King Kai's Walkthrough of _________________________________________ Dragon Ball Z: Assault of the Saiya-Jins! _________________________________________ This document is copyright 2000 Michael Marsee -------------------- Table of Contents -------------------- 1. Intro 2. Updates 3. FAQ 4. Walkthrough (If you are viewing this from my site, right click and select Open Frame in New Window so you dont have to scroll to the sides.) _______________________ | 1. Introduction | _______________________| Dragon Ball Z: Assault of the Saiya-Jins is the first DBZ RPG for the Famicom console. A few Dragon Ball games were made rpg style, but this one was the first to cover DBZ, and the graphics on this were stunning for a Famicom game. Unless you have this imported, you will need to have a rom and emulator to play this amazing game. I recommend FWnes or DreamNES to play these, and they are located on my site: http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/Gohan/Main.html Now to the fun stuff! ________________ | 2. Updates | ________________| 4/18/00 - Added more to the walkthrough up to King Kaioh's Planet! That is approximately 50% through the game! 4/9/00 - The Walkthrough guide has begun! ________________ | 3. FAQ | ________________| Q: Is this game any fun? A: This depends on what you like, but to me, its a GREAT game! Q: About how long should it take to win? A: That depends, for me...a long time (and I too had a walkthrough!). The game just focuses to much on fighting, and exp is too slow, making levels very hard to get, but needed, it takes at least two hours to be strong enough to take radditz! Q: Is this game in English? A: It depends on the game, if its imported it is japanese, if its a rom, it might be japanese, spanish, or english, but they aren't full spanish or english, after a while its gibberish, since I have not found a complete patch of translations. Q: How do you fight? A: Like all other Dragon Ball/Z RPGs, it focuses on cards. The top left has a dragon ball, with 1-7 stars, or a Z. This is the attack power. In the bottom right corner, there is a number, or in japanese, a symbol. I am not sure about the symbols, except ~ is the worst, and Z is the best. Hopefully I will learn this soon! Q: How on earth do I move in this game!? A: You use your cards to move also. I recommend keeping all characters close together, for if you fight solo, its harder, and you get just as much exp for that character as you would in a group of many. I also recommend using your lowest attack cards to move, and not ever using ki attack (or skill on the english one) cards, since these are VERY strong if you have the ki to use an attack. Now for the walkthrough! ________________ | 4. Walkthrough | ________________| Okay, you start the game quickly. A mad saiya-jin named Radditz lands on earth, scares a farmer, and attacks Piccolo from the very start. Then it goes to you and your son Gohan heading to Kame-sennin's island (Master Roshi in America) for a little reunion sort of thing. Once you arrive, you manage to get a greeting in and this Saiya-jin named Radditz finds you, claims to be your brother, and takes your son! Talk about rude! Suddenly Piccolo arrives, saying that your way too weak to do it alone, and hes totally right. Currently, Radditz is over 6x stronger than you! But Piccolo couldn't touch him either. So the only thing to do is form an alliance for now, to kick his hairy monkey butt! Unlike most RPGs, the "Inn" house is used a LOT. Princess Snake's Inns are all over the place so you don't have to get killed finding one. This game had lots of them for a reason, and it is that you will fight so much that you need healing quite a lot. Currently, your no match for Radditz, he could flick his finger at you and kill you that way. So what can you do? Fight like crazy. This gets VERY boring after a while. But the programmers weren't idiots. They new it would take a while, so they made little training games for you to play. Now I will get into some depth of these games. The first one you will find is just a little bit east I think of where you started. This is one of them. It shows a square with a circle and a 'T'. Enter this to find 1 of 3 training games, found throughout the map. The first game is one where you split into 2 and fight the other half. This gives a large boost to your powerlevel, but afterwords your very very weak (half your life, and if you lose, almost no life and lots of ki gone). So I don't prefer this mini-game. The second mini game is fairly simple. Your character carries a rock to five locations, and if they make it, you get some exp. When you start, you decide to beat the cards attack or defense number. If you fail, the rock crushes you, and your down 2 ki points. Once again, I dont like this one too much. The third, and my personal favorite, is this game. You must pick one of the 5 cards at the top and match the attack, symbol/words on the card, or the defense, and you can do any of the 3. If you lose, all the points you won are taken back, and some ki points are taken from you. If you win though, you get lots of points if you took time to get them. HERE is a secret on the rock and card matching game! If you use DreamNES, use a save state before picking a card! If you cant match it on the matching game, or beat it in the rock game, load the state, and pick a card again! Its totally random what the card you picked had for stats. So if you take the time, you could take Goku or Piccolo to the card game, and just keep going till you match like 200 cards, and leave with 400 points added to your powerlevel! Talk about fast training! Now its time to prepare to attack Radditz and save your son! I recommend having like 1200 for the powerlevels (exp) of both Gokuu and Piccolo. The higher, the better, since Radditz is... HARD... Keep fighting using your Ki attacks as much as you can. Normally Radditz heads for whoever has the lower powerlevel, so that person should use high defense cards while the other uses the best offense cards you can get! Eventually you should win him! If not, fight harder or get higher powerlevels. After the fight, whether Gokuu died or lived, he will be heading to King Kai's planet! This takes a VERY long time and gets pretty boring. There is nothing to explain. The training games used on the way are required to go to (You can't go past them unless you beat them), and they are the rock game (look at the side games I talked about to see what this is). There are no choices to make on the way to the planet, so if you need a walkthrough...something is wrong with your game or you! Ok, now you are back on earth with Kami, and your buddies (TenShinHan, Chaou Zu, Yamtcha, Piccolo, Gohan, and Kuririn). You must make 3 groups of 2 characters to collect the Dragon Balls from Garlic Jr. and his minions! Some bad guys are easier than others though. Your groups should be as follows: Group 1 - Tien and Chaou Zu Group 2 - Yamtcha and Kuririn Group 3 - Piccolo and Gohan This makes it a little easier (or so I think). You have the weaker guys first, to fight the weakest baddy, and the stronger ones for the tougher guys. So I prefer that set up. Now you have control of Tien and Chaou Zu, or whatever you made for your first group. You get a joyful mountain terrain filled with snow. You start next to Princess Snake's Inn, where you will heal OFTEN from the tough fights arround here. The average guys just got a lot harder, but your still weak! More to come often! Keep checking back! Copyright 2000 by Michael Marsee.