Ma Chao FAQ by Rockman CXDEZ (guardianharupyuia@yahoo.com) Dynasty Warriors 5/Shin Sangoku Musou 4 Version 1.4 Updated on 3-18-05. Just added a little more info on his moveset Updated on 4-7-05. Added the names of the weapons (US version) Updated on 4-19-05 Added a character bio provided be Ryan Lee. Added Neo Seekers to the list of sites allowed to use this faq. Added a list of things to come. Added a little to the Q&A. Updated on 6-28-05. Added a little to the Q&A. and some info in the contact section. ------------------------------------------------ Table of Contents ------------------------------------------------ 1. Introductions 2. Copyrights 3. Ma Chao Character bio 4. Why Should I use Ma Chao? 5. Unlocking 6. Move set 7. Weapons 8. Musou Mode 9. Ma Chao's models 10. Q&A 11. Checklist of things to come 12. Credits 13. Contact ------------------------------------------------- 1-Introduction ------------------------------------------------- This is the third FAQ I’ve written for GameFAQs. The other FAQs I've written are also for the game Shin Sangoku Mouso 4/Dynasty Warriors 5 for the characters Guan Ping and Ling Tong Also at the time of me writing this FAQ, I only have the Japanese version of the game(Shin Sangoku Musou 4) and my Japanese is very poor, so I may have some trouble with names and such. This FAQ is being written based on my experiences playing the game Dynasty Warriors 5/ Shin Sangoku Musou 4, playing as the character Ma Chao. Through out this FAQ I’ll cover thing such as his, move set, musou mode stages, weapons, models ect. ------------------------------------------------- 2-Copyrights ------------------------------------------------- You may not reproduce this FAQ under any circumstances except for personal, private use. (Copyright 2005 Patrick Stevens) You may not use this FAQ on any website with out permission from me. You may not reproduce this FAQ and sell it publicly and you may not claim this FAQ as your own, doing any of these will be a violation of copyright. Site allowed to use this FAQ Gamefaqs.com Neoseekers.com ------------------------------------------------- 3-Ma Chao Charatcer bio ------------------------------------------------- Son of Ma Teng, he is a strong warrior who seeks vegence for his father's death by Cao Cao. he and ailled leaders went to oppose Cao Cao at Tong Gate, however, his father's sworn brother, Han Sui, defected to Cao Cao, causing the allied force to break up and Ma Chao to flee, soon Ma Chao took his services to Zhang Lu. when Liu Bei attacked Liu Zhang, Zhang Lu sent Ma Chao to help, however, Liu Bei caputred and recruited Ma Chao. he was one of Shu's Five Tiger Generals ------------------------------------------------- 4-Why Should I use Ma Chao? ------------------------------------------------- Ma Chao is a pretty decent all-around fighter, he has decent power and speed, and pretty good crowd control. But where Ma Chao's real power shines is on a horse. Give Ma Chao the Shadow Saddle mixed with a good Cavalry Harness and his 4th weapon and watch Ma Chao turn from a decent figher to an unbeatable killing machine. ------------------------------------------------- 5-Unlocking ------------------------------------------------- Ma Chao is one of the starting 6 characters for Shu. ------------------------------------------------- 6-Move Set ------------------------------------------------- Keys: S = Square button, T = Triangle button, C = Circle button S- A upward slash to the left. SS- A stab with the back of his spear. SSS- A upward slash to the left, using the back of his spear. SSSS- A slash to the right. SSSSS- A straight downward slash. SSSSSS- A slight upward slash to the left. Alternate SSSSSS- A upward slash to the left. SSSSSSS- A slash to the right. SSSSSSSS A straight downward slash. SSSSSSSSS- A slight upward slash to the left. T- Ma Chao stabs his spear into the ground and spins around it hitting any enemies near by. ST- A upward slash to the right that knocks enemies into the air. SST(T)- Ma Chao stabs his enemies up to 4 times and finshes with a spinning slash to the right. SSST- Ma Chao does a hard stab that moves him a little forward. SSSST- Ma Chao does an upward slash with a gust of wind surrounding his spear, this knocks enemies into the air. SSSSST- Ma Chao does spinning slash with a blade of energy surrounding him that hits any enemies near by. Jump attack- A straight spinning downward slash Jump Charge- Ma Chao shoots himself like a torpedo forward, spinning his spear around him, hitting anything in his reach below him. Mounted attack- Ma Chao does 6 downward slashes all to the right of him. Mounted charge- Ma Chao spins his spear over his head sending out a blade of energy that hits any enemies near by. Mounted Musou- Ma Chao does repeated downward slashes to the right and finshes by using his mounted charge attack. Musou attack- Ma Chao does repeated forward spinning slashes, switching his weapon from his left to right hand each time. Ma Chao finshes by stabing his spear into the ground and spinning around it hitting any enemies near by into the air, followed by a slash to the right. True Musou attack- Pretty much the same as his Musou attack, only instead of the stabbing his spear into the ground part, Ma Chao spins around on his back and leap into the air with a wave of energy surrounding him, hitting all enemies near by. It should be noted that from Alternate S6-S9 you need to have a weapon at least level 3 that's Evo-capable (aka the little blue dot near the weapons name) As well as a full musou bar to use. All 4th level weapons are Evo-capable. This info is credited to "Steven Liu" thanks for the info =) -------------------------------------------------- 7-Weapons -------------------------------------------------- I have a hard time reading the names of the weapons in Japanese, so for now I’m just going to call them Weapon 1, Weapon 2 ect. Stats-Iron