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Bug in Donkey Kong Country 2's Spinning Barrels on ZSNES Emulator

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Summary

Donkey Kong Country 2 has a bug in the SNES emulator ZSNES affecting the control of spinning barrels in certain stages.

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After you jump into the barrel, you’re supposed to be able to completely control its rotation by pressing left and right on the d-pad, with the barrel only rotating while you’re holding left or right.
Tapping left or right makes the barrel spin forever in that direction, until you press the opposite direction.
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Donkey Kong Country 2 has a pretty well-known bug in the old SNES emulator ZSNES where some stages have spinning barrels that don’t work properly. One of the earliest pictured here, in the first stage of Krem Quay (third world): After you jump into the ba

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