Slimjim25c and GSGold Bomberman Tournament Battle mode guide 

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Bomberman Tournament for the GBA
In depth battle guide
Created on 11/2/01
Version 1.2
Written by slimjim25c and GSGold
e-mail: slimjim25c@hotmail.com
e-mail: kirbythekirby@aol.com
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table of contents
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1. Introduction
1:1. Updates
2. Getting Started
2:1. One Player
2:2. One Player Settings
2:3. Controls
3. Battle Mode Items
4. Multi-player
4:1. Starting
4:2. Cables
4:3. Trouble Shooting 
5. Battle Maps
6. Ways to Win
7. Fishing game
8. Challenges
9. Rumors
10. FAQ
11. Version history
12. Contact
13. Thanks
14. Leagal Stuff
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1. Introduction
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Have you ever wondered what Bomberman Tournament would be like without battle 
mode? I always play the multiplayer all the time. Quest mode is good, but when 
you finally beat quest mode, you think the game is boring now, and you think you 
should turn it in. Well DON'T!! Battle mode never gets boring. This is the best 
bomberman game I ever played yet! You can link up with 4 players with only 1 
game pak which is awesome. They added a new setting which is a fishing mini-game, 
and they also have a new setting called super revenge! I think the whole game is 
great, especially the multi player. This in depth guide is all about the battle 
mode.This is my second guide I made. The first guide I ever made was for F-zero 
Maximum Velocity. Actually, I made a bomberman guide first, but it never got 
posted. I think It never got posted because it was too small. Well anyways, 
there will be a few versions sooner or later, but I'm not gonna add a lot. The 
first version of this guide has about everything that you need to know in it. 
*sigh* I wish this guide would make bomberman in the top 10 again, well you 
never know, I remember when bomberman tournament was in third place or something. 
Well, anyways, Enjoy!-slimjim25c

Hello, This is GSGold's part of the message!  I'll just say that Battle mode 
always keeps the game fresh and new, like you bought it ten minutes ago!  This 
guide will tell you about battle mode and the stuff you can do in it!  This 
guide is made by both me and that other guy who said that article above this one!  
Well, hurry up and read the thingy already! - GSGold

1:2. Updates.

11-2-01:  Hello kiddies, you thought i was gone?  WELL NOT ANYMORE!  I GOT THE 
FILE AND MY GBA RIGHT HERE!  AHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH...........well 
I added challanges and I fixed some stuff...thats about it.

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2. Getting Started!
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Okay, REAL hard instructions here! Insert the game into the GBA and press the ON 
button, if it doesn't work, you might need new batteries. (Always happens to me!) 
Wait for all those logos to finish up, and press start a few times. (Unless you 
want to hear the story, but this is a battle guide, not a Walkthrough for the 
quest mode) Chose Battle, then choose which one you want.

2:1. One Player

Choose one player and set how many players you want. (you can have 1, 2, or 3 
CPU players) Then to the major stuff...

2:2. One Player Settings
You can chose from these settings:

Computer: Easy/Normal/Hard
Rounds: 1-5
Time: 1min, 3 min, 5min, or infinite time.
Tie Break: On/Off/Random
Shuffle: On/Off
Skulls: On/Off
Fishing: On/Off
Revenge: On/Off/Super

If your confused about the sections, I'll tell what all the settings mean-

Computer: Determines the ability of the computer-controlled bomberman

Rounds: The number of rounds that a player must win to become the winner. If you 
win won round, you get only 1 trophy which means one point.

Time: sets the time limit for the match

Tie break: If this is set on, when the match is at 40 seconds left, blocks from 
the sky will crash onto the arena. The screen will continue to fill until one 
player is left. If set on random, blocks will fall in a different pattern.

Shuffle: Turns random shuffling of the player starting positions on or off.

Skulls: Determines wether skulls can be destroyed by bombs or if they will just 
be blown to another section of the screen.

