Mahjong

Easy to learn board game for your palm.

POCKET MAHJONG V2.12

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Author : Harrison Leong

email : [email protected]

If you like this little GEM, please consider registering it.

Secure online registration is available at http://www.pilotgear.com (US$12)

HONG KONG friends can directly deposit shareware fee into my

Hong Kong Bank Account. Please read the end of this document for more

information.

PAID REGISTRATION entitles you unlimited future upgrades, as long as the

earth is here, I am here, Pilot is here.

After you register, you don't have to wait for the 10 seconds at start up

screen, and you can score up to the MAX fan (12 fans) instead of 4. (i.e.

Maximum 64 points)

IMPORTANT NOTICE

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Please note that since V1.30, the free registration bonus was REMOVED.

So don't ask me for code if you win/won by 13 tiles.

NOTE

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Please kindly write me any recommendation, bugs reports.

I am so eager to make it an enjoyable game for every Piloteer.

Installation and running guide

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Remove any older Version of Pocket Mahjong (version 1.11 or older).

Just install the mj.prc.

Please press 'MENU' and select 'START' to try competing with 3 other robots.

At any time, you can click on menu to restart game, or restart DEMO to watch

4 robots playing.

Inverted tile : Pong, Gong, Sheng tiles.

When you are eligible for a

ong,

ong,

heng,

in, you will be

prompted a Y/N box. In the case of

heng, if you choose 'Y', please also

click on 2 tiles that will make a complete segment. For example, you previous

player drop a 1, and you happen to have 2 and 3 on hand. Answer 'Y' and then

select 2, and 3.

Version History :-

28 Apr 1999 (2.12)

- Fix a 3 Style 1 Pong bug.

- Added 5 more rules

- All Even Pong +3 fan

- No Terminal +1 fan

- With Terminal +1 fan

- Pure Terminal +2 fan

22 Apr 1999 (2.10)

- New rules configuration screens, you can see the FAN of each winning patterns.

- More winning patterns are implemented, they are combinations of

Mainland China Official Rule and Japanese rules.

24 Mar 1999 (2.02)

- Like PONG/SHENG, the WIN Yes/No box will show you the tile you need to win.

- Fix a BUG in SHENG which screwed up the dropped tile queue.

14 Mar 1999 (2.01)

- An AI bug fix.

12 Mar 1999 (2.00)

- 1 new Screen Layout added. Please set it in SETTING form.

- AI tuning. Now computer players can eat 13 Tiles.

15 Jan 1999 (1.82)

- Fix a bug : Now you have 1 tile left, you draw the same tile that you

have PONGed, you cannot self-gong when you press G. Now you can.

- Fix a bug : Say you have bamboo 1,2,2,3 and your previous player discard

a bamboo 2, the system would ask if you want to PONG, you say NO, then

it asks if you want to SHENG, now you choose YES. Then the next player

discard another bamboo 2, the system wouldn't ask you if you want to

PONG. Now it will.

- Enhancement : When you select Minimum Fan >= 3, AI players won't PONG,

SHENG or GONG style other than something it has already opened.

29 Dec 1998 (1.80)

- Long time no see, buddy!

- AI level setting in the Setup Screen. Lvl 0 is what you are playing,

and difficulty increases gradually. Lvl 5 is rather TOUGH I must say.

Hope you like it!

- some AI fixing and tuning.

- Happy New Year!

31 Jul 1998 (1.71)

- Sorry that it took me so long to come up with another update, it has been

an extremely busy month for me. Ops...

- Fix scoring overflow error when player score over 12 FAN.

- Fix another scoring bug (Debited the wrong player in case of 9 CHEUNG

and 12 CHEUNG).

26 Jun 1998 (1.70)

- Self Gong is now a manual process, whenever you are in control, you can

click the 'G' to self-gong if applicable.

- I implemented the GONG wrong, if you have 3 EAST, someone discard a EAST,

you refuses to GONG, but instead you PONG, now anytime you draw a tile,

you can click the 'G' icon to GONG the remaining EAST.

- Implement a PONG checking mechanism.

i.e. Say you have 2 EAST, someone discard a EAST, you refuse to PONG,

then, the next guy discard another EAST before your turn to draw a new

tile, the system won't ask you if you want to PONG, as this is forbidden.

- Thank you for Li Chun Kit helping me out with the DOC file. Please use

TEALDOC to read it. I shall update it with Chinese characters and pictures.

- A very BETA version of Japanese rules is implemented, the program file name

is MJJ.PRC. It is far from completion and I am still working on it.

Japanese rules is more complex than Hong Kong rules, and it is somehow

more interesting.

17 Jun 1998 (1.65)

- Please REMOVE older version before installing 1.65.

- Fix some crash bug.

