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BREATH OF FIRE 2
GBA VERSION
TOWNSHIP AND OTHERS GUIDE / FAQ
VER 1.6 (FINAL) - February 9, 2002
BY ROMZ12
[email protected]
http://romz.proboards12.com
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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I. Revision History
II. Introduction
III. Frequently Asked Questions (15)
IV. Township
i. From Ruins to Hideout to town
ii. Granny and the Shamans
~ Shamans List (6)
- Sana
- Seso
- Spoo
- Solo
- Seny
- Shin
~ Soul Union List
- Bow
- Katt
- Rand
- Nina
- Sten
- Jean
- Spar
iii. The 3 Carpenters from Capitan
~ The Carpenters (1/3)
- Ordinary Carpenter
* Cookbook Recipes
- Wooden Carpenter
* Playing Othello
- Arabian Carpenter
iv. In Search for Tenants
~ Tenants List (27)
- Azusa
- Hekkeller
- Wooppi
- Hanz
- Win
- Macotti
- Kay
- Poo
- Surfy
- Baretta
- Daiye
- Yozo
- Watts
- Locker
- Leminton
- Salvador
- MacClean
- Sumner
- Martin
- El
- Pechiri
- Karashinokofu
- Back
- Akky
- Barose
- Garber
- Bockden
~ Houses for Tenants (6/27)
- House1 (1/5)
- House2 (1/5)
- House3 (1/5)
- House4 (1/4)
- House5 (1/4)
- House6 (1/4)
v. The Flying Township
V. Tips (18)
VI. Spot the Difference : GBA vs SNES (3)
VII. Credits and Disclaimers
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I. REVISION HISTORY
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Version 1.0 - June 2, 2002
- I finally started this guide
- Partially completed some parts of this guide
- Submitted immediately at www.gamefaqs.com
- This is my first guide/faq ever!
Version 1.1 - June 3, 2002
- Added more tenants in the list
- Added "Sale" info for business tenants
- Removed "Sidequest" since I mentioned them all already at FAQ section
- Made some updates, changes and corrections in some sections
- Confirmed that you can have more than one Armory shop in your town
- This guide/faq is 75% complete!
Version 1.2 - June 4, 2002
- Added more tenants in the list
- Added a new section "Houses for Tenants" info for house occupancy
- Made some major changes and corrections!
- This guide/faq in nearly 85% complete!
Version 1.3 - June 5, 2002
- I have played the game too much now and made some major confirmations
- Completed "Tenants List" section but the details are still incomplete
- As usual, made some major updates, changes and corrections
- Completed "Houses for Tenants" Section
- Revised "Soul Union List" section in details
- Yes! It's 90% complete!
Version 1.4 - June 8, 2002
- Added "Comment" info on "Tenants List" section
- Completed some of the tenants info on "Tenants List" section
- Added all the positions of houses in the "Houses for Tenants" section
- Added more info on "The Carpenters" section
- As always, made some major updates, changes and corrections
- Yeah! 92% completion and counting...
Version 1.5 - June 23, 2002
- Classes recently started, updates will be seldom
- Added a new section "Spot the Difference : GBA VS SNES"
- Added more cookbook recipes for the cooking carpenter
- As ever, made some major updates, changes and corrections
- Fully completed most of the sections in this guide
- Yay! 95% to perfection!
Version 1.6 (PART 1) - Octover 21, 2002 (FINAL!)
- Made some major corrections
- Updated the "Credits" section
- I made a message board for my FAQ (see "Disclaimers" section)
- Added some tips on boombada with the help of others
- Well, I think there is no more to be added or updated here
- Finally, 99% COMPLETED!
- Let's just leave the 1% for future updates and corrections
(if any) and for some imperfections here coz nothing is perfect!
Version 1.6 (PART 2) - February 9, 2003
- Added some contributions in GBA vs SNES section and tips
- Any more to add my friends?...
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II. INTRODUCTION
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This is the very first guide/faq that I've ever made in my entire
videogame life. I made this so I can share to those players of
BOF2 in GBA my knowledge about the game, as well as to share the
knowledge shared to me by the other people who helped me. This
guide/faq aims to help players of BOF2 to enjoy all the feature
of this game, to avoid missing some important things in
the game, to save more time coz they already know what to do
just by reading this guide, to solve the questions in their
minds, to clear things up, to reveal some secrets, to perform all
subquests, and to avoid being stuck in the game. I don't have
time to make a walkthrough about this game. Since the game is so
straight-forward that you can finish it in one day or two without
consulting any guide, who needs a walkthrough? This game is just
a revival anyway, the return of the comeback of BOF2 from
SNES to GBA. This guide/faq concentrates and covers more on the
things you might miss in the game about Township and other things
around the game so you can complete it 100 percent, so you can
fully enjoy the game. This guide also contain some spoilers, so
consult this guide only if you really need to, so be careful.
This guide/faq is a result of my hardwork and sleepless nights.
It's so boring at home during vacation even after the end of your
summer class. I always want to do something that can help other
people, as well as making me busy most of the time to beat these
boring days. I played this game at GBA countless times now just
to make this guide and list all the details. I started from
scratch, and compiled them all to make this wonderful guide. Even
though this game is old and just been revived from SNES to GBA,
who cares? I exerted enough effort to finish this coz this is the
first guide/faq that I've made.
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III. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
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1. Where can I buy BOF2 gamepak?
As of now, you can buy it at any game stores in your place,
wherever you are now. The US version of this game is already
available at the market last month (April 2002). It's just the
return of the comeback of BOF2 from SNES to GBA like BOF1 last
year!
2. Is there a difference between BOF2 in SNES and GBA versions?
Slightly, the experience and money gained at every end of battle
are doubled at GBA version. The only additional feature I noticed
included is the link cable item exchange system where 2 players
can exchange items but it needs a link cable, 2 GBA and 2
gamepaks of BOF2. The names of menus, items and equipment are
still shortened, worst than text messaging on celfones. Overall,
it is still the same as the SNES version.
3. Could there be another sequel of BOF in GBA?
Possibly, but definitely BOF3 Playstation version will not come
out in GBA. Why? How could a CD game of about 400+ MB be stored
in a very small cartridge that can only store GBA rom data of
about 64 MB only? Its like comparing Playstation to GBA. Anyway,
BOF1&2 are fully compatible in GBA in size coz if you have a UFO,
you can store a SNES cartridge game in a diskette or two. The
memory is another issue. BOF3 & BOF4 are in Playstation and the
much awaited BOF5 will be on PS2 soon. Maybe CAPCOM will make
their own version of BOF sequels for GBA only. It will much be
better to be like that rather than bringing old games to GBA
again with no new features added. It's just my opinion anyway...
4. Which is better, BOF2 or Golden Sun?
This is the most common question I always hear. In my opinion,
Golden Sun is better than BOF2 coz of the gameplay and story.
