I totally agree with #1. It took me several hours of searching before I gave up and needed to use a manual. However, I miss cryptic stuff like that in games.
Great video!!!🏆 Through A LOT of trial and error I found ALL bonus rooms myself in the game EXCEPT number 1 on the list!!! There was absolutely NO WAY I EVER was going to find that bonus within a bonus I had to find it with assistance from probably the internet, (I can't remember what outside source, think it was the internet). I first got all bonus rooms on GBA remake version before the SNES version. Great video mate on one of my favourite video games of all time!!!👍🏻
These rooms were made explicitly to be used alongside guides, which were super popular at the time. Ain't no way this wasn't intended to boost the sales of the Nintendo Power Consoles Plus Joypad and consorts.
I can't believe there were still this many secrets bonuses to find. Out of this list, I only found 7, 5, 4, and 1 myself. This makes me wanna go back and play DKC all over again.
@sneeze7652 It was kinda luck. I missed the balloon on the first of the 3, so I figured I'd go ahead and get the banana. When I got the barrel, I threw it at the wall like most would. The 2nd time I jumped to the wall because I normally do that when I use Diddy Kong anyways, and ended up getting into the 2nd room.
it’s crazy cause i think ppl today underestimate just how it felt playing games in the 90s w controllers like we had. most of these were easily found by mistake. simply missing the barrel cause ur laughing so hard w the homies that u accidentally miss the barrel or walk off stage, or shoot into something by accident revealing the secret rooms. none of this at all is any i didn’t know about, & all i stumbled upon from playing dk a trillion times
This was a really well-done video, covering all of the examples thoroughly by giving an overview of each level and the other bonus rooms hidden within them. You definitely covered the examples that took me the longest to find back when I played this game, and it was neat to realize that your #1 was going to be the same as mine. I played Oil Drum Alley so many times trying to get that last exclamation point. I'm kind of amazed that I somehow stumbled upon it. Putting a bonus room inside another bonus room seems to break all of the rules, and it's crazy how you had to do a series of things you'd do nowhere else in the game: 1. Match the 3 barrels to win the worst prize (I'm pretty sure I just jumped too late to get the 1-Up balloon one time, and then I figured "might as well try to at least get the 1 banana, since that's the best I can do") 2. Notice that instead of giving you a banana, it gives you a barrel. 3. Hopefully you're playing as Diddy so that you can check the wall quickly enough. (At that point, I was trying to use Diddy everywhere because it's the best way to check all surfaces for hidden doors.) 4. Realize that you remain in control of your character for just long enough to enter the door before the celebration sequence runs. (You had to really be paying attention to notice it, but the "winning" and "losing" sequences aren't just animations; they actually move your characters around-- I discovered this in one of the levels where the characters do the "losing" sequence if you miss the platform you're supposed to be riding. Diddy can throw his hat off a cliff, then jump in after it and die!)
The forest frenzy room I found when I had a sick day as a kid, as soon as my brother got home, I was so excited to show him. Loved exploring the game as a kid.
I knew about #8 and #6. I thought for sure I would have known more on your list; I've played this have a fair amount. But the rest were all new to me, including the honorable mentions. Good video!
Donkey Kong Country 2 has similar problems with invisible walls and unintuitive locations. There were 3 coins and 2 bonus rooms I could never find until I stumbled upon a guide in a thrift shop (this was before the internet was everywhere).
@@kwepc90thespeedrunner33 yes, we will do top 10s for the hidden bonus rooms and big DK coins on DKC2 & DKC3. Also planning to do a top 10 hardest levels without DK barrels or checkpoint for the whole trilogy.
Another awesome list, my friend. I was definitely certain about what number 1 and 2 would be, though I was surprised to see the one where you go over the ceiling in Elevator Antics to be on the lower end. That one stumped me quite a lot; up to that point the game had been training you to find some of these more cheeky bonus rooms by taking leaps of faith into pits, misfiring with blast barrels, backtracking or just peeling your eyes for hidden barrels. The idea that you have to get on top of the ceiling in an area that is using those bee enemies to discourage such an act is simply something that would never occur to me based on what has been taught. Especially with how the visuals wouldn't lead you to believe you could go on top of there. I'm fairly certain that there isn't any other moment in the game where it incentivizes walking on the ceiling in what feels like an out of bounds area. I just don't think it's as cleanly conveyed as the secret warp zone in 1-2 of Super Mario Bros for example. I'd personally rank it at number 4, but that's just me. Everything else feels spot on. A lot of fun to watch and to listen to your points. Seeing the awesome visual and sound effect you put in with the thumbnail in the title card is always a treat!
@@dogeyes9038 thanks man, I appreciate that a lot! I totally get what you’re saying, it gets kinda packed toward the top but I could certainly see moving it up 2 to 3 spots! I didn’t mean anything by the 6 ranking, it was a thick list of “what in the world?!” moments so I didn’t mean to snub any of them! Appreciate your comment and I definitely see where you’re coming from with how uniquely weird that one is!
Very good vid. This explains a lot from my childhood, finally closure. That #1 is truly crazy. Can you do DKC2 next? Those aren’t as bad but there are some tricky ones
I remember my brother finding the 1-banana barrel on his own, and seeing you could break the wall, but we never figured out you had to jump into the wall with it with diddy.
This is exactly the video I expected from you about the DKC bonus levels. I hope we see more Donkey Kong videos in the future, as well as Banjo-Kazooie ones !
I played this game so much as a kid that I found these by dumb luck and sheer determination without a guide. The one in tanked up trouble was the last one I found.
Oil Drum Alley: the arrow on the closed door gave me an idea that something else was there. I tried it multiple times until I got it figured out without having to use a help guide. I’ve never been able to get Donkey Kong to actually get into that next bonus room. I agree with your #1 pick though, as that was my first thought as #1 before watching your video. Oil Drum Alley is my favorite level in this game, also. Good info and video, overall.
I had to look for a strategy guide online to be able to get the 101% after years of playing the game since I was a boy, the most I could get on my own was around 85% I think. Cool video.
Wow. I was almost sure that the Expresso backtracking one in Urangutang Gang would have been the No1!! But no!!! I have completely locked the bonus room within a bonus room out of my memory!!!
I think the first bonus room in Ropey Rampage actually has very slight hint to it: If you pass it and leap over the gap with rope, the ledge where you land on has couple of steps on its left side. If you descend those steps, you can see the long trail of bananas ending to the wall. Of course it's not the most obvious hint it doesn't tell you the exact location of the barrel and the player may not look for a hint from a place that looks like almost obvious deathtrap. In my opinion, the first bonus room in Barrel Cannon Canyon is weirdly intuitive. It's pretty much unique situation to have barrel facing towards a wall and thus it has great potential for ''what if?'' moment. When I was younger, I had that exact moment when I got to that part the first time. Regarding the Oil Drum Alley, it's the only level with 4 bonus rooms due the bonus room within bonus room. Funnily enough, the game itself has an another very vague hint for that particular room: The room with a barrel mini-game has two arrow signs, both of them pointing right and thus at the right wall. But like I said, it's very vague and really doesn't help players to realize what they need to do. I think the most interesting part about getting into that cryptic bonus room is that it may be an oversight from developers. This is just my theory, but I believe the reason why the winning animation is triggered when throwing the barrel on the wall is because how barrel mini-game rooms work: When the barrel is broken, no matter if you break the wall or not, the game thinks you've collected the prize from the bonus room, thus triggering the animation and sending you out. But that trigger only activates when playable Kong touches the ground, so breaking the wall while jumping against it works because then you will land on the transition hitbox which apparently takes priority over the victory animation and lets the Kong(s) into the next room.
Appreciate you watching & commenting again, my friend! Yes, going to do a few more Top 10s of the trilogy. Also going to rank the levels in difficulty with the less capable/forgiving Kong, no checkpoints, no animal pals… similar to the zero power ups / no yoshi / no checkpoints Super Mario World video I made last month. So it’ll be DK in the the first, Diddy in the 2nd, and Kiddy in the 3rd. These take a while to make, but yes we have a whole lot of them ahead!
