SSSS H H IIIIII NN N OOOOOO BBBBB IIIIII SS H H II N N N O O B B II SSSS HHHHHH II N N N O O BBBBB II SS H H II N NN O O B B II SSSS H H IIIIII N N OOOOOO BBBBB IIIIII Written By: Devin Lamb Email: ultimategamegear@usa.com Version: 1.0 (I want to say final, but you never know.) Website: www.uggp.com (Ultimate Game Gear Page) Copyright 2003 (c) Note this walkthrough can also be found on my website. ------------------------------------------------------ / Introduction ------------------------------------------------------ Shinobi is a great game that first appeared in the Arcade. The story line is much like others, you just go around trying to save your friends and defeat some source of evil. However, I remember the game being very fun when I first played it in a little diner in the town I was born in and still often visit. I picked it up for Nintendo (although the game is messed up - I need to get another copy), and eventually for the Game Gear. I wasn't disappointed, in fact I played the game constantly looking forward to it every morning until I finally beat it. And even though I pretty much know everything about it now, I still find it a fun game. So here's the walkthrough, written in excruciating detail just because I believe in doing everything so thorough. ------------------------------------------------------ / Controls ------------------------------------------------------ Left - Move Left Right - Move Right Down - Crouch Down + Left or Right - Move while crouching left or right. Button 1 - Attack Button 2 - Jump Start - Pause the game to switch between characters and use a tech. ------------------------------------------------------ / List Of Characters ------------------------------------------------------ There are 5 different ninjas you can play as during the game - you start out as red and you rescue another one in each of the first 4 levels. Each has its own weapon and special abilities. They are: Red: This is the ninja you start out with. He uses a sword which is pretty effective for killing enemies. His tech has a two-fold purpose - one to lay damage tothe enemies on the screen - and the other to break away the cracked blocks yousee during various parts of the game. Pink: Pink is gotten after you beat the Highway level. I could have sworn all of the ninjas in this game were male, so I don't know why one of them is pink, but whatever. Pink has the very useful bombs which will kill most enemies in a single hit. Pink also has the useful ability to climb on ceilings by jumping toward the ceiling and holding Button 1 + Up. This is essential for reaching certain items in the game. Pink's tech has many uses - although you probably wont really use them until the final area. For one thing it can freeze monsters in their tracks. Also, it brings light in a dark room in Neo City. Additionally, it has the ability to lower this water-type stuff in yet another room in Neo City. Yellow: You get yellow after beating the harbor level. Yellow's attack is some sort of energy-ball attack. You can hold down Button 1 to charge the attack for a couple seconds until it is at full power. Yellow's special power is the ability to walk on water, which is extremely useful in the Valley level. Yellow's tech is fairly useful as well, it makes yellow invincible until a certain amount of damage is taken, and then it wears off. Blue: Blue is saved from the Valley area. He uses a grapple which is effective damage wise and also has the ability to hook onto various peg-type things you will see throughout the game - especially in neo city. His tech is also extremely useful - it transforms him into a tornado which allows him to move over obstacles as well as destroy anything in his path. Green: Beat the Woodland stage to get this ninja. Green has the typical ninja weapons - shurikens - that he thrown out at his enemies. Cool as they are, they don't do much damage. However, green does have the ability to do a double-jump by pressing Button 2 again at the height of his jump. Even more, if you attack while in your second jump you send shurikens flying in 5 different directions - which is needed in one of the rooms in Neo City. Green's tech is virtually useless. It causes him to explode into 5 parts, then come together thereby destroying all monsters in the room. However, it also costs a life and all of your techs, so it's smarter to just use red's tech if you want to destroy a bunch of enemies at once. ------------------------------------------------------ / Items ------------------------------------------------------ Items can be found in boxes strewn around the game that look like mini lockers or something of the sorts. The items you can find are as follow: Bomb: After a few seconds the bomb will explode dealing damage to you if you are still in its vacinity. Heart: The heart gives you two more health. Tech: The tech (which is some Japanese