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Email: mewthepokemon@hotmail.com
Date of last revision: 11/03/00
Version: 1.0

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                                  Space Channel 5 FAQ v 1.0
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Table of Contents
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A. Introduction/FAQ revision history (Complete, but changes)
B. Characters (Complete)
C. Cameos (Complete)
D. Walkthrough (Complete)
E. Hints/Secrets (Not complete)
F. Merchandise (Basic additions added from V0.5, not complete)
G. Space Channel 5 2 *new*
H. About (Complete, but changes)


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A. Introduction
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Hello. This is my first FAQ. This is also the first Space Channel 5 FAQ with a 
*complete* walkthrough (not mini-walkthrough). I am tired of seeing 
snooze FAQs and so I decided to write one about one of the Dreamcasts 
best games: Space Channel 5. For those idiots who dont know (and you should), SC5 is 
a game similar to simon-says, but not so drab. This game requires you 
to keep moving and hold a beat, all the while switching buttons and directions.

THIS IS VERSION 1.0

History

V1.0
~I added the Space Channel 5 2 section
~I completed the walkthrough by adding the basic levels
~I added 3 entries to the merchandise section
~I updated the introduction. This is the first FAQ on the web with a full walkthrough!

V0.5
~Put the basic levels together and added most of the characters
~Completed the Cameos
~Setup the FAQ layout
~Finished the about section


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B. Characters
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The characters of Space Channel 5 are a unique and diverse group, each with their 
own past that affects their future. Here they are:

ULALA (pronounced Ooh-la-la)
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Of course she is going to be first because she is the main character! Our host was 
rescued from a severe space accident by a SC5 reporter. Since then she has always 
wanted to be a reporter, and with Fuse on the end of his rope, Ulala gets the job.

FUSE
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Fuse is the main support character of the game, telling Ulala what to do and when to do it.
Without him, Ulala would be nothing. Fuse has had trouble in the past and he is 
about to be given the pink slip (he is on his last chance). He takes his chances with Ulala.

PUDDING
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No, not a carton of Jell-O pudding, its Pudding of Space Channel 42. In the game Ulala will 
battle her then rescue her when she is captured by the Morolians. No history available.

JAGUAR
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Jaguar of a pirate space channel is very much against Ulala, trying to beat her to the story. 
The two battle quite a bit then at the end join forces to beat Mr. Blank.

SPACE MICHAEL
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See Cameos

MOROLIANS (NOT morliens)
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The morolians are the main bad guys in the game, trying to outdance Ulala at every turn. 
They also have backup, in the form of bosses. Towards the end of the game, Ulala discovers 
that they are being brainwashed by a signal coming from Space Channel 5.

COCO TAPIOCA
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Coco Tapioca is the first boss that Ulala will meet at the Spaceport. 
She uses Morolians as a shield until they run out. RATING: **1/2

MOROLINA
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Morolina is the second boss you will meet. She has captured the school kids and Ulala 
must save them! 
RATING: ***

MOROLIAN MONROE
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The duo that live in the Morolians space base. These two will be in a TV then they 
will come out as Ulala challenges them further. RATING: ***3/4

EVILA
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Ulalas evil twin robot has a bad ego. Blank created her to replace the quickly popular Ulala. 
The two of them will fight, with Evila sound like Rosie off of the Jetsons. RATING:****1/2

GIANT EVILA
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Blanks battleship where you have to dance the moves out backwards! This robot has 
grabbed Fuses ship and his death very possible. RATING: *****

BLANK TV
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Yes, you want to read about Blank himself, well keep your pants on! I am getting there!
It turns out that Blank himself is in the actual TV! Ulala is swept into this TV and 
she is forced to battle Blank, while all the people that she rescued come to her aid, 
providing music for the now broken sound system. 
RATING: **** 

Mr. or Chief BLANK
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The CEO of Space Channel 5 has brainwashed the Morolians into doing his evil bidding. 
Can Ulala stop him?

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C. CAMEOS
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Yes, there is one BAD cameo in this game. Space Michael is Michael Jackson in the future! 
He appears in the last level. Can you rescue him (I hope you don't)?

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D. WALKTHROUGH
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Although I could go through and give you the dance steps, I wont. 
They are too lengthy and time consuming to put in ASCII and type anyway. 
So here is your walkthrough summary.

IF YOU WANT THE DANCE STEPS GO TO http://guides.ign.com


LEVEL 1: Spaceport
---OVERALL RATING: ** ----
---REQUIRED RATING: 15% ---

The level begins with "Hey Space Katz!" and ends with "Perfect, Perfect, Perfect!" 
if you do it right. Ulala is beginning her assignment at SC5 by going to the 
spaceport to cover the terrorist attck by aliens.

You go up to some Morolians right away and take off in the dancing world. Eventually a 
pink box will tell you to use the B button for when the Morolians say "Chu". 
Watch for it! After that you will see another box that says to push A when you you hear 
"Chu" from a human. Watch for this too!

After that you go up to the roof to battle Pudding and save the rescue team. 
If you successfully beat Pudding you get her guitar man!

