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The official seal is your assurance that this product is licensed or manufactured by Nintendo. Always look for this seal when buying video game systems, accessories, games and related products. THIS GAME CARD WILL WORK ONLY WITH THE NINTENDO DS VIDEO GAME SYSTEM. TM 1-2 Contents 08 Notice Starting a New Life With Your Puppy 09 12 Interacting With Your Dog Wireless DS Multi-Card Play THIS GAME ALLOWS WIRELESS MULTIPLAYER GAMES WITH EACH DS SYSTEM CONTAINING A SEPARATE GAME CARD.
Golden Retriever Dachs Siberian Husky F r ie n d hund & Miniature Dachshund Pug Shih Tzu Ch ih ua hu a Shetland Sheepdog & Fr ie nd s German Shepherd Dog Miniature Schnauzer Boxer Spend some quality puppy time with Nintendogs! Train your pup, walk it, and enter it into tournaments...
Notice Nintendogs is an interactive entertainment experience centered on puppies. In the uniquely imaginative world of Nintendogs, the young dogs do not age, always remaining puppies. They boast docile habits and personalities, and are easy to handle. However, since real puppies are living things, they have habits and personalities that may be different from those of the Nintendogs, so when training and caring for a real puppy, please be sure to be understanding of the real puppy’s habits and personality.
Naming Your Puppy The Kennel Your new life with a puppy first begins at the kennel, where you will choose and purchase your first puppy. You can also spend time at the kennel playing with puppies that have already been trained. After you’ve purchased your first puppy, you can visit the kennel anytime by choosing the kennel from the Shopping menu (pg. 24). The kennel may add new breeds to its selection, so be sure to check back regularly to see what puppies are available.
Interacting With Your Dog Call Your Dog Touch the Dog Touch the Touch Screen. Say your dog's name, or whistle into the microphone. Pet your dog often! Touch Screen Touch the icons that appear on the Touch Screen to access the different menus. + Control Pad Adjust the camera angle on the Home screen (pg. 16). 12 Microphone Use the microphone to call your puppy's name or say commands like "sit" or "lie down." BUTTONS Change the camera's target on the Home screen.
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Living With a Dog The Home Screen View info about your puppies and save your progress here. Return to the Home screen. Touch a dog icon to zoom in on that dog on the Top Screen. Touch it once more to zoom out. Training (pg. 18) Save (pg. 9) Touch Call Dog's Name をタ ッ チ。 Whistle Supplies List (pg.20) Touch this icon to access your many dog supplies. Touch 16 Trick List Choose this option to view a list of the tricks (pg. 19) you’ve taught your dog. Supplies (pg.
Training Your Puppy Through careful training, you can teach your dog to perform a variety of tricks. You can train your dog from the Home screen (pg. 16) and on the interaction screen (pg. 17). At first your puppy will only be able to do simple tricks, but if you spend time with it, it can learn a wide array of tricks. Each puppy can learn up to fourteen commands. If you want to teach it a new command after that, it will have to forget an old command first.
Supplies & Toys It is important to get familiar with your pet supplies early on to take proper care of your dog. To access your supplies, touch the icon on either the Home screen or the interaction screen. Then just choose the type of supply you want, and then the particular supply you want to use. There are hundreds of different supplies you can use with your dog, so see if you can find them all.
Grooming Your Dog Using the White Record Touch the icon to choose supplies you must use in caring for your pet. These are the supplies you need to feed and groom your dog. Shampoo Adds Sparkle Slide the sponge across your dog’s body to lather it up with shampoo. Wash the suds away with the showerhead. Touch the icon to choose from a variety of supplies that play sounds or music. One of these is the white record, which you can use to record your own voice message.
Going Shopping Touch the on the Go Out menu to go shopping. Next, just touch the icon for the store you want to visit. Go Back Pet Supply You can purchase all the supplies you need at the Pet Supply store. Dog Hotel You can leave dogs here or come pick them up. At most, you can keep three dogs in your house, so if you want to own more than three dogs, you’ll need to keep the others here. Drop Off Choose this when you want the Dog Hotel to care for one of your dogs for you.
