				Pong Fighter v1.2 Final?
				By Guyfawkes and Costis 

Homepage: http://www.gbaemu.com/ 
Pong Fighter Homepage: http://pongfighter.gbaemu.com/ 


					FEATURES

- One player vs. CPU 
- One player vs. Two Player (not via link) 
- Difficulty level for one player vs. CPU 
- Fireballs :) 
- Energy bar Street Fighter style
- Three music tracks with music player
- Highscore and settings which saves to cartridge


					THE GAME 

The game is based on the classic Pong, if you have never played it before 
where have you been for the last couple of decades? :) Basically think of Pong 
as a game of Tennis, you control the racket and must return the ball to your 
opponents half of the court. If you miss the ball you will loose a point. 
However in this version to keep in tune with the Street Fighter theme you will 
loose a portion of your energy - no energy = game over. Players can now also 
launch fireballs at their opponent which if properly timed will stun them for a
few vital seconds which could make them miss the ball. 


					CONTROLS 

Two player games are not played via a link cable on two machine. Instead both 
players share one machine. 

Control		P1 		P2 
----------------------------------------------
UP 		D-Pad Up 	A Button 
DOWN 		D-Pad Down 	B Button 
FIREBALL 	Left Shoulder 	Right Shoulder 
PAUSE 		Start 		Start 


				      RELEASE NOTES 

As you have probably noticed this may be the last release of Pong Fighter for 
the GBA. I am leaving the game open so there could be another release in the 
future but I am considering porting the game to GP32 where I can enjoy a 
bigger and easier to view screen. 

The main thing missing in this release which we promised is the 2 player
multiboot feature, Costis didnt have time to finish it so it may be added in
a new version in the future.


				     VERSION HISTORY 

v1.2 Final?
Where do I start, many many changes since the previous release, these are the 
main changes:

Code:
- The usual code cleanup & rewrote some stuff for an easy GP32 port :)
- Now using Dan Cotters GBA Library, visit his site at 
  http://members.optushome.com.au/dancotter/
- Now using the Codewaves Music Wave Engine, a big thanks to them for giving 
  me permission to use it. Visit their site at http://www.codewaves.com/

Game:
- Rewritten CPU AI, acts a bit more realistic and randomly now
- New CPU difficulty named 'impossible', blame Costis if you end up throwing 
  the GBA at the nearest wall :)
- Highscore table which saves/loads to cart
- Option screens (basic music player, game settings, reset save etc), also
  saves game settings to cart
- Time limit - choice of 30/60/90 seconds or infinite time

GFX:
- New font code, much easier to read text now
- Added a choice of backgrounds, there are currently four: 
- Background 1 - Classic Pong By Guyfawkes
 - Background 2 - Football Pitch By Yann
- Background 3 - Swirl By Mark
- Background 4 - Underwater By Mark
- New Splash Screen by Mr Zingh

SFX:
- Three music tracks, special thanks to Capcom for giving permission to use 
  their tunes in Pong Fighter!
- Track 1 - 'Title Screen' by FreeGameboy
- Track 2 - 'Street Fighter 2 Ken' by Capcom
- Track 3 - 'Street Fighter 2 Guile' remixed by FreeGameboy
- Added sounds for ball bouncing and fireballs.


v1.1 
- Many bug fixes including: 
    Graphics now display clearer on hardware
    Text display bug fixed
    Random lockups fixed (bug with input)
- Major code cleanup, rewrote many functions for when the Tournament Mode is 
  finished.


v1.0
- First public release exclusively for Gollums excellent BoyCott Advance 
  emulator. 


			           BUG REPORTS AND IDEAS 

Please let me know of any bugs in the game or any ideas you have to add to the 
game. I can be contacted at guyfawkes@emuholic.com 


				     CREDITS & GREETS
Code - Guyfawkes, Costis
Loosly based on Nokturns Pong Tutorial (http://rinen.gbaemu.com)
Codewaves Music Wave Engine  - Codewaves (http://www.codewaves.com)
GBA Library - Dan Cotter (http://members.optushome.com.au/dancotter)
Splash Screen and Pong Fighter Logo - Mr. Zingh 
Game Backgrounds - Guyfawkes, Yann, Mark
Music - FreeGameboy, Capcom
Testers - DarkwingD, MatthewC


Greets to: Dijital, James, Gollum, Nokturn, Kojote, Dovoto, _MADrigal_, Alex, 
Corey, Woo, Craig, Foolsgold, everyone on the GBAEmu forums and our IRC channel, 
all the homegrown GBA programmers and everyone else that knows me. 