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Hal Black (sy...@mik.uky.edu) wrote:
: I got a couple of powerups, and I don't know what they do, or how to use
: them..  The "Soul of Zinglon" and the "Repulsor"  Which give you little
: ships that sit in the top left side of the screen.
:   Any ideas?
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Hello!  Here's a list of the special powerups and what they do:

Soul of Zinglon - (indicated by a picture of a ship with a small
column of white light behind it) - creates a vertical beam of light 
that slowly expands out from your ship, then contracts and disappears.
Any enemy in the beam will be damaged.  The weapon is activated when
you press the main fire button (i.e. it will not continue to fire if 
you just hold the fire button down constantly), and takes a few
seconds to recharge before it can be used again.

Repulsor - diverts most enemy shots away from your ship.  The weapon
is activated by rapidly pressing the main fire button (the more you
push the fire button, the more effective the repulsor will be in
repelling the shots), and does not need time to recharge.

Attractor - (indicated by a picture of a ship with several small
objects heading towards it) - attracts power-up and bonus items
(coins, gems, bonus stage spheres, etc.) towards your ship.  The 
weapon is activated by rapidly pressing the main fire button, and does
not require any recharging time between uses.  

Flare - (indicated by a picture of a ship with a bright red aura
around it) - causes multiple flame explosions all over the screen for
a few seconds.  The weapon is activated when you press the main fire 
button (as with the other weapons, simply holding down the fire button
will not cause it to re-activate), and requires several seconds to 
recharge after each use.  

Pearl Wind - (indicated by a picture of a ship with three(?)
pearl-colored spheres being fired from it) - shoots pearl-looking 
spheres from your ship.  The spheres travel in straight lines, but are
not all fired at the same angle, thus covering a wider arc in front of
your ship.  A sphere is fired each time you press the main fire
button.  The weapon does not require any time to recharge.

Ice Beam - (indicated by a picure of a ship with a single ice shot
being fired from it) - shoots a ball of ice from the front of your 
ship.  If an enemy is hit by the ice, it becomes frozen (turns white
and blue), and will not be able to fire.  The frozen enemy will not
stop, but will continue to move in whatever direction it was traveling
at at the time it was frozen (due to inertia, according to Epic). 
The enemy will unfreeze if hit (I think...), or if left undisturbed
for too long.  The weapon seems to work on most of the enemies, with
the exception of some (all?) of the larger stage-end bosses.  An ice
ball is fired each time you press the main fire button (as with the
other special weapons metioned above, it won't keep firing if you 
just hold down the fire button).  The weapon does not require any 
time to recharge.  


Those are all the special weapons I can think of at the moment (not
incldeing the ones that come with some of the Super Arcade Mode
ships).  'Hope that helps!!

vincent torre (vto...@saims.skidmore.edu) wrote:

: Hello!  Here's a list of the special powerups and what they do:

<list snipped for brevity>

Thanks...I'd been wondering what those did and how to use them..

In article <43ikvt$g...@saims.skidmore.edu>
           vto...@saims.skidmore.edu "vincent torre" writes:

> 
> Repulsor - diverts most enemy shots away from your ship.  The weapon
> is activated by rapidly pressing the main fire button (the more you
> push the fire button, the more effective the repulsor will be in
> repelling the shots), and does not need time to recharge.
> 
There's a cheat with this one. Stick on your autofire, and hold down the
fire button as normal. You'll find it _very_ hard to get hit :)
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Hal Black (sy...@mik.uky.edu) wrote:
: I got a couple of powerups, and I don't know what they do, or how to use
: them..  The "Soul of Zinglon" and the "Repulsor"  Which give you little
: ships that sit in the top left side of the screen.
:   Any ideas?

they are specials.  with the soul, when you press the fire button, a beam of 
light will appear in front of you and behind you and do damage to whatever it 
touches.  i don't know what the repulsor does.