symbol) adds one to your number of techs. Go figure... Extra Health Meter: This power up which looks like a diamond adds two more notches to your life meter. There is one in each regular level. Extra Life: This gives you one more life. There is also one of these in each level, and numerous ones in Neo City. ------------------------------------------------------ / Monsters ------------------------------------------------------ Monsters - unimaginatively named by me since I don't have their official names and in alphabetical order (Note - Bosses will be detailed at the end of each stage walkthrough.) * Armored Man - Found in the Woodland. This guy stands on the tree branches and jumps at you to attack you. * Baton Woman - Found in the Valley. This woman throws spinning baton-type things at you. * Barrel Man - Found in the Harbor. These rotund guys will launch barrels at you two at a time. * Big Purple People - Found in the Highway. They stand on the top of rooftops and launch some sort of poles at you. Once you jump up to the level of the roof that they are on they disappear, but will come back if you drop back down. (Unless you have killed them that is.) * Blob Ninja - Found in the Valley. I call them blob ninjas because they have the ability to float around puddle-like - then stand up to throw shurikens at you. (Sort of like on The Secret World of Alex Mack when she would transform into the metalic blob.) * Bomb Man - Found in the Harbor. These usually stand on the edges of boxes and will throw bombs up at you in an arc if you get near them. * Ceiling Person - Found in the Harbor. This guy stands on the ceiling and throws bombs out at you from both sides. * Climbing Person - Found in the Highway. He stays at the bottom of the cars but starts to crawl up once you get close. Once he reaches the top of the car he explodes. * Flame Person - Found in the Harbor. They will launch a steady steam of flame out of their mouths at you for a short period of time then take a rest and do it again. * Gargoyle Man - Appears in the Harbor and the Valley. These jump out at you at certain spots and attempt to attack you. * Gun Person - Found in the Highway. He crouches on top of the cars with a gun and shoots off two rounds in alternating bursts. * Hammer Person - Found in the Highway and the Harbor. He carries a big hammer in his hands and will jump at you trying to hit you with it. * Knife Thrower - Found in the Valley. This guy stands on ledges and throws exploding knives at you. * Laser Enemy - Found in the Woodland. These statues will shoot laser out at you from their eyes. Note their vulnerable spot is their head. * Masked Person - Found in the Highway. He wears a Jason mask and jumps at you when he sees you. * Round Robot - Found in Neo City. A round robot that spins around. * Shield Person - Found in the Woodland. This sliver guy stands in one place and throws a shield out at you like Captain America. He's fairly tough too. * Spider Robot - Found in Neo City. A robot that has a bunch of legs, pretty much just moves up and down. * Spike Man - Found in the Valley and the Woodland. This guy rolls around in a spiked ball, jumps around two times, then stands up at which point you can attack him. Note that he WILL jump towards you and can therefore be a bit hard to avoid. * Spinning Robots - They things are fairly big and spin around. If you get close to them, they self destruct. * Tree Climber - Found in the Woodland. This guy climbs the trees up and down and throws spikes out the side at you. * Wise Person - Found in the Woodland and Neo City. These old-looking guys stand in place spinning a stick thing then run at you and try to hit you with it. ------------------------------------------------------ / Level Walkthrough ------------------------------------------------------ Level Walkthroughs: Note - the proper order to get all of the extra health meter power-ups is Highway, Harbor, Valley, Woodlands, then Neo City. Ok I'm going to do these in two parts, one part being the slim walkthrough that basically tells where the important power-ups are and how to kill the bosses, and then the instense walkthrough that details every step through the level (just because I'm that bored.) However, since Neo City is so complex, I'm only making one walkthrough for it, and due to the way I have it set up, you can take as little or as much information from it as you want. First the shortened walkthrough... ////////\\\\\\\ | Highway | \\\\\\\\/////// Area 1: Use Red since he's the only one you have at this point. This is pretty easy, just keep going right with a couple things in mind: Crouch to kill the climbing people before they explode, wait for the masked people to jump to you, and jump over the bullets from the gun people. There's an extra life about halfway through, so don't miss it Area 2: The basic thing to remember here is to be on your toes, because