Editing Donkey Kong Country (Game Boy Advance)

|title=Donkey Kong Country

|image=[[File:DKC GBA Cover.jpg|250px]]

|publisher=[[Nintendo]]

|genre=[[Genre#Platform|Platformer]]

|modes=1–2 players

|platforms=[[Game Boy Advance]]

|input={{input|gba=1}}

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==Story==

{{quote|What? This old chestnut again? Even I'm fed up of hearing it by now!|Cranky Kong}}

The manual features the same abridged version of the original story that the [[Game Boy Color]] [[Donkey Kong Country (Game Boy Color)|remake]] uses (to [[Cranky Kong]]'s chagrin). In game, another version is shown as an opening cutscene. An in-training [[Diddy Kong]] is overpowered by a group of [[Kremling]]s led by [[Krusha]] (rather than [[Klump]] like in the original manual), who proceed to dispose of him and steal [[Donkey Kong]]'s [[banana hoard]]. Cranky Kong alerts him of this the next morning, and he vows to find Diddy and his [[banana]]s.

An ending cutscene is also added: after King K. Rool's defeat, Cranky, Funky, and Candy congratulate Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong on their victory. King K. Rool soon recovers, forces them off the ship and sails away, vowing to return.

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===Modes===

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|The Game Boy Advance version has two mode select screens: player selection (left) and a gameplay selection between the main game and two exclusive modes (right).

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!Description

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|A single player controls both Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong.

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|Two players cooperatively take turns playing through the levels. The first player controls Donkey Kong, while the second player controls Diddy. Players can change turns by switching the Kongs or by losing their Kong.

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==Characters==

===The Kong Krew===

There are a few Kongs who help Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong along their journey, and they each appear in one of the [[#Supporting location|supporting locations]].

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|style="text-align:center"|[[File:DKCGBADonkeyKongSprite.png]]

|style="text-align:center"|[[Donkey Kong]]

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|style="text-align:center"|[[File:DKCGBADiddyKongSprite.png]]

|Diddy is the best friend and sidekick of Donkey Kong. While he is not as strong as his partner, Diddy is faster, but his light weight prevents him from being able to defeat more powerful enemies in a single jump.

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|Candy is the love interest of Donkey Kong. She operates [[Candy's Dance Studio]], where the Kongs can participate in a dancing minigame.

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|style="text-align:center"|[[Cranky Kong]]

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|style="text-align:center"|[[Funky Kong]]

|Funky Kong operates a flight service and fishing minigame at [[Funky's Fishing]].

===Amiable Animals===

Aside from the supporting Kongs, Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong are also assisted by [[Animal Friends]] during the game. Each Animal Friend is imprisoned within an [[animal crate]] depicting a silhouette of their face. The Animal Friends only appear in certain levels, and the Kongs cannot take them to other levels. Every Animal Friend has their own unique abilities.

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|style="text-align:center"|[[File:DKCGBARambiSprite.png]]

|style="text-align:center"|[[Rambi]]

|align="center"|[[Jungle Hijinxs (Donkey Kong Country)|Jungle Hijinxs]]

|align="center"|[[Manic Mincers]]

|align="center"|[[Rope Bridge Rumble]]

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|style="text-align:center"|[[Expresso]]

|align="center"|[[Temple Tempest]]

|align="center"|[[Misty Mine]]

{{quote|Look at the state of this lot-and I bet they'll still bash you to a pulp!|King K. Rool}}

Various types of enemies appear throughout the levels, attempting to get into Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong's way. The [[Kremling]]s are the main enemies of the game.