There are both good in music. In graphics, BOF2 is good coz it is
in simple 2D while Golden Sun is in smooth 3D in towns/dungeons
and choppy 3D in world map and battle. Golden Sun is just
starting to present RPG gaming in 3D in GBA so it is still not
satisfactory today. Making good 3D games in GBA needs many
experience,enough time and hard work for game developers
especially in making RPGs. They must also think of the capacity
of GBA and its cartridges, there are still many limits here. Look
at Squaresoft, at first their RPGs have bad graphics and they
migrated from Nintendo to Sony, now their the number one leader
and developer of RPG games in 3D! About the gameplay, playing
Golden Sun is better coz of the battle system and special
effects, psynergy, djinn summons, class changing, skills, etc.
are awesome. Golden sun have a deep story to that is so exciting
but short, and the ending is very suprising coz will not expect
that it will end here so we have to wait up to next year for its
sequel. In BOF2, aside from being old, the story is averagely
simple, the game is very short but good, the gameplay is very
simple but the graphics is very nice. This game is too short you
can finish it in one day only or two! I finished Golden Sun in
weeks! Sorry for being a very bad critic of BOF2 for comparing it
to Golden Sun. Anyway, I also liked this game anyway coz I'm a
collector of RPGs in GBA and Playstation and soon to PS2! Why
will I make this guide if I didn't like it? If you'll buy RPG
for your GBA, buy Golden Sun first, then buy this also and
compare it by yourself if you like, like I did. Both are great
games worth buying for!
5. How can I make Township fly?
Read the section of my guide below entilted "The Flying
Township", OK.
6. How many Shamans are there?
There are only six of them, representing 6 elements. Refer to the
section of my guide below entiled "Granny and the Shamans" for
more info, OK.
7. Can I still get the Earth Shaman even if I didn't donate 100 coins
20 times at Namanda Cave before the fall of Evrai?
That's a very big problem. You can't get the Earth shaman anymore
even if you donate 100 times or more at Namanda Cave after the
fall of Evrai. So if I were you, you should follow the advice of
Rand's mother and the Wise Tree near Namanda Cave. They will only
say you should donate at Namanda Cave, but they will not tell you
it should be 20 times or more so be careful...
8. How can I find Bleu?
Bleu is a secret character. You can already get her after you
have Grandpa the Whale as your sea transportation. Go to the
seashore/beach located south of Highland below the mountains and
there is a sand patch near the seashore with a circle mark which
is visible during daytime. Enter it and talk to the 3 ghost
there. Now go to Hometown and go to the Magic School 2nd floor
and go to the left room and go talk to the left person at the
door. That's Bleu! After talking to her, she'll join you. Thanks
to Nicolas Wee, Ol' whazis name and to Crazy Chameleon for their
correction on Bleu's gender, that she's a SHE! She is a girl that
transformed into a Lamia! She's good at both support and attack
magics and her skill Shed can restore his HP to full and recover
bad status, and you can get her at level 35. By that time, your
characters are only at level 20+. She's somehow worthless for
hunting if your carpenter in not the ordinary. If you go to a
grass patch in World Map, using her will make all animals into
bag of charcoals and the Gonghead enemy there disappears.
Charcoal are worthless if your carpenter is not ordinary, coz you
can't combine it into other items nor sell it in the game.
9. Why can't I acquire the Chopchop skill from the Cook from Wildcat
Cafe?
That is because you didn't went to Wildcat Cafe before Jean asked
you to get the royal ring from Nimufu while he is prisoned at
Simafort. You can get this skill anytime you can access Simafort
region and the Witch Tower. Be prepared coz you will fight the
cook here which is really strong. It would be ideal to go there
after you acquired Jean and before you enter Simafort for the
first time, but first swim to the falls with Jean in frog form so
Ryu can learn his other dragon skills from the old wise dragon
man and get some useful items. At the entrance, leave your things
to the guard and read all the signs and follow all it says and
choose 'rare' so only 1/4 of your HP will be taken before battle.
You can defeat the cook easily with these new skill in 2 rounds
or less. After you defeat him, follow him and talk to the Wildcat
cook on the right and answer "no" in the first question then
"yes" to the second. Now choose whose party member you want to
have that skill and make him or her lead the party before you
talk to him or come back later here to change party members. If
you didn't follow the signs, you'll fight the guard whose getting
stronger as you can get nearer to the cook, and before you could
face the cook, you're already worn-out or dead. If its your first
time to visit here as well as to find Nimufu here for the royal
ring, you'll fight the cook but no skill will be gained even if
you talked to him at the counter. Once the Witch's party is held
here, say goodbye to your Chopchop skill. Anyway, give this to
your party member that inflicts poor hit points to enemies like
Jean, Nina or Sten. This just cost 0 AP! This skill is very
useful against enemies who have very high defense that every
physical attack you inflict to them only cost 1-5 HP, like the
Chorking in the Island of giants and other Sludges.
10. What skill can Ray give your party members after the Capitan well
event?
If you saved all the townspeople in the well, you will be blessed
with Renew spell. If you killed, left or didn't save even a
single one out of those townspeople (including those possessed
ones) in the well after Ray told you so, you'll just get a Cure2
spell. It's better to give it to Nina since she have a higher AP
points than the rest of your party members.
11. Why can't I invite this tenant, even though he or she is on the
tenants list?
That is because you already choose someone beside him/her to take
one of your vacant houses at Township that he/she wants to
occupy or the house he/she wants to occupy is not yet constructed
by your carpenter. As for business tenants, you can invite one or
more tenant for one particular business but it still depends on
the house they will occupy. You can have two or more Armory shops
in your town at the same time but choose the one that sells
useful items or equipments so choose them wisely. Anyway, just
read " In Search for Tenants " section for more details.
12. What happens to those tenants you can't invite anymore?
Some of them just disappears in their location if you looked
for them. Some of them just give tips about tenants if you
go talk to them. Some changes script and some are not.
13. What are those houses in the map with the man saying "I have
nothing to do with it, so go ahead without me.", the one with two
men in the Island of Giants, and the one with a cat have to do in
this game? What are their purpose?
The cat is a tenant named Akky, but you can only talk to her if
transformed Katt is on the lead of the party. The two people in
the Island of Giants are Bo and Karn from BOF1, I don't know why
they are here in this game, maybe they are meant to surprise
players who played BOF1. The other one who says nonsense, I still
don't know!
14. Does Ryu's skill "Timewarp" useful?
Of course! There are times that at night when you enter a town,
the guard will be in the way and he will not let you in and you
should wait until morning to enter there. Timewarp turns night
into day and vice versa. There is also instances like some houses
are locked at night or some townspeople changes script, like the
man in Windia walking around the Armory shop. At day he says he's
from Capitan, and at night he says there are 3 carpenter at
Capitan. Strange, isn't it?
15. How can I get the "Boombada" spell?
After Rand's mother is kidnapped, you can go back to Namanda cave
and go to the room where most skinhead people or warrior trains
then talk to the skinhead in front of the altar with bells or
chimes there. He will tell that it is time for the bell ceremony
but his partner doesn't come back yet so you will replace him.
You should familiarize the beat and the right timing to when you
should hit A and B. If you are lucky enough to sound the bells
and chimes like his partner do, you will get this skill. Anyway,
this is the hardest quest in this game that I even didn't
accomplished. Doing this quest will drive you crazy! Boombada is
a skill that halves the remaining HP of your enemies for 20 AP.
I don't know if it is effective to bosses, though.
