Left to be done :
- Maxing levels.
- Maxing Thievery. (currently at 83, needs to be 572 to do 9999 damage at level 99).
Both against Yans I suppose.
I thought of doing it like this :
Quina goes first and use Night, so Yans don't counter.
Zidane with Auto-Haste, Bandit and Master Thief, steals both items of each Yans.
I haven't tested it yet but I assume they're gonna wake up before every steal is complete, so Odin to kill those we don't need and Freeze from Ice Brand or Sleep from Bistro Fork to neutralize those we still do.
Any thoughts ?Guess Dagger is gonna stay for all fights and will get Virus when she hit level 99.
Ah; oh well, good to have it cleared up on my end at least. Thanks, sorry for the bad tip! Trying to recall where I read it now... Hardly a big deal anyway, with the Yans already being a prime sauce of Virus. You planning on your early Yan fights, till you get the Ore that makes Odin viable, to use similar strats the the videos you put up a couple of years ago?
On a side note, I've been accepted in the school of my dream and started last monday, so next progress are gonna go way slower.
A recent test and digging resulted in a discovery that Lil Gecko's FF9 runs will not sync on Bizhawk 2.0 for the following reason: Lil Gecko's run appears to one of the late builds of version 1 (1.9-1.11) of Bizhawk, with both memory cards and both controllers (dual shock) plugged in. Due to the implementation of waterbox in v 2.0, the timing for loading memory cards/controllers in the system boot up has changed. Since the initialization of the RNG table is dependent on the system clock (0x1F801120), this means that it is impossible to sync the old run on the new version of Bizhawk. It is interesting to note that when no memory cards are inserted, the two versions of BizHawk agree with regard to system clock time. Different results are produced based on the number of controllers plugged in and whether or not they are game pad or dual schock, but it is consistent across both versions and does not appear to affect the frame count (unlike the memory card). This could be an interesting avenue of RNG exploration if another pass is made at the any% TAS of this game.
Talking about close call... But, hooray, we can now move on to complete every sidequests.
I was wondering recently how this project was coming along! I eagerly look forward to the final result, whenever it's done :D
Indeed. By the way, the project is still alive, I just haven't worked on it in a while. There is a lot of things I do before Excalibur II that a segmented run would do post. Like Frog catching, Blue Magic, Ragtimer, picking up nearly every chest and so on. In addition to not skipping cutscenes, there are also loading times in Bizhawk that are way longer than a PS2 with Fast Disc Speed. If I had done only the necessary stuffs listed in gamefaqs, I would have got Excalibur II way before the 12 hours mark, but the total time in the end would be much longer.
Yeah, the problem is not the time it would take, but that it's impossible to have all at 99. Let's take the 'Save the Queen' for example. It's synthesize with 'Javelin' and 'Silver Gloves'. But by the time you reach the location to synthesize them, 'Javelin' and 'Silver Gloves' are no longer obtainable. You can buy 99 Javelins and 99 Silver Gloves early, but then you'd have to make a choice. 98 Javelins, 98 Silver Gloves and 1 Save the Queen ? 97 Save the Queen, 2 Silver Gloves and 2 Javelins ? and so on. The guide decided to settle for a "less arbitrary" amount, which is one equippable and one in inventory, so 2 Javelins, 3 Silver Gloves and 1 Save the Queen, which is what made the most sense to me so I followed it. For the other items, I might go for 99, still unsure. It would require hours of Chocobo Hot N Cold for the Gil and Points necessary.
