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If you experience any of the following symptoms while playing a video Continuing from Saved Data 10 game – dizziness, altered vision, eye or muscle twitches, loss of awareness, disorientation, any involuntary movement, or convulsions – IMMEDIATELY discontinue use and consult your physician before resuming play. The Main Menu 11 TM Game Flow 17 WARNING TO OWNERS OF PROJECTION TELEVISIONS: Character Actions 18 Do not connect your PlayStation game console to a projection TV without first consulting the user manual for Towns & Villages 19 your projection TV, unless it is of the LCD type. Otherwise, it may permanently damage your TV screen. World Map - Field 21 Battles 22 HANDLING YOUR PLAYSTATION DISC: Battle Commands 23 •This compact disc is intended for use only with the PlayStation game console. Gear Battles 27 •Do not bend it, crush it or submerge it in liquids. Gear Battle Commands 28 •Do not leave it in direct sunlight or near a radiator or other source of heat. 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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! 1 e d c Thousands of years ago. e a t The Eldridge, a gigantic interplanetary f emigrant spacecraft, suffered a sudden r e shipwide systems malfunction. On the RESET BUTTON RESET DISC COVER a r monitors that warned of the ensuing danger, POWER BUTTON ® t P a mysterious shadow flickered for but an POWER INDICATOR POWER OPEN OPEN BUTTON S instant. Before the spacecraft’s crew could respond, someone or something had taken CONTROLLER PORT ONE MEMORY CARD SLOT g over their entire ship. n As the passengers and crew attempted to evacuate, the spacecraft’s own laser i TO START A NEW GAME t cannons coldly turned and shot them down. Set up your PlayStation game console according to the instructions in its Instruction t The captain had no choice but to activate the manual. Make sure the power is OFF before inserting or removing a compact disc. ship’s self-destruct mechanism. In a flash of Insert Xenogears™DISC 1into your Playstation game console and close the Disc cover. e Make sure a Controller is inserted into Controller port 1 and turn ON the PlayStation light, the spacecraft fell to a nearby planet. game console. After the opening movie is completed, the Title Screen will be displayed. G (You can press the ¯button to skip the opening movie and display the Title Screen.) Born from the fallen wreckage, ‘she’ slowly Select <New Game>using the Directional buttons and press the ¯button to start. arose, her long hair blowing in the wind as MEMORY CARD her eyes reflected the dawn’s breaking light. A Memory card (sold separately) is required to save your progression in this game. Reflecting the start of the day that ‘god’ and Insert a Memory card into the PlayStation game console BEFORE starting play. Data can ‘humankind’ fell to earth. 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 3 s MENU SCREEN CONTROLS: l L2 + R2 BUTTONS Directional buttons Move cursor to highlight an action/option o F Get on/off Gears (all) ¯button Confirm/execute highlighted option ‰button Cancel option and return L1 BUTTON R1 BUTTON r R1 button/L1 button Choose between current party characters MChoose character MChoose character t F Rotate view left F Rotate view right n L R BUTTON FIELD SCREEN CONTROLS: DIRECTIONAL F Jump o BUTTONS B Weak attack Directional buttons Move character(s) MMove cursor ¯button Talk with people, Search scenery, Execute commands C F Move character(s) BUTTON ‰button Hold down to make character(s) run, Cancel commands B Move cursor SELECT START MCancel (cid:141)button Jump (Can also do a bigger jump while running with F Run, Cancel the ‰button held down) SELECT BUTTON B End battle turn ˆbutton Display Menu Screen F Toggle World Map BUTTON R1 button Change viewpoint (Rotates camera right 45 degrees) MConfirm L1 button Change viewpoint (Rotates camera left 45 degrees) START BUTTON F Talk, Search START button Pause/continue F Pause/continue B Fierce Attack SELECT button Turn on/off the mini World Map window B Pause/continue BUTTON (Note: Hold down the R2 and L2 buttons simultaneously as a shortcut for F Menu Screen making all the characters in the party get on/off their Gears at one time.) B Strong attack BATTLE SCREEN CONTROLS: Menu Xenogears has different control functions depending on the screen you are on. Directional buttons Move cursor/Highlight Battle Option F ield These are divided into Menu Screen, Field Screenand Battle Screencontrols. ¯button 3-point Fierce Attack/Execute highlighted Battle Option B attle Master the controls for each situation in order to make smooth progress in ˆbutton 2-point Strong Attack/Execute highlighted Battle Option your adventure. (cid:141)button 1-point Weak Attack/Execute highlighted Battle Option ‰button End battle turn/Cancel Battle Option START button Pause/continue (Note: The game can be reset by simultaneously pressing the START, SELECT, L1, L2, R1, and R2 buttons.) 