🚀 An epic saga unfolds: a 3000-word dissertation on a SNES emulator bug that affects... barrel spinning in *Donkey Kong Country 2*. 🎮 Because clearly, the fate of #retro gaming hinges on fixing this critical cosmic imbalance. 🙄 Meanwhile, the rest of us continue to rotate merrily on the axis of who-cares. 🍌
https://jsgroth.dev/blog/posts/dkc2-open-bus/ #SNESemulator #DonkeyKongCountry #gamingdiscourse #gamingbug #HackerNews #ngated
Donkey Kong Country 2 and Open Bus | jsgroth's blog

Donkey Kong Country 2 has a pretty well-known bug in the old SNES emulator ZSNES where some stages have spinning barrels that don’t work properly. One of the earliest pictured here, in the first stage of Krem Quay (third world): After you jump into the barrel, you’re supposed to be able to completely control its rotation by pressing left and right on the d-pad, with the barrel only rotating while you’re holding left or right.