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ROM Hack [Release] Dragon Ball Supersonic Warriors "Battle Arena" - DBZ: Supersonic Warriors 2 hack with new unlockable characters

alejandrobujan

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Hi GBAtemp! I'm releasing Battle Arena, my hack of Dragon Ball Z: Supersonic Warriors 2 (Nintendo DS, Europe).

What it does
  • Boots straight into Free Battle team select and never leaves it. No story mode, no menus in between: just pick your team and fight.
  • The battle engine is the original one, untouched.
  • Several new characters never seen in the Supersonic Warriors games, unlocked by fighting. Can you guess who the rest are?

How to patch
  • You need your own dump of Dragon Ball Z: Supersonic Warriors 2 (Europe), game code ADBP
  • Original ROM: SHA-1 6681ae01620e736d7428f4bbd84b2388134d5c2b / CRC32 0e001277
  • Apply the xdelta patch with Rom Patcher JS (in your browser), Delta Patcher or xdelta3
  • Patched ROM: SHA-1 7459304a5856cb8ebaf7cf683ba84a15bfa8c7e2
  • Works on flashcarts and emulators (melonDS, DeSmuME)

Download (patch, readme and license):
https://github.com/alejandrobujan/dbsw-battle-arena/releases/latest

What's next
  • Bug fixes based on your reports
  • Open to ideas: characters, balance, anything else

Bug reports and feedback are very welcome, especially from flashcart users! Licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
 
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The truth is that it's a spectacular, very consistent piece of work, although I haven't unlocked many yet, I see that this project is great.I've been playing for about two 30 minutes and it feels really good, I haven't noticed any bugs and it feels great. Have you thought about adding arcade and multiplayer modes?I won't mention the story because I think it's more complex, but Arcade mode would be very useful for farming points, not to mention versus mode.I'm eagerly awaiting the upcoming updates. Greetings from the land of tacos!
 
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Angelus said:
The truth is that it's a spectacular, very consistent piece of work, although I haven't unlocked many yet, I see that this project is great.I've been playing for about two 30 minutes and it feels really good, I haven't noticed any bugs and it feels great. Have you thought about adding arcade and multiplayer modes?I won't mention the story because I think it's more complex, but Arcade mode would be very useful for farming points, not to mention versus mode.I'm eagerly awaiting the upcoming updates. Greetings from the land of tacos!
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Thanks a lot, Angelus, this really made my day!

For this first version the goal was to build a solid base and see if there was a community interested before going further. Arcade and multiplayer modes are the natural next steps, and so is more work on the character art. So yes, they're definitely on my radar.

I don't have much of a social media presence, to be honest. I created most of these accounts just to reach more people who might want to help make this bigger. So if you like the hack, the best way to support it is to star the repo on GitHub (alejandrobujan/dbsw-battle-arena) and share it on X or wherever you hang out.

There's also an active thread about some guys looking to make a Hackrom for SW2 on r/NDSHacks that looks like a great place to find collaborators, but my brand-new Reddit account got banned before I could join in. If anyone here is active there, feel free to point them to this thread

Sorry my current member status doesn't let me share links yet, but step by step! 😄
 
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How do you unlock the characters? I've been playing for almost an hour and have only unlocked one character.
 
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How do you unlock the characters? I've been playing for almost an hour and have only unlocked one character.
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Great question! Each new character unlocks the first time your team wins a battle with a certain character against a certain rival. Think about classic matchups or rivalries from the series
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ZGamer30 said:
Would really appreciate a save file with all of the characters already unlocked.
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Thanks for the idea! Unlocking them is part of the fun, so I'd suggest giving a try first. It's quicker than it looks. That said, I'll consider sharing a save file in a future update
 
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What are the specific requirements, do you only unlock them from 1-on-1s, do you need a specific stage, do you just have to have character on both teams for it to work, etc. I like Supersonic Warriors 2, but when I'm focusing in unlocking characters it makes me wonder if I'm going about it all wrong or not. Thanks in advance, this is pretty cool rom hack so far.
 
