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E M E R A L D D R A G O N W R I T E U P
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(from Stephen Sidler & Bt Garner)
Select Button - Quick Menu: Talk / Map / Save
Run Rutton - Talk (your party members converse among themselves)
II button - cancel
I button - Menu: equip / ??? / Battle-Options
Item select & switching / Status / System (load, save, options)
Battle: You will see a counter underneath your player, this is the
number of "moves" that you have. For Atarishyn, 1 point is needed to
move one space, and x is needed to issue an attack. (The bigger the
weapon you have, the move "x" is). The other characters
are NPC, so it's kind of irrelavent (you'll figure it out).
Other things: In each town, there are guys in long overcoats in either
the bar or Inn, they allow you to Warp from town to town (20 gold).
For instacen, if you are in the third town, you can warp to the first
and second (via a horse drawn carriage!), so long as you've "been" there.
In the second town, there are 2 interesting things. A casino, and a
"training" gym. The Casino allows you to play 2 games, one is a
Shoot-the-darts-at-moving-things game, the other is a slot machine game.
Always save before playing .. . if you loose, just restore.
The training thing is weird. It's mainly a place to build up some Exp.
You have 3 options (Easy, medium and Hard). Once you've done the Hard
training 5 times (or something?), you can no longer use the facility.
I found no other use other than Exp build up.
Pesky guards who will not let you pass. . .
I went back and forth between towns, talking to every person in the
BARs. Next, I went into item shop NE of guy's house who we thought was
the key (town directly east of pesky guards). Talk to girl, man will
come out of back room and give you something. Go to the 2 guards and
answer yes. Your next move will be to speak to the 2 guards on south
end of "guards palace". Could not open the 2 doors in this area. Next,
you will be thrown out by the guards into this new area.
Go south. New town. Talk to all, and especially the bartender. Answer
all his questions, then the guy on the left in the bar will let you
enter door. Now, you can enter the temple northwest of town. After that
talk to all. In a NE house there is a bookcase. Go up to it and it will
open and allow to talk to a whole bunch of people. You'll lose a member.
Go southeast to a new town. In the bottom right house is where is most
important. You'll gain a new character. Upon leaving house, new member
will open up new area to the east.
Follow your map. Don't bother to go to dead end areas before reaching
the next town (see NOTE below). Talk to townspeople, then go SW to cave.
Follow the green poisonous slime of the scorpion. I wandered around and
found nothing. Eventually, the area will be blocked with fallen rocks.
Circle around, going left and up and right to resume the green slime
trail. Long cinema after finding bloody dude. Scorpion boss is next.
Back to town. In the lower right house, a girl will diappear. After
trying to exit town, you are stopped, cinema, and then sent back to
previous town. NOTE: There is an area west of scorpion town that I did
not survey. It was a dead end on the map, so I hit the town first. Was
not able to go there again. Perhaps you might want to continue west and
check out before doing the cave bit.
Talk to all, then proceed the town in the NW (the first town you entered
after the guards threw you out). Again talk to all, proceed to NE cave.
A guard will join your party. Enter the previously locked gate. You will
have to enter the palace. A guy blocks your way if go NE. This area is
not hard, but you will fight often. On the 4th floor is the boss. Should
you go to floor 5 first, people there will push you back toward 4th fl.
After boss, floor 5 people will let you exit. Leave this palace and go
back to the town where we spent a lot of time while we were stuck with
those pesky guards. The dude that transports you no longer allows access
to the first two towns. Interesting. Hopefully, we're done with those
areas.
Now, go into the temple-like structure NE of town. We've been here befor
but the monsters are back. You will find a treasure chest you cannot
open. Come back later. Eventually, you will enter a cell with a guard.
Now, respond with answer #2 both times. You fight. Respond with answer
#2. Fight more. You'll be given something, and the entire temple is now
freed of monsters. Proceed and you will meet with 3 people at the exit.
