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Info Page: BDCFF Format

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BDCFF stands for Boulder Dash Common File Format. It is a text format that describes the caves and properties of Boulder Dash games and various clones. The format is being developed by several people in the BD community. An extensive document explaining the structure can be found here. This is the most up-to-date version. An older version (0.32 from 2004), which has the emphasis on Boulder Dash and is therefore much simpler, can be viewed here.

Why do we need a standard BD format at all?? Good question! There are some advantages of having such a format. First, it makes it easy to convert C64 Boulder Dash games to any other format, for instance, the format used by some clone. This makes it possible to play the classic levels within the modern remakes. The only alternative is to use a C64 memory snapshot, but this is harder to convert than a text file, and it generally has no standard. Furthermore, there are plans to expand the BDCFF format to one format which supports all the elements and physical rules of the existing BD games and clones. For example, a boulder from Boulder Dash behaves slightly different compared with a zonk from Supaplex, so there should be different symbols to represent both elements. Such a format would make it more flexible to exchange levelsets between different clones.

I'm currently trying to convert all the C64 Boulder Dash games to the BDCFF format. This is not an easy job! There exist some (unreleased) tools to make BDCFF files from C64 memory snapshots, but unfortunately many games aren't stored in a standard format in the snapshot. As for now 190 games are converted and they can be downloaded below. The files are sorted by author and all the games by the same author can be downloaded as one zip-file. First the official releases:

Author

Game

Releasedate

Last update

Peter Liepa

Boulder Dash 01

1984

Boulder Dash 01 (No One's 16 BD)

1987

Boulder Dash 02

1985

Boulder Dash 02 (Super BD)

1985

29-09-2007

American Action

Boulder Dash 03

1986

Boulder Dash 03 (No One's 16 BD)

1987

Boulder Dash 03 (Sijben Soft)

1985

29-07-2007

Fernando Herrera

Boulder Dash Construction Kit

1986

26-06-2006

And the files of the fan games:

Author

Game

Releasedate

Last update

Alpha Flight

AFL Boulder Dash

01-01-1989

AFL Boulder Dash Extra Caves

29-06-2006

Arno Weber

Arno Dash 01

09-2002

Arno Dash 02

10-2002

Arno Dash 03

11-2002

Arno Dash 04

01-2003

Arno Dash 05

03-2003

Arno Dash 06

07-2003

Arno Dash 07

08-2003

Arno Dash 08

11-2003

Arno Dash 09

02-2004

Arno Dash 10

04-2004

Arno Dash 11

05-2004

Arno Dash 12

07-2004

Arno Dash 13

10-2004

Arno Dash 14

03-2005

Arno Dash 15

06-2005

Arno Dash 16

09-2005

Arno Dash 17

01-2006

Arno Dash 18

05-2006

Arno Dash 19

10-2006

Arno Dash 20

12-2006

Arno Dash 21

04-2014

Exploding Dash 01

08-2004

Exploding Dash 02

10-2006

Santa's Boulder Dash Party

12-2004

Future Dash

07-2007

25-02-2017

BD Community

Xmas Boulder Dash 2001

14-12-2001

27-02-2007

Bert Bogger

Boulder Dash Pro 1995

1995

Boulder Dash Pro 2

08-03-2003

25-06-2006

Blockheads

Boulder Head 01

Boulder Head 01 (No One's 16 BD)

1987

Boulder Head 02

Boulder Head 03

Boulder Head 04

1987

Boulder Head 05

1987

Boulder Head 06

1987

27-06-2006

Coolshaker Union Gang K.G.

Quolder Dash 01

Quolder Dash 02

Quolder Dash 03

Quolder Dash 04

Quolder Dash 05

16-01-2007

CWS

CWS Boulder Dash

2001

25-06-2006

Don Pedro

Boulder Dash 05

1986

Boulder Dash 05 (No One's 16 BD)

1987

Boulder Dash 06

1986

Boulder Dash 06 (No One's 16 BD)

1987

Boulder Dash 07

1986

Boulder Dash 07 (No One's 16 BD)

1987

Boulder Dash 08

09-08-1986

Boulder Dash 08 (No One's 16 BD)

1987

Boulder Dash 09

31-08-1986

Boulder Dash 10

1987

Boulder Dash 10 (No One's 16 BD)

21-09-1986

Boulder Dash 11

1987

Boulder Dash 11 (No One's 16 BD)

11-10-1986

25-06-2006

Dr. Watson

Boulder Dash 04

27-03-1986

Boulder Dash 04 (No One's 16 BD)