Here is a tip from Timothy Hick / T'Sain about Boombada:
In your township FAQ for breath of fire 2 you stated that boombada
halved the enemies hp for 0ap. I have gained the boombada spell but
have found that it consumes 20ap and does damage the enemy for half
their current hp. I also think you would like the button combo for the
bell chime. (-= his chime and A,B your chime)
-A-B--A-B-A--B---B--AB----AA
I advise listening to the tune a few times to gain the correct timing.
I do not know if boombada is affective against bosses but I will find
out soon. I hope this information is useful.
Here is a tip from Lars Davidson about Boombada spell:
Hello my name is Lars and I thought that I could write this to
you so you can add that in your FAQ on BOF2 for GBA.
I have finally got the Boombada spell, it took me some time but
now when I have it I know it was worth it :)
First of all it does cost AP, 20AP to be correct and it halves
the HP of ALL enemies. To bad it does not effect any Boss that
I have tried it on and I think that it can't harm any Boss in
the game, it should be too easy. Since I have Spar as my favorite
character in the game and it was him I gave the Spell to. Since
he has much AP and he is a supporting character in the back
row. I think he is the best choice in any way, I mean look
at my thinking:
Ryu= Dragon Summon
Nina= Powerful spells anyway
Bleu= Same as Nina
Jean= He can us Chop in his shamanized form and he has low AP
Sten= Low AP and in my game he already got Chopchop wich helps him,
plus he has powerful attack magic
Bow/Rand= They are Healers in the game and should not waste any AP
on attack magic
Katt= She has so low AP that she can only perform it once when she
is not shamanized
That's leaves only Spar left to give it to, and that is not a bad
choice in my opinion.
Hope that helps out your FAQ a little :)
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IV. TOWNSHIP
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i. From Ruins to Hideout to Town
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At first, this is just a ruin where an old man Niro lives.
In the story, where Ryu and Bow as Rangers were given a job
to look for the lost pet of Mina named Suzy, their journey
led them in this ruins. Eventually, Niro was attacked by
cockroaches and shouted for help, so Ryu and Bow helped him
by exterminating the cockroaches. In return, Niro would
like to share his meal with them as thanks. But the meal
about to be cooked is actually Suzy the pig. Niro removed
Suzy's collar before she was placed in a pot of boiling
water. Bow is curious so he examined the collar from Niro
and the name "Suzy" is written in it. They immediately
removed Suzy in the pot. They didn't know Suzy was a pig.
Ryu and Bow take Suzy home leaving poor Niro in the ruins
hungry.
In the part of the story where Bow is wrongly accused of
stealing Trout's treasure, Bow was forced to hide in a
Trash can carried by Ryu so he can go out of Hometown and
hide in the ruins where Niro lives for a while until his
name is cleared. While Ryu looks for the real thief bat
girl Patty, Bow helped Niro to rebuild the ruins into a
nice hideout.
After some events, Rand followed to the Hideout to help,
then Ray visited the hideout to bless a new assist skill to
your characters. You can now change party. Then returning
to Capitan, Sana the fire shaman invited only Ryu to
Granny's house as guines pig for experimenting soul
union/fusion which resulted for awakening the the dragon
powers (Dragon Poppy) of Ryu and also destroyed Granny's
house in the process. Granny and Sana demanded that Ryu
should give them a house to live in and a room for their
soul union experiment. They occupied the place Bow made
which should be for him and Ryu. Granny told Ryu to go to
Capitan and find a carpenter to remodel their house and
build the soul union room. Then Township is born...
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ii. Granny and the Shamans
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Soul Union/Fusion/Combination or whatever you call it is
one of the cool features of BOF2 wherein your characters
can transform to other forms and acquire new skills when
they are combined with Shamans. You can do this after the
carpenter build your hideout into a town. Just go to the
room next to the main building and talk to Granny if you
want to combine your characters with the Shamans. You will
notice that when you are asked that if you need explanation
and you answered "yes", she will ignore it and you will go
in the fusion window immediately but if you answered "no",
she will tell the explanation. Strange, isn't it? Let's go
to the Shamans lists.
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Shamans List
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Here's the shaman list. Each shaman represents an element
and the stat or attribute they usually increase when they
are combined with your characters.
SANA - Fire Shaman, Attack/Offense
- This is the first Shaman you will get along with
Granny. She's just beside the Inn. Go talk to her
and she'll borrow Ryu in the party for a while and
take him to Granny for some soul fusion and dragon
power awakening.
- Definitely, you can't miss her coz you should talk
to her at Capitan after you have taken Ray to your
hiding place so Ryu can get his first set of dragon
skills, get Granny and Sana as your first tenants,
get your carpenter and advance through the game. If
you don't go talk to her, the man in Capitan
standing in the way going to Simafort region will
still be there.
SESO - Water Shaman, Wisdom
- You can find her at Witch Tower, she's the only
female statue there before you fought Nimufu the
witch. After you defeat her, all statue can move now
so you can get her then. She's at the floor with
moving platforms, left room.
- You can miss her but you can still get her if you
want anytime after you get Jean the frog prince.
SPOO - Wind Shaman, Vigor/Agility/Speed
- You can find her at Sky tower. She's the one causing
the fog in the path going to Farmtown.
- Definitely you can't miss her coz she's part of the
story.
SOLO - Earth Shaman, Defense
- To get her, once Rand's mother told you to go to
Namanda Cave to worship there and donate, go talk to
the wise tree near Namanda Cave if you want.
You must have enough money (about 2000c or more)
before going to Namanda Cave. If you reached the
shrine inside the cave, donate money 20 times.
After the fall of Evrai, go back to Farmtown in
Rand's House and go to the field her mother cleaned
to you and she is there waiting.
- You can miss her coz no one tells you that you
should donate 20 times at Namanda Cave before the
fall of Evrai. Aside from being a very hard-to-get,
she's is very costful and very FAT!
SENY - Holy Shaman, None/Nothing
- After the fall of Evrai, go to Bando and enter the
underground dungeon again. In the room with the
switch and moving door, she's in the first room so
don't bother pushing the switch again.
- You can miss her if you want and you can return here
to get her anytime after the fall of Evrai.
SHIN - Devil Shaman, AP
- After Father Hulk and the villagers bombed the
dragon protecting the entrance to Infinity, the
doors protected by the dragon's feet can be entered
and she's at the left one.
- Miss her or get her if you want, you don't know what
you're missing here. Anyway, she's the best shaman
to be combined with other shamans.
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Soul Union List
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Here is the list of the best fusion for your characters. I
excluded Ryu and Bleu coz all combinations fails to them.
Anyway, they are already strong and they don't need
being combined to shamans anymore. Take good care of your
characters in the party while they're combined with shamans
coz if they reached a very low HP or died, the shaman
combination will be cancelled and worn-out, so be careful.
There are only six shamans available. A shaman is only used
and combined one at a time, so you can't combine the same
shaman to 2 characters at the same time, only one will
benefit from it. So combine wisely...
Combining characters with shamans will increase your
character's stats except for HP, Stamina, Luck, Condition
and Guts as long as it remains combined. Any successful
combination of shamans to your characters can result to
stat boost. The best combination not only results to stat
boost but also transforms your character into stronger and
more efficient allies, like the ones below:
(* = Best combination and stat)
BOW
Combination: Holy and Devil (Seny and Shin)
Description: He is really heavily armored that almost look
like the summon Alexander in Final Fantasy and
his left arm is his weapon that looks and
fires like a bazooka or something. He is more
efficient in hunting coz he can fire
projectiles faster than normal Bow. His
attack power is greatly increased.