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|style="text-align:center"|[[Clam City]]

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|style="text-align:center"|[[Croctopus]]

|An octopus enemy that quickly treads through water to hit the Kongs. The purple variants move in fixed patterns around blocks of coral reef, while the blue variants go in a set path after the Kongs once they pass them. Like Clambos, they cannot be defeated.

|style="text-align:center"|[[Platform Perils]]

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|style="text-align:center"|[[Stop & Go Station]]

|style="text-align:center"|[[Loopy Lights]]

|style="text-align:center"|[[Mine Cart Madness]]

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|style="text-align:center"|[[Kritter]]

|Kritters are the grunt soldiers of the Kremling Krew. They are one of the weakest enemies along with Gnawty. The color of a Kritter determines its movement behavior: the standard, purple ones walk forward, the blue ones jump while moving forward, the yellow ones jump vertically without moving forward, gray ones jump left and right, and red Kritters hop forward a few times before doing a long jump. A green one appears in the cast roll alongside the other colors.

|style="text-align:center"|[[File:MiniNecky DKCGBA sprite.png]]

|style="text-align:center"|[[Mini-Necky]]

|style="text-align:center"|[[Vulture Culture]]

|style="text-align:center"|[[Elevator Antics]]

|style="text-align:center"|[[File:Necky DKCGBA perched.png]] [[File:Necky DKCGBA sprite.png]]

|style="text-align:center"|[[Necky]]

|style="text-align:center"|[[Jungle Hijinxs (Donkey Kong Country)|Jungle Hijinxs]]

|style="text-align:center"|[[Platform Perils]]

|style="text-align:center"|[[Poison Pond]]

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|style="text-align:center"|[[Zinger]]

|Zingers are wasps and very common enemies who appear in almost every level. The Kongs cannot defeat Zingers themselves and must use either a barrel or an Animal Friend to defeat them. The Kongs must usually avoid the Zingers along the way. Zingers have a few different color variations, each with their own flight pattern: yellow moves vertically, orange moves horizontally or flies in place, silver moves in a circular path or flies in place, and green moves in a u-shaped path. Magenta and purple ones appear in the cast roll alongside the other colors.

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|style="text-align:center"|[[Misty Mine]]

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|style="text-align:center"|[[Cannonball]]

|Giant iron balls that fall across the screen sequentially when [[King K. Rool|K. Rool]] performs his floor-slam attack.

|colspan=2, style="text-align:center"|[[Gang-Plank Galleon]]

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|style="text-align:center"|[[Coconut]]

|The favored projectiles of the [[Necky]] family, they may be launched straight horizontally or in bouncing arcs.

|style="text-align:center"|[[Necky's Revenge]]

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|style="text-align:center"|[[Crownerang]]

|K. Rool's primary weapon, his own crown. When he throws it, however, he renders himself vulnerable to stomp attacks.

|colspan=2, style="text-align:center"|[[Gang-Plank Galleon]]

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|style="text-align:center"|[[Millstone]]

|Millstones are enormous invulnerable stone wheels ridden in by Gnawties.

|style="text-align:center"|[[Manic Mincers]]

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|style="text-align:center"|[[Oil drum]]

|Oil drums resemble black drums except for their taller appearance and ability to emit fire. The word "OIL" is embedded on them.

|style="text-align:center"|[[Oil Drum Alley]]

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|style="text-align:center"|Pearl

|Projectiles shot in numbers from one to five at once in straight lines by [[Clambo]]s.

===The Bosses===

At the end of every world, the Kongs must fight a boss, each guarding a portion of the stolen bananas. Most of the bosses are a larger version of an enemy.

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|style="text-align:center"|[[Very Gnawty]]

|A giant Gnawty that jumps around, trying to hit the Kongs. Donkey Kong and Diddy must jump on it five times to defeat it. For each hit, Very Gnawty leaps high, then bounces and moves around faster.

|style="text-align:center"|[[Very Gnawty's Lair]]

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|style="text-align:center"|[[Master Necky]]

|A giant Necky that creeps his head out from one of four corners of the screen, spitting large nuts at the Kongs. Master Necky spit nuts faster each time he is jumped on. Donkey Kong or Diddy can defeat the boss by jumping on his head five times.

