How Speedrunners Beat Donkey Kong Country Backwards

[@ThatHippyDuck]

Seeing diddy fly across a whole level makes me appreciate how long they were able to make these levels, and how advanced and beautiful the worlds and music are. Rare made some amazing, challenging experiences

[@dmitriycherepenya]

I can't see beauty of this world while monke doing a wheel in out of bounds, i just laugh

[@Zorro9129]

@@dmitriycherepenya Fully intended gameplay

[@dmitriycherepenya]

@@Zorro9129 cuz its a game about... monke? Then i have no further questions

[@theopinionrespecter4762]

@@dmitriycherepenyaembrace your monke instincts and you too can cartwheel out of bounds

[@Hircine-br3ue]

"That's basically all you need to understand how warping works at a surface level" Me: Do I... do I need a physics degree for this?

[@ristogorgiev8597]

Very well explained and I still have no idea what happened the last 20 minutes.

[@S4NSE]

yea be isn't doing any pauses, like none at all, edited out

[@AbeM.]

Glad to see I’m not the only one that heard and saw everything but still came out understanding nothing

[@KingRarecrazy]

Feelings mutual. I’ll just watch it again later, infinite rewatch value!!!

[@f8talfury]

Man glad to know i’m not the only one 😂

[@RaptureMusicOfficial]

I didn't get it either, he talks too fast and it's too much insider infos.

[@cutlass1234]

i remember triggering the corner wrong warp by mistake when i was younger and had no clue what happened

[@grandmastermario3695]

DKC speedruns are crazy, in my opinion some of the most impressive speedruns in the world.

[@ScrambledAndBenedict]

You know what's neat? Me and my brother discovered that level 1 warp that sends you to Orangutan Gang when we were kids, and we had no clue it was a glitch. We honestly thought it was like a warp zone in Mario Bros lmfao

[@edwardgonzalez3302]

This is probably the most convoluted trick I have heard of. I understood none of it, how was this even discovered??

[@Eiser9_]

I have never been so invested in something i understand so little of

[@dunfeeja1]

I'd never want to speedrun this game and miss all the music.

[@notquiteordinary]

Spoken like someone who has never played this game even once

[@lexszert9787]

​@user-ue3xb8tz1uand all are certified bangers

[@mattdkfan92]

need to mention: DKC has 3 US versions, 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2, i think the warp glitches were fixed since 1.1, at least the one to go inmediately from Ropey Rampage to Orang-Utan Gang, this woll not work on Virtual Console and the Nintendo Switch Online app since they used the 1.2 ROM for those releases.

[@crashthewolfgaming3946]

HOW someone found out all these glitches and tricks blows my mind. that must be a fulltime job

[@gold3neye889]

They get into the programming of the game. ie, if player does this, how is the RAM affected, etc. It's kind of not fair for regular players but only initially. It's OK because once they figure out the code exploits, it gets out there for everyone to use.

[@KyrosQuickfist]

Strange that the reverse boss order run doesn't end on defeating the first boss.

[@grug-gaming]

Its probably because of something the game does after k rool

[@Tailstraw_xD]

Have you ever nkticed that Cranky Kong is playing his phonograph on the girders from.the first stage of the original Donkey Kong?

[@benjaminoechsli1941]

Yes! A great nod to him _being_ that original Donkey Kong.

[@illlogick7151]

No , so thank you !

[@grandmastermario3695]

I love this game so much been playing this game for over 22 years, 1 of my favorite games of all time.

[@S4NSE]

Your narration is very strenuous since you edit out every natural pause

[@The_french_troll]

I forgot the 5th boss was just a fucking barrel

[@svenoswald2775]

If I could time travel I wouldn't try to change the world. No. I would learn all this crazy stuff, sneak myself into a game promo of dk and break the dev's minds into atoms with a flawless execution. Then get myself Game-Overed vs Gnawty as my LAST boss and comment that it is somewhat too hard. Jesus.

[@prizm9515]

Its good to see such a great game getting some love. Nice content!

