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Revision as of 17:39, 14 February 2019

Puzzle Bobble 4
Puzzle Bobble 4 cover
Developers
Taito
Publishers
Europe Agetec
America Interplay Entertainment
Japan CYBERFRONT Corporation
Release dates
Windows 2000
Puzzle Bobble 4 on Wikipedia
Subseries of Bubble Bobble
Puzzle Bobble 1995
Bust-A-Move 2: Arcade Edition 1996
Puzzle Bobble 2 1997
Puzzle Bobble 3DX 2001
Puzzle Bobble 4 2000
Super Puzzle Bobble 2001
Bust-A-Move Online 2007
Puzzle Bobble (2019) 2019
Puzzle Bobble 2 (2019) 2019
Puzzle Bobble 2X / Bust-A-Move 2 Arcade Edition & Puzzle Bobble 3 / Bust-A-Move 3 S-Tribute 2023

Key points

Released as Bust-A-Move 4 in Europe and North America.
Might not run well in Windows 10. See Poor performance in Windows 10 for a fix.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM-free
Disc needed to play for lesser install options.
Windows
This game is not available digitally.

Game data

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\save.dat[Note 1]

Video settings

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Input settings.
Input settings.

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Japanese
Japanese UI and subtitles only available on Japanese copies.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
2
LAN play
Online play
2 Serial, Modem, and Direct IP only.

Connection types

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DirectDraw 5
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Issues fixed

Poor performance in Windows 10

DDrawCompat fix[citation needed]
  1. Download the lastest release of DDrawCompat.
  2. Extract the ddraw.dll to <path-to-game>.

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Multiplayer DirectPlay

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 100 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 420 MB (Full install)
Video card (GPU) DirectX-compatible GPU

Notes

  1. When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References