|style="text-align:center"|[[Necky's Nuts]]

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|style="text-align:center"|[[Queen B.]]

|style="text-align:center"|[[Bumble B. Rumble]]

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|style="text-align:center"|[[Really Gnawty]]

|style="text-align:center"|[[Really Gnawty Rampage]]

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|style="text-align:center"|[[File:Dumb Drum - DKC GBA Sprite.png]]

|style="text-align:center"|[[Dumb Drum]]

|style="text-align:center"|[[Boss Dumb Drum]]

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|style="text-align:center"|[[Master Necky]] and [[Master Necky Snr.]]

|style="text-align:center"|[[Necky's Revenge]]

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==Items==

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|Bananas are the equivalent to [[coin]]s from the ''[[Super Mario (series)|Super Mario]]'' series, as collecting 100 of them gives the Kongs an extra life. They are the most common item of the game.

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|style="text-align:center"|[[Banana Bunch]]es

|Banana Bunches grant ten bananas when collected. They are less common than normal bananas and often appear in Bonus Levels and hidden areas.

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|style="text-align:center"|[[Giant Banana|Giant banana]]s

|A giant banana is held by each boss. Claiming one marks the completion of one of the game's worlds.

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|style="text-align:center"|[[Animal token]]s

|Animal tokens are small tokens that depict one of the Animal Friends (excluding [[Squawks the Parrot|Squawks]]). If three animal tokens depicting the same Animal Friend are collected, the game redirects the player to a bonus area where they control the corresponding Animal Friend. In the area, the Animal Friend must collect as many [[Mini Animal Token]]s depicting them within a time limit in exchange for extra lives.

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|style="text-align:center"|[[Mini Animal Token]]s

|Hundreds of Mini Animal Tokens fill the Animal Friend-themed bonus stages. For every hundred collected, an extra life is earned.

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|style="text-align:center"|[[Big Animal Token]]s

|A single Big Animal Token is hidden in each of the Animal Friend-themed bonus stages. Collecting it doubles the held amount of Mini Animal Tokens.

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|style="text-align:center"|[[Photograph|Camera]]

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==Objects==

===Mechanisms===

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|These crates contain a certain Animal Friend, which is indicated by a silhouette of their face on the side.

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|style="text-align:center"|[[Arrow Sign]]s

|These signs indicate the Kongs are approaching the end of a stage.

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|style="text-align:center"|[[Lift|Elevator]]s

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|style="text-align:center"|[[Exit]]s

|These signs indicate the Kongs have reached the end of a stage.

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|style="text-align:center"|[[Rope]]s

|Ropes are objects that appear in many levels, and the Kongs can climb up and down them. Many of them swing over wide abysses, so the Kongs can use them to cross the gaps. In [[Slipslide Ride]], there are blue and purple ropes that automatically send the Kongs up and down respectively.

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===Barrels===

Barrels are the most common object in the game. There are many different types of barrels in the game, each with its own purpose and use.

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|style="text-align:center"|[[File:DKC GBA Barrel.png]]

|style="text-align:center"|[[Barrel|Wooden Barrel]]s

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|style="text-align:center"|[[File:DK Barrel DKC GBA sprite.png]]

|style="text-align:center"|[[DK Barrel|Buddy Barrel]]s

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|style="text-align:center"|[[File:DKC GBA TNT Barrel.png]]

|TNT Drums are a type of barrel that explode after being thrown into an enemy or surface. They are often used to destroy powerful enemies or break a fragile wall leading into a Bonus Level.  

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|style="text-align:center"|[[Iron Barrel|Steel keg]]s

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|style="text-align:center"|[[Barrel Cannon]]s

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|style="text-align:center"|[[Jumbo Barrel]]

|The Jumbo Barrel can be entered in [[Funky's Fishing]], where it flies the Kongs to any place in Donkey Kong Island that they have visited.

