Hasbro Dino Dex User Manual

Dino Dex

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Contents

ContentsContents

YOUR DINO DEX KEYPAD 2
GOING TO MAIN MENU 4

1. ARCHIVE FILES 4

2. PERSONAL LOG 5

3. DATA BANK 7

4. SCHEDULE LIST 10

5. SECURITY SYSTEM 13

6. SYSTEM CORE 15

7. CALCULATOR 15

8. SORTER 16

9. SYSTEM BIO'S 18
GAME SIMULATOR 19
INSERTING OR REPLACING BATTERIES 25
CAUTION: 27
DEFECT OR DAMAGE 27
90-DAY LIMITED WARRANTY 28

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YOUR DINO DEX KEYPADYOUR DINO DEX KEYPAD

YOUR DINO DEX KEYPAD

YOUR DINO DEX KEYPADYOUR DINO DEX KEYPAD

Turn ON your Dino Dex. Welcome back (way way back!) to prehistoric times.
NAME

DATE

Enter in the date.

After the opening screens, you need to type in your name.
Use the keypad to do this.
Then press ENTER.

Month:
You will see the month of “JAN” flashing.
Use the “ ” and “ ” arrows to toggle to the correct month.
For example “March”.

Day:
Use the “ ” arrow to move to the day selection.
Use the “ ” and “ ” down arrows to type in the first digit of the
month (which would be a “0”, “1”, “2” or “3”. For example “2”.
Or you can use your keypad to type in the correct number. For
example, type in the “2” on your keypad.
Use the “ ” arrow to move to the second digit, which will be a
number from “0” to “9”. For example “4”. Then use the “ ” and
“ ” buttons to toggle to the correct number or type in the number
on your keypad.

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Year:
Once you enter the correct day, use the “ ” arrow to move to the
year selection. For example “2001”.

After you’ve toggled to the correct year, press ENTER.

TIME

Hour:
Use :
— the “ ” and “ ” buttons to enter the first digit or type in the first digit number

— the “ ” to move to the second digit.
— the “ ” and “ ” buttons to enter the second digit or type in the number using

For example “0”
Now do the same thing for the second digit.
For example “9”.

Minute:
Use the “ ” button to move to the minute spaces and enter in the correct minute

the same way with the “ ” and “ ” arrows or by typing the actual number on the
keypad.

For example, “23”.
AM or PM:

Use the “ ” button to move to the AM/PM space.
Use “ ” and “ ” to toggle to your choice. For example, “AM”.
Or you can type “A” on the keypad for AM or type “P” on your keypad for PM.

Now that you have learned how to set the date, setting the time is
easy!

using the keypad.

the keypad.

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ALARM

You’ll hear a “roaring dino” when the alarm sounds!
On screen, you will see the words, “WOULD YOU LIKE TO SET THE ALARM

FUNCTION? Y/N
Type in “Y” for yes or “N” for no. If yes, then use “ ” & “ ” to set alarm to be ON

or OFF.

SOUND EFFECTS

You can also set the unit to hear sound effects.
On screen, you will see the words, “WOULD YOU LIKE TO SET THE SOUND

EFFECTS? Y/N
Type in “Y” for yes or “N” for no. “If yes, then use “ ” & “ ” to set the sound effect

to be ON or OFF.

GOING TO MAIN MENUGOING TO MAIN MENU

GOING TO MAIN MENU

GOING TO MAIN MENUGOING TO MAIN MENU

After you're entered all your data of name, date, time, alarm and sound effects,
press the QUIT button to go to the main menu. From the main menu, you can
access 10 different really cool functions for playing! On the main menu, you will
see four icons on screen at a time.

Use the “ ” and “ ” buttons to move up and down along the main menu to see all
the ten main menu selection choices. Let’s spend a little time explaining how each
of these ten functions works! They’re each a lot of fun, so you’ll want to learn
about them all!

ARCHIVE FILES

In the archive files, you’ll find really interesting information about 72 different
dinosaurs. You can see their pictures and see their pictures come to life. Read all
about each of them!

Highlight ARCHIVE FILES and press ENTER.
The letters of the alphabet will appear.

Use your “ ” and “ ” arrow buttons to move to a letter of your
choice. For example, “B”.
Press ENTER.

See the list of all the dinosaurs that begin with the letter “B”.
Use the “ ” and “ ” arrows to highlight the dinosaur you want to
study, for example, BARYONYX.
Press ENTER.

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See the word “BARYONYX” on screen by itself and an arrow
pointing the left right ( ) on the bottom of the screen.

Press the “ ” to see an illustration of your dinosaur.
Press “ ” again to see your dinosaur moving!

Press “ ” again to see the correct pronounciation (BARE-EE-ON-IKS) and a full
biography about this dinosaur.

Keep using the “ ” button to scroll through the biography.
You can also use the “ ” button to not only move backwards through the

biography but also to move back to the other cool stuff - like the animated
dinosaur several screens back!

More dinosaurs of the same letter:
When you have finished your study on the Baryonyx, press the QUIT button to go

back to the “B” screen that listed all the dinosaurs that began with that letter of the
alphabet.

Select another letter of the alphabet for study:
Choose another dinosaur to study whose name begins with the letter “B” or you

can press QUIT again to go back to the ARCHIVES FILE and choose another letter
of the alphabet.

Go back to the main menu:
Press QUIT a third time to go back to the main menu and play with another

function of your Dino Dex!

PERSONAL LOG

Entering the first message:
From the main menu page, move the arrows to highlight PERSONAL LOG and then

press ENTER.
On screen you will see,

“WOULD YOU LIKE TO ENTER YOUR OWN NOTES? (Y/N)
Press Y for YES.

