I manipulated much to give always critical hit and 999 damage. Beat Mana Beast with Weapon Charge glitch and Moon Energy spell which makes a critical hit by far much easier.Went through walls with Weapon Charge glitch (Using this glitch, I could attack a distant rope pole.).Then I could skip the barrier at the entrance of Mana Fortress. Went to the Lofty Mountain Path and attacked a rope pole, then used Flammie Drum.Went through the walls some times, then again used soft reset and read the latter data to make the story correct.Then the Continent was sunken and skipped the Underground City fully. Used a soft reset at the Underground City and read the former data.After defeating Aegagropilon, made another corrupted save data (*6).To die quickly, took Combined Damages (*14). The Girl cast Cure Water to revive the HP0 character. Three Shadows disappear when player characters die.Used Magic Rope and carried over the Dark Seed event to the next map (*7) to save about 30 frames.Two characters’ whips were useful at this point. At the Dark Palace, went through the Walls.
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Abused Equipment Glitch (*5) to let two characters equipped with the whip.Optimized where to land on from Flammie.In the Emperor’s Tower, get the Flammie Drum (actually, Flammie Chocolate (*2)).They are torelant of the Glitched Boomerang Double Hit. In Northtown Ruins Killed two bosses with Glitched Charge attack.Ignored the Sewer guard by going through the trees’ shade.Weapon swings which seem useless are really useful to kill him quickly. Killed Minotaur with the Boomerang and many manipulations.Went through the Walls (*3) again to save 800 frames.In Fire Palace, climed the Slope (*21) to save 300 frames.In Ice Palace, went through the Walls (*3) again to save 500 frames.Kill Boreal Face with the Weapon Charge Glitch and Double Hit of the Boomerang (*15), with some spells to stop the enemy.So the Sprite’s Boomerang level became 2. In Mech Rider battle, weapon experiences increases (don’t know why but I knew the fact).Manipulated the NPCs’ movement at the Sand ship.Abused Going through the Walls (*3) twice to save time.In Matango, set some characters to NPC to reduce lags.Spring Beak guards against the front attack.Killed 3 Pebblers with one glitched charge sword.Used Damage Combining trick (*14) to give more weapon experiences to the Sprite (The fatal hit was regarded to be made by the Sprite.). In Pandora, set some characters to NPC to reduce lags.Killed some enemies to level up the Sprite’s Boomerang.Walked to Pandora without using Cannon travel.Forged the Boomerang to level up the Sprite’s Boomerang.
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Killed Fire Gigas quickly with the Weapon Charge glitch (*1) and critical manipulation.Used Locking the Screen Trick (*12) (I used this many times from this point).Used the Cannon Travel and Aerial Walk (*13).Tonpole never grew into Lizard (He grows when his HP is under 300.Water Palace again to the Underground Palace Fadeout Glitch after Spikey Tiger (*4) to skip the message.Killed Spikey Tiger with the Weapon Charge glitch (*1).Killed some enemies with many and many manipulations to earn enough weapon experiences (sword level became 2).Killed Werewolves quickly and reduce the screen movement (*18).Killed some enemies with Damage Combining trick (*14) and many manipulations.In Tropicallo battle, manipulated critical hits by attacking Bramblers.Bought two power wrist to enhance the Boy’s and the Sprite’s power by 5.Item Selling glitch (*2) to make enough money to finish the game.Got the Magic Rope which is necessary to finish the game quickly.Used Cannon Travel to go to Gaia’s Navel.Killed many enemies with critical hits.In Mantis Ant battle, used the attack gauge trick (*20) and manipulated critical hits.
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Weapon experiences are necessary to abuse the Weapon Charge glitch (*1).
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Of course there are many other devices and planning to finish the game faster. I will mention the points I mainly want to feature.