Skill: Shot is replaced by Spray, an attack that can
inflict huge damages to 1 or more enemies.
KATT
Combination: Fire and Devil (Sana and Shin)*
Water and Devil (Seso and Shin)
Wind and Devil (Spoo and Shin)
Devil (Shin)
Description: She looks like a daring female warrior with a
tail and uses her killer kicks as her attack.
She can't use her stick in this form so she
can't break stones. Her attack is greatly
increased as well as her AP. She's deadly!
Skill: Dare is replaced with Charge, a very powerful
skill that charges attack at one round in one
enemy target then releases a very powerful
horsekick attack that can inflict 300+ damage.
Imagine how collosal the damage it can make if
you cast AtkUp with it? Anyway, this is the
strongest physical attack in the game, almost
equal to Ryu's special critical hit.
RAND
Combination: Water and Earth (Seso and Solo)*
Fire and Earth (Sana and Solo)
Holy and Earth (Seny and Solo)
Description: He looks like a hard-shelled armored armadillo
or a rhinoceros with a wiggling worm thing
from his head. His attacks power is increased,
he attacks using his back or shoulder and he
is faster than normal Rand, and smaller too.
He can't roll in the world map in this form.
Skill: Wake is still wake! So wake up! Dead!
NINA
Combination: Wind and Holy (Spoo and Seny)
Description: She looks like a beautiful angel wearing a
gorgeous gown and she also floats. She attack
using her wings and her attack power is
increased slightly.
Skill: Will is replaced by Banish, a skill that
scares enemies to fled from battle.
STEN
Combination: Fire and Wind (Sana and Spoo)
Description: He looks like a red-hot flaming wild monkey
with big arms and no feet like a Djinni and
wearing a strange outfit. He can't extend his
arms to reach small gaps in this form. His
attack power is increased.
Skill: Rip is replaced by Switch, a skill very useful
that lets you switch or choose enemies that
you encounter anytime during battle. You can
change enemies you encountered from low EXP to
high as well as money gained. You can only
switch enemies which are present in that area
and you can't switch enemies during boss
battles.
JEAN
Combination: Wind and Holy (Spoo and Seny)*
Water and Holy (Seso and Seny)
Holy (Seny)
Description: He looks like a cool tall frog knight holding
a huge sword and wearing a knight armor. He
can still turn into a frog in world map. His
attack power has greatly increased as well as
defense. He's so valiant in this form.
Skill: Jab is replaced by Chop, a very cool skill
that charges one round then next will slice
the screen or ground in two that kills all
enemies instantly and causes 999 damage but
its doesn't work all the time.
SPAR
Combination1: Fire and Devil (Sana and Shin)*
Description: He looks like a giant flower plant with a body
like a snake and a head like a seahorse, or we
could say he is a plant dragon or a forest
Leviathan. His attack power is increased in
this form and he attacks by spinning his body
rapidly then he hits the enemy. Can still walk
through trees/forests.
Skill: Nature is still nature, but its more effective
coz mother nature/green is more responsive
Combination2: Wind and Water (Spoo and Seso)*
Holy and Water (Seny and Seso)
Devil and Water (Shin and Seso)
Water (Seso)
Description: She looks like a cute mushroom girl that uses
her mushroom hat as her attack weapon and
her attack power is slightly increased. Can
still walk through trees/forests.
Skill: Nature is replaced by Spore, its a skill that
makes all enemies go to sleep during battle
or can backfire to your party if there is a
headwind.
Combination3: Earth (Solo)*
Water and Earth (Seso and Solo)
Holy and Earth (Seny and Solo)
Description: He looks like an tiny onion or a pink rose
bud. His attack power is increased and he can
still walk through trees/forests. He seems to
be stronger and better in this form compared
to the rest.
Skill: Nature is replaced by Bud, a skill that
charges on one round then attacks constantly
on assigned enemy target. Strong indeed.
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iii. The 3 Carpenter from Capitan
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The first time you go in Capitan, you must go to the well
and help Ray rescue the townspeople there. To complete the
set of Carpenter in Capitan to choose from, you must rescue
all of the townspeople in the well, including all those who
are possessed by the creatures attached in their faces. If
you saved them all, Ray will give you an assist skill to
any of your characters in Township. If you returned to
Capitan, go talk to Sana the Fire Shaman. After some
events, in Township, Granny will ask you to return to
Capitan to look for a Carpenter. You will notice that
there are 3 different houses here made by 3 different
carpenters. If you saved all of the townspeople in the
well, all 3 carpenters are in their respective houses. If
you saved 3-4 people, 2 carpenters will be available and
the arabian carpenter will be absent. But if you killed
all of the people possessed and only saved a few, the
carpenter in the ordinary house will only be the carpenter
available to choose from. The other two will not be in
their houses coz you didn't saved them. Funny, I didn't
recognize the faces of this carpenters being there in the
well nor saving them. In Township, the carpenter will
reside in the house that looks like a warehouse left of the
main building and Granny's house. Here's the carpenter
descriptions in Capitan from leftmost house to right:
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The Carpenters
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Choose the carpenter you like the best. Some claims the
ordinary carpenter is the best coz it can cook useful
consumable and stat boosting items. Others claim the wooden
carpenter coz you can get rare and strong weapons and
equipment if you play his game.
Ordinary Carpenter / Cooking Carpenter
- This one builds ordinary/regular houses like those
typical houses you see in most towns. His house
will become a restaurant with no customer but you.
He will cook you anything edible in your item
inventory. Most of his cooking combinations results
in a charcoal or two. There are many combinations
that could result to assist, support and stat-
boosting items but its very hard to predict and
could cause you a lot of money and effort if you
are not careful enough. Like cooking 4 charcoals to
get a WiseBL. Bleu is useful for charcoal hunting.
MacClean, Hanz and Daiye are good source of
ingredients in cooking. Below is a list of some of
successful cooking combinations. I don't tend to
complete this list coz there are a lot of
possibilities you could get these items through
cooking and it its so tiring and time consuming.
Most of them are just contributed.
COOKBOOK RECIPES:
4 x Charcoal = HelpBL (recovers 100HP)
2 x Tuna + Stamina = WiseBL
3 x Cond.Up = GoldBar (sells at 6000Z)
3 x Tuna = PwrFood (raises Attack)
2 x Medicate = PwrFood
3 x ShaveIce = PwrFood
2 x HelpBL = Extract (recovers full HP)
4 x Unagi = GutsBL (raises Guts, no flame)
2 x ShaveIce = GutsBL
2 x Tuna = G8Bait (best bait except for Maniro)
2 x Dinker = Biscuit (DefUpX+CureX all, battle)
2 x Frizbees = Dinker (raise Agility)
4 x CureAL = Dinker
4 x SprRib = PanPizza (casts Pwr.Dwn, battle)
4 x Minnow = LuckCndy (raises Luck)
ShaveIce + Frizbee = LuckCndy
F.Spice + Frizbee = LuckCndy
F.Spice + ShaveIce = LuckCndy
Roast + Unagi = Medicate (casts AtkUp, battle)
2 x F.Spice = MisoSoup (raises Wisdom)
F.Spice + 2 x Tuna = Stamina (raises Stamina)
2 x Sniper + 2 x Tuna = Cond.Up (changes condition
to Excellent)
2 x SprRib + 2 x Porgy = Octopus (casts AtkUp all,
battle)
F.Spice + ShaveIce + FrizBee + LuckCndy = P.Pourri
(casts Angel, battle)
Wooden Carpenter / Othello Carpenter
- This one builds simple and old-fashioned houses
with 4 wooden poles support touching the ground
like their feet. This houses are good against
floods, but there's no such thing as floods in this
game. Maybe its just the carpenter's taste of
style. If your town already have 6 houses, it will
have a Gondola that will give you a bucket ride
going to HOUSES 4 to 6. This carpenter will have an
Othello-like game where you will you use your
Tolens to acquire some rare weapons and equipments
in his collection, but the game is quite hard but
its worth your time and effort. Save first before
you play!
