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Donkey Kong Country HD Edition is the fan-made native rebuild of Rare’s 1994 SNES classic: the whole game running as a PC program with a 16:9 or 16:10 widescreen view, CRT and reconstruction filters, smooth frame generation, rewind and save slots, and an optional Dixie Kong variant. It plays on your desktop through the free RetroPlayers.Club Mini App, fused with the Donkey Kong Country you already know from this site.
Donkey Kong Country HD Edition
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Donkey Kong Country HD Edition can be relived on your own PC through the free RetroPlayers.Club Player app — full speed, with a controller and saves just like your hardware. You confirm you own the game from your library, and no need to connect your console.
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| Action | Keyboard | Controller |
|---|---|---|
| Keyboard works out of the box; any USB or Bluetooth gamepad is detected automatically. | ||
🎮 PC controls
These are the keys the RetroPlayers.Club Player app uses for PC, shown for reference. Your controller still lights up below so you can confirm it is detected — Premium members can remap here (keyboard or USB controller) and the app applies the map at the next launch.
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| Action | Keyboard | Controller |
|---|---|---|
| Up / Climb | ArrowUp | D-Pad up |
| Down / Crouch | ArrowDown | D-Pad down |
| Left | ArrowLeft | D-Pad left |
| Right | ArrowRight | D-Pad right |
| Pick Up / Throw | X | Right face |
| Jump | Z | Bottom face |
| Select Kong | S | Top face |
| Run / Roll | A | Left face |
| L | Q | Left shoulder |
| R | W | Right shoulder |
| Start / Pause | Enter | Start |
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How to Play Donkey Kong Country HD Edition
How to Play
Donkey Kong Country HD Edition runs natively on Windows, so it plays through the free RetroPlayers.Club Mini App on your desktop. Click Play on this page and the Mini App downloads the rebuild (about 9 MB with the game data), sets it up and starts it for you.
On the keyboard, the arrow keys move, Z jumps, A runs and rolls, X picks up and throws, S selects a Kong, Q and W are the shoulder buttons and Enter is Start. A USB controller plays too: the d-pad or left stick moves and the four face buttons are the SNES diamond. Premium members can set their own keys and controller buttons in the Visual Controller Mapper on this page.
About Donkey Kong Country HD Edition
This is Donkey Kong Country translated, instruction by instruction, from the original SNES program into native PC code by the DKC1Recomp project, with the game’s structure taken from a complete disassembly rather than guessed. The levels, the music, the physics and Donkey and Diddy’s moves are the 1994 game’s own; what the rebuild adds is the presentation: a 342×224 widescreen view whose level walls are handled so nothing past the level shows, nearest, bilinear or reconstruction scaling, a CRT television look with scanlines, phosphor mask, glow and curvature, and a dark settings panel on Escape.
What is new
Smooth animation and frame generation present in-between poses on 120 Hz displays, the pixel aspect can be the CRT’s 7:6 or square, and the Assist Tools add rewind, fast-forward and save-state slots. Mods > Dixie Kong Country switches to a variant with Dixie in the lead, built from the same game data. Candy’s in-game saves persist between launches.
Credits
DKC1Recomp is made by Elliott Tate and contributors on mstan’s snesrecomp framework, following the DKC2Recomp project; this is release v0.0.17, an alpha. It is a community project and not affiliated with Nintendo or Rare. Donkey Kong Country is a trademark of Nintendo.
Donkey Kong Country HD Edition — Frequently Asked Questions
What is Donkey Kong Country HD Edition?
A fan-made native PC rebuild of the 1994 SNES game Donkey Kong Country by the DKC1Recomp project, with widescreen, CRT filters, frame generation, rewind and save slots.
Is this an official Nintendo release?
No. It is a community project built from the original game program; Donkey Kong Country is a trademark of Nintendo and the game was made by Rare.
How big is the download?
About 9 MB including the game data; about 58 MB once set up on your PC. The Mini App keeps it installed between plays.
Can I play with a controller?
Yes. A USB controller drives player one, and Premium members can set their own layout in the Visual Controller Mapper on this page; the Mini App uses it the next time the game starts.
What does Dixie Kong Country change?
It is an optional variant in the game's Mods menu that puts Dixie Kong in the lead, built from the same game data; switching restarts the game into that variant.
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