Game : Minasannomukagesamadesu Hosugorokuho For : Neo Geo Multi Video System Content : FAQ, How to Play Author : DARK_ANDY Created : 05/26/2004 Contact : darkandy @ gosympatico.ca ( take out spaces ) Copyright : ©2004 DARK ANDY FAQ FOR "MAHJONG MINASANNO OKAGESAMADESU" --VERSION 3, MAY 26 2004-- *************************************************************************************************************************** ======TABLE OF CONTENTS====== *************************************************************************************************************************** 1. Introduction 2. Controls 3. How to Play 4. Board Spaces 5. Special Items 6. Phrases 7. FAQ Versions 8. Random Notes =========================================================================================================================== ^^^^^^1. INTRODUCTION^^^^^^ =========================================================================================================================== Translation of Title: "Minasanno" = Everyone's / Everybody's "Okagesama" = Fortunate "Desu" = Is / Are Minasannookagesamadesu = Everybody is Fortunate / Fortune is Everybody's This is a weird game indeed. Only released in Japan, this game is mix of Mahjong, Board games and quirky characters. You start off having to choose your opponent for the game, from a selection of 2 über weird Guys, one being a Pigtailed, Moled freak, and the other a butt ugly guy who seems to have shaved yesterday. After choosing your nightmare, you are shown a Board Game Table, where you start at, simply enough, on a big space title "START". After that, the game starts. You play the game of Mahjong. What is this Mahjong, you ask? Well, here is some info on the awesome, but hard game : "Mahjong is a Chinese game which dates back over two thousand years ago. Mahjong is said to have originated in the court of the King of Wu, which was some five hundred years before the Christian era. Within this court, there lived a beautiful woman in seclusion. To keep herself from complete boredom, she invented a game of her own. She began to carve domino-shaped pieces of ivory and bamboo. When she was finished, she invited three of her maids to play her newly invented game." "For centuries, mahjong remained exclusive to the royal class. It was against the law for commoners to play. The penalty for commoners who played mahjong was decapitation. However, around 500 A.D., the penalty was lifted, which allowed everyone to play mahjong." =========================================================================================================================== ^^^^^^2. CONTROLS^^^^^^ =========================================================================================================================== *Pung = 3 of Identical Tile *Kong = 4 of Identical Tile *Chow = 3 Number Tiles in a Row (I.E. Bamboo 1 + Bamboo 2 + Bamboo 3) *Noten = Ending game with more than 1 Tile needed to Declare *Tenpai = Ending game with only 1 Tile needed to declare -AT START OF GAME- A: Choose to face Notsuchun (Pigtailed) B: Choose to face Kamao (Unshaven) -IN GAME CONTROLS- Button A : Discard Tile highlighted Tile Button B : Declare Win Control UP -ONCE- : Set aside Pung Control UP -TWICE- : Set aside Kong Control UP -THRICE- : Slam down White Stick (can only do when you need just 1 tile to declare) Control DN -ONCE- : Same as UP Thrice Control DN -TWICE- : Same as UP Twice Control DN -THRICE- : Same as UP Once -WHEN OPPONENT HAS DISCARDED A TILE- Button A : Pick up new Tile Button B : Declare Win -WITH- Opponent's Discarded Tile Control UP -ONCE- : Steal Discarded Tile and make a Pung with it (can only do when you already have 2 of the same tile, and opponent's discarded tile would be 3rd of Same Tile) Control UP -TWICE- : Steal Discarded Tile and make a Chow with it (can only do when you already have 2 tiles in a Row, and opponent's discarded tile would be 3rd tile in the Row) Control UP -THRICE- : Steal Discarded Tile and make a Kong with it (can only do when you already have 3 of the same tile, and opponent's discarded tile would be 4th of Same Tile) =========================================================================================================================== ^^^^^^3. HOW TO PLAY^^^^^^ =========================================================================================================================== Here is a good website on how to play Mahjong : http://www.yutopian.com/mahjong/mahjong.html If you win a Match, you will move forward some Spaces on the Board. the Higher the value of your win, the more Spaces you move. If you both get a Tenpi, that a Draw. You will go back one Space. If you Lose a Match, you will go back as many spaces as the value of the opponent's Win. If you get a Tenpi, and the opponent does not, you win 1500 Points, but you still move back a space. You only get to move forward if you WIN a Match. Otherwise you move backwards until you get back to START, at which time you have to Continue again. =========================================================================================================================== ^^^^^^4. BOARD SPACES^^^^^^ =========================================================================================================================== START : Where you start the game "?" Space : 2 Ugly girls open a hanging ball. A Scroll rolls out, and they either look happy, or they look confused Bag of ¥ : This is a Shop where you can buy 3 Special Items. See section "5. Special Items" Girl's Head : Butt ugly Girl massages her breasts, and then "teases" you by unclasping her Bra.Horribly fat ugly manbeast! Cat's Head : I don't know, I haven't landed on this space yet. Cupid Boy : I don't know, I haven't landed on this space yet. Blue/Red Symbol: Shows some heroincocaine/ecstacy induced scene where both main retards do some insane stuff. SEE BELOW Robot Eagle : I don't know, I haven't landed on this space yet. GAME OVER Space: Game Over, duh. -Blue/Red Symbol Spaces- When you step on one of these by WINNING, only winning and landing on these spaces, you are shown a scene with both of the Main Characters doing something. Below is the list of how many spaces from the START Space it is, and what the Scene is. 1st Step : Don't know. 4th Step : Russian Palace in background, both come from opposite sides doing squats, and kick each other in the Groin. 