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Complete Version TENNIS ELBOW ************ by ** Manu TOO ******** Copyright GOTO Informatique - 1997 Web site: http://www.tenniselbow.com Content: ******** 1. Introduction 2. Menus & Game 3. Keys & Known Problems 4. Conclusion ******************* * 1. Introduction * ******************* Tennis Elbow is a tennis game in SVGA with digital sounds and exceptional graphics. To configure the game on your PC, launch 'SETUP.EXE' after all files are installed on your hard drive. The minimum system requirements are: - PC Compatible 486 or higher, - 8 Mb of RAM - SVGA card, - Sound Card like Sound Blaster(c) (=optional, the game works without a sound card) - 550 Kb of conventional memory, - 2500 Kb of XMS free, - 400 Kb on your hard drive to have sound digits, - 1 Mb extra to play a double (4 players), - Mouse or Keyboard or Joystick (1 or 2) to play. The minimum configuration for Tennis Elbow is: - 486DX2-80 - 8 Mb of RAM - 2 Mb of Smartdrive - Fast SVGA card - Sound Blaster card + Wave Table card - Numeric joystick, like Gravis Gamepad Windows 3.x and 95: ******************* If you have problems with Tennis Elbow because your machine is not powerfull enough, the better is to start the game in MS-DOS mode: - Under Windows 3.x: Quit Windows 3.1x by entering Alt+F4 in the program manager, then go to Tennis Elbow's directory from the MS-DOS prompt, and launch Tennis.Exe; - Under Windows 95: Restart your computer in MS-Dos mode, then go to Tennis Elbow's directory, and launch Tennis.Exe; Key Features: ************* .Animation: --------- - 60 frames per second on a PC 486DX2-80 VLB - 20 sprites per striked animations - The crowd follows the ball during a point & applauds at the end of each point. - Line judges say the faults and point the balls on the lines .Tournament: ---------- - 95 tournaments - Team Cup - 250 registered players - Ranking - Best games of the 12 last months .Miscelleanous: ------------- - 5 grounds: clay, cement, grass, indoor, synthetic - 2 players with changing colors (skin, hair, T-Shirt, ...) - 4 different game styles: Single, Dirty up, Dirty down, Double - 5 levels of difficulty ********************* * 2. Menus & Play * ********************* In the menus: ************* You control the little yellow ball which rotates using the device you have chosen (Joystick/Keyboard/Mouse). Bring this ball on an icon and click on the button n°1 (of your mouse/ joystick) or on ALT to go to the next menu. When the ball is on a icon, its description appears in the bottom box. - shift + F5: Decrease the sound volume - shift + F6: Increase the sound voulume - shift + F7: Decrease the music volume - shift + F8: Increase the music volume - Back: To return to the previous menu; click on the button n°2 or on the BackSpace Key to have the equivalent of "Back". - Quit: To return to DOS; click on "Escape" to have the same impact. In the main menu: ***************** - Quick Play: to start quickly a game, with either the default criteria or your own ones. - World Tour: to enter the World tournaments and be ranked. - Thanks & Credits: guess! In the "Quick Play" menu: ************************* - Play: to launch the game with the saved options. - Characters info: to change the player's info. - Play Option: to choose the ground, the set number, the number of player and if a side change occurs during the match or not. - Play Style: to choose between do a warm-up and a match, and to play by modem or via a local network. In the character menu: ********************** - Click on the characteristics to change them. You can view the details in the message box at the bottom of your screen. You can change the color of T-Shirt, Short, Cuffs, Hairs and Skin. You can choose between right-handed and left-handed player and between two players'profile. Just click on the character to change his features. - Statistics: To see the statistics of the player's career. - Human/CPU: To choose between human control and CPU control. - Defender/puncher/varied/volleyer: To choose the play style. - Load/save: To load and save a game or a player's characteristics. In "World Tour" menu: ********************* - Play next match: To play the next match, or to choose the next tournament. - Character's info: To observe his player, or start a new game. Click