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Majin-Tenshinhan on 18 July 2009

I've had a blast replaying the Donkey Kong Country games over the last few weeks, but does anyone know why Donkey Kong 64 seems to be missing? It feels like they're making weird additions to the 64 library (like Cruis'n USA or whatever it was called) over classics like this one. I mean, it can't really be a dispute with Rare or something like that since Nintendo owns the DK franchise, and all 3 DKC games have been released without hassle, right?

Does anyone have any idea if Nintendo have said anything at all about Donkey Kong 64 for the Virtual Console? If not, do you have any guesses as to when it might show up, or why it hasn't yet?



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megaman79 on 18 July 2009

i dk



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johnathonmerritt on 18 July 2009

It could be a dispute with Rare. I really don't know. I'm just throwing ideas out there. It could be a 3D thing with Microsoft. Rare 3D games are being remade for the 360, like Banjoe-Kazooie. 2D games are on the Virtual Console. 2 + 2 = ?



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Majin-Tenshinhan on 18 July 2009
johnathonmerritt said:
It could be a dispute with Rare. I really don't know. I'm just throwing ideas out there. It could be a 3D thing with Microsoft. Rare 3D games are being remade for the 360, like Banjoe-Kazooie. 2D games are on the Virtual Console. 2 + 2 = ?

That makes no sense, though. Virtual Console has lots of 3D games, and Rare own the rights to Banjo-Kazooie - Not to DK. Anything and everything Donkey Kong is owned 100% by Nintendo.

jefforange89 on 18 July 2009

I'd imagine it's something to do with Rare being owned by Microsoft.

Or maybe Nintendo's just holding this one back. Smash 64 isn't out in NA yet either, is it?



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Omega_Phazon_Pirate. on 18 July 2009

My best guess is because when you get one of those 2 silver coins, you play Jetpac which IS owned by Rare (which is owned by MS). Although simple solution, just take it out.



                           

thekitchensink on 18 July 2009
Majin-Tenshinhan said:
johnathonmerritt said:
It could be a dispute with Rare. I really don't know. I'm just throwing ideas out there. It could be a 3D thing with Microsoft. Rare 3D games are being remade for the 360, like Banjoe-Kazooie. 2D games are on the Virtual Console. 2 + 2 = ?

That makes no sense, though. Virtual Console has lots of 3D games, and Rare own the rights to Banjo-Kazooie - Not to DK. Anything and everything Donkey Kong is owned 100% by Nintendo.

It could be similar to Goldeneye, though with the roles reversed.  With Goldeneye, Rare has 100% rights to the game, but Nintendo owns part of the coding (or something) so Rare would have to completely recode the entire game in a different way in order to get around it.  Could be the same deal with DK, where Nintendo owns the franchise but Rare has some stake in the code.

Though I have no idea how the 2D DKC games got up there if that`s the case.



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ZZetaAlec on 18 July 2009
thekitchensink said:
Majin-Tenshinhan said:
johnathonmerritt said:
It could be a dispute with Rare. I really don't know. I'm just throwing ideas out there. It could be a 3D thing with Microsoft. Rare 3D games are being remade for the 360, like Banjoe-Kazooie. 2D games are on the Virtual Console. 2 + 2 = ?

That makes no sense, though. Virtual Console has lots of 3D games, and Rare own the rights to Banjo-Kazooie - Not to DK. Anything and everything Donkey Kong is owned 100% by Nintendo.

It could be similar to Goldeneye, though with the roles reversed.  With Goldeneye, Rare has 100% rights to the game, but Nintendo owns part of the coding (or something) so Rare would have to completely recode the entire game in a different way in order to get around it.  Could be the same deal with DK, where Nintendo owns the franchise but Rare has some stake in the code.

Though I have no idea how the 2D DKC games got up there if that`s the case.

I don't think that's the case as I believe Activision now owns the rights to the James Bond franchise.



vonboysp on 18 July 2009

i'm guessing it'll be up there eventually. unlike diddy kong racing (which has charecters owned by nintendo) and banjo kazooie-tooie(owned by rare), nintendo owns the rights the the game.

they just have to realize nintendo has to release all the shitty 3rd party crap before doing something like thinking about us.



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Mr Khan on 18 July 2009

Originally i thought it was an issue with Expansion Pak emulation, up until Majora's Mask came out (i mean, they haven't been able to emulate any other add-on functions: Controller Pak or Rumble Pak), but now idk.

 

I would bet that some of DK64 was made with Rare properties, though. What was Jet-pack man, or something?



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