Sharp X68000 / New visual edition
Buster’s original engine · a new illustrated world
Lanternbound
Carry a little light
into a world after dark.
A silver-helmed wanderer. Moonlit shores. Ancient guardians with amber hearts. Step into a new visual edition built on Buster’s original platforming code.
One lantern.
Six strange places.
Moonwater Reach, Luminous Grotto, Ember Citadel, Verdant Vault, the Ashen Crown and Lantern Spire give the existing stages a new illustrated identity.
Enter the world →The same
precise foundations.
Movement, combat, level layouts and music come from the unchanged Buster program. New graphics are packed into a separate X68000 disk image.
See what changed →Look closer.
Listen longer.
Browse the generated tiles and assembled map layers, or listen to the original soundtrack in a dedicated player.
New art → · Music →A visual edition, with its origins intact. This is Buster with new ImageGen artwork. Its executable, maps, mechanics and music are retained; it is not a new gameplay engine. The original Buster remains available separately.