Donkey Kong Land: New Colors Mode

released on Jul 22, 2021

A mod for Donkey Kong Land

This is a GameBoy to GameBoy Color conversion for Donkey Kong Land. It also includes some new features: A Time Attack mode, level names from the manual displayed in the corner of the screen on the overworld, unused music restored, and quality of life updates: an icon now appears in the bottom right of the screen when you have a Kong in reserve, and you can change your Kong’s palette


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The addition of color makes this game SO much better. It’s still only kinda good, though. The sky levels suck.

I went into this game kinda expecting it to be bad considering what I've heard over the years but...Nah! The game itself is solid! I could imagine the slowdown and sprites/background stuff giving a lower score for most but yeah this is a decent Game Boy game. I loved the unique setpieces it brought and the music!

The romhack is stellar too, it fixes the slowdown and makes the game easier to look at with the sprites not blending into the BG. Highly recommend using this romhack if you're gonna play Donkey Kong Land 1!

Colors are well done. Game is actually playable when you can differentiate between sprites and background objects. If you're going to play Donkey Kong Land, this is a must IMO

3 stars for the game itself but this mod is great!