Jump to content
  • Welcome Guest!

    Welcome to Retromags! Feel free to download as many of our releases as you like, but why not go ahead and sign up and thank our members for their hard work below. 😀

     

Brady Games

49 files

  1. Final Fantasy X-2 - Official Strategy Guide (2003)

    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!

    185 downloads

    2 comments

    Updated

  2. The Legend Of Zelda - The Wind Waker - Official Strategy Guide (2003)

    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.

    238 downloads

    3 comments

    Updated

  3. Donkey Kong Country 2 - Diddy's Kong Quest Totally Unauthorized Secrets (1995)

    Donkey Kong Country 2 - Diddy's Kong Quest Totally Unauthorized Secrets (1995)

    125 downloads

    1 comment

    Submitted

  4. Mario Party 4 - Official Strategy Guide (2002)

    Mario Party 4 - Official Strategy Guide (2002)

    177 downloads

    1 comment

    Submitted

  5. Banjo-Tooie Official Strategy Guide (2001)

    Banjo-Tooie Official Strategy Guide (2001)

    284 downloads

    2 comments

    Updated

  6. Quake II Authorized Strategy Guide

    It's a Quake II strategy guide which printed the maps twice: one in green-and-greyscale, once in full colour! And they're just as useless no matter which version of them you're viewing! Hooray!
    Otherwise, this is just your bog-standard strategy guide to an FPS. There's the obligatory enemy list, weapons load-out, multiplayer tips, a page and a half on using the console, and those full colour maps!
    Also, whoever had the bright idea to only put page numbers on every other page, or just stop them for a bit then start up again later, deserves to be dipped in horseradish and thrown to the jellyfish. 😡
    You don't need this. You're going to download it anyway, because you're a digital hoarder, and that's totally fine. I'm just pointing out the obvious.
    Enjoy! ❤️

    245 downloads

    0 comments

    Updated

  7. Totally Unauthorized Combat Guide to Duke Nukem 3D

    Guides which brand themselves as "totally unauthorized" are a mixed bag. I mean, the writers of the authorized guides get their info from the game's publisher and developer, they get the rights to use artwork, screenshots, and other assets, and typically offer some bonus features like interviews with the developers, a CD-ROM stuffed with extra goodies, and other tidbits. The "unauthorized" guys, though? They have to make do with whatever artwork the in-house artists come up with, don't get any special access to designers and programmers, and have to build their strategies from scratch. To stand out, the unauthorized guides are usually a few bucks cheaper than the official one right next to it on the shelf, and that's usually all they've got. But occasionally an unauthorized guide will go above and beyond the call of duty to kick ass and take names, making itself worthy of your cash despite not being authorized.
    This book, my friends, is one of those special snowflakes. Because despite Sybex buying the right to make the official guide for Duke Nukem 3D (and making a kick-ass guide in their own write, complete with its own CD on the back cover), Steven Schafer and the hooligans at Brady Games laced up the combat boots and waded into the trenches to make their combat guide totally worth the money.
    In here, you'll find the normal write-ups on weapons, enemies, and power-ups. In here, you'll see the same level maps as you'd see in the official book. But that's only the first 150 pages. From page 152 on, you're treated to an orgy of information concerning configuring and playing multiplayer DukeMatch games, a comprehensive breakdown of all the game's media files (textures, sprites, sounds, etc...), and a complete tutorial on how to make your own levels using the Build Engine (which is where all that index info on the game's internal media files comes in handy, and can help you best utilize and/or replace assets as needed).
    The official guide devotes a whole two pages to this. They're basically like, "Yeah, um, Duke Nukem 3D includes a level editor. It's called Build. Check it out!". Probably this was so people would feel enticed to fork over another $24.99 in order to get Sybex's Duke Nukem 3D Level Design Handbook (which is a great book in its own right, well worth the buy if you want to get into the nitty-gritty of level creation, and will be appearing here in the not too distant future), but I'm not joking when I tell you this unauthorized book can teach you enough to make the level design book almost completely unnecessary.
    It also covers the secret DukeMatch-only level, "Faces of Death", which comes with the game, but requires a command-line interface trick to get working if you want to see it in single-player, and is something even the official guidebook doesn't bring up.
    I reiterate: the official guide leaves out all mention of the fact this level even exists, but the Brady gang gives it two full pages of maps and basic level info. What?!
    This book kicks some serious ass, and as far as I'm concerned, if you're a Duke Nukem 3D fan, you need it in your library.
    Enjoy! ❤️