masked people will jump out of windows, and the hammer people will jump out at you from nowhere. Also, with the big purple people if you get up to the same level as them then they disappear until you drop below them again. The extra health meter for this stage is at the very top right of this area, be sure to pick it up. Boss: Helicopter - The boss is a helicopter currently being controlled by pink - there are also climbing persons who will constantly climb up towards where you are standing. You can either try to time your jumps so that you are in the air when the helicopter comes on the screen and attack him while in the air (more fun), or you can just stand on the ground and attack him when he comes near you. He will start from the right side of the screen and go back and forth, sometimes coming out two times from the same side. Just keep moving and attack him when he appears - it's not too hard. ////////\\\\\\\ | Harbor | \\\\\\\\/////// Area 1: Use pink to get around this whole level. For this, the first area, there's not really anything special to worry about. Just make your way through, killing monsters and climbing the ceiling to reach certain areas. Area 2: Once again, there's nothing really special here, just navigate to the end of the level. Note, the top box at the start of the level is a tech, if you want it. Area 3: This is the area that really matters in the level. First off, to kill the barrel men just climb on the ceiling and fall after the barrels pass, then attack. The ceiling people are a bit tougher, but the easiest thing to do is crawl on the ceiling as close to them as you can get then fall and attack at the same time. Now for the important part of this area. You're going to want to go right until you reach the first gap, then crawl on the ceiling to the other side to get the extra health meter. Then go right, and down, and left over the gap to get an extra life. Once these two items are collected, just make your way through the end of the level, which is at the top-left part of the screen. Boss: Tank - This boss is some giant tank thing that has an arm with a big steel ball on the end. He will come towards you then reach out at you with his arm. Most of the time you can just stand at the very left to avoid the arm, but occasionally he will reach your distance. When that happens you can just jump over the steel part onto the arm and stand on it, wait a few seconds, and jump back off. (It took me a while to realize you could do that.) To attack him, wait till he reaches out two times, then go over to the tank, jump as far up-right as you can and throw a bomb out at the yellow ninja. Don't worry if you touch the tank - it wont hurt you. After I think 4 hits he's gone. A fun thing to do after he's gone is to jump around and throw bombs around - eventually the game should slow down for a few seconds and your bomb will explode in slow-motion. Ok, well I think it's fun. ////////\\\\\\\ | Valley | \\\\\\\\/////// Area 1. There are two ways to beat this area. The easiest is to use yellow and just walk on the water until you get to the end, where you have to jump up to the exit. However, be sure to get the box which is on a platform with a baton woman near the middle of the area, because it is an extra health meter. If you for some reason want to make the level harder, just keep going right, staying on the logs and platforms. (I still suggest using yellow and keeping his weapon fully charged.) Area 2: This place is a little tricky. To kill the blob ninjas, just crawl towards them then attack them with a fully-charged shot once they stand up. The spike men are quite annoying, you have to let them jump at you, then run left so they don't hit you. After two times they will stand up, and then you can attack them. Finding your way through this level really isn't that hard, but you're going to want to watch out for the dark spaces, which usually hide the spike men. Boss: Ninja - This boss is soooo easy! Just jump to the platform immediately to the left of where you start. Stand on the right edge and face left. Now get up a charge. The ninja will jump at you then above then appear to the left of you. When he does that attack, and wait for him to appear next to you again. That’s all! ////////\\\\\\\ | Woodland | \\\\\\\\/////// Area 1: Use blue for this level. The extra health meter is in this area. To get to it, you're going to need to stay near the top of the screen. You will eventually come to a place where there is a knot in a tree and a ledge to the right of it, you need to grapple on to the knot to get to the ledge. Once you get the extra health, just keep going right to the end of the level. Area 2: This area is once again fairly straight foward. You're going to want to know that the big monsters that shoot lazers at you have a weakness in their eye area, so attack them there. (Jump up and attack them.) Just