Talk:Diddy Kong Racing

VC version

It says that this is coming out on the Wii Virtual Console, can we get a source on this please?

Screenshot

Someone with a sufficiently adequate computer (that is, not me) should take a screenshot of the character select screen (preferably with all characters unlocked) for use in the Characters section. I think it would make an excellent addition to the article. - Vague | Rant 04:34, Mar 19, 2005 (UTC)

Needs expanding

first off,im 14 years old,and what can i say? this brought back wonderful memories :) however,when one read the article,one may think that its like : "Choose a character,Choose a course,and youre ready to go" however its far aways from that. and how you got around on the island should also be noted,and that you could have races with that blue elephant. also how you unlock the future funland (i think thats the name) i never unlocked it,but i remember a giant head of Wizpig near a cascade of water,and that it was made out of 4 parts that got coloured once you had unlocked everything in one area. just a note Lord revan 20:19, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Let go of the accelerator 'A' before you hit a zipper, you should be able to beat Wizpig then after a few tries, i loved this game, i beat it all the time for the hell of it, ive beaten the whole thing (normal, backwards, T. T.'s Trials, ive got all of the 10 characters, have a good one. -Luke

No (non-notable) codes or glitches!

I have removed the codes and glitches section, in accordance with the consensus of the CVG WikiProject. Please do not add the sections back. Feel free to post your comments here. --Pagrashtak 20:08, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

I have removed the same codes and glitches from Wikibooks, by deleting the Wikibooks:Diddy Kong Racing Codes and Glitches page. The codes and glitches were trying to stand alone as a isolated textbook, without even an explanation that "Diddy Kong Racing" is the name of a video game.

If you want to see the codes and glitches deleted from Wikibooks, you can view them in this old version of the Wikipedia article. --Kernigh 21:15, 3 May 2006 (UTC) (Wikibooks:User:Kernigh)

Donkey Kong Racing

Why does Donkey Kong Racing link to this page, when Donkey Kong Racing was supposed to be a sequel to this when it was cancelled?

Diddy Kong Racing DS

Microsoft and Rare are most likely more inclined to do the remake of Diddy Kong Racing rather than Donkey Kong 64. --ZachKudrna18@yahoo.com

• It seems unlikely that Nintendo would have a division of Microsoft do a game for it. tregoweth 03:18, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
  • No, no. Rare has confirmed a while ago that they are developing games for the Nintendo DS. - NES Boy 04:09, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

• Well, according to Rare's official site, there IS a DKRDS in development. Now, I propose it gets its own article.--Bottles98 04:04, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Can we please not merge the DS version with this page because truly they are two different games no matter what they include. --Victory93 04:28, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Game Selling

Diddy Kong Racing has sold more copies than Donkey Kong 64 did. --Zachkudrna18@yahoo.com

Your point being?--Drat (Talk) 02:14, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Drumstick'd

The article only makes mention of running over a red-crested frog to unlock Drumstick, which I heard rumors of but never actually accomplished. It's been a while since I last played this game, but I do remember I unlocked Drumstick after I beat one or two of the levels in Future Funland. Anyone else? Woodrow Buzard 17:53, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Yellow Dinosaur

I removed the info as it is not sourced and seems to be just one person's opinion. Is there any evidence that anyone, other than the random IP that added it months ago, considers it an in-joke?--Drat (Talk) 12:02, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

There's no point in having the Yellow Dinosaur part in this article, in my opinion. From the looks of it, it's either a filler character to make the introduction movie look more "busy" or an obstacle that Rare forgot to place in a level. I've also Googled the part about the in-joke and there's practically nothing there. Matt489 13:00, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

In French

The course "Canyon Aux Boulets", which means "Boulder Canyon", the French word, "Boulets" means "Boulder" and Boulets is pronounced: Boulets (BOO-lay), because in French, the letters D, S, T, and Z cannot be heard in that language, and in French, the noun precedes the adjective, natively. The word "track/tracks" translated into French as "course" in this game, the French word, "course" is the same spelling as the English word, "course", except the French use of the word is pronounced: course (KOOR), because the letter, "S" cannot be heard. --PJ Pete

Additional headlines

We will need the "Vehicles" headline. One of the descriptions is that the car is the slowest vehicle to get around in the water. --PJ Pete

Timber

I've heard rumors that Timber was supposed to have his own game, but it got cancelled. Does anyone know if that's true?--Rat235478683--

Of course it is true! He also had his own wiki page, but someone cancelled it. I'm asking why...--Kombatgod (talk) 16:23, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

The reason there's no article on Timber is because he is a character who has only appeared in one game and has very little backstory.--Drat (Talk) 16:34, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Question

Will they be a diddy kong racing on virtual console with a download version from the Nintendo 64?Shirleybiscuit

I doubt it. They are just about to release Diddy Kong Racing DS.--Drat (Talk) 19:24, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

More than likely, no. Why? Because the game is both developed and published by Rare, and Microsoft bought Rare in 2002 so they can't support Nintendo's consoles anymore. -Mega Man 5 7 September 2008 (UTC)

2nd fastest character.

as taken in the main article:

> Banjo ... second fastest racer. > Drumstick ... is the 2nd fastest character.

