BEACH SPIKERS WORLD TOUR/CHARACTER CREATION GUIDE ************************************************* For Nintendo Gamecube Version: 1.0 8/25/02 By Torajima (torajima@mindspring.com) ************************************************* Table of Contents I. Quick FAQ II. World Tour - Overview III. Character Creation A. General Info B. Menu Screens C. Assigning ability points IV. Leveling up your character A. General Info B. Teamwork Percentage C. Earning Ability Points V. List of Unlockables A. Unlockable with Passwords B. Unlockable by beating Game Modes VI. Sample Teams/characters A. Star Trek B. Andromeda C. Evangelion D. Urusei Yatsura E. Eternal Darkness ------------ I. QUICK FAQ ------------ Frequently asked questions (both gameplay and character related) on the Gamefaqs forums and Usenet: 1. Why is my partner so stupid? You MUST level your character up. Really, this is the whole point of world tour. At level 100, my partner consistently scores more points than I do. 2. Can I use my team in other modes? Yes, I often use the team I created in arcade mode. Note that your partner's level does carry over, so if she's still at a low level in World Tour, she won't play very well in Arcade Mode. 3. I want to control both characters, is there a way to do this? Yes, place first overall in World Tour, and you are given the option to control your "partner". 4. When you reach 100% teamwork, do you choose "Do nothing"? Yes, that's probably the safest thing to do. But if you are winning by a wide margin, you may want to praise your partner, else you may lose a few points. 5. Arrgghh!!! Why did this game get so hard all of the sudden? Because some teams are better than others, and a few teams (such as Brazil and Cuba) are really hard to beat, even at the beginning of the game. 6. Are there different camera angles? Not that you can change manually. The computer normally selects the correct camera angle, but you may occasionally find yourself lost off-screen. 7. Why can't I pull off a block? I had problems with this too. Basically, you need to get in position long before the spike occurs and remember that you can still control your character once in the air... if the spike is coming from the right, you may want to jump to the left. If you're missing the ball entirely, you're probably jumping too late. If you hit the ball enough to deflect it (but not enough to stop it), then you probably had poor positioning. 8. Sometimes my Partner (who is at a high level) won't receive the ball, even though the marker indicates it's her ball. What gives? If your partner is doing this even though she's leveled up, you are probably moving toward the ball before she receives it. If you run towards the ball, she may assume that YOU want to receive it... this generally happens when the ball lands halfway between the two of you. My best advice would be to learn to trust your partner. If she's fully leveled up, she will most likely receive any ball that comes her way. 9. How do I beat Tutorial mode? With practice, and a little luck. Most of the challenges are pretty easy, but a few (such as blocking or attacking 5 times in a row) can be rather difficult to pull off. If all else fails, memorize your opponents actions... since they always seem to do the exact same thing. 10. How do I unlock items? By beating the various game modes and by entering various "passwords" as the character name under World Tour Mode. See LIST OF UNLOCKABLES for more details. 11. I want to create brightly colored anime styled hair... how do I do this? You must start with blonde hair and change the hue. You will NOT be able to lighten the hair if you start with brown or black hairstyles. 12. Can I change the body sizes/styles? No, all the women have the same body style... tall, thin, and athletic. 13. I just won some new uniforms, how do I put these on characters I've already created? Unfortunately, you can't edit existing characters... you must create new ones. ------------------------- II. WORLD TOUR - OVERVIEW ------------------------- In World Tour Mode, you create your own team and play through 8 Volleyball tournaments, each consisting of 4 games each. To win World Tour, you only need to be the overall points leader, it is not neccesary to win each game, or even each tournament. But you will need to level up your partner, who is controlled by the CPU and is quite inept at first. With your guidance, she will slowly improve, eventually becoming a great volleyball player... in fact, you may find your student surpassing her teacher! ----------------------- III. CHARACTER CREATION ----------------------- A. General Info Characters can only be created in World Tour Mode, when you start a new game. You can store three sets of characters per memory card. Once created, you can NOT edit characters (you can always delete them, of course). If you want to make a change to your characters, even if it's just changing their uniform, you'll have to create a new set. You'll design two characters, both the "Player" and "Partner". The Player is controlled by you, the player, while the partner is controlled by the CPU. NOTE: On any character creation screen, you can use the left and right shoulder buttons to zoom in and out, and use the yellow c-stick to rotate and scroll across the character. This is most useful when choosing a hairstyle and uniform. B. Menu Screens 1. NAME: Choose the Player name, maximum of 7 characters. 