Battle Rush: Build Up Robot Tournament FAQ/Walkthrough By: Darkstar Ripclaw The most recent version of this FAQ may always be found at GameFAQs.com 　　 This guide uses Shift-JIS formatting. Some installation work may be required to view the katakana and hiragana used in this guide. ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~- Table of Contents -~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ How to Play [HELP] Battling [BATT] Parts List [PART] Credits [CRED] ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~- How to Play -~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ [HELP] Battle Rush: Build Up Robot Tournament (バトルラッシュ) is a game for the Nintendo Famicom, only playable with the Datach accessory released by Bandai. Despite that, the game does not ever actually use the Datach's main feature, its barcode scanner, so whether or not this was an 'exclusive' meant to throw a bone to Datach owners or not is up in the air. The game's basic premise is that of a robot-construction and battling game. A player will first be required to build a robot from scratch in a factory (not as difficult as it sounds), then goes out to participate in four tournaments of escalating difficulty. Winning the Master-Class tournament will give you Battle Rush's ending. Through winning tournaments, you can also obtain prize money. This allows you to change a few parts on your robot such as its weapons (though most of its frame is determined at the start, and cannot be changed without creating a new robot, which drops you back to the Beginner Class tournament only), as well as manually upgrading the stats on your robot. ------------------- Beginning your Game ------------------- Upon starting a new game, you first need to go to the Factory Mode. Here, you can name yourself, put down your gender, and then answer a few questions to get a 'type' for yourself, which does not appear to matter. After, you can finally build your robot. ------------------- Building your Robot ------------------- When selecting your robot, you pick out several parts. It is important to note that ONLY the arms can be changed out from what you put in when first building your robot. To change anything else on the body requires creating an entirely new robot. FEET ---- The type of feet determines your matter of movement. Each of the three categories has several different parts, with a tradeoff between speed and size. Your size determines the later part types that you can equip - you cannot equip a 4-star body on a set of 3-star legs (you can equip a 2-star body on the 3-star legs, but there is no point to doing that as going up to 3-star would not cost any extra). FOT-01 to FOT-12 is a regular bipedal set of legs under the Walking Type (ほこう), which you will use to mostly walk and dash about with. It can jump, but to float in the air consumes a great deal of energy. FOT-13 through FOT-21 is the Tread Type (キャ タピラ). In this type, your robot has tread wheels, which allow it to smoothly move and dash across the ground, and minimises the knockback you suffer from delivering or taking attacks, allowing you to close in on an opponent and spam punches, strikes or shots. Jumping, however, is slow, and any jump will drain lots of energy from your body. FOT-22 up to FOT-30 are of the Flight Type (ひこう). With this, you can stick to the ground, but you can also float above ground and move around with a great deal of maneuverability, and hovering will barely drain your energy. It is of the author's opinion that the Tread Type is mostly useless due to its sluggish jumping and large energy drain when attempting to jump. BODY ---- The 31 different BOD parts go from 1-star size and defense up to 8-star size and defense. You cannot select a body of a greater size than your legs. You may select one of lesser size, but you should really select one of even size as the amount of defense your body has corresponds with your size - the greater your body size, the greater your defense. ARMS ---- Arms determine your attack strength, and correspond to size just like the Body and Defense did. The arms can be of three types - Punch (パンチ), Gun (ガン) and Sword (ソード) type. To be honest, though, the author does not know why the arms have types, as you can seemingly equip any weapon type on any arm type. HEAD ---- The different Head parts have separate balances between your robot's entire Attack, Defense, Speed and Energy Recovery capacities. Some parts have an extreme tilt towards one category with 8 stars in one and 1 star in the others, while others have a balance with splits of 2 and 3 stars in each category. Although the player may be biased towards an extreme, it may be smarter to go for one that is balanced. This is because you can pay money to upgrade your robot's stats, but every subsequent upgrade on a category costs you an exponential amount of