galleon was probably just one of the countless ships that came before the Gangplank Galleon that K. Rool sunk.
P.S.S.:Yes. In fact, I could practically bet the life of my future wife on it. But I won't. We'll probably see it again in a DKC2 conversion to GBC or GBA...but it will probably sink again.
hey i was wondering if you got the song when you go to you saved files theme
on dk 2 for gameboy.
7111LAN@mdc.wa.edu.au
Chad: After ten minutes of alternately holding my Game Boy up to my ear and listening to the DKC2 CD, I can assure you that it's a summarized version of Cranky's theme in Donkey Kong Country 2. If you want to find it, do a search on Napster for "Cranky's Conga". I don't want to get in the habit of uploading an MP3 whenever somebody asks, as that would be bordering on illegality. Oh, to live in a less-hindered country.
Remember that feature about your Dream Game about Donkey and Candy getting
married and it being an RPG? I saw it being mentioned in the August 28
edition of Rareware Scribes and you want it to be called "Donkey and Candy:
The Wedding". You also wanted to see two other games: "Donkey Kong Country
0", a prequel starring Cranky Kong and Bazooka Bear (from DKC3) fighting in
the Kremean War that was briefly mentioned in DKC3, and "Diddy Kong Racing
2", where Wizpig can finally die, and all the furry young animals can have
bacon for breakfast. Why do you think Cranky is in the Kremean Wars? And if
you want your Dream Game to be called Donkey and Candy: The Wedding, what
would Chad name his Dream Game?
-KAVM3@aol.com
Slush: I was an ass back then. But seriously, that was my very first letter to Rarewhere and I wanted to vent a little bit too much. It came off sounding immaturish, but I didn't care. I was just happy Loveday answered my letter. I was happy the next time when he answered it again. Then the next time. And then the next, etc. I think Cranky was in the Kremean Wars because that would make sense and if they made a game about it, they would have an established character in it (more established than Bazooka Bear). While I'm too lazy to ask him, I think Chad's dream game would be called Donkey Kong Country 4.
Dear Our Friend,
Just one small request, please tell my sister that you ARE real.
Oh and, don't you think Chad and Slush should give you a proper name?
krystal@velvetdark.co.uk
Our Friend: I ARE real. And perhaps you yourself should think of a real name, rather than stealing one from certain upcoming Rare offerings. I'm on to your little game...
Hi. On your Jetpack demo, How did you make the guy move right and left when
he was in the air. I put in the same thing and he can't move when he's in
the air?
Frgn13@aol.com
Chad: This question would probably be more properly answered if the year were 1982, if I existed, and if I happened to be one of the five employees at Rare Ltd.
I've been playing DKC for years, but no matter how much I look, I can't find All bonus in the OIL DRUM ALLEY and TANKED UP TROUBLE levels. Those are the only levels without the " ! " on the name.
Please help me, I've scored 99% but this seems not to be enouth....
Tanks,
Flavia
Chad: These were the exact two bonus games that alluded me until fall of 1994. In Oil Drum Alley, one of the bonus games will have you stop a rotating item. Don't go for the obvious 1-up. get the single banana in all three, and a barrel will fall down instead. Use the barrel to bash open the exit side of the level to enter another bonus level. in Tanked Up Trouble, jump on the very first platform (after the grey Krusha), set it moving, then jump straight up and fall off the screen. You'll land in a concealed barrel which will shoto you to the bonus visible at the beginning of the stage. Doesn't get you much, other than a swallowing-of-pride by Cranky in the end.
Slush: Flavia was also a character on MST3K's Ancient Rome episodes.
I can't believe Tooty is not going to be in Banjo-Tooie! She was the main
goal of Banjo-Kazooie, and all of the sudden, Rareware took her away! It's
like Tawna from the first Crash Bandicoot game (There's a Carsh Bandicoot
game coming to Gamecube and Game Boy Advance, but that's another story).
Let's not make a scene. Like your tirbute to Belcha, I will do the next best
thing... A tribute to Tooty.
Time: 1997 or 1996. Project Dream was revealed. We don't know all about that
at the time. Then the name came along: Banjo. Not much. Then Banjo-Kazoo.
Still not much. Finally, Banjo Kazooie. We learned the story: Banjo's
girlfriend Piccolo is kiddnapped by a giant who we will never see! Then "Mr.
