============================================================== Notes on DW4/DQ4 Individual Level (IL)/Individual Chapter Runs ============================================================== Typical IL Rules: - Any amount of effort before the "level" is allowed and is not timed - Timing starts when the "level" begins and ends when the "level" ends - Other RTA rules apply How this can apply to Dragon Warrior IV: - The goal becomes to beat each chapter as fast as possible - For Chapters 1-4, this means you can skip setup you do for Chapter 5 - For Chapter 5, this means you can prep as much as you want in Chapters 1-4. - I personally don't know of anything you can do in chapters 1-3 to affect chapters 2-4, but it would be allowed as well. - Guess you could buy casino coins in C2 to take into C3? Shrug? - Riskier strats can be used, because you're doing a much shorter run. - Chapters 1-4 aren't going to be very different from normal RTA, but Chapter 5 is kinda like a DQ2 FC Moyomoto run... For Chapter 5, a "theorycrafted" file created in an emulator should be allowed, because you can't prove a file wasn't hacked. - Maximum casino coins - All seven characters can start at level 99 with the highest stats possible - Maximum possible stats obtainable through level ups and stat seeds from treasure chests - Also, all stats maxed to 255 (65535 for HP/MP) in chapters where seeds drop from random encounters - You can wrap EXP around to any value you want, but I'm not sure there's any point to this. - All seven characters can have any items obtainable in their respective chapters - Taloon could have eight Swords of Malice, Nara and Mara could fill their inventories with Lifeforce Nuts and armor for Hero. ================= Chapter 5 Routing ================= In DW4, you still can't skip a whole lot. In DQ4, you can! General: Your Hero is going to slow you down. With the rest of the team at level 99, you can run from everything so long as Hero isn't with you. If Hero is present (if you're able to cast Hero's spells outside of battle and access their inventory) you will be able to fail to run. You really don't need to buy anything. Nara and Mara should have 65k HP and 255 attack power each, and Blazemost. Chapter 4's team will need enough lifeforce nuts, weapons, and armor for Hero to get the Symbol of Faith. Nobody else even matters. DQ4 FC Glitched Run: The minimum you have to do in C5 is: Get the boat Beat Bakor for the key/Shield Get the Sword Get the Armor Get Panon and the Helmet Beat Necrosaro You do NOT need to get Alena's crew, or Ragnar. Alena can chew through bosses, but you have to walk through a cave in which you can't escape enemies to get to her. You've got the 8x run glitch to beat Necrosaro with, so Alena doesn't help much there. btw run 8x with two characters out, then pull out Taloon and Doran/Lucia The game usually crashes if you don't have Alena's crew after Necrosaro... Do I care? (I don't) ========================= What about New Game Plus? ========================= What if you had a ROM/savefile that was the start of chapter one, but everyone was hacked to max stats with any items you want, and you hacked out the code that initializes the characters at the start of each chapter? General: Well, you're not failing to run anymore. Everyone could have Chapter 5 gear No seeds necessary Taloon could start with enough gold to finish the chapter lul Nara/Mara could start with the boarding pass, Alena with the Final Key... Hero has Gas Canister and Z-Equipment Give everyone in chapters 1-4 holy water too Routing: Chapter 1 Ragnar walks to Izmit w/ holy water wing to Burland wing back to Izmit get shoes don't get Healie slaughter the Shadow Chapter 2 Holy water Alena hit Humanoid, Brey Icespears Use Final Key to get to Burland Tournament slaughter Chapter 3 Holy water to Bonmalmo haggle away Metal Babble Armor until 95k gold Wing to dog, use dog Fix bridges, run letter back and forth buy shop buy tunnel walk through tunnel Chapter 4 Holy Water Walk to Haville and use Boarding Pass Chapter 5 Cast Return to get to Branca (Can you save the hometown that way?) Cast Repel Skip the sisters lul Walk to Horatio and get wagon Get Taloon/Ship Exchange Gas Canister for Balloon Go to Gottside -> Zenithia -> Dark World Hero + Horatio + Torneko vs the Boss Rush hell yeah Inventories: Ragnar: Dragon Killer (Or better non-Miracles sword?) Holy Water Wyvern Wing x3 (Empty x3) Alena: Fire Claw (Or earrings?) Holy Water x2 Final Key Cristo: Who cares Keep him low agility so he doesn't act in the Humanoid fight Brey: Doesn't matter Taloon: Holy Water x2 Metal Babble Armor x??? (Need 4-6 wings, but can buy them) Metal Babble Sword Nara: Holy Water Boarding Pass Mara: Whatever Hero: Zenithian Sword (Powered up? Can I do that?) Zenithian Shield Zenithian Armor Zenithian Helmet Symbol of Faith Gas Canister Sword of Lethargy?