[@tannerarmstrong1496]

I'm so stupid... I watch a lot of Skootie playing super auto pets. I also watch a bunch of gaming speed run content from various creators. I totally forgot skootie made other content. This popped into my recommendations and I played it without looking too closely. From the point the video started I spent an embarrassing amount of time getting more and more amazed at how similar this random speed run youtuber sounded like Skootie. It actually got so impressively similar that I had to pause the video to check the creator to see who it was that matched skooties voice and speach mannerisms so closely.

[@lasercraft32]

I'm convinced that Speedrunners are _literally_ wizards.

[@PatSpeedruns]

Thank you for using a more polite term! Really I'm grateful. Most like to call us hackers, and even cheaters

[@DemonicAkumi]

I watched. Listened carefully. And I have no clue what really happened other than hidden barrels, weird warps, and randomly dying while exiting the top... All I can do is shake my head.

[@ma_junia]

Donkey Kong: ROLLING AROUND AT THE SPEED OF SOUND

[@LendriMujina]

"This video game character is blue, collects rings, and goes fast." "Who is Dankey Kang?"

[@christimson6233]

Love these documentary style videos! I’m pretty familiar with speed running in general but I didn’t know most of this. Great video 👍🏻

[@spiderwithatophat8180]

Does anybody know why the World Record holder’s video is available to watch?

[@captain_red_beard4202]

On KZbin. Search "donkey Kong country reverse boss order"

[@notquiteordinary]

Why wouldn't it be?

[@ElSandwich777]

Probably because he uploaded it.

[@Ottophil]

Huh

[@paulu7120]

Do you mean where ?

[@ruuddh1091]

This is the Christopher Nolan version of DKC

[@bluedistortions]

Underrated comment 😂 What was that film, that was played out backwards in time? Momento?

[@smnio5619]

Giga Moon wants to know your location

[@MsHEllY3Ah]

-Do you still play DK… -Me: TO THIS DAY …. TO THIS DAY 😡

[@mediocrityproductions]

imagine how confused the enemies must be that dk is going in a reverse order to win.

[@Curlyheart]

They dont, they are not sentiment, they are video game characters.

[@CMan185]

“THEY MADE ME THE FIRST BOSS?!”

[@novameowww]

@@Curlyheart if you're going to be a smartass at least spell sentient right

[@bananachineyes]

​@@Curlyheart omg really 😮😮

[@TuffyMouseRBLX]

@@Curlyheartwhen fun, light hearted comments exist:

[@jL-xi2md]

Cool I didn't understand anything you said and dipped within ten minutes but hey cool man they do it backwards

[@garrotmon]

Skootie tv going nuts with these uploads. Love every video you make

[@RaptureMusicOfficial]

I played DKC in 1994 and I didn't run into any bugs. ;)

[@rehorizon]

DK has the best video game OST by far!

[@bliviont]

Man the nostalgia was strong in this video! I spent so much time dieing in blackout basement. They had a lot of unique mechanics for the 90s.

[@l9m241]

I remember the split up glitch. I thought it was such a silly quirk of the game. Don't you have to get hit while above a pit and fall into the pit for the trick to work correctly? I can't remember if falling into a pit without getting hit just reverts the effect. I could be miss remembering it though as it's been years since I last played.

[@larajanesen8795]

Crazy that all this stuff is faster than just playing the game

[@Dieguisimo56]

Hi. I try to do 6:02 glitch but the screen goes black and music stills playing forever (or the game closes). Am I doing it wrong or is it my emulator?

[@Dieguisimo56]

Nevermind, it just worked

[@Dieguisimo56]

And... now I can't get to World 6 .-.

[@Dieguisimo56]

Okay. Now I can say it's not about how you enter the bonus level but how you quit. I save states and, in the same slot, I sometimes warp to World 1 and sometimes to World 6... I jsut need to figure out what I'm doing each time

[@MartyrLoserKing]

If speed runners went into physics we’d have teleportation and time travel by now.

