Princess Maker 2 FAQ 1.2
We all know of Gainax as being the wonderful company that brought us Wings
of Honneamise, Otaku no Video as well as multitudes of garage kits and
other paraphenelia. However with the release of Princess Maker 2, one
might think that their true calling is in computer software! This band of
self described otakus which managed to lose almost all their profits in the
anime business have come back by releasing several computer games (some of
which were on display at Anime Con). While some of them were rather boring
(quiz games, like the one seen in "Otaku no Video", Princess Maker 2 has
been in the best selling 10 for about half a year. In December, a version
was released for Dos/V, a japanese variant of PC-DOS meant to run on ibm
386 machines with VGA and 4MB of ram. At 14,800 yen, Princess Maker 2 is
expensive (even for the Japanese computer game market) but it will provides
many hours of gameplay. Here we have a quick guide so those of you who
don't read japanese to get you on your way, I can't guarantee the accuracy
though ^^;;;
Mail additions/corrections/hints to
doki@netcom.com [Pro Student Mii]
Requirements
386
12MB disk space
VGA
Mouse (recommended)
EMS is used (optional)
Sound Blaster Supported
Dos/V or jinit.exe
(note that with jinit, some kanji fonts are missing)
Controls
Mouse - Right button = select, accept, drag
(click and hold on to top part of any message box to drag)
Left button = cancel, deselect
Keyboard - spacebar, enter = select, accept
x = cancel, deselect
F3 = speed up game speed
Calendar
On the upper left is date information.
Main Status
The upper right hand corner consists of basic status of your daughter
starting from the top is her name, (note that her last name is the name
you choose for yourself) and under that the AGE and her STAR (astrology).
On the right is the amount of gold you have, and below those you'll see
2 red boxes plus 3 blue boxes. The red boxes will show the weapon and
armor that she's using and blue boxes will show the symbol sick,
degrade, and love.
Underneath is a line regarding your current DIET situation.
Under that is her height, weight and 3-sizes.
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Main Menu
This consists of 8 icons under the Main Status
#1 shows the Status Menu
#2 shows the Discussion Menu
#3 shows the Diet Menu
#4 shows the Profile Menu
#5 shows the City Menu
#6 shows the Castle Menu
#7 shows the Equip Menu
#8 shows the File Menu
A bar which shows the Schedule Menu is under the 8 icons.
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Status Menu
Upper left box
#1 Strength
#2 Constitution
#3 Knowledge
#4 Grace
#5 Sex Appeal
#6 Morality
#7 Religion
#8 Apathy
#9 Sensitivity
#10 Stress
Lower Left Box
#1 Combat Experience
#2 Combat Attack Level
#3 Combat Defensive Level
#4 Magic Experience
#5 Magic Attack Level
#6 Magic Defense Level
Top Right Box
#1 Fighter Appraisal
#2 Magician Appraisal
#3 Social Appraisal
#4 Household Appraisal
Lower Right Box
#2 Politeness
#3 Art
#4 Chat
#2 Cooking
#3 Cleaning/Washing
#4 Temper
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Discussion Menu
-Action- -Result-
#1 Talk to Daughter She sometimes will tell you she
-- How are things? wants to go somewhere, do something,
-- Your studies? take certain classes etc.
-- Anything else?
#2 Give pocket money If her stress is >0 it will go down.
-- amount=[(age-8)*10]
#3 Scold Increases Moral under certain conditions
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Diet Menu
-Setting- -Cost- -Result-
#1 Don't be skimpy 30 Keep weight
#2 "You have to feed a cold" 80 Weight gain
#3 Towards a thinner child.. 10 Weight & Strength loss
#4 Diet 5 Weight & Strength loss
* If you're too heavy you won't be slim enough to fit into many dresses.