- Show all hands when DRAW GAME

- When you want to discard a tile, click it once, it will be highlighted,

click it one more time to confirm a discard, this will save you trouble

under dim light environment.

12 Jun 1998 (1.63)

- Fix a silly bug that might cause wield screen display.

11 Jun 1998 (1.62)

- Add an 'Extra Rules' option in setting.

If it is not checked, only Hong Kong rules will be applied.

If it is checked, the following extra rules will be included.

- 7 pairs

- Ruby Dragons

- Jade Dragons

- Pearl Dragons

- 3 Styles

9 Jun 1998 (1.61)

- Minor bugs fixed.

9 Jun 1998 (1.60)

- Fix some 9 and 12 tiles bugs.

- Fix a double GONG bugs, e.g. when you have 1,1,1,1,2,2,2,2, you will

now be asked which set you want to GONG.

- Fix another GONG bug. e.g. you have 1,1,1 and now someone discard a 1,

you will be asked if you want to GONG, you answer NO, you will be asked

if you want to PONG, now you answer YES. Now, the game won't ask you if

you want to GONG again.

- Enhancement, in the case of SHENG and SELF GONG, if there is only 1 possible

choice, you don't need to select the appropiate tiles in your set.

If there are more than 1 possible choices, those potiential tiles will

flash! Click on appropiate tiles to complete SHENG/GONG.

5 Jun 1998 (1.50)

- 9 tiles and 12 tiles Danger rules implementated.

- More winning pattern supported! e.g. Ruby Dragon, Jade Dragon, Pearl Dragon,

9 Magic Lamps, 7 pairs, etc. BINGO!!!!

- Fix the CRASH of GONG + GONG and GONG + CHIMO

3 Jun 1998 (1.40)

- Automatically detect old Database structure, and upgrade to new structure.

Hopefully this will reduce CRASH problem due to old DB with new PRC.

- Minimum FAN setting!!! You would LOVE IT!

1 Jun 1998 (1.30)

- The Y/N dialog box has changed to support both Chinese and English

Display.

- Change the setting screen, in form of checkboxes.

- Add help screen for westerner who don't read Chinese characters.

E S W N are the 4 winds, R G B are the red, green and blue dragons

respectively.

- Some internal logic changes.

29 May 1998 (1.25)

- BONUS removed, it CRASHES badly!

- Fix a END GAME BUG. If you press MENU->END GAME, you won't be able to

continue.

- Add chinese characters to PONG, GONG, SHENG, WIN, CHIMO.

- Add support to GONG after GONG (+2 fan) , and CHIMO after GONG (+1 fan)

- Fix a BUG when you select "N" when you are asked whether you want to CHIMO

or not.

- Fix the PING WU and DUI DUI WU confusion bug when you have CLEAN DOOR.

e.g. when the winning set is 1,1,1,2,2,2,3,3,3, 4,4,4, 7, 7

if will be considered as DUI DUI WU

when the winning set is 1,1,1,2,2,2,3,3,3, 4,5,6, 7, 7

if will be considered as PING WU

So it will try to give you the best possible score,

however if you have PONG or SHENG, it would of course check the PONG and

SHENG pattern and judge correctly.

28 May 1998 (1.20)

- A better looking screen! Larger tiles!

- Database change, please delete older version of Pocket Mahjong.

The change allows room for growth, still special cases like Gong after

a Gong, or Win right after a gong hasn't be taken care of (WILL BE SOON).

- If you GONG, please note that the 4th tile will be placed on top of the 1st

and 2nd tile of the PONG pattern. (This save valuable space).

27 May 1998 (1.11)

- Fix a Sky Wu and Earth Wu bug.

- Clean Hand now score +7 fan.

- Fix a 13 tiles bug.

24 May 1998 (1.1)

- Fix a wield bug when player CHIMO.

- Fix another wield bug that causes BLACK TILES.

- Fix the remaining counter display bug when times count < 10.

- Add +/- score in the score result screen.

- Clear screen before showing "D R A W G A M E"

- Add 2 different scoring scheme

"1 Loser Mode" - Only the one who give tile to the winner has to pay.

And he has to pay 4 times the penalty to the winner.

For example, the winner make 4 fan, if it is CHIMO, each of the other

players has to pay 16 to the winner. If it is not a CHIMO, the culprit

has to pay 16 * 4 to the winner!

"All Loser Mode" - CHIMO is same as "1 Loser Mode". If it is not CHIMO,

The culprit has to pay DOUBLE, for example, winner make 4 fans, the

culprit has to pay 2 * 16, while the remaining 2 players pay 16 each.

23 May 1998 (1.01)

- Fix a display bug when you quit Pocket Mahjong during PONG/SHENG/GONG/WU

YES/NO Box and then continue to play again. Now it will show you the same

YES/NO box again.

