Baku Bomberman

manual artwork

Cropped from the Japanese manual.

Outside of the slower framerate, the US (NTSC) and European (PAL) versions of the game are identical; so much so that an American Gameshark and its codes will work with a European copy - a rarity on European hardware!

Japanese - English

The Japanese version opens on the Hudson logo against a white screen. The English versions replace it with a black screen containing all the copyright and release info for both Nintendo and Hudson.

Japanese - English

The English title screen adds a trademark, drops the year of copyright (having relegated it to the previous screen), changes "PUSH" to "PRESS", and adds a "64" to the logo - it appears after the intro finishes fading to white.

Many voice clips were replaced with English samples. Credit goes to the Baku Bomberman Data Collection for the Japanese transcriptions.

	Japanese	English
Bomberman	[????] [????] [????] 「にゃ にゃにゃ にゃ にゃ!」 "Wak-wak wa wak-wak!"	"I'm the best!" "Piece of cake!" "Phew! That was close!" "Meow-meow!" "Quack, quack-quack!"
announcer	"Ready? Go!" "Hurry up!" "Time up!" "Draw game!" "Finish!"	"Ready? Go!" "Hurry up!" "Time's up!" "Draw!" "Game!"
Capella (Artemis)	「死になさい」 「サ・ヨ・ナ・ラ」 (scream)	"You're mine!" "Bye bye!" (scream)
Regulus	「行くぞ」	"Ready?"
Altair	「死にたいらしいな」 「遊びは終わりだ」 「殺してやるよ…」 「覚えておけ！」 (scream)	"You wanna fight me?" "Playtime is over!" "I'll finish you!" "You'll... pay!" (scream)
Master	[gotta get these! "Devil" is changed to "Evil", I know that much!]
Sirius	「ちっ仕方がない」 (laughter) 「無駄だ」	"I guess I'd better help!" (laughter) "Give it up!"

Haut/Orion only grunts in his voice clips, so his voice is unchanged in the English version.