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Profile Menu
Upper left box
#1 Name
#2 Family (your) Name
#3 Blood Type
#4 Age
#5 Birthday
#6 Astrology
#7 Birth Star (star of your protector)
Lower Left Box
#1 Sickness
#2 Naughtiness
#3 Popularity
#4 Health Status
#5 Moral Status (personality)
#6 Current Diet
Upper Right Box
#1 Height
#2 Weight
#3 Bust ^-^
#4 Waist
#5 Hip
Lower Right Box
#1 Weapon Type
#2 Armor Type
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City Menu
#1 Weapons Store
Weapons Result Price
#1 Club Attack+3 15
#2 Bronze Sword Attack+6 40
#3 Iron Sword Attack+9 130
#4 Iron Long Sword Attack+12/Defense-2 250
#5 2-H Sword Attack+18/Defense-4 500
#6 Mithril Sword Attack+20 1200
#7 Square bladed Sword Attack+20/Combat+10 2000
Armor
#1 Silk Armor Defense+2/Sexy+50 4480
#2 Mithril Armor Defense+22/Antimagic+15 2980
#3 Iron Armor Defense+18/Combat-15 980
#4 Padded Armor Defense+14/Combat-3 498
#5 Leather Armor Defense+8 98
#2 Dress Store
#1 Summer Dress Prevent sickness in Summer 70
#2 Winter Dress Prevent sickness in Winter 120
#3 Canvas Dress Grace+15 500
#4 Silk Dress Grace+40 2000
#5 Leather Dress Sexy+50/Morals-20 3000
#6 Togetoge Clothes Sensitivity+40/Morals-30 2800
#3 Restaurant
#1 Cake Stress-50/Weight+1
#2 Fish Stress-30/Weight+.3
#3 Meat Strength+15/Weight+1.2
#4 Trinket Store
#1 Doll Sensitivity+5/Stress-40
#2 Teacup Grace+10
#3 Book Knowledge+8
#4 Poems Sensitivity+12
#5 Health Pills Restore HP by 30
#6 Thrower Attack opponent
#5 Temple
Donate Reduce apathy $100
#6 Hospital
Only works for stress illness, not necc. for combat wounds and such.
After treatment rest is still necessary.
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Castle Menu
Visit The... Required Favorite attribute
Politeness (its value /10 will be
granted as popularity)
#1 Gate Keeper 10+ Grace
#2 Knight "" Household Appraisal?
#3 General "" Sex Appeal
#4 Commander? "" Knowledge
#5 Priest "" Religion
#6 Princess "" Chat
#7 Queen "" Temper
#8 King 90+ Fighter Appraisal
#9 Wizard ? ?
#10 Prince ? ?
Immediately the gate keeper will talk to you, he mentions that
you can learn lots from the nobles, then you get to choose the
person to talk to. The higher their ranking (from top to bottom)
the more polite you need to be. But the wizard looks for more than
that. If they are willing to talk to you, their favorite attribute
from you, divided by 10 will be granted as your popularity.
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Equip Menu
Here you just choose what you want to equip/use by clicking
on it. There are two windows on the left which stands for
removal of armor and removal of weapon. If you have too much
items to fill one screen full above all the items will be two
windows, one is for page down and the other for up.
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File Menu
The first choice is to save
The second is to load
The third is to quit
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Schedule Menu
#1 Education Menu
#2 Work Menu
#3 Adventure Menu
#4 Vacation Menu
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Education Menu
Course Increase Decrease
#1 Sciences Knowledge/Antimagic Religion
#2 Poetry Sensitivity/Knowledge/Grace/Art
#3 Religion Religion/Antimagic/Knowledge
#4 Military Knowledge/Combat Sensitivity
#5 Swords Combat/Attack
#6 Wrestling Combat/Defense
#7 Magic Mag.Attack/Mag.Defense
#8 Protocol Politeness/Grace
#9 Painting Art/Sensitivity
#10 Dancing Art/Strength/Sexy
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Work Menu
Job Increase Decrease
#1 Chores Cleaning/Cooking/Temper Sensitivity
#2 Babysitting Sensitivity Sexy
#3 Inn Cleaning Combat
#4 Farm Strength/Constitution Grace
#5 Church Morals/Religion Apathy
#6 Restaurant Cooking Combat
#7 Wood cutting Constitution Grace
#8 Beauty Salon Sensitivity Constitution
#9 Masonry Building Strength Sexy
#10 Hunter Strength/Combat/Apathy Grace
#11 Cemetery Guard Antimagic/Sensitivity Sexy
#12 Tutoring Morals Sexy
#13 Tavern Cooking/Chat Knowledge
#14 TouchyFeely Bar Sexy/Apathy Morals/Religion/Temper
#15 Cabaret Sexy/Apathy Sexy/Knowledge/Temper
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Adventure Menu
#1 East (Forest) Elves
#2 West (Desert) Demons
#3 South (Water)
#4 North (Ice)
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Vacation Menu Result
#1 Rest -Stress
*You'll be asked to pay her or not. If you choose to pay her, (first choice)
more stress will be relieved.
