I can’t understand why on earth this game seems popular while it was released only in Japan. This game is truly a bad game for TASing. The language is Japanese you don’t like. It has too many and long cutscenes and laggy menu. The sound is bad on emulator. The battle system is worse than that of SoM1. You can’t evade magic attack. The boss strategy will be the same: just boost allies, degrade the enemy, then attack. It would seem to be boring. And you have to control multi characters, which is very difficult. The RAM addresses are variable, which annoys you. This seems unsuitable for this site.
Yeah, anyway, welcome to TASVideos, praetarius3. I was thinking about TASing this game, too. I thought Carlie was the best main character because of the short Opening, no cutscene in the first cave, re-load cancel technique, which made up for her weak offense, and the weakest final boss. Plus, you don’t have to buy healing item. I planned so that I would not buy any healing item nor open item depository, though I haven’t tested it yet.
Well, about your wip, you beat Machine Golems and Jewel Eater very fast. I was very surprised. But about other things, they are not optimized. Maybe this is a test run, isn’t it? You didn’t have to talk to Bon Voyage in the house when you first met him. You only had to talk to him at the yard. You should have bought two Magical Ropes for you can use one at the mana-stone-room after beating Tzenker. This mistake occurred in SDA’s run, too. I was disappointed to see it. And I suspect there is a better way to manipulate the stat cap without opening Y-menu.
Another player, trangix, is making the run, too.
His run is available on nicovideo and well optimized and used many techniques you don’t know, beginning with cancelling armory. He beat Full Metal Hugger before Bubble Breath. I recommend you register the site and watch it. And
single segment on the real console by しんいち(Shinichi) is also available there. The time when he saved the game at the last savepoint was 5hh08mm32ss and the time when he beat the final boss was 5hh36mm45ss. I recommend you watch it, too. Also, in
another video Bill and Ben were defeated before splitting up.
And this technique skipping a cutscene was discovered recently. Sorry, don’t use this trick. You can’t progress normally.[/b]
I know some addresses, though you may know. Here.
address description
0x7F00C6 game_timer
0x7E2FFA a day of the week 0:Fairy, 1:Luna, 2:Salamander, 3:Undine, 4:Dryad, 5:Jinn, 6:Gnome
0x7E2FFB hour day(5-12)_night(13-15,0-4) Note: In the Ghost Ship it seems different.
0x7E2FFC minute(0-31)
0x7FDD1F x-position(1)
0x7FDD23 y-position(1)
0x7FE51F x-position(2)
0x7FE523 y-position(2)
0x7FD61F x-position(3)
0x7FD623 y-position(3) Note: Don’t accept these (#) as they are. They seem to be random.
0x7FEE43 offense(1)
0x7FF143 offense(2)
0x7FF443 offense(3)
0x7FEDFF exp(1)
0x7FF0FF exp(2)
0x7FF3FF exp(3)
0x7E2C24 money
0x7F??F2 enemy’s HP Note: ?? means indefinite. It is very random. :P
And I have some tips and ideas. Here.
-Day time takes 288 seconds and Night time takes 192 seconds in this game.
-The second Machine Golems have wind as their weakness, of course you may know as well.
-Land Umber also has fire as its weakness. The animation of Flame Sabre is shorter than that of Wind Sabre. I suggest you use Flame Sabre.
-Also due to the shorter animation, Flame Sabre against Count of the Evil Eye and Ice Sabre against Isabella.
-Manipulate to get Papa Pot’s Claw and Demon’s Claw and use each of them against Sable Fur and the second Full Metal Hugger.
-Use Demonic Wolf's Soul at the final battle, then movie end, though I haven’t tested it.
edit: Sorry. Some value was wrong. I corrected them.
If you reach Forthena at night, you only have to talk this girl at the pub in order to make the cannon appear. It might be faster but you have to use a Dreamsee Herb before you get a Chibikko Hammer when you progress the game at a normal or a little faster pace.
Autofire seems to stop the characters and the enemies controlled by computer. It is of particular note at the battles against Machine Golems and JE in praetarius3’s wip.
At Volcano Island Bucca and River Bank Cave it might be slow to progress the game while you beat enemies. Cockatrices and Pakkun Babies are annoying because they transform. It might be faster to run away.
I doubt that you change classes at water or fire region even if you fight enough.
Str glitch:
It tends to work when you beat the enemies in the screen all together. Opening Y-menu might sometimes be inevitable.
The left happens when you begin a fight and the right happens when you end or run away a fight. This is originally discovered by trangix. My inputs may be excess and may not be optimal. I think A-button and null input plays an important role.
Double normal attacks: There are extra frames so you don’t have to follow my inputs strictly. And there is the other way to pull double normal attacks by using L/R instead of holding A.
