Chibi Maruko-Chan 4: Korega Nippon Dayo! Oujisama
Game Boy
Developer: Kid Publisher: Takara
By: GammaBetaAlpha
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Table of Contents
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How to Play [HELP]
Mini-Games [MINI]
Donations/Amazon [DONT]
Contact Info [CONT]
Credits [CRED]
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How to Play
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[HELP]
In the fourth and final numbered Chibi Maruko-Chan title for the Game
Boy, Chibi Maruko-Chan 4: Korega Nippon Dayo! Oujisama, you play as the titular
Maruko-chan in attempting to clear several mini-games.
After a scene to start off the story, you are free to wander around the
town map and enter the houses. In each house (or a pond), one of Maruko-chan's
acquaintances, whether a classmate or a relative, may engage in a mini-game with
her. If you manage to win the mini-game, you may acquire a ticket, which can be
used to select a toy from the south-centre building.
The author of this guide does not quite perfectly understand the game,
but there does not seem to be any real sequence of mini-games to play. Rather,
visit every household to see if somebody is home - if he or she is, then you can
partake in a mini-game. Otherwise, move on to the next building. If nobody is at
home, then visit the school and talk to the teacher to 'reset' the placements of
people in buildings.
Eventually, once you do enough mini-games and select enough toys, you
get an ending per se. Once you spot a scene of Chibi Maruko walking around town
with a dog, you can go to the central building and then to the pond for the
game's ending.
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Mini-Games
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[MINI]
Mini-Game 1: Cards
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Upper-centre left household
In this game, you have eight cards, at least one of which has Maruko's
profile on it, the remaining having the image of Maruko's father. The card(s)
with Maruko's face on it are shown at the start before being flipped over, and
then at least one of the Maruko cards is slowly shuffled around the field, along
with one of the Dad cards, and this is repeated several times. The cards move
fairly slowly, so you should be able to keep an eye on which one is the Maruko
card. After done shuffling, you must indicate which card or cards have Maruko's
face on them.
Mini-Game 2: Stilts
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Middle right household
You play against one of Maruko-chan's classmates by both equipping
stilts and attempting to cross a yard to a finish line. Maruko's classmate takes
just slightly over 20 seconds to get to the line, and you have to beat him,
obviously.
Controls are not actually that bad for this game. You have to alternate
pressing the A and B button - if you do this well, then you can make good speed.
If you press the A button or the B button twice in a row, Maruko-chan shall fall
over, and take a second to recover. You may need to lose the game once just to
get a feel for the button mashing before retrying it, as you cannot just pound
away feverishly at the buttons.
Mini-Game 3: Rock Throwing
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Pond
As far as the mini-games go, this is one of the more simple ones. You
are given 10 tries to skim a rock across a pond. You have a bar on the left side
that fills up and down with a line near the top of it. If you wait until the bar
fills up over the line, then Maruko will successfully skim the rock along the
length of the entire pond. You have to do this at least 5 times with your 10
throws.
The bar will not fill completely every time in its up-and-down cycle, so
be weary and watch to make sure you do not throw the rock pre-emptively. There
will also occasionally be logs floating across the pond - this will stop your
rock throw if it smacks into a log. You can move Maruko with the D-Pad to stay
out of the way of a log. Rock throws are done with the A button.
Mini-Game 4: Yard Work
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Lower Left House
In this mini-game, you have to go left and pick up a block from the
ground. When Maruko-chan picks the block up, a bar will pop up. To fill it
totally, you need to rapidfire press the A and B buttons without any real
rhythm. Once the bar totally fills up, you are free to move the block, and must
go right to deliver it to the house. You are given 99 seconds to deliver at
least 10 blocks.
Mini-game 5: Fruit Catching
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Lower right house
One of Maruko-chan's classmates shall be standing on top of a fence and
will swat at fruit hanging on a tree. The fruit will slowly drift down, and you
need to control Maruko-chan with the D-Pad to move her left and right to catch
the fruit.
However, there are also two different types of fruit - a dark-coloured
one and a light-coloured one. Maruko-chan in turn has a dark-coloured basket and
a light-coloured basket, starting with the dark-coloured basket. To alternate
between the two, press A or B. The dark-coloured basket can only be used to grab
dark-coloured fruits, and vice versa for the light-coloured basket.
You must catch at least 20 fruits. You can take 3 hits, either from
letting a fruit hit the ground or catching a fruit with the incorrect basket.
Mini-Game 6: Singing
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Upper left house
Despite the name of the game, you do not do any actual singing. Rather,
Maruko's classmate Tama-chan does some singing, and then you need to select one
of 6 numbers, likely corresponding to something in the text prior to that. You
need to do this correctly at least 3 out of 5 times, and can take 2 incorrect
answers before you must restart.
Mini-Game 7: Animal counting
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Upper right house
In this game, multiple dogs and chickens will cross the screen between
two walls. You need to keep count of the total number of animals (not of either
dogs or chickens) and afterwards, you will be asked how many animals there were.
You must answer correctly 7 times, and can make two incorrect guesses.
Mini-Game 8: Dancing
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Lower centre right house
Maruko's grandfather will do one of 5 different types of dance moves -
fully facing left, jilting to the left, staying facing foward, jilting to the
right, fully facing right. You must then indicate the sequence he danced by
selecting one of five cards. After each successful answer, his sequence will get
longer. The sequence does NOT build off the moves he made before, and each new
sequence will be totally new. You need to get 5 sequences correct the first game
around.
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Donations/Amazon
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[DONT]
I don't really care too much about donations, but if you are feeling
generous, feel free to send one via PayPal to gammabetaalphafaqs AT gmail DOT
com
Alternatively, if you ever order any items from Amazon.com, go to the
link below. You do not have to buy anything right away, but (if you do not clear
browser cookies often) any items you buy within the next 90 days will count as a
'referral order' to me, meaning I get anywhere from 4-6% as a referral/affiliate
payment of what you ordered (ie. order $100 worth of stuff, I get $4-6 from
Amazon.com)
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Other than that, considering this FAQ is for an obscure old game, if you
have any other obscure old games that you do not play anymore, consider sending
them to me (I will even pay the shipping cost!). I write FAQs for plenty of
obscure old games with no FAQs, and having a physical copy of the game (and even
better, a manual) is superior to not. You can email me if interested at
gammabetaalphafaqs AT gmail DOT com
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Contact Info
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[CONT]
Although I believe I have found everything there is to find in this
game, there is occasionally the possibility of some super secret level in an
obscure game that was never found because it was too obscure, or the like. If
you have anything that you feel needs to be includes, feel free to email me at
gammabetaalphafaqs AT gmail DOT com
If you have any other information to contribute or notice any errors,
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Credits
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[CRED]
Thanks go to this atwiki website for information on this game:
http://www14.atwiki.jp/gball/pages/501.html
And this website for a little extra inforation:
http://ff35.blog72.fc2.com/blog-entry-682.html
I also used these nicovideo guides for reference:
http://www.nicovideo.jp/user/2553152
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm18807922
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm18814919
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