"""~"""~"""~"""~"""~"""~"""~"""~"""~"""~"""~"""~"""~"""~"""~"""~"""~"""~"""~""" Tama and Friends 3-Choume Daibouken (Sanchome Big Adventure) FAQ/Walkthrough FDS 1989 Version: 1.0 released on the 12th of October 2016 Author: odino http://www.gamefaqs.com/features/recognition/47976.html This guide is EXCLUSIVELY available at GameFAQs. .============================================================================. | .========================================================================. | | | TABLE OF CONTENTS | | | '========================================================================' | |============================================================================| | 01.) Introduction | G0100 | | 02.) Basics | G0200 | |----------------------------------------------------------------+-----------| | 03.) Stages | G0300 | |----------------------------------------------------------------+-----------| | YY.) Version History | GYY00 | | ZZ.) Credits & Thanks | GZZ00 | '=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-' =============================================================================== 01.) INTRODUCTION G0100 =============================================================================== Welcome to 'Tama and Friends: 3-Choume Dai Bouken' for the Famicon Disk System, released by Bandai in 1989. The title translates to 'Sanchome Big Adventure', with Sanchome being a district in Toko near Shinjuku. Suggestions, comments or errors - tell me about it. Enjoy! =============================================================================== 02.) BASICS G0200 =============================================================================== The aim of the game is rather simple: get to the end of the fifth chapter and defeat the final boss. This is a simple platformer with cute characters. Controls: ````````` A Jump, the longer you press the higher you jump B Call Backup as long as you have a fish remaining Up+A Climb up poles Down Duck Down Descend into pipes (dare I say Mario?), not every pipe is open Defeat enemies by jumping on them from the top (dare I say Mario?). You get hit by the enemies any other way and you lose life. Once you lose all the life you will get a game over screen...cute but unfortunately the end of the line for you. Also be careful of water dripping/bird poo (very much unlike Mario!) and similar hazards like falling down into the abyss (not just like Mario!). So without going into the game too deep if you want a few tips, the only one worth mentioning is that you want to collect the fish and use them on the bosses because they make fighting them so much easier. Aside from that there is just basic jumping and running involved in this game. Items/Screen: ````````````` Life: Your health bar, replenished with food up to 5 hearts but you always start with 3 per level. Cookies: Collect 100 of these for a new life. Realistically there are only enough cookies in the game for a single 1UP. Fish: Summon (really! "Final Fantasy" style) a cat to bounce around doing damage to enemies, usually done at the boss Cat: Lives, you start with 2 and gain more by collecting cookies Food: Rice. Gain hearts (life) and increases max by 1 Milk: Replenishes 1 heart but does not increase max life. Like I said, the game is very simplistic. Summons/Characters: ``````````````````` You play as Tama. You can summon help in each level and the help will be a different friend. | Stage | Name | Translated Name |-------+------+---------------- | 1 | Pochi| Doozle | 2 | Beh | Chopin | 3 | Nora | Rockney | 4 | Koma | Pimmy | 5 | Tora | Tiggle As far as I know the "evil" dog is called Buru/Bupkus as he usually bullies Tama and her friends in the cartoon. =============================================================================== 03.) STAGES G0300 =============================================================================== Stage 1: ```````` Choose to stay at the bottom or climb up the pole or stack of boxes if you want to attack the birds rather than just avoid their poop. Next up you have bouncing baseballs. You can actually hit them to "kill" them but you might also just avoid them completely. Soon you will have a hammer fall down. This one is a little cheeky because it bounces forward after hitting the floor - just where you are walking! Wait for it to bounce out of the floor and move on. Not that if the hammer bounces off the walls above you it will not bounce again on the bottom floor. Right so most of things to watch out for are flying around the screen and they unfortunately blend it well with the background houses and beige boxes etc. Soon you come to a pole that is followed by a small and big puddle. Climb up the pole and collect as many cookies as you can. There are 24 in total and if you fall down you will be at the pole again so don't worry about getting killed. Afterwards jump over the puddles (they are acid or as a cat you just don't like water!) to move on. You will now be coming across biplanes. You can easily jump on the lower one and doing so might yield a fish so try and find one. After a bit more of traversing you find the first boss. Stay at the top of the wall for a superb spot to hit him. Keep jumping when he does and try to hit his head as you jump from one side of the gap to the other. If you fall down you are in a bad position and want to reach the wall asap. You can also use a fish here if you want but I find it too easy to waste a fish here. It requires 8 hits(?) to defeat him. Stage 2: ```````` Climb up the first pole to get up on the wall. It is much easier to walk along the wall and avoid the planes. After the butterflies you should go back up as avoiding the baseballs is also much easier although you need to jump and hit them slightly. Whenever you are forced down due to a big gap try to get up onto the wall as soon as possible. The airplanes are a tough dodge especially if