I've found a few of these in the past (mostly by dumb luck) but I don't think I've ever found any in the top 5. That #1 spot is seriously diabolical. (Crazy part is, there's even an arrow pointing right to show you that you're supposed to keep going, but then have to question yourself as to how you're supposed to do that.)
It's been a long time since I played dkc so I don't remember which of these that you pointed out on your list that I found. I mean I've definitely found a whole bunch of the other ones you described leading up to the ones you made on this list in each level, but my goodness the one at number one is just insane. I can't believe they thought that was a good idea. I love the dkc games, but I kid you not the only one I ever got all the bonus rooms in was dkc3. Yes dkc3 is the only one that I've completed everything and I mean every single thing in. All the bonus coins, all the DK coins, and all the banana birds. But the other games I could not do that
Definitly in the Factory was the Most difficult Bonus Room to find. It was a secret Bonus Room in the Bonus Room. (Bonus Inception??) This was unbelivable who can be so outsmarted to think about that. For me definitly the hardest Bonus to find from all three Original Donkey Kong Parts. Great Video and thank You for this. :-) EDIT the Important Note: I wrote this Comment before watching the Video to the End ;-)
the ostrich one seems random but a lot of us tried exploring stages too 😂😂 wishing they were open world. u find the secret room the first level by tryna break the bottom or walk back into the treehouse. ppl just tried this for no reason. we tried to run through plenty of walls w barrels after the first was discovered.
The #1 in your top 10 list is the ONLY bonus I didn't get during my original playthrough when I was a kid. I had found literally every single other bonus room (The one in Tanked up Trouble was criminal, but I just found it out of dumb luck, always had too many lives to spare thanks to them being so grindable). The worst part is I did suspect something was amiss because I played the level many times finding nothing else hidden, and I noticed there was a second arrow in the bonus room, something no other room had. But how in the hell was I suppossed to know 3 single bananas would net me a throwable barrel! I had no access to the internet at the time as well, so once I did you could imagine my reaction I had to knowing that I was onto something, but I couldn't figure it out on my own.
The 3 single bananas for a barrel is diabolical!! And requiring a jump into the wall is just icing on the cake… you did fantastic to get 100% all on your own, should be proud of that!
This game spoiled me on future gaming. I look at newer games and say, "that'd be a nice spot for a secret." 90% of the time i find nothing, except a bewildered look from a developer asking how I got there.
I clicked because I was curious what criteria would decide the ordering. Apparently it's "top 10 unfairly secret bonus rooms"! 😅 That top one really was something, I couldn't get 100% on release year.
Yeah! It's like DKC was part of the transition from old trolly DOS games to modern design. ...And I was about to say something about DKC2 but some of the DK coins in there are monstrous.
I found like 5 of them including the ostrich one due to exploring it as a kid. Barrel canyon due to a mistake and the one up the screen due to jumping too high. Rest of them are impossible lol, second level one you eventually see bananas so you catch it. Same with the snow one. I recall getting the forest one with the ropes as a kid but thinking I misremembered it due to never finding it again.
Number 7 i knew and idk why but made sense to me as a kid. Nr 6 i got randomly as i always jumped high :D And i guess im a psycho because i knew about nr 1. The arrow in the bonus room made me test put all reward combinations to see what that arrow means. The jump i just tried on my 2nd attempt after the first being a kick out haha
I found all of these as a kid, though admittedly it was not something I managed in only a few runs. I'll list what I recall from back then. The Stop Go Station - The bananas give it away as you say, found this one without too much trouble. Forest Frenzy - I just noticed when playing so I didn't know people had issue with it. Platform Perils - This I remember annoying me a lot as a kid, you know the bonus is there, so you keep banging your head against it trying to figure it out. I eventually thought "there must be a blast barrel offscreen that sends you to it." so started losing lives with leaps of faith, did eventually find the platform though. Barrel Cannon Canyon - Found by accident from missing the barrel shot. Elevator Antics - Another I found my accident. I would usually jump up offscreen when playing. The Ropey Rampage - There is actually a hint sort of, and that is the lack of an "N" in the main level, so you know a secret area exists, and that it's somewhere between the O and G. Snow Barrel Blast - I think I found by accident since I hit the zinger and was a retard and just fell instead of trying to jump back in the barrel and was like "oh a secret!" Tanked Up Trouble - This was the last one I found, I remember spending so many lives doing leaps of faith hoping to find it. By far the hardest for me to find. Urang-utan Gang - I don't remember struggling with these, but I did a lot of backtracking in games in general when I was younger, so that might be why. Temple Tempest - This I found pretty easy just since I always carried barrels to walls "just in case" and it payed off many times. Mine Cart Madness - An easy find since I jumped non-stop in the mine-cart levels as a kid lol. Trick-Track-Trek - Not too bad by this point I kid of learned "check what's below" The Oil Drum Ally - This one is quite weird and cruel on the devs part tbh, but they do give a hint by putting an arrow in the background, I remember trying the one banana thing after seeing the arrow. It's stupid, but it doesn't require leaps of faith and you can get back in the bonus pretty easy since it's early in the level, so it's kind of a 9.5/10 instead of a 10/10 (Unlike the tanked up trouble one for kid-me)
I found like 6 of them due to playing way too much as a kid but honestly the 1 banana one is insane and the jump to certain doom ones are very unlikely to be found but they do happen I found the one in the forest with the ropes as a kid but thought it was a bug.
I got 101% in this game one time and never again, I did have to just jump offscreen everywhere possible in tanked up trouble to find that one, and assume the start and end of every level might have one under it. without the ! indication this challenge would have been impossible for me, nice work showing the most obscure ones. I remember figuring out #1 in the same way, the only indication is the arrow always points to breakable walls and it's the only bonus room that has one on both sides
@@JetWolfEX very nice job with the completion, seriously… some of them are absurdly hard to find. I will accept the arrow as a great hint, the two parts where it completely loses me is getting a barrel for 3 bananas. If they could show a barrel on its own, and if you don’t have to jump to leave, I’m in love with the idea… the 3 bananas and jumping are insane… thank you for watching & commenting! There will be more DKC videos like this in the near future.
Wow doing 101 on all three files to make this list definitely helps show these are certainly the top 10. A lot of these seem like they only would reward making mistakes to see them/accidentally fall into them. So much off-screen makes it seem ridiculous. #1 is most definitely ridiculous though like come on "what are these rules?" for real
Now I know every bonus room location by heart! FYI, if you see an exclamation mark at the end of every level name, it means you've completed it 100% i.e. finding all bonus rooms wherever possible! However, some levels have no bonus rooms at all.
@@user-rs1990 awesome! And yes, the water levels specifically don’t have any, although they kind of do with bonus bananas, 1ups, and enguarde through some walls… just none that depart from the stage and count for completion %!
I vaguely remember getting the snow barrel blast one by accident because I was playing on a TV with lag and missed so bad going up and forward and held back to try and save myself
When I first saw Tanked Up Trouble, I thought the Fuel barrels would explode if touched. I jumped over the first one and then stayed on the platform because I had no idea what it would do when the lights ran out. There ya go, bonus level. 😅
Great vid! In Ropey Rampage, there's a set of steps on the rocky wall off the ledge that if you jump down, you can see the trail of bananas, which I suppose could be a hint or indicator to the player. Also yeah, jumping towards the exit in Oil Drum Alley with DK works just fine, just as it does with Diddy.
@@mattdog1000000 thank you! I never saw those bananas before, I must’ve passed by quickly while jumping or something. Also, when you say “works just fine” that wasn’t the case for me, he doesn’t have front collision with the barrel like Diddy… tried to illustrate that with the footage, so the earliest active hitbox is behind him, and I still touched the floor! What a bizarre scenario! I appreciate you watching and commenting
@@MarMaxGaming It has worked every time I've tried it just now... Are you holding right the whole time while jumping into the wall with the barrel? It just works when I try it.
