Rather than bumping one of the old threads, I'd really like to have a new discussion on Hi-Ten Bomberman, being that this is the Holy Grail of Bomberman games. Here is the EDGE article (which also appeared in Next Generation issue 3) on Hi-Ten and the PC-FX. http://randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com/Bomberman/HiTen/HITEN-mag1.JPG http://randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com/Bomberman/HiTen/HITEN-mag2.JPG http://randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com/Bomberman/HiTen/HITEN-mag3.JPG http://randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com/Bomberman/HiTen/HITEN-mag4.JPG website where I found these scans: http://randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com/Bomberman/HiTen/info.htm I really wish there was more footage of Hi-Ten Bomberman than Assembler's wonderful little clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijWXi-vUzrM
The closest you can get to play Hi-Ten bomberman is to play Saturn Bomberman in 10 players mode (using multitaps)! I sadly don't own a saturn and multitaps, but here's a screenshot I took of a game I played with friends in an university auditorium, on the big screen, using Yabause saturn emulator and a shitload of keyboards! (We were 8 so there's 2 bots on the screenshot) (click for Hi-Res) It was extremely epic, especially the part where a security guard entered the room and asked if we had reserved the room. Given there was beer and chips everywhere, I think he figured out we hadn't pretty fast! FG
How exactly does that work, FamilyGuy? The original game isn't in that resolution, is it? It'd be awesome if they'd release a Hi-Ten Bomberman-like game on XBLA or PSN... well, XBLA anyway.
I don't mean to sound condescending, but are you aware of Bomberman Live? Up to 8 players. Not to be confused with the hideous Bomberman Zero.
We were using an emulator (Yabause), I guess the emulator scaled up the resolution. It seems that only the Qt version of Yabause on linux (in the universe repo of ubuntu) support 10 players well, other versions I used crashed for that much players.
But it can't boot up NetLink games, and bomberman is one of them! I guess I could have fixed the scaling problems by playing in the options to scale to an integer multiple, but it was fun nevertheless!
The game was a paid project to promote HD, so yes it runs at that level. It ran on one of the first HD televisions, a plasma tv.
The company is owned by someone else now, so the odds of this showing up on yahoo Japan are relatively high at this point.
It's more than playable, but I guess it's a matter of taste. It was the only way I could get close to playing Hi-Ten with friends without spending too much money. We had a lot of fun in the end, even with bad scaling! [EDIT] @GigaDrive Holy shit that's expensive!
