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Donkey Kong Country 2: Brigand Barrage

Original game : Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest

Platform : SNES

Author : Mattrizzle

Release date : 01 January 2013

Category : Complete

Patch version : 1.4

Modifications : G, P

Downloads : 8232

ROM Information

Donkey Kong Country 2 - Diddy's Kong Quest (U) (V1.0) [!].smc - GOODSNES 2.04
CRC32: 006364DB
MD5: 98458530599B9DFF8A7414A7F20B777A
SHA-1: 3EC2035962918B5523D8B4745406F46F2A739B8D
SHA-256: 35421A9AF9DD011B40B91F792192AF9F99C93201D8D394026BDFB42CBF2D8633

Hack description

This is a boss rush hack similar to the hack Donkey Kong Country: Boss Blitz, also by the same hacker. Unlike DKC: Boss Blitz records are saved for each individual boss, as well as the total time. There is a options screen for changing various things such as starting Kong and team color.
It is also possible to play with a second player and fight a single boss.

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Contributions

ContributorType of contributionDescription
MattrizzleHacking

Reviews

Must-have hack ahoy!The Beaky Buccaneer2021-03-01Version 1.4

Like its predecessor, Donkey Kong Country: Boss Blitz, Donkey Kong Country 2: Brigand Barrage is a well-polished boss-rush hack.

Brigand Barrage offers fun customisation options like recolouring the Kongs, allowing you to pick which one you start as, and whether there's even a second character at all, and it records your best efforts on the "Best Bouts" leaderboard. The record-saving really helps this hack to shine, as it keeps you coming back to it.

It's a fun challenge to try your hand at one or all of Donkey Kong Country 2's bosses, and as with the equivalent hack for the previous game in the series, this one is great fun whether played solo or against friends.

Also like its predecessor, if it were to be merged with the standard Donkey Kong Country 2 game, you could easily be fooled into thinking that it's official content that has been restored - it really is that well-polished.

If you liked Donkey Kong Country: Boss Blitz, then Donkey Kong Country 2: Brigand Barrage is a must as well. Hopefully we'll see a similar boss-rush hack for Donkey Kong Country 3 and its array of weird bosses in the future, too!

I tested this game in the versions of RetroPie for both the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B and the Raspberry Pi Zero W, and it worked as it should with both.