Fishing: My favorite one! If this is set on, the person who wins the game gets 
to go fishing! See section 6 for more information.

Revenge: If this is set on, and you die, you will be out of the arena but you 
can throw bombs back in there. If it is set on super revenge and you kill some 
one, you can get back in!

2:3. Controls

Alright! Okay, now here are the controls for the game, the thing you might hate 
about bomberman a lot is... you can't pause the game!! This is very annoying. 
Well anyways, here are the controls

L button: Unused
R button: Unused
A button: Place bomb
Excute menu action
Power glove: Pick up bomb
Line bomb: Lay down all bombs you own in a line, in the 
direction you are facing
B button: Kick bomb: stop your kicked bomb
Cancel menu selection
Punch glove: send a bomb flyin
Select: unused
Start: unused
Control pad: Move bomberman
Navigate menus

Well those are all the controls

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3. Battle Mode Items
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Name: Fire-up
color: It's a little yellow flame that is smiling
What is does: Increases the blast radius of your bombs by one block's worth. The 
farthest fire power range is 8 blocks

Name: Hellfire
Color: The same as the fire-up except the background is all yellow
What it does: It makes your bomb power

Name: Bomb-up
Color: Just a little black bomb
What it does: Increases the number of bombs you can lay at one time by one. 
The number of bombs you can lay most is 8.

Name: Speed-up
Color: A little roller skate that is blue and yellow
What is does: The speed-up makes you walk faster by one level. The most speed 
boost is to 4 levels

Name: Slow-down
Color: Wooden sandles that are yellow and red
What it does: They slow you down one level (note: this item can only be found in 
the fishing mini-game)

Name: Kick bomb
Color: It shows a leg kicking a bomb.
What it does: When you have this item, you can kick bombs by just touching them. 
Press B to stop the bombs from rolling.

Name: Power glove
Color: a blue glove
What it does: press the A button or hold it while standing under your bomb then 
you will pick it up. Release the A button to throw the bomb. Hold the a button 
to keep the bomb still up in your hands, then you can walk around with it!

Name: Punch
Color: A red boxing love
What it does: Get up close to a bomb and press the B button to punch it. It will 
bounce about 3 or 4 squares away, if it lands on a block, it will bounce untill 
it hits the ground.

Name: Line bomb
Color: 3 black bombs
What it does: Press the A button two times to make all the bombs you have in a 
row.

Name: Skull
Color: just a white skeleton with red eyes
What it does: They poison you.
Skulls can do different things to you, here are all of the things it can do to 
you

Lead Foot
Makes your player walk very slow. Like he's crawling on the ground.

Lightning Feet
Makes your player super fast (this one ain't that bad)

Diarrhea
Makes your player drop bombs at every step

Constipation
Leaves you unable to drop bombs at all (diarrhea and constipation poisons seems 
like bomberman gets his bombs out of his behind, doesn't it?)

Wimp Syndrome
Only lets you drop one bomb with THE weakest firepower.

Reverse syndrome
Reverses your controls while your playing. For ex: When you press up bomberman 
will go down and when you press down he will go up and if you press left he will 
go right and if you press right, bomberman will go left.

Hyperactivity
Makes bomb blast quicker
Lethargy
bombs take longer to explode (this one is sometimes helpful too) 

those are all of the skull poisons.To get rid of the poision, touch some one 
else ( which I always do).

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4. Multi-player
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I gotta say, the bomberman Multi-player is one of the funniest things in the 
whole game. I think it's better than just playing with the CPU's because when 
you play with the CPU's it's not that much of a challenge and it just is a 
little boring. It stinks too, whenever you hide a bomb like in a pipe or 
something, the CPU will know and will get out of there, but when your friends 
are playing, hehehehe.

