The trailers for the Malcolm in the Middle sequel and the Devil wears Prada sequel appeared in my recommends randomly from some very unknown channel, and my first thought was "Oh, that's obviously AI" They both hit the hallmark of a lot of AI Trailers. (1/2)

Sometimes it's fun to be dumb with DK64 (sound on)

Whoever thought to mix Metallica and a symphony orchestra 27 years ago deserves all the raises

I can already smell the "2026 championship without Mercedes" videos appearing on YouTube

Each of us is leading a difficult life, and when we meet people we are seeing only a tiny part of the thinnest veneer of their complex, troubled existences. To practise anything other than kindness towards them, to treat them in any way save generously, is to quietly deny their humanity Derren Brown

So, turns out that DK64, Kazooie and Tooie have similar enough soundfont contents and compiled binary format that you can convert a DK64 track (vanilla or custom) in it's compiled binary form to either Banjo game's format without having to convert it back to a MIDI, and it'll sound almost identical.

Sounds like they're not gonna be making any more Red Dwarf with the original quartet anymore. Whilst it makes sense (Robert is nearly 70), and the show enjoyed a longer run than many others, I don't think it really got the ending it deserved. Instead RD 13/14 has been in limbo for 6 years.

Today, I give thanks to vanilla DK64. 4 bug reports have turned up in the 5.0 bug reports chat today, and because of the vanilla game, only 25% of them are actual rando bugs that need fixing (the other 75% being non-serious bugs with the vanilla game)

In Donkey Kong 64, the Giant Spider miniboss can only be fought once. Modifying the game to fight it a second time makes it unceremoniously explode. While this appears to be a glitch, examining the code reveals it was actually deliberately added for the developers' own amusement.

This is a great training diagram and we will be teaching DK64R devs that they "must continvoucly morge your PRs over Tinm" /s

You're not ready for the SHEER madness that is gonna be DK64 Randomizer 6.0. You think you are You are not

Whats your favorite game from every Nintendo console you've owned? N64: Banjo-Tooie (2000) GCN: Twilight Princess (2006) DS: Prof. Layton & the Curious Village (2007) Wii: Super Mario Galaxy (2007) 3DS: OoT 3D (2011) Wii U: Twilight Princess HD (2016) S1: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate (2018)

The hexagon can't get enough of those soothing bongos (Yes, this will work for any song, including custom songs) (Yes, this was super annoying to code thanks to how the audio library works)

Super Hexagon in DK64 as an arcade minigame

New DK64 Randomizer 6.0 feature: Custom arcade minigames Minesweeper: www.twitch.tv/jxjacob/clip... Wordle: www.twitch.tv/jxjacob/clip...

I got you

Unfortunately wasn't able to go to GDQ this year despite donk getting in. However, @2dos.dk64randomizer.com was incredibly generous and got me one of the staff shirts regardless. Great run on stage and glad that we got to kick cancer's butt.

Everything @keiperdontcare.bsky.social has ever done has lead to this moment. All decisions he has made, every step he has walked, all lead to this vital singular moment in time. #agdq2026

DK 64 Randomizer fans are making a strong showing in GDQ crowd. Does anyone know where someone could learn more about this run? @connor75.bsky.social and @keiperdontcare.bsky.social are putting on an a-peel-ing show #agdq2026

We should normalize documentation of good Linux workarounds for common workflows for your hobbies. I'm now on Linux Fedora KDE instead of Windows, and it's been great so far. Trying to find the alternatives is fun, but guides & recommendations are endlessly helpful

Cause I would 100% trust my ID with the owner of a random site who openly admits they might retain it for as long as they want... ( /s ) What a backwards, tone-deaf policy

The DK64 Randomizer development team will be having a panel at AGDQ 2026! We'll be going through the history of the randomizer as well as how it was made. See you there!

New video from WhitePointer talking about crashes in DK64. Its a solid video that I provided some technical help on: youtu.be/A0bWoo1h8FQ?...

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?