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1. Metka Jostl James R Curry Kakarot Milos Babovic Russel Hoy Sir Dave O Also big thanks go out to all members of RETROSPEC Check the messages in the game for other important notes and additional thanx For more information and updates etc visit our official homepage at http retrospec sgn net games hoh September 2003 Oh me m mS nny http retrospec sgn net games hoh
2. MENU PLAY THE GAME This will present you with a new menu in which you can start a NEW GAME from scratch or load a previusly saved OLD GAME and continue where you left off CHANGE CONTROLS This will allow you to change all controls in the game Any key can be used for any control You can also use any DirectX compliant Joypads or Joysticks that are connected to your system ADJUST THE SOUND Allows you to choose the sound mode and sound music volume in the game GAME OPTIONS Will present a new menu with additional game options HEADOVERHEELS PLAY THE GAME With NEW GAME option you will start from scratch However if you have previously saved your game then you can choose it from the second menu accessed by the OLD GAME option Just select the game you want to continue playing and press Action button CHANGE CONTROLS It is important to utilise this function properly Step a Move cursor to highlight the required control on which the keys are to be changed Step b Press ENTER or Action Button clears the current key Step c Press the key pad button joystick direction required for control it will be printed on the current line as it is pressed Spep d When all keys are selected go to BACK selection to go to Main Menu Default Keys all keys are redefinable Up Down Left Right Move through the room Space Jump Teleport Enter Pickup Drop Objects M Jump amp Pickup Drop simultaneously LEFT CTRL Fir
3. s jumps and Heels s jumps 9 Make a map 10 Do not waste doughnuts they are not easy to find 11 Display screens such as the Five planets or the Final score may be aborted by pressing any key HEADOVERHEELS 12 Do not get confused only Heels may carry anything and only Head may fire 13 To discover if there is a room above pile objects high as possible and jump from the top If there is a spring in the room put it on the top for extra jumping height 14 If you can t understand a room try exiting and entering again watching carefully for any movement in the room as you enter HEADOVERHEELS Credits Original game written by Jon Ritman and Bernie Drummond This game is produced by RETROSPEC group Check out our homepage at http retrospec sgn net The remake was done by mainly these two people in their spare time Tomaz Kac TomCatOsgn net All Programing with the aid of Allegro programing library New Room Design Graham Goring GrahamG Zedtwo com All Graphics pixelated by hand Additional work for this remake was done by Dorian Black Mezkal Mezkal com Both Musical Scores and main part of Sound Effects Peter Jovanovic pierre datagate co uk Title Picture and Logo Web Site Design PDF Booklet and HTML design Ignacio Perez Gil ZMEIPG sevillana grupoendesa com Additional Sound Effects HEADOVERHEELS The game would not be so good without a plethora of beta testers
4. the character s whose icon is lit is under player control When Head and Heels are joined together all their abilities are combined Life Transfer When one of the creatures looses all lives and the other has still plenty an autmatic life transfer will be done If they are separated when the tragic event happens then 2 lives will be transferred from the other creature otherwise if they are joined only 1 life will be transferred HEADOVERHEELS Hints and Tips 1 Beginners should aim to escape from Blacktooth and get back to Freedom initially Only the very skilled can hope to liberate a planet or two 2 When you first get Head and Heels in the same location practice placing Head on top of Heels and joining them together accurately with the swop key Both of their icons will light up when they are successfully joined 3 Remember Head and Heels are a team Just because both are in the same room does not mean you have to join them together and in fact some problems may only be solved by separating Head and Heels 4 Make sure Head learns to climb ladders this is an essential skill 5 Both Heels s bag and Head s hooter must be collected at the initial stages for there to be any chance of completing the game 6 Find a safe spot and get used to how far Head and Heels may move over the edge of a brick before they fall this will enable you to make the longest jumps 7 Learn the difference in distance and control betwen Head