    170 downloads

    1 comment

    Updated

  8. Official Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 Arcade Secrets

    Official Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 Arcade Secrets

    398 downloads

    3 comments

    Submitted

  9. Final Fantasy IX Official Strategy Guide (BradyGames, 2001)

    Final Fantasy IX Official Strategy Guide (BradyGames, 2001)

    585 downloads

    3 comments

    Updated

  10. Castlevania - Symphony of the Night Official Guide (1997)

    Castlevania - Symphony of the Night Official Guide (1997)

    768 downloads

    6 comments

    Updated

  11. Grand Theft Auto IV Brady Games Strategy Guide (2008)

    Grand Theft Auto IV Brady Games Strategy Guide (2008)

    502 downloads

    2 comments

    Submitted

  12. Quake Authorized Strategy Guide

    Flying into 2023 with this first release of the year, what could be more epic than another strategy guide for the behemoth FPS known as Quake?
    Yeah, yeah, I know, almost anything else.
    But it's Quake, so you're going to download this, you're going to slap the 'thank you' button to pay me my tribute, and you're going to wait for the next strategy guide with baited breath, because you all love me.
    Happy New Year!
    Enjoy! ❤️

    310 downloads

    0 comments

    Updated

  13. Chaos Island Official Strategy Guide

    A relatively rare guide for a relatively unknown game.
    Chaos Island is sort of like Jurassic Park meets the RTS genre. It tasks you with guiding various characters from the film The Lost World around Isla Nublar to accomplish a variety of tasks to protect the dinosaurs from hunters, gather eggs and other resources, and avoid dying while you're doing it. Of all the games made under the JP license, this is one of the strangest. That, combined with the guide's own obscurity, made it an obvious choice for archival here.
    Enjoy! ❤️

    179 downloads

    0 comments

    Updated

  14. Diablo II Ultimate Strategy Guide

    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! ❤️

    531 downloads

    3 comments

    Updated

  15. Final Fantasy Chronicles - Final Fantasy IV BradyGames Guide

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

    507 downloads

    4 comments

    Updated

  16. Final Fantasy Chronicles BradyGames Guide - Chrono Trigger

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

    901 downloads

    5 comments

    Updated

  17. Capcom Fighting Evolution Official Fighter's Guide (2004)

    Capcom Fighting Evolution Official Fighter's Guide (2004)

    389 downloads

    2 comments

    Submitted

  18. Street Fighter Anniversary Collection Official Fighter's Guide (2004)

    Street Fighter Anniversary Collection Official Fighter's Guide (2004)

    491 downloads

    1 comment

    Submitted

  19. Street Fighter Alpha Anthology Official Strategy Guide (2006)

    Street Fighter Alpha Anthology Official Strategy Guide (2006)

    462 downloads

    1 comment

    Submitted

  20. Resident Evil - Operation Raccoon City (2012)

    Resident Evil - Operation Raccoon City (2012)

    337 downloads

    0 comments

    Submitted

  21. RPG Companion: An Insider's Guide to PC Roleplaying Games

    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! ❤️

    426 downloads

    6 comments

    Updated

  22. Totally Unauthorized Sega Games Guide

    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! ❤️

    431 downloads

    8 comments

    Submitted

  23. 1,001 More Secret Codes

    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! ❤️

    462 downloads

    3 comments

    Submitted

  24. Totally Unauthorized PlayStation Games Book, Volume 3

    First we released Volume 2, then we released Volume 5, now we release Volume 3. I know you're all giddy with anticipation!
    Presented in full color with minimal screencaps (since this was an unofficial guide, after all), this is a pretty ordinary, just-the-facts type of guide to a variety of best-selling PS1 hits. Average in almost every way. The text for Tekken 2, Mortal Kombat Trilogy, and Street Fighter Alpha 2 was lifted from Totally Unauthorized Fighting Secrets III: No Mercy, so if you already have that one, this was not as great a value as it seemed on the cover.
    Still, ten game strategies for ten bucks, in colour, and on decent quality paper? You could do worse.
    Enjoy! ❤️

    338 downloads

    1 comment

    Updated

  25. Totally Unauthorized Fighting Secrets III: No Mercy

    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! ❤️

    219 downloads

    8 comments

    Updated

×
×
  • Create New...
Affiliate Disclaimer: Retromags may earn a commission on purchases made through our affiliate links on Retromags.com and social media channels. As an Amazon & Ebay Associate, Retromags earns from qualifying purchases. Thank you for your continued support!