Sound test:
Highlight the "Erase Game" option on the game selection screen. Press Down, A, R, B, Y, Down, A, Y. Press Select to change the current song.

Bonus games practice:
Press Down, Y, Down(2), Y when the game first starts, before the game selection screen appears.

Easy continue:
With one life remaining, enter a level that was previously completed and lose your life. Press any button at the game over screen to return to the Cranky Kong opening screen. Enable the "Bonus games practice" code and play the bonus games to earn a surplus of lives. Then, press Start to pause game play, and press Select to return to the place where the last life was lost.

Fifty lives:
Highlight the "Erase Game" option on the game selection screen. Press B, A, Right(2), A, L.

Ninety-nine lives:
Go to the first level and keep playing to get as many extra lives as possible. You will get a total of about ten extra lives every time you play that level. Just repeat this to collect up to ninety-nine lives.

Go to the Manic Mincers level. When you pass the halfway point, turn into Diddy. Allow the first blue muscle guy to fall into the hole. Just when he falls in the hole, hold Back then hold B. After you hit him nine times you will start gaining lives.

Interactive two-player game:
Highlight the "Erase Game" option on the game selection screen. Press B, A, Down, B, Up, Down(2), Y, A and start a two-player game. The inactive player can press Select at any time to assume control.

Hint. Long jumps:
To make either character jump farther, run towards a gap. As you reach the edge, press Y to make them do their trademark move (Donkey King rolls and Diddy cartwheels) off the cliff. They will appear to walk on air slightly, but as soon as you see them start to fall press B to make them jump.

Hint: Hidden warp:
Quickly tap B as you walk between Coral Capers and Funky's Flights in the Kongo Jungle to advance to Orang-Utan Gang in Vine Valley.

Hint: Bonus rounds:
Each time you get three of the same gold "buddy", you will enter a bonus level. In each one there is a large wall on the opposite side from where you start. If you get over that, there is a large golden "buddy" that will double the amount of "buddies" you have in the top-left of the screen.

Hint: Getting Enguarde:
There is a 1 up from where you start, a 2-up to the left, a 3-up to the right, and big fish downwards.

Hint: Getting Expresso:
When you reach the dead end, go on the topmost part, jump, flap once, and go to the right. If done correctly, you will be in a room with the big ostrich.

Hint: Getting Rambi:
Keep jumping on the top platforms until you get to the end.

Hint: Getting Winky:
Go to the left. When you reach a dead end go up. Keep doing this until you get the big frog.

Hint: Extra life in level 1:
Jump back into treehouse on level 1 to find an extra life balloon.

Stay high in the tree tops in the first level to find some extra lives.

Hint: Hidden underground banana bunches:
With Kong, duck and press Y and a bunch of bananas may pop up from the ground. With Diddy or Kong, if you jump from a high place on to the ground, a bunch of bananas may pop up from the ground.

Hint: Jungle Hijinxs level: Extra lives:
Get a ride on Rambi until you get to the cave where you go to exit the level. Jump on top of the cave and repeatedly press B, A until you get shot out of a barrel. If done correctly you can collect a 6-Up balloon.

Hint: Mine Cart Carnage: Shortcut:
Jump over the edge on the right and hold Left until you hear a bang. Jump over one enemy to complete the level.

Jump over the blast star barrel and press Left when you are falling

Jump over the barrel that shoots you into the cart. Press Left as soon as you are even with the barrel, so you will touch the wall but not go into the barrel. You will warp almost to the end of the game. Watch out for the Croc going the other way.

Hint: Mine Cart Carnage: Fly:
This is a very difficult trick to learn, but easy to use once mastered. It can be used to fly on the first mine cart level. Enable the "Fifty lives" code. Begin the level with both Diddy and Donkey Kong. Play the level all the way until the save point and save the game. Nearby, you will find the first crashed mine cart. Crash into it so you lose one of the characters. The remaining Kong will jump out of the cart. Let him plummet to his death. Restart the level from the save point and hit the crashed cart again. When the second Kong jumps out, instead of letting him die, press B + Y and he will jump in mid air. You can now fly through the level. Note: You will not be able to walk on the tracks or walk through the exit.

Hint: Ostrich bonus round:
When you go into the Ostrich bonus round, go back over the top where you came out of to find a secret room full of small birds. Get them and then get the other birds to have more birds than you would originally had.

Go all the way to the right, up on the top to find a hidden room and a golden ostrich. Get it will to make all of the others small and get a 100 golden ostrich.

Hint: Platform Perils: Bonus round:
There is an automatic barrel just below the entrance to the Platform Perils level in the Chimp Caverns. Pick up the barrel and knock off the Krusha. Then, jump on the first moving platform. Before it gets too far out, move in the direction of the entrance. You should land on a secret moving platform that will take you to a bonus round.

Hint: Rhinoceros bonus round:
Go all the way to the right, up on the top to find a hidden room and a golden rhinoceros. Get it will to make all of the others small and get a 100 golden rhinoceros. To get there, go left and jump up on top of the door you used to enter. Then, hop along the stones at the top.

Hint: Ropey Rampage: Shortuct:
Get to where the letter "O" is located. Then, fall straight down in-between the group of three trees and the single tree with the blue alligator. There is a barrel that will automatically shoot you into the side of a cliff. This will break open a secret door. Jump from rope to rope until you get to the other side of the large gap. You will find the letter "N" there. To exit, walk through the cave door or jump into the gap (this will not kill you). You will be shot forward into the level.

Hint: Ropey Rampage: Bananas:
When you start the level, go behind and jump onto the cave and onto the tree. Keep jumping from tree to tree until you get to the last one. When you get to the last tree, jump into the air off the top of the screen and hold Y. Use the D-pad to go back and forth until you fall. You will have gotten a lot of bananas.

Hint: Ropey Rampage: Red balloon:
Play the level until you get to the sign that points to the exit. Go back to the hole that is just before it. Jump into the hole. A barrel will blast you upwards. The goal is to find the red balloon. Watch the balloon and the last barrel it appears on -- jump up and hit it. The balloon will then flash on top of the correct barrel. If you were correct, you can collect the balloon.

Hint: Slip-Slide-Ride level: Shortcut:
After you go up the rope at the entrance, there is a barrel that Donkey Kong can jump into up against the left wall, just out of sight. This will transport you much closer to the end of the level.

Hint: Snow Barrel Blast: Shortcut:
At the third barrel after the one between the two bees, shoot straight down to go to almost the end of the level.

Hint: Stop & Go Station level: Shortcut:
Walk back through the entrance of "Stop & Go Station" to get transported about three quarters of the way through the level.

Hint: Swordfish bonus round:
In the Swordfish bonus stage (when you get three golden sword fish), go straight left to reach a secret room with a number 2. Go straight right to reach a hidden room with the number 3. Both will turn all of the swordfish small. The golden swordfish is available in a hidden room directly downward, and the number 1 upward.

Glitch: Fly:
At the mining level where you ride the cart, run into an enemy or a broken down cart. Then rapidly press Y + B to "fly". Do not this too rapidly or you will lose a life when you get too high. Just gradually release, then press the buttons again. Note: You cannot use this trick to complete the level.

At various points the game will glitch and you cannot get Diddy or it will freeze and you cannot swing on vines. Press X + Y and you will fly. You need to keep holding the buttons or you will fall.