Posts for Apostle

Posted: 8/20/2011 3:07 AM
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Apostle
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Location: Missouri, USA
@ Derakon I appreciate the help. I don't know how to make input files with the NES, though. Anyways, here's a link for everyone to download the savestates: http://www.mediafire.com/?v9uqje10d4ldg -Savestate 1 is in Chapter 5 in the Final Cave -Savestate 6 is in Chapter 3 inside Balmanmo Castle The money bug only seems to work with Metal Babble Armor; possibly since it's such a high gold amount? Also, you can do some crazy things in Taloon's chapter. To list a few examples, I've crossed through the Northern Checkpoint past Endor into the Santeem region where I was encountering VERY STRONG sea creatures such as the Runamok Albacore and the Plesiosaur (sp?). You can also fight in the Endor tournament again as Taloon! The game still treats this part as if it's Chapter 2, and it's a lot tougher without Alena's iron claw dealing out massive damage. Who knows, maybe somebody can figure out what causes this bug...
Posted: 8/19/2011 11:31 PM
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Apostle
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@Lex
Instead of offering to send them to people, just post them here. :P
Lol, that'll work. Can I upload them directly on this forum, or can you recommend a website to upload them to? (I noticed others using something called "dehacked.2y.net"; would that work?) @ PKFC Yes, it does "toggle" when Tom's dog joins/leaves your party, but not when King Endor nor Prince Bonmalmo hand you their notes. I'm pretty sure no cheats are activated. I've looked online for a while now for a legit WTW's game genie code for this game and haven't been able to find one.
Posted: 8/19/2011 4:38 PM
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Apostle
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I'm going back through Chapter 3 to experiment with it some more. Unfortunately, I don't know how to record input movies yet. The best I could do is send Adelikat (or anyone else that's interested) my save state files. I have NO IDEA how a walk-through-walls bug popped up in my game. I noticed that it began on one of my save states during Chapter 5, when my party was going through the last part of the Final Cave (the Castle Tower). The bug itself is kind of bizarre. After "reseting" the emulator on the bugged save state, I'll begin Chapter 1. The bug will work fine with Ragnar up to the point where he re-unites Alex with his wife in Izmit village. After Alex's wife leaves Ragnar's party, the bug disappears. The game plays normally up until a certain point in Chapter 2. After Alena's party successfully defeats the Chameleon Humanoid, the walk-through-walls bug is re-activated! This allowed me to cut straight into Endor; where I leveled up Alena and eventually won the tournament. It (obviously) works in Chapter 3 as well. All you have to do is work a whole day at the boss's shop in Lakanaba. After you re-gain control of Taloon, the bug appears again. That's the weird thing about it. Its like it "switches" ON/OFF whenever either an NPC leaves the party, some kind of forced event happens, or you lose/re-gain control of a character. It might be useful for someone to check the game's code to see what's going on. So yeah, if anyone wants a copy of my save states, I'm happy to send them out. I'm moving off to a university tommorow, so my free time will likely wind up on the endagered species list, lol.
Posted: 8/19/2011 4:56 AM
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Apostle
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I may have found a glitch that will save some time on this run. Earlier this evening, I was messing around in Chapter 3. I was experimenting with a walk-through-walls glitch that allowed me to access the special armor shop in Endor; I bought some Metal Babble Armor for Taloon. Anyways, I figured I could make some quick money selling the armor back to the castle vendor in Bonmalmo. I still had the armor equipped at this point. Guess what? I got paid (18,000+ GP) and the game didn't removed the armor from my inventory! I ended up maxing out my money and bypassed having to go hunt for Broad Swords and Half Plate armors. I haven't tested this out with any other armors, but if this works, I could see this cutting out a huge chunk of time in Chapter 3. [BTW, I was using Nester J 0.51b.]
Posted: 4/19/2011 7:42 PM
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Apostle
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How long do you think this one will be? Manipulating hits and blocks, avoiding random enounters, and developing boss strategies, I imagine, would be the primary goals.
Posted: 4/18/2011 10:29 PM
Post subject: Arc the Lad
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It's looking pretty good so far. Any future plans on TASing the trilogy? I'm a fan of your work, BTW. I especially enjoyed the Shining Force TAS's.