Trademark" stepped in and Rareware had to make some changes, which means
trashing Mumbo revealing his species! One of the many changes is Piccolo.
They renamed her Tooty and made her Banjo's sister (probably because she
looks too young to be his girlfriend). The unknown giant became unemployed
and was replaced by a witch named Gruntilda. Tooty was rescued by her now
brother and only made her appearances in the two endings. Sadly, Tooty
references have vanished.
It's now the year 2000. Banjo-Tooie, a game first revealed in 1998, the year
Banjo-Kazooie came out, has now reached its final year of development. A
month before it's release, someone wrote to Scribes, asking for Tooty's
existence in Banjo-Tooie. Surprisingly, Leigh Loveday simply said, in the
exact words... "I don't think she is, and frankly it's just as well." And
that did it for everyone. What's wrong with the world today? At least we'll
get to see her picture in Banjo's house before it blows up.
With that said, let's take a very quick trip down memory lane. In Rareware's
Forum Chambers, there's a topic called "Which character from the
Rare/Ultimate archives should be resurrected, and how?" There's a post called
"Big mistake: no Candy Kong in DKC2 & 3" by Daniel Plummer. Daniel has his
share of what he might think how Banjo-Tooie's story would be (it's posted on
8/16/98):
"In Banjo-Tooie, the story line could loosely be adjusted to fit the
following: Tootie was 13 in Banjo-Kazooie, but now in Banjo-Tooie, she's all
grown up, and we see some of that beauty in Tootie that Gruntilda achieves
when B&K get a game over in the castle - Tootie's a babe! So, she stars in
Banjo-Tooie by herself, and sees Banjo every once in a while to get hints or
something."
Unfortunately, the actual plot of the game is that Skeleton Gruntilda rose
from her "grave" and destroyed Banjo's house, killing Bottles the mole, and
Banjo and Kazooie help him get revenge on Gruntilda, meaning we'll never see
Tooty all grown up. Sad, isn't it.
Bhlaab, one of the guys at YBK, wondered what happened to Tooty. This is what
he said... "'Prolly died of pnumonia cuz Banjo wouldn't let her inside while
they played poker." Yumblie, though has his own share of Tooty's
disappearance...
"Rare has hinted at Tooty not even being in BT. Well I simply cannot accept
that. From the looks of it, she won't have a big part. But they can't just
make her disappear. After all, she was the center of the entire plot of BK,
why should she suddenly not exist in BT? Although Tooty may not play a role
in the plot, she may serve as more of a background role, perhaps separate
from the 1 player game. Maybe be playable in multiplayer, or act with part of
the menu, or something. Or she might receive the ultimate second-banana
insult...narrating the instruction manual. But with good ol' Leigh Loveday at
the wheel, there's bound to be some fun stuff happening there."
As for me, well, she might be part of a game idea which I'll send in very
soon. Cool, huh. Anyway, Here's a Haiku about her:
This little bear is,
The cutest on in the world,
Not to be ugly.
Now, at the October 28, 1999 edition of Rareware Scribes, Mr. Porto, better
known in the Land of the Rising Sun as Porto-san, had an idea of a reworked
title for Perfect Dark:
Perfect Tooty: Shadowy intelligence agency sends their deadliest cartoon
bear-child to thwart the plans of sinister aliens. Let's just hope she
doesn't conform to the exaggerated ursine stereotypes so common to today's
videogames.
So the next time you take music lessons, think of cute little Tooty. As Peter
J Hader said, "I sexually desire Tooty." And as Ken Lumb said, "Tooty better
have an active role in Banjo-Tooie aka. Naked Tooty code."
-NES Boy
PS: PRAMAT: Banjo has an unusually small house. He must be poor. What's his
job?
Leigh Loveday: He's a village idiot. Er, it's a very small village.
Chad: Excellent job you did here. Got all bases covered too. Pity Tooty won't be in Banjo-Tooie. But as we all know, Loveday isn't directly connected to any of the development teams. She might make a cameo appearance (in the stylee of Zelda in Majora's Mask) that escaped his knowledge. Hopefully. For your long Feature length letter, you get this Mr. Mooney Award (of goodness). Ye-us!
P.S. Yeah, that sounds like Banjo. Heh heh... that moron.