2. COUNTRY: Choose the team country; there are 30 to choose from. 3. HAIR a) Hair Style: Choose your character hair style, at least 77 styles to choose from. b) Hue: Change color of hair. On certain hairstyles (such as 24 & 44), hue changes the color of the hat, not the color of the hair. This only happens on a few styles. c) Brightness: changes the brightness of the hair. Note that you can't make the chosen hairstyle brighter, only darker - so if you are trying to create bright green hair you will need to begin with a blonde hairstyle. 4. FACE a) Face Type: Choose a face for your character, from at least 56 different face types. My favorites include 10, 31-33, 44, 45, 50-53, but your mileage may vary. Since you can't choose body types, all characters have the same body style (athletic). b) Hue: changes the tint of the skin Note that you are only changing the tint of the skin, you can't create characters with bright blue skin! Also, if the default skin tone is a bit too orange/red, you can create a more neutral tone by adding a bit of green or blue. c) Brightness: changes the skin brightness Again, you can only make a chosen face darker, you can't lighten them up. For a nice tan, turn the darkness down slightly, about 2 to 5 steps down (to the left). For darker skin tones, try the halfway mark. d) Sunglasses: Choose sunglasses for your character. At least 94 to choose from. Glasses can really change the look of a face... you'll have to experiment to see which glasses look good on which faces. 5. Uniform: Choose your team uniform. At least 117 to choose from. You will only choose this for the Player, as your Partner will have the same uniform. C. Assigning ability points to your partner Before starting a new game in World Tour Mode, you'll be asked to assign ability points to your partner. The more points assigned to an ability, the better your partner will be at that ability. You are given 5 points, but there are 7 attributes to choose from: Serve, Receive, Attack, Block, Toss, Power, and Response. In my opinion, Response, Toss, and Receive are the most important attributes at this point. You can worry about other attributes later. *Hint* - even with a newbie partner, it *is* possible to win the first few games. Try to receive all serves... since the person that receives is the person that attacks... and you do NOT want your partner attacking at this point. When it is your turn to serve, hit high powered jump serves in either the left or right hand corner. Unless you're playing Brazil or Cuba, your opponent will probably fail to return the serve. You can also try moving slightly to the left before serving, and serve a high powered jump serve directly at the opponent on the right... not only will she fail to return the serve, she'll fall... and thus block her teammate from reaching the ball in time. ------------------------------ IV. LEVELING UP YOUR CHARACTER ------------------------------ A. General Info To be successful at World Tour mode, you'll need to level up your partner. At the end of each match, you'll be given ability points which can be used to level up your partners attributes (kind of like an RPG). And during the match, you can reprimand her if she's doing poorly, and praise her if she's doing well. This will increase your "Teamwork Percentage", and the higher the percentage, the better your partner will play. Be careful though, you'll lose percentage points if you say the wrong thing! B. Teamwork Percentage 1. Timeouts During the match, there will be a Timeout called for every 10 points scored in the game. It doesn't matter which team scores the points... the score could be 10 to 0, 5 to 5, or 2 to 8. During the Timeout, you will be given the opportunity to evaluate your partners performance. You have 4 choices, and they are: Praise, Encourage, Reprimand, or Do nothing. Your teamwork percentage will increase or decrease depending on your choices. *HINT* - the longer the game lasts, the more timeouts there will be. If you're playing Brazil and losing badly, try to score at least 6 points... this will give you two opportunities to evaluate your partner and raise your teamwork percentage. If you're playing the Netherlands and winning easily, let them score a few points and draw the game out until the score is 15/15... this will give you THREE chances to raise your teamwork percentage. 2. Evaluating your partner Praise - best used when your partner is playing reasonably well, and you are ahead by several points. You'll lose percentage points if you are losing by a wide margin, or if your partner is actually playing quite poorly. Encourage - Encourage your partner when you are down a couple of points, and you are playing better than your partner. You may lose points if you are winning/ losing by a wide margin, or if your partner is actually playing better than you are. Reprimand - use this when your partner is playing horribly, and you are losing the game. Best used at the beginning of World Tour, when your character is at low levels. You will lose points if you reprimand her when she is playing better than you are! Do nothing - best used when you are tied or slightly ahead. You may lose points if your partner is doing well and you are ahead by several points... when your partner deserves praise, give her praise! *HINT* - when Teamwork