Slimjim25c and GSGold Bomberman Tournament Battle mode guide 

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Bomberman Tournament for the GBA 
In depth battle guide 
Created on 10/26/01 
Version 1.1
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. Intoduction 
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. Rumors 
9. FAQ
10. Version history 
11. Contact
12. Thanks
13. 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 
 
1:1. Updates. 
 
10/26/01 I added more on the fishing game, I added some FAQ, and I also 
added more ways to win, and more rumors. That's about it. I don't know 
where GSGold is right now so I made the second version all by myself. 
*sniff sniff* it took so long. Just kidding.  
 
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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. 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:

2. Diseases effect the bomber in quest mode too.

Answer:

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

Answer:

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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: Nope

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: NO! Geeze, no one can work on this except me and GSGold Lata.

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10. Version History
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Version 1.0
I just started it, I completed it in a day, but not everything was 
completed

Version 1.1
I will make another version, and it will update the 
Rumors
FAQ
Ways to win
Fishing game
And I might even add something new!

Version 1.2
I will make 1 more version and this version will have everything

Version 1.3
If something new happens or anything, I will make another version For 
ex: If someone found out there was a secret arena.

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12. Contact
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Contact GSGold:

Mail: KirbytheKirby@aol.com 
AIM: GSGold5000

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!

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


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

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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