In the Youtube Channel ofrunehero124 there’s a video from a nice Bomberman Hero test-map. From the description we read that: “This code was originally discovered by Icy Guy from the RareWitchProject forums. So give him full credit. I rediscovered it a couple years later, but noticed that it had been found before.”

From an interview atGDRI we found outthe design of Bomberman Hero is an adaption of the concepts for the cancelled Ultra Genjin:

GDRI: What happened with Ultra Genjin [N64]?

Ultra Genjin was being planned during the game industry’s transition from 2D to 3D games. I studied the practical aspects of this quite a bit, but I think that nobody really knew what should be done with games at the time. As a result of trial and error, we were able to adapt the design for Ultra Genjin to Bomberman Hero.

A little more information about Ultra PC Genjin directly fromShouichi Yoshikawa site:

ULTRA PRIMITIVE MAN (UNFINISHED)
PLATFORM N64/ 32M ROM (HUDSON/ Project stop )
MY TERMJUNE 1995. to DEC. 1995.
MY CHARGEPlanning & 3D Graphic tool mastering
CONTENTAfter the project stop, this planning was transfered to “BOMBERMAN HERO”

Thanks toCeline for the contribution!

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4 thoughts on “Bomberman Hero (Ultra Genjin) [N64 – Test Map]”

1. Celine22-09-2009 at 13:41

   What is an interesting fact about this game is that the design of Bomberman Hero is an adaption of the concepts for Ultra Genjin.

   http://gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.php/Interview:Shouichi_Yoshikawa

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   1. monokoma24-09-2009 at 13:49

      Evolved from Ultra Genjin? That is uber-cool. Thanks for the link Celine! I’ll add that to the description :)

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2. Celine28-02-2010 at 02:49

   A little more information about Ultra PC Genjin directly from Shouichi Yoshikawa site:

   ULTRA PRIMITIVE MAN (UNFINISHED)
   PLATFORM N64/ 32M ROM (HUDSON/ Project stop )
   MY TERMJUNE 1995. to DEC. 1995.
   MY CHARGEPlanning & 3D Graphic tool mastering
   CONTENTAfter the project stop, this planning was transfered to “BOMBERMAN HERO”

   http://www.interq.or.jp/mars/lucky3/_English/subhtm/work/index.htm

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   1. monokoma01-03-2010 at 14:10

      ooh, nice :) Thanks Celine, sadly he did not post any image from the Genjin phase :P

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