Banjo-Tooie Cheat Codes & Secrets

Cheato Page Cheats

Banjo-Tooie replaces the sandcastle code entry of its predecessor with a page-based cheat system. Cheato, the cheat book, has been torn apart by Gruntilda. His pages are scattered across every world. Find and return them to Cheato (located in a cave passage between Spiral Mountain and Cauldron Keep) to unlock permanent cheats for that save file.

Pages Required	Cheat Name	Effect
5 pages	HONEYKING	Doubles Banjo’s maximum honeycomb energy
15 pages	JUKEBOX	Unlocks the full jukebox in the Sound Test menu
25 pages	NESTKING	Infinite eggs and infinite feathers for all ammo types
40 pages	XYLOKING	All musical notes in every world are already collected
55 pages	FALLPROOF	No damage taken from any fall, regardless of height
70 pages	SUPERBADDY	All enemies deal increased damage (challenge modifier)
85 pages	SUPERPACK	Maximum ammo capacity for all egg and feather types

Cheats activate as soon as you hand over the required number of pages. They persist on the save file and cannot be deactivated once enabled. Pages do not need to be collected in any particular order.

Stop ‘N’ Swop — Cross-Game Secrets

Stop ‘N’ Swop is Rare’s legendary cross-game transfer system linking Banjo-Kazooie (1998) to Banjo-Tooie. On original N64 hardware, this requires Banjo-Kazooie save data with the secret items collected. On the Xbox Live Arcade versions (2008–2009), the system was fully implemented with proper unlock triggers.

Items transferred from Banjo-Kazooie and their Banjo-Tooie rewards:

BK Item Location	Item	Banjo-Tooie Unlock
Behind Ice Key door, Freezeezy Peak area	Ice Key	Hailfire Peaks: opens the ice chest containing the Mega-Glowbo
Mystery egg (Banjo-Kazooie secret areas)	Cyan Egg	Dragon Kazooie transformation (via Humba Wumba)
Mystery egg (Banjo-Kazooie secret areas)	Blue Egg	Turbo Trainers shoes
Mystery egg (Banjo-Kazooie secret areas)	Red Egg	Sack Pack backpack
Mystery egg (Banjo-Kazooie secret areas)	Green Egg	Clockwork Kazooie Eggs ammo type
Mystery egg (Banjo-Kazooie secret areas)	Yellow Egg	Springy Step Shoes
Mystery egg (Banjo-Kazooie secret areas)	Pink Egg	Enables Beak Barge move

The Mega-Glowbo unlocked by the Ice Key is used on Humba Wumba at Humba’s wigwam in Hailfire Peaks. This transforms Kazooie into a full dragon for the remainder of the game, replacing her standard fire egg attack with a far more powerful breath weapon.

Secret Areas and Unlockables

Bottles’ Revenge (Cut Multiplayer Mode)

This two-player mode was removed from the final N64 release but exists in the game’s code. Player 2 takes control of Gruntilda’s spirit and can possess enemies to attack Player 1. On original cartridges this mode is inaccessible without cheat devices. On the XBLA version, a limited form of cooperative/competitive play was restored. Gameshark codes can re-enable Bottles’ Revenge on N64:

• Enable with Gameshark code: 8117FAD2 0100 (activates the two-player possession mode at Spiral Mountain)

Jinjo Village Jinjo Rewards

Rescuing all Jinjos of a color in every world rewards Banjo with Jinjo tokens, which are exchanged at Jinjo Village for Jiggies. Rescuing all nine Jinjo families (all colors) across every world is required for full completion and unlocks the final Jinjo reward Jiggy.

Bottles’ Ghost — Post-Game Appearance

After defeating Gruntilda, Bottles’ ghost appears in the ending sequence. This triggers based solely on game completion and cannot be accessed early.

Beneficial Glitches and Exploits

Out-of-Bounds in Witchyworld

In the Witchyworld carnival area, Banjo can clip through the outer fence near the haunted house using a precise Beak Barge angle combined with a Flap Flip jump. This allows access to the void outside the map geometry and can be used to reach certain collectibles without triggering intended puzzle sequences. Useful in speedruns for skipping the bumper car activation puzzle.

