The Making of Donkey Kong Country & Killer Instinct / Pre-rendered graphics
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- Опубликовано: 29 май 2021
- As a follow-up to my Aladdin / Cel animation video I decided to give the Donkey Kong video a huge overhaul. Both videos will be part of a mini series about the influence of technological advancements in tools and development processes in 16-bit video games. Part one: Cel animation, Part two: 3D packages, I'm planning to do a 3rd video eventually. I've also added Killer Instinct (one of my favorite arcades games ever) and the awesome Donkey Kong Country 2 to this video.
If you want to learn more about DKC check out this great interview with the Donkey Kong Country team by Shesez: • The Donkey Kong Countr...
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Narration by Steven Kelly
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//Music and Sources
For the complete track-listing with time-codes skip to the end of the video
Sources used for this video are also listed there. 
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The production values on this series are INSANE, it's better than television! Seeing your work makes me so proud to be a Patron 🤘🙂
what's "television"? Asking for a friend
i agree completally
@@Puretea4711 A miserable pile of secrets. But enough talk! Have at you!
He should get a Netflix series,
I'm not familiar enough with this channel to know the 'voice', I thought someone found and uploaded a 'behind the scenes' featurette from some bluray. The production values on this video is indeed 'INSANE'
I knew these games were beautiful but you showed me a whole new side to them.
And diddy kong has a dream where donkey kong gets married to king k. Rool
Holy shit, it's the Riddler's biggest fan!
Thank you for helping me to re-live some high points of my childhood.
♫ Chocolate Kong
no way
Wow didn't expect you here!! This RUclipsr we're watching is very underrated
@@johnsmith-ir1ne No one cares.
@@ator2659 and you still replied.
Me 1
you 0
DKC is honestly one of the best games ever made. Putting aside the technical genius behind it, the sheer amount of fresh ideas, compelling gameplay mechanics, and artistic vision all come together to create a whole insanely coherent and endlessly replayable!
True. And THAT soundtrack!👌🏻🙂
Dkc2 is much better
came here to say this - all things considered, it might be the best game ever?
I recently finished Donkey Kong Country and I'm fully with you. Outside of a few genuinely frustrating levels, I had a blast.
@@somethingsomething9008 best one in the series
This is the first time I've seen a video on this channel, and the quality is incredible. Rare did an amazing job with DKC, and you did an equally amazing job telling their story.
Thanks so much!
go watch the other videos too!
'Ey, welcome to the channel! And don't forget to watch all the other videos, they're so well put-together and are super informative :3
Oh man you're in for a treat
Agreed! This video made me a subscriber. I love to see this kind of informative content.
"Rare made Donkey Kong Country in a BARN! And had to use PORTABLE GENERATORS!!"
Cranky Kong moment
... and act as a monkey to motion capture its moves)!
“Well. I’m sorry. We’re not RARE”
I bet that was the inspiration for that one factory level😂😂😂
Sounds so British lol
Rare was able, at that time, to instill emotions to a child that he/she didn't even know it could experience at that age. All the visuals, sounds, and gameplay come together with such perfection that it seems for me like DK Country was an actual place I went to when I was a kid.
Maybe that's why it was called Donkey Kong COUNTRY. Definitely not a stretch.
@@carnage0685 what does that matter?? lol
@@Rezector ?
They said all the visuals, sounds, and gameplay made it seem like an actual place they were visiting, and when people are on exotic trips, it's usually because they're visiting a different country. That's all- Nothing more, nothing less, lol.
Not unlike Hyrule Field. That place, and The Tivoli place with the carts and honeycombs were amazing.
I concur! The 1st 15 minutes in Banjo Tooie broke my heart. After seeing Spiral Mountain decimated and two key characters die, I was about to swear off the Bear & Bird. After playing it again the next day, it's still my number one game of all time!❤
One of the greatest games ever envisioned and perfectly executed.
Words cannot express the many feelings I had playing this game as a Kid.
I remember seeing a tv ad and my jaw dropped.
I kinda teared up just remembering the awesome 16bit war... I was 10 when this game came out and I was knee deep in the war!!!!
Me too! Its the platform game of my LIFE (DOnkey kong - snes trilogy).
So much love.
