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Space Battle Ship Yamato 2 - for Sony Playstation
Farewell Space Battleship Yamato in the name of love

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		A.K.A. STAR BLAZERS
	
    	  Japanese Playstation Game FAQ
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http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Harbor/3904/geoyamato.html
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This is my attempt to write an FAQ on the Japanese Sony Playstation game 
Space Battle Ship Yamato 2 - 
Farewell Space Battleship Yamato in the name of love.
I do not know japanese.
This faq is intended to help those who have imported the game, don't
know japanese and are stuck. This faq best viewed with a fixed width font!
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0.0 - Contents
1.0 - What's new (updates)
2.0 - The Story
3.0 - Menus and Buttons
19.0 - Misc.
	19.1 - When was the game released?
	19.2 - Where can I get a copy in the U.S.?
20.0 - FAQ Credits
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1.0 - what's new (updates)
	05-08-00 This faq is born!	
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2.0 - The Story

        The Playstation game is based on the second television series of 
Yamato, NOT the movie "Farewell Space Battleship Yamato", 
there are significant plot differences between the two.
Having watched the series Star Blazers as a kid and watching it 
over and over on video tape, I have memorized the series.
If you have seen Star Blazers second series,  "The Comet Empire" you will see 
that this game follows the events in the series very closely. 
	There is alot of new animation in this game as well as 3d 
renderings. But the game uses the same music and sound effects from the show.
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3.0 - Menus and Buttons
3.1 - Options
	These are in english, you can turn the vibration on or off, you can 
	turn the "voice over" on or off, you can turn the animations on or off, 
	and you can choose to restore the default settings.

3.2 - Buttons on the Space Map Screen

	This is the screen that is split into hexagonal sectors.
	A yellow arrow acts as your cursor.  You can move it arround the screen
	with the "d" pad.  
	
	"O" - Open Yamato Menu when cursor is over Yamato,
		If within the Yamato firing line (orange areas) Yamato will blast
		the sector with shock cannons, if on out of range area it does 
		nothing.
	"triangle" - brings up mission window (describes goals I guess)
	"square" - brings up ship data, description and hit point bar.  Pressing
		left or right on the "d" pad will cycle through multiple ships 
		within that sector.
	"X" - Brings the cursor back over Yamato

3.3 - Yamato Menu
	
	On this menu you have a wheel of 5 colored characters.  Pressing left
	or right on the "d" pad will rotate the colors and the Crew box on the 
	right will change according to that color's crew assignments.
	I will list the names of the crew displayed on screen and will follow
	them in parenthesis by their Star Blazers name and position.

	GREEN - Navigation 
		CREW - Shima (Mark Venture, Pilot)
		     - Ohta (Eager, navigation and radar)
	BLUE - Mechanic/Science post
		CREW - Sanada (Sandor, Repairs)
		     - Arakorhe, I think it's hard to read (Roister, ?)
	PURPLE - Miscelaneous
		CREW 	- Tokusawa (Orion, Engineering)
			- Sado (Dr. Sane, Doctor)
			- *cant read yet* (Sargent Knox, Space Marines)
			- Analyzer (IQ-9, Load/Save/Options)
	YELLOW - Communications and Radar
		CREW	- Aihara (Homer, Communications and Radar)
			- Yuki (Nova, ?)
	RED - Weapons and Tactical
		CREW	- Kodai (Derek Wildstar, Main Guns and Wave Gun)
			- Nabu (Dash, ?)
			- Katou (Conroy, Black Tiger Squadran 1 Leader)
			- Yamamoto (Hardy, Black Tiger Squadron 2 Leader)

	When you rotate to a color, press "O" to activate it, and "X" to cancel
	out of the selection.  Here are the menu functions of each station:

	PURPLE - Box 1 - Raise engine output to 120%, this is necessary in order
		to warp.
		 - Box 2 - Allow a day to pass by.  Purpose = ?, to allow time
		for repairs?  I don't know yet...
		 - Box 3 - A drop down box apears, move the "d" pad up or down
		to highlight a character.
			Tokusawa - transfer his post from bridge to engine room
			 and back.
			Sado - transfer his post from his quarters to operating room
			 and back
			*Knox* - locked for the time being
			Analyzer - 3 options apear: the first loads a game, the 
			 second saves a game, and the third brings up the options
			 screen.
	BLUE - Box 1 - brings up a drop down menu
			- selection 1 - repair the Yamato.  This brings up a diagram
			of the yamato, damage areas will flash.  Scroll down the 	
			list and a small indicator will show the area you are looking
			at and give what % it is damaged. You may repair only a five
			sections at a time, press "triangle" while over the section
			to select it for repair.
	     		- selection 2 - repair the Cosmo Tigers.
		
		
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19.0 - Misc.
19.1 - When was the game released?
		May 2, 2000.
19.2 - Where can I get a copy in the U.S.?
		I got my game at http://www.tronixweb.com.  I pre-ordered the game.
		The game was released on 5-2-2000, I got email and a phone call 
		telling me it was in and giving me a price, they shipped it out and
		 I got the game monday 5-8-2000!  Now that's service!
		Tony Super Genius (see credits) also says that you can get the game
		at www.ncsx.com.

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20.0 - Credits

	Thanks to "Tony J. Case, Super Genius"(tonyc@isomedia.com) for his
		wonderful gratuitous information on the game's japanese website,
		keeping me up to date with the release date, and finding a place
		to pre-order the game.  Thank you Super Genius, you are truely
		a genius!!!
	
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THAT'S ALL FOR NOW.
I'll try to get more info to you asap!
thanks
Nick Flor, nisk72@cs.com
For great Star Blazers and Yamato info visit
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Harbor/3904/geoyamato.html
Please mail me anything you have discovered, or with anything I have
done wrong!
