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Skill
9th March 2006, 09:04 AM
I really don't understand this so i'm hoping that someone can help me out. I gather rare started making this game for gamecube and then changed over to microsoft while making the game. What i don't understand is why nintendo wern't allowed to make the game or finish it if DK is there character, and they have the rights to Dk. I really think that it would have been a great game and a big help to the gamecube.
Hakey Wake
9th March 2006, 11:28 AM
I think what happened was similar to what happened with Diddy Kong Pilot (Rare couldn't use anything with the Kong name so changed it to a Banjo game). Donkey Kong Racing I believe was changed to involve Sabreman instead....and then Microsoft canned the whole thing.
repobanjo
9th March 2006, 06:53 PM
Wasn't it dropped before Microsoft bought Rare? I don't remember, but I think that's how it went.
Goatmancer
9th March 2006, 06:56 PM
It was dropped long before Rare was bought.
Skill
10th March 2006, 05:21 AM
^ Really why though it just seems stupid i mean there's a picture of it on the back of my gamecube box and everything it's odd for them to just drop it i mean alot of people would have bought the game.
Hakey Wake
10th March 2006, 12:56 PM
Aha! I knew it. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey_Kong_Racing)
Zeek
10th March 2006, 02:10 PM
Here (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7392024150617242594)'s the video itself (Uploaded by me).
Soulreaper41392
10th March 2006, 04:34 PM
didnt it also have to do something with collecting crystal coconuts? like the golden ballons from diddy kong racing? I had totally forgotten this game was in development, now i remember it well. all the magazines were excited about it and said it looked great. sad that they didnt make it.
Gruntling
10th March 2006, 06:09 PM
didnt it also have to do something with collecting crystal coconuts? like the golden ballons from diddy kong racing? I had totally forgotten this game was in development, now i remember it well. all the magazines were excited about it and said it looked great. sad that they didnt make it.

Yes, it was one game I was looking forward too. From the video it looks like it had some promise... I'm just a little confused why Nintendo didn't buy the rights to develop the game from Rare.
Skill
10th March 2006, 10:23 PM
That's exactly what i can't work out Gruntling its like they just didn't care about it.
Soulreaper41392
10th March 2006, 10:25 PM
Nintendo should have just ditched the whole Donkey Konga thing and made DK racing instead. BUT they should still have made Jungle Beat, just not used the controller for a music game.
repobanjo
11th March 2006, 03:39 PM
That video makes me want it so bad. As you know, we can't get it!