After speaking with them, proceed to town. Noone is there. Go to the
house in the SW corner. Proceed to the big room where we fought a boss
way back when. Read the map on the table. Exit room and go right to a
table. A cinema, and you will find yourself walking in a secret passage.
Fight the boss. Now comes the tricky part.
After this, the townsfolk are back. I warped to every town, spoke to
everyone, and eventually one of the two woman inthe town that's directly
south of the bridge (directly right of the guy who we thought was the
key to get past those pesky guards) gave me something. At this point I
had no luck at crossing the bridge, entering the east forest area (where
the girl says something and pushes you back), nor the guard standing in
front of the castles entrance. Proceed all the way back to the town that
you had to use your map to navigate (scorpion town). In the SW corner
a guy joins your party (now you have 5 people).
Go back to town immediately west of the entrance to this forest area.
Someone in a house will "do" something. Here is where I travelled for
hours. (go back to the Indian's father's house, and "search" the
bookcase) Go back to scorpion town, go SW to the cave entrance and proceed
to the east. A whole new area opens up. Use your map to plot the best
way to the temple. Don't bother to check dead ends, as I did and nothing
was ever there. The little houses ytou see on the map are actually
"healing wells". Go to temple talk to woman, proceed outside and you
be warped back to entrance of forest area. Try going now to the area
east of the castle that we could not enter because of the girl. You
should be able to enter. If not, then talk to everyone in all the towns.
Proceed to house. Ignore dead ends. Enter upper right doorway. Make
sure you "touch" all 5 emblems on the wall. The tombstone gives you the
clue to successfully open the door with the switches. After reading
the tombstone and touching all the emblems, go to the locked gate with
the 5 emblems on the floor. Use the sequence of colors that are on the
bottom of the tombstone writing and step on the switches in that color
order. Fight dragon, then approach crystal ball on pedestal. Item
appears. It seems that the text indicates that you have finished an area
...at least that was my assumption. After warping back, I spoke to
everyone in all towns, but nothing happened, so you might as well go
to the bridge. A fight ensues, and it's clear to roam. Also, you can
go back to the previous area. The guard is still blocking entrance to
the castle, the bastard!
Go to building (won't allow you to go anywhere else). Straightforward
maze, kill bad guy, now you can roam entire area. Go to town. Someone
dies, speak to everyone. This is what I did next..went to lake west
of town. Picked up item at the bottom. Went SW to area that contained
a sword. I switched items, and equipped the 2 characters. If you go
all the way SW, you will not be allowed entrance. Go back to town.
Go back to lake, and go to bottom where sword was. Get 3000 dollars.
Directly NW of town is now a cave. Use you map. No problem here. Fight
3 scorpions. I was at level 80 by now. Go to dude's house. Read all 7
lines. Funny, he keeps moving around. After that, he'll be outside.
Talk, go back in house and continually talk to him. He eventually
disappears. I'm still not sure if this is good or not, but I did it
anyway. Go back to town. The guard rejoins your party, and it is now
up to 5 again.
Now head all the way SW and you can enter new area. I like this part.
It was cool the way the guys got into the castle. Go to the right hand
entrance when you go into this castle. Throw switch, go back up left
side. Enter a new maze. Use your map. Eventually, there will be a boss
in the southeast part of a floor. Cool sequence. After winning battle,
another one starts. After winning, you will now be allowed access south
of this castle.
Go to town. Guy joins your party. He is weak, and can't be upgraded.
Don't bother. The other characters can gain good defense here. Go to
the north cave. Easy. Back to town and your old character rejoins the
party. After exiting this house, go back in and talk to yellow haired
dude. He gives you 2 things. Now go to boathouse west of town, and you
will be allowed to cross water to new area.
SW of new boathouse is a cave. Follow map. On first level, touch all
of the columns to trigger opening of new entrance. Also, there will be
2 torches. Come back to them after defeating the boss, because an
entrance will appear here. You end up on another island, fighting a
group of dudes. OK....after winning the fight, I returned to the
boathouse, hoping to see if I could get into castle, or into the area
desert. Guess what! The dude at the boathouse denies you the boat!
