r/BanjoKazooie • • 12d ago

News Andy Robinson on X: "Xbox has officially announced widespread changes to its studio structure, including the merging of numerous studios, the handing over of Halo and Rare to Activision, and the potential closure of Ninja Theory."

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r/BanjoKazooie • • Aug 01 '26

Subreddit Announcement Rules have been Revised.

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Since we're getting flooded with a bunch of new people (either through NSO or the Recomp/Decomp/Renut/Kurko/a new found belief in God?) who aren't in the know and don't possess ball knowledge, we're getting to the point where misinformation and hate is spreading again.

I've updated and consolidated the rules to also include penalties. Some of you already know these penalties were soft-launched with the older rules, so your slate isn't cleaned btw.

We're down to 1 active mod and 1 automod again, I can't be here to mod you guys 24/7.

Just a quick run through

  • Rule 1 hasn't changed, except I'm no longer asking for you guys to be nice. Some of you are dickheads to one another for absolutely no reason.
  • Rule 2 hasn't changed much, just left it a little less vague. Your AI garbage is still not allowed, in posts or comments. I saw one of you AI generated someone's hand-drawn Furnace of Fun map? You suck specifically dude.
  • Rule 3 hasn't changed except the expectations that there will be a potential penalty.
  • Rule 4 is less anal. You can link mods now. My previous co-moderator was gun-ho on everything. I just ask you link stuff that doesn't have official BK files in them.
  • Rule 5 is because some of you suck and can't have a healthy conversation about a game you dislike without being a dick about it. Critique is fine, but there is a fine line between "BKNB doesn't fit the qualities of a BK game because XYZ" and "This game is so ass".
  • Rule 6 is a catch-all. I removed the "no posting your part 37 walkthrough" since we're a sorta dead subreddit but also with all these BK projects there's bound to be more people posting. Some posts just are too garbage to leave up, some are very obvious bait that a lot of you fail at. If this were a healthier community Humba discussion would be OK, but it's not and some of you are very racist.
  • Rule 7 is because some of you spread misinformation like there isn't already a reason to hate current Rare and Microsoft. Both suck on their own, you don't need to make shit up. Microsoft didn't force the writers at Rare to make Lord of Games shit on the previous BK games, that was Gregg Mayles taking the piss writing dialogue.

These 7 rules should be easy if you're a somewhat decent human with a functional frontal lobe. I'm currently surviving a recession and trying not to lose my house. I'll leave the comments open for discussion.


r/BanjoKazooie • • 8h ago

Image Met a legend today

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Decided last minute to go to the local Retro Gaming convention and happened upon Grant Kirkhope’s table.

My wife laughs at me because I listen to his music hiking.


r/BanjoKazooie • • 11h ago

Discussion What would you say is your HOTTEST take about Banjo-Tooie?

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r/BanjoKazooie • • 11h ago

Discussion The only part of the game I genuinely hate lol

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I just finished this game 100%, this was hardest part in the entire game for me, even moreso than the actual final boss or Rusty Bucket Bay by a significant amount

The idea is funny, but something about it didn't feel fair to me. maybe I'm just a scrub, but having to remember the gruntilda facts, the tedious minigames I can't for the life of me beat such as matching the tiles, which is weird because I collected all the jiggies in the game no problem, I can't beat these minigames lol. Oh and the instant death ones, you're telling me I just straight up die if I don't know what gruntilda's favorite smell is? I hope it's bullshit because thats this WHOLE ASS BOARD GAME


r/BanjoKazooie • • 1h ago

Discussion BK Jiggies of Time secret maybe?

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So im replaying the game and noticed at the egg target shooting area in Lost Woods that I can hear a Cauldron but idk where it's at but it seems like its under the shock pad that is there. Anyone know what its for?


r/BanjoKazooie • • 1d ago

Image Re-creation of exterior of Banjo's house from Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge

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From The Sprinters Resource


r/BanjoKazooie • • 2d ago

Video This is how I've always reached the Glide Molehill. Didn't even know you could knock down the Icicles in the Grotto.