Oh, I see what you've got wrong. You think DK can't break the wall by walking into it since it "appears" that he's not holding the barrel in front of him. But, that's not the case, DK will still break walls by walking into them, the only issue is some walls in other stages are too low for the hit box to be detected. In this case though, it is not too low, DK can walk (or in this unique case, jump) into the wall by just moving forward. No need to drop the barrel, no need to throw it from a distance, no need for any other trick. Just jump into the wall while holding the barrel the same way you would with Diddy Kong. It works.
@@mattdog1000000 haha c’mon Matt, it’s beyond the fact he’s holding it above his head, or that it “appears” this way… you should know that as a player - it’s the fact he literally doesn’t break walls on vast majority of the levels while walking into them. I’ve pressed him right into walls while he holds the barrel above his head and they don’t break - but apparently there are some select walls taller where it works, and this is one of those rare cases. Pretty mind blowing trivia! Funny how trends that we see over many years of playing don’t end up being the entire answer, would’ve been good to show here! Thanks for watching & commenting, if you want more intense challenges look at the home page for a 6 mile run while playing Battletoads.
@@MarMaxGaming Haha, I actually walk into a lot of enemies and walls with DK while he's holding a barrel! You wouldn't think it'd act as a frontwards shield, but in many cases it does, just as it does with Diddy!! But also, yeah, most breakable walls are too short for it to work, lol... Dang game!! I love it!
@MarMaxGaming Yes, the bonuses weren't there. There's actually roms of the competition cart on the internet. They usually make their way onto Chinese handhelds, in place of the actual game.
I did find #1 on my own. I don't like the animal bonus rooms because they only waste time and put you back at the start or halfway point of the level, and being somewhat of a pessimist, will sometimes try and get the worst reward. (Or maybe I missed and got a banana first and just decided to go for it, I don't remember.) So I was in the first bonus room and matched all 3 bananas. Instead of getting one banana, I got a barrel. I thought it was sort or weird, but then I threw it into the wall and saw it break. So I went back and got it for real. Also, if you simply put a barrel down as Donkey Kong it will break walls, so you can easily do it as him too.
I feel like this is trolling gaming design. These types of secrets require a guide and that just takes away from finding them. Either that or get incredibly lucky finding out. I never knew about any of these 😅
I never found them all, but oddly enough, I did stumble into the hardest one by myself. I believe I accidentally got the banana and just said "oh well, I'll practice my matching for next time." When I won a barrel, the arrow sign made it obvious what to do. I must have had Diddy, and just walked it into the wall.
@@zacthebold5136 very nice! Although I believe walking into the wall wouldn’t work, it seems to kick you out… maybe you jumped? But either way that’s awesome!
Lol. I actually found that secret in Tanked Up Trouble without guessing, but that was because that first oil barrel was *so* obvious to pick up I figured they'd probably hide a secret by letting the fuel run out there, which also told me how to find the Platform Peril secret on this list because doing creative suicide was a thing the game would do.
@@MarMaxGaming It wasn't just that it was there, but that you could not help but collect it unless you actively tried to avoid it. Rare being Rare, I figured this was a secret of the, "Do not do the obviously good thing," variety. They're out there in other games.
@ yeah they’re a cheeky crew, no doubt about that! We’ve looked at a good amount at some of their games like Goldeneye, Blast Corps, Diddy Kong Racing, DKC2, and Battletoads… speaking of crazy design, have you played Battletoads? We’ve done some challenges with that one, even beating it on 2 player. I also tried to do a wellness challenge with it and almost beat the game while jogging 6 miles, it’s become one of my favorites over the years.
People forget: Cranky's entire purpose was to hint at these things. I seem to remember him telling me specifically about the Ropey Rampage secret. (#5)
I don't really remember the thing about getting kicked out of the bonus room if you throw it at the wall in Oil Drum Alley. I wonder if this was patched on later revisions.
Ironically enough, when I played this as a child, I found the first drop off barrel by accident by mistiming my jump and that led me to find the second barrel at the end of the level. (Ropey Rampage)
Hey, great video! I love finding secrets and these unfairly hidden ones make DKC the worst in the trilogy for me. Also the fact that they don't actually reward you with anything too exciting. I actually managed to find almost all of them blind when I played the game for the first time when it came out in NSO. I found the one in the oil stage completely accidentally. I was zooming through the stage trying to find the bonus when I accidentally got into the bonus stage I had already found. In my hurry I just bumbed into the barrels as quickly as I could just to get out and the barrel came out! But still I couldn't do anything with it so I figured something weird was going on. So I searched a bit and found out that it was bugged and if your Kong's feet were touching the ground the game thought you completed the bonus and threw you out. You are ok if you throw the barrel from afar, just be sure that your feet are not touching the ground when it breaks the wall. Anyway, the only one I never found was the fuel one. Had to look it up.
@@kostas999666 I really appreciate your comment! I must admit that the original DKC has a soft spot for me, I love its atmosphere in a lot of stages and it has some unique things going on with it… but I love the other 2 as well, they’re amazing, I love the whole trilogy a lot. Enjoyed reading your hunt for them all! There will be more DKC videos coming up, including top 10s on the sequels!
Somehow I found them all myself back then without any guides or internet :) When I realized an exclamation mark hinted at the completion rate, it was easier. For all three DK games. I also spent a lot of time figuring out fatalities and ultimates and ultras and humiliations in KI 😁 Luckily, experience from MK games helped:)
@@gauwoof very nice job, seriously! The experimentation phases must been out of control… which levels did you fling yourself off the edge the most? What took the most time? And at what point did the 3 matching bananas for a barrel come to you? More DKC videos are coming, sounds like you’ll enjoy those too! Also wow, figuring out fighting moves without any instructions sounds pretty tedious and insane! If you want some hardcore Rareware action, we beat Battletoads on 2 player on original NES. Now that’s hardcore too!
Awesome list! Always wanted to know how to get that CC barrel… Random question, but in Goldeneye 64 multiplayer where is the hidden (secondary, I.e. AR34 if you choose mines) weapon spot in stack? It has honestly bugged me for years and years.
Nintendo and other companies do this to make you buy their official guides. I remember playing Breath of the Wild and having to refer to guides online, because they would be next to impossible to find without help.
@@MysticMike yes that’s a good clue, with the arrow there too… but the weird part is single bananas getting you a barrel, that’s not how the mini game works anywhere else so it’s very bizarre!
@@sunnydays341 I’ve heard that before! I did access it multiple times for this video, maybe it’s until you screw up the letters? I didn’t have to redo any of the 3 save files for it, thankfully!
As long as you gain access to the bonus room, itll count to the 101%. You dont need to win or finish, as some of the bonus levels have no exit except for bottomless pits. The one exception is the bonus room in a bonus room in Oil Drum Alley.
@ yes all true, which is really unfortunate bc having to jump into the wall with Diddy is just weird! It’s so strange, these days some might even say “nice try, Diddy!”
If DKC taunted you anything then: always check left first. This can be used for modern Games too. DKC Returns and Tropical Freeze has Secrets right at the beginning. But well, any causal would not care about 100% in a Game anyway. But at least you know, there are still Secrets Barrels hidden in the Level if the "!" is not seen on the Level Name. The hidden Warp Barrels to skip Levels are a whole other Story. It's funny for me, since the first one is in the Mine Cart Level and i know alot of ppl can not beat this until i showed them the Warp Barrel after jumping over the first Barrel into the pit (down left)
I could’ve sworn “at the stop and go station” you were going to say the secret were you literally have to back track at the beginning of the level, just go left instead of right, which leading you to the very end of the stage
@ ah, that’s true… you make a great point, there’s several of those crazy short cuts that are insane to find as well, but don’t actually count as a bonus level to earn the exclamation mark, or for your record in the beginning screen.
There’s so many cool secrets and shortcuts in DKC that don’t give completion credit, even some obscure KONG letter placements that I didn’t know about until recently. The next top 10 is about the kong letters, and to your point I think a video about short cuts & warps would be fantastic too!
