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Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze

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Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
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Developer(s) Retro Studios, Monster Games
Publisher(s) Nintendo
Series Donkey Kong Country
Release date(s) JP February 14, 2014
NA February 21, 2014
EU February 21, 2014
AUS February 22, 2014
Genre(s) Platform
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer (2)
Input methods GamePad, Pro Controller, Wii Remote, Nunchuk
Compatibility PerfectPerfect
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Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze is a 2014 side-scrolling platformer video game developed by Retro Studios, with assistance from Monster Games, and published by Nintendo. The fifth installment in the main Donkey Kong Country series, and the first in high-definition, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze is the direct sequel to the 2010 Wii game, Donkey Kong Country Returns. It was released in Japan under the alternative title Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze.

Known Issues

Broken Characters and banana's

An issue that presented it self with 1.21.0, which was solved in 1.21.1 and also seemingly solved the vertex exploding banana's you would collect in caves.

Showing the banana effect fixed with AMD Vulkan

Funky's Fly 'n' Buy

If you are stuck in the loading screen when trying to enter Funky's Fly 'n' Buy, a workaround is using the CPU mode "single-core interpreter".
It is not recommend using this CPU mode to play the whole game because of much worse performance.

You'll get stuck on this screen if you try to enter


Previously known issues for older cemu builds

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The intro/opening video when starting a new save does not play properly (video playback is not supported in Cemu). Can be bypassed by using a save file or simply waiting until the video is over (you can also replace the intro.mp4 video with a short one).

Wii U Pro Controller Input/Multiplayer

Wii U Pro Controller/Player 2 input is currently not detected. A workaround can be used instead:

Pro Controller workaround

Vendor-Specific Issues

Various bugs specific to NVIDIA GPUs, including glitched pick-ups (ie. bananas/coins) and improperly rendered textures with specific characters/objects.

Previously known issues for older cemu builds but unchecked with most recent

2-BOSS Auditory Echo

The auditory echo effect that is supposed to play at the intro to 2-BOSS: Mountaintop Tussle does not work, so sound effects do not have any echo in this location.

6-4 Big Squeekly Laugh

When you pass the Big Squeekly encased in ice in the level 6-4: Blurry Flurry, its laughter is not audible.

6-A First Checkpoint Background Lighting

Near the first checkpoint of level 6-A: Dynamite Dash, the lighting on the massive ice pillar in the close background will occasionally glitch out, turning deep blue. The glitching seems to be dependent on Donkey Kong's positioning, as as soon as you start moving it is likely to revert to a normal appearance.

Harvest Hazards Background Fog

The fog in the far background of 5-1: Harvest Hazards appears to be somewhat visually corrupted, rendering as unusual translucent textures rather than fog. Certain levels in World 6 experience a similar issue where the distant fog has large striped squares in it. The glitch is fairly subtle and not particularly distracting, but noticeable if you're keeping a close eye on the distant background.

Configuration

When the game asks whether you want to play on the Television or the Gamepad, choose Television or you will have a black screen.

Gameplay Videos

Testing

Testing
1.4
Version OS Version Region CPU GPU Tester FPS Status Additional Notes
1.4.0c Windows 10 USA Intel Core i5 4690 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 Moi75ts N/A Unplayable Stuck on black "Loading" Screen
1.4.0c Windows 7 USA AMD FX 8320 @ 4.4GHz AMD Radeon R9 390 Darkemaster N/A Loads Hangs in visible loading screen, ultimately freezes. (no pun intended)
1.4.1 Windows 10 EUR AMD FX-6300 AMD Radeon HD 7800 2GB nachopique 5 - 9 Loads No sound. Gets in Menu 5-9 fps and grafical issues on letters. When finished loading In-game shows a black screen at 60 fps.
1.4.1 Windows 7 USA AMD FX 8320 @ 4.4GHz AMD Radeon R9 390 Darkemaste N/A Loads ~10fps in title screen and menus, hangs in black screen at 250+fps after selecting file/controls. (missed potential "freeze" pun)
1.4.2b Windows 7 USA AMD FX 8320 @ 4.4GHz AMD Radeon R9 390 Darkemaste 20-60 Loads ~20fps in title screen and 50-60fps in menus, no longer hangs in black loading screen after selecting file/controls, now loads to a moving green/red static screen at ~50fps that is driving me bananas. (Eventually freezes after waiting several minutes, but does not crash.)
1.5
Version OS Version Region CPU GPU Tester FPS Status Additional Notes
1.5.0 Windows 7 USA AMD FX 8320 @ 4.4GHz AMD Radeon R9 390 Darkemaste 15-60 Runs 20fps in title screen/overworld and 50-60fps in menus/cutscenes, 15fps in-game. Previously mentioned moving green/red static screen can be bypassed using a save file.

