Power Pro Kun Pocket 3
Written by 10sai (pvarda@yahoo.com)
Started on April 17, 2001
Work in Progress

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Table of Contents

1) Updates
2) What is PowerPro Kun 3?
3) Getting Started
4) Exhibition Mode
5) Story Mode
6) Extras
7) Xtra Links
8) Contact
9) Thanks!


1. Updates
April 25, 2001
Revised Stuff, Added Some Information under Story Mode,and Thanks! section


April 17, 2001
-Started this FAQ, added What is PowerPro Kun 3?, Getting Started, Exhibition
mode, Story Mode, Extras, Xtra Links, and Contact Sections

2.  What is PowerPro Kun 3?
I dunno, why don't you buy it? Hehe, jk.

PowerPro Kun 3 is the third installment of the extremely popular franchise from
Konami: PowerPro Baseball on the portable console.  The series originated on
the SNES, and has continued to blossom onto the Playstation, N64 and Game Boy
Color, and finally is on the Game Boy Advance, possibly later the GameCube.

3.  Getting Started

Standard Controls, use of all GBA buttons:
D-Pad, L and R Triggers, A and B Button, and Start/Select

D-pad: used for direction (duh)
A: select or go forward
B: Cancel or go Back

When turning on the GBA with PowerPro inserted (after the cool Game Boy
Animation :) ), press start at the PowerProKun 3 Screen, and you'll hear a
kid-like voice screaming POWER PRO KUN POCKET 3!!!!

Now you'll have a Menu with 5 selections:

|----------------------|
|          1           |    1 Sakusesu: Success (story Mode)
|----------------------|
|    2     |     3     |    2. Yakkyu: Baseball (Exhibition Mode)
------------------------    3. Arrengi: Arrange Mode
|    4     |     5     |    4. Deeta: Data Mode
------------------------    5. Omake: MiniGame/Success Story Mode Players (??)

I've only experimented with Story and Exhibition Mode, i've heard that you can
use the n64 transfer pak with the 2001 edition of the n64 jikkyou powerpro 2001
edition.


4.  Exhibition Mode
Once you enter Exhibition Mode (middle left of the menu), you'll come to
another Menu:
============
|Link Cable|
============
|Fight CPU |
============

you have the choice to fight either another player on a GBA with a link cable,
or fight the CPU.  since the CPU is set on default, press A to continue.

Now you'll go to the Team Select menu, where you'll have a screen of 14 little
icons:

-----------------------
|1 |2 |3 |4 |5 |6 |7 |
|8 |9 |10|11|12|13|14|
----------------------

1.  Yomiuri Giants
2.  Chinichi Dragons
3.  Yokohama Bay Stars
4.  Yakult Swallows
5.  Hiroshima Toyo Carp
6.  Hanshin Tigers
7.  Arrange Team 1
8.  Fukuoka Daiei Hawks
9.  Seibu Lions
10. Nippon Ham Fighters
11. Orix Blue Wave
12. Chiba Lotte Marines
13. Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes
14. Arrange Team 2

#7 and #14, the 2 Arrange Teams are created from the Arrange Mode in the first
menu.
i have not really experimented, so i do not know as of yet what to do about it.
you can experiment all you want and tell me about it :)

You select your team first, then the CPU team. Personally, I choose Daiei
Hawks, because they are the best :).

then you come to another menu.
The first option will be whether to Bat first or Pitch First.  If you have the
yellow characters under your team (MAN), then you will bat first.  If the
yellow characters are under the CPU team (COM), you will pitch first.
select which one you want, then the next selection will be which stadium, open
air or closed.  A is open air, B is closed.

Next will be the Game Settings (i do not know all of them, so bear with me):

Settings         Possible Choices
DH??           -- no (default), yes
CPU Difficulty -- medium (default), hard, easy
# of innings   -- 9 (default), 1-8
???            -- 12 (default), 15, none
Errors         -- On (default), Off
Wind           -- On (default), Off
Kouldo (??)    -- Off (default), 1-10

After selecting OK, here will be more game settings (i do not know them again,
so bear with me :)

Hitting             -- Manual (default), Automatic
Pitching            -- Manual (default), Automatic
Infield             -- Semi-automatic (default), Automatic, manual
Running Players     -- Semi-automatic (default), Automatic, manual
Switching Players   -- Manual (default), Automatic
???                 -- Yes (default), No
Meet Castle??       -- Lock-On (default), Manual

Next will be a screen where you can change your batting order.  i recommend
leaving it as it is, unless you know how to do it.


The smiley faces represent condition,
In order of worst condition to best

1.  Purple sad face
2. Blue sad face
3. yellow normal face
2. red happy face
1.  pink smiling face

The right most icons' colors represent where they play:
yellow is infield, green is outfield, pink is pitcher, blue is catcher.


once you press A twice, it'll go to PLAY BALL, and the game will start.

Pitching Mode

depending on the team, you'll have several differnt types of pitches.  the
arrow will determine where your pitch will go, and the # determines how strong
the pitch is.
although it looks complex, you will get the hang quite easily.

