[TAS] GB Donkey Kong by DrD2k9 in

This is a tool-assisted speedrun. For more information, see localhost:44385/4257M
TAS originally published on 2020-08-02
This version of Donkey Kong (informally known as Donkey Kong '94, due to its 1994 release date) follows the same premise as the original game from the 1980s, in that Mario is tasked with rescuing Pauline from the eponymous Donkey Kong.
Besides adding over 90 additional stages to the original 4 stages, this release also introduces many new game-play mechanics which both help and hinder Mario from reaching his goal. Some of these new elements are patterned off concepts from other Mario games including Donkey Kong Jr., SMB, SMB 2 (USA), and SMB 3.
DrD2k9 ( localhost:44385/Users/Profile/DrD2k9 ) throws barrels at DK and rescues Pauline in record time.
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You can watch the complete run being played back on a console ( • Donkey Kong '94 TAS by... ).
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[@MarkofWisdom]

Wow, been a very long time since I last saw this game in any form. Something I always found neat about it was them using the little between world cutscenes to showcase new stage gimmicks/features and moves that the player may have been unaware of like the handstand jump TAS shows that the walls, floors and ceilings are just suggestions rather than actual obstacles for Mario/Jumpman

[@gohachinightwin9884]

When my brother first showed me this game, I thought it'd just be Donkey Kong on arcade. Oh, how wrong I was.

[@The_Noise834]

I thought too as well, but I beat the whole game

[@Larrydx5013]

@@The_Noise834 same, i also thought bc the game wuz called DK that you'd be controllin him but instead you're Mario, meanin the title of the game trolled u

[@johneygd]

Yeah i was confused too because i remember those commercials of donkeykong country and then i saw this game and so i tout mario was in both games,then i saw donkeykong classics for the nes as well,thus troughing that that was a new game as well( not knowing that it dated back from the arcades of the 1980’s,not untill years and years later.

[@nvasileva283]

Uwi rpirgw

[@nvasileva283]

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[@shootingstar7101]

17:26 _In which Donkey Kong JR helps out Mario instead of his own father. Brilliant._

[@darnelconstent1852]

its jumpman not mario

[@shootingstar7101]

@@darnelconstent1852 okay but the NES instruction manual for donkey kong calls him mario, jumpman is basically just a placeholder name from when the original DK first released www.nintendo.co.jp/clv/manuals/en/pdf/CLV-P-NAAEE.pdf Arcade instruction cards for DK JR also call him Mario. www.mikesarcade.com/estore/photos/DKJRCARDSET-new.jpg

[@darnelconstent1852]

oh

[@darnelconstent1852]

i just call him jumpman

[@germanspeedrunner3455]

Donkey Kong Jr. - The Betray on DK, 1993, colorized

[@Stratager]

Finally someone made a TAS for this game. Now I have a chance to test my abilities again.

[@Reoko77]

You sound like your The Goku of the Dk94 speedrunning community.

[@ShosuCeladon]

Uh... Enjoy?

[@KirbyGamerEX27]

@Stratager You show me a world record of this and I'll subscribe

[@indierockhore]

Lmao calm down bro

[@FrostGlader]

@@user-uh6ml Tool Assisted Speedrun (what this is), or Tool Assisted Superplay. They use the tools available via emulation to provide the theoretically perfect Speedrun. Stuff like RNG manipulation for item drops and attack patterns, perfect movement in sections, precise glitches and even tricks not even usable in Real Time Speedruns. Technically speaking, Minecraft Speedruns are now legally accepting Tool Assisted Speedruns, so long as said tool is a calculator, so TAS can also be defined as using external software or even hardware to assist in completing the game. And importantly, all Tool Assisted Speedruns become Superplays if they are made to wait for even a second. See Ghost Boss in Super Mario World.

[@GAnimeRO]

This is the best Donkey Kong game imo.

[@lk12oldaccount55]

GAnime88 Yeah

[@KGershkoff]

This version deserves to be remade for the Switch.

[@ericdobek37]

The DKC trilogy would like to have a word with you.

