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Part 36
Donkey Kong Country

Part 36

Complete Part 36 of Donkey Kong Country, including Bobbing Basalt and Moving Melters, with puzzle piece locations and KONG letter tips.

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Complete Part 36 of Donkey Kong Country, including Bobbing Basalt and Moving Melters, with puzzle piece locations and KONG letter tips.

Walkthrough
  1. 1
    In an area with spinning banana circles, collect all bananas to earn a puzzle piece.
  2. 2
    Break the gear without damaging the adjacent platform. Dismount, climb to the puzzle piece that fell from the ceiling, then remount Rambi and proceed right.
  3. 3
    Pass Checkpoint (an auto-save point you restart from on death) #2.
  4. 4
    Jump through lavafalls with precise timing. To grab the 'N' after the second lavafall, jump slightly earlier than usual.
  5. 5
    Run across a long, curvy, crumbling platform. After a gap on the next similar platform, perform a short hop to collect the 'G'.
  6. 6
    At the exit barrel, jump off the right side to a platform with a puzzle piece. You may need to dismount Rambi for this jump.

Level: Bobbing Basalt

Walkthrough
  1. 1
    Ground-pound the vase left of the starting point to find a puzzle piece.
  2. 2
    As you cross moving platforms, watch for orange platforms that sink entirely into the lava.
  3. 3
    In the first area with walls emerging from the ceiling, jump off a tiki doom's head to reach a puzzle piece above it.
  4. 4
    The rocks in the next area move erratically. Jump between them to grab the 'K' positioned above the platform.
  5. 5
    Ground-pound the DK platform to drop a sinking slab. Quickly climb it to collect items and earn a puzzle piece.
  6. 6
    Jump and grab the 'O' as it reaches the top of its trajectory on the wall.
  7. 7
    Pass a checkpoint. Leave the DK barrel for now.
  8. 8
    Jump off the sinking platform at its apex to reach a blast barrel leading to a bonus area.
  9. 9
    Carry the DK barrel through subsequent areas. At a path split, take the upper path. Get between fireballs and follow their pattern right. Drop to the platform near the wall and throw the barrel to break the wall, revealing another bonus area.
  10. 10
    Return left to a windmill. Blow on it continuously to make bananas and a puzzle piece drop.
  11. 11
    Head back to a platform with two tiki goons. Take the lower path on sinking platforms to find the 'N'. Return to the top path and proceed right.
  12. 12
    After sinking platforms, blow on the right helicopter plant on a stationary platform to reveal a puzzle piece.
  13. 13
    Past more walls from the ceiling, roll-jump off the first sinking platform to grab the 'G' and reach the next platform. The exit barrel is at the top.

Level: Moving Melters

Walkthrough
  1. 1
    Bring the barrel to the long platform in the lava. As it breaks apart and floats right, smash a suspended bag with the barrel to make a puzzle piece land on the platform ahead.
  2. 2
    Be aware that most platforms in this level move and will eventually sink.
  3. 3
    Jump up to grab the 'K' above the wheel.
  4. 4
    Below the next set of moving platforms, roll-jump left off a wheel to get a puzzle piece located under a platform.
  5. 5
    After the row of wheels, jump to get the 'O' above the top platform. Blow out the char-char.
  6. 6
    Stay on the large wheel for almost its entire duration to grab a puzzle piece that pops out.
  7. 7
    After the checkpoint platform, jump left and blow on the windmill to access a bonus area.
  8. 8
    Pass a checkpoint.
  9. 9
    Fire from the barrel cannon through the set of fireballs to find the 'N'.
Tips
  • In Bobbing Basalt, if you can manage to get every single item inside the sinking slab area, you will be rewarded with a puzzle piece.
  • In Bobbing Basalt, when you reach the windmill, bananas will drop from the top of the screen, and eventually, a puzzle piece will join them.
  • In Moving Melters, stay on the large wheel for almost as long as possible to get a puzzle piece.
  • In Moving Melters, after the checkpoint, blow on the windmill to reveal a platform that takes you to a bonus area.

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