Disasters Keep in mind this scenario will have floods happen multiple times. Based heavily on the Super Nintendo SimCity Guide by Brian P. Sulpher. It won't be long before they're unhappy, and you'll have to spend a lot of money fixing the problems.

There are a few that have benefits that can still be used to your advantage. Version 1.5 Took out most of the ASCII art and replaced with PNGs. This section lists every Present, how to get them, and the effects of each one. (Note: This image doesn't represent the full landform, just the islands). ), with Normal having Disasters less frequently than Hard. In the NES version, a normal zone is a 2x2 square. Use Park where ever you can to raise Land Values and lower Pollution (think Greenzo), Use Rail as much as possible (reduces Pollution and Crime), and. Keep an eye on the aforementioned utilities; if any of them suddenly go into the yellow zone of the meters, expand the utilities before allowing the zones to upgrade. MESSAGE APPEAR, 01 You have four choices (left to right, top to bottom): If Auto- Budget is ON in the SNES version, you do not go to see the fiscal statement at the end of every year. I did not notice a crime uptick when reloading on the NES prototype. Commercial Zones use Land Value as a limit to their size, and the RCI Meter for growth. Center of City RCI Meter

Thanks, Brian! Presents for a city are limited, meaning you can only use these beauties to benefit your city in a finite way, right? This section will look at the Building Menu and describe what each section does. Yes. Required to promote growth after becoming Capital. The diffusion formula is applied twice. Below is the upgrade received when reaching CAPITAL.

The Seaport never triggers a Ship, so no shipwrecks can occur.

You are given a total of 10 characters for your name. Needs to be confirmed, but I think I did receive some Presents during the scenarios on the NES prototype, like items based on city size. Medium Initial Funds : $10,000 Just be careful with the Industrial Zones as they are Land Value killers. Version 1.2

Use GG AKOXTGAA+YSXZPKAP then write $08 to $00F1 address in RAM to hear it. The last two buttons will give you a time period upon which to look: 10 year allows for more recent developments to be viewed for patterns, while the 100 year allows you to view the long term patterns that have developed. SBAllen and everyone at GameFAQs.com.

Use the table to work out what class they will become: NOTE: Industrial Zones pick randomly between Low and High Classes whenever they grow or shrink. Frank Cifaldi and his team or researchers at the Video Game History Foundation compiled this list and shared it with me while I was testing the prototype cart. The grid is broken into 4x4 Zones, checkerboard style. The actual Monster Disaster itself is different than the SNES version, looking more like a monster and nothing like Bowser. Then, upgrade a block at a time, or a section of the city at a time. Once a scenario has been completed, its box will be boarded up and marked CLEAR. This only appears next to the main menu when something of significance happens, like an bad traffic, an air (plane) crash, or a building exploding. Thank you for letting me pursue my dreams, even if they sometimes include me playing a video game for a week or two straight. It has yet to be determined which map is, but 9-10% water properly placed should allow you to achieve a Megalopolis. You can choose Medium or Hard, but you always start off with $20,000, leading me to believe that you can only play Easy on the NES prototype. If not entered, uses the default name. Perhaps because the Negative Balance Trick is too easy to achieve on accident? Try to stay around 7% or 8% most of the time so you make a little bit of money from your people, lots overtime. Since Residential Zones grow based on where they can travel, this gives it lots of options. MISC#14.FIXED(BFS) Judging from the Micropolis sources the Drive test for traffic … yes, 0C It’s represented by a human figure followed by the total of citizens living in your city at any given moment. You are able to use numbers and some punctuation, including the comma, period, dash, and colon. This disaster cannot be triggered, and may only occur in the Las Vegas bonus scenario. There also is a hidden Com Rate map stat that affects it, in chunky 8x8 blocks, but generally, the closer to the city center, the better the Commercial Zone can withstand poor demands. People like taxes, I guess?

Text descriptions of their happiness factors are colored, with red factors being bad, yellow factors being kind of bad but able to be quickly improved, and green factors being good. All construction costs no money. Use Nuclear Power Plants instead of Coal (no Pollution, but risk a meltdown on Medium or Hard).

