ARC THE LAD III
WALKTHROUGH Version 0.6
BY JL LEE<[email protected]> and ROBBIE<[email protected]>
11/10/99

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For more information on this game, vistit the Arc homepage at
http://arc.scei.co.jp
The page is in Japanese, so you will need a Japanese viewer or have the font
installed in Explorer.

Arc the Lad III is mod-chip protected and requires codes for playing.  Thanks
to the Asian Game Shark Code Centre for the following:
D0021DF6 1040
80021DF6 1000

This walkthrough will cover both the required and optional tasks from each
guild and it will also cover a little bit on the "Wanted" monsters in the
game.

A very special thanks to Cheub who supplied A LOT of information from missions
34-63.

After the opening scenes, Alec and Ruts will be in your party and you must go
to the Tode Bridge for a battle.  Win this and cross over to get to Ideo town.
Inside, you must go the guild.  After the events, you will wind up in the
starting village and you must head to the field behind the elder's house.
Then, head back to the elder's house.  Leave the village and head for Ideo.
Go to the guild and you can begin by choosing mission #1.

Mission #1 (required)

Head to the Waterfall Cave and work your way down to B2.  There will be heal
and save points.  The boss is behind the crystal doors.
Boss Strategy: Don't allow your characters to get side-by-side because the
boss's gun can harm both of them at once.  Alec's freezering spell may
paralyze him.
When finished return to the guild and select the 3rd option which is
liquidation.  You will get the awarded gold and GP's.  Do this after every
mission is complete.

Mission #2

Go to the house the arrow is pointing to after you leave the guild.  After the
scenes you will play a minigame in which you must catch 3 mice.  You will have
5 chances to do so.  Simply keep track of the changing positions of each mouse
to succeed.

Mission #3

Go to the item shop and buy an antidote and an adventurer's vest and take
these to Rukai River.  Win the battle and then give the items to Jay.

Mission #4

Go to the building that the arrow is pointing to.  Solve the puzzle by placing
all of the boxes on the holes so as to cover them.

Mission #5

You will be brought to the testing room where you fought the boss from Mission
1.  You will have to fight 4 enemies to succeed.

Mission #6 (required)

Go to the inn keeper and he will give you a trunk.  Go to the dock and then to
the bar.  You will be able to take the boat to a new continent.  Inside Rino
town, go to a room on the second floor of the Inn.  Then bring the chibi
monster to the Monster guild.

"Wanted Monsters" in Ideo

Slime - Tode Bridge
Plant - Northernmost field
Rabbit - Northernmost field
Dragon Fly - Rukai River
Blue Slime - Field  just south of the Waterfall Cave
Zombie - Same place as the blue slime

Mission #7 (required)

Go to the monster guild and head north.  Here you will fight a battle, meet
Sharon and see a CG sequence.  Head out to the crack in the earth to the
northeast and you will meet Teo.  Here you will have to complete a puzzle.
Rotate the pieces so that it becomes correct again.  Teo will join and get his
ability: Card Issue.  This will allow him to turn enemies into cards which can
be used as summon spells.

Mission #8

You will automatically go to the field where you met Sharon.  You will have to
fight 2 battles to succeed.

Mission #9

First go to the inn-keeper and then to the docks.  You must play a minigame
where you press the button corresponding to the character' name that is being
called out.

Mission #10

Go to Mina's house which is just to the left of the Hunter Guild.  You will
then be at Noaris Forest where you must win a battle to succeed.

Mission #11 (required)

Go to the Monster Guild first.  Then, go to the village and speak to the
Elder. Go to the bridge west of the village where you will be chased off by a
familiar looking wolf :).  Return to the village and speak with the Elder and
then Hanna whose home is just below the Elder's house.  Go to Noaris Forest
and win the battle.  You may want to card one of the rocs for later.  Return
to the bridge and you can pass.  Go to Sister Risa's farm and you are finally
done here.

Mission #12

Go to the bridge and win a fight to end this one.

Mission #13

Head to the bar in Rino.  Ruts is trying to get the girl in the bar to become
a model again.  The correct order of responses is:1,2,1, then the response
that ends in a period, then the response that ends in a question mark.  Thanks
to Shann for this info.

