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STAR BLAZERS Japanese Playstation Game FAQ _ | nisk@uscom.com <_)I ____ copyright 1999 Nick Flor _/|_ / / / <<<|o|___ / / / __I I I \/ / / _ __===/__\ ooooo _I __ / / / / ===/__\_/ oooOOOOOOoo \_/__\===/ \_______ | \____________________/ \__________/ I__I_/______/ =====\ \\ | = = = = = = =======| // \&/ ========| \_______________________________(o o o)____________________========| / D =======| | D =====/ \_____D______________________________________________ | ____|____ \__________/ <<<_______> \ \ \ \__\__ http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Harbor/3904/geoyamato.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is my attempt to write an FAQ on the Japanese version of Space Battleship Yamato. I do not know japanese. This faq is intended to help those who have imported the game, don't know japanese and are stuck. This faq best viewed with a fixed width font! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0.0 - Contents 1.0 - What's new (updates) 2.0 - Story 3.0 - Game menus 3.0 - buttons 3.1 - start menu 3.2 - game menu 4.0 - Character menus 4.1 - Captain Avatar 4.2 - Nova 4.3 - Venture 4.4 - Wildstar 4.5 - Dr. Sane 4.6 - Conroy 4.7 - Eager 4.8 - Dash 4.9 - Homer 4.10 - Orion 4.11 - IQ9 4.12 - Sandor 5.0 - Character away party controls 6.0 - Strategies 6.1 - The medic 6.2 - Boarded! 7.0 - FAQ Credits -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.0 - what's new (updates) 8-11-99 - addition of Dr. Sane option - addition of credits, contents, strategies -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.0 - The story The Playstation game is based on the first television series of Yamato, Having watched the series Star Blazers as a kid and watching it over and over on video tape, I have sort of memorized the series. If you have seen Star Blazers first series, retitled for video, "The Quest for Iscandar" you will see that this game follows the events in the series almost exactly. Earth is under attack from the mysterious planet Gamilon. Gamilon planet bombs cover the Earth in radioactivity, and in one years time Earth will be unlivable. A group of Starblazers call the Star Force undertakes a dangerous mission. Refitting an old Earth battleship, the Yamato, the Star Force takes off on a 148,000 lightyear voyage to the planet Iscandar, where Queen Starsha offers the people of Earth a machine to remove the radiation. The Star Force must battle the evil Gamilons to reach Iscandar and return within one Earth year! Hurry Star Force, there are only 365 days left! There is alot of new animation in this game as well as 3d renderings. But the game uses the same music and sound effects from the show. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.0 - Menu functions Buttons - "O" is select "x" is cancel "triangle" is toggle on/off (see auto weapon selection) "square" brings up area maps 3.1 - Star Menu - this is in English, you can "start new game", "load game", or goto "options" "load game" - this takes you to the load screen, you can only load from memory card 1 and you have a maxium of 3 save slots. "options" - you have 5 options here option 1 - ??? option 2 - individual weapon fire animation: on = "o", off = "x" option 3 - station move animation: on = "o", off = "x" option 4 - ??? option 5 - dual shock on = "o", off = "x" 3.2 - Game Menu - bring up by pressing "o", displays the characters, pressing "triangle" shows you their posts instead of faces. I only know the characters by their Star Blazers names, so here they are as they appear on the screen. (note pressing up or down on the direction pad flips the ring, so it will appear opposite) Starting with Captain Avatar, you all know who he is right? Captain Avatar - options, load, save, other Nova - Radar Venture - Pilot Wildstar - Guns Dr. Sane - medical Conroy - Black Tiger fighters Eager - navigation Dash - Gunnery Homer - communictions Orion - engineering, IQ-9 - medical (for now) Sandor - repairs. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.0 - Character Menus - bringing the character to the bottom of the screen by pressing the direction pad left or right displays the characters hit points/health in the middle of the screen You do have to watch this, when a character's health become low you should move them to their quarters to bring them back up. It does not take long for them to regain hitpoints their, but they will not gain any if you do not move them. I have found this to be very important for Captain Avatar, Conroy, and especially Sandor. Hitpoints go down for various reasons, Conroy loses them in fighter combat, Sandor loses them during repairs. Each character has there own menu list. The first option on everyone's menu is "change post" each character has a few post specialties, for example, if Wildstar wants to fly his fighter, he needs to be moved to the hanger to launch. To take his place at the guns Dash has to be moved over, and to take Dash's place, IQ-9 has to be moved. IQ-9 cannot man the guns, but he can man Dash's post. 4.1 - Avatar - at his normal post not during battle 1 - change post / goto quarters 2 - the ship and crew rest a day, I don't know how this helps 3 - load game 4 - save game 5 - options screen (same as game menu) - during battle another option appears between 2 and 3 or 1 and 2 I have no Idea what this does, the captain talks a bit then his hitpoints goto half ???? 