Uncharted Waters
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Make 5 ingots at a time
Clues tip
Cartographer tip
Fighting duels
Fighting fleets
Short walkthrough
Game Genie codes
Make 5 ingots at a time
Sent in by Chris Rothenberger
When you have some room in your ships, and enough money, trade Carpet
from Istanbul with Art from Athens. With a cargo load of 350, you can
make 5 ingots at a time!
Clues tip
Sent in by Chris Rothenberger
If you aren't getting any clues to your goal, raise your fame. If you're
playing Joao, Pietro, or Ernst, raise Adventure, if you're Catalina or
Otto, raise Piracy, if you're Ali, raise trade.
Cartographer tip
Sent in by Chris Rothenberger
With the Adventurers, sign up with a cartographer *before* leaving
Europe. Otherwise, you may not be able to complete the scenario.
Especially with Joao's scenario.
Fighting duels
Sent in by Chris Rothenberger
Don't fight duels (if you can help it) until you've fought enough of the
game's duels to know what you're doing. They're very complex and hard to win.
Fighting fleets
Sent in by Chris Rothenberger
When fighting fleets, always aim for the flagship. If you have about 3
times their crew, rush. Otherwise, cannon fight. You'll probably need
the Cannon guns to do any serious damage. If you use your cannons,
make sure you have more crew assigned to combat than you have guns,
or your power will be reduced.
Short walkthrough
Sent in by Phil
Put the game in and turn on the console. Select New Game. The coding
behind this game is so cheesy it doesn't randomly determine stats,
they are drawn from a list. Reroll exactly 7 times. The 8th list allows
enough free points that you can get all your stats into the 80s. Don't
quit from within and reroll because it starts from a different part
of the list and you wont get good stats. I like to give myself a 90
charisma and then balance the rest of the stuff, leaning toward the
Courage and Strength side. When you trade with the merchants you
will raise Charisma, Intelligence, and Wisdom, these also help you haggle
harder and get slightly better prices per barrel. Charisma also
helps you get in to see the princess and increases chances that
she will accept your gifts. the more gifts you give her the more
money her father will allot you when you Request it. Courage and
Strength are important for battles, affecting the outcome and
increasing for every victory. If you drive a foe off you can just
quickly tap the button and engage him again. You start out with a
Latin and some goods on board. Sell the valuable goods and buy repairs
on your ship for 50 coins. Disband all but 10 of your crew, you don't
need them for merchanting. Buy 10 food and water. Then fill the hold
with sugar. Sail northeast with the current and follow the coast east.
Where it bends north sail right up against the shore and you will
discover Bordeaux. Re rations: I always gave my men 50% rations and
they never got tired. If I was in a pinch if I forgot to load up for
example, I would restore the saved game, or try to make it on thin
rations- about 33%. when you get to port you can rest in the lodge for
free which heals some of the fatigue. Remember to raise rations back to
50% this will heal them over time as well. If you are low on cash
fill in the gap with water and assign maybe 40% food rations and
100% water. They will fatigue slower. In Bordeaux first sell your sugar.
Selling things in a port drives the cost of items down. at this point buy
food and water. Pushing the envelope you can get to Bordeaux at 50%
rations with just 3 food and water without fatigue and can get back
against the current with about 6 food and water the same. But if you
like to be safe, stick to 10 food and 10 water. Now buy porcelain driving
the price of goods back up (your sugar will be worth more next time).
Sail back to Lisbon and sell the porcelain, driving the price of goods down.
Buy food and water. buy sugar. repeat until you have some nice cash.
If the merchant offers you a special deal to go out of your way,
don't take it yet, it will cost you too much and be dangerous. if this
feels real slow, sell your porcelain at Lisbon, then take your money and
buy a load of food and water, about 40 each. Fill the rest with sugar. Then
sail south to the Mediterranean, east until you see the island that most
people will recognize as Sicily and the boot-shaped peninsula that is Italy.
Sail along the west coast of Italy and you will find Pisa. Sell your sugar
and buy Artwork. Sail south along the coast and on the same screen is Naples.