Mission #14

Go to Coleria Path and fight the monsters there to end this one.

Mission #15 (required)

Talk to the man in the item shop who will tell you about something he lost.
Win the battle at Garugado Mountain and then, return to the shop with the
item.

Mission #16

First buy an antidote.  Go to the bar and then the basement of the bar.  Then
go to the medicine shop owner by the docks.  Go back to the basement of the
bar and use the antidote on the old man.  Finish by fighting 5 poison slimes.

Mission #17

Go to Sister Risa's Farm and things will happen automatically.

Mission #18

Go to the Inn in Rino and you will automatically get into a battle at the
bridge.

Mission #19

Go to the Monster Guild and then over to Coleria Path to fight the Rocs.  Then
head to Noaris Forest to fight the Crimson Rocs.  Remember to card one of
them.

Mission #20 (required)

Go to the man in the shop.  Then head out to the docks followed by the monster
guild.  Then go to Sister Risa's Farm and Risa will have you get 4 cards.  To
get the slime card, play the minigame which has you counting the number of
crates and pots put on the ship.  Remember to pay attention to the items that
come out of the ship as this deducts from the total.  You may already have the
eagle card from the southeasternmost location.  For the Dandelion, go to
Hanna's house and she will inform you that that card is at the Crack.  Go
there to fight and card the Dandelion.  To get the Wild Hemoji card, go to the
Monster Guild and exchange your crimson roc card for it with the girl who
accompanied you on her rock search.  Finally, return to Sister Risa's and she
will call out the monster to take you to the next continent.  You will meet
Cyeryl.  Head to the Guild Town and over to the Item Guild.  This task is
finally finished.

"Wanted Monsters" in Rino:

Simply search the postings inside the hunter guild for the location and name
of the monster you are looking for.  This is how it works for every new guild.
Here is what I remember:

3 of them are in the lower rightmost location(Noaris Forrest I believe)
1 of them is in the Coleria Path where you met Sharon

Mission #21

Speak with EVERY person in the town of Gislem.  There are a total of 31.

Mission #22

Go to the left room in the Inn.  Then go to the coliseum(Dome) and fight with
only Teo in the party.  After the scene, go to the bar and speak to the man
with the spear.  Then there will be another fight with just Teo at the
coliseum.

Mission #23

Go to the Electricity Generator in the Guild Town.  After the scenes, go to
the Chief on the second floor and then Alec will fight one-on-one with Noin.

Mission #24

Go to Sabi Plains and win the battle within 4 turns to succeed.

Mission #25

Go to Kaleki Falls and win the battle.  After that you may purchase all of
items for sale for a total of 100G.

Mission #26

Go to the Children's House and you will automatically be taken to Junk Hill.
Win the battle and you will be taken back to the Kids House.  After the
scenes, fight the battle.

Mission #27 (required)

Go to the Item Guild.  Then go to the bar tender in Gislem and pay 300G for
all of the info.  Go to the Coliseum and fight the 3 cheaters.  Go back to the
Item Guild and give the item you received.

Mission #28

Go to Kaleki Falls.  Let the leader of the "River Bandits" ramble.  Then,
fight the 5 soldiers again.

Mission #29

Go to the right hand room in the Inn.  Then to Sabi Plains where you must kill
all enemies except for the green dragon.  Then, its back to the person in the
Inn.

Mission #30

Go to the bar and talk to the man on the left of the counter.  Following this,
win a battle at Junk Hill.

Mission #31

Go to the Guild Town and speak with the girl in front of the Item Guild.
After the events the competition will begin.  You must win all 3 matches to
successfully complete the mission.  In the last match, you have only chance
for a successful combination.

Mission #32 (required)

Go to the Item Guild and then the Weapon Guild to look for Cyeryl.  Go to Junk
Hill and win the battle.  Cyeryl will join.  Then go to the Path to South
Srado. Go to the Testa Item Guild.  Get 2500G.  Go to Tosh's dojo.  Get the
name of the shopkeeper from him.  Then go over to the town of Bandira.  Say
the name correctly to the shop keeper and pay the given money for the item.
Return to the item guild to get a new item.  Bring the item to the Weapon
Guild and a new weapon will be made.  Go to the administrative office and show
it to the person at the counter.  Then bring the weapon to Tosh for him to
confirm it.  You are finally finished here.