4.2 - Nova - radar 1 - change post / 1-medical, 2-quarters 2 - main radar 4.3 - Venture - piolot 1 - change post / 1-navigation, 2-quarters 2 - move/rotate ship within zone 3 - move ship one or more zones 4a - while moving this option is full stop. 4b - when stopped and not in battle this becomes warp (jump several zones) - orion must boost energy to 120% and ship must be repaired fully by Sandor. 4.4 - Wildstar - Guns 1 - change post / 1-gunnery, 2-hanger, 3-quarters 2 - fire gun, use this to select a single weapon to target and fire 3 - auto fire, select weapons to fire automatically in battle by highlighting and pressing the "triangle" button you can select upto 4 weapons. selected weapons appear blue. you then have to press "O" to activate, pressing "x" will not save your changes. -Hanger 1 - change post 2 - launch fighter 4.5 - Dr. Sane - medical 1 - change post 2 - Whenever a character is killed (0 points), that character becomes shaded and is no longer playable. At this point, Dr. Sane can use his option It takes a while for the operation but the character is completely healed. 4.6 - Conroy - Black Tigers 1 - change post / quarters 2 - launch fighters - select fighters by pressing "triangle", "o" to launch - in battle - you can select ships by pressing the left shoulder buttons. you can highlight them by pressing "triangle" then when you give a command you give it to all the ships - make sure you watch them, as soon as they are done with the target they return to formation and will not attack again until you tell them. 1 - get in formation, options for flying formation 2 - attack 2a - attack closest target? 2b - attack target you choose 3 - return to ship 4 - (appears when some ships still in hanger) call more ships 4.7 - Eager - navigation 1 - change post / 1-pilot, 2-quarters I am on day 48 and have found no other options for him 4.8 - Dash - gunnery 1 - change post / 1-main guns, 2-quarters I am on day 48 and have found no other options for him 4.9 - Homer - communications 1- change post / 1-radar, 2-quarters I am on day 48 and have found no other options for him 4.10 - Orion - engineering 1 - change post / 1 - engineering, 2 - quarters 2 - increase power 120% - move Orion to engineering when you want Wildstar to fire the Wave Motion Gun. 4.11 - IQ-9 - medical 1 - change post / 1 - radar, 2 - communication, 3 - gunnery, 4 - navigation, 5 - quarters I am on day 48 and have found no other options for him 4.12 - Sandor - repairs 1 - change post / 1 - weapon shop, 2 - quarters 2 - repair, choose the area to repair (damage in yellow) and select how many points, out of 64 to delegate to it - when in the weapons room, pick the weapon you want to replace (missles, torpedos, lost fighters), how many you want to make, and how many points to delegate. - he has to be at the post inorder for the repairs to take place Sandor will apear on the screen when the repairs are done. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.0 - Character away party controls Coming soon. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.0 - Strategies At various times trough out the game certain strategies are needed to advance. These can occur during battleship flight or battle or they may require the crew to venture out on there own. 6.1 - The medic Don't forget to take a medic! The medic heals injured players and can even heal dead players on the scene. 6.2 - Boarded! I am adding this one on memory alone, I cannot remember the specifics. Early in the game (before day 40 I think). The crew is boarded by a gamilon ship and addressed by an unknow character, a gamilon captain or general. A long discussion ensues, then you must choose the crew members to go out and battle the invading gamilons and ( I think ) shut off their time bomb. Anyway, pay close attention to the discussion and watch for the number he gives you, you can only take that many crew members. If you take more, the gamilon says something like "you cheated!" and blows up the ship! (feel free to fill in the blanks on this section anyone!) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.0 - Credits Thanks to Captain 3man john.coon@macdill.af.mil for help with Dr. Sane's options! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THAT'S ALL FOR NOW. I'll try to get more info to you asap! thanks Nick Please mail me anything you have discovered, or with anything I have done wrong!