Grenade Egg Clip (Grunty Industries)

In Grunty Industries, Grenade Eggs can be fired at specific wall angles to detonate inside thin geometry, causing Banjo to be pushed through collision. This is used in Any% speedruns to bypass the factory’s multi-floor traversal requirements and reach upper areas without Jamjars’ required moves.

Kazooie Solo Infinite Height

When Banjo and Kazooie are split (available after Banjo learns to send Kazooie out alone in Mayahem Temple), Kazooie can perform a Beak Barge into a slope while simultaneously pressing the jump button. On certain slope geometries, this produces unintended upward velocity that can be chained for significant height gain without Flight Pads.

Signpost Skip in Spiral Mountain

The signpost tutorials at the start of Spiral Mountain can be bypassed entirely by swimming through the moat at the base of the mountain and approaching from an angle that skips the trigger zones. This is common in new-game runs to avoid unskippable dialogue.

Homing Egg Lock-On Exploit

Homing Eggs lock onto any valid target in range. By standing near multiple enemies packed together, a single volley of homing eggs can chain-kill clustered enemies that would otherwise require Grenade Eggs or Bill Drill attacks. This is especially effective in Cloud Cuckooland against the Minjo enemies.

Split-Up Warp (Multiplayer Exploit)

When Banjo and Kazooie are separated and in different areas simultaneously, certain cutscene triggers only fire for the character who enters them. Speedrunners use this to trigger world completion events with one character while the other is positioned for a faster exit.

Easter Eggs and Developer References

Rare Logo in Mayahem Temple

The stone tablets surrounding the Mayan-style structures in Mayahem Temple include subtle Rare branding etched into their texture work, only visible when examining them at close range with the camera repositioned.

Banjo-Kazooie Level Callbacks

Multiple environmental details in Banjo-Tooie directly reference Gruntilda’s Lair from the original game. Spiral Mountain itself is rebuilt and damaged, with scorched ground and collapsed elements. The Gruntilda boss chamber at Cauldron Keep’s summit mirrors the layout of the original final boss room intentionally.

Mingella and Blobbelda’s Digger Cut Scene

The opening cut scene where Grunty’s sisters dig up Gruntilda contains a background billboard in the rubble sequence advertising a fictional product, a recurring Rare in-joke also appearing in other Rare N64 titles from the same era including Donkey Kong 64.

Jamjars’ Silo Messages

Jamjars delivers move tutorials with military-coded dialogue. Several silos contain hidden flavor text lines that only appear if you approach the silo from specific angles before the tutorial triggers, referencing internal development notes from the Rare team in the form of exaggerated military sign-off phrases.

Glowbo Location Count

There are exactly 74 Glowbos in the game. The number 74 appeared as a running in-joke among the Rare development team during the N64 era and appears in several of their titles from this period in item counts and collectible totals.

Heggy the Hen

Heggy is found in the Isle O’ Hags hub and hatches the Stop ‘N’ Swop eggs from Banjo-Kazooie. Her design and dialogue contain several self-referential jokes about the impossibility of the egg transfer system working correctly, which Rare included as acknowledgment that the feature had a troubled development and players had been waiting for it since 1998.

Cheat Device Codes (Gameshark — North American N64)

Code	Effect
8117B3B0 00FF	All Jiggies collected
8117B3B2 00FF	All Musical Notes collected
8117FAD2 0100	Enable Bottles’ Revenge multiplayer mode
8133B252 0009	Max honeycomb energy (9 units)
8133B2F2 FFFF	Infinite Clockwork Kazooie eggs
8133B2EA FFFF	Infinite Grenade eggs
8033B347 0063	Maximum Mumbo Tokens

These codes are for the North American cartridge (NTSC). PAL region cartridges use different memory addresses and the codes above will not function correctly on European versions without address adjustment.