Route adapted from lawren's 1:49:04: https://www.speedrun.com/dragon_quest_monsters_1_and_2_psx/run/zx2dxq5m Start! Get Slib, get two herbs, jump in Beginner gate Message speed 8 (3rd option from bottom) Fight fights, get lots of items Reject Dracky, recruit Anteater? Lawren rejected a Dracky, and threw a meat at an anteater but missed it. Defeat Hale Win G class Enter top gate at 3:00 (Dragon Gate, Villager) Recruit Picky Recruit Gremlin if you've got crazy cash, and wing out Alternatively, recruit dragon Sort items, buy two holy water, a wing, some antidotes, a lovewater, a few herbs... Use Gremlin/Dragon to destroy the barbecue Fight to Picky 10 and recruit Madknight (Lawren at 9 Slib / 10 Picky) !! The Madknight fight is dangerous. This is a good place to come up with a slower/safer strat for a marathon. Go pick up Hale? Recruit a trash monster along the way, or if you wipe you can pick up Healie Madknight has Massacre (Or is it EvilSlash?) which can one-shot a level 10 Picky. Put Picky on Mixed and hope it uses Sap once or twice before it dies. Keep Slib above 80 HP and Picky maxed. Win E-Class Rock paper scissors: crag, babble, crag, crab, crag (rock paper rock scissors rock) Breed Madknight with Iceman, Picky with Mick's Lizardman (EvilBeast, Wyvern) Sort items, sell stuff, buy wing if needed, as many holy waters as you can (keep 40g) Hatch eggs (Hellbeast first), deposit Slib Bottom right cell, top gate Win one fight on the first floor, then try to spawn merchants with holy water Need 200 half-steps. 30 full monster sprite animation loops should do it. He also seems to reveal the whole map? Think he's looking for items; you do NOT want a wizzid to spawn. Wing out at some point (EvilBeast 10+, Wyvern 17 (EB died but got revived), 5k gold) 17 is for Vivify I think? Not Bikill??? Withdraw Slib D Class Breed EvilBeast with Mick's DeadNite (Gigantes) Wyvern have a breed with tavern guy's Catfly (Bullbird) Sort items, sell stuff, keep one sirloin Buy herbs, lovewater, beasttail, wing, four holy water Hatch eggs (3600 gold left) Deposit Slib Safety - Jump in another gate for one fight -> wing ANGER gate - 9:00, bottom gate Holy water, reveal all of the first map, pick up a couple items?? Pick up all items on floor 2 Smoke a wizard with a lavastaff like it's nothing Defeat a priest on the next floor... how safe is this? At Bullbird 10, ditch: Hoshiginaodori ふしぎなおどり (OddDance) and sukuruto スクルト (Increase) Bullbird hits 12 and he ditches the newest four skills Grind E G G S until Bullbird 17 Bullbird parries, Gigantes charges Bullbird 14, drop bomiosu ボミオス (SlowAll) Bullbird 17, drop mahotoun マホトーン (Stopspell) One Wizard + Eggs are enough to hit 17; just have Bullbird parry in case it gets slammed with Sidestep Mantan, fight Wrex Bullbird Surrounds, parries Breed Bullbird with May's Rayburn Sort inventory, sell everything Buy five holy water Buy nine mapherbs Second rock paper scissors: crag, crab, babble, babble, crag (rock scissors paper paper rock) hatch that W H I P B I R D Safety - Strength gate to recruit Stone Man? Give meat. Jump in the arena gate why not Take a bunch of steps on first floor (Do not collect items/reveal map) Fall down, MapHerb, grab items, fight merchant Whipbird drops: 7: Mera Blaze 10: Begirama ベギラマ Firebane 11: NEW Shinkuugiri しんくうぎり VacuSlash 12: NEW Drop three new skills 14: Iora イオラ Boom, Tchikarawotamerru ちからをためる ChargeUp 15: Asutoron アストロン Ironize 17: Merami メラミ Blazemore (wh--) Gigantes drops: 15: Heal lol Floor 3 was a priest Floor 4 MapHerb, holy water Fight trainers for EXP, try to recruit a Yeti Good Backups: Stoneman from Strength, CancerMan On every floor, take lots of steps, pick up lots of items, use MapHerb Wing out after Whipbird 17 (Bikill), Yeti, and enough cash to finish Sell stuff, vid has 13k gold and nine slots vid buys two holy water (5 total), three more MapHebs (7 total), a leaf, sage stone, world dew, whatever Bird > Gigant > Yeti S Class is free Reflection is in the SECOND FLOOR BASEMENT, 6:00 Save MP!! MapHerb, Holy Water, jump in hole, find wizard Save MP, or try to get a priest after the second wizard. Walk down to Durran Surround is good on all these guys I think Stopspell's not bad on the Servants, if you still have a mist staff. Cast Bikill turn one. Put Whipbird to Mixed against Servants and Durran, Heal against Terry. Final levels: 21, 19, 33 Starry Night Tournament Centasaur, Orochi, Swordgon Andreal, Unicorn, MadDragon KingMetal, Coatol, Rainhawk The final battle APPEARS to be free... The Rainhawk never uses MegaMagic (?), the