Puyo Puyo 4      Dreamcast  Version 1.0   ASCII Only Version

Instruction Manual
Page 1
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Contents

Prologue                        Page 2
Operation Method                Page 3
Game Start                      Page 4
Rule Explanation                Page 5
Mode Explanantion               Page 10
Character Introduction          Page 18

Page 3 - Operation Method
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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.

English
Mode                    Controller Port
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One Player                      A
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????????                        A
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Puzzle Mode                     A
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Two Player                      AB
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Three Player                    ABC
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Four Player                     ABCD
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Here is chart 2

English Chart
Dreamcast Controller           Arcade Stick                    Corresponding Action
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Start Button                   Start Button                    Game Start/Pause
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Directional Button             Joystick                        Item Selection/Puyo
                                                              Removal
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A Button                       A Button                        Item Decision/Puyo
                                                              Rotation
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B Button                       B Button                        Item Cancel/Puyo
                                                              Rotation
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Y Button                       C Button                        Employ Special Skill
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X Button, L Trigger, R Trigger X Button, Y Button,             Employ
                              Z Button
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Page 4 - Game Start
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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
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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
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       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 which matches the manual.

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Small Puyo      Medium Puyo     Meteorite Puyo  Star Puyo       Moon Puyo
1 blob          6 blobs 30 blobs                90 blobs        180 blobs
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Comet Puyo      Saturn Puyo
360 blobs       720 blobs
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Page 10 - Mode Explanantion

One player Puyo Puyo

Practice(3 stages)
Story
Free Competition


Page 16 - Option Screen

Option
Button Establishment
Computer Difficulty
Versus Mode Number
Comic Dialogue Demo(yes,no)
Sound Output
Demo ???(Rules,Skeleton T)
Ranking
Backup(save, load)
Mode (return to the mode screen)


Still to come - translations of page 14 and 15 from the manual.


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.

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 [email protected]

Creation date = March 14, 1999

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