"Wanted Monsters" in Gislem

There are 2 wanted monsters in each of the 3 battle locations on this
continent.

Mission #33

Go to the electricity generator back in the Guild Town.  Then go to the second
floor to speak to the chief.  You will fight Noin again.  Then you will fight
3 monks.

Mission #34

Head to the Bazaar in Testa.  You will participate in an item contest.  You
start with a healing herb and you have to wind up with a silver blade.  Talk
to the upper-leftmost shop and answer the top choice.  Then, go to the shop to
the right and take the 2nd choice.  Talk to your opponent Abert.  Talk to the
shop nearest the man on the carpet.  Go to the lower-rightmost shop and you'll
get the silver blade.  Talk to the judge and you'll get 1st prize.

Mission #35

Enter the dungeon that took over to South Slat.  You'll meet a fellow hunters.
Talk to them and then get to the middle of the dungeon as quickly as
possible.  Try finishing your battles in 2 rounds.

Mission #36

Head to the southernmost location on the continent.  You will have to win a
fight without using weapons.

Mission #37

Go to Bandira(the Casino Town) for this event.You are trying to help get more
customers for the merchant.  Each potential customer that stops by will only
listen to a certain different one of your characters.  You must get 4
characters to go to the shop to succeed.  Ruts is the first, then Cyeryl, Teo,
and Alec.

Mission #38 (required)

Go to the building to the right of the Inn in Testa.  Talk to the man and
you'll be brought to the bazaar.  You will look at a crate and then a thief
will appear and you'll play a mini game in which you pick the correct thief
out of identical ones.  Simply track down the movements of the original thief
to succeed.

Mission #39 (required)

First go to the Academy in Gislem, then go to Tosh's dojo.  After the talking,
a new location will appear in the upper right corner of this map.  Finish it
and you are done with this event.

Mission #40

Not sure

Mission #41

Not sure

Mission #42

Not sure

Mission #43

Go to the dungeon towards North Slat.  You will talk to a man first then go
inside.  There will be some sparkles inside the dungeon which represent items.
You must find 2 items inside.  One is near the save point and another is a
few screens before the end.

Mission #44

Not sure

Mission #45 (required)

Go to the Guild Town.  Then go to the item, weapon, and monster guilds.  Then,
just go to the bridge south of Bandira(casino town) and you'll travel to a new
land.  Go to the library in the new town(Pisas I believe) and you are done.

Mission #46 (required)

Go north of Pisas to the small Rusa village.  You will meet Marsia.  Then
leave the village and go north to see the monks.  Return to where Marsia was.
Go to the Hunter Guild in Pisas and then go to the library.  From here, go see
the fortune teller in the bar.  Then go to one of the little houses in the
upper-right corner of town.  Go to lower left part of the map and you will
fight Garudo there.  Marsia joins and then return to the guild.

Mission #47

Go to the library and meet an old man who is having pages stolen from his
books.  The thief is one of the 5 people on the second floor.  Go upstairs and
talk then return to old man and choose the first answer.  You must find the
exact order of the 5 people who entered the library.  Marsia tells you that
the first one is the assistant of the old man and the last is the priest.
Your characters will role play as the other 3 guys.  The guy with the
glasses(Yomon) will turn out to be the thief.

Mission #48

For this one, just go to Roma Beach and fight the thieves.

Mission #49

Make sure that you have items that protect your characters from getting
paralyzed.  The name of the item begins with "rad..." in katakana.  Go to the
restaurant to meet a guy who lost his dog.  He will bring you to where you
have to fight monsters.

Mission #50

Not sure

Mission #51 (required)

Go talk to the librarian.  Then see the monks north of Rusa Village.  You will
get into a fight.  Then its back to where you met Marsia in the classroom.
>From there, go back to the librarian.  Then go to Roma Beach, win the battle
and back to the librarian.