Walking the Dog Touch the icon on the Go Out menu to choose a route and take your puppy for a walk. You can have a lot of fun exploring the town together. Pass through these areas Park Choose Your Route Return to the menu Erase your entire route This is your puppy’s stamina. Your puppy can walk only as far as its stamina will allow. Use the stylus to draw the route for your walk on the map. To enter a building or park, just draw your route to the entrance.
Contests Life With a Dog Touch the icon on the Go Out menu to enter your dog in one of three different types of contests: obedience trials, agility trials, and disc competitions. Each contest has five different levels of competition. When you place in a contest, you’ll move up to the next level. If you fail to finish in the top three, you’ll drop down one level. Participating in a contest with your dog is always a memorable experience. Be sure to practice hard before entering Touch the name a contest.
Disc Competition This is a competition to see how many points your puppy can earn by catching discs you’ve thrown within a given time limit. The points earned for catching the disc depend Slide the stylus to on how far the disc was thrown. throw the disc. Your puppy will chase after it. Obedience Trial This contest measures your dog’s ability to follow commands. Speak clearly as you issue commands to your puppy. Catching the disc in midair results in higher points.
Meeting Your Friends’ Puppies On the Go Out menu, touch the icon to communicate wirelessly with another Nintendogs owner via Bark Mode. To do this, you simply put your Nintendogs Game Card into wireless mode, and then when you pass by another Nintendogs owner in wireless mode, you will automatically communicate. Your trainer info (pg. 35) will also be traded. Note that Bark Mode uses more battery power than searching for a PictoChat session (pg. 37).
Nintendogs Information The Go Out menu also features the icon. This is where you can go to find all of your personal information, such as your Trainer Info and Friend List. Trainer Info Read this to see what you've done as the trainer of your dogs. Friend List Go here to view a record of the Nintendogs trainers you’ve linked up with via Bark Mode. Other trainers’ information will automatically get saved here when you link up with them. You can save information for up to 50 people.
System Settings Touch the PictoChat Search icons to adjust all settings. Touch when you’re done. Battery Save Settings When set to On, the system's backlight will automatically turn off after 10 minutes without any input. Mic Sensitivity Adjust the sensitivity of the built-in microphone. Time Display When set to Off, the clock will not appear on the Top Screen. PictoChat Search Turn this option on to search for active nearby PictoChat chat rooms. You can also choose how you will be notified.
Troubleshooting Q Even if I call my puppy it won’t respond to me. A To ensure that your puppy can hear you clearly, hold your Nintendo DS so that the microphone is about six inches from your face. Also, if there is a lot of background noise where you are playing, choose the System Settings option in the Go Out menu to adjust microphone sensitivity. Q Is there a way to earn money? You can earn money by entering and placing in contests (pg. 29).
Staff List GENERAL PRODUCER Shigeru Miyamoto PRODUCER Hideki Konno DIRECTOR Kiyoshi Mizuki SYSTEM DIRECTOR Takayuki Shimamura DOG/SCRIPT DIRECTOR Kunio Watanabe OBJECT/WALKING-MODE DIRECTOR Katsuhito Nishimura PROGRAMMING DIRECTOR Tsutomu Kaneshige DOG PROGRAMMING Yoshitaka Ajioka 40 UI PROGRAMMING Yuzuru Ogawa Hiroyuki Kono OBJECT/UI PROGRAMMING Soichi Nakajima OBJECT/WIRELESS SYSTEM PROGRAMMING Yasushi Ebisawa DESIGN DIRECTOR Junji Morii 3-D DESIGN Michiho Hayashi Akito Osanai Kenji Shinmoto Masaaki Ish
Establishing the DS Wireless Link (DS Wireless Play) This section explains how to establish your DS wireless link. What You Will Need: Nintendo DS Nintendogs Game Card During wireless game play, an icon will appear on either the upper or lower displays showing the signal strength of the wireless signal. The icon has four modes depending on the signal strength, as shown below. One for each player One for each player Steps 1.
Cross Over to a Brand New World Live an alternate life in this all-new sequel to the wildly popular Nintendo GameCube game. Join up to three of your friends in the same virtual town and interact in real time — either through wireless LAN or over the Internet. Now you can visit a friend from thousands of miles away! Whether you want to collect brand new items like hats and sunglasses, catch bugs and fish, decorate your home, or just chat with the characters in your town, there’s always something to do.
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