Mace: The Dark Age

Published by Midway
Genre: Fighting Players: 1-2

FAQ's and Strategy Guides
For playing tips, move lists and other information, please read the Mace: The Dark Age FAQ from www.GameFAQs.com.

Beat Asmodeus Easily
The easiest way to defeat Asmodeus is to use Hell Knight. Continuously use his hell fire (Back, Forward, Quick Attack). Asmodeus may block it once or twice, but continuous use of it will make him try to reflect it. Instead, he'll be hit with it.

Change Colors
To change your fighter's color, press and hold any of the C buttons while the desired fighter is selected. To confirm your selection, press the EVADE button then press A or B to start the game.

Fighters with Bunny Slippers
At the character select screen, move the cursor to the following fighters and press START on each one: Ragnar, Dregan, Koyasha. Choose your fighter, then press A or B.

Infinite Hit Combo
To do an infinite hit combo, get your opponent in a corner and press back and kick to sweep them then rapidly press strong thrust. This trick works with Taria, Koyasha, Namira, Mordus Kull, Xiao Long, and Hell Night.

Level Select
To select a particular stage in which to fight, go to the character's portrait in player select and tap START four times. Then select your character as usual.

Namira's Secret Fireball
When your playing as Namira, press Forward, Back+Q to hurl a fireball.

Play as Grendal in One-Player Mode
To play as Grendal in 1 player mode you have to beat everyone up to the Executioner and let him kill you. Then highlight the Executioner and push Start + Evade to get Grendal, then press any Attack button to select him.

Play as Grendal in Two-Player Mode
Starting in two-player mode, one player must have three wins. Then on your next match in the select screen go to the Executioner and hold down START and EVADE. Grendal will appear. Continue to hold down those buttons and press an attack button to select. Now you control the RAGE known as Grendal!

Play as Ichiro and Gar
To access Gar Gunderson (War Mech) and Ichiro in Mace wait for the copyright screen to load up (the first screen in the game) and press Right, Up, Left, Down, Right, Up, Left, Down on your controller pad. In other words, rotate the control pad in a counter-clockwise direction. If you've done everything right you'll hear a chime. Now go to the character selection screen and Ichiro and Gar Gunderson will be selectable just above the Executioner.

Play as Janitor Ned
At the character select screen, move the cursor to the following fighters and press START on each one: Koyasha, Executioner, Lord Deimos, Xiao Long. Now pick any fighter and press A or B.

Play as Pojo
To be POJO, you must perform TARIA's execution in one-player mode (and then continuing) or in two-player mode. Then on your next match in the select screen, go to Taria and hold down START and EVADE. POJO will appear - press an attack button to select. Pojo will now unleash her awesome fighting prowess for you.

To select Pojo, press any attack button. To change her color first, hold START then press one of the C buttons or EVADE. To make Pojo throw an egg, jump and press Strong + Quick.

Random AI
To randomize your opponent's behavior, go to the character selection screen and press START on Hellknight, Xiao Long, Dregan and Namira before choosing a fighter.

Random Character Select
Start a regular game using the Random AI code (above.) Next, quit your game and go to practice mode. Spanky should be replaced by the character the Random AI code selected for you.

Screen Adjustment
To adjust your screen, hold the L + R + Z, then move the analog pad and the control pad in the same direction to shift the screen.

Secret Battles
To unlock each secret, move to each character listed and tap start after each one, then go to your desired character and select as usual. All of these secrets are for two-player mode except for the Random AI. 

Battle           Characters
Castle           Mordus Kull, Taria, Ragnar
Big Noggin       Ragnar, Al' Rashid, Takeshi
Random AI        Hell Knight, Xiao Long, Dregan, Namira
Miniature Golf   Koyasha, Mordos Kull, Takeshi

Small Fighters
At the character selection screen, highlight Takeshi and press START. Now highlight Al-Rasid and press START. Repeat this pattern with Ragnar and Xiao Long. Now select your characters as normal.

Switch Fighter's Heads
At the character select screen, move the cursor to the following fighters and press START on each one: Al Rashid, Takeshi, Mordos Kull, Xio Long, Namira. Choose your fighter, then press A or B.

Two-Player Practice Mode
To play practice mode with 2 players, highlight Practice, and hit Start on both controllers simultaneously. Now 2 players can select a character. After the characters are chosen, the fight wil start, but there will be no life bars! the fight can last forever.
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