money. As such, starting off with an extreme amount of points in one stats means you pay more money over time as while you do not have to upgrade one stat more than a few times, the others may hit $25600 when they might only each have required $12800 for its last level upgrade. COLOUR ------ This is just an aesthetic thing, so choose whichever colour you prefer for your 'bot. After, you will be given the opportunity to name your robot, and asked if you wish to start over again. CHANGING OUT ARMS ----------------- During actual gameplay in a tournament, prior to each match you will have three options. The first option which your cursor will be put on by default is to start the match. The second option is to modify the 1P Robot (as for 2P Robot, the author believes Player 2 cannot take part in the tournament, just in a 2 Player match). It is only after you actually finish creating your robot and start battles that you can equip arm parts on. There are three main Arm-types: Punch-type parts (パンチ) Sword-type parts (ソード) Gun-type parts (ガン) Each arm weapon has an attack damage stat, which is how much damage it can cause (and it is possible for lower stat weapons to do absolutely no damage against some foes), and an Energy stat, the higher star stats consuming more energy every time you use an attack. All arm weapons have a price, so the more powerful the arm (or the lesser the Energy use for the same amount of damage), the more expensive the arm gets. Although your arm module when creating a robot has a type associated with it, this does not seem to have any effect - you can equip a Gun and Sword weapon on a Punch arm without any problem. Once you have purchased a weapon, you do not automatically equip it. While staying on the same factory/shop menu, you must go into a separate option selection to be able to equip your new weapon. SHIELD ------ During actual gameplay in a tournament, prior to each match you will have three options. The first option which your cursor will be put on by default is to start the match. The second option is to modify the 1P Robot (as for 2P Robot, the author believes Player 2 cannot take part in the tournament, just in a 2 Player match). It is only after you actually finish creating your robot and start battles that you can equip a Shield on. Each shield has its own 'Cut-Rate' which is basically the amount of damage the shield can guard against - a weapon with lower stats than your shield will cause little or no damage. However, higher defense comes with high energy consumption from your shield every time it intercepts an attack. OPTIONALS --------- During actual gameplay in a tournament, prior to each match you will have three options. The first option which your cursor will be put on by default is to start the match. The second option is to modify the 1P Robot (as for 2P Robot, the author believes Player 2 cannot take part in the tournament, just in a 2 Player match). It is only after you actually finish creating your robot and start battles that you can equip an Optional part on. Optionals will give some status a boost, such as Attack, Energy Recovery, or Speed. Every stat category has two items, the more effective one being the one that costs more. Finally, there are three optionals that will greatly boost the power of either Gun, Sword or Punch attacks. ----------- Tournaments ----------- After you have built your robot, you can enter tournaments. Each tournament will open up after you win the tournament prior to it. Every tournament offers prize money for winning it, with the amount varying on which tournament you won. Every tournament is a 64-robot elimination tournament, requiring you to win 6 straight matches. In the case of the first three tournaments, you also have to take on one final robot at the end to clear the tournament. This is not the case in the Master Class tournament, where you only need to win the regular 6 elimination matches. ビギナークラス - Beginner Class ($200) ミドルクラス - Middle Class ($400) ハイクラス - High Class ($800) マスタークラス - Master Class ($1600) It is important to note a couple of things: Only by defeating the Master Class tournament can you see the game's ending. Building and utilising a new robot wil reset you all the way back to Beginner Class. You will have to battle your way through every tournament once more. -------------------------------- Navigating the Shop/Factory Menu -------------------------------- Before each match, by selecting the option that has '1P' in it, you can go to the factory, where you can buy weapons, shield and optional parts, equip them, and upgrade your stats. Here is how the options work. Going from left to right, top to bottom, here are the options of the initial menu and those options' submenus: -Change Parts -Change out Right Arm Weapon -Change out Left Arm Weapon -Change out Shield -Change out Optional Part -Go