From Pudding you go to Coco Tapioca, the boss. 
She is fairly easy, just practice your timing. Dont give up!


LEVEL 2: Cruise Ship
---OVERALL RATING: *** ---
---REQUIRED RATING: 25%---
This level can be trying for those who havent mastered the rhythm of the game yet. 
Keep with persistence and you will make it!

You begin with Ulalas commentary about more Morolian invasions. 
From there you go to the cockpit of the ship to rescue some officers. 
WATCH WHAT SHOOT BUTTON TO USE! From the officers comes the Captain. He has 
been brainwashed and is being forced to dance by the Aliens. 
Again, watch what shoot button to use.

From there you go to the dining room and rescue passengers. Watch that shoot button! 
After that you rescue a "Space diva". Fairly easy, you just need that rhythm. 
After her rescue you get to fight Jaguar from the pirate channel. He is also easy, 
its just all in the timing. No real memorization needed. If you win him you get his sax man.

Out of the lunchroom to the top viewing dome. Here you see the Morolian mothership escape, 
and are taunted by Jaguar. Have fun with this boss, she requires rhythm and a 
bit of memorization. Most of you will fail here, if you fail this level. 
Just remember you need to move with that rhythm, maybe tap a foot or something, and do quick 
memorization. Do not think about the steps, just put them back in the game.



LEVEL 3: Morolians Space base.
---OVERALL RATING: **** ---
---REQUIRED RATING: 45% ---
This level requires some medium-heavy split second memorization. 
Just dont think about what the steps are!

You begin in space (notice the change of clothes?) where you can freely zap anything. 
The people that appear are not friendly, zap them hard! Towards the Jaguar fight, 
you will be required to do some quick stuff ("Right/Shoot" "Up/Shoot" not 
"Right      Shoot" or "Up     Shoot"). After that comes Jaguar. Again no friends here, zap em!

After you beat him you enter the base and are forced to rescue Pudding. 
Did you notice that Ulala managed to change clothes AGAIN? Anyway, after rescuing 
Pudding you open the door the main part of the base. Keep the rhythm!

Once in the base, you see the TV monitor that contains the boss. Have fun. 
As a tip this boss tends to do doubles of the same moves ("up right, up right") or opposites 
("up right, up left") and for the first half almost all the moves end with "chu chu chu". 
At one point you will be forced to play the keep switching guns game. This again is where most 
of you will fail. Persistence is the key.



LEVEL 4: Space Channel 5 broadcast satellite.
---OVERALL RATING: ***** ---
---REQUIRED RATING: 75% ---
This level can be a doozy! Remember to keep the rhythm and DO NOT think about the steps! 
Just repeat them! You have about 1 second when fighting Giant Evila to think about the 
moves. Use that 1 second to reverse the moves. Also tap your feet or something to keep 
the beat. The music stops and you are forced to keep the rhythm in your head.

You begin this level by entering the room where you have been seeing the Morolians 
meetings in the between level movies. Here you fight the very same morolians. 
You gun has been upgraded to the "Deluxe B beam and the Deluxe A beam". The guns
will both save or kill automatically (do not alternate guns for pictures of people). 
Keep the rhythm here.

After you beat them Blank will disappear and you will leave the room. 
Here you rescue Space Michael! This is fairly easy. After that you go upstairs and 
rescue a piano playing girl. Bon Apetite! After here you see Blank again, but he 
runs off (or rather up). He leaves his cronies behind to get you. Just keep the 
rhythm and eat them up!

From here comes boss one: Evila. Your evil twin will try and out-dance you. 
This is easy if you have your timing down (by now you should) and are moving some 
part of your body with the rhythm (you also should be doing this by now). 
From here you go to Giant Evila.

This is the absolute hardest part of the game. You take what Giant Evila says 
(ie "Up/shoot/shoot") and reverse it! (ie "down/shoot/shoot"). There are no 
real tips for this but to think! This is the one spot where you can think about the 
moves, BUT YOU MUST DO IT QUICKLY! This also becomes even tougher when you 
lose the sound system. This is why I have been telling you all along to tap a foot! 
Without this you are serious mush. If you can successfully take her on 
(and I know all of you will fail here at least once (hey, I did)) then you get the final 
showdown with Blank TV.

