Dog's Life/Gameplay

First, make sure that you have a game card with 125MB free space in Memory Card slot 1. Then, make sure that everything is plugged in. Next, turn on the PS2, and insert the Dog's Life disk. When the swinging cloth with the Dog's Life logo on it appears, press the start button. Before you start playing, you have the option to go to the options menu by pressing the select button.

The Kennel Enclosure
The first time you play the game, you can enter any of the three kennel enclosures to start a new game. You can load previously saved games from the kennel enclosure by selecting a dog kennel with a floating bone ontop, with the number of bones you currently have in that game. Choose a kennel enclosure, and press X to start a new game, or if there is already a saved game there, you can continue on that game or press O to start a new one.

The Options Menu
There are three different ways to get to the options menu. First, before you go to the kennel enclosure, you can press select, and during gameplay you can press start and then select, or just press select during gameplay to go straight there. In the options menu, you can toggle the sound, speech and music on or off, and decide whether to have the pawprint mini hint display come on when you go near something you can interact with. You can also choose the language for the game, or quit the game if you want to choose a different game or start a new one. Quitting the game is the same as resetting the console, and you will loose any unsaved data.