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The "kemo-shooting" Magical Forces   english manual
                       TSUTOMU SOFT presents 2001 all rights reserved.
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                                           revision 1.07.04 2001/05/12

English manual is under construction.

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WARINING!
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* Magical Forces is for Japan. Designed, programmed and tested on
  Microsoft Windows of Japanese edition. Double-bytes codes in resource
  could cause problems on single-byte Environment.
* We have no warranty that this game runs on Windows of non-Japanese
  edition.
* This game could include improperiety in other countries and cultures.
* Message and title bar are shown in Japanese in default.
  ( It can be shown in English. -> "command-line options" )


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what you need
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indispensable

H/W     : IBM PC/AT compatible
CPU     : 80486DX 75MHz or faster
OS      : Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT series
display : 640x480 256colors or more

recommended

CPU     : Pentium 300MHz or faster
display : 800x600
Sound   : sound cards available on Windows(MIDI and WAVE)
          hardware MIDI is strongly recommended.
joystick: 8 directions, 2-4 buttons

* This is GDI program, doesn't reqiure DirectX!
* Magical Forces may cause strange display on Windows Me.
* CPU power that you need is depend on colors of display
  (and whether your MIDI is hardware or not).


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control
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1 PLAYER mode (without joystick)

move   : arrow keys(up, down, left and right)
shot   : [z] or [CTRL] key
change : [x] or [SHIFT] key

1 PLAYER mode (with joystick)

move   : joystick
shot   : trigger 1 or 4
change : trigger 2 or 3

* keyboard input is availavle at the same time.

2 PLAYERS mode (without joystick)

1P move   : [R][V][D] and [G] key
1P shot   : [Z] or [CTRL] key
1P change : [X] or [SHIFT] key

2P move   : arrow keys
2P shot   : [/?] key
2P change : [_]  key

# SORRY, Magical Forces is for Japan. Magical Forces won't work correctly
# because English keyboard doesn't have [_] key in the next of [/?] key.
# (notice: Japanese keyboard has some keys in different layout of English)
# ... if you want to 2 PLAYERS mode, please use one or more joystick(s).

2 PLAYERS mode (with one joystick)

1P : keyboard (same as 1 PLAYER without joystick)
2P : joystick (same as 1 PLAYER with joystick)

2 PLAYERS mode (with two joysticks)

1P : joystick #1
2P : joystick #2

Special controls

[Shift]+[F2] : quit game
[F3] : pause and resume
[F5] : translucent effect on/off (when off, load is lighter)
[F6] : show FPS (frame rate)
[F9] : show play counts


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title selection
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On the title screen (demonstration play), press shot or change button.
Main menu will appear, select first.

* 1 PLAYER
  start 1-player game.

* 2 PLAYERS
  start 2-players game.

* RANKING
  show ranking and high score password.

if you selected 1 PLAYER or 2 PLAYERS, select difficulty second.
Difficulty is from easy to crazy.

[ESC] key to quit menu and continue demonstration.


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player characters
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You must select your character from 6 characters.
Every character has 4 attack patterns, select by change button.


* Aliza Rin (for expert)

A rabbit-eared (and tailed) girl, She has wide shot from front-twin
to 6-way spread. Indicator shows number of shots.
([2]twin shot, [3]3-way, [4]4-way, [6]6-way)

* Juni Yelqi (for beginner)

A cat-eared (and tailed) girl, She has homing shot fired with normal
front V-shot. Homing shot is from 0 to 4, but front V-shot is 
not changed. Indicator shows number of homing shots.
([0]front V-shot without homing shot, [1]front V-shot with 
 single homing, [2]with 2 homings, [4]with 4 homings)

* Mill Fiele (wide type)

A dog-eared (and tailed) girl, She has parabola shot fired with
normal front V-Shot and can attack enemies behind.
Indicator shows number of parabola shots.
([0]front V-shot without parabola shot, [1]front V-shot with single 
 parabola, [2]with 2 parabolas, [4]with 4 parabolas)

* Pammy Topl (defense type)

A squirrel-eared (and tailed) girl, She has rolling shot fired with 
normal front-twin shot. Rolling shot countervails enemy bullets.
Indicator shows number of rolling shots.
([0]front twin shot without rolling shot, [1]front twin shot with
 single rolling, [2]with 2 rolling, [4]with 4 rolling)

