2 Controls ................................................................................ 2 Main Menu ............................................................................ 2 Gameplay ............................................................................. 3 Redemption Menu ................................................................ 4 DGamer™ ............................................................................. 4 Hints and Tips ....................................................................... 5 Getting Started 1. Make sure the POWER switch is OFF. 2. Insert the Disney’s A Christmas Carol Game Card in the Nintendo DS™ slot. 3. Turn the POWER switch ON. NOTE: The Disney’s A Christmas Carol Game Card is designed for the Nintendo DS™ system. 4. Please read and accept the Health and Safety screen by touching the bottom screen. 5. If the game does not automatically launch, select the Disney’s A Christmas Carol game icon from the DS launch screen. The Redemption of Scrooge Celebrate the spirit of the holidays with a Scrooge twist! Guide the old miser on a supernatural Christmas adventure. You’ll play the hand of fate in his journey designed especially for the Nintendo DS™. Deck the halls, sing carols and cook a grand Christmas dinner for your friends! Play minigames alone or with up to three other players to see who has the most Christmas spirit. Use your stylus and the microphone to play the piano, throw snowballs and experience loads of holiday cheer. The Advent Calendar even lets you unlock surprises from December 1st through Christmas 2009. Controls Touch Screen and stylus—Click on interactive objects with your stylus to activate them. You can also click and drag using the stylus. Just touch an object and keep the stylus on the Touch Screen as you move the object to another location. You can also use your stylus to “scratch” the screen to clean an area or rattle an object. Quickly move the stylus back and forth to scratch. START —Pause the game and access the Pause Menu. Main Menu Before you get to the Main Menu, click on “Christmas Carol” to play the game or “DGamer” to enter the online community. Start game—Start playing Disney’s A Christmas Carol. Minigames—Access the Minigames Menu to replay the minigames you’ve unlocked. Redemption—Access the Redemption screen to see the awards and replay scenes you’ve unlocked. Advent—Access the Advent Calendar with new “Find the Difference” puzzles every day from December 1st through Christmas 2009. Options—Adjust the microphone sensitivity. Extras—Enter cheat codes to unlock minigames and DGamer accessories, view credits and read the classic book, A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens. Gameplay Adventure Lead Scrooge down the mysterious path guided by the ghosts. Sometimes you’ll need to call Scrooge’s attention to an important object in the scene. Other times, solving a puzzle or finding a solution to a problem is the only way to get Scrooge going. Blow into the microphone and objects you can interact with will sparkle. Click on the object with your stylus to activate it. Some things aren’t interactive when you first encounter them, but will activate later when needed. Be sure to thoroughly explore all the environments to find hidden secrets and minigames. Most of the objects you can interact with stand out a bit, but others are hidden away. You can even go back later and find things you’ve missed for awards! Pause Menu Press the START to access the Pause Menu and learn the main objective for a scene. You’ll also learn how many hidden objects there are and the number you’ve already found. The Pause Menu also shows if you’ve caught a ghost and found all the available minigames. Minigames Once you’ve found and played a minigame, it’s unlocked and you can replay it as many times as you want. Go to Minigames in the Main Menu to replay your unlocked games. Minigames include singing Christmas carols, making dinner in Tiny Tim’s kitchen and playing festive tunes on the fiddle and piano. How well you score on the minigames determines the medal you receive. Your minigames score also adds to your Redemption score. Earning gold medals in minigames earns DGamer awards. Go to Minigames in the Main Menu and play with up to 4 friends as you compete for the highest score. Your friends can even help you solve the puzzles in the main game. When your friends play on your DS system, the scores and coins earned will be logged under your player name. Saving Game Games are automatically saved at the end of a level or just after collecting a hidden item in the game. Redemption Menu As you play through Disney’s A Christmas Carol, you’ll earn DGamer accessories. Go to the Redemption Menu from the Main Menu to see the ghosts you’ve caught and the collected hidden items of each scene. DGamer Choose DGamer™ to enter the new online community exclusively for Disney gamers. Once inside, check out all the cool achievements you’ve unlocked, send gifts and chat with frie...