Kasplut colors:
Look at the hair color of a Kasplut when one is encountered. The color will reveal what color Blueprint he is holding. Green hair indicates a green Blueprint). If the Kasplut has white hair, then he does not have anything.

Another way to find out the color of the blueprints that a Kasplut has is to check the color of the shockwave he sends.

Original Donkey Kong mini-game:
Use a Gorilla-Grab to operate the lever in the Frantic Factory area, then play the original Donkey Kong game. Successfully complete all four stages, then play once more and complete the game to collect the Nintendo Coin. Find and photograph six Banana Fairies to unlock the original Donkey Kong option at the "Mystery Menu".

Jetpac mini-game:
Collect at least fifteen Banana Medals, then visit Cranky to play the Jetpac game. Get 5,000 points in the game to collect the Rareware Coin. Find and photograph six Banana Fairies to unlock the Jetpac option at the "Mystery Menu".

Camera:
Use Tiny and shrink to enter the fairy-shaped stone building in the main hub. Collect the camera to start photographing the Banana Fairies hidden in the game and unlock the "Mystery Menu" options.

DK Theater:
Find and photograph two Banana Fairies to unlock the DK Theater option at the "Mystery Menu". This option allows all the animation sequences to be viewed.

DK Bonus stages:
Find and photograph six Banana Fairies, then locate Rambi the rhino, and Enguarde the swordfish to unlock their bonus stages.

Boss battle:
Find and photograph ten Banana Fairies to unlock the Boss Battle option at the "Mystery Menu". This allows any Boss that already has been defeated to be fought again.

Krusha In multi-player:
Find and photograph fifteen Banana Fairies to unlock the Krusha In Multi-Player option at the "Mystery Menu".

Cheat Mode:
Find and photograph all twenty Banana Fairies to unlock the Cheat Mode option at the "Mystery Menu". This allows unlimited items during game play.

Bonus levels:
Find and collect forty Blueprints and bring them to Snide to unlock eight bonus levels (Batty Barrel Bash, Beaver Bother, Big Bug Bash, Krazy Kong Klamor, Kremling Kosh, Peril Path Panic, Searchlight Seek, and Teetering Turtle Trouble).

Secret Nintendo and Rareware Scores:
In the Rambi Arena (must have five Fairies), there is a hidden Nintendo and Rareware score.

Nintendo: 175 Points
Rareware: 200 Points
Mine: 219 Points

Multi-player mode:
Go to the first level in adventure mode, where you find Diddy. Locate the big pad with King K. Rool's face in front of Funky's Place. Stand on the pad and press Z. You will be transported to a "battle arena", where you must defeat a group of small enemies. Once the timer runs out, you will receive a crown and have ability to play two multi-player games -- a third-person death match-like game, and a multi-player version of the Battle Arena.

Alternate costumes in multi-player mode:
Press Analog-stick Up or Down after selecting a character. This is in the instruction manual, but may be useful to gamers that have rented the game.

Alternate ending sequence:
Successfully complete the game after collecting all bananas to view the normal ending, with an extra sequence with K. Lumsy taking the Kongs for a ride. Successfully complete the game after getting all the collectibles to view the normal ending, K. Lumsy sequence, and an extra sequence featuring Cranky.

Completing the game:
To fully complete the game you must photograph all twenty Banana Fairies, and complete the regular game of Donkey Kong twice, which is in the frantic factory and some other places. When playing the regular Donkey Kong game, use the D-pad instead of the Analog-stick. When dodging the barrels, climb halfway up the ladders so that the barrels will pass underneath.

Swim faster:
When swimming above water, hold B to swim faster.

Quickly swimming stop:
Press C-Up while swimming.

Avoid damage when falling:
When you are high enough to get hurt from falling, press C-Up just after you fall off and you reach the ground safely.

Accurate orange throw:
Take out your Kong's weapon and activate the aiming feature. Line up the intended target and throw the orange as normal.

Invincible Kong in Frantic Factory:
Once Donkey has opened up the gate that allows you to enter the Battle Arena, switch to either Diddy or Tiny. Go down into the hole but do not kill the Kasplat or you will have some waiting to do. When you are in the hole, the Kasplat cannot harm you. You can make it even madder by shooting at it. You might try teasing it by jumping through the air between the shock waves.

