Diddy's Dash

"What happened? Did you get lost?"

- Cranky Kong

Diddy's Dash is a time attack mode introduced in the Game Boy Advance remake of Donkey Kong Country 2. It is the successor to DK Attack, a time attack mode of the Game Boy Advance port of Donkey Kong Country.

Overview
The mini-game only has Diddy playable, hence the name, through the game's levels while timed. He must reach the end within the lowest time to beat Cranky's high score or later his own. Cranky's high scores for each level are only five minutes. Throughout the level are lines of stars; they act as checkpoints where Diddy spawns if he is defeated. If he defeats multiple enemies by hopping on them or by his cartwheel attack, the clock is temporarily frozen.

All enemies and bananas are still present. However, all DK Barrels have been replaced with crates, and all DK Coins and Bonus Levels have been omitted as well. The Bonus Barrels have not been omitted, and they do nothing except Diddy out of them.

Glitches
Diddy's Dash has a lot of glitches in it, likely because the mode was quickly developed and the developers oversaw the mode's glitches. This mode's best known glitch is the ROCKARD/WELLARD glitch which causes Dixie to be the other playable Kong alongside Diddy.

To perform this glitch, the player must head to the Cheats menu of the Start menu and enter either ROCKARD or WELLARD. The player must then head to Diddy's Dash and select any level. When the selected level is started, Dixie aids Diddy as his partner. This causes glitches to occur, because she is not playable in this mode via normal means.

Oddly, if Diddy and Dixie swap sides, Diddy's icon in the top-right corner is not changed to Dixie's icon; it only shifts slightly upward or downward and vice versa. Though, if the level is restarted with Dixie in the lead, her icon takes the place of Diddy's. The glitch's effects wear away when the level is exited or completed.