******************************************************************************* Segata Sanshiro presents: ////// // // // //\\ // // // ////// //\\ // \\ ////// // // \\ // //\\ ////// // \\ // ////// // // // // \\// // \\ ////// // \\// Shinken \\ // // // ////// // \\// // // // // /// // // ////// ////// // Yu-Gi Version 1.0 by AudioZan (AudioZan@aol.com) - 6/3/03 Version 1.1 Updated 6/13/03 Version 1.2 Updated 7/26/03 Version 1.3 Updated 10/9/03 This may be not be reproduced under any circumstances except for personal, private use. It may not be placed on any web site or otherwise distributed publicly without advance written permission. Use of this guide on any other web site or as a part of any public display is strictly prohibited, and a violation of copyright. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I. Index ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I. Index II. Introduction III. Mini-Games 1) Dance Dance Segata 2) Bomberperson Fight! 3) Santa-san Sanshiro 4) Cranium Crisis 5) Panzer Count-oon 6) 15 Floor Dash 7) Match Game 8) Winter Feet 9) Kick the Various Heavy Objects 10) Sanshiro's Mean Fish Machine IV. Voice of Segata Sanshiro V. Commercials VI. High Scores VII. Contributions ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- II. Introduction ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Althought the Sega Saturn was a flop in America, Japan was another story. The system's hilarious ad campaign starred a martial arts master named Segata Sanshiro who would kick your ass and shove a Saturn up it. He hit home runs with his bare feet, exploded men with his bare hands, and made the Saturn a hit overseas. This game is a collection of his commercials which can be unlocked by playing mini-games loosely inspired by them. Segata Sanshiro was based on a movie about a man named Sanshiro Sugata who struggles to learn judo. Segata was played by actor Hiroshi Fujioka, famous for his role as the first Kamen Rider in the 70s. He was also the narrator of Ultraman G and voiced Ryo's father in Shenmue for Dreamcast. Thanks to Don Chan and imdb.com for the info. I don't speak a word of Japanese, so everything in this FAQ was discovered through trial and error. Feel free to contribute anything you want to AudioZan@aol.com. I and the entire world would greatly appreciate it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- III. Mini-Games ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- After the opening "Game Start/Options" menu, you come to a menu with four choices. They are as follows (I think): 1) Mini-Games 2) Voice of Segata Sanshiro 3) Commercials 4) High Scores Mini-Games brings you to the list of the ten different mini-games you can play. Beating the mini-games unlocks the commercials, which is the best part of the game. I have no idea what the titles are, so I've created my own titles full of clever puns and alliterations. Here they are from top to bottom: ***1) Dance Dance Segata Funfactor - 4/10 Description - Several buttons are displayed on the screen and it's your job to memorize them and enter them in the same order as they appeared, sort of like Simon. Each correct button gets you one point and makes Segata dance comically, while an incorrect one takes away a point. How to Win - Get at least 60 points. To beat this game very easily, simply write the buttons down as they appear on screen. Commercial Unlocked - Shining Force 3 ***2) Bomberperson Fight! Funfactor - 4/10 Controls - D-Pad - Move, A/B/C - Throw Description - Segata battles a generic Bomberman ripoff which I call Bomberperson in a battlefield laced with landmines. The moves you can pull off on Bomberperson depend on the way he grabs you, making the game similar to Rock/Paper/Scissors. How to Win - Blow up Bomberperson 10 times in a row without getting hit. This game was hard to figure out, but the best strategy I came up with was to move with the D-Pad whenever he did a full body grapple and press A, B, or C whenever he put his back to you to try to flip you. That will cancel his flip. Commercial Unlocked - Bomberman Fight! ***3) Santa-san Sanshiro Funfactor - 10/10 Controls - Up/Down - Move Up/Down, A/B/C - Drop Present Description - My favorite mini-game. Segata flies overhead in Santa's sleigh in the style of a sidescrolling shooter while avoiding obstacles and dropping presents into chimneys. How to Win - Get presents into at least 70 chimneys. The presents drop a little bit in front of the sleigh so make sure to press the button early. Commercial Unlocked - Sega Saturn Christmas Commercial ***4) Cranium Crisis Funfactor - 5/10 Controls - A/B/C - Start/Stop Markers Description - Break a stack of plates with Segata's head 3 times. It's a timing game similar to kicking a field goal in Madden. Press a button to start the marker moving up the