@ that would be so awesome brother, thank you I can’t wait to see those videos, because I’ve also completed the credit to *101 but I’ve always felt that there’s still tricks and secrets that I have missed.
I just started video, but I really hope your video finally explains why I was never able to find all the secrets in the second tree top town level (snow). I’ve ran that map hundreds and hundreds of times jumping into every last inch of that map over and over
Were you possibly missing one you need the frog for? I don’t remember having a big problem with that one… I think it has hints like bananas near its couple of blast barrels…
@ I’m telling you. I’ve played through it hundreds of times, dropped off every ledge, went under every platform, jumped into every area above the map so many times. It’s a great mystery to me
@ I hear ya, man! I mean I played through 101% 3 times just for this video to weigh how everything felt… the stage you’re talking about is called Rope Bridge Rumble. Search that name and bonus rooms, you’ll see them. Maybe you’re missing the one that you need to jump up out of screen near a couple bananas with the frog and tire, but I never had issues with that stage! Let me know after you watch which one you were missing, now I’m curious!
@ I will check. And I really wonder if my copy of the game was bugged or something. As in not giving me the ! Beside the name even though it was completed. Or the barrel not being there. Because even when I was younger, I was definitely crafty enough to figure it out sooner or later unless it was something out of my control
16:25 my favorite, requires a little logic to find out, but i dont know if is your version, but when I throw the barrel the new door just opened, and I run in , try other versions os the game , even on gbc I did it normally
The clue for the Ropey Rampage barrel is that the cliff you shoot into has steps above it. So if you make your way onto the cliff the normal way you are encouraged to jump down a little further on the left and discover the banana trail. That should be enough to prompt you to jump down earlier between the palm trees and even if you don't get it the first time, you'll see the barrel you need to jump into for next time. On the same note, if you found this bonus room, you would have the knowledge that you can shoot yourself into a wall to find a hidden entrance, which you could then use in Barrel Blast Canyon to figure out its secret as well.
I feel like these impossible to find hidden rooms in DKC1 makes DKC2 the better game for me. That game has a lot of bonus rooms but they're all fair - if you keep an eye out for bananas and things that look out of place then you will eventually find all bonuses.
Some are very tricky without much of an on screen hint in DKC2 too, though Cranky Kong at least gives you hints for a couple coins! Something that stands out to me about DKC1 is its uniquely raw environment and the couple weather progressions, also the day to night transitions… so classic.
There’s a very fine line between handholding and basically zero indication, DKC has at least 80-90% pretty fair or intuitive hints! They laid out clues often, then there were a handful that just didn’t have any clues at all lol
15:45 as a 3-4 year old in the 90s I found this. What seems unintuitive today was really natural as a kid lol. Didn’t have other media to turn to, so you explored a lot in the levels, doing ridiculous things cause why not? I feel like I suddenly understand the Minecraft and Roblox kids 🤣🤣. One more thing: in one of the earlier ostrich levels (maybe the first one), if you got back to the start of the stage from a high point, you can make it over the starting wall and do a bonus stage that gives you tons of 1-ups, so going back to the start is kind of hinted at in more than one stage.
@@EzBz982 fantastic find! There’s absolutely no doubt that being a little kid with nothing else to do could result in doing things that don’t really make any sense! It’s the only level where you return to the beginning in such a weird way, I mean the first level in the game lets you go back into his house that you’re right next to, you can also go left in Stop & Go Station for a shortcut, and you do find Expresso by going left at the beginning of a snow level… all of these pale in comparison to a long backtrack with zero hints; we can try to make sense of these things after we found it, but it’s just insanity. A lot of these WOULD make sense with just a banana or kong letter, otherwise it’s just a massive guessing game! Appreciate you watching & commenting!
I found out not too long ago that there's a reward of sorts beating the game with 101% under an hour and some change. Cranky hints at it, and i always thought he was just running his mouth.
@@jeffcox6539 this sounds like a myth! What’s the reward… don’t cliff hanger us like that, I’ve beaten it in under an hour without dying but didn’t 101% during that.
@MarMaxGaming so I looked it up and you don't have to beat it with 101% after all, you just beat it with one life under an hour. The reward is just Cranky praising you.
@ I have a video on the channel of beating it in under an hour only using 1 life, and Cranky’s dialogue didn’t change at all. He still says that he could beat it in under an hour just using 1 life, so unfortunately that doesn’t seem to be true. I beat it in about 56 minutes, it was uploaded a few years ago if you want to see for yourself!
@@aussie114 surprisingly… all ropes that hang over solid rock do go right over the top of them! #7 by accident sounds like the best bet to find that one haha
@@MarMaxGaming oh true you're 100% right. I just replayed the level and you don't even see that the rope goes all the way to the top like that unless you actually go for the secret anyway and the rope is functional it takes you down to a DK barrel. Truly sinister.
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You literally listed every secret I’ve never been able to find.
This one is always super nostalgic to play. The music lives rent free in my head!
As it should, David Wise is a genius.
I totally agree with #1. It took me several hours of searching before I gave up and needed to use a manual.
However, I miss cryptic stuff like that in games.
Great video!!!🏆
Through A LOT of trial and error I found ALL bonus rooms myself in the game EXCEPT number 1 on the list!!!
There was absolutely NO WAY I EVER was going to find that bonus within a bonus I had to find it with assistance from probably the internet, (I can't remember what outside source, think it was the internet). I first got all bonus rooms on GBA remake version before the SNES version.
Great video mate on one of my favourite video games of all time!!!👍🏻
These rooms were made explicitly to be used alongside guides, which were super popular at the time. Ain't no way this wasn't intended to boost the sales of the Nintendo Power Consoles Plus Joypad and consorts.
I can't believe there were still this many secrets bonuses to find. Out of this list, I only found 7, 5, 4, and 1 myself. This makes me wanna go back and play DKC all over again.
How did you find number 1?
@sneeze7652 It was kinda luck. I missed the balloon on the first of the 3, so I figured I'd go ahead and get the banana. When I got the barrel, I threw it at the wall like most would. The 2nd time I jumped to the wall because I normally do that when I use Diddy Kong anyways, and ended up getting into the 2nd room.
I need to go back and play this again!!
it’s crazy cause i think ppl today underestimate just how it felt playing games in the 90s w controllers like we had. most of these were easily found by mistake. simply missing the barrel cause ur laughing so hard w the homies that u accidentally miss the barrel or walk off stage, or shoot into something by accident revealing the secret rooms. none of this at all is any i didn’t know about, & all i stumbled upon from playing dk a trillion times
I remember when I was a kid and accidentally stumbling upon the secret at the end of Trick Track Trek. I used that area to farm so many 3-ups :D
This was a really well-done video, covering all of the examples thoroughly by giving an overview of each level and the other bonus rooms hidden within them. You definitely covered the examples that took me the longest to find back when I played this game, and it was neat to realize that your #1 was going to be the same as mine.
I played Oil Drum Alley so many times trying to get that last exclamation point. I'm kind of amazed that I somehow stumbled upon it. Putting a bonus room inside another bonus room seems to break all of the rules, and it's crazy how you had to do a series of things you'd do nowhere else in the game:
1. Match the 3 barrels to win the worst prize (I'm pretty sure I just jumped too late to get the 1-Up balloon one time, and then I figured "might as well try to at least get the 1 banana, since that's the best I can do")
2. Notice that instead of giving you a banana, it gives you a barrel.
3. Hopefully you're playing as Diddy so that you can check the wall quickly enough. (At that point, I was trying to use Diddy everywhere because it's the best way to check all surfaces for hidden doors.)
4. Realize that you remain in control of your character for just long enough to enter the door before the celebration sequence runs. (You had to really be paying attention to notice it, but the "winning" and "losing" sequences aren't just animations; they actually move your characters around-- I discovered this in one of the levels where the characters do the "losing" sequence if you miss the platform you're supposed to be riding. Diddy can throw his hat off a cliff, then jump in after it and die!)