[@BrickmanZero]

@@ericdobek37 He said DK no DKC xD

[@sulejmaniapologist]

@@ericdobek37 The DKC games are completely different.

[@WMUser3]

Such a solidly designed game. Really impressive what they managed to do with the technology.

[@Grovfu]

I owe like 4/5 of my channel views to this game LMFAO But seriously this game was a huge nostalgic hit for me, still holds up as one of my favorite handheld games as all time, so unique and expressive for a 2D mario, M64 had some competition for its movement tools!! Great to see this up.

[@AliceFireQueen]

6:51 *"Yeah, this is big brain time."*

[@tylerphillips503]

I felt like Albert Einstein when I figured that out as a kid

[@SpiceyWrapGames]

Watching this reminds me of how some people say video games are for children. Little do they know that games like this are a test of patience, problem solving, will-power, and learning physics in the game (this game is no acception to how many head injuries occurred). So yes, it was for children who were in for a long adventure. And when you think about it (and someone in the comments mentioned it) this game has close if not 100 levels for a tiny game boy game. It may not have revolutionized gaming, but it was a wonderful buffet of what makes an excellent platformer.

[@SuperSomieStuff]

This game has exactly 100 levels, 101 of you count the second stage of the final boss

[@SpiceyWrapGames]

@@SuperSomieStuff All that crammed into a GameBoy cartage. Dang, this game had a lot in terms of levels.

[@retro3188]

@@SuperSomieStuff I think it’s well over a hundred, but you’re right in that it’s long.

[@retro3188]

@@SuperSomieStuff I bet it took you a while to count them.

[@Terkzorr]

This feels like a creepy fever dream with how fast Mario catches up to DK despite all of his his attempts to lose him.

[@rickpgriffin]

This is like the most underrated mario game. Mario vs Donkey Kong was alright but it didn't nearly match the puzzle creativity and flexibility that this game had

[@DrakeFeatherwing]

Plus you had more to do in each stage after getting through the key door.

[@VonFirflirch]

It's really too bad the Mini Marios overtook the series

[@youraveragejoe2]

@@VonFirflirch unfortunately

[@heckno15yearsago]

Mario vs Donkey Kong was a ripoff of this game.

[@dansmith1661]

They expanded Donkey Kong stages by a ton too

[@AwesomeHairo]

Super Mario Odyssey port on the GB looks great

[@clubfro]

This game is technically the prequel to Odyssey.

[@AndrewBlechinger]

Important detail: The Giant DK face on the tower map screen changes going into the final boss fight.

[@shelbyherring92]

I never noticed that.

[@BackroomsSlayer]

This game on gbc was really difficult back in the day. It also is a long game for its platform.

[@cliffordwilson8070]

who

[@WannaDropAgain88]

It was pretty extensive. Impressive given the hardware.

[@Tye2K]

I’m currently stuck on 7-1 😅 but yeah for an Original Game boy game, you could sink a lot of hours into this game. This is by far the best Donkey Kong game.

[@AgentPaperx2]

DK: Whoa how you get here so fast?! Mario: *TAS Bot intensifies*

[@JoLiKMC]

I, too, enjoy cartoons based on TASes. 👍

[@I13thNightmareI]

Always loved the closer you get to the final world, you begin to see it in the distance slowly coming into view

[@Kyvel85]

DK: "Let's see if you can survHOW THE FUCK ARE YOU ALREADY HERE?!"

[@SANS_THE_SKELETON666]

It's a me. Mario

[@NicoforxD]

Well, is cranky actually

[@IDontKnow-y4p]

This speed run is so satisfying to watch

[@aa69420]

Anyone used to struggle with this game? It was pretty hard.

[@johntuohy5416]

KJ I remember having a breakdown during the last stages. So much my mom has to take my game boy away so I could gather myself for a couple days. That was over 20 years ago. I still have the cart and game boy but I shudder every time i see it. Watching this TAS blow through it gives me a little comfort haha

[@lisamariefan]

Yeah, it was pretty hard.