Since you met the requirement, the game loads the message and Present, and since you first reached that screen on your main city, you end up with the extra Present on that city.

Since Presents are a 3x3 square in the NES prototype, the traditional ‘Gift Donut’ is no longer viable. New Fire Building I’m wrote this to serve two goals: One, to help you master SimCity on the Nintendo NES, and two, to discuss the differences between the NES prototype for SimCity and the released version on the Super Nintendo. If there are two adjacent R-4 High, then the two might even combine into an RTOP (1920).

This will allow you to view and change the following: Tax Rate (set between 0% and 20%), Transit/Police/Fire Funds (set between 0% and 100%), and shows Taxes Collected, Cash Flow, Previous Funds, Special Income, and then Current Funds. History record SECOND: Build Roads (not rails) (A grid pattern works very well.)

You can have every single disaster on-screen and most likely when you go to this selection you’ll see that message. Commercial Zones Water No traffic. yes, 17 In the SNES version, you could force an airplane to crash after it took off from the Airport, causing the Airport to explode, or have it fly over the Seaport and do the same. The Las Vegas bonus scenario is the only challenge scenario to contain Presents (xs). This is a list of in game items that for one reason or another either are unused or don’t work in the NES prototype. Be sure to keep pollution and crime down as you work your way back up to a thriving city again, and bulldoze the extra Sea Ports as one is all you need. Increased Police coverage in the immediate area. History record

What's really exciting is that a few of these never made it to the SNES and aren't from the computer release, meaning that they are completely new items in the world of SimCity. The rest of the game you'll have 4 slots.

Effects a 1x1 area (five square X) and can potentially cause a fire. Replies. Step 1 - At the same time press A + B on Controller 2 and all D-Pad Buttons Up + Down + Left +Right using both controllers in any combination (Up + Left on Controller 1 and Down + Right on Controller 2, etc.). Some tracks are "paired", first started one track, then jump to the next one (01-02 title, 08-10 practice, 48-50, 60-40 information) witch finally loops. November 1st, 2017

The first set of floods are particularly brutal, so try your best to contain any fires that spring up as a result. Unfortunately, this feature is broken on the NES prototype and would need to be fixed for a proper release. Use of this guide on any other web site or as a part of any public display is strictly prohibited, and a violation of copyright. In the NES prototype, as far as I could tell Presents gave no boost to surrounding land value. Also, for the resilience of the products they make. Use existing forest and Parks to raise the land value, attracting better buildings and more people. Ben, from the Back in Time game store. This lists the total number of buildings and the percentage of the total buildings they make up. You can enable the following disasters on this menu selection. In regards to density, Sims' happiness isn't simply a factor, or part of the calculation: zones upgrade when the residents (for residential zones) or workers (for commercial and industrial zones) are happier and their needs are satisfied. One spelling occurs in the Building Menu after choosing the Port icon, bringing up the Port submenu, where they are called “Seaport” and “Airport”. All music tracks are used in the game. Zone density and building wealth are the main factors that lead to tall skylines and massive populations. In the SNES SimCity, a normal zone is a 3x3 square. Industrial zones have a special need for their happiness. Note that while an abandoned building can be redeemed, a building that's flagged as “Rubble” will no longer function at all and must be bulldozed. Use the turbo button A on some input screens (input name, budget selector) to crash or glitch the screen. Hotels may sprout in commercial zones, and they'll need tourists or other visitors to stay as guests. Added the Upgrades and Unused Sprite sections to Misc.

These start growing to I-1 (160 citizens), then move to I-2 (320), I-3 (480), and finally max out at I-4 (640). Its effects operate the same as the other zones' wealth levels, in that it increases profits. Creates a Zone for people to move into your town to live. yes, 06 5 years after built I left the game on for over a two weeks solid, something I’ve been doing since my childhood days of playing SimCity on the SNES. It looks to have only six digits, maxing out at $999,999, but it is possible there may be another digit for hitting a billion? All changes between the NES and SNES versions have been denoted using a Red Font. Produces pollution. Monorail I've included a map after the Scenario description. A power line crossover allows the road or rail to act like a tile that can take power and stops deterioration. Input Your Favorite Word Unlocks Large Park Present.

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