[@grandmastermario3695]

The only speedruns I've ran in this game are, all stages, and all stages no major glitches.

[@rtyuik7]

i like how GDQ just uploaded DKC-RBO from the (currently ongoing) marathon, too

[@1337Shockwav3]

I would really prefer if you'd be quiet.

[@rtyuik7]

@@1337Shockwav3 ...i hope thats Just a reference :-/

[@1337Shockwav3]

@@rtyuik7 it is.

[@yukeitor]

Este si que te lo sacaste del sombrero. Vaya recuerdos 😊

[@maximus4765]

This all just sounds like something cranky would say with a tin foil hat and on crack

[@andrewj9929]

Another great video Skoottie

[@bmeht]

great thumbnail

[@GuardianAngelEatos]

There's no way this is real right?! If it is, this is crazy complicated, and I love it!

[@luyandolove]

I’ve been watching a lot of your speed run videos and I’m really curious How exactly do speedrunners know to do this? Like who was the first speed runner to discover these weird glitches? Do they go looking for them or do they just discover them accidentally?

[@HeyItsRoomie]

Depends on the glitch. Sometimes a glitch is found by accident in casual play; speed runners might then look into how it can be applied practically into a run in order to reduce game time. Other times, some games might have glitch hunters who work like testers, they'll try to stress or break the game in order to achieve an unusual result.

[@jadeliu1462]

Generally there are entire communities of people finding new strats over time. Many strategies are found intentionally by experienced glitch hunters. But there are also many strategies which happened by complete accident which the community then figure out how to replicate.

[@luyandolove]

Thanks for all the answers

[@ElSandwich777]

Basically someone had a great idea to do something in a game and a bunch of clowns come together to see if they can do it first.

[@mrwess1927]

A little of column A and a little of column B

[@bernbern3496]

Is there a way to just play as donkey Kong or Diddy Kong alone throughout the game. As in only playing with one on screen throughout the whole game?

[@prismlx2085]

never break a DK barrel

[@dan32767]

I got an email the other day about how to read maps backwards... turns out it was spam.

[@bellyOfaTiger]

I forgot about the warp glitch in the first world! I accidentally discovered it as a kid and figured out how to do it on command... ...damn being an adult is depressing.

[@tomhanks1769]

I misremembered the glitch in question, anyone know which glitch sends you to the start of the ice map? It's bugging me since i don't remember how i ended up there in the first place.

[@TompaA]

That should not be possible. Would like to see a video of it. EDIT: Ah, your comment was edited, than it makes more sense. While there is no warp that takes you to the map screen itself. When you use the map warp to Orang-utan Gang and beat the world, you'll then unlock the Ice World, which will look weird on the map screen as there is no road leading from World 1 up to World 3. If it maybe was something like that?

[@skoottietv]

not sure if later versions of the game have a different warp, never heard of or seen this

[@quizmaster10]

About fifteen minutes into the video, I had a thought. I was just thinking about Super Mario 64 (released 2 years after DKC?) and after that came out, you'd hear the occasional gossip (this was before everyone had household internet access and you learned gaming tips and tricks from magazines!) about - oh, if you do this, this, and that, Luigi is a playable character. But it was always stuff that was so farfetched, nobody ever really tried. Point is, I have trouble picturing somebody going through a fraction of the steps in this video back in the day, and then having anybody believe any of this is real and then repeating it. It's just wild to me how many people (hundreds or thousands) speedrun any given game. (I'm not here to say "Hey, you're having fun wrong". I'm just saying this is uncanny to me.)

[@thatmexicankid5183]

Always good to hear from you.

[@grandmastermario3695]

Crazy that lovebird has 15 WRS in this game

[@S4NSE]

lol how many categories did this game got

[@grandmastermario3695]

@S4NSE 17 on snes 17 on vc so 34

[@S4NSE]

@@grandmastermario3695 damn, thanks for the reply

[@Eevee860]

But what about level order backwards and starting each level at the end and going back to the beginning

[@hlavco]

Great thumbnail.

