Trauma Center: Under the Knife (No Fancy ASCII Art For You!) Guide and Walkthrough - Version .1 - By Edgar Baez - Copyright 2005 Edgar Baez ------------------------------------ Table of Contents "Navigate Here" ==================================== 1. Introduction (S1) 2. Version (S2) 3. Story (S3) 4. How to Play (S4) 5. Little Tips That May Help (S5) 6. Walkthrough (S6) 7. Credits (S7) 8. Closing Statements (S8) 9. CopyRight Information (S9) ------------------------------------------ Introduction "Hello!" (S1) ========================================== Hello, and welcome to my FAQ for Trauma Center: Under the Knife. I am your assistant.Edgar. I am will be your guide throughout these operations you will experience during your career as a surgeon. Hah, anyway, this is my first FAQ. Please bear with me as I try to learn the ins-and-outs of FAQ writing. I picked this game up on release and I love it. I thoughtit was a very cool game. When am I ever gonna be surgeon again? Very fun and new experience utilizing the Nintendo DS functions that make it so unique. This game can be a bit tough and amibigous at times but you'll be able to make it through. Just have Fun! Thats what videogames are for! Alright, lets begin operating! ------------------------------------------ Version History (S2) =========================================== Version 0.1 - 10/14/2005 Finished: - Introduction - Version History - Story - How to Play - Guide/Walkthrough - Credits - Closing Statements - CopyRight Info -------------------------------------------- Story "not half bad..." (S3) ============================================ This is what they manual lays out as the story of the game: " In the year 2018, making has overcome a number of diseases once thought incurable. Cancer, AIDS, and TFTA are clearly things of the past. However, a new plague has emerged to threaten humanity... ...it's called GUILT (Gangliated Utrophin Immuno Latency Toxin). Very little is known about this new disease, but rumor has it that GUILT might be the first biological weapon used for "medical terrorism." Our only hope may lie in Caduceus International - a semi-covert organization designed to researchand treat the world's most "untreatable" diseases.Caduceus has managed to keep GUILT from the public so far, but how can they possibly eliminate a disease they don't even know how to treat properly? Meanwhile, Derek Stiles has just completed his residency and joined the surgical team at Hope Hospital, where routing clinical cases are about to become far more serious..." Believe it or not, the story isn't half bad. I might even consider having a part of the FAQ dea with analysis of it. -------------------------------------------------------- How To Play "And how to use the toys they give ya!" (S4) ========================================================= -LITERAL CONTROLS- + Control Pad - Move Cursor A Button - Make Selection / Continue Conversation B Button - Selects "Return" from the LOAD screen X Button - Not Used Y Button - Not Used L Button - Not Used R Button - Not Used SELECT - Speed through conversations START - Pause the Game -Heads Up Display- Vital Indicator - The Heart at the top left screen is the indicator. Zero = DIE HeartBeat Monitor - This shows current heart beat. Obviously when it flatlines the patient is dead. Call - When this appears select it to hear what the assistant or someone else has to say. Tool Bar - These to vertical bars going down the side of the screen both have five different tools. Tray - Appears when you remove something from a body and need to dispose of it. - How to use your surgical tools - Laser - The laser incinerates tumors and viruses. Tap the screen to shoot the laser or hold it down. Antibiotic Gel - A potent medication used for disinfection it can also heal small wounds. Just rub on infected area. Drain - A long tube for removing fluid ffrom the area of operation, primarily blood. Tap the pool of blood and push upward the tube to suck up blood until the puddle dissapears.To release fluid (like water in bomb mission) tap the part of the tube with the fluid and pull down on until all the fluid is gone. Forceps - Extract harmful materials and pick up delicate objects like synthetic membranes.Just tap the objects and pull in the opposite direction of which the object is lodged. Or just pull away if it is something else. A tray will appearin the bottom right to drop the object in. Hand - Take a hands-on approach to various actions, such as heart-massage and membrane application. Just rub on the area Scanner - It's used to find conecealed tumors or to magnify affected areas. A shadow will appearwhen tumors or GUILT are found. Swiftly take your scapel and push or rub on the shadow to make the tumor expose or the GUILT pop-out. Scalpel - A blade to make incisions and excise/remove tumors and other objects. If a something is excisable a yellow dotted pattern will appear around it. Follow the line to cut it off. You can also use it to expose hiding GUILT in the body. Just hold down on the shadow. Stitches - Use the needle to suture incisions and other delicate areas (Suture is a fancy word for stitch or close up.) Syringe - his is necessary for injecting various medications. THe most commonone would be green medicine. Which increases vitals when injected. Just tapthe bottleand pull upward will it fills with medicine. Then tap on body and pull down on it till fully injected. Bandages - End an operation by applying tape to the sutured area. Just tap then pull over area to be covered and let go. --------------------------------------------------------- Little Tips That May Help You Out "Or Not"(S5) ========================================================= 1. Its good to practice your stitching pattern. After a while you'll be able to find it and stitch up lacerations and inscisions with ease. 2. If you need to start over a mission, you can skip through the text with SELECT.