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Noticeably nicer sound in the new version, sweet.

Can anyone help me out with how to start it with the Japanese level order? I've managed to figure out that I need ADF Opus and I've found the start-up sequence, which looks like this:

CursOff
NoBorder
CursOff
Cls
SetMap Menu
Prompt "Selection:>   "
Type2 S/Menu

Which bit do I change to "Donkey_Kong CRAZYKONGLEVELS"? (And actually, anything I change in ADF Opus just seems to revert as soon as I close the window anyway.)

just remove startup sequence altogether and put only one line: Donkey_Kong CRAZYKONGLEVELS

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Cheers. I must just be an idiot but I can't for the life of me figure out how. I deleted the Loading and Menu parts in the S folder successfully in ADF Opus (tried both V1.2 and the 2025 version), but when I edit Startup-Sequence, it immediately reverts to what it was before as soon as I hit Return or click OK. In the 2025 version it won't let me change the contents even temporarily. (The "Writeable" box is ticked and the ADF file isn't marked Read-only.) 

I can delete Startup-Sequence entirely but then there's no way I can find to add a new version. I tried creating a plain text file called Startup-Sequence.txt, removing the suffix and dropping it into the S folder but it wouldn't recognise it ("unknown device type").

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This took me a while too, back then, to figure out, how this works. Maybe it would really make sense, "jotd666", if you would integrate the "japanese level-order" and the "crazy kong levels" directly as a choosable point, in this AmigaDOS-menue, that appears, when the user load "Donkey Kong 500". I think, this would be the best solution, in the end.

And maybe the japanese level-order, which is simply "level 1, 2, 3, 4 and repeating", should be the default one and the US level-order made choosable (in this menue) then, because this game comes from Japan and the japanese level-order also makes alot more sense gameplay-wise. Not just my 2 cents I am sure, if you ask several "Donkey Kong" fans, because the US level-order is "level 1, 4 then 1, 3, 4 then 1, 2, 3, 4 then 1, 2, 1, 3, 4 then 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 4 and this last sequence then repeats". A bit chaotic, I think   :-) Especially strange is, that you have to play through six levels, before you see level-2 for the first time, in the US level-order. No idea, who came up with that, back when "Donkey Kong" was released in America? *lol*