PLAYING OTHELLO:
You need 2 Tolens/Medals to sandwich between at
least two of the prices and you need 4 tolens to
sandwich and sweep at least all of the 4 prices on
the table. You could sandwich the prices
harizontally, vertically or diagonally. There are
12 slots around the table where your tolens can be
randomly placed by your carpenter (Room1) or his
wife (Room2) when you go talk to them. Throughout
the game you can find 12 Tolens. Be careful and
save the game first before playing. If you sandwich
2 items with your first 2 tolens placed in the
table, save the game then go back to win the other
2 prices. If you are not successful, you could
always reset the game and start over again until
you get the best position for your tolens and make
a winning sweep. Claim your prices at the girl in
the counter. Here is the list of prices:
Room1: Carpenter Room2: Wife
Weapon1 - TigerSD (Rare) Weapon4 - KingofDR
Weapon2 - LopOffWP Weapon5- ThndrST
Weapon3 - IceBW Armor2 - RainbwRB
Armor1 - ShinyHT Armor3 - GiantSH (rare)
Arabian Carpenter / Rumors Pub Carpenter
- This one builds Arabian houses with no dressers.
The interior and exterior style of this house is
awesome. His house will turn into a Bar or Pub
infested by weird people who know many rumors about
your gameplay. This is interesting coz the people
here in the Bar or Pub knows how many times you are
defeated, how many dressers you checked for items,
how long have you been playing, how many medicine
you have purchased, how many time you went fishing
and hunting, how many enemies you have encountered,
how many treasures you have obtained, and one will
advice you whose character you must take in your
party often like taking Nina frequently rather than
Rand. The carpenter/bartender can give you a soda
drink for 600Z.
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iv. In Search for Tenants
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Here is the list of the tenants you can invite to occupy
the houses in your town. Be aware that your town doesn't
have enough houses to be occupied by all these people so be
careful. There are also some people whom you must choose
among the rest to occupy one of your houses, and
only one of them you must choose. If you choose one of
them, if you talked to the other one, you can't get him
anymore. Instead, he'll just give you advice on inviting
tenants or he'll just disappear in his location. There are
some tenants that can take you to secret places and can
reveal hidden features of the game which they offer to you
as gratitude for letting them occupy your town coz they
don't have houses. Yes, you have to be charitable in this
game and give houses to homeless people, but you must also
be practical. Don't just invite any tenants in your town,
you should get those useful ones. Nowadays, nothing is
free, most things have exchange rates. You will notice that
all tenants have names, so if you talked to anyone in any
town or any house in the map that shows his or her name in
the screen, you could invite him or her. You will also know
if they are tenants if you go talked to them and they talk
about finding a house or shelter, or having business or
something. If you already have your town that have some
vacant houses (3) and you go talk to them again, the word
they say will become different, and it will include a yes"
or "no" if you want to invite them or not. Some will only
be available as tenants if your town is on its 2nd upgrade
(3+3=6 houses).
CONFIRMED! You can have a town full of business tenants
that sell Armories if you want to, but it still depends on
the house they want to occupy in your town. Just analyze
the lists below. So if you want a town full of Armories,
you'll have a variety of weapons and equipment to choose
from, but not all of them are useful anyway.
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Tenants List
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The tenants listed below are 27 in total, 6/27 in ratio.
AZUSA
Description: He's a mountain man and a hunter
Location: Mt. Fubi, left cave
Benefit: He'll show you his secret hunting spot
Comment: His secret hunting spot have lots of animals
but that Gonghead is always in the way as
usual. Alternatively, you could hunt in any
grass patch that pops-up in the screen after
each battle in the world map even though it is
not as abundant as his offer. If you think
about it, he's not that very useful.
HEKKELLER
Description: He wants to have a weapon shop in your town
Location: Hometown, in the house left of your landlord's
house, 1st room
Benefit: Armory Shop (more on Fire weapons)
Comment: At first, his weapons seems very strong. But
once you equip it, its only effective against
ice/water enemies and it seems to inflict
poor damage to other enemies. You can get some
of what he sells in Maori Island later in the
game. He's useful but not good enough.
Sale: FlameSD - 3200Z
BurnKN - 2500Z
FireRG - 2600Z
FireBW - 3600Z
HeatST - 3000Z
MagmaAR - 4700Z
FlameSH - 3700Z
WOOPPI
Description: She is a fortune teller
Location: Hometown Church, upstairs
Benefit: If you have a problem with anything, come and
see her. She'll tell you your fortune.
Comment: She will give some hints about what will
happen next in the event you are currently in.
The game is not that hard to beat, so who need
her anyway.
HANZ*
Description: He wants to have an item store in your town
Location: Hometown, in the house left of your landlord's
house, 2nd room
Benefit: Item Store (more on accessories)
Comment: You can also buy this accesories and items
from Maniro if you catch him on certain
fishing spots around the World Map, you could
also win some from enemies and get it in some
dungeon chests in the game. These accesories
are not very used in the game anyway, but the
items he sells could be useful for cooking.
Sale: Charm - 1000Z
IronBR - 1000Z
D.Earing - 1000Z
WiseHoop - 1000Z
GutsBT - 1000Z
Cond.Up - 1000Z
Medicate - 500Z
WIN
Description: He offers to let you change your window color
in exchange of a house
Location: Joker Gang Hideout
Benefit: You can change your window color in 8 colors
to choose from, default window color is
Aquamarine/Turquoise
Comment: Why do you have to recruit him just to open
this option in the game? If you are not
satisfied with the color of your window, you
should invite him. For me, I'm satisfied with
the default color of the window coz it seems
better than the rest.
MACOTTI
Description: He pays one coin per month just to live in a
bathroom
Location: Coursair, in the pub's toilet/bathroom
Benefit: Nothing!
Comment: Don't bother inviting this useless tenant.
He's better be left living in his bathroom!
KAY
Description: She would like to open a hospital in your town
Location: Coursair Church, upstairs
Benefit: She'll give you a vaccine shot that can give
you immunity to poison for a while
Comment: What! This immunity only lasts in one battle
you first fought! This is ridiculous, and so
is she! Her offer is so deceiving, but after
you invite her, you'll discover she's useless.
POO
Description: Lucky! It sure is worth it he ask for a house.
Location: Coursair Pub, upstairs
Benefit: He will sells a moondrop for 1000Z later in
the game
Comment: Will you invite him for just a moondrop?
