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A '''Star Barrel'''<ref>{{cite|language=en-us|date=1995|publisher=Nintendo of America|title=''Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest'' instruction booklet|page={{file link|DKC2 Manual 18-19.jpg|18}}}}</ref><ref>{{cite|language=en-us|date=1996|title=''Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!'' instruction booklet|page=25|publisher=Nintendo of America}}</ref> (also known as a '''Continue Barrel''')<ref>{{cite|language=en-us|date=1994|title=''Donkey Kong Country'' instruction booklet|page=17|publisher=Nintendo of America}}</ref><ref>{{cite|title=''Donkey Kong Country'' [[Nintendo Power]] Player's Guide|page={{file link|DKC Guide 20-21.jpg|21}}|date=1994|publisher=Nintendo of America|language=en-us}}</ref><ref>{{cite|title=''Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest'' British English Virtual Console digital manual|page=7}}</ref><ref>{{cite|date=November 1994|title=''Nintendo Power'' Issue 66|publisher=Nintendo of America|language=en-us|page=11, 12, 15, and 17}}</ref> is a [[barrel]] with white stars painted on it that acts as a [[checkpoint]] during a [[level]], usually halfway through. Star Barrels first appear in ''[[Donkey Kong Country]]''.
'''Star Barrels'''<ref>{{cite|language=en-us|date=1995|publisher=Nintendo of America|title=''Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest'' instruction booklet|page={{file link|DKC2 Manual 18-19.jpg|18}}}}</ref><ref>{{cite|language=en-us|date=1996|title=''Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!'' instruction booklet|page=25|publisher=Nintendo of America}}</ref> (also known as a '''Continue Barrel''')<ref>{{cite|language=en-us|date=1994|title=''Donkey Kong Country'' instruction booklet|page=17|publisher=Nintendo of America}}</ref><ref>{{cite|title=''Donkey Kong Country'' [[Nintendo Power]] Player's Guide|page={{file link|DKC Guide 20-21.jpg|21}}|date=1994|publisher=Nintendo of America|language=en-us}}</ref><ref>{{cite|title=''Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest'' British English Virtual Console digital manual|page=7}}</ref><ref>{{cite|date=November 1994|title=''Nintendo Power'' Issue 66|author=Tilden, Gail, et al.|publisher=Nintendo of America|language=en-us|page=11, 12, 15, and 17}}</ref> are objects introduced in ''[[Donkey Kong Country]]''. These [[barrel]]s have white stars painted on them and function as [[checkpoint]]s in [[level]]s, usually at midway points. Star Barrels in nearly every level of the [[Donkey Kong Country (series)|''Donkey Kong Country'' trilogy]], ''[[Donkey Kong Land 2]]'', and ''[[Donkey Kong Land III]]''. If a Star Barrel is jumped at, it breaks, with colored sparkles running out. The Star Barrel shakes upon re-entering an incomplete level (including if replayed), and the characters burst out. Star Barrels in the remakes of the ''Donkey Kong Country'' trilogy even function when resetting the game, unlike the original versions.


Star Barrels appear in almost every level of the original [[Donkey Kong Country (series)|''Donkey Kong Country'' trilogy]], ''[[Donkey Kong Land 2]]'', and ''[[Donkey Kong Land III]]''. Every Star Barrel floats in the air, with the stars spiraling around the barrel circumference. If the [[Kong]]s jump at a Star Barrel, it breaks, and a shower of colorful sparkles rains upon them, indicating that it has been activated. This way, if the Kongs exit a level or lose a life, they can resume from the Star Barrel's location. By doing so, the Star Barrel shakes, and the Kongs burst out of it. However, if the player gets a [[Game Over]] or restarts the game, the Kongs must restart from either the level itself or where the player last saved their game. A Star Barrel's effect also wears off when the Kongs complete a level. Certain levels in the games lack Star Barrels. [[Rickety Race (Donkey Kong Country 2)|Rickety Race]] in ''[[Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest]]'' lacks a Star Barrel; one was added in the GBA version. In ''[[Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!]]'', two of the [[Krematoa]] levels, [[Stampede Sprint]] and [[Rocket Rush (level)|Rocket Rush]] (in the [[Donkey Kong Country 3 (Game Boy Advance)|GBA version]] only), do not have Star Barrels. In the [[Game Boy Advance]] ports of the ''Donkey Kong Country'' trilogy, if the Kongs exit a level where they have activated a Star Barrel, and the player saves and restarts their game, the Kongs can resume from the Star Barrel.
Certain levels in the games lack Star Barrels. [[Rickety Race (Donkey Kong Country 2)|Rickety Race]] in ''[[Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest]]'' lacks a Star Barrel, though the [[Donkey Kong Country 2 (Game Boy Advance)|remake]]. In ''[[Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!]]'', two of the [[Krematoa]] levels, [[Stampede Sprint]] and [[Rocket Rush (level)|Rocket Rush]] (in the [[Donkey Kong Country 3 (Game Boy Advance)|GBA version]] only), do not have Star Barrels.


