INSTALLATION AND MENU NAVIGATION

INSTALLING JAZZ
1. Quit all other applications and insert the Jazz Jackrabbit 2 CD into your CD-ROM drive.
2. Jazz Jackrabbit 2 will automatically display its Master Setup Menu on your screen. The Master Setup Menu has these options:
Install: Installs Jazz Jackrabbit 2 on your computer.
Readme: Displays the readme.txt file that contains last-minute notes, troubleshooting information, and any other information we were too scatterbrained to include in this manual.
Self Destruct: Don't touch this button!
Quit: Closes the Master Setup Menu.
Note: At any time, after you have installed Jazz 2 to your hard drive, you can re-launch the Master Setup Menu, with the added options of Play, Reinstall and Uninstall, by double-clicking on your CD-ROM icon when the Jazz 2 CD is in your CD tray.
3. Click the Install button to start the installation process. Follow the on-screen instructions to install Jazz 2 to your hard drive.
4. The Jazz 2 installation program will automatically check to see if you have the latest macintoh game drivers installed on your computer. If the necessary drivers are not installed or you are running an out of date driver, the Installer will install the latest game drivers.
5. You are now ready to play Jazz Jackrabbit 2!
MENU NAVIGATION
Use your keyboard to move through, select and change the options in the various on-screen menus in Jazz 2. Use the up and down arrow keys to move from option to option and use the Enter key to select an option. If an option has multiple choices, after selecting the option, use the right and left arrow keys to cycle through the choices. Hit the Esc key at any time to back out of an option or menu.
RUNNING THE GAME
To run Jazz Jackrabbit 2, double click on the Jazz 2 icon on your desktop or in your start menu. Hit the Enter key when you see the Intro Screen to bring up the Main Menu.
Main Menu
From the Main Menu, you can choose:
New Game: Start a single-player or Party Mode game from scratch.
Load Game: Load a previously saved game.
High Scores: Take a look at the best Jazz 2 scores achieved so far.
Options: Configure your controls, sound and video, and choose a language option. See the Setup Screen section on page 10 for details.
Quit: Why would you ever want to do something like that?
Start a New Game
1. Click New Game on the Main Menu.
2. Choose Single Player (see the Party Mode section on page 42 for details on multiplayer gaming).
3. Choose an episode. You can choose from any of the four standard episodes, your own "home cooked" episodes, or the shareware demo episodes. You will not be allowed to play any standard episode, other than the first ("Formerly a Prince"), until you have completed the episode that precedes it. Once you have finished an episode, you can play it again any time you start a New Game.
4. Choose a character. You can choose to play as either Jazz or Spaz. Each character has his own unique abilities and advantages (see the Special Moves section for details).
Once you have chosen a character and begun playing, you will only be able to switch characters if you find a Quick Change Monitor or start a new game.
5. Choose a difficulty level (the higher the difficulty, the more baddies you'll face):
Easy: Nothing a gung-ho rookie damsel-in-distress rescuer can't handle.
Medium: A challenge for most stouthearted superhares.
Hard: The difficulty level of choice for seasoned turtle thumpers.
6. Get ready to get Jazzy!
Save and Load Games
Save: From within the game, press the Esc key to access the In-Game Menu. Select Save Game to save your current game up to the point you've played. Saving brings up a Save Game list where you can name and save multiple games. If your character gets toasted, you can resume your game from the spot you were at when you last saved.
Load: You can load a saved game from either the Main Menu before you start playing, or from the In-Game Menu (accessed by pressing the Esc key) if you want to abandon a game in progress. In either scenario, select Load Game and choose any game from the list of games you have saved and named.
Setup Screen
Select Options in the Main Menu or in the In-Game Menu to bring up the Setup Screen. From this screen, you can choose to adjust your Controls (keyboard and joystick), Video, and Sound settings. You can also choose to select a new Language for the game's on-screen text.
Setup Tips
Jazz Jackrabbit 2 was designed to utilize the latest hardware technology to achieve the best quality and highest possible framerate. The term framerate refers to how fast the screen is completely updated with new graphics. Jazz 2 is capable of framerates over 70 frames per second (fps), although human eyes can barely distinguish framerates above 30 fps. This means Jazz Jackrabbit 2 can produce ultra-smooth animation and gameplay under certain hardware conditions.
Jazz 2 has different quality settings you can adjust to get the best performance from your computer. Your computer's processor, video card and sound card all affect your framerate. We suggest starting out at the highest quality settings, then lowering them as needed until you achieve the best mix of quality and speed for your computer. Here are some tips:
* Make sure you have the latest drivers for your graphics card and sound card. Contact the manufacturers on the World Wide Web or call them to make sure you have the latest drivers.
* Play in Full-screen mode. In windowed mode, it takes more processor power to draw all the graphics in the game as well as the graphics on your Windows desktop.
* Try changing the Resolution to an 8-bit video mode. This will lower the number of colors used in the game, but will definitely help increase performance.
* If your graphics card has good 2D acceleration built in, try turning Hardware Mode on. You will lose realtime lighting and transparency effects in the game, but, unless you have a fast system, Ambient Lighting can lower your framerate dramatically.
* As a last resort, turn off Textured 3D Background. Unless you have a very slow computer, you shouldn't have to turn this option off because the performance gain is fairly small.
Video
The Video setting lets you set the resolution and color depth you want the game to use. These settings affect the frame rate of the game's animation. In general, setting a higher resolution and color depth will produce better graphics, but can result in slower game performance. Experiment with the different settings to determine which works best with your computer.
1. Select Video from the Setup Screen to view or change your current video settings.
2. Select the Resolution (and color depth) that your system is best equipped to handle.
3. Select Advanced to fine tune the appearance and performance of the game for your computer.
Hardware Mode: Determines whether the game relies on your computer's video board or on software for graphic acceleration.
Textured 3D Background: With this option turned on, the game's background visuals will have a textured 3D look. This is strictly a visual enhancement and will not affect the way the game is played.
Ambient Lighting: Turn this option on to activate Jazz 2's special realtime lighting effects. This option is disabled if you are using hardware acceleration (Hardware Mode on).
Detail: This option controls the visible parallaxing layers. Changing this setting to low removes a few of the parallaxing backgrounds to help increase speed on slower systems.
4. Select Done to save your settings.
Sound
The Sound setting lets you set the volume and quality of the game's music and sound effects.
1. Select Sound from the Setup Screen to view or change your current sound settings.
Effect Volume: Determines the volume of the game's sound effects.
Music Volume: Determines the volume of the game's background music.
Advanced: Enables advanced users to fine tune their sound settings to take full advantage of their system's capabilities. Most users will not need to adjust these settings.
2. Use the left and right arrow keys to adjust the volume meters.
3. Select Done to save your settings.
Language
The Language setting lets you choose from up to six installed languages to use for the game's on-screen text.
1. Select Language from the Setup Screen to view or change your current language choice.
2. Select the installed language that you prefer for your on-screen text.
3. Select Done to save your settings.

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