By that stage I'm usually nearing finishing it.
Have to have all of the things as soon as possible. All the things.
Have to have all of the things as soon as possible. All the things.
Gaming The Final Fantasy Thread
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Seiously, how do you finish this quest? I dug for an hour and a half and only found 4 chocographs and 1 chocograph part(?). Only one of them is reachable at the moment.
Is possible to finish this quest without spending a month doing this? I have yet to see more annoying mini games, both this and catch a frog minigame.
Is possible to finish this quest without spending a month doing this? I have yet to see more annoying mini games, both this and catch a frog minigame.
More will turn up as you progress through them and discover the treasure. If you have the airship, the chocographs you have will probably be reachable - the earlier ones are designed to be obtained right from the offset, although it depends on whether you're getting the later ones that have been unlocked first. That would be annoying, because there is something about some of the treasures that is required to actually get to some places even if you do have an airship.
It's best to do these throughout the story to get the benefit properly, but there is a lot of stuff wherever you are in the game that you cannot find or make anywhere else. Some of the best armour, accessories, ultimate weapons, etc can only be obtained this way, for example.
It's best to do these throughout the story to get the benefit properly, but there is a lot of stuff wherever you are in the game that you cannot find or make anywhere else. Some of the best armour, accessories, ultimate weapons, etc can only be obtained this way, for example.
At the stage of the game you're at, you should be able to unlock Choco upgrades, and reach the lagoon. Should be able to get all but 3 Chocographs, and be able to reach all but 3 of the ones you have.
In fact there are four chocographs that I can find at the moment (Mene is saying that Choco cannot find more chocograph in both Chocobo forest and Chocobo Lagoon). I found 20 chocograph location until now, though I haven't find 3 or 4 of them yet. Also, I found 4 Chocograph pieces.
Anyway after a day and a half spending playing this game now it's time to continue with the story and go to Black Mages village. Will turn for this quest probably after I finish third disc.
Ahhhh, of course, it's four. The graph the 6 pieces give you, and the three from the air garden.
The dead peppers, too. Some decent shit to be had there.
Congrats for getting that all out the way, it can be an effort even if you know where to look sometimes. There's one if I remember rightly with just the ocean and a tiny speck of land in the corner of the photo...
I went straight to the internet when I came across that.
Congrats for getting that all out the way, it can be an effort even if you know where to look sometimes. There's one if I remember rightly with just the ocean and a tiny speck of land in the corner of the photo...
I went straight to the internet when I came across that.I am finding these in both forest and lagoon but don't know for the life of me what they are.
I have found the Ocean chocograph and I think that it is insane. Surely I will need to watch on youtube, it's literally a photo of ocean and I am too lazy to check for an hour until I find it.
On another note, how the hell people improve Zidane's thievery. I read about it and it is stupid, you need around 1000 steals in order to make maximum damage. Retarded. The Freya's and Quina's equivalent seems more plausible (to kill 100 dragons and to catch 100 frogs) though I am not near to do that yet.
Yeah, the Ocean one.
You use dead peppers where there are bubbles in the ocean or cracks in mountains (there is another one also which is less clear and a bit tricky). Some of the very best stuff in the game is to be had via dead peppers, but don't look up where to get them yet because you may come across a bit of a spoiler.
As for Thievery, I thought it was Zidane's level x items stolen. Turns out it's items stolen x speed/2. That sounds daunting but I can't remember what the speed stats were like on this game. Say Zidane's is 50 (which may be too high) and he's stolen 400 items, that's 9999 damage. I steal throughout to prevent this situation but that sounds mad.
With Quina it's best to leave a male and a female frog in the pond from memory. I found that thoroughly frustrating though I must admit!