In ''Donkey Kong Country'', there is a type of Star Barrel known as a '''save barrel'''. One of them appears at [[Candy's Save Point]] and has the same appearance as ordinary Star Barrels. Unlike their normal counterpart, when the Kongs [[jump]] into a save barrel, the barrel does not break. This barrel type neither appears in the [[Game Boy Color]] nor Game Boy Advance versions.
In ''Donkey Kong Country'', there is a type of Star Barrel known as a '''save barrel'''. One of them appears at [[Candy's Save Point]] and has the same appearance as ordinary Star Barrels. Unlike their normal counterpart, when the Kongs [[jump]] into a save barrel, the barrel does not break. It returns in neither remake.


Certain [[cheat code]]s can remove Star Barrels in ''Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest'' and ''Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!'' Inputting {{button|snes|B}}, {{button|snes|A}}, {{button|padright}}, {{button|padright}}, {{button|snes|A}}, {{button|padleft}}, {{button|snes|A}}, {{button|snes|X}} in the hidden Cheat Code option in ''Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest'' removes all [[DK Barrel]]s and Star Barrels; inputting "ROCKARD" in the Cheat Code menu does the same in the [[Donkey Kong Country 2 (Game Boy Advance)|GBA version]]. For ''Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!'', inputting "TUFST" (SNES version) / "TUFFER" (GBA version) removes all Star Barrels, though the GBA version's code can be used only when a new file is made.
Certain [[cheat code]]s can remove Star Barrels in ''Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest'' and ''Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!'' Inputting {{button|snes|B}}, {{button|snes|A}}, {{button|padright}}, {{button|padright}}, {{button|snes|A}}, {{button|padleft}}, {{button|snes|A}}, {{button|snes|X}} in the hidden Cheat Code option in ''Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest'' removes all [[DK Barrel]]s and Star Barrels; inputting "ROCKARD" in the Cheat Code menu does the same in the [[Donkey Kong Country 2 (Game Boy Advance)|GBA version]]. For ''Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!'', inputting "TUFST" (SNES version) / "TUFFER" (GBA version) removes all Star Barrels, though the GBA version's code can be used only when a new file is made.


Star Barrels were initially replaced with [[Continue Point]]s for ''[[Donkey Kong Land]]'', but these have not appeared in any other game. In ''[[Donkey Kong Country Returns]]'' and ''[[Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze]]'', [[Professor Chops]] instead marks the checkpoint for the Kongs.
Star Barrels are replaced with [[Continue Point]]s for ''[[Donkey Kong Land]]'', and [[Professor Chops]] are the checkpoint in ''[[Donkey Kong Country Returns]]'' and ''[[Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze]]''.