Anyway, moondrop is very hard-to-find item
that recovers HP and bad status.
SURFY*
Description: She thinks a safekeeping store gives her some
chills
Location: In a house northeast of Tagwoods, the path
going there have a small gap
Benefit: Safekeeping Store
Comment: Very useful, indeed. But safekeeping stores
are very common in most towns. Invite her if
you want, but I think it's not very practical.
BARETTA
Description: She wishes to have a business
Location: Windia Armory Shop
Benefit: Armory Shop
Comment: She's the best tenant you could get when it
comes to Armory. At first, she sells very weak
weapons and equipments but as you progress in
the game, her armory gets better and better.
Invite her as soon as you have a town.
Sale: (Changes and upgrades occationally as you
progress in the game on certain events)
1ST SET: 2ND SET:
LongSD - 620Z BurnKN - 2500Z
BronzeST - 940Z FireRG - 2600Z
WoodenDR - 290Z QuartrST - 2100Z
SuedeAR - 300Z BreathAR - 2500Z
SaladBwl - 60Z NationHT - 1800Z
SteelAR - 120Z
RistBand - 10Z
3RD SET: 4TH SET: (BEST)
ThndrST - 7800Z BreakSD - 16000Z
ChuckDR - 5800Z DeathBW - 23000Z
PierceRP - 4600Z KaiserKN - 25000Z
EarthAR - 6100Z AmberRG - 11000Z
SokletAR - 3600Z MotherRB - 28000Z
GuardSH - 5300Z HeroAR - 25000Z
ShinyHT - 16000Z
HolySH - 18000Z
DAIYE*
Description: He wants to sell fish!
Location: Windia Inn
Benefit: Fish Store
Comment: Inviting him means you don't have to look for
fishing spots to go fishing anymore coz he
sells them, but not all. Anyway, you still
have to fish for Maniro, some treasure chests,
Porgy and Snper. He's very useful for cooking.
Sale: Srdine - 60Z
Mckrl - 60Z
Bait - 60Z
Unagi - 60Z
Tuna - 300Z
Minnow - 300Z
YOZO*
Description: He's a Windian who wants to make a dojo and
can't speak straight coz he's a bit shy. It
will took him a while to open up to you.
Location: Windia Castle, upper left portion
Benefit: Keep talking to him until he increases the max
AP of your lead character up to 16 AP
Comment: His offer is very useful for Katt coz she has
the lowest AP in your characters & so that she
can now use her spells. You should invite him.
WATTS
Description: He is an old man at the carnival that gives
riddles
Location: At the traveling carnival before you get Spar
Benefit: He gives you riddles when you talked to him
(Ding! ding! ding! That's correct!)
Comment: Even though he gives you some tips in the game
through riddles, I don't thinks he's useful.
LOCKER*
Description: He's a painter and he loves the smell of paint
Location: Capitan, in the house beside the Inn
Benefit: He will paint your houses in 4 colors to
choose from
Comment: If you are not satisfied with the default
color of the houses in your town, then you
should take him. Still, inviting him is not a
very practical choice.
LEMINTON
Description: He's an old travelling salesman and he's
starting to get tired
Location: Capitan Inn
Benefit: Armory Shop
Comment: His armory shop is not good enough, and so is
he, so don't bother taking him.
Sale: KingSD - 1980Z
WonderRP - 1980Z
MightyAR - 2980Z
DemonSH - 980Z
SALVADOR*
Description: He's a frog saying that nobody appreciates
creativity. He was just planning on creating a
statue of the princess but he was locked up.
Location: Simafort jail cell
Benefit: He will make your lead character statues by
borrowing him or her for a while as a model
Comment: Your town will look nice if you invite him.
If you appreciate creativity, then get him.
MACCLEAN
Description: He wants to live in a town close to the ocean
Location: Seashore west of W.Cape, below the cave where
you get whale flute, he's staring at the sea
Benefit: He'll show you his secret fishing spot
Comment: He's very useful in cooking. His fishing spot
is full of Porgy and Snper that cost a lot of
money. You should invite him.
SUMNER*
Description: He's in a slump. Doh, doh doh. Dah dah!
Location: Tunlan, 3rd stair right house, left room
Benefit: Music/Sound Test, 35 in all
Comment: If you like BOF2 music that much, then get
him. As for me, I'm satisfied of what sound or
music I hear while I'm playing the game.
MARTIN*
Description: Who is "that guy" he's talking about anyway?
Location: Tunlan Inn
Benefit: He wants to help you to defeat "that guy" but
you must loan/invest him 3000Z for a plan coz
he seem to lost his wallet. He promise to
return the money back. Apparently, if you
refuse to give him 3000Z, he'll give you
5000Z.
Comment: He talks too many nonsense and yet he's not
that very useful.
EL*
Description: A Highlander hired as a guard in Tunlan castle
Location: Tunlan Castle, he's guarding the treasure room
Benefit: He will be a guard for your town
Comment: From what? There is no point in the game that
your town will be attacked by anything except
for tenants. Who needs a guard anyway!
PECHIRI
Description: He is a thief!
Location: Thieves Tomb
Benefit: He will steal your money in the bank and tells
he's innocent then tells you how to retrieve
it. This is inconvinience, not benefit!
Comment: He's such a liar! He said has given up
stealing. He's useless and annoying!
KARASHINOKOFU*
Description: He's an old man who likes to think of all
kinds of weapons
Location: Guntz, northern house
Benefit: Armory Shop
Comment: He seems to be useful at first but later in
the game he becomes useless.
Sale: KingOfDR - 6200Z
BirchST - 5500Z
GradeDR - 5100Z
PieceRP - 4600Z
SilverAR - 5800Z
SlashGL - 4100Z
WhiteSH - 4300Z
BACK
Description: He's an old man who claims that there are no
one better than him to make armor stronger and
he is not senile yet.
Location: Guntz Armory, lower right hiding
Benefit: He will increase the defense of the lead
character who talked to him temporarily by 4.
Comment: What! This only last for one battle your first
fought again! He is another deceiving tenant
whose offer seems useful but pretty useless.
AKKY
Description: A cat, yeow! Wah!
Location: At the house west of sea of trees, only
transformed Katt can talk to her.
Benefit: A house infested with cats and kittens!
Comment: If you want a pet, go get her. But I think
she's very useless.
BAROSE*
Description: He's an old magician of Gandaroof
Location: Inside the Memory of Great Wise Tree
Gandaroof, Memory Town Inn (North)
Benefit: He'll teach you some strong and useful spells
if you take him out. If you want to learn the
best magic spell he can give, try to meet all
his requirements in the best way you can
(HP=1 & AP=0 is Missile) and he can only teach
four times in any character regardless of
repetition. Give it to Spar, Jean, Bow & Rand.
Comment: He is one of the best tenants you can have in
your town! Get him before you finish
Gandaroof's Memory or else you can't get him
anymore.
GARBER*
Description: He is a man walking around upstairs of
Farmtown Inn
Location: Farmtown Inn
Benefit: He will increase your attack power temporarily
of the lead character who talked to him
Comment: What! Another one! Why do this kind of offers
don't last more than one battle? This could be
useful if you will about to face a boss, but
it is still useless!
