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In the end, I can point to my decade of experience working with the technicals of DK64, or wax lyrical about the process of making the recomp. In the end, it doesnt matter due to the foundational rocking. You either believe me or you don't, and I understand if the SoH saga means its the latter

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There were a few elements which took a lot of time to figure out because its in an area of the game we havent yet dug into. If you see 2dos's FAQ video, and then some of my videos on my 2nd channel, you can see the progress being made with the fix for the chunk rendering issues

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Most of the work that was involved with the recomp was trying to decomp a bunch of functions which were yet to be decomped with the decomp project. My decomp.me scratch list has a good new 50-60 entries since the start of making the recomp, which also contributed to the sizable bump in the decomp %

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I understand that the news here has shaken the wider community up a lot. That being said, during the process of making the recomp, where I was in frequent communication with Dario, it would make no sense to go to an LLM for something given I'm in contact with the Albert Einstein of recomps.

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I think this would be good mod territory to simulate N64 lag for Tiny Phase and DK Phase to appease both parties.

You have those who feel the difficulty bump who want it to be rebalanced to better suit your expectations from N64. You then also have those who don't feel the difficulty bump, so would not want it rebalanced as they find things fine and Tiny Phase draws on long enough as is to many.

Tiny Phase being harder is something we've heard of before (and is the most noticeable due to the sheer lag on N64). DK Phase being harder is something we haven't heard before, to be clear. Lag balancing is hard because there are two conflicting interest groups for this kinda change.

All good :) We strive to make the recomp as good as we can make it, and when sifting through feedback, we try to separate what is the game vs what is the (lack of) lag. Lack of lag does make things harder for sure in some aspects, and we're keeping mental tabs on if anything is brought up.

Toes will get the most noticeable difficulty increase because they're so unbelievably laggy on N64. This is the first mention I've heard of DK Phase though

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Ballaam @ballaam.dk64randomizer.com · 09/09/2026

There are some points where you're shooting at K Rool (in DK Phase) when K Rool fakes out. This isnt when youre intended to hit him. That being said, yes, reduced lag means that the attack patterns will be faster. The difficulty should be similar to fighting the boss on Wii U/NSO

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Excuse the jank movement with "Another Ballaam". I couldn't get my controller to work on my other laptop, so had to just deal with WASD

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Ballaam @ballaam.dk64randomizer.com · 05/09/2026

Guess I need to move to Rhode Island where people will understand me

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Ballaam @ballaam.dk64randomizer.com · 30/08/2026

Released a whole bunch of mods for Rekongpiled: - Start with all kongs unlocked - Slower beetle - Fixed beaver bother - Open coin door in Helm by default All available on the mod page for DK64 Rekongpiled: dk64recomp.com/mods.html (Yes I did have a lot of fun making the thumbnails)

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Ballaam @ballaam.dk64randomizer.com · 30/08/2026

I swear all AI bros just cough up the same "it's like a carpenter using a circular saw" analogy every time without fully considering that the analogy just isn't correct. AI isn't a circular saw It's asking another "carpenter" to do the job who has a history of not following orders.

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2dos @ DK64Randomizer.com @2dos.dk64randomizer.com · 29/08/2026

The DK64 recomp is now out! Play "DK64 Rekongpiled" now! Playable on Windows, Mac and Linux, just provide your own DK64 rom. No generative AI used at any point in the process. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVUvGGXTk0E dk64recomp.com

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DK64 RECOMP RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT

YouTube video by 2dos

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It does have a meme play on words, but not quite that one

Shoutouts to Linux btw. Apparently Linux is too goated that this bug doesn't show up even when trying to spam the overview menu over and over again. On windows though, everyone ran into it. QED: Switch to Linux. The only windows you should be looking at are in Key 8 room to prevent fake key.

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This fix took us about 3.5 weeks to find and is the kinda stuff which resulted in us not wanting to give a specific release date for the recomp. We didn't want to over-promise, run into a race condition like this with some deep buried nonsense, and then run past the date Summer 2026

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Next, we found a rough workaround which we thought was good enough for release, until we tested it further and found it was causing some weird double audio issues on those higher-end systems. I'm happy to say that we have finally found a good enough fix that works on both high and low-end systems!

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A fix was found pretty early on to prevent it crashing, but unfortunately, the game would still kill the audio if the next internal frame happened before the race condition was over. This showed up on some of our private testers' streams when we gave them some alpha builds earlier this month.

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