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The battery is found in the level directly west of the last level (the one with) the Joystick in it. To me, the level looks like a big silver robot.
In comparison to the last level, this is a reasonably complex level. in this level I recommend that you go and kill the Vorticon straight away, this means that you won't complete the rest of the level and then run out of charge for your Raygun, to kill the Vorticon with. To get to the Vorticon, simply walk right from the start of the level, jump over the green spiked pit and jump up the red steps on your right. As you go up the steps, you will see a large stack of golden cylindrical blocks, begin to jump or pogo stick up them until you reach the top. Jump through the purple bar and continue to ascend the maze -like structure, remember that you can only jump through the long rectangular purple blocks, and not the square shaped ones. When you reach the top, on the right of the screen you should see some green cylinders jump onto them and continue to do so until you reach a large red block, jump up onto this, and in the usual way, just put four shots into your vorticon friend.
As you will no doubt notice, the battery is behind a red-keycard door, but never fear, as I will lead you to this keycard. Use your pogo stick to jump up onto the purple cylinders that are above your head. Now just carefully jump between all the purple cylinders, until you reach the very left of the screen, now drop down and collect the yellow keycard. Just so you know, im not colourblind, but you need the yellow card to get the red one.
Fall to the right of the platform you are on and after a brief fall, you will land on yet more cylindrical blocks, although this time they are red. Now fall
STRAIGHT down to your left, do not hold left in the air or you will die. When you land you should be on two more red cylinders, fall off to the right and this time keep holding right, the more perceptive of you will notice that you are right back at th start of the level. Continue on in the same way as you did to get to the Vorticon, only this time continue to head right after you see the gold cylinders. Continue walking right until you hit the yellow door.
Jump up and unlock the door. You should now see a two-eyed monster, drop down and quickly kill it (wait until it is on the right hand side of its' 'enclosure' before you drop in). Jump up, grab the red keycard and re-trace your steps up to the golden cylinders.
Once you arrive at the golden cylinders climb up them, and then up the purple maze thing, and then finally jump up onto the green cylinders, just as you did at the start. Since the Vorticon has been killed, just jump up to where it was and stroll through the red door, grabbing the battery and exiting the level.
SHIP PART 3 - VACUUM CLEANER
=============================
The Vacuum Cleaner can be found in a an Ice themed level, right beside the warp point on the dark side of Mars. This is a reasonably easy level to find as you will walk straight into it as soon as you warp to the dark side of the planet.
As this is an ice themed level, you must remember that on some surfaces you will have very little grip and on some others once you step onto the ice you cannot change your direction with out the help of your trusty Pogo Stick.
As you start the level, jump up onto the white square on your right and then jump up onto the platform on your left. Walk along until you see a gap in the roof, Pogo up it to the right and then jump up again to the left. Walk left and jump up and left again so that you are landing on an l-shaped block. Jump up, walk along and Pogo up and to your left. Once you do this you will see a rectangle made up of 3 blocks of ice, jump onto it, jump to a similar one on the left, jump again to the right and once more on your left. You should now be standing underneath a large tower of blue cylinders, jump (or Pogo) up these and when you reach the top, walk left and fall down the small hole. You will grab the red keycard, don't worry about the robots, they cant shoot you unless you fall off your perch. Now jump back up the hole and run to the right until you begin to slide on some clear ice, keep sliding right and then drop off it and begin to slide left. Once you have done this you will be on the same level as the Vorticon. Be careful, it is very slippery. walk right and as soon as you see the Vorticon, fire as many shots into him as you can, if you need to retreat, give yourself plenty of space to do so as it is slippery.
Once you have killed him, simply slide through the red locked door, grab the penultimate ship part and exit the level.
SHIP PART 4 - EVERCLEAR FUEL
=============================
The Everclear Fuel is found in a level to the very south of the dark side of
Mars. To locate the level simply walk south from the last level (the Vacuum
Cleaner level) until you hit a wall, then head west and you'll find it no problem. To me, the level looks slightly like a large deckchair, but I'm sure it is meant to be some type of castle. If you have trouble finding it you can always check my ship part map on GameFAQs.com, and that should make things clearer.
As soon as you enter the level, walk to your right and jump up onto a white bridge, continue along it and drop off the other side. Continue to your right until you come to a large set of stairs, made of ice. Climb up them and then jump onto the platform on your left. Walk left until you come to another, smaller set of steps. Climb up them and then Pogo up to the highest platform you can reach, walk along it to the right and jump up onto the platform above you and go along that to your left. You will now see a single block of ice attached to the wall, jump up onto it. you will see that there is a blue
Keycard sitting above one of the evil one-eyed robots. You cannot kill these robots, so you will have to dodge it. You will see that it patrols its little enclosure, going left, right, left and so on. It will occasionally fire a shot, and after it does this it will always change direction, so wait until it fires a shot to the right and then turns to go back to the left. This is your best chance of getting the keycard. Run, jump and grab the Keycard, landing behind the robot, which will be moving to the left, jump to the right again and quickly drop down back onto the platform above the large ice stairs.
