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presents ......: Pirates: The Legend of Black Kat
Company .......: Electronic Arts

Origin ........: USA / NTSC              Format ........: *.ISO Image
System ........: Microsoft XBOX          # of Files ....: 25 x 50MB
Released ......: May 7th, 2002           Filename ......: PX-PLBK.RAR


Swashbuckling, sailing, looting -- being a pirate is in Katarina de
Leon's blood. She's about to find out just how much as she embarks on
an adventure that will take her across five mysterious lands and pit
her against hordes of foes on both land and sea. This saucy pirate is
one of the most beautiful women to ever swash a buckle, and yet
Katarina is much more than a pretty face. She's tough and independent,
with seawater swishing in her veins and a penchant for cutting loose
on the high seas.

* Know Your Enemy: Ships come in different sizes, strengths and cannon
positions. Make sure you know where you should be to avoid damage,
if you can outrun the enemy, and how some of the many enemy ship
captains think.

* Crossing the T: Sea combat is not just a question of firing your
cannon until the other ship sinks. It demands a certain amount of
strategy. Most ships can only fire from their port or starboard
(left and right sides). Therefore, the best place for you to be is
in front of or behind that ship. This is called crossing the T.
Position yourself such that the enemy ship is pointing its front or
rear to your side, and then open up with a broadside. You can
bring all your guns to bear on the enemy and he can't fire back.
Be careful though, some of the more powerful ships have front and
rear-mounted cannons.

* Use your Special Powers: You have many tricks at your disposal -
don't forget about them. Is your opponent too fast? Fire off some
chain shot and shred his sails. Does he outgun you? Fire off a
stink pot and watch his shots hit anywhere but your ship. Is there
a massive barrage of cannon fire coming your way? Hit your Wind
Boost and dodge out of the way. Need to do more damage? Use a
mystical figurehead. All of these things can change an impossible
battle into something much more manageable.

* Keep your Ship in Shape: The careless captain spends all his loot
on ammo. A wise captain buys the ammo he needs, but also buys canvas
for repairing sails and wood for patching fresh cannonball holes.
Spending a few extra pieces of eight on repair items could keep you
afloat and help you win the battle. After all, all those cannonballs
you bought won't help you if you're on the bottom of the ocean.

We tested this game on a developer XBOX, and it works.  Since there is
no mod chip yet, we have no idea if this release will work on retail
XBOXes when/if a mod comes out.  However, now that there is a release,
a modchip developer will be inclined to get our releases to work, so
we think a future mod will work with this release.

If a game is small enough to be burned to a CD, you can burn it to
either a CD or DVD, at your option, using the same ISO file.
The Xbox does not use media checks like the PS2.

When burning to a CD, if your CD burning program has an option,
choose "MODE1/2048", exactly as if you were burning a PC CD-ROM.
We recommend PrimoDVD for burning Xbox for both CD and DVD, but
all CD writing software besides Clone CD should work fine.

From our experience, the retail Xbox can only read DVD-RW's
and CD-RW's, so if you want to be sure that these will work
with a future mod, we recommend burning them to Rewritable
discs. We have heard reports of the retail Xbox reading some
types of DVD-R discs, but we have been unable to verify this.