Here's some hints and a walkthrough for the Angel (B3X) game. Angel is an adult adventure-type game with 99.99% of the text in Japanese. The only redeeming feature of the game is the large number of sex scenes possible. It is available by anonymous ftp from server.berkeley.edu in the /pub/anime/software directory as angel.zip. It may be available elsewhere, but I got it from berkeley. You don't need DOS/V for this one, it will work just fine under regular MS-DOS. It appears to use EGA 640*350*16 graphics, but I could be wrong. No sound or music either. The only keys needed are the space bar, escape key, backspace key (for game exit), and up and down arrow keys; no mouse support. The original producer appears to be JAST, circa 1990. Install all the files in a single directory. Start the game by running b3x. You should get several screens of girls in relatively quick succession, until a title screen appears and waits for you to press a key. You will then start in the family kitchen with the rest of the family visible. The major motif of the game is the hierarchy of menu choices on the right side; from 1 to 8 primary choices, each having from 0 to 7 choices of its own. By choosing the correct things on the menus, you move from location to location in the game, eventually to the "Happy End." The walkthrough below tells you which choices to pick on the menus to move along quickly. If you read Japanese, you will probably have more fun exploring the multitude of responses to the menu choices. One poor soul complained that his copy continually asked for disks and wouldn't budge. Either he had a bad copy, or there was something in a floppy drive that the program liked and wanted more of. I don't know. My copy just skips right past the disk requests. I have it loaded several directories down on drive G:, a SCSI drive, so there appears to be no problem with exactly where the files are, or how they are accessed. I've also tried it on a 486SX laptop also under DOS 6.22, and aside from a louder noise from the floppy drive, and a bit slower start, no problems there either. The game supports saving and loading up to 3 different saved games. Access these by pressing the escape key whenever menu choices appear on the right side. You can't get out of a bad ending by loading a saved game, sorry. Each saved game has its own file in the game directory. I haven't decoded the whole file, just enough to manipulate which screen you appear on; that was enough to help develop a walkthrough. According to the creator of a hack for this game, you can get out of the "bad end" screens by typing "RURI". Yes, capital R, ... - don't ask me how he figured this one out. It puts you back at the first screen in the kitchen. You can also exit the game by pressing the backspace key, although the game leaves the computer in a strange video mode that you may need to reset (and a CLS isn't enough). The following translation of menu items is from Steve T. Goupil (vampyre@sojourn1.sojourn.com). I'm taking it at face value: Many of the commands repeat themselves, so I'll tell you what are the commands on the very first two menus of the game. The first is the menu that shows up when you're looking across the table at your sister and father. The menu translation is: 1. Look 2. Take 3. Eat 4. Drink 5. Talk 6. Go 7. Ask The second menu, when you are at the bus stop with the cutest girl in the school, is translated as: 1. Look 2. Ask 3. Go 4. Examine 5. Take 6. Talk 7. Thanks Steve! The following walkthrough uses the convention "x/y", where "x" is a primary menu choice, and "y" is a sub-menu choice. Pick these in the order given, sometimes multiple times, to proceed through the game. The default is to go to the next location; exceptions are noted. There are multiple "bad ends" and only one "happy end". Location numbers are in hexadecimal, they correspond to a value in the saved game file which you can manipulate if you just want to jump to a particular location. However, be warned that other values in the saved game file may control what you have to do to proceed from there. Locations