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B O A R D   E D I T O R   VERSION 01

CONTENTS:
A. Version History
B. Legal information
C. Basics/Intro
I. Peices, peices...
IA. Ways you can use these
I1. Gray skys
I1A. Ways you can use these
I2. Can't bust this!
I1A. Ways you can use these
I3. You don't see it, now you do!
I3A. Ways you can use these
I4. Boom.  Period.
I4A. Ways you can use these
II. Other ways of using this
III. My levels (with drawings!)
IV. Contact
V. Credits, thanks, and congrats for those who beated the game without
modifying it (via the board editor or usage of cheats)
VI. #1 score tourney!
VII. Your ideas...sky's the limit
VIII. Cheats

A. Version History

v1.0, 7/2/03

Just started, three-day duration

v2.0, 7/6/03

Added all other miscellanious stuff, never got around to drawings.  I'll
get to that in future versions, am tired at the moment

B. Legal information

YOU DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO USE THIS GUIDE FOR YOUR OWN WEB SITE
WITHOUT PERMISSION OR USE IT AS YOUR OWN WITHOUT GIVING ME CREDIT.  If
you do not follow the above text, THE USER WILL HAVE NO PERMISSION TO
USE ANY OTHER OF MY FUTURE GUIDES as additions to websites and their
menus AND YOU WILL GET SUED.  If you ask permission to use this guide, I
will accept most permission until told to terminate this guide from
their website.  This will apply to all websites except GameFAQs and IGN.
You have permission to use the ASCII art for the "#1 score tourney!",
but you DO NOT permission to use initials in the list.  The contest is
for GameFAQs users only.  If you do copy the list, terminate ALL
initials in that list and replace with people who sent in THEIR score,
THEIR initials, and THEIR name, not the ones listed here.  As long as
you follow all the rules, and respectfully give people credit for what
they sent in, then this means you agree with all the rules listed here.
If you DO NOT agree to these terms, then DO NOT post this on your web
page.  This guide copyright 2003 Brandon Bachman  DX-Ball copyright
Micheal P. Welsh 1996-1998.  DX-Ball 2 copyright Longbow Digital Arts
1998-1999.  Rival Ball copyright Longbow Digital Arts 2000-2003.

P.S. if no people put entrys in yet, replace with hyphens or any simble
of your choice as the initials on the score list.

P.S.S. IGN will also follow the rules if they want to use the list for
#1 scores.  Also, I would like to say that I'll sue the person who sent
the guide, not the entire company/family/ect. unless it's a website who
a single person operates and owns.

C. Basics/Intro

Welcome, friends, to my DX-Ball Board Creator FAQ.  This is just a
general FAQ that (for the love of god) has some frills to it, such as a
tourney for #1 scores, People's ideas, and yes, some cheats.  Cheats
will expand to DX-Ball 2 and the tourney will expand all the way up to
Rival Ball(The most current game in the DX-Ball series.)  Now to sum up
the basics, it's just like any of today's clones.  Hit the ball with
your paddle, and collect any power-ups along the way.  Only thing
different about this game is that the power-ups being color-coded, blue
for good, gray(yellow as of today)for miscellanious, and red being
bad(mostly).  Enough of that, let's get to buliding...Oh, I forgot the
instructions for this!  Oh well, I'll add those in the way it's set up:

N --Next Board
P --Previous Board
BKSP --Clear Board
L --Load Boards
S --Save Boards
CTRL --Hold to Draw*

(*-Hold CTRL and Click either mouse button to draw in or out multiple
peices)

I. Peices, peices...

Now the color bricks range from a wide amount of colors, in all color
familys.  These will be (hopefully) your mostly used bricks

IA. Ways you can use these

Be decoretive.  That's the reason they're there in all those colors

I1. Gray skys

The gray bricks, ah, how boring.  Anyhow, They Turn down one shade every
time you hit them.  Colors range from: gray, dark gray, and black.
Pretty boring, isn't it?

I1A.Ways you can use these

Oh boy, this is tough, just use these to contrast certian aeras.

I2. Can't bust this!

The yellow indestructable blocks are hard hitters, even harder when you
place ones with pink in the middle in hard-to-reach areas.

I2A. How to use these

Just use to make your life a living nightmare.  you can also make
shapes, but that wastes space.  By the way, the ones with pink are the
ones you need to hit

I3. You don't see them, now you do!

Invisible blocks are shown in the brick box as a white rain on a black
background.  Place them to harden up the board, even though you''ll know
where they are.  Two hits to get rid of these bad boys

I3A. Ways to use these

As I said, these will harden up the game by a margin, so use at your own
risk

I4. Boom.  Period.

Exploding blocks blow up on contact, That's the fun in these.  They are
white and orange blending together...like a half-eaten creamcicle! :)

I4A. Ways to use these

Put them next to yellow blocks, if possible, or at your own prefrence,
for the fact that they make the board easier.

II. Other ways of using this

You can cheat making some boards easier, or you can make them harder if
it's not hard enough.  You can even start from scratch!  Just remember,
you'll be replacing a/some/all board(s) if you do this, and you can see
the next few boards you didn't beat, so, again, use at your own risk.

