***Dynomite Deluxe***
**Screen Shots**
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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- 1.0 Required Specs And Recommended Specs
1.1 Required Specs
1.2 Recommended Specs
- 2.0 Troubleshooting/Compatibility
2.1 DirectX®
2.2 Screen Color Depth
2.3 Bug Reporting
- 3.0 Instructions
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Controls
3.3 Game Selection
3.4 Tutorial
3.5 Options
3.6 New Game
3.7 Save/Load Game
3.8 Pause
3.9 Exit Game
- 4.0 Game Concepts
4.1 Endless Mode
4.2 Stomped Mode
4.3 Fossil Challenge Mode
4.4 Time Trial Mode
4.5 Bonus Babies
4.6 Combos
- 5.0 Scoring
- 6.0 Registration
6.1 Benefits of Registering
6.2 How to Register
6.3 Buy a Registration Code Online
6.4 Enter Your Registration Code
6.5 Problems?
- 7.0 Gameplay Tips
- 8.0 Dynomite on the Internet
- 9.0 Technical Support
- 10.0 Credits
- 11.0 Software Use Limitations And Limited License
- 12.0 Copyright Information
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1.0 REQUIRED SPECS AND RECOMMENDED SPECS
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1.1 REQUIRED SPECS
Dynomite Deluxe requires an IBM PC or 100% compatible computer, with a
Pentium II 200 MHz or better processor. Your computer must have at
least 32 megabytes of RAM.
Operating System: you must be utilizing Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, or
XP with DirectX® 7 or later to play Dynomite Deluxe on your system.
Controls: a keyboard and a 100% Microsoft compatible mouse are
required.
Sound: you must have a DirectX® certified sound card installed.
Video: you must have your desktop set to 16-bit or 32-bit Color
(256 Colors may not work).
1.2 RECOMMENDED SPECS
PopCap recommends an IBM PC or 100% compatible computer, with a
Pentium II 300 MHz or better processor.
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2.0 TROUBLESHOOTING / COMPATIBILITY
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For Updates To This List Go To www.popcap.com.
2.1 DirectX®
Dynomite Deluxe requires you to have DirectX® 7 drivers or later
installed. These are sound and video drivers from Microsoft used in
many games. If you need the latest version of DirectX®, go to
http://www.microsoft.com/directx.
2.2 Screen Color Depth
Dynomite Deluxe requires you to be running in 16bit color or better.
It may not function in Windowed mode properly in 256 colors. If you
are running in 256 colors, the game will try to switch to full screen
mode.
In addition, the game may run slowly in windowed mode in 32 bit
color. If this occurs, switch to full-screen mode, or change
your color depth to 16 bits.
2.3 Bug Reporting
Though we've tried our best to squash all the bugs, every once in
a while something we didn't expect pops up...
If you should come across a bug in Dynomite Deluxe, please report it
to bugs@popcap.com.
If for some reason the program crashes, it will try to capture any
pertinent data and give you instructions on how to send that data to
PopCap. This is very helpful for tracking down glitches! This
information is also stored in a file called CRASH.TXT in your Dynomite
Deluxe directory (C:/PROGRAM FILES/POPCAP GAMES/DYNOMITE DELUXE by
default). If you can, include this text file with any email you send
to PopCap about crashes.
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3.0 INSTRUCTIONS
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3.1 INTRODUCTION
Welcome to Dynomite Deluxe, a fast-paced prehistoric puzzle game! Your
job is to shoot dinosaur eggs into the puzzle to create groups of 3 or
more of the same color... they'll get "blasted" off the screen!
There are 4 different game modes in Dynomite Deluxe. Beginners may
want to try the Endless game first. Experts may prefer Stomped! or the
Fossil Challenge. If you're looking for a low-stress game, try Time
Trial... you can't lose!
3.2 CONTROLS
Dynomite Deluxe is controlled entirely with your mouse.
You control the slingshot at the bottom of the screen. Move the mouse
cursor around and you'll see that the slingshot tracks your moves.
