------------------------------------------------------------------------ WINING ELEVEN 3 FINAL VERSION SECRETS AND TIPS FAQ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BY KYLE BOON VERSION 3.0 FIRST CREATED: 20/5/99 LAST UPDATED: 25/5/99 E-MAIL: rinoa85@hotmail.com or rinoa@ffnet.zzn.com MOST RECENT UPDATE: VERSION 1.0: FAQ just made Some tips and secrets added VERSION 2.0: Added the info given by Spider Edited the credits VERSION 3.0: Added even more info from Spider CONTENTS: DISCLAIMER CONTROLS TIPS SECRETS CREDITS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DISCLAIMER ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This FAQ is made for personal use and can only be reproduced electronically. This FAQ can be posted on other websites other than gamefaqs.com as long as the FAQ remains unchanged and proper credit is given to me. This FAQ is for non-profitable purposes. This FAQ is copyright Kyle Boon 1999. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTROLS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In case you can't read Jap, here are the controls: X: LOW PASS, EASY TACKLE O: SHOOT, SLIDE TACKLE SQUARE: LONG PASS, CROSS TRIANGLE: THROUGH BALL L1: PASS (I THINK) R1: DASH ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TIPS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Here are a few tips from me to you. EASY GOAL NO. 1: When starting the game, and you kick off, run back and forward a bit before doing anything else so that your players can run up. Then, pass the ball up or down, which ever you choose, then get him to dribble the ball forward, and when near the penalty box, through ball to the centre. Your player will be running and will get the ball. Then just shoot with all your strength and it's bound to be a GOAL!!!!!!!!! EASY GOAL NO. 2: Do the same as the above, and when near the penalty box, through ball to the top and get the player to cross the ball into the penalty box. Press the shoot button to head the ball into the goal. HOW TO DO DIFFERENT HEADERS: There are a few ways to do a header. Here they are: NO. 1: Presing X will give you a short passing header. NO. 2: Pressing SQUARE will give you a clearence header. Also used to give a long header pass. NO. 3: Pressing CIRCLE will give you a go for goal header. NO. 4: Getting a player to cross the ball into the penalty box and getting a person to run and then press CIRCLE, will get you a diving header. HOW TO DO A SCIOSSORS KICK: Get a player to cross the ball into the penalty box, then get the player that is heading the ball to do a short passing header using X. Then the player will pass to another one of your players which is to use the shoot button to header. And since theball is going low, he will do a sciossors kick. You can also use this method to do a diving header by running then pressing the shoot button to do it. NEW! NEW! NEW! Here's some information given by Spider which is quite useful. The L1 button is a kind of "special options" button. When you hold it down, it imparts different properties to your other buttons. heres the list: L1+X = One-two pass. The first guy will pass to a person in his general front, and that person will one touch pass it back to him. Great for setting up a goal, because the first guy will lbe running in usually. L1+Circle = This will make your shot a chip, so if you see the golie coming out of his line, do this shot, and you may just get it over his head. L1+Square = Not so sure what it does, but I think what it does is to cancel out the player finding properties, meaning you will just boot the ball upfield without passing to a player. L1+Triangle =also not sure about this..... I think it has the same as Circle (I.e loses player finding properties.) L1+ AFTER a pass, will result in the player recieveing the pass, to let it go between his legs, hopefully setting it up. Great for faking out a playing coming in for a tackle, you might earn a penalty. The shoot button bar, has some really ineteresting effects, musta taken Konami ages to do this. Of course, the power decides the height and power of the shot. Usually full power close to the goal will totally sky the ball, and make you look silly, but full power around near halfway in between halfway and the goal, will result in a high power shot. Also left footedness and right footedness wil also affect it. Players who are are more to one side of the halfway circle will shoot with that foot. So a right footer, if he is left of the circle will shoot with his left, therefore a less powerful shoot will occur, with greater chance of screwing up. Also where you are in your step will affect the shot and how quickly it comes out. If the ball has just bee dribbled and is not near your feet, (especially after running) it will result in a more powerful shot, with more tendancy to screw up, and take more time to shoot, as the guy actually winds up for the shot. On the other hand, if you shoot just as the ball is being reciever by your feet, it will result in more chance of skying the ball, takes a quicker shot, and a somewhat less powerful shot. Also back to the which foot thing, players shooting on their foot side, (left foot, on left side) also have a tendancy to shoot more accurately on goal, sometimes without needing to hold a direction towards the goal. As you know, the height of the ball from a cross/lob pass decideds what the guy is gonna do. Well, here is a tip, the ball path leaves a cross on the ground, where its gonna be. You can control the guy while he is waiting for the cross, so just position him a bit back from the cross, or on the cross. If you are quite far away, the shot will be a sliding tackle sort of shot. A bit closer, this turns into a straight volley/or sometimes a diving header. A bit closer and you have a bycycle kick, a bit closer, and its a normal header. A bit closer still, and the shot turns into a overhead kick. any closer and you will miss the ball completely. The button press works like this also, holding a button down will make that player do what that buttons says infinetely. Basically, press the X button and hold it, and the guy will tail the ball holder until he gets the ball, or players switch cause he went out of his zone. couple that with dash, and the player will also aattempt to hold the guy back, with his arms like in real soccer, although this can draw a foul sometimes. holding shoot when waiting for a cross, will force the player to stay in the cross for a header, even if you try to get him away he will still try to get back there, so you dont have to worry about