How to quickly start to play
Tennis Elbow 2009 Mac ?

 

  1. If you have Mac OSX 10.4 or later, you can download and install SmartCrashReports to automatically send us report about any crash you may meet in the game (which should fortunately be quite rare)
  2. Launch Tennis Elbow
  3. You are in the Main Menu
  4. Click on the up left icon (the big yellow ball) with the mouse, or select the icon with the arrow keys and hit "Alt" key on the icon
  5. You are in the "Training Club" Menu
  6. Click on the upper icon (player legs with "Play!")
  7. Click on the up left icon : "Warm-up"
  8. You're on the court, in warm-up mode
  9. Move your player with the arrow keys
  10. You strike the ball when "Alt", "Ctrl", or "Alt"+"Ctrl" keys are hold down.
    ==>> You must maintain the button(s) pressed when you strike the ball <<==
    If you don't press down any key, you'll weakly strike the ball.
    When you hold down "Alt" or/and "Ctrl", you can give a direction to your shot:
    • push left arrow to send the ball to the left: the more time, the more to the left.
    • push right arrow to send the ball to the right: the more time, the more to the right.
  11. When you hold down "Alt" and "Ctrl" at the same time, you strongly hit the ball: it's a super shot! But be careful, you can do only a limited number of good accelerations per point. After that, your accelerations will become more and more imprecise & powerless each time your try to do one more.
  12. Try to position yourself in one of the 2 green spots of the Danger Zone which appears after where the ball will rebound, else your strike might lose some accuracy
  13. The earlier you press the buttons to prepare your strike, the most accurate it will be
  14. When you can move your player and strike the ball, you are ready for a match !
  15. Press the 'Esc' key, then choose "Leave Court" to come back to the menus
  16. Click on the "Play" icon (the upper one)
  17. Click on the up right icon : "Match"
  18. You are in the game
  19. Return your opponent's service, or serve
  20. Hold down "Alt", "Ctrl", or "Alt"+"Ctrl" keys during all the serving phase
  21. Try to win the set!
  22. Exit game and read the complete documentation

Remarks:

  • "Alt" and "Ctrl" keys are the left ones
  • you can change the default keys, or use joystick; for that, go to the "Controls" menu, available on the right side bar, present in most menus

All available strikes
(by default : b1 = Left Alt; b2 = Left Ctrl)

  • b1 = Normal Strike
  • b1 + up = Short Strike
  • b1 + down = Top Spin
  • b2 = Slice
  • b2 + up = Drop Shot
  • b2 + down = Defensive Lob
  • b1+b2 = Acceleration
  • b1+b2 + up = Short Acceleration
  • b1+b2 + down = Aggressive Lob
  • No button = Safe Strike

On Service :

  • b1+b2 = 1st service at max speed
  • b1 = Safe 1st service, but slower
  • b2 = 2nd service, 100% safe
  • up = Add slice spin
  • down = Add top spin

Up and down are inverted when you control the player who is on the top of the screen.


Minimum system requirements :

  • OS: Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later
  • G3-400
  • RAM: 256 MB
  • Video: 16-MB 3D card
  • 100 MB available hard disk space
  • Input: Keyboard, Mouse or Joystick

Recommended system requirements :

  • G4-1.2Ghz
  • RAM: 512 MB or more
  • Video: 64-MB 3D card

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