Taito F3 Bubble Bobble 2 PROTOTYPE PCB Discovered!!!!

[jase]

Awesome write up, thanks for sharing.

I haven't played much Bubble Symphony tbh, but the proto looks more appealing to me than final release. I watched the video yesterday and had the music in my head all day.

[muddymusic]

Bit more info on the game.....

You get to play though 30 levels before the game ends - 9 normal levels - then a boss level, chose a path left or right, and so on.

Each branch gives you a new set of 10 so that gives this version 60 different screens to see - not bad for a proto!

There appear to be 3 bosses that you always fight whichever path you chose, but with a different platform arrangement & graphics depending which route you took.

Laid out in the same way as the finished game, only that has 7 levels then a boss and and more branches of levels.

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[cRacKh0rN]

Amazing find sir. I love the remixed original bb soundtrack too

[kazuo]

Fantastic find, and thank you for sharing & for dumping this.

[Mendel]

Big bubble bobble fan here...

I saw your thread yesterday and last night I was actually dreaming about playing this game. I guess this find affected my subconscious

[golani]

That's an fantastic find!
great game

Thank you, for allowing us to be part of it.

[colourthief]

Hey, congrats on the find!

Also congrats to your mother for raising a kid willing to share his toys.

[muddymusic]

You'll be able to play it yourselves in the next mame release
http://mamedev.emulab.it/haze/2013/08/1 ... per-drunk/

[Braintrash]

You did really great, mate.

[nerdygrrl]

Major congrats what a fabulous find.

[undamned]

Excellent find and more importantly, excellent coverage! I own both a Landmaker prototype as well as a Twin Qix prototype that appear to use the same hardware, but yours is much cooler for the fact that the game version is so different from the final release!

Good show, sir!
-ud

[muddymusic]

Now in mame 0.150
http://www.mameui.info/
http://www.mamedev.org/release.html

[kuze]

Wow that is really an awesome find and very cool of you to share with the community!

[moshpit]

http://www.ebay.de/itm/TAITO-F3-BUBBLE- ... 19e3269adf"

and there goes the first boot

[muddymusic]

Oh FFS, that's not why I shared it

Even has the cheek to link in to my YouTube videos

[moshpit]

we all know who he is...

[muddymusic]

Exactly the same happened when I shared the OutRun 2 stickers I made. Sold on eBay for a tidy profit

[cools]

Same thing happened with the Windy II CPO I spent ~18 hours of vector editing on to get it perfect. No big deal, I needed one so I made one.

The game being converted from is a pity though.

[IDCHAPPY]

He's a **** douchebag

[emphatic]

Joerg?