Primal Rage PC CD-ROM FAQ v1.5 This document answers some of the commoner questions about PR for the PC CD-ROM. It is far from comprehensive, though; for one thing, I don't even have the game! Corrections and additions are welcomed. Contents: 1. What is Primal Rage? 2. What do I need to play PR CD-ROM? 3. Was anything taken out of PR CD-ROM? 4. How do I do keyboard moves? 5. I can't get Blizzard's Freeze Breath! 6. How do I pause PR? 7. Why are obscene words in the source code? 8. Where is the PR Demo? 9. Can I play PR without the CD? 10. Can you e-mail PR to me? 11. Where do I get more PR info? Credits and Thanks 1. ///What is Primal Rage?/// Primal Rage is an arcade fighting game in the same genre as Street Fighter II, Mortal Kombat, etc. You play the one of seven mythological dinosaurs/apes and do one-on-one combat in your quest to rule the New Urth. Use a fully orthogonal interrupt-driven combo system to pummel your opponents, in addition to half a dozen special moves and three fatalities per character. If you're getting low on energy, just snack on a human. Tastes like chicken! ;-) 2. ///What do I need to play PR for the CD-ROM?/// You need a personal computer with a CD-ROM drive (duh), 486 DX/25 and at least 4 megs of random access memory. My understanding is that if you run the 4 meg version, you must do all special moves on the keyboard. If you have 8 megs of RAM available the graphics will be better and the gameplay quicker. If you have 16 megs of RAM to spare, the game will look its best. The game automatically detects how much RAM is available and sets up the appropriate version during normal installation. While it is possible to do special moves on the keyboard, they are wildly different from the arcade version and sometimes very frustrating. A Gravis four-button control pad is recommended; it works especially well since the arcade game originally had four buttons anyway! ^_^ Unfortunately, I'm told that you can't have more than one Gravis pad hooked up to your computer at a time, so if you play against a friend one of you has to use the keyboard... 3. ///Was anything taken out of PR for the CD-ROM?/// I haven't heard any complaints of that kind yet, except from people who have less than 16 megs of RAM on their computer. The 16-meg rendition has all the characters, moves, fatalities, animation, edible worshipers etc. of the arcade. Best of all, it has combo names! Combo names happen when you do certain combos involving special moves or the like; you get the bonus of some outRAGEous name printed on the screen, like Vertigo's STREAKER COMBO. PR for the Super Nintendo has the combos, but not the names, and I strongly suspect the Genesis, Game Boy & Game Gear versions lack combo names as well. Let's hear it for the CD-ROM! I've heard from IG Online that PR for the CD-ROM is supposed to have a few new bonuses not in the arcade game, like animated intro and ending sequences... 4. ///How do I do the moves on a keyboard?/// Um, good question. If you're a lucky soul with a Gravis four-button joystick then you can do the moves just like in the arcades (see the PR General FAQ or condensed movelist to learn how). But if you're stuck with a keyboard, the moves are done quite differently. Fortunately, Sir Galahad, CWilson784 and others have found 'em all! IMPORTANT: All special moves are done by holding down buttons 1 and 3 (high quick and low quick) and performing the proper joystick movements...each move will just list the movements since the buttons are all the same... D-Down U-Up T-Towards opponent A-Aawy from opponent * : finishing move ** : chomp a human Armadon Bed-O-Nails: 1+3, D-D-U Iron Maiden: 1+3, B-U-F Mega Charge: 1+3, B-D-F Gut Gouger: 1+3, F-F-B Hornication Uppercut: 1+3, D-F-U Spinning Death: 1+3, B-F-D Flying Spikes: 1+3, B-B-U *Gut Fling: 1+3, D-D-D-U *The Impaler: 1+3, D-B-U-D *Meditaion: 1+3, F-D-F-F Chomp Human: 1+3, U-F-D-B Blizzard Mega Punch (Short): 1+3, B-D-F Mega Punch (Quick): 1+3, B-U-F Mega Punch (Long): 1+3, B-F-F Mega Punch (Fake): 1+3, D-U-U Cold Breath: 1+3, D-B-F Ice Geyser: 1+3, D-D-U Punching Bag: 1+3, F-D-B-B Air Throw: 1+3 (in air) Throw: 1+3, F-D-U-B *Brain Basher: 1+3, U-F-U *To Da Moon: 1+3, D-D-D-U *Redemtion: 1+3, D-F-U-D Chomp Human: 1+3 U-U-F-D Chaos Grab-N-Throw: 1+3, F-B-B Power Puke (Slow): 1+3, U-B-B Power Puke (Fast): 1+3, U-F-F Fart of Fury: 1+3, D-F-U-B Ground Shaker: 1+3, B-U-D Flying Butt Slam: 1+3, D-F-U-D Battering Ram: 