There are so many ways to lose: 1. You come in 2nd place 2. You fall off 3. You cross the finish line but don’t have enough coins And he laughs at you.
I muted the T.V. I'm on because it reminds me too much of a bratty child when you go easy on them in a game and they say that you suck, then make that dumbass laugh
I'm playing this on the Nintendo 64 for the very first time and this shit took me like an hour to beat. That shit was ridiculous! I saved it like 20 times just to make sure it was saved and turned it off and went to go lay down in bed. I'm done for today.
Anyone struggling I have a tip or two for you to make it a cake walk. First, memorize the map, there’s one section without walls that used to always get me before I looked out for it. Second, STAY BEHIND THE BEETLE, it’s not worth speeding and missing out on coins, also always take the split paths either away from the beetle or prioritize coins. Third and most importantly, you overtake him at the second tunnel part, you should have more than enough coins by then, just go against the wall in the second tunnel and spam jump, it’ll make you move VERY fast and easily get far ahead of him. With that, you’ll beat him with little to no headache
Few annoying things are: 1) you get stuck randomly and can't move. 2) the turns are too sharp where you have to slow down to survive that turn 3)theirs a tricky curve at the very end that will mess you up. Ok I got a few tips: 1) trip the beetle at the beginning with the running attack( do not use idle attack as it slows you down). Do the same when you get to the very end to gain boost of speed. 2) try to line her up with the coins as possible without messing up. 3) when you get to a very very very sharp spiral turn, stop pressing forward as your being dragged on the edge instead tilt right or left to grab the coins 4) right before the tricky curve, slow yourself down or you will fall. 5) try to remember which side of the two ways that the coins are on and take that way. 6) dont take damage at least even once. 7) slow down near the very end to grab both set of coins on both sides. 8) keep pressing forward unless you need to slow down to avoid falling. 9) no jumping. Of course it tells you you can jump. But jumping will mess you up!
I now remember how angry i used to be when i was a child at this race ; whether it was due to falling off the track or losing when close of winning... My head was boiling hot. XD Slap the s*** out of this beetle, no holds barred !
yo man that lil jump at the beginning is a fucking game changer. beat it within 4-5 attemps after trying the jump in the beginning. baller. you're the best.
I hate the noises that beetle makes! Listening to it laugh and bragging about its victory and crying like a little spoiled brat when it loses! Even just hearing it from behind Tiny just makes my blood boil.
You can actually attack the beetle as soon as the race starts. It will give you the lead at he start. If it weren't for that I may never have completed this one.
For anyone who is struggling here's my strat: tail the bug from behind until the first red light tunnel, here you wanna grab as many coins as you want then just before the tunnel ends grab momentum and JUMP over the damn bug, afterwards there'll be a part where there's green snakes on top of the arena, press jump while accelerating to jump over the curvy things (this will make you miss maybe 1 or 3 coins but it takes you pretty far from the bug) after this it's easier if you know when to go fast and when to slow down because of death falls. Be sure to grab enough coins. Lastly at the end where both of you stop sliding if you're in front of the bug and she's getitng close to you dash slide (z + b while running) this attack has a hitbox behind of you meaning that you'll knock the bug out if it gets close to you without having to aim at her and it gives you a pretty lengthy window of time to hit her
The thing about N64 games is most of them are really easy like 98% of the time and then the other 2% they have an insanely disproportionate difficulty spike for no reason.
I just followed slowly behind the mfer, got all the coins, jumped at the very end and ran directly in front of him so he couldn’t pass me. Took me about 20 tries to figure that out tho
I give up. My friggin thumb hurts from retrying this so many times, and I'm ready to beat the crap outta that moronic beetle. I'm not doing this just for one stupid golden bannana.
@@s.nickerdoodleapplepeep8521 At the beginning and end of the race, you can attack the beetle to slow it down, either by rolling or using the slide attack (Z and B while running). If I had known this when I was younger, maybe I wouldn't have popped a blood vessel.
@@robertanderson9447 ohhhh thats right i rememver that, ig i just suck at the game cuz i couldnt do it even after beating him up. I basically popped a blood vessel too so dw ur not alone haha😂😂
@@s.nickerdoodleapplepeep8521 Yeah that's kinda the problem, you still have to keep ahead of the blasted thing which means lots of practice with the track itself.
