Mode Select
Z campaign (story mode)
VS battle (versus mode)
SP battle (sort of ranking mode, opens after beating the Z campaign)
Option
Z campaign: This is story mode, in it you will fight through 8 stages.
1.Vegeta's arrival. You start out fighting Nappa, once he is defeated
you battle Vegeta.
Controlable characters:Gokou, Gohan(young), Piccolo and Kulilin
2.The Ginew squad. You start out fighting Gurudo. When he is defeated,
Recoom shows up. After him, you fight Baata and Jiisu at the same
time. Lastly you battle Ginew himself.
Controlable characters:Gokou, Gohan(young), Kulilin and Vegeta
3.Battle on Nameck. In this stage you only have Freeza to deal with.
Controlable characters:Gokou, Gohan(young), Piccolo, Kulilin and
Vegeta
4.Assault of the artificial humans. You start this stage in a brawl
with Artificial humans #19 and #20. After them you fight #'s 16,
17, and 18.(if you change characters on this section of the level,
Artificial human #16 will leave the battle).
Controlable characters:SS Gokou, Gohan(young), Piccolo, Kulilin,
SS Trunks and SS Vegeta
5.Cell's challenge. You battle Cell and two Cell JRs all at once.
Controlable characters:SS Gokou, SS Gohan(young), Piccolo, Kulilin,
SS Trunks(Saiyajin battle armor) and SS Vegeta
6.Majin Buu's creation. You start out fighting Dabura(devil), then
after you hit him with 2 meteo attacks, Vegeta becomes possessed
and joins Dabura's side as Majin Vegeta. After defeating Dabura,
Vegeta returns to your team, but still as Majin Vegeta. You then
advance to fight Majin Buu.
Controlable characters:SS Gokou, SS Gohan(teenage), Goten,
Young Trunks and SS Vegeta(1st part of the 1st battle, then again
against Majin Buu)
7.Battle of the Buus. You start fighting Majin Buu, then after him,
Super Buu joins the fray.
Controlable characters:SS3 Gokou, Goten, Young Trunks and
Piccolo(for the first fight against Majin Buu. When Super Buu
arrives, SS3 Gokou leaves and Gohan(teenage) replaces him, Goten
and Young Trunks fuse creating Gotenks.
8.Final battle of the Z fighters. Super Buu is your first opponent,
after defeating him he turns into Kid Buu for the final battle.
Controlable characters:Gogeta(in the first battle against Super
Buu) After defeating Super Buu, Gogeta de-fuses and you control
SS3 Gokou and SS Vegeta against Kid Buu. If SS3Gokou gets hit
with a meteo attack he will lose his power and revert back to
plain old Gokou. If you lose either of your two characters while
fighting Kid Buu, then Majin Buu will join in on your team.
During this mode you can switch characters at any time(as long as you
have reserve characters left) with a press of the Z button(Saturn) or
the Select button(Playstation). This calls up the Story mode character
select screen. While this screen is up, the computer will take control
of all the fighters on your team. While making the decisions of who
you'll choose and who you'll relieve, different characters from the
series will appear on screen and make comments about the game and how
it's going.
When you beat the Z campaign(Story mode), a new mode, called SP battle (ranking battle mode) will open up. As you encounter the characters in the Story mode, they become playable characters in the Versus battle mode. On the Saturn version, after completing the last battle, you are able to choose any battle out of the eight to fight again, by going to your save files and pushing left or right on the directional pad when over a file.
Versus battle: This is versus mode. You can choose any characters that you've fought in the story mode. You can choose 1, 2, or 3 characters for your team(hit the A button over the last block when done choosing your team on Saturn, the O button on Playstation). You cannot choose the same characters as your opponent. The screen does not scroll as it does in the Z Campaign(story) mode. There are 3 different versus modes to choose from:
1 player verse 2 player: You verse a friend
1 player verse computer: You verse a computer controlled team
Computer verse computer: Choose characters and watch them fight
When 2 players are fighting, the scroll character and opponent buttons for player 2 are reversed, to correspond with the character's facial portraits.
SP battle: This is ranking mode. In this mode you are given certain characters to use in battle with other characters controlled by the computer. You cannot choose your, or your opponents team. You also cannot substitue, or withdraw a character on your team from the battle(this can become a pain, as the computer controlled member of your team may not be doing what you want it to). There are a total of 30 battles to fight in this mode. On the Saturn version, after completing this mode, you are able to re-fight any of the battles by going into your save files for this mode and pushing left or right on the directional pad while over a file.
The SP battles are:
(note, you control the player one side characters)
1.Piccolo VS Gohan(young)
2.Nappa VS Vegeta
3.Vegeta and Nappa VS Freeza
4.Freeza and Ginew VS Vegeta, Gokou and Nappa
5.Jiisu and Baata VS Ginew, Recoom and Gurudo
6.Gokou and Jiisu VS Gohan(young), Vegeta and Kulilin
7.SS Trunks VS Freeza
8.Piccolo VS Super Saitajin Vegeta
9.Artificial Humans #19 and #20 VS #17 and #18
10.Artificial Human #16 VS Cell and a Cell JR.
11.Artificial Human #17 VS #18 and Kulilin
12.Piccolo VS SS Gohan(young)
13.Artificial Humans #17 and #18 VS SS Trunks
14.Goten VS SS Gohan(teenage)
15.Young Trunks VS Majin Vegeta
16.Piccolo VS SS Gohan(teen)
17.SS Gokou and Majin Vegeta VS Goten, SS Gohan(teen), Young Trunks
18.Dabura(devil) VS Kulilin and Piccolo
19.Artificial Human #18 VS Gotan and Young Trunks
20.Majin Buu VS Piccolo and Majin Vegeta
21.Piccolo VS Gohan(teenage)
22.Gohan(teenage) and Gotenks VS Gogeta
23.SS Gohan(young) and Goten VS SS Trunks and Young Trunks
24.Gokou VS Vegeta
25.Gurudo and 2 Cell JRs VS SS Gohan(young) and Gotenks
26.SS Gokou and Goten VS SS Vegeta and Young Trunks
27.SS Gokou and SS Gohan(young) VS SS Vegeta and SS Trunks(battle armor)
28.Cell, Freeza and Vegeta VS SS Gohan(young), SS Gokou and Piccolo
29.Majin Buu, Super Buu and Kid Buu VS Gogeta, Gohan(teen) and Gotenks
30.Gokou, SS Gokou and SS3 Gokou VS Vegeta, SS Vegeta and Majin Vegeta
Super Saiyajin Trunks(in Saiyajin battle armor) appears in battle 27, and the Story mode, he is not a selectable character, and does not become selectable after finishing either mode. Perhaps there are others that may be accessable with a code? A lot of other characters appear while the character select screen is up in Z campaign mode, so you never know ;) Why do all the Dragonball games(except the RPGs) exclude Yamucha? :( I think the battle against Nappa should have included Yamucha, Tenshinhan and Chao-Z.