1+3, F-F-F *Golden Shower: 1+3, D-D-U-B *Cannonball: 1+3, D-F-D-D *Churl: 1+3, U-U-D-B Chomp Human:1+3, F-D-B-U Diablo Fireball (Slow): 1+3, D-B-B Fireball (Fast): 1+3, D-F-F Torch: 1+3, U-D-D Hot Foot: 1+3, B-D-F Mega Lunge: 1+3, D-U-F The Pulverizer: 1+3, U-F-F Inferno Flash: 1+3, U-U-U *Incenerator: 1+3, U-B-D-D *Fireball: 1+3, F-F-F-F *Infernal: 1+3, U-D-F-A Chomp Human: 1+3, D-U-D Sauron Primal Scream: 1+3, D-U-B Earthquake Stomp: 1+3, U-D-D The Cranium Crusher: 1+3, D-U-D Leaping Bone Bash: 1+3, D-U-U Stun Roar: 1+3, B-F-F Air Throw: Tap 1+3 (in air) Neck Throw: 1+3, F-B-B *Carnage: 1+3, B-B-U-F *Grape Crusher: 1+3, F-U-D-B *Flesh Eating: 1+3, D-D-D-U Chomp Human: 1+3, D-D-U Talon Brain Basher: 1+3, B-U-F Pounce and Flip: 1+3, F-D-D Frantic Fury: 1+3, D-F-F The Slasher: 1+3, D-U-F The Face Ripper: 1+3, D-D-F Jugular Bite: 1+3, B-F-U (after a direct hit) Run Forward: 1+3, F-F-F Run Back: 1+3, B-B-B *Shredding: 1+3, F-D-U-U *Heart Wrenching: 1+3, F-D-U-D *Stampede: 1+3, F-B-U-D Chomp Human: 1+3, F-D-B Vertigo Venom Spit (Slow): 1+3, D-F-F Venom Spit (Fast): 1+3, D-B-B Voodoo Spell: 1+3, F-B-B Ground Teleport: 1+3, D-D-D Air Teleport: 1+3, D-U-U Come Slither: 1+3, B-B-B Scorpion Sting: 1+3, F-F-D *La Vache: 1+3, B-B-D-F *Shrink and Eat: 1+3, B-B-D-U *Petrify: 1+3, U-U-F-F Chomp Human: 1+3, D-F-U Primal Rage PC-CD Rom keyboard only cwh v1.2 9/17/95 pc only thanx to: ChuckD blizard14 ermac@imap1.asu.edu Cmoreno243 5. ///I'm following the manual's directions, using a joystick, and I still can't get Blizzard's Freeze Breath!!!/// The manual is wrong. Blizzard's Freeze Breath is hold buttons 1+2+4, move joystick A, T. NOT 1+2+3 A/T 6. ///How do I pause PR?/// Use the space bar. 7. ///Why are obscene words in the source code?/// It's part of the censor feature. If you achieve the top score, you'll have the opportunity to enter your full name on the high score list, instead of just your initials. The censor feature is there to keep you from entering obscene words, and its default setting is Strict. If you put in a word that the censor doesn't like, it'll replace the word with a string of j's (except for the first letter). The censor can't rub out the f-word unless it knows what the f-word is, so you'll see it and other unsavory words like it in the program's source code. Got it? Can we please stop denouncing PR as a tool of the devil now? Please...? 8. ///Where can I find the Primal Rage demo?/// ky4h@Virginia.EDU (Kin-Wah Yim) writes: For all of you who want to d/l the demo, you can get it from computer express's ftp site: ftp.cexpress.com/demos/ibm/primal.zip It's around 7.5MB, and it looks pretty cool. According to Chris (chris@skypoint.com) PC Gamer is supposed to have Primal Rage and Need for Speed demos in their October issue (disc 11). 8. ///Can I play PR without the CD?/// No. You have to have the CD loaded in order to play PR. This is to keep people from pirating & distributing illegal copies of the game. 9. ///Can you e-mail me a copy of PR/tell me how to get free money/send me a PR coin-op?/// No. Computer piracy is contemptible, "free money" is a scam, and a coin-op costs too much. 10. ///Where can I get more info on PR in general?/// Check out the PR FAQ! It's updated regularly, and posted irregularly to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, rec.games.video.arcade, rec.games.video.nintendo, and rec.games.video.sega by yours truly (Victar, vctr113062@aol.com). The current update can be found at ftp.netcom.com/pub/vi/vidgames/faqs. There's also a condensed movelist for PR with a joystick. I will repost the general FAQ/condensed movelist to a specific newsgroup or e-mail it you upon request. Please send such requests by e-mail. ///Credits and Thanks/// Several of y'all deserve to be on this list but aren't because I can't remember your name! Sorry! If you'd like to remind me who you are and what I swiped from your post, e-mail me, and immortality in this FAQ's credits shall be yours. ^_^ Sir Galahad ..............moves, info rmsts@indirect.com (RMS).............................moves mbruce@tower.net (Matt Bruce).....................info chris@skypoint.com (chris)..............................info CWilson784@aol.com ....................................moves edju@chaph.usc.edu (Liu Kang)......................moves, info cascade@matrix.infomatch.com (Cascade)......moves ky4h@Virginia.EDU (Kin-Wah Yim)..............info kevchow@unixg.ubc.ca (Kevin C. Chow).......moves