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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3
Installing Spirit: Forever Free CD-ROM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
Running Spirit: Forever Free CD-ROM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
Uninstalling Spirit: Forever Free CD-ROM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
Main Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Signing In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
Gameplay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
Saving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21
Credits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22
Limited Warranty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23
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INTRODUCTION
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Thank you for purchasing Spirit: Forever Free on PC-CD ROM. With
this game you will explore the world of the Dreamworks' film Spirit:
Stallion of the Cimarron™. Gameplay will start in Snakefinger's Pit, a
wild-horse sanctuary in the American West frontier. You will play as
Spirit, an untamed stallion, who must outsmart and out maneuver
rustlers to rescue his friends. You will encounter some familiar friends
from the film like Rain along the way.
One day, Spirit has left Homeland to gather fruit for the other horses,
but when he returns, things are not as he expected. Homeland is empty
and there are signs of human footprints all over the land. While Spirit
explores Homeland, horse rustlers spring forth to capture him. Spotting
Rain, who had already been captured by the men, Spirit struggles to
break free but is overpowered. Spirit's journey is now ready to begin.
Explore five areas as you nurse Rain back to health and rescue the
other horses.
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Processor
Operating System
RAM
Hard Drive Space
CD-ROM
Video Card
DirectX 8.1
Pentium II 266 Mhz
Windows™ 98/ME/XP
64 MB
100 MB Free
8X
8 MB
Required & Included
DirectX-compatible Sound Card and Video Card capable of 800 x 600 resolution in 16-bit color
These specifications will ensure smooth, seamless game play, including
rich animation, music and sound effects.
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INSTALLING SPIRIT: FOREVER FREE CD-ROM
RUNNING SPIRIT: FOREVER FREE CD-ROM
1. Insert the Spirit: Forever Free CD-ROM disc into your drive.
2. If you have the Auto insert notification feature enabled for your CDROM, just left click on the install button and skip the next two steps.
3. Select Start and then Run from the Windows Taskbar.
4. Type d:\setup (d refers to your CD-ROM drive. If your CD-ROM
drive is not d: type the appropriate drive letter.)
5. Follow the instructions that appear on your screen.
Anytime you want to run the Spirit: Forever Free game, you must place
the Spirit: Forever Free CD-ROM disc into the drive before you start the
program. Insert the Spirit: Forever Free CD-ROM into your drive and
perform the following:
After installation is complete, you can find an icon for Spirit: Forever
Free in the Spirit menu item within Programs under the Start Menu in the
Windows Taskbar.
Installing Direct X
If your computer does not have Direct X 8.1 installed, you will be
prompted to install it. The computer will need to be restarted after
installing Direct X 8.1
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1. If you have the Auto Insert notification feature enabled, just left click
on the Play button.
2. You may also select Start from the windows Taskbar and search
through Programs for the Spirit: Forever Free menu.
UNINSTALLING SPIRIT: FOREVER FREE CD-ROM
1. If you have the Auto Insert notification feature enabled, just left click
on the Uninstall button.
2. You may also uninstall the program by using the Add/Remove
Programs Control Panel or from the Start Menu – search through the
listed Programs for the Spirit: Forever Free Uninstall.
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MAIN MENU
SIGNING IN
The Main Menu has three options to select from:
Play
Begin or continue your adventure as Spirit. Rescue your
friends and nurse Rain back to health.
Options Change the music and sound effects volume and graphics.
Exit
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Leave the game.
Once you select Play from the Main Menu, you will be brought to the sign
in screen. From this screen you can do one of three things: ADD a new
player, ERASE a player, or EXIT. By adding a new player, you allow the
computer to keep track of your progress. The game can save the progress
of up to twelve different players. Changing players allows you to switch
between multiple people in your household that each have a saved game
in progress. Erasing a player will give you the opportunity to clean up the
saved game file of a player who will no longer be playing, while exiting will
return you to the Main Menu.
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GAMEPLAY
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron™ –– Forever Free
SPIRIT TIP - Carrots
Movement
To move Spirit around the environment, use the mouse to move the arrow
around the screen. With one mouse click, Spirit will walk in the direction
you've told him. Left click and hold the mouse button to make Spirit run
faster. You must click and hold, or Spirit will stop moving.
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With each carrot you find in the game, Spirit can run a little bit faster.
You can get additional carrots by catching the rabbit.
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Kicking
When Spirit is standing still, he can kick backwards. Right click the
mouse to help knock down fences or free his friends.
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Jumping
Spirit can jump over rivers or other obstacles. Get Spirit running with
repeated left clicks of the mouse. When you are ready to jump, right-click
the mouse. As you travel from level to level, you will find jumps that are
marked with carrot icons. These tell you how fast you need to be running
to clear the jump.
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Picking up objects
Interacting
Place the arrow on top of an object and press and hold the left mouse
button to pick it up. In the beginning, Spirit can carry one item at a time.
While still holding the left mouse button, move the arrow to the item
location (located on the bottom of the screen) to carry it. Later in the
game, you can use arrowheads to purchase additional carrying cases
from Eagle Eye, the Kickapoo Trader.
There are several characters you can interact with during the game,
whether they are people or other animals. Move the arrow on top of the
character and left click the mouse to interact with them.
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CHARACTERS
SPIRIT TIP
Rain
Rain is a mare and is Spirit's special lady friend. The only paint
in the herd, Rain is not only a head-turner around Homeland, but
she's also one of the fastest horses. While escaping, Rain
became exhausted and unable to move very well. Spirit must help rain
regain her energy by bringing her food and water. If he tends to her well,
she will recover and join the rest of the herd. If he fails, Rain will become
weaker and Spirit will have pay more attention to her which will prevent
him from rescuing his other horse friends.
