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Donkey Kong Country Palette restoration

Hack of Donkey Kong Country

Description:

Here it is: a real restoration project for the infamous Donkey Kong Country for GBA. It wasn’t a bad port after all, the gameplay was completely intact and also had the new Hero and Attack modes.

It’s still a little behind from the SNES version due to the resolution reducement and soundtrack (which sounds worse, but still sounds good!). But it’s an undeniable improvement.

This wasn’t the typical SNES to GBA palette restoration. This was hell. After Rare reduced all sprites and tilesets, none of the palettes matched so they had to be repaletted manually using Photoshop and a custom tool made exclusively for this.

What’s missing:

  • probably a few bonus rooms
  • all new palettes not coming from the SNES version (basically, minigames and map)

ROM / ISO Information:

  • Donkey Kong Country (Europe) (En,Fr,De,Es,It).gba
  • CRC32: 41d277fe
  • MD5: c1fb9badf816b6d7836f4990f8119815
  • SHA-1: 8995f0be99a9cff66474a8975b8499bd69fb4c45

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Credits:

Credits
ContributorType of contributionListed credit
marc_maxHacking

User Review Information

Looks far FAR better!

Reviewed By: Kippykip on 02 Dec 2018

Wow this looks way WAY better! I’ll definitely be using this on my GBA Micro!

Version 1.1 Recommended - Yes

User Reviews
HeadlineAuthorDateVersionRecommend
Looks great on every screen i've triedbadcat28 May 20211.1Yes
Looks far FAR better!Kippykip02 Dec 20181.1Yes
A already good port made even better!Dee-jay_Luig-jay27 Jun 20181.0Yes
Amazing workr1ggles25 Jun 20181.0Yes