Bust-A-Bloc

Bust-A-Bloc
Also known as: SIMPLE 2000 series Vol.5 The Block Kuzushi Hyper (JP) Developer: Tamsoft Publishers: D3 Publisher (JP), Midas Interactive Entertainment (EU) Platform: PlayStation 2 Released in JP: May 30, 2002 Released in EU: October 31, 2003 This game has hidden development-related text. This game has debugging material. This game has regional differences. This game has unusual dummy files.

Bust-A-Bloc (known as The Block Kuzushi Hyper, and released as part of the SIMPLE 2000 series in Japan) is a fairly generic Breakout clone... IN 3D!

Debug

Stage Data Output

Use the code 20100188 0C04BDE2 to output text as below to console.

63
		  64, 			// texCnt,
		   2,    4,    8,    0, // U     ,V     ,UV W  ,UV H  ,
		   0,    0,  -98,    4, // w     ,h     ,add W ,add H ,
		   4,    4,    0,    0, // R 0   ,G 0   ,B 0   ,A 0   ,
		   0,  151,    6,    4, // R 1   ,G 1   ,B 1   ,A 1   ,
		   4,    0, 		// alpah,vec_type,
		0.00f,0.00f,		// grav_a,resist,
		-108,   12,    4, 	// RangeX,RangeY,RangeZ,
		   4,    0,    0, 	// Pow  X,Pow  Y,Pow  Z,
		   0,  147,   14, 	// minLif,maxLif,gene  ,
		   4, 			// aniCnt,

Texture

Use the code 20100188 0C04BE26 to display texture debug text. However, there are no controls to interact with this menu.

Text	Translation
ヘルプ	Help
テクスチャのずれ	Texture gap

Dummy File

The extensionless file DUMMY, only found in the European release, is actually a .ISO file of the game Makai Tenshou. While it has a filesystem, the beginning data just repeats itself, rendering it unusable. It is a shame, as the image was from May 16, 2003, a little over a month before the retail build.

(Source: tikal.)

Build Dates

In the game's ELF executable, offset 0x1285F0 in the original Japanese release and 0x12A090 in the European localization contain build dates:

Japan	Europe
Apr 1 2002 02:18:10	Sep 1 2003 10:25:41

(Source: tikal.)

Version Differences

Japan	Europe

• Aside the name change, the elements in the title screen were also repositioned.