meter, then press it again when its at the top and a third time when its at the bottom. How to Win - Stop the first marker at the very top of the meter without going into the danger zone. If you stop it in the danger zone, Segata's head will explode. Do the same thing at the bottom, and get a total score of at least 40 points. Commercial Unlocked - Solo Crisis ***5) Panzer Count-oon Funfactor - 5/10 Controls - nothing Description - This sounds like a lame game, but I thought it was pretty fun. A bunch of dragons from Panzer Dragoon fly across the screen and some of them are carrying little Segatas. You have to count all the Segatas. How to Win - Just count all the Segatas and enter the correct number in the following screen. After round 10 you win. Commercial Unlocked - Panzer Dragoon Saga ***6) 15 Floor Dash Funfactor - 9/10 Controls - Up/Down - Move Up/Down, Left - Slow Down, A/B/C - Jump Kick Description - Another great game. Segata has to run up 15 floors of a burning building and save the person at the top while sidestepping and jumpkicking over flaming obstacles. This is also the hardest game IMO. How to Win - You're going to have to memorize the obstacles on each floor through trial and error. Just keep an eye out for the blue holes in the background because they shoot streams of fire at you. Commercial Unlocked - Burning Rangers ***7) Match Game Funfactor - 1/10 Controls - D-Pad - Move Around, A/C - Select Picture, B - Deselect Picture Description - The easiest and lamest mini-game in the game. A picture of Segata with a funny hairdo is displayed and you have to go around clicking all of the matching pictures. How to Win - Correctly match all of the same pictures. Commercial Unlocked - Dragon Force 2 ***8) Winter Feet Funfactor - 5/10 Controls - A/B/C - Change Feet Description - Build up Segata's speed as he skates barefoot on the ice. You increase speed by staying on each foot as long as possible, but don't stay on one foot too long or Segata will freeze. How to Win - Get up to 100 KM/h. There's not much I can say to help you out here, just get ready to press the button faster when you're about to increase in level. Commercial Unlocked - Winter Heat ***9) Kick the Various Heavy Objects Funfactor - 8/10 Controls - Left/Right - Move Left/Right, A/B/C - Kick Description - This game is similar to the Nintendo Game & Watch game, Fire. Objects start falling from the sky and you have to keep kicking them into the air. Make sure you press the kick button early, because if you kick the middle of the object you'll hurt your foot. You need to get your foot under the objects and hit them with your toes. How to Win - Keep kicking objects into the dumpster until the remaining weight drops to zero. Pretty easy. Commercial Unlocked - Greatest Nine '98 ***10) Sanshiro's Mean Fish Machine Funfactor - 7/10 Controls - D-Pad - Move Fishsticks, A/B/C - Rotate Fishsticks Description - A simple puzzle game involving sticks of three different types of fish (which I call fishsticks). When three or more of the same kind of fish are lined up vertically, horizontally, or diagonally, they are destroyed and you get 1 point for each fish. How to Win - The only way to win is to get at least 20 points in a single move. You have to stack the fish so that when you destroy some of the fish, the ones on top of them fall down and create new lines of fish that are destroyed, and the ones on them fall into place causing a chain reaction of points. If you're a puzzle game expert this should be no problem. Commercial Unlocked - Deep Fear ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IV. Voice of Segata Sanshiro ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The second option of the opening menu brings you to a sound test studio where you can listen to Segata's radio commercials. Lainer has provided me with info on what some of the commercials are for: 1) ? 2) ? 3) ? 4) ? 5) Sonic R 6) Saturn Bomberman 7) House of the Dead 8) Neon Genesis Evangelion: Koutetsu no Girlfriend (Girlfriend of Steel) 9) World Cup '98 10) Soccer RPG 11) Shoujo Kakumei Utena (Revolutionary Girl Utena) 12) Deep Fear 13) Wachenroder ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- V. Commercials ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Under the third menu option you can view Segata Sanshiro's hilarious commercials after you unlock them. There are 19 in all and here are brief descriptions of each one (spoilers ahead): 1) Shining Force 3 - 30 sec - Segata walks into a dance club full of happy teenagers dancing the night away. Why aren't they at home playing Sega Saturn??? He kicks the crap out of them and clips of Shining Force 3 are shown. 