III. My levels (With drawings!)

*R*-Red
R*E-Rose (Pinkish red)
H*P-Hot Pink
P*1-Pink
P*2-Pink (Textured)
*P*-Purple
*B*-Blue
B*B-Baby blue (Blue/Sky blue mix)
S*B-Sky blue
B*G-Blue-green (Teal)
D*G-Dark green
*G*-Green
Y*G-Yellow-green
*Y*-Yellow
*O*-Orange
IND-Indestructable yellow block
I*2-Indestructable yellow block; MUST be hit (pink in the middle)
INV-Invisible

Will add drawings in future updates

IV. Contact

Contact me for whatever reason at [email protected]

V. Credits

Thanks to:

Me, for producing this guide

Special thanks to:

Seumus McNally, for starting what would be a good series of games (1979-
2000)
Jim, Wendy, and Philippe McNally fior making all these great puzzles,
especially Seamus McNally for his "Variations of A Dream" board-set
CJayC, for posting this guide

Congratulations for those who beaten DX-Ball:

None Yet

Congratulations for those who beaten DX-Ball 2 with all of the DX-Ball 2
board sets:

None Yet

Congratulations for those who beaten all the DX-Ball-2 and Rival Ball
sets on Impossible(Yes, Rival Ball's Impossible mode):
                                                      ========== /--\
None yet                                             ==========   |  |
                                                           ====  \--/
VI. First place tourney

Welcome to my first place tourney!  There's no one in it at the moment
so i'll show the availible slots.  Send my your initnals and your full
name so I can put you in the credits section

QULIFIER   QUARTER-FINAL   SEMI-FINAL   FINAL
 /---\       /---\         /---\       /---\
/=====\     /     \       /     \     /     \
\=====/     \     /       \     /     \     /
 \---/       \---/         \---/       \---/
 1      2      3      4      5      6      7
/-\    /-\    /-\    /-\    /-\    /-\    /-\
|=|    | |    | |    | |    | |    | |    |=|
\-/    \-/    \-/    \-/    \-/    \-/    \-/
                 O U T  O F
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VI. Your ideas...sky's the limit.

Here are your own ideas for boards.  If you haven't sent one in, follow
the color code in the "My levela" section.  I got nothing left, so this
will remain blank unless otherwise.

Will add drawings in future updates

VII. Cheats

Well, I might as well include this section.  This is the unoffical
cheats guide I can make.

DX-Ball

All cheats require the holding of the CTRL(Control) key.

F1-Normal paddle; Entered at the title screen, the board editor pops up
F2-Grab paddle power-up
F3-Laser paddle power-up
F4-Paddle expansion power-up
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
These cheats don't need the CTRL(Control) key

F5-Toggle MIDI music, it's always random
F6-Turns off music
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DX-Ball 2

All cheats require the word "eureka" during play.

Up-First board in set
Down-Last board in set
Left-Move to next board to the left
Right-Move to next board to the right
Any other key-Any random item(including death)*

(*- There is no death in Kid Mode)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
If you know any cheats for rival ball, please tell me.  There might not
be any cheats because LDA was afraid they[the players]might use these in
multi-player games.

Well, that's all folks.  The legal section will be repeated here again,
with the credits as well

A. Legal information

YOU DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO USE THIS GUIDE FOR YOUR OWN WEB SITE
WITHOUT PERMISSION OR USE IT AS YOUR OWN WITHOUT GIVING ME CREDIT.  If
you do not follow the above text, THE USER WILL HAVE NO PERMISSION TO
USE ANY OTHER OF MY FUTURE GUIDES as additions to websites and their
menus AND THEY WILL GET SUED.  If you ask permission to use this guide,
I will accept most permission until told to terminate this guide from
their website.  This will apply to all websites except GameFAQs and IGN.
You have permission to use the ASCII art for the "#1 score tourney!",
but you DO NOT permission to use initials in the list.  The contest is
for GameFAQs users only.  If you do copy the list, terminate ALL
initials in that list and replace with people who sent in THEIR score,
THEIR initials, and THEIR name, not the ones listed here.  As long as
you follow all the rules, and respectfully give people credit for what
they sent in, then this means you agree with all the rules listed here.
If you DO NOT follow the terms above, then DO NOT post this guide on
your website.  This guide copyright 2003 Brandon Bachman  DX-Ball
copyright Micheal P. Welsh 1996-1998.  DX-Ball 2 copyright Longbow
Digital Arts 1998-1999.  Rival Ball copyright Longbow Digital Arts 2000-
2003.

V. Credits

Thanks to:

Me, for producing this guide

Special thanks to:

Seumus McNally, for starting what would be a good series of games (1979-
2000)
Jim, Wendy, and Philippe McNally fior making all these great puzzles,
especially Seamus McNally for his "Variations of A Dream" board-set
CJayC, for posting this guide

Congratulations for those who beaten DX-Ball:

None Yet

Congratulations for those who beaten DX-Ball 2 with all of the DX-Ball 2
board sets:

None Yet

Congratulations for those who beaten all the DX-Ball-2 and Rival Ball
sets on Impossible(Yes, Rival Ball's Impossible mode):
                                                      ========== /--\
None yet                                             ==========   |  |
                                                           ====  \--/

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