4 5 ss DATA DATA rr Birthplace: Unknown Birthplace: Solaris Age: 18 Age: 18 ee Gender: Male Gender: Female tt Height: 5'11" Height: 5'6" Weight: 147 lbs. Weight: 101 lbs. cc Specialty: Martial Arts Specialty: Rods aa Gear: Weltall Gear: Vierge rr aa hh CC nn ii aa MM Fei Fong Wong Elhaym Van Houten A young man living in the small village of Lahan. Assigned to a post in Aveh after completing her training He suffers from a partial memory loss due to an as an officer in the Solaris military. As a spy, she steals incident prior to his arrival. Fei enjoys teaching the latest model Gear from the rival Kislev Army, but is martial arts to the children and is adored by all of the chased down and forced to make an emergency landing villagers. His hobby is painting, an ability he appears in Lahan. Her coincidental encounter with Fei ultimately to have inherited from a master artist. affects her future. 6 7 His father disappeared when he was a young child Citan Billy Lee and his mother died after Uzuki A doctor who runs a medical Black being attacked by undead clinic on the outskirts of Reapers (called ‘Wels’). DATA Lahan. Originally from the DATA He became an etone (an Birthplace: Solaris Sacred Empire of Solaris, exorcist/purger of Reapers) Birthplace: Aquavy Islands Age: 29 his identity is shrouded in at the recommendation of Age: 16 Gender: Male mystery. Yet, his abundant his mentor, Bishop Stone. Gender: Male Height: 6'1" knowledge and strategic His younger sister, Primera, Height: 5'7" Weight: 150 lbs. thinking saves Fei from danger lost her voice from the Weight: 130 lbs. Specialty: Martial Arts on more than one occasion. shock of her mother’s death and swords A gentle healer whose hobby Specialty: Guns and Billy feels that he is to Gear: Heimdal is tinkering with machines. Gear: Renmazuo blame. Since then, he has devoted himself completely to raising Primera. A giant demi-human, Leader of a group of Bartholomew (half-human/half-beast) who Rico sand pirates who rule the Fatima was created through Banderas desert in their sand biological experiments. cruiser, the Yggdrasil. Big and muscular, he is the However, his true identity DATA champion of the Battling DATA is the Crown Prince of Birthplace: Aveh (Fatima Arena in Nortune, the Birthplace: Kislev the Fatima Dynasty of Castle, Bledavik) Imperial Capital of Kislev. Age: 30 Aveh. Recklessly brave Age: 18 Although imprisoned in Gender: Male and hot-tempered, Bart’s Gender: Male Nortune’s D-Block, the Height: 7'0" impulsiveness and habit Height: 6'1" Empire’s penitentiary facility, Weight: 352 lbs. of shooting anything that Weight: 158 lbs. his lifestyle is better than Specialty: Wrestling moves causes much grief Specialty: Whips that of many nobles. Gear: Stier 8 for his crew and friends. Gear: Brigandier 9 a CONTINUING FROM SAVED DATA THE MAIN MENU u 1 Insert the disc from the previous saved game and the Memory Press the ˆbutton to display the Main Menu. (This can be done t card with the saved data and turn ON the PlayStation game at anytime in the game except during battles, movies or midway n a console. Choose <Continue>on the Title Screen and press the through conversations). From this menu, you can view information D ¯button. A File Menu Screen with three options <Load>, about the characters’ current status, including skills and items they e <Copy>and <Delete>will appear. Choose <Load>and press are equipped with. Choose the desired option using the Directional 2 d the ¯button. Then, choose the memory block that contains the buttons and press the ¯button to confirm your choice. 3 M game you want to resume. 4 e 1:Current Party’s Status Summary– Party members’ current level and conditions. Each character’s current Level of v File Menu Options Experience, Hit Points and Ether Points are n a <Load>Loads saved game data. Select the memory block that contains a previously saved displayed along with the Experience Points Xenogears game file that you want to load and press the ¯button. Do not insert or remove S a Memory card while loading data. needed for each character to reach their next i Level of Experience. a <Copy>Duplicates data saved in one memory block onto a free memory block of another m Memory card. Make sure you have a Memory card that contains a free block of memory 2:Main Menu– Contains a number of options M such as viewing detailed screens that show inserted into the other Memory card slot before attempting to copy. o the Status, Equipment, Items and Abilities r <Delete>Deletes unnecessary data from a Memory card. It is recommended that you erase possessed by the party’s characters. f unnecessary data when your Memory card is getting full, so that you can save future Details of each menu option will be given e progressions in this game. on the following pages. g h Sound 3:G– Current monetary balance. (‘G’ is the n Choose the <Sound>option on the Title Screen menu. monetary unit of the Xenogears world.) T i A sub-menu will appear where you may select one of 4:Time– Total time of gameplay shown in hours, u three audio settings: Stereo, Mono and Wide. minutes and seconds. n i t n o C 10 11 1 2 3 7 STATUS 8 EQUIP 4 9 Displays a more detailed report on the current characters’ status. 