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INSTRUCTION

MANUAL

P I L E P S Y WARNING

READ BEFORE USING YOUR SEGA VIDEO GAME SYSTEM

A very small percentage Of individuals may experience epileptic
seizures when exposed to certain light patterns or flashing lights.
Exposure to certain patterns of backgrounds on a television screen
or while playing video games may induce an epileptic seizure in
these individuals. Certain conditions may induce undetected
epileptic symptoms even in persons who have no history of prior
seizures or epilepsy. If you, or anyone in your family,, has an
epileptic condition, consult your physician prior to playing. If you
experience any of the following symptoms while playing a video
game—dizziness, altered vision, eye or muscle twitches, loss el
awareness, disorientation, any involuntary movement or
convulsions—IMMEDIATELY discontinue use and consult your
physician before resuming play.

Using groundbreaking technology developed by Digital Pictures.
Virtual VCR combines digital audio and up to 60 minutes ol real
motion video on a single compact disc With Virtual VCR. you
get the impact of a video tape with the convenience of a CD.

Like a regular music CD, the Virtual VCR CD has multiple tracks.
And like a music CD, these tracks can be played individually, one
alter the other in the order they appear on the disc, or in random
order (also called shuffle play).

The Virtual VCR Colors of Modern Hock includes tracks by
a half dozen hot new artists. Together they represent a cross
section of the latest in music ranging from alternative to pop.

STARTING

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How to Use Your Sega CD 1

1. Set up your Sega CD system by following the instructions in your Sega CD
System Instruction Manual. Plug in Control Pad 1.

2. Turn the system ON. The Sega CD animated display will appear It nothing
appears on screen, turn the system OFF and make sure it is set up correctty.

3. Press Button C on the Genesis lw Control Pad. and the on-screen Control Panel
will appear. Use the D Button to select EJECT and press Button C to open the
CD tray.

4. Place the Virtual VCR Colors of Modern Rock disc in the well of the CD tray
and press Button C. The CD tray will dose, and the words CD-ROM will appear
on the Control Panel.

5. Use the D Button to move the cursor onto CD-ROM and press Button 0. The
opening screens of the Virtual VCR wifi appear.

6. if you wish lo slop the program in progress, or if the program ends, press the
Reset Button on the Genesis console to display the on-screen Control Panel.

Sega CD System

Control Pad t

The Control Paid

Throughout this booklet, the buttons on the Genesis Control Pad will be referred to
as follows:

Directional Button
[D Button)

START Button

Button C
Button B
Button A

Refer to the ‘Take Control 1 ' section of the manual for instructions on control pad
functions.

T A K

E CONTROL

The Table of Contents

When you start the Virtual
VCR CD. the Table of
Ccmlents screen appears.

From this screen you can use
trie loll owing controls to play
the program material.

Use the 0 Button {Direction
Button) lo select any one ol
the six still images representing
(he video selections. To start
playing the material 1 in
sequential order, beginning with the selected video, press the A Button.

Alternatively, you can press START to select shuttle play. In this made, all six
music videos are played in random order.

Press the B Button to toggle between the Table of Contents screen and the Help
screen. The Help screen lists some basic instruction for using Virtual VCR.

The C Button switches to the Photo Album Preview screen.

Video Play

Once you have started to play a video selection, the Virtual VCR control panel
appears at the bottom of the screen. This control panel lets you play, stop, search,
skip, freeze, or play the video in stow motion:; it also allows you to shoot and save
snapshots of your favorite images. A counter over the control panel indicates
minutes: seconds: frames within each selection.

Move the D Button {Direction Button)
left or right to highlight any one of the
nine controls. As you move through the
controls, the symbol on the highlighted
control will turn from gray to yellow
To activate the highlighted control
press the A Bulton. When a control is
activated, it will blink yellow and appear
recessed in relation to the other control
buttons. A button will blink yellow
until you use the D Button to highlight
a different control.

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Track

Reverse

Revere

Play

Slow

Motion

Forward

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Forward

Paust

Stop

Snapshot

The controls, from left to right, are:

Track Search Reverse lets you jump to the beginning of the currently
playing video. Select it by pressing the A Button twice quickly to jump
back to the beginning ol I he previous video in the sequence.

^ 1 Search Reverse skips backwards through the video that is currently

-- * playing as long as you hold the A Button down. Note: When the video

has rewound to the beginning of the track, it won't continue to rewind
into the previous track.

Play starts a paused video,

Slow Motion plays the video at half speed.

Search Forward skips forward through the video that is currently
playing as long as you hold the A Button down. Once you have reached
the end ol the track, it will continue to skip forward into the next track.

1 Track Search Forward lets you jump to the beginning of the next video
J in the sequence.

"1 Pause freezes the video. II the conirol panel was previously hidden (by
J pressing the El Button) Pause will return the control panel to the screen.

j g I Stop exits the currently playing video and returns you to the table of
I- 1 contents screen.

^ Snapshot works just like a camera, letting you capture and store a
——— single image from the program material. Press the snapshot control
any time you see an image you want to save, except while searching,
Snapshots are stored in the photo album which can contain a maximum
of nine images. When you have filled the photo album with nine images,
the snapshot button will flash red. You need to remove some snapshots
in order to add new ones, (The procedure for this is explained below,)

The B Button cycles among three different display options. The first lime you press
the B Button the control panel disappears. The nexl time you press the B Button
the gray border will disappear. Press the B Button again to return to the original
control panel

The C Button is always available to make a Snapshot. (You can also use the D
Button to highlight the Snapshot button on the control panel.) Press the C Button
(or use the A Button when the snapshot control on the control panel is high¬
lighted) any lime you see an image you want to save, except while searching.

When you make a snapshot, you will hear a shutter click from the motorized,
auto-winding camera. The album is full if you don't hear the shutter click,

Press Ihe START Button while the video is playing to select the Pause control,
which freezes fhe video Pause will also return the control panel to the screen

if it was previously hidden (by pressing the B Button).

The START Button will select the Play control if the music video is currently paused.

Photo ABbuen Preview

You can store up to nine snapshots from the program material in the photo album.
On the Photo Album Preview screen, you can see small black and white images
representing each of the larger color snapshots in your album.

To view a snapshot m its original size and color, use the D Button (Direction
Button) to highlight any one of the nine black and white images, and then press
the A Button button. To return to the Photo Album Preview screen from a
snapshot press the A Button

To return to the Photo Album Preview screen, press the A Button again.

You can press START from the Photo Album Preview to se-lEct shuttle play of
all snapshots currently in your photo album, In shuttle play, all snapshots are
displayed in random order.

press the B Button lo remove the highlighted snapshot from the photo album.
Since the album can contain a maximum of nine snapshots, you'll need to
remove old snapshots in order to add new ones if you've already stored nine.

The C Button switches between the Photo Album Preview screen and the Table of
Contents screen.

To Reset Virtual VCR

To Reset Virtual VCR, press the A Button, the B Button, the C Button and the
START Button simultaneously.

Virtual VCR

Executive Producer Torn Zita

Producer Oena Maheras

Computer Programming Ken Soohoo

Director. Computer Graphics Lode Coen

CompuierGraphic Animation Joshua Sofumuirt

Graphic Interface Design CuylerGee

Product Manager Fur Warner Custom Music Teena Marty

Package and Manual Design floss Carrgn Design

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Piclures. Inc. and may no! unde r any pr&umsiaJices be reproduced:, unbred or sold wlhoirt the express
wriiren permission of Di li in i Pictures.

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