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r/BanjoKazooie • • 2d ago

Discussion Just how ballsy was it to outright promise a sequel at the end of banjo-kazooie? (How early if ever did nintendo promise them?) Spoiler

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Despite adoring Bano-Kazooie as a child I never actually completed it. Well, some 27 years later I finally got around completing it...and was quite floored actually to see that at the end of the game they directly declare that a sequel is coming. I always thought that they started making it only after the success of the first one was confirmed, but it appears they were willing to state It at the end of the first game. It strikes me as uber confident considering how crunched for time and pressure-filled game development is, especially for something as limit-pushing as Banjo Kazooie. You hear about the team having to scrap concepts and work crazy hours, yet they knew they were going to be able to make a sequel apparently...impressive stuff! Does anyone have any knowledge about the situation, like maybe did some higher-ups at Nintendo visit the Rare offices and just have their minds blown from what they were seeing and said, yep, get goin on the sequel! Or maybe any quotes from the devs saying something like during the rush to meet the release date we knew we had the confidence of Nintendo to make another? It all just strikes me as surprisingly confident given the fickle nature of making big games.

Or was the team just that confident in their product that they were going to force the sequel no matter what it took lol. Because from what I understand they broke ground on the sequel like immedietely after the first one... Was the teasing at the end of Kazooie (literally using the name of the second game) simply a huge gamble that they were willing to look foolish on, or did they have a 100% green light to do the sequel before the first one was done? Just unclear on the development transition from the first to second

Awesome community you all have here, thanks a bunch for existing!

Now on to Banjo-Tooie, which I've never even played!


r/BanjoKazooie • • 3d ago

Fan Art Instagram fan art

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r/BanjoKazooie • • 3d ago

Discussion Welcome to Hell.

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I just made it to this world and I already want to leave

This is just Clanker's Cavern if it REALLY fucking hated you


r/BanjoKazooie • • 3d ago

Meme average jinjo hiding spot

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r/BanjoKazooie • • 3d ago

Music Project Dream (SNES) - Level 1 [Restored Music Track]

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An uncompressed music track from Dream!


r/BanjoKazooie • • 4d ago

Discussion Do you think this area in Banjo-Tooie (UK 2000) was inspired by this scene in Wallace and Gromit: A Close Shave (UK 1995) or is just a broader cartoon trope or a coincidence?

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r/BanjoKazooie • • 4d ago

Video Banjo-Kazooie Promotional Trailer (1998)

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I love how the narrator dude gets the name of the little girl bear wrong. It's Tootie, not Toodles, damn it!


r/BanjoKazooie • • 4d ago

Discussion Banjo Kazooie 3DS port

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When Banjo Kazooie was released, it always was a dream to play it on a portable console. Hope rose when the DS and 3DS released, but sadly, it never came to be.

But thanks to the decompilation project, I now have Banjo running around in Spiral Mountain. There's no sound, no objects, and Banjo can only run and jump, but it's a great milestone to have reached.

What would you like to see added to the game later on? What would a good use of the second screen be?


r/BanjoKazooie • • 4d ago

Video Character Parade (Switch 2)

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Didn't even know this existed back when I played the game on N64.

God bless everyone.


r/BanjoKazooie • • 5d ago

Image Ad for Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge for GBA, October 2003

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r/BanjoKazooie • • 5d ago

Discussion Yo! Bk has been decomped, what would it take for a 3ds port?

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The 3ds can emulate BK as is, but that’s being generous, the game runs barely at 25 fps with frequent lag spikes and freezes! Not to mention the not so infrequent crashes!

BK is fully decomped, so someone could make a port


r/BanjoKazooie • • 6d ago

Discussion Kazooie so Sassy in Tooie

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I love Kazooie sassyiness she so hilarious and rude 🤣 she just doesn't care 🤣 got to love her.

Jolly Roger: "Oh, hello there! I'm Jolly Roger, town mayor and proprietor of this lovely harborside inn."

Kazooie: "We'd like a ginger beer, please."

