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 If your having trouble stealing the Kazekiri from Number 128 in this playthrough, you can alway's wait until you come across him in the Soul Shrine. I think you can fight every random enemy and boss in there, and their'll still have the same item on them from the main game, although it is possible to steal it and still beat him in the main game, I did it last-night on a test run-through, just keep the Thunder Rod you get from South Figaro cave and a few Ice Rods to easily take out the Cranes you fight on the Airship, so you won't have to do it all again. Where about are you now? 
02-26-2007, 08:51 AM
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| I've been setting up preparatory guides before I even get started this time around. I don't want there to be any chance that I miss anything this time, and since I'm planning on sort of turning this into a guide I'm really taking my time reading and combining the most important information from all of these guides. One of the things I want to do this time is clear not only every enemy for rage, but every single enemy formation possible so that every monster formation in the game appears on the veldt. I turned a segment of Djibriel's Rage Guide into a checklist, much like the Treasure Checklist, so that it can be printed off and monster formations can be checked off as you encounter them. I'm also setting up another checklist to accompany that one which lists the monster formations by area that you should clear before moving on...that one is taking awhile. I'm ripping that info piece by piece out of Djibriel's walkthrough while cutting out unnecessary duplicates of monsters you should have already cleared, etc. Pretty soon here I should have these checklists up and be able to write a sort of guide to piece everything together as I go through. Here is the pack checklist and unfinished formation-by-area checklist.
02-26-2007, 05:31 PM
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| I know I haven't been journaling like I originally planned, but I've been sick and busy. Writing the guide has been about ten times more work than I originally estimated, but I'm making good progress and still going through with it. As far as the guide goes, I'm waiting on about a dozen different confirmations to use data from existing FAQs, and most of the guide at this point is in a state of notes to myself on what to write when I actually go back and edit it all together. Very few parts are actually in their finished state. Personally, I just completed what I consider the first of three "difficult" or "patience trying" parts in the perfect playthrough, which is Kefka's raid on Narshe for Valigarmanda. I'm not sure how I want to present various parts of the guide yet, for instance, I'm not sure if I want to have all of the checklists strewn throughout the guide or separate to be printed off and used alongside the main step-by-step walkthrough portion. Anyway, since I haven't posted much, here is an example of one of the finished segments of the guide, the very same part I was just telling you I most recently completed: Code: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Safeguarding Valigarmanda ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- After the story sequence, you'll be in control of Terra. It's time to set up your characters. Since you'll be forced to accept some exp in this scene, you're stuck with Terra, Sabin, Edgar, and Celes for your assault team. What follows will be a true test of patience; one of the most frustrating parts of a perfect playthrough. The following steps will ease the pain of this sequence as much as possible: Unequip Locke and put him in the front row. Unequip Celes Put Cyan in the front row. Finally, set up your assault team: Terra Sabin Edgar Celes ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- Great Sword Mythril Claws Mythril Spear Great Sword Mythril Shield Buckler Heavy Shield Heavy Shield Green Beret Green Beret Green Beret Green Beret Silk Robe Ninja Gear Iron Armor Leather Armor Hermes Sandals Earring Hyper Wrist Barrier Ring White Cape Earring Mythril Glove Ribbon Save your game after everyone is set up and prepare to go one-on-one with the seemingly spiteful random number generator of Final Fantasy VI Advance. This is how your teams should look: Team 1: Celes* Terra Sabin Edgar Team 2: Cyan Team 3: Locke *I have to note that, while I have no concrete proof that this has any bearing at all on the encountered formations, in my experience it seems that putting Celes in the first slot of Team 1 makes the rare 12-0 formation appear significantly more often. It might be a completely bogus observation, however, it can't hurt to go with it just in case. This will probably take many tries, but it is entirely possible to clear all five formations here while only gaining a single level with Terra, which will be okay since her level will be averaged to 6 the next time she joins the party anyway. 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The green assault teams will not enter this small alley, and since you have an empty space on either side of you you'll not encounter any green guards. In this position you'll have to wait a few seconds for all of the green teams to pass, take this opportunity to quickly move Team 2 and 3 into position as shown in STEP 2. If your timing is right when you switch back to Team 1 the last green guard on the left should just be passing, you'll want to make a mad dash south along the left wall as shown in STEP 3 just as soon as the guard is moving left into his position shown by G< in STEP 3. At position @ you'll encounter your first battle with a brown soldier in a line formation to the right. Hope for the more rare encounter, 12-0: Heavy Armor, Corporal, Corporal. If you get the common encounter, 12-1: Fidor, Corporal, it is still possible to encounter 12-0 in %, so don't give up just yet. To handle 12-0: Heavy Armor, Corporal, Corporal, I recommend using Auto Crossbow once with Edgar, then taking out the