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Final Fantasy VII Official Strategy Guide

By E-Day

Official Final Fantasy VII Strategy Guide

20,353 downloads

23 comments

Updated August 9, 2021
Jak II - Official Strategy Guide (2003) [PS2]

By dablais

BradyGames
Jak II - Official Strategy Guide (2003)
Covers: PS2

175 downloads
- bradygames
0 comments

Submitted January 21
Bully - BradyGames Signature Series Guide (2006) [PS2]

By dablais

Bully - BradyGames Signature Series Guide (2006)
Covers: PS2

275 downloads
- bradygames
0 comments

Submitted January 19
Chaos Island Official Strategy Guide

By Areala

A relatively rare guide for a relatively unknown game.
Chaos Island is sort of like Jurassic Park meets the RTS genre. It tasks you with guiding various characters from the film The Lost World around Isla Nublar to accomplish a variety of tasks to protect the dinosaurs from hunters, gather eggs and other resources, and avoid dying while you're doing it. Of all the games made under the JP license, this is one of the strangest. That, combined with the guide's own obscurity, made it an obvious choice for archival here.
Enjoy! ❤️

240 downloads

1 comment

Updated December 20, 2023
Beavis and Butt-Head Cheater's Guide

By Areala

This book totally rules! Heh, heh, heh...
Yeah, so, you can, like, totally play the Beavis and Butt-Head game normally. Like, that's what Mr. Van Driesen would do. He'd call it "self-learning" or "acshulization" or some other stupid word that probably isn't, like, real and stuff.
Or you could use this book to, like, totally score with chicks and stuff. Like chicks, this book has nice tips. And it works with, like, all three different games. But, like, if you only have one or two of them, that's, like, fine too. You probably needed to save your money for, you know, GWAR tickets.
GWAR rocks!
But, like, if you need to beat the game--
(Heh, heh...I said 'beat'...)
--like, fast and stuff? Like, cuz a chick said she'd show you her boobs, but you had to, you know, beat the game first? I guess you could, uhhh, read the book and, I dunno, use the passwords and maps and things to see GWAR. And then score. Or at least, like, play with your butt-ons and stuff.
Beavis is into that. He once played with his butt-on so much that Mr. Buzzcut made him do pushups until blood came out his nose. That was cool! Huh-huh-huh...
Yeah, yeah, anyway, like, just read the book, uhhh, you know, FOR us. Cuz we're busy. Scoring. Yeah, scoring! With a chick! You, uh, you don't know her. She's from, like, Canada or some other state.
Enjoy! (Bungholes...) ❤️

636 downloads

7 comments

Updated December 20, 2023
Marvel vs. Capcom 3 - Fate of Two Worlds Strategy Guide (2011)

By E-Day

Marvel vs. Capcom 3 - Fate of Two Worlds Strategy Guide (2011)

256 downloads

0 comments

Submitted June 7, 2024
The Legend Of Zelda - The Wind Waker - Official Strategy Guide (2003)

By dablais

The Legend Of Zelda - The Wind Waker - Official Strategy Guide (2003)
Platform: Nintendo GameCube
Note, Magazine is complete but it's missing the huge map, it will be scanned and added in a couple of days.

882 downloads
- bradygames
3 comments

Updated March 9, 2024
Final Fantasy X-2 - Official Strategy Guide (2003)

By dablais

Final Fantasy X-2 - Official Strategy Guide (2003)
Platform: Playstation 2

NOTE: The huge map included in the magazine will be scanned at a later time. Stay tuned!

551 downloads
- bradygames
2 comments

Updated March 9, 2024
Donkey Kong Country 2 - Diddy's Kong Quest Totally Unauthorized Secrets (1995)

By Argus

Donkey Kong Country 2 - Diddy's Kong Quest Totally Unauthorized Secrets (1995)

294 downloads

1 comment

Submitted January 15, 2024
Totally Unauthorized Guide to Resident Evil Pocket Guide

By Areala

Brady's unofficial pocket guide to the original PS1 release of Resident Evil. This doesn't cover the Director's Cut, which got its own pocket guide release later.
A very bare-bones walkthrough presented almost entirely in text with the occasional screenshot and a few maps. It covers both Jill and Chris's scenarios, and presents a single optimized route through the Spencer mansion and surrounding environs for each character. Walkthrough text is presented in both black and red; red sections are meant to be skipped if you are attempting a sub-one-hour play in order to unlock the infinite Rocket Launcher for subsequent playthroughs.
My copy of this has some minor water damage to a few of the pages early on; I did the best I could, but the quality isn't stellar because I have zero Photoshop knowledge. Anyone with the means and/or desire to clean this one up, feel free.

