User:Kimbles/DD1 Notes
Since I've played a lot of the game and have two books for it, I'll just list the random bits of info that I find here until we can get proper pages for them...
Dinos
Dinos are the monsters in the game. There are 150 in all, although most of them are recolors.
Types
They're divided into 10 basic types:
| Japanese | English | Theme | Styles |
|---|---|---|---|
| イグアーム | Iguarm | Dinosaurs | Carina, Taurus, Pegasus |
| テトロトップ | Tetrotop | Quadrupeds | Leo, Capricornus, Aquarius |
| バーディス | Birdis | Birds | Aquila, Cygnus, Corvus |
| シェルブック | Shellbook | Sea creatures | Scorpius, Cancer, Cetus |
| キックバグ | Kickbug | Bugs | Orion, Auriga, Hercules |
| エコロード | Ecolord | Plants | Cassiopeia, Bootes, Cepheus |
| デュアロン | Dualon | Bipeds | Lepus, Ursa Major, Virgo |
| ゴストフリー | Ghostfree | Ghosts | Ophiuchus, Gemini, Perseus |
| メタボール | Metaball | Minerals | Libra, Sagittarius, Lyra |
| ゼロイー | Zeroii | Mythology | Draco, Centaurus, Eridanus |
Styles
Each type contains 3 designs called styles, listed above. (They're all named after constellations.) There are 30 styles in the game, meaning 30 unique monster designs.
Elements (a.k.a. Attributes)
Within each style are 5 different elemental variants: Fire (red), water (blue), electric (yellow), earth (green), and "no element" (which uses the "natural" colors). Each of these Dinos is named after a specific star in the constellation the style is named after. *nod*
10 types x 3 styles x 5 elements each = 150 different Dinos total!
How to get Dinos
The easiest way to get Dinos is from the Gatcha Station, otherwise known as the Gatchaste (or Gatchasta I guess) for short. This takes information from the profiles (addresses) you keep in the game's address book (specifically, it looks at their name and birthday) and generates a Dino from it. An address can be reused as many times as you want, and any particular address will always give you the same style every time. (The element is random though.) The first Dino you get in the game is always the one based on your own profile, which the game makes you input the first time you start it up. Note however that there is at least one "rare" style in each type that you can't get from using the Gatchasta machine.
(The second Dino you get depends on the version: a fire Centaurus (Agena) in Red, or a water Centaurus (Toliman) in Blue. This is more or less the only visible version difference.)
Another way to get Dinos (after you unlock the colosseum) is to find them wild. Ocassionally you'll get a message while walking around your city and a wild Dino will attack you. You'll enter a 1 vs 1 battle, and if you win you can keep the wild Dino. (There's no penalty if you lose.) These wild Dinos can be any style or type (except Zeroii), including some of the rare styles that you can't get from the Gatchasta.
Supposedly you can also get different styles by combining Dinos later in the game, but I have no idea how it works or how you do it.
Zeroii types are the big exception, because they're considered "super-rare" and have special requirements in order to get them: Dracos can only be obtained by winning a post-game tournament, Centauruses, aside from the version starters, are found by putting specific passwords into the Gatchasta (in the form of name/birthday), and Eridanus is found by combining other rare styles. (Still no clue how to do this.)