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Final Fantasy VII Official Strategy Guide

By E-Day

Official Final Fantasy VII Strategy Guide

19,157 downloads

18 comments

Updated August 9, 2021
It's An NBA Jam Thing Official Player's Guide

By Areala

Oh no! Fifty-four NBA pro all-stars have invaded your gaming space, determined to play a game of 2-on-2 with you at the helm. Obviously what you need here is a strategy guide to explain the finer points of offense and defense, and really break the game down for...
Sorry, I can't do this with a straight face. 😆
This is a basketball game. It's kind enough to give you the stats for all the different players right there on the screen, and assumes you're smart enough to understand the guy who is good at shooting 3-point shots should probably do that instead of going in for a dunk. There aren't any special moves, no fireballs or jump kicks or fatalities, just a joystick, a button to shoot, a button to pass, and a button to make you move faster until the meter runs out. I'm impressed that Corey Sandler, the same guy responsible for a bevy of those "Ultimate Unauthorized" books from the previous five years, somehow managed to talk Brady into buying the rights to make an official strategy guide to a game as straightforward as NBA Jam.
Midway, I am certain, laughed all the way to the bank with that money.
You could use the $10 you spend on this book to instead play 40 games of NBA Jam in the arcade (or 20 if the operator was a greedy turd burglar and set the machine to 50 cents/play) and you'd get just as good at it through actually playing. I reiterate: this is a basketball game where every rule except Traveling and Goaltending have been suspended. It's literally about who can toss a sphere through a circle the most. This is not rocket science.
The artwork is cool, the production values are high, and the paper quality is outstanding. It includes some cheat codes, some Game Genie goodies, and the necessary info to unlock most of the hidden characters in it, but you could get all that from an issue of EGM at half the price.
Utterly baffling, but hey, here it is, so indulge!
Donated by ModernZorker.
Enjoy! ❤️

332 downloads

10 comments

Submitted February 17, 2022
Totally Unauthorized Fighting Secrets III: No Mercy

By Areala

This book. Oh my gosh, this book.
I've seen a lot of strategy guides in my four decades on this planet. I've seen a number of books and guides which have typos in them. Sometimes in the text, sometimes (very rarely) in the table of contents or the index. But I want you to take a minute and open up the cover image for this book, and take a look at it. Because never have I seen a strategy guide so rushed to market that it misspelled the name of one of the games it covers on the front cover.
Can someone, anyone, please tell me about the game "Soul Egde"? Because I've certainly never heard of it. Soul Edge? Absolutely! But "Soul EGDE"?
SOUL EGDE?!
On the front and back covers of your book?
Please, BradyGames, PLEASE tell me someone lost their job over letting that one slip through quality control.
As if the black-and-white only presentation wasn't cheap enough. As if the text-only interior didn't already scream "we put this whole thing together the night before the deadline". But then you expected us to pay ten dollars, in 1996 money, for a book with the misspelled title of a game on the covers?
You, sir, are the cash-grab guide book to end all cash-grab guide books.
Debinding this book brought me nigh-on orgasmic pleasure. And I would do it again in a heartbeat.
Good day to you, strategy guide.
I SAID, "GOOD DAY"!
Enjoy! ❤️

222 downloads

8 comments

Updated December 20, 2023
Totally Unauthorized Sega Games Guide

By Areala

Another totally unauthorized compilation book from BradyGames, this time aimed at the Sega Genesis, along with the Sega CD and 32X attachments. This is a pretty good book, all things considered. Lots of screenshots, printed in full colour on high-quality paper stock. Sega groupies will eat this right up!
Donated by ModernZorker.
Enjoy! ❤️

438 downloads

8 comments

Submitted February 19, 2022
Beavis and Butt-Head Cheater's Guide

By Areala

This book totally rules! Heh, heh, heh...
Yeah, so, you can, like, totally play the Beavis and Butt-Head game normally. Like, that's what Mr. Van Driesen would do. He'd call it "self-learning" or "acshulization" or some other stupid word that probably isn't, like, real and stuff.
Or you could use this book to, like, totally score with chicks and stuff. Like chicks, this book has nice tips. And it works with, like, all three different games. But, like, if you only have one or two of them, that's, like, fine too. You probably needed to save your money for, you know, GWAR tickets.
GWAR rocks!
But, like, if you need to beat the game--
(Heh, heh...I said 'beat'...)
--like, fast and stuff? Like, cuz a chick said she'd show you her boobs, but you had to, you know, beat the game first? I guess you could, uhhh, read the book and, I dunno, use the passwords and maps and things to see GWAR. And then score. Or at least, like, play with your butt-ons and stuff.
Beavis is into that. He once played with his butt-on so much that Mr. Buzzcut made him do pushups until blood came out his nose. That was cool! Huh-huh-huh...
Yeah, yeah, anyway, like, just read the book, uhhh, you know, FOR us. Cuz we're busy. Scoring. Yeah, scoring! With a chick! You, uh, you don't know her. She's from, like, Canada or some other state.
Enjoy! (Bungholes...) ❤️