The forest, the music, the ambience , the colors and the charisma. Cant be even compared to the wii/wii u counterparts
@Craig Adams same!
@Craig Adams 10 and getting DKC 2 was my fondest memory.
I'm playing through DKC via Nintendo Switch Online right now, and it's so easy to forget this is a game made in 1994 for a 16-bit console. It has stood the test of time in just about every area, from game design to music and visuals. Seeing the details behind its creation helps to contextualize how much a display of pioneering technology it also was for its time. Thanks for the documentary, keep up the great work! 🙏
I still own a complete copy of DKC, and a sealed copy of Killer Instinct. SNES era was the greatest. Amazing video, as always.
Word, SNES had so many games
I SNES agree, sorry Sega
I remember the Christmas morning of 1994 and being blown away constantly but I vividly remember me telling my dad how this game looked incredible and was 3D because I couldn’t comprehend how incredible the first factory level looked. The chains hanging from the ceiling and blocking the view melted my 9 year old mind.
Awesome. Truly awesome episode. The production values are off the charts!
I played this game in 1996 when I was 7 years old. I dont have words to describe my feelings about playing this masterpiece.
@@matadordeleoes wow you guys are old cuz i was born in the year 2002
@@yaboijuanito1460 haha its normal. in 2002 I was 12 , really happy playing nintendo and psone , watching BDZ. Enjoy bro , you gonna miss these days.
@@matadordeleoes cuz i remember in 2009 i remember the dsi and the dsi xl was coming out and brand new mario games and stuff man those are the good ol days cuz i also used to have a nintendo 64 since i was little and if you have instagram here is my instagram its @yaboijuanitominecraft99
DKC and Killer Instinct have aged quite well in my opinion. I just can’t believe that the SiliconGraphics workstations cost so much.
I agree! I still love both games and although not everyone agrees their visuals too. The funny thing is.. SGI systems weren't even that expensive in a number of markets as the systems they replaced were more expensive (for example in pre-press and visual effects). The bulk of the production work at the company where I started my career was done on SGI. Especially in the 90s they easily made back their investment thanks to their speed and the exclusive graphics software.
The framerate of Donkey Kong's animations are the envy of modern games.
@@strafefox Just wondering what did you use to do for work regarding production. Etc.
@@mastadope397 I was a multi-media designer/developer doing 3D animation, video and animation for CD-roms and DVD, coding for websites, Flash games, etc. It was a pretty cool and varied job and I was able to learn so much from colleagues coming from a completely different field.
Just what I was thinking. Add in Mario RPG and I'd say that the pre-rendered graphics of the era hold up better than any of the full 3D that would come out for years and years.
I'm so thankful to Rare for the role they played in making my childhood so beautiful. Love these guys to death, everything they did and do now as Playtonic, I support.
YUP! Banjo-Kazoi and Getforce gemini hold a special place in my heart
@@justinhunt1714 I still love these guys for RC Pro-Am to this day. lol
@@Krystalmyth LOVED RC Pro Am. I don't see it get talked about as much though. Seems under appreciated.
I've recently finished Donkey Kong Country, and it has quickly become one of my new favourite games. It's such a well made game with great design and superb production values. The graphics are incredible, but what really stood out to me was the soundtrack. I generally don't like Super Nintendo music, as it tends to sound like CD music coming out of speakers covered by a pillow, but Donkey Kong Country really contradicts that. The underwater level especially is an easy 10/10, hard to top. I'm looking forward to playing the other two games, especially 2 which I hear is one of the greatest 2D platformers ever made.
Have you played DKC2 yet?
To say SNES music sound like CD quality music is a insult to music itself even the nes and very old system by the way has so many better tracks than the SNES
Also I give this game maybe an 7/10 or 8/10 cause this g me is really flawed
Man, how can the DK Country music fill me with such a nostalgic feeling when I have no nostalgia associated with the games? It's so good.
Thanks for sharing. I did not know this was possible.
Because it's awesome music :)
The music fills the game with nostalgia in a sense, go figure out that one!
Because the soundtrack is *brilliant*. I don't use that word lightly. It's a masterpiece, David Wise is one of the greatest video game composers of all time, everyone loves and is inspired by the music in the DKC games.