5. to the previous menu You have 6 slots available to fill HEADOVERHEELS Online High Scores When you run out of lives or complete the game the computer will show you Retrospec High Score Code You can use this code to enter your score into an online High Score Table on the retrospec web server Just write this code down on paper and go to http retrospec sgn net and follow the instructions there to enter the high score into online database If you want to just copy paste the code to the browser then you can do that since when the code is displayed on the screen it is also AUTOMATICALLY copied to the clipboard The last code that was shown is also stored in the file HighScoreCode txt which is put in the same directory to which you installed the game HEADOVERHEELS TROUBLE SHOOTING The game will initially start in WINDOWED DIRECT X Mode This mode should be availble on most if not all modern graphics cards However if you are unable to start the game for some reason then you should try and change the following things before you do anything else 1 Try changing colour depth of your desktop mode to either 15 bit High Colour 16 bit High Colour 24 bit True Colour or 32 bit True Colour Also try changing the resolution One of these should work with Head Over Heels 2 If the colour mode resolution did not work then you should change the graphics mode of HoH game with the command line switches You can do this by c
6. e Doughnut RGHT CTRL Swap Head Heels or Join Them Together ESC Quit HEADOVERHEELS ADJUST THE SOUND There are 3 distinct sound levels within the game These are different sound tracks as opposed to volumes One may select from a NASTY All jingles and game sounds b SO SO Useful game sounds c LATE Very few sounds almost none Also you can set the separate volume levels for Background Music and Sound effects in the game GAME OPTIONS There are several things you can change here Mainly it depends on how good you already are at playing the game how good your computer is and if you want to play the game with keyboard or joypad SHADOWS The game engine features shadow casting onto floor and objects this is the first engine to do so With this option you can select how accurate you want Shadow casting to be COMPLEX Shadows on objects and realistic shadows on Floors MEDIUM Shadows on objects and additive shadows on Floors SIMPLE Only additive shadows on Floors If your computer is fast enough over 233Mhz then we recommend you use the COMPLEX mode since it looks the best HEADOVERHEELS GAME SPEED The overall speed of the game ORIGINAL is the same speed as it was all those years ago on Spectrum If you are just starting to play the game you could select SLOW if you are already very experienced in it then FAST mode is recommended GFX MODE Here you can select if you want to play the ga
7. e for the empire with a direction teleport to all the slave planets Sometime after the Egyptus episode the latest Emperor sent out a craft to find that same strange planet and after much exploration it was finally located and the craft landed However the crew found the people had changed instead of pyramids they used castles and houses instead of wrapping corpses up in cloth they wrapped living men in HEADOVERHEELS metal and then tried to turn them into corpses with sharp metal sticks The Emperor not to be outdone by his ancestor built a huge resplendant stately home on Blacktooth and used it as his headquaters This home is surrounded by a small market and then a range of impassable mountains The only way to leave is via teleport to one of the three lunar space stations Head Headus Mouthion This creature is a symbiotic partner to Heels and will normally be found sitting on top of one Head is descended from a breed of flying reptile and still has rudimentary wings that allow Head up to twice his own height and to guide himself though the air Heels Footus Underium During Heels s evolution the arms have totally disappeared while the legs have become very powerful Heels can jump his own height and can also run very fast Reincarnation Fish The strangest animal in the known universe This fish likes to be eaten There have been cases of it jumping onto plates But there is more when you eat one its prodigious memory
8. hanging its shortcut go to Start Menu gt Programs gt Head Over Heels and right click on the Head Over Heels icon the one you use to start the game with and select Properties In this window you can add command line switches at the END of the Target text box Just edit this text box and add the switches with spaces in front to it You should try the r1 or r3 switch at first If that fails try the r4 switch which will turn on the GDI Windowed mode this is the slowest solution but it should work on ALL graphics cards even those which you made yourself out of bits of tin foil and drawing pins Command Line Switches rX FORCE Resolution Mode to X where X is 0 Windowed DIRECTX Mode 1 Full Screen AUTODETECT Mode HEADOVERHEELS 2 Windowed AUTODETECT Mode 3 Full Screen DIRECTX Mode 4 Windowed GDI Mode bgr Use BGR Graphics mode instead of RGB if you get BLUE or different coloured graphics then use this option normally when using GDI If you want the game to use GDI mode then you MUST set the r4 switch HEADOVERHEELS History Of The Blacktooth Empire Far far away from our star Sol lies the Blacktooth empire an evil empire four worlds enslaved by the planet Blacktooth All of the slave worlds bubble with unrest but due to the oppressive nature of their rulers they never reach boiling point they all lack a leader to draw the masses of population together Blacktooth itself is n