Yeah, it's (speed * number of successful steals)/2 which is crazy. I am doing a modest of 1300 damage with speed 28. Is there any way to heavily increase speed or should I do another 700-800 steals which mean I should steal for another 10-20 hours
I didn't know this thing, I stole only from the bosses.I have caught around 40 frogs at the moment. It's going well, especially in the northern continent where it is a golden frog. I am leaving a male and female (googled it) but in the main continent I made the mistake of catching all of them the first time and then they had a lot of time without reproducing. Anyway, I think that Quina's frogs and Freya's dragons won't be a problem. Zidane's steals on the other side... Does Zidane with the best weapon and MP attack make 9999 damage. If so, I won't steal like a tard, but also the problem is that these kind of attacks ignore defenses, while regular attacks don't.
It's probably not necessary to level up thievery, to be honest. There is a single boss whereby thievery would be more useful than usual, but then again you might even want to just use Zidane as a healer for that fight. Really, Zidane is a pretty average character! His ultimate weapon and MP attack is his strength as you guessed and probably does about 8000 or so. His trance does 9999 to everything, which is nice.
After looking it up, there is a way to bypass the whole effort of levelling up thievery. Assuming you are using epsxe, it is compatible with Gameshark codes.
Thievery Does Max Damage
8008B7BA 1000
http://www.ngemu.com/forums/showthread.php?t=153050
Maybe that's the way to go, but you never know if this sort of thing will have an adverse effect on the save file.
After looking it up, there is a way to bypass the whole effort of levelling up thievery. Assuming you are using epsxe, it is compatible with Gameshark codes.
Thievery Does Max Damage
8008B7BA 1000
http://www.ngemu.com/forums/showthread.php?t=153050
Maybe that's the way to go, but you never know if this sort of thing will have an adverse effect on the save file.
It's probably not necessary to level up thievery, to be honest. There is a single boss whereby thievery would be more useful than usual, but then again you might even want to just use Zidane as a healer for that fight. Really, Zidane is a pretty average character! His ultimate weapon and MP attack is his strength as you guessed and probably does about 8000 or so. His trance does 9999 to everything, which is nice.
After looking it up, there is a way to bypass the whole effort of levelling up thievery. Assuming you are using epsxe, it is compatible with Gameshark codes.
Thievery Does Max Damage
8008B7BA 1000
http://www.ngemu.com/forums/showthread.php?t=153050
Maybe that's the way to go, but you never know if this sort of thing will have an adverse effect on the save file.
I don't think that it is the best idea to use cheats because it's cheating
And because I am afraid to use them because I don't trust eSPXe to not ruin my game. Going either to become full retard and find a place where there are always 3 enemies and steal from them for two days or so, or I have to only use MP attack with the ultimate weapon whenever I find it and hope that it will do big damage.Thanks anyway. fecking hell, I have spend a lot of time playing this game during the last two days and almost haven't advanced with the story at all. Just went to the forgotten continent (for the first time with the Kuja's ship) cause my stupid Chocobo can climb mountains and run on the sea but somehow cannot go in a continent where there are no beaches
I burst out laughing by the time that was a good way through Zeal/Corridors of Time...
Must admit that metal's not really my thing but I love that.Was looking at this guy again the other day, he's another Youtube RPG remix legend:
That Chrono Cross one...!
I sent the guy a message on Youtube after hearing that practically begging to buy a high quality MP3 version off him, but to no avail. Usually nothing really comes close to the originals but that's one of the few I've heard that I've just thought was flat out better. The original is absolutely beautiful as well.Love the Cid one too - sounds a bit dodgy with some of the notes during the first 90s or so but that's likely the intended style.
Edit:
Turns out that the guy with the French Horn is like...the best musician of all time:
!!
Ones for FF6 and 9, too.
I don't think that it is the best idea to use cheats because it's cheating
Thanks anyway. fecking hell, I have spend a lot of time playing this game during the last two days and almost haven't advanced with the story at all. Just went to the forgotten continent (for the first time with the Kuja's ship) cause my stupid Chocobo can climb mountains and run on the sea but somehow cannot go in a continent where there are no beaches
Think with this it's just a short cut... I don't envy that grind.