Jolly Roger: "I'd love to oblige, but I'm less than Jolly at the moment as my partner's gone missing..."

Kazooie: "That's a shame. Now how about that drink?"

Banjo: "Kazooie!"

Kazooie: "Oh, sorry. Where did you last see her?"

Jolly Roger: "Oh, the horror of it all! My poor, sweet Merry Maggie... swallowed whole by a giant, foul-smelling beast of the deep!"

Kazooie: "Well, unless that oversized guppy serves drinks from its stomach, this isn't getting us any closer to our ginger beer."

Banjo: "Guh-huh! Don't worry, Mr Roger, we'll help you look for her! Where exactly did you hear that big gulp noise?"

Jolly Roger: "It came from the main lagoon, just beyond the obstacles! But please be careful—that waterspitting monstrosity is completely unpredictable!"

Kazooie: "Relax, toothy. If it tries to swallow us, I'll just give it a terminal case of heartburn."


r/BanjoKazooie • • 6d ago

Question Random question but why does Banjo’s voice sound different in Banjo-Tooie?

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His voice sounds more mature and lower in the second was it because rare wanted to show he grew up? or was it something else I’ve been curious about this.


r/BanjoKazooie • • 6d ago

Question Weird Map ID 84 glitch

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This is my first post so apologies for the informal way im going about it but it be nice to get in touch with someone who has more information on this.

A couple of months ago I was playing Banjo Kazooie with my friend and we just finished the game. We were watching the post game scene where all the main characters are sat on the beach after getting all 100 jiggies, and as the character credits started I skipped it as we saw what we wanted to see. Unexpectedly, we were greeted by this weird klungo walking sequence inside the room where Grunty has her machines, which was slightly uncanny to say the least. Klungo was just walking extremely slowly towards the console to use the machines and as he got there he just despawned very abruptly and the camera was stuck in that room, I ended up just dashboarding the game as nothing else was happening and it was starting to get a little creepy. I've played the game loads of times prior to this from start to finish and gotten 100% before and I never saw this.

I looked around after this happened online to see if I could find anything and I couldn't see any posts or videos explaining it, eventually I just gave up.

I recently remembered about this event after some time and started to dig again, eventually settling for some AI answers on Google, which led me to the name of the post. Apparently this glitch is only possible on the xbox 360 version of the game as when they ported it from the n64 they forgot to do something with the code which allowed for this 'frame perfect glitch' to occur.

I dont really have any more information on this but I just wanted to know if anyone had any recordings of this glitch or info in general as its peaked my interest.


r/BanjoKazooie • • 7d ago

Discussion Evercade Banjo Kazooie Double Pack Rare was actually involved with this port

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With the upcoming port of Banjo Kazooie and Tooie for the Portable gaming system Evercade Nexus, Rare was actually was involved in helping with the development with this port. Rare gave the original N64 source code to Blaze Entertainment and Evercade. The port was upgraded making it sharper and clearer and in the source code of the N64 they worked out how to now create the Stop and Swap items to work with both BK and BT for hidden secrets and awards with both games.

This upgraded port releasing for the Evercade and the new portable system the Evercade Nexus on October 30th 2026 is a legal confirmed port. The Evercade Nexus has a 5.89 inch IPS high quality screen. The Evercade Cartridge can be played on all their Evercade gaming systems including their newest Evercade Nexus Portable Gaming System which comes with the Banjo Kazooie Double Pack Cartridge (has Banjo Kazooie and Banjo Tooie on the one cartridge).


r/BanjoKazooie • • 7d ago

Question any info on him?

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hi all! I just picked up this mumbo jumbo today and have no idea what he might be worth if he is worth anything. I don’t want to sell for too much as I want him to go to a good home, but was wondering if anyone was interested or knew anything about him before I try and sell on eBay!


r/BanjoKazooie • • 7d ago

Image "Fat ass bear must tattoo: Banjo kazooie nuts and bolts till death"

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Mumbo Jumbo: "Fat ass bear must tattoo: Banjo kazooie nuts and bolts till death"