on the player's name to view it. - Tournament info: To see the general ranking, the tournament boards, Team Cup results and the player's results on the 52 past weeks. - Side change / No side change: To change or not side during the match. Available strikes during the game: ********************************** Joystick/mouse Keyboard ____________________________________ B1 Left button ALT B2 Right Button CTRL up/down movement of your up arrow mouse or joystick down arrow b1 = normal strike b2 = secured strike b1+b2 = acceleration b1 + up = short ball b2 + up = slice b1 + down = lift b2 + down = defended lob b1+b2+up = drop shot b1+b2+down = fighting lob Up and down are inverted when you control the player who is on the top of the screen. How we are playing? ******************* .Move and strike: ----------------- With a joystick or mouse: When you do not press a button, swirl the Joystick in all directions to run where you want, or move your mouse in all directions. When you push on a button, your player move slowly to the ideal position, more you push the Joystick on the left (or the right), more the ball will go to the left (or the right). -==>> You must maintain the button pushed when you strike the ball <<==- When you do not give a special direction, the ball goes to the center on the opposite ground. At the volley, when the ball passes away from your player, push on a button (any of them) so that he will jump toward the ball. To do a crossed strike in the opposite direction of your run, stop your run before you strike. It means that you have to stop pressing the button (or the stick) which allows to run, before you press the button (or the buttons) which commands the strike. With a keyboard: To move your player, you can use the arrow keys or the keys you determined during the setup. If you try to move your player while you hit the ALT or CTRL keys, he will not move att all! .Service: --------- The service is executed with the same method than the other strikes, with the difference that whatever is the buttons combination, a push-up causes a slice and a push-down causes a lift. You can move your player to the left or to the right so you can find a special angle for your service. The quicklier the ball leaves your racket, the greater the imprecision will be: - at 175 km/h: the imprecision is negligible - at 195 km/h: the imprecision is of 15 cm - at 215 km/h: the imprecision is of 30 cm .Score: ------- Player 1's score is written in the up slots of the score blackboard, and player 2's score is written in the down slots. If the little ball is in the up slot, then player 1 serves, otherwise player 2 will serve. .Ball Trace: ------------ In the Very Easy, Easy and Medium Difficulties (option in the World tournaments or when playing a quick game against a CPU player), the impact of the ball on the ground during the service is marked before the ball hits the ground in order to help you with your next strike. In the Very Easy and Easy difficulties, the impact of the ball on the ground during the exchanges is also marked earlier to help you. During the game: **************** - Esc: Exit to previous menus. - P: Pause - strike again P to return to the game. - F1: Swap to the Replay mode; In this mode, there are 9 different speeds, you have to press on the keys from 1 to 9 to select them: 1 - Quick Rewind 2 - Rewind 3 - Slow Rewind 4 - Slower Rewind 5 - Step by Step 6 - Very Slow Motion 7 - Slow Motion 8 - Normal Speed 9 - Speed * 2 Home - Beginning of the Replay End - End of the Replay In Step by Step mode, '-' on the numerical keyboard do a rewind, and '+' do a normal play. With the Joystick, a push and a laxity: to left: go to previous speed, if the 1 is currently on, goes to the the beginning of the replay; to right: go to next speed, if th 9 is currently on, goes to the end of the replay; In Step by Step mode: Button 1: advance of 1 image; Button 2: move back of 1 image; To leave the Replay, push on both buttons at the same time, or on the Escape key. - F2: to change of side at the end of a point. - F3: to display the service speed in Kmh or in Mph. - F5: to display player 1's statistics. - F6: to display player 2's statistics. - F7: to display player 3's statistics. - F8: to display player 4's statistics. - F9: to adjust the graphic detail level: .low: the