Banjo-Tooie also coming to XBLA
Multiple connections planned between BK XBLA, BT XBLA and N&B
Ten years after the release of the original Banjo-Kazooie on Nintendo 64, gamers around the world will not only have the chance to play it again with slightly improved visuals on an upcoming Xbox Live Arcade port announced last week, but also discover the most obscure feature that Rare ever conceived. The plan for Banjo on XBLA is far most ambitious than what it has been announced to date, since it will include a Banjo-Tooie port and connections between all the three titles, in a Stop ‘n’ Swop extravaganza that will make Sonic & Knuckles look like an unfinished demo.
MundoRare has confirmed through different insider sources that, apart from BK XBLA, external developer 4J Studios is also working on its sequel, Banjo-Tooie, which will hit our consoles sometime in the future, provided all goes as planned.
Therefore, the idea is not only to provide players with a new connection between BK XBLA and Nuts & Bolts (which would obviosly be different than what was originally planned in 1998 for Tooie), but also -quite possibly- bring back the original (or, at least, similar) feature between BK and BT that Rare wasn’t able to add on Tooie due to later revisions of the N64 circuitry. If Tooie XBLA will also connect with N&B remains to be seen.
Moreover, as CVG confirmed last week, the many references to Nintendo from Banjo-Kazooie (such as Mumbo playing a xylophone with a Nintendo logo, or Banjo having some fun with a Game Boy) will remain untoched. We have also confirmed that those will be possible thanks to an agreement with Nintendo, which sadly wasn’t possible in the case of GoldenEye XBLA.
Expect much more about the return of Banjo as the release dates for BK XBLA and Nuts & Bolts approach this Fall.
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- Banjo-Tooie will hit the Xbox Live Arcade on April 29th ()
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14 Comments
This is WONDERFUL news. So happy to hear.
It’ll be especially great to play Tooie without constant lag.
Comment by bottles98 — 21.Jul.08 @ 12:02 am
OMG! This is the best definitely Banjo’s year, and I’m so excited to play these on XBLA! Thank you Rare! ^_^
Comment by B-Kpianist — 21.Jul.08 @ 12:58 am
yes time to play the first two again while getting through nuts and bolts
Comment by saicambanjo — 21.Jul.08 @ 2:09 am
If the Nintendo references are staying, does that mean Rare’s original logo will still be included?
Comment by LoMoNoCrAt — 21.Jul.08 @ 3:10 am
http://www.gamerbytes.com/2008/07/banjo_kazooie_and_banjo_tooie.php
Even more…I cant even keep up 
Awesome. Problem is…I have only so many days to play..How am I going to plan my time? Ahhhhh
I really wish rare would release banjo kazoie on the wii also. I think microsoft got lucky they got a n64 game on there system.(in my opinion the n64 is probably the best system)
Comment by Andy — 10.Aug.08 @ 6:59 pm
no offense andy, but the wii does get a lot of n64 games if im not mistaken *cough OoT cough*
Comment by darthwhiskers — 21.Aug.08 @ 2:44 am
I think he was referring to the fact that Miscrosoft is getting a game that Nintendo published darthwhiskers. Common sense says that a Nintendo console should get a game form another Nintendo console. Microsoft getting a game from a Nintendo console is a bit more of a surprise.
Comment by StarWolf22 — 26.Aug.08 @ 10:07 pm
“Waits Patiently for Perfect Dark and Goldeneye for XBLA.”
Comment by The BS Police — 08.Sep.08 @ 10:19 pm
why wont they release this on WII virtual console !
its such a gd series 
hmmm what shuold i do? i have both bk games for n64 but witout the working stop n swop.or must i buy the 2 XBLA games and play everything 100% and the stop n swop feature too and unlock AMAZING things for all the three games? because i have nuts and bolts too and thats a cool game and want too get all these extra things? i choose my second option hell yeah (me love BK BT BKNB and SNS)
Comment by Pieter — 13.Dec.08 @ 11:13 pm
This is great news
I am really excited for all of the BK news this year!
Comment by Deltonax — 20.Jul.08 @ 11:44 pm