Game apparatus and its control method

Abstract

A game apparatus is provided with a bottle mail function for converting the game item. In the bottle mail function, two game apparatuses are connected to communicate with each other by a communication cable, or the like, one of game items possessed by own game character is designated, and game item specifying information for specifying the game item can be exchanged between both game apparatuses. The game item specified by the game item specifying information obtained from the opponent's game apparatus is taken as a converting game item, and the converting destination game item corresponding thereto is read out from an item converting table. The read out game item is possessed by the player character instead of the former game item.

Description

technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a game device and a control method of the game device, in particular to a game device with the function of changing the type of game equipment held by a game character, a control method of the game device, and an information storage medium. Background technique [0002] In a game or the like in which a player character is the main character, the game character can hold various types of game equipment (such as weapons and protective equipment), and the player uses these types of game equipment to carry out offense and defense in the game. The game software constituting such a game is very popular. Among these game softwares, for example, there is a software that enables communication between one's own game device and a friend's game device by using a communication cable, and exchange of game types between the two game devices. In this way, the player can make the game character possess a new type of game equipment in ad...

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Problems solved by technology

[0003] However, the above-mentioned conventional game software simply supports the exchange of game device types with friends, and the converted game device type can be known before the game device type is exchanged.

That is to say, according to the above-mentioned game software, it can only be exchanged within the scope of the types of game equipment known to both players.

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