I did rather poorly on the Wii U version, had like 40 coins on the last stretch and had a restore point (yeah, it's cheating, but my god they are life savors) and had the final bit to go (why oh why did they make you walk this?) and for some reason my brain forgets the roll attack exists and I walk forward. I am slow, and the beetle catches up. "Oh god, you caught up" passes through my brain and I smack him and he is stunned, not at all and I am like behind. So at this point it's a neck and neck race. I am horrified that he is closer to the finish line but I guess we must have had a photo finish in my favor... I think I won this awful thing by a hair's breadth or a pixel as I thought I lost. It took me 4 retries to get a good race going and I made a restore point on the last turn. I got lucky in Diddy's minecart level too. I chalk that up to being the first of it's kind and therefore not nearly as hard as it could have been, but it feels like I got blown up so many times... but I was able to get 53 coins!
It took me 30 maybe 40 mins and a lot of cussing but i finally beat it. The trick is to use the z+b attack on the bug before the race starts so you can get a head start and thats where the tricks end unfortunately. After that you just have to pull off an almost perfect run while keeping your speed up. Its a bitch no doubt but once you've ran the course 20+ times (and believe me you will) you should learn the track enough to know what to do and where. Needless to say by the time you get this banana you'll most likely have had enough of the game for the day lol i saved and turned the 64 off so quickly.
The fact that this awful awful minigame made it into the final game is mind-boggling. Winning a race would've been fine, and collecting medals would've been fine. Not both at the same time.
I just played this race... on an emulator with the frame speed turned WAY down, and save and load state buttons on my controller for easy access... cheating at MAXIMUM level... and I lost. I'm talking like 2 frames per second I had it down to! It took 10 minutes!! I played this race like a damned turn-based strategy game!!!! And I LOST!!!!!!!! ... I am 40 years old, playing nintendo 64 games, by myself, on a Wednesday afternoon... and JUST NOW... I feel like a loser...
Facts! After an hour of dying, I finally had 50 coins and survived the final turn, only to lose the footrace at the very end to a freaking BEETLE. Beaver bother also gave me PTSD.
I agree,this game has some of the worst missions/ levels I've ever played in a game...what the hell the devs were thinking when they designed,this race,the bunny and owl race,the beaver bothers minigame,the arcade minigame and like the 50% of the bonus barrel stages?(Sorry for my bad english i'm italian)
This level is bullshit... DK 64 Is a very good game overall,but some levels like this,beaver bothers,the owl race,the original DK arcade mission and so many others Kills the fun...a game Is made to be enjoyable and should entertain the player,like the original DK country Trilogy or donkey Kong country returns and tropical freeze, donkey kong 64 for me is unbalanced and hasn't been tested at all,It has a difficulty based mainly on making everything as perfect as possible,making racing extremely frustrating,and some levels are really broken,like the beaver bothers minigame that is based like 95% of luck than your real skills.I repeat,Donkey Kong 64 is very nice as a game, but it has a lot of level design problems that make the experience really frustrating, which really makes the desire to play it pass.This Is my opinion,so don't insult me.(Sorry for my bad english i'm italian)
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve thrown my controller from this damn race
Easy 😏
Straight rage quite
Rage Quit ! 😎🤣 Lol me too my friend, me too.
Me too
Im currently throwing mine 😂 im stuck on this part and i refuse to go foward until i beat this dam race im convinced its rigged.
THIS is why the level is called ANGRY Aztec!
Yep ! Totally agree 👍😎
Absolutely and that stupid beetle and his laugh made it worse
The beetle is female
Lol right.
If you have the patience of a saint to complete this level, I salute you.
To everyone who hates this beetle i wouldn’t like to share a forgotten tip.
You can knock the shit out of him for an early lead.
Holy crap! Trying this right now, 20 mins in and I find this comment thanks!
I've done that and boy does it feel good
woah thank
Only beat him once in my life. It’s not so much the race it those freakin coins.
Thank you for making this comment :-)
There are so many ways to lose:
1. You come in 2nd place
2. You fall off
3. You cross the finish line but don’t have enough coins
And he laughs at you.
Me paso
4. You reach the bottom but the bug is faster so you can't reach the finish line.
For me it was always #2
Not to mention , every time you so much as touch him , YOU lose 3 coins. NOTHING AT ALL HAPPENS TO HIM.
Apparently the beetle is female.
There is nothing more infuriating than that laugh
I muted the T.V. I'm on because it reminds me too much of a bratty child when you go easy on them in a game and they say that you suck, then make that dumbass laugh
This game taught me about heartbreak:
I was about to cross the finish line in first and the game froze and had to restart
I'm playing this on the Nintendo 64 for the very first time and this shit took me like an hour to beat. That shit was ridiculous! I saved it like 20 times just to make sure it was saved and turned it off and went to go lay down in bed. I'm done for today.
