War on Wheels FAQ/Walkthrough By: Darkstar Ripclaw The most recent version of this FAQ may always be found at GameFAQs.com ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~- Table of Contents -~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ How to Play [HELP] Passwords [PASS] Desired Information [DESR] Credits [CRED] ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~- How to Play -~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ [HELP] War on Wheels is a NES game that was never released to retail. Purportedly it was developed in an attempt to cash in on the popularity of roller derby in the U.S., but was canceled due to poor reviews, a superior available product in Konami's RollerGames, and the fizzling popularity of roller derby by the time the game was actually done development. Nothing was known of the game for 20 years before a copy of the game was released, and a reproduction run of 250 games was done with a physical cart, manual and box. War on Wheels' version of Roller Derby is not precisely the same as real-life roller derby. In War on Wheels, each match is split into three rounds of three jams of 90 seconds each, and the timer only starts when someone scores. Only four players from each team are on the field. As you go around the jam, you will often run into obstacles. During the first round of each game, you will only encounter speed bumps. These are easy to clear as they can be merely jumped over. In the second and third round, you run into three more field obstacles: grates and holes, which you will trip and fall over you run over/into either of them, and ramps, which do not give you a speed boost but give you a nice automatic jump. To hop over any obstacle, you merely need to press the A button. Failing to clear anything causes you to fall, and it takes a couple of seconds for your character to pull himself or herself up. The derby arena does not change except for every round, so during the three jams of each round you can get used to the layout and begin to anticipate obstacles ahead of time. When each jam starts, you face off with one player from the opposing team. Pressing the left button allows you to build and maintain speed to go around the track. Once one of you manages to pass another player from the opposite team, the 90 seconds on the jam begins to tick down, and ONLY the team who already scored during the jam will be able to continue to score. If you were the one who managed to score, then obviously you will want to continue to outlap members of the other team in order to build up your score. However, to advance on opposing players, you need to be able to fend off the roller blader who is shadowing you and prevent him from constantly stopping you from building up speed. This is not very easy most of the time, as the rubber banding of the game means that any time either of you gains a lead over the other, the person lagging behind gains an enormous boost in speed. You can play interference with your opponent by skating up beside or behind him and pressing the B button to make a push attempt, or pressing the A button to make a jump and try to bowl your opponent over in the process. Both methods can serve to cause him to stop, if not trip over to the floor, delaying his progress while the skating pair ahead of you gain ground. If you are near another set of two players, you can set it up so your opposite gets tangled up in falling with the other two players, and you can gain a pretty good lead. Eventually, however, he will still rubberband skate back up to your position. Your opponent, however, is capable of several more moves, such as grabbing a hold of your player and tossing you around, and even pushing you off the track. Your opponent can sometimes also fall off the track, but the author has never been able to execute this on his own - only his A.I. teammates were able to do it, or sometimes his opposite would fall off the track. In the event you get pushed off the track, you will be put into a brawl. When in a brawl, you and your opponent each start off with a health bar. The person who fell off the track sometimes but not always has a lower health bar to start off with. You can attack the other person and defend against his or her strikes to reduce his or her health, with the intent of knocking that person out. A little bit more of an in-depth explanation on controls can be found below in the Brawl Controls section. Whoever loses the brawl will also lose some stamina. Stamina appears to be affected both by being hit on the field and losing a brawl. In between rounds, some players may be shown to have low stamina on your selection screen. Low Stamina players, the author believes how it works, can be knocked out completely in a jam, with their bodies lying on the floor. If the knocked-out player is of the team who was scored on first in that jam, then every time the lapper passes that passed-out body, the scoring team scores again (this also has the effect of freeing the knocked-out person's opposite to harass players from the other team). If you or your opposite is knocked out, then another person will take over the position of the lappers, and your POV will be changed if your own person was knocked out and you are switched to a different rollerblader. Sometimes the crowd will throw junk into the arena. Stuff does not stay on the ground, but if you get hit by something it will knock you over. ---------------- Regular Controls ---------------- Left - Move left, speed up Right - Move right, slow down Up/Down - Move up and down on the track A - Jump B - Push your opponent with your arms Start - Pause/Unpause the game -------------- Brawl Controls -------------- Left/Right - Moving left and right The 'A' button is used for attacking, while the 'B' button is used to defend against the specified attack. Left - Knee jab Down - Kick Up - Head jab Right - Chest jab In general, you will find your opponent tends to get a lot of hits in. The best way to try and win is to make a strike, usually a kick or head jab, then tap the Left button to move back left. As you have a cooldown period in between when you can make strikes or blocks, moving left gives you a little bit of time on the cooldown. ------------ 1Player Mode ------------ 1Player Mode appears to play through a Season of an indeterminate number of games, possibly with a playoffs after, with the number of victories of each team being tallied after each match. You are given a 24-character password at the end of every match, which you can enter in at 'Continue' on the front screen to resume from that point. To see the in-game ending, with the L.A. Illegals as the winners, enter this password: 8-PJ36 R!:RGW :11T?F Q2V2DK Credits to doommaster1994 off of GameFAQs for this password. -------- Vs. Mode -------- In this mode, you can play against a friend. However, the game does not have a split-screen mode: therefore, neither player can ever get so far ahead that the other person falls off-screen, as you will instead hit an invisible wall. -------- Continue -------- This is where you enter the passwords that you receive after every game you play to resume from that point. ---------- Team Names ---------- All of these teams are (obviously) fictional teams, with no real differences that the author can see outside of outfit colours and the names of players (who do not have any listed stats). Nevertheless, you may find some amusement in some of the names (also, every team has alliteration in their name except for L.A. for some reason). L.A. Illegals Miami Maimers Boston Blueblood Chicago Crush Philly Phangs New York Nasties Oakland Outlaws Atlanta Arsenic ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~- Passwords -~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ [PASS] To enter these passwords, go to the Continue option on the main menu. L.A. Illegals after one game, 1-0 in the season KW?J36 LLGW:: -1???P J36FF! L.A. Illegals after one game, 2-0 in the season MW:J36 OLWW:- -TP??J J36FF! L.A. Illegals Victory Ending 8-PJ36 R!:RGW :11T?F Q2V2DK ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~- Desired Information -~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ [DESR] STUFF THE AUTHOR WOULD LIKE INFORMATION ON ------------------------------------------ If you happen to be one of the people who actually bought the prototype reproduction release and have the manual, any extra information the manual may have that this guide does not would be extremely helpful. You can reach the author at the email at the bottom of this guide. ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~- Credits -~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ [CRED] Thanks go to doommaster1994 off of GameFAQs for posting the password to view the Game Victory Ending. _______________________________________________________________________________ Need help with something that's not in this FAQ? Got a comment to make? Find something wrong in this FAQ, or else just want to contribute something extra? Email me at darkstar.ripclaw AT gmail DOT com if you need any of these things. Do NOT ask stuff that is answered in this guide; unless the wording is truly ambiguous, a bit of toying around never hurts. Please refer to the actual in-guide FAQ first before asking a question. 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