==Profiles==
==Profiles==
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|JapR=Kontinyū Bareru
|JapR=Kontinyū Bareru
|JapM=Continue Barrel
|JapM=Continue Barrel
|Ita=Barile decorato<ref>{{cite|url=www.mariocastle.it/risorse/manuali/donkey-kong-country/09.jpg|format=JPG|title=''Donkey Kong Country'' Italian booklet|page=17}}</ref>
|Ita=Barile decorato
|Ita2=Barile Stella<ref>{{cite|title=''[[Donkey Kong Land 2]]'' Italian manual|page=19}}</ref>
|ItaC=<ref>{{cite|url=www.mariocastle.it/risorse/manuali/donkey-kong-country/09.jpg|format=JPG|title=''Donkey Kong Country'' Italian booklet|page=17}}</ref>
|Ita3=Barile a stella<ref>{{cite|url=www.mariocastle.it/risorse/manuali/donkey-kong-land-iii/11.png|title=''Donkey Kong Land III'' European booklet|page=48}}</ref>
|Ita2=Barile Stella
|Ita4=Barile stelle<ref>{{cite|url=www.mariocastle.it/risorse/manuali/donkey-kong-country-2-gba/12-13.jpg|title=''Donkey Kong Country 2'' European booklet|page=115}}</ref>
|Ita2C=<ref>{{cite|title=''[[Donkey Kong Land 2]]'' Italian manual|page=19}}</ref>
|Ita5=Barile stella<ref>{{cite|title=''[[Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!]]'' Spanish-Italian booklet|page=53}}</ref><ref>{{cite|title=''[[Donkey Kong Country (Game Boy Color)|Donkey Kong Country]]'' (GBC); European booklet|page=111|language=it|publisher=Nintendo of Europe|date=2000}}</ref><ref>{{cite|title=''[[Donkey Kong Country (Game Boy Advance)|Donkey Kong Country]]'' (GBA); European booklet|page=102|date=2003|publisher=Nintendo of Europe|language=it}}</ref>
|Ita3=Barile a stella
|Ita3C=<ref>{{cite|url=www.mariocastle.it/risorse/manuali/donkey-kong-land-iii/11.png|title=''Donkey Kong Land III'' European booklet|page=48}}</ref>
|Ita4=Barile stelle
|Ita4C=<ref>{{cite|url=www.mariocastle.it/risorse/manuali/donkey-kong-country-2-gba/12-13.jpg|title=''Donkey Kong Country 2'' European booklet|language=it|publisher=Nintendo of Europe|date=2004|page=115}}</ref>
|Ita5=Barile stella
|Ita5C=<ref>{{cite|title=''[[Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!]]'' Spanish-Italian booklet|page=53}}</ref><ref>{{cite|title=''[[Donkey Kong Country (Game Boy Color)|Donkey Kong Country]]'' (GBC); European booklet|page=111|language=it|publisher=Nintendo of Europe|date=2000}}</ref><ref>{{cite|title=''[[Donkey Kong Country (Game Boy Advance)|Donkey Kong Country]]'' (GBA); European booklet|page=102|date=2003|publisher=Nintendo of Europe|language=it}}</ref>
|ItaM=Decorated Barrel
|ItaM=Decorated Barrel
|Ita2M=Star Barrel
|Ita2M=Star Barrel
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===Save barrel===
===Save barrel===
{{foreign names
{{foreign names
|Jap=セーブ・バレル<ref name=SDK/>
|Jap=セーブ・バレル
|JapC=<ref name=SDK/>
|JapR=Sēbu Bareru
|JapR=Sēbu Bareru
|JapM=Save Barrel
|JapM=Save Barrel
|Ita=Barile dei salvataggi di Candy Kong<ref>{{cite|title=''[[Donkey Kong Country]]'' Italian manual|page=17}}</ref>
|Ita=Barile dei salvataggi di Candy Kong
|Ita2=Barile dei Salvataggi di Candy<ref>{{cite|title=''[[Donkey Kong Country]]'' Italian manual|page=26}}</ref>
|ItaC=<ref>{{cite|title=''[[Donkey Kong Country]]'' Italian manual|page=17}}</ref>
|Ita2=Barile dei Salvataggi di Candy
|Ita2C=<ref>{{cite|title=''[[Donkey Kong Country]]'' Italian manual|page=26}}</ref>
|ItaM=Candy Kong's save barrel
|ItaM=Candy Kong's save barrel
|Ita2M=Candy's Save Barrel
|Ita2M=Candy's Save Barrel

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Star Barrel
Star Barrel
First appearance Donkey Kong Country (1994)
Latest appearance Donkey Kong Country 3 (Game Boy Advance) (2005)

Star Barrels[1][2] (also known as a Continue Barrel)[3][4][5][6] are objects introduced in Donkey Kong Country. These barrels have white stars painted on them and function as checkpoints in levels, usually at midway points. Star Barrels in nearly every level of the Donkey Kong Country trilogy, Donkey Kong Land 2, and Donkey Kong Land III. If a Star Barrel is jumped at, it breaks, with colored sparkles running out. The Star Barrel shakes upon re-entering an incomplete level (including if replayed), and the characters burst out. Star Barrels in the remakes of the Donkey Kong Country trilogy even function when resetting the game, unlike the original versions.

Certain levels in the games lack Star Barrels. Rickety Race in Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest lacks a Star Barrel, though the remake. In Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!, two of the Krematoa levels, Stampede Sprint and Rocket Rush (in the GBA version only), do not have Star Barrels.

In Donkey Kong Country, there is a type of Star Barrel known as a save barrel. One of them appears at Candy's Save Point and has the same appearance as ordinary Star Barrels. Unlike their normal counterpart, when the Kongs jump into a save barrel, the barrel does not break. It returns in neither remake.

Certain cheat codes can remove Star Barrels in Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest and Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! Inputting B Button, A Button, +Control Pad right, +Control Pad right, A Button, +Control Pad left, A Button, X Button in the hidden Cheat Code option in Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest removes all DK Barrels and Star Barrels; inputting "ROCKARD" in the Cheat Code menu does the same in the GBA version. For Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!, inputting "TUFST" (SNES version) / "TUFFER" (GBA version) removes all Star Barrels, though the GBA version's code can be used only when a new file is made.