Confused Windup Kremlings in Frantic Factory:
First, activate both Bananaporter #3s. In the lobby area, let the Krems chase you to the BP. Once you are safely on the other side of the wall, watch as your former pursuer looks around wondering where you went. Note: Due to its obvious lack of intelligence, it may be a few seconds until it realizes you are gone.

King K.Rool pads on islands:
K.Rool pad #1 can be found on your way up to Frantic Factory. You will see a trail of vines. Go through that trail and then you will see an opening in the wall on the right. Enter and you will see Snide, a Diddy pad, and a K.Rool pad with a boulder on top of it. Use Chunky to remove the boulder.

K.Rool pad #2 can be found In the Fungi Forest. You will see a mushroom on the roof. Note its color, and shoot it with the appropriate character (Red: Diddy, Blue: Lanky, Green: Chunky, Purple: Tiny, Yellow: Donkey Kong). It will be red first, then another color. On the fifth time that it is a different color, shoot it with that character and a wall should open to reveal a Chunky pad. Turn invisible and a pad will appear on the big box in the lobby

201st Banana:
Collect all 200 known Bananas so that Donkey Kong gets his hoard back. After collecting all 20 Banana Fairies, a message requesting you to visit the Head Fairy will appear. You must have Tiny to visit her. She will show you the way to the 201st Banana, that is marked with a Rareware sticker.

Creepy Castle Fairies:
In Creepy Castle, play Donkey's Barrel Blast and win. The tree will open and inside there will be a Banana Fairy at the end of the river where you obtained the Golden Bannana.

Use Diddy Kong must unlock the door to the bathroom which is located near the bananaport pad 4. Change to Tiny Kong and enter the door. Find a platform with Tiny's face on it. This will teleport Tiny to a scale model of what appears to be a barn. The Banana Fairy is located behind the barn.

Crystal Caves Fairies:
Go to the cabins that are to the left of Candy. Go to the very top one and play Diddy's Guitar Gazump. Defeat the two enemies with spiked mallets and use Diddy's Simian Spring to get into the jetpack. Fly up and collect all the bananas that are on top of the candles. A Banana Fairy will appear.

Play as Tiny Kong and enter the igloo. Defeat the moving circular bulls-eye platform, get the Golden Banana, and a Banana Fairy will appear.

Play as Tiny Kong and enter the igloo. Use saxophone slam to open the gate, and hit the pad to activate the timer. Hit it three times and you will receive a banana, and a Banana Fairy will appear.

DK. Isles Fairy:
Play as Tiny and go to the Fungi Forest house. As soon as enter, go to your left until reaching the end of the room. Press C-Up and look to the left to see Tiny's feather switch. Shoot it to reveal a Fairy in the small room.

Frantic Factory Banana Fairies:
There is another Banana Fairy located in the room with the moving dice/domino enemies where the elevator blocks are located. It is located where Donkey Kong plays the number game, just around the corner before you enter the room.

Go to the lobby of Frantic Factory as Chunky and break open the box that is on the right side.

Go to the testing room and go left and jump up on the middle box. It will shoot you upwards. Then, walk in the tube thing and turn to find a Banana Fairy.

Fungi Forest Fairies:
Go through the blue door in Fungi Forest as Diddy (or change there) at nighttime . Then, turn right and enter the medium sized barn. Go to your left and jump up the boxes. You should now be over a pad with Diddy's face on it. Hold Z and you should now be in a dark room with a music pad in front of Diddy. Play his guitar. The parrot should have brought a light. Walk carefully across the beams to the Golden banana. After you collect the Golden banana a fairy would come out behind you.

Play as Donkey Kong at night. Go to the area with the barn surrounded by water. Find the spot near that location where the screen is filled with trees with thorns. You should then see a house (where you go to play Minecart Mayhem with Donkey Kong). Go to the left of the house and jump in Donkey's barrel (with his face on it) to become invincible. Go to the back of the house and press the switch. Go through the door that opened. Walk forward and climb up the ladder to the right. Walk on the platform until you see a box with a question mark on it. Go on top of it and press A, then Z to do a slam to reveal a Fairy.