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A blank screen will appear.
Now use your keyboard to type your message!

HOWEVER YOU ARE LIMITED BY THE AMOUNT OF TEXT YOU ENTER IN THE
PERSONAL LOG. WHEN YOU REACH YOUR TEXT LIMIT A WARNING SCREEN WILL
APPEAR TELLING YOU TO DELETE SOME TEXT. YOU MUST DO SO IN ORDER TO
SAVE THE CURRENT MESSAGE YOU ARE ENTERING. FOR BEST PERFORMANCE IN
THE PERSONAL LOG ALWAYS TRY TO DELETE OLD MESSAGES BEFORE YOU ENTER
NEW ONES.

Saving your messages:

When you are done typing, press the ENTER button.
On screen you will see,

“SAVE RECORD? (Y/N)
Type “Y” for yes. You then go back to the main menu.

Entering more messages:

You want to enter in more messages to your personal log? No problem! Highlight
PERSONAL LOG again and press ENTER.

Then, enter in a new message and save it by pressing the EDIT button.
Now you have two messages in your personal log. You’ll see an arrow on the

bottom right hand corner of the screen.

Press “ ” to scroll forward through your messages. Press “ ” to
scroll backwards through your messages.

If you enter a long message, which takes up more room than one page, you will
see a “ ” arrow which will take you to another page to continue your message.
Use the “ ” and “ ” buttons to move up and down throughout longer messages,
moving back and forth to review these longer messages!

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Editing messages:

If you want to edit (revise) a message you have written in your personal log, go to
the message and then press the DELETE button.

On screen you will see,

“EDIT THIS MESSAGE? Y/N

Press “Y” for yes to start editing (revising) your message. Use the directional
arrows to move the cursor to the part of the message you want to change. Then by
pressing the DELETE button, you will delete whatever letter is by the cursor. As you
delete letters, you can retype whatever revised message you wish to write.

When you’re done revising, resave your message by pressing the ENTER button.

Deleting messages:

Let’s say you want to delete (erase) a message. Go to the message and press the
DELETE button.

On screen, you will see EDIT THIS MESSAGE? Y/N
Press “N” for no.
On screen will appear,

DELETE RECORD? Y/N
Press “Y” for yes and you will delete (erase) this entire message!

When you’re done adding, editing or deleting messages, press the ENTER button to
complete this job and you will return to the main menu. Let’s move on!

DATA BANK

Store names and phone numbers, email addresses and web addresses here!
Highlight DATA BANK from the main menu and press ENTER.

You will see a screen that says NAMES & PHONE NUMBERS.

Use the “ ” button to scroll down to E-MAIL ADDRESS.

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Use the “ ” button to scroll down to WEB ADDRESSES.

Use the “ ” and “ ” buttons to scroll to whichever of these three you want and
press ENTER to work in that file.

Names and Phone Numbers:

Let’s begin by highlighting NAMES AND PHONE NUMBERS and pressing ENTER.
On screen, you will see,

WOULD YOU LIKE TO ADD NAMES & PHONE NUMBERS? Y/N
Press Y for yes.

Name:
Type in the name (up to 17 letters) and press ENTER.

Phone Number:
Now type in the phone number.
Press ENTER.

On screen, see the message WOULD YOU LIKE TO ADD NAMES & PHONE
NUMBERS? Y/N again. This time, type “N” for no.

On screen:
WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAVE? Y/N
Press Y for yes.
Your name and phone number information is now saved.

Go back to the NAMES AND PHONE NUMBERS file.
You can then add more names and phone numbers or use the “ ”
and “ ” buttons to scroll to between this file and the files for e-mail
addresses and web addresses.

Adding More Names and Phone Numbers:
You can enter a total of 25 names and phone numbers. Press EDIT to add more

names. Follow the same procedure as before.

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Deleting Names and Phone Numbers:
Press DELETE instead of edit.
See an arrow on screen and use your directional buttons to move the arrow to

highlight the entry you want to change.
Once the entry is highlighted, you have two options:
Option 1: Press the DELETE button to delete the entire entry.
Option 2: If you press EDIT, you will pull up the highlighted entry again and can

edit any part of the entry by moving the cursor to the letters you want to change
and then retype the new letters or numbers. When you’re done revising, press

ENTER.
E-mail Address:

Let’s say instead of adding more names and phone numbers, you want to go to the
E-mail address folder.

Simply scroll down with the “ ” arrow from NAMES & PHONE NUMBERS to
E-MAIL ADDRESS and press ENTER.

On screen, see the message:
WOULD YOU LIKE TO ADD E-MAIL ADDRESS? Y/N
Press Y for yes and enter in an e-mail address.
Press the “A” button to get the “@” symbol.
Press the “B” button to get the “/” symbol.
Then press ENTER.
Just like with Names & Phone Numbers, you will see the message:

WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAVE? Y/N
Type in “Y” for yes.

This is the basic procedure as Names and Phone Numbers. EDIT and DELETE the
same way! You can save up to 25 E-Mail addresses!

Web Addresses:

If you want to record web addresses, It's just as easy! From the file menu, use the
“ ” and “ ” buttons to scroll up or down to WEB ADDRESSES and press ENTER.

On screen, you will see the message:
WOULD YOU LIKE TO ADD WEB ADDRESSES? Y/N
Press “Y” for yes. Use the same procedure to add, edit and delete web addresses

you used for “E-Mail” and for “Names and Phone Numbers”. You can save up to
25 web addresses!

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