1987

25-06-2006

Falcon Soft

Falcon Dash 2003: The Legend Continues

05-04-2003

Falcon Dash 2003: The Dark Cave

12-10-2003

Falcon Dash 2004: The Big Diamond

31-12-2004

25-06-2006

Firefox

Firefox 01

13-05-1998

Firefox 02

07-06-1998

Firefox 03

14-07-1998

Firefox 04

11-10-1998

Firefox 05

02-12-1998

Firefox 06

20-12-1998

Firefox 07

30-01-1999

Firefox 08

26-02-1999

Firefox 09

27-03-1999

Firefox 10

24-04-1999

Firefox 11

21-05-1999

Firefox 12

22-06-1999

Firefox 13

03-08-1999

Firefox 14

17-09-1999

Firefox 15

23-10-1999

Firefox 16

12-11-1999

Firefox 17

12-12-1999

Firefox 18

08-01-2000

Firefox 19

03-02-2000

Firefox 20

19-02-2000

Firefox 21

18-03-2000

Firefox 22

01-05-2000

Firefox 23

17-06-2000

Firefox 24

10-09-2000

Firefox 25

05-11-2000

Firefox 26

23-12-2000

Firefox 27

20-01-2001

Firefox 28

24-02-2001

Firefox 29

17-03-2001

Firefox 30

14-04-2001

Firefox 31

05-05-2001

Firefox 32

03-06-2001

Firefox 33

27-06-2001

Firefox 34

02-08-2001

Firefox 35

31-08-2001

Firefox 36

14-10-2001

Firefox 37

10-12-2001

Firefox 38

16-02-2002

Firefox 39

30-03-2002

Firefox 40

25-05-2002

Firefox 41

28-09-2002

Firefox 42

25-11-2002

Firefox 43

18-01-2003

Firefox 44

16-03-2003

Firefox 45

25-05-2003

Firefox 46

27-07-2003

Firefox 47

26-10-2003

Firefox 48

24-12-2003

Firefox 49

19-03-2004

Firefox 50

26-06-2004

Firefox 51

03-09-2004

Firefox 52

12-11-2004

Firefox 53

18-02-2005

Firefox 54

16-10-2005

Firefox 55

13-01-2006

25-06-2006

Marek Roth

Deluxe Dash 01

Deluxe Dash 02

31-08-1990

Deluxe Dash 03

30-11-1990

Remix De Luxe 01

Remix De Luxe 02

Remix De Luxe 03

Remix De Luxe 04

Remix De Luxe 05

Remix De Luxe 06

Remix De Luxe 07

Remix De Luxe 08

04-03-2007

Matthias Steiner

Boulder Dash 1 Plus

02-2004

Boulder Dash 2 Plus

03-2004

Boulder Dash 3 Plus

05-2004

23-07-2006

Michael R.

MJR Boulder Dash 01

13-08-2001

MJR Boulder Dash 02

03-04-2002

25-06-2006

No One

No One's Boulder 01 (No One's 16 BD)

1987

No One's Boulder 02

11-1986

No One's Boulder 02 (No One's 16 BD)

1987

No One's Boulder 03

1986

No One's Boulder 03 (No One's 16 BD)

1987

No One's Boulder 04

15-12-1986

No One's Boulder 04 (No One's 16 BD)

1987

No One's Boulder 05

10-01-1987

No One's Boulder 05 (No One's 16 BD)

1987

No One's Boulder 06

17-01-1987

No One's Boulder 07

19-01-1987

No One's Boulder 08

22-01-1987

No One's Boulder 09

23-01-1987

No One's Boulder 10

30-01-1987

No One's Boulder 11

07-02-1987

No One's Boulder 12

09-02-1987

No One's Boulder 16

27-02-1987

No One's Boulder 17

01-03-1987

No One's Boulder 18

14-03-1987

No One's Boulder 19

15-03-1987

No One's Boulder 20

1987

No One's Boulder 21

1987

No One's Boulder 22

1987

No One's Boulder 23

1987

No One's Boulder 24

1987

No One's Boulder 25

1987

No One's Boulder 26

1987

No One's Boulder 27

03-05-1987

No One's Boulder 30

1987

No One's Boulder 31

02-07-1987

No One's Boulder 40

1987

No One's Boulder 41

1987

No One's Boulder 42

06-09-1987

No One's Boulder 43

1987

No One's Boulder 44

26-09-1987

No One's Boulder 45

01-11-1987

No One's Boulder 46

1987

20-08-2006

Odo

Boulder Dash The Lost Levels 01

09-2001

Boulder Dash The Lost Levels 02

04-2003

Boulder Dash The Lost Levels 03

07-2007

31-12-2007

R. Agsten

RTA Dash 01

02-2006

RTA Dash 02

06-2006

RTA Dash 03

10-2006

RTA Dash 04

03-2007

RTA Dash 05

06-2007

RTA Dash 06

09-2007

RTA Dash 07

03-2008

16-03-2008

Ron van Schaik

Schaikdash 01

11-01-2001

Schaikdash 02

01-04-2001

Schaikdash 03

01-06-2001

Schaikdash 04

01-08-2001

Schaikdash 05

15-10-2001

Schaikdash 06

15-12-2001

Schaikdash 07

02-02-2002

Schaikdash 08

24-04-2002

Schaikdash 09

15-06-2002

Schaikdash 10

19-10-2002

Schaikdash 11

19-04-2003

Schaikdash 12

18-10-2003

Schaikdash 13

16-10-2004

Schaikdash 14

15-04-2006

ForKidz Dash 01

26-05-2003

ForKidz Dash 02

24-04-2004

25-06-2006

Sendy

Sendy Dash Vol. 1

09-2006

Sendy Dash Vol. 2

06-2007

Sendy Dash Vol. 3

07-2007

23-07-2007

Sub7

Brutalo Boulder Dash

13-08-2006

Tropyx

Boulder Dash 12 (Tropyx)

31-12-1999

Boulder Dash 2000

09-06-2000

13-08-2006

Zombie Crackers

Masters Boulder Dash

1986

27-06-2006

This table will be updated regularly!

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