Donkey Kong 64/Crystal Caves

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• In DK's barrel blast course, you can take a route that gets 15 bananas (normally, you can only get either 0, 10, or 20). Start the game and fire seven times, then fire slightly to the left of the next barrel. You'll skip several barrels and 5 bananas. Video (#1)
• Diddy can get his blueprint before Tiny activates warp 4 as follows. In the Candy area, get the rocketbarrel. Fly above DK's tumbling room and press into the wall to get out of bounds. Walk toward the five-door igloo and follow the wall carefully until you get to the room with Diddy's blueprint. Don't stay too close to the wall or you'll fall into the water, but don't get too far away or you'll be sent to the entrance. Video (#1)
• You can skip the puzzle in DK's tumbling room as follows. Enter the room and use the C-up glitch to get underneath the platform that surrounds the colored panels. Use a ceilingkick to get on top of the wooden bar beneath the Golden Banana, then use a backflip to get to it. Video
• You can use STVW on the wall between Diddy's and DK's entrances to the 5-room igloo to enter any of the rooms without playing the instruments. You can then walk out past the bars. Video (#8)
• There are many other places to use STVW, but the water level is too low for the glitch to be useful in many places.
• Chunky can use the rock glitch to get out of bounds, but there is no known use.
• In Diddy's room with 8 enemies he must kill within a time limit, you can grab onto the center platform and pull yourself up without being noticed by the barrel enemies.
• Lanky can use high jumps (Z+A) to enter the chimney of the ice castle without Baboon Balloon.
• You can use the Baboon Balloon pad on the ice castle to get to Lanky's blueprint. Video (#2)
• By damaging yourself to get invincibility and then rolling into one of the thinner parts of the ice maze, DK can glitch to the center. Wiggling the joystick back and forth makes it much easier to glitch through. Video (#9)
• Chunky can get into the small igloo with his Golden Banana by jumping and rolling. Unfortunately, there is no known way to get out. If you kill yourself with oranges or exit the level and reenter, the igloo disappears. Video