4:1. Starting

What you need:
2 or more GBA Systems ( 1 for each player )
1 bomberman pak inserted into the first player system
2 players= 1 link cable
3 players= 2 link cables
4 players= 3 link cables

4:2. Cables

Connecting the cables

1. Make sure that each GBA power switch is set OFF! Do not have any GBA on
2. Connect the link cables to each other but make sure that the purple link 
cable goes into the first player system and the other gray ones go into the 
other GBA systems.
3. Now turn the power switch on, on each GBA systemm
4. Now at the main menu, highlight battle and press the A button
5. Now highlight Group [host a game] and press the A button
6. Now at the Send data screen, press A to begin.

4:3. Trouble shooting

Mistakes might happen. Here are all of the possible things you could of done 
wrong

1. If your using a different link cable other than the GBA link cable
2. If you didn't plug the link cable into your gba system
3. If you unplug a link cable from one or more GBA's before the 
communication process is complete
4. If a game pak is in another GBA that isn't the first player one
5. More than four GBA's are connected
That's all the things that can cause a problem. 

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5. Battle maps
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This game has a total of 8 maps. Each map is different than the other. Sometimes, 
the maps have different items.  Here is a list of them!

Name: Standard
Color of the arena: green
Description: A basic map, found in many/all the bomberman muliplayer games.
Strategy: nothing really, it's standard!

Name: Hi-Power
Color of the arena: blue
Description: You start out with Max fire power, 3 bomb-ups, Kick bombs! And the 
good thing is there's No blocks in the way!
Strategy: Lay bombs and run for your life!

Name: Conveyor 
Color of the arena: green
Description: Has a big conveyor belt in the middle and two switches. One switch 
makes the belt go faster or slower. The other switch makes the belt reverse the 
way it's going
Strategy: lay bombs on the conveyor belt

Name: Slippage
Color of the arena: white
Description: Has 3 igloos, and has ice cracks in the arena.
Strategy: Hide bombs in the igloos 

Name: Landmine
Color of the arena: sort of light blue
Description: Land mines are in this one. Touch a land mine and it will explode 
in a matter of seconds. 
Strategy: Activate all of the landmines and run away and hide!

Name: Pipe Bomb
Color of the arena: Yellow
Description: Just like the standard arena except it has pipes which you can 
crawl into!
Strategy: hide bombs in the pipes

Name: Curvage
Color of the arena: Grey
Description: This arena has little arrows pointing different ways. Kick a bomb 
at a arrow and it will roll the way that the arrow is rolling.
Strategy: Clear the arena then kick bombs.

Name: Moon warp
Color of the arena: brown
Description: Has 5 moon warps. A moon warp warps you to a different spot.
Strategy: lay bombs around the moon warps.

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6. Ways to win!
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1. Surround the evil bombers with bombs everywhere!, and watch the show.
2. Hide in the pipes or igloos or you could lay bombs in there.
3. Punch a bomb at a other bomber >:)
4. When a CPU walks into a dead end , lay a bomb right behind him so he will be 
traped.
5. set the game on 1 min, tie breaker on, computer easy, and one round. Right 
when the round starts, Go to the middle of the arena and watch the poor little 
bombers get crushed!
6. In hi power, lay bombs where the CPUs are hiding.

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7. Fishing Game
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If you win the game, you get to go to the fishing mini-game! In this, you get to 
fish for items. Right when you start, it will say do you know how to fish and 
blah, blah, blah. Say no to start, or say yes to wait a while and read the 
instructions then you'll start. After that, you will see a power bar on the 
lower right on the screen. Press the A button once to get the power bar going 
then press it one more time to set the power and cast. Bomberman will now cast. 
Press up on the control pad to make it sink lower, you can also press down to 
make it sink faster. If you want to bring your cast towards you, press right. 
( note: You can't go left though so be sure what would be better ) After you got 
a item, bomberman will reel it up. Isn't that nice? You don't have to do 
anything. Be very careful when your fishing though. There's a item called "the 
slow down" which makes you slow in the next battle. Don't get that. It looks 
like a wooden sandle that is yellow and red. So try to avoid that. If you do get 
the slow down, simply in the next round just kill yourself right when the round 
starts and the slow down will jump out! Then kill some one and you'll get back 
in with out the slow down! Anyways, at the bottom of the sea in the fishing game 
is a bunch of slowdowns lined up together so try to get a item quick. 

