Apparently all North American customers are up the proverbial creek without the requisite paddle as Codemasters confirmed that ALL copies of the game shipped to the territory are defective. This comes as very sad news, as not only are several bubbles left unbobbled, but this also marks the first occasion where a DS game has shipped with known defects in the territory. As you may already know, the game shipped to Japan and European territories last year without a problem.
Bubble Bobble bursts onto retail shelves with busted cartridges
Apparently all North American customers are up the proverbial creek without the requisite paddle as Codemasters confirmed that ALL copies of the game shipped to the territory are defective. This comes as very sad news, as not only are several bubbles left unbobbled, but this also marks the first occasion where a DS game has shipped with known defects in the territory. As you may already know, the game shipped to Japan and European territories last year without a problem.
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10-18-2006 @ 11:48AM
Kev said...
The actual defect: "Once you get up to the boss at level 30 music plays, but you’re on a blank screen."
And a link to a video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD0IVXs32tk
No boss = no advancing!
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10-18-2006 @ 11:59AM
Rico said...
From what I’ve heard, the latest lego star wars game for the DS had tons of glitches as well, but I don’t think any of them made it impossible to finish the game.
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10-18-2006 @ 2:07PM
JM said...
"but this also marks the first occasion where a DS game has shipped with known defects in the territory."
Did it ship with the defects known? If so, that's pretty crappy. Why would they ship it? Or more likely did the defects become known after it hit retail? The sentence is just unclear.
Also, Age of Empires was defective, so either way, BB was not the first.
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10-18-2006 @ 2:36PM
Asaurus said...
Off-topic; When did Bub and Bob become so damn ugly? Did they let some executive's child design that craptacular box art? That's a joke, right? Please?
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10-18-2006 @ 4:06PM
BPMΩ said...
Asaurus, that would be the horrible European boxart (note the PEGI rating). However, Codemasters reused it for the North American release. -_-
Now, I'm no Japanophile (who thinks the Japanese version of EVERYTHING is superior), but the Japanese boxart is superior:
http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-9g-77-5-49-en-15-Bubble%2BBobble-70-z3i.html
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10-18-2006 @ 5:43PM
Roy said...
Looks like someone at the company is going to lose their job.
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10-18-2006 @ 5:53PM
jeffx said...
that is the UGLIEST DS cover art I have ever seen. Cuts especially deep since it's for one of my favorite series.
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10-18-2006 @ 6:16PM
Shogan said...
I was looking forward to this game, but they botched it completely. Put the arcade Bubble Bobble on a DS Cart with single cart multiplayer and I'll pay $20 for that. This? No way. The box art doesn't help, it's fugly.
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10-18-2006 @ 7:03PM
paint panic said...
The first time a DS game has shipped with known defects in the territory? It's not even the second. Have you forgotten the Age of Empires save-game debacle or the glitch festival that was Lego Star Wars II?
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10-18-2006 @ 11:08PM
bagoin said...
so what happens to the people who already paid for the game? do they get a full refund or a replacement when they fix the glitch?
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10-19-2006 @ 11:12PM
idioteraser said...
I belive the age of empires glitches can be avoided. The Lego Star Wars II glitches do not compeletly halt your progress through the game.
In this glitch you can never go past level 30.
Codemasters has said they will offer replacement carts with the defects corrected. You would have seen that if you had the damn story in the LINK!!!!!!!
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