There are better ports worth tampering with, or at least ones that i could reasonably see as fixable without too much of an issue. I doubt the DKC games on GBA are even technically ported, they feel like they're running on a completely new engine. Nothing can fix the resized sprites either, and i doubt palette swapping would be very easy there. I just don't think it's worth it to try to fix these issues, they're bad ports overall. In addition to all this, the gameplay physics were ruined as well. They also ruined the sound effects, which i'm pretty certain cannot be restored. I'm not sure if it can be restored in this case, but at least it seems more likely than the graphics (some tunes have been replaced though, the entire soundtrack of DKC3 has been redone). I could go on and on about more removals and downgrades, but i don't think it's necessary. some levels contain totally new and different color palettes than the originals (not just brightened, but different color schemes) palettes aren't even consistent between sprites and backgrounds, they're all altered at different variations many sprite animation frames were removed entirely, rendering some sprite animations far more choppy time of day day/night/sunset transitions removed from DKC1 (this happens in about 3 levels in the first game)

wavy effect removed from fog in the toxic lake and the Misty Mine the rainstorm in Ropey Rampage is now stuck in a perpetual daytime, as opposed to the original night. In other downgrades, i've noticed these other issues. It won't be so simple to just replace the palettes like other ports.

So what you're seeing are graphics that are only 75% as large as the original sprites. Yeah, basically Rareware decided to botch the graphics so much that they went so far as to scale down all the assets by 25%.

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