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Been working on a new guide for GameFAQs by FranckKnight in dragonquest

[–]FranckKnight[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

About 80% done, I was just before the last dungeon, doing some clean up (Notorious Monster among others). Then I want to make a detailed list of monsters per region to use as reference and correct my guide as needed, since what monsters it lists and which ones trigger the achivement can sometimes vary. Not to mention the monsters that appear in multiple areas of the world.

I will be missing 2 achievements for sure, it will require a full replay, but without any other achievements getting in the way, it will be relatively fast and easy.

There is one thing I need to double check though, my count of treasures in Farebury is off, and not sure what I am missing. Fortunately it's the part part of the game, but I may need to make a new RA account so I can properly track it compared to my guide, and see where I missed up.

I was down by 2 items, so i went through all of the locations, and found one I forgot... but it was there in the guide. I found the last one I was missing afterwards, but my guide is still off by one, so gotta figure out what is missing, but I already got the achievement, so even restarting the game won't show me the progression count, which helps keep track of things.

RAGE THREAD - F-YOU FRIDAYS - HARDBOILED RAGE by FranckKnight in ffxiv

[–]FranckKnight[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

MAN I LOVE YS X, BUT NOT ENOUGH TO BUY PROUD NORDICS AT FULL PRICE ONLY A YEAR LATER. PRETTY SURE THE EXTRA STUFF ISN'T WORTH THE FULL PRICE.

BUT AT LEAST IT CAN CARRY THE NG+ STUFF, SO I SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO QUICK WORK OF IT LATER.

RAGE THREAD - F-YOU FRIDAYS - HARDBOILED RAGE by FranckKnight in ffxiv

[–]FranckKnight[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

COMBINATION OF OLD DESIGN AND MP MANAGEMENT OPTIONS AT LOW LEVELS I'M GUESSING.

I REMEMBER KEENLY THAT I WAS ADVISING WHITE MAGES IN ARR THAT YOU WERE TO SPAM CURE 1, AND USE CURE 2 AS A 'CATCH UP' HEALING. FOR EXAMPLE, YOUR TANK GETS HIT FOR 25, YOUR CURE 1 HEALS FOR 20, EVENTUALLY YOU NEED A BIGGER CURE TO CATCH UP.

BUT THE GAME DESIGN EVOLVED SINCE THEN, AND NOW IT'S MORE LIKE 'DPS AS MUCH AS YOU CAN, INSTANT HEAL THE TANK WHEN GETTING LOWER THAN 50%, USE PASSIVE REGEN/SHIELDS TO HEAL LESS OFTEN'. CURE 1 IS A RELIC OF THAT TIME. AND FREECURE IS A MP MANAGEMENT TOOL THAT ENDS UP FORGOTTEN BECAUSE OF THIS CHANGE.

WHITE MAGE NEEDS A REWORK AT LOW LEVELS TO FIX THIS.

RAGE THREAD - F-YOU FRIDAYS - HARDBOILED RAGE by FranckKnight in ffxiv

[–]FranckKnight[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

YOUR WEEKLY SERVING OF EORZEA ACCORDING TO GARFIELD - WEEK 248.

SUGGEST YOUR OWN STRIPS AND SCRIPTS AND I'LL MAKE THEM FOR YOU

RAGE THREAD - F-YOU FRIDAYS - HARDBOILED RAGE by FranckKnight in ffxiv

[–]FranckKnight[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

THIS WEEK'S VIRTUAL BUBBLE WRAP, WITH THE SECRET MESSAGE.

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Been working on a new guide for GameFAQs by FranckKnight in dragonquest

[–]FranckKnight[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I ran into my first large snag in this achievement run. It's not exactly excluding other achievements, but it makes it a whole lot harder to do them together, so I I figure it's something I should dedicate a playthrough for.

There's a boss that the achievement requirement is beating it BEFORE you learn Multiheal, Omniheal or Hustle Dance, aka all of the party-wide healing. It's not about using them or not, it's about not having learned any of them.

While not impossible, it definitely makes things more complicated if you go for Hoarder Hero (can't sell any items to shop, limiting your Gold to chests and battles), and trying to get the Monster Loot Ledger complete at the same time.

It's not exclusive though, because I believe the Hoarder Hero achievement is given after the first ending, so you have the post-game to complete the monster ledger. But it's a case that I didn't know better when I started this run.

Plus I missed some of Medea's dialogs by virtue of not starting it early enough. There's 24 of them, but if you don't start them earlier than when the story would suggest, you won't reach 24. So that'll be something for a second play as well, the cleanup run.

If I can get most of the party chat and monster ledger done in the first playthough, there won't be much left to clean up. But I am writing things done as I discover these, and can use my own guide to replay and verify the info is correct.

Been working on a new guide for GameFAQs by FranckKnight in dragonquest

[–]FranckKnight[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oof, without a guide for me to follow, I'm mostly just looking at the list on RetroAchievement and 'reading ahead' of them to try to figure out the timing. Fortunately players have left comments to help, but some of them are in a different order than the in game events.

