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--------------------------------- [POKER MAHJONG] -----------------------------
--------------------------------[by Ice Queen Zero]----------------------------
--------------------------[ Nintendo Entertainment System ]--------------------
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     INTRODUCTION
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I had planned on two FAQs for Mahjong Trap and Mahjong Acadamey due to myself
getting addicted to Mahjong by testing Academy on the NES and I've already begun
writing for it but I decided to go with Mahjong Poker as the first one of the
Mahjong games I will submit first for the NES Completion Project.

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      DISCLAIMER
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Poker Mahjong and its characters are trademarks of Sachen and all of its
copyrights belong to them.

This FAQ/Walkthrough is the sole copyright of Andrea "Azul Fria" Castillo aka
Ice Queen Zero (or the Zophar Queen if you prefer) and cannot be put on other
sites or posted without my given permission nor can it be reproduced w/o proper
consent.

For more guides by myself visit this link:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/features/recognition/74803.html

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       STORY
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If you are familiar with the game Mahjong itself, then lets just say the main
objective is the same except you are using playing cards instead of tiles to
play.

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      CONTROLS
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A button = draw card, discard
B button = declare win (when you have a winning hand)
Select button = Select game mode
Start = Start game, pause/unpause
Left/Right = cycle through cards after drawing card.
Left = Declare Chow after opponent discards eligible card
Right = Declare Pong after opponent discards eligible card.
Down = Declare Kong after opponent discards eligible card or you got a Pong
      that's eligible upon drawing a card.

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        MODES
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There are three modes at the title screen. Press the Select button to choose
the mode you want.

Demonstrate - You are basically shown several examples of winning hands until
             you reset the game.

Exhibition - You are basically just playing against the computer for fun and
            both of you start off with 3000 points each. The winner of each
            hand takes points from the loser. When someones points reaches 0
            or below, the game keeps going as normal and the loser will only
            have negative points.

Tournament - You will go up against the girls you say on the title screen in
            what you may consider a gauntlet of sorts. You will start with
            less points than your opponent. Your goal is to take their points
            down to zero before they do the same to you. It's just like it is
            with Exhibition mode except the game is over if you hit 0 and move
            on if you take them down to zero. Another notable difference is a
            highest-card face off determines who starts the game first and it
            also has a password system.

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       GAMEPLAY
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The cards will be dealt out evenly until each side has 13 cards each. In the
Exhibition mode, a random player is chosen on the first hand to go first and on
Tournament mode, the person with the highest card goes first on the first hand.
On subsequent hands, the winner of the last hand goes first. If there is a draw
(stockpile reaches 0), cards will be collected and re-dealt and the last person
to go first will go first again.

Now that we are using tiles instead of cards, keeping track of everything is a
bit more simple. There are 4 sets of cards numbered Ace (1) to 9 with a further
subset for each suite so in all there are 16 of each number but remember this
good... A 9 of Spades is different from a 9 of Hearts, etc. When making a Chow,
you must make a sequence of 3 of the same suit like a 3-Carded Straight Flush.

I bet you are wondering what all this Pong, Kong, and Chow stuff means. Pong is
when you have 3 cards of the same rank and suit in your hand. Kong is when you
manage to get all 4 cards of same rank and suit in your hand and you can stash
it away from the hand as a bonus towards scoring. Chow refers to that 3-Carded
Straight Flush I spoke of earlier. There is also a term called Eyes and that is
when you have only a mere pair but they are just as valuable.

Press the A button to draw a card. Choose a card that you don't want then press
the A button again to discard it. To win this hand, you must have a combination
of 4 Pongs/Kongs/Chows and a Pair of Eyes. Ex: 3 Pongs + 1 Chow + Eyes equals a
winning hand and so does 2 chows + 1 Pong + 1 Kong + a Pair of eyes etc. Now be
careful when you are discarding. Either player can use a discarded hand to make
a legal combination provided they have the other 2 (or 3 for a Kong) already in
their hand. To claim a Chow, press Left on the D-pad. Press Right on the D-pad
to claim a Pong. Press Down on the D-pad to claim a Kong. Kongs can be claimed
by also pressing down if you have all four cards of same rank and suit in your
hand at anytime including adding to a claimed Pong. However, if you do claim a
set, the cards will be turned face up. Once you have a winning hand, press the
B button to claim the hand. This is the only time you can claim a pair of Eyes
off the discard. In regular Mahjong there is a play called Robbing the Kong but
I'm not sure if you can do that here. If you can do it, it can be done when an
opponent has made a Kong and if the card is needed to claim a Chow, you can get
that top card and claim that Chow or you can declare a winning hand from there
but you can only do it immediately after the Kong is declared.

As far as scoring is concerned, I'm going to pass on explaining that part since
I have no clue to explain it. I just know if you manage make some bigtime plays
then you will score more points. I just go with flow. Whatever points you score
determines how much points you take away from the opponent. In Tournament mode,
you will win the match by taking the opponents score to 0 and you'll get a four
digit password to continue the match against any opponents later in the game.

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       CREDITS
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God for being our Lord and Savior

Sachen for creating the game.

You for reading.

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     CONTACT ME
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azulfria[at]hotmail[dot]com
[at] = @ and [dot] = .
Don't want any email bots.

You can also find me at Zophar.net updating the emus on console so you can buzz
me there if you have an account. http://www.zophar.net/forums/member.php?u=2683

Here is my Youtube account I share with my sisters.
http://www.youtube.com/user/PurrfectTrio

Thank you for reading

-Ice Queen Zero

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