5 10 Choose the <Equip>option to go to a screen where you can equip the characters with Categories displayed are as follows: 6 11 Weapons, Armor and Accessories. Each character can have one Weapon (if they are able to 12 1.LV– Current Level of Experience. 13 use a Weapon) and up to three Accessories (including Armor) equipped at one time. 2.Exp– Total Experience Points earned so far. How to Equip Weapons, Armor and Accessories 14 15 16 The left window lists the Weapon and Accessories (including Armor) 3.Next LV– Experience Points needed to reach the next Level of Experience. that the character has equipped. The right window contains all 4.HP– Current Hit Points / Maximum Hit Points. A character will not be able to fight when equipment the party currently has in stock. You can change what their current Hit Points fall to 0. items the character has equipped by first pressing the Up or Down Directional buttons and pressing the ¯button to select which 5.EP– Current Ether Points / Maximum Ether Points. Used by the characters when they Weapon or Accessory to replace in the left window. Then use the perform their special Abilities related to Ether or Chi. Ether and Chi Abilities cannot be Directional buttons and the ¯button again to choose which piece of used when this value falls to 0. equipment in the party’s stock to replace it with. The description of the equipment you 6.Weight– Character’s weight. choose appears in the lower left window. The effects of equipping Weapons, Armor and Accessories on the character’s status are shown in the lower right window. (A blue negative 7.Attack – Character’s attack strength utilizing Weapons/bare hands. number indicates a decrease, while a red positive number indicates an increase in that 8.Hit%(or Accuracy) – Probability of the character’s attack hitting its target accurately. respective status attribute.) Note: In the case of Billy, you can press Left or Right on the Directional buttons to move to a sub-screen that allows you to reload ammo in Billy’s guns. 9.Defense– Character’s level of resistance against enemy attacks. 10. Evade%– Character’s ability to avoid being hit by enemy attacks. ITEMS 11. Ether – Power of attacks made by performing special Ether and Chi Abilities. Selecting this option will take you to a screen which displays the name, quantity and description of all items the party currently has in stock. Special ‘Rare Items’ and items that 12. EthDef.– Character’s ability to defend against enemy Ether ability attacks. have special uses or meaning during certain events will also be listed along with other 13. Agility– Character’s dexterity or speed in making a move (or turn) in battle. ordinary items. 14. Weapon– Weapon currently equipped by the character (if equipped). How to use Items 15. Accessories– Armor and/or Accessories currently equipped by the character. Use the Directional buttons to move the cursor to the item you wish to use and press the ¯button twice. The faces of the 16. Gear– Name of the Gear the character pilots. characters in the current party will then appear. Choose the Note: As with all menu screens where the L1 and R1 arrow icons are displayed, you can character you wish to use the item on and press the ¯button. press the L1 or R1 button to change which character’s status is displayed. You are also Some items cannot be used at certain times. When a particular able to go to the Skills Screen (where the character’s Deathblow Skills are listed) as well as item cannot be used at the present time, it will be displayed in a to the Abilities and Equip option screens directly from this screen rather than returning to darker color than those that can be. 12 13 the Main Menu. How to Rearrange Items GEAR 4 Use the Directional buttons to move the cursor to the item you Selecting the <Gear>option from the Main Menu takes you to a 1 5 wish to move. Press the ¯button once to select that item. screen that informs you of the present status and Abilities of the 2 6 3 7 Another cursor will now be displayed. Select another item position characters’ Gears. The categories displayed are as follows: 8 that you want to move to by similarly using the Directional buttons 9 1.HP– Gear’s current durability (or Hit Points). 10 and pressing the ¯button. The items in the two places will then 11 be switched. 2.FL– Amount of Fuel units remaining in the Gear. 1123 3.Weight– Gear’s weight. ABILITIES Abilities are mostly for healing and are mainly used to restore 4.Attack – Gear’s current attack force. the characters’ status after a battle is over. (Some can serve as 5.Defense– Gear’s level of resistance against harm caused when hit by enemy attacks. a form of attack during battles, but aren’t usable from the Main Menu at other times). The lower window explains the effects of 6.EthDef.