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パックピクス
Pac-Pix
For Nintendo DS
FAQ and Walkthrough
By: Titney
e-mail: titney AT pocketheaven DOT com
Version: 1.2
Date: 2005-03-26
( < ... Notes ....................................................... > )
Contains Japanese in Shift-JIS format.
To see it correctly, make sure you have Japanese support installed, then:
Choose the "View" menu in your browser
Choose the "Encoding"/"Character Coding" entry (or similar, depends on browser)
Find and select "Japanese (Shift-JIS)", you may have to look through a few sub-
menus
Now this FAQ should display Japanese characters correctly.
( < ... Game Info ....................................................... > )
Publisher: Namco
Release Date: 2005-03-10 (Japan)
Genre: Hand Drawing Action
Players: 1 Player
This is a most unusual game.
It's controlled entirely by the DS stylus.
You draw Pac-Man on the screen and he comes to life hunting after ghosts.
It was first shown as a tech demo at E3 in 2004.
Since then it has been expanded considerably and is now a full-fledged game.
( < ... Updates ....................................................... > )
v 1.2 (2005-03-26)
Added Chapter 8 to Walkthrough
Added info on all switches
Added more details to guide
v 1.1 (2005-03-17)
Added Chapter 5-7 to Walkthrough
Various minor corrections and fixes
( < ... Controls .................................................... > )
The game and menus are controlled almost entirely by the stylus.
The only exception is that Start is used for pausing while in-game.
In the menus you often have to touch items twice to activate them.
( < ... Starting .................................................... > )
The first time you start the game you will be taken through a lecture.
Go through it to learn the basics of how to play.
You will also see the opening story, see translation below.
( < ... Menus .................................................... > )
Most of the menus are actually in English so there's not a lot that needs
translating.
- Main Menu
Book - Start the game
Gallery - Enter the Gallery
Use Back to get back to the previous menu.
- Book Menu
The first time you enter you will see the story, after that you can select
which chapter to play.
- Gallery Menu
Not all these will be there when you first start the game.
CARD - Collect cards by clearing parts of the game.
LECTURE ( < - Lecture on drawing and controlling Pac-Man
LECTURE -> - Lecture on drawing arrows
LECTURE o' - Lecture on drawing bombs
OPENING - Opening story video
ENDING - Ending story video
The book icon to the right is the Sketchbook.
Press the Start button to exit lectures or videos.
- PAUSE Menu
つづける Continue (return to the game)
リトライ Retry (restart from Page 1 of current Chapter)
やめる Quit (back to main menu)
( < ... Game-Play .................................................... > )
The basic game-play consists of drawing Pac-Man and control his path around to
screen to make him eat the Ghosts.
Get the basic rundown and practice on drawing Pac-Man in the lecture.
You can also practice on drawing and controlling Pac-Man in the Sketchbook in
the Gallery.
If you draw a big Pac-Man it moves slowly, small it moves fast.
Practice on making different size Pac-Mans and learn to control them.
- Drawing Pac-Man .................................................... > )
(Images in both ASCII-art and Shift-JIS so if something looks like gibberish
below, just ignore it)
1. Start with the top of Pac-Man's mouth:
/ ／
2. Continue with the bottom in a sharp angle:
/ ／
\ ＼
3. Swoop around for the body:
| / | ／
| \ | ＼
\_____/ ＼＿＿_／
4. Complete it by going round to where you started:
____ ＿＿
/ \ ／ ＼
| / | ／
| \ | ＼
\_____/ ＼＿＿_／
- Pac-Man Directions .................................................... > )
You can draw Pac-Man in any four directions.
He will move in the direction his mouth is pointing.
＿＿
／ ＼
| ／ -------> Moves right
| ＼ _
＼＿＿_／ (_<
＿＿
／ ＼
Moves left <------- ＼ |
_ ／ |
>_) ＼＿＿_／
_____
／ ＼ Moves up
| | ↑
| | ↑
＼ ／＼ ／
／ ＼／ ＼
↓ | |
↓ | |
Moves down ＼_＿＿_／
____
/ \ / \/ \
| | | |
\ /\ / \____/
- Controlling Pac-Man .................................................. > )
Pulling:
Touch Pac-Man's body while he's moving and you can pull him backwards a little
bit.