[@nameisnotrelevant]

0:02 nahhhhhhh

[@DanteCrowlley]

I wanna see a Nier Automata n Stardew Valley Speedrun as well

[@gmshrkn]

How have I never seen this side of you? I'm here for it.

[@The_french_troll]

This remind me that you can do the same run in fnaf security breach, and i realize that fnaf sb is as broken as a 1990 nintendo game

[@JachymorDota]

That is an interesting, but really kongfusing, speedrun.

[@skeleton_craftGaming]

oot speed runners when explaining SRM...

[@skoottietv]

That is even more confusing

[@diskpoppy]

Stale Reference Manipulation in OOT is actually the same type of exploit as DKC's "Invisible Barrel glitch" - you get the game to despawn the entity you're still carrying, so the game makes the player hold a vacant slot for another entity to potentially spawn in. "Cloning" in SM64, Null Sprite in Yoshi's mouth in SMW are also the same underlying mechanism. In programming terms it can be labeled as "dangling reference"/"use after free" and it is a bug that (like other memory safety violations) has a potential to be exploited to do Arbitrary Code Execution, just like in all of the aforementioned games (except SM64).

[@skeleton_craftGaming]

@@diskpoppy actually Yes, they are both forms of stale reference manipulation...

[@diskpoppy]

@@skeleton_craftGaming I know it's pedantic, but I haven't actually seen it being called a "stale reference" outside of OOT speedrunning community, only a "dangling reference (or pointer)"

[@patricklost1132]

bro I've followed your sap/ballatro/ect channel for awhile, advertise this more, I just now learned about it

[@ManuFortis]

Shheeeet and I used to think I was good at this game. Whoever came up with all of this ... props to that person, or people.

[@thejonbrownshow8470]

Love the thumbnail 😅

[@skoottietv]

thanks!

[@DovonMac1]

I remember as I kid I accidentally did the map warp glitch.

[@unzorromas]

🤯 RATATINGAMING 🤯

[@chrissosa3723]

I have a question for everyone because I wanna know if it's just me: are any of you are irrationally scared of the game over screen? Like, when im on my last life I get extremely nervous while simultaneously being locked in not because of wanting to keep progressing but rather not wanting to physically watch the game over screen. If I got a new life I'd calm down, but if I lost I'd immediately look down and spam the start button; there was even a point where I deadass had nightmares about it. No other game over screen has made me feel that scared/uneasy/horrified and quite frankly it still does

[@iulianmoisi4365]

I dont remember exactly how but i beat this game in less than 15 minutes 20 years ago just with the warp at the bottom ate the first world map.

[@TompaA]

Impossible. When the first invisible barrel wrong warp was found in 2010, my Tool-Assisted Speedrun beat it in 16 minutes.

[@iulianmoisi4365]

@@TompaA I swear .Maybe even more than 20 years ago i used to go to a console club were i was playing a lot of DKC and DKC2 .That day i had just enough money to buy me 15 minutes.The guy there told me why not some other game 15 minutes are to short for this game.But i liked so much.The guy was shocked he tought i was some kind of a genius.

[@TompaA]

@@iulianmoisi4365 Only way would be if there was already a savefile you started playing on or if you had a game genie or similar, or your memory simply isn't right. As the only way to beat it in that time, is to use the warp executed at 6:00, and there is 0% chance that you did. The warp that you can do on the map screen, and at the time where you did it, you wouldn't have beaten it in under 30 minutes either.

[@lordneeko]

I dont understand this run. If youve skipped to the end, and beat the last boss before the game boss, why do you have to go back and beat all the bosses? And if you jave to go back anyways,... Why do it in this order anyways?

[@TompaA]

It is just an interesting challenge to be able to play the game in the reverse order, something that shouldn't normally be possible. The concept in general started with Super Metroid many years ago and there are a couple of other games where this can also be done. But of course, yes, you could just beat the game directly instead, which is the any% category that takes about 8 minutes. Then there are categories like All Stages, 101% and so on.