- Added a remaining tiles counter.

22 May 1998 (1.0)

- A new DB structure, PLEASE DELETE OLDER VERSION OF POCKET MAHJONG FIRST!

- Continue game! You can quit at any time and look up your friend phone

number. Then come back to Pocket Mahjong, and select CONTINUE! Bingo!!

- Preference is saved, the SOUND ON/OFF and SPEED you selected last time

will be preserved in your next game.

- In the score display screen, just click on the screen for the next game.

- CHOS user can view Chinese scoring description!

- BUG FIXED : if you have SHENG 3 times and got 1,2,3,1,2,3,1,2,3 opened,

and when you draw one of 1,2 and 3, you would be allow to GONG which is

not correct.

- BUG FIXED : SHENG tiles are sorted before display.

- BUG FIXED : When you GONG a already PONG tiles, the tiles would be placed

besides the PONG tiles. (Look better)

- Maximum Fan is 12

- Finally Score calculation

Chi Mo + 1

Ping Wu + 1

Dui Dui Wu + 3

Semi-Clean Hand + 3

Clean Hand + 7

Chung, Fat, Pak + 1

Round Wind + 1

Seat Wind + 1

Clean Door + 1

Moon under River + 1

Moon under Sea + 1

Minor 3 Dragon + 3

Major 3 Dragon + MAX

Minor 4 joy + 3

Major 4 joy + MAX

13 tiles! + MAX

Sky Wu + MAX

Earth Wu + MAX

- Last but not least, registered users don't have to wait that 10 seconds

at the start up screen.

18 May 1998 (0.9)

- Hard disk CRASH!!! Poor me!!! Gotta stop programming for 2 days.

- Fix a BUG. When you want to pick up the other 2 tiles that would make

a SHENG, if one of them happens to be the leftmost one, the SHENG would

fail. Now it is fixed.

- Fix a BUG. e.g. WINNING right after a GONG was not possible, now it is

fixed.

- Fix a BUG. e.g. you have 3 THREE-MAN, when a robot discard a THREE-MAN,

You would be asked if you want to GONG, if you answer NO, you now will

be asked if you want to PONG.

- Some primitive sound effect, with ON/OFF menu option.

- Hum... still working on FAN calculation.

15 May 1998 (0.8)

- Added a HOST indicator (A small triangular shape)

- Added a WIND indicator

- Some cosmetic changes

- When a MENU is active, the game will freeze until the MENU is finished.

- Added a Score Screen, it is not the actual Mahjong Scoring Rule yet,

(The winner will get 30, if Winner is won by drawing a tile himself,

everyone deduct 10. Else the loser who discarded the tile to the winner

will loss 30).

14 May 1998 (0.7)

- IMPORTANT - V0.6 will CRASH PALM III during soft-reset!!! (I am so sorry

about this). Now this is fixed and I have tested it with the OS3 debug ROM.

- Speed setting.

- A complete game flow. It will continue to play after 1 round, with realistic

host changing, wind changing. However SCORING system is still under

development.

- Fix a GONG BUG, especially when you want to GONG after drawing a tile.

- Ask if you want to WIN. (Maybe you would like to win by drawing a tile

yourself)

13 May 1998 (0.6)

- User Playable!

- Game mode and Demo mode!

- No more flashy screen refresh!

8 May 1998 (0.5)

Clean up some display bugs.

7 May 1998 (0.45)

4 Computer players, this time with AI, can Pong, Sheung, Gong. So they

have a much higher change of winning.

5 May 1998 (0.4)

4 Computer players, playing against each other, however, they don't know

how to Pong, Sheung or Gong yet. Just keep drawing tiles one by one until

one of them achieve a winning pattern.

1 May 1998 (0.1)

Single player mode, no computer AI at all, so player keeps on drawing tiles

from the pool until a winning pattern is achieved.

Future Enhancement :-

- Fine Tune computer AI.

- Support different country rules. Hong Kong, Japanese...

- Support different scoring mechanism.

- Arcade mode - Different Type of CHEATS!

e.g. 1) Change tiles at the beginning of the game

2) See other's Tile

3) Start with many good tiles

4) Of course, computer will CHEAT also!

- BUGS fixes.

HONG KONG FRIENDS

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Thank you for your sincere support!

Please deposit HK$88 (Lucky number, huh?) in my Hong Kong Bank account

488-3-010441 (LEONG PO CHING)

After this, please write a email to [email protected] and tell me

the Ref#, date and time on your transaction receipt. Please also write me

the Owner Name of your Pilot for registration code generation. Please also

leave me your email address so that I can update you when there are new

releases, hopefully other new games!

Usually I can send you back the code within 24 hours.

DISCLAIMER : I am not responsible for any damage to your Pilot or data loss.