Pull several times to make him move further backwards.
You can actually pull him on top of a Ghost and he will eat it.
If you are persistent it's possible to pull Pac-Man back just as he's about to
exit the screen, but don't count on it.
Lines:
Draw a line on the screen and Pac-Man will turn 90 degrees when he runs into it.
He will turn in the direction that the line is drawn.
A valid line will turn green, and small dots will move along it to indicate the
direction in which Pac-Man will turn.
------> <------
_ _
(_< >_)
- Game Area ........................................................... > )
Score: Current Score 1-1: Current Chapter-Current Page
Pac-Man symbol: Remaining Lives
Clock symbol: Remaining Time
Ghost symbol: Remaining Ghosts
Around the symbols is the brown Item Road
The GO arrow marks will appear at the entrances when Pac-Man can enter.
- Items ............................................................... > )
1UP - Extra life, looks like Pac-Man
Cherry - 10 000 Points
Strawberry - 20 000 Points
Orange - Extra points
Blue Crystal - Works as Barrier, avoid if possible
- Switches ............................................................. > )
Door - Opens the doors to Item Road, looks like a key
Push - When sometimes is on it (Pac-Man/Ghost/Block) it removes top barrier,
looks like a foot
Group - Activate all of them (Pac-Man/Ghost/Arrow) to remove barrier,
looks like stars, appears in groups
Flame - Lights the candle to light bomb fuse
- Ghosts .............................................................. > )
Pinkie (ピンキー) Pink, slow and nice and easy to catch
Blulu (ブルル) Blue, can jump away fast if Pac-Man is approaching, but tires
fast if running a lot
TongueTongue (ベロベロ) White with big red tongue, can teleport to avoid Pac-
Man, but gets dizzy after teleporting
Numberu (スージーズ) - Yellow with purple numbers, eat them in order
Barribe (バリベエ) Red protected by a pink barrier, eat it from behind or Pac-
Man bouces off
Pepeta (ペペタ) Yellow, makes blotches where you cannot draw
Armour (アーマー) Multicolored, protected by armour
( < ... Story ....................................................... > )
One day a mischief-loving magician invented Ghost Ink.
Anything drawn in this ink becomes a Ghost.
Ghosts born from this ink are mischievous.
The Ghosts went into books and pictures spreading mischief.
The world inside was thrown into chaos.
Pac-man, our hero, could not sit idly by and watch this happen!
He begins to exterminate the Ghosts in the books with the only thing that could
defeat them, the Magic Pen.
That's our Pac-Man!
Using the power of the Pen all the Ghosts are confined to a single book.
Now all that needs to be done is return the Ghosts to Ghost Ink.
But just as things were coming to and end, the Ghosts stopped him.
Pac-Man was confined to a scrap of paper by the power of a curse!
He couldn't even get a hand or a foot out.
The Ghosts starts dashing out of the books. Will the mischief begin again...?
It is now that you the player open the book.
Work together with Pac-Man to return the ghosts to the ink they came from.
Can you defeat all the ghosts?
( < ... Walkthrough/Guide ............................................. > )
Each Page in each Chapter has a specific number of Ghosts you need to eat.
The Ghosts in each Page appear in groups.
Clear out all Ghosts from one group to make the next appear.
When the Ghosts first appear they are blinking and invulnerable.
You can have several Pac-Mans on the screen at once, but it can be hard to keep
track of and control all of them at once.
If you can handle it, it can be a good idea to draw a smaller Pac-Man to send
into Item Road, while still eating ghosts on the bottom screen with another one.
You get a new batch of lives for each Page.
Every time you draw a Pac-Man it uses up a life, and when he moves out of the
screen that life is lost.
When your last Pac-Man goes off-screen and you don't have anymore lives left
it's game over and you have to start over from the beginning of the chapter.
Later in the game various kinds of blockers or barriers appear.
They make Pac-Man bounce a little bit, and you have to be quick to catch him.
If he bounces out the screen a life is lost.
If he gets stuck bouncing back and forth between two barriers too many times,
he will automatically bounce out, so watch out.
There's a Boss at the end of every other Chapter.
Score is calculated at the end of each Page and Chapter.