9. me in FULL SCREEN or WINDOWED mode Normally FULL SCREEN is faster but on modern systems it doesn t really matter TRIPLE BUFFERING If your graphics card is able to use this option normally in WINDOWED mode this option is not available on any card then you should select it it will enable very smooth scrolling for the big rooms If this is not enabled then a tearing effect might be present when scrolling CONTROL SENSITIVITY This selects how diagonal controls are interpreted It is imperative for full enjoyment that you set this option correctly If you select HIGH sensitivity then you can walk in one direction and quickly change it by 90 degress while holding the same key It is recommended that you select HIGH sensitivity if you are playing with Keyboard If you are playing with a Joypad Joystick it is recomended to select the LOW sensitivity mode so that you don t accidentaly go into the wrong direction IN GAME MENU While playing the game you can press the QUIT key and you will be presented with another menu RESUME GAME Will exit the menu and cancel the QUIT request HEADOVERHEELS QUIT GAME Will go back to the main menu and abort the current game If you have any Save Games left ie you picked up a Reincarnation Fish then you will also be presented with another menu SAVE GAME Here you can select any of the free slots or you can overwrite an already filled slot name your game and save it You can also go back
10. ot any better a world rigidly controlled by its dynastic leaders for so long that the populace do not even think about revolution The peoples of the neighbouring stars are getting very worried about signs of military expansion from Blacktooth and have sent a spy from the planet Freedom to see if he can push the slave planets into full rebellion by finding the crowns lost when Blacktooth took over The creatures of Freedom are very strange in that they are formed from a pair of symbolic animals that have adapted to operate either independantly or to their mutual advantage join together as one Head saddled on Heels and indeed these ARE their names and both are highly trained spies HEADOVERHEELS The Game Head and Heels have been captured separated and imprisoned in the castle headquaters of Blacktooth Their cells contain keep fit equipment including a wall ladder that Head really must learn to climb Your job is to get them both out of the castle and into the market place so they can join up again From there the journey leads to Moonbase Headquaters where you will have to decide either to try to escape back to Freedom or to be a true hero and teleport to one of the slave planets to search for its lost crown To overthrow the dictatorship on any of the slave planets would be a major blow to Blacktooth and you could return to Freedom in glory Of course Blacktooth would probably enslave them again eventually but it would slow do
11. remembers everything about you Its memory is so good that if you die at some later date you will be reincarnated at the very place you ate the fish and you will even have the taste still in your mouth How a fish can remember anything when its been eaten HEADOVERHEELS has never been successfully explained You must be very careful to check that the fish is alive and wriggling as dead fish decompose very quickly and it rapidly turns so poisonous that a single lick can kill WARNING Even living reincarnation fish taste horrible Head and Heels can share the fish they pick up They can store them for indefinite periods of time for them to be used when you are in a real jam Check the SAVE GAME menu to see how many Fish you have left to be used Cuddly Stuffed White Rabbits The cute toy bunnies magically enhance your powers The status display at the bottom of the screen will keep you informed as to which powers are temporarily enhanced If Head and Heels are connected when they pick up a Life or Iron pill they will both get the enhanced power There are four types 1 Two extra lives 2 Iron Pills to make you invulnerable Shield icon 3 Jump higher bunny This only works on Heels Spring icon 4 Go faster bunny This only works on slow moving Head Flash icon If Heels pick up a go faster bunny or Head picks up a jump bunny the bunnies power is wasted The bunnies are coloured differently you must learn which bunny gi