7th Step : Sahara Desert, One of them in Drag, they Dance and do a Dip, but Guy drops Shemale on the Sand. 10th Step : Don't know. 13th Step : Don't know. =========================================================================================================================== ^^^^^^5. SPECIAL ITEMS^^^^^^ =========================================================================================================================== When you land on a Yen Money bag space after you won a Match, you will enter a Shop. On the screen are 4 options, and pressing one of the 4 buttons enables that. Button A : Buy a "Weird Bug-like Pixie" freak. When you use this freak, you will toss out a Colored Drug Pill on the table, and out comes this messenger of confusion! He will take up space on your screen on the left side of the opponent, and he shows a Tile from his Crotch. Most of the times he shows what the NEXT Tile you will get from the Wall is. So I guess it's useful so you can think one step forwards while you're deciding what tiles you need. Button B : Buy the Amazing "Discard as many Tiles as you want" at the very 1st Turn. You can only do this once, and this enables you to choose to discard as many tiles as you want at the start of the game! This is the best item to use, because you can throw out all the random tiles that you won't intend to work with later in the game. Button C : Buy the "Negate and Shuffle the opponent's Deck". This can ONLY be used when the opponent has Slammed down his White Stick, indicating that he only needs 1 more Tile to whoop your ass. When he Slams it down, you negate that attack, for with this Power up, you will Shuffle his ENTIRE Deck of Tiles!! Meaning he will not be able to win at any cost after this attack. Button D : Leave the Shop. Boo, you suck if you press this button. NOTE: You can also get these Special Items from the 2 Ugly Girls when you land on the Question Mark Space. When they Open the Hanging Ball, and the scrolls comes out, if they SMILE, that means you MAY get a Special Item from them, but chances are you get nothing!!! If they look confused, then you got nothing. =========================================================================================================================== ^^^^^^6. PHRASES^^^^^^ =========================================================================================================================== At a lot of junctures, your Opponent's will say something to you, in Japanese Symbols. (Katakana and Hiragana)Sometimes they say something cocky, sometimes they laugh at you, sometimes they get pissed off. Listed below are all the "Text Balloons" that pop up, and when they pop up. I have translated the Symbols into Romanji letters, I am not able to translate them into the actual english language yet :-) : ===KAMAO PHRASES=== *At start of Game* "Okama Janakute Kamaoyo 'heart symbol'" "Ohoo Hhohoho 'heart symbol'" *After Continuing* "Mata'?'ete Kamao Uretsui 'heart symbol'" "Ippatsu Ganbatte Shimasho!" *End of match, he has Tenpai* "Otenpi desu 'heart symbol' ohoo" *End of match, he has Noten* "Onooteso Yo~da!" *When Kamao Delcares a win* "Oroso 'heart symbol'" ===NOTSUCHUN PHRASES=== *At start of Game* "Rememashite Watashi Notsuchun" "Makenaiwa Yyo!" *After Continuing* "Mata'?'zu Tawane" "Tekagen Shinaiwa Yon!" *End of Match, he has Tenpai* "Tenpai nanoyon!" *End of Match, he has Noten* ??? *When Notsuchun declares a Win* "Tsumo! Dozu~su" =========================================================================================================================== ^^^^^^7. FAQ VERSIONS^^^^^^ =========================================================================================================================== Version 1. May 21 2004 : The Basis of this FAQ Version 2. May 24 2004 : Added "Phrases" (Kamao's), "FAQ Versions", some Board Spaces, and rectified some minor errors Version 3. May 26 2004 : Added Notsuchun Phrases, more Board Spaces, Red/Blue Space Section, and fixed Scroll problem. =========================================================================================================================== ^^^^^^8. RANDOM NOTES^^^^^^ =========================================================================================================================== Hmm, if I made any mistakes, and given that this is Mahjong, though I know how to play it, and win with it, I do not know much about Special Hands, or background info, or various Chinese things that are in this game. So just drop me an e-mail with any stuff that you know. :-) My e-mail address is : fehervari @ sympatico . ca DO NOT COPY AND PASTE THIS FAQ ANYWHERE ELSE, IF YOU SEE THIS FAQ ANYWHERE OTHER THAN NEO-GEO.COM , PLEASE CONTACT ME! COPYRIGHT DARK_ANDY