Mission #52

Go to the upper-rightmost house in Pisas.  Talk to 2 old women, enter a house
and you'll find a man.  Talk to him and then search the bookcases and get a
total of 6 books.  Talk to Marsia and choose the answer: "hemoji".  Then
answer her next question with "top of the mountain".  Have Alec say yes to the
next question.  Win the battle and then go to the weapons guild.  Talk to the
"melting" guy and you'll get a machine gun.

Mission #53

Go to the restaurant and speak to the fortune teller.  People will leave,
follow them and then go to Roma Beach.  When questioned choose "go away by
yourself".  Fight the enemies and then return to the restaurant.

Mission #54

Once you select this mission, the corresponding events will occur
automatically.  You will have to fight enemies without being able to use
magic.

Mission #55

Go to "Ramada no Fumoto" and talk to a girl.  Accept her job to save a man
that joined the priests.  You'll be at the top of the mountain.  You will then
enter a mini-game where you protect the guy by talking to the monks when they
are about to see the man.  If the guy gets stuck, talk to him from the
direction you want him to move.  There will be 2 screens of this.  Win the
next fight and you are done.

Mission #56 (required)

Go to the place where the monks are and you will receive a mission from Iga.
Then go to where the boat is(when you first came to this land) and you will
travel to a new place.  Go to Paltas castle and watch a scene.  From here,
visit the Item Guild and you are done.

Mission #57

Go to the bar and you'll see a hunter who leaves a message for you.  Read it
and choose the top choice.  You get into a fight and then after that, choose
the 1st choice

Mission #58

Go to the Inn and you meet a guy who scams people out of their monster cards.
Follow him and you'll fight 2 battles.  You may want to card the Ogre Lord.

Mission #59

After choosing this task, the corresponding events will take place
automatically.  There are 2 battles to fight.

Mission #60

When you select this mission, there will soon be 6 hunters in the hunter
guild.  Then talk to the guy behind the counter again.  Here, you must choose
3 teams of 2 hunters apiece to battle monsters.  For the 1st set of 2 you
should choose the guy with the big sword and the girl with the backpack on.
Confirm these seclections with the guild master.  Then, choose the man with
the blue shirt and the guy furthest to the right with the spear.  Confirm
again and choose the remaining 2 characters for your 3rd team.  After some
talking, you will see that the 3rd team can't quite do their job.  You will
battle 3 tough dragons.  They have high HP's and you will want to use Ruts'
spell, Fatal Dagger which reduces their HP's to a mere 1/10.  This worked
every time for me.

Mission #61 (required)

Go to the house in the lower left corner of town.  After this scene, the rest
will take care of itself and you will have one battle.

Mission #62

Go to the first room in the Inn.  Talk to the guy and go to the bar where you
will talk to someone and choose the 1st answer.  Then, talk to the guy to your
left.  Talk to 2 guys back in the Inn.  Then go to Toraka to do some battling
and its done.

Mission #63

For this one, you will simply get into 3 battles at Toraka.

Mission #64 (required)

First go to the house by the mountain directly south of town.  You will see
Velhart here.  After the scene return to the house confirming that the guy is
gone.  Then go to the castle section of town in the room to your left for
another scene with Velhart.  After that, Alec will participate in a one-on-one
tournament in which there are 3 battles.  When all here is finished, go to the
Academy place on the lower left part of the map.  Inside, Velhart will join.
When this place is done, return to the house by the mountains for some brief
talking.  Then go to the item guild and the hunter guild.

Mission #65

Not sure

Mission #66

Not sure

Mission #67

Not sure

Mission #68

Not sure

Mission #69 (required)

After choosing this mission, head to Kariot to the west which is the place
where the boulder is blocking the entrance.  Once inside, be careful for the
various traps and pits which consist of mostly trial and error.  Work your way
to the hovercraft.

END OF DISK 1

CATASTROPHIC PROBLEMS

Upon completing disk one, I can no longer continue my game because the code
doesn't uphold for disk 2.  I have been trying several differnt things, but I
know of no way to get the game to play.  Anyone who can be of help here,
please e-mail me at the address below.  Thanks in advance.

UNANSWERED QUESTIONS

1)What are the steps for any of the missions above that either are missing any
info/have incorrect info?

All help offered here is greatly appreciated.  You can e-mail [email protected] for
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