keep going in the doors and back outside killing things along the way, as usual. Note, at the top of this area there is a tower type thing, and if you jump up and hit it, an extra life will appear. Boss: Giant Head. The head will move around the screen in a set pattern, then break up into 3 ninjas that jump once then turn back into the head. The patter is - starting from the right, it swoops down and up to the top left corner, then turns into ninjas. The ninjas jump right and reform the head. You should stand to the left of the head when it first gets to the top left corner of the screen, then attack the ninjas when they fall. After the head reforms, it will go up, then swoop left and right again, the ninjas will come out in the middle of the screen. Hit them as they are coming down and the process will repeat itself. And now the longer one... ////////\\\\\\\ | Highway | \\\\\\\\/////// Area 1: Of course you only have Red at this point since you just started - so you have no choice but to use him. Crouch down and kill the first climbing person. Jump to the red car, and attack the masked person without hitting the box cause it's a bomb. Jump up to the big truck and kill the masked person, collecting the heart box. Crouch down and let the gun person's fire pass you, then jump up to him, attack once, jump over fire, then attack again. (Always do this to kill the gun people.) Go right to the next gun person and kill him as well as the climbing person. Collect the extra life box the jump down to the red car. Ignore the box, it's a bomb. Jump up to the truck, let the masked person jump into your range, and attack him. Wait till the bullets pass and kill the gun person. Go right and quickly kill the gun person and masked person. Collect the tech then jump down to the green car. Kill the masked person and collect the heart. Jump up to the next vehicle and kill the masked person. Crouch down and go right to kill the masked person, then go on to the next area. Area 2: Kill the masked person, go right, and kill the next masked person before it can jump at you. Go right till you get to the red building, the watch for a hammer person to jump at you - crouch and attack to kill it. Go right for a heart box then go back and jump up two times. A masked person will ump at you from the right so be ready. Jump left over the gap and kill the hammer person. Jump up two times to the next level and kill the two masked persons that will break out of the windows. The box to the left is a bomb. Go right and jump up-right over the gap, and kill the masked person. All the way to the right is a heart - kill a masked person to get to it. Jump up-left over the gap and kill the hammer person. Jump up two times, kill the masked person, and ignore the bomb box. Jump right over the gap and kill the hammer person. Go right and kill the masked person. Jump up two times and kill the two big purple people by jumping up as they launch stuff at you and hitting them. Two hits to kill. Ignore the box for now and jump left over the gap. Jump up two times and kill the hammer person and masked person. Jump right over the gap to collect the tech then go back. Jump up 3 times to the top and kill the hammer person. Go right over the gap to a heart box and an extra health meter. Go back to the left, jump up to the top again, and go left to the boss: Boss: Helicopter - The boss is a helicopter currently being controlled by pink - there are also climbing persons who will constantly climb up towards where you are standing. You can either try to time your jumps so that you are in the air when the helicopter comes on the screen and attack him while in the air (more fun), or you can just stand on the ground and attack him when he comes near you. He will start from the right side of the screen and go back and forth, sometimes coming out two times from the same side. Just keep moving and attack him when he appears - it's not too hard. ////////\\\\\\\ | Harbor | \\\\\\\\/////// Area 1: You should use newly acquired pink for this whole level. Go right and attack the two gargoyle men. Go right and attack the bomb man before he can attack. Further right attack a hammer person then jump up-right two times. Avoid the bomb and attack the two gargoyle men. Attack the bomb man to the right then go down and to the right. Continue right, and attack the gargoyle man followed by a hammer person. Jump up on to the lift. Jump up and left off the lift and attack the hammer person. Jump up and crawl on ceiling the left over the gap. Get the tech to the left. Jump up two times and attack the flame person. Jump down and right over the gap. For a heart go right and kill the flame person, then collect the heart. Jump down and kill the flame person. Attack the gargoyle man, then jump up and crawl on ceiling to get to the next girder to the right. Jump up and left for another heart. Go back right and