Diddy Kong Racing was a racing game for the Nintendo 64. Featuring Diddy Kong from the popular Donkey Kong series. List of Nintendo.
Trouble in Tropical Paradise After years of living in peace and harmony, the inhabitants of Timber's Island are shocked when their tropical paradise is invaded by a giant, hideous space pig! To thwart Wizpig’s nefarious plans, explore the sprawling island, unlock hidden racetracks, and drive, hover and fly against colorful characters in high-octane competitions! Your host, a gregarious elephant named Taj, greets you in a grassy meadow. Drive over bridges, through sparkling surf and around volcanoes. Start racing.
You'll have to speed through a huge variety of racing challenges if you want to unlock all the island’s secrets, complete the adventure and save your friends from the parlous pig. Diddy Kong Racing DS boasts a huge number of courses, including several all-new ones! Diddy Kong Racing DS offers three types of vehicles: karts, hovercraft and airplanes. The drivers range from the quick and the small to heavyweights who specialize in bashing rivals off the course. Duel with classic DKR power-ups like oil slicks, gas clouds, land mines, super shields, speed boosts, homing missiles and magnets. In Diddy Kong Racing DS, you’d better be ready for anything under the sun! As of May 20, 2014, the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection service for Nintendo DSi and Wii systems has been retired.
Online features of this game are no longer available after this date but this game still provides an entertaining experience in offline mode. To learn more about this service change, please visit To learn more about this service change, please visit.
The Virtual Console service on the Nintendo Wii, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Wii U, and New Nintendo 3DS allows you to purchase, download, and play digital releases of classic games from past game systems on your more modern systems. The Virtual Console service, however, does not offer every game that was released on a past system originally as a digital download.
Depending on the title in question, this could be for any number of reasons, such as technical limitations, popularity, or licensing issues. Diddy Kong Racing for the Nintendo 64 is one of titles not available as a Virtual Console download, most likely due to a licensing issue, as the in-game characters Banjo and Conker are owned by game developer Rareware, which was purchased by MicroSoft, thus, in turn, Banjo and Conker now are owned by MicroSoft. As a result of this, Rareware's other classic Nintendo 64 games such as Banjo-Kazooie and Perfect Dark will not be available as Virtual Console downloads. It is, however, possible you may, in the future, find Diddy Kong Racing DS as a Wii U Virtual Console download. While the core game is the same, Banjo and Conker have been replaced with Tiny Kong and Dixie Kong respectively and a number of new features have been added.
The Virtual Console service on the Nintendo Wii, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Wii U, and New Nintendo 3DS allows you to purchase, download, and play digital releases of classic games from past game systems on your more modern systems. The Virtual Console service, however, does not offer every game that was released on a past system originally as a digital download. Depending on the title in question, this could be for any number of reasons, such as technical limitations, popularity, or licensing issues. Diddy Kong Racing for the Nintendo 64 is one of titles not available as a Virtual Console download, most likely due to a licensing issue, as the in-game characters Banjo and Conker are owned by game developer Rareware, which was purchased by MicroSoft, thus, in turn, Banjo and Conker now are owned by MicroSoft. As a result of this, Rareware's other classic Nintendo 64 games such as Banjo-Kazooie and Perfect Dark will not be available as Virtual Console downloads.
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It is, however, possible you may, in the future, find Diddy Kong Racing DS as a Wii U Virtual Console download. While the core game is the same, Banjo and Conker have been replaced with Tiny Kong and Dixie Kong respectively and a number of new features have been added.