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'''''Kirby's Dream Collection Special Edition''''' is a compilation title released for the [[Wii]] in Japan and North America only in 2012, in commemoration of the [[Kirby (series)|''Kirby'' series]]' [[Kirby Anniversary#Kirby 20th Anniversary (2012)|20th anniversary]]. This collection consists of the first six main-series ''Kirby'' games and contains a large array of bonus features, including a unique [[New Challenge Stages|challenge mode]] based on ''[[Kirby's Return to Dream Land]]'' and a [[Kirby's History|showcase]] of all the games in the series up to that point including information on them, along with other features.
'''''Kirby's Dream Collection Special Edition''''' (sometimes referred to as '''''Kirby's Dream Collection''''' for short or the '''''Kirby 20th Anniversary Special Collection''''') is a compilation title released for the [[Wii]] in Japan and the Americas only in 2012, in commemoration of the [[Kirby (series)|''Kirby'' series]]' [[Kirby Anniversary#Kirby 20th Anniversary (2012)|20th anniversary]]. This collection consists of the first six main-series ''Kirby'' games and contains a large array of bonus features, including a unique [[New Challenge Stages|challenge mode]] based on ''[[Kirby's Return to Dream Land]]'' and a [[Kirby's History|showcase]] of all the games in the series up to that point including information on them, along with other features.


==Content overview==
==Content overview==
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!Notes
!Notes
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|{{center|[[File:KDL Box.jpg|100px]]<br>'''''[[Kirby's Dream Land]]'''''}}
|{{center|[[File:KDL NA Box.jpg|100px]]<br>'''''[[Kirby's Dream Land]]'''''}}
|[[Game Boy]]
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|{{center|[[File:KDL2 Box.jpg|100px]]<br>'''''[[Kirby's Dream Land 2]]'''''}}
|{{center|[[File:KDL2 Box.png|100px]]<br>'''''[[Kirby's Dream Land 2]]'''''}}
|[[Game Boy]]
|[[Game Boy]]
|1995
|1995
|This port is incompatible with the color function from the Super Game Boy and the Game Boy Color.
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|{{center|[[File:KSS Box NA.jpg|100px]]<br>'''''[[Kirby Super Star]]'''''}}
|{{center|[[File:KSS Box NA.jpg|100px]]<br>'''''[[Kirby Super Star]]'''''}}
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|{{center|[[File:KDL3 Box.jpg|100px]]<br>'''''[[Kirby's Dream Land 3]]'''''}}
|{{center|[[File:KDL3 Box.jpg|100px]]<br>'''''[[Kirby's Dream Land 3]]'''''}}
|1997
|1997
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|The color changes to [[Hyper Zone]]'s [[Boss Butch]] arena made in the previous Virtual Console release are present here.
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|{{center|[[File:K64 The Crystal Shards box art.png|100px]]<br>'''''[[Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards]]'''''}}
|{{center|[[File:K64 The Crystal Shards box art.png|100px]]<br>'''''[[Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards]]'''''}}
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Four of these games—''Kirby's Adventure'', ''Kirby Super Star'', ''Kirby's Dream Land 3'', and ''Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards''—were already available on the Wii [[Virtual Console]], but the emulation in this collection is slightly different. Most notably, an emulation error with the coloring of [[Miracle Matter]]'s [[Ripple Star - Stage 4|boss arena]] in ''Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards'' was corrected. However, the previous changes made to the Virtual Console version of ''Kirby's Dream Land 3'' (altering the colors of [[Hyper Zone]] in [[Boss Butch]]) were retained. At launch, ''Kirby's Dream Land'' was also already available on the Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console, making ''Kirby's Dream Land 2'' the only exclusive game in the collection at the time.
Four of these games—''Kirby's Adventure'', ''Kirby Super Star'', ''Kirby's Dream Land 3'', and ''Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards''—were already available on the Wii [[Virtual Console]], but the emulation in this collection is slightly different. Most notably, an emulation error with the coloring of [[Miracle Matter]]'s [[Ripple Star - Stage 4|boss arena]] in ''Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards'' was corrected.
 
At launch, ''Kirby's Dream Land'' was also already available on the Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console, making ''Kirby's Dream Land 2'' the only exclusive game in the collection at the time. The Game Boy emulator used for this release is based on the original model, so it does not feature the additional colors and other features available to later Game Boy models and the [[Super Game Boy]].
 
