They nailed it on GameBoy - an underrated solid DKC game. It's shorter and less difficult than DKC1, but they've managed to keep the feeling of the console game, despite the platform. Its only problem was low visibility on an actual handheld, but not a big deal on emulators with color palettes and a Super GameBoy mode within a button press. No reason to ignore it now.

And yeah, the tunes had no right to slap this hard. At times they're even better than on SNES.