Sell your artwork there for MAD MONEY and buy wool and just 2 or 3 food
and water! :) Sell wool in Pisa and you are rich in no time. You may end up
with max money and still goods in the hold this is ok they are like an
extra bank for you. Once you have max money 60,000, go to a big port like
Seville (just south of Lisbon, follow coast) and buy the ship with the
biggest cargo space, either the galleon or the carrack. Buy it new with a
cheapo teak hull, 0 gun space, the minimum 20 bunks, 3 point sails.
This will cost maybe 30k? I forget. Now hire the extra 10 men you will
need. Now buy 20 food and water. Now transfer 10 men to each and 10
food and water to each ship. Set sail but don't leave the area, change
your flagship to the new one. Dock again and move all the men and
supplies to your big ship. Sell the artwork in northern Europe as well,
it pays well. Now sell your Latin, wont be worth much. How much
money is left? Head back to Lisbon and resupply to 20 food and water.
Drive the price of goods up by loading your big ship up with as much
sugar as it can hold. You should have money left. Buy a lion figurehead
if you like, but keep 7000 money free. Now head back to Bordeaux and
do as you always do. Hit the bars and people will tell you if the king wants
to see you. use some money to buy a telescope and Sextant in the guild shop
somewhere. I think Sextant is in Lisbon and telescope in Seville? Meet the
king and after you do, Deposit some money in the account. This account
can get huge, millions of dollars. Go get the items he wanted, exactly
the amount he wants. People in the bars will tell you a faraway place
to get such an item but there is usually a place nearby. He gives you a
title and you are allowed to see the princess sometimes. Getting in good
with her helps you a lot. Use Flowers a lot. I didn't like giving Gift unless
I had found a nice Treasure like Pearl Necklace (guild shop in Marseilles
in northwestern Mediterranean) or Silver Rosary (guild shop in Genoa
northern Mediterranean) she eats those up. Once you have a title you
can use the palace as a bank. Save up as much money as you can get in
this bank. You need 60000 in hand, maybe 60 food and water and a hull
full of firearms for the next phase of my money plan. Sail south along
the coast all the way to Africa. There are supply spots along the way.
At Verde begin sailing west and you will run into an island town after
more than 20 days. I forget the name its the first one you come to.
Sell your stuff. Invest 6 times in block of 10000 coins exactly, selling
your firearms as you can. note the day of the month. at the end of the
month the money you invested will be applied and the merchant will
be able to market a new item: Gold! The price is around 200 and you can
haggle. First get enough food for 40 days which is like 80 food and 80
water. Buy as much gold as you can and sail back to Verde and then to
Lisbon. Sell that gold in northern Europe for 1000 a pop! 5x return on
investment. Return to that island again with a full load of firearms
and 60000 and you can really clean up. In this case, DON'T buy food first!
Toss the extra water you had on board and then sell as much firearms
as allowed. If you have 60000 on hand already they wont let you sell any.
So buy gold and store it in the space you had for the food. Then sell as
many firearms as raise you back to 60000. Then buy gold to fit in that
space. Gold costs more than firearms pay out so you should slowly
decrease in cash on hand but when you get back to Europe you can go nuts.
I liked to invest in all the ports because I had so much money. When
you have a few million in the kings bank you really can do whatever
you want. Invest in the shipyards in London several times until they
can build Heavy Galleons. Go ahead and build a buff one it might cost
50k. Try being a pirate, pirate hunter or whatever you like!
Game Genie codes
Sent in by Tony Hedstrom
NOTES: These codes must be used at the start of a new game.
There are 2 different "Uncharted Waters" games. The first one is
called "Uncharted Waters", and the second one is called "Uncharted
Waters: New Horizons". These codes only work on the first one
(Uncharted Waters). I do have codes for "New Horizons", but they are in
a different file.
DEEF-D7D5 Start with about $4000 gold (instead of only $1000).
45EF-D7D5 Start with about $10,000 gold (instead of only $1000).
1FEF-D7D5 Start with about $25,000 gold (instead of only $1000).
E2EF-D7D5 Start with $65,000 gold (instead of only $1000).