Trivia / Banjo-Tooie

• Accent Depundent: Sergeant Jamjars' rhymes only work when saying the letter Z as "Zed" instead of "Zee".
  • Rare is based in Twycross, UK, and Grant Kirkhope is Scottish.
  • This is more obvious in the XBLA port, when the buttons are different from the original N64 version.
• Cut Song: Certain renditions of music tracks aren't found on Jolly's Jukebox, namely the space remix of Glitter Gulch Mine and the Dodgem Dome Lobby from Witchyworld.
• Distanced from Current Events: In the Japanese release, the Severed Head Sports scene in the end is censored so that Grunty's still-alive head is kept in a cloth sack. This is owed to the fact that the game released at a time when the Japanese public was still in shock over the 1997 Kobe child murders, in which one of the victims was beheaded.
• Dummied Out:
  • The game has a two player versus mode of sorts called Bottles' Revenge, where one player controls Bottles as a devil. Bottles follows Banjo around and will posses nearby enemies for the player to control. The mode was almost finished; Bottles was fully animated and most monsters were fully controllable. It was ultimately retooled as the "Counter-Operative" multiplayer mode in Perfect Dark.
  • A grey Jinjo dialogue icon and an unused Jinjo house labelled "Shouldn't Be Here" have been found, indicating that grey Jinjos were once meant to be collectible like other Jinjo colours.
  • One of the windows on the tower of Grunty's Lair has an entrance modelled behind it. Location text for the Tower Room also exists, showing that more parts of the Lair than the lobby were once accessible.
• Official Fan-Submitted Content: The names of three characters who made their debut in the game were the winners of a contest held by Official Nintendo Magazine; Old King Coal, Chris P. Bacon and Bullion Bill were named by Jeremy Craggs, Simon Turk, and Kyle Hudspeth respectively.
• Refitted for Sequel:
  • Stomponadon was originally meant as an obstacle for the Banjo-Kazooie prototype known as Project: Dream as revealed here.
  • Captain Blackeye's voice clips are refitted from his fully voice-acted lines from the Logo Joke of the Nintendo 64 version of Dream.
• Technology Marches On: Boggy is very proud of having a rather small widescreen TV.
• What Could Have Been: Shares a page

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