Click the left mouse button to shoot the egg in the sling!
Note that obstacles can prevent your shot from reaching the spot you
were pointing at!
You should also notice that you can "bank" shots by aiming at the
walls. Eggs will bounce off and keep bouncing until they touch another
egg.
When three eggs of the same color are touching, BOOM! They'll detonate
and be blown off the screen!
If the detonation causes eggs to be left hanging in midair, without
support, why, of course they'll fall too. Use this to your advantage
by setting up trick shots that cause chain reactions of dropping eggs!
3.3 GAME SELECTION
The first screen you'll see in Dynomite Deluxe is the Game Selector.
Here you can start a new game, continue a saved game, or play the
Tutorial. If you're new to Dynomite Deluxe, we recommend you play the
Tutorial first, to familiarize yourself with the game and its rules.
3.4 TUTORIAL
You can choose the Tutorial from the Game Selector screen. This will
walk you through a sample game of Dynomite Deluxe and show you how the
different modes work. You can cancel the Tutorial at any time by
clicking on the New Game button, which will bring you back to the Game
Selector.
3.5 OPTIONS
You can always access the Options screen by clicking on the sidebar
button. This will bring up a dialog with the various in-game options
you can control.
Music Volume
Sound Effects Volume: You can control these independently with the
sliders.
Fullscreen: If this box is checked, Dynomite Deluxe will resize
itself to fill the entire screen. If unchecked, it will appear in
a window 640x480 pixels across.
Custom Cursors: If this box is checked, you will see special custom
Dynomite Deluxe cursors in the game rather than Windows standard
cursors. If you have a special theme installed that changes your
Windows cursors, you may need to activate this option to see the
cursor properly in the game.
Register: Sooner or later you will want to register your copy of
Dynomite Deluxe online so you can remove the nag screens and
loading delays, and activate the high scores and other features
disabled in the Trial version. See the section on REGISTRATION
later in the Readme.txt file.
High Scores: This button brings up a screen showing the high scores
in the various game modes of Dynomite Deluxe.
3.6 NEW GAME
Click this button on the sidebar when you want to end your current
game and start a new one.
3.7 SAVE/LOAD GAME
The small button on the sidebar with the disk icon is used to save and
load your games. Until you have registered your copy of Dynomite
Deluxe, you will only be able to save games... you cannot load them
until you register your copy.
To save or load your game, click the disk icon and then select a slot
to save or load your game in. You will be prompted to enter a name for
your game if saving it.
3.8 PAUSE BUTTON
The small button with two vertical lines on the sidebar is the pause
button. Press it to pause the game, and press it again to resume.
3.9 EXIT GAME
Press this button to leave Dynomite Deluxe and return to Windows.
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4.0 GAME CONCEPTS
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There are 4 different game modes in Dynomite Deluxe, each with its own
exciting challenges and rewards. Choose the mode you want to play
after clicking New Game on the Game Selector screen.
In Endless, TimeTrial, and Stomped mode, you will next be faced with
the choice of difficulty levels. You can choose Easy, Normal, or Hard
difficulty.
Easy is ideal for beginners and players just looking to relax.
Normal is the default, for average players.
Hard is for pro Dynomiters looking for a real thrill!
4.1 ENDLESS MODE
Endless is the default mode for Dynomite Deluxe, and the easiest one
to get started with.
The object is to stay alive as long as possible while a never-ending
supply of eggs comes rushing down the screen at you. You can never
"finish" an Endless game, but you can try to get the highest score
possible!
You will lose the game if any eggs get too low on the screen. You'll
know when this happens, because you'll hear a warning roar from Mama.
If you don't clear the offending eggs quickly, she'll put her foot
down and it'll be Game Over!
4.2 STOMPED MODE
Stomped mode offers a series of increasingly tricky puzzles for you to
solve, but unlike Endless mode, there's no time limit... you can take
as long as you like for each move!