Select which pitch you want, and Press A.  Doing different combos of pitches
will work well against the CPU.  When he ends up hitting the ball, you will
gain control of the players in the field.  The game will automatically set you
to the player closest to the ball.
When you don't have the ball yet, you can press A or B to jump.
Once you obtain the ball, you press which direction (Up is 2nd base, Left is
third base, down is home plate, and right is first base) and A, and the ball
will be thrown in that direction.  Simple, no?
Once a guy gets on base, you can press B before pitching and throw it to that
base in case he tries to steal.  Although tagging him out is rare, it is still
fun :)

Batting Mode

Still Working :)


5.  Story Mode

Ok to start it off, you should only have one selection (unless you already made
a game).  Press A and you'll go to a Name Selection screen.  Make your name,
and press A twice.
Now you will come to a Position Selection Screen:

Pitcher | Catcher
First   | Second
Third   | Shortstop
Outfield

To start off, i'll choose first base.  this seems to be easier, and for now
i'll follow his path in story mode.

then you come to another selection screen, where you choose which hand to bat
and throw with.

Right Throw/Right Bat     | Left Throw/Right Bat
Right Throw/Left Bat      | Left Throw/Left Bat
Right Throw/Both Hand Bat | Left Throw/Both Hand Bat

i don't think it matters, but if it does, be sure to tell me :)

The next screen is your batting stance:

Normal
Crouching
Godlike (?)
1 Foot on the Ground
Long Hand (?)

Then you select which team:

1 | 7
2 | 8
3 | 9
4 | 10
5 | 11
6 | 12

1.  Yomiuri Giants
2.  Chinichi Dragons
3.  Yokohama Bay Stars
4.  Yakult Swallows
5.  Hiroshima Toyo Carp
6.  Hanshin Tigers
7.  Fukuoka Daiei Hawks
8.  Seibu Lions
9. Nippon Ham Fighters
10. Orix Blue Wave
11. Chiba Lotte Marines
12. Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes

Then Choose your race:

Asian | Indian/Latin (?)
White | Black

Then a final confirmation screen, and press the first selection.

Then you go into story, i will put up a translation of it later.  for right
now, know that it involves a high school baseball victory, a wedding, your
funeral, and your revival.

It goes into your first episode:

Episode 1 - Ikiru tame ni hatarake! TO LIVE YOU MUST WORK!

Basically the whole time you must spend working odd-end jobs, and buying
abilities.


I don't exactly understand the first selection, but it doesn't really matter
which one you press (i think) the second one speeds it up thats for sure.

after a while, you'll reach a menu. I'm going to go do a runthrough of the
screen.

Top left you see a 1 _ 1 _ 1 _.  This is basically the date, it is now year 1,
month 1, week 1.  Every event you do will take one week, so doing one job, or
visiting an area will take a week of time.
The first episode allows one full year of time to gain abilities.

Top right is an energy bar.  You have a max of 100 Energy.  Jobs, Dates and
random events take off energy little by little.  If you ever reach zero, you
die :(.  It's kind of like HP, so you must always make sure you never reach 0. 
(There are no phoenix downs :) )

right under the date are 3 different bars.
The left one is your stress bar.  here you also have 100, but if you go near
80-85, you will overstress and lose all but 1 of your energy :(
The middle one is your


you'll have 5 options to choose from now.

Work Job | Restore Health | See Data | Save

Work Job - The work job selection allows you to do odd-end jobs to get money. 
Why get money you ask? To buy abilities and powerups.  You have random jobs
every time you choose to work, so whatever the icon looks like is what you'll
be working.

Restore Health - This allows you to relieve stress and gain back energy. 
There's 2 choices,
Restore Energy - Relieve Stress (Visit Cliff)
Occasionally you'll suffer certain illness/failures, which a + icon will show
up for repair.  You can suffer emotional trauma as well, which another icon for
psychiatry will show up.  unfortunately, choosing the repair or psychiatry icon
won't by default fix it, so you might have to do it 2 or 3 times. if you don't
fix it, your energy can go down, stress go up, or your powerups can break.

See Data

Here is a selection screen where you will see

Character Data
Inventory
Abilities (?)
Return to Previous Menu

Here you can see your character information, like strength and speed and what
not.


Save

here you save your file.  if you don't save your file everytime you want to
finish, you will be fined a certain # of money.  at first its only 1000, but
everyimt u forget  it multiplies by 10.  also, when you load a save file, the
save file erases, so you HAVE TO SAVE if you want to finish playing the mode. 
It's really dumb, but whatever :P

After a while, you'll get more selections in the menu.

Those will come in the next update... (for now just make money and buy
powerups)

6.  Extras
Still working :)


7.  Xtra Links
IGN's first impressions: http://pocket.ign.com/news/33065.html
Konami Computer Entertainment Osaka: www.kceo.com
Konami in general: www.konami.co.jp
(SCREW SQUARE KONAMI FOR LIFE!)

Online Import Stores where you can pick up a copy of PowerPro Kun Pocket 3 and
a GBA
www.buyrite.net
www.upstategames.com

8) Contact
pvarda/10sai at pvarda@yahoo.com
any help would be peachy :)

9) Thanks! Section
Thanks to SFEX23@aol.com, Younkyun Ra, and Dmitri Salcedo for the help and
support :)