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From time to time, Rain will need food and water. Spirit must nurse her
back to health by responding to these needs. When Rain needs something
to eat or drink, an icon will appear in the upper-right corner telling Spirit
what she needs.
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Sheriff Gregor Alvis
Not only the sheriff, Alvis is the town boss too. He prides himself
on keeping a very quiet town. Alvis is decent when all’s well, but
when things turn sour, look out! While generally fair, he
sometimes jumps to conclusions for the sake of maintaining tranquility in
his little frontier town.
off from the fort and never returned. Holed up in a miserable shack, he
assembles motley crews of rustlers to scour the land for wild horses like
Spirit. In his spare time, he carves wooden figurines of the vice
presidents.
Walter Holcombe
A Lakota girl, this young woman sometimes could use a dose of
fear. Instead, she’s likely to charge into any situation without
considering the consequences. Though her mother has warned
her to stay away from Harrigan City, Little Brook has defied her and
made her way into town on more than one occasion.
As a clerk in Virginia, Walter ached for adventure and fortune on
the frontier. While toiling for his cruel boss, Mr. White, Walter set
off for the West. Having sold his meager possessions to finance
his trip, he arrived with little more than what it costs to buy a pick and
shovel. After years of strenuous work and some good fortune, Walter
managed to pull himself up, save some money and start a family. Riches
have never come his way, but he’s proud of what he’s accomplished.
Jake “Snakefinger” Riely
Harold Blank
Little Brook
A Cavalry soldier gone AWOL, a foul-tempered horse thief, and a
kicker of cats, Snakefinger makes his living nabbing wild horses,
breaking them, then selling them to locals. He came out West
from Chicago, where he worked in a meat packing plant. After an
accident took off the tip of his left thumb, he spit in the meat hopper
then headed to the frontier. In the Cavalry, Snakefinger wasn’t much of
a soldier, but he excelled at picking the pockets of his superiors much to
the amusement of his friends. It gained him a nickname and more than
one visit to the hot house. Weary of his time in the stockade, he slipped
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A second-generation saw hand, Blank takes immense pride in his
work. Scoffing at the foolish prospectors who rush from claim to
claim, often returning home with little more than broken tools and
strained backs to show for it, Blank prefers the steady work of the saw
mill. “Fools chase gold, while wise men build houses,” he often says.
That’s why he cuts the wood that makes the houses, the banks, the
saloons, and everything else in town. Sooner or later, everyone needs
wood, and that’s why Blank is one of the wealthiest non-miners in town.
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Carrie Nation
Eagle Eye, the Kickapoo Trader
Carrie Nation is infamous for busting into saloons with an axe in
hand and busting apart the spigots and the bar. Thuggish
cowhands aren’t nearly as gruff with her when she has her
trademark axe in hand.
Always found ambling around his wagon piled high with junk, the
Trader has a friendly greeting for man and animal alike. If you
want something, chances are he has it, but it’s going to cost you
arrowheads.
Little Creek
Walter Jr.
When Walt Jr. isn't helping his dad in the mines, he's
wandering off and getting into trouble. One of his favorite
places to explore is the abandoned mine north of camp.
An intrepid young man with a nose for adventure, Little Creek
relishes the outdoors, hunting, fishing, and animals - especially
horses.
Chief Snoring Bear
A barrel-chested man, the Chief cuts an impressive figure. Not
easily angered, he does grow agitated when his people, and
especially his family, are in harm’s way. Having reached a
temporary equilibrium with the nearby settlers and Cavalry, despite their
near constant encroachments onto Lakota land, his intentions of late have
focused on raising his son and teaching him the ways of the Lakotas.
Shaman
Weathered by age, the Shaman doesn’t get around much these
days. Sitting outside his teepee, he still waves his arms with vigor
as he discusses his craft. A trusted elder of the tribe, he is viewed
as the last hope for the ill and diseased.
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Farmer
The Farmer is the latest arrival in Harrigan City. But
plowing the fields is hard enough when your ox is home.
What happens when your ox wanders off? If you're the
Farmer, you use an available horse, one of Spirit’s friends
captured from Homeland, until your beloved ox, Betsie, returns
home.
SPIRIT TIP
One of the many items you can get from Kickapoo Trader is a gourd. You
can buy the gourd (with arrowheads) to bring water to Rain.
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ITEMS
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron™ –– Forever Free
SPIRIT TIP Racing the Eagle
Apples
Pick up the apples which are scattered throughout the Homeland
level to feed Rain. She needs food, water, and tender loving care
to come back to her old self.
Arrowheads
Scattered throughout the worlds are 25 special Gold
Arrowheads, each of which is worth 10 regular arrowheads.
Pick them up and use them as a form of currency. You can
exchange them with Eagle Eye, the Kickapoo Trader to purchase items
or to buy his help.
Feathers
Each time you help an animal in need, or beat the eagle in your
first race, you will be awarded with a feather. Collect these
feathers as proof of your kindness toward others.
SPIRIT TIP
There are several other objects scattered throughout the levels. These
objects are used specifically to complete particular puzzles.
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You can race the Eagle. Click on the Eagle to begin the race. Run as fast
as you can to the icon on the screen. When you reach the icon, the next
one will appear. Keep racing until the icon with the feather appears. This
is the finish line. If you can beat the Eagle to this location, you'll receive
a feather the first time you win and the eagle's heartfelt congratulations
for subsequent races.
SAVING
The game will automatically save your progress as you play the game.
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