Corporals one by one with single- target Fire and Blizzard, courtesy of Terra and Celes, respectively. Once the Corporals are dead, make a run for it to avoid the exp. To handle 12-1: Fidor, Corporal, just abuse Auto Crossbow and Aura Cannon while healing up with multi-target Cure with Celes. You'll have to take the exp on this one so make sure everyone is alive to distribute it correctly. The timing on the next part is bizarre and tricky. In order to avoid a third brown team battle you'll have to wait a split second after getting past the encounter at position @ before moving down a space to encounter the formation at position %. The easiest way to time this is to go into your menu the instant you finish with the first encounter. It will look like you're going to get caught by a guard moving in on you from the right, but you'll be able to move out of the way in time if you move down the instant you exit from the menu. I recommend using the menu time to heal up everyone with potions. At position % you'll encounter your second brown team battle, hope for the one you didn't get at position @. If you do get the same one, reset and try again, unless of course both of the previous encounters have been 12-0. In this rare case you can quickly encounter a third brown formation hoping for 12-1 this time. Eventually you will get lucky and encounter both 12-0 and 12-1, the next step is to quickly move down to avoid an extra brown battle that will ensue if you fight Hell Rider from your current position in position %. If you have gotten the timing right so far and entered the menu after the battle at position @ as I suggested, Hell Rider should be out of your way after you finish off the encounter at position %, allowing you to move down into his line at position &. You should have a split second to heal up with potions in the menu before fighting Hell Rider if you need, although he shouldn't give you too much trouble either way. Have Sabin use Aura Cannon and Edgar use Auto Crossbow every turn as usual. Use Terra for multi-target Cure to keep your HP up. Celes can cast Blizzard for a little extra damage. As soon as Hell Rider is taken care of, position yourself directly in front of Kefka, facing him, so that all you need to do is press A to initiate the battle, this is very important so you have as much time as possible to encounter the last two formations. If you need to heal up Team 1, do it before switching parties or you'll risk having a pesky green team seize Banon. As soon as you're prepared to fight Kefka with Team 1, quickly switch to Team 3 and walk down to face a green team as quickly as possible. Pray for the more rare 12-4: Hunting Hound, Corporal, Corporal, as facing this formation right off the bat probably means you just succeeded. Regardless, if you face 12-3 Corporal, Corporal, Corporal, Corporal, you still have a couple chances to get 12-4. Allow yourself to get killed by the formation, it shouldn't take long at all with no equipment in the front row. When you die, you'll appear up at the save point location with 1 HP, quickly head back down to fight more green team formations. Before you're able to fight another one with Team 3, Team 2 will probably get attacked by another green formation. If it's the one you didn't face in the first battle with Team 3, you win, if not, work as fast as you can to fight more formations with Team 3 before they seize Banon. You can probably get in three or four total battles in if you're really quick. The instant you've encountered both green formations switch to Team 1 and rapidfire the A button to engage Kefka. Kefka is easy, so if you've made it this far you're home free. Keep Runic up at all times with Celes and you disable his only means to do serious damage to your party. Have Terra heal up your party with potions while Edgar and Sabin do the Auto Crossbow/Aura Cannon thing again. It's very important you don't accidently use Cure with Terra as it could invalidate your Runic right as Kefka decides to multi-target you with a powerful spell.
03-01-2007, 10:46 AM
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| What do you plan on doing when you get around to the mine cart escape? There's four different enemy formations for the Magna Roaders, those plus the fifth battle will result in you gaining an extra level for one of your characters, no matter which way you do it, stopping you from gaining perfect stats.
03-01-2007, 12:45 PM
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| Actually it works out quite perfectly, I've developed a strategy so that you encounter both the purple and red Magna Roader and only Locke gains a single level. Since I max out his strength anyway, we already have Bismarck at this point, which is +2 to strength, the most you'll ever get. With Bismarck equipped Locke naturally goes up a level just like he would after this point, and the overall average is still maintained.
03-01-2007, 06:57 PM
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| I'd just like to point out, in case you were not aware or something, if you die, you'll keep all your EXP and levels, start from the last save, BUT, you'll lose any bonus from Espers at those levels. Just a fair warning. For when later you start fighting in the Dragon forest or whatever to gain levels, save every level, because you can die easily there. I was just reminded of this fighting there, Cyan was level 77, but then died, from a rear Bite attack for 8000 damage... he was still level 77, but had the Magic stat he had when I had last saved, at 70. That was 14 good points I lost cause I hadn't saved for awhile, so I reloaded the level 70 game. THE JACKAL
03-02-2007, 02:00 AM
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| Yeah, I learned the hard way my first time through FFVI Advance, almost ruined my game (That game ended up being ruined anyway, but eh.)
03-02-2007, 03:21 AM
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| Can you do this for Final Fantasy V Advance too?
03-02-2007, 03:27 AM
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