4 hours and no sign of improvement
That damn last corner just before the final stretch ALWAYS gets me!!!
It’s the worst
I always fell off the moment the race begins as a kid
This level made me rage like no other game level in history lol 😂 no reason to have made it this hard! The music and laugh still haunt me 😂
My blood pressure
Omg I'm trying this one right now. I forgot how hard some of these levels are
its 4 am and it took me over an hour to do this, i feel like an nfl champion
You'll rage quit arcade machine when you lose for a hundredth time in a row.
@@ArtemyMalchuk I know that much
As well you should❤
this race is hard cheers 🎉
I’m a kid and I play this game a lot but this stage took me 1 whole day this is harder than the nameless king boss fight
Anyone struggling I have a tip or two for you to make it a cake walk. First, memorize the map, there’s one section without walls that used to always get me before I looked out for it.
Second, STAY BEHIND THE BEETLE, it’s not worth speeding and missing out on coins, also always take the split paths either away from the beetle or prioritize coins.
Third and most importantly, you overtake him at the second tunnel part, you should have more than enough coins by then, just go against the wall in the second tunnel and spam jump, it’ll make you move VERY fast and easily get far ahead of him.
With that, you’ll beat him with little to no headache
oh man this hurts to revisit, one of the most stressful videogame levels from my childhood
This is probably one of the most difficult golden bananas to get in the game.
Very few times a game made me cry in anger.
God right.
I forgot about this. Man this was hell.
It’s 2023 and I’m stuck here
Few annoying things are:
1) you get stuck randomly and can't move.
2) the turns are too sharp where you have to slow down to survive that turn
3)theirs a tricky curve at the very end that will mess you up.
Ok I got a few tips:
1) trip the beetle at the beginning with the running attack( do not use idle attack as it slows you down). Do the same when you get to the very end to gain boost of speed.
2) try to line her up with the coins as possible without messing up.
3) when you get to a very very very sharp spiral turn, stop pressing forward as your being dragged on the edge instead tilt right or left to grab the coins
4) right before the tricky curve, slow yourself down or you will fall.
5) try to remember which side of the two ways that the coins are on and take that way.
6) dont take damage at least even once.
7) slow down near the very end to grab both set of coins on both sides.
8) keep pressing forward unless you need to slow down to avoid falling.
9) no jumping. Of course it tells you you can jump. But jumping will mess you up!
The thing that pisses me off the most is that you cant overtake him without losing coins
I now remember how angry i used to be when i was a child at this race ; whether it was due to falling off the track or losing when close of winning... My head was boiling hot. XD
Slap the s*** out of this beetle, no holds barred !
I recently started playing the game again and a memory of mine is also this same emotion lol. It is STILL so damn hard!
yo man that lil jump at the beginning is a fucking game changer.
beat it within 4-5 attemps after trying the jump in the beginning. baller. you're the best.
What made the people who designed this part think this was a good idea?
Really though. Why did they do this to us lol?!
They were DRUNK AND SMOKING 100 TRILLION TONS OF METH.
They were sadists!
They should have been fired for creating the worst mini game in game history. And not once but TWICE! We have to race this beetle!
I love how a stage extremely similar to this was included in the "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" game for PS1
as a gamer for 20+ years, this just took me 30 minutes and made me scream at least 4 times 🤣
Took me about the same. REALLY glad I came here and found out you can hit him. Pretty sure it’s almost impossible if you don’t.
I’ve been one this for THREE DAYS
@@oscarbuentello3373 We believe in you big dawg don’t let him get to you!
I hate the noises that beetle makes! Listening to it laugh and bragging about its victory and crying like a little spoiled brat when it loses! Even just hearing it from behind Tiny just makes my blood boil.
Knowing it’s just behind you is S-grade anxiety
When you're in the non-sliding parts of the race, you can use your roll attack to knock the beetle down for a few seconds.
thank you man
That's how I won. Kept smacking the beetle before the finish line
Hi
I discovered you can slow the beetle a bit by slide attacking it the moment the race starts. Buys you a modest early lead.
Also you can smack him before the finish line to cheat to win
Having a lead is extremely easy, it's those sharp turns into oblivion that fucking wreck me.
I tried that repeatedly , it doesn't do any good.
I tried that but it still didn't work
They made these races way too damn hard
This is like the penguin race from super mario 64 but harder
For real. I actually had a pretty easy time with the penguin. Much more forgiving. The beetle can go fuck himself six ways from next Thursday.
