PASSWORDS --------- When you make your World Tour team, just enter on of these names in the player name box. The password name will disappear and you are then free to enter the other password names or just name your player. -Virtua Cop: "JUSTICE" Uniforms 105, 106. Sunglasses 94 -Daytona USA: "DAYTONA" Uniforms 107, 108 -Fighting Vipers: "FVIPERS" Uniforms 109, 110. Hair 75. Face 51 -Space Channel 5: "ARAKATA" Uniforms 111-113. Hair 76. Face 52 -Phantasy Star 2: "PHANTA2" Uniforms 114, 115. Hair 77. Face 53 -Sega Outfits: "OHTORII" Uniforms 116, 117
--------------------------- The Teams
There are a total of 16 original teams in the game. Each has a rating (SS down through B) and a country to represent. For this game, SS is the best (and Brazil is the only SS team in the game), S is really good, A is pretty good, and B is the... well, the countries that don't really play volleyball.
Team: USA Team: Canada Players: Lisa Mayer Players: Jullia Quilico Thelma Garnett Luca Olvis Rating: S Rating: B
Team: Brazil Team: Mexico Players: Veronyca Marques Players: Angela Sandi Akasha Costa Jessica Salinas Rating: SS Rating: B
Team: Australia Team: Thailand Players: Mira Joyce Players: Pinjai Tankul Nicole Fraser Ratee Salvana Rating: S Rating: B
Team: Spain Team: Netherlands Players: Gloria Sanchez Players: Nel Feilke Elena Garcia Manon Renesse Rating: B Rating: A
Team: Japan Team: China Players: Naomi Wakui Players: Xiuhua Lee Hikaru Sunaga Ling Cui Rating: A Rating: A
Team: Italy Team: Germany Players: Irene Fano Players: Anita Erhart Loretta Gilardi Hilda Wolff Rating: A Rating: A
Team: France Team: England Players: Carine Lafont Players: Mary Clare Sophie Rouch Susan Evans Rating: A Rating: B
Team: Cuba Team: Jamaica Players: Debra Gomez Players: Lynda Howell Petra Fleta Irie Coxe Rating: S Rating: B
Brazil and Cuba are the hardest teams in the game, while England and Jamaica and Canada, etc. are the easiest. After playing for a while, you'll get to know each team pretty well and you'll know by instinct how good you see them to be.
BEACH FLAGS In beach flags, the goal is to lay down in the sand, wait for the whistle, then race and grab the flag before anyone else. It has nothing to do with volleyball, but it's still hilarious. At the start you hold the Control Stick down, wait for the announcer to say "GO!" then you let go of the Control Stick and mash the A button until your thumb blisters right the hell off. When you get to the "jump zone" you press B to dive for the flag. The two fastest move on to the finals and repeat this process so that one person will be the champ!
World Tour Mode This is the mode. This is the game. In world tour mode, you design your own team and take them to the top. You play a series of tournaments (8 in total) that get harder as you go. Along the way you earn points for your useless partner and work on your teamwork %, vying for a level 100 and a nice 100% by the end. And the best part--you can use your created team in any mode! The thing is, though, that if you are playing by yourself your teammate will be at the level you left her at in world tour mode. This means that the only way to make a team and use them right away is if you have a friend to play as your team-mate. Otherwise you'll have to go through World Tour to get her at any kind of playing level.
BEACH PK This is a penalty "kick" (spike) situation game, in which you go head to head with someone (Player or CPU) in a spike-and-block face off. You can select the type of area that counts as a goal, or have it randomly chosen for each ball. The game goes for 5 hit-or-miss points, it you have a tie at the end of the 5, the game goes until one person gets an advantage over the other.
RATING POINTS ------------- This one is pretty useful. In World Tour mode, when the tournament bracket screen is up (not the versus screen), hold L and R until the match starts. This will display numbers in the bottom left area of the screen that you can use to determine what to say to your partner. It will look something like this: 5 / 10=0.50% which means you have 5 out of 10 something, and that your score is 0.50%, not good. It also shows your partner's rating. If you are doing great (2.78%) and she is doing really bad (-0.24%) feel free to Reprimand her. If it's even, Encourage or Praise her, and if hers is higher than yours, Praise her. Of course, you still have to take into account the score of the match... So be careful.
ARCADE MODE ----------- -Clear first time: Uniforms 87, 88 -Clear second time: Uniforms 90, 91 -Clear third time: Uniforms 93, 94 -Clear with Japan: Uniforms 103, 104
--------------- WORLD TOUR MODE --------------- -Clear with any ranking: Uniforms 96-102, Sunglasses 88-93, Hair 71-74 -Clear with overall 1st place: Uniforms 89, 92, 95 -Clear with 100% team work: (beat Dural Team) Faces 54, 55 -Clear with 30% teamwork or less: (beat Black Dural Team) Face 56
------------- TUTORIAL MODE ------------- -Complete all training courses: (including Tips To Win) Uniforms 71-86
--------- Codes/Cheats Basically, the cheats consist of unlocking outfits, hair styles, sunglasses, faces and stuff for World Tour mode. You can get these either through beating modes, or entering secret names when making your character.
----------- BEACH COUNTDOWN In beach countdown, we replace the volleyball with a bomb that acts much like a balloon that explodes. The camera angle stays off to the side the whole time. You get two hits per side and each hit effects the timer of the bomb. You can set if you want the random rule ON or OFF in the options. If it's OFF, the bomb goes down and down only according to the button pressed to hit it. A = 1 point, b = 2, A+B or X/Y = 3. With the random rule ON, every now and then the rules change, such as all hits counting for 1, or everything is x3, or that all hits add to the counter instead of subtract from it. This game is fun with 3 or 4 people, but gets really boring with only 1.
EXTRA STAGES IN ARCADE MODE --------------------------- In order to use the extra stages you've unlocked in World Tour mode in Arcade mode, hold R when selecting Arcade. This will make it so that you play in the extra (unlocked) stages instead of the normal ones.
------------- Versus Mode This is great multiplayer madness at it's finest. You can have 1-4 human controlled players in a quick-match type game. You can change the options any way you like, too. Also, this mode contains all the mini-games. Including:
Arcade Mode This is the direct port from arcade to GameCube, as many sports games have. In this mode you face off in a tournament against the other teams. You can go at it alone or have a friend join you (the only real way to play). Just have Player Two press START when selecting a team. Once you beat this mode once, you will be the champions and the last team you face next time. This makes arcade mode progressively harder to beat :)
Under the default options, you start off with 10 points and play to 15, which I find really weak. Just change Arcade Options (in "OPTIONS" from the root menu) to start at 0 for the real deal.