2) Bomberman Fight! - 15 sec - Segata hurls a man through the air who explodes on impact with the ground. Just like Police Cops. 3) General Sega Saturn Christmas Commercial - 15 sec - Santa Claus walks into a living room and three kids run up to greet him. They are knocked backwards when Santa-san pulls off his face revealing Segata underneath. Clips from various Saturn games are then shown. 4) Solo Crisis - 15 sec - Segata breaks a stack of concrete plates with his head. Apparently his head is so strong because it's full of RPG knowledge. 5) Panzer Dragoon Saga - 15 sec - Segata dances around a fire with a dragon mask on. Not that funny. 6) Burning Rangers - 15 sec - Segata leaps into a burning building to save an unconscious woman. He seems to be enjoying giving her CPR a little too much as her sister tries to pull him off. 7) Dragon Force 2 - 15 sec - Hundreds of Segata's charge at the screen. Good special effects. 8) Winter Heat - 15 sec - Segata outskates an olympic speed skater using only his bare feet. 9) Greatest Nine '98 - 15 sec - Segata hits a home run with his foot. 10) Deep Fear - 30 sec - A very bizarre commercial. Segata cuts open a fish with a large knife. I guess this is supposed to be scary. The rest are bonus commercials that you don't unlock by beating the mini-games. If someone could fill me in on #14 I'd be truly grateful. 11) Segata's Training Video - 30 sec - This is one of the best commercials and you can see it by quitting or remaining idle after you get a Game Over. It shows Segata training with an oversized Sega Saturn while his theme song plays. Very funny. 12) House of the Dead - 30 sec - Segata flips and flips the zombies, but they keep coming back to life. This is unlocked by failing a game without getting any points and then idling on the game over screen. Thanks to Lainer for this info. 13) Sonic R - 30 sec - Three kids about to play baseball cross paths with Segata and get their asses kicked. That's what they get for not playing Saturn. Unlocked by remaining idle during the title screen. Thanks again to Lainer. 14) Still locked. 15) Wachenroder - 30 sec - A weird one. A bunch of Segata faces are on screen with him showing various emotions. My least favorite out of all his commercials. Unlock this by letting your head explode three times in a row in Cranium Crisis and then quitting. Thanks to Ryoma234. 16) Extended Christmas Commercial - 30 seconds - The same as #3, but with an extra scene that shows the kids crying. This is unlocked after you beat 8 mini-games. Thanks again to Ryoma234. 17) Sakura Taisen 2 - 30 sec - Even more bizarre than the Deep Fear commercial. Segata frolics around with a beautiful girl dressed as Sakura. Unlocked after beating 9 mini-games. Thanks to Lainer. Don Chan adds that the girl playing Sakura Shinguuji is her voice actress, Chisa Yokoyama. 18) Ending - This is the video you see after you beat all 10 mini-games. It shows clips from all of the commercials put together. 19) Segata's Farewell Message - This is also shown after you beat the game. I wish I had a translation... Other commercials There are three other Segata Sanshiro commercials I have seen on the internet that aren't in the game. Here are their descriptions: 1) Soccer RPG - 30 sec - My favorite one. A soccer player is about to make a dramatic corner kick. Segata grabs one of the players off the bench and hurls him into the air. The ball bounces off his head and into the goal, winning the game. Maycunt?! 2) World Cup 98 - 30 sec - Another soccer one. This time Segata is the goalie, and he moves the entire net out of the way to stop the ball from going in. Not as good as Soccer RPG, but still funny. 3) Segata's Grand Finale - 60 sec - The last Segata commercial and one of the greatest. A terrorist launches a missile at Sega headquarters and Segata leaps off the roof to stop it. He stops it with his bare hands and feet and launches himself into space to bring the missile out of harms way. He yells his famous last words, "Sega Saturn...shirooooooo!" (play Sega Saturn) before the missile explodes, killing him. This also doubles as an ad for Shinken Yu-Gi itself, so it's unlikely that the commercial is in the game. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VI. High Scores ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The last option of the menu lets you view your high scores. Yay. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VII. Contributions ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you for reading my first FAQ, I hope it was helpful to you. Thanks to Don "Gamera" Chan for his Hiroshi Fujioka info and various suggestions. http://www.gamefaqs.com/features/recognition/146.html Thanks to Lainer (taco_task_force@earthlink.net) for his tips on unlocking some commercials and the radio commercials. Thanks to Ryoma234 for unlocking Wachenroder. Copyright 2003 AudioZan Sega Saturn shiro! *******************************************************************************