Dear Chad and Slush,
I feel a little weird buying a PS2 but I did get one. I knew someone who
waited overnight at a local Best Buy (and just to keep things clear, I didn't
stay overnight) and he let me come in the line with him his morning. No one
noticed or they were they just didn't care. I bought a unit (not for DVD
movies, I already have a player) and a game called Smuggler's run. I wasn't
planning on buying one but I had the chance and it is something to hold me
off until Nintendo Game Cube finally hits stores.
I plan on buying a couple more launch games....
Now onto Nintendo. Oh yea, Zelda is suppose to come out now. But, well, there
isn't much going on and that's what I'm afraid of.
I guess DKC on GBC will be hitting our handhelds soon. That will be a great
addition to my inflight enertainment. But what about Paper Mario and
Conker!??? WHY MUST WE WAIT!!??? WHY THE HELL DID I BUY A PS2 FOR 300
DOLLARS!!!!??? I REALLY LIKE EVERQUEST! METS LOST THE WORLD SERIES,
WHY?????!!!!!! WHY MUST FREINDS ASK ME QUESTIONS ABOUT COMPUTERS!!! WHY DID
YOU GIVE ME THE MOONEY TWICE!!!!!
Sincerly,
Little Luigi
Slush: Whether you feel guilty or not, if you but PS2 you're a sinner. Burn in Hell, boy! Honestly though, if Nintendo delays GAMECUBE into 2002, I'm just going to buy PS2 out of spite. I do lots of things out of spite. I let my Nintendo Power subscription run out today out of spite (too much Pokemon, not enough substance). I'll still get GAMECUBE of course, but I'll have PS2 in my closet just because I got mad at Nintendo. Yeah, I know it's good they delay things to make sure they are the highest quality...I really get tired of saying that, so screw it.
Two mooneys in a row!
I'm just have one thing to say about the Donkey Kong Universe today, GO METS!
AHAHAHAHA! METS ARE IN THE WORLD SERIES!!!! YANKEES SUCK!!!!!!!!!!
Little Luigi
Chad: Not this time, I'm afraid. Same goes for your precious baseball team. HAW HAW HAW!
C'mon you bum! When do we get to see the next Monkeypiece Theater?! Or should
I said Monkeypieceofcrap Theater?
-Ness554@aol.com
Slush: Oh, I'm sorry we don't get on our knees or bend over everytime you give us a command. We do have lives outside of this site, you know. This is just a hobby at this point, taking up about an hour and a half each day (give or take an hour).
Hello Chad? You Suck! (heeheeheeheehee)
-Ness554@aol.com
PS: Quit making sickening Pikachu pics or your precious Klungo gets it!
Have a nice day!
Chad: One of these days I'm going to snap, start tracing IPs, and go on a cross-country shoot-em-up.
Artwork. Artwork. Nothing. Artwork. Artwork. WTF?
-SirNick
Slush: You're referring to my update where I only gave the link for Artwork and nothing else, right? That was actually a mistake. I was tired, and I uploaded it without writing the content. It was good enough, so I just left it. We're a motivated pack of dogs, we are.
Here is the first non are you Chad question and here is it.
Are you Slush?
zinggy11@hotmail.com
Our Friend: *sigh* Don't start spilling your sh-t into letters, Zinggy.
I would just like you to get those two dopes chad and slush to shape up some,
they only had ONE edition of letters in October! ONe! Do u know how
horrifying that is, they should have at least 2! what is up with them? I
demand you make them do a new letters this month!!! You here me? If not, I
shall have you de-lensed, Mr! You here?
PirateMike04@aol.com
Our Friend: Only one? Good grief, Mikey, what shall we do? Anyway, this one's a lot bigger. It should suffice. And if you complain, I'll just gouge out your eyeballs. Mr! You here?
Well, it's that time of year - AGAIN. Where annoying little children
come knocking on your door for candy with threats to egg your house or
use TP instead. Hmm... sounds thrilling. Well, my halloween was
uneventful, being isolated on an island continent and all, but I hope
that the staff at DK Vine (that'd be you, Chad and Our Friend, then)
have a great halloween, with plenty of vandalism and candy for all.
......mmmm, candy.
Anyway, the next big holiday event is Christmas, and we can expect a
helluva lot of DKU games out before then. So get your money saved, go
and buy 'em, and let us all know what they're like! Oh, and beware
trick or treaters dressed in Tellitubbies costumes. Now THAT'S scary.