Which is correct?

Perhaps speed, acceleration, handling, etc. should be displayed in a more easily compared grid or graph format if possible?--RedKnight 15:28, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

A lot of that detail isn't needed in the first place WP:NOT a game guide.--Drat (Talk) 01:54, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

I understand that, but there is yet to be an entry at StrategyWiki for the title, and at the very least the '2nd fastest character' duplication error should be corrected--RedKnight 22:32, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

I think it should be removed altogether as 'fastest' is a very multi-interpretable aspect. Fastest in terms of top speed, or fastest in terms of the best racer? This isn't clarified in the text, and if any, we should add which (2) racers have the highest top speed (T.T. and Drumstick/Krunch/Banjo), and not which racer is the best, because the latter is a highly subjective feature. I for one, can pull off extremely good performances with Conker, but someone else added that 'many believe' (which basically is Wikipedian for 'In my opinion') Tiptup is the best racer to use. While he might be good to use in regular races due to his fast acceleration, he is nowhere near the best time trial racer. In the end I think we should just delete all disputable information. -DraugenCP

Greenwood Village

For a long time, I've had a hunch that Greedwood Village may be Pipsy's home village. It's up in the mountains, after all, and the music seems to be similar to Pipsy's theme song in the Select a Character screen. Does anybody else think that this may be the case? --Luigifan 11:25, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

This isn't a forum. Also, to put such a thing in the article would be original research.--Drat (Talk) 11:50, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

I never said that I have any intention of putting it in the article, I just asked for opinions. --Luigifan 21:35, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

You should probably ask for opinions of that nature elsewhere. Like Drat said, this isn't a forum. If you have something to say about Diddy Kong Racing in a Wikipedia Talk Page, it should be questions, comments, or suggestions about improving the article. 98.202.45.178 04:28, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Octagon Zipper

"A hovercraft could even use it in the right place"

This phrase is a little confusing, considering at the beginning it said that only hovercrafts and planes could use it. I don't know much of anything about the game, so if someone could expand on what to actually is meant to be said here, it will help the article :)<3 Tinkleheimer TALK!! 17:00, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Cartoon?

Oh hi guys! So, some days ago, I had posted a piece of fan art of Diddy Kong Racing where I had depicted the characters in my own, cartoony style. Then some guy said that there apparently, was a cartoon of Diddy Kong Racing. Well, I looked everywhere, but couldn't find anything. Is there actually a cartoon of the game somewhere? I doubt it, but I'll just ask here to be sure... Ribbedebie (talk) 14:00, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

The closest thing I can think of is this animated commercial from Japan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQpwvrFFcGw --JFP (talk) 02:25, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

Double Reception

The reception section is on the page twice, with different content for both copies. Just sayin'. --174.114.172.181 (talk) 01:17, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the notice. The second section is for the DS remake, I have now clarified that. Salvidrim (talk) 01:28, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

Published By

This game was published by Rareware not Nintendo, the first game they published from what I've heard DreamsDreams (talk) 17:10, 1 May 2012 (UTC)DreamsDreams

Hm, that's possible! Have you found a reliable source? :) Salvidrim! 17:15, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

I've got a boxed version of the game it says published by Rareware DreamsDreams (talk) 17:19, 7 August 2012 (UTC)DreamsDreams

I also see Rare as the publisher in the instruction manual. Nintendo is noted as just exclusive distributor. nintendo may be the publisher for the japanese release. Lucia Black (talk) 02:46, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Diddy Kong Racing/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: FunkMonk (talk · contribs) 19:36, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

• Another gem from my childhood! FunkMonk (talk) 19:36, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
• I know it isn't necessary, but is there a way to reference then plot section?

• Thanks for taking this, FunkMonk! Yeah, this was one of my favourites from my childhood. I'm brining this up to GA in memory of Lucia Black, who sadly passed away three weeks ago. She wrote most of the gameplay section, and it's pretty good, so I've mostly left it how she wrote it. We were going to bring this up to GA together, so I'm doing this for her. I've used the manual to source the plot, as it's all described in there. JAGUAR  15:53, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

Aw, sad to hear that. Let's try to make a worthy GA then! FunkMonk (talk) 16:55, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

• You sourced the first paragraph under plot, could the second one be sourced with the same source?

