Pikmin 2: New Year
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This article or section pertains to Pikmin 2: New Year, a Pikmin 2 ROM hack created by AmigaOwl. |
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Particularly: Capture a screenshot of every custom sublevel theme, treasure, and anything else that's different. |
| Pikmin 2: New Year | |
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| The game's title screen. | |
| Rating | E 10+ |
| Genre | Real-time strategy |
| Platforms | Computer, Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo Wii |
| Media | Digital download |
| Publisher | AmigaOwl |
| Release dates | July 25th, 2021 |
| Prequel | Pikmin 1 |
| Creator | AmigaOwl |
| Collaborators | Sharker Da Shark TurtleTrademark Jimble EpochFlame Professionalnubtub A Friendly Amprat Halfyou C2H4 PikHacker Cheepy Shio78 UnclePunch
TurtleTrademark |
- For other games of a similar name, see Pikmin 2.
Pikmin 2: New Year is a Pikmin 2 ROM hack that was created by AmigaOwl, with the help of a development team, and was released on July 25th, 2021 to commemorate the 20-year anniversary of Pikmin 1's release. It is available to play on computers in English, European, and Japanese, and can also be played on the Nintendo GameCube and Nintendo Wii. The game has much of the same content as Pikmin 2, but features new music, areas, caves, cave themes, Challenge Mode and 2-Player Battle stages, and new or reskinned enemies and plants. Additionally, every treasure from Pikmin 2 appears in Pikmin 2: New Year.
A more difficult version of Pikmin 2: New Year exists as Pikmin 2: New Year Kaizo.
Below is the official trailer for Pikmin 2: New Year.
In addition to a gameplay trailer, Pikmin 2: New Year has a soundtrack available to listen to on YouTube. It can be found here in the form of a playlist.
Plot
Pikmin 2: New Year's overall plot is identical to that of Pikmin 2's. Captain Olimar, in his prized ship, the S.S. Dolphin, returns to Hocotate to find that the company he works for, Hocotate Freight, has been placed under a mountainous debt of
× 10,100. The President sends Olimar and Louie back to PNF-404, in the Hocotate ship, to scavenge for treasures and any other valuables they come across. The two venture through various locations with their Pikmin, collecting what they can, and when the debt has been repaid, Louie wanders off and finds himself at the bottom of a treacherous cave's depths, on top of a Titan Dweevil, and the President takes Louie's place.
Endings
Likewise, the game also has both endings that Pikmin 2 has, both of which are possible to get in the same playthrough.
Content
Areas and caves

Four areas each representing a different season may be visited, and each one has a number of custom caves.
- Jungle of Repose: a spring-themed Valley of Repose that has 7 treasures.
- Bamboo Garden: has 2 sublevels and 3 treasures.
- Satellite Koppai: has 9 sublevels and 16 treasures.
- Cave With No Name: has 8 sublevels and 15 treasures.
- Awakening Arctic: a polar version of Awakening Wood that too has 7 treasures.
- Snowy Descent: has 5 sublevels and 6 treasures.
- Commodore House: has 5 sublevels and 7 treasures.
- Royal Highlands: has 7 sublevels and 10 treasures.
- Snagret Skies: has 7 sublevels and 15 treasures.
- Perplexing Storm: an autumnal Perplexing Pool. It also contains 7 treasures.
- Spider Attic: has 5 sublevels and 11 treasures.
- Alph's Arcade: has 6 sublevels and 14 treasures.
- Sewer Room: has 7 sublevels and 14 treasures.
- Timeless Castle: has 5 sublevels and 13 treasures.
- Wistful Lake: a summery Wistful Wild that contains 5 treasures.
- Elemental River: has 10 sublevels and 17 treasures.
- Colosseum Garden: has 16 sublevels and 13 treasures.
- Season Den: has 14 sublevels and 21 treasures.
The new cave themes consist of the following:
- Clouds
- Commodore
- Desert
- Digital
- Flower grotto
- Sewer
- Space
- Volcano
- Wood
2-Player Battle Mode stages
- Dial Server
- Tree Towers
- Battlezone
- Age of Bulblaxes
- Winter Starstorm
- Misty Forecast
- Canyon Beach
- Haunted Sewage
- Garden Plaza
- Galactic War
Challenge Mode stages
- Carrot Garden
- Mamuta Town
- Attic Maze
- Elemental Crossroads
- Antenna Beetle's Bakery
- Evaporated Castle
- Bomb Facility
- Closed Pool
- Tranquility Garden
- Subterranean Seasons
- Timeless Void
- Battlefield
- Windy Radio Station
- Bulbmin House
- Bug Garden
- Glutton's Treehouse
- Sector PNF
- Cacti Highway
- Pikmin Ninety - Five
- Flooded Memories
- Castle Navel
- Volcanic Depths
- Glistening Sanctuary
- Steam Pipe Castle
- Galaxy Gazer
- Blue Zone
- Hocotate Airlines
- Timeless Realm
- Midway Arcade
- Boss All Stars
Pikmin
Every Pikmin species in Pikmin 2 returns in Pikmin 2: New Year. No new Pikmin species are encountered, although Pikpik Carrots are used in some Challenge Mode stages. They have no immunity to any hazard or any special abilities.
Piklopedia
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The following is a complete list of every enemy and plant appearing in Pikmin 2: New Year, listed in the order defined by the Piklopedia.