Gloomy Galleon Banana Fairy:
Get Tiny Kong and go to the cactus near Funky's shop. Go on Tiny's music pad and play her saxophone. Then, race the time to go into the bars that opened. When you enter, go to your right in the main room. The Banana Fairy would be on your right in a cage.

Coin Door Fairies:
Go to the Rare/Nintendo Coin Door near the end of the game . Look through the window to find two Fairies. They do not move as much if you keep the door shut.

Character locations:

Diddy
In Jungle Japes with DK, go to the mountain and shoot the three switches. Diddy's cage will open.

Lanky
In Angry Aztec with DK, free the Llama from its cage by completing DK's Barrel Blast. You will see the Llama again in the temple. Play DK's drums to turn the lava into water. Swim across to reach Lanky.

Tiny
In Angry Aztec with Diddy, go into the temple and jump from one platform to another. Shoot the target across the room, then go to the bridge and play Diddy's Guitar to melt the ice pond. Swim to Tiny's chamber and use Chimpy Charge to activate the letters and spell out KONG.

Chunky
In Funky's Factory with Lanky, look for a pipe coming out of the wall and into the ground. There will be a switch on top. Stomp it and Chunky's cage will appear.

Hidden bonus barrel locations:

DK Island
Select Diddy and go to the entrance of Fungi Forest. Go in Diddy's Barrel and get his jetpack. Fly to Donkey Kong's head and go to the end of his hair curl. You have to get very close to see the barrel. The bonus level is where you help the fairies get past the crooks.

Fungi Forest
Select Lankey and climb to the top of the huge 1000 feet tall mushroom. Use Lankey's Hand Stand (hold Z and press Attack). Walk to the top of the head and stomp on the button. You now only have ten seconds to find one of the two doors that opened. A hidden bonus barrel is inside one of the doors.

Restore watermelon meter:
Use the following trick if you are running low on health. Get next to a "Tag Barrel" when low on health. Jump into the barrel and exit. Your watermelon meter will be replenished.

K. Rool doors:
There are some doors that have pictures of items in the last level to get to K. Rool, .To past them, you need those items. The first door has a picture of four Battle Crowns and the next door has a picture of the Rareware and Nintendo coins. You cannot ignore the Donkey Kong and Jetpac games. They must be completed to get the coins to open that door.

Rainbow Coins:
Locate the dirt mounds marked with "DK" scattered throughout the game. Stand on top of a mound, then hold B to attack and send a shockwave to destroy the mound. A large Rainbow Coin will appear that results in five Banana Bunch Coins for each Kong.

Easy Rareware Coin:
Hover on the top of the screen collecting any items that fall. If any enemies come close to you, go faster and avoid them. Keep this up until you reach 5000 points or higher. Intentionally die anytime when you have the required amount of points.

Reload ammunition without crates:
Go to Funky to fill your fruit guns without using the ammunition crates.

Restore musical instrument energy:
Another way to restore your musical instrument's energy is to go to Candy instead of going through her headphones.

Quicker movement:
Some ways of moving are faster than others. You can roll around by running while holding Z and pressing B. You can also long jump, by running while holding Z and pressing A.

No charge for Portals:
When you have Lankey, do not bother getting those hard bananas to give to the B.Locker you meet before the end of the level. Just keep pressing B to attack right in front of B.Locker. Lanky's arms are so lanky he can touch the portal without paying.

Easy multi-player kill:
Allow your opponent to follow you in multi-player mode. Then, teleport, turn around quickly, face the bananaport pads, and shoot if your opponent also teleported.

Shockwave attack:
After the camera is collected, hold B for a few seconds as any character. Release the button for the shockwave.

Stand still while shooting:
Hold Z when you have the gun out as any character and you can spin around and shoot.

Aerial Cartwheel attack as Diddy Kong:
Press B quickly followed by A when playing as Diddy Kong.

Front flip as Diddy Kong:
Press A, then quickly press A again to make Diddy Kong do a Front Flip.

Long jump as Donkey Kong:
Press B to do the jump-kick move, then press A while still in the air. When he is high as possible press B again for the air attack.

Monkey Smash secret passage in multi-player mode:
Enter Monkey Smash stage 1 in multi-player mode. The secret passage is located in the area where the green and silver wall is. Go through the hole closest to the first bananaport pad. As you enter the hole on your right, go through the wall where the green and silver wall overlaps.