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Final Fantasy VII Official Strategy Guide
By E-Day
Official Final Fantasy VII Strategy Guide
20,353 downloads
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Totally Unauthorized PlayStation Games Book Volume 2
By E-Day
Totally Unauthorized PlayStation Games Book Volume 2
586 downloads
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Legend of Zelda, The - Ocarina of Time Official Strategy Guide
By Crimsonfox
The Legend of Zelda - Ocarina of Time Official Strategy Guide
3,931 downloads
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Battle Arena Toshinden 2 Official Fighter's Guide
By E-Day
Official Battle Arena Toshinden 2 Fighter's Guide
477 downloads
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Killer Instinct (Totally Unauthorized)
By E-Day
Killer Instinct (Totally Unauthorized)
603 downloads
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Syphon Filter - Totally Unauthorized Strategy Guide
By E-Day
Syphon Filter - Totally Unauthorized Strategy Guide
424 downloads
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GoldenEye 007 Totally Unauthorized Strategy Guide
By E-Day
Totally Unauthorized GoldenEye 007 Strategy Guide
632 downloads
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Unreal Tournament Official Strategy Guide
By E-Day
Unreal Tournament Official Strategy Guide
524 downloads
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Zone of Enders - Official Strategy Guide
By E-Day
Zone of Enders - Official Strategy Guide
611 downloads
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Ehrgeiz Official Fighter's Guide
By MigJmz
Ehrgeiz Official Fighter's Guide by BradyGames
553 downloads
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Tomb Raider II Totally Unauthorized Pocket Guide
By Areala
Testing the waters with my own ability to scan stuff using my old, slow flatbed.
448 downloads
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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.
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Tomb Raider III Pocket Guide
By Areala
As with other Brady Games pocket guides, this one is a bare-bones walkthrough explaining a single path through the game mostly through text with some black-and-white screenshots thrown in for good measure. Tomb Raider III introduced a non-linear stage concept, where after completing the India portion of the game, the next several missions (taking place in the South Pacific, the Nevada desert, and London) could be attempted in any order before Lara headed to Antarctica to confront her final adversary.
While the middle stages can be attempted in any order, the path chosen by the guide's author is objectively the worst one possible. In the Nevada segment, Lara is captured by the US Military and stripped of her weapons, ammo, and supplementary items like medkits and flares. While she can and does reacquire her weapons, the additional ammo and usable items she had gathered up to that point in the game are permanently lost. Because of this, experienced players know to head straight for Nevada after India, thus allowing them to re-supply in London and the South Pacific. The walkthrough in this guide, however, leaves the Nevada missions for last, making the Antarctica levels harder than necessary.
Oh well. Nobody's perfect.
Interestingly enough, this is one of the few Brady Games pocket guides which is not an unauthorized release.
351 downloads
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Totally Unauthorized Guide to Resident Evil Director's Cut Pocket Guide
By Areala
This is a version of the original Totally Unauthorized Guide to Resident Evil pocket guide, adapted by David Cassady and Debra McBride for use with the Director's Cut of the game. It's based on a pre-release edition of the software, but like its predecessor it contains walkthroughs for both Chris and Jill's playthroughs, along with maps, enemy descriptions, and item and weapon locations.
Gone from the previous edition is the "speed run" text in red, so you'll have to figure out the optimal strategies for that sub-one-hour time yourself.
No mention of the terrible mess made of the soundtrack in the Director's Cut version either, but you don't buy a strategy guide to learn about the music, so that's not surprising.
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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...) ❤️
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Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 Signature Series Guide (2011)
By E-Day
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 Signature Series Guide (2011)
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Dead Island Official Strategy Guide (2011)
By E-Day
Dead Island Official Strategy Guide (2011)
762 downloads
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Totally Unauthorized PlayStation Games Book, Volume 5
By Areala
These unauthorized compilation books from BradyGames really aren't that great. About the best thing you can say about this one is that it's in colour, and it covers nine different games, but even then there's just not a lot of content in those 128 pages. The strategies are fine, but there aren't any screenshots, just the occasional bit of artwork Brady could get away with including without obtaining an actual license to use assets. The code list which takes up the last few pages is honestly the best part of this. The Tomb Raider II section is just a list of where each item is found in each level, but it doesn't give you any help on actually beating any of the stages or anything. Boo!
At least with fighting games, it's pretty easy to nail down a move list and go from there. Then again, if one of the fighting games you're covering is Star Wars: Masters of Teras Kasi...well, do I really have to say anything?
The thing is, if these books didn't sell well, then it's hard to see why Brady would have kept cranking them out. I mean, five volumes of this stuff is about four too many, but Brady did a metric shit-ton of these compilation books spanning multiple eras and multiple platforms, so somebody must have been buying them.
This one was donated by ModernZorker, who isn't a member here (maybe think about fixing that, bro?) but who does write about video games and other nerdy things in various places around the internet, and who, according to him, made his wife's day by getting it out of his house. Now it's making my day by going into the recycle bin.
Enjoy! ❤️
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Secret Code Overload
By Areala
This is a much better multi-game guide than some of Brady's other offerings. Ninety-six pages of cheats, unlockables, and GameShark codes for Nintendo 64, Saturn, and PlayStation titles...this stuff was like GameFAQs before there was a GameFAQs, ya know?
Because of the way this book was printed, a lot of the text on the odd-numbered pages ran smack-dab against the gutter. I don't think anything got completely lost in the de-binding process, but you may see some white areas where I over-compensated for the close shave. My apologies; I suck at editing.
Donated by ModernZorker, who isn't a member here, but sent me this in a care package anyway.
Enjoy! ❤️
394 downloads
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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
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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! ❤️
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