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Bubble Trouble
Title:Bubble Trouble
Category:Game/Action
Release Date:
Language:English
Size:16K
Machine:PAL Only
Code Type:Machine code
Distribution:Commercial/TA
Game ending type:No end (highscore)
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Released by:Players
Created by:Howlin MAD
Notes: 
  External links:
    Atari 8bit release

User Rating: 7.2/10 (20 votes)
Bubble Trouble Title Screenshot

Bubble Trouble Screenshot


Releases
NameReleased ByRelease DateDistributionProduct CodeRetail PriceFormatPackageRarityNotesOwned
Original releasePlayers1986CommercialCassetteUnspecified4
1 found.


Hall Of Fame
1Luca29,480Played using YAPE 1.1.6, PSX joypad.
2Plus4Punk29,145
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Derived Software
Bubbles


Appeared On Compilations
Five Star Games III
Club Info 130


Publications
Description: 100+4/2 (Book/Hungarian) pg. 38
Review: ZZAP! C16 (Magazine/English) pg. 5
Review: Zzap! 15 (Magazine/Italian) pg. 43
Cheat: H And D's C16 Plu... Volume 1 Issue 9 (Magazine/English) pg. 17
Review: Aktueller Softwar... 4/1987 (Magazine/German) pg. 15
Cheat: H And D's C16 Plu... Volume 2 Issue 3 (Magazine/English) pg. 22
Review: Retro Gamer 113 (Magazine/English) pg. 79


Remakes
TitleCreated byPlatformHomepageNotes
Bubble TroubleLacosteGameboy Color
web
2021-11-01


Covers
Cassette Cover (Front)
Cassette Cover (Front)
Cassette Cover (Side)
Cassette Cover (Side)
Cassette Cover (Back)
Cassette Cover (Back)


Physical Media
Cassette
Submitted by Lacus
Cassette


Score Bug
If the player reaches a perfect score of X0,000 (easier than one can argue, due to the 10 points' bubbles), a bug prevents the game to continue from the correct score, turning back to the previous digit: (X-1)0,000.

This bug is caused by a faulty assigned byte in the original code, which stores the new digit into another memory location:
...              
. 1F44 AD 86 03 LDA $0386
. 1F47 69 00 ADC #$00
. 1F49 8D 80 03 STA $0380
...


In order to fix the bug, enter in Monitor:
>1F4A 86


Badly Documented Controls
The real working game controls have been badly documented in the official instructions: the pause mode has been described totally different, the joystick port has been omitted, the key to move down has been omitted too. Also, the game's control code allow several keys to be used for the same function.

Joystick in Port 1
  
Help : Start game ("fill bath")
Any couple ok keys on a key row (A/S, D/F...) : Move left/right
Any key on the leftmost vertical (Control, Commodore...) : Move down
F1/F2 : Pause/Restart game


Cheats - How do I use cheats?
>1B76 ADUnlimited lives
>2A1C C9 ##Number of little bubbling to collect to go to the next level (default = 09)
>2877 00Unlimited time
POKE 11985, 255255 lives (unpacked)
POKE 12155, 44No vertically moving brush (unpacked)
POKE 12100, 44No horizontally moving dirts (unpacked)
POKE 12086, 44No vertically moving spider (unpacked)
POKE 8021, 173The number of caught bubbles doesn't decrease (unpacked)
POKE 12182, 44Invulnerability (use with unlimited time) (unpacked)
G 1600Restart game
POKE 5434, 173Unlimited lives (packed)
POKE 10009, 255255 lives (packed)
POKE 8458, 0Unlimited time (packed)
POKE 10163, 44No vertically moving brush (packed)
POKE 10108, 44No horizontally moving dirts (packed)
POKE 10094, 44No vertically moving spider (packed)
POKE 6425, 173The number of caught bubbles doesn't decrease (packed)
POKE 10190, 44Invulnerability (use with unlimited time) (packed)

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