(See the manual is good for something!) 3. Always keep an eye on vitals whenever things are calming up. Its no good to be on a roll during an operation and lose to vitals reaching zero. 4. Always pay attention to what the assistant or whoever is saying to you. They always seem to drop helpful hints on how to take care of the situation. 5. If a surgery has you frustrated. Relax. Take a break. Go at it again. You'd be surprised what a 10 minute break can help you out on beating the mission the next time you attempt it. 6. When you first being, you won't be getting much more than C Rank for now.Don't worry about it. So far we've found ranking higher doesn't give you anything. But I'll tell you how to rank better later in the game. --------------------------------------------------- Walkthrough "Finally, what you're here for!" (S6) =================================================== 1-1. Now this one isn't tough at all. But if you need help. Thats why I'm here. Although the nurse does tell you how to do everything, anyway, Let's Begin.I believe the patient was in a car crash and sufferd many foreign objects (glass) into the upper arm. Well we are going to have to do something about it aren't we? Start by closing up those lacerations with the stitches. A nice simple zig-zag pattern will do. If your new at this. It might be hard to get used to stitching it right the first time. But after practice you'll be stitching in up easily.Now select the forceps and be careful where in which direction the glass is being lodged in. Pull in the opposite direction and drop the glass in the tray that appears at the bottom right. Repeat with the 2nd piece. Closethe small lacerations left behind by applying anti-biotic gel to them. Okay now a yellow dotted line will appear. Apply anti-biotic gel until it says Ok!. Then take your scapel and make an incision followingthe line.You will notice 3 shards of glass in his arm. Remove them with the same method as before and apply anti-biotic gel. When the camera zooms out. Stitch up the insiscion with a zigzag pattern (about 3 good zigs should be good). Then apply anti-biotic gel on stitches until ok! appears. Then select the bandage and apply = over the stitches. Just barely going over the end of both sides of the stitch. Good Job Surgeon! You've completed your first operation! But it will most certainly not be your last... You have been warned... With a Surgeon General's Warning! XD 1-2 Well now you are moving onto bigger and better things. Well for you, not the patient. A simple tumor removal. Open him up. Use the anti-bioticsto disinfect and then cut him open down the line.Inject vitals into him.Then use the ultra-sound to find the tumors. A shadow will appear onstomach. Repeat it again,tapping on the tumor. Then quickly get yourscapel and draw a linedown the shadow. It will open up and you will see green pus. Grab the drain and remove the pus. Put the drain on the pus. Then push upward in middle of tube. Green stuff shouldgo through. Continue until it is all gone. You will then see a dotted line around the tumor. Follow it withthe scapel to remove it. Use the forcepsto grab it and then drop it in tray. Then select the forceps again and a yellow square will appear in tray on your bottom left. It is synthetic protein, used to covert big cuts like that. Its made out of protein so the body won't reject it. If you even cared. Get the anti-biotic gel and rub it over the protein layer until ok! appears. Then Select your hands and rub around the corners of the square until it melded into the flesh.The procedure has been completed. Now close em' up. You know the deal.Four Zig-Zags did the deal for me. Then anti-biotics and apply the bandge. Operation Successful. Well Done. 1-3 Here we have many tumors in the pancreas. The procedure shouldn't be much harder than the last. We'll start by opening him up. You will see two white dots on the pancreas. They are inflamed areas. Inject blueserum into both of them to reduce inflammation. Now use your scanner to find a tumor. Once you do, cut it open with scapel, remove green fluid, excise tumor and put in tray, apply synthetic protein,including gel and pressure, repeat for other two tumors. Then your done with the main part. Just stitch him up, stitches, gel, bandge. Finished! That was easy! Operation Successful. 1-4 No surgery here! Aw man... This chapter just talks about you're current assistant, Mary Fulton, is leaving the hospital and your new assistant, the young and beautfiul, Angie Thompson will be taking her place. Don'tunderestimate her. She is one tough cookie. But she'll open up later in the game. 1-5 Okay this surgery is a little more different than the others, which is good. A singer has polyps in his throat which affects his voice, makes him cough up blood, etc. Anyway its up to you to remove them. Open up his neck. You'll see his trachea. He has a little blood collecting at the bottom. Zoom up on it. (Select Scanner and draw circle around area) Drain the blood from the area. You will see polyps on there now. Use the laser and tap at em' till they are gone. Now then be careful, if you use the laser for too long on the area, you may hit tissueand cause bleeding. Which you will need to drain the blood again. Now treat those little aftermarks with anti-biotic gel. Don't let too many aftermarks stay open for long or blood will accumulate which you will need to drain. Zoom out. (Draw a little circle) Oh No! A hemmorage has appeared on the top of trachea! Quick!To the area doctor on the double! Do what you did before last time. Repeat this about four more times. You will be done and you can close up the patient. Another surgery under your belt or well whatever...good job! Operation Successful. 