Can get in game and is consistent 15 fps with full audio until you try to progress to another area where it freezes with music still playing. (Cemu does not crash) No character texture/audio issues to speak of, appears to be AMD GPU- specific.

1.5.1 Windows 7 USA AMD FX 8320 @ 4.4GHz AMD Radeon R9 390 Darkemaste 20-60 Runs 50-60fps in title screen, 50-60fps in menus/cutscenes, 20fps in overworld/in-game. No other major changes from 1.5.0

No character texture/audio issues so far, appears to be AMD GPU- specific.

1.5.1 Windows 10 EUR Intel Core i7-6700K@4.00Ghz AMD R9 290 yener90 60 Loads While loading, you can hear sound, but have a screen glitch, which move: http://i.imgur.com/ZRrKTNG.jpg?1. After the sound ended, it freezes.
1.5.4 Windows 10 USA AMD FX 4100 Black Edition 3.6Ghz Nvidia GTX 750sc OmegaForceYT 35/45 FPS Playable Texture Issues/Slowdowns on Some Times
1.5.6b Windows 10 EUR Core i5-4690 3.5GHz Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 4GB Malkierian 50-60 Playable Character texture glitches, slowdowns on big effects/level changes, or on certain levels. Beginning cutscene totally unwatchable.
1.5.6b Windows 10 EUR AMD FX - 8320 @ 4.0 Ghz Nvidia Gtx 950 2Gb zzkaiser 50-60 Playable It does not work the control and can not play, but videos play an music works perfectly
1.6
Version OS Version Region CPU GPU Tester FPS Status Additional Notes
1.6.0 Windows 10 EUR AMD FX - 8320 @ 4.0 Ghz Nvidia Gtx 950 2Gb zzkaiser 50-60 Loads The game not detected gamepad and when tick full screen, crash windows
1.6.0 WIndows 7 USA AMD FX 8320 @ 4.4GHz AMD Radeonn R9 390 Darkemaste 45-60 Playable 50-60fps in title screen, menus/cutscenes, *and* in overworld, 45-60fps in-game. Text is now displayed correctly.

It appears enabling ""overwrite vertex buffer size"" significantly lowers performance in this title, (possibly AMD-specific?) previously had it enabled in past submissions. Wii U Pro controller input settings still not detected. (no multiplayer)

1.6.0 Windows 7 USA Intel Core i5-4460 Intel HD 7800 Jakub 55 Playable Seems to run faster in fullscreen mode
1.6.0 Windows 7 EUR Intel Core i7-920 Nvidia GTX970 Asper N/A Loads Coloured impossible to play screen with sound and music
1.6.1 Windows 10 EUR Intel Core i7 6700K Nvidia GTX 970 SC ACX 2.0 Chiyo 60 Runs Graphical glitches including static, lines appearing when collecting bananas, and entire screen going black except for the HUD. Occasional crashes.
1.6.1 Windows 7 USA AMD FX 8320 @ 4.4GHz AMD Radeon R9 390 Darkemaste 55-60 Playable 60fps in title screen, menus/cutscenes, *and* in overworld, 55-60fps in-game.

Wii U Pro controller input settings still not detected. (no multiplayer) Nearly perfect otherwise, appears to be AMD GPU- specific.

