Baku Bomberman 2
reference
American manual
Download here (16MB Zip file) (thanks to DragonBomber for scanning this!)
N64 Magazine (issue 41)
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[...] we thought developers Hudson had gone mad. Y'see, the original SNES Bomberman was sheer multiplayer heaven, while Bomberman 64's multiplayer was about as much fun as standing in cold custard.
Dated May 2000, a quick preview of the game. It seems to claim it would get a UK release in the Summer, though that never came to be.
Official Nintendo Magazine (issue 92)
Dated May 2000, a quick preview of the game. No UK release date is given.
Executive Producer
Hiroshi Kudo
Producer
Tadahiro Nakano
Hiroyuki Mikami
Game Concept Planner
Taiichi Matsuda
Voice Cast
Shoh Hayami
Daisuke Gohri
Nobutoshi Hayashi
Hohko Kuwashima
Manami Nakayama
Yumi Tohma
Game/Program Director
Satoru Sugimoto
Game Director
Kohji Innami
Story Mode Director
Naoki Yoshida
Visual Director
Yakahide Otoizumi
Visual Director / Boss Character Design
Taiichi Matsuda
3D Design Director
Hideyuki Ogura
Product Manager
Kenji Matsuura
Yasutaka Kakiseko
Main System/Menus
Satoru Sugimoto
Graphics System/Boss
Toshimasa Ebina
Characters/Objects
Tomoyuki Honda
Battle/Effects
Takuya Suzuki
Map Design & Modeling
Megumi Okazaki
Akihiro Nakamura
Character Design Modeling
Satoshi Haga
Boss Character Design Modeling
Masakazu Echigo
Hitoshi Takiyama
Enemy/Battle Character Modeling
Miho Yoshida
Battle Character Modeling
Masahiro Kamohara
Effect Modeling
Hiroyuki Kimoto
2D Design
Hiroshi Kaieda
Etsushi Nishiura
Yasushi Nishiura
Kouji Wajima
View Map
Takashi Ootsuji
Asako Yamazaki
Saeko Matsuura
Sound Director
Akihiro Satoh
Music Producer
Hidenobu Otsuki
Music Composer
Tomohiko Kira
Yasunori Mitsuda
Hidenoku Otsuki
Tomokazu Kudo
Hiroyo Yamanaka
Yoshitaka Hirota
Kenji Hiramatsu
Music Operator
Hiromichi Furuya
Hironao Yamamoto
Hironobu Yahata
Sound Effect Designer
Hiroyuki Tsuboguchi
Wave Designer
Osamu Narita
Hironao Yamamoto
Syohei Bandoh
System Supporter
Takayuki Iwabuchi
Hideki Oka
Official Art Design Director
Syouji Mizuno
CG Works
Toshiteru Horii
Toshifumi Sekijima
Tomoaki Watanabe
Assistant Design
Naoto Yoshimi
Kozue Satoh
Progress Management
Horimi Okamoto
Supervisors
Shigeki Fujiwara
Tadajuki Kawada
Bomberman Company
Shoichi Togashi
Koji Terada
Youichi Nakazawa
Mastering
Masako Ishikawa
Yukiko Mikami
Translator
Patrick Riley
Ronald Foster
Jhon A. Greiner [sic]
Cooperation
Bowne Global Solutions
Studio GUIDO
AONI PRODUCTION
HUDSON Debugging Team
Nichimen Graphics
Publisher
Vatical Entertainment
Presented by Hudson BOMBERMAN MAX
This game has historically been a dickens to emulate, which for a console as persnickety as the Nintendo 64, that's saying something!
The most common issue is [[[control stick losing ability to moev left and right. happens on proejct64 under any plugin. can happen during any transition. not sure???
The game's official resolution is 320x240 with coloured borders; outside of this section, those borders have been cropped out. For the most part the angrylion's RDP with OpenGL 1.5 is used for all screenshots, though if I couldn't bear the speed, Jabo's Direct3D8 is the fallback.
Jabo's Direct3D8 graphic plugin is, barring one quiggle, an ideal plugin to play the game to completion. 2D graphics and textures willd isplay artifacts, common on emulated N64 games, but all in-game elements and architecture will appear as it should. The same can't be said for Glide64, which renders some objects completely wrong. The various blocks in Planet Horizon will be alternately displayed as invisible or completely see-through, showing the sky behind it in its place!
The one area Jabo's Direct3D8 struggles is in Zoniha's palace on Epikyur. The statue is meant to be tinted the colour of the bomb you must use against it, but this effect doesn't render. As far as I can tell, this only renders in the Angrylion plugin.
Although mostly accurate, the Angrylion plugin crops the screen's height ever so slightly; 1 pixel from the top and 3 pixels from the bottom. Perhaps more notably, it doesn't appear to emulate lighting conditions as seen on real hardware???? investigate??? Because of the Nintendo 64's variable emulation accuracy, I want to talk about plug-ins for a bit! The game's official resolution is 320x240 with black borders; outside of this section, those borders have been cropped out. For the most part the angrylion's RDP with OpenGL 1.5 is used for all screenshots, though if I couldn't bear the speed, Glide64 is the fallback. This game (and plenty of other Nintendo 64 titles for that matter) has been trouble for emulators for the longest time; most plugins would render a majority of the game as a solid black screen! Who turned out the lights? (Mudlord's Rice Video Build 6.1.4) Jabo's Direct3D8 graphic plugin was the best it got for a long time, blacking out on certain screens and not rendering fade-outs, but Glide64 Final is the most ideal option. The entire game can be played from start to finish with no blackouts, though it may suffer a bit of slowdown when lots of objects or transparencies are used, particularly in Battle Mode. N64 hardware (RGB-out) Project64 emulator (Glide64 Final) Project64 emulator (angrylion's RDP with OpenGL 1.5) For total visual accuracy, angrylion's RDP with OpenGL 1.5 graphic plugin paired with the Static Interpreter RSP plugin are what you want. It appears totally accurate to the original Nintendo 64 hardware... but it's also frighteningly slow. We're talking single-digit frames-per-second unless you have a beefy machine! The one possible quibble with this plugin is it applies a visual grain to the entire screen, probably an artifact from its fog system that most other plugins interpet as a black screen. N64 hardware (RGB-out) Project64 emulator (Glide64 Final) Project64 emulator (angrylion's RDP with OpenGL 1.5) Most plugins have transparency issues; the easiest way to test this is look at the goal gems in Green Garden. This also impacts visual effects like the fusion between Altair and Vega or the battle against Master. The sharp aliased edges in the angrylion plugin only apply to screenshots; the emulator applies a light blur to mask it like on N64 hardware. Project64 emulator (Glide64 Final) Project64 emulator (angrylion's RDP with OpenGL 1.5) The 'dissolve' effect only appears to work consistently with the angrylion plugin; otherwise Altair will just vanish in his death scene, instead of vapourising. Glide64 is one image behind whenever the game uses a 'screenshot' - the intro and credits sequence demonstrate this easily. Bighead's N64 Multiple Game Configuration List claims this is a Project64 issue, and can be remedied in Glide64's options.
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