490 downloads

3 comments

Updated December 20, 2023
Mario Party 4 - Official Strategy Guide (2002)

By dablais

Mario Party 4 - Official Strategy Guide (2002)

355 downloads
- bradygames
1 comment

Submitted November 19, 2023
Banjo-Tooie Official Strategy Guide (2001)

By Argus

Banjo-Tooie Official Strategy Guide (2001)

669 downloads

2 comments

Updated September 21, 2023
Official Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 Arcade Secrets

By MigJmz

Official Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 Arcade Secrets

643 downloads

3 comments

Submitted April 26, 2023
Quake II Authorized Strategy Guide

By Areala

It's a Quake II strategy guide which printed the maps twice: one in green-and-greyscale, once in full colour! And they're just as useless no matter which version of them you're viewing! Hooray!
Otherwise, this is just your bog-standard strategy guide to an FPS. There's the obligatory enemy list, weapons load-out, multiplayer tips, a page and a half on using the console, and those full colour maps!
Also, whoever had the bright idea to only put page numbers on every other page, or just stop them for a bit then start up again later, deserves to be dipped in horseradish and thrown to the jellyfish. 😡
You don't need this. You're going to download it anyway, because you're a digital hoarder, and that's totally fine. I'm just pointing out the obvious.
Enjoy! ❤️

386 downloads

0 comments

Updated December 20, 2023
Totally Unauthorized Combat Guide to Duke Nukem 3D

By Areala

Guides which brand themselves as "totally unauthorized" are a mixed bag. I mean, the writers of the authorized guides get their info from the game's publisher and developer, they get the rights to use artwork, screenshots, and other assets, and typically offer some bonus features like interviews with the developers, a CD-ROM stuffed with extra goodies, and other tidbits. The "unauthorized" guys, though? They have to make do with whatever artwork the in-house artists come up with, don't get any special access to designers and programmers, and have to build their strategies from scratch. To stand out, the unauthorized guides are usually a few bucks cheaper than the official one right next to it on the shelf, and that's usually all they've got. But occasionally an unauthorized guide will go above and beyond the call of duty to kick ass and take names, making itself worthy of your cash despite not being authorized.
This book, my friends, is one of those special snowflakes. Because despite Sybex buying the right to make the official guide for Duke Nukem 3D (and making a kick-ass guide in their own write, complete with its own CD on the back cover), Steven Schafer and the hooligans at Brady Games laced up the combat boots and waded into the trenches to make their combat guide totally worth the money.
In here, you'll find the normal write-ups on weapons, enemies, and power-ups. In here, you'll see the same level maps as you'd see in the official book. But that's only the first 150 pages. From page 152 on, you're treated to an orgy of information concerning configuring and playing multiplayer DukeMatch games, a comprehensive breakdown of all the game's media files (textures, sprites, sounds, etc...), and a complete tutorial on how to make your own levels using the Build Engine (which is where all that index info on the game's internal media files comes in handy, and can help you best utilize and/or replace assets as needed).
The official guide devotes a whole two pages to this. They're basically like, "Yeah, um, Duke Nukem 3D includes a level editor. It's called Build. Check it out!". Probably this was so people would feel enticed to fork over another $24.99 in order to get Sybex's Duke Nukem 3D Level Design Handbook (which is a great book in its own right, well worth the buy if you want to get into the nitty-gritty of level creation, and will be appearing here in the not too distant future), but I'm not joking when I tell you this unauthorized book can teach you enough to make the level design book almost completely unnecessary.
It also covers the secret DukeMatch-only level, "Faces of Death", which comes with the game, but requires a command-line interface trick to get working if you want to see it in single-player, and is something even the official guidebook doesn't bring up.
I reiterate: the official guide leaves out all mention of the fact this level even exists, but the Brady gang gives it two full pages of maps and basic level info. What?!
This book kicks some serious ass, and as far as I'm concerned, if you're a Duke Nukem 3D fan, you need it in your library.
Enjoy! ❤️

248 downloads

1 comment

Updated December 20, 2023
Final Fantasy IX Official Strategy Guide (BradyGames, 2001)

By E-Day

Final Fantasy IX Official Strategy Guide (BradyGames, 2001)

989 downloads

3 comments

Updated March 31, 2023
Castlevania - Symphony of the Night Official Guide (1997)

By E-Day

Castlevania - Symphony of the Night Official Guide (1997)

1,269 downloads

6 comments

Updated March 25, 2023
Grand Theft Auto IV Brady Games Strategy Guide (2008)

By E-Day

Grand Theft Auto IV Brady Games Strategy Guide (2008)