[@RVN-cz2lu]

This game was hard man

[@Aethelia]

When you hear the theme for Iceberg, the game stops being nice.

[@Galaviste]

Yeah it was, but my brother and I persevered and beat the game because we stocked up on a bunch of extra lives.

[@soundbreaker8174]

As soon as I started watching a long play of this game this video comes out

[@corruptedplayer]

you guys realize that this game counts Lorewise before the Super Mario Games? in the end Mario first gets a Super Mushroom, there is a pipe with a few ?-blocks (probably how he got into the mushroom kingdom) and he befriends the Kong Family. maybe Pauline goes back into the big City (which is sometime in the future re-named to "New-Donk City") and gets Mayor

[@davidthecommenter]

*LORE INTENSIFIES*

[@gmsthrakkes2992]

No idea honestly why he waited a little bit at 23:58 before finishing boss fight o.0 Then that stage at 38:15 .And dam, this TAS is cool to watch.

[@QuintaFeira12]

RNG manipulation.

[@SuperSomieStuff]

@@QuintaFeira12 it’s actually because the tas was too fast for the 7-12 skip, it requires a maximum of 547 for the first 3 levels to work

[@mikemartinez9703]

JUST discovered this gem was available on VC. Get it before it’s gone at the end of the month!

[@oneupadvanced]

Wow stage 1-2 already blew my mind. The wall jump the key toss flip into key regrab. Whooooaaaaaaaa

[@BBHood217]

This was Cranky Kong in his prime.

[@davidthecommenter]

He started the tie wearing before Jr grew up.

[@zipzip070]

This game had what, like 80-90 levels in total? Some quality value back in the day of plain old Game Boy. I loved this game and still do.

[@SuperSomieStuff]

It had 100 levels

[@jcruise24]

Man... I loved this version growing up. I also wish I could actually pull off half of the strategies in this run

[@cliffordwilson8070]

who

[@ReaverPrime]

I loved this game so damn hard. It came out when I was in middle school and I recall it being the reason I got yelled at for staying up late on school nights. I just had to figure out those level puzzles.

[@PhluppeHimself]

Wow, I'm having a bad week so far so I decided to check another TAS on this channel, and even though I've noticed it existed, I always thought this wasn't going to be an impressive run. But daaamn, how wrong was I? I knew Mario would do some crazy acrobatics, but some of these levels are just insanely well done. Very tight jumping which caused for a very speedy progress. Never thought you could abuse the game mechanics this much on a old classic gameboy game. At this point, I would even say the amount of cutscenes prolly takes up more time than the run itself. But seeing those cutscenes again, watching mario breeze through the harder levels, combined with a lot of big brain moments... it was a pretty wild trip through nostalgia line and you made my evening a bit better :D Thanks for making this TAS

[@きょうじゅ-k1x]

13:21 そりゃあドンキーもおどろきますよね

[@ralfkokke9834]

This is art, this guy is an artist

[@RandomDude-k7w]

This deserves a remake I mean, if mario vs donkey Kong can get one, then why not this?

[@Austinator0630]

Because this was released around the same time as Donkey Kong Country. Besides, Mario vs Donkey Kong was originally going to be an enhanced port of this game.

[@TheKickboxingCommunity]

18:49 love this lol, no way they intended the game to be played like this

[@boofis8953]

Mario Must save Pauline from going to Brazil

[@davidthecommenter]

*YOU ARE GOING TO B R A Z I L*

[@wagnerramosmidichannelabso514]

Welcome to *Ｂ Ｒ Ａ Ｚ Ｉ Ｌ ！*

[@Pokerror404]

I love how it’s like Donkey Kong: Can't Get Me. Mario: 5 seconds later ya sure about that

[@dripdemon9449]

I like how the original donkey kong had to be run on this giant arcade machine now, a shoe could probably run this game.

[@blues03]

2:35 You can wall jump like that in the game too???! All of these years...

