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Live Assistance. Callers under 18 years of age must obtain permission from a parent or guardian before calling. Game tips are available for callers within the U.S. only. Touch-tone phone required. Live assistance is available for Square Soft titles published on the PlayStation game console only. Game counselors are available Monday-Friday, 8am 11:45am and 1pm - 5pm, Pacific Standard Time. Automated support is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Square Soft Online Visit us online at www.squaresoft.com to register for upcoming sweepstakes, prizes and more! CONTENTS Preface Getting Started Controls Main Characters Continuing from Saved Data The Main Menu Game Flow Character Actions Towns & Villages World Map - Field Battles Battle Commands Gear Battles Gear Battle Commands Skills & Weapons Special Abilities Armor & Accessories Gear Parts & Items Abbreviations Credits Limited Warranty 2 3 4 6 10 11 17 18 19 21 22 23 27 28 30 31 33 34 35 36 37 TM 1 Preface Thousands of years ago. The Eldridge, a gigantic interplanetary emigrant spacecraft, suffered a sudden shipwide systems malfunction. On the monitors that warned of the ensuing danger, a mysterious shadow flickered for but an instant. Before the spacecraft's crew could respond, someone or something had taken over their entire ship. As the passengers and crew attempted to evacuate, the spacecraft's own laser cannons coldly turned and shot them down. The captain had no choice but to activate the ship's self-destruct mechanism. In a flash of light, the spacecraft fell to a nearby planet. Born from the fallen wreckage, `she' slowly arose, her long hair blowing in the wind as her eyes reflected the dawn's breaking light. Reflecting the start of the day that `god' and `humankind' fell to earth. RESET BUTTON POWER BUTTON RESET DISC COVER ® POWER OPEN POWER INDICATOR CONTROLLER PORT ONE OPEN BUTTON MEMORY CARD SLOT TO START A NEW GAME Set up your PlayStation game console according to the instructions in its Instruction manual. Make sure the power is OFF before inserting or removing a compact disc. Insert XenogearsTM DISC 1 into your Playstation game console and close the Disc cover. Make sure a Controller is inserted into Controller port 1 and turn ON the PlayStation game console. After the opening movie is completed, the Title Screen will be displayed. (You can press the button to skip the opening movie and display the Title Screen.) Select using the Directional buttons and press the button to start. MEMORY CARD A Memory card (sold separately) is required to save your progression in this game. Insert a Memory card into the PlayStation game console BEFORE starting play. Data can be saved or loaded from either Memory card slot. Do not remove a Memory card while saving or loading games; doing so could damage the game data. See pages 10 and 16 for instructions on loading and saving games. 2 Getting Started 3 Controls MENU SCREEN CONTROLS: L2 + R2 BUTTONS F Get on/off Gears (all) L1 BUTTON M Choose character F Rotate view left L R R1 BUTTON M Choose character F Rotate view right BUTTON F Jump B Weak attack BUTTON M Cancel F Run, Cancel B End battle turn BUTTON M Confirm F Talk, Search B Fierce Attack BUTTON F Menu Screen B Strong attack Directional buttons button button R1 button/L1 button Move cursor to highlight an action/option Confirm/execute highlighted option Cancel option and return Choose between current party characters DIRECTIONAL BUTTONS M Move cursor F Move character(s) B Move cursor SELECT BUTTON F Toggle World Map START BUTTON F Pause/continue B Pause/continue FIELD SCREEN CONTROLS: Directional buttons button button ç button button R1 button L1 button START button SELECT button Move character(s) Talk with people, Search scenery, Execute commands Hold down to make character(s) run, Cancel commands Jump (Can also do a bigger jump while running with the button held down) Display Menu Screen Change viewpoint (Rotates camera right 45 degrees) Change viewpoint (Rotates camera left 45 degrees) Pause/continue Turn on/off the mini World Map window SELECT START (Note: Hold down the R2 and L2 buttons simultaneously as a shortcut for making all the characters in the party get on/off their Gears at one time.) M enu F ield B attle Xenogears has different control functions depending on the screen you are on. These are divided into Menu Screen, Field Screen and Battle Screen controls. Master the controls for each situation in order to make smooth progress in your adventure. BATTLE SCREEN CONTROLS: Directional buttons button button ç button button START button Move cursor/Highlight Battle Option 3-point Fierce Attack/Execute highlighted Battle Option 2-point Strong Attack/Execute highlighted Battle Option 1-point Weak Attack/Execute highlighted Battle Option End battle turn/Cancel Battle Option Pause/continue (Note: The game can be reset by simultaneously pressing the START, SELECT, L1, L2, R1, and R2 buttons.) 4 5 Main Characters D ATA Birthplace: Age: Gender: Height: Weight: Specialty: Gear: Unknown 18 Male 5'11" 147 lbs. Martial Arts Weltall D ATA Birthplace: Age: Gender: Height: Weight: Specialty: Gear: Solaris 18 Female 5'6" 101 lbs. Rods Vierge Fei Fong Wong A young man living in the small village of Lahan. He suffers from a partial memory loss due to an incident prior to his arrival. Fei enjoys teaching martial arts to the children and is adored by all of the villagers. His hobby is painting, an ability he appears to have inherited from a master artist. Elhaym Van Houten Assigned to a post in Aveh after completing her training as an officer in the Solaris military. As a spy, she steals the latest model Gear from the rival Kislev Army, but is chased down and forced to make an emergency landing in Lahan. Her coincidental encounter with Fei ultimately affects her future. 