Dyna Blaster (DOS)

Dyna Blaster

Platform: DOS Year: 1992 Developer: Hudson Soft Company, Ltd., Hurricane

Dyna Blaster is the DOS port of Bomberman (TG16), though it carries the European name of the franchise. Dyna Blaster is an action game where you control a man who must blow up blocks and monsters with bombs, while also taking care not to blow up yourself. There is a single player story mode where you rescue your kidnapped girlfriend, and a multi-player battle mode where you can fight 3 opponents, either human or computer controlled.

Screenshots

The title screen. A kidnapped girlfriend? How original! It's a long road to that mountain fortress. Blasting balloon men. Stage 2 introduces a new monster. Four human players at a time is possible.

Music

The DOS port uses the same music as the original Turbo-Grafx 16, composed by Jun Chikuma, but has been converted to work with the OPL2 by an unknown arranger.

Recording

#	Title	Composer	Arranger	Length	Listen	Download
01	Title	Jun Chikuma	Unknown	0:22		Download
02	Introduction	Jun Chikuma	Unknown	0:26		Download
03	Round Start	Jun Chikuma	Unknown	0:06		Download
04	Stage Start	Jun Chikuma	Unknown	0:05		Download
05	Stage Music 1	Jun Chikuma	Unknown	1:53		Download
06	Stage Music 2	Jun Chikuma	Unknown	3:00		Download
07	Stage Clear	Jun Chikuma	Unknown	0:06		Download
08	Boss	Jun Chikuma	Unknown	1:04		Download
09	Dead	Jun Chikuma	Unknown	0:05		Download
10	Game Over	Jun Chikuma	Unknown	0:13		Download
11	Battle	Jun Chikuma	Unknown	0:52		Download
12	Draw Game	Jun Chikuma	Unknown	0:06		Download
13	Win Match	Jun Chikuma	Unknown	0:06		Download
14	Bomber Champ	Jun Chikuma	Unknown	0:26		Download
15	Ending	Jun Chikuma	Unknown	0:42		Download

Credits

• Ripper: TheAlmightyGuru
• Recorder: TheAlmightyGuru
• Game Credits:
  • Music Jun Chikuma credited as Atsushi Chikuma
  • Sound FX: Keita Hoshi
  • Not Credited Arranger: Unknown

(Source) The port credits "Hurricane" for the conversion, which may be a person or company. They were probably responsible for converting the TG16 music into the CMF music.

Game Rip

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The CMF files are concatenated in a file called Music.dat in the install folder. There is also a file called Dyna.mid, but it is identical to the Music.dat file. Perhaps they were originally considering a General MIDI output? The sound effects are in VOC format and are concatenated in the Digi.dat file. They are included in the rip.

The music was recorded with Much Music v1.11 with looping turned on for the looping tracks.

Audio Devices

Music
Sound

(No Source - The game doesn't allow you to configure sound devices, but it auto-detects any OPL2 compatible device.

Releases

France Title: Dyna Blaster Platform: DOS Released: 1992-??-?? Publisher: Ubi Soft Entertainment Software     Germany Title: Dyna Blaster Platform: DOS Released: 1992-??-?? Publisher: Ubi Soft Entertainment Software     Italy Title: Dyna Blaster Platform: DOS Released: 1992-??-?? Publisher: Ubi Soft Entertainment Software     UK Title: Dyna Blaster Platform: DOS Released: 1992-??-?? Publisher: Ubi Soft Entertainment Software

Links

• mobygames.com/game/dos/bomberman - MobyGames.
• gamefaqs.gamespot.com/pc/579111-dyna-blaster - GameFAQs.
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomberman_%28TurboGrafx-16%29 - Wikipedia.