All games can be played with a Wii Remote, a Classic Controller, or a [[Nintendo GameCube]] controller, and all except for ''Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards'' support the Virtual Console's Suspend Point feature. All games also include digital manuals available on the HOME Menu. Pressing Reset on the HOME Menu will return the player to ''Kirby's Dream Collection Special Edition'' rather than the title screen of the game being played; to use each game's native reset function, the player must press A, B, 1, and 2 (A, B, L, and R on a Classic Controller or a GameCube controller).
 
A frame around the borders of the screen can be toggled on or off by pressing + and - simultaneously on a Wii Remote or Classic Controller. With the NES, SNES, and N64 titles, the frame is blue, and only appears in 16:9 due to the 4:3 display of the games in question; with the Game Boy titles, the frame is pink, and appears even in 4:3 due to the Game Boy having a smaller 10:9 display. If the frame is turned off, it will be replaced by black borders.


====New Challenge Stages====
====New Challenge Stages====
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{{Main|New Challenge Stages}}
{{Main|New Challenge Stages}}
{{Quote|A familiar face from Kirby's Return to Dream Land has built Kirby some special Challenge Stages!|Main menu description of "New Challenge Stages".}}
{{Quote|A familiar face from Kirby's Return to Dream Land has built Kirby some special Challenge Stages!|Main menu description of "New Challenge Stages".}}
In addition, a [[Sub-Game]] exclusive to this collection called [[New Challenge Stages]] can be played, based on the optional challenge rooms from ''[[Kirby's Return to Dream Land]]''. It consists of thirteen stages, where Kirby gets one or more [[Copy Ability|Copy Abilities]] to work with, and focuses on score rather than only on completion of the stage. Kirby gets a score on how many enemies he has defeated, how much time there is left on the clock, and how many coins he has collected. At the end of the run, Kirby is given a ranking based on his score, which is, from lowest to highest, bronze, silver, gold, and finally platinum. Each level also contains a boss stage, where Kirby races against [[Magolor]] and can use all the copy abilities from the area, or from all challenge stages depending on which area it is. There is a small story to this Sub-Game, where Magolor has built a theme park for Kirby. He acknowledges the events from ''Kirby's Return to Dream Land'', as well as talking about the challenges. Unlike in ''Kirby's Return to Dream Land'', the player can use a [[Nintendo GameCube|GameCube]] controller to play the challenge stages, though this disables motion controls that are normally available with the Wii Remote (such as shaking the controller to charge up [[Spark]]).
In addition, a [[Sub-Game]] exclusive to this collection called [[New Challenge Stages]] can be played, based on the optional challenge rooms from ''[[Kirby's Return to Dream Land]]''. The game has a small story where [[Magolor]] has built a theme park for Kirby to make up for the "fuss" he caused during the events of ''Kirby's Return to Dream Land''.
 
New Challenge Stages consists of thirteen stages split into three levels, where Kirby gets one or more [[Copy Ability|Copy Abilities]] to work with, and must complete the stage while accumulating a high score. Kirby is scored based on how many enemies he has defeated, how much time there is left on the clock, and how many coins he has collected. At the end of the run, Kirby is given a ranking based on his score: from lowest to highest, bronze, silver, gold, and finally platinum. Each level also contains a boss stage, where Kirby races against Magolor and has his choice of copy ability from a selection based on the level he is in.
 
Unlike in ''Kirby's Return to Dream Land'', the player can use a Classic Controller or a [[Nintendo GameCube|GameCube]] controller to play the challenge stages, and the game supports the GameCube controller's rumble feature. However, this disables motion controls that are normally available with the Wii Remote (such as shaking the controller to charge up [[Spark]]). New Challenge Stages offers three save files, and the player's progress is tracked individually in each one; as the player's cumulative score across every stage rises, they will be rewarded with [[trophy|trophies]]. Once the game is complete, the credits roll, and Magolor bids Kirby farewell.


====Kirby's History====
====Kirby's History====
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Lastly, a 45 page booklet is included in the game box, called the '''Kirby's 20th Anniversary Celebration Book'''. This booklet has various details on Kirby's history along with fun facts about most of the games in the series, along with pieces of artwork, concept art, trivia, and more.
Lastly, a 45 page booklet is included in the game box, called the ''[[Kirby's 20th Anniversary Celebration Book]]''. This booklet has various details on Kirby's history along with fun facts about most of the games in the series, along with pieces of artwork, concept art, trivia, and more.