The forest frenzy room I found when I had a sick day as a kid, as soon as my brother got home, I was so excited to show him. Loved exploring the game as a kid.
I knew about #8 and #6. I thought for sure I would have known more on your list; I've played this have a fair amount. But the rest were all new to me, including the honorable mentions. Good video!
Something to note is that the GBA version does make some bonus barrels more visible like the one thats hidden underneath a bunch of vultures
Those top three are DEFINITELY there to sell guides, NP magazines, or the old infamous 1-900 line on the back of the manual.
What an amazing video. So well made and full of details. Thank you for sharing
Donkey Kong Country 2 has similar problems with invisible walls and unintuitive locations. There were 3 coins and 2 bonus rooms I could never find until I stumbled upon a guide in a thrift shop (this was before the internet was everywhere).
@@spoonflaps12 we will make Top 10s for DKC 2 & 3 as well! Glad you finally got your hands on a guide, that’s awesome.
I think DKC2 fixes this in general, there were a few hard to find but it can be done without a guide.
@@bengens6070 the big difference maker with DKC2 is at least you can use tokens to buy hints, so you’re not totally blind out there!
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Can you do a TOP 10 Hardest to find Cranky Kong's DK Coins in DKC2?
@@kwepc90thespeedrunner33 yes, we will do top 10s for the hidden bonus rooms and big DK coins on DKC2 & DKC3. Also planning to do a top 10 hardest levels without DK barrels or checkpoint for the whole trilogy.
Another awesome list, my friend. I was definitely certain about what number 1 and 2 would be, though I was surprised to see the one where you go over the ceiling in Elevator Antics to be on the lower end. That one stumped me quite a lot; up to that point the game had been training you to find some of these more cheeky bonus rooms by taking leaps of faith into pits, misfiring with blast barrels, backtracking or just peeling your eyes for hidden barrels. The idea that you have to get on top of the ceiling in an area that is using those bee enemies to discourage such an act is simply something that would never occur to me based on what has been taught. Especially with how the visuals wouldn't lead you to believe you could go on top of there. I'm fairly certain that there isn't any other moment in the game where it incentivizes walking on the ceiling in what feels like an out of bounds area. I just don't think it's as cleanly conveyed as the secret warp zone in 1-2 of Super Mario Bros for example. I'd personally rank it at number 4, but that's just me. Everything else feels spot on. A lot of fun to watch and to listen to your points. Seeing the awesome visual and sound effect you put in with the thumbnail in the title card is always a treat!
@@dogeyes9038 thanks man, I appreciate that a lot! I totally get what you’re saying, it gets kinda packed toward the top but I could certainly see moving it up 2 to 3 spots! I didn’t mean anything by the 6 ranking, it was a thick list of “what in the world?!” moments so I didn’t mean to snub any of them! Appreciate your comment and I definitely see where you’re coming from with how uniquely weird that one is!
I just thought of 3 bees might lead to freebies.
@@MoxHypKa haha they have 3 bees in a lot of places, but that is clever!
The famous bonus room within a bonus room trick… 😅
Very good vid. This explains a lot from my childhood, finally closure. That #1 is truly crazy. Can you do DKC2 next? Those aren’t as bad but there are some tricky ones
Lines of cut dialogue in the game have Cranky give hints about many of these, but in the end only hints about bonuses in the first world were kept
I remember my brother finding the 1-banana barrel on his own, and seeing you could break the wall, but we never figured out you had to jump into the wall with it with diddy.
This is exactly the video I expected from you about the DKC bonus levels. I hope we see more Donkey Kong videos in the future, as well as Banjo-Kazooie ones !
I played this game so much as a kid that I found these by dumb luck and sheer determination without a guide. The one in tanked up trouble was the last one I found.
Oil Drum Alley: the arrow on the closed door gave me an idea that something else was there. I tried it multiple times until I got it figured out without having to use a help guide. I’ve never been able to get Donkey Kong to actually get into that next bonus room.
I agree with your #1 pick though, as that was my first thought as #1 before watching your video. Oil Drum Alley is my favorite level in this game, also. Good info and video, overall.
I had to look for a strategy guide online to be able to get the 101% after years of playing the game since I was a boy, the most I could get on my own was around 85% I think. Cool video.
Wow. I was almost sure that the Expresso backtracking one in Urangutang Gang would have been the No1!!
But no!!! I have completely locked the bonus room within a bonus room out of my memory!!!
@13:00 the other problem with that, is if you think the fuel explodes, you still don't go down, you try to hop to the right to bounce off the bird
I think the first bonus room in Ropey Rampage actually has very slight hint to it: If you pass it and leap over the gap with rope, the ledge where you land on has couple of steps on its left side. If you descend those steps, you can see the long trail of bananas ending to the wall. Of course it's not the most obvious hint it doesn't tell you the exact location of the barrel and the player may not look for a hint from a place that looks like almost obvious deathtrap.
In my opinion, the first bonus room in Barrel Cannon Canyon is weirdly intuitive. It's pretty much unique situation to have barrel facing towards a wall and thus it has great potential for ''what if?'' moment. When I was younger, I had that exact moment when I got to that part the first time.
Regarding the Oil Drum Alley, it's the only level with 4 bonus rooms due the bonus room within bonus room. Funnily enough, the game itself has an another very vague hint for that particular room: The room with a barrel mini-game has two arrow signs, both of them pointing right and thus at the right wall. But like I said, it's very vague and really doesn't help players to realize what they need to do.
I think the most interesting part about getting into that cryptic bonus room is that it may be an oversight from developers. This is just my theory, but I believe the reason why the winning animation is triggered when throwing the barrel on the wall is because how barrel mini-game rooms work: When the barrel is broken, no matter if you break the wall or not, the game thinks you've collected the prize from the bonus room, thus triggering the animation and sending you out. But that trigger only activates when playable Kong touches the ground, so breaking the wall while jumping against it works because then you will land on the transition hitbox which apparently takes priority over the victory animation and lets the Kong(s) into the next room.
a few of these took me over a decade to find. I was that person jumping in random pits, driven mad by the lack hints as in dkc2 and 3
This and DKC2 were games made with love and passion. Something we`ll never see again these days.
Excellent video! Number 1 is insane.
Will you do this for DKC 2 as well?
Appreciate you watching & commenting again, my friend! Yes, going to do a few more Top 10s of the trilogy. Also going to rank the levels in difficulty with the less capable/forgiving Kong, no checkpoints, no animal pals… similar to the zero power ups / no yoshi / no checkpoints Super Mario World video I made last month. So it’ll be DK in the the first, Diddy in the 2nd, and Kiddy in the 3rd. These take a while to make, but yes we have a whole lot of them ahead!
@ looking forward to these 🙌
I've found a few of these in the past (mostly by dumb luck) but I don't think I've ever found any in the top 5. That #1 spot is seriously diabolical. (Crazy part is, there's even an arrow pointing right to show you that you're supposed to keep going, but then have to question yourself as to how you're supposed to do that.)
It's been a long time since I played dkc so I don't remember which of these that you pointed out on your list that I found. I mean I've definitely found a whole bunch of the other ones you described leading up to the ones you made on this list in each level, but my goodness the one at number one is just insane. I can't believe they thought that was a good idea.
I love the dkc games, but I kid you not the only one I ever got all the bonus rooms in was dkc3. Yes dkc3 is the only one that I've completed everything and I mean every single thing in. All the bonus coins, all the DK coins, and all the banana birds. But the other games I could not do that
Definitly in the Factory was the Most difficult Bonus Room to find. It was a secret Bonus Room in the Bonus Room. (Bonus Inception??) This was unbelivable who can be so outsmarted to think about that. For me definitly the hardest Bonus to find from all three Original Donkey Kong Parts. Great Video and thank You for this. :-) EDIT the Important Note: I wrote this Comment before watching the Video to the End ;-)
the ostrich one seems random but a lot of us tried exploring stages too 😂😂 wishing they were open world. u find the secret room the first level by tryna break the bottom or walk back into the treehouse. ppl just tried this for no reason. we tried to run through plenty of walls w barrels after the first was discovered.
