Alternate costume colors
Start a new game and select a character. Enter one of the following character names to unlock two additional colors at the costume selection screen.
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| KSKAUDONSU | Humar | | MOUEOSRHUN | Hunewearl | | RUUHANGBRT | Hucast | | SOUDEGMKSG | Ramar | | MEIAUGHSYN | Racat | | NUDNAFJOOH | Racaseal | | DNEAOHUHEK | Fomarl | | ASUEBHEBUI | Fonewm | | XSYGSSHEOH | Fonewearl | | SHUGRADJYT | All classes |
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Avoid walking near traps and enemies
Normally, you cannot run when near a trap or enemy. To avoid this, press Start to display the main menu. You may now run again.
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Avoiding Phantasy Pirates
Phantasy Pirates are thieves. They steal your money and weapon when you die. Then run away or deny they stole it. To prevent getting caught in this position, leave your money in the bank and do not play with someone who is suspicious, acts very strangely, or exhibits stealing behavior. If you think you will die, equip a weapon that is not very valuable to you.
When you first join a team, ask everyone for their guild card. Thieves do not give away their guild card, because guild cards are a symbol of trust. If someone is constantly asks questions such as "What is your hobby?" or "Where do you live?" and there are items around, either pick up the items, then answer, or do not answer at all. If the person is acting suspicious and wants to trade with you, do not drop your money or item first -- or drop only one Meseta or a Saber +1 until you can see that their item is really the item they said it was.
If a thief keeps stealing people's items, get a lot of monsters after you. Then, run over to the thief and make them chase the pirate. Try to get at least ten monsters and make sure no one helps. Also make sure no one heals the pirate.
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Change views
Hold L + R and press Up on controller B, C, or D when in an area in online mode to switch views to that of one of your teammates.
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Character movements
Note: This trick requires a Dreamcast keyboard. Hold [Alt] and press [F1] through [F12] to make your character perform various movements.
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Control loading screen
Press the Analog-stick during the loading screen that features streaks of light coming towards you to move a small twinkling star around.
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Easy experience
Start a new game and go to the place where they give you the hunter job. Select the third choice (named battle training). In this job, you get a partner that is very strong. To get easy experience just hit all the monsters once and have him kill them with one slice. You still get 4 experience points. Before you finish the job, leave the forest, go back to the guide place, and cancel your job. Then, restart it and all the monsters and items will be back making it easy to get experience points, money, and items.
The Rap Rappy birds in the Forest 1 and 2 can be shot once for experience. After a short time they will wake up and try to run. Shoot them again and they will drop an item.
When in the forest level, if you are fighting against a Monest do not kill the nest. Instead, kill all the flies first. When the nest is empty use a Telepipe/Ryuker. When you return to the forest you will see that the nest is full again. This works best in hard or v. hard modes.
In "Forest Of Sorrow" mission, go to forest level 2. Move to the southeastern-most room (off the long room that is north to south, has two smaller rooms and one larger room to the east, the island in the center of the map to the west and the weather computer to the north) to find three large Hideabears. In the cubbyhole to the south-west is one small Hideabear. Every time you talk to the small Hideabear, three more large Hideabears appear in the room. Be careful, as you can get over six large Hideabears in there. Each is good for about 10 XP.
Find a Pan Arms, then equip a weapon that steals experience. Hit them when they are together. You will do no damage, so you can continue to do this for as long as needed. You get about 60 XP a minute under the normal difficulty setting.
If you are at level 12, go to Forest 2 and go to the Boss stage. Kill the Dragon to get about 350 XP. Keep repeating this to level up quickly.
In the Ruins Two level, you will find an enemy named "Dark Gunner." These enemies fly around in an invincible state. You cannot hurt them until they land and fire beams at you. There is a trick to gaining unlimited experience points from them. First, you will need to obtain a weapon with a special attack that can steal the enemies experience points (for example, the Double Saber). While the Dark Gunner flies around, invincible, use the extra attack feature to unleash a flurry of chain attacks. Every successful hit will score extra experience points. Make sure that you do not attack the Dark Gunner while he is unprotected.
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Easy Ruins entry
When you defeat Vel Opt and transport to the Ruins door, use the "Go through locked doors" trick to go to Ruins without touching the monuments.
