ぷよぷよ〜ん ヅレームカスト Puyo Puyo 4 Dreamcast Version 1.0 To get the most out of this FAQ you should have a Japanese text viewer or the japanese text support for your browser turned on. Instruction Manual Page 1 Contents プロローグ 。。。。。。。2 Prologue Page 2 操作方法 。。。。。。。。3 Operation Method Page 3 ゲーム の 始め方 。。。。 4 Game Start Page 4 ルール 説明。。。。。。。5 Rule Explanation Page 5 モード 説明。。。。。。。10 Mode Explanantion Page 10 キャラクター 紹介。。。。18 Character Introduction Page 18 Page 3 - Operation Method This page details the modes and number of players on the top right corner. In the middle of the screen is the explanation of what the buttons do. It also has a chart describing the difference between the dreamcast controller and the arcade stick. Japanese English モード コントロールポート Mode Controller Port --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ひとりでぷよぷよ A One Player A --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- とことんぷよぷよ A ???????? A --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- とことんなぞぷよ A Puzzle Mode A --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ふたりでぷよぷよ AB Two Player AB --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 人 で ぷよぷよ ABC Three Player ABC --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 人 で ぷよぷよ ABCD Four Player ABCD --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here is chart 2 Japanese Chart リームキャストコントローラ アーケードスティック 対応している動作 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- スタートボタン スタートボタン ゲームスター パーズ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 方向ボタンまたはアナログ方向キー ジョイスティック 項目の選択 ぷよの移動 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A ボタン A ボタン 項目の決定 ぷよの回転 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- B ボタン B ボタン 項目のキャンセル ぷよの回転 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Y ボタン C ボタン 特技の使用 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- X ボタン、L トリガー、 R トリガー X ボタン、 Y オタン、 使用しません Z ボタン --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- English Chart Dreamcast Controller Arcade Stick Corresponding Action --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Start Button Start Button Game Start/Pause --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Directional Button Joystick Item Selection/Puyo Removal --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Button A Button Item Decision/Puyo Rotation --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- B Button B Button Item Cancel/Puyo Rotation --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Y Button C Button Employ Special Skill --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- X Button, L Trigger, R Trigger X Button, Y Button, Employ Z Button --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Page 4 - Game Start Really, the only important thing on this page is the the memory card information. For saved games, 6 blocks need to be free on the memory card. Page 5 - Rule Explanantion The rules for Puyo Puyo are quite simple. I will briefly explain them here for first time players. 1) In order to clear the blobs from the screen you must connect 4 of the same color together vertically, horizontally or a combination of both. Diagonals do not count. 2) If the blobs reach the top of the screen, you loose. 3) When you clear a certain number of blobs from the screen, the other player is penalized with neutral blobs that can only be cleared when colored blobs next to them are cleared. 4) You can neutralize blobs sent to your side of the screen by using the method described in number 3 above. 5) Chain reactions cause more neutral blobs to be sent to the opponents side. Page 8 - Explanation of Symbols This small chart shows symbols that will appear at the top of the screen when the neutral blobs will be dropped. The chart below goes from left to right, top to bottom. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 小ぷよ 中ぷよ 隕石 ぷよ 星ぷよ 月ぷよ 1 個 6 個 30 個 90 個 180 個 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 彗星ぷよ 土星ぷよ 360 個 720 個 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Small Puyo Medium Puyo Meteorite Puyo Star Puyo Moon Puyo 1 blob 6 blobs 30 blobs 90 blobs 180 blobs --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Comet Puyo Saturn Puyo 360 blobs 720 blobs --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Page 10 - Mode Explanantion ひとりでぷよぷよ One player Puyo Puyo れんしゅう Practice(3 stages) すとーりー Story フリー対戦 Free Competition Page 16 - Option Screen おぷしゅん Option ボタン 設定 Button Establishment ?????????? Computer Difficulty(I cannot make out the kanji) 対戦数 Versus Mode Number 漫才デモ Comic Dialogue Demo(あい = yes なし = no) サウンド 出力 Sound Output デモ？？？ Demo ???( ルール = Rules, スケルトンー T = Skeleton T) ランキング Ranking バックアップ Backup(セーブ = save, ロード = load) もどる Mode (return to the mode screen) Still to come - translations of page 14 and 15. This is my first FAQ. I hope that it is useful. This is a partial manual and screen translation for the Puyo Puyon(Puyo Puyo 4) for Dreamcast. I am still learning how to read Japanese, so some of the translations may not be 100% accurate. I have included the japanese characters that were in the manual as well whenever possible. This will help those who would wish to follow along or want to keep track of what screen says what. Special thanks should go to the NJStar people and Jim Breen. I used the NJStar V4.2 to construct the FAQ and Jim Breen's Japanese-English, English-Japanese dictionaries for this Japanese kanji. There are 2 versions of the FAQ. 1 will be in ascii w/o the Japanese and the other will be straight ascii text. Please send any constructive criticism and corrections to Andrew Livelsberger at andkiich@hotmail.com Creation date = March 14, 1999 This FAQ is copyright of the author. It should not be changed, modified, or otherwise diplicated in whole or in part without the authors express permission. In other words, if you want to post this somewhere else on the internet other than GameFAQS, ask me first!!