Well, I know what you are saying but just don’t be afraid of program running in SmileBASIC. You just don’t overwrite, do you?

If worst comes to worst, just reset the system and everything will be okay again.

First, the favorite button in the TOP MENU.

Don’t care of small matters. Just tap it.

Let do it step-by-step. If you played a game a little while ago, the program is already loaded.

You are such a young man disliking English and numbers.

Just relax. I won’t talk about anything complicated but just skip them.

I don’t think it is a right approach to learn everything but just bite a piece first.
For a start, just tap the button in the touch screen to go back.

Now we are about to play with SmileBASIC. Let me ask you a question. What do you think of this screen?

You can find three special characters you wound look around to find in the keyboard.

Well, this is the error saying you made some typo.

Not too much serious like that. Or rather, it is not a problem at all. Errors do not mean much in SmileBASIC.
In your case you mistakenly typed D instead of O so you just need to type the correct one again.

I guess this is the screen you are probably familiar with. Simply just tap Yes to load.

You are so impatient. Just push the button as you did previously.

Yes! What you are seeing now is the program of DOT-RACER!　What you typed in, LOAD"SYS/GAME1DOTRC"↵ was the instruction to load the program!

You are about right. The black screen is the place for “DIRECT” mode and the other screen is the place for “EDIT” mode. You can browse your program at a glance. Anyway, let’s tweak(modify) the program in EDIT mode.

That feeling is really normal. Okay, I will give you a small hint for you. Can you find the line 13?

You see something here. It’s MUTEKI meaning invincible in English. This is what the programmer enjoyably added but you should feel something.

You are so close! Well, you have to tweak it then you will see what happens. Use +Control pad to move the cursor and change the line like MUTEKI=1. Do you know how to do?

The button indicates “Y” as well. So you can use Y button to do the same. You don’t have to memorize it right now but there are alternative key assignments for other buttons as well.

Sure. Push button to go back to the DIRECT mode and enter RUN↵.

RUN is an instruction to start a program. You don’t have to run by yourself.

Well, the picture doesn’t tell much but you will find out by playing the game. It should be. The game does not end when you hit the enemy.

This is a small trick that the programmer intended to put in therefore it looks easy to touch. Usually it would not go well as touching any other portion of the program. However, I believe you got something that a program behaves differently as soon as you made some changes.

You have good eyes. Let me give you some hint for you. Turn off the button on the left edge of the keyboard then you can type over existing characters not inserting. You will see a shape of the cursor changes as turning on and off.

Wang-PAKU, you look too much excited as you are doing this kind of destructive activity.

Looks like you are enjoying it so much. I don’t know it supposed to be but the game looks good like having some new game system.。

You are obviously too much excited.

Oh, your intuition is very sharp. Yes, that line defines the shape of the enemies.

I thought that you would change one character to another but you’ve actually replaced the one with the three characters. You are so daring and you came up with some interesting approach.

It is way too difficult even if it is the HARD MODE. All enemies gather together and they look like a wall.

Well, everything can go back in normal by reloading the program.

It should be enough to restore all characters you tweaked.

Just go back to restore when you feel you made any mistake. That is the way the program works in SmileBASIC.
By the way. Wang-PAKU, do you understand why the all enemies appeared like the wall.

…oh, yeah. You are right in some points. You really don’t understand the programming yet so that you have to understand how the enemies works in order to know why they appeared that way.

Wow, you look you don’t really understand what I told you. Okay. Someday you will start learning the program, SmileBASIC.

I know what you feel. I really understand it must be cumbersome to start over but it could be much easier if you stored your program or saved in other words.

That is true. A game you play is a program saved by someone who programmed.

Ho, ho, ho. You are really getting familiar with SmileBASIC in such a short time of period. You are right. You can use SAVE command in the DIRECT mode by hitting the button.
This is something like this.
SAVE"GAME1"↵

Then, you just need to follow what SmileBASIC says on screen.

By all means. And you just can reload it by typing LOAD"GAME1"↵

Actually they are the same command to load. It should be look like the same because both loads a program.

That means a folder. It should be easier to understand for those who use a personal computer. Let me explain it very briefly.
“SYS/” abbreviates SYSTEM and this means a chunk of sample programs built-in by SmileBoom Co. Ltd.

I will talk about it later. In short, you cannot not store anything in SYS/ location because you are not someone working for SmileBoom Co. Ltd. In other words, you can load all programs created by the company.

You can just ignore “SLOT 0” for now because you tried to reload the DOT-RACER program after modifying it…

(Well, just have fun to make changes as you like and it will grow your programming foundation as you enjoy tweaking programs…)