jump over to the bomb man and kill him. Go through the arrow. Area 2: Go right and attack the three gargoyle men. Fall down and attack another gargoyle man. Jump up-right two times and attack the hammer person and gargoyle men. Go to the right and ignore the box which is a bomb. Jump up and attack the lower box and let the bomb explode. Then jump on the ledge and get the higher box which is a tech. Jump back down-right. Go right and attack the two gargoyle men. Jump up-right onto the top of this ship. Get the tech at the far right then jump down and collect the heart. Fall down again and go in the door. Area 3: Jump up and crawl right on the ceiling over the barrels, then kill the barrel man. Go right and kill the gargoyle man. Jump up on ceiling and crawl right until you see the ceiling person, then fall and attack at the same time to hit him. Go right and attack the gargoyle man. Jump up onto ceiling and crawl right for an extra health meter. Go right and down and kill the gargoyle man. Crawl on the ceiling over the gap to the left to get the extra life. Fall down and kill the hammer person. Jump up and go left, let barrels pass, and kill barrel man. Attack the gargoyle man then jump up-left two times. For a heart jump up-left and avoid the ceiling person's bombs then attack him and collect the heart. Jump over to the left ledge, stand on the second level of barrels, let the gargoyle man jump up, then attack him. Jump up to the ceiling then crawl left to the next platform. Attack the two gargoyle men.Jump up-left then up to the ceiling and crawl left over the barrels and kill the barryl man. Then go left to the boss. Boss: Tank - This boss is some giant tank thing that has an arm with a big steel ball on the end. He will come towards you then reach out at you with his arm. Most of the time you can just stand at the very left to avoid the arm, but occasionally he will reach your distance. When that happens you can just jump over the steel part onto the arm and stand on it, wait a few seconds, and jump back off. (It took me a while to realize you could do that.) To attack him, wait till he reaches out two times, then go over to the tank, jump as far up-right as you can and throw a bomb out at the yellow ninja. Don't worry if you touch the tank - it wont hurt you. After I think 4 hits he's gone. A fun thing to do after he's gone is to jump around and throw bombs around - eventually the game should slow down for a few seconds and your bomb will explode in slow-motion. Ok, well I think it's fun. ////////\\\\\\\ | Valley | \\\\\\\\/////// Area 1: The easiest way to beat the 1st area is to use yellow and walk along the bottom of the screen picking up the extra-health meter as you go - which is near a baton woman. Then go to the end of the screen to the right and jump up all the way to the door. Otherwise... Use yellow and I would suggest to keep your fire power charged up all the time because it makes killing enemies a lot easier. That means the WHOLE level. Jump on the log and attack the gargoyle man. Float right and kill the baton woman. Jump up-right to the rocks. Fall to the lower left rocks right above the water. (Below the water-fall.) Go on another log and float right, killing another gargoyle man. Jump up onto the rocks right before the whirlpool. Jump up and attack the two gargoyle men. Jump up then up-right and kill the baton woman. Get the heart then go right to the edge. Switch to yellow if you haven’t already, then walk left to the ledge with the baton woman, kill her, and get the extra health meter. Go left and jump on the rocks. Go down all the way. Jump on a log - the bottom most one - float right, and attack the gargoyle man near the whirlpool. Jump up to rock. Jump up again and attack the two gargoyle men. Jump up to the door and go in. Area 2: Crawl right and attack blob ninja once he stands up (how you kill all blob ninjas.) Jump up-right and kill spike man. To do this approach him then let him jump towards you two times, then attack him when he stands up with a fully-powered shot from yellow. Go right for a tech. Go back left and jump to the up-left corner of the screen. Jump up-right to a black spot and kill the spike man. Go right and watch for another spike man, and kill him. Go down and left for a heart. Go back right, jump up-right. Go down and jump right to the first ledge. Crawl to the right and attack the blob ninja. Go right and attack the spike man. Go right and kill the two blob men and get the heart and the tech. Go right and attack the knife thrower. Jump up-right then up-left. Attack the blob ninja and go left for a heart. Go back right, jump up-right, and kill the knife thrower. Then go left through the door. Boss: Ninja - This boss is soooo easy! Just jump to the platform immediately to the left of where you start. Stand on the right edge and face left. Now get up a charge. The ninja will