DvD Translations presents:

BURNIN' TWINBEE

The Rescue of Dr. Cinnamon!

(aka TwinBee 2)

Patch Released: April 9, 2018

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Screen Shots

Title Screen: Before and After


Title Screen History: TwinBee 1, FDS TwinBee 2, Stinger


Intro

Ending

Game History

• TwinBee is a huge series of games by Konami. The first, simply titled TwinBee, was released for the arcade on March 5, 1985.
• TwinBee was ported to the Famicom in Japan on January 4, 1986.
• The second game was released released soon after as Moero TwinBee: Cinnamon-hakase o Sukue! on November 21, 1986 for the Famicom Disk System.
• Konami ported it to the US NES releasing it as Stinger in September of 1987. Unfortunately, they completely removed the 3rd player and both Bee cutscenes.
• Konami released TwinBee 3: Poko Poko Dai Maou for the Famicom on September 29, 1989.
• Konami released the fourth game in the series, Pop'n TwinBee for the Super Famicom on March 26, 1993 which they quickly localized in Europe for the Super NES.
• On the very same day, Konami finally released Moero TwinBee: Cinnamon-hakase o Sukue! for the Famicom restoring all the content that was changed or removed for the US release and adding a difficulty selection.
  Because of the late release, this is a relatively rare and expensive game.
• Many other TwinBee games have since been released plus many games in the excellent Parodius series and Wai Wai Racing where a TwinBee always plays a major role as a playable character in every game.

Patch Features

• For the first time, 3rd player support via the NES 4-Score/NES Satellite!
• Complete and accurate translations of the Bee intro and ending screens
• Complete and accurate translation of Dr. Cinnamon's rescue speech & final note
• Fully translated title screen based on the exact logo from TwinBee 1 but with the coloring of TwinBee 2
• Translated and properly colored BoooM! sprites during Dr. Cinnamon abduction screen

Scans

Box Front and Back

Project History

• Comments received from contributors
• ROM translation released along with Cleopatra
• Website released

• Dr. Cinnamon Ending Speech and Credits Added
• BoooM! sprites modified to match original colors
• Beta testing by KlD performed / Text edited
• Final ROM comparison performed and any unused changes removed

• Bee ending text inserted

• Bee intro text inserted
• Table Dumper Pro modified to insert compressed title screen graphics
• New title screen completed

• BoooM! sprites inserted
• Intro font inserted

• Reverse engineered Bomberman II to confirm out how 3rd player works on a NES
• Added 3rd player support to TwinBee 2
• Alpha tested 3rd player support on a NES Satellite with I@D and R1D

• Project started