Spear Base power 5 Number of attacks 4 Weight Random Stats-Stallion Spear Base power 10 Number of attacks 5 Weight Random Stats-Sliver Stallion Base power 16 Number of attacks 6 Weight Random Stats-Stallion Fury Base attack 38 Number of attacks 6 Weight Average Mounted Lvl 20 Defense Lvl 16 Life Lvl 15 Speed Lvl 15 Attack Lvl 17 Requirements for Obtaining Ma Chao's 4th Stage- Battle of Tong Gate Requirement- Knock Cao Cao off his horse before he retreats north Strategy- What strategy? lol, this weapon is pathetically easy to get. All you have to do is charge Cao Cao right when the stage starts (it's good to have a horse) and hit him off his horse...that's it. The Precious Item report should show up near the brigde up north. After that finsh the stage as normal, or just chrage and kill Cao Cao. The only other thing I can think of is to use the river path to Cao Cao as there's nothing blocking your way to him. And a saddle is necessary without it you more then likey wont catch Cao Cao before he retreats north. -------------------------------------------------- 8-Musou Mode -------------------------------------------------- Ma Chao has 5 stages in his musou mode, The 5 stages are 1-Battle of Liang Zhou 2-Battle of Tong Gate 3-Battle of Yi Ling 4-Battle of Jie Ting 5-Battle of Bai Di Castle As soon as I get the US release of this game and can better read what's going on in the battles, I'll update with some stage strategies. -------------------------------------------------- 9-Ma-Chao's models -------------------------------------------------- Model 1- This model comes with Ma Chao. Ma Chao is in his normal brown armor, with a dragon helmet. The helmet has sliver hair coming from it. Ma Chao has brown pants, and a white waist wrap with some green detail. Brown shoes and a little white around his arms. He also has a green cloth hanging behide him. Model 2- Ma Chao unlocks this model when he get's about 6000 points. This model is just is first model with different colors. The brown armor and helmet all turn gold, as does the sliver hair coming from his helmet. His pants become a little lighter, and his white waist wrap get's gold detail instead of the green. He green cloth becomes gold. Model 3- Ma Chao unlocks this model when he get about 20000 points. This is his DW4 model. It has a very similar color scheme to his model 1. His armor, pants, shoes, all go back to being brown. (a little darker) Ma Chao's dragon helmet looks more like a deer helmet (>_<) with a little bit of white hair coming from it. He loses the white around his arms, and his waist wrap is now green with a little bit of white detail. Ma Chao has a brown and green cloth hanging behide him. Model 4- Ma Chao unlocks this model when he get around 20000 points along with his model 3. This is Ma Chao's alternate DW4 model. His armor becomes a silver color, with some green around his arms. He get's green pants, and a brown waist wrap with some red detail. His shoes become sliver, with a little brown and red detail in them, and his cloth piece becomes green and red. He no longer wears the dragon/deer helmet just a white turban, with a little gold around it. -------------------------------------------------- 10-Q&A -------------------------------------------------- Q: The requirement for obtaining Ma Chao's 4th lvl weapon isn't working? A: Make sure your playing on hard mode, and make sure you Knock Cao Cao off his horse BEFORE he retreats north. Otherwise you wont get the weapon Q: Do you have to have played Ma Chao's Musou mode and got his 2nd and 3rd weapon before you get his 4th? A: No, I have got many 4th weapons the first time I played the character. Q: How do you unlock the Shadow Saddle? A: EChang wrote an awesome item FAQ and gave a pretty detailed strategy on how to obtain it. Check there. Q: What's the best stage to get high level items? A: I've been able to get 15-20 level items on any 4-5 star stage on hard mode or Shura/Expert Mode. The higer the diffuculty the better chance for a high level item. Also using a good Seven star sash (luck+) and a character with a high luck+ on his weapon ups the chances for a good item. Q: What will you except for your FAQ? And how will I know what I e-mailed you will get added? A: E-mail me anything, you'll know weather or not I'm going to add it if you get an e-mail back. If you don't get an e-mail back, I either didn't what to add it or am already working on it myself. -------------------------------------------------- 11-Checklist of things to come -------------------------------------------------- My strategy for using Ma Chao Strategies for ma Chao's musou mode Ma Chao's Ending Ma Chao's qoutes More to come as I think of it. -------------------------------------------------- 12-Credits -------------------------------------------------- Fist off I’d like to thank CJayC for making this site, so I have a place to write my FAQ’s. EChang because I had to look at his FAQ in order to read the 4th lvl weapon stats, and learn the 4th level weapon requirements. Thanks for the great weapon FAQ. Steven Liu, for the info on the Evo-capable weapons Ryan Lee for all the character bio My sister for getting me into the Dynasty Warriors series My Mom for helping me with my horrible spelling (I know I still probably messed a few words up) KOEI for making the DW series so awesome -------------------------------------------------- 13-Contact -------------------------------------------------- If you have any questions, or suggestions for this FAQ please e-mail me at guardianharupyuia@yahoo.com. You’ll be given full credit for want you add. Updated: 6-28-05: I've been super busy in RL lately. So if you've sent me a e-mail and got a very late reply this is why. I'm sorry about this >_< but sometimes RL calls. Anyway, to solve this problem I'm gonna try and update the Q&A as much as I can, so you can (hopefully) get your answers there. Thanks for reading.