The goal of a Stomped game is to clear all the eggs from the screen.
The only problem? Every time you fire an egg, the Mama Meter on the
right will rise. This measures how angry Mama is getting, what with
you shooting all her eggs around. When the Mama Meter gets to the top,
she'll put her foot down, reducing the amount of space you have to
play with. Eventually, as in Endless mode, you run the risk of getting
stomped for good!
Do your best to clear all the eggs before you get squashed!
4.3 FOSSIL CHALLENGE
Unlike the other three game modes, Fossil Challenge has no difficulty
settings. It starts out easy, but gets hard later on. Finishing the
whole Fossil Challenge could take you many hours... but that's what
the Save Game button is for!
Before you start a Fossil Challenge, you must choose whether you want
to play a Strategic or Panic game. Strategic mode is calmer and slower
paced. You'll have time to plan your moves and aim tricky shots. Panic
mode moves as fast as Endless games do... though the levels are
easier, you'll need to keep on your toes because they're so fast!
The goal of the Fossil Challenge is to break the fossil fragments out
of the puzzle. To do this, you need to break all the eggs touching the
fossil fragment, so that it will fall down and off the screen.
Once you've collected a fragment, you'll continue to the next level to
look for the next piece of the fossil. Collect all three pieces to
assemble the fossil and learn its name!
In Fossil mode, you can always access the Museum by clicking the M
button on the sidebar. The game is paused while you check out your
fossils, so take as long as you like.
4.4 TIME TRIAL
Time Trial mode is good for players who hate to lose... you always
win!
It's just a matter of how long it takes you! The goal is to clear all
the eggs, though there may be many rows stretching far offscreen. The
quicker you can clear them all, the better!
The worst that can happen to you in Time Trial is that you can make
more work for yourself by placing eggs poorly. But the eggs will never
move down on you, and Mama isn't around to get mad!
4.5 BONUS BABIES
Every once in a while in the different games, you'll see an egg start
to shake. If you can break it while it's shaking, you'll hatch a Bonus
Baby!
Freeing a Bonus Baby gives you a special powerup for your next egg.
Breaking the powerup egg then gives you some special ability or bonus.
The different powerup eggs are:
LIGHTBULB: This handy powerup will change the arrow so that you can
see exactly where your shots are going, even if you're bouncing them
off the walls!
SCORE MULTIPLIER (2X, 3X, 4X): While this bonus is active, any points
you get are doubled, tripled, or quadrupled!
RAISE: The Raise bonus (an upwards pointing arrow) will raise the
whole puzzle upwards, giving you valuable breathing room.
WIDEN: The Widen bonus (two arrows pointing from side to side) will
expand the puzzle sideways.
NARROW: This one does just the opposite.
VIRTUAL EGG: A bonus egg with a number on it will count as that many
eggs when it's broken.
Some bonuses have a limited time duration. While they're active, their
icon will rotate around the timekeeper dino in the upper right!
4.6 COMBOS
A combo is awarded whenever you break two or more sets of eggs in a
row... that is, one after the other. Sometimes you'll get combos by
accident, but if you can plan them out, you can score major points for
the bigger combos!
Also, if you can get an 8x combo, you'll get the secret Dynomite
bonus!
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5.0 SCORING
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Your basic score is determined by:
Score = Eggs Broken x Eggs Dropped (if not zero) multiplied by ten.
So if you break 4 eggs and cause 10 eggs to drop, you'd get 4 x 10 x
10 = 400 pts as a base. If on the other hand you just broke 3 eggs and
didn't cause any eggs to drop, you'd have a base of 30 points.
This then gets multiplied by a factor based on the difficulty level.
In Fossil and Stomped on Easy level, this is divided by two. On Hard,
it is multiplied by two.
In Endless mode, it's divided by five for easy, and multiplied by two
for Hard.
Then, if you have a 2x, 3x, or 4x multiplier on, the score gets
multiplied by that.
