BATTLE BUGS
Official Title  Battle Bugs
Common Title  Battle Bugs
Serial Number(s)  SLPS-00991
Region  NTSC-J
Genre / Style  Strategy

Developer  Epyx.
Publisher  Manning
Date Released  18 September 1997
Disc Number &
Printed Serial Number
DISC 1

SLPS-00991
Serial Number In Disc SLPS-00991
Media Disc ID N / A
Number Of Tracks 15
( 1 Data Track &
14 Audio Tracks )
Approx. Image Size
( Image Format Used )
221 MB
( .bin / .cue )
Approx.Size On Disc MB
Approx. Archive Size
( Archive Type Used )
MB
( 1 RAR File with
2% Recovery )
Barcode Number(s)
( UPC / EAN )

From the back cover.
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Japanese
Menus and gameplay are in Japanese.

Battle Bugs is a unique real-time tactics video game developed for the DOS and Windows by Epyx and released by Sierra On-Line in 1994. There was also a lesser known PlayStation version of the game that was released in Japan in 1997.

The game details a war of one group of insects battling against another. The battlefields are common household places such as the kitchen floor or the backyard. The player must navigate his (or her) bugs, each with special skills, and engage the enemies’ bugs.

The main objective of each battle is to either eradicate all of the enemy bugs or 'capture' every piece of food on the battlefield. This is achieved by positioning your bugs on the food long enough to raise a flag. When all pieces of food bear your team's flag, the battle is won. However, the enemy bugs will attempt to do the same thing and can reclaim captured food.

The game develops the logical skills of the player. Different bugs are stronger and weaker versus other types of bugs so the player must combine different strategies to go to the next mission.

There is also a multiplayer mode that can be played. It involves hot-seating between two players by pressing 'pause' on a virtual stopwatch, similar to the way that competitive chess is played.

  Manufacturer's description:

Simulation game that uses the character of cute worms. A familiar place of our day-to-day battle that has been waged in the garden and the kitchen of a typical household. The Tour of snack food or leftovers of human, insects are scrambling day and night. How can you become a commander of insects, put a period to this fierce battle! ?

  Features:
  • Third person perspective
  • 2D graphics
  • Cartoon graphics
  • SCIFI, Fantasy & bugs themes.
Number Of Players  1 Player
Number Of Memory Card Blocks  1 Block
Compatible Controllers Tested
( Official Gamepads Only )
 Standard Controller ( Digital Controller Compatible only )
Compatible Light Guns
( Official Light Guns Only )
 None
Other Compatible Controllers
( Official Controllers Only )
 None
Special Controllers Included Or
Supported ( Official Only )
 None
Vibration Function Compatible  No
Multi-Tap Function Compatible  No
Link Cable Function Compatibile  No
Emulator  ePSXe v1.9.0
Video Plugin  Pete's OpenGL Driver v2.9 ( internal X & Internal Y= Very High, Stretching mode: Stretch to full window size, render Mode: 2 (Use framebuffer object) text filt = 2 FPS limit= 63, Compatibility=1,3,2; Shader effects= 1 (Fullscreen smoothin))
Audio Plugin  ePSXe SPU Core v.1.9.0
CD-ROM Plugin  ePSXe Cdrom plugin
Game Pad Plugin  N / A
Vibration Compatible  The game doesn't have it (Digital only).
Console Bios Used  SCPH7502

  NOTE:   This is not the only possible combination of plugins. There are others that will work (better or worse) for your particular hardware. We provide you with one working set-up so that you may get the game up and running, hassle-free. Testing other emulators/plugins is up to you.
 

 BASIC CONTROLS:
  Move pointer - D-Pad
  Select action - Circle Button
  Cancel action - X Button
  Show map - L1 Button
  Next unit - R1 Button
  Next enemy unit - R2 Button
  Information - L2 Button
  Pause / Resume game - Start Button

 

 
   


 
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