– Gear’s level of resistance against harm caused by enemies’ Ether Ability attacks. the Ability you have selected. Ability names that appear in a 7.Response– Value to be added to the character’s HIT% (or Accuracy) to determine the darker color cannot be used at the current time (such as those accuracy of the Gear’s attack. The higher this value is, the more accurate the character’s Abilities that can only be used during battles). Gear attacks will be. How to use Abilities 8.Agility– Gear’s speed in making actions (or Attack Turns). Move the cursor with the Directional buttons to the Ability you want to use and press the 9.EthAmp– Gear’s power to amplify its pilot’s Ether or Chi Abilities. ¯button. Then move the cursor to the party member you wish to use the Ability on and press the ¯button. 10.Get on/off– Allows the character to get on or off of their Gear. What are Abilities? 11.Gear Option– Takes you to a screen where special equipment (or optional extras) on the Abilities are special ‘magic-like’ powers that each Gear may be checked. character has. Each character has a different form and 12.Abilities– Takes you to a screen that displays special Ether and Chi Abilities the variety of Abilities, but these all consume EP (Ether Points) character can use while piloting their Gear. upon use. Fei uses ‘Chi’ (the ‘life-force’ or ‘energy’ within his body), Citan uses ‘Arcane’ magic, while the other characters 13.Equip– Takes you to a screen where equipped Weapon and Accessories are displayed. use ‘Ether’ (a mysterious power of yet unknown origins). On this screen you can equip various Gear Parts by using the same method as for characters. As with their pilot characters, Gears can be equipped with only one Weapon and up to three Accessories (Gear Parts) at a time. Weapon– Weapon currently equipped by the Gear. Accessories– Armor and/or Accessories currently equipped by the Gear. 14 15 FILE GAME FLOW w Selecting this option will take you to the File Menu Xenogears offers you an extensive 3D world to explore. In this world, the main character will Screen where you can save your current game’s meet innumerable people and carry out many adventures. The following explains the general o data, as well as copy and delete Memory card data flow of the game. as with the Title Screen’s File Menu. You can save l your game only when you are on the World Map, or Towns and Villages F by touching a Memory Cube. Memory Cubes can be In the world of Xenogears, there are many towns ranging from found in most dungeons and at certain key places. small hamlets to huge metropolises. Information on the locations Make sure to save your game whenever you come Memory that you want to visit next can be learned from the townsfolk; e across a Memory Cube. Cube new equipment can be purchased at the stores; and you can rest and rejuvenate at the Inns. Towns and villages are the points of m transition for your adventure. Acquiring Deathblow Skills Once a character reaches certain levels, Deathblow Skills will be a acquired depending upon how many times World Map (and in what combination) each button was You will travel on the World Map when moving between towns or G pressed during battle. The buttons pressed to heading off to explore new dungeons. A map of the entire world carry out Deathblow Skills that have already been will be shown on the lower right corner of the World Map Screen acquired will not count towards the learning of new to help locate where you are. You will also encounter and battle skills. For example, the use of the (cid:141)and ¯ enemies while travelling here. buttons to carry out Fei’s ‘Raijin’ Deathblow Skill will not count towards acquiring other Deathblow Skills. Fields & Dungeons (Note: You can view the list of current Deathblow Fields & Dungeons are locations on the World Map, such as Skills a character has learned and how close they forests and caves, that are not civilized towns or villages. are to acquiring new Deathblow Skills by looking at Battles with enemies will occur and you will also have a chance the screen displayed when you select the Skills option to pick up items and treasure as you explore these areas. from a character’s Status Screen. Also note that you can chain together Deathblow Skills that use less than 7 Battles Ability Points each into Battles will occur as you move on the World Map or in Fields awesome “Combo and Dungeons. Characters will earn Experience Points by winning Attacks”. See page 24 battles. When a character’s Experience Points have accumulated for more information.) to a certain level, their Level of Experience will increase. If the entire party loses a battle, your adventure will end and the game 16 will be over. 17