Author: Lance. Date: May 19, 2004. Version: .99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Prince of Tennis 2004: Glorious Gold / Stylish Silver Character Unlocking Guide. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dedicatory: This work is dedicated to Kao Megura, may he rest in peace. He was GameFAQ's biggest FAQ writer and contributor, in my opinion and the opinion of many, and an inspiration for myself. Four years ago, when I wrote my first FAQ ever, it was his work that gave me ideas and guided me. Today, I was informed of this unfortunate event, and the news hit me in a strange way. I do not know what to think or feel, but regardless of this, Chris MacDonald, you are a legend at GameFAQs. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Contents: 1) Introduction 2) Unlocking Characters 3) Copyright and Credits 4) Contact Information * Please read the Credits section. This is not my work, and thus should not be treated as such, but it is not plagiarizing either. Thank you. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1) Introduction It has come to my attention that several people have been having problems with character unlocking in the boards, as well as other details. Since a list of how to unlock characters is relatively easy, I decided that it wouldn't hurt to submit one, and help the Prince of Tennis loving gamers a little. Someone should probably do a FAQ/Move List, too, but that's another issue. Well then, without any less delay, here it is. (Please read the Credits section) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2) Unlocking Characters For simplicity's sake, I'll write them in the following fashion: (Character you use) - (Character you unlock). Also, if you see something like (Character1/Character2), this means you have to play in doubles using both characters. You need to play in Tournament mode to unlock characters. Also, it must be mentioned that, to unlock some characters, you have to beat the game without losing ONE SINGLE POINT in ANY of the 4 matches. Hard? Yes. If you are having problems unlocking these characters, I recommend turning the difficulty to easy, double special-shots gauge rate of speed to fill, and to constantly use taunts/praises to raise the golden bar. Also, save as often as you consider necessary. This is a cheap method, I'm aware, but sincerely, it is all too easy to lose one point when using Tezuka or Echizen, since their rackets love to jump out of their hands. Glorious Gold: Echizen - Momoshiro Momoshiro - Kaidoh Momoshiro/Kaidoh - Shinya Shinya - Atsushi Echizen/Momoshiro- Sakuno Echizen/Sakuno - Nanjirou Echizen/Nanjirou - Yasuyuki Ezhien/Kaidoh - Inui Inui - Yanagi Atsushi - Mizuki (No Points Lost) Mizuki - Akazawa Akazawa - Kaneda Akazawa/Kandeda - Eiji Echizen/Eiji - Fuji Ezhizen/Fuji - Yuuta Fuji/Inui - Tezuka Tezuka - Yamato (No Points Lost) Yamato - Oishi Oishi/Eiji - Yagyuu Yagyuu - Niou Echizen/Tezuka - Kirihara Kirihara - Jackal Jackal - Marui Kirihara/Jackal - Sadana Momoshiro/Sakuno - Sengoku Echizen - Akutsu (No Points Lost) Akutsu - Taka Momoshiro/Sengoku- Touji Touji - Minami Minami - Masami Echizen/Akutsu - Dan Stylish Silver: Echizen - Shinji Shinji - Kamio Kamio - Kaidoh Kamio - Momoshiro (No Points Lost) Momoshiro/Kamio - An An - Tachibana Tachibana - Ishida Ishida - Taka Kaidoh - Kentaro Kentaro - Ryoh (No Points Lost) Echizen - Tezuka (No Points Lost) Echizen/Tezuka - Fuji Echizen/Kaidoh - Inui Echizen/Inui - Fukushi Fukushi - Oishi Oishi - Yamato (No Points Lost) Fuji/Oishi - Eiji Tezuka - Atobe (No Points Lost) Atobe - Sakaki (No Points Lost) Fuji - Jirou (No Points Lost) Atobe - Kabaji Sakaki - Hiyoshi Hiyoshi - Ootori Ootori - Shishido Shishido - Taki Momoshiro/Eiji - Gakuto Gakuto - Oshitari Hiyoshi/Taki - Amane Amane - Bane Eiji/Fuji - Saeki Saeki - Itsuki ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3) Copyright and Credits This work is copyrighted and should not be reproduced or used in any way without the explicit permission from the author. Only GameFAQs has permission to use this guide, and should not be available in any other website. This work, in turn, is not mine. Credits for the factual information presented here belongs to Tri Bang Tang, hosting this information in this site: http://www.bol.ucla.edu/~tbtang81/index3.htm I have tried to contact the author several times, but his main webpage is down and I have no way to ask for his permission. However, the information provided in this guide has no owner. These are FACTS. Facts are not protected and have no owner. This guide is not plagiarizing, and is not in violation of any law. However, I would still like to have the permission of the author to use the information he obtained, and thus I take no credit in this work. I only re-wrote the information in a way that it could be available for the users of GameFAQs, and nothing more. The only reason I want his permission is out of respect for his work. In turn, when I manage to contact the author of the website, I will ask for permission. If it is denied, I will take down this guide from GameFAQs, even though I am in no way obliged to do so even if he were to deny it. That clarified, let us continue. Credits: - "Tri Bang Tang", whose real name I do not know. - The people at the boards, for their support they've been giving each other and gave me reasons to write this. - GameFAQs, our home. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4) Contact Information Suggestions, questions or contributions to: dfa_monk"at"hotmail.com (Replace "at" with @)