It's true though, it would be devastating fecking up a save file now! at that with the chocobo. Always found that weird. You on disc 4 now, then?Think with this it's just a short cut... I don't envy that grind.
Nope on disc three. Alexandria got burned on the beginning of disc 3 and now Kuja forced me to go on the forgotten continent with his 'airplane'.
Too much a risk to use cheats (shortcut
) for ePSXe. Have played around 35 hours and wouldn't start again from the beginning. Also, ePSXe is having some troubles like if I make a state save then the game doesn't go well (although I am using it's best drivers). Probably better cause I am playing the game as it was meant to play (no state saves).Nope on disc three. Alexandria got burned on the beginning of disc 3 and now Kuja forced me to go on the forgotten continent with his 'airplane'.
Too much a risk to use cheats (shortcut
Bizarrely, I've just had one of these moments, hence why I'm still up at 5 in the morning. I tried downloading Super Smash Brothers Brawl for Dolphin and started having some sort of problem relating to the creation of save files. The solution to this was to download a save file from the internet, place it manually in the directory where it would've been created, and then have it load up normally as if it were mine.
Somehow...I went and completely fecked up a load of shit and my Xenoblade files were no longer being recognised. I started copying and pasting them left, right and centre to see if something would stick but nothing worked. I then go on the Wii import save file manager to try and sort something there yet still nothing happens. Next thing I'm reading that to try to get your game to recognise Wii save files taken from a Wii (which is basically what I was doing because they were no longer anything to do with my Xenoblade/Dolphin), you actually need a Wii for some reason even after you have the files.
In the end, I somehow got it working and I can now relax knowing that I don't have to put another 40 hours into this just to get up to where I am now.
'kin hell, though... can't believe how much I shat myself over this.
Started thinking of this memory from years ago of when I went round to a mate's to let him use a cheat cartridge for his Gameboy. He already had 150 pokemon but for some reason he couldn't get the last one, so I took this round so that he could get Mew. All this cartridge did was corrupt his save file, delete every pokemon he had and force him to start a new game. He cried for hours and I remember stamping on the cheat cartridge to try and calm him down.I was wondering whether this was some sort of sick karma for that horrible event.
Mew was impossible to get back then, unless you abused a really awkward set of glitches, which to activate meant avoiding certain battles early on.'kin hell, though... can't believe how much I shat myself over this.
'kin hell, though... can't believe how much I shat myself over this.
I was wondering whether this was some sort of sick karma for that horrible event.
Yeah, I know that it is not funny to see people suffering but still.Talking about crying at games and ff9.
When I was about 12(?) I managed to get all the way to the Beatrix battle at Alexandria without saving (didn't have a memory card for some reason) and died, I wept like a baby.
When I was about 12(?) I managed to get all the way to the Beatrix battle at Alexandria without saving (didn't have a memory card for some reason) and died, I wept like a baby.
Not relevant to FF, but speaking of game remixes I always adored this Castlevania - Clockwork remix by housethegrate:
That's like 10-15 hours. How did you achieved that?
I done something similar in Prince Of Persia, came with my PS2, but I couldn't afford a memory card the day I got it, hell, I only barely got home, made it most of the way through the game in one sitting, and died.
I attempted it with ff7 when I was a kid, took the day off school and played as far as I could in one go, though I was saving along the way, think I made it to Costa Del Sol.
Ah.........shit.
The poor guy...
We were only about 8 or something and he'd spent all year trading with other people to get the whole 150. I can sympathise because I almost felt sick this morning with dread that I'd completely lost everything and would have to start over. Xenoblade is pretty much the worst game conceivable for this because of the quite insane amount of quests, rare monsters and weapons there are littered throughout. You can spend hours and hours between dialogue doing nothing but killing monsters, raising stats, selling stuff, etc... probably a bit too long sometimes, to be honest!This really is a fantastic game, though. It is definitely a flawed masterpiece so far but it's a JRPG straight out of the top drawer nevertheless. Why the hell Monolith Soft released this only on the Wii and in Japan originally I don't know. They should've released it on PS3 and thrown a feck load of money at the advertising side of things.
