May Retro Community Playthrough - Donkey Kong Country 1 & 2

[techwizard]

Come celebrate the (nearly) 20th anniversary of Donkey Kong Country with RFGeneration!

Overview:
King K. Rool has stolen Donkey Kong's banana hoard! It's up to you to get it back in Donkey Kong Country, the classic platformer for the Super Nintendo by Rare. As this game is very short we'll only spend 2 weeks on it, and the rest of the month will go to playing the sequel, Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy Kong's Quest. An optional goal this month will be to play the 3rd game in this trilogy for those who manage to finish the first 2 early enough.

Platform(s)
SNES
Gameboy Color* (DKC only)
Gameboy Advance*

*the handheld port(s) of both games have some significant changes but are still technically attempted faithful ports, so they're listed here as options but not recommended. see all the differences here: http://www.mariowiki.com/...untry#Version_Differences

Checkpoints
Week 1 - DKC - Get to start of Gorilla Glacier (World 4)
Week 2 - DKC - Beat the game!
Week 3 - DKC2:DKQ - Get to the start of Gloomy Gulch (World 5)
Week 4 - DKC2:DKQ - Beat the game

Achievements
Donkey Kong Country:
 - Find all 4 of the K.O.N.G. letters in Kongo Jungle world*
 - Find all 4 of the K.O.N.G. letters in Monkey Mines world*
 - Find all 4 of the K.O.N.G. letters in Vine Valley world*
 - Find all 4 of the K.O.N.G. letters in Gorilla Glacier world*
 - Find all 4 of the K.O.N.G. letters in Kremkroc Industries, Inc world *
 - Find all 4 of the K.O.N.G. letters in Chimp Caverns world *
 - 25% or more completion
 - 50% or more completion
 - 75% or more completion
 - 101% completion
 - Beat the game

Donkey Kong Country 2 Diddy Kong's Quest:
 - Find all 40 DK Coins
 - Find all 75 Kremkoins
 - Access The Lost World
 - Find all Kong Letters in Gangplank Galleon*
 - Find all Kong Letters in Crocodile Cauldron*
 - Find all Kong Letters in Krem Quay*
 - Find all Kong Letters in Krazy Kremland*
 - Find all Kong Letters in Gloomy Gulch*
 - Find all Kong Letters in K. Rool's Keep*
 - Find all Kong Letters in The Flying Krock*
 - Find all Kong Letters in Lost World*
 - Beat the game
 - 25% or more completion
 - 50% or more completion
 - 75% or more completion
 - 102% completion
*there's no in-game tracking of these letters so it's all on the honour system, just try and remember or even write down which levels you found all the letters on.

Participants
Disposed Hero
douglie007
EngineerMike
Flee
monkees19
NES_Rules
Raidou
RetroRage
Silent Scythe
singlebanana
Stigzilla
techwizard

[tactical_nuke]

Lol count me in, I can probably do any challenges for this game in one go

[Stigzilla]

Count me in for sure!

[Shadow Kisuragi]

Same Flee.

[NES_Rules]

I've been meaning to try one of these community playthroughs out, and since I love DKC 1 and haven't spent enough time playing DKC2, count me in.

[Raidou]

Excellent!  I'm in.

EDIT:
viva la difference!

http://www.dkc-atlas.com/...ewtopic.php?t=151&f=7

An interesting discussion about the differences in each region/software revision for the DKC trilogy.

[MaterialHandlerMike]

Sweet! I own 1 and 2 but not 3...yet! Sign me up!

[Disposed Hero]

I'll have to track down a copy of the second game, but yeah, count me in!

[monkees19]

I have both of them, so count me in!

[douglie007]

lets do it, can I play it on the GBA, or is it do different

[Shadow Kisuragi]

Game Boy versions are different (Donkey Kong Land). Not sure about the GBA versions.

[tactical_nuke]

GBA versions have some added content. They're mostly the same though.

[Shadow Kisuragi]

Donkey Kong Land, if I remember, stripped out one of the animal friends to save some memory.

EDIT: Version differences here:
http://www.mariowiki.com/..._Country#Game_Boy_Advance

[Silent Scythe]

I should have some time for this.

[techwizard]

original post updated, first checkpoint is up! douglie if you only have the GBA port and can't find a copy of the original i'd say give the GBA one a try, there are a lot of differences but it's still essentially the same game from what wikipedia says.