Bubble Bobble: Lost Cave C64

Bubble Bobble: Lost Cave C64 is a fan-made puzzle game based on the original Bubble Bobble. It features hundreds of remade levels with more detailed graphics and a new physics engine, offering players a fresh adventure. Players must skillfully control their character to perform various maneuvers such as movement and jumping, completing levels in the shortest time to compete against other players. What are you waiting for? Relive the exciting moments of the past in the game!

Features:

100 new levels from TAITO's console ports of Bubble Bobble, faithfully adapted to the C64 engine.

Level layouts recreated with arcade accuracy in mind.

Carefully reproduced bubble airflows within C64 memory limits.

Gameplay adjustments to better fit the C64 game engine.

Selected new bonus items straight from the original console versions.

Optional Two-Button Controls (jump on Button 2), just like the arcade.

Remastered visuals, fully consistent with Bubble Bobble C64 Remastered.

A pay-what-you-want fan-made project, created by fans, for fans.

The closest experience C64 players have ever had to a true Bubble Bobble sequel.

Important Notes:

Avoid unofficial / trainer versions: Please be aware that trainer or cracked versions of the game available on CSDB contain known issues and may exhibit incorrect behavior that is not present in the official release.For accurate gameplay, proper behavior, and support, please use the official version published here, which is a free, respectful update to the original 1987 conversion, and tested on real hardware.Unofficial versions are not supported and any reports or complaints related to unofficial versions cannot be taken into consideration. Thank you for your understanding.

Two-Button Control & SID Compatibility on Real Hardware: The Commodore 64 relies on the SID chip to read the paddle inputs. The second joystick button is wired to pin 9 and is detected via the POT X signal.If you experience issues with the second button, your system is likely using a SID replacement (such as SwinSID or similar) that is not fully compatible with the original SID’s handling of paddle inputs.This is not a bug in the game. Any C64 software that reads the second joystick button through POT inputs will exhibit the same behavior on such hardware.For proper control functionality, an original SID or a fully compatible replacement is recommended.

PAL System Required: This game is a hack of the PAL version of Bubble Bobble for Commodore 64 and is designed to be played on PAL systems only. Running the game on NTSC machines or NTSC emulation may cause issues such as inconsistent or incorrect game speed and audiovisual glitches.For the intended and optimal experience, please play the game on PAL hardware or use a PAL-configured emulator.

Useful Tips:

During the game you can change from 1- to 2 player mode by pressing the space key.

If in the 2 player mode the display shows "Game Over" for one player, he will get new lives by pressing the fire button, as long as there are still credits left. However his points are set to zero.

If for both players at the same time "Game Over" lights up in the display, The game might end although there are still credits left!

If collected E,X,T,E,N,D, you skip the level and get an extra live.

Extra lives reaching 30.000 - 100.000 - 400.000 - 1.000.000 and 2.000.000 points.

When both players take a power up the same time, both get its powers.

If a player as taken a bottle and both player collect the same number of bonus items, both players will get the highest number of points.

By collecting the umbrella you can skip 3 or even 7 levels.

If the clock is collected the time until the meanie Baron of Blubba appears is extended.

The nut releases a snake , which takes everything away on its way.

The cross has different effects depending on its colour. Yellow cross: Bub or Bob shoot fire balls with big impact. Blue cross: The monsters turn to jewels. Per jewel collected you get 10.000 points. Flashing cross: The monsters get destroyed. Three great flashes are fired which you should collect.

Huge bonus symbols count 10-fold.

Some levels require to jump higher than normal.In multiplayer mode, one player has to spit bubbles while the other player jumps on them (jump on the bubble and then direclty on the higher spot or else the bubble will burst). This is more difficult in singeplayer mode.

If no life has been lost until level 20, 30, 40, 80 and 90 instead of the extras a door appears. If you touch it, you get into a bonus level filled with diamonds, where you can collect 432.000 points and then get to level 22, 32, 42, 82 and 92.

If still no life has been lost until level 50, a white door will appear which teleports you to level 70(!).

On the 100th stage you first have to get the pots with the flashes and then throw the flashes from the bubbles towards the enemies.

If you have made the 100th stage, you get about 1.000.000 points.

Player Comments:

Absolutely loving this! Bubble Bobble Remastered was a little contentious, as it took an already great C64 game and just made little tweaks. But this, taking levels from other BB releases and building them into a C64 release as a sequel of sorts - a level pack, really - makes perfect sense.We're also playing it for the current Lemon64 monthly competition!

Awesome and worthy sequel to one of the best games on the C64 ever, even if that doesn't make it a new game. We really liked the new graphics. Our German-language review can be found at 00:58:11. English subtitles are also available. Subscription to our YouTube and Twitch channel is welcome.

The game is much better when you have on shoes! It's been fun learning a little more about the game though. I've always avoided Bubble Bobble games since I never learned how it's scored. I was always trying to get all the guys in bubbles to max my points that way. It's more about triggering the bonus levels for big points.... at least with the version. I don't know what makes them happen, but when they do, number goes up.

I played the original c64 version a lot when i was young. I had the original tape version.I was able to complete the game on one credit. And in 2 player mode with an average 2nd player i could complete the game without dying.See how we go with this one.