The #1 in your top 10 list is the ONLY bonus I didn't get during my original playthrough when I was a kid. I had found literally every single other bonus room (The one in Tanked up Trouble was criminal, but I just found it out of dumb luck, always had too many lives to spare thanks to them being so grindable). The worst part is I did suspect something was amiss because I played the level many times finding nothing else hidden, and I noticed there was a second arrow in the bonus room, something no other room had. But how in the hell was I suppossed to know 3 single bananas would net me a throwable barrel! I had no access to the internet at the time as well, so once I did you could imagine my reaction I had to knowing that I was onto something, but I couldn't figure it out on my own.
The 3 single bananas for a barrel is diabolical!! And requiring a jump into the wall is just icing on the cake… you did fantastic to get 100% all on your own, should be proud of that!
This game spoiled me on future gaming. I look at newer games and say, "that'd be a nice spot for a secret." 90% of the time i find nothing, except a bewildered look from a developer asking how I got there.
I clicked because I was curious what criteria would decide the ordering.
Apparently it's "top 10 unfairly secret bonus rooms"! 😅
That top one really was something, I couldn't get 100% on release year.
I appreciate you watching! It’s like a ranking of the most secretive. So they’re the top 10 secret because they really are the biggest secrets!
Yeah! It's like DKC was part of the transition from old trolly DOS games to modern design.
...And I was about to say something about DKC2 but some of the DK coins in there are monstrous.
I found like 5 of them including the ostrich one due to exploring it as a kid.
Barrel canyon due to a mistake and the one up the screen due to jumping too high.
Rest of them are impossible lol, second level one you eventually see bananas so you catch it. Same with the snow one.
I recall getting the forest one with the ropes as a kid but thinking I misremembered it due to never finding it again.
Number 7 i knew and idk why but made sense to me as a kid.
Nr 6 i got randomly as i always jumped high :D
And i guess im a psycho because i knew about nr 1.
The arrow in the bonus room made me test put all reward combinations to see what that arrow means.
The jump i just tried on my 2nd attempt after the first being a kick out haha
besides the blind jumps, I held the barrel with diddy and walked around, and that helped me find most of them
I found all of these as a kid, though admittedly it was not something I managed in only a few runs. I'll list what I recall from back then.
The Stop Go Station - The bananas give it away as you say, found this one without too much trouble.
Forest Frenzy - I just noticed when playing so I didn't know people had issue with it.
Platform Perils - This I remember annoying me a lot as a kid, you know the bonus is there, so you keep banging your head against it trying to figure it out. I eventually thought "there must be a blast barrel offscreen that sends you to it." so started losing lives with leaps of faith, did eventually find the platform though.
Barrel Cannon Canyon - Found by accident from missing the barrel shot.
Elevator Antics - Another I found my accident. I would usually jump up offscreen when playing.
The Ropey Rampage - There is actually a hint sort of, and that is the lack of an "N" in the main level, so you know a secret area exists, and that it's somewhere between the O and G.
Snow Barrel Blast - I think I found by accident since I hit the zinger and was a retard and just fell instead of trying to jump back in the barrel and was like "oh a secret!"
Tanked Up Trouble - This was the last one I found, I remember spending so many lives doing leaps of faith hoping to find it. By far the hardest for me to find.
Urang-utan Gang - I don't remember struggling with these, but I did a lot of backtracking in games in general when I was younger, so that might be why.
Temple Tempest - This I found pretty easy just since I always carried barrels to walls "just in case" and it payed off many times.
Mine Cart Madness - An easy find since I jumped non-stop in the mine-cart levels as a kid lol.
Trick-Track-Trek - Not too bad by this point I kid of learned "check what's below"
The Oil Drum Ally - This one is quite weird and cruel on the devs part tbh, but they do give a hint by putting an arrow in the background, I remember trying the one banana thing after seeing the arrow. It's stupid, but it doesn't require leaps of faith and you can get back in the bonus pretty easy since it's early in the level, so it's kind of a 9.5/10 instead of a 10/10 (Unlike the tanked up trouble one for kid-me)
I hope you do this for DKC 2, 3, Returns, and Tropical Freeze!
Me too, great video. Love all DK, new subscriber to this channel
I found the majority of these in casual playthroughs. I think this is proof the devs did a great job
The majority of them are totally realistic and fair to find! Some require a bit more than that, including luck or blind attempts!
I found like 6 of them due to playing way too much as a kid but honestly the 1 banana one is insane and the jump to certain doom ones are very unlikely to be found but they do happen I found the one in the forest with the ropes as a kid but thought it was a bug.
I got 101% in this game one time and never again, I did have to just jump offscreen everywhere possible in tanked up trouble to find that one, and assume the start and end of every level might have one under it. without the ! indication this challenge would have been impossible for me, nice work showing the most obscure ones.
I remember figuring out #1 in the same way, the only indication is the arrow always points to breakable walls and it's the only bonus room that has one on both sides
@@JetWolfEX very nice job with the completion, seriously… some of them are absurdly hard to find.
I will accept the arrow as a great hint, the two parts where it completely loses me is getting a barrel for 3 bananas. If they could show a barrel on its own, and if you don’t have to jump to leave, I’m in love with the idea… the 3 bananas and jumping are insane… thank you for watching & commenting! There will be more DKC videos like this in the near future.
Happy Birthday Donkey Kong Country 🎂
Wow doing 101 on all three files to make this list definitely helps show these are certainly the top 10. A lot of these seem like they only would reward making mistakes to see them/accidentally fall into them. So much off-screen makes it seem ridiculous. #1 is most definitely ridiculous though like come on "what are these rules?" for real
There’s a bonus stage before the game starts. It’s where they show the grandpa you have to enter in a code and it takes you to a bonus room
This just blow away my mind.
4:19 I always struggled with this bonus room, until I learned that you can set barrels down and just jump on the enemies, then pick the barrel back up
@@MilordoZ95 so true, setting a barrel back down is a very underutilized move. Great tip!
For the final secret, Donkey Kong can jump into the wall with the barrel just fine.
@@MrEvilbyte that’s what I get for not trying it the basic way first. There’s so many walls that he doesn’t break while walking right into them!
About #10: one info is missing why it's even a but harder: you can only access the room with Donkey, not with Diddy (I tried it coupla days ago)
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Awesome video, waiting for DKC 2 version.
Now I know every bonus room location by heart!
FYI, if you see an exclamation mark at the end of every level name, it means you've completed it 100% i.e. finding all bonus rooms wherever possible!
However, some levels have no bonus rooms at all.
@@user-rs1990 awesome! And yes, the water levels specifically don’t have any, although they kind of do with bonus bananas, 1ups, and enguarde through some walls… just none that depart from the stage and count for completion %!
I see donkey Kong uploads i sub I still remember all the secret stuff from my childhood
I vaguely remember getting the snow barrel blast one by accident because I was playing on a TV with lag and missed so bad going up and forward and held back to try and save myself
When I first saw Tanked Up Trouble, I thought the Fuel barrels would explode if touched. I jumped over the first one and then stayed on the platform because I had no idea what it would do when the lights ran out. There ya go, bonus level. 😅
That sounds exactly like how it would have to go, seriously! Haha I’m glad you found it!
This game looks like the wild animal park in temecula california
Great vid! In Ropey Rampage, there's a set of steps on the rocky wall off the ledge that if you jump down, you can see the trail of bananas, which I suppose could be a hint or indicator to the player. Also yeah, jumping towards the exit in Oil Drum Alley with DK works just fine, just as it does with Diddy.
@@mattdog1000000 thank you! I never saw those bananas before, I must’ve passed by quickly while jumping or something. Also, when you say “works just fine” that wasn’t the case for me, he doesn’t have front collision with the barrel like Diddy… tried to illustrate that with the footage, so the earliest active hitbox is behind him, and I still touched the floor! What a bizarre scenario! I appreciate you watching and commenting
@@MarMaxGaming It has worked every time I've tried it just now... Are you holding right the whole time while jumping into the wall with the barrel? It just works when I try it.
