Submission #2930: janus's SNES Breath of Fire "best ending" in 4:14:52.20

Game objectives

• Emulator used: SNES9x 1.51v6
• Aim for the best ending
• Aim for the quickest completion
• Take damage to save time
• Use death as a shortcut
• Some entertainment trade-offs
• Manipulation of luck

Comments

• Random battles are totally avoidable, except in Mogu's conscience (for some reason)
• Having people die is a big plus, especially before Nina gets Renew. This way, she gets it more quickly.
• Dead people can cast magic outside of battle. So when Nina gets renew, she can play dead.
• I try to minimize the use of the status window. Therefore, I plan ahead and to every change (equipment, spells, change of rows) at once.
• Death warps are a time saver.
• Towards the very end, Agni is a time saver. Goda and Jade have such high defense that Rudra and Puka can't do enough damage to compensate 999 damage each turn.
• Similarly, with Agni on AB, I can program the bosses so they only attack. Jade hasn't cast any magic, and the Goddess can keep attacking for up to 8 rounds
• Karn, in his transformed status (Puka, Shin), becomes a killing machine. It's a little detour getting the spells, but it's worth it.
• It's fairly easy to have bosses (not) dropping items. It depends on the course of action during the battle.
• Very low HP characters seem much stronger. And if it's combined with attack-up, it's even better
• No need for most chests. I either buy everything in a store or maniuplate battles so I won't need to heal

• Frog : I needed it to drop a fire stone. That's why I wait for so long in the last round.
• Knight : With a lot of luck, I was able to save a fire stone AND get another one.

• Morte/Mortea : Using that extra fire stone came handy. After Mortea, only one of the soldiers was still alive, this way, the 2ns wizard fight was quicker.
• Wizard : I only needed him to cast thunder, the weakest spell.
• Dark D Fort soldiers : the little detour to get a boomerang was worth it. They all die at the same time
• General : Down in 3 rounds. PLus he kills bow, making the death warp quicker

• Wisp : Not an easy fight, especially because of his multiple hitting attack.
• General and lancers : the boomerang always comes in handy.
• Gremlin : a long and tedious fight. In his second phase, he only casts his multiple target spell. In order for it to be weaker, I needed to kill him before destroyed 87,5% of his health. Otherwise, he would have been about 35% stronger.
• Talon : My protnB got useful. But it's still difficult to fight alone.

• In Bleak, there is a nice cameo by Chun Li from Street Fighter
• The Sandworm is easy, and so is letting Bo die
• However, I did need him against Spyeye, so I resurected him for a round
• Cloud : Since I ran out of life 1, I needed him to cast single target spells
• Knight and archer : my dragon powers come handy sometimes
• Secret base : watch out for the boomerang!
• Squid : water-based fiends and weak against lightning
• Dark D Ship : again, the boomerang is useful against stacks of enemies
• Octo : another water-based enemy
• MOrteo : an undead enemy. Need I say more? I had Kain die here
• Toad : he needs to aim at Ox as often as possible. This way he dies...

• Grimfowl : a fire-based enemy.
• SLimeX : the toughest battle of them all. I wanted Nina to survive so she could get renew earlier. But the bastards wouldn't let the Hero do critical damage against them...
• Myst : I have to calculate the number of damage so he doesn't use Cure 3
• Pincer : another water-based enemy

• K Roahc : they have very low defense. And with counterattacks, they are taken care of quickly
• RugaX : I took advantage of the low HP strategy here...
• G Fly : ... here...
• FLowerX : and here. thankfully, it's too busy poisoning. Also, I've never been able to hit it critically on its second wind...
• Horntoad : contrary to what FAQS say, Horntoad doesn't always use its body slam on its second wind
• Dream World : The geyser field has unexpected shortcuts throughout. They all look the same
• Mothro : when he is complete, he can easily be taken care of.
• MOte : a tricky fight. If he is hit more than 15 times, his defense rises to 320. I was able to kill him before that. PLus, a low HP Ryu was helpful
• Cerl : Puka does the trick with his rolling attack (that uses less frames than the regular one)
• Dragon powers : Bain is easy on AB. Avian is a pain because I couldn't lose time healing.
• Zog : Rudra and Puka were on fire for this fight! Despite Jade's wishes, I didn't use Dragon HEart...
• Sara : it lowers white dragon's HP to one, and that includes Sara.
• GOda and Jade : Agni does the trick. The use is optimal; their high defense prohibits the Puka/Rudra strategy
• GOddess :The longest sequence I got without her using her spell is 8 rounds.