@@runningdecadeix4780 you gotta give credit to Eveline Novakovic she made some awesome tracks for the 1st game
Donkey Kong Country is one of my favorite SNES games for it’s sound. The music of underwater level in particular is very mesmerising and made a lasting impression to me. As it happens, the Korg Wavestation is also one of my favorite synths.
Yes and the "mine shaft" song from the 2nd.
Its, not it's.
So please listen to this: ruclips.net/video/5znrVdAtEDI/видео.html
Getting new strafefox videos are always the best days of the year
The music in DKC2 was and still is magical to me, I love it so much
The nostalgia vibes are hitting hard too
How you don’t have millions of subscribers with all this work you put into your videos is insane to me! Thanks for always keeping everything such high quality it’s a real pleasure to see you everyone you pop up on my feeds ❤️
It's only a matter of time!
He deservers millions of subs, the production value is insane.
not everyone is invested in the limited hang out called 'video games'.
Man, your content is a tremendous inspiration. Thank you for investing your time in this hard work.
Thanks and really cool to hear you find it inspirational!
@@strafefox it really is, I was going to comment the same thing! As an artist and videographer myself, I can only imagine just how much work you put into your videos. The production quality is insane, and it really sets you apart from every other game related channel on the platform. And aside from the fact that your videos are a technical inspiration, you always have such an incredible way of discussing the games at hand in such a refreshing way. I don't know how I ever found your channel to begin with, but I am so thankful I did, and I am always so excited when I see you've uploaded a new video!
@@ninja_tony Really awesome to read Ninja Tony! Thanks so much
Killer Instinct is so underrated, no idea why! Another excellent job!
Absolutely one of my all time favorite games.
@@Wilma_Dickfit_huh you mean street fighter?
KIMMM WOOOOO!
DKC is my favorite series on the SNES. Amazing video to go into details I wasn't aware of
As an avid DKC fan, I’ve devoured every video on this subject and heard the retrospective many times yet you’ve managed to make something that feels incredibly fresh and uplifting. Thank you.
Pausing the video right now so that I can stream it to the TV- way more worthy than just a phone or tablet view!
Summoning Salt AND Strafefox on the same day. Love it.
Rare will always have a special place in my heart. At a very young age they subconsciously set my expectations on what a amazing game should be. Everything about their work just oozes quality and attention to detail, you couldn't help but be drawn to it.
Such a great video that really did their work justice. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Beautiful work. DKC1 is a masterwork of game design. DKC2 and Killer Instinct are two of my favorite games of all time. I learned a lot from this video even though I already knew a lot about Rare and these games previously. Superb work, mate, thanks for making this wonderfully informative video.
Can't wait to watch this later today! I know this going to be epic.
same here!
Hello again ! Found you on another channel and commented about your profile picture.
What are the chances lol
Strafefox is right up there with Ahoy in the absolute top echelon of YT videogame documentaries.
For sure. It's a shame this isn't more promoted by YT
@Marc Carran such as?
@Marc Carran Of course there are. It's not harsh at all - I wasn't _excluding_ anyone in particular.
Some other great videogame documentarians on RUclips include Gaming Historian, Indigo Gaming, Jacob Geller, Summoning Salt, and many others.
@@Jesse__H Also noclip, gvmers, digital foundry retro, slopes games room
@@Jesse__H Exactly, there are several fantastic ones out there, but I certainly didn't think you were excluding anyone either. Rather, you were pointing out that this channel is really on another level for what a video game documentary can be.
Amazing stuff as always! I love the additions to the original video on Donkey Kong Country, and the added segments with Killer Instinct are just icing on the cake. That game is still one of my favorites.
Thanks Austin! Yeah Killer Instinct is also one of my favorites. It's actually the game that I put the most money in of all arcade games :) It was such an amazing game to witness when it first came out and got me really hyped for the Ultra64 at that time.
Thank you this was incredible to watch!
I’ve seen other videos about SiliconGraphics and Rare, but your productions always make the videos miles better.
One of the few channels that's worth the wait.
Amazing video as always. Now this makes me want a uncompressed 4K release of these games, with highest quality assets! Would look so cool.