Cheers, and Happy Halloween,
Aussie Ben
Slush: Didn't get any Telletubbies this year. Or Pokemon. At least none came to my doorstop. I did get a few nuns and a some Power Rangers. That's right, Power Rangers. Mighty Morphin', Zeo, Turbo, In Space, Lost Galaxy, Lightspeed Rescue, Interplanetary Enema, or Astro Arsestuffers? I didn't ask.
By the way, please don't ask me how I knew all of the Power Ranger series'. I'm not sure myself.
Is Diddy in Super Smash Bros. 2?
kev@tvutel.com
Chad: One can only hope.
Subj: whats up with this election? utx ndaky abag
I Cant believe now they released that garbage
mduok@umaaazaoh.de
Slush: "It's become clear to America over the course of this campaign that I've made mistakes in my life, but I'm proud to tell you I've learned from my mistakes."
Heh heh, Dubbya is going down in flames. Of course, that means Lieberman and the PTC are taking over. We're damned if we do and damned if we don't!
Hi
This is very important for me. Please answer.
I just wonder if the kongs in all kong games is in the same family?
If they are, do diddy and lanky have a sister or brother?
And Donkey, does he have a father?
I would like to know how all Kongs are conected whith each other.
Thanks
Tom
Chad: Well, Tom, dig around in the Features section for a while until you come up with one called "It's All Relative". That should explain it all quite nicely.
That chest of time the master hand created you mentioned, Does it connect all the universes? Because it has Peaches' castle + DK's jungle +the old Mario(yuck) land.
-Kevin Olson
Slush: The Chest of Time was the chest we saw in Super Smash Bros. that Master Hand plucked all the characters from. It's transdimensional, and crosses all of time and space. So if you mean universes as in dimensions, then yes. If you mean it as in "Donkey Kong Universe" or "Mario Universe," then no. Hey, I even confused myself now!
Chad:
So you really like Majora's Mask do you? Have you gotten past the
Woodfall Temple? Don't you think this game is A LOT harder than Ocarina of
Time? Sorry I've been writing these short crap letters...
SirNick
Chad: I'm going to pretend this is relevant because Link was in Smash Bros., as I really want to reply to this letter but the rules of the Letters page dictate otherwise. Anyway, I love Majora's Mask, yes. I got past Woodfall the first day I got it, and am now stuck on that waterwheel bit of the Great Bay. Don't mail me the solution though, I want to figure it out on my own accord. I think the difficulty is about on par with Ocarina of Time. It just starts out at Forest Temple-level difficulty, rather than easing you in. The team is basically assuming you've already played Ocarina, which is one of the big things I like about the game.
Now the way Pikachu was killed and treated as a jack-o-Lattern was too
gross! I loved it!
-ChuckRoast
Slush: Well Palumbo, he wasn't technically dead. His life was saved by placing him on that electric football game they use to restore Pokemon in Pokemon games.
Guys, what are you gonna be for Halloween this year? And what were you last
year (you never said)?
-NES Boy
PS: I'm gonna make a picture of Bazooka from Bazooka-Kablooie (the game I
showed ya) by TLONMASTER. I'll put it in the Artwork section, along with a
possible logo for Heroes of Kazaam 2 (complete with subtitle).
Chad: I went as a jaded adolescent who would rather watch Treehouse of Horror reruns than give himself cavities. I think my costume was rather convincing too. Sorry for the dull answer, you would have done better asking Slush. I think he went as the boogeyman who lived in his garage.
P.S. Really? Wow! I can't wait! (forced smile)
Slush: I've dressed up as a zombie for the last six years Chad, scaring Trick or Treaters as they knock on my door. Don't get cute with me, bitch.
I'll give 10 more chances not to make sickening Pikachu pics. And once every
one of those chances are broken up, then you will pay the price of seeing
your precious Klungo feel the cold feeling of death. Have a nice day!!!
Ness554@aol.com
Chad: You make a valid point. But what makes you think I'd ever download a picture of Klungo getting injured in the first place? But enough about me... it seems our old Pokemon pal is visiting his good friend K. Lumsy. Oh no, K. Lumsy ate him! Pikachu, watch out for his highly caustic gastric juices! Oh, the humanity!
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