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VR SOCCER '96 DEMO - READ.ME
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Installing the VR Soccer '96 Demo
=================================
After inserting the CD in to your CD-ROM drive, switch to the
CD-ROM drive and type INSTALL.  The installation program will
take you through step by step instructions to install VR Soccer
'96 on to your hard drive.

After you've installed VR Soccer '96, please take a moment to
register your version.  Its easy and painless and it will get you
lots of bargains and free stuff.  Just run the EREGCARD.EXE program
which will be located in the directory you installed VR Soccer
to.

About the Demo
==============
This demo will allow you to play 5 minute games using the teams
from the United States and Russia.  You will not be able to modify
the game conditions or rules or to choose other teams.  The demo
does not include League or Cup play modes either.

To play the game type SOCCER from the directory you installed soccer
to.  Although the CD doesn't have to be in the CD-ROM drive, you will
not get many or all of the sound effects in the game if it is not.

The main menu for soccer will come up.  The options you can select in
this demo are ENVIRONMENT, CONTROLS, and START:
Select ENVIRONMENT to customize the detail levels for your PC.  If
you are playing on a 486 you may need to turn down many of the
detail levels. If you are playing on a Pentium, go for the highest
detail levels.
CONTROLS will allow you to select and calibrate your control method.
Click and drag the appropriate control method to the PLAYER # bar.
Clicking the control method again will highlight it and the
CONFIGURE option will come up in the bottom right hand corner.
Select this to customize your keyboard or to calibrate your joystick.
After setting up the game select START.  This will take you to the
Next Match screen.  If you wish to play for the United States, just
click on the DONE option.  If you wish to play for Russia, click
where it says Computer under the Russian flag.  Note that it will
now say Player 1.  Click on DONE to begin the game.

Game Controls
=============
In the game you will notice that the player you are controlling has
a highlight under his feet.  This highlight will be a circle if you
don't have the ball, a triangle if you do, or possibly a star or a
square.  The star and the square mean that you are in a position
where your player can do some sort of unusual move.  The star
indicates a possible one-touch manuver, the square means you can
center the ball or a chip shot.  To pull off these manuvers, just
push the pass button without moving the controller.  There are other
special moves as well, but try these before looking for others.

Your player will pass and shoot the ball in roughly the direction he
is facing.  This means that if you push Pass and there is a teammate
in front of your player, your player will attempt to pass to the
teammate.  Do not expect your player to shoot at the cage from any
direction, you must direct him to shoot at a position you want.

On defense, you can guide your player to do slide tackles by pushing
the Shoot button.  You can also attempt to steal the ball by pushing
the Pass button.  You can also run other players off the ball or even
knock them over.

While in the game you can change the camera view using the 1-8 number
keys across the top of your keyboard.  Most of these cameras can be
manipulated by using the 8 and 2 keys on the number pad to move up
and down and the 4 and 6 keys to zoom in and out.  Camera 4, the
manual cam, is manipulated using the mouse.

Ordering Information
====================
For information about the full version of VR Soccer '96 please call
1-800-468-3775.  Or check us out at http://www.vrsports.com/.

European inquiries:  Please call on [phone] or fax
to [phone].

TroubleShooting
===============
If you have any problems getting VR Soccer '96 running on your
machine check the following.

1.) Do you have enough memory available to run the game? VR Soccer
needs a minimum of 4 Meg of memory (8 Meg for commentary).

2.) Make sure that you do not have SMARTDRIVE activated.
3.) Have you configured your soundcard correctly?
4.) Do you have a mouse driver installed? If NO then install one and
try again.
5.) You may under certain circumstances, experience problems
when running VR Soccer with UNIVBE. If you do experience any
problems then simply remove UNIVBE from your AUTOEXEC.BAT
and run the game in lo-res.

HI-RES/LO-RES MODES
=================
If you have SVGA capabilities on your machine, then you will be
able to view both the Main Menus and game in glorious Hi-res.
If however you find when running the game that you cannot enter
the hi-res it means that you do not have SVGA capabilities. If you
contact your video card supplier they should be able to supply
you with a driver.

Sound/Commentary
================
The VR Soccer commentary system uses a method of pulling each
commentary sample off the CD or hard drive. For obvious reasons
loading the sample off the CD Drive takes longer than from a
hard disk drive. On the minimum install option you may experience
a slight pause everytime the game looks for a different sample.
This is because the Minimum install option requires the game to
load every sample from the CD. The Maximum install option copies
more samples to the hard drive and therefore will remove the pause.

Known Problems
==============
There is a known problem with the Cirrus Logic 5429 Video Card. In
rare cases the opening animation can corrupt in high resolution.
This can be ignored and the rest of the game will function correctly.
This problem does not occur on the rest of the 54xx series.

Software Use Limitations and Limited License
============================================
This special 5-minute game preview version of VR Soccer '96 (the
"Software") is intended for your personal noncommercial home
entertainment use.  You may not decompile, reverse engineer, or
disassemble the Software, except as permitted by law.  Interplay
Productions and Gremlin Interactive retain all rights and title
in the Software including all intellectual and property rights
embodied therein and derivatives thereof.  You are granted a
revocable, nonassignable limited license to create derivative works
of this Software solely for your own personal noncommercial home
entertainment use and may publicly display such derivative works to
the extent specifically authorized by Interplay in writing.  A copy
of this authorization, if any, will be provided on Interplay's World
Wide Web site, and may also be obtained by contacting the legal
department at Interplay at [phone].  The Software, including,
without limitation, all code, data structures, characters, images,
sounds, text, screens, game play, derivative works, and all other
elements of the Software may not be copied (except as provided
below), resold, rented, leased, distributed (electronically or
otherwise), used on a pay-per-play, coin-op or other for-charge
basis, or for any commercial purpose.  You may make copies of the
Software for your personal noncommercial home entertainment use and
to give to friends and acquaintances on a no cost noncommercial
basis.  This limited right to copy the Software expressly excludes
any copying or distribution of the Software on a commercial basis,
including, without limitation, bundling the product with any other
product or service.  Any permission granted herein are provided on
a temporary basis and can be withdrawn by Interplay Productions at
any time.  All rights not expressly granted are reserved.