Blank TV is Blank in a TV. Really. Blank in a TV. Thats all. Blank. In a TV. Get over it. 
He has four TVs around him at first that show different pictures of either him or Ulala. 
Your Deluxe beams are broken and you must switch off between the right guns. 
This can be tough, but persistence will pay off. After enough successful shots, you will 
fall out of the TV and join all the people that magically came to support you (how nice). 
From there its just one "Shoot! Shoot! Shoot!" and you have won...the basic levels. 
You wanted me to say you were done, didnt you? Be careful, at the end of the 
credits you have just one more move to pull off for your 100% rating: Up.


~~~Thats it! You have beaten the basic levels!~~~~~~

THE EXTRA LEVELS
The extra levels are the same levels with detours to harder parts of the level.
Most of these levels are slightly more challenging that their original counterparts.
The fourth level, however, is much more harder.


EXTRA LEVEL 1: Spaceport
---RATING: *** ---
---REQUIRED RATING: ?? ---
This level begins the game again, only different. You play against the usual morolians
on the first floor. When you shoot the morolians in the elevator you actually get in and
go upstairs (not magically appear on the roof). Here you need to Evila skills: you fight
against some medium-tough morolians several times. After that the room starts to explode
and you say "up up up" not "shoot shoot shoot". From there you go to the launch pad and 
Coco Tapioca.


EXTRA LEVEL 2: Cruise Ship
---RATING: *** 1/2 ---
---REQUIRED RATING: ?? ---
Once again you start as normal, rescuing the captain as usual. Then, instead of going to 
the cafeteria, you go to the garbage room (ew!). This room can be particularly hard,
playing the gun switch game AGAIN! Once again, the foot would help here. From there its
Morlian Monroe and the school children.

EXTRA LEVEL 3: Morlians' space base
---RATING: **** ---
---REQUIRED RATING: ?? ---
For some reason Sega just didn't change this level, except for the steps.
They didn't even make it harder! I can't really say much can I?

EXTRA LEVEL 4: Space Channel 5 Broadcast Satellite
---RATING: ***** ---
---REQUIRED RATING: ***** (if there was 6 or 7 stars I'd use it)---
The level begins that same (do any not?) with you in the confrence room and Blank
dissapearing. From there its once again Space Michael! Now comes the hard part. 
You go to a changing studio that ranges from news to games. You rescue the news reporters
first then you rescue the camera crew. The studio changes once again and you rescue the 
performers again! Now comes the hardest part, "The $1,000,000 Quiz Show!" This part is indeed
the hardest because the morolians are not staying in one spot, they're moving up and down
along with their hostages! This gets so confusing you might look at the VMU LCD screen here.
Once again the foot helps (how many times can I say that), rhythm is the key to this game
and you need to hold tha rhythm. An interesting note on this part of the level is the music.
The music during when you are walking will sound out-of-tune if you have been 
playing poorly and it will sound jazzy if you are kicking @$$. This only happens here.

After you win the studio 'sub-levels' you see Blank running away from you. From here you go to
Evila, Giant Evila and Blank TV. Once again YOU'VE WON!...the extra levels. 
To the best of my knowledge, this is the end of the game. Watch out for the "up" in the credits.

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E. HINTS/SECRETS
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I accept submissions for this section at mewthepokemon@hotmail.com

HINTS
~You typically can play better if you dont think of what you are doing 
~TAP A FOOT

SECRETS
~Extra levels can be accessed by beating the basic levels
~Ulala glows with a pink fire if you can maintain a 95% or higher view rating
~Blank says something different when you defeat him in Extra Mode


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F. MERCHANDISE
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This section will cover all merchandise available that has to do with Space Channel 5.
It will be sorted by area available. Email submissions/corrections to mewthepokemon@hotmail.com

SC5 SOUNDTRACK CD (IMPORT ONLY)
This CD contains ALL the music from Space Channel 5. It goes from the standard
Mexican Flyer (the game's theme song) to the song that the people sing at the end
of the game. Email me with more about this!

MEXICAN FLYER CD (JAP?/USA)
This is a CD that you typically have to special order from your local CD store.
The CD contains *really good* remixes of Mexican Flyer (but not MF itself). I have this disc
and I highly recommend it. The CD has a cool picture of Ulala on it, tinted pink.
Since it is so hard to find readily I will give you the ordering info:
Author: Space Channel 5
Album Name: Mexican Flyer
Label: Tommy Boy Silver Label
Typical Cost: $7-$10
Amazon.com has this CD listed and will special order it.

ULALA MAGNET (JAP/USA? someone email me on it)
This magnet, from what I know, is a magnet of Ulala where you can change her outfit (geez,
you'd think someone would capitalize on her wardrobe). It also is supposed to glow in the
dark. Please email me with more about this!

ULALA'S OUTFIT (JAP?/USA-future)
Apparently you can buy Ulala's outfit(s) from Target and Best Buy sometime in the future.
I don't know much more about this.

SPACE CHANNEL 5 2
see SC5 2 section

I still have more to add, but hey its a start!


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G. Space Channel 5 2 *new*
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The team who brought us Space Channel 5 has confirmed that they are developing a sequel
to our beloved game. Although actual work hasn't begun on the game, they have a deadline
in mind (not announced).

/source/:IGN DC (http://dc.ign.com)

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H. ABOUT
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My internet handle is mewthepokemon. This is MY FAQ. Period. 
Its mine so you need to have my permission to post anywhere 
(see email at top of FAQ or at the bottom of this section).  
This document has a copyright. Yes it 
does. For formality here it is:

Space Channel 5 FAQ 2000 Everett Parra (mewthepokemon)

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I want to hear what you want. 
I also want to know of SC5 merchandise and secrets or tricks you use to help you beat 
the game. Give me your suggestions! I need to know if I made any errors! Gimme!

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