#2 Vacation (some stress relief, but not as much as #1)
-Mountains
Winter: -Stress,+Sensitivity
Spring: -Stress,+Sensitivity
Summer: -Stress,+Sensitivity
Autumn: -Stress,+Sensitivity,+Weight
-Sea
Winter: --Stress
Spring: --Stress
Summer: --Stress,-Weight
Autumn: --Stress
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List of Events (This is in no extent a complete list)
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Annual Competition/Fair
At the end of August you get your annual $500.
At the Fair, you can choose to send your daughter to the fair (she can't
work because everybody's there) Once there, you can compete in 4 classes,
or you can tell her to rest for a month.
Combat
Self explanatory, if you have high overall weapon skills, you will
do fine, the victor is either the one left standing, or the one
with most hit points after ~10 rounds. However, notice that certain
have to hurt him enough within those 10 turns to win.
Grand prize is $3000 + a sword that increases grace, don't sell
this sword since it is a royal gift.
Art
Art drawn in art class can be placed in competition. Art Skill
and sensitivity are important. The grand prize is $4000 and a
pen which increases her artistic level by 50. The pen's worth
$2100.
Dance
You need a dress, make sure you try it out before you attend since
she easily becomes overweight. Dancing skill, sex appeal, and
strength are important. Grand prize is $3000 and a ring which
can increase Grace by 25. The ring's worth $2500.
Cooking
There are no prerequisites, required skills are sensitivity and
cooking. Grand prize is $3000 and an egg that increases Strength
by 50 if cooked, but you can choose not to cook it, wait for the
egg to hatch and get an increase in Sensitivity by 100!
After the competition, if you do well, your daughter may get a rival.
Your daughter will decrease her stress by a lot due to the determination
to defeat the rival after meeting him/her, but subsequently she will only
want to compete in the competition with that rival on the next Annual
Fair. Refusing that increases her stress by 10.
Salesman
During the first few years, if your money reaches over around a thousand,
the wandering salesman will appear.
#1 Fairy Ring ($1000) used at the oasis for sensitivity and gold, or the
NE of the desert for sensitivity
#2 Unicorn's Horn ($1000) usage unknown.
#3 The demon in the desert will give you a stat bonus if you give this
to him. ($1200)
#4 If you use this, your daughter's Bust Size increases 1~2" (^_^) ($1200)
#5 increases Sex appeal by 20 & Grace by 20. ($1500)
#6 Barely a dress, Sexy+40, cannot be worn with other dresses. ($4000)
Prince
During every January, the Prince can be found on the palace
grounds, he will ask you to meet him again the same time next
year. You can only become a princess by marrying a prince...
Spirits,Valkyrie,Venus Angel etc.
There are various powers who watch the progress of your daughter
very carefully. They usually shows up if she gets a large jump of
a certain status at the end of a month. If her, say manners increases
by a lot within one month, "Paimon" might show up and grant her an
increase of manners by 3 if she's 10, 4 if she's 11, etc.
Townspeople
Rich Guy
If you daughter's insensitivity is high, she may be solicited by
a rich guy who offers her $$$ each month for her ^^;;; If she
accepts, every month when the money arrives, you have an option of
accepting it or scolding her. If you accept it, her grace declines
but if you refuse it decreases somewhat less. Three refusal and
she breaks off the relationship.
Suitors
If your daughter is beautiful and fair, she will have suitors with
presents ($$$).
