

However, because the player starts with 25 lives, it takes a while (and possibly many intentional deaths) to reach this screen. The passwords are displayed whenever the player gets a game over as opposed to beating a level like in Aladdin. The save feature was removed, and replaced with a password system similar to Aladdin.

The animal buddies are completely missing, not unlike many other Donkey Kong Country pirates. Nevertheless, there is still the occasional sprite flickering in-game. The sprites are smaller than the original, likely because of the Famicom's sprite limit. The only map shown in the game is the world map. As opposed to the original game where you go to the map every time you beat a level, in this game you only go to the map after the title screen and after defeating a boss. Many of the boss fights are from the original game. The two Kongs can be swapped by pressing Select, provided both are available. The player controls Donkey Kong and Diddy through numerous side-scrolling levels of many different themes.
