Donkey Kong Country - SNES

[guest5189]

Well, iv recently started playing donkey kong country again, this time via the ouya with the SNES.emu. I own the actual SNES copy and I have a save file on it at 101%* which I remember took me ages to get back in the day, even with the help of a guide. Now on the ouya with the graphic resolution pumped up it still looks and feels great but I'm finding some of the levels extremely hard! Especially the rail road mine shaft one!. Anyone else played it recently?

[Bobinator]

To be perfectly honest, the first time I've played any Donkey Kong Country game, it was the GBA port of the original. Which wasn't actually that bad, as they added a lot of interesting new things. If only the gamma levels weren't cranked up to blinding levels, but... well, this was an early-ish GBA game, so you can see the problem there.

It was probably when I played DKC2 on a hotel SNES when I really got into the games. But since we're talking about the first game, specifically... you know, I really don't think it's as bad as some people say. I mean, sure, it's a pretty basic platformer compared to its sequels, but I'd say it's a pretty good game.

[guest5189]

It is one of the very best SNES games imo

[zapiy]

I should get on this game again, like you say it's a brilliant version I just find it hard now to play it now I have the Wii U game. 

[Jag_Slave]

I play it all the time, love this game. DK 1,2 &3 are all great games! The music in the water levels... GREAT

[Greyfox]

One the best platforms ever to grace any machine, we were just it was the Snes , I remember when this first came out thinking, shit this is ps1 2d graphics on the Snes, and though Nintendo must be working on an add-on to compete with Sony and Sega, before their n64 platform showed up, which I still feel today the Snes was better.

But DKC is an all time classic and beautifully programmed and the music is as good as any cd soundtrack.

@Jag_Slave , you talking about this?

[guest5189]

One the best platforms ever to grace any machine, we were just it was the Snes , I remember when this first came out thinking, shit this is ps1 2d graphics on the Snes, and though Nintendo must be working on an add-on to compete with Sony and Sega, before their n64 platform showed up, which I still feel today the Snes was better.

But DKC is an all time classic and beautifully programmed and the music is as good as any cd soundtrack.

@Jag_Slave , you talking about this?

Well, to be fair the snes did have a lot better titles than the n64 there's no doubt about that. Just that one game that made the n64 worth getting and the reason I still have one set up in the spare room today, mario 64. Just awesome. And you need that game on the actual n64 because unlike any snes game, no emulators seem to perfectly emulate n64 games. There's always something a bit off, the sound or slightly glitchy graphics, where as snes emulators work as well as the snes it's self did.

[64bitRuss]

I just recently beat the final boss of DKC, but with only like %64 so I've got to basically go through the entire game again to get %100 since there's no way to know which stages you got all the secrets from.

It's a fine game with good controls, and I had only ever read good things about it when it was released, and I always thought the graphics looked amazing. Not sure how I feel about a lack of high score record keeping though. Actually I do know how I feel about it, I don't like it. I prefer games to have score keeping, other than just completion percentage.