with a "*" after the number are sexy scenes, but may not be to your taste. A hacked version of the game does exist, which will allow you to jump to almost any location in the game - it uses decimal values for locations instead of the hexadecimal used here. LOCATION DESCRIPTION..... MENU OPTIONS TO GO TO NEXT LOCATION 00 Start 5/3, 6/3 01 Bus Stop 6/1, 6/1, then 1/1 02 On Bus 2/1, 1/6 03 In Crowd 2/1, 2/1, 2/1, 6/3, 6/3 04 * Sex in Crowd 3/2, 6/3 05 On Street (2/4,3/1 in any order), 8/6 06 Group of Girls 6/2, 6/2, 6/2, 5/4 07 Two at Desk 3/2, then either 8/1 to go to #12; or 8/2 to go to #08; or 5/3, 8/3 to go to #0C could also go to #11 somehow 08 Girl Gym Closet 5/2, 5/3, 7/1, 7/2, then 8/1 or 8/2 09 * Topless Gym Closet 3/4, 3/4, 6/1 0A * Bondage Insert Racquet 4/1, 4/1, 4/1, 7/1 0B * Cum Face Bondage automatically goes to #13 0C Smoking Girl 4/4, 6/2 (note 6/1 goes to #10) 0D Smoking Girl Pointing 2/1, 2/1, 3/4, 5/4 0E * Smoking Girl Blows 7/1 0F * Smoking Girl Porked 4/3, 7/1, then goes to #13 10 Teacher Surprises BAD END 11 Teacher at Desk 5/1 to go back to #07 12 Girls' Volleyball 4/4, 4/4 then 1/1 at #13 13 Green Girl Sandwich 5/1, 5/1, 1/1, 1/1 14 Green Girl Wall 4/1, 4/1, 5/1, 7/3 15 Green Girl Bed 8/1 16 * Green Girl Lingerie (5/1,6/2,6/3,6/4,6/5,6/6 in any order), 7/2 17 * Green Girl Wide 7/1 18 Cafeteria (2 screens) 2/2, 6/2 to #20 after #23 do 2/1, 6/2 to #19 after #19 do 5/1, 6/2 to #1C after #1F do 2/3, 6/2 to #24 after #26 do 2/3 to #27 (following are optional if done earlier) 6/1 once to #37 (1/1 to return) 6/1 again to #1A 19 Plaza 8/5, 3/7, 4/6 (4/6 turns off 6/2 on #18), 5/4 to go to #18 (just 5/4 later) 1A Transvestite Bathroom (you're stuck! 5/1 or 7/2 to go to #1B) 1B Upset Cafeteria Girl BAD END 1C Girl Glasses Lockers 2/1, 2/1, 2/1, 2/1, 8/1 (8/1 early sends you to #1B) 1D * Girl Glasses Topless 2/1, 6/4 1E * No Glasses Blows 4/2, 6/2 1F * No Glasses Cum Face automatically goes to #18 20 Girl Storage 6/3, 6/3, 8/1 21 * Storage Topless 2/1, 2/1, 2/1, 2/1, 6/1, then 7/1 or 7/2 22 * Storage Licking 6/1, 6/1, 6/1 23 * Storage Cumming automatically goes to #18 24 * Blonde Topless Crates 2/1, 2/1, 6/2 25 * Blonde Posing Doggy 5/1, 7/1 26 * Blonde Doggy Busy automatically goes to #18 27 Tea Girls (2 screens) 4/2, 4/2 28 Redhead in Crowd 5/3 goes to #29, but 6/1,5/4 goes to #2C 29 Redhead at Movies 4/1 or 7/5 or 8/1? 2A Redhead Streetlight 4/1 or 5/2 to go to #2B (any way to rescue this and go to anything else?) 2B Redhead Leaves BAD END 2C Rock Concert 1/3, 1/3 2D Redhead and Punks (7/1,7/1,7/2 in any order) then 7/2 or if you mess up you go to #30 2E Punks Beaten automatically goes to #2F 2F Redhead Happy 2/2,2/2,2/2,2/2, then either 6/4 goes to #31, or 6/3, 4/4 goes to #32 30 Punks Beat You! BAD END 31 Happy SD Green Girl BAD END 32 Redhead in Bed 2/1, 3/3, 7/1 33 * Redhead Topless (5/1,5/2,5/3 in any order), 6/3 34 * Redhead Doggy 2/1, 2/1, 6/1 35 * Redhead Orgasm HAPPY END Now, that's all the "real" locations in the game, but there are a few others that you may see momentarily while playing, although none of them are sexy. I'll include them only because the B3X-HACK program allows you access to them if you copy files around. Proceed at your own risk. 36 (54) right side of #18 (two girls cafeteria) 37 (55) Red Girl Bathroom 1/1 to go to #18 38 (56) Transvestite in Bathroom (same as #1A?) 39 (57) right side of #27 (tea girls) 3A (58) redhead in tea room 3B (59) blue hair in tea room 3C (60) purple hair in tea room 3D (61) blonde in tea room 3E (62) full screen 3 girls from tea room (from game start) 3F (63) full screen 2 school girls (from game start) 40 (64) full screen 3 cafeteria girls (from game start) 41 (65) full screen bus girl (from game start) And that ain't all! There are more graphics files numbered from 66 to 68. 42 (66) full screen redhead (from game start) 43 (67) full screen redhead and game title (from game start) 44 (68) full screen game border overlay If you have anything to add to this, or would like to trade other adult anime games, please let me know. Peter Karsanow karsanow@ridgecrest.ca.us