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Entering a full server
When you find a full server (i.e. US:Oberon Block 1 has 100 or more users), you normally cannot enter. However this can be bypassed if someone that you know (have his card) is online at the moment in the server you want to enter. Search him, go to search result, and input the command "Meet The User".
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Entering the Ruins area
After defeating the Boss of the Mines, you will arrive in an underground cave with a blocked door with three symbols on it. These symbols correspond to the three giant pillars found throughout the previous levels. You must go back through the Forest, Caves, and Mines to activate the pillars. Each pillar is located in the second area of each zone. Once all of the pillars are active, go through the Mines again, defeat the Boss, and then walk through the newly opened door.
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Experience every Mag
Build your Mag up to level 70, then for every 5 levels build him up beyond that to get a different Mag, even the ones they say you cannot have. All you have to do is build up one category for the Mag. For example, at level 70 boosted your Mind and to get Kabanda. Just work on one of the four categories only and watch what happens -- every fifth level your Mag will change by itself. If you get a Mag that you like and do not want to change, just balance out your Mag (feed all four categories evenly) and it will remain that way. Atomizers are good for this purpose.
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Find a rare monster
Go to a stage and wait for a monster to appear. Use Telopipe and then return. If you do so, the monsters will appear again. Do this several times and you should see a rare monster.
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Frozen game warning
If anyone tells you to go to chat, then shortcut and type lowercase "L"s all the way across, do not do it. It will freeze your game and you will have to turn off your Dreamcast and lose everything you did.
Go online, drop an item, pull out your VMU, then turn off the Dreamcast. Return to same room and pick up duplicated Item. Note: Have a friend in the room at the time and him to pick up the first item just in case.
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Frying pan weapon
Complete all off line quests under any difficulty setting. This will allow you to play any quest as many times as desired. Go to the "Secret Delivery" quest and find the fat man that is walking around. Talk to him and he will tell you about a secret club called "WEAPONS". After talking to him and receiving the emblem, complete the quest. You must now find four other WEAPONS members. They can be found in the following quests: "Claiming Stakes", "The Value of Money", "The Lost Bride", and "Gran Squall". Complete each quest after receiving your approval from the WEAPONS members, or your approvals will not be saved. After receiving all four approvals, return to the fat man in "Secret Delivery". He will tell you to see the Boss of WEAPONS to receive your membership. Walk towards the shops and find the woman in the corner. She is the fat man's wife. She will give you the Frying Pan as a token of your membership.
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Get away from traps
An easy way to get away from traps is to hold R while running through a hallway that may contain mines. To avoid hitting mines or to see them, create a HUcast Android. They can see mines and traps.
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Go through locked doors
Equip a Double Saber or no weapon. Then, go to the farthest side of the door and move as close to the door as possible. Get as sharp of an angle as possible without moving when doing Triple Attack. After doing Triple Attack once, go towards the door that was just attacked. Get as sharp of an angle as possible, then repeat. After the second or third Triple Attack, you should be able to walk through the door. If not, try again.
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Hacked item warning
Do not accept hacked items. You will get a warning on the screen. Sega representatives patrol the servers, so be cautious.
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Hard mode
Successfully complete the game in offline mode to unlock the hard difficulty setting.
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Hidden artwork
Place the game disc in a PC compatible CD-ROM drive to find images from the game in the "Extra" folder.
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Ice attack
The ice attack can be used to hit multiple enemies. Getting all the enemies to chase you. Stop and back up and use the ice. It should hit the ground and hit a line of enemies.
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Kireek's Soul Eater
You can do this only once per difficulty setting. To get Kireeks' Soul Eater, you need to play "Dr. Osto's Research" quest. Then, after you get the information at the end, talk to Sue. If she asks your name, say "No". After you finish that quest, go to the "Unsealed Door" quest. You will meet Sue again. Talk to her and listen to what she says. Then, complete the quest. Next, go to the Waterfall Tears. After defeating Anna, continue on to Cave 2 (same quest) and you will eventually meet Kireek. He will greet you, then you will have to fight him. After you defeat him, go to the "Black Paper" quest where he will try a rematch in Cave 1 of this quest. Note: You are in the dark in this battle. When you defeat Kireek in that battle, you will meet him again in the "From the Depths" quest. In that quest after you separate from Ash, go back to Ruins 2 (in this quest) and go as far west you can. You will confront Kireek for the final time. It is recommended that you equip some armor, shields, units that can withstand Dark/Draw/Shadow or whatever that weapon is made out of, or use Razonde (or Zonde, if that is all you have). When you defeat him you get to keep his weapon for your accomplishment.