If, when you break an egg, it has a bonus item that says 5, 10, or 15
on it, you score points as though you've broken 5, 10, or 15 extra
eggs at that time (this doesn't get multiplied by eggs dropped, but
does get multipled by skill level).
You get 250 points (multiplied by skill level) for breaking a shaking
egg, and for hitting Whirley on the Endless Puzzle.
You get 1000 points (multiplied by skill level) for clearing a Stomped
level.
You get 1000 points (multiplied by skill level) for breaking a fossil
fragment out of a fossil, and an extra 1000 (multiplied) points for
breaking out the third and final fossil fragment.
You get 100,000 points for finishing the whole fossil game.
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6.0 REGISTRATION
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If you enjoy playing the Trial version of Dynomite Deluxe, sooner or
later you'll need to register!
6.1 BENEFITS OF REGISTERING
When you register, it removes all the annoying nag screens and loading
delays from the program, and enables various other features:
* High scores are enabled
* Saving and loading games is enabled
6.2 HOW TO REGISTER
To unlock the game, you need to buy a registration code online, and
then enter it into Dynomite Deluxe.
6.3 BUY A REGISTRATION CODE ONLINE
If you're playing Dynomite Deluxe, click on the OPTIONS button on the
sidebar and then click REGISTER. A dialog will come up onscreen. Click
the REGISTER ONLINE link to launch your web browser. You'll need to
have an active internet connection!
You can also register via the web. Go to
http://www.popcap.com/dynomite
and click the Registration link.
Once you're there, follow the directions on the web site to purchase
your registration code. You can use your credit card online to buy it,
or fax your purchase in, or send a money order.
When complete, you will be given a registration code (a 20-character
sequence of letters and numbers) keyed to your name. Don't give this
to anyone else!
You will also receive a copy sent to your email address. You should
write down your registration code in case you ever have a computer
crash or need to reinstall Dynomite Deluxe for some other reason.
6.4 ENTER YOUR REGISTRATION CODE
You must launch Dynomite Deluxe to enter your registration code. Once
the game comes up, click on the REGISTER link on the loading screen,
or from the OPTIONS menu.
A dialog will come up with space for you to enter your name and
registration code. Type these in carefully! If you make a mistake,
your code may not be recognized.
The easiest way to do this is to cut and paste the code from the email
you were sent, by highlighting the 20-digit number with your mouse,
pressing ctrl-c to copy the text, and then pressing ctrl-v to paste it
into the registration dialog in Dynomite Deluxe.
Be sure to use the same name you gave when you bought your
registration code online, or your registration may not be recognized.
Once you've entered your name and registration code, click OK and your
copy of Dynomite Deluxe should now be registered. You will have full
access to all the game's features, with no delay at the loading
screen!
6.5 PROBLEMS?
If the program doesn't seem to recognize your registration code, check
carefully that you've typed it in correctly. Using the cut-and-paste
method described above can help prevent mistakes. Also make sure
you're using the same name you used to register with.
If you can't get to the online registration site to buy your
registration code, make sure your internet connection is working
properly. You must be connected to the internet. If it still doesn't
work, check back in a little while to see if there was a temporary
problem with our servers.
Lost your registration code? Email us at feedback@popcap.com and we'll
try to recover it for you. Make sure to let us know the name of the
game you bought, the name you purchased it under, and the approximate
date of purchase... this'll make it a lot easier for us to search our
records.
Don't have a credit card, or don't want to enter it online? You can
choose to fax your credit card number in, or send a money order
instead, by selecting the appropriate option on the Payment Method
selector on the web page.
There is currently no way to buy a CDROM containing Dynomite Deluxe,
but this could change in the future! There is also no version of the
game available for Macintosh computers yet.
Hopefully this will answer all your questions, but if you're still
having difficulties, feel free to contact us at feedback@popcap.com.
Include as much information as you can about the problem you're
having, and we'll get back to you as quickly as we can!