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|style="text-align:center"|[[Bonus Barrel]]s

|Send the Kongs to a [[bonus room]] when jumped inside.

|The Dance Barrel can be entered in [[Candy's Dance Studio]], where it sends the Kongs to a dancing minigame.

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|A Continue Barrel is a checkpoint in the middle of every level, except boss levels. If both Kongs are defeated anytime after breaking the Continue Barrel and restart the level, they continue from where it was activated.

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|style="text-align:center"|{{conjectural|[[Roulette Barrel]]s}}

|Appearing in certain [[Bonus Level]]s, Roulette Barrels float in the air in groups. Depending on the challenge, they may switch between displaying different items which stop when touched, and as such need matched (or in some cases spell the word "KONG"), or they may switch an Extra Life Balloon around in a shell game-type manner where the final location must be guessed.

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|style="text-align:center"|[[Stop & Go Barrel]]s

|These barrels appear only in [[Stop & Go Station]], where they are used to control the [[Rock Kroc]]s' movements. By default the barrels are on the "Go", and the level has a green lighting. The Rock Krocs are active while the barrels have the "Go" setting. If the Kongs jump at a Stop & Go Barrel, every barrel changes to the "Stop" setting for a few seconds, causing the Rock Krocs to stop moving temporarily and the lighting to turn red.

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|style="text-align:center"|[[File:On Barrel GBA sprite.png]] [[File:Off Barrel GBA sprite.png]]

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==Supporting locations==

During their adventure, Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong are assisted by three other members of the Kong Family who operate their own location in every world.

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|This area is ran by [[Cranky Kong]], who gives random level hints.

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|Funky's location acts a flight service as in the original, though its main purpose is to host a series of [[Funky's Fishing|fishing challenges]].

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==Levels==

Compared to the original, a few levels have swapped positions with nearby levels.

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[[File:Candy's Dance Studio.png|200px|thumb|Gameplay of the Candy's Dance Studio minigame]]

*An intro cutscene is played when the player starts a new file, which is an abridged version of the story from the manual.

*A "Time Attack" mode has been added, called [[DK Attack]], where Donkey and Diddy Kong must collect objects and complete the level in a certain amount of time.

*Some enemies come in different colors (normal Gnawties are blue, normal Kritters are purple, etc.) The original colors of some of said enemies are briefly featured in the credits.

*The millstones now spin through in-engine sprite rotation to make the animation more fluid than the separate sprite frames of the original. The same effect is applied to K. Rool's cannonballs.

**Also, as in the sequels, bonus rooms can now be reentered.

*The Blast Barrels that send the Kongs near the end of the level are replaced by [[Warp Barrel]]s.

**When the heroes enter a Warp Barrel, they are sent into a short area that contains a group of bananas that spell out the word "WARP". In the original version of the game, as well as in the Game Boy Color version, the original barrel simply sends them to the end of the level and not into this short area.

***Queen B. now has several Zingers surrounding her when she gets hit and turns red, which all must be taken out with barrels before she can be damaged again. The Zingers' placement changes after each hit. Her red color is now a tinting of the base sprite rather than a palette change.

***Really Gnawty, rather than making high leaps after being hit, leaps over to the side of the stage, and causes stalactites to fall from the ceiling, before leaping around again.

***After defeating the enemies that Dumb Drum drops, as it attempts to crush the player, the player must throw TNT Drums at it to damage it.

***The player battles both Master Necky Snr. and Master Necky simultaneously. Rather than tossing an increasing number of nuts, Master Necky Snr. and Master Necky each toss a single nut at the same time, before either can be hit.  After one is defeated, the other will toss four nuts before being vulnerable.

***Temple Tempest is the sixth level in Vine Valley, rather than the fourth. This makes Orang-utan Gang and Clam City the fourth and fifth levels, respectively.

***In Gorilla Glacier, Ice Age Alley and Croctopus Chase swapped placements, and so too have Rope Bridge Rumble and Torchlight Trouble.