jump at you then above then appear to the left of you. When he does that attack, and wait for him to appear next to you again. That’s all! ////////\\\\\\\ | Woodland | \\\\\\\\/////// Area 1: Use blue for this level. Attack armored man and jump up on the branches all the way. Attack the armored man and tree climber. Go right and attack the armored man. Jump to where the armored man was - switch to pink. Climb over to the left branch. Jump up and attack the armored man. (Go back to blue.) Jump up-right to get tech. Jump right and attack the armored man. Attack the shield man. Jump up to top branch. Stand on the right edge and grapple onto knot in tree. Get extra health meter. Jump down and latch onto the knot on the way down. (If you miss go back up and try again.) Attack armored man when you land. Jump up-right to the red arrow and go on to the next area. Area 2: Go right and attack wise person. Go right more and attack spike man. Go all the right for a heart, then go through the door. Immediately jump up and attack laser eye in the head - his weak point. Go left and attack the laser eye. Jump up and go in the door. Grapple on to circle thing to the right. Go right for a tech, then go in the door. Attack laser eye, jump on his head, jump up-right and quickly attack the other laser eye. Go in door. The middle box is a bomb. Go left for a heart. Go back right, attack the wise person. Jump on the ledge then up-left. Go left and attack the wise person. Go in the door to the left. Attack laser eye then go in the top door. Go left to get a heart. Jump on ledge. Jump up-right and attack the spike man. Jump up and attack the top of the tower thing to reveal an extra life. Go down to the bottom ledge, get tech, then jump over to the door. Boss: Giant Head. The head will move around the screen in a set pattern, then break up into 3 ninjas that jump once then turn back into the head. The patter is - starting from the right, it swoops down and up to the top left corner, then turns into ninjas. The ninjas jump right and reform the head. You should stand to the left of the head when it first gets to the top left corner of the screen, then attack the ninjas when they fall. After the head reforms, it will go up, then swoop left and right again, the ninjas will come out in the middle of the screen. Hit them as they are coming down and the process will repeat itself. ////////\\\\\\\ | Neo City | \\\\\\\\/////// The Final Stage: This stage can be a real pain in the butt if you don't know what you're doing. It's a bit of a maze, with almost every room having two exits. Throughout the level you will encounter forms of previous bosses. Contrary to what I thought before, as far as I can tell, you only have to kill 3 of the 4 bosses to get to the end of the stage and then face the final battle. I’m going to start by typing a list of the names of the room (named by me) and where the doors in that room lead to. Next I will write a description of how to get past each room. Finally, I will tell you my recommended order for going through the rooms. Rooms (Note I think every room has a color designated to it - meaning you should use that color ninja in that level. Also, after the descriptions of the rooms I have a recommended order, so you can just go there if you want to figure things out on your own.): * Green Jump Room - Left door: Yellow Geyser Room Right Door: Blue Hook And Platform Room * Yellow Geyser Room - Blue Tornado Room * Blue Tornado Room - Face Boss * Face Boss - Blue Hook And Platform Room * Yellow Laser Room - Left Door: Machine Boss Room Right Door: Green Jump And Attack Wise Person Room * Green Jump And Attack Wise Person Room - Top Door: Blue Hook And Don't Fall Room Bottom Door: Green Jump Room * Machine Boss Room - Yellow Geyser Room * Blue Hook And Don't Fall Room - Top Door: Pink Hang And Avoid Balls Room Bottom Door: Pink Crawl And Climb Room * Pink Crawl And Climb Room - Red Break Blocks Room * Red Break Blocks Room - Top Door: Red Break Blocks And Fall Fast Room Bottom Door: Red Flying Spikes Room * Red Break Blocks And Fall Fast Room - Left Door: Ninja Boss Room Right Door: Pink Jump And Lower Water Room * Pink Jump And Lower Water Room - Pink Make Light Room * Pink Make Light Room - Green Jump And Stay High Room * Green Jump And Stay High Room - Top Door: Pink Freeze Monsters Room Bottom Door: Blue Hook And Don't Fall Room * Pink Hang And Avoid Balls Room - Left Door: Helicopter Boss Right Door: Green Jump And Avoid Razors Room * Helicopter Boss Room - Red Break Blocks Room * Ninja Boss Room - Blue Hook And Don't Fall Room * Green Jump And Avoid Razors Room - Yellow Geyser And Spikes Room * Yellow Geyser And Spikes Room - Blue Tornado Up Room * Blue Tornado Up Room - Left Door: Pink Freeze Monsters Room Right Door: Red Break Blocks Room * Pink Freeze Monsters Room - Final Boss Room * Blue Continuous Ninja Room - Top Door: Red