Took me so many attempts to beat this bastard as a 7yr old
Hooray for Tiny Kong! She's My Favorite!
Mine too! I want her in Mario Kart.
You can actually attack the beetle as soon as the race starts. It will give you the lead at he start. If it weren't for that I may never have completed this one.
I watched another person do this and they just smacked the beetle in the very beginning before they pace the starting line. Seemed legit
Rare made this cruel with the win plus coin races since Diddy Kong Racing that is turning into a mechanic.
For anyone who is struggling here's my strat: tail the bug from behind until the first red light tunnel, here you wanna grab as many coins as you want then just before the tunnel ends grab momentum and JUMP over the damn bug, afterwards there'll be a part where there's green snakes on top of the arena, press jump while accelerating to jump over the curvy things (this will make you miss maybe 1 or 3 coins but it takes you pretty far from the bug) after this it's easier if you know when to go fast and when to slow down because of death falls. Be sure to grab enough coins. Lastly at the end where both of you stop sliding if you're in front of the bug and she's getitng close to you dash slide (z + b while running) this attack has a hitbox behind of you meaning that you'll knock the bug out if it gets close to you without having to aim at her and it gives you a pretty lengthy window of time to hit her
this is chaotic evil hard
I hate that beetle as much as the Duck Hunt dog
I remember that it was hard real hard.
I finally beat this damn race using a new n64 controller I got from amazon... tells how much wear my original controllers had
Cool good job I remember it took me a while to beat him
How the hell DMC 5 Dark Knight mode can be easier than beat a Beetle in a race?HOOOW?!?!?
The thing about N64 games is most of them are really easy like 98% of the time and then the other 2% they have an insanely disproportionate difficulty spike for no reason.
Just beat this yesterday, if you know you know.
This race is tough as hell! Took me an hour!
Thanks for the help with that beginning jump. That is the strategy lol
Wow. I got this game at 9 years old and didn't beat this race until i was an adult. 🤣 That lil beetle was cheating
After watching this video, I beat it on my fifth or so try. That jump at the beginning is key.
Tiny Kong is my favorite Kong! I also like Dixie Kong and Candy Kong.
Even by my standards, this level made me want to go 🤬
even tho this was a pain in the ass, I loved this mini game 😅
angry aztec was my fave
The lanky Kong is what pissed me off but this one easy😂😂😂😂
I just followed slowly behind the mfer, got all the coins, jumped at the very end and ran directly in front of him so he couldn’t pass me. Took me about 20 tries to figure that out tho
This was extremely difficult especially emulated with touch controls.
It's not this beetle that I find annoying, it's the fact that I'm losing constantly!!!!
O fk this banana.... I don’t never do it
Ésta carrera me tomo 58 veces completarla, no estoy de broma
No se a quien se le ocurrió que sería una buena idea
I give up. My friggin thumb hurts from retrying this so many times, and I'm ready to beat the crap outta that moronic beetle. I'm not doing this just for one stupid golden bannana.
Beating the crap out of this beetle may be more effective (and more possible) than you think
@@robertanderson9447 plz teach me ur ways cuz i hate that beetle with every fiber of my being
@@s.nickerdoodleapplepeep8521 At the beginning and end of the race, you can attack the beetle to slow it down, either by rolling or using the slide attack (Z and B while running). If I had known this when I was younger, maybe I wouldn't have popped a blood vessel.
@@robertanderson9447 ohhhh thats right i rememver that, ig i just suck at the game cuz i couldnt do it even after beating him up. I basically popped a blood vessel too so dw ur not alone haha😂😂
@@s.nickerdoodleapplepeep8521 Yeah that's kinda the problem, you still have to keep ahead of the blasted thing which means lots of practice with the track itself.
You should put on widescreen stretched, then turn on widescreen in the intro menu. Also, turn on crop overscan for top and bottom.
I just never beat this guy as a child so for whoever has beat him I applaud and respect you 👏 🙌 ❤
I finally beat this and I feel like crying.
I hate this level, if I could, I'd just squish the bug and take the banana 🤣
God this tramatized me as a 4 year old.
I did rather poorly on the Wii U version, had like 40 coins on the last stretch and had a restore point (yeah, it's cheating, but my god they are life savors) and had the final bit to go (why oh why did they make you walk this?) and for some reason my brain forgets the roll attack exists and I walk forward. I am slow, and the beetle catches up. "Oh god, you caught up" passes through my brain and I smack him and he is stunned, not at all and I am like behind. So at this point it's a neck and neck race. I am horrified that he is closer to the finish line but I guess we must have had a photo finish in my favor...
