Donkey Kong 64

This page contains notes for the game Donkey Kong 64.

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Control Codes
0x01	Rumble effect
0x02	Pop-out effect (unused in non-Japanese versions)
0x03	Spin effect (unused in non-Japanese versions)
0x04	(Japanese) Red text
0x05	(Japanese) Green text
0x08	(Japanese) Switch to set 1
0x09	(Japanese) Switch to set 2
0x40	(International) Number variable (@ in ASCII)
0x7E	(International) Current Kong's name (~ in ASCII)
0xA0	(Japanese) Current Kong's name
0xA1	(Japanese) Number variable

Can be seen with the image modifier 8075C41B ???? (U), which replaces DK's model; the last two are ROM offsets.

008D: banana cam photo with garbled pineapple texture. Model may or may not be used, but the texture isn't-- it's a blown-up copy of one of the pineapple frames with no alpha transparency

(.bins refer to the decompressed game files.)

Text dump
Asset map (mainly for kiosk/final comparison, but the text sheet covers all versions)
0FB42C.bin is Donkey Kong.
- Notably, Donkey Kong 64 marked the first time that the original Donkey Kong was released unabridged on a Nintendo home console - the NES port is missing 50m (the cement factory) due to memory limitations.
- This version is not actually an original arcade ROM, but was rather coded from scratch by Brendan Gunn, presumably to sidestep legal issues with Ikegami Tsushinki. As a result, the Ikegami Tsushinki text is missing.
1010FD.bin is Jetpac
ScriptHawk: main, flags, docs
- Contains lots of interesting technical info for all versions of the game

Some code-ish stuff in 0D4554.bin (but no actual text)
Unused SFX from E3
Sudden cutscene view when walking through a shop's exit
- Actually due to lack of a loading zone (the same thing can be seen in other exits when changing the game mode to another value), but still... why would there be a loading zone there? Seems to indicate the shops could be freely roamed at one point