Wrinkly's Save Cave
Wrinkly Refuge
Donkey Kong GB: Dinky Kong & Dixie Kong
First appearance Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! (1996)
Latest appearance Donkey Kong GB: Dinky Kong & Dixie Kong (2000)
Greater location Northern Kremisphere
Inhabitants Wrinkly Kong, Banana Birds

Wrinkly's Save Cave, misspelled Crinkly's Save Cave in a Nintendo Magazine System (UK) issue[1] and later renamed to Wrinkly Refuge, is a grotto where Wrinkly Kong resides in Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! and Donkey Kong Land III. It is the successor to the Kong Kollege from Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest and Candy's Save Point from Donkey Kong Country, as Wrinkly's Save Cave is where Dixie and Kiddy Kong visit to save their game progress, though unlike Kong Kollege, Wrinkly does not provide any gameplay advice.

HistoryEdit

Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!Edit

Wrinkly moved into several of her own caves in the Northern Kremisphere, following her retirement from Kong Kollege. A Wrinkly's Save Cave appears in every world of Northern Kremisphere, including the hub area itself, between Bazaar's General Store and Funky's Rentals. Each time Dixie and Kiddy enter Wrinkly's Save Cave, she is doing an activity, either exercising, playing a Nintendo 64, sitting on her couch, or sleeping. An arrangement of an early version of the "Inside the Castle Walls" theme from Super Mario 64 can be heard if Wrinkly is playing the Nintendo 64, and while doing so, Wrinkly asks, "Why don't they make games about knitting?" Wrinkly also looks after the Banana Birds rescued by the Kongs; after rescuing every Banana Bird, they return to the Banana Queen.

In the Game Boy Advance version of Donkey Kong Country 3, Wrinkly's Save Cave is reduced to a single Wrinkly's Retreat on the main map, as saving is now done from the   menu. Meanwhile, the other Save Cave locations were replaced with Cranky's Dojo. At Wrinkly's Retreat, Wrinkly only waits for the Kongs to rescue the missing Banana Birds.

Donkey Kong Land III / Donkey Kong GB: Dinky Kong & Dixie KongEdit

In Donkey Kong Land III and its Japanese Game Boy Color release, Donkey Kong GB: Dinky Kong & Dixie Kong, Wrinkly Refuge has a similar interior layout as before, and other than Wrinkly no longer performing a random activity, the place is otherwise the same as in Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!

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Names in other languagesEdit

Wrinkly's Save Cave
Language Name Meaning
Japanese リンクリーのほらあな[2]
Rinkurī no Horaana
Wrinkly's Cave

French Sauvegarde de Wrinkly
Wrinkly's save
Italian Caverna di salvezza di Wrinkly[3]
La caverna del salvataggio di Wrinkly[4]
Caverna del Salvataggio[5]
Wrinkly's safety/salvation cave
The Wrinkly's save cave
Save Cave
Wrinkly Refuge
Language Name Meaning
Japanese リンクリーのかくれが
Rinkurī no Kakurega
Wrinkly Refuge

Italian Rifugio di Wrinkly[6]
Wrinkly's refuge; same as Wrinkly's Retreat

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Nintendo Magazine System (UK) issue 51. Page 15Media:NMS UK 51 page 15 snippet.jpg.
  2. ^ Super Donkey Kong 3: Nazo no Kremis-tō instruction booklet. Nintendo (Japanese). Page 22.
  3. ^ Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! Spanish-Italian booklet. Nintendo (Italian). Page 35.
  4. ^ Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! Spanish-Italian booklet. Nintendo (Italian). Page 44.
  5. ^ Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! Spanish-Italian booklet. Nintendo (Italian). Page 48.
  6. ^ Donkey Kong Land III, e-manual, section 8. Nintendo (Italian).