Blast Chamber (PlayStation)
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Also known as: Kyuu Bakku: Ningen Bakudan Sports (JP)
 This game has a prototype article This game has a prerelease article |
Blast Chamber is a 3D puzzle action game where up to four players are trapped in a rotatable cube-shaped chamber, fighting each other in order to survive (or just die the least times) using the environment's numerous traps and powerups to their advantage.
You have a timebomb strapped to your chest. The clock is ticking. Your goal is to survive.
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Unused Levels
The AIMAPS, BINARYM2 and BINARYM3 directories contain files for three multiplayer chambers that were axed late into development.
Cover Up
"Cover Up" (CUBE05M) features, per face, a single pit door and platform that covers the reactor once stepped on. Available power-ups include Mercuries and Crystal Bombs. The A.I. is mostly functional, but is unable to jump on and trigger the platform, and will keep rotating the chamber if the crystal spawns on the "cross" in the back panel.
Use the following GameShark code to restore "Cover Up" (replaces "Hang Time"):
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8001158F 3530 30011CE3 0032 80011CE9 3530 |
80013DD3 3530 30011A27 0032 80011A2D 3530 |
80013D9F 3530 30011A0F 0032 80011A15 3530 |
Elevators
"Elevators" (CUBE11M) features a pair of four-spike groups on either the upper or lower corners of each face, along with a platform the player must step on in order to be elevated and reach the reactor. Available power-ups include Hi-Jumps and Time Bombs. The A.I. once again struggles with platforms, as it just runs to the middle of the chamber and repeatedly jumps in a desperate attempt of reaching the goal.
Use the following GameShark code to restore "Elevators" (replaces "Revolution"):
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8001154F 3131 30011C93 0032 80011C99 3131 |
80013D93 3131 300119D7 0032 800119DD 3131 |
80013D5F 3131 300119BF 0032 800119C5 3131 |
Lava Leap
"Lava Leap" (CUBE26M) features a pair of spikes on the upper corners of the face, a small lava pit and a trigger-controlled platform above it where the crystal spawns. Available power-ups include Crystal Magnets, Paralyzers and Psy-bombs. The A.I. does not attempt to use the platforms, but may pick up available Crystal Magnets to obtain the crystal, repeatedly rotating the chamber otherwise.
Use the following GameShark code to restore "Lava Leap" (replaces "Wind of Death"):
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8001151F 3632 30011C57 0033 80011C5D 3632 |
80013D63 3632 3001199B 0033 800119A1 3632 |
80013D2F 3632 30011983 0033 80011989 3632 |
Unpublished Cheat Codes
Two cheat codes for Blast Chamber have been officially published and made accessible to players: Freeze Timer and Freeze Life Counter, both only applicable to Solo Survivor mode. A total of five cheats is defined in the game's code, however, with the button combinations and effects of the remaining three being as follows:
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, , — plays the game's ending FMV instead of the Time Commando trailer when the "Time Commando Demo" item is selected on the Options menu (North American version), or when selecting the "Options" item on the main menu whilst holding 
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(European and Japanese versions);- , , , , , , , — freezes power-up timers during both Solo Survivor and Multiplayer games;
- , , , , , , , — enables a Solo Survivor chamber selection menu, accessible by selecting the "Chambers" item on the main menu whilst holding and .
Unimplemented Power-up
This game features 13 functional power-ups that normally spawn in the various chambers. However, 14 are defined in its code, with the eighth of them having no effect whatsoever in either Solo Survivor or Multiplayer, in any of the available builds of the game. It uses the same icon sprites as the Crystal Magnet and stays active for just two seconds.
Unused Menu Text
Found in TEXT.ENG is a number of text strings that aren't used anywhere in the game's menus:
WELL DONE ! TIME'S UP PAUSE - CONTINUE RESTART CHAMBER LIVES LEFT PRESS START TO CONTINUE PICK A COLOUR TO BURN IN WHO ELSE LIKES IT HOT READY WELL? PRESS TO JOIN UNUSED PRESS UNUSED PRESS DRAW GAME MOST ROUNDS WON: LEAST DEATHS, ENTIRE TOURNAMENT PLAY AGAIN? AVERYLONGCUBENAMEINDEED
Debug Messages
Messages presumed to be displayed on a debug console can be found scattered at the beginning of the main executable (specifically, at 0x800):
Regional Differences
Title Screen
In Japan, Blast Chamber was marketed under the title Kyuu Bakku: Ningen Bakudan Sports, with the title screen following suit:
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Options Menu
The North American version of the game includes a trailer for Time Commando on the Options menu. Since that game wasn't published by Activision in Europe and Japan, this is absent from those versions.
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