• Moved the citation JAGUAR  15:19, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

• It seems the second fair use image is slightly too large, 400 pixels wide is the recommended maximum.

• I've reduced the thumbnail JAGUAR  15:19, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

Oh, I meant the image itself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Diddy_Kong_Racing_gameplay_1.jpg FunkMonk (talk) 15:25, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

Oops, sorry. I've just reduced the image to 400 x 300 pixels. JAGUAR  15:27, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

• "but lacks acceleration and manoeuvrability." Lacks in?

• Fixed JAGUAR  15:19, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

• "it is good at accelerating and manoeuvrability" Acceleration and manoeuvring?

• Fixed JAGUAR  15:19, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

• "boost one's speed" the player's speed?

• Done JAGUAR  15:19, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

• "but can still be obtained" Can also?

• Added JAGUAR  15:19, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

• "all of the balloons are silver" Perhaps explain what this does?

• Done, and corrected it to platinum. I've read the guide, and they offer no benefits, they just change colour JAGUAR  15:19, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

• "after he conquered his own" After having conquered?

• Better JAGUAR  15:19, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

• "He turns the island's four guardians: Tricky the Triceratops, Bubbler the Octopus, Bluey the Walrus and Smokey the Dragon into his henchmen." It seems a bit odd that the last part of the sentence follows the colon, perhaps mention the names in parenthesis instead?

• Good point, rephrased JAGUAR  15:19, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

• "series of races that involves cars" Involve.

• Fixed JAGUAR  15:19, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

• Perhaps it could be mentioned under development or something that the game features several other Nintendo characters than Diddy Kong? I know some of them are named already, but could be nice to have it stated explicitly.

• I agree; I've added a bit at the end of the development section. Surprisingly, this wasn't covered at all in any of the development sources, so I found some snippets in a source related to Conker. JAGUAR  15:19, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

• "terms of the character's voices." Characters'? I assume this is supposed to be plural?

• My bad, fixed JAGUAR  15:19, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

• "Game of the Year at the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences in 1998, beating Mario Kart 64" Seems funny, when neither game is from 1998?

• I know, quite strange! But it firmly says it was from 1998, so I trust it JAGUAR  15:19, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

• "Musgrave stated that the concept was "built from scratch" and featured a limited multiplayer version at one point.[21] The unnamed concept was in development over 18 months and evolved from being an animal-orientated racing game to an open world game with Tamagotchi-style features, in which nurturing animals was a "key mechanic".[21] According to Musgrave, the open-world mechanic was inspired from Grand Theft Auto III and was then shifted to a "cute version of Grand Theft Auto set in Africa"." This info doesn't seem to be very relevant to this article? Perhaps trim?

• I got a bit carried away. I cut the 'GTA in Africa' part JAGUAR  15:19, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

• "was inspired from Grand Theft Auto III" Inspired by?

• Cut this JAGUAR  15:19, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

• "with critics asserting that the new additions were "gimmicky" and "horribly sensitive" touchscreen controls." Something seems to be missing for the latter part of the sentence to make sense.

• I think I see what you mean. Rephrased JAGUAR  15:19, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

• "The player can take control of any of the twelve featured characters throughout the game." Only mentioned in intro.

• Added a bit to gameplay, and reworded to "eight", as stated in the DS review JAGUAR  15:19, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

• "Diddy Kong Racing was received positive reviews" Malformed sentence.

• Oops. Fixed JAGUAR  15:19, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

• "and at sometimes "repetitive"" At times?

• Fixed! JAGUAR  15:19, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

@FunkMonk: thanks for the review! I believe I addressed everything, and I've also done some minor fixes. JAGUAR  15:19, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

Alright, with the image shrunk, this should be ready for GA! I'm especially glad that some info on the other Nintendo characters was mentioned, as I did not know they are spin-offs from this game (or seems their games were already in development? Perhaps mention this?). Now Banjo and Conker are just overlinked, but I'm sure you can fix this after I pass. FunkMonk (talk) 15:30, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

Thank you! I've delinked the characters' names. I did this for Lucia, and am glad that I got this to GAN in two days and passed the day after! We were going to work on this together, but I think I waited too long. The delay of Banjo-Kazooie was already mentioned in the lead and development, however a Conker game was developed until a couple of years later. Thanks again. JAGUAR  15:37, 3 March 2016 (UTC)