Trivia / Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!

• B-Team Sequel: Literally, in this case; while still developed at Rare, their A-team largely put their focus on the Nintendo 64 before the game started development, leaving their B-team to handle this game. Even the music mostly had a different composer in the original SNES release.
• First Appearance: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! marked the first appearance of Kiddy Kong, the Banana Birds, Ellie the elephant, Parry the bird and the Brothers Bear.
• Late Export for You: Also counts as a Regional Bonus. Japan didn't get Donkey Kong Land III until three years after it had already come out in America and Europe, but when they did, they got an enhanced version on the Game Boy Color that added even more color than the original on Super Game Boy offered.
• What Could Have Been:
  • David Wise was originally tasked with remaking Eveline Fischer's soundtrack for the GBA remake but he determined that (due to its ambient, bass-heavy style) it couldn't be properly done, at least not by the deadline, and so he rewrote it from scratch. While there's a bit of Broken Base over which is better, the new soundtrack is clearly incomplete. K. Rool doesn't even have his own theme, using the standard boss theme instead, and Funky, Wrinkly, Swanky and the Brothers Bear all share one, when they each had their own themes on the SNES, and even the original Game Boy (and Game Boy Color by extension), as Wrinkly and the Brothers Bear's themes were included in Donkey Kong Land III.
  • Donkey Kong Land III was originally going to have a version of Rocket Rush from DKC3, as evidenced by an 8-bit version of the level's music appearing in the ROM's data files, before the idea was scrapped for unknown reasons.
  • Donkey Kong Land III was originally supposed to have the subtitle The Race Against Time.

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