Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals

Lufia 2 is an adventure RPG prequel to Lufia & the Fortress of Doom. In this installment, Maxim and his cohorts set out to take down the evil Sinistrals. The game sports a large amount of puzzles, yet a shockingly low amount of battles.
In a TAS, luck manipulation can be used throughout a full game run to avoid most battles, or memory corruption can be used to jump to the credits early. We feature both types of runs on this site.
  • Id: 354
  • Platforms: SNES
  • Abbreviation: lufia2
  • Display Name: Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals
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Lufia 2 is an adventure RPG prequel to Lufia 1. In this installment, Maxim and his cohorts set out to take down the evil Sinistrals.
The game sports a large amount of puzzles, yet a shockingly low amount of battles. Using RNG manipulation, this movie illustrates how to avoid many unimportant skirmishes so as to cut down on wasted time. This manipulation is also used to get more favorable item drops throughout the whole run.
Note that the (U) version of this ROM contains some graphical glitches. You can read more about these in the submission text.
Lufia 2 is an adventure RPG prequel to Lufia 1. In this installment, Maxim and his cohorts set out to take down the evil Sinistrals.
Normally, the game sports a large amount of puzzles, yet a shockingly low amount of battles. In this movie, however, Genisto uses 2 newly found glitches, explained in the submission text, which let anyone finish the game without even leaving the first room, improving the previous movie by almost 2 minutes.
The baseline tab shows the default movie beating the game as fast as possible without any special conditions.

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TypeNameTitle OverrideRegionVersionPlatformHashes
Good Estpolis Denki II (J) [!].smc J SNES SHA1: FB532E487094037ABA6CFFA0F3D922383E73CB5F
MD5: 18567D21DF6A95A7B52029D250BAC721
Good Lufia II - Rise of the Sinistrals (USA).sfc U SNES SHA1: A89931C1F29B161B8BE717DFAB4A4ADB54B42B84
MD5: 6EFC477D6203ED2B3B9133C1CD9E9C5D