==Staff==
==Staff==
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!Voice
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|[[Makiko Ohmoto]] (as [[Kirby]])
|[[Makiko Ohmoto]] ([[Kirby]])
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!Gameplay-Video Production Managers
!Gameplay-Video Production Managers
|Masanobu Yamamoto<br>Moji Akaike
|Masanobu Yamamoto<br>Koji Akaike
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!Gameplay-Video Production
!Gameplay-Video Production
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!Team Support
!Team Support
|Seiji Otoguro
|Seiji Otoguro<br>Koji Akaike
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!Public Relations
!Public Relations
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!Artwork
!Artwork
|[[Tetsuya Notoya]]<br>Mariko Kimizuka<br>Masayo Nakagami<br>Yumiko Sano
|[[Tetsuya Notoya]]<br>Mariko Kimizuka<br>Masayo Nakagami<br>Yumiko Sano<br>Yuka Kotaki<br>Toshiyo Osanai<br>Yukiko Nakamichi
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!Manual Editing
|Keisuke Kadota
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!Testing
!Testing
|Masaru Kobayashi<br>Masashi Okamoto<br>HAL Debug Team
|Masaru Kobayashi<br>Masashi Okamoto<br>Yuki Tanikawa<br>Ryosuke Yamada<br>Hiroyuki Tsuji<br>Mario Club<br>HAL Debug Team<br>DIGITAL HEARTS Co., Ltd.
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!Technical Support
!Technical Support
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!Special Thanks
!Special Thanks
|Hiroshi Fujie<br>Rieko Kawahara<br>Tadashi Hashikura<br>[[Kenichiro Kita]]<br>Kunio Watanabe<br>Tomokazu Tsuruoka<br>Takayuki Sugano<br>Takuta Abe<br>Munemasa Kimura<br>Masami Ishiguro
|Hiroshi Fujie<br>Rieko Kawahara<br>Tadashi Hashikura<br>[[Kenichiro Kita]]<br>Kunio Watanabe<br>Tomokazu Tsuruoka<br>Takayuki Sugano<br>Takuya Abe<br>Munemasa Kimura<br>Masami Ishiguro
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!Project Coordinator
!Project Coordinator
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|[[Satoru Iwata]]
|[[Satoru Iwata]]
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!colspan=2|©1992-2012 HAL Laboratory, Inc./Nintendo. HAL Laboratory, Inc. and Nintendo are the authors of this software for the purpose of copyright. All rights reserved.<br><br>[[HAL Laboratory]]<br>[[Nintendo]]
!colspan=2|©1992-2012 HAL Laboratory, Inc./Nintendo.<br>HAL Laboratory, Inc. and Nintendo are the authors of this software for the purpose of copyright.<br>All rights reserved.<br><br>[[HAL Laboratory]]<br>[[Nintendo]]
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==Trivia==
==Trivia==
*In the history menu, Kirby has a number of unique [[idle animation]]s if left alone for long enough. He may wave at the player, admire the item he is standing next to, or fall asleep for a moment before waking up again.
*In the history menu, Kirby has a number of unique [[idle animation]]s if left alone for long enough. He may wave at the player, admire the item he is standing next to, or fall asleep for a moment before waking up again.
*The Staff Credits section of the Celebration Book renders certain letters in the titles and names of staff in distinct colors. Combining these letters yields the words "KIRBY", "KING DEDEDE", "META KNIGHT", and "WADDLE DEE".
**The Japanese version of the Celebration Book does the same for "KIRBY" and "KING DEDEDE". The last two names however come together differently as staff names are in ''kanji'' and ''kana'', rather than Latin characters starting with ''Kirby's Dream Land 2''. "META KNIGHT" still uses Latin characters (though the "N" is drawn from "MANUAL EDITOR" under ''Kirby's Dream Land 2'' rather than Shigenobu Kasai's name under ''Kirby Super Star''). However, Waddle Dee's name is put together from ''kana'', using the name いしか{{color|tomato|わ}} じゅん (Jun Ishika{{color|tomato|wa}}) under ''Kirby's Dream Land 3'', the names あん{{color|tomato|ど}}う ひろかず (Hirokazu An{{color|tomato|do}}) and みやもと しげ{{color|tomato|る}} (Shige{{color|tomato|ru}} Miyamoto) under ''Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards'', and the title of コー{{color|tomato|ディ}}ネーター (Coor{{color|tomato|di}}nator) under ''Kirby's Dream Collection Special Edition''.


==Gallery==
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*[https://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/s72j/ Official Japanese website]
*[https://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/s72j/ Official Japanese website]
*[https://kirby.nintendo.com/dreamcollection/ Official North American website]
*[https://kirby.nintendo.com/dreamcollection/ Official North American website]
*[https://www.nintendo.com/consumer/gameslist/manuals/Wii_Kirby_Dream_Collection.pdf English manual (USA print)]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20230821131406/https://www.nintendo.com/consumer/gameslist/manuals/Wii_Kirby_Dream_Collection.pdf English manual (North American print, archived version)]


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