{"id":245691,"date":"2024-07-20T01:05:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T01:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/20\/a-nifty-hack-made-mario-a-playable-character-in-1994s-donkey-kong-country\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:14:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:14:21","slug":"a-nifty-hack-made-mario-a-playable-character-in-1994s-donkey-kong-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/20\/a-nifty-hack-made-mario-a-playable-character-in-1994s-donkey-kong-country\/","title":{"rendered":"A nifty hack made Mario a playable character in 1994&#8217;s Donkey Kong Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Mario and Donkey Kong have been rivals, frenemies, go-kart competitors and tennis partners. The Italian plumber once kidnapped Donkey Kong\u2019s son. DK once, uh, took over Mario\u2019s toy company (?) and <a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/mario-vs-donkey-kong-is-an-odd-eye-catching-ode-to-simpler-times-171516524.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:stole a bunch of little figurines;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><\/a> for some reason. They have history. What they haven\u2019t done, however, is appear as playable characters in one another\u2019s platforming adventures. Thanks to a nifty bit of hacking, that just changed.<\/p>\n<p>Mario is a playable character in a <a data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WAqFF-_XH3s\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:hacked version of the SNES classic;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><\/a> <em>Donkey Kong Country<\/em>, due to a ROM programmer called RainbowSprinklez. It\u2019s appropriately named DKC X Mario and this is not a simple sprite swap. We wouldn\u2019t waste your time with that. Mario had to be completely engineered into the game, as his moveset doesn\u2019t exist in the original code. Donkey Kong is a lumbering beast. He doesn\u2019t spin around, double jump and carry items. Check out the video and prepare to be impressed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"caas-iframe-wrapper\" data-embed-anchor=\"e63c5884-08b7-58a1-b6db-172e0c60bc1c\">\n<div class=\"caas-iframe youtube\" style=\"padding-bottom:56%\" data-type=\"youtube\">\n<blockquote data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WAqFF-_XH3s?si=C8nAHRpsdX6axCN9\"><p><noscript><iframe title=\"DKC X Mario Trailer\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WAqFF-_XH3s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>This is a Mario that has been pulled from <em>Super Mario World<\/em>, with regard to both sprites and controls. There are mushrooms to make him grow, fire flowers and, of course, everyone\u2019s favorite dino-thingie Yoshi. Otherwise, this is <em>Donkey Kong Country<\/em>. The levels are the same. The enemies, consisting primarily of King K. Rool and his army of Kremlings, are the same. If you&#8217;re really familiar with the layout of the original DKC, this could be a way to breathe some new life into the ancient platformer.<\/p>\n<p>The music also looks to be altered, replacing the original tracks with songs from Mario, Zelda and Mega Man games. RainbowSprinklez wrote that the hack was &#8220;made for no other reason than I like Mario&#8221; in a document <a data-i13n=\"cpos:3;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/18rmtQjF1AWjeXNTq1qkt3EwBQC0yIunmiyU3IQN9kKQ\/edit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:released alongside the ROM;cpos:3;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><\/a>. You can download <a data-i13n=\"cpos:4;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.romhacking.net\/hacks\/8733\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:the whole thing right here;cpos:4;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">the whole thing right here<\/a> to give it a go, and this should probably be done sooner than later. Nintendo <a data-i13n=\"cpos:5;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2019-09-12-nintendo-sues-rom-website.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:isn\u2019t shy about sicking lawyers;cpos:5;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><\/a> on projects like this.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/a-nifty-hack-made-mario-a-playable-character-in-1994s-donkey-kong-country-164036806.html?src=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Mario and Donkey Kong have been rivals, frenemies, go-kart competitors and tennis partners. The Italian plumber once kidnapped Donkey Kong\u2019s son. DK once, uh,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":245692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}