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-------------------------[Olympic Gold Barcelona '92]--------------------------
------------------------------[by Ice Queen Zero]------------------------------
---------------------[ Sega Master System/Sega Genesis ]-----------------------
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INTRODUCTION
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Olympic Gold Barcelona '92 is one of those button mashers that will leave your
fingers tired as hell. You pretty much need a turbo controller to play this game
even though it's considered cheating but even with the turbo mode on, there is
one trick you need to know before you get it to work. This is available for both
the Sega Master System and the Sega Genesis and gameplay is more or less the
same. Since there is an SMS Completion Project going on, I submitted it for the
SMS.
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DISCLAIMER
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Olympic Gold Barcelona '92 is a trademark of US Gold and all copyrights belong
to them.
This FAQ/Walkthrough is the sole copyright of Andrea "Azul Fria" Castillo aka
Ice Queen Zero 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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Welcome to Barcelona, Spain where the 1992 Olympics take place. Even though no
basketball is in this game, this year marked the birth of the Dream Team. You
play a track and field heptathlon trying to win a Gold, Silver, or a Bronze in
100m Dash, Hammer Throw, Hurdles, Archery, Diving, Pole Vault, and Swimming.
Another cool feature is you can play the game in 8 different languages: English,
Spanish, French, Italian, German, Swedish, Luxembourgish, and Portugese.
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GAMEPLAY
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After you choose your language, you have four options: Training Session, Mini
Olympics, Full Olympics, and Olympic Records.
Training Session is for you to practice each event to get yourself in the groove
for the real thing. Mini Olympics lets you choose which events that you want to
participate in. Full Olympics takes you through all events in a set order. The
Olympic Records option is to see all the current record holders. After you have
chosen your event, you can rename your character and your country: USA, Italy,
UK, Spain, Germany, France, Japan and Euro Nations. You can change an X into an
O to indicate that another human player is playing. Choose your difficulty skill
as Olympic, National, and Club which are the same as Hard, Normal, and Easy.
100 Meter Dash
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Alternate 1 & 2/A & B to run as fast as you can. Those who resort to using the
Turbo Controller can do so by holding down one of the buttons then mashing the
other button rapidly. Just to be funny, I nicknamed my character as U. Bolt. in
reference to today's current 100, 200, and relay world record holder Usain Bolt.
For the SMS, three characters race at a time while six race at a time for the
Genesis. Don't hit the buttons too early or that will result in a false start.
A false start from the same runner results in an automatic disqualification. The
top 3 (or 6) race each other to see who wins the medal and the top 3 do so. It's
not really too important but you can press right to lean forward. Do that if it
seems to be dead heat towards the end as this slows you down. On the Genesis,
press C to lean instead.
Hammer Throw
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Alternate 1 & 2/A & B to swing the hammer round and round. Hold left or right to
move to the right and press down to throw it at the right time. In the training
mode, you will see the bars to indicate your progress. If you release it right
then the hammer will fly far. You get three tries at trying to get the furthest
distance. The furthest three throws after three rounds gets a medal.
Hurdles
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Alternate 1 & 2/A & B to run as fast as you can. Whenever you see a hurdle, you
have to press Up on the D-pad to jump over it. Mistime a jump and you will knock
over a hurdle and that will slow you down. Fastest out of 3 (or 6) times will
advance to the finals to win a medal. On the Genesis, press C to jump.
Swimming
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Alternate 1 & 2/A & B to swim as fast as possible. You will swim back and forth
twice and the fastest out of 3 (or 6) swimmers advances to the final to try to
win a medal. I find swimming an easier event than the running events.
Pole Vault
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Alternate 1 & 2/A & B to run as fast as you can and then when you get close to
the launcher, press Down on the D-pad to plant the pole then Up to vault into
the air and if you got enough speed, press left to clear the pole clearly. You
start off at 5.00 then you can raise the pole higher to increase the challenge.
Diving
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This is by far the toughest event of all. While I can't come up with a exactly
guaranteed strategy, I suggest training for this event so you know the exact
buttons to press. The score seems to be random but I can say that anything that
invovles twisting and turning, press left/right to spin, button 2/B to twist,
hold button 1/A to touch your toes. Diving is down first by holding 1/A then
press left/right to adjust the board then press left to walk to the end of the
plank and press down then up to launch into the air. You are given five dives
total and the final score is given based on difficulty.
Archery
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Press a button to pick up an arrow then press left to pull back and press a
button again to go to the aim screen. The archer must have been a sniper before
he became an archer because he has mad shakes and it's hard to get good aim on
the target. Once in position, press a button to fire and arrow. The closer to
the center, the more points its worth (up to 10 points). The round ends after
the 6th arrow and the total of all points are tallied. After 3 rounds, the top
3 scores earn a medal.
After the end of the Olympics, the final results are given and the fireworks go
off until you hit a button.
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CREDITS
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U.S. Gold for making this game.
GameFAQs and others for hosting.
You for reading this FAQ.
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CONTACT ME
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azulfria[at]hotmail[dot]com
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Thank you for reading
-Ice Queen Zero