Jump up and this time to the right and carefully walk to the end of the platform, quickly tap Ctrl to stop dead on the ice above a hole in the roof.
Pogo through it and to the right. Walk along and drop off the edge of the ice block-platform, holding left to hug the wall. You will land on a small light blue square. This bit can be tricky. Jump up onto another similar light blue block to your right. Now you will see 2 light blue blocks, jump onto them and then up to your left onto the small L-shaped block of ice. Pogo up and to the right, through the blue keycard door, dismount your stick and walk along, now climb up the large ice block stairs. When you reach the top, you will see a block of clear ice and a small pushing robot on it, this robot cannot hurt you but it can annoy very easily. To avoid this, simply wait until it is heading away from you and jump up onto the ice and pass it, before it turns round.
Walk along until you hit a wall and you will see some blue cylinders above you, pogo up onto them (This is the only place in the game you NEED the Pogo
Stick for).
You will now be in the boss' lair. I feel I must establish some basic things;
> The Vorticon cannot hurt you unless you jump into its enclosure.
> You cannot kill the Vorticon with your gun.
> The 'pillars' made of ice can be walked or jumped through.
> There are invisible floors inside some of the pillars.
I will now tell you the easy way to destroy the final Vorticon. You will see a lone block with a tall pillar on top of it. Jump onto the block, and stand still. If you look closely you may see a white pixel to the right hand side of the pillar, this signifies an invisible block. Jump onto it, and don't worry about falling off because it extends all the way to the wall on the right, so it is a very easy target, once you know it is there. Jump up again to another invisible block directly above you. Now keep jumping and moving right until you land on a large grey rectangle, held up by a chain. Shoot the chain with one shot and the large grey weight will fall down, crushing the vorticon. Now just jump up to the right to where you see the door, grab the Everclear Fuel and exit the level. Enjoy the ending sequence!
If for some reason you like to do things the hard way, you can always try to beat this boss the idiot's way. It's a pretty big challenge, but with a bit of luck you can pull it off. To do this harder route of the level, follow all of the steps to get to the boss' lair and then once you get there follow these directions instead.
Once you are in the boss' lair walk right up to below where the Vorticon is and stand right against the wall, don't worry, the Vorticon cannot drop down,
But you can jump up. You need to wait until the Vorticon is on the right side of it's enclosure before you jump up, or you will have no time to dodge it.
Once it is on the right, you must jump up and stand there waiting for it to turn around. When he does, you need to wait until you think it is going to make a large jump for you, and when it does, you need to make a mad dash for the right hand side of it, passing right under it. If you timed it correctly you will make it into the hole, where again the Vorticon cannot drop into.
Once you have done this, simply follow the tunnel around, collecting the
Teddy Bear. Once you get near to the door, jump or pogo over it to grab the
Everclear Fuel, because if you don't you will fail the game as there is no way to go back into the level and get the Everclear Fuel once you have completed it. If you do manage to complete the game this way, congratulations! It isn't easy.
7 - Cheats and Tips
====================
Cheats
=======
Hold down the buttons G-O-D for God mode, the SuperJump cheat and no clipping in the main level. You will need to enter the cheat every time you enter/exit a level. To use the SuperJump cheat, just take out your Pogo Stick and hold down Ctrl to fly.
Hold down C-T-Spacebar for the Pogo Stick, all four Keycards and 100 Charges for your Raygun. Again you will need to re-enter this cheat every time you enter a level.
If you know of any more Cheats, or tips on hex-editing the game (I used to be able to do this), drop me a line.