*Very Gnawty and Really Gnawty swapped colors, but in accordance to the normal Gnawties' color change, Really Gnawty is now blue instead of grayish-green.

*Some unused elements from the original that were still kept in its data were used in this remake. Examples include Necky's falling feathers when defeated, Cranky Kong's walking sprites and most of his unused dialogues.

**[[Slipslide Ride]]'s farthest background is now gem-filled, rather than plain purple.

*Various foreground objects were added to some level environments that lacked them (ex: temple levels with trees in front, beams in mine levels).

**The game exclusively features the "Hero Mode", unlocked for getting at least 90% completion on a save file. In this mode, the player controls a yellow-clothed Diddy, who must complete every level without the help of Continue Barrels or DK. However, the player can get the 101% the same way as in the original.

*When the player saves the game, it also saves the number of lives and bananas the Kongs have, unlike in the original, which resets the count to five extra lives and no bananas every time that the game is reset.

*The game has more sound effects and character voices, particularly from ''[[Donkey Kong 64]]'', and enemies have different sound effects when beaten.

*K-O-N-G Letters spin around as in the sequels, instead of always facing the screen; they also no longer sparkle or shimmer. This makes their animations more consistent in the series.

*The Two Player Contest option (while starting a new file) was removed. This option was removed in the remakes of its two sequels as well.

*[[Very Gnawty]] appears in [[DK's Tree House]] after defeating [[Really Gnawty]]. When it realizes that the Kongs have arrived, Very Gnawty hops past them and out of the front door. This can be performed only once per file, however.

*The cast of characters take place on [[Gangplank Galleon]] instead of DK's Tree House.

**After the cast of characters finishes, the Kongs are all shown on the Gangplank Galleon contemplating their adventure, when King K. Rool forces them off with the threat of using the ship's onboard cannons to blow up Donkey Kong Island. As the Kongs swim back to shore, K. Rool promises to return as his ship sails away. Cranky then criticizes the ending as a cheap attempt at [[Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest|setting up for a sequel]].

==Glitches==

{{main|List of Donkey Kong Country glitches}}

===Bonus Level Early Exit===

This glitch can only be done in the Game Boy Advance version. The Kongs must go to the first [[Bonus Level]] found in [[Platform Perils]] and stand underneath the fourth barrel and a little to the right of it. Now, the Kongs have to hit this barrel when the G is not showing up. If they do it right, they will lose the bonus level as usual, but they will end up walking out early, not showing their Mini-Game defeat animation. This can be done with either Donkey Kong or Diddy Kong.

==Quotes==

{{main|List of Donkey Kong Country quotes}}

===[[Candy Kong]]===

*"''I don't think [[King K. Rool|he]] is, sugar. Let's get off [[Gangplank Galleon|this manky ship]].''"

==Development==

Some of the floppies containing the original graphic assets were lost, while the surviving ones were disorganized and mostly unusable. To remedy this problem, team members ripped the sprites using an emulator.<ref name="DK Vine"></ref> Most of the backgrounds were redone from the ground up to fit the Game Boy Advance's screen resolution, scale, and color palette.

==Reception==

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==References to other games==

*''[[Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest]]'': At the end of the game, Cranky complains that the new detail of K. Rool escaping and vowing to return is a cheap way to promise a [[Donkey Kong Country 2 (Game Boy Advance)|sequel]].

==Gallery==

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DK Diddy Thumbs Up.png|[[Donkey Kong]] and [[Diddy Kong]]

==Names in other languages==

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==References==

==External links==

{{NIWA|SmashWiki=Donkey Kong (universe)#Donkey Kong Country|StrategyWiki=1}}

*[https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Game-Boy-Advance/Donkey-Kong-Country-266551.html Nintendo UK Game Boy Advance site]

*[https://www.nintendo.co.jp/n08/a5nj/index.html Japanese Game Boy Advance site]

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