Gundam: Battle Assault 2

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Gundam: Battle Assault 2 is the sequel to Battle Assault, that was split into two games in Japan for the Simple Character 2000 series.

This needs some investigation. Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page. Specifically: Are there any character gameplay differences for characters between regions?

Unused Characters#

The-O, Zeta Gundam, Qubeley, and Hamma Hamma were removed from the game proper, but they can still be used in the US version with GameShark codes.

Unused Music#

Acguy's theme from Gundam Battle Assault remains on the disc, but goes unused. To force a stage to play the theme, use this GameShark code before loading into a match: 300DF80A 0008

Unused Voices#

Main Menu#

The male voice used to indicate which mode you've selected at the main menu has unused samples for shooting mode and training mode. Neither of these modes are known to exist.

Character Select#

Voice lines for the character select screen for the four unused mechs (Hamma-Hamma, Qubeley, The-O, and Z Gundam) are included in the sound effects. They use the Gundam: Battle Assault male announcer's voice.

Report Screen#

Game Modes#

Lines to unlock "Shooting Mode" and "Training Mode" exist. Neither of these modes exist in the final release.
A voice line to unlock "Versus Mode" exists. Both forms of "Versus Mode" (Versus CPU and Versus 2P) are available immediately, leaving no opportunity to use this line.

Shooting Mode#

Voice lines for unlocking all 30 normally-used mechs exist for a nonexistent "Shooting Mode". Samples not included due to redundancy with the following Training Mode samples.

Training Mode#

Voice lines for unlocking all 30 normally-used mechs exist for a nonexistent "Training Mode".

Match Announcer#

The male match commentator has an unused line saying "You Suck!"

"You suck!"

Character Voices#

The line Duo (Deathscythe's pilot) uses for his super in Street Mode ("Slash, slash, slash!") exists as a lower-quality sound sample meant for in-match use, but goes unused. Each "Slash!" is a separate sample.

"Slash...

...slash...

...slash!!!"

This line was likely intended to be used for Deathscythe's Mega Special, named Hell Scissors. Beam Scissors is the name of Deathscythe's scythe.

"Beam Scissors!"

Unused Text#

The text for "Story Mode" exists at the top of a list of titles for the main menu, but "Street Mode" was used instead. "Street Mode" exists at the bottom of this list.

The images used for the names on top of the mechs on character select exist for the four unused mechs. There's no entry for these mechs on the character select screen to reference.

Development-Related Text#

Debug Text#

There is debug text present in the file DATA/DEBUG.PRG which goes unused.

DDSTEP TEST MIYABE

Version Differences#

US/Europe	Japan (Vol.12)	Japan (Vol.13)

As mentioned above, the Japanese release split the game into two, with Vol.12 containing the Mobile Fighter G Gundam roster and Vol.13 containing the New Mobile Report: Gundam Wing Endless Waltz roster (the second title uses the original Wing logo but most of the mobile suits are from the Endless Waltz OVA). Both games still have the Universal Century mobile suits, however.

The Burning and Dark Gundams also go by their original Japanese names ("God" and "Devil" Gundam) in Vol.12.

Any character that is not unlockable in their respective Japanese versions have had their character data removed and are no longer available with Gameshark codes.