6 7 Citan Uzuki D ATA Birthplace: Age: Gender: Height: Weight: Specialty: Gear: Solaris 29 Male 6'1" 150 lbs. Martial Arts and swords Heimdal A doctor who runs a medical clinic on the outskirts of Lahan. Originally from the Sacred Empire of Solaris, his identity is shrouded in mystery. Yet, his abundant knowledge and strategic thinking saves Fei from danger on more than one occasion. A gentle healer whose hobby is tinkering with machines. Billy Lee Black D ATA Birthplace: Age: Gender: Height: Weight: Specialty: Gear: Aquavy Islands 16 Male 5'7" 130 lbs. Guns Renmazuo His father disappeared when he was a young child and his mother died after being attacked by undead Reapers (called `Wels'). He became an etone (an exorcist/purger of Reapers) at the recommendation of his mentor, Bishop Stone. His younger sister, Primera, lost her voice from the shock of her mother's death and Billy feels that he is to blame. Since then, he has devoted himself completely to raising Primera. 8 Leader of a group of sand pirates who rule the desert in their sand cruiser, the Yggdrasil. However, his true identity is the Crown Prince of the Fatima Dynasty of Aveh. Recklessly brave and hot-tempered, Bart's impulsiveness and habit of shooting anything that moves causes much grief for his crew and friends. Bartholomew Fatima D ATA Birthplace: Age: Gender: Height: Weight: Specialty: Gear: Aveh (Fatima Castle, Bledavik) 18 Male 6'1" 158 lbs. Whips Brigandier A giant demi-human, (half-human/half-beast) who was created through biological experiments. Big and muscular, he is the champion of the Battling Arena in Nortune, the Imperial Capital of Kislev. Although imprisoned in Nortune's D-Block, the Empire's penitentiary facility, his lifestyle is better than that of many nobles. Rico Banderas D ATA Birthplace: Age: Gender: Height: Weight: Specialty: Gear: Kislev 30 Male 7'0" 352 lbs. Wrestling Stier 9 Continuing from Saved Data Insert the disc from the previous saved game and the Memory card with the saved data and turn ON the PlayStation game console. Choose on the Title Screen and press the button. A File Menu Screen with three options , and will appear. Choose and press the button. Then, choose the memory block that contains the game you want to resume. File Menu Options Loads saved game data. Select the memory block that contains a previously saved Xenogears game file that you want to load and press the button. Do not insert or remove a Memory card while loading data. Duplicates data saved in one memory block onto a free memory block of another Memory card. Make sure you have a Memory card that contains a free block of memory inserted into the other Memory card slot before attempting to copy. Deletes unnecessary data from a Memory card. It is recommended that you erase unnecessary data when your Memory card is getting full, so that you can save future progressions in this game. Sound Choose the option on the Title Screen menu. A sub-menu will appear where you may select one of three audio settings: Stereo, Mono and Wide. Press the button to display the Main Menu. (This can be done at anytime in the game except during battles, movies or midway through conversations). From this menu, you can view information about the characters' current status, including skills and items they are equipped with. Choose the desired option using the Directional buttons and press the button to confirm your choice. 1: Current Party's Status Summary ­ Party members' current level and conditions. Each character's current Level of Experience, Hit Points and Ether Points are displayed along with the Experience Points needed for each character to reach their next Level of Experience. 2: Main Menu ­ Contains a number of options such as viewing detailed screens that show the Status, Equipment, Items and Abilities possessed by the party's characters. Details of each menu option will be given on the following pages. 3: G ­ Current monetary balance. (`G' is the monetary unit of the Xenogears world.) 4: Time ­ Total time of gameplay shown in hours, minutes and seconds. 1 2 3 4 10 The Main Menu 11 CONTINUING FROM SAVED DATA THE MAIN MENU 1 2 3 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 STATUS Displays a more detailed report on the current characters' status. Categories displayed are as follows: 1. LV ­ Current Level of Experience. 2. Exp ­ Total Experience Points earned so far. 4 5 6 EQUIP Choose the option to go to a screen where you can equip the characters with Weapons, Armor and Accessories. Each character can have one Weapon (if they are able to use a Weapon) and up to three Accessories (including Armor) equipped at one time. How to Equip Weapons, Armor and Accessories The left window lists the Weapon and Accessories (including Armor) that the character has equipped. The right window contains all equipment the party currently has in stock. You can change what items the character has equipped by first pressing the Up or Down Directional buttons and pressing the button to select which Weapon or Accessory to replace in the left window. Then use the Directional but ...