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Awesome hack, having fun with it so far. I've unlocked 4 characters at the time I write this post. I've got a couple of suggestions: Could it be possible to enable skills obtained through Story Mode? I've tried in-battle transformations (L Button) and Team Arts, and none sem to be available. And on the character side, could you give Nekomajin Z a character slot? I know he's JP exclusive, but surely there must be a way to put him back in the code. Keep up the good work!
 
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RoyMVR said:
What are the specific requirements, do you only unlock them from 1-on-1s, do you need a specific stage, do you just have to have character on both teams for it to work, etc. I like Supersonic Warriors 2, but when I'm focusing in unlocking characters it makes me wonder if I'm going about it all wrong or not. Thanks in advance, this is pretty cool rom hack so far.
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For the moment, no stage requirement, and no need for 1-on-1. You just need to win a battle with the right character(s) in your team and the right one(s) in the CPU team, in any slot
 
I have some issues, like the fact no character starts with what they can unlock in the story mode, which locks you out of stuff like Kaioken for Goku and of the most fun Team Attacks.

That said, it's also not intuitive what fights exactly you have to do to unlock characters. And why is Majin Vegeta not here?
 
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Guys, small update: it looks like the hack has been doing the rounds on X:

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and the poster tried to tag me but couldn't find me. My account there is very new, so here it is: @alejandr0bujan. If you're on X and feel like boosting the original post, I'd really appreciate it:



Honestly, I didn't expect this many people to actually play it. v1.0 is a pretty bare release (it just was a fun project for my inner child) and I'm well aware it doesn't live up to what some of you might expect yet. If anything, the feedback so far has made it very clear how much there is left to do and improve, so thanks to everyone who's tried it and reported stuff. More to come
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rutechium said:
Awesome hack, having fun with it so far. I've unlocked 4 characters at the time I write this post. I've got a couple of suggestions: Could it be possible to enable skills obtained through Story Mode? I've tried in-battle transformations (L Button) and Team Arts, and none sem to be available. And on the character side, could you give Nekomajin Z a character slot? I know he's JP exclusive, but surely there must be a way to put him back in the code. Keep up the good work!
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Thank you so much for this feedback! Is the way to continue it for sure!
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FranklinClintonSan said:
I played this game and the GBA one a ton back in middle school so this is definitely going to be a lot of fun. Thanks for working on it, and looking forward to any further updates!
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Thank you very much mate
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TerpyDerpy50 said:
I have some issues, like the fact no character starts with what they can unlock in the story mode, which locks you out of stuff like Kaioken for Goku and of the most fun Team Attacks.

That said, it's also not intuitive what fights exactly you have to do to unlock characters. And why is Majin Vegeta not here?
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Thanks for the feedback! I'll work on this
 
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Characters and how to unlock them, (SO FAR WHAT I HAVE MANAGED TO UNLOCK)


Blue Goku: Beat Base Vegeta as Base Goku
Blue Vegeta: Beat Base Goku as Base Vegeta
Ultimate Gohan: Beat SS3 Gotenks as Super Buu
Super Baby 2: Beat Super Buu with Base Goku and Mr. Satan



you know, it's a bit disappointing that they're all recolors
 
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TerpyDerpy50 said:
you know, it's a bit disappointing that they're all recolors
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Fair, and I was upfront about it from the start (see the first messages in the thread). I want to repeat something, because I think it matters: v1.0 is a build I made for myself, and I put it out as a proof of concept to see if there was a community behind it and find people to collaborate with.

I'm sorry if it doesn't meet expectations; it's not meant to be a finished product yet. If it's not fun for you right now, that's completely fair, and the project will still be here in a more mature state later on.
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Also guys if you have reddit and you can tell this people about this I'll appreciate! They are really nice artists: https://www.reddit.com/r/NDSHacks/comments/1ssv6vv/dbz_supersonic_warriors_2_hackrom/

(I was banned in reddit literally for nothing, just posted the game)
 
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