_____ / ____| ( (____ _ _ ____ ___ _ __ \____ \| | | | _ \ / _ \ '__| _____) | |_| | |_) | __/ | |______/ \__,_| __/ \___|_| |_| _____ _ _ | __ \ _ _ | | _ | | | |__) | __ _| |_| |_| | ___| |_ __ _ _ __ | | __ | __ < / _` | _| _| |/ _ \ _|/ _` | '_ \| |/ / | |__) | (_| | |_| |_| | __/ |_| (_| | | | | < |_____/ \__,_|\__|\__|_|\___|\__|\__,_|_| |_|_|\_\ O---------------------------------------O | Super Battletank | | An FAQ | | By KeyBlade999 | | | | File Size: 29.5 KB | | Current Version: Final | | Previous Update: 9:13 PM 6/6/2012 | O---------------------------------------O O=========================================================O | Dedicated to the brave men and women who took part in | | Operation Desert Storm. | O=========================================================O =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= Section Negative One: Donations **SBTANK_-1** =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= While I do write all of my guides for free, it does take a lot of time and effort to put them together. If you're feeling generous and want to show your appreciation, I am gladly accepting donations. I don't know exactly what the donations will be used for, but just know that you would definitely be helping me make more quality FAQs! Even the smallest donation amounts are appreciated, and are a great way to say how much you appreciate the work I do. If you do decide you'd like to donate, please send the donations through PayPal at the e-mail address listed below. Thank you so very much for considering this!! keyblade999.faqs@gmail.com By the way, this is also my contact e-mail, so if you want to contribute something to this or any of my other FAQs, or have a question to ask about one of them, go ahead and use this e-mail. =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= Section Zero: Table of Contents **SBTANK_0** =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= [Section Title] .............................................. [CTRL+F Tag] -1. Donations ................................................ **SBTANK_-1** 0. Table of Contents ........................................ **SBTANK_0** 1. Intro .................................................... **SBTANK_1** 2. Version History .......................................... **SBTANK_2** 3. Legalities ............................................... **SBTANK_3** 4. Basics of the Game ....................................... **SBTANK_4** =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= Section One: Intro **SBTANK_1** =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= Welcome to another FAQ of mine. This one covers the GameBoy game, Super Battletank. This game, from what I've seen, is rather unique. Like the modern war game Call of Duty, or an older equivalent called Jungle Strike, this game has to do with war. So, what war is it? The Persian Gulf War. Not exactly a prime choice for such games, but, hey, it works pretty well! Yeah, I don't have much to say about this; not real good with this, you know. But try to enjoy. =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= Section Two: Version History **SBTANK_2** =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= Final - First and likely only version of this FAQ completed. 9:13 PM 6/6/2012 =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= Section Three: Legalities **SBTANK_3** =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= This FAQ may not be reproduced under any circumstances except for personal, private use. It may not be placed on any website or otherwise distributed publicly without advance written permission. Use of this guide on any other website or as a part of any public display is strictly prohibited, and a violation of copyright. All trademarks and copyrights contained in this document are owned by their respective trademark and copyright holders. © 2012 Daniel Chaviers (a.k.a. KeyBlade999). If you would wish to contact me concerning this or my other FAQs, use this e-mail: keyblade999.faqs@gmail.com, or PM (Private Message) me on the GameFAQs message boards. O-----------------------------------O O------------------------------------O | Allowed sites for my FAQs | | Forever-Banned Sites | O-----------------------------------O O------------------------------------O | GameFAQs (www.gamefaqs.com) | | CheatCC (www.cheatcc.com) | | Neoseeker (www.neoseeker.com) | | www.cheat-database.com | | SuperCheats (www.supercheats.com) | | Cheat Index (www.cheatindex.com) | | | | Cheat Search (www.cheatsearch.com) | | | | www.panstudio.com/cheatstop | | | | Game Express (www.gameexpress.com) | | | | Mega Games | | | | Cheats Guru (www.cheatsguru.com) | O-----------------------------------O O------------------------------------O =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= Section Four: Basics of the Game **SBTANK_4** =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= -------- Controls -------- ~~ D-Pad : (Up) Move forward. (Down) Move backward. (Right) Rotate clockwise. (Left) Rotate counterclockwise. (With B Button) Adjust targeting cursor's position. ~~ A Button : Fire weapon! ~~ B Button : Use with the D-Pad to adjust the targeting cursor's position. ~~ Start Button : Pause game and use overworld map. ~~ Select Button: Cycle through your weaponry. ~~ L/R Buttons : These only have functions on the GBA SP and GameBoy Player ways of playing the game. They will widen/narrow the screen, respectively. Otherwise, N/A. ------------------ Object of the Game ------------------ This game is divided into several missions. Each mission has a similar objective -- destroy all enemies -- and you'll be restocked, refueled, and repaired at the start of each mission. Also in these missions, your enemies are randomly placed; therefore, walkthroughs are very nearly impossible. -------------------- The Heads-Up Display -------------------- This is what your screen will look like when not paused (well, kind of). The upper part is your viewing screen; the lower bit is your heads-up display. Bracketed [] numbers indicate what part is being explained below the diagram. Number signs (#) just represent random numbers. ____________________________________________________________________________ | | | | | | | | | | | [1] | | | | | | | | | | | |____________________________________________________________________________| | [2] ################ | | |__________________________________________________| [3] | | | ________ | G ### | | | | / \ | | | | | | | | R ### | ^ | | | | [4] | | [5] | / \ | | | | | | M ### | / \ | | | \________/ | | | |__________|________________| E ### | | | | ______ |______________________|_________________________| | | / \ | [7] | | | | | | | | | | | | | O 120mm ### | | | |[8]| | | | | | | [6] | | O Laser ### |__|___|___|___|___|___|__| | | \______/ | O Smoke ### O 7.62 mm ### | |__________|________________|________________________________________________| [1] - What you can see. Enemies are shown here, as are flying ammunition and the targeting cursor. [2] - Your score. This goes up as enemies are destroyed. [3] - Your radar. The /\-shaped line is you, with the point facing the direction (north, northeast, etc.) you're facing in respect to the map. Anything else is marked as a square. [4] - Your accelerometer. When you press Up on the D-Pad, this increases, as does your forward movement. Press Down on the D-Pad to slow down or stop. [5] - "G" - Represents the current gradient, in degrees, of the terrain. When moving, a flat (zero-degrees) terrain will not affect your movement. However, say you're on a ten-degree gradient. If you move one square unit purely forward, you'll also move ~0.2 square units down the gradient. On a twenty-degree gradient, you'll go ~0.36 square units down the gradient. As the gradient becomes steeper, the more you'll move down it. If it piques your curiosity, I included a table at the end of this FAQ listing the results for such situations. "R" - Represents how far you are from an on-screen enemy. Units unknown. "M" - Mission number. "E" - Represents the number of enemies left to defeat. [6] - Your fuel gauge. As your tank moves, you lose fuel. If you lose all of your fuel, you'll lose the game. The game warns you when you're at 1/4 ~ 1/3 of a tank (low fuel). To refuel tanks, you'll have to reach an American supply area. [7] - Your weaponry. There are four types: - 120mm: Your missiles. Powerful, but slow firing speed. Usually come in sufficient quantities. Targeting cursor freedom is minimal. - Laser: Almost always an instant-kill with a hit. High firing speed, but often in low quantities. Highest freedom with the targeting cursor. - Smoke: Launches a smoke bomb. Temporarily renders you and the enemy invisible to each other. Often good to use when against several enemies and want to flee. - 7.62 mm: Your machine gun. Often comes with high quantities of ammo, and allows decent freedom with the targeting cursor. My personal preference. [8] - Here, you'll find the six slots for your health. Each time one lights up, you've lost one unit of health. Lose all six, and the game is over. To refill health, you'll need to find the American supply area. ---------------- Playing the Game ---------------- A fairly simple concept, really. You'll need to destroy all of the enemies on the battlefield to complete the mission and proceed to the next one. As I have said earlier, the enemies' positions are randomized, preventing a true walkthrough. =/ Anyways, always begin a mission by pressing Start to look at the overworld map. You'll find markings specific to whatever there is there. The top-down tank is you; side-on tanks are the enemies'; copters are... helicopters; cannons are SCUD launchers; U.S. flags are refill areas (refill ammo, health, and fuel); and targeting cursors are specific locations for you to go. Use the D-Pad to move more quickly to an enemy. Destroy it, and move on to the next and the next, and so on, until you defeat every enemy. If you need to, go to a refill/supply zone, though I don't suggest doing that until you're about to fight the last enemy or so. Anyways, that's about it. Fighting enemies doesn't require much technique. There are a few enemies in the game I know of. I also suggest fighting them in this order, though SCUD launchers won't appear until mission two, and helicopters until mission three. -- Helicopters: Still using the 7.62 mm machine gun. Aim your cursor up high. They'll VERY rarely hit you, so you -- Tanks: Fight them with your 7.62 mm machine gun. Slow down when near them or you'll be inaccurate. You can also use your 120mm missiles if you want; I just prefer the machine gun. -- SCUD Launchers: Hit these with your lasers, or, if you lack those, your 120mm missiles. If you lack those, your gun is always okay. I don't recall ever being hit by these, so... That's about it. Except for the... -------------- Gradient Table -------------- As I stated earlier, your gradient will affect how much you move to the side whilst moving forward. This table shows how much you'll move to the side when moving forward. All of these results are rounded to 15 decimal places. All results were obtained via the simplified function... 1/tan(90-(gradient)) ... in Microsoft Excel. Obviously, if you know trig, you'll know I can't use a ninety-degree angle or above. Of course, basic physics should also tell you that. :) O==========================O==================================O | Degree of the gradient | Square units moved to side per | | | square unit moved forward | O==========================O==================================O | 0 | 0.000000000000000 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 1 | 0.017455064928219 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 2 | 0.034920769491749 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 3 | 0.052407779283043 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 4 | 0.069926811943512 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 5 | 0.087488663525926 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 6 | 0.105104235265678 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 7 | 0.122784560902906 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 8 | 0.140540834702393 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 9 | 0.158384440324538 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 10 | 0.176326980708466 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 11 | 0.194380309137720 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 12 | 0.212556561670024 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 13 | 0.230868191125565 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 14 | 0.249328002843182 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 15 | 0.267949192431124 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 16 | 0.286745385758809 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 17 | 0.305730681458662 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 18 | 0.324919696232908 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 19 | 0.344327613289667 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 20 | 0.363970234266204 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 21 | 0.383864035035417 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 22 | 0.404026225835158 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 23 | 0.424474816209606 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 24 | 0.445228685308537 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 25 | 0.466307658155000 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 26 | 0.487732588565863 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 27 | 0.509525449494430 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 28 | 0.531709431661480 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 29 | 0.554309051452770 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 30 | 0.577350269189627 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 31 | 0.600860619027562 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 32 | 0.624869351909329 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 33 | 0.649407593197512 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 34 | 0.674508516842428 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 35 | 0.700207538209711 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 36 | 0.726542528005362 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 37 | 0.753554050102796 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 38 | 0.781285626506719 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 39 | 0.809784033195009 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 40 | 0.839099631177282 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 41 | 0.869286737816228 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 42 | 0.900404044297841 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 43 | 0.932515086137663 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 44 | 0.965688774807076 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 45 | 1.000000000000000 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 46 | 1.035530313790570 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 47 | 1.072368710024680 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 48 | 1.110612514829190 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 49 | 1.150368407221010 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 50 | 1.191753592594210 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 51 | 1.234897156535050 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 52 | 1.279941632193080 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 53 | 1.327044821620410 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 54 | 1.376381920471180 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 55 | 1.428148006742120 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 56 | 1.482560968512740 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 57 | 1.539864963814580 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 58 | 1.600334529041050 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 59 | 1.664279482350520 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 60 | 1.732050807568880 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 61 | 1.804047755271430 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 62 | 1.880726465346330 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 63 | 1.962610505505150 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 64 | 2.050303841579300 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 65 | 2.144506920509560 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 66 | 2.246036773904220 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 67 | 2.355852365823760 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 68 | 2.475086853416300 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 69 | 2.605089064693800 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 70 | 2.747477419454630 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 71 | 2.904210877675830 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 72 | 3.077683537175260 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 73 | 3.270852618484140 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 74 | 3.487414443840910 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 75 | 3.732050807568880 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 76 | 4.010780933535850 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 77 | 4.331475874284160 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 78 | 4.704630109478460 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 79 | 5.144554015970320 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 80 | 5.671281819617720 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 81 | 6.313751514675050 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 82 | 7.115369722384220 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 83 | 8.144346427974600 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 84 | 9.514364454222590 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 85 | 11.430052302761400 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 86 | 14.300666256711900 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 87 | 19.081136687728200 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 88 | 28.636253282915600 | O--------------------------O----------------------------------O | 89 | 57.289961630759500 | O==========================O==================================O O=============================================================================O | This is the end of KeyBlade999's | | FAQ for the GameBoy game | | Super Battletank. | O=============================================================================O ________________ | ____________ | | | | | | | | | | |____________| |________________________________________ | |____________| |_________________________ | | | | | | |\ /\ /| | | | | | | | \ / \ / | | | |____________| | | | (_) (_) | | |________________| |_| |_| ___ ___ ___ /'__`\ /'__`\ /'__`\ /\ 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