Kokonami Iruka Spends Donkey Kong Stream Fixing Missing Game Audio, Then Starts Over

NIJISANJI — Kokonami Iruka, a Nijisanji streamer, planned to ease back into Super Donkey Kong 2 on Thursday but spent most of the broadcast trying to get game sound into the stream. The audio returned about 42 minutes in, and the streamer then ended the broadcast to try again in a new one.

The stream was the fifth in the Donkey Kong series. Iruka opened by saying work had gone better than expected and that a break from the game had left the controls half forgotten, so the plan was to relearn them. When the game was first shown, no sound came through. Soon the streamer’s own voice was being captured and played back with a delay, and chat joked about a second Iruka on the stream.

“I never thought this would take an hour. Computers are harder than Donkey Kong.” — Kokonami Iruka, after the audio came back

Iruka tried resetting audio settings, checked the output device for the game, restarted the computer and then restarted the streaming software. The streamer said a settings change made at some point earlier was the likely cause, and asked viewers for ways to see the list of audio input devices. Viewers in chat suggested several routes through the Windows sound settings.

The fix came when Iruka found that the capture card’s audio entries had all been disabled. One had been re-enabled earlier, but a second entry for the HDMI input also needed to be switched on. “Computers are harder than Donkey Kong,” Iruka said, adding that the stream title had been tempting fate and joking that the thumbnail’s squid was crying too.

With the game audio working, Iruka chose not to carry on in the same broadcast. After chat suggested a fresh start, the streamer ended it, thanked the viewers who had offered help and said the next stream should go better. The stream drew seven Super Chats.