So I had a simpler idea I needed to test first: what if, not knowing this, the DKC3 GBA team had simply set it so that any cheat code would give you Cheatin' Chump. It doesn't make too much sense for this to be possible in the first place, but there are some pretty wacky oversights in these ports, so it really couldn't be ruled out that adding this new feature caused such a complication.īut even assuming that's possible, the original DKC3 is programmed so that Cheatin' Chump can only be attained through use of two specific codes: LIVES, and ASAVE. There are cheats which permanently add minigames and a sound test to the main menu, which could theoretically put a 'cheat' flag on all current and future files. A quirk of DKC3 GBA that is absent from the original is universal cheat codes.

There was a major complication to finding out what was wrong though.

I was reminded of this years later, which made me curious if there was in fact something wrong here.

I did it once as a kid, and I got Cheatin' Chump, even though I thought I hadn't input any cheats on that file. For a long time, I've had the suspicion that 105% completion in the GBA version of DKC3 is somehow bugged.

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