buttong mashing to win the ball. If you get a loose ball around the penalty area, just keep holding the shoot button eventually someone will pick it up and shoot. You can also control the direction of the shot with just a tap of the direction before you shoot. If you hold it down it will tend to go too much in that direction. NEW! NEW! NEW! -------------- Here's some more information from Spider. First one, a guy will shoot much better (accurately, and powerfully) if he is in clear space. If he is surrounded by defenders, or is crowded in, the shot will be much poorer Second, the X pass is usually a much better choice than the Triangle pass. If the other player is in a good position, the X pass will sometimes turn into a Triangle pass, but it will that much more accurate. I suggest only using Triangle pass to pass to a guy running up the wing, so he doesnt have to stop, and can charge ahead to make a cross. I dont suggest using long pass at all for passing. This type of pass is direction relevant, I have many times, gone to clear it, only to boot it out into the crowd. Use Square instead. Only use this button for crosses, and if you have time and you just want to punt the ball upfield (Once you got the direction right) and make a long ball play. It also have the properties of shoot, with a bar, so all the info on the shoot button (Time it takes to shoot, footedness) works here too, but the pass will be fairly accurate all the time, although sometimes it's stupid and only high passes it to the guy in front of you. You can use this to switch sides of the field, if the one side is too crowded. Use the select button to change your intensity of play. There is a little bar, stating name and number of the holder of the ball (and age !?), as well as the defender who is currently being used to defend. Above that, there is a blue three section bar, the one furthest TOWARD the opposing teams goal, is for maximum offence. Press select until you get to the desired bar. All your players will go upfield, and stay in the opponents general area. I dont need to explain the rest. Use this, after you have scored a goal, switch to total defence. When your team wins the back by overwhelming the striker with numbers, switch to total offence, and muck around a bit until players get upfield, then go for goal. Although I cant read japanese, most things are pretty easy to understand (Thanx Konami !) and one thing you should do, is check your starting eleven. (Winning eleven remember ?) That is, check your players at the start. The icons represent the "readiness" of the players. In general, totally blue, is bad, and totally red, is good. (I mean, the faces are smiling and stuff, and sad, so its not too hard to figure out...) I recommend posting up one good striker, the other one (if any) doesnt have to be too hot. Have the best mids you can get, they control the game basically, being the link from defender to strikers. Have basic defenders but put the best ones in the middle part. (If you have a sweeper, make the best one him.) of course, post the best goalie you can. Next comes formation. Mix your formation with your strategy, and team strenghts. If you are a strong offense team, go for an offensive formation with multiple strikers, and least amount of defenders, (perhaps 1-4-5) but make your strategy total defense. Vice versa with defensive teams. If you are an all rounder, formations like 4-4-2, 3-4-3, 4-3-4 etc, are good. Formation also includes more subtle differences, like one side going more up, the middle going a bit more down field etc. Use this to your advantage, if you know your players strengths. Are the majority of your players right footed ? Perhaps a right side up formation would be good. Is you strength in your midfields ? Perhaps get your mids to push up a bit, and join the strikers in offence. This info might be a bit deep for the casual player, but try taking on some of the teams on very hard, and you will know how much the computer makes you run around, trying to tag their passes, and frustrate you. Even the worst teams can shine with a good skipper at the helm. More in game tips, one that is obvious, but I dont actually see a lot of people employ is: DONT ALWAYS RUN !!! Funny enough, most people think that charging down the field is the quickest way to get upfield. Wrong. Best way is by passing. So, wander around casually, and find openings. You will be surprised how fast an offensive play can be if the players are in good positions. Bang, bang, bang, bang, goal. Simple, and devasting. In other words utilize one touch passes, work those 1-2's, thru pass to those open running players. The more you start to pass around and find openings, the more likely goals will start happening. You will also have more success "X" tackling while walking than running. Also, you have a tendancy to get "muscled" off the ball, when you are running, running you cant change direction quickly etc. Run when you can, but dont over abuse it. Another one people dont employ a lot it seems: USE THE RADAR. Its there for apurpose, your guys are blue, theirs are red. See where your guys are, see if you can make a through pass. See if you have space. Tell what the other guys not on screen are doing etc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SECRETS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Here are some secrets contributed by Steven Juwono. GETTING THE FIRST TWO HIDDEN ALL STAR TEAMS: At the main menu, press: up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, X, O. It's either like this or press: up, up, down, down, right, left, right, left, X, O. Try them and tell me which is the one that works. GETTING THE THIRD HIDDEN ALL STAR TEAM: Beat the LEAGUE MODE on diffculty HARD to get the third team. GETTING THE GOLD HAIR ROMANIAN TEAM: Win the WORLD CUP with Romania to get the Gold hair Romanian team. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CREDITS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To gamefaqs.com for posting my FAQ and also because it's a great website. To Kao Mergura, my idol. To all Ping Yians in the PYSS band. To the class of 2/02 99', this faq is dedicated to you all. To Steven Juwono for telling me the Secrets. To Spider for his info. To Irene, Doreen a.k.a Siao Char Bo, Xiu Xian, Gerald, Rudi a.k.a forest, Ikaika, Amin a.k.a Batman, Ayudia, Chee Seng a.k.a cheese dale cheese and Desmond a.k.a IFD my friends who are really nice to me. Also not forgetting Jin Ting, this very lovely girl. And lastly, to myself for having the determination to write this FAQ.