482 downloads

6 comments

Updated December 20, 2023
RPG Companion: An Insider's Guide to PC Roleplaying Games

By Areala

For all the time I've spent giving Brady Games guff about the quality of their mid-90's content, this is a pretty darn cool book. Maybe because it's aimed more at PC gamers, maybe because it's written by Ronald Wartow (who could both write about games and play them with equal skill), maybe it's because he solicited input from some of the industry's top designers, but this is a badass tome: 500 pages of knowledge, lore, and history all wrapped into one big bible-thick slab.
With the resurgence in availability of these games on modern systems thanks to services like GOG and Steam, the usefulness of books like this has come 'round again. Twenty-five years later, we can play through these games again without the need to hack around with boot floppies, CONFIG.SYS files, driver mishaps, IRQ conflicts, and restarting in MS-DOS mode to free up memory. This one contains walkthroughs for twenty-six different games, and while they aren't step-by-step, hold-your-hand sorts, they (along with the principles Wartow introduces in the early chapters) will get the job done while still leaving it up to your skills to actually play the game.
Lots of tables, interviews, screenshots, hints, cheats, and other information is dispensed about each game as well. Some of this stuff gets downright hacker-esque, with tips on hex editing, mucking around with your save files, where to find update patches, and other things books of the day didn't often comment on.
It also shipped with a free issue of "Interactive Entertainment", a magazine-on-CD which lasted for about 25 or so issues before it was folded in to become the cover disc for "Computer Games Strategy Plus" magazine. My copy was missing this CD-ROM, but Archive.org has more than half of them available for download if you want to see what they were like.
Anyway, this is an awesome book, and it belongs in the library of anyone who grew up a classic era PC gamer, or who is interested in that era of PC gaming history.
Enjoy! ❤️

432 downloads

6 comments

Updated December 20, 2023
Castlevania - Symphony of the Night Official Guide (1997)

By E-Day

Castlevania - Symphony of the Night Official Guide (1997)

798 downloads

6 comments

Updated March 25, 2023
Final Fantasy Chronicles BradyGames Guide - Chrono Trigger

By MigJmz

Final Fantasy Chronicles BradyGames Guide - Chrono Trigger
FFIV guide available here
Problem downloading in Chrome? Click here.

916 downloads

5 comments

Updated November 29, 2022
Tomb Raider II Totally Unauthorized Pocket Guide

By Areala

Testing the waters with my own ability to scan stuff using my old, slow flatbed.

351 downloads

4 comments

Updated December 20, 2023
Totally Unauthorized Guide to Resident Evil Director's Cut Pocket Guide

By Areala

This is a version of the original Totally Unauthorized Guide to Resident Evil pocket guide, adapted by David Cassady and Debra McBride for use with the Director's Cut of the game. It's based on a pre-release edition of the software, but like its predecessor it contains walkthroughs for both Chris and Jill's playthroughs, along with maps, enemy descriptions, and item and weapon locations.
Gone from the previous edition is the "speed run" text in red, so you'll have to figure out the optimal strategies for that sub-one-hour time yourself.
No mention of the terrible mess made of the soundtrack in the Director's Cut version either, but you don't buy a strategy guide to learn about the music, so that's not surprising.

451 downloads

4 comments

Updated December 20, 2023
Final Fantasy Chronicles - Final Fantasy IV BradyGames Guide

By MigJmz

Final Fantasy Chronicles - Final Fantasy IV BradyGames Guide
Chrono Trigger guide available here

518 downloads

4 comments

Updated December 1, 2022
Syphon Filter - Totally Unauthorized Strategy Guide

By E-Day

Syphon Filter - Totally Unauthorized Strategy Guide

336 downloads

3 comments

Submitted June 1, 2020
Totally Unauthorized Guide to Resident Evil Pocket Guide

By Areala

Brady's unofficial pocket guide to the original PS1 release of Resident Evil. This doesn't cover the Director's Cut, which got its own pocket guide release later.
A very bare-bones walkthrough presented almost entirely in text with the occasional screenshot and a few maps. It covers both Jill and Chris's scenarios, and presents a single optimized route through the Spencer mansion and surrounding environs for each character. Walkthrough text is presented in both black and red; red sections are meant to be skipped if you are attempting a sub-one-hour play in order to unlock the infinite Rocket Launcher for subsequent playthroughs.
My copy of this has some minor water damage to a few of the pages early on; I did the best I could, but the quality isn't stellar because I have zero Photoshop knowledge. Anyone with the means and/or desire to clean this one up, feel free.