Percentage is at 100%, choose Do nothing most of the time. It's less risky than the other choices, and if you happen to lose a couple of points, they can easily be regained by Praising your partner the next time your team is ahead. C. Earning Ability Points At the end of each match, you earn more ability points. The number of points varies depending on how well you did in the match. Match Points - you earn 1 point for a loss, 3 points for a win Teamwork Points - earn 2 points if your percentage decreases, 3 if your percentage increases You also get an additional 2 points if you win 1st place in any Round of the World Tour. So, you earn a minimum of 3 points, and a maximum of 8. Assign ability points as you see fit. SEGA recommends that you strive for a balanced character. For instance, it won't do you any good to level up your attacks or serves, if power is still low. *HINT* - Your partner will be ineffective at blocking until her block attribute is quite high... say 10 to 15... so I'd suggest ignoring that attribute for the first few rounds, and focusing on response, toss, receive, attack, power, etc. As your partner's attributes increase, so does her overall level.. her maximum level is 100, and the maximum level of each attribute is 20. You should have no trouble completely leveling up your character by the final round. ---------------------- V. LIST OF UNLOCKABLES ---------------------- A. Unlockable with Passwords To enter "passwords", start a new game in World Tour Mode and enter them as character Name. 1. Virtual Cop Costumes Enter JUSTICE as a password to unlock Uniforms 105 & 106; and Sunglasses 94. 2. Daytona Costumes Enter DAYTONA as a password to unlock Uniforms 107 and 108. 3. Honey/Candy from Fighting Vipers Enter FVIPERS as password to unlock Uniforms 109 & 110; Hair 75; & Face 51. 4. Ulala from Space Channel 5 Enter ARAKATA as a password to unlock Uniforms 111, 112, and 113; Hair 76; and Face 52. 5. Phantasy Star Character (Nei?) Enter PHANTA2 as password to unlock Uniforms 114 & 115; Hair 77; & Face 53. 6. Sega Costumes Enter OHTORII as a password to unlock Uniforms 116 and 117. B. Unlockable by beating Game Modes 1. ARCADE a) Clear Arcade mode with Japan team - Unlocks uniform (103, 104) b) Clear Arcade mode 1st time - Unlocks uniform (87, 88) c) Clear Arcade mode 2nd time - Unlocks uniform (90, 91) d) Clear Arcade mode 3rd time - Unlocks uniform (93, 94) 2. WORLD TOUR a) Clear World Tour - Unlocks uniform (96~102); sunglasses (86~93); hair (71~74) b) Clear World Tour mode with overall 1st place - Unlocks uniforms (89, 92, 95) c) Defeat Gold & Silver "Dural team" - Unlocks face (54, 55) d) Defeat Metallic Black "Dural team" - Unlocks face (56) *Note: There is still some confusion over the correct way to make the "Dural" teams appear. Supposedly you need to: win overall 1st place in World Tour with a 100% teamwork percentage for the Gold/Silver team to appear, and win with less than 30% teamwork for the Black team to appear. I have not yet confirmed this, however. 3. TUTORIAL a) Complete all the training courses in Tutorial mode - Unlocks uniforms (71~86) ---------------- VI. SAMPLE TEAMS ---------------- These are a few sample teams/character sets that I created. If you like them, great! If not, well... create your own! ^_^ A. Star Trek (Seven of Nine from Voyager, T'Pol from Enterprise) Name: SEVEN Hair: 39 Hue: Default Brightness: Default Face: 50 Hue: Default Brightness: Slightly Darker (down 5 steps) Sunglasses: 94 Uniform: 88 Name: T"POL Hair: 77 Hue: Yellowish Orange Brightness: Darker (you want a dark brown color) Face: 10 Hue: Default Brightness: Darker (half way down) Sunglasses: None Uniform: 88 B. Andromeda Name: BEKA Hair: 68 Hue: Default Brightness: Default Face: 11 Hue: Light Blue Brightness: Slightly Darker (down 5 steps) Sunglasses: 77 Uniform: 94 Name: ROMMIE Hair: 18 Hue: Default Brightness: Default Face: 51 Hue: Default Brightness: Darker (half way down) Sunglasses: None Uniform: 94 C. Neon Genesis Evangelion Name: ASUKA Hair: 2 Hue: Yellow (choose yellow, don't use the default) Brightness: Default Face: 44 Hue: Default Brightness: Slightly Darker (down 3 steps) Sunglasses: None Uniform: 16 Name: REI Hair: 40 (or 39 without hat) Hue: light blue Brightness: Default Face: 53 Hue: Default Brightness: Default Sunglasses: None Uniform: 16 D. Urusei Yatsura Name: LUM Hair: 2 Hue: Green Brightness: Default Face: 10 Hue: Default Brightness: Slightly darker (down 2 steps) Sunglasses: None Uniform: 46 (tiger striped bikini) Name: RAN Hair: 50 Hue: Red Brightness: Default Face: 50 Hue: Default Brightness: Slightly darker (down 3 steps) Sunglasses: None Uniform: 46 E. Eternal Darkness Name: ALEX Hair: 3 Hue: Default Brightness: Default Face: 32 Hue: Light Blue Brightness: Default Sunglasses: None Uniform: 48 Name: ELLIA Hair: 45 Hue: Default Brightness: All the way down (black) Face: 40 Hue: Default Brightness: Turn down half way Sunglasses: 27 Uniform: 48 ----------------- CREDITS/COPYRIGHT ----------------- This document copyright 2002 by Torajima. You may reproduce it in part or in whole, anywhere, anytime, you see fit, as long as you give credit to the original author (that's me!). Thanks to SEGA and Nintendo for releasing the game, and thanks to the regulars on the Beach Spikers forum (mao2 in particular) for providing the List of Unlockables and other information.