I think I won this awful thing by a hair's breadth or a pixel as I thought I lost. It took me 4 retries to get a good race going and I made a restore point on the last turn. I got lucky in Diddy's minecart level too. I chalk that up to being the first of it's kind and therefore not nearly as hard as it could have been, but it feels like I got blown up so many times... but I was able to get 53 coins!
How did you even do that
how the fuck i did this when i was 10yo
The simplest answer is we had nothing better to do.
This comment section makes me feel seen. Spent an hour on this today lol
It took me 30 maybe 40 mins and a lot of cussing but i finally beat it. The trick is to use the z+b attack on the bug before the race starts so you can get a head start and thats where the tricks end unfortunately. After that you just have to pull off an almost perfect run while keeping your speed up. Its a bitch no doubt but once you've ran the course 20+ times (and believe me you will) you should learn the track enough to know what to do and where. Needless to say by the time you get this banana you'll most likely have had enough of the game for the day lol i saved and turned the 64 off so quickly.
This is EXACTLY EVERYTHING I did in that exact order.😂😂😂 I'm resting right now.😂
I absolutely hated this one and Lankys was no easier!
😡
But the damn things laugh was insult to injury!!!
I still hear it to this day!!
These races didn’t bother me that much. The rabbit race on the other hand…
The fact that this awful awful minigame made it into the final game is mind-boggling. Winning a race would've been fine, and collecting medals would've been fine. Not both at the same time.
I just played this race... on an emulator with the frame speed turned WAY down, and save and load state buttons on my controller for easy access... cheating at MAXIMUM level... and I lost. I'm talking like 2 frames per second I had it down to! It took 10 minutes!! I played this race like a damned turn-based strategy game!!!! And I LOST!!!!!!!! ... I am 40 years old, playing nintendo 64 games, by myself, on a Wednesday afternoon... and JUST NOW... I feel like a loser...
You win Donkey. Can someone please hand me back my beer.
The hairpin turns were the fucking worst on this
Xbla version? because there are HD graphics
It's not Banjo, DK64 is on Eshop only. Looks more like an unpolished emulator due to Tiny's model warping a couple of times.
@@ArtemyMalchuk ok, because i thinking about a version for xbla from DK 64, THERE ARE A GOOD IDEA
@@ArtemyMalchuk Sorry if my english is very bad i am from mexico
It's a Nintendo game.
@@DavidBunnyan i know friend
This is one of the worst minigames i have ever played in my life. The worst is also in this game (beaver bother)
Facts! After an hour of dying, I finally had 50 coins and survived the final turn, only to lose the footrace at the very end to a freaking BEETLE. Beaver bother also gave me PTSD.
I agree,this game has some of the worst missions/ levels I've ever played in a game...what the hell the devs were thinking when they designed,this race,the bunny and owl race,the beaver bothers minigame,the arcade minigame and like the 50% of the bonus barrel stages?(Sorry for my bad english i'm italian)
Oh god beaver bother !!! 🤬😂
I didn't like this stupid beetle or the rabbit race
I'm playing this stupid race right now 😑
This level is bullshit... DK 64 Is a very good game overall,but some levels like this,beaver bothers,the owl race,the original DK arcade mission and so many others Kills the fun...a game Is made to be enjoyable and should entertain the player,like the original DK country Trilogy or donkey Kong country returns and tropical freeze, donkey kong 64 for me is unbalanced and hasn't been tested at all,It has a difficulty based mainly on making everything as perfect as possible,making racing extremely frustrating,and some levels are really broken,like the beaver bothers minigame that is based like 95% of luck than your real skills.I repeat,Donkey Kong 64 is very nice as a game, but it has a lot of level design problems that make the experience really frustrating, which really makes the desire to play it pass.This Is my opinion,so don't insult me.(Sorry for my bad english i'm italian)
Most fucked up part of the whole game.
Porcaria de corrida, mais fácil passar raiva do que passar a fase kkkkkkkkkk
This race is literally the worst part of any Donkey Kong game
I definitely wouldn’t say that but it’s very annoying
I still can’t beat it I hate this level
I did back when I was 9.... It only took like 100+ tries and I was angry and ranting in 3 languages in fits of rage.
I bet giving birth is easier.
Ésta carrera me tomo 58 veces completarla, no estoy de broma
No se a quien se le ocurrió que sería una buena idea