Tips
=====
> To stop quickly on ice, tap Ctrl
> You can kill normal Vorticons with four charges
> There are lots of hidden blocks in the game, all you can see of them is their upper-left pixel
> You get an extra life every 20,000 points
> You Pogo Stick Higher while Holding Ctrl
> You will see lots of signs written in an 'alien' language called the
Standard Galactican Alphabet and when translated, these can give you clues about the game. Here is the Standard Galactican Alphabet in (terrible) ASCII form,
/\
A = _|
|
\
B = _\
'
|_
C = |
____
D = __
--
E = | '
|__
F = -----
'''
|
G = --|
|
___
H = ---
|
|
I = |
'
J = '
'
|
K = .|.
|
In comparison to the last level, this is a reasonably complex level. in this level I recommend that you go and kill the Vorticon straight away, this means that you won't complete the rest of the level and then run out of charge for your Raygun, to kill the Vorticon with. To get to the Vorticon, simply walk right from the start of the level, jump over the green spiked pit and jump up the red steps on your right. As you go up the steps, you will see a large stack of golden cylindrical blocks, begin to jump or pogo stick up them until you reach the top. Jump through the purple bar and continue to ascend the maze -like structure, remember that you can only jump through the long rectangular purple blocks, and not the square shaped ones. When you reach the top, on the right of the screen you should see some green cylinders jump onto them and continue to do so until you reach a large red block, jump up onto this, and in the usual way, just put four shots into your vorticon friend.
As you will no doubt notice, the battery is behind a red-keycard door, but never fear, as I will lead you to this keycard. Use your pogo stick to jump up onto the purple cylinders that are above your head. Now just carefully jump between all the purple cylinders, until you reach the very left of the screen, now drop down and collect the yellow keycard. Just so you know, im not colourblind, but you need the yellow card to get the red one.
Fall to the right of the platform you are on and after a brief fall, you will land on yet more cylindrical blocks, although this time they are red. Now fall
STRAIGHT down to your left, do not hold left in the air or you will die. When you land you should be on two more red cylinders, fall off to the right and this time keep holding right, the more perceptive of you will notice that you are right back at th start of the level. Continue on in the same way as you did to get to the Vorticon, only this time continue to head right after you see the gold cylinders. Continue walking right until you hit the yellow door.
Jump up and unlock the door. You should now see a two-eyed monster, drop down and quickly kill it (wait until it is on the right hand side of its' 'enclosure' before you drop in). Jump up, grab the red keycard and re-trace your steps up to the golden cylinders.
Once you arrive at the golden cylinders climb up them, and then up the purple maze thing, and then finally jump up onto the green cylinders, just as you did at the start. Since the Vorticon has been killed, just jump up to where it was and stroll through the red door, grabbing the battery and exiting the level.
SHIP PART 3 - VACUUM CLEANER
=============================
The Vacuum Cleaner can be found in a an Ice themed level, right beside the warp point on the dark side of Mars. This is a reasonably easy level to find as you will walk straight into it as soon as you warp to the dark side of the planet.
As this is an ice themed level, you must remember that on some surfaces you will have very little grip and on some others once you step onto the ice you cannot change your direction with out the help of your trusty Pogo Stick.
As you start the level, jump up onto the white square on your right and then jump up onto the platform on your left. Walk along until you see a gap in the roof, Pogo up it to the right and then jump up again to the left. Walk left and jump up and left again so that you are landing on an l-shaped block. Jump up, walk along and Pogo up and to your left. Once you do this you will see a rectangle made up of 3 blocks of ice, jump onto it, jump to a similar one on the left, jump again to the right and once more on your left. You should now be standing underneath a large tower of blue cylinders, jump (or Pogo) up these and when you reach the top, walk left and fall down the small hole. You will grab the red keycard, don't worry about the robots, they cant shoot you unless you fall off your perch. Now jump back up the hole and run to the right until you begin to slide on some clear ice, keep sliding right and then drop off it and begin to slide left. Once you have done this you will be on the same level as the Vorticon. Be careful, it is very slippery. walk right and as soon as you see the Vorticon, fire as many shots into him as you can, if you need to retreat, give yourself plenty of space to do so as it is slippery.
Once you have killed him, simply slide through the red locked door, grab the penultimate ship part and exit the level.
SHIP PART 4 - EVERCLEAR FUEL
=============================
The Everclear Fuel is found in a level to the very south of the dark side of
Mars. To locate the level simply walk south from the last level (the Vacuum
Cleaner level) until you hit a wall, then head west and you'll find it no problem. To me, the level looks slightly like a large deckchair, but I'm sure it is meant to be some type of castle. If you have trouble finding it you can always check my ship part map on GameFAQs.com, and that should make things clearer.
As soon as you enter the level, walk to your right and jump up onto a white bridge, continue along it and drop off the other side. Continue to your right until you come to a large set of stairs, made of ice. Climb up them and then jump onto the platform on your left. Walk left until you come to another, smaller set of steps. Climb up them and then Pogo up to the highest platform you can reach, walk along it to the right and jump up onto the platform above you and go along that to your left. You will now see a single block of ice attached to the wall, jump up onto it. you will see that there is a blue
Keycard sitting above one of the evil one-eyed robots. You cannot kill these robots, so you will have to dodge it. You will see that it patrols its little enclosure, going left, right, left and so on. It will occasionally fire a shot, and after it does this it will always change direction, so wait until it fires a shot to the right and then turns to go back to the left. This is your best chance of getting the keycard. Run, jump and grab the Keycard, landing behind the robot, which will be moving to the left, jump to the right again and quickly drop down back onto the platform above the large ice stairs.