Great video! I love the attention to detail you put into the visuals
Man these videos are always insanely high quality. It's an actual crime that RUclips isn't promoting them more.
Rare really innovated a lot, their SNES games still look and sound great. It's a shame the company isn't anywhere close to what it used to be, but I bought pretty much everything they released growing up.
Donkey kong countrys graphics look ugly today espically without crt
Rare is back. They have their one new company now. Playtonic games. They have made Yooka Laylee. It's like Banjo and DK64.
@@somethingsomething9008 No, they don't. Actually, imo the models being pixelated hide the fact that they look outdated.
@@somethingsomething9008 Obviously.
@@tjp_real lol Rare is a shell now.
Very well done! The quality of the video is insane.
strafefox + dkc, the ultimate combination. i will ALWAYS be in for that.
dkc 2 is my favorite game of all time and my favorite soundtrack of all time hands down, period, full stop.
and strafefox makes the best gaming documentaries on youtube and maybe my favorite videos on this platform.
btw. i still miss the old narrator. (even though the new one is great too)
I sound like a broken record, but the production value is just on another level.
I'm going to up my patreon when I get home.
-Victor B
Awesome production stratefox! Thank u very much for this!
It's always such a treat to watch one of your videos. Thank you for your continued hard work!
I'm happy to see this channel is finally getting the recognition it deserves! Some of the best gaming content I've ever seen.
You dropped this, your majesty 👑
As always, these are so well done!
Looking forward to the next one.
Keep up the great work!
This documentary was amazing for many reasons. Thank you for this work and the massive nostalgia hit.
THANK YOU!!
Simply unbelievable production value. Thank you for the video!
Thanks for the another great episode of this awesome show!!^^
Keep up the good work!
Fantastic quality as always. Well done! 😊
I was just thinking about this channel, good to see you back since i love these videos!
Still a highly criminally underrated channel.
The amount of research you do and the old footage you find is always impressive. Always a pleasure to watch your videos.
What a great video! Just randomly looking through and I'm really glad I found this!
Amazing quality documentary presentation was brilliant.
Just subscribed can't wait for the next. 👍
Well this is a surprise! Always glad to see new videos from you.
Wow what an amazing video as always can't imagine how fantastic to take a look behind the making of Kirby franchise
Great job as always! I can't believe my eyes when I see the production values in your videos! You're an inspiration, for sure 😀
Love the use of post it notes for level design and planning! Great video as always
Awesome Video! Really hope you create a video about Treasure and their 16 bit masterpieces since they deserve the phonemical research and effort you put into your vids!
Imagine a HD version of Donkey Kong Country
there are 2 levels from DK2 remake by a developer and published in some random ytube channel. If nintendo had the interesting of make the remaster it would be like printing money
Yeah! Seeing it in the original form before they had to downscale it for the SNES. I'd buy it day 1
Have you played tropical freeze? Granted it wasn't a Rare title, I would say it's the closest thing we're going to get to a dkc experience with current gen consoles.
It does. It's called Donkey Kong Returns and Tropical Freeze.
As always, fantastic work! Well done!
Spending my Christmas vacation binging your channel. These videos are art. Thank you for making them!
inb4 Donkey Kong's color pallet were chosen from samples of real life barn wood.
LET'S GOOOOO HE MADE A VIDEO
Strafefox, you are amazing! Everything you put out is just professional quality! Great work!
Fantastic video, Donkey Kong is one of my favourite games of all time, the audio in that game is super memorable to me, especially the water theme. Cool to see how it all came together.
Your follow up videos are always so much more informative and entertaining than your first attempts, its an incredible show of improvement. Please, please take another swing at the Mana series sometime in the future now that squenix has pulled the series out of the back of the freezer.
Thanks that's great to hear! And yeah Mana is on my list in combination with ChronoTrigger. I will start working on it soon.
@@strafefox Now that's some incredible news to start June with! For Chrono Trigger will you be covering Yuji Horii's involvement in the project? I ask because most other historians tend to gloss over him for Sakaguchi, when it was a team effort every step of the way in the game's development cycle.
@@trenthoward6800 Yeah sure! Plus I've hardly mentioned Dragon Quest so far, so I have to set that right :)
@@strafefox Great news, definitely looking forward to it!