you are trying to avoid the baseballs and puddles at the same time. At the top you also do not have to worry about puddles or manholes at all. Soon you will reach a climbable pole. At the top you can again collect the cookies as well as a milk bottle if you lost some health. There are 20 cookies up there. Remember to stay at the top of the wall. The first butterfly you kill should have a fish. Excellent timing because the next boss is just ahead. Just like before, stay at the top and jump to time hitting the dog's head. It is very easy. Stage 3: ```````` Enter the first pipe to find a few enemies. The big critter drops food so if you need some (actually even if you were not hit at all so far you only have 4). The small mouse at the bottom drops another fish. The path back up is a little tricky because you have time hitting the left mouse as it comes right. I would suggest not bothering with the right mouse because it is quite tight and tricky to jump up, although I have managed to lodge the cat into the tall block to the left of it and then easily jump over. If you cannot get that working just ignore it. Leave the pipe by jumping into the hole at the top and repeat this place for more food if you want. Once you have 5 hearts we move on. I never though of the butterflies as threatening but after the sandbox you can find a couple swarming towards you and one of them drops a fish. Nice. Go along and destroy any spider, frog you find, avoid the dragonfly as they are faster than the planes and still do that crazy move where they drop down a level. Easiest is to jump in-between them as they come buzzing in. After a while you come across another pole and at the top you have the usual collection of cookies and also a bottle of milk. This time you should find 20 cookies. When you get to a pipe that has two bees zooming around you, you can go down this pipe and find 2 portions of food. That should make you full again. But do not threat as up ahead are two more adjacent pipes and the first one leads to a lucky cat that fills your health. Boss time! Again the same as before. This time you probably have lots of fish and you can only keep three at the time. That means you should use at least one now because you pick up more later. All in all this boss is still super easy because you can stay at the top right corner. The only difference is that you have less space to jump around on this wall. Stage 4: ```````` In an interesting variation we are below the surface on this level. Watch out for bolts falling off the pipes. Watch the bats as they fly from left to right and never change their movement pattern. You can time your way past them. After a few of these bats you will come across a pipe leading down to a fish among enemies you yield cookies and food if you choose to confront them. The levels always start you with 3 so gaining a couple of hearts is a good idea. Again you can come back for another portion of food to max it. This level is very linear and I have little to warn you about. Try going into the pipes as they can have food for you if necessary. At 100 cookies you also gain an extra life. Try to be at full health when you reach the dog. The boss is the hardest you had so far. There is no wall to hide and staying in the center makes you get hit all the time. I suggest you use at least 2 fish here to rattle down his health. Stay at one side and try to hit him as much as you can. Usually when you hit him he will go to the other side of the screen. Also you need to avoid his projectiles. Stage 5: ```````` Back on the roofs and actually we ONLY have roof now so careful of falling into the abyss. You do not have 9 lives! Luckily the start only has simple enemies like butterflies. Descend the first pipe you come across to find a fish. It might be tricky to reach and almost seems impossible but keep dashing into that gap. The two enemies also fill you health. Having max health in this level is obviously very good. After some tougher parts with planes and bees, eventually you have a long jump ahead of you and it only lands on a pole. Thus you want to hold up the UP button while you jump over there and ascend with A. At the top you have more cookies and by now you really should have found 100. Back on the roof you have a similar jump coming up and then keep going across the roof. It is a long level but I just don't have much new to tell you. At the end of this section you must go down the pipe and replenish your health at the cat, then back up for the next section. This is easily the toughest part of the game and you will get hit a few times. Luckily you can find pipes that have food (after killing the enemy) and you should be all right. At the end you face the final boss. The difference to the last level's boss is that you have a gap to worry about but you will be staying at the right side of the screen all the time. Keep jumping over the projectiles and hit the boss when he is close. Use ALL your fish. Two is good but three is even better. You really should come into this battle with full health because it is easy to lose at least 3-4 hearts here. After the last boss is defeated you will see the credits. END =============================================================================== YY.) VERSION HISTORY GYY00 =============================================================================== v1.0 Complete (12th of October 2016). =============================================================================== ZZ.) CREDITS & THANKS GZZ00 =============================================================================== GameFAQs for hosting this file. Sony and Bandai for the game. All trademarks and copyrights contained in this document are owned by their respective trademark and copyright holders. This guide 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. 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