BOCKDEN
Description: He's an old man training at the cave going to
Gate region where you first met Barubary
Location: At the cave northwest of Gate
Benefit: He'll start a Dojo in your town
Comment: The Dojo thing is just on his mind. Nothing
changes in his house nor any students coming
in. He can't even train you, so he's very
useless!
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The names with * marks can only be invited if the town is
upgraded 2nd time. If you talk to your carpenter after the
first 3 houses in the first (free) upgrade are occupied,
he'll upgrade the town again and build 3 more houses
(HOUSES 4 to 6) but he will get 1000Z from you. From there,
you can now invite tenants with the * in their names above.
Your town can have a maximum of 6 houses only, and there's
a strict policy which is "1 house = 1 tenant/person" only.
There are also instances that other houses will be Armory,
Safekeeping Store, Item or Fish Store but the houses
left will be for non-business tenants. There are many
non-business tenants out there so choose them wisely.
There are also some kind of pattern in which one tenant out
of a set of tenants can occupy a certain house in your
town, that's why some tenants disappears in their location
or you can't invite them anymore coz you already invited a
tenant beside them to take that certain house they want to
occupy, as well as for business tenants, so here's the list
below:
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HOUSES FOR TENANTS
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The arrangement of the houses in your town for tenants look
likes this:
ORDINARY:
HOUSE1 HOUSE2 HOUSE3
HOUSE4 HOUSE5 HOUSE6
WOODEN:
HOUSE4 HOUSE5 HOUSE6
GONDOLA
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GONDOLA
HOUSE1 HOUSE2 HOUSE3
ARABIAN:
HOUSE1 HOUSE2
HOUSE4 HOUSE3
HOUSE5 HOUSE6
The first 3 houses (HOUSES 1 to 3) are the ones you
first get when you invite your chosen carpenter after
Granny told you to go to Capitan to look for one. This is
the first upgrade of your hideout into a town. The 2nd
3 houses (HOUSES 4 to 6) are the ones you will get after
the first 3 houses are already occupied by tenants. Just
talk to your carpenter again at his house in your town to
get this 2nd upgrade. Now you can invite more tenants,
including those who you can't invite yet. Your town can
only have 6 houses for tenants to occupy in any carpenter
you have.
Below is the list of tenants who will occupy a certain
house in your town. Be aware of the strict policy
"1 house = 1 tenant" only. For example, if you already
invited one tenant in the list of tenants that can occupy
HOUSE1, then say goodbye to the others. Choose very wisely
according to your desired preference, there are a lot of
combinations!
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HOUSE1 HOUSE2 HOUSE3
~ Watts(NW) ~ MacClean(SU)* ~ Azusa(SU)
~ Hekkeller(AR)* ~ Win(SN) ~ Macotti(NW)
~ Kay(SN) ~ Leminton(AR) ~ Baretta(AR)*
~ Poo(NW) ~ Pechiri(NW) ~ Woopi(SU)
~ Back(SN) ~ Bockden(NW) ~ Akky(SN)
HOUSE4 HOUSE5 HOUSE6
~ Karashinokofu(AR) ~ Hanz(IT) ~ Surfy(SS)
~ Barose(SU)* ~ Yozo(SU)* ~ Daiye(IT)*
~ Garber(SN) ~ El(NW) ~ Salvador(SU)
~ Locker(SU) ~ Martin(SN) ~ Sumner(SU)
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Legends:
AR - Armory
IT - Item Store/Fish Store
SS - Safekeeping Store
SU - Special and useful
SN - Special but not very useful
NW - Nothing special, worthless
* - Best (in my opinion)
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At last! I think the list of tenants are complete! I'll
complete the details on later updates after some major
confirmation. Thanks to those who helped me complete it
(see Credits section).
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v. The Flying Township
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Aside from Mina the flying bird as your means of air
transportation, you can make your town fly like an airship
(like Balamb Garden in FF8). Once the doors of Infinity is
opened, Mina is not usable because of the demons released.
Warp ability is very limited and only towns you visited can
benefit from it. This is where the flying Township comes
in...
To be able to make Township fly, first you must not kill
the old man which is attached to the machine Boss in Evrai
which you will confront there while following Habaruku.
This boss is a three-eyed machine wherein the old man Ganer
in the center. You must kill first the eye that casts
Cure3, then the eye that casts Flame, then last the eye
that casts Freeze. Just leave Ganer unharmed. You most not
use any attack or magic that can inflict damage in all
enemies coz it will hurt Ganer as well. If successful,
before Evrai collapses, Ganer will use his power to
teleport all of you to Township. Now second, go to Guntz
and enter the northern house where Karashinokofu lives then
go to the hidden staircase at the back of the bookshelves,
you will find in the basement Eichichi, the one that the
old wise tree near Guntz is talking about. If you tell her
that you have a machine in Township that is unknown, she
will go there. Last, Go to the well in Township. The
machine there looks similar like the one in Highland and in
Evrai which are both destroyed now. Ganer will voluntarily
use his human energy to fly township while Eichichi will
navigate and keep the maintenance of the machine. Now the
town flies like a flying fortress, despite of its size, it
flies slow compared to Mina.
Keeping Ganer alive will not just make your Township fly,
it will also give a better ending if you beat the game.
What ending? Just see for yourself! I won't spoil it here.
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V. TIPS
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1. Follow the number one rule of RPG, talk to everyone in the
game coz you might learn some useful information from them
aside from advancing through the game.
2. Check all the dresser in every houses you see in the game. You
might find useful items and money there.
3. Its hard to avoid being defeated in this game, so avoid being
defeated by saving before any quest and deposit your money at
safekeeping stores so your deaths will not cause you big
money.
4. Don't run from a battle if not necessary. Keep on
encountering/fighting enemies in World Map and Dungeons to
gain more experience and money.
5. Useful business tenants offers services like Armory, Item
Shop, Safekeeping store and Fish store. Always prioritize this
kinds of tenants.
6. If you want to choose from all the tenants in the game by
yourself, you should not invite anyone until you have Grandpa
the whale and Spar. From there, you can visit all towns and
houses in the map and choose whoever you want to live in your
town. Go talk to them all so you will know their offer or
business and you can still say "yes" or "no" at the end of
your conversation. But I think you can invite one useful
tenant like Hekkeller so you can buy useful and strong weapons
and equipment at his Armory shop earlier in the game.
7. Get all the shamans and combine them with your characters.
Your characters will be more efficient to use if you combined
them with shamans. But be careful coz if your character who is
combined to a shaman get killed or reached a very low HP, the
shaman combination will be cancelled and worn-out and you have
to combine all over again.
8. Use Bleu frequently so all her useful spells comes out in her
spells list. Bringing her is like bringing Nina, Spar and Jean
all at the same time in the party. She is a Nina-Spar-Jean in
one!
9. The best party always include RYU and BLEU, the 2 left can be
RAND, KATT, BOW or STEN. Using shamans combinations with your
characters will make your party invincible.
10. Choose the carpenter that builds wooden houses so you can
have an Othello game in your town and get some cool and rare
items from playing it.
11. Go hunting frequently with Bow, so you can have Roast or
anything else which you can sell for big money or use them as
items. This is a good source of good income.
Here is Robert Lakeo's tip on hunting:
If you hunt with Bow and shoot a bird, you get an egg,
a very rare item that recovers all HP+AP.