1.6.2 Windows 7 USA AMD FX 8320 @ 4.4GHz AMD Radeon R9 390 Darkemaste 60 Playable Consistent 60fps in-game, 2nd player input still not detected. Nearly perfect, appears to be AMD GPU- specific.
1.6.2c Windows 10 EUR Intel Core i5 4670k @ 4.2 GHz Nvidia GTX 750 Ti 2GB chriztr 50-60 Playable The game runs more or less great except for some levels that have a lot of thing happening in the background. This sometimes drags the fps down to 15, making it hard to complete the level. (at least if you die constantly at the same spot as I do)
1.6.3 Windows 7 USA AMD FX 8320 @ 4.4GHz AMD Radeon R9 390 Darkemaste 60 Playable No major changes from 1.6.2
1.6.4 Windows 7 USA AMD FX 8320 @ 4.4GHz AMD Radeon R9 390 Darkemaste 60 Playable No major changes from 1.6.3
1.7
Version OS Version Region CPU GPU Tester FPS Status Additional Notes
1.7.1 Windows 10 USA Intel Core i3-5005 CPU@2.00ghz Intel HD Graphics 5500 Rigo 30-60 Runs Game is playable besides some slowdowns, but some characters (like DK or some enemies) are invisible, making it difficult to play.
1.7.1 Windows 10 USA AMD FX 8320 @ 3.5GHz Nvidia GTX 1060 deathzero021 6-60 Runs Very slow in some levels, making the game mostly unplayable for me.
1.7.1 Windows 7 USA AMD FX 8320 @ 4.4GHz AMD Radeon R9 390 Darkemaste 60 Playable No major changes from 1.6.4. Nearly perfect, appears to be AMD GPU-specific.
1.7.1 Windows 10 USA Intel Core i5-4460 Nvidia GTX 970 dubstepranger N/A Runs Game does not detect Wii U Classic Controller and still does not detect Wii U Pro controller. Game runs smoothly until about 15 minutes into gameplay when framerate drops from consistent 50-60 to <10FPS.
1.7.2 Windows 7 USA AMD FX 8320 @ 4.4GHz AMD Radeon R9 390 Darkemaste 60 Playable Greatly improved performance in slowdown stages/areas, though still somewhat present in certain specific spots. Other than that no major changes from 1.7.1.
1.7.5 Windows 10 USA AMD FX9590 Nvidia GTX 1070 onedementedsmurf 30-60 Playable Game runs smoothly @60fps until getting a second character, then drops to 30-50fps.
1.8
Version OS Version Region CPU GPU Tester FPS Status Additional Notes
1.8.0 Windows 10 EUR Intel i7 4790k Nvidia GTX 980 macbeef 30-60 Playable Game runs smoothly. 2 Player Mode works with that trick... Its not that handy, but working still. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lRYm9yWzC0
1.8.0b Windows 7 EUR Intel i5 7600 Nvidia GTX 1060 Furoryan 30-60 Playable There's a problem with shader cache, if you try to load "Funky's Fly 'N' Buy" too early (just after level 1-2). Use a transferable sharder cache file as a workaround, or don't load Funky's Fly 'N' Buy before level 1-4 is cleared.
1.8.2b Windows 7 EUR Intel i5 4570 AMD RX 480 8GB Nitro+OC AngeLusFr 30-60 Playable Perfectly playable, only some lite visual bug and some freeze.

Note : when the game ask where you want to play chose Television otherwise you will have a black screen

