Bottles Moving Picture Game is a hidden mini-game that can be found in Banjo-Kazooie, located inside Banjo’s house in Spiral Mountain. In order to unlock it, the player must first obtain the Jiggy located in the Sandcastle of Treasure Trove Cove. The mini-game can be accessed by standing on the green carpet in front of the fireplace in Banjo’s House, while using the first-person camera to look at the portrait of Bottles. This will initiate a conversation with Bottles, who mentions that the player has found his secret moving picture game. As the player completes each of Bottles challenges, he will be rewarded with a special code, which he can enter in the Sandcastle of the game’s second world, Treasure Trove Cove. These codes serve only to change the appearance of Banjo and Kazooie in a fun way, which can be undone by entering the NOBONUS code in the Sandcastle or reloading the save file. The challenges become increasingly difficult as the player progresses in Bottles game, with more pieces in the wrong position, while the timer is always set at ninety-nine seconds. Upon completion of all challenges, the player receives his last code that transforms Banjo and Kazooie into a washing machine. In addition, it should be noted that when Banjo-Kazooie was re-released on Xbox 360, a new feature was added where collected Musical Notes would remain collected even after leaving a world. However, some players encountered a bug where certain Musical Notes would disappear from the game after interacting with Bottles portrait. Though a patch was released to fix this issue, it’s still recommended to obtain all Musical Notes in the game before interacting with Bottles portrait to avoid any potential problems.
» Procedure of the Minigame
After interacting with Bottles portrait above the fireplace, a puzzle frame appears on the screen showing an area of a world. The picture then splits into twenty jigsaw pieces that scatter around the edge of the puzzle frame. In this game, the player must control Banjo’s hand to grab a jigsaw piece by pressing the A button and complete it within ninety-nine seconds. Actually, the game is similar to Master Jiggywiggy’s Moving Puzzle Challenge, which appears in the game Banjo-Tooie inside Jiggywiggy’s Temple, where a player has to complete puzzles to unlock new worlds within the game’s hub world, called Isle O’ Hags. Once all six challenges have been completed, Bottles rewards the player with the BIGBOTTLESBONUS code, mentioning at the same time that he has no more challenges left. However, if the player stands on the green carpet and interacts with his portrait another time using the first-person camera, his previous words turn out to be a joke. This time, Bottles has prepared a final challenge for Banjo and Kazooie, which uses the same puzzle as before but with increased difficulty. In this challenge, the player must pick up a piece and use the C buttons to rotate it by ninety degrees, as most of them have been rotated incorrectly.
» List of Contents
BANJO-KAZOOIE
✤ BOTTLESBONUSONE – Banjo’s head grows in size
✤ BOTTLESBONUSTWO – Banjo’s arms and legs turn big
✤ BOTTLESBONUSTHREE – Kazooie becomes three times bigger
✤ BOTTLESBONUSFOUR – Banjo’s head shrinks in size
✤ BOTTLESBONUSFIVE – Banjo’s body turns into clay
✤ BIGBOTTLESBONUS – Banjo and Kazooie turn big
✤ WISHYWASHYBANJO – Banjo transforms into a washing machine
✤ NOBONUS – Banjo and Kazooie become normal