1-6 Here have many multiple tumors in the intestine. Open up the patient. You will notice many inflammed areas on the intestines. Inject Blue Serem into each of the areas. After that search for tumors with the scanner. Use the scapel to expose them. Drain fluid. Excise tumor, apply protein, gel, apply pressure, repeat four times. Angie will tell you his vitals are still dropping and ask you to continue scanning. Repeat doing that. You will come up with nothing. You will zoom out, close up the patient and finish the job. Operation Sucessful. 1-7 More story. I'll cover it more deeply later. You basically go out on an errand although Angie,tells you something about the previous patient and to check it out. You ignore her and tell her tommorw you will. When you come back the hospital director Robert Hoffman will confrontyou about this. Then Angie will totally PWN you by saying you are negligent to your duties and that you should not be a doctor and your aren't really one. You then go out to the town feeling bad about yourself,thinking Angie is right, you overhear about this guy talking aboutan accident and a guy flew out of the car and you try to get him to a hospital quickly. 1-8 You are now operating on the victim of the crash. He is suffering cardiae arrest and suffers many lacerations of the epithelium and abdomenproblems. Angie freaks out because she can't recover a pulse. Its up toyou to get him back to normal and calm down Angie. You will see abar going up and down through the middle of his chest. Follow it with Anti-Biotic gel and then when it goes ok! Use your hands to massage his chest and get his pulse back up. Just follow the bar going up and downuntil Angie says you have a pulse. Stitch up the lacerations first andthen apply gel to the smaller cuts. After that remove glass from chest and apply gel to small lacerations left behind after each piece of glassis removed. Vitals may get low by 2nd removal of glass so be sure to inject a shot or two of vitals to get him back up. After that Angie will say shethinks something is wrong with him since his vitals are dropping. You shouldopen up his chest now. You will notice the guy's heart is pumping with glass shards in it. Ok now carefully remove one and close it with anti-biotic gel.Repeat for all shards. Carefully,watch the vitals, they will get low and you may need to dope him up to around 20. After you have removed all shards and closed up the wounds with gel, relax....NO WAIT! DON'T his pulse is dropping! Quick apply anti-biotic gel to heart and apply pressure to heart! (follow bar up and down with hand until a pulse comes back) YOU KNOW YOU SHOULD NEVER RELAX DURING AN OPERATION! How unprofessional… what idiot told you that? :) Anyway you will notice a large shard coming up from his heart, carefully remove it from heart,drop in tray and stitch it up quickly. Phew..now we can relax, ...NO! what is happening to his heart! *Rrrriiip!* Ah! A huge laceration in his heart! What are we goooiiinnngg tooo doooo... Whoa time is slowing down. What was that star? That my fellow surgeon is the healing touch. But don't worry about it now. Seize the moment! Time is passing around 3-5x slower than normal. Quickly stitch up his huge gash or inject vitals first if needed before attempting to stitch him up. Ok once your down we can relax.... NO WAIT! Just kidding! Stitch him up, apply gel and bandage. We are finally down with this operation! Phew....Operation Successful. Just to let you know the healing touch is a power giving through greek god of medicine. Time is really slowing down its just your moving so fast it seems time is slowing down. But you move faster than the eye can keep up with. You'll find out more on it later. 2-1 - End Coming up in next version! ----------------------------------------------- Credits (S7) "Yes I give credit where it is due" ================================================ I would like to start of by thanking myself for making this. You for reading it. Nintendo for raising me through my younger years through its video-gamesand creating great games and new experiences. Atlus for publishing this game for the U.S.(Which I doubted). Um My Mom and Dad for being there and making me. My friends for always being there. (Usually). My dog Scottie, he 0wnz. Burger-King, because it Pwnz McDonalds. -------------------------------------------- Closing Statements "Read It Please" (S8) ============================================ Uh thanks for reading this guys. I hoped I helped you out! If I didn't notify me on the boards for TC: UTK, my username is edgarbaez89. Uh I had a bit of fun making this, gave me a headache though. I'm not done as of now. So more fun! Yeah! Have fun with your Video Games! "Stay Healthy, Strong, and Remember Be Happy!" ---------------------------------------------- CopyRight Information (S9) "Do you Read this?" ============================================== This document Copyright © 2005, All content is used with permission by the specific authors. This Document may not be used in any book, magazine, website, or any other form of written or recorded media without expressed written consent of the author. Nintendo, Nintendo DS, Trauma Center: Under the Knife, Atlus, BurgerKing, McDonalds, and any aforementioned game, product, or company are trademarks of each respective company and product of respective companies as cited in this document.Edgar Baez is not affiliated with Nintendo, BurgerKing, McDonalds, or Atlus. CopyRight Edgar Baez 2005