Each Chapter has a separate High Score and a ranking from A-D (and S for
perfect score)
Bonus points at end of each Page:
5000 per remaining life (includes Pac-Mans drawn on the screen)
500 per remaining time unit
( < ... Book I
Chapter 1
- Page 1
Pac-Man: 10 Time: 120 Ghosts: 03 (Pinkie)
- Page 2
Pac-Man: 10 Time: 120 Ghosts: 06 (Pinkie)
- Page 3
Pac-Man: 10 Time: 120 Ghosts: 07 (Pinkie)
- Page 4
Pac-Man: 10 Time: 120 Ghosts: 06 (Pinkie and Blulu)
The Door Switch appears for the first time.
Make Pac-Man step on it to open the doors to Item Road.
Enter Item Road by making Pac-Man go up on either side by the GO arrow.
If there's a Bonus Item up there he will get it.
Otherwide you're just wasting time.
- Page 5
Pac-Man: 10 Time: 120 Ghosts: 07 (Pinkie and Blulu)
Chapter 2
- Page 1
Pac-Man: 04 Time: 100 Ghosts: 08 (6 Pinkie and 2 Blulu)
- Page 2
Pac-Man: 04 Time: 90 Ghosts: 12 (mostly Blulu)
- Page 3
Pac-Man: 04 Time: 80 Ghosts: 14 (mostly Blulu)
The Door Switch moves around.
- Page 4
Pac-Man: 05 Time: 120 Ghosts: 05 (2 Pinkie, 3 TongueTongue)
TongueTongue appears for the first time.
They warp off when Pac-Man gets close, but then get dizzy.
- Page 5
Pac-Man: 04 Time: 100 Ghosts: 10 (Pinkie, Blulu, and TongueTongue)
- Page 6
Pac-Man: 10 Time: 120 Boss: Purple
Draw Pac-Man bigger than the Boss or he will just shrug it off.
Chapter 3
- Page 1
Pac-Man: 05 Time: 100 Ghosts: 08 (Pinkie)
Puzzle obstable in the middle of the screen makes Pac-Man bounce off.
Ghosts can pass right through it.
- Page 2
Pac-Man: 05 Time: 100 Ghosts: 07 (3 Pinkie, 4 Blulu)
Puzzle obstables at top and bottom.
- Page 3
Pac-Man: 05 Time: 100 Ghosts: 09 (Pinkie and TongueTongue)
Moving Puzzle obstable.
Ghosts appear in Item Road for the first time.
Make Pac-Man go up there to eat it.
- Page 4
Pac-Man: 05 Time: 90 Ghosts: 08 (Numberu and Pinkieie)
Number Ghosts appear for the first time.
Eat them in order, or they are all revived.
- Page 5
Pac-Man: 05 Time: 80 Ghosts: 09 (Numberu and Blulu)
Puzzle Barrier all down the middle.
Go up Item Road to get to the other side.
Chapter 4
- Page 1
Pac-Man: 05 Time: 100 Ghosts: 03 (Barribe)
Barribe appears for the first time.
Eat them from behind or Pac-Man just bounces off.
- Page 2
Pac-Man: 05 Time: 100 Ghosts: 06 (Barribe and Pinkie)
- Page 3
Pac-Man: 05 Time: 100 Ghosts: 11 (Barribe and Pinkie)
Don't miss the Pinkies up in Item Road
- Page 3
Pac-Man: 05 Time: 100 Ghosts: 10 (Barribe and Pinkie)
Moving Door Switch and Pinkies in Item Road
- Page 4
Pac-Man: 05 Time: 100 Ghosts: 10 (Pinkie, Blulu and Barribe)
Moving Door Switch and Blulu in Item Road
- Page 5
Pac-Man: 05 Time: 100 Ghosts: 12 (Blulu and Barribe)
Blulu in Item Road
- Page 6
Pac-Man: 10 Time: 180 Boss: Plant
Make Pac-Man eat the eye roots as they pop up.
Avoid the arrows the plant shoots out.
Avoid the spiky roots when they pop up.
Eat the little plant when it appears on the bottom screen.
After clearing Chapter 4 you will be taken through the Arrow Lecture and learn
how to draw Arrows.
After this you can access the Arrow Lecture any time from the Gallery.
