The ingame torishop function is very buggy. You are meant to explode like that, but a side bar should come up telling you what items you're seeing and allow you to preview many colors.
I experience the same bug, I recommend buying your items on the online shop, here.
http://forum.toribash.com/tori_groups.php
Alternatively, you can put up a buying thread in the market items board, located here (be sure to read the rules sticky thread, there's a bunch more stuff in addition to the ordinary global ones)
http://forum.toribash.com/showthread.php?t=123778
but be sure to check out the average price in the market/dealfinder to make sure you're getting a good deal, or if you want to buy it immediately out of a shop.
http://forum.toribash.com/market_deals.php
As for the basic tutorial, normally you get a low bar overlay across telling you what to do, with a continue button to advance the tutorial. It may not be showing up due to lag, so wait a few minutes. If that doesn't work, try rebooting or re-installing toribash, your download may have borked somehow.
Oh, and why your camera messed up.
1. is the default rotatable camera that orbits the center.
2. Is the free moving camera, that can shoot from many different angles but takes some experience to use
3. This is the view in which you see through uke's eys, always looking at tori's head.
4. Reverse of 3.
As for taking a painless screenshot in toribash, you'd have to consult another Mac user.
Sorry for any useless or unnecessary tips, hope all of this helps!
Last edited by Boredpayne; Jul 8, 2010 at 01:45 PM.
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