364 downloads

3 comments

Updated December 20, 2023
1,001 More Secret Codes

By Areala

The follow-up to 1,001 Secret Codes, released a year earlier. This book doesn't present any walkthroughs, guides, or strategies, it's simply a compilation of cheat codes, passwords, unlockables, and other goodies to help you get the most out of games you already own.
That said, they still manage to misspell the occasional game title, so that mid-90's Brady "quality assurance" is still alive and well. 😂
Oh well. At least it wasn't on the front cover this time.
Donated by ModernZorker.
Enjoy! ❤️

472 downloads

3 comments

Submitted February 18, 2022
Diablo II Ultimate Strategy Guide

By Areala

There were multiple versions of this guide published and updated by BradyGames over the years. This particular edition is keyed to the Lord of Destruction expansion pack which came as part of the Diablo II Battle Chest boxed set. Since the guide makes no references to skill synergy bonuses but it does reference "the first patch", it likely corresponds to v1.08 of the game. Given the game's current edition is v1.14d, much of the information in this file will be outdated and inaccurate except to someone playing a pre-v1.10 copy in a solo campaign.
Enjoy! ❤️

556 downloads

3 comments

Updated December 20, 2023
Final Fantasy IX Official Strategy Guide (BradyGames, 2001)

By E-Day

Final Fantasy IX Official Strategy Guide (BradyGames, 2001)

611 downloads

3 comments

Updated March 31, 2023
Official Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 Arcade Secrets

By MigJmz

Official Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 Arcade Secrets

408 downloads

3 comments

Submitted April 26, 2023
The Legend Of Zelda - The Wind Waker - Official Strategy Guide (2003)

By dablais

The Legend Of Zelda - The Wind Waker - Official Strategy Guide (2003)
Platform: Nintendo GameCube
Note, Magazine is complete but it's missing the huge map, it will be scanned and added in a couple of days.

271 downloads
- bradygames
3 comments

Updated March 9
Totally Unauthorized PlayStation Games Book, Volume 5

By Areala

These unauthorized compilation books from BradyGames really aren't that great. About the best thing you can say about this one is that it's in colour, and it covers nine different games, but even then there's just not a lot of content in those 128 pages. The strategies are fine, but there aren't any screenshots, just the occasional bit of artwork Brady could get away with including without obtaining an actual license to use assets. The code list which takes up the last few pages is honestly the best part of this. The Tomb Raider II section is just a list of where each item is found in each level, but it doesn't give you any help on actually beating any of the stages or anything. Boo!
At least with fighting games, it's pretty easy to nail down a move list and go from there. Then again, if one of the fighting games you're covering is Star Wars: Masters of Teras Kasi...well, do I really have to say anything?
The thing is, if these books didn't sell well, then it's hard to see why Brady would have kept cranking them out. I mean, five volumes of this stuff is about four too many, but Brady did a metric shit-ton of these compilation books spanning multiple eras and multiple platforms, so somebody must have been buying them.
This one was donated by ModernZorker, who isn't a member here (maybe think about fixing that, bro?) but who does write about video games and other nerdy things in various places around the internet, and who, according to him, made his wife's day by getting it out of his house. Now it's making my day by going into the recycle bin.
Enjoy! ❤️

294 downloads

2 comments

Updated February 19, 2022
Secret Code Overload

By Areala

This is a much better multi-game guide than some of Brady's other offerings. Ninety-six pages of cheats, unlockables, and GameShark codes for Nintendo 64, Saturn, and PlayStation titles...this stuff was like GameFAQs before there was a GameFAQs, ya know?
Because of the way this book was printed, a lot of the text on the odd-numbered pages ran smack-dab against the gutter. I don't think anything got completely lost in the de-binding process, but you may see some white areas where I over-compensated for the close shave. My apologies; I suck at editing.
Donated by ModernZorker, who isn't a member here, but sent me this in a care package anyway.
Enjoy! ❤️

306 downloads

2 comments

Submitted February 15, 2022
Capcom Fighting Evolution Official Fighter's Guide (2004)

By E-Day

Capcom Fighting Evolution Official Fighter's Guide (2004)

398 downloads

2 comments

Submitted June 1, 2022
Grand Theft Auto IV Brady Games Strategy Guide (2008)

By E-Day

Grand Theft Auto IV Brady Games Strategy Guide (2008)

537 downloads

2 comments

Submitted March 1, 2023
Banjo-Tooie Official Strategy Guide (2001)

By Argus

Banjo-Tooie Official Strategy Guide (2001)

307 downloads

2 comments

Updated September 21, 2023
Final Fantasy X-2 - Official Strategy Guide (2003)

By dablais

Final Fantasy X-2 - Official Strategy Guide (2003)
Platform: Playstation 2

NOTE: The huge map included in the magazine will be scanned at a later time. Stay tuned!

213 downloads
- bradygames
2 comments

Updated March 9
Legend of Zelda, The - Ocarina of Time Official Strategy Guide

By Crimsonfox

The Legend of Zelda - Ocarina of Time Official Strategy Guide

3,432 downloads

1 comment

Updated August 9, 2021