crowd applauds .medium: the R in the replay appears, the judges are animated .high: the crowd turns the head to follow the ball Characteristics' Influence: *************************** - Fore Hand, Back Hand, Fore Volley, Back Volley and Smash: .the highest the percentage is, the strongest the player strikes - Service: Success Max Speed (also in Mph/h in the game) 0% => b1: 50% 150 Km/h b2: 100% 120 Km/h b1+b2: 25% 190 Km/h 25% => b1: 100% 150 Km/h b2: 100% 126 Km/h b1+b2: 25% 190 Km/h 50% => b1: 100% 175 Km/h b2: 100% 132 Km/h b1+b2: 25% 190 Km/h 75% => b1: 100% 175 Km/h b2: 100% 138 Km/h b1+b2: 75% 190 Km/h 100% => b1: 100% 175 Km/h b2: 100% 145 Km/h b1+b2: 75% 215 Km/h - The higher the percentage of "Form" is, . the faster the player will run . the faster the player will start running . the further the player will jump at the volley The player will be able to do: Form: from 0% to 20% => 2 acc 21% to 41% => 3 acc 42% to 62% => 4 acc 63% to 83% => 5 acc 84% to 100% => 6 acc "acc" represents the accelerations + fighting lobs - Player's style: .Defender: can do as many fighting lobs as he wants and has 1 extra accelaration .Puncher: has 2 extra accelerations .Varied: has 1 extra acceleration and do medium jumps at the volley .Volleyer: do big jumps at the volley - Skill: .for human players: all: sees all ball impacts before the ball hits the ground service: sees ball impacts before the ball hist the ground at the service. none: doesn't see any ball impacts early .for CPU players: rules the overall computer force Statistics screen: ****************** This screen shows the player's strike strength, and the number of striked balls, the number of inside balls, and the player's success percentage; we can also see the number of aces, the number of double faults, and the running distance. The player's rank only appears in a tournament. The strength percentage at the right of "Second Service" indicates the player's form strength. If you access to this screen during a warm-up/training or a match, the statistics displayed concern only the current party; if you access it via the player menu, the statistics concern the whole player career. Double: ******* During a double, player n°1 will team up with player n°3, and player n°2 will team up with player n°4. You should thus define four players before you start a game otherwise the computer will pick up the default ones. Tournament mode: **************** .Ranking: ------- The total number of points for the global ranking is the sum of 14 best results in tournaments during the last 52 weeks. .Training: -------- Before each tournament the Training screen appears; this screen allows you to distribute the training points that you have won during your previous matchs; for each available day between 2 tournaments, you can redistribute 6 training points. For each match won, you earn about 10 training points, for each match lost, you earn 25 training points, because you learn more from your defeats than from your victories! .Number of sets in a match: ------------------------- difficulty: | Easy Hard | & Medium & | Very Easy Incredible -------------+--------------------------------------- Tournament type: | (Normal Rounds / Final) | Challenger | 1/1 1/2 1/2 | World Series | 1/1 1/2 2/2 | Masters and | Championship Series | 1/2 2/3 2/3 | Grand Slam | 2/3 3/3 3/3 .The Masters: ----------- You will automatically participate to the Masters if you are among the first 8 players in the global ranking when the selected tournament begins. On the other hand you will not enter the Masters. The organization of the Masters is special. There is 2 group of 4 players, and each player must play 3 matchs. The first and second ranked players in each group will play semifinals. The winner of each semifinal will meet for the final. .Change the World Tour's players: ------------------------------- Under Dos, or with the Windows' Explorator, go into directory DATA, then launch "Mk_plyrs.Exe". If you want to change left/right handed, use tab key. Multi-PC game: ************** .Null-Modem (2 computer game and 2 to 4 players): ------------------------------------------------ Enter the Com port of your Null-Modem cable. Adjust speed: this must be the same on both PCs (try all if you have trouble). Normally, you don't have to change IRQ and Address. Put UART