Oh, I see what you've got wrong. You think DK can't break the wall by walking into it since it "appears" that he's not holding the barrel in front of him. But, that's not the case, DK will still break walls by walking into them, the only issue is some walls in other stages are too low for the hit box to be detected. In this case though, it is not too low, DK can walk (or in this unique case, jump) into the wall by just moving forward. No need to drop the barrel, no need to throw it from a distance, no need for any other trick. Just jump into the wall while holding the barrel the same way you would with Diddy Kong. It works.
@@mattdog1000000 haha c’mon Matt, it’s beyond the fact he’s holding it above his head, or that it “appears” this way… you should know that as a player - it’s the fact he literally doesn’t break walls on vast majority of the levels while walking into them. I’ve pressed him right into walls while he holds the barrel above his head and they don’t break - but apparently there are some select walls taller where it works, and this is one of those rare cases. Pretty mind blowing trivia! Funny how trends that we see over many years of playing don’t end up being the entire answer, would’ve been good to show here!
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@@MarMaxGaming Haha, I actually walk into a lot of enemies and walls with DK while he's holding a barrel! You wouldn't think it'd act as a frontwards shield, but in many cases it does, just as it does with Diddy!! But also, yeah, most breakable walls are too short for it to work, lol... Dang game!! I love it!
I remember participating in Blockbuster's Donkey Kong competition. I jumped off a ledge, where a bonus barrel should have been, and I just died.
@@jwill7998 haha are they not included in the competition cart? Or are you saying it felt as though one should’ve been there…
@MarMaxGaming
Yes, the bonuses weren't there. There's actually roms of the competition cart on the internet. They usually make their way onto Chinese handhelds, in place of the actual game.
I did find #1 on my own. I don't like the animal bonus rooms because they only waste time and put you back at the start or halfway point of the level, and being somewhat of a pessimist, will sometimes try and get the worst reward. (Or maybe I missed and got a banana first and just decided to go for it, I don't remember.) So I was in the first bonus room and matched all 3 bananas. Instead of getting one banana, I got a barrel. I thought it was sort or weird, but then I threw it into the wall and saw it break. So I went back and got it for real.
Also, if you simply put a barrel down as Donkey Kong it will break walls, so you can easily do it as him too.
I feel like this is trolling gaming design. These types of secrets require a guide and that just takes away from finding them. Either that or get incredibly lucky finding out. I never knew about any of these 😅
I never found them all, but oddly enough, I did stumble into the hardest one by myself. I believe I accidentally got the banana and just said "oh well, I'll practice my matching for next time." When I won a barrel, the arrow sign made it obvious what to do. I must have had Diddy, and just walked it into the wall.
@@zacthebold5136 very nice! Although I believe walking into the wall wouldn’t work, it seems to kick you out… maybe you jumped? But either way that’s awesome!
Lol. I actually found that secret in Tanked Up Trouble without guessing, but that was because that first oil barrel was *so* obvious to pick up I figured they'd probably hide a secret by letting the fuel run out there, which also told me how to find the Platform Peril secret on this list because doing creative suicide was a thing the game would do.
@@Harley_Mitchelly that’s good detective work! yeah I mean if you’re ignoring the things they’re incentivizing you to get, it all makes perfect sense
@@MarMaxGaming It wasn't just that it was there, but that you could not help but collect it unless you actively tried to avoid it. Rare being Rare, I figured this was a secret of the, "Do not do the obviously good thing," variety. They're out there in other games.
@ yeah they’re a cheeky crew, no doubt about that! We’ve looked at a good amount at some of their games like Goldeneye, Blast Corps, Diddy Kong Racing, DKC2, and Battletoads… speaking of crazy design, have you played Battletoads? We’ve done some challenges with that one, even beating it on 2 player. I also tried to do a wellness challenge with it and almost beat the game while jogging 6 miles, it’s become one of my favorites over the years.
People forget: Cranky's entire purpose was to hint at these things. I seem to remember him telling me specifically about the Ropey Rampage secret. (#5)
@@MisterH37 that’s a great point, he unfortunately doesn’t drop as helpful hints later in the game!
speaking of secrets: if you walk back where diddy & donkey kong came from at 2:01 you will find a hidden level skip.
I don't really remember the thing about getting kicked out of the bonus room if you throw it at the wall in Oil Drum Alley. I wonder if this was patched on later revisions.
Ironically enough, when I played this as a child, I found the first drop off barrel by accident by mistiming my jump and that led me to find the second barrel at the end of the level. (Ropey Rampage)
Being very young and bad at the game allowed me to find many of these by accident
I like how the first game did it best. They were there but weren't required to get to play all the levels. 😎
Hey, great video!
I love finding secrets and these unfairly hidden ones make DKC the worst in the trilogy for me. Also the fact that they don't actually reward you with anything too exciting.
I actually managed to find almost all of them blind when I played the game for the first time when it came out in NSO. I found the one in the oil stage completely accidentally. I was zooming through the stage trying to find the bonus when I accidentally got into the bonus stage I had already found. In my hurry I just bumbed into the barrels as quickly as I could just to get out and the barrel came out! But still I couldn't do anything with it so I figured something weird was going on. So I searched a bit and found out that it was bugged and if your Kong's feet were touching the ground the game thought you completed the bonus and threw you out. You are ok if you throw the barrel from afar, just be sure that your feet are not touching the ground when it breaks the wall.
Anyway, the only one I never found was the fuel one. Had to look it up.
@@kostas999666 I really appreciate your comment! I must admit that the original DKC has a soft spot for me, I love its atmosphere in a lot of stages and it has some unique things going on with it… but I love the other 2 as well, they’re amazing, I love the whole trilogy a lot.
Enjoyed reading your hunt for them all! There will be more DKC videos coming up, including top 10s on the sequels!
Somehow I found them all myself back then without any guides or internet :)
When I realized an exclamation mark hinted at the completion rate, it was easier. For all three DK games.
I also spent a lot of time figuring out fatalities and ultimates and ultras and humiliations in KI 😁
Luckily, experience from MK games helped:)
@@gauwoof very nice job, seriously! The experimentation phases must been out of control… which levels did you fling yourself off the edge the most? What took the most time? And at what point did the 3 matching bananas for a barrel come to you? More DKC videos are coming, sounds like you’ll enjoy those too! Also wow, figuring out fighting moves without any instructions sounds pretty tedious and insane! If you want some hardcore Rareware action, we beat Battletoads on 2 player on original NES. Now that’s hardcore too!
Awesome list! Always wanted to know how to get that CC barrel…
Random question, but in Goldeneye 64 multiplayer where is the hidden (secondary, I.e. AR34 if you choose mines) weapon spot in stack?
It has honestly bugged me for years and years.
The one in Forest Frenzy is extra cruel, because CRTs at the time often cut off a few pixels on the edges.
@@MrBeknacktoman that’s a great point, and when it’s just a sliver of brown on a brown background… pretty darn hard to see.
Nintendo and other companies do this to make you buy their official guides. I remember playing Breath of the Wild and having to refer to guides online, because they would be next to impossible to find without help.
If im not mistaken, the oil drum alley one is the only bonus room where its a wall on the right and just not an open exit. That could be the clue.
@@MysticMike yes that’s a good clue, with the arrow there too… but the weird part is single bananas getting you a barrel, that’s not how the mini game works anywhere else so it’s very bizarre!
If im right, the last bonus only works 1 time a savefile. So 25 years ago, after one try i couldn't do it again, which is mad.
@@sunnydays341 I’ve heard that before! I did access it multiple times for this video, maybe it’s until you screw up the letters? I didn’t have to redo any of the 3 save files for it, thankfully!
As long as you gain access to the bonus room, itll count to the 101%. You dont need to win or finish, as some of the bonus levels have no exit except for bottomless pits. The one exception is the bonus room in a bonus room in Oil Drum Alley.
