

I miss Pipsy once with a missile and at the end my homing missile misses Diddy Kong. And I get a lot of blue ballons in the plane track, so I use them instead of the hard barrel rolls. Hitting a wall with the car only stops you for a second and with hover it's sometimes even wanted (wall boosting). And hitting a wall is the worst thing with plane, because you fell down to the ground and loose all your speed. Snow World: If you wonder why I don't make as many barrel rolls in the plane tracks as in the world record videos, that's because you can't really control the barrel roll and usually you end hitting a wall.Main World: With TT the Taj races are fun.And I still missed a few ballons, so my time wasn't even that good. So it's not really comparable to the time trial WR. But only because you have ballons in adventure mode and can cut grass or jump really far. Yeah, I drove a WR in Ancient Lake (trophy race). In Fire Mountain I somehow miss one egg from Diddy Kong's nest, although I clearly got it. Good, that this never happened again to me. So before I realized that I was doing a speedrun, I had already restarted the race. I restarted a race after a small mistake at the beginning of a track, because I always instantly restart after a small mistake in time trial mode.

At least I never accidently restarted a race like I did on one of my training runs. I miss a zipper here and there or hit a wall, but that's only small mistakes. Dino World: The races, the boss and the silver coin challenges went quite good.Main World: After the opening, talk to Taj and collect the first four ballons with your plane.Changing between the worlds would take too much time. So I do one whole world and then move to the next one. And because you need a certain amount of ballons to enter a specific track, there aren't many possible strategies. Well, it's a racing game and it's just do drive around the tracks as fast as possible.

The strategy is (nearly) the same as in my other DKR speedrun. As in my 100% run, I make use of all advanced driving techniques. The run is also any percent, because I don't do the last trophy race and I don't unlock the secret character Drumstick (who isn't needed anyways, because he is worse than TT). There is no doubt that this character is the best in the game, because it has excellent acceleration, top speed and handling. You probably already know who it is: TT, the clock. You can unlock this character by beating him (or his ghost) on all time trial tracks. It's a new game+ or special run, because I use a secret character that isn't available when you play the game your first time. Here is my any percent, new game+ speedrun for the N64 game "Diddy Kong Racing". Available in five versions: low/normal quality DivX, and normal/high/low quality H.264 MPEG-4. Single-segment New Game+ speed run of Diddy Kong Racing's European version as TT, done on September 28 2006.