After you got a item, in the next round you'll be in a golden suit. Nothing 
special or anything, it just changes the color of your bomberman. 

The items that are in the fishing mini game are
Bomb up
Fire up
Roller skate
Line bomb
Slow down
Kick bomb

Those are all of the items in the mini game. After you got a item, it will 
return you to the arena selection screen. If you refuse to play another game, 
you won't be able to have the item that you got in the fishing game anymore.  

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8. Challenges
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I made some challenges for this game. You don't get like anything new if you 
beat these challenges, there just for fun if your really bored of the game. 
That's it

Key: 
*= very easy
**= easy 
***= a little easy 
****=not so easy
*****= a little hard 
******= hard 
*******= really hard
********= almost impossible!  


Challenge 1 
Name: Upside down
Settings:
1 player on and 3 CPU's on
Computer: Easy 
Rounds: 1
Time: 1 minute
Tie break: on 
Shuffle: on
Skulls: stay
Fishing: off
Revenge: off
Battle Arena: Standard 
What you do: Right when the game starts, turn the GBA system upside down. Then 
try to beat the round.
Difficulty: ******

Challenge 2
Name: The duel
Settings:
1 player on 1 CPU on
Computer: Hard
Rounds: 1
Time: 1 minute
Shuffle: off
Skulls: doesn't matter
Fishing: off
Revenge: off
Battle Arena: Hi power
What you do: Try to beat the CPU 
Difficulty: ****

Challenge 3
Name: Super Revenge!
Settings:
1 player on 3 CPU's on
Computer: hard
Rounds: 5
Time: 1:00
Tie break: on
Shuffle: off
Skulls: burn
Fishing: off
Revenge: super
Battle Arena: Standard
What you do: right when the round starts, kill your self. Then when your outside 
the arena, throw a bomb at a person and kill him. After that, you'll get back in 
and then kill everyone. Do this for every round. Kill your self, kill some one 
else, then kill everyone.
Difficulty: ******* 

Challenge 4
Name: Revenge!
Settings:
1 player on 3 CPU's on
Computer: hard
Rounds: 5
Time: 1:00
Tie break: on
Shuffle: off
Skulls: burn
Fishing: off
Revenge: on
Battle Arena: Standard
What you do: kill your self again right when the round starts. This time kill 
everyone that is inside the arena. If a person dies and you didn't kill him, you 
loose. Do this for all the 5 rounds. Kill all the CPU's that are in the arena. 
Pretty hard eh?
Difficulty: ********

Challenge 5
Name: Run run run!
Settings:
1 Player on 1 CPU on
Computer: Normal
Rounds: 3
Time: 1:00
Tie Break: on
Shuffle: On
Skulls: Stay
Fishing: on
Revenge: off
What you do: Try to beat your opponent on diffrent stages with falling stuff!  
Run Run Run!
Difficulty:***** 

OKAY! If you have beaten all of these challenges, you are the bomberman 
Tournament MASTER! Not for long though, in the next version, I will add more 
challenges! Muahahaha! 
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9. Rumors
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Lots of rumors are completely stupid and we all know there fake. Some are 
interesting! I like rumors a lot. I mean I don't make them up, but I just like 
trying them. Even though most of them don't work, it's fun! Well, here are all 
the rumors I got, lots of people always e-mail me and say "is this true?" Well, 
here are the rumors for this game

1. The IGN review for Bomberman Tournament contained a saying that Hudson soft 
had a big secret for this game. Lots of people say it's a new battle arena and 
others say you get to ride on Louie (that kangaroo in L. Forest) It's all 
confusing and I don't think they even have a big secret in the game. They said 
that a long time ago and I think they would of told us about now. Plus, everyone 
has beaten like everything on this game so it must be a button code or something. 
 