@ yes all true, which is really unfortunate bc having to jump into the wall with Diddy is just weird! It’s so strange, these days some might even say “nice try, Diddy!”
If DKC taunted you anything then: always check left first. This can be used for modern Games too. DKC Returns and Tropical Freeze has Secrets right at the beginning. But well, any causal would not care about 100% in a Game anyway.
But at least you know, there are still Secrets Barrels hidden in the Level if the "!" is not seen on the Level Name.
The hidden Warp Barrels to skip Levels are a whole other Story. It's funny for me, since the first one is in the Mine Cart Level and i know alot of ppl can not beat this until i showed them the Warp Barrel after jumping over the first Barrel into the pit (down left)
I could’ve sworn “at the stop and go station” you were going to say the secret were you literally have to back track at the beginning of the level, just go left instead of right, which leading you to the very end of the stage
@@MrToast-rz4rq that is an awesome shortcut, but funny enough it doesn’t count as a hidden bonus room. Same with the shortcut on mine cart carnage
@ ah, that’s true… you make a great point, there’s several of those crazy short cuts that are insane to find as well, but don’t actually count as a bonus level to earn the exclamation mark, or for your record in the beginning screen.
There’s so many cool secrets and shortcuts in DKC that don’t give completion credit, even some obscure KONG letter placements that I didn’t know about until recently. The next top 10 is about the kong letters, and to your point I think a video about short cuts & warps would be fantastic too!
@ that would be so awesome brother, thank you I can’t wait to see those videos, because I’ve also completed the credit to *101 but I’ve always felt that there’s still tricks and secrets that I have missed.
I just started video, but I really hope your video finally explains why I was never able to find all the secrets in the second tree top town level (snow).
I’ve ran that map hundreds and hundreds of times jumping into every last inch of that map over and over
Were you possibly missing one you need the frog for? I don’t remember having a big problem with that one… I think it has hints like bananas near its couple of blast barrels…
@ I’m telling you. I’ve played through it hundreds of times, dropped off every ledge, went under every platform, jumped into every area above the map so many times. It’s a great mystery to me
@ I hear ya, man! I mean I played through 101% 3 times just for this video to weigh how everything felt… the stage you’re talking about is called Rope Bridge Rumble. Search that name and bonus rooms, you’ll see them. Maybe you’re missing the one that you need to jump up out of screen near a couple bananas with the frog and tire, but I never had issues with that stage! Let me know after you watch which one you were missing, now I’m curious!
@ I will check. And I really wonder if my copy of the game was bugged or something. As in not giving me the ! Beside the name even though it was completed. Or the barrel not being there. Because even when I was younger, I was definitely crafty enough to figure it out sooner or later unless it was something out of my control
@@Pop_Shepski double check how many you’ve grabbed vs the footage of a complete run, need to verify!
Ah, time to add this to my collection of obscure retro game information. I was a big fan of DKC2 and didnt play 1 and 3 much
@@SteamedSam 2 & 3 will be coming too!
B - A - R - R - A - L during the game selection screen and you start with 50 lives.
16:25 my favorite, requires a little logic to find out, but i dont know if is your version, but when I throw the barrel the new door just opened, and I run in , try other versions os the game , even on gbc I did it normally
It must’ve been fixed to be a little easier on gbc… I’m not sure if 3 bananas earning a barrel is logical, but it’s certainly what happens.
The clue for the Ropey Rampage barrel is that the cliff you shoot into has steps above it. So if you make your way onto the cliff the normal way you are encouraged to jump down a little further on the left and discover the banana trail. That should be enough to prompt you to jump down earlier between the palm trees and even if you don't get it the first time, you'll see the barrel you need to jump into for next time.
On the same note, if you found this bonus room, you would have the knowledge that you can shoot yourself into a wall to find a hidden entrance, which you could then use in Barrel Blast Canyon to figure out its secret as well.
I simply cant imagine today, how i managed to do this as a kid of 12y old back in 94
I feel like these impossible to find hidden rooms in DKC1 makes DKC2 the better game for me. That game has a lot of bonus rooms but they're all fair - if you keep an eye out for bananas and things that look out of place then you will eventually find all bonuses.
Some are very tricky without much of an on screen hint in DKC2 too, though Cranky Kong at least gives you hints for a couple coins! Something that stands out to me about DKC1 is its uniquely raw environment and the couple weather progressions, also the day to night transitions… so classic.
12:32 That one I had the most trouble finding.
Yup. Games of today suffer from "yellow paint" where every secret is hinted at with yellow paint or looks suspiciously different in some kind of way.
There’s a very fine line between handholding and basically zero indication, DKC has at least 80-90% pretty fair or intuitive hints! They laid out clues often, then there were a handful that just didn’t have any clues at all lol
number 4 has a hint with the kong barrel that make a noise when you only have 1 kong
@@KonejoKush the snow barrel blast barrel makes a noise, the one below you?? How would you know it’s beneath you?
number 1 one feels like some sort of easter egg never meant to be found
If half of this list isn’t the entirety of Orangutan Gang or the infamous Oil Drum Alley I’ll stand hanging
@@Fruitman1997 haha both are included, I don’t think you’ll be disappointed :)
15:45 as a 3-4 year old in the 90s I found this. What seems unintuitive today was really natural as a kid lol. Didn’t have other media to turn to, so you explored a lot in the levels, doing ridiculous things cause why not? I feel like I suddenly understand the Minecraft and Roblox kids 🤣🤣.
One more thing: in one of the earlier ostrich levels (maybe the first one), if you got back to the start of the stage from a high point, you can make it over the starting wall and do a bonus stage that gives you tons of 1-ups, so going back to the start is kind of hinted at in more than one stage.
@@EzBz982 fantastic find! There’s absolutely no doubt that being a little kid with nothing else to do could result in doing things that don’t really make any sense! It’s the only level where you return to the beginning in such a weird way, I mean the first level in the game lets you go back into his house that you’re right next to, you can also go left in Stop & Go Station for a shortcut, and you do find Expresso by going left at the beginning of a snow level… all of these pale in comparison to a long backtrack with zero hints; we can try to make sense of these things after we found it, but it’s just insanity. A lot of these WOULD make sense with just a banana or kong letter, otherwise it’s just a massive guessing game! Appreciate you watching & commenting!
I found out not too long ago that there's a reward of sorts beating the game with 101% under an hour and some change. Cranky hints at it, and i always thought he was just running his mouth.
@@jeffcox6539 this sounds like a myth! What’s the reward… don’t cliff hanger us like that, I’ve beaten it in under an hour without dying but didn’t 101% during that.
@MarMaxGaming so I looked it up and you don't have to beat it with 101% after all, you just beat it with one life under an hour. The reward is just Cranky praising you.
@ I have a video on the channel of beating it in under an hour only using 1 life, and Cranky’s dialogue didn’t change at all. He still says that he could beat it in under an hour just using 1 life, so unfortunately that doesn’t seem to be true. I beat it in about 56 minutes, it was uploaded a few years ago if you want to see for yourself!
The only secrets I could not find as a kid was the level warps that need Diddy or Donkey not sure how you would figure those out
@@kyleisreal_tv that would make for an interesting video too! Those are very obscure.
I’m 34 and till this day I know by memory all 75 Bonus coins and all 40 DK coins in DKC2 and DKC3
I knew instantly which was gonna be number 1
how the HELL would anyone ever find the last one lmao
I found number 7 by accident.
Number 6's hint is the rope that goes up through the solid rock.
@@aussie114 surprisingly… all ropes that hang over solid rock do go right over the top of them! #7 by accident sounds like the best bet to find that one haha
@@MarMaxGaming oh true you're 100% right. I just replayed the level and you don't even see that the rope goes all the way to the top like that unless you actually go for the secret anyway and the rope is functional it takes you down to a DK barrel. Truly sinister.
Bruh I can see why number one...is number one 😅🤣