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Developer: Hudson Soft This game has unused code. |
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Neo Bomberman is a game that was developed for the Neo-Geo hardware. It was only released as a cartridge kit for the arcade-based MVS variant of the Neo-Geo hardware, as there was no version for the AES or Neo-Geo CD home console systems. Until 2017's Bombergirl, it was the last Bomberman game to be released in arcades. 1 Plot 2 Gameplay 3 Stages 4 Battle Mode 4.1 Characters 4.2 Stages 5. Neo Bomberman ROM Download for SNK Neo Geo (NEO-GEO) on Emulator Games. Play Neo Bomberman game that is available in the United States of America (USA) version only on this website. Neo Bomberman is a SNK Neo Geo emulator game that you can download to your computer or play online within your browser. Download Neo Bomberman to PC, ANDROID OR iPhone. To play this NEO GEO ROM, you must first download an Emulator. NeoRAGEx 5.3: The BEST Neo Geo Emulator for Windows. Description Have fun playing the amazing Neo Bomberman game for M.A.M.E. Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. This is the Japan version of the game and can be played using any of the Mame emulators available on our website. Download the Neo Bomberman ROM now and enjoy playing this game on your computer or phone.
Neo Bomberman is Bomberman's fourth arcade outing, notable for being very similar to Super Bomberman 4. It's also well known among fans for being very rushed, with unused levels, boss phases, characters and a metric-ton of unused graphics all suggesting that the game was originally intended to be much more complex.
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Unused Graphics
You're telling me that Pretty Bomber would have been playable?!
Debug DIPs
As a side note, unlike many Neo-Geo games, Neo Bomberman does not use the developer soft DIPs. Setting them will have no effect on anything in the game.
Debugging Monitor
There is a RAM viewer left over in the game code, labeled 'DEBUGING MONITOR Ver 1.00'. It's unclear how it was meant to be accessed, but there is evidence it was always enabled in the game loop and could be turned on and off with a button input.
Use the following MAME cheat to enable this:
Note that this cannot be accessed during the eyecatch or title screen. Also note that it overwrites some of the ASCII text for the English system menu text, though the system menu remains otherwise functional.
Sound Test
Fully functional, though there are not really any clues as to how it was originally accessed. The below MAME cheat manipulates the game's unique call stack to jump to the unused code:
Debug Mode
Also fully functional, with a level select and gameplay options. Like with the other pieces of disabled code in the game, there's no way to tell how the menu was meant to be called, and as such the call stack is abused to jump to it.
Either of the following MAME cheats can be used to access the menu. The first one works like the Sound Test code and must be set each time through the MAME cheat menu, which has the least impact on the code:
The second cheat modifies the code so that the menu will appear whenever you press P1 Start + P2 Start, useful for playing with the menu enabled. Note that this code hijacks the Pause functionality in the AES version, so if you're playing the console version and want to use Pause, do not use this version of the code.
Both of these codes must be used while already inside a level, for reasons explained here.
GUIDE
There is a disabled subroutine that does not have a clear purpose. It displays the word 'GUIDE', counts down a value, and then jumps to the single-player intro scene. There's no indication of how it was meant to be called and thus no context to guess at what it might have been used for.
To see it for yourself, enable the following MAME cheat and press P1 Start + P2 Start:
(Source: sudden-desu)
Unused Stages
Normal Game
Every world after the second one has 8 stages. However, worlds 1 and 2 were supposed to have 8 stages as well.
| 1-6 | 1-7 | 2-7 |
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Battle Game
An unused battle stage (internally known as Stage 2) can be found as well. It uses conveyor belts and has two variants.
(Source: Ragey)
| The Bomberman series | |
|---|---|
| NES | Bomberman • Bomberman II • Bomber King |
| Game Boy (Color) | Atomic Punk • Bomber King: Scenario 2 • Wario Blast: Featuring Bomberman! • Bomberman GB (US) Bomberman Collection • Pocket Bomberman • Bomberman Quest • Bomberman Max • Bomberman Selection |
| TurboGrafx-16 | Bomberman • Bomberman '93 • Bomberman '94 (Prototype) |
| Genesis | Mega Bomberman |
| SNES | Super Bomberman • Super Bomberman 2 • Super Bomberman 3 • Super Bomberman 4 • Super Bomberman 5 Super Bomberman: Panic Bomber W • Bomberman B-Daman |
| Virtual Boy | Panic Bomber |
| Sega Saturn | Saturn Bomberman |
| Arcade | Atomic Punk • Neo Bomberman |
| Windows | Atomic Bomberman |
| Nintendo 64 | Bomberman 64 (US/Europe) • Bomberman Hero • Bomberman 64: The Second Attack • Bomberman 64 (Japan) |
| Game Boy Advance | Bomberman Tournament • Bomberman Max 2 • Bomberman Jetters • Hudson Best Collection Vol. 1: Bomberman Collection |
| PlayStation | Bomberman: Party Edition • Bomberman World |
| PlayStation 2 | Bomberman Kart • Bomberman Jetters • Bomberman Land 2: Game Shijou Saidai no Theme Park |
| GameCube | Bomberman Generation |
| PlayStation Portable | Bomberman Land |
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| Neo Bomberman | |
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| Developer(s) | Produce![a] |
| Publisher(s) | Hudson Soft |
| Director(s) | Eddy Chiu |
| Producer(s) | Hiroshi Igari |
| Designer(s) | Shinji Imada Takayuki Hirai |
| Programmer(s) | Takuji Kosasa |
| Artist(s) | Atsushi Sugiyama Hiromi Shimada Jun Kusaka |
| Composer(s) | Now Production |
| Series | Bomberman |
| Platform(s) | Arcade |
| Release | |
| Genre(s) | Action, maze |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
| Arcade system | Neo Geo MVS |
Neo Bomberman[b] is an action-mazearcadevideo game developed by Produce! and published by Hudson Soft for the Neo Geo MVS on May 1, 1997.[2][3][4] It is one of two games in the Bombermanfranchise that was released for the Neo Geo platform, the first being Panic Bomber, and the only one to retain its traditional top-down gameplay.[5] It was released for the Neo Geo MVS (arcade) and has not received a home console release to date. It was the last original Bomberman title to be released for arcades until Konami's Bombergirl in 2018.[6]
In Neo Bomberman, the plot revolves around White Bomberman and Black Bomberman along with many other combatants gathering together for the Bomberman Tournament before Professor Bagura appears in a mobile fortress to spoil the tournament and kidnaps the combatants by putting them into cages and as a result, both White and Black Bomberman set out to rescue their friends and stop Bagura alongside Atomic Bomber, a new creation under his command. The game bears similarity with Super Bomberman 4 for Super Nintendo Entertainment System, as it was developed by most of the same team.
