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- JIMMY WHITE'S WHIRLWIND SNOOKER PLAYERS GUIDE
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- Typed by /Vasty Boy!
- Taken from "The One"
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- The best way of improving your snooker is to buy a book or video of snooker
- tips. The best way of getting to grips with Archer Maclean's 3D spectacular
- is to apply some of these handy hints.
- These tips aren't designed to help you win every game (although there is a
- cheat which allows you to score 147 every time, we will publish it a later
- date). What Archer has kindly done is to highlight some areas of the game
- you might have missed.
- That said, these should still improve ypur game - there are, after all, a
- staggering 164,000,000 possible shots, an accuracy of upto a 64th of a
- degree, 88 levels of power and 81 different spin combinations. Anything that
- can help you out with all that can't be too bad can it?
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- CHALK
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- If you are hitting a straight shot, with no spin at all, you don't need any
- chalk. The more spin you apply to the cue ball, the more chalk you need. As
- a general rule, chalking your cue three times is safe for almost any shot.
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- AIMING
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- To get the computer to pot any ball automatically, turn on both view lines
- and touch the ball of your choice with the right mouse button. If the shot
- is possible, it will set the angle and power correctly. If you're not sure
- which shot to go for, click on the question mark icon with the right mouse
- button; the computer will then work out the best shot to take and set it up.
- In a normal game you can't get the computer to take your shot without going
- thru a long process. When theres a tricky shot to be played, save your game
- to disk then load it into the trick shot editor. Ask the computer to play
- the shot and watch. Then repeat the process as closely as possible when you
- reload the game. Alternatively, you could turn on the two view lines and
- click on the desired ball with the right mouse button. This will line up the
- shot dead centre, from where you can adjust the the angle slightly left or
- right, depending on the shot. Naturally, the overhead view is best to use
- for this. When starting a normal game the computer usually sets up the best
- opening shot for you. Just set the power and spin and away you go.
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- CAMERA TRICKS
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- Not many people have realised (despite it being mentioned numerous times)
- that after you've taken a shot, the camera can follow the balls around the
- table. A quick recap. After clicking on the take shot icon:
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- Hold down the left mouse button to follow both the cueball and the first
- ball hit.
- Hold down the right mouse button to follow the angle of the cue ball.
- Hold down both buttons to follow the angle of the first ball hit.
- Hold down the left mouse button on the goto cue ball icon to follow directly
- behind the cue ball.
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- TRICK SHOTS
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- To complete a trick shot (or to see if you can stump the computer), simply
- set up any layout and go to the demo mode, starting from that layout. You
- can then watch the computer play the shot (if its possible). A word of
- warning. If all the colours aren't on the table the computer will probably
- set them up anyway. If you have a red on the table it will set up every
- colour, but if you only have a blue and a black it will also set up the pink
- (thinking that you want the last three colours). It is possible to save
- layouts to a seperate disk (possibly to challenge a friend with). Go into
- the disk features menu and save the current game (or layout) to disk. When
- this happens, the computer loads in all the current layouts on the disk, so
- just swap the disk for a spare one, select an empty slot and save game. All
- the layouts will now be copied to this disk which you can give to a friend
- (and Archer Maclean say's its ok to do this, just don't copy the game itself
- because that is illegal (hehe!)). One more thing. When loading a game, hold
- down the left mouse button as you move the pointer as you move up and down
- the saved games. You'll be able to see each layout, making your game
- selection easier.
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- End.
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