Battle Arena Toshinden

Description

You are invited… …to your own DEMISE. Battle the world’s toughest fighters in this “Invitation Only” underworld tourney. Only ONE warrior will survive. Will it be your destiny?

– The ONLY true 3-dimensional, 360-degree tournament-style fighter. Avoid and annihilate your opponent before he – or she – does you!
– Four different views AT WILL. From in-your-face close to the sky-high gaze of the powers-that-be.
– UNBELIEVABLE! Sweep kicks, rapid-fire hits, sky-high jumps, #@%$! slaps, killer combos and tons of weapons and special moves.
– GLORY! LOVE! REVENGE! DEATH!? Pulverize 8 deadly challengers…and whoever or whatever comes next! Are you up to it!?

Game Cheats

Alternate Colors
To select your characters alternate color, simply press and hold the Select button, then press SQUARE.

How to Fight Sho
You must beat the game on the HARD or VERY HARD difficulty settings. You can only use one continue to get to Sho, but you may use as many continues as you wish to defeat Sho.

Play As Gaia
To play as the boss “Gaia” (Guy-uh), turn the game on and wait for the title screen to appear. While the words “1 Player GAME”, “VS COMPUTER”, and “OPTIONS” are flying in from both sides of the screen, press down, down plus left, left plus the square button before the text appears. If you do it correctly, you will hear the announcer yell “FIGHT!” and the text on the screen will change from blue to pink. Once the code has been entered, begin a game. At the fighter select screen, highlight Eiji, and press Up plus the Square button. (Plus means that you should hit specified buttons at the same time).

Play As Sho
To play as the boss “Sho”, you must first enter the Gaia code. Wait for the demo mode to appear, then press start on the second controller. While the words “1 Player Game”, “VS Computer”, and “Options” are once again flying in from both sides of the screen, press right, left, right, left plus the square on the second controller before the text appears. If you do it correctly, you will hear the announcer yell “FIGHT!” and the text will change from pink to light blue. Once the code has been entered, begin a game. At the fighter select screen, highlight Kayin, and press Down plus the Square button. (Plus means that you should hit specified buttons at the same time).

Special Moves to Left and Right Shift Buttons
To set the special moves to the left and right shift buttons, simply set the game difficulty to very easy. Now scroll through the available control settings, and you will find them readily available.

Instant Secret / Desperation Moves
First enter the codes to play as Gaia and Sho and wait at the Main Menu screen. After the demo mode begins press start on controller 1. While the words “1 Player Game”, “VS Computer”, and “OPTIONS” are flying in from both sides of the screen, press DOWN + LEFT + X on controller 1. You will hear the announcer yell “FANTASTIC” and the text will turn white. Now go to the Main Menu screen and make sure that the difficulty level is set for EASY or VERY EASY. Change your control type so that L1, L2, R1, R2 buttons are set to SPECIAL. At any time during a battle, you may now press L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 + SELECT to unleash your secret move. Whenever your power bar is flashing red, you may press L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 to unleash your desperation move.

Instant Secret / Desperation Moves on any Difficulty Setting
First enter the INSTANT SECRET / DESPERATION MOVES code and wait at the Main Menu screen. After the demo mode begins press START on controller 2. While the words “1 Player Game”, “VS Computer”, and “OPTIONS” are flying in from both sides of the screen, press Right, Left, Right, Left, Square on controller 2. You will hear the announcer yell “FANTASTIC” and the text will turn yellow.

Extra Camera Controls
To program the camera controls to the left and right shift buttons, go into the options menu. Set the control type to “H2”, then go down to the Camera Action settings. You will find that you now have a new option — “Your Self”. Once the camera action is set to “Your Self”, you can return to the control type option and toggle through a group of control settings with the camera angles set to the left and right shift buttons.

To access additional camera controls
Begin a regular game, then pause it. While holding the square, circle, triangle, and X buttons down, press select twice. Once the power bars are removed, you will be able to use the shift buttons to pan and zoom around the entire arena. To restore the game, simply hold the square, circle, triangle, and X buttons down again, and press select.

View the Fight from Below (Invisible Floor)
Set both controller types to CAMERA and make the power bars disappear (described above) but DO NOT un-pause your game yet! Hold down the L2 button on controller 2 until the floor disappears. Now un-pause on controller 1.

Endings
Learn your characters DESPERATION MOVE when beating Gaia. Learn your characters SECRET MOVE when beating Sho. In both instances you must wait until the credits are over.