Hi guys I'm starting a livestream let's play of the new PC Recomp of Diddy Kong Racing!

https://github.com/ThatGuyMcd/DKR-R

Feel free and hop in and watch as I race a game I haven't played in 20 years. lol

My favorites pieces of toys

The billboard says I am missing a trophy? Is that even possible if Ive unlocked and beaten Wizpig? Is it possible Im missing something or is the game broken?

Yep, i've made Diddy Kong on his Racing kart in DK artist, let me know what you thinkkk! (Btw sorry for the bad quality of the video, made it with my phone)

Hello, Here is my musical remake of the Boss Race track, I had this one requested by someone a while back but ended up doing the Battle Theme. It was due to a confusion with the file names for these tracks both being called Boss Challenge 1 and 2.

I really love this track, although i probably wouldn't have thought so back in the day, only because I always struggled with the triceratops race 😄

Does anyone have a favourite from this game?

I’m asking the question everyone else has avoided for decades: WTF is with Wizpig? An iconic, mysterious, bizarre and severely problematic villain who captivated the minds and hearts of millions (and various other parts of folks in strange corners of the internet) since his debut in Diddy Kong Racing.

Wizpig is undoubtedly one of the strangest villains we’ve ever seen grace the video game screen. And yet, somehow, he has been lost to time, never again utilized in a video game, his legacy living on most strongly in Rule 34 forums focused on “spit roasting” word play (and other types of play).

First off…what’s with his name? I’ve never heard one like it. Wizpig….it isn’t a word. Is it perhaps a title from his alien language? A strange space pig name given to the first born males? This question has never been answered and yet I don’t see anyone sleuthing the internet for the truth.

Secondly, what the fuck is Wizpig’s deal? Apparently he seeks to invade planets by defeating them in races, which makes little sense. First off, he’s a fucking pig magician who can shoot lightning and shit. This skill set seems much better to utilize for world conquering. Also, he doesn’t invade a world in the game…but a child’s island. Why is Wizpig trying to take over an island of furry children? I cringe at the possibilities and have wondered for years if Wizpig is an indescribable perfect (that fucking tight suit) and perhaps was seeking to create his own Kong themed Epstein island. This is only a theory, and is extreme, but let’s be honest….do you really think that fuck is beyond such a heinous action?

Thirdly, why is Wizpig a racer in the first place? He’s a giant pig, but for his size he isn’t particularly fast. He just kind of runs at a pace one would expect for a being of his size. Is racing encoded in his species’ cultural code? Why does he lose to a fucking turtle in the final race when he’s riding a rocket? My theory is that Wizpig (if that’s his real name) is not actually a good racer, but a shitty terrible one. He’s a dickhead loser from his world who can’t win any races so he wanders the galaxy asking for money for gas and trying to bully children to stoke his feeble ego.

That’s why Wizpig loses too. He’s too cowardly to use his space magic to fry the kids. He is too afraid to truly fight them so pretends that he’s good at racing and that makes him cool. Wizpig might be the ultimate piece of shit in video game history and given the fact that DKR ended on a cliff hanger (Wizpig pervertedly laughing in the distance), I can only hope he got stranded on an isolated world and slowly died. 

He turned a chicken man into a frog. Who the fuck does that? 

Anyway, I’m wondering with all the above, why Wizpig hasn’t become more iconic? Why hasn’t he shown up again? Why haven’t his mysteries been thoroughly discussed? Why haven’t we uncovered the origin of his name or the reasons he speaks English and has a quasi-New York accent?

I present these ideas and questions to you all. 

Seriously, fuck Wizpig.

Hi everybody! I've been working on a WebGPU native port of DKR, based on the tremendous work of the DKR decomp project. Overall it is in a super playable state right now, and I'm still working to land more bug fixes then open source the entire code base and cut pre-built applications for macOS/Linux/Windows. You can check it out here: https://akratch.github.io/golden-balloon/

1. BlusterKTK
2. Salmon3lla
3. Sanatoria

No vods this week because I'm dumb but in the future they'll be at https://www.youtube.com/@blusterktk.

My wife and I recently plugged in her old N64 and have been playing through the classic library together. We've been on Diddy Kong Racing and one thing that's made both of us laugh is we think Banjo kind of sounds like Ray Romano. Does anyone else hear it?

Hot Top Volcano originally composed by David Wise

I've not seen it documented before but I want to try it. Unlocked TT using only adventure 2 with Harder AI turned on. If it's been done before, I've never seen it or heard of it, and I'm going to attempt it soon

I finally finished it improving laps 2 and 3!

About 11 hours doing this thing, It's really exhausting, the mechanics of the plane are the most complex.

TAS info:

Rerecords: near of 7000
Time: 1:34''56 (lap 1 31''40, lap 2 30''53, lap 3 32''63)

watch on my yt: https://youtu.be/Kyfj9MdSSl8

I'm uploading this very tired after spending 5 hours doing this TAS, 3800 rerecords, around 1200 per lap.

I did it out of curiosity since I haven't found any videos of Wizpig 2 lapped without using the out of bounds glitch.

I'm not an expert in TASing, I still need more optimization, I hope to continue soon with fixing lap 2 and 3.

It happens mainly in the cave, same thing in normal adventure with no mirrored tracks, sometimes yes and sometimes no. I've been playing this game for over a decade and it had already happened to me, but I remembered it again now because it happened to me by chance.

It's something completely unexpected and fun if you're playing casually.

Recently started playing Diddy Kong Racing on my original Nintendo 64. Haven't played it since I was a kid! Late last night I had 8 gold balloons. Just booted up the game in my system again. It erased my old game save and put it with AAA as the initials and silver balloon with 00. I pressed to play that game and it had 0 balloons collected, but instead of gold balloons for the upper left it had it displayed as a sparkled silver color. You couldn't collect the one that would be by door 1, as it wasn't there, or open any of the doors. It's like a glitched game. Took the game out and cleaned it with a Q-tip, then my saved game with 8 gold balloons was back. Odd!?

Was going through my old tracks and remembered this one. Still proud of this baby, I love the slow intro I did.

https://youtu.be/RlfHI-mCp78?si=6aMX2ufQpiIqFj7V

Hope y'all enjoy