* Lam Liqre (infighting type)

A mouse-eared (and tailed) girl, She has parallel shot. 
The more rows, the shorter a carry of her parallel shot.
Indicator shows number of rows.
([2]front parallel shot in 2 rows, [3]3 rows, [4]4 rows, [6]6 rows)

* Creas Cent (piercing type)

A wolf-eared (and tailed) girl, She has piercing shot from single-front
to 4-way. Piercing shots penetrate lower enemies. The more shots, the
less power of piercing shots. Indicator shows number of shots.
([1]single, [2]V-shot, [3]3-way, [4]4-way)


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how to play
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Control player by lever and destroy enemies by shot.
A boss appears in the last of a stage.

This game contains 7 stages.

Players are down by hitting enemy bullets.
It is safe to hit enemies and obstacles (trees, rocks, ice floes, 
houses, etc...). But players are down when sandwiched between obstacles
and bottom end of screen, too.

If you lose all lives, you can continue play by change button.


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sub weapon
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If you find fairies, attack them. They throws spell book.

Spell book enables players to use magical sub weapons and charge shot.
Charge Magic meter by releasing shot button and push when full-charged!

* fire
normal shot  : Fire vulcan
               Throw small fireballs continually.
charge attack: Fire dragon
               Summon a fire dragon. It can be controlled left and right.

* thunderbolt
normal shot  : Straight lightning
               Lightning penetrates enemies.
charge attack: Lock-on lightning
               Lock on enemies (except boss enemy) automatically.

* wood
normal shot  : Leaf storm
               Wide-spreading leaves.
charge attack: Wood hammer
               Squashes enemies! but range is very narrow.

* water
normal shot  : Water bomb
               Bomb explodes when hits an emeny.
charge attack: Tidal wave
               Erase enemy bullets in overall of game screen.
               It has very few power for enemies.

Destroying enemies by charge attack, points you get is multiplied.
Charge attack of wood is eightfold, fire is fourfold, lightning and
water are double.


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internet ranking
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Register your high score and compete over the Internet ?!

Notice page is
http://delegate.uec.ac.jp:8081/club/x68/~usausa/notice.html
(SORRY, now Japanese only)

Password is shown in RANKING mode. (please select RANKING in title)
Characters in RED are number, in white are alphabets.

Enter your password, score, name and comment in entry page.
Scores with continue are refused registration.

Please use Japanese Shift-JIS or English characters (Don't use other
languages) because Internet Ranking system is modified to Japanese 
Language.


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command-line options
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You can configure Magical Forces by adding options.
If you want to add options, please create shortcut of mforces.exe, and
modify [link] box.

For example:

"B:\Delphi Project\MForces\MForces.exe" /B /E
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Magical Forces will run without BGM and sound effects.


Here are some options. "*" means default.

/Sx : size select
  /S1 : single sized(192x256)
  /S2 : double sized(384x512) *

/F  : fullscreen-like mode
  /F0 : fullscreen
  /F1[hexadecimal] : fullscreen with color (ex. /F100FFFF)
  /F2[filename]    : fullscreen with bitmap (ex. /F2test.bmp)
                     Bitmap file must be in the same folder of mforces.exe.

  It doesn't hide border and title bar, please use with /D0 option.

/D0 : no border (hide window border and title bar)

/B  : disable background music(BGM)
/E  : disable sound effects

/Wx : wait control
  /W0 : no-wait mode (MAXIMUM SPEED!)
  /W1 : synchronized mode (normal speed) *

/Lx : language select
  /L0 : Japanese *
  /L1 : English

  You must place first if you want to use /L option.

  "B:\Delphi Project\MForces\MForces.exe" /L1 /B   --- good
  "B:\Delphi Project\MForces\MForces.exe" /B /L1   --- bad

/T  : test mode
  You can test inputs of keyboard and joysticks.

/P  : play save
  You can record your control data. Replay data will be saved as 
  'replayX.dat'. (X is stage number, '1'-'7')
  Replay mode is not implemented yet.

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attention
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* Magical Forces is freeware.
* Authors have no warranty and responsibility.
* This software is made with Borland Delphi3 standard edition.
* Authors are poor at English. :-)


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author
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AKANEfan(Tsutomu AOKI)

mailto:VFG16536@nifty.ne.jp
http://member.nifty.ne.jp/AKANEfan/   (sorry, Japanese only)
