Adding these to Donk Viewer (cause of course I am) and found 2 interesting tidbits. There's an ambient SFX bubble that is near (most) Cranky's Lab locations to play the electricity SFX. Eg: Picture 1 For Factory though, this is incredibly offset to the middle of the room. Why?

Babe, wake up! A new inexplicable part of the map geometry file was found

I found where the game stores the paths that the minecarts have to adhere to during the minecart rides, and it's pretty nonsensical. ❌ Enemy Paths File ❌ Object Paths File ❌ In it's own unique file ✅ Map Geometry File Cause the best place to put something unseen is in the file for seen things.

Next year will be our year

The devs of DK64 made a mistake when creating the save file. The save data for the names associated with your DK Arcade highscore share 1 bit with your jetpac highscore. As such, depending on the name you enter, your highscore will either look like a normal player or Steve Wiebe's cousin

Don't talk to me or my brother, or my uncle, or my son again

All hail the beaver

No context DK64

Working on a chunk viewer for Donk Viewer and, to say the least, DK64's chunk system is..... odd. 🧵 - How DK64's chunk system works

mornin

Hold up, something ain't quite right here

So figured out what this was... another race in Crystal Caves. This time a flying course against a very vulture-sounding Squawks. Unfortunately incredibly broken so requires a lot of pushing and poking to get it working as intended. youtu.be/Pw7b1pj_Ecs?...

"Hey Ballaam, how goes debugging the testing crash" How it's going:

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I got a crazy idea that DonkViewer could highlight all spots where you can ledge clip. I'm about half way through making the algo and for a trick discovered in the late 00s, its incredibly mindbending trying to go from "all these triangles have some exposed edge" to "yeah you can ledge clip here"

Whoever cooked up this path in Caves where a GB or balloon rises from the water deserves both a medal for their ingenuity and a question on why they went back on that decision

Introducing DonkViewer: The past few days I've been working on a brand new tool which shows all 216 maps in DK64 in various modes (geometry, collision etc) all within the web browser, and I finally have it in a state where it's ready for others to play with. theballaam96.github.io/donk_viewer....

Your once-every-now-and-then reminder

Stroll why are you driving

Playtonic know how much everyone loves Grant that they put him in the game lol

Discord has a new feature where you can style your name with various fonts (presumably nitro only). Unfortunately it makes it harder to read and parse through a bunch of names. Here's the setting to turn off those custom styles rendering.

Donkey Kong 64 for the Nintendo 64

Isn't it great when FedEx repeatedly tries to gaslight you into thinking they delivered a package and won't do anything about your case no matter how confident you are that they did not?

I love how Piastri has one bad weekend, and F1YT is all over it acting like every weekend from now on is gonna be a stinker for him. One bad weekend isn't a pattern, y'all

The original "Hey, lets stream a person's TAS in it's entirety with no commentary, with Twitch ads, 24/7, with the video of the TAS taking up a weird portion of the screen cause we gotta have a bunch of Nintendo characters walking at the bottom of the screen for peak nostalgia" ftfy

Since chrome has decided that they'd rather enforce a worse experience for users by essentially disabling Adblockers, including all workarounds, guess it's time to switch to Brave. Unfortunately, I know Brave can get a little too overconfident with blocking stuff. Any Brave users have any tips?

"by far"

2018 DK64R development document

No context DK64

Another reason why Lanky Kong is the worst kong

The DK Rap, but it's in DK64's native wireframe mode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-Hp...

Turns out that DK64 has a wireframe mode built in. Doesn't look like there's any way to activate it in the vanilla game without memory hacking. Thankfully, all it takes is 2 address changes to activate

A now legitimate feature of DK64R 5.0 (Outside the music)

Watching Finding Nemo after watching some House clips is an interesting experience that makes you realize that Gill is very much a mirror of Dr. House

There's a Discord account hijacking campaign going on today, be extra vigilant about links being sent to you via DMs. Let's also not shame anyone who had the misfortune of being hit. They're already dealing with a lot as it is and no one is immune to an attack like this.

I wish McLaren would stop verbally reminding Oscar of the team racing rules any time there is a hint of a battle between Oscar and Norris.

Seeing people already speedrunning Bananza is kinda sad. I get that it's a way of enjoying the game, but in doing so when its been out for less than 1 week you're depriving yourself of the first playthrough to get a WR that no-one will care about in about 2w when its already long obsolete.

Turns out that an echo-ey room makes a mechanical keyboard sound like I'm Mr. Incredible about to find out that Gazerbeam was terminated

I have an idea inspired by my latest earworm for DK64R. It's either gonna be epic or fail horribly. Practically a coinflip

The joke just writes itself

Hey, BBC, this isn't a good thing. Locking the news behind a paywall is a VERY bad idea. That price is ludicrous as well. You can literally buy a subscription to a password manager that comes bundled with a decent VPN for 10 people cheaper than the suggested price. Barmy

The invisible film in Japes is because their position in the world places them in a different chunk (the shellhive area). Therefore, for performance reasons, the game disables rendering them. If you move them 25 units in the negative X direction, they no longer make this misconception:

Whoops, I jinxed it.

After 25 years, the door to Factory Lobby finally has collision

DK64 Speedrunning in 2025

Watching F1, a summary: - It's over - We're so back - It's over - We're so back - It's over - We're so back Repeat 24 times a year. 48 times if you're a Ferrari fan

Kinda debating doing commission work for DK64 ROM Hacking (wouldn't be anything like creating new levels or anything like that), but not sure of whether a market exists for DK64 hacks that people would do for a 1-off meme video akin to: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZP4... Open to feedback on the idea

getting called out by the DK64 randomizer rn #PAXEast