Candy's Challenge 4

Level Details

Game	Donkey Kong Country GBC
World name	Candy's Challenges
Level name	Candy's Challenge 4
Previous level	Candy's Challenge 3
Next level	Candy's Challenge 5

Normal

• This is the longest and most difficult Candy's Challenge, be prepared to practice it a lot or you can lose a lot of time. Fortunately you can practice it without an emulator, just start-select out of the level after winning to reset the game without collecting the coin.
• Knowing where the letters will be is the key to doing it optimally, especially the first letter of each round.
  • CANDY - The first round is pretty slow and the C is not hard to reach immediately by just running left and jumping to it. Then you can get the next 4 letters in sequence and finish the round in one cycle.
  • FUNKY - This round moves a bit faster and there's an extra blue krochead. Grabbing the F on spawn is tough, but if you position yourself a bit to the left of center you can grab it in the first cycle. It's also fine to just wait for it to go around once, one extra cycle is only about 2 seconds slower. The other letters are well spaced and should be easy to grab from the center, but you can save a little time by grabbing the Y from the right.
  • CRANKY - This is the hardest round, there are more letters, they spin faster, and there are green krocheads in the mix. Going for the C early is possible but not recommended, it spins so fast and the letters are so close that it's easy to hit one of the krocheads on accident. Taking the R-A and K-Y combos in sequence is tough since the letters are right next to each other, and waiting a cycle only loses about 1.6 seconds on this round, so it's okay to play this one safe.
• Blue krocheads reverse the direction and green krocheads increase the speed. If you accidentally hit one of the blue krocheads it's probably best to just finish the round in reverse instead of trying to switch it back, except during the first round.
• You can start-select out of this and the next two Candy's Challenges at any time. If you fail the game, start-select immediately so you can reset it without waiting for the defeat fanfare. You can also use this to skip the victory fanfare. You need to be airborne when the coin touches the counter on top to prevent the victory fanfare from starting, then you can start-select out of the level and it will count as completed.
• The prizes will not spawn while you're on top of their spawning location, so wait a moment before jumping up to them. Jumping to the coin is risky since you don't want to be on the ground when the coin touches the counter.