
Skywalker of Hitmen proudly presents today:

Mahjongg PSX
============

This piece'o'shit is a port of the well (?) known chinese game Mahjongg
(or Shanghai) for our beloved PSX.


What is Mahjongg ?
------------------
As stated above Mahjongg is a chinese tile game. It's played using
42 different tiles where 34 of them are 4 times and 8 of them 1 time
in the game. So the game will be played with (34 * 4 + 8 * 1) 144 tiles.
These tiles are randomly setup into a geometric layout called "the dragon".
Your quest is to remove two matching tiles each move until no tiles are left
on the board, but you can only remove tiles which are free either to the left
or to the right side.

Example:

    +--++--++--+
    |  ||  ||  |
    |  ||  ||  |
    +--++--++--+
     T1  T2  T3

T1 can be removed (left side free)
T2 can't be removed! (blocked by T1 and T2)
T3 can be removed (right side free)

    +--+    +--+
    |  |    |  |
    |  |+--+|  |
    +--+|  |+--+
        |  |
        +--+
     T1  T2  T3

T1 can be removed (left side free)
T2 can't be removed! (blocked by T1 and T2)
T3 can be removed (right side free)
      
      +--+    
    +-|  |
    | |  | T2
    | +--+
    +--+
     T1 

T1 can't be removed! (blocked by T2)
T2 can be removed

The Playstation version
-----------------------

After starting the game you will be welcomed by the title screen. 
The game starts in PAL mode, so if you don't the a heck of it just press
SELECT on the joypad to switch between PAL/NTSC mode. Start the game with
the START button. If you don't press START the game will go into the demo
mode after a few seconds.

The game
--------

Use the joypad's left cursorkeys to move the cursor around to a tile of your
selection. Press X to select it. Move around again for the second tile and
press X again to remove both of them. If the tiles are not identical nothing
will happen. To de-select your first tile just press X again on it.

Keys:
-----

Cursor keys - move around on the board
X           - select your tile(s)
O           - display the next possible tiles to remove
Triangle    - Auto-remove the next possible tiles (displayed by 'O')
Square      - XRay-mode: Move the cursor on a tile and press Square to display
              the positions of the identical tiles.
Select      - Option menu (change your option with cursor keys and select
              with 'X'):
              Resume          - continue your game
              Restart game    - play the same board all over
              New game        - play a new board
              Tower mode      \ Change the layout of your game
              (Standard mode) /
              Quit            - Quit to intro screen


The game supports dual-shock/analog-controller rumbling in digital mode.

Sorry for this lame readme-file, but i hate to write'em :) 
Just try it and play around - it's simple enough even for you ;)

Thanks to:
My girlfriend for the idea,
Nels Anderson for the tileset,
Seppi for some help in C-pointers (i hate things like char **blah) :)

Greetings to:
Jihad, Curlin, Barubary, Maniac, EAS, Hitmen, Napalm, everyone on #psxdev,
*.*, #?, *,...:)


Have phun...

Skywalker of Hitmen (mike_bee@yahoo.com)
(www.hitmen-psx.ml.org)
(www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/6332)