Also see Arrow drawing guide below.
Chapter 5
- Page 1
Pac-Man: 05 Time: 120 Ghosts: 07 (Pinkie and Blulu)
Draw Arrows that shoot up at the Ghosts
in their protective bubbles on the top screen.
The angle of the shaft of the arrow decides in which direction is goes.
Once they are on the bottom screen eat them as usual.
- Page 2
Pac-Man: 05 Time: 120 Ghosts: 10 (Pinkie and Blulu)
Try to have a Pac-Man on the bottom screen eating those Ghosts,
while at the same time shooting Arrows at the Ghosts on the top screen.
Don't miss the Ghost in Item Road.
- Page 3
Pac-Man: 05 Time: 120 Ghosts: 13 (Pinkie, Blulu and Numberu)
Shoot the Numberu 1 down from the top screen,
then eat Numberu 2 in Item Road before eating Numberu 3 in the main screen.
- Page 4
Pac-Man: 05 Time: 100 Ghosts: 13 (Pinkie, Blulu and TongueTongue)
Moving Door Switch.
Send a Ghost into Item Road,
while you shoot Arrows at the Ghosts in the top screen.
- Page 5
Pac-Man: 05 Time: 100 Ghosts: 15 (Pinkie, Blulu and TongueTongue)
Moving Door Switch.
Chapter 6
- Page 1
Pac-Man: 05 Time: 120 Ghosts: 11 (Pinkie, Blulu and TongueTongue)
Puzzle blocker at the top of the screen protects the Ghosts up there.
Wait for the Ghosts to go to the side to shoot Arrows.
- Page 2
Pac-Man: 05 Time: 120 Ghosts: 09 (Pinkie, Barribe and Numberu)
Shoot arrows to get all Numberu down before eating them.
- Page 3
Pac-Man: 05 Time: 150 Ghosts: 12 (Pinkie, TongueTongue and Pepeta)
Pepeta appears for the first time.
They drop blotches of paint on the screen where you cannot draw.
Eat the Pepeta quickly and try to draw between the blotches.
- Page 4
Pac-Man: 05 Time: 150 Ghosts: 10 (Pinkie, TongueTongue and Pepeta)
- Page 5
Pac-Man: 05 Time: 130 Ghosts: 12 (Pinkie, Blulu, Numberu and Pepeta)
Moving puzzle barriers at the top screen.
Eat the Pepeta first,
Then shoot as many arrows as you can at the top screen.
- Page 6
Pac-Man: 05 Time: 150 Boss: Purple in cloud
Draw Arrows to shoot at the top screen.
Aim at the cloud of bubbles surrounding the Boss.
When parts of the cloud falls off it leaves blotches on the bottom screen.
Shoot off the entire cloud,
then shoot the balloon that keeps the Boss floating.
When he drops to the bottom screen draw a Pac-Man and eat him.
Chapter 7
- Page 1
Pac-Man: 04 Time: 100 Ghosts: 07 (Pinkie and Blulu)
Arrow reflector appears for the first time.
There is a barrier at the top screen,
stopping all arrows from reaching the Ghosts.
Aim an arrow at the reflector and it will change direction.
Do this to shoot the Ghosts at the top screen.
- Page 2
Pac-Man: 04 Time: 100 Ghosts: 11 (Pinkie, Blulu and Pepeta)
Eat the Pepeta first of all.
- Page 3
Pac-Man: 04 Time: 120 Ghosts: 12 (Pinkie, Blulu and Pepeta)
Shoot an arrow at the reflectors to reach the Door Switch.
- Page 4
Pac-Man: 04 Time: 130 Ghosts: 11 (Blulu and Pepeta)
Flat reflector appears.
Aim Arrows at approximately 45 degrees to shoot the Ghosts above the
barrier.
- Page 5 unfinished
Chapter 8
- Page 1
Pac-Man: 07 Time: 160 Ghosts: 10 (Pinkie, Blulu, TongueTongue, Barribe)
Push Switch appears.
It makes the puzzle barrier at the top dissapear,
but only as long as something is on top of it,
a moving barrier, Pac-Man, or a Ghost.
Wait until the moving puzzle barrier is on the switch,
then the puzzle barrier at the top disappears,
and you can use Arrows to shoot the Ghosts down.