Back one Menu -Purchase Parts -Purchase Weapons -Purchase Shields -Go Back one Menu -View your Robots' Stats -Upgrade Attack -Upgrade Defence -Upgrade Speed -Upgrade (Energy) Recovery -Go Back one Menu -View Information -View your Pilot Information -View your Robot's Body Information -View your Robot's Body Information (2) -View your Robot's stats -Go Back one Menu -Return to the tournament ------------ Levelling Up ------------ By visiting the third option on the shop/factory screen from a tournament match, you can upgrade your robot's statistics. Each of the four stats (Attack, Defense, Speed and (Energy) Recovery) start at Level 0. To upgrade each stat a level requires $100 to go from Level 0 to Level 1. Every subsequent upgrade to a stat requires double the amount of money from before - so Level 1 -> 2 requires $200, then $400 to Level 3, etc. The stats you start out depends with your robot set-up, particularly the head type. ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~- Battling -~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ [BATT] Every tournament is an elimination tournament of 64 robots, meaning you have to win 6 matches. In the Beginner, Middle and High-Class tournaments, you must defeat a reigning champion of sorts to progress and win prize money. The Master-Class tournament is only 6 matches with no reigning champion to fight. ビギナークラス - Beginner Class ($200) ミドルクラス - Middle Class ($400) ハイクラス - High Class ($800) マスタークラス - Master Class ($1600) All matches are 60 seconds long. -------- Controls -------- Up - Jump Hold while in the air - Hover in the air Left/Right - Move around on the battle-field Quickly double-tap either direction - Dash A - Use your Right-hand Weapon B - Use your Left-hand Weapon ------------------ General Strategies ------------------ To win a match, you need to satisfy one of two conditions: -Destroy the enemy robot by reducing its HP to zero -When the 60 seconds of the match runs out, have more HP than your foe As you will see with some of these strategies, waiting out the 60 seconds may be useful. The following are general strategies to take from, and you may end up combining several of them. However, these should be utilised on a battle-by-battle difference, as many robots have different parts and A.I. patterns. If you, the reader, have any strategies of your own, feel free to contribute them to this guide by emailing the author at the email listed in the contact information right at the bottom of this guide. BOX THEM IN ----------- This works very effectively against robots with tread-type legs, though the author only saw a couple of them in his playthrough, making them seemingly rare. Other robots it can be useful against are those with only punch attacks, or if they have a gun-type weapon but have used up all their energy. In the 'Box Them In' strategy, you basically attempt to pin your opponent against one of the invisible walls at either end of the battlefield. You can either do this by hitting them back, dashing into them and hitting them back, or retreating to one end of the field and then jumping or floating around the opposition's back side when it comes over to you. Once you have the opponent pinned against the wall, you can rapidly tap whichever button you have a Sword or Punch-type weapon attached to and slash and punch away at your opponent. Any robot with poor mobility, such as all tread- types which can be interrupted out of attempted jumps with a single strike, will have difficulty escaping your grasp. STAND STILL ----------- This is a very rarely useful strategy that really only can be used when your opponent only has punch weapons. Very occasionally, an enemy robot will try to punch you, but it will never actually move in close enough to make contact with you. Instead, it will stand close by, but just sufficiently far back that it does not touch you. If you already have whittled the robot's health down so it has less HP than you do, you can wait out the battle to win with more HP. SHOOT - JUMP - MELEE -------------------- You will often encounter robots whose first reaction to you shooting at them is to jump. Although this is not so effective against robots with Flight legs, it is incredibly effective against the Walking-type majority. While in the air, their ability to move around is reduced, so you can run along the ground to where the robot will fall down, and get a punch in just as it begins to touch the floor before it can respond. Back away, shoot at the robot again to trigger it jumping up again, and repeat your punch or slash. This strategy works best with a low-energy Gun weapon and higher-attack Punch or Sword weapons. REDUCE ENEMY ENERGY TO ZERO --------------------------- This can be a fairly dangerous tactic depending on how powerful your opponent's Gun-type weapons are, and is especially dangerous to use