Dragon
In the desert area, there is a dragon who will not let your daughter
pass without paying $200. If you pass it, you will see a
kindly old dragon who tells you to leave. However if you defeat
the first dragon, you discover that he is still a baby dragon who
runs off. The successive times you visit the old dragon, he will
give you $$$ if you are sexy. He will also ask you to approach,
if you do so, he kisses you and gives you a dress (sexy+magic
resistance) and invites you to come back (and gives you $$ each time).
This brings about a second event later in which the two dragons
appear in human form and ask for your daughter's hand with a $10,000
dowry.
Elf
A sensitive person can see the elves that live in the wooded region
next to a big tree, the elf needs fighting skill and will exchange
5 fighting skill for moderate bonuses in magic skills. However,
make sure you do not have a metal weapon ready when you approach
or it will just leave you.
Demon
A demon can appear when your daughter is young and offer to buy
her morals for $$$.
Fairies
On the adventure in the forest, you'll see a pole with strange
writing surrounding it. Make a camp there and rest for one day,
when you wake up you'll meet a few fairies. They will lower
stress to zero and raise your cooking skill by sensitivity * 10.
Mermaid
At the waterfalls beating the green undersea monster (normal
type of enemy) will sometimes bring you the "Mermaid's tears".
With these, the next time you vacation at the beach, you can
meet a good mermaid who will trade them for 10 points
of Sex appeal.
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Rumors
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I've been told that there are 74 unique endings, 15 of which correspond
to the jobs, so that makes 59 picture endings, not bad!
So those of you who think you have seen it all, think again!
(and if you have, how about a list? ^^;
Dos/V version has a more balanced play (easier/harder?) and provisions
to enter kanji names (I'm sure you guys really care)
On all other PM2 versions, there are patches that add the following
A all-in-one store
A career center
The "Invisible" clothes
Don't know if they patch the binaries or the data files so they
might not work on Dos/V version.
As an alternative, if you replace the d2.lbx and dr.lbx files with
empty dummy files, all dress information will be gone ^-^
In the previous Gainax games, there were special key combos that
make the girl strip down (pm1 involved pressing a key (graph or f10)
and choosing change clothes), and I don't doubt there is one in this
version.
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Hints
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A good job for a young child is to work at home because it builds
up skills for working at the inn and restaurant and increases
Temper (the only way?) It decreases sensitivity so it is ok
to drive it down while it is low.
If you want to win all 4 competitions, it is good to raise cooking
first, then the sensitivity. Poetry classes and working in the
hair salon are good. Next, you can win the painting contest
by taking lots of art classes (since sensitivity is already high,
it is easy to do well). Proceed to dance lessons partway through
since art skill is also gained this way, the gains in strength
will be useful to win in the dancing contest and fighting contests.
Your daughter will make you a cake for your birthday if she
is very happy (stress = 0 all the time, smiling wide) and
(maybe) if you get her a birthday gift every year?
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Install Tricks
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For those of you who want to play Dos/V games (including KISS) but
don't like the memory hog of JINIT or the problem of a Dos/V boot
disk, here's a quick solution that will give you compatibility with
dos applications. It is not actually necessary to run $disp.sys
and switch into Japanese mode to use these programs since they run in
mode 12h anyway, so place country.sys, and $font.sys somewhere
handy on your system, and place all the font files in your primary
booting directory (you can make them hidden if you want).
Then, modify your config.sys
device=himem.sys or device=qemm386.sys or some other driver
country=081,932,c:\path\country.sys <= the dos/v country.sys
loadhigh or loadhi.sys c:\path\$font.sys /l=xms
voila!
or for OS/2 users
config.sys:
replace the original country= with
country=081,c:\path\country.sys
and the original codepage with
codepage=932
then for a dos session, set it to full screen dos, and add to the
device box
c:\path\$font.sys /l=xms
and voila!
As for where to get dos/v, well there was a alpha version of an
IBM dos/v 6.2 floating around, and there are also shareware
(freeware?) specialized $font.sys and $disp.sys compatible
out there which can be used.
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Credits
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Thanks to Artemis, Heretic, John Prenis, Lancer, Nene, and others
for their contributions.
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Omake
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