Answer:NO WAY!

2. Diseases effect the bomber in quest mode too.

Answer:NO WAY!

3. every 100,000,000 block, you find a heart to withstand a hit.

Answer:NO W-*whap!*  No

4. FireKong is hiding in the standard area, just bomb 3 tiles then yourself, 
must have revenge on super, get back in the game and kill a bomber, you will 
havbe remote control bombs and FireKong ability!

Answer: slimjim, help me!

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9. FAQ
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Q: Argh, I keep on getting slow downs in the fishing game! Is there a way to not 
get the item?

A: Just avoid them!  Silly!

Q: Is battle mode better than quest mode? Because I don't have any friends to 
play with and I heard this game is stupid without multiplayer

A: Well, to me I like battle mode more, but hey, you can play against a CPU at 
least. It's really fun though with friends.

Q: This one guy "harvestpro98" said some stuff at this bomberman board. He said 
a lot of codes a rumors. I didn't get to test the codes though because my game 
got destroyed. Was the things he said true?

A: no, all those codes are fake. The topic was so stupid the moderators deleted 
it. 

Q: This is a really good FAQ. Can I work on it?

A: NO

Q: ugh, GSGold can't spell. Can I work on this guide and fix some stuff?

A: Be quiet!  I doo thigs fne! ~ GSGold

Q: out of 1-10, what rating would you give the battle mode

A: 10

Q: Are two people working on this FAQ?

A: Yeah, me (slimjim25c) and GSGold

More questions will be added in the next version, if you have a question, just 
e-mail me and I'll put it up in the next version.

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10. Version History
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Version 1.0- My first version I made. GSGold started the FAQ, and a while later 
I added onto it and did some more stuff. Later on, the FAQ was completed!

Version 1.1- I updated a lot of stuff in this version. Like rumors, ways to win, 
FAQ, and the fishing mini game.

Version 1.2- I added a new thing called challenges. 

Version 1.3- I will add more challenges and some more stuff. I will also update 
the battle maps.

I might add more versions if someone finds out theres a secret arena or 
something like that, and if someone gives me a good idea for something. 

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12. Contact
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Contact GSGold:

Mail: KirbytheKirby@aol.com 
AIM: MagnetDragon

Contact slimjim25c:

Mail: slimjim25c@hotmail.com 
Other mail: slimjim25c@yahoo.com 
AIM: slimjim25c
MSN IM: slimjim25c@hotmail.com
Yahoo IM: I will get it soon, my srn will be slimjim25c

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12. Thanks
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CjayC for posting this guide
Activision and Hudson soft for making such a great game!
My friend (doesn't have e-mail) for helping me add some stuff

Slimjim25c for: 
Making the battle map section and adding the battle maps description, ect, 
except 2.
Making battle mode item 
Making what the items do
Making legal stuff
Making all the multi player stuff 
Making 4 ways how to win
Making controls
Putting up the questions
Making 1 rumor
Making all the challenges except one


GSGold for:
Making 2 battle map description
Making 2 rumors
Making 2 ways to win
Making getting started 
Making 1 challenge

If I missed anyone, please let me know. E-mail me

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13. Leagal Stuff
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DO NOT COPY THIS GUIDE AND PUT IT ON YOUR WEBSITE WITH OUT TELLING ME. FIRST 
TELL ME WHERE YOUR GONNA PUT IT AT AND YOU HAVE TO GIVE ME CREDIT FOR IT! IF YOU 
EVEN TAKE OUT A LITTLE PART IN THIS GUIDE AND PASTE IT ON YOUR SITE, STILL, TELL 
ME AND GIVE ME CREDIT FOR IT .DON'T PRINT THIS GUIDE OUT AND SELL IT!! THAT IS 
ILLEGAL. Lata.


Copyright 2k1. By slimjim25c and GSGold


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