12. rer OSPEC User Manual TOn mS 7 ele HEADOVERHEELS Licence This game is licensed as freeware This means you can give copies of it to your friends or put it on web sites in its original unaltered state as it was downloaded from the Retrospec website You are not allowed to charge any kind of money for downloading or for any media you put in on This includes placing it on pages with paid banners although compulsory banners from free ISPs is okay or adverts If you want to distribute it on any freeware shareware CDs then you must first get the permission of the two main authors Tomaz Kac and Graham Goring and supply each of them with a copy of the CD that it is featured on Obviously the CDs must not be sold to gain profit though System Requirements The game requires a PC with at least 128Mb of RAM 256Mb is recommended and one of the Microsoft Windows operating systems any will do but newer ones require more memory with atleast Direct X 3 installed It should run fine on a Pentium 233Mhz or better processor However the menu system might be less than responsive on lower end computers although the game will hopefully run fine on systems slower than 233Mhz with a few tweaks to the options HEADOVERHEELS THE MENU SYSTEM Use Cursor keys UP and DOWN with ENTER to navigate the menus Alternatively you can use any controls that you configure yourself The ESCAPE key will exit the current menu MAIN
13. tch to switch things off and on WARNING Switching a deadly monster off will stop him moving but he will still be deadly to touch HEADOVERHEELS Conveyor Belts The rollers on the conveyor simply push you along it If you wish to go the opposite direction you have to jump along if you are Head They will just make Heels go slower Hush Puppies These are a very strange type of beast they are increadibly sleepy in fact they never wake up and it is quite normal for them to sleep for their entire lives They are often used as tables and even used as building bricks They are a native of Freedom and for many thousands of years Head and his ancestors have been mistaking them for Heels and causing so much trouble to the poor old hush puppies they they evolved a defence mechanism they somehow learned to teleport themselves away Nobody knows where they go but the instant they see any of Head s race they disappear and won t return until thay are sure the coast is clear The Emperor s Guardian The guardian blocks the door to the throne room in Blacktooth castle he is very dangerous and he doesn t like doughnuts Only a true hero may pass the guardian HEADOVERHEELS Swop Key If Head is sitting on Heels the swop key will on each push give you control of 1 Heels 2 Head amp Heels 3 Head 4 Head amp Heels If Head is not on Heels the swop key will on each push give you control of 1 Head 2 Heels At all times
14. ves which extra attributes HEADOVERHEELS Hooter The hooter may be used by Head to fire doughnuts at attacking mosters This will freeze them in place as they lick the doughnuts off their faces The hooter may only be used by Head and requires a tray of doughnuts to be of any use Doughnuts Tray of six doughnuts are few and far between so don t waste shots Only Head may pick up doughnuts The number of remaining doughnuts will be displayed above the doughnut icon at the bottom left of the screen Bag The bag may be used to carry small objects around a room It is essential for Heels to find and get the bag as it is impossible to get far without it The object in the bag will be displayed immediately above the bag s icon at the bottom right of the screen To pick up an object just stand on top of it and press the CARRY key It is not possible to drop an object in a doorway HEADOVERHEELS Crowns Find a crown and start a revolution At the beginning of each game a screen showing all five crowns will be displayed As each crown is collected this screen will be shown again with the appropriate crowns in bright colour Teleports Standing on a teleport will activate its machanism this will sound a warning siren Pressing the jump key will cause you to teleport Not all teleports are two way some are linked in a chain Springs Jumping from a spring will give extra height to your jump Switches Simply push the swi
15. wn any expansion plans for now The populace of Blacktooth are so heavily oppressed that they would have to see all four of the slave planets revolt before the Blacktooth crown could cause an uprising This of course would be the ultimate accolade and unfortunately almost certain suicide Egyptus Once a long time ago a craft from Blacktooth got a bit lost while doing a hyperspace jump and landed on an unknown planet Here the crew found a primative animal forming a sort of civilisation that appeared to revolve around wrapping corpses in lots of bandages and putting them into huge stone pyramids When they returned to Blacktooth their emperor liked the sound of it so much that he rebuilt the capital city of one of the slave planets to resemble the story HEADOVERHEELS Penitentiary The empire s prison planet Millions are imprisoned here A harsh planet very mountainous much climbing skill required The worst place is The Pit try not to fall into it Safari A densely vegitated planet mainly used for hunting The natives live in wooden forts in the junge beware traps Book World The emperor is very keen on cowboy books and has devoted an entire world to a western library Only the emperor s minions are permitted to read them Information is rigotously suppressed in the empire Blacktooth This planet has a large moon with three lunar space stations on it the larger of these Moon station HQ is the main teleport centr

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