NoEL: Not Digital Cheats

NoEL: Not Digital

Note: This is a HTML adaptation of the NoEL Player's GuideInapplicable material has been omitted.

Preface:
No doubt, many of you who have started playing thisgame will find NoEL to be quite unique to other simulation gameslike Tokimemo. For one thing, all the interactions are done usingyour computer. Basically the object of the game is to find outas much as possible about the three girls- Kaho, Yuka, & Emi- using everything resource your computer has as its disposal.Ultimately, your goal is to win someone's heart by Christmas day.I have only started playing this game myself, so I will try togive a rough sketch of the game's controls and highlights as away of introducing the game to new users.

Introduction to the Rabbit OS v.1.00:
W. Phone
When you start playing the game for the first time and afteryou have viewed that gorgeous demo, you will be contacted by KahoShimizu through the VDO phone, which will be your primary meansof contacting the girls. Move the rabbit cursor to the lower righthand corner of the screen to the command circle and click on W.Phone, which is the VDO phone. Click on Interactive to start talkingto Kaho right away. During the talk mode, there is a re-sizabledata window in the middle of the screen. The data which goes intothis window comes from this black bar at the lower left hand cornerof the screen right below the timer. As you talk with Kaho orany other character, topic icons stream across this bar, so clickon them and they will be transferred to the data window. If youwant to ask Kaho about a particular topic, just click on the topicicon from your data window. In general, the more you ask the moreclues you will get. One helpful tip I've found is not to use allthe topic icons the second you get them, but to use them slowly,perhaps once every 30 secs and use only the recent ones.

You can also leave the topic icons in the data window for laterconversations. Of course, you may not get a connection every timeyou call someone and even you do, if you don't have enough data(more on gathering data later), she might cut the conversationshort, so it's helpful if you collect enough data first beforeyou call.

In the W. Phone mode, there's also the pool"Delete.. modewhich allows you to delete data acquired from conversations byclicking on the topic icons to be deleted. This is useful if youget repetitive data and the icons are starting to hog up screenspace :). Be warned though that there is no undelete command forthis, so be careful! Again
This is the second command in the command circle which isyour means of finding data about the three girls outside of conversations(and this data can aid conversations as well). Once this commandis selected, you will see two large squares, one with the RabbitOS logo (for viewing data) and the other filled with data searchicons (the square can be rotated by using the arrow keys on theleft). There's also a bar at the bottom of the screen lined upwith 5 "search rabbits". To collect data, simply clickon the data icons you want to find. For example, if you clickon the icon "K" and then the cat icon, you want to findout info about Kaho's pet. You can select up to four topics tosearch for at any one time per rabbit. To initiate search, justsimply click on one of the search rabbits and it will disappearinto the cybernet and may or may not appear with the data youneed (if it does, you'll see it holding a new data icon). Theavailability of each new data icon depends on where you are inthe game, so keep on trying! Here is a brief overview of the 6sides on the data search square:

First side: has the half-black half-white open book as the firsticon. The icons here deal with your relationship status with thethree girls, whether it's about dating, money, etc.

Second side: has a wavy line as the first icon. The icons heredeal with the personal aspects for each of the three girls. Younormally would not get much info here yet until late in the gamebecause the data you get are things like personal photos, mapsto their houses, and time schedules (mighty useful for timingphone calls!).

Third side: has an arrow pointing upwards as the first icon. Theicons here deal with latest happenings, for example, weather reportsand news. You will use this side the most as the data you gethere will be your basis for conversations. For example, if youwanted to ask someone out for a date you need to know weatherreport first.

Fourth side: has the K letter as the first icon. The icons herecontain information directly dealing with the three girls. Youcan find out things like their personal profiles, their airlineschedules (if they are traveling overseas) and their school sportsday activities.

Fifth side: has the lock with the letter S as the first icon.Mostly misc. stuff here like cosmetics, gifts, etc. But the iconwhich has an arrow with a D in it is useful because at one pointthe girls will go to an amusement park and you can use this iconto talk to them.

Sixth side: has this thing that looks like a chip as the firsticon. Again, mostly misc. stuff like clothes, etc. The tree iconis very useful during Dec. 23-24 as it contains vital informationabout Christmas activities.

Once you have collected all the data you need and you wish toview them, click on the Program button on the right side. TheRabbit OS logo screen will enlarge and from here, click on thesearch rabbit(s) carrying the data to view that item. You canalso click on Text to view the text data of that file. Comp
There are four commands here that deal with your computer.They are:

Time Control - allows you to jump ahead in time in incrementsof minutes, hours, and days. You can't jump back, so use thiscommand with caution. Time control is useful when you don't wantto spend anymore time collecting data and want to jump ahead toevents, like dates or times of the day when one of the girls isat home and you want to call her. To jump, just use the arrowkeys to fix the future time and click on Jump to execute.

Account Meter - allows you to see various game settings like speechrate but you aren't allowed to change anything.

Sound - allows you to change various sound settings.

Shut down - quits and saves the game. You are allowed to saveonly one game, and this is loaded automatically every time youboot up NoEL.