Lapis Bulborb
Hairy Bulborb
Forest Bulborb
Dwarf Lapis Bulborb
Snow Bulborb
Dwarf Forest Bulborb
Spotty Bulbear
Dwarf Bulbear
Bulborb Larva
Inferno Bulblax
Gilded Water Dumple
Bulbmin
Napalm Blowhog
Aquatic Blowhog
Garish Cannon Beetle Larva
Orange Decorated Cannon Beetle Larva
Indigo Blowhog
Flora Blowhog
Two-Tone Trigger Groink
Iridescent Flint Beetle
Iridescent Glint Beetle
Pastel Bug
Female Marsh Sheargrub
Male Marsh Sheargrub
Shearwig
Armored Burrow-nit
Ravenous Whiskerpillar
Royal Anode Beetle
Rose Mitite
Velvet Crawmad
Hallow Snitchbug
Insomniac Snitchbug
Violet Dirigibug
Antenna Beetle
Lesser Spotted Jellyfloat
Greater Spotted Jellyfloat
Napalm Dweevil
Alkaline Dweevil
Hydro Dweevil
Toxic Dweevil
Volatile Dweevil
Toady Bloyster
Lily Wollywog
Bioluminescent Wollywog
Lake Wogpole
Lapis Lazuli Candypop Bud
Crimson Candypop Bud
Golden Candypop Bud
Violet Candypop Bud
Ivory Candypop Bud
Queen Candypop Bud
Easter Chrysanthemum
Pine Skitter Leaf
Unmarked Spectralid
Honeywisp
Mamuta
Hazel Breadbug
Pellet Posy
Common Glowcap
Clover
Azul Figwort
Dandelion
Seeding Dandelion
Horsetail
Foxtail
Glowstem
Margaret
Fiddlehead
Shoot
Empress Bulblax
Brass Snagret
Prismal Long Legs
Rubynite Emperor Bulblax
Giant Breadbug
Highland Snagret
Man-at-Legs Alpha
Ranging Bloyster
Waterwraith
Subterrestrial Crawbster
Crimson Long Legs
Obsidean Dweevil
Obstacles
One new obstacle is introduced.
Soundtrack
Other changes
- The idle leader automatically plucks nearby Pikmin sprouts. They can not be switched to until they are finished.
- Normal candypop buds can convert 10 Pikmin before they wilt, up from 5.
- Purple Pikmin inflict less damage and stun enemies for a shorter amount of time.
- The Time Capsule and the Talisman of Life differ in appearance.
- Fire geysers are constantly active.
- Wii version differences:
- There is no custom
PSSound.aaffile. This is because the Wii version has anawfile for home menu sounds. - Currently, external soundtracks past
new_08.bmsuse "bank 0" instruments. - A Challenge Mode stage that originally relied on the 5-color Candypop Bud now uses Violet and Ivory Candypop Buds.
- There is no custom
Gallery
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A screenshot of sublevel two of the Cave With No Name.
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The Talisman of Life, which features on its cover a picture of a tortoise instead of a portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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The Time Capsule, which features a picture of a pug instead of a shetland sheepdog or house cat.
Version history
GameCube
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| Version | Changes | Date |
| 1.0 |
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July 25th, 2021 |
| 1.01 |
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Unknown |
| 1.02 |
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Unknown |
| 1.03 |
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Unknown |
| 1.04 |
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Unknown |
| 1.05a |
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Unknown |
| 1.05b |
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Unknown |
| 1.06a |
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Unknown |
| 1.06b |
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Unknown |
| 1.06c |
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Unknown |
| 1.07a |
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Unknown |
| 1.07b |
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Unknown |
| 1.07c |
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Unknown |
| 1.07d |
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Unknown |
| 1.07e |
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Unknown |
| 1.07f |
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September 2nd, 2021 |
| 1.1 |
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October ??th, 2021 |
| 1.11 |
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November 25th, 2021 |
| 1.12 |
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December 17th, 2021 |
| 1.13 |
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December 31st, 2021 |
| 1.14 |
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January 7th, 2022 |
| 1.15 |
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January 22nd, 2022 |
| 1.2 |
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June 14th, 2022 |
| 1.21 |
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Unknown |
| 1.22 |
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Unknown |
| 1.23a |
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Unknown |
| 1.23b |
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Unknown |
| 1.24 |
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Unknown |
| 1.25 |
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Unknown |
| 1.26 |
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July 3rd, 2022 |
| 1.27 |
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July 22nd, 2022 |
| 1.28 |
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Unknown |
| 1.29 |
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August 5th, 2022 |
| 1.3 |
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November 15th, 2022 |
| 1.31 |
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February 25th, 2023 |
| 1.32 |
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February 27th, 2023 |
| 1.33 |
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February 28th, 2023 |
| 1.34 |
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February 28th, 2023 |
| 1.35 |
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March 12th, 2023 |
| 1.36 |
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April 22nd, 2023 |
| 1.37 |
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June 26th, 2023 |
| 1.38 |
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April 14th, 2024 |
Wii
| Version history | ||
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| Version | Changes | Date |
| 1.0 |
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June ??th, 2021 |
| 1.01 |
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Unknown |
| 1.02 |
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Unknown |
| 1.03a |
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Unknown |
| 1.03b |
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Unknown |
| 1.04 |
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Unknown |
| 1.05 |
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Unknown |
| 1.06 |
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Unknown |
| 1.07 |
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Unknown |
| 1.08 |
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Unknown |
| 1.09 |
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Unknown |
| 1.1 |
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Unknown |
| 1.11 |
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Unknown |
| 1.12 |
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Unknown |
| 1.13 |
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Unknown |
| 1.14 |
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Unknown |
| 1.15 |
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Unknown |
| 1.16 |
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Unknown |
| 1.17 |
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Unknown |
| 1.18 |
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April 14th, 2024 |
| Games | |
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| Official games | Pikmin 1 (New Play Control!, Switch version) • Pikmin 2 (New Play Control!, Switch version) • Pikmin 3 (Pikmin 3 Deluxe) • Pikmin 4 • Hey! Pikmin • Pikmin Bloom • Pikmin Adventure |
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