Break Blocks Room Bottom Door: Green Jump Room * Red Flying Spikes Room - Blue Hook And Don't Fall Room * Final Boss Room - Ending Descriptions Of The Rooms: Green Jump Room - Continuously double jump on the far right or left blocks until you reach the top. Blue Hook And Don't Fall Room - Wait for the bottom hook to appear, and after a brief pause, latch onto it and land on the left block. Jump up to the above block, and latch on the hook to go right. Jump up to next block and latch onto hook to go left. Immediately latch back on to go right. Jump up and latch onto hook to go left to the stationary block. Wait for hook on the top of the visible screen to appear then latch onto it to go right. Jump up to the block, then jump up all the way and latch onto hook to go left to the next stationary block. Jump up all the way then latch onto hook to go right. Once on the block, jump up and latch onto the hook to go left to the door. Yellow Laser Room - This just takes patience, waiting for the lasers to turn off for a few seconds so you can move on. If you want to, you can cast yellow's tech and walk through some of the lasers. From the start go right through two lasers. Go down-right, crouch, wait for laser to pass overhead, then fall down. Go left all the way for an extra life. Then go back to the bottom middle. Wait for laser overhead to pass then jump up-left and crouch. Wait for it to pass again, then jump up-right. Go right past fist laser, then hit the first item box which is a bomb, wait for it to explode, then go right to collect a tech. Go back left and jump up-right then jump up-right or up-left depending on where you want to go. Yellow Geyser Room - Wait for the middle geyser to erupt. Jump on it then quickly jump up-right, up-right, up-left, up-left, up-right, up-right, up-right, up-left, up-left, then up-left to the door. Blue Tornado Room - Use green to jump all the way right for a tech. Then switch to blue, fall down, use a tech before you hit any spikes, and go through the right door. Note if you have two techs on you and desperately need health, you can get a health box on the bottom left of the screen, but just ignore that door. Blue Continuous Ninja Room - Cautiously go right, backtracking continuously to not get hit, then attack the ninjas. Red Break Blocks Room - Get tech then move left to scroll screen left, then move back till you stand on the unbreakable pillar. Do the tech. Hopefully you are still on the pillar. Fall down to the right, switch to green, then double jump up-right to the platform. Get the tech, switch back to red, then do tech over the door and go in it. If you did happen to fall back at the entrance, you need to go down as far as you can. Then go right and break the blocks, and use pink to crawl the gap to the bottom door. Red Break Blocks And Fall Fast Room - Just keep collecting techs, going down, and using techs. Note, the first place where there are 2 item boxes, left is a bomb. Then under that, the left one is a heart. Blue Hook And Don't Fall Room - Takes precision - jump right to latch onto top hook, then keep latching right onto hooks to get to the top platform. If you ever fall and have a tech use it to turn into a tornado and go to safety. Item box at the top is an extra life, and you want to go in the top door. Green Jump And Attack Room - You need to do double jumps then attack in the direction of the Wise Person while in the second jump. It may take a few tries to get in the right place to kill him. Pink Crawl And Climb Room - Immediately choose pink and jump up and attack to ceiling. Crawl right past the laser. Get the tech then crawl past the laser to the right. Box all the way to the right is an extra life. Crouch, wait for laser to pass, then jump up-left two times then duck. Crawl left, ignore the bomb, and when laser passes, jump up and attach to the ceiling. Go left as far as you can on the ceiling, let laser pass, immediately fall down and jump up-right then up and attach to the ceiling. Go right and land on the laser. Jump up-right then up-left. Jump up-right and attach to the ceiling then fall on the ledge. Crawl right some, let top laser pass then Jump up to attach to ceiling and crawl right and go in the door. Pink Jump And Lower Water Room - Move fast. Jump up-right and attack round robot. Jump up-right two times and get the tech. Jump right as far as you can then right before you hit the block (or water) use a tech. Jump right and then up-right two times. Attack round robot, get tech, jump as far right as you can and use the tech. (If the water is too height then go for the block immediately to the right. Go right to the door. Pink Make Light Room - Get tech (the white dot), and use it. Go right, jump right over spikes, collect the other tech then attack the spider robots if you want and go in the door. Green Jump And Stay High Room - Simply jump from block to