It has been a very long wait but the wait is now over. Our hard work has finally paid off. You heard it here first (hopefully), the Marble Blast Ultra update is coming! The update includes all of the new maps that you see on Marble Blast Online at InstantAction. That is Playground, Marble It Up!, Bowl, Blast Club, Concentric (in place of Core), Promontory, Spires, Triumvirate, Vortex Effect, Ziggurat.
Not only will we be getting the new maps, we will also be getting more Achievements worth 50 gamerpoints which will be tied in with the maps! It doesn’t stop there either. The leaderboards are also going to be reset (due to a glitch which has destroyed them) and trap launches will be no more! Will this be the rebirth of Marble Blast Ultra? We’ll soon find out.
As you all know by now, we created this website to make the update happen. It still didn’t end up happening, even with the hundreds of petition signatures we got on our forum. However, something better happened, InstantAction was made allowing everyone who didn’t have an Xbox 360 to be able to now play Marble Blast Ultra (now named Marble Blast Online) with all the new updates and experience the fun.
We eventually got bored of rolling around in one map for several hours and ended up thinking of new ways to bring more fun to MBU, not a gametype, not tricks, but to hack the game so we can get access to the files. We thought we’d just share this.
We coded a program that could open up a file named “marble.bza”, this was the core MBU file which had everything packed inside it. Our program worked, so we extracted all the files within that core file. However, the problem we had was to rebuild this “marble.bza” file and keep its signature encryption the same but due to Xbox Live now being so secure we couldn’t, otherwise we would’ve been able to edit the files and then play MBU, so instead we just played around with the files to see what really went into making MBU. Below are a few pictures for your interest.
Interesting things we found:
Unused Sound files (some used for MBP, such as tim_trance)
All I get is this lousy error message saying the forum does not exist.
We’re sorry! We didn’t get rid of our forums on purpose! A few months ago we had to move our entire website to a new server, this meant we had to change a lot of things to get it up and running. However, we forgot to make a backup of our latest forum database (very stupid of us, we know). As you have seen we run phpBB forum software. We had a backup but it was from an older version of phpBB, so it was almost impossible (we still tried!) for us to import it into the latest version of phpBB released to date. We deeply apologize for this as we know a lot of you had some very interesting discussions including, top times, routes, custom content and much more. Again, we’re sorry!
This does not mean we will not have a forum any more, we have decided to use the Marble Blast Online section within the InstantAction forum. We hope everyone from our community will start to post there and maybe also get involved with the whole forum!
Rokkitball is a fast paced first person sports action game that allows up to 8 players battle it out in an arena with goals at either end. The aim of the game is to score in the opponents’ goal using your special weapon. To move the ball around the arena, you must use your gun to pick up the ball and fire it to wherever you want. You can also shoot rockets at your opponents in order for them to fumble and lose possession. The goal consists of 3 holes at varying heights – the highest and smallest hole gives you 5 points, the middle hole gives you 2 points and the bottom hole gives you 1 point.
So InstantAction is constantly being updated with new content and brand new games – Rokkitball being the latest. Each new addition is as fun as the last and all the games on InstantAction can keep you busy for hours and hours. While we’re completely dedicated to everything Marble Blast related, we will also be including more information and content on the whole InstantAction platform. We are still 100% committed to the Marble Blast series, so don’t worry about this site turning its back on Marble Blast. Besides, look at our new domain name – if anything we’re even more dedicated.
It’s been a while since I’ve posted my second trick video, mainly due to Halo 3 commitments. Anyway, check out my 2nd tricks video and try them out yourself. You may see some imperfectly executed tricks and that’s because I had to rush this video and I also kept getting framerate problems while recording. In the end, I couldn’t record anymore because of the annoying problems, so I stopped at where I had recorded enough for this time. Enjoy!
