The first component is the emulation program which can imitate the psx OS and software. The second component is the Bust-a-move 2 Arcade Edition game itself to play on the emulator.
Step 1: you can start by downloading a reliable and bug free emulator. Once you have finished downloading Retroarch , extract the downloaded.
After, double click the RetroArch We were first introduced to cute dragons Bub and Bob in the arcade classic Bubble Bobble. Now, following a long and varied career in a number of games on other formats, they've finally made it onto the N64 as the stars of the wildly addictive and immensely playable arcade puzzle game Bust-A-Move 2.
You know what we at 64 Magazine say to them? We say, "who cares? Of course, on the subject of cheapness, it's worth pointing out that the N64 version of Bust-A-Move 2 is practically identical to the PlayStation and Saturn versions, both of which you can pick up for a mere 20 English pounds. This means that if you've got a Saturn or a PSX as well as having an N64, then you're probably better off buying the cheaper version of the game - in fact, if you've any taste at all, then you should have it already!
That is, however, the only reason not to buy Bust-A-Move 2 for the N64, and considering that the majority of N64 owners don't own another console -many of them having sold their Playstations to buy N64's in the first place - that point is fairly moot, so let us never speak of it again. For those of you who've been living in a closet for the last five years or so, and have therefore never heard anything of the original Bust-A-Move or its numerous sequels, the gameplay is devilishly simple.
You play a small dragon - this isn't integral to the gameplay - you could just as easily control a large lump of yak cheese, but for the sake of completeness we'll explain it anyway. The objective of the game is to burst a whole load of bubbles by firing other bubbles from a bubble launcher to make groups as in Tetris while encouraging your opponent to fail. The usual style of play in Bust-A-Move 2 is a split-screen competition against a bubble throwing opponent, be they human or CPU controlled.
Each player starts with a cluster of coloured bubbles at the top of their screen, and a steady supply of the same in their launcher at the bottom. Every so often the screen will shudder, following which, one row of bubbles will be added to yours at the top of the screen, bringing your other bubbles that much closer to your launcher, to you, and to the ominously named 'deadline'. By firing bubbles of specific colours at other bubbles of the same colour you form groups.
Every time you form a group of three or more, they explode, or more accurately they burst, since they're bubbles after all. If any bubbles are hanging from the group you destroy, they drop off the screen. Destroy or drop a large group and they are added to the bubbles on your opponent's screen. The trick therefore is to increase the amount of bubbles on your opponent's screen so that their bubbles hit the deadline at the bottom before yours do.
Variations on this theme are the one-player puzzle and time trial modes, where you don't compete against another player and the top of the screen doesn't add bubbles, but instead drops lower on little hydraulic pistons every so often. The aim therefore is to remove all the bubbles before they reach your deadline at the bottom.
The gameplay in Bust-A-Move 2 is simple to learn, but quite difficult to master. The trick is to set up chains of large numbers of bubbles, but the risk in doing this is that your opponent may dump his bubbles on you when you're not ready.
A steady hand is necessary, as is a good eye for angles, because you're able to bounce bubbles off walls at specific angles to score - and you thought that your GCSE physics would never come in handy! Bust-A-Move 2 is also novel in that the CPU player can lose the game without any help from you -and often does! And that's about itIThere's little more that can be said about Bust-A-Move 2 because it is such a simple, albeit wonderfully thought out concept. The final comment though must be this: it may not be new, although it is new to the N It may also not be stretching the "vast capabilities" of the N64, but Bust-A-Move 2 is one of the best games available for the console at the moment, and is certainly the most addictive N64 game on the fig market so far!
Take a mass of bubbles, add a gun and whisk in cuddly characters for a tasty puzzle pie! Following a six month hiatus from bubble-blowing duty, Bub and Bob, the doe-eyed cuddly dragons of Bubble Bobble and Rainbow Islands fame, have returned to save Bubble Land again. This is the N64's second incursion into the psychedelic realms of Bubble World, and blow me, it leaves the last one rather deflated by comparison.
We couldn't help but rave about the virtues of the last game, and rightly so; it was poptastic, addictive gaming at its best. Bust-A- Move 3DX, it could be argued, is essentially more of the same, but on the PlayStation, number four in the series is proving that the evergreen puzzle-fest is as popular now as it ever was.
In other words, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. That's not to say improvements have been neglected. It's an ongoing tradition with puzzlers to keep the same delicious ingredients that made the original a classic and subtly, almost seamlessly, add new and improved features.
Unless you've had your head buried in the sand for the last few years, or suffer from chronic amnesia, you'll have heard of the BAM series. For the benefit of those five people who haven't, it's a diabolically simple concept. Fire your bubble gun at the stack of multicoloured bubbles before they drop off the 'deadline' at the bottom. And that's it! There are a few conditions of course, the most important one of which is that you need to connect three or more bubbles of the same colour in order to burst them.
This is hardly pushing the N64 to its limits, but just try putting the controller down after you've had a few goes. It's fiendishly addictive - so much so that any semblance of a social life will be left battered and bruised in no time.
Arcade mode is an exact translation of the BAM3 arcade machine and consists of Puzzle mode, where you're offered a choice of routes for every five rounds, Player versus Computer and Player versus Player. The latter is the most fun -players must eliminate as many bubbles as possible or drop them into their opponent's playfield. The trick is to try and pop a cluster of bubbles high up on the stack, because any others that are tenuously attached below will drop too.
It's painful on the eyes though - we felt more like physics students watching little coloured atoms floating around than games journos. Grasping a well-worn cliche firmly by the danglies, it's easy to play but hard to master. BAM 3DX just demands to be replayed and the fruits of your labour appear almost subliminally. For instance, angling shots off walls makes a hell of a difference, as does checking which bubble comes next and firing rapidly.
The final two modes, Collection and Edit, provide endless hours of entertainment too. The former provides over a thousand amateur screens devised by fans, and the latter is only limited by your imagination. It's a puzzle fan's dreams made real and great value at just 40 nicker - it's bubblier than Barbara Windsor! If you like nerve-wracking puzzle games and you don't have Bust-A-Move 2, get this. If you despise cute or anime-style games in general, stay far from this game: Bub and Bob has plenty of cuddly antics, from twirls in the air when you win, from bawling if you lose.
Controls have been much improved over the original game: you can aim the catapult much more precisely this time, and there is even a hotkey that returns it to the middle pointing straight up immediately.
Also, you can now play against a computer opponent, or a human one in hot-seat mode. You can even design your own levels in this game after you finish all the hard and secret levels. In a strange but not altogether unwelcome decision, Taito added a plot to this puzzle game. These interactions don't always make sense - they seem more of an excuse for Taito to give cameo roles to characters from their other games for example, at one point you get the final boss message from Darius Gaiden.
Still, these animations are fun to watch, and give you something to look forward to after beating each level. Addictive, fun, and near-flawlessly executed, Bust-A-Move 2: Arcade Edition is a worthy addition to a great franchise, and a must-have addition to every puzzle gamer's library. How to run this game on modern Windows PC?
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