the glitch is used at 0:54 of this tool-assisted movie.
http://nicoviewer.net/sm17803880
2. Scrolling bug; I used this, when I succeeded to go the debug mode. but it might not be needed for the glitch.
Before when we go down and the screen is scrolling, press up and down.
then the character's location will slide out the half of the grid and we can go where we can't go originally.
the glitch is used at 0:48 and 4:07 of this tool-assisted movie.
http://nicoviewer.net/sm17803880
OK. Now, I explain the main glitch.
1. Start the game and proceed scenario
We're asked to go to the cloakroom to take her grandmother's handmade pie.
After taking the pie from the clerk and going out from the cloakroom, Warubou and the prince will prevent the way.
go down and talk with Warubou. then go right and talk with the prince and Warubou. Warubou try to grab your pie.
2. Scrolling bug
after Warubou and the prince went into the well, we ignore the well and go right to the next floor. then, go up to the next floor and do "scrolling bug". then come back to the well.
It would be skip-able...
3. Cloakroom bug
Entering to the well from the upper with pressing A repeatedly.
If the glitch is succeeded, the screen will remained to be white.
After finishing the conversation, go right till the x location is 90h.
When we used scrolling bug, we need to go up 1 grid before going right.
4. press right. then the charactor moves and the game will be bugged after many lags.
In many times, it just freezes. Sometimes it returns to the title with bugged graphics. and i had come accross to the debug mode at once...
The result will be different by the frame of pressing right and the input before the freeze/restart/debug launch.
the RAM seems to be filled with junk data.
I think when we could fill address C5DB with 00h and avoid freezes, it will work.
but i couldn't find any regularity and I'm tired of hundreds of trial. It often freezes.
It would be cool, if someone can find out how the glitch works.
Thanks for reading this long composition.
data:
debug mode flag: C5DB 00h= debug mode
FF8F, FF90, FF92: MAP ID
FF8E: X location of the charactor
FF91: Y location of the charactor
Movie file till before the last step of the glitch. (works on a proper dump of Dragon Quest Monsters 2: Iru no Bouken (J)):
http://dehacked.2y.net/microstorage.php/info/1046937017/DQMiru-bug.vbm
Lua script to show the MAP ID and character's location.
http://www.mediafire.com/?f4bujbdudnz971e
My DQM2 Testrun movies (no glitches)
http://nicoviewer.net/search?cx=partner-pub-9766425680241064%3A0803841926&cof=FORID%3A10&ie=UTF-8&q=DQM2+tas&sa=%E6%A4%9C%E7%B4%A2&siteurl=nicoviewer.net%2F&ref=nicoviewer.net%2Franking%3Fc%3Dg_culture2
I can try once I'm back from school. What VBA version did you used? Edit: One more thing, How does the debug menu look like?
I tried both not using the scrolling bug and using the scrolling bug, but both gave me alot of opcode errors which turns off the game, so I switched to vba-v24m-svn422 (which doesn't shut the game off in a freeze) and resynced the run. I hope you don't mind. Also, I came up with this result. The "Debug Mode Flag" is 0, and you can press A,B,Up,Down to hear something that sounds like menu scrolling, but I'm not sure if it's really the debug menu.
thx for checking. i don't know if vba-m is ok for submission though, it would be better for checking and analyzing. the freezes and errors are nasty Too bad thing is that it seems to be bad. we can't go debug. :( after many frames, the flag changed again. It looks like there are 2 points, when junk data are written, and the later point seems to be important. when i cheated the flag at the 2nd point, the debug launched.
Can you please tell me the address for the 2nd point? Also, how did you know when it can't go to debug? Will this movie work? Edit: Oh, and vba-m is ok for submission, since I submitted 3+ movies with it, and they got published.
I can trigger the ending & update the island by setting it tp 5F, then C5DC to 1. This won't set boss flag however.
I can also trigger the boss remotely:
C91A - needs to be changed??
C91B - needs to be changed??
C91F - ??? needs to be 1??
C920 - C922 - ID?
C923 - "action" (eg. 3 triggers battle if exists, or closes dialogue)
Changing it to right before the "THE END" screen pops up won't let you save normally, so 5F prob be the best bet for GEG.
