Main Menu Screen

New Profile: Allows you to create new profile and run the game.
Load Profile: Allows you to load an existing profile and run the game.
Options: Allows you to set controls, adjust sound and choose graphics
options.
Help: Displays description of weapons and powerups in the Equip menu.
Credits: Displays names of the people who participated on creation of
Guardians
Exit Game: Exits the game and frees up system resources.

Resco Guardians—Help | 1
Options Screen
Sound: To adjust the sound effect volume, tap the color scale. The scale
goes from green — lowest level to red — highest level.
Music: The background music volume can be adjusted the same way as the
Sound level.
Controls Gun: Defines the button used to fire a machine gun or a cannon.
Controls Heavy: Defines the button used to drop a bomb or fire a missile.
Controls Special: Defines the button used to drop a special bomb.
Controls Pause: Defines the button used to pause or exit a game and return to the
menu.
Visual Details: Tap the color palette to select the visual detail level. Red color
indicates the highest and green the lowest detail level. Using less
detail provides for a faster and smoother gameplay on slower Pocket
PC devices.
Ok: Tap OK to confirm and save your settings.
Cancel: Tap CANCEL to discard the changes.

Hint
Controls definition: To define the controls tap one of the buttons displayed between
MUSIC and VISUAL DETAILS. The button starts flashing. The program is waiting for
you to press the device HW button to use for the selected action. If the definition was
successful the selected button quickly flashes a couple of times. Use the above
procedure to define the remaining buttons.
Setting the volume: The maximum volume corresponds to the currently set system
volume. This means that if the system volume is set to 50% the maximum volume of
the in-game sound and music will be 50% as well. If the system volume is set to
zero/off, there will be no sound even though the in-game Sound and Music settings are
set to maximum.

Resco Guardians—Help | 2
New Profile Screen
Creation of new player profile
1. Tap the NEW PROFILE button in the Main Menu.
2. Tap “Tap Here to Enter Name”. A keyboard shows up in the upper part of the screen.
3. Use the keyboard to enter the player name.
4. Use the LEFT and RIGHT arrows to select the player image.
5. Tap Easy, Medium or Hard to set the required difficulty.
6. Tap PLAY to confirm your settings and enter the Mission screen.
7. To abandon profile creation and return to the Main Menu tap BACK.

Hint
To load or delete a previously created profile tap LOAD PROFILE in the Main Menu
or LOAD in the Mission Screen. The Load Profile Screen comes up with a list of
previously created profiles. Select one of them and tap LOAD or DELETE to perform
the desired action.

Resco Guardians—Help | 3
Mission Screen
Play: Tap PLAY to start the current mission; see briefing on the left.
Past: Tap PAST to play a completed mission again, or to display statistics of
completed missions.
Equip: Tap EQUIP to change/improve equipment/armament of the plain using the
money earned in previous missions.
Load: Tap LOAD to load another profile. Your position in the current profile will be
saved automatically.
Exit: Tap EXIT to quit the current profile and go back to the Main Menu. Your
position in the current profile will be saved automatically.

Mission Screen description

On the left there is the briefing for the next mission.
Use the UP and DOWN arrows to scroll the text if it’s too long to fit into the window.
On the right is the player image and name. The field below shows: Next to the red
enemy icon: number of kills Next to the yellow credit icon: earned credits currently on
your account Next to the pilot icon: lives left.

Resco Guardians—Help | 4
Equip Screen
Shop: Tap SHOP to display the list of available equipment.
Buy: Tap BUY to purchase the selected item.
Stock: Tap STOCK to display list of the equipment you already own.
Sell: Tap SELL to sell the selected item.
Ok: Tap OK to confirm the equipment/armament changes.
Cancel: Tap CANCEL to discard any equipment changes you have made.

Equip Screen description

The Equip Screen can be used to select equipment for your plane. In the upper left
corner is the list of all available equipment.
With the SHOP button active, the list displays available equipment which can be
purchased. If you tap an item in the list, the window on the right will display its name,
brief description and price. Below is the remaining balance on your account and the
BUY button. If you have sufficient credit tap BUY to purchase the selected equipment.
With the STOCK button active, the list displays equipment which you already own.
Any selected item can be sold by tapping the SELL button, at a price displayed on the
right below its description. The selling price is always lower than the original purchase
price. Attention! You can sell all equipment items, even those which form part of the
standard equipment, i.e. you can sell all weapons and then have to manage without
them.
If you bought some equipment, you can install it on your plane. To do this, use the
bottom part of the screen, where in the upper left part you can select a GUN, in the
middle a HEAVY weapon, and in the bottom a SHIELD. On the right you can choose
the plane type, below it the SPECIAL WEAPON(s) (maximum of 10) and in the
bottom a GENERATOR to restore the player energy.

Resco Guardians—Help | 5
Past Missions Screen
Play: Tap PLAY to start the selected mission.
Exit: Tap EXIT to return to the Mission screen.

Past Missions Screen description

The Past Missions screen can be used to display statistics and to replay the already
completed missions. You can select one of the completed (highlighted in blue) missions
from the mission list on the left. Use the UP and DOWN arrows to scroll in the list.
When you select one of the completed missions, the window on the right shows its
statistics. The statistics shows the kill ratio for both surface and air targets. The time
below shows the mission duration. And finally the CASUALTIES indicator shows how
many times you were downed during the mission.

Resco Guardians—Help | 6
Load Profile Screen
Load: Tap LOAD to load the selected profile.
Back: Tap EXIT to return to the previous screen.
Delete: Tap DELETE to delete the selected profile.

Load Profile Screen description

The Load Profile screen allows you to load a previously created profile.
The list of available profiles includes (left to right): photograph, name, kills statistics,
available credit, number of lives left, and your position within the game in the
following form: O: — operation number M: — mission number.
The last item is the difficulty icon, where the golden one represents hard, the silver one
medium and the copper one easy difficulty level.
To load a profile, selected one from the list and tap LOAD. After you load a profile you
can continue to play the next missions or you can replay the completed ones.
The number of profiles you can create is not limited.
To delete an unwanted profile, select in from the list and tap DELETE (top right). To
return to the previous screen without loading a profile tap BACK.

Resco Guardians—Help | 7
Ingame Interface
Plane control
You can change the plane direction using the direction buttons as well as by moving the
stylus on the display. To fire guns or drop bombs you can use the buttons defined in the
Options Screen. A machine gun or a cannon fires faster if you press the button
repeatedly instead of just holding it down. Missiles can be fired and bombs dropped
only in certain intervals defined for each weapon.

Energy
The blue bar on the left displays the player energy, which can be used if the player
owns a Shield. The energy shield protects the player from being hit by enemy fire, but
depletes quickly when the plane is hit. Nevertheless, it starts to recharge automatically
after a short while. To restore the energy level faster you can purchase a Powersource
type accessory or pick up energy powerups as you play.

Armor
The yellow bar on the right displays the player’s armor status. The armor wears down
as you are hit by enemy fire.

Credits
The number displayed up in the center shows the player’s credit. Each player receives
credit for every killed enemy and every collected powerup.

Special weapons
The bottom left part of the display shows the Special Weapons icons. Special Weapons
can be purchased using the Equip screen. The number of icons shows the number of
Special Weapons owned by the player. The maximum number of Special Weapons that
can be used in one mission is ten.

Lives
The bottom right part of the display shows the pilot icon and the number of lives left.
Additional lives can be purchased using the Equip screen or acquired by collecting a
Life powerup.

Resco Guardians—Help | 8