A few more observations:(posted 9601 days ago)Somewhere (including the tips that you can activate in MAME) it says to wait for the girlfriend to scream "Help!" on DK's elevator levels, then count 4 springs, then run. That definitely does not work all the time. Although I still haven't quite figured out the rhythm, I can say for sure that, lots of times, this will not work. I have verified this up to and including L=13 by watching a recording I made. This recording, BTW, beats the #1 score for DK on MARP, but I feel I can do better than I did there, so I am going to try to make a better recording tonight before uploading something to MARP.
"Flashes". I have never seen "flashes" on DK, but they most certainly do occur on CK. Flashes occur on the barrel level only and really are barrels that Kong drops/throws (so they don't roll their way down, they drop instead), but with a few important differences: Their orientation is different: They're circular, just like rolling barrels look as long as they're not on a ladder. Also, they always drop straight down (never in an angle), starting at the regular drop point, and, most importantly: If you see one, and you're standing in the wrong place, it's impossible to avoid, because it's coming down at an incredible speed. It really looks like a flash. It only takes a second (probably less) to drop from top to bottom. It didn't take long for me to see flashes when I started playing CK all those years back, but not until I actually got killed by one, did I realise that they're barrels. If I remember correctly, if you look at my ckongs (Crazy Kong on Scramble hardware) recording, you'll see them. I think I actually die *twice* by a flash.
Ben Jos.