959 downloads

2 comments

Submitted March 1, 2023
It's An NBA Jam Thing Official Player's Guide

By Areala

Oh no! Fifty-four NBA pro all-stars have invaded your gaming space, determined to play a game of 2-on-2 with you at the helm. Obviously what you need here is a strategy guide to explain the finer points of offense and defense, and really break the game down for...
Sorry, I can't do this with a straight face. 😆
This is a basketball game. It's kind enough to give you the stats for all the different players right there on the screen, and assumes you're smart enough to understand the guy who is good at shooting 3-point shots should probably do that instead of going in for a dunk. There aren't any special moves, no fireballs or jump kicks or fatalities, just a joystick, a button to shoot, a button to pass, and a button to make you move faster until the meter runs out. I'm impressed that Corey Sandler, the same guy responsible for a bevy of those "Ultimate Unauthorized" books from the previous five years, somehow managed to talk Brady into buying the rights to make an official strategy guide to a game as straightforward as NBA Jam.
Midway, I am certain, laughed all the way to the bank with that money.
You could use the $10 you spend on this book to instead play 40 games of NBA Jam in the arcade (or 20 if the operator was a greedy turd burglar and set the machine to 50 cents/play) and you'd get just as good at it through actually playing. I reiterate: this is a basketball game where every rule except Traveling and Goaltending have been suspended. It's literally about who can toss a sphere through a circle the most. This is not rocket science.
The artwork is cool, the production values are high, and the paper quality is outstanding. It includes some cheat codes, some Game Genie goodies, and the necessary info to unlock most of the hidden characters in it, but you could get all that from an issue of EGM at half the price.
Utterly baffling, but hey, here it is, so indulge!
Donated by ModernZorker.
Enjoy! ❤️

410 downloads

10 comments

Submitted February 17, 2022
Totally Unauthorized Fighting Secrets III: No Mercy

By Areala

This book. Oh my gosh, this book.
I've seen a lot of strategy guides in my four decades on this planet. I've seen a number of books and guides which have typos in them. Sometimes in the text, sometimes (very rarely) in the table of contents or the index. But I want you to take a minute and open up the cover image for this book, and take a look at it. Because never have I seen a strategy guide so rushed to market that it misspelled the name of one of the games it covers on the front cover.
Can someone, anyone, please tell me about the game "Soul Egde"? Because I've certainly never heard of it. Soul Edge? Absolutely! But "Soul EGDE"?
SOUL EGDE?!
On the front and back covers of your book?
Please, BradyGames, PLEASE tell me someone lost their job over letting that one slip through quality control.
As if the black-and-white only presentation wasn't cheap enough. As if the text-only interior didn't already scream "we put this whole thing together the night before the deadline". But then you expected us to pay ten dollars, in 1996 money, for a book with the misspelled title of a game on the covers?
You, sir, are the cash-grab guide book to end all cash-grab guide books.
Debinding this book brought me nigh-on orgasmic pleasure. And I would do it again in a heartbeat.
Good day to you, strategy guide.
I SAID, "GOOD DAY"!
Enjoy! ❤️

285 downloads

8 comments

Updated December 20, 2023
Totally Unauthorized Sega Games Guide

By Areala

Another totally unauthorized compilation book from BradyGames, this time aimed at the Sega Genesis, along with the Sega CD and 32X attachments. This is a pretty good book, all things considered. Lots of screenshots, printed in full colour on high-quality paper stock. Sega groupies will eat this right up!
Donated by ModernZorker.
Enjoy! ❤️

543 downloads

8 comments

Submitted February 19, 2022
Quake Authorized Strategy Guide

By Areala

Flying into 2023 with this first release of the year, what could be more epic than another strategy guide for the behemoth FPS known as Quake?
Yeah, yeah, I know, almost anything else.
But it's Quake, so you're going to download this, you're going to slap the 'thank you' button to pay me my tribute, and you're going to wait for the next strategy guide with baited breath, because you all love me.
Happy New Year!
Enjoy! ❤️

416 downloads

0 comments

Updated December 20, 2023
Diablo II Ultimate Strategy Guide

By Areala

There were multiple versions of this guide published and updated by BradyGames over the years. This particular edition is keyed to the Lord of Destruction expansion pack which came as part of the Diablo II Battle Chest boxed set. Since the guide makes no references to skill synergy bonuses but it does reference "the first patch", it likely corresponds to v1.08 of the game. Given the game's current edition is v1.14d, much of the information in this file will be outdated and inaccurate except to someone playing a pre-v1.10 copy in a solo campaign.
Enjoy! ❤️

880 downloads

3 comments

Updated December 20, 2023
Final Fantasy Chronicles - Final Fantasy IV BradyGames Guide

By MigJmz

Final Fantasy Chronicles - Final Fantasy IV BradyGames Guide
Chrono Trigger guide available here

738 downloads

4 comments

Updated December 1, 2022
Final Fantasy Chronicles BradyGames Guide - Chrono Trigger

By MigJmz

Final Fantasy Chronicles BradyGames Guide - Chrono Trigger
FFIV guide available here
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1,184 downloads

5 comments

Updated November 29, 2022