Keitai Denjuu Telefang is an odd imitation of Pokemon. Up to three Denjuus can participate in battles, and type effectiveness is based on a six-way equivalent of rock-paper-scissors. Critical hits and misses were obtained by waiting frames. Random encounters could not be avoided. Most "trainer" battles were avoided. Only Denjuus with maximum or near-maximum base attack, maximum attack growth and decent type effectiveness against bosses were recruited. Due to the avoidance of battles, it was simply easier to recruit Denjuus from new areas to increase attack (as opposed to leveling up).
Emulator used: Gambatte SVN 344
Tricks:
Passwords can be used to obtain very strong Denjuu, but are not used in this run.
Encounters are triggered when the encounter timer reaches 800 (3*256 + 32). Timer is reset upon entering a battle, and upon entering a big tree. Timer stops upon receiving a non-story phone call, but I haven't found a way to intentionally trigger phone calls. That would be the best way to stop encounters.
When you do receive a phone call but don't want to answer it (usually when you need to talk to an NPC), it is faster to open the map to cancel the call.
Certain "battle start" animations are faster than others, but only marginally (~3 frames). The circle animation, tied with certain others, is fastest.
Holding B and running through tall grass increases the timer extremely quickly, so I tend to press B once every few frames to slow it down. (I only realise this halfway into the run)
Certain walking trainers can be bypassed by save-resetting; player position is preserved, but trainer positions are reset.
Trainers walking paths can also be blocked by your Denjuu (battles are only triggered when the main character is seen), forcing them to turn around. See 1:14:10 for an example.
General battle strategy is to critical and KO enemies before they take their first turn, if possible. If an enemy gets a turn, they should use their charging attack, if they have it. The text is very fast, and they can often be defeated before the attack is fully charged. Charging attacks appear more often later into the game. Otherwise, enemies should use harmless stat (de)buffs such as Attack-up or Defense-down to avoid damage. Failing that, just manipulate for a miss. It is best for enemies to target (and miss) the Denjuu who will have the next turn, as this speeds up the switch transition.
Denjuus will forcibly join after many trainer battles, but most of them have bad stats and there is no real way to reject them.
Generally, I can't believe this game doesn't have a legitimate equivalent to Pokemon's Fly. A good portion of this game is spent traveling previously visited routes.
ThunderAxe31: Due to the initial lack of feedback, I had to come with extra researches about the game notability and the run quality, in order to be able to evaluate better the entertaining quality for this movie, since it's not applicable for Vault. Turns out this movie is qualified for Moons standards; more details can be found in this forum post.
I also have to note that the goal of this movie is to beat the game as fast as possible while not making use of memory corruption glitches and not making use of phone numbers, as opposed of the currently published movie. Future submissions that aim to obsolete this movie should also follow these restrictions in order to be accepted for this branch.
Finally finished watching.
3 times in the run, the player abruptly stops moving. Once in the contest area, another in desert, then on Liz island. Was it for luck manipulation?
You mentioned that you walked instead of running through grass to advance the timer slower. Does that save time compared to just getting an encounter normally? I noticed it happened in Liz Island, and only in specific parts of the island. Why is that so?
Sometimes, I notice you don't use the first Denjuu to attack, and instead seemingly do nothing, before attacking later. For instance, the Octorifle fight. Can you please explain what the strategy was?
How did you plan for which Denjuu to recruit? I was initially confused on why you seemingly recruited the same Denjuu 3 times in the mountain, until much later they were used in the area next to it. That was actually quite clever.
Despite the areas being very long in comparison to the sequel, the run was actually quite nice due to the music.
Finally finished watching.
3 times in the run, the player abruptly stops moving. Once in the contest area, another in desert, then on Liz island. Was it for luck manipulation?
You mentioned that you walked instead of running through grass to advance the timer slower. Does that save time compared to just getting an encounter normally? I noticed it happened in Liz Island, and only in specific parts of the island. Why is that so?
Sometimes, I notice you don't use the first Denjuu to attack, and instead seemingly do nothing, before attacking later. For instance, the Octorifle fight. Can you please explain what the strategy was?
How did you plan for which Denjuu to recruit? I was initially confused on why you seemingly recruited the same Denjuu 3 times in the mountain, until much later they were used in the area next to it. That was actually quite clever.
Despite the areas being very long in comparison to the sequel, the run was actually quite nice due to the music.
My response is a little late, but here goes anyway.
Can't remember why I appeared to stop in the contest area, but I think it was because I picked something up (I don't know what). I stopped in the desert to trigger the battle and recruit the snake thing (high Attack). Don't recall where I stopped in Liz Island, sorry, but I imagine it's either of the aforementioned reasons.
I believe I chose to walk in the last part of Liz Island because my encounter timer was almost at 800, and walking that last stretch allowed me to avoid one encounter. To be honest, I wasn't able to conclusively figure out whether walking or running would be faster over a long stretch of time.
Pretty sure I used an Attack-Up boost for Octorifle, since it was going to be a long battle anyway.
I only went out of my way to recruit Denjuu with high (close to max) base Attack and good type effectiveness against the upcoming boss.
Hope that answers your questions.
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GBA Final Fantasy Tactics Advance (any%)
GBC Dragon Warrior III (Pachisi glitch - skipping Kandar 1 means Kandar 2 won't be triggered)