12. Go fishing frequently using the best Rod you have and avoid
throwing in far places coz it will just make the rod snapped
and the bait wasted. Throw it near Ryu so you can have a good
catch often. If the fishes are far from the shore, attract
them to go near you by throwing the bait near them and if
they are about to bite the bait, pull it by pressing A to
avoid it from biting the bait until he's in a good position,
then you can catch it. Fish can be used as items in battles
or can also be sold in stores for money. This is another good
source of income.
13. Gold is quite few in this game as bait for fishing. You can
use it as bait for the Merman merchant Maniro or for treasure
chests. Only go for the treasure chest if you already have
CharmRod and push A rapidly if the gold bait reaches the
treasure chest to avoid losing your precious bait for
nothing, but you can also use Urchin (Gold and G8Bait bites
faster) as bait and DluxRod for catching the treasure
chest. Go for the Merman merchant Maniro if you have enough
money coz he'll sell you some rare items which is sometimes a
once-in-a-lifetime offer only. Anyway, you can get gold
sometimes after defeating those enemies that look like red
treasure chests in Simaport underground dungeon where you
fought the gold fly.
14. Examine the game properly. Don't rush finishing it if its
your first time to play this game or you will miss many
things here that will make you start all over again. Be
patient and try to understand the flow of the story.
15. Prioritize equipments for defense first rather than attack
weapons. Strong defense can avoid frequent deaths in your
party and can save a lot of AP and money. Strong offense can
kill enemies quickly but the lives of your party will be at
risk. Equip first those characters in your party with low
defense like Katt, Sten and Nina.
16. To save money and space in your item inventory, buy weapons
and equipments by trade. Trade those which are already
equipped and you want to replace with better ones, but
don't sell or trade those rare ones like the ones not
available in the market. Rare weapons like FlameSD and FireRG
are useful against enemies with Ice attributes, so keep them
in your inventory, but you can buy it at Hekkeller. Rare
and useful equipments like StormRG can cast Thunder and
MedusaSH can cast AtkUP which can be used by any character
but not all can equip it. TigerSD which can only be acquired
when you play Othello with wooden carpenter can cast Cure2
during battle only.
17. To get a lot of EXP and money in the game, always wander at
the Island of Giants just NE of Capitan once you have Grandpa
the Whale, but you must be strong enough to go there or it
will be suicide. The enemies there are giants like Gonghead,
A.Sludge and Chorking(Chopchop kills him instantly) that can
give huge amount of EXP ans some items like Extract and
Van.Ext. But be careful, once you face the small ones which
are the K.Sludges (3 Golden Sludges), be prepared coz they
are much stronger than any boss you have faced in this game,
worst than the final boss coz they can cast Death which is
always 100% effective, but defeating them will award you with
the biggest EXP and money you can find in the entire game!
Always use your strongest attack and spells which can damage
the whole enemy party, like Ryu's dragon skills, Missile,
Hail, Fireball, BoltX, etc., bring the most useful items you
have and finish the battle as quickly as you can. This island
will be a piece of cake if you are around Level 40+ and you
have strong weapons and equipment in your sleeves (I don't
know if DreamBR can block Death). Always deposit the money
you earned there when it is big enough in a Safekeeping Store
or Bank just in case.
18. If you want your characters to have the best stats in the
game, go get the cooking carpenter and let him cook those
stat-boosting items for you. All you have to do is find
those ingredients needed for making them, or to make things
easier, get Daiye and Hanz as your tenants and buy some of
the ingredients from them. Just refer to the cookbook recipes
in the carpenter section above for more info.
19. Here's a hint for easy money: deposit all your money in the
bank and go to the church in HomeTown. talk to the priest and
try to make a donation. he will give you 10 Zenny. do this until
you have 100 Zenny. Deposit and repeat over and over untill you
have desired amount.
- Thanks to Lavitz321 from my Message Board
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VI. SPOT THE DIFFERENCE : GBA VS SNES
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This section is dedicated for all BOF players and fans who played
BOF2 both in GBA and SNES versions. If you do, could you spot all
even the slightest difference of this game in the said two
consoles or platform and compare them from one another?
1. The big fish "PileWm" in SNES is called "Porgy" in GBA.
2. Of course, SNES doesn't have a link cable item EXCHANGE.
3. Quick Save! You can do it almost anywhere in the game.
Very useful when you are about to run out of battery
while playing the game.
- Thanks to Chris Me for reminding me!
4. Equip lod and bait(SNES) vs equip rod and bait(GBA).
- Thanks to ultimate_monkpunk!
5. In the SNES version, you can't run, but in the GBA version,
you can.
- Thanks to Trason Dazell
6. You can earn more EXP and Gold in GBA version than SNES.
7. When you are little in the begining, you go talk to your
sister. She talks about Ryu's and her mom and it shows a
picture of her. This was NOT in the SNES version.
8. When you get beat up by the demon in the cave when you are
little, it shows a picture of Ryu... young and adult.
This also was not in the SNES.
- Thanks to Zafersan Kubilay for 6, 7 & 8!
If you know some, email it to me! Credits await you...
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VII. CREDITS AND DISCLAIMERS
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Credits
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I would like to thank the following for making this guide/faq of
mine a success
(Some credits not included here are already written in other
sections above after their respective contributions.)
YOURS TRULY - for making this wonderful guide/faq
www.gamefaqs.com - for letting me post this guide/faq of mine to
their site
neoseekers.com - for requesting me to post my faq to their site
CAPCOM - for reviving this game for Gameboy Advance
Noel Capucao (hallie_j2x) - for his tips and advice
Nicolas Wee - for his correction about Bleu's gender, for his
info about Spar's Mushroom Girl and Onion Shaman
combination and for additional tenants and info
(Poo, Martin, and Woopi)
Ol' whazis name - for his correction about Bleu's gender, info
about charcoals and his suggestion for categorizing
tenants in the houses they can occupy
Crazy Chameleon - for another correction on Bleu's gender and
grammar, correction for Mushroom Girl's Spore
skill, and for additional tenants and info
(Baretta, Sumner, Locker, Poo, Watts, Daiye,
Salvador, Garber, Pechiri, Martin and Yozo)
Seciden Mencarde - for his correction about GBA cartridges
Seth Huber - for his suggestion and info about the cooking
carpenter, his cookings, and most of the recipes at
the cooking carpenter section
Jeroen Vermeulen - for his info about Bo and Karn from BOF1 in
the Island of Giants
Loogy Head - for his contributions of recipes in the cooking
carpenter section
Draco Knight - for his great recipes and FAQ
Matt Holmes & Trevin Murakami - for their correction for
charcoals = 1 HelpBL, and not 1 WiseBL
PB8J - for his correction for CAPITAN in GBA and SNES versions
YOU - for reading this guide/faq of mine and for appreciating it
Robert Lakeo - for his bird-hunting tip using bow to get an egg
Timothy Hick - for his boombada tip
Lars Davidson - also for his boombada tip
And for those people I forgot to mention, thank you! You know who
you are and what you have done.
Thanks for your support and complements for my FAQ. This inspires me
to make another one. I'll make another one soon, probably for GBA
games again.
Sorry for the great delay of my last and final update. I was very busy
with my school projects recently.
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Disclaimers
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