block. Top door may be inaccessible depending on what bosses you've killed. Pink Freeze Monsters Room - Get tech and use it. Walk past the now paralyzed spinning robot. Go right and collect the tech and use it. Go on the top platform, get the tech. Go down for the heart box then go right and use tech and go in the door. Pink Hang And Avoid Balls Room - To get to left door from start: Wait for ball to move right, hang in indention in ceiling. Once it passes again to your left fall and go right. The other ball will move right, follow it and hang in the indention. Let ball pass then go to the door. To go in right door from start: Jump up-right. Let the ball start moving right, go right and hang in indention and crawl all the way right. Let the ball pass you again going left and then go right and hang in indention all the way right. Let 2nd ball move towards you then away and follow it. Hang in next indention, go right all the way on the ceiling, then let the ball pass to the left. Soon as is passes, drop an go all the way right at the bottom of the room. Then go left and jump in the indention, let the ball pass to the right, then fall and go left to the door. Green Jump And Avoid Razors Room - Jump up-right over the first razor. Crawl right under razor then jump over the next razor. Double jump over the next two razors and crawl under the next razors. Then double jump over the last two razors. Yellow Geyser And Spikes Room - VERY CAREFULLY jump from one geyser to the next if you have no techs left, but if you do have some techs left then go as far right as you can safely (up to your judgement) then jump up, switch to blue, use a tech and go right to the door. Or you can just use blue's tech multiple times from the start. Blue Tornado Up Room - Get tech. Use tech to get to box up and immediately left of the spikes. The box to the right of this tech is a bomb. Up-right of the bomb is an extra life and left of the extra life is another tech. Below and to the left of this tech is a bomb. At the very left middle is another extra life, and the very top left box is a tech. Red Flying Spikes Room - Make your way right deflecting spikes with your sword. <b>Final Boss</b> - Use red - he's the only one that will hurt the final boss. The ninja will attack using the attacks of the four ninjas you rescued earlier starting with yellow. He will launch two energy balls that move up and down towards the opposite side of the screen. Crouch on the opposite side of the screen than the ninja and try to avoid the balls. He'll then jump towards you and attack with the grapple. Hit him as soon as he jumps over then jump up to avoid the grapple. He'll then go back to yellow's attack. Repeat this process until you hit him 4 times. He'll then go into green jump and attack mode, but instead of launching shurikens he'll launch pink's bombs. Do your best to avoid the bombs and continue to attack him. He'll jump once with no attack, then jump again and attack. After four more hits he'll jump off the screen and go into his second stage which is a big robot. The robot has two attacks. 1. He'll crouch and launch two energy balls out of his head which will hit the ground and go towards you. 2. His lightning band thing will flash and he'll throw it at you like a boomerang. Just stay towards the left jumping over the balls, then attacking him then watching to see what his next attack is. Usually it cycles between 1 and 2 so you can be ready to jump over the boomerang. After eight hits he's dead. Now sit back and watch the brief ending. Recommended Order: Now I'm basing this off the fact that you only need to kill 3 of the bosses in Neo City to reach the final boss. It may not be the most efficient path but oh well. Green Jump Room - Geyser Room - Blue Tornado With Spikes Room - Face Boss - Blue Hook And Platform Room - Yellow Laser Room - Machine Boss Room - Yellow Geyser Room - Blue Tornado With Spikes Room - Blue Hook And Platform Room - Yellow Laser Room - Green Jump And Attack Wise Person Room - Blue Hook And Don't Fall Room - Pink Crawl And Climb Room - Red Break Blocks Room - Red Break Blocks And Fall Fast Room - Ninja Boss - Blue Hook And Don't Fall Room - Pink Crawl And Climb Room - Red Break Blocks Room - Red Break Blocks And Fall Fast Room - Pink Jump And Lower Water Room - Pink Make Light Room - Green Jump And tay High Room - Pink Freeze Monsters Room - Final Boss ------------------------------------------------------ / Conclusion ------------------------------------------------------ Well that's it. This is where I'm supposed to say all that legal stuff. Yeah yeah, please don't copy this without my permission because it took a whole lot of work - much more than I thought it was going to be that's for sure. I hope it was of some use to you, and don't be afraid to email me if you have any suggestions or questions. Remember - keep the Game Gear alive ;)