[@rootkidboy]

the glitches in Stage 3-4 are very awesome 👍👍👍

[@Panchyishere]

55:06 Aw, now they’re all friends :)

[@chickensandwich9977]

Such a well made game ESPECIALLY for the Game Boy

[@RC64x]

6:14 oh you left the key 6:16 WAIT HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?

[@neurogabu]

39:09 Donkey Kong be like: "Fuck this shit, I'm out"

[@FreeNintendo21]

WHAT THE HELL?!! This playthrough is major witchcraft! I don't think I can manage to pull off tricks like that when I play the game.

[@Anthonyvideogame]

Fun fact the og donkey Kong in this game is actually cranky kong

[@ZorotheGallade]

DK: (Wrecks the construction site so Jumpman can't climb up) Jumpman: (Jumps up) DK: (Surprised dong face)

[@79silentg]

Hey everyone! There's a Donkey Kong kill screen coming up! Great run!

[@larcek.giglamesh]

mainly here for the music, espescially the Tower Stage was amazing!

[@Irreve-rsible]

I love the movement in this game!

[@Gerahdont]

6:16 door: where's the key? Mario: idk, can I pass? Door: sure

[@JoxaCantDraw]

DK: “Catch me if you c- Why are you already at the tower…?” Mario: “i am speed”

[@gabrielgameseanimacoes3829]

That's how in DK 2 Dk was captured from Jumpman, And Dk Jr, Just Went To defeat him in the Second Game, Then Jumpman died

[@Tor-Erik]

Mario does triple jump, backflip and wall jump techniques in Super Mario 64 style, before Super Mario 64 even existed back then. Also Donkey Kong after 2-5 seconds: "WTF??"

[@DevilFish69]

Love to see a remake of this game. This was the last time DK was a bad guy.

[@aerisgainsborough2141]

well...what about super mario kart?

[@TheChompChamp7650]

@@aerisgainsborough2141that wasn’t donkey Kong.

[@brianlee5221]

This game was lovingly nicknamed DK'94

[@blueshyguyproductions1319]

Sonic is fast But there is always someone faster than him

[@koneDNB]

アクションパズルの名作ですね 子供の頃難しくてクリアできませんでした…

[@PaloJaurez]

I never knew this game existed until I discovered it in the chronicle from smash bros brawl. Grew up with Mario Vs. Donkey Kong.

[@Joker22593]

I tried MvsDK recently and the physics are nowhere near as smooth as the original. For example, in MvsDK, you can't turn-around flip onto a vine. Pretty sure you can in the original.

[@PaloJaurez]

@@Joker22593 I like this one better and I grew up with Mario vs Donkey Kong. It got stupid with the rest of the series.

[@AgentZeroVT]

Oh yes Another Tas greatly video of this dk world Also this dk game it's big one so much stages

[@Alex.mueller.781]

One of my Fav Games on GB. In the Future will be a colored Rom for GBC and Emulators. Maybe 2024...hopefully not later ;-) Then i will try some of that amazing tricks of level solving, witch are mind blowing.

[@dethscorpion16]

The only game when Donkey Kong falls down while he's pissed.

[@evathewingdale]

At the end, begins Donkey Kong Jr. ‘94.

[@eascec8374]

13:22: That's The Stupidest Way I Have Ever Seen!

[@JimPTheOne]

In normal gameplay he should have died 3 times already.

[@smashultimatefalcoteamkong5717]

Release Date NA: July 22, 1994

[@Anthonyvideogame]

Had this as a kid loved it

[@brandontheeveryfan305]

I used to have this on the 3DS

[@darnelconstent1852]

Dk:HOWS HE MOVING SO FAST mario: *flips*

[@Trimint123]

*Mario

[@darnelconstent1852]

ok thx

[@darnelconstent1852]

i change it

[@cabiaojapansurplus]

i remember playing it for a short period of time because of the rented cartrigde, never played it again

[@uubrmanx]

It looks like DK exploded in the thumbnail.

[@KeijiNoSora]

You know if mario would just forward air DK this game would have ended a long time ago

[@AntYT123]

0:28 How Jumpman (Mario) can actually be Jumpman

[@PyroFlareGaming]

what is that thumbnail geez.