Coatol knows Infernos instead of Explodet (???), and the King Metal is capable of physicals instead of just spamming Zap. Nerfs for all! Free game right? Notable version differences: 30 inventory slots instead of 20 Probably fewer encounters? Worlds are smaller, Field of View is bigger. Beasttail not even helpful on smaller floors. Beasttail costs 800 though Encounter depletion counter seems to decrement independent of the tile you're stepping on, but at different rates per floor? Merchant NPCs do not completely fill your inventory with meat! They may scale up later, but early on (after F class, in FaceTree gate) they give four random meats. Only did ten trials, seem to be equalish distribution of sirloin, rib, porkchop, beefjerky Way more than just herbs in the Beginner gate -- I think I found a rib in my first runthrough!! Holy Water is step-based; doesn't last for an entire floor (matters when looking for merchants) Slimes are nerfed. Most of their stats grow more slowly. Slib's starting stats don't appear to be random anymore? 30 HP, 10 atk, 6 def, 5 agi, 1 int Janken patterns are different: Queen: Rock Babble Rock Crab Rock Gate 1: Rock Crab Babble Babble Rock Merchant floors let you sell for 80% instead of 100% (GreatTree merchants are still 75%) Staves sell for 75% at GreatTree instead of 10%! Can't fight stumps in Facetree gate Sirloin nerf - 400 instead of 999 Farm nerf - Farm monster gains about 10% of the EXP a team of three gains (rounded down), not 17.5 Bards are a lot harder to find? Wizards don't require "16 room floors" anymore, just a full map reveal. Priority: Priest > Wizard > Merchant? Something's random around here... Learned Firebal at 7 in my first playthrough but 8 in my second? Second playthrough stats: 34 30 15 24 75 10 Got it at 8: 38 34 16 28 85 11 GBC requirements in Monsters 1 are 23 int, 11 MP Firebane 52 Int, 34 MP Firebolt 112 Int, 96 MP Maybe I got a magic nut the first time? Anteater stats at 8 don't seem to be random. Web References: PS1 Skill Data http://mizuiro.dip.jp/~nao/dqm12_jumon_ps.htm RAM Memory Addresses ("MainRAM" in BizHawk): 0x110AA8 - Tameness [unconfirmed all enemies or just 1st enemy] Starts at 10, same as GBC Jerky +15 Chop +35 Rib +105 Sirloin +405 Herb (Ally) -5 Herb (Enemy) +20ish? (Slightly random? Not based on HP restored? 3 HP did +23, 10 HP did +20) 0x0C76E1 - Encounter Depletion Counter Seems to decrement independent of the tile you're standing on, but at different rates per floor? You get the encounter when you take a step AFTER zero, not ON zero. 0x0C7A9E - Repel counter (Two bytes) - Holy water gives you 512 units 0x0C76DB-C: How many items spawned on the current floor (both bytes hold the same value?) 0x0C792B - Item IDs of the items spawned on the current floor (six bytes for up to six items) 0x0C7430 - Value of step counter (below) when you started the current floor. 0x0C7458 - Step counter (four bytes) - Resets per zone, not per floor. Compares to the above to spawn merchants. +1 per half-step Walking to left/right edge of screen is +20 Walking to top/bottom edge is +16 200 spawns a merchant, 199 doesn't. 25-30 full monster animations gives 200. 30 to be safe. 0x0C7984 - Inventory 0x00: Empty 0x01: Herb 0x2C: Small Medal 0x19: Beef Jerky 0x0C70A8-B: RNG seed? Four bytes Foreign Tamers First tier, doesn't seem to be based on level? (level 1 Wyvern, Evilbeast) AgDevil Mistywing Wyvern TailEater IceMan ArcDemon GasGon TreeBoy SlimeNite Amberweed Second tier (Leveled up Wyvern/EvilBeast) Gizmo WildApe DeadNite LavaMan CurseLamp KingCobra FuryFace Blizzardy EvilWand RogueNite ??? Tier (Level 1 Gigant, Bullbird) HornBeet Lizardman Slimeborg Shadow Fireweed ??? Tier (Level 13 Gigant, 12 Whipbird) Ironturt Dancevegi Carnivore Plant Rayburn Wingsnake DarkCrab Lionex Ogre Rotraven Impostor ??? tier (Level 14 Gigant, 14 Whipbird) Monster Lv HPs MPs ATK DEF AGL INT Trainer Skills Cancerman Facetree ? FaceTree 26 125 119 67 74 51 86 Magicwall,Guardian,ShelDodge Superten ? SuperTen 33 156 60 77 60 136 78 Firebolt,Fireslash,Quadhits MadMirror ? MadMirror 33 164 62 71 64 170 120 Boom,Birdblow,Rainslash Jewelbag ? JewelBag 25 68 76 123 126 40 130 Healus,Sidestep,Diagocall Yeti -> Yeti 34 198 110 170 170 80 94 Infermost,Highjump,Vacuum Resists ice Phoenix ? Phoenix 26 110 65 125 70 100 75 Callhelp,Poisonair,Hustle Grendal ?? Grendal 26 99 41 135 155 112 113 Healmore,Pyscheup,Lifesong Skullgon ? Skullgon 33 164 63 132 174 85 169 Blazemost,Twinslash,Squallhit Resists ice Goategon ? Goategon 25 133 107 155 82 98 128 Healall,Vivify,Squallhit