Notes:Donkey Kong 64

This page contains notes for the game Donkey Kong 64.

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Text Encoding

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

Japanese Set 1

	0x00	0x01	0x02	0x03	0x04	0x05	0x06	0x07	0x08	0x09	0x0A	0x0B	0x0C	0x0D	0x0E	0x0F
0x10	[?]	、	＄	（	）	・	％	「	」	‘	“	＜	＞	＆	～
0x20	０	１	２	３	４	５	６	７	８	９	Ａ	Ｂ	Ｃ	Ｄ	Ｅ	Ｆ
0x30	Ｇ	Ｈ	Ｉ	Ｊ	Ｋ	Ｌ	Ｍ	Ｎ	Ｏ	Ｐ	Ｑ	Ｒ	Ｓ	Ｔ	Ｕ	Ｖ
0x40	Ｗ	Ｘ	Ｙ	Ｚ	！	”	＃	’	＊	＋	，	ー	．	／	：	＝
0x50	？	＠	。	゛	゜	ァ	ィ	ゥ	ェ	ォ	ッ	ャ	ュ	ョ	ヲ	ン
0x60	ア	イ	ウ	エ	オ	カ	キ	ク	ケ	コ	サ	シ	ス	セ	ソ	タ
0x70	チ	ツ	テ	ト	ナ	ニ	ヌ	ネ	ノ	ハ	ヒ	フ	ヘ	ホ	マ	ミ
0x80	ム	メ	モ	ヤ	ユ	ヨ	ラ	リ	ル	レ	ロ	ワ	ガ	ギ	グ	ゲ

Japanese Set 2

	0x00	0x01	0x02	0x03	0x04	0x05	0x06	0x07	0x08	0x09	0x0A	0x0B	0x0C	0x0D	0x0E	0x0F
0x10	ゴ	ザ	ジ	ズ	ゼ	ゾ	ダ	ヂ	ヅ	デ	ド	バ	ビ	ブ	ベ	ボ
0x20	パ	ピ	プ	ペ	ポ	ａ	ｂ	ｃ	ｄ	ｅ	ｆ	ｇ	ｈ	ｉ	ｊ	ｋ
0x30	ｌ	ｍ	ｎ	ｏ	ｐ	ｑ	ｒ	ｓ	ｔ	ｕ	ｖ	ｗ	ｘ	ｙ	ｚ	ぁ
0x40	ぃ	ぅ	ぇ	ぉ	っ	ゃ	ゅ	ょ	を	ん	あ	い	う	え	お	か
0x50	き	く	け	こ	さ	し	す	せ	そ	た	ち	つ	て	と	な	に
0x60	ぬ	ね	の	は	ひ	ふ	へ	ほ	ま	み	む	め	も	や	ゆ	よ
0x70	ら	り	る	れ	ろ	わ	が	ぎ	ぐ	げ	ご	さ	じ	ず	ぜ	ぞ
0x80	だ	ぢ	づ	で	ど	ば	び	ぶ	べ	ぼ	ぱ	ぴ	ぷ	ぺ	ぽ	ヴ

Graphics

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

Reference Stuff

(.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. Interestingly, 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

Other

• 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