1.9
Version OS Version Region CPU GPU Tester FPS Status Additional Notes
1.9.1 Windows 10 EUR Intel Core i7 4790k @ 4.6GHz nVidia GTX 1070 FaserF 60 Playable Very well playable. To play the game you need to change the settings to Gamepad, not ProController.
1.9.1 Windows 10 US AMD FX-9370 @ 4.4GHz Nvidia GTX 1070 dsjrb 30-60 Playable Minimal graphical issues. Runs identical to EUR version.
1.11
Version OS Version Region CPU GPU Tester FPS Status Additional Notes
1.11.0 Windows 8.1 USA Intel Core i5 4670K @ 3.4~3.8GHz NVidia GTX 1060 6GB pedrofleck 40-60 Playable Game is playable, but with unstable FPS even in 720p it's pretty hard considering it's a DK game. In 1.7.2 it works with 60FPS in 1080p, so if you got a mid-range computer like me, try an older version for this game.
1.11.0 Windows 10 USA Intel Core i7 6700K NVidia GTX 1070 Mononoko Mostly 60 Playable Game is very playable. Cut scene played at beginning (with corrupt sound), and there are certain shadows that do not load, but besides those small issues, the game runs great.
1.12
Version OS Version Region CPU GPU Tester FPS Status Additional Notes
1.12.0d Windows 10 EUR Intel Core i7 3770 NVidia GTX 980ti Sonicarrow Mostly 50-60 Playable Game is very playable in 1080p/1440p. Cut scene at beginning with corrupt sound
1.12.0d Windows 10 x64 (Spring Update) EUR AMD FX-8320E @3.6Ghz NVidia GTX 1060 6GB SC Neimex23 25-30 (45-60) Playable Cut scene at beginning have corrupt sound, In the game its present a slow motion that happen because the fps drop to 30fps or less, but in my couse is present in 30-40fps, this if the option: GPUBufferCacheAccuracy = 0, if change this value to 1, the fps rate is 45-60fps, but have visual gliches. Amd cpu always...
1.13
Version OS Version Region CPU GPU Tester FPS Status Additional Notes
1.13.1d Windows 10 EUR Intel Core i5 7400 @ 3GHz NVidia GTX 1060 6GB Squesh 20-60 Runs At least on what is considered to be mid-range hardware, the game is almost unplayable. More demanding levels later in the game suffer performance-wise, and picking up a buddy results in abysmal frame rates in later stages (sometimes in the 20's).
1.15
Version OS Version Region CPU GPU Tester FPS Status Additional Notes
1.15.0e Windows 7 Ultimate x64 USA Intel Core i7 6700k @ 4GHz NVidia GTX 1070ti 8GB Billcox 30-60 Playable CemuHook, Shader Cache, 1080p Graphics pack etc. Majority of the game runs at 60fps, can drop to between 40 and 50 depending on the level, particularly more demanding levels with lots going on (i.e. Cliffside Slide). Last boss unfortunately played at 25-30fps. Definitely playable throughout albeit with some fps ups and downs. Bizarre bug where it wouldn't recognise directional movement on Wii U GamePad input but it would on Pro Controller. Funky's Shop can also fail to load sometimes (seems to be random). Pretty good overall and definitely worth playing!
1.15.2 Windows 10 EU Intel Core i5 4670k @ 4.2GHz nVidia GTX 1060 6GB chriztr 60 Playable After the recent optimization of the GPU Buffer it's back at full speed everywhere when compared to previous builds.
1.15.2d Windows 10 USA Intel Core i3 4150 @ 3.50GHz nVidia GTX 1050 2GB kdesktop 50-60 Playable I finished the whole main story. 99% of the time gets 60fps, some areas drop to 50fps. There are minor flaws in the Background on certain levels, nothing that prevents gameplay
1.15.10 Windows 10 Pro USA AMD Ryzen 2600 @ 3.4GHz NVidia GTX 1070Ti 8GB PolarIceCaps 57-60 Playable Video Playback works perfectly, runs at 60FPS majority of the time with a few drops here and there. Works with Low Cache Accuracy too.
1.16
Version OS Version Region CPU GPU Tester FPS Status Additional Notes
1.16.1 Windows 10 USA AMD FX-8320E NVidia GTX 1060 6GB PickleRick! 60 Playable Mode Vulkan - Has glitched pick-ups
1.16.1 Windows 10 x64 1909 USA AMD Ryzen 5 2600X NVidia GTX 660 2GB JaleSwiftpaw 60 Runs OpenGL: Game freezes after a few minutes (doesn't crash, just freezes), Vulkan: Freezes on loading screen. Perhaps this game doesn't work with older GPUs.
1.16.1 Windows 10 x64 1909 EU v17 AMD 2700X DDR4 16Go NVIDIA GTX970 (Driver 441.66) Xetron4 60 Playable Mode Vulkan - Works Great (No test before 1.16.1 & OpenGL) - no crash but big glitchs with bananas & coins - Game Time = 1h
1.17
Version OS Version Region CPU GPU Tester FPS Status Additional Notes
1.17.1 Windows 10 x64 1909 EU v17 AMD 2700X DDR4 16Go NVIDIA GTX970 (Driver 441.87) Xetron4 60 Playable Mode Vulkan - crash in level 1-3 and always big glitchs with bananas & coins - Game Time = 0.5h

Mode OpenGL Perfect No crash no glitch.

1.19
Version OS Version Region CPU GPU Tester FPS Status Additional Notes
1.19.1b Windows 10 x64 1909 EU v17 AMD 2700X DDR4 16Go NVIDIA GTX970 (Driver 442.19) Xetron4 60 Playable Mode Vulkan - Always big glitchs with bananas & coins

Mode OpenGL - Perfect - No crash no glitch.

1.19.3 Windows 10 x64 1909 USA v2 Intel Xeon E5450 DDR2 8Gb AMD R9 380x (Driver 20.5.1) pawhtiobo 60 Playable Mode Vulkan - Almost perfect, with GPU buffer cache accurracy set to high - Game Time = 1.0h

Mode OpenGL - Perfect - No crash no glitch (a bit slow in my machine, only 30~40FPS).

*Needs Cemuhook H264 enabled, to the videos to be played, no need to use the past workarrounds.

1.21
Version OS Version Region CPU GPU Tester FPS Status Additional Notes
1.21.1 Windows 10 EU Intel i5 9600k @ 4.88GHz AMD RX 580 8GB chrissie 60 Playable Close to perfect but I need more playtime to be sure.

Played with Vulkan and async compile enabled.

1.21.1 Windows 10 2004 EU AMD Ryzen 1700 AMD 5700XT 8GB nexin 60 Perfect Perfect with Vulkan for half of the game, I'll update you when finished.
1.22
Version OS Version Region CPU GPU Tester FPS Status Additional Notes
1.22.8 Windows 10 EU Intel i5 8500 @ 4.1GHz NVIDIA GTX 1660 6GB Marko 60 Perfect Works just great, "Funky's Fly 'n' Buy" shop is finally fixed and works on single-core recompiler, not sure since which version of CEMU bug was fixed, but i tested it in 1.22.8 with Vulkan, 2 player game, and it works great.