>all the DKC games happen before Bananza, including 64
>Cranky was the original arcade DK, Lady is Pauline's grandma and is the "Pauline" in the arcade game, Jumpman could be Mario's grandpa or some other relative idk
>Odyssey is like 10 or so years after Bananza, since we can assume Mario and Pauline are around the same age and it was confirmed some time ago that Mario is like in his mid-20s or something
>Mario vs Donkey Kong games could either just be noncanon spinoffs or they happened later and DK is just a retard who didn't recognize Pauline
There you go. It's not that complicated.