[@mystcat3]

The youtube default middle thumbnail, shot just in time with a glitch or something

[@wagnerramosmidichannelabso514]

(37:11/37:12) - He accidentally did a save/quit after completing Level 7-8.

[@SuperSomieStuff]

Nah it was intentional, you have to do that for the 7-12 skip to work

[@MannuhFestIt]

32:33 Question, if they’re on a plane then where are they climbing to?

[@JD-mz1rl]

The pilot's quarters

[@LunaMinuna]

Those moves are awesome

[@frankie08jandmydad]

Mario wanted Pauline seriously.

[@Sheimiko]

9:01 bruh, what the fuck

[@JD-mz1rl]

Nani???!

[@alynnzz0491]

The fact this was recorded with a GBC core mildly upsets me. Only mildly, it's still DK94 after all.

[@Micha-Hil]

damn dunkey was right

[@aerisgainsborough2141]

DK: "GRRR MARIO'S CHEATING WITH A COMPUTER!!!"

[@AfrewSpines]

I don’t understand falling with the key and not dropping it or getting stunned after landing.

[@Shiekrunner]

if you grab the key with a backflip it does that

[@emmanuelsemons6830]

55:01 now donkey Kong is calling for help

I missing Mario vs Donkey kong games

[@garo6188]

7面よりあとに進んだことないからエンディング初めて見た

[@wagnerramosmidichannelabso514]

(46:09/46:10) - Again, he accidentally did a save/quit after completing Level 8-12.

[@SuperSomieStuff]

Also on purpose

[@griseouslight]

Wasn't this game for the Game Boy (GB), not the GBC?

[@redsoxfan26401]

Yes. It was optimized for the Super Game Boy adapter for the SNES.

[@Lechai]

It sure was. The reason why it's labeled as GBC here is that's the mode that the emulator was using, and the reason for that is given in the notes accessible from the page linked to up in the description.

[@WannaDropAgain88]

I wanna play this game so bad now

[@Basilchan321]

You can

[@sahilhossain8204]

Lore of GB Donkey Kong momentum 100

[@ShosuCeladon]

DK must be thinking "HOW IS HE SOLVING THESE PUZZLES SO FAST?!" know what I mean?

[@vidyabatter]

FINALLY

[@soundwave2825]

Okay, grabbing the key in mid air is sick and very hard to actually pull off (i only remember doing it accidentaly) but walljumping? That's just new, how does that happen?

[@Lechai]

The same way unintended walljumping happens in other games, really; hitting the wall at specific points causes the game to very, VERY briefly think the player is standing on a floor, and at THAT exact moment, jumping is possible.

[@XanthinZarda]

Kinda weird thinking about how the Big City, Forest, Iceberg and such are all referenced in Super Mario Iliad.

[@DrakeFeatherwing]

What bugged me the most is how 1up hand-holdy it was, even with parts of 100...

[@dansmith1661]

I wish all Mario games remembered how many lives you got instead of resetting all the time.

[@BrickmanZero]

@@dansmith1661 No, most of old mario game resets the lives, i think they started being saved since the gba games

[@linkthepringlesman3951]

It gave out tons of loves, true, but you need most of em. It’s not an easy game.

[@SuperSomieStuff]

@@dansmith1661 this game actually does that!

[@TheKickboxingCommunity]

You didn't just beat the game, you beat the programmers of this game too. Lol

[@erikrosenquist9839]

Timeless.

[@Hchris101]

Iconic

[@123TauruZ321]

I don't remember the help scream being so annoying nor used so often.

[@darklordxaodu4151]

This game's music is so. damn. good. Especially the 9-8 showdown it's literally a guitar solo on the Gameboy.

[@maxxximum_productions]

The desert theme is one of my all time favorite 8-bit songs. Wario vs. Bomberman has some insane music too!

[@アカサブ-v3m]

36:16 せめてクリアする時ぐらい地に足をだな…

[@RandomDude-k7w]

53:47 nope, mission failed Retreat retreat