Always love seeing videos from this channel 😩
Thanks for your work good man, always amazing videos!
super quality content and having seen a million donkey kong country videos, I can safely say I learned things I didn't know and the things I did know was put in an new and interesting way great job!
DK2 is a masterpiece. I'd love to see a high res rendered version without all the aliasing.
I would pay $60 for this without question
Just like 'Empire Strikes Back' or 'Ride the Lightning' (Metallica) - It's the second one where the magic really happens!
Imagine if Rare still have the original SGI rendered Donkey Kong, the version before they downscaled it to SNES.
What happened to the original SGI renders? I always ask this but I never get a reply 🤔
@@DatBoiRatchet They lost most of the models and the ones that did survive were on obsolete programs that the newer devs at Rare didn't know how to access them, Rare had to remake the sprites for the GBA port frame by frame using the SNES version as reference.
It would look like garbage in comparison to today's standards. If you look at most of RARE's work on the SNES and early N64 games, their anatomy is pretty crappy, and purposely hidden by their poses and things like that. Take Killer instinct 1 and 2 for example. Watch a segment of their FMV's to get an idea of how well those clanky meshes were rigged (probably non-inverse kinematics setup for animation).
@@gozinta82 I played this game in 1996 when I was 7 years old, it was a top game back then. we did not have so criticism about it , it was just revolutionary ...
Robert Spiller agreed it was, i played it too. But now u can see some of the faults. Completely normal for any decent game.
Wonderful, wonderful! Thanks for dedicating so much to deliver such a flawless documentary!!!!!! Top notch work!
Well done!!!! These videos are exciting and informative! I don’t know how you got all this old footage, but man does it bring me back! Thank you!
wow what a surprise! welcome back! SKÅL 💪😎👍
It’s such a treat / event when I see Splash Wave has posted! 🤩👌💕
Been looking forward to a new video from you guys. Glad it's here.
Amazing work as always, especially with DKC2 being one of my favorite games of all time. The amount of time and effort given to these really shows and it's always such a delight ti watch.
This video was good enough that I decided to make a game documentaries playlist.
What an amazing visual production! Captivating!
This video is pure GOLD
As always, your videos keep surprising me! Such a rich video full of super valuable information. Keep it up!
This was absolutely fantastic to watch, great production!!
"I cant believe you're still watching" 😀😀😀
"Myst and Rise Of The Robots"
It's great that both of these games went on to be huge hits.
Congratulations, very well made, entertaining and well documented! 🙌🏻
Your videos are always so amazing! Thank you for your hard work and dedication.
YES ! MOAR SPLASH WAVE !
Your videos are gorgeous!
I just found your channel on Friday and it is quickly becoming my new favorite thing to watch! I love how in depth you go with your content, it’s really apparent that you enjoy what you’re doing and then it’s not work for you but rather a deep passion 😊🙌
Just found this channel and am loving these making of videos. Would love to see more of the DKC trilogy but especially 3 and how it pushed the SNES to it's limits. Keep up the great work!
Return of the king!
its just depressing when u see just how much they could do back then with the hardware available. but today they cant even finish the game.
Exactly, now it's just push it out half finished, roll out some extremely heavy bloated patches sometimes 10's to 100's of gbs in size, and immediately start charging them for dlc/add-ons/cosmetics and the game will be mostly forgotten about in a couple months.
While I can see where you are comig from: Games have become more complex and the tech/workflows behind them as well. Additionaly you have to make sure everything has a nice performance, even on older machines.
Back then it was more passion driven I guess. Nowadays it's the publishers that's calling the shots
@@Skitz0frenix passion is something thats missing from most media now.
@@Skitz0frenix Believe it or not, there was a time when the 'A' in EA actually meant something within their catalog of games.
Been here since 5k, crazy to see this channel grow. The quality is always top notch !!
A stellar job, this was brilliantly researched, edited & presented…keep up the fantastic work
Much love from Brazil
Did you know? Diddy Kong's shirt is meant to be a different shade of red from his hat?
Best in the business as usual, I get genuine excitement when I see you've uploaded! Time to dig out the SNES mini
man, you guys deserve more views and likes these videos are top quality.