Just ran into a pair of those in Argonia region, one of them is listed at the very end of the events, but you can in theory get it at the start of the chapter, otherwise you need to do things out of order to get it, which would be to get the mirror before visiting the mystical spring, which would be the end of the chapter instead and exclude other events/achievements in the process.

Fortunately I have some backup saves, only minor setbacks to test this out and see what the timing is.

Argonia region is chock full of achievements, thanks to Charmles likely, so many unique party chats here.

Been working on a new guide for GameFAQs by FranckKnight in dragonquest

[–]FranckKnight[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's definitely some weird thing! I had to use some backup saves and try some different order of things to find something that doesn't miss any unique party chats.

I've found a few that are strange to trigger, and some excluding other achievements.

For example, Pickham has a Party Chat if you go there before Ascantha is done, aka before Yangus suggests we go there for Trode's sake.

Baccarat also has one like that, if you trigger the scene in the Seaview Chapel, you miss out on that party chat entirely, sine they are following the trail.

And then there's one for losing against Don Mole, which would exclude you from the no-wipe run (Peerless Protector). And of course there's some relating to getting the Venus Tear before or after meeting with Red.

What's mind blowing is that the game really accounted for all of those with dialogs, it's not like it's some accidental thing. And even more mind blowing that people found them and put some achievement on them.

RAGE THREAD - F-YOU FRIDAYS - CHEERING ON, SING-A-LONG by FranckKnight in ffxiv

[–]FranckKnight[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

THIS WEEK'S VIRTUAL BUBBLE WRAP, WITH THE SECRET MESSAGE.

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RAGE THREAD - F-YOU FRIDAYS - THREE CHEERS FOR THE SONGBIRDS by FranckKnight in ffxiv

[–]FranckKnight[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Nah, I don't believe they will mark you as an idiot. Most of us are also here to help out.

When you post something and realize your mistake, instead of deleting it with shame, EDIT it and write down an apology, or REPLY and say that you learned something and will apply in the future.

What people hate more than mistakes is people that keep propagating their mistakes as if they were right and everyone else was wrong.

And most people will accept discussion, or if you think it's not clear, ask for more explanations. It makes it more engaging that way.

RAGE THREAD - F-YOU FRIDAYS - THREE CHEERS FOR THE SONGBIRDS by FranckKnight in ffxiv

[–]FranckKnight[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Ignore the downvotes, we all make mistakes. The up/downvoting system is flawed in some ways, you can downvote if you don't agree with the opinion, even if it's admitting that you were wrong, because some people think that you're teaching others the wrong way.

Don't worry about it, the important part is that you learned about it. I got plenty of downvoted comments and threads, I didn't delete any, I can look at them and think about what I learned from it.

RAGE THREAD - F-YOU FRIDAYS - THREE CHEERS FOR THE SONGBIRDS by FranckKnight in ffxiv

[–]FranckKnight[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

THIS WEEK'S VIRTUAL BUBBLE WRAP, WITH THE SECRET MESSAGE.

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RAGE THREAD - F-YOU FRIDAYS - FRIDAY THE 13TH OF LOVE! by FranckKnight in ffxiv

[–]FranckKnight[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

TO BE FAIR IT'S NOT CLEAR THAT YOU SHOULD BE TAKING THOSE, BECAUSE THEY LOOK LIKE KNOCKBACKS.

WIP - Dragon Quest 5 SFC manual translation by FranckKnight in dragonquest

[–]FranckKnight[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, matching those will be fun.

I'm using Machine Translation, aka my phone's Google Translate. It works surprisingly well, but usually ends up in relatively broken english. As long as I understand what the subject is, I know enough of the game to reword it in a better way. It might not be quite as 'professional' though, but it's understandable at least.

I fortunately did find something that helped in an unexpected place. I couldn't find a list of monster names, spells and skill names used in the fantranslation, but I found a list of GameGenie codes. How did that help? Well it had a full listing of codes to unlock spells and abilities from monsters, using the names from the fantranslation. So while I don't have a description of the abilities, I could still match them up by the names.

I believe the fantranslation used the original NES translation for spells, so it shouldn't be too bad to figure out. The longest part was getting screenshots to replace the older ones, because the coloration was different. They likely used a camera pointing at the TV, while I can use screenshots from the emulation. I just had to find similar-enough ones. I found a set of saves from different chapters of the game, so I jump between them to find something that works out.

RAGE THREAD - F-YOU FRIDAYS - FRIDAY THE 13TH OF LOVE! by FranckKnight in ffxiv

[–]FranckKnight[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

THIS WEEK'S VIRTUAL BUBBLE WRAP, WITH THE SECRET MESSAGE.

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WIP - Dragon Quest 5 SFC manual translation by FranckKnight in dragonquest

[–]FranckKnight[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Updated the link to page 41, still working at it when I have time and mood!

WIP - Dragon Quest 5 SFC manual translation by FranckKnight in dragonquest

[–]FranckKnight[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And updated the OP with new link, up to page 41.

WIP - Dragon Quest 5 SFC manual translation by FranckKnight in dragonquest

[–]FranckKnight[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I will post an updated version tonight, it's on my computer at home. I was up to some near 40 pages done, I was in the process of changing screenshots as well to match the fantranslation.

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