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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
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
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

1 comment

Updated December 20, 2023
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.

605 downloads

4 comments

Updated December 20, 2023
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

4 comments

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
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 PlayStation Games Book, Volume 3

By Areala

First we released Volume 2, then we released Volume 5, now we release Volume 3. I know you're all giddy with anticipation!
Presented in full color with minimal screencaps (since this was an unofficial guide, after all), this is a pretty ordinary, just-the-facts type of guide to a variety of best-selling PS1 hits. Average in almost every way. The text for Tekken 2, Mortal Kombat Trilogy, and Street Fighter Alpha 2 was lifted from Totally Unauthorized Fighting Secrets III: No Mercy, so if you already have that one, this was not as great a value as it seemed on the cover.
Still, ten game strategies for ten bucks, in colour, and on decent quality paper? You could do worse.
Enjoy! ❤️

454 downloads

1 comment

Updated December 20, 2023
RPG Companion: An Insider's Guide to PC Roleplaying Games

By Areala

For all the time I've spent giving Brady Games guff about the quality of their mid-90's content, this is a pretty darn cool book. Maybe because it's aimed more at PC gamers, maybe because it's written by Ronald Wartow (who could both write about games and play them with equal skill), maybe it's because he solicited input from some of the industry's top designers, but this is a badass tome: 500 pages of knowledge, lore, and history all wrapped into one big bible-thick slab.
With the resurgence in availability of these games on modern systems thanks to services like GOG and Steam, the usefulness of books like this has come 'round again. Twenty-five years later, we can play through these games again without the need to hack around with boot floppies, CONFIG.SYS files, driver mishaps, IRQ conflicts, and restarting in MS-DOS mode to free up memory. This one contains walkthroughs for twenty-six different games, and while they aren't step-by-step, hold-your-hand sorts, they (along with the principles Wartow introduces in the early chapters) will get the job done while still leaving it up to your skills to actually play the game.
Lots of tables, interviews, screenshots, hints, cheats, and other information is dispensed about each game as well. Some of this stuff gets downright hacker-esque, with tips on hex editing, mucking around with your save files, where to find update patches, and other things books of the day didn't often comment on.
It also shipped with a free issue of "Interactive Entertainment", a magazine-on-CD which lasted for about 25 or so issues before it was folded in to become the cover disc for "Computer Games Strategy Plus" magazine. My copy was missing this CD-ROM, but Archive.org has more than half of them available for download if you want to see what they were like.
Anyway, this is an awesome book, and it belongs in the library of anyone who grew up a classic era PC gamer, or who is interested in that era of PC gaming history.
Enjoy! ❤️

579 downloads

6 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
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
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
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
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
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
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