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- Full Docs For Super Stardust **AGA**
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- FULL DOCS FOR SUPER STARDUST A1200,A4000,CD32 ONLY!
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- Super Stardust Story
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- One yeatr ago,Professor Schaumund,the most evil and twisted genius ever to
- have lived,launched a violent attack on your galaxy in the hope of imprisoning
- the beautiful princess Voi Levi.His evil agents,controlling vast
- meteor-spaceships bombarded the galaxy in an attempt to crush all resistance.
- But you in your small but powerful Lynx X1 spaceship rose to the challenge,and
- defeated the evil genius.
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- Now the aEvil Proffessor Schaumund is back,a with new,more terrifying army of
- destruction, still intent in conquering the galaxy and enslaving the princess.
- He is willing to sacrifice millions of innocent lives to achieve his
- despicable goal.
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- Once again the galaxy turns to you,thier finest fighter pilot,to save them
- from impending doom.You are equipped with the all-new,super powerful Panther
- PX2 fighter,but remember this time,Professor Schaumund wants to get even with
- you for defeating him before.
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- You'll need your senses working overtime,your reactions balanced on a hair
- trigger and your determination set to full power to defeat the evil Professor.
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- Good luck son,you've only got thirteen hours to save the galaxy!
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- Loading Super Stardust
- ----------------------
- To load Super Stardust,simply place disk one in your internal floppy drive and
- turn on the machine,or perform a reset by pressing the [Ctrl] key and both
- [Amiga] keys simultaneously.
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- Swap disk when prompted to do so on screen.
- Super Stardust will recognise external disk drives.
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- Playing Super Stardust
- ----------------------
- When you boot super stardust you will be presented with an options screen.Here
- are the functions you will finds on the screen
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- Load Hi-scores
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- Loads the currently saved hi-score table from disk.
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- Save Hi-scores
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- Saves the current hi-score table to disk.
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- Clear Password
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- Clears the password entry option so that you can re-start the game at the
- beginning.
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- Enter Password
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- This enables you to enter a code to allow you to start the game at a later
- level,assuming you have previously reached this level.
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- Music
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- Music On or Off
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- Autofire
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- On or Off
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- Lives
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- 3,4,5.Select the number of lives you have to complete the game.Start with 5,
- and as you improve reduce the number you use.
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- Tunnel Control
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- Normal or reverse.This switches between arcade style joystick
- [up moves ship up] control and flightsim style joystick [up moves ship down]
- style control.
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- Keyboard Control
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- MAIN GAME
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- Type A
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- Cursor up - Thrust
- Cursor left - Rotate left
- Cursor right - Rotate right
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- Left/right alt - Shield
- Left/right shift - Fire weapon
- Brake in the special missions
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- Space - Weapon selector
- Esc - Quit game
- P - Pause
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- Type B
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- <> - Thrust
- Left shift - Rotate left
- Left Amiga - Rotate right
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- Right/left alt - Shield
- Right shift - Fire weapon
- Brake in the special missions
- Space - Weapon selector
- Esc - Quit game
- P - Pause
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- Tunnel Sections
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- Cursor up - Move up
- Cursor down - Move down
- Cursor left - Move left
- Cursor right - Move right
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- Left/right shift - Fire
- Esc - Quit game
- P - Pause
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- Detail
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- High or low.This adjusts the level of graphical detail.
-
- Space Sections
- --------------
- In these sections you must destroy all the rocks to complete the level.Many
- of these sections also contain alien space ships.Often these must be desroyed
- too,but sometimes it is sufficient to merely avoid them.Warp Tunnel sections
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- Pick-ups
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- Shooting some rocks in both the tunnel and space sections will produce a
- small golden icon.Collect these icons for the following power ups:-
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- Hart - Extra life X - Extra energy
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- B - Mega bomb G - Gun powerup
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- O - Flame burst E - Engine power
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- S - Shield energy P - Points
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- The Main Screen
- ---------------
- Your main screen display contains data vital to the success of your mission.
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- Score (top left)
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- How many points you have managed to achieve.
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- Ships (below score)
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- How many lifes you have remaining.
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- Time (top right)
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- How long you have left to complete the level.If you exceed this time Professor
- Schaumund's forces will have time to call for reinforcements.
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- Energy
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- Once all your energy has been depleted,your ship will be easy prey for the
- Professor' forces.
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- Shield
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- The shield can be used to prevent damage from collisions and repel enemy shots.
- But use it sparingly, you have finite shield power
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- Map Screen
- ----------
- Once you start the game,and between levels you will be confronted with the
- mapscreen.Move around this screen with the joystick or cursor keys to select
- which quadrant you wish to defend next.Information about the difficulty,and
- incidence of enemy craft will be displayed when you highlight any given
- quadrant.To choose a quadrent,press the fire button/key.
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- Weapons & Pick-Ups
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- At certain points during the game destroying an alien ship will result in a
- token being dropped.Collect these and you will be awarded a new weapon.
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- Press the space bar to be presented with the weapon selector screen:
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- 3 rocks - 3 way ovel - Bouncer
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- Ship - Plasma Flame - Flamer
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- Circle - Burster Missile - Missiles
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- When you have been awarded a weapon it will appear in one of the circular
- windows.To select a weapon,move along the windows using the joystick or cursor
- keys.
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- It is possible to re-route the power-ups you collect to a new weapon,while
- you still use the old [already powered-up] one.To do this,select the new
- weapon,and while you have the fire button [or key] depressed,also press the
- joystick down and to the right,or use the down-right keyboard combination.
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- Once you wish to use a weapon.Re-select it and press the fire and down-left
- combination/joystick position.The space bar or exit window will return you to
- the game.
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- Machine Requirements
- --------------------
- Super Stardust requires an Amiga computer with at least two megabytes of RAM
- and an AGA chipset.This means that the game will only run on an A1200,A4000
- computer or the CD32 console.
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- Hard Disk Installation
- ----------------------
- Super Stardust may be installed to the hard drive of AGA machines.To do this,
- boot from disk 2.You will be prompted to insert a blank,formatted disk.The
- program will now create a HD install disk.Once this has occured:
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- Reboot your machine to the Workbench,Insert the HD install disk,double click
- on its icon and drag the HD install icon into the drawer that you wish to
- install Super Stardust into.Now double click the install icon and follow the
- on-screen prompts.Once it has finished, re-boot your machine.
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- You will be required to place any of the Super Stardust disks in DF0: while
- you are running the game from hard disk.
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- Enjoy the game m8s!
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