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Neutralize poison
When poisonous plants are encountered in the caves, stand on the body of a fallen opponent and their poison cannot harm you.
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Overriding illegal item possession
Use the following trick to override that new warning that Sega posts when you are carrying duplicated, grinded, and useable items (such as Trimates, Trifluids, Star Atomizers, etc.) that are maxed out past the limit. Note: The grinded items (such as Level 999 Mags, Stag Cultry +255, etc.) and useable items are not fixable. Only keep items that are legitimate and exist in the game. Keep your useable items to the limit of the maximum (10). If you get the warning, quickly quit and save the game. Go to the offline game. Deposit all weapons and armor in your bank. Just have useable items (Trimates, Trifluids, Star Atomizers, etc.) in your character's inventory. Quit and save. Log back online. Join a team or create one, pick up your items from the bank and equip them. Quit and save for the final time. Log back online and resume the game.
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Rag Rappy items
Attack a Rag Rappy while playing the Forest Areas and it will go down. Wait until it gets back up, and attack it again before it runs off. They will end up leaving items that they have been collecting.
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Rare Mags
Rare Mags which are in the form of characters from NiGHTS Into Dreams, and Chao creatures from Sonic Adventure can be found in the two forests under the very hard difficulty setting.
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Save screenshots
Place a completely empty VMU in slot 2 of a controller that is plugged into port D. A screenshot requires 195 blocks of space. Start an online or offline game. Hold A and press Start on controller D to save the current screen as a full screenshot. Hold X and press Start on controller D for a close-up shot. If done correctly, a black screen with a countdown will appear. The game will resume after the countdown, and the screenshot will be on the previously empty VMU. Go to http://pso.donut.dhs.org with the Dreamcast Planetweb browser to transfer your snapshot from your email mailbox. You also can upload your screens on Sonic Team's Official PSO Visual BBS webpage and view other screenshots.
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Saving money for Forces
When using Force, collect items and then sell them. Buy Resta disk from the tool shop in Pioneer 2. You will not have to buy Mates. Also, instead of using Telepipes, use Ryuker. It will cost some TP but it is worth it -- it saves a ton.
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Turn off pop-up info palette
A Dreamcast Keyboard is required for this trick, to turn off the big palette that appears every time you encounter a monster. Hold [Space] during game play (try using a piece of tape or a television remote). A green cursor will appear in the lower-left side of the screen. This does several things. Whenever you encounter a monster, the lower-left side of the screen will always be clear, This also frees up more of the screen so you can see more monsters appearing from other directions. Release [Space] when you want to chat. This is useful when playing as short characters.
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Using Photon Blast twice in a row
Charge your Mag to 100, but do not use Photon Blast. Instead, unequip your Mag then equip it again. Your Mag's gauge will go down to 0 but you will still be able to use your Photon Blast. Charge up your mag as close to 100 as possible. If you hit 100 you will have to start over. Use your Photon Blast, then charge up the remaining to 100 and use it again.
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Very hard mode
Successfully complete the game in offline mode two times to unlock the very hard difficulty setting.
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VMU warning
When creating a character for the game, make sure that your VMU has been formatted (i.e. reset) at the VMU file screen for the Dreamcast. If this is not done, something can go wrong causing your character file to become corrupted, according to Sega.
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Costume Color Choices
Begin a new game, after selecting you character enter your character name as:
NUDNAFJOOH for Racaseal
KSKAUDONSU for Humar
MOUEOSRHUN for Hunewearl
SOUDEGMKSG for Ramar
RUUHANGBRT for Hucast
MEIAUGHSYN for Racat
ASUEBHEBUI for Fonewm
DNEAOHUHEK for Fomarl
XSYGSSHEOH for Fonewearl
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