From discord, by casualpokefan:
i found 2 rng bytes at cd03-cd04, with yet again another LCGRNG, with the formula seed = ((seed * 5) + 11) mod 65536
Edit2:
1. recruit 3 npcs
2. save bug (journal then reset on 1st lag)
3. drop off 00000
the RTA somehow then gets final world key. If I saved, I get this:
Which is super OP.
Edit3:
1. go through up to 1st monster as normal
2. talk to father for PorkChop
3. saved at desert entrance
4. CactiBall appeared. Recruited
5. saved again
6. reset
7. CactiBall now 00000
8. buy exit bell/warp wand (or manip via overworld)
9. glitched to beaver
10. worm appeared. recruited
11. beaver boss.
12. proceed normal as TAS
13. lamp boss. your slime defeated. lamp defeated. recruit lamp; place them to farm
14. back to oasis
15. back to well
16. spooky appeared. spooky recruited. deposit to farm
17. exit bell get (dont need if obtained in overworld)
18. madcandle appeared (where beaver was). recruited as 3rd npc
19. spottedslime appeared. recruited. deposit to farm
20. snake appeared. snake recruited deposit to farm
21. beaver recruited. replace 3rd npc
22. warp wing back to greatlog
23. deposit snake (remember, it was duped by 0000). followers will now be 2 beavers.
24. deposit 1st beaver. followers will now be tombstone.
25. release in order, every npc in farm until 1 left. Screen should glitch mid way
26. Go to magic door, warp back to oasis to heal
27. Tournament for pirate key; OHKO everyone
28. Go to sea world. Buy 1 journal page for saving from the village
29. Leave village. Go to water, fight 12 NPCs (in groups of 3, make sure each is within 20 encounter steps away)
30. You should now have limbo key. Go to Limbo
31. Go to bridge in front of castle. Save using journal.
32. 1 frame before 1st lag of saving, reset. NPC should be gone
33. Final boss.
Edit 4:
http://tasvideos.org/userfiles/info/72122126885481104
ID is in C6FE. The glitched NPC id is 110. C73E is where keys are at. Getting XP with ID 110 increases C73E. C73F is where key ID is stored. 6 is Limbo. Thus 0x600 (00 06) XP, or 1536 is needed to get Limbo key. That's why the run defeats 12 npcs in pirate world.
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1 Name 1
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6 Name 6 (Terminator Char F0)
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18 Owner name 10 (Unused)
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21 Family tree male owner name 4
22 Family tree male owner name 5
23 Family tree male owner name 6 (Terminator)
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25 Family tree male owner name 8 (Unused)
26 Family tree male owner name 9 (Unused)
27 Family tree male owner name 10 (Unused)
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29 Family tree female owner name 1
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2E Family tree female owner name 6 (Terminator)
2F Family tree female owner name 7 (Unused)
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B2 Sprite (the smaller one when you click on them on stats)
B3 ??
B4 Owner name 1
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B8 Owner name 5
B9 Owner name 6 (Terminator)
BA Owner name 7 (Unused)
BB Owner name 8 (Unused)
BC Owner name 9 (Unused)
BD Owner name 10 (Unused)
BE ??
BF Family tree ID
C0 Family tree male ID
C1 Family tree female type
C2 Family tree female type?
C3 Family tree male owner name 1
C4 Family tree male owner name 2
C5 Family tree male owner name 3
C6 Family tree male owner name 4
C7 Family tree male owner name 5
C8 Family tree male owner name 6 (Terminator)
C9 Family tree male owner name 7 (Unused)
CA Family tree male owner name 8 (Unused)
CB Family tree male owner name 9 (Unused)
CC Family tree male owner name 10 (Unused)
CD Family tree female type??
CE Family tree female owner name 1
CF Family tree female owner name 2
D0 Family tree female owner name 3
D1 Family tree female owner name 4
D2 Family tree female owner name 5
D3 Family tree female owner name 6 (Terminator)
D4 Family tree female owner name 7 (Unused)
D5 Family tree female owner name 8 (Unused)
D6 Family tree female owner name 9 (Unused)
D7 Family tree female owner name 10 (Unused)
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108 Attack
109 Attack
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10C AGL
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111 WLD
112 "Plus" (you get higher plus for breeding)
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