Jump up and this time to the right and carefully walk to the end of the platform, quickly tap Ctrl to stop dead on the ice above a hole in the roof.
Pogo through it and to the right. Walk along and drop off the edge of the ice block-platform, holding left to hug the wall. You will land on a small light blue square. This bit can be tricky. Jump up onto another similar light blue block to your right. Now you will see 2 light blue blocks, jump onto them and then up to your left onto the small L-shaped block of ice. Pogo up and to the right, through the blue keycard door, dismount your stick and walk along, now climb up the large ice block stairs. When you reach the top, you will see a block of clear ice and a small pushing robot on it, this robot cannot hurt you but it can annoy very easily. To avoid this, simply wait until it is heading away from you and jump up onto the ice and pass it, before it turns round.
Walk along until you hit a wall and you will see some blue cylinders above you, pogo up onto them (This is the only place in the game you NEED the Pogo
Stick for).
You will now be in the boss' lair. I feel I must establish some basic things;
> The Vorticon cannot hurt you unless you jump into its enclosure.
> You cannot kill the Vorticon with your gun.
> The 'pillars' made of ice can be walked or jumped through.
> There are invisible floors inside some of the pillars.
I will now tell you the easy way to destroy the final Vorticon. You will see a lone block with a tall pillar on top of it. Jump onto the block, and stand still. If you look closely you may see a white pixel to the right hand side of the pillar, this signifies an invisible block. Jump onto it, and don't worry about falling off because it extends all the way to the wall on the right, so it is a very easy target, once you know it is there. Jump up again to another invisible block directly above you. Now keep jumping and moving right until you land on a large grey rectangle, held up by a chain. Shoot the chain with one shot and the large grey weight will fall down, crushing the vorticon. Now just jump up to the right to where you see the door, grab the Everclear Fuel and exit the level. Enjoy the ending sequence!
If for some reason you like to do things the hard way, you can always try to beat this boss the idiot's way. It's a pretty big challenge, but with a bit of luck you can pull it off. To do this harder route of the level, follow all of the steps to get to the boss' lair and then once you get there follow these directions instead.
Once you are in the boss' lair walk right up to below where the Vorticon is and stand right against the wall, don't worry, the Vorticon cannot drop down,
But you can jump up. You need to wait until the Vorticon is on the right side of it's enclosure before you jump up, or you will have no time to dodge it.
Once it is on the right, you must jump up and stand there waiting for it to turn around. When he does, you need to wait until you think it is going to make a large jump for you, and when it does, you need to make a mad dash for the right hand side of it, passing right under it. If you timed it correctly you will make it into the hole, where again the Vorticon cannot drop into.
Once you have done this, simply follow the tunnel around, collecting the
Teddy Bear. Once you get near to the door, jump or pogo over it to grab the
Everclear Fuel, because if you don't you will fail the game as there is no way to go back into the level and get the Everclear Fuel once you have completed it. If you do manage to complete the game this way, congratulations! It isn't easy.
7 - Cheats and Tips
====================
Cheats
=======
Hold down the buttons G-O-D for God mode, the SuperJump cheat and no clipping in the main level. You will need to enter the cheat every time you enter/exit a level. To use the SuperJump cheat, just take out your Pogo Stick and hold down Ctrl to fly.
Hold down C-T-Spacebar for the Pogo Stick, all four Keycards and 100 Charges for your Raygun. Again you will need to re-enter this cheat every time you enter a level.
If you know of any more Cheats, or tips on hex-editing the game (I used to be able to do this), drop me a line.
Tips
=====
> To stop quickly on ice, tap Ctrl
> You can kill normal Vorticons with four charges
> There are lots of hidden blocks in the game, all you can see of them is their upper-left pixel
> You get an extra life every 20,000 points
> You Pogo Stick Higher while Holding Ctrl
> You will see lots of signs written in an 'alien' language called the
Standard Galactican Alphabet and when translated, these can give you clues about the game. Here is the Standard Galactican Alphabet in (terrible) ASCII form,
/\
A = _|
|
\
B = _\
'
|_
C = |
____
D = __
--
E = | '
|__
F = -----
'''
|
G = --|
|
___
H = ---
|
|
I = |
'
J = '
'
|
K = .|.
|
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