Dixie Kong for Smash

SGDQ 2026 - Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong-Quest

In Donkey Kong Country 3, Bazaar the Bear talks about Link from the Legend of Zelda series visiting his shop and asking about the local castle. Alongside a reference to Rupees, the currency of that series, Bazaar mentions that Link muttered something about his "shells being the wrong shape". This is a very specific reference that not even all fans of the Zelda series may understand, and requires having played The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening in particular.

In that game, Link can collect Secret Seashells, which unlock the optional Koholint Sword (that game's equivalent to the Master Sword). The shells in that game are conch-shaped, while the one Bazaar sells in his shop is clam-shaped, so Link would not be able to use it.

Source: DKC3 (NA, SNES), LADX (NA, GBC)

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You have a few more days to win a statue of Tiki Tong in the new #DonkeyKongBananza #EmeraldRush event.

Who says yesterday's song must be tomorrow's? Grab your grass skirt and get off the path that's hurt you. Get on stage and follow the beat of your own drum.

The #DonkeyKongBananza Emerald Rush event ends tonight!

Extremely rare 1995 Nintendo of America employee jacket with an embroidered Diddy Kong and Dixie Kong design.

All of this for a bunch of bananas? I need a raise

Another wonderful pic I did with the awesome folks at @manontheinternet

Finally after 27 hours, this piece is complete. Had to pay tribute to one of my favorite video games growing up. I loved the Donkey Kong Country series.

This is also a remake of my older version made back in 2015.

Part 2 of this

the Tour, the other, and the... real others.

In January 2026, an update to Donkey Kong Country Returns HD was released, implementing Dixie Kong as a playable character. This results in the game having three out of four playable characters featured in Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, missing only Cranky Kong.

The update contains unused graphics in its files that appear as Cranky Kong's icon and barrel, but crossed out hastily with a pink X. This suggests that at some point during the development of the update, Cranky Kong was also considered to be added, but was scrapped, and one of the developers marked the icon and barrel as unused instead of deleting them outright.