in Autodectect mode. One PC must be in Call mode, and the other one in Answer; the game options will be fixed by the PC in Call mode. The best PC must have "Device" on "Wait", and the the other one must have "Device" on "No Wait". Adjust everything, then click on "Connect & Play". The '²' key (under 'Esc' key) stops everything. .IPX: --- You must have IPX drivers in memory. Then adjust Socket number, the best is to have the default configuration, otherwise you can have a number between 0x4000 and 0x4FFF. One PC must be in Call mode (it will fix the game options), and the other one must be in Answer mode. The best PC must have "Device" on "Wait", and the other one must have "Device" on "No Wait". Adjust everything, then click on "Connect & Play". The '²' key (under 'Esc' key) stops everything. ***************************** * 3. Keys & Known problems * ***************************** Default keys: ************* - keyboard 1: up: arrow up or '8' down: down or '2' left: left or '4' right: right or '6' button 1: 'Left Alt' button 2: 'Left Ctrl' - keyboard 2: up: 'I' down: 'K' left: 'J' right: 'L' button 1: Tab button 2: Caps Lock Known problems: *************** - With a Flystick Pro from CH Products, you can push on 2 buttons at the same time; so push the hat to left to have the good effect; - To check your Joystick, launch 'JOY.EXE'; hit a key to exit; - The animation may be very bad on a PC without a VLB or PCI card: it is possible that the game runs with less frames or even worse (normally, it runs at 60 frames per second); the CPU power is secondary, the CPU time used is almost the same on a 486dx33 and a 486dx2-66; - If you encounter display problems on your video card, launch UNIVBE.EXE or UNIVESA.EXE before you launch TENNIS.EXE; - If the quality of the game seems to be poor, try to change the detail level pushing on F9, and verify that the video card frequency in 640*480 is 60 hz. - When you end a match, to go back to the main menu, press Esc. Music: ********* If you install Tennis Elbow on your hard drive and then launch the game while you have an audio CD in the CDROM drive, TENNIS ELBOW will play this audio CD instead of the game music. To modify this, you should read "DATA\cdtracks.txt" ***************** * 4. Conclusion * ***************** Credits: ******* - Code, Design, Sound: Manu TOO. - Graphisms: Eric Rivoire. - Testers: Manu TOO, GoldenFeet, Adzaze. - Sleeves and Manual: Estelle, Yannick & Jef, LRSM. Thanks to: ********** - Zork / The Ultimates: for his help about programmation. - Skill / Lego System: for his help about zoom in generated code. - Franck Pouilly / Sysop de Nexus One BBS: for his encouragements, and the files founded on his BBS. Hello to: ********* - Pollux / Lego System - Gandalf / Infiny - Blaise Gassend - Fred Pesh / IO Design - Scarfman / Real Time - GoldenFeet - Floppy / AD - Puznik / ToadStood Now you know everything, so let's play! Have fun! Manu TOO & GOTO Informatique May 1997 Web site: http://www.tenniselbow.com ************* Hey ! What about the Cheat Codes ??? ************************************** Ok, ok, but use them wisely! Find yourself how and when to enter them.... mtkil => win the match mtwin => win the current set mtbal => increase the ball size mtrun => run faster '²' + Right Shift + '-' at the same time => win all points Ctrl + Alt + Del => stop win all points To contact the authors: *********************** Emmanuel RIVOIRE Emmanuel RIVOIRE Eric RIVOIRE 37, rue Dérichbourg 10 rue J-J Rousseau or 94 550 Chevilly Larue 26 000 Valence FRANCE FRANCE Email: Internet: manutoo@imaginet.fr emmanuel.rivoire@p6.f305.n320.z2.fidonet.org Fidonet: 2:320/305.6 SparkNet: 74:320/300.6 Publisher: ********** GOTO Informatique Château de la Bonnerie 111 rue de Croix 59510 Hem FRANCE Tel: +33 3 (0)3 20 66 55 00 Fax: +33 3 (0)3 20 66 55 09 Email: contact@goto.fr Hotline: hotline@goto.fr (for your technical problems) For International distribution, please email to Mrs Delahaye at chd@goto.fr. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED - (c) GOTO Informatique 1997 No illegal diffusion of the Shareware or Complete Version of this software is permitted. Restrictions apply for distributing both versions. Please contact GOTO at +33 3 20 66 55 00 or by email at chd@goto.fr to have information regarding distribution rights.