This 'X' that's coming out on the Wii U is going to be ridiculous if it's going to be a revamped version of this. The sort of game you'd actually get a Wii U for actually, assuming Nintendo/Monolith Soft don't hide it from the whole world and release it solely to some obscure village up in the mountains.
Could get Earthbound for the Wii U as well now, can't think of anything else I'd want, does it play regular Wii games? Apparently The Last Story is pretty sweet.
Apparently so. Must admit, I don't really know anything about the Wii U other than that X is coming out on it and that it's been pretty ripped apart by gamers so far. I'm guessing they're hoping this will give it the kick it needs.
Heard mixed reviews regarding The Last Story - some full of praise and others not so much. Wanted to play it but apparently even the Wii struggles to run it at times! Hugely ambitious game for the Wii by the sounds of it. To play it all the way through at 30fps on Dolphin you apparently need the best desktop intel processor money can buy and you need it at about 4.5 ghz...
Yeah, tbh, I didn't even realise the WiiU was a new console at first, but thought it was an updated Wii, or something.Apparently so. Must admit, I don't really know anything about the Wii U other than that X is coming out on it and that it's been pretty ripped apart by gamers so far. I'm guessing they're hoping this will give it the kick it needs.
Heard mixed reviews regarding The Last Story - some full of praise and others not so much. Wanted to play it but apparently even the Wii struggles to run it at times! Hugely ambitious game for the Wii by the sounds of it. To play it all the way through at 30fps on Dolphin you apparently need the best desktop intel processor money can buy and you need it at about 4.5 ghz...
That's pretty ridiculous, crazy power. Never heard of a game so big it's difficult to play on it's natural system(outside of new PC games on old/low spec computers). Speaking of running games on PC, I finally got around to sorting Suikoden III on my laptop. My laptop can actually get it to run at 120fps, but even running it at an optimal 60-65 is trouble in the end. Seems to work for a while fine, then I notice the fps swings quite drastically back and forth and my laptop gets *really* hot. Probably need a desktop to do it right, tbh.
Still, my copy of Suikoden Tactics, a game I missed in the PS2 gen, arrived the other day, so that'll keep me busy.
Ahh, unlucky.
Have you tried switching the emphasis between the graphics card and processor in the config options out of interest? The different software and hardware settings make a big difference for some games at some points - in FFX and KH, for example, there are some parts like summoning that don't work with hardware, but do work with software (depending on how good your processor or GPU is). There's an option (F9 I think) that does it in game but playing around with things like that may help. Also, there are things in the video 'core GS' options like clamping to turn down, VU Cycle stealing to turn up, etc... You can also go below native resolution if you go into one of the .ini files if I remember rightly.Oh, and taking your charger out will decrease FPS a lot! I was panicking when I got my laptop that it was maybe faulty or something, but even if you have maximum power settings enabled off charge it still drops massively in terms of FPS.
I just followed some "best settings" vid on youtube, I need to screw about with it a bit more once I've finished Tactics, and FF Tactics, and I have Suikoden Tierkreis for the DS in the post too(barely a Suikoden, tbh, but still supposed to be a decent RPG in it's own right).
I always leave my charger in, when gaming at least in case it runs out at the wrong time.
I always leave my charger in, when gaming at least in case it runs out at the wrong time.
Yeah, probably best to Youtube it. I don't actually know what any of these settings mean, to be honest. Just know that some of them really do work and the ones that damage your game are highlighted as being potentially dangerous.
Just know that some of them really do work and the ones that damage your game are highlighted as being potentially dangerous.Same here, I had little to no clue what any of it meant.