- Page 2
Pac-Man: 07 Time: 160 Ghosts: 12 (Blulu, Barribe, Pepeta)
Take the Pepeta out as soon as possible.
- Page 3
Pac-Man: 07 Time: 150 Ghosts: 11 (Pinkie, Blulu, Barribe, Pepeta)
Group Switch appears.
Activate all of the switches and the barrier at the top disappears.
Arrows, Ghosts, or Pac-Man activates them.
Once they're all activated they turn green.
After a while they reset and the barrier reappears,
right before it happens the switches blink.
- Page 4
Pac-Man: 06 Time: 150 Ghosts: 12 (Pinkie, Blulu, TongueTongue, Pepeta)
Shoot Arrows at the Group Switches up in Item Road.
Once the side barriers are removed,
shoot Arrows at a slight angle to reach the Ghosts above the middle
barrier.
- Page 5
Pac-Man: 05 Time: 150 Ghosts: 10 (Pinkie, Blulu, TongueTongue, Pepeta)
The easiest way to activate the Group Switches is to draw a Pac-Man.
- Page 6
Pac-Man: 10 Time: 240 Boss: Dark Shell
Eat the little green things the Boss plops down.
Once they are all eaten, he will move downwards to drop bombs.
Now you can shoot Arrows at the reflectors to hit the Boss in the back.
While Pac-Man is at the lower screen he will keep dropping bombs.
Avoid the bombs he drops. The blue targets mark where they will land.
Chapters up to 12
Complete guide unfinished
( < ... Drawing Arrows .............................................. > )
Arrows, unlike Pac-Man, can be aimed in any direction, not just
up/down/left/right.
The angle of the shaft of the arrow decides in which direction is goes.
When doing Arrows going in a direction other than straight up it can help to
make the angles in the arrow-head rounded. It seems the game has trouble
detecting the sharp angles.
It's a really good idea, once you clear Chapter 4, to practice making arrows in
the Sketchbook, because it takes a bit of training to figure out how to make
arrows quickly, especially at the angles you need later on.
1. Start at the top drawing downwards:
/ ／
/ ／
2. Sharp angle for the bottom of the arrow-head:
/ ／
/___ ／_______
3. Up again to where you started from to complete the arrown head:
/ \ ／ ＼
/_ _\ ／_______＼
4. Straight down through the bottom to complete the arrow:
/|\ ／|＼
/_|_\ ／___|___＼
| |
| |
( < ... Secrets .................................................... > )
In the Sketchbook in the Gallery there are several easter egg style secrets.
Apart from practising Pac-man there are also several things that will do funny
stuff if you draw them:
- Cloud: Draw a cloud and it will turn blue, rain and float out the side of the
screen. Drawing it fast and big usually works better.
- Butterfly: Draw a butterfly, like an 8 but start drawing in the middle, and
it will flutter away.
- Fart: Draw a butt, like a 3, M or W, and it will let out a loud fart.
- Treble Clef: Draw a treble clef (see image below), and it turns red with a
musical chime. Drawing it slowly works better, and make the curl at the end
distinct.
- Snake: Draw a wavy horizontal line from left to right, and it turns green and
slithers out the side of the screen. Make high, rounded waves.
- Turd?: Not sure how to draw this, but it turns brown with steaming stink-
lines.
- Tear?: Not sure how to draw this, but it shows a light blue hanging water
drop.
- Fan?: Not sure how to draw this, but it turns yellow and waves back and forth.
- Arrow: Draw an arrow and make it shoot up at the Pac-man on the top screen
and he will say "Wah-wah-wah." Only works after you have cleared Chapter 4 and
learned to draw arrows.
Treble Clef ASCII image:
Start drawing at the *
/\
| |
|/
/|
/ |
| */)
\_|/
|
O_/ Non-ASCII image: wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Treble_clef.gif
( < ... Credits .................................................... > )
Thanks to john tv and JackFrost at Gaming-Age Forums for discovering some of
the secrets.
Story translated from manual and:
http://www.itmedia.co.jp/games/articles/0501/28/news009.html
Ghost names and some info from:
http://namco-ch.net/pac-pix/
More info:
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20050128/pac.htm
( < ... Copyright .................................................... > )
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