Star Barrels are replaced with Continue Points for Donkey Kong Land, and Professor Chops are the checkpoint in Donkey Kong Country Returns and Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze.

Profiles

Donkey Kong Country

  • Instruction booklet description:
    • English:
      These barrels are decorated with a star design. If you knock out one of these barrels, you will restart at the barrel's location instead of beginning of the level when you lose a life.[page number needed]


  • Wii U Virtual Console manual description:
    • English:
      If you knock out one of these barrels, when you lose a life you will restart at the barrel's location instead of the beginning of the level.[page number needed]
  • Remakes
  • Wii U Virtual Console manual description:
    • English:
      Break open a star-spangled Continue Barrel to restart at that location the next time you lose a life."[page number needed]

Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest

  • Instruction booklet description:
    • English:
      These barrels mark a midway point in the stage. If you break one of these barrels, you'll continue at that point if you lose a life later in the level.[page number needed]


  • Wii U Virtual Console manual description:
    • English:
      If you break one of these barrels, you will be able to continue the game from that spot when you lose a life.[page number needed]
  • Remake
  • Instruction booklet description:
    • English:
      These barrels mark a midway point in the stage. If you break one, you'll continue at that point should you lose a life later in the level.[page number needed]

Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! (SNES) / Donkey Kong Land 2 / Donkey Kong Land III

  • Instruction booklet description:
    • English:
      Star Barrels mark a midway point in the stage. If you break one of these barrels, you'll continue from that point.[page number needed]

Donkey Kong Country 3 (GBA)

  • Instruction booklet description:
    • English:
      These mark a midway point in the level. Break one to continue from that point if you lose a life before reaching the end.[page number needed]

Gallery

Names in other languages

Star Barrel

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese コンティニュー・バレル[7] / コンティニューバレル[8][9]
Kontinyū Bareru
Continue Barrel
Italian Barile decorato[10] Decorated Barrel
Barile Stella[11] Star Barrel
Barile a stella[12] Star barrel
Barile stelle[13] Stars barrel
Barile stella[14][15][16] Star barrel

Save barrel

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese セーブ・バレル[7]
Sēbu Bareru
Save Barrel
Italian Barile dei salvataggi di Candy Kong[17] Candy Kong's save barrel
Barile dei Salvataggi di Candy[18] Candy's Save Barrel

Trivia

  • In Donkey Kong Country, there is an unused sprite for the Continue Barrel with its top open.[19]

References

  1. ^ 1995. Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest instruction booklet. Nintendo of America (American English). Page 18Media:DKC2 Manual 18-19.jpg.
  2. ^ 1996. Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! instruction booklet. Nintendo of America (American English). Page 25.
  3. ^ 1994. Donkey Kong Country instruction booklet. Nintendo of America (American English). Page 17.
  4. ^ 1994. Donkey Kong Country Nintendo Power Player's Guide. Nintendo of America (American English). Page 21Media:DKC Guide 20-21.jpg.
  5. ^ Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest British English Virtual Console digital manual. Page 7.
  6. ^ Tilden, Gail, et al. (November 1994). Nintendo Power Issue 66. Nintendo of America (American English). Page 11, 12, 15, and 17.
  7. ^ a b 1994. Super Donkey Kong instruction booklet. Nintendo (Japanese). Page 17.
  8. ^ 1995. Super Donkey Kong 2: Dixie & Diddy instruction booklet. Nintendo (Japanese). Page 22.
  9. ^ 1996. Super Donkey Kong 3: Nazo no Kremis-tō instruction booklet. Nintendo (Japanese). Page 30.
  10. ^ Donkey Kong Country Italian booklet (JPG). Page 17.
  11. ^ Donkey Kong Land 2 Italian manual. Page 19.
  12. ^ Donkey Kong Land III European booklet. Page 48.
  13. ^ 2004. Donkey Kong Country 2 European booklet. Nintendo of Europe (Italian). Page 115.
  14. ^ Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! Spanish-Italian booklet. Page 53.
  15. ^ 2000. Donkey Kong Country (GBC); European booklet. Nintendo of Europe (Italian). Page 111.
  16. ^ 2003. Donkey Kong Country (GBA); European booklet. Nintendo of Europe (Italian). Page 102.
  17. ^ Donkey Kong Country Italian manual. Page 17.
  18. ^ Donkey Kong Country Italian manual. Page 26.
  19. ^ TCRF. Donkey Kong Country (SNES)#Barrels. The Cutting Room Floor (English). Retrieved April 21, 2019.