against a robot with a Flight-type set of legs. The basic premise is to allow your foe to spam his Gun-weapon at the start of the battle. You will want to make constant use of jumping to avoid the ammunition. Your enemy may also jump and fire while in the air, while you can sit on the ground and avoid gunshots going over your head. Some Walking types have A.I. that will, if they get shot at in the air, make them float to the top of the screen. You can use this to your advantage by doing just that, shooting at them while they are also jumping, to make them float and drain lots of energy. Once your enemy has bled through all its energy, it has at most one attack left instead of two (and some enemies have two Gun weapons, rendering them helpless until they can recover enough energy for a single attack). You can then move in and strike the enemy. WAITING IT OUT -------------- Although you can immediately win a match by reducing your opponent to zero, you can also win if you have more health than your opponent does when the counter reaches zero. That is easier said than done, but if you are using a Flight-type robot and have some fairly strong Guns on hand, you can spam them at your opponent, then fly up to the top of the screen and basically take very little damage for the rest of the damage so long as your opponent is not a Flight-type robot as well (Tread and Walking-types require large amounts of energy to reach the top of the screen, before even attacking you). ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~- Parts List -~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ [PART] Listed below are the parts lists for the three types of parts that you can change out on your robot. The legs, heads, bodies, etc. are not listed here, as you can only decide which one to use right when building a robot. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WEAPONS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Part ID| Attack | Energy | Type | Price | Name ------------------------------------------------------- WPN-01 | * | * | Punch | $100 | ノーマルパンチ ------------------------------------------------------- WPN-02 | * | * | Punch | $100 | アームパンチ ------------------------------------------------------- WPN-03 | * | * | Punch | $100 | シャープナツクル ------------------------------------------------------- WPN-04 | ** | ** | Punch | $200 | ハードナックル ------------------------------------------------------- WPN-05 | ** | ** | Punch | $200 | ズームパンチ ------------------------------------------------------- WPN-06 | ** | ** | Punch | $200 | ナックルパーツ ------------------------------------------------------- WPN-07 | *** | *** | Punch | $300 | クラッシヱパンチ ------------------------------------------------------- WPN-08 | *** | ** | Punch | $300 | パワーナックル ------------------------------------------------------- WPN-09 | **** | *** | Punch | $400 | バトルクロー ------------------------------------------------------- WPN-10 | **** | **** | Punch | $400 | ブースターパンチ ------------------------------------------------------- WPN-11 | ***** | ***** | Punch | $500 | スラストハンド ------------------------------------------------------- WPN-12 | ****** | **** | Punch | $700 | さんほんづぬ ------------------------------------------------------- WPN-13 | *******| ***** | Punch | $900 | ドンルクラッシヱ ------------------------------------------------------- WPN-14 |********| ***** | Punch | $1200 | ヘビーハンマー ------------------------------------------------------- WPN-15 | * | * | Sword | $100 | ナックルブレード ------------------------------------------------------- WPN-16 | **** | *** | Sword | $400 | しゃしゅつやり ------------------------------------------------------- WPN-17 | ***** | *** | Sword | $500 | ブレードアーム ------------------------------------------------------- WPN-18 | ****** | **** | Sword | $700 | ランス ------------------------------------------------------- WPN-19 | *******| ***** | Sword | $900 | パイルバンカー ------------------------------------------------------- WPN-20 | * | * | Punch | $100 | しゅとう ------------------------------------------------------- WPN-21 | ***** | **** | Punch | $500 | アイアンクロー ------------------------------------------------------- WPN-22 | ****** | ***** | Punch | $700 | こんほう ------------------------------------------------------- WPN-23 | ** | * | Sword | $200 | ジヱッテーム ------------------------------------------------------- WPN-24 | ** | * | Sword | $200 | こうしんどうメス ------------------------------------------------------- WPN-25 | *** | ** | Sword | $300 | はりせんチヨッブ ------------------------------------------------------- WPN-26 | *** | *** | Sword | $300 | でんじムチ ------------------------------------------------------- WPN-27 | **** | *** | Sword | $400 | スピンブレード ------------------------------------------------------- WPN-28 | ***** | ***** | Sword | $500 | レーザーカッター ------------------------------------------------------- WPN-29 | ****** | ****** | Sword | $700 | ライトソード ------------------------------------------------------- WPN-30 | *******| ****** | Sword | $900 | ゲレートシックル ------------------------------------------------------- WPN-31 |********| ****** | Sword | $1200 | ジェノサイド ------------------------------------------------------- WPN-32 | * | ***** | Gun | $100 | ガトソンゲガン ------------------------------------------------------- WPN-33 | ** | ***** | Gun | $200 | インパクトガン ------------------------------------------------------- WPN-34 | *** | ***** | Gun | $300 | シヱソケン ------------------------------------------------------- WPN-35 | *** | **** | Gun | $300 | ハードブーメラン ------------------------------------------------------- WPN-36 | **** | ****** | Gun | $500 | バブルボンバー ------------------------------------------------------- WPN-37 | **** | *******| Gun | $500 | かえんほうゃき ------------------------------------------------------- WPN-38 | ***** | ****** | Gun | $700 | でんじボウガン ------------------------------------------------------- WPN-39 | ***** | ****** | Gun | $700 | バズーカまう ------------------------------------------------------- WPN-40 | ****** | *******| Gun | $900 | アームレーザー ------------------------------------------------------- WPN-41 | ****** | ****** | Gun | $900 | ミサイルキャノン ------------------------------------------------------- WPN-42 | *******|********| Gun | $1200 | ミサイルポッド ------------------------------------------------------- WPN-43 | *******|********| Gun | $1200 | G-ランチャー ------------------------------------------------------- WPN-44 | *******|********| Gun | $1200 | スマートボム ------------------------------------------------------- WPN-45 |********|********| Gun | $1600 | レーザーほう ------------------------------------------------------- WPN-46 |********|********| Gun | $1600 | メーサーほう ------------------------------------------------------- WPN-47 |********|********| Gun | $1600 | ワイドビーム ------------------------------------------------------- WPN-48 |********|********| Gun | $1600 | はどうほう ------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SHIELDS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Part ID| Cut-Rate | Energy | Price | Name -------------------------------------------------------- SLD-01 | ** | * | $100 | けいりょうたて ------------------------------------------------------- SLD-02 | *** | *** | $300 | ワイドシールド ------------------------------------------------------- SLD-03 | **** | **** | $500 | ライトールド ------------------------------------------------------- SLD-04 | ***** | ***** | $700 | シールドバソア ------------------------------------------------------- SLD-05 | ****** | ******| $900 | でんじシールド ------------------------------------------------------- SLD-06 | ******* | *******| $1200 | グ ラヴィラィ-S ------------------------------------------------------- SLD-07 | ******** |********| $1600 | じゲんシールド -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OPTIONALS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Part ID| Effect | Price | Name ------------------------------------------------------- OPT-01 | Attack-Up | $200 | フオース ------------------------------------------------------- OPT-02 | Attack-Up | $400 | スーパーフオース ------------------------------------------------------- OPT-03 | Defense-Up | $200 | シェルコート ------------------------------------------------------- OPT-04 | Defense-Up | $400 | マグネットコート ------------------------------------------------------- OPT-05 | Speed-Up | $200 | ブースター ------------------------------------------------------- OPT-06 | Speed-Up | $400 | ジェットパーツ ------------------------------------------------------- OPT-07 | EnergyReFill-Up | $200 | ジェネレーター ------------------------------------------------------- OPT-08 | EnergyReFill-Up | $400 | ジェネレーター2 ------------------------------------------------------- OPT-09 | Reduced Energy Use | $200 | スぺシャル-E ------------------------------------------------------- OPT-10 | Reduced Energy Use | $400 | エジソンエンジン ------------------------------------------------------- OPT-11 | Energy Up (?) | $3200 | カスタムチップ ------------------------------------------------------- OPT-12 | Energy Up (?) | $6400 | スーパーチップ ------------------------------------------------------- OPT-13 | Punch-Damage Up | $800 | パンチブースター ------------------------------------------------------- OPT-14 | Sword-Damage Up | $800 | シャープブレード ------------------------------------------------------- OPT-15 | Gun-Damage Up | $800 | パワーブソッド ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~- Credits -~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ [CRED] A thanks goes to the atwiki page for this game, which informed me that the barcode reader was not at all used for Battle Rush: http://www25.atwiki.jp/famicomall/pages/910.html _______________________________________________________________________________ Need help with something that's not in this FAQ? 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