[@tysondennis1016]

Country Kong Donkey

[@Slinqee]

where’d the lethal company vid gooooo

[@orsonzedd]

The boss is actually called Queen B. I'm not sure where you got Bumblebee Rumble from

[@skoottietv]

thats the name of the stage, woops!

[@KenanVonKaiser]

I Got WR!

[@jaygooese4242]

How?

[@connormcnulty6377]

Would Cranky Kong be proud?

[@TompaA]

Sadly, some of these warps require you to take a death, and Cranky brags in the end that he was able to do this with only one life. Cranky still wins :(

[@MrDapperGent]

Fascinating

[@Breeze-gd8wj]

2024 here 😊 whoever asked the question about the world record holder is the wrecker holder for speed❤😂

[@nintendo-relatedchannel5810]

What the hell, did I just get laid?

[@wal2bros]

Diddy Kong is faster than Sonic!

[@braija]

I am not autistic enough for this.

[@sakiro99]

por la miniatura pensé que era un vídeo de ratatin

[@GregHuffman1987]

back word

[@Bife_A_Lo_Vulnerable]

Speedrunners did wat

[@anemyclake1256]

Thankyou skoot for the great explanation. I now understand less about donkey kong

[@KornPop96]

What is this Donkey Kong you speak of?

[@EngineerDJ_Julius]

thats beyond me

[@jwalker5468]

what a god skoots

[@sub7se7en]

I don't get it. You might want to slow down a bit to let some info sink in before presenting new info. Way too fast to keep up with.

[@evileyeball]

I never understood Any% players because I'm the type of person who believes in doing 101% runs ONLY but I guess to each their own.

[@TompaA]

I personally prefer 101% speedruns for this game as well. Though an "any%" run is always needed for every game, as it's the most purest definition of a speedrun and always has clear and set rules to eat. While the game has its own definition for 101%: finish 33 levels, enter 67 bonuses and beat King K Rool, it does not include the other 6 world bosses, and some can be skipped to save time. There are several people who don't agree with skipping bosses. Other think it should be a requirement that all bonuses should be finished, that all KONG letters should be collected or even that all bananas need to be obtained. So yeah, many different opinions on things and it's hard to satisfy everyone =).

[@evileyeball]

@@TompaA I've never speedran anything myself I just am the type of person that when I play DKC I CAN'T play the next level until I have 100%'d the previous level which lead to me doign challanges like my 102% All Diddy Heads BARRALAX DKC2 run or my 103% All blue flags DKC3 run (and my in progress 105% all Blue Flags TUFST Run)

[@TompaA]

@@evileyeball Fully agree with that! I remember when I first played DKCR who I was so incredibly unsatisfied when I beat a stage without finding all the bonuses or puzzle pieces and you just had to turn the whole level around to find it =D.

[@bugpocket]

Is the map warp really a glitch? I thought it was an intentional secret.

[@skoottietv]

maybe thats what they want us to think

[@yukeitor]

Juegazo. Quizas despues de tlou parte 1 remake remastered o de la parte 2 remastered remake remastered para ps6 veamos algo nuevo de nd.

[@Akuretaki_Nikolay]

Gg !

[@dalazykingtony]

No diddy

[@teeonezee]

i liek broekn speed runs

[@SilentVinyl]

Cool

[@insanejack164]

Why do you sound like wildcat?

[@skoottietv]

dont tell anyone

[@insanejack164]

@@skoottietv 0_0 hmmmm imma watch more video

[@LuisGonzalez-xy9vz]

I have to admit, I couldn’t retain any of the information as you go too fast and you should break the information more, assume not everyone has an idea of warps and they may be completely lost

[@Summeryear2008]

This is MichaelXD and I can't chat on your discord.

[@Stingra87]

Nah, these are not speed runs. Real speed runs are playing the game as intended at the fastest mode possible. Abusing programming glitches is not speed running.

[@RetroReplay69]

I was the 1000th like!

[@amimirmimir512]

do phineas and ferb ride again