But double check when you reach this point.
OK, you're on the new island now. No inn, weapon or item shops here.
Go back to previous town for needs. South is a cave that you cannot gain
entrance yet. Go to the 3 houses in the NW from your starting point.
Next, go to house in SW corner. As you try to enter, winged creatures
attack. Talk to girl. Directly north of this little temple are rail
tracks, and locked doors. Go back to town, then the cave.
Finish cave, return to town, go back to girl's temple. Door is unlocked
now at end of tracks. Go to blocked wall. Return to girl. (I returned
to town also, but don't think it triggered anything). Now go back to
blocked doors. A tresure chest in here will give you the 4th selection
on the menu that you use to call up the map. It won't work yet, as it
is a warping ability.
New area. North is town. Get better armor/weapons. Go southwest and
will encounter an ugly boss-dude by the water.
Get ready for a looooooong walk. Go back to town to stock up on those
$3000 items that do damage to all the creatures. Head southwest to new
area. You will encounter many mazes underground, and many battles.
Eventually, you'll fight big bad dude. After this fight, you will be
warped to land. You can now use warp. Go to 2nd town on warp menu
and visit the castle south. Nice cinema. Now, here's where things got
cloudy. I visited every town, every cave, starting with the 1st town
on the warp menu. When you visit the town that you got to when you
crossed the bridge (the one where there is a grave directly west), go to
the cave NW. Go to the house that is in the NW area. You'll warp there
right after you answer yes in the cave. The guy talks to you.
By now, all I did was warp around and around and around......
OK...here is where I possibly found a sub-quest. If you want to bypass
this part, go to next paragraph. If doesn't work, then do the following:
Warp to the next to last town on the warp menu. You'll pick up a 5th
character and lose your warping abilities (for now), so don't panic
like I did. Go east and find a cave. Get treasure (equip new
dude), and head south. See the torches...cannot proceed. Exit cave
and go all the way east and find another cave. Get to room with robot,
treasure chest, warp device and a big metal container. Open treasure
chest, and go back to the other cave. There'll be torch opening, open
treasure chest, return to other cave and fight bad dude. The blue warp
device does not work, but you now have your warping ability back. Warp
back to town.
Now, go to the town that has the grave marker to the west, and the cave
to the NW (the town right after the bridge). Head SW, and go back in
front of the structure that earlier your army climbed the ropes to get
over the moat. Proceed west (remember you couldn't enter this area?),
and look at your map for an area that looks out of place (green squares)
and head there-SW). There will be girl, she joins your party. I warped
to towns now and stocked up..lose your warp soon. Now, go NE from this
girl and grave marker. You will see a patch of green on the map. Once
there, will be 3 palm trees and a tile. As you approach, a winged
creatures attacks. Head to NW opening.
From here, it's simply follow the mazes. Eventually, you'll come outside
and proceed to bottom of lake. Here, you get the "sword". Go NE to
new opening. Here it becomes interesting. After cinema, touch every-
thing in room as you are a girl. Proceed south of room, and find all
your characters. Go back to rooms that were immediately east and west
of this room, and stock up on armor/weapons/items. Exit either side and
more treasure chests. Boss is nearing.
Last boss changes to high powered dude after killing him the first time.
(but he's a wimp!)
G O O D L U C K
**Essential items to have.....
Item has 3 symbols, the first being a triangle on top of lines.
It restores life to a character that dies in a battle. Found in many
chests. Put one in each character's inventory.
Item has 3 symbols, the first being a crooked T with a line over it.
It restores HP to all characters.
Item has 2 concentric circles as first symbol. Restores one character
HP fully.
Item has dash at end, uses all sysmbols. Use this in battle, as it
affects all the enemies on screen. I had 12 of them at end of game.
Buy this at next to last town for 3,000 each. Worth it.