Spent every penny on potions, and slogged every battle. It took a few days since I was so careful in every battle, then she gets her fecking break point out.
Thought some of you guys in here might be interested by this.....
Cheers for that, definitely worth a look.
Love it. The guy is God, I doubt there will ever be another Uematsu. It's not even just his prolificness or consistency but the impact he's had on people. It's actually staggering how many fan made remixes, covers, albums, orchestrations, etc have been made off the back of his work. People are still releasing albums one after another because of him and Square Enix are still re-arranging his music in every way imaginable. Celtic, violin, piano, vocals, trance, orchestrations, chips (!), hip hop, lounge... it is genuinely a shit load of music.
I don't think even Koji Kondo has had that sort of impact. He no doubt has some of the most recognisable and nostalgic music of all time but with Uematsu it's almost every song he's made that the above applies to. You don't just see covers of Aeris' theme, To Zanarkand, etc...it's everything!
Love it.
The guy is God, I doubt there will ever be another Uematsu. It's not even just his prolificness or consistency but the impact he's had on people. It's actually staggering how many fan made remixes, covers, albums, orchestrations, etc have been made off the back of his work. People are still releasing albums one after another because of him and Square Enix are still re-arranging his music in every way imaginable. Celtic, violin, piano, vocals, trance, orchestrations, chips (!), hip hop, lounge... it is genuinely a shit load of music.I don't think even Koji Kondo has had that sort of impact. He no doubt has some of the most recognisable and nostalgic music of all time but with Uematsu it's almost every song he's made that the above applies to. You don't just see covers of Aeris' theme, To Zanarkand, etc...it's everything!
fecking hell, just finished that part in the Kuja's palace. Retarded. I had the bad fortune of having Vivi, Dagger, Eiko and Freya (who is the character I have used least often) on the team and because the all level was a puzzle I sweated a lot to finish it with the stupid random battles. Seriously where there are puzzles there shouldn't be random battles. Anyway if I had one of the strong characters it wouldn't be that bad, but here I only had to use magic with Vivi and summons from Dagger (bitch couldn't concentrate in half of times). Anyway, I finished it somehow, now went into the final continent (Lost Continent).
I bought a Micro Synth for my bass guitar mainly just so I could do Underneath The Rotting Pizza better.Cheers for that, definitely worth a look.
Love it.
I don't think even Koji Kondo has had that sort of impact. He no doubt has some of the most recognisable and nostalgic music of all time but with Uematsu it's almost every song he's made that the above applies to. You don't just see covers of Aeris' theme, To Zanarkand, etc...it's everything!
Ah, you're up to my favourite location in all ffix Revan. Esto Gaza. Best music in the game imo
Quina's level 5 death combined with Grand Dragons means quick leveling up. Awesome.
Nice.
Classic case in point with that track. Not an Aeris theme, One Winged Angel, Still More Fighting, etc...but one that everyone will agree is brilliant.Listening through it now, there's such a classic Uematsu move in that song. That synth that comes in 30 seconds in is taken from the world map theme, but it's so different that it just knits it wonderfully into and with the soundtrack instead of being an obvious rehash. I think that's why his soundtracks are so brilliant - the way he doesn't just create a beautiful atmosphere but also puts subtle little references to the main theme in like that that to bring it all together.
There's another thing with an alternative Eiko theme on the expanded FF9 album. Not entirely sure whether it plays in the game, but this one has the Melodies of Life theme looping over it perfectly. It was taken out of for Eiko's theme but it shows that it was likely originally constructed around the main theme, with it originally having that melody at the same tempo as it would've been in Crossing Those Hills. I'd never drawn the connection between Eiko's theme and Melodies of Life before that but there are probably a lot of songs he does that with to make the soundtrack come together.
It's a sweet move, adds a vibe to the whole game, like it all fits together better. It's pretty amazing how he can make the same riffs(for lack of a better word) feel so different.