Gundam: Battle Assault 2

Gundam: Battle Assault 2
Also known as: SIMPLE Character 2000 series Vol.12 Kidou Butouden G Gundam The Battle (JP), SIMPLE Character 2000 series Vol.13 Shin Kidou Senki Gundam W The Battle (JP) Developer: Natsume Publishers: Bandai (US/EU), D3 Publisher (JP) Platform: PlayStation Released in JP: October 10, 2002 Released in US: July 17, 2002 Released in EU: 2002 This game has unused playable characters. This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused music. This game has unused sounds. This game has unused text.

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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.

To do: Are the Gundam W roster there in Vol.12 and G Gundam roster in Vol.13?

To do: Include sound and music samples of unused music/voices.

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.

Character	Code	Alternate Code
The-O	300DF39A 0001	300DF3DA 0001
Zeta Gundam	300DF3A1 0001	300DF3E1 0001
Qubeley	300DF3A3 0001	300DF3E3 0001
Hamma Hamma	300DF3A4 0001	300DF3E4 0001

(Source: Master ZED)

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

(Source: Ganelon)

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.

Shooting Mode
Training Mode

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.

Hamma-Hamma
Qubeley
The-O
Z Gundam

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
Training Mode
Versus Mode

Shooting Mode

Voice lines for unlocking all 30 normally-used mechs exist for a non-existent "Shooting Mode".

Training Mode

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

Character	"...is available in Training Mode."
Acguy
Altron
Ball
Big Zam
Bolt
Burning
Dark
Deathscythe
Dragon
Epyon
GP-02a
Heavyarms
Hydra
Hygogg
Master
Maxter
Neue Ziel
Nu Gundam
Psyco
Quin Mantha
Rose
RX78
Sandrock
Sazabi
Tallgeese
Wing
Zaku II
Zaku II S
Zeong
ZZ Gundam

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!"

(Source: ComboKyo, Mecharuva consulting)

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.

(Source: ComboKyo)

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.