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7.0 GAMEPLAY TIPS
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General tips:
* If you have an egg color that you can't use, try to shoot it
underneath a group of another color. That way, when you break that
other group, the color you couldn't use falls from the board instead
of causing you hassles later on.
* It's possible to set up combos by making little pockets of egg color.
It takes 8 combos to do a Dynomite combo-- this is possible to set
up, but difficult. But it comes in handy, especially on fossil
games.
* If the eggs are getting near the bottom of the screen, try with all
your might to hatch a bonus baby. If you do, nine times out of ten,
it'll give you a Raise bonus to save your, er, butt.
* The more egg colors onscreen, the more shaking eggs.
* You can't score multiple high scores off one saved game. If you
continue a game and get a high score, you'll have to beat that score
if you continue again and expect to get a high score. Also, instead
of pushing the previous score for that saved game down the list,
it'll remove it and put the new one in.
Endless Puzzle Tips:
* The puzzle speeds up whenever you smack Whirley. When Whirley
escapes to the top of the screen, the puzzle slows down again. The
best way to play this is to hit Whirley five or six times (depending
on your skill) and then let him go, because at that point, the
puzzle will be more difficult with the extra speed than with the
extra egg color.
* If the puzzle starts rushing at you because you cleared too much of
it away, quickly shoot a little stalactite of eggs. If any eggs are
more than halfway down the screen, the puzzle will slow down again.
Stomped Puzzle Tips:
* Learn how to aim the eggs so that they can squeak through narrow
gaps between eggs. The trick is to aim the egg a little lower than
you would normally. It squeaks through.
* Many stomped levels are designed so that you can, with careful
aiming, clear the screen in four or five shots. Others have "key
eggs" that make the puzzle a lot easier. Look for these, and hit
them!
Fossil Challenge Tips:
* Save your games when you're in the museum after each level! This
way, if the next level flattens you, you have a chance at a new egg
arrangement that might be more to your liking. If you save while in
the level, it's the same arrangement, and the same eggs in the fire
queue.
* Resist the temptation to put an egg underneath the fossil when you
can't immediately use it. Waiting for the "perfect shot" in fossil
games is suicide on higher levels. If there's one green onscreen,
and you have a green egg, put it next to the green onscreen. Don't
wait for a better opportunity, or for an egg to come up that
matches a breakable group elsewhere.
* When dealing with wide fossils, it's usually best to work them in a
one-sided fashion-- that is, either fire all your eggs to the left
or to the right. Wide fossils are the most difficult, because of the
small area in which you have to bounce your shots to get the eggs
above them. If everything looks bleak, wait until the puzzle comes
down a bit-- the higher eggs are easier to hit at shallower angles.
Time Trial Tips:
* The easier games have fewer egg colors, but larger stacks of eggs to
go through. The time you save by breaking eggs quicker is lost by
facing 60 rows of eggs. For high scores, go for the normal or hard
games. The puzzles are more nerve-wracking, but it's possible to
clear them a lot faster.
* Don't be afraid to push the puzzle upward when you have to. There
is no game disadvantage or penalty for this (although, if you push
them up too high, the weight is too much and it'll crack the
bottommost eggs). A good strategy when getting a run of bad egg
colors is to just pile them underneath a breakable group.
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8.0 DYNOMITE ON THE INTERNET
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PopCap Games, the creators of Dynomite Deluxe, have their home site
at:
www.popcap.com
Dynomite also has a web version available, which can be played on the
PopCap site!
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9.0 TECHNICAL SUPPORT
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If you are experiencing problems with Dynomite Deluxe, you can contact
us at:
support@popcap.com.
If you can, including the following information along with a
description of your problem will help us to help you!
-Title Of Game
-Computer Manufacturer
-Operating System (Windows 95, Windows 98, Etc.)
-CPU Type And Speed In MHz
-Amount Of RAM
-Sound Card Type And Settings (Address, IRQ, DMA)
-Video Card
-Mouse Driver And Version
-A Copy Of The CONFIG.SYS And AUTOEXEC.BAT Files
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