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From now on, I won't be calling it Earth Defense Force, but E.D.F, for obvious reasons. Anyways, This is a very old game for the Super Nintendo, I Though it was a pretty cool game around then, nice graphics and action packed shooterness :) This FAQ contains a walkthrough, Complete Boss strategies, Weapon comments and complete weapon strenghts and weaknesses, enemies lists and the "level Up" points each enemy gives you. This is my Second FAQ :) But my first real walkthrough, PLEASE E-MAIL IF YOU READ THIS, It would be nice to know SOMEONE SOMEWHERE had this game :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2.Table Of Contents | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.Introduction - DoI o_0 2.Table Of contents - Double DoI o_0 3.Getting Started - Getting ready to fly 4.What Weapons? - Weapon Ratings and My Personal Recommendations 5.The Ultimate E.D.F Walkthrough - The Complete, Ultimate etc. yada yada... 6.Mechanics Guidebook - Various little tivial things I like to include 7.Enemy list - Enemy list and their respective points 8.Some other stuff - Some other stuff 9.Idiot List - My idiot list from the Wild arms 2 boss FAQ...DoI o_0 10.Credits - ......*Bursts into laughter* 11.DISCLAIMER - WEBMASTERS AND THEIVES, ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |3.Getting started | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Getting Ready To Fly Alrighty now, slap this bad boy in the SNES and press power!(Note: Playing this game as ROM Could be quite challenging....... I don't recommend it) After your finished watching the incredibly boring E.D.F Intro, you should go into options and "Configure yourself". Options look like this... ***** Game Level Normal Shield Stock 3 Control Configuration 1 Shoot B F.Change A Speed.Up X Sound Mode 1 "First Encounter" Exit ***** Game Level: This is obviously the difficulty level. You can only choose from normal and hard. First time playing?? You might want to choose Normal.... Ill get into the differences later on. Sheild Stock: This is also like a difficulty level, you can choose from 1, 2 and 3 shield stock 1 sheild stock means 1 hit and you die, GL beating the game like that! Control Configuration: These are obviously your controls. Shoot is B, thats too shoot :) F.Change is used to change the position of your sattelites(Explained more later) and X is used for changing the speed your ship moves at. I recomend you just leave it alone, unless you have some divine button prefrence already. Sound Mode: This is a little sound test, it lets you listen to all the music in this game. There are 10 (yes only 10 songs in this game) to choose from, #5 is pretty good, and #4 is ok. The song list is... 1.First Encounter: First stage music (Very annoying) 2.Midnight Intercept: Second stage music (No comment) 3.Naval Battle: Third stage music (Somehwat annoying) 4.Sunlit a Colony: Fourth stage music (I think they were trying to say "Sunlight") 5.Premonition: Fifth stage music (Kinda cool) 6.Armed Satellite: Final stage music (No comment....not the worst music ever) 7.Boss Attack: Boss Battle, Duh :) (Not too bad, actually kinda cool) 8.Openeing music: Title screen Duh :) (Extremeley annoying, don't listen for too long 9.The Brave Wind: Ending song (Pretty annoying) 10.Name Entry: Name entry, DOI o_0 (Pretty bad.....) Exit: What does this do again?? Oh yeah....Exit the options menu :P (NOTE: I remember there was a code to make the E.D.F intro all squiggly and stuff...Does anyone remember it?? Is anyone reading this??) Thats pretty much the end of getting started, all you need to do is go back to the title screen and start, read on for my weapons analysis. BTW, LOL, you should just wait for the CPU demo to come on, whoever was playing in that demo sucks very badly...LOL he got hit by those guys with pink lasers....LOL! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |4.Weapons | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Weapon levels and Personal comments After you press start you'll be greeted by SELECT YOUR WEAPON This is the select your weapon screen, there are 8 altogether, choose wisley, continues are rare. Move the cursor over the weapon you want and it will tell you its stats. Shot speed: The original speed of each bullet shot. Shot power: The damage inflicted by each individual shot. Rapid shot: The speed of reload, or the wait period after each individual shot. Read on, or choose one you like. VULCAN Shot Speed A Shot Power C Rapid Shot B (This ones wrong, Im sure its alot more rapid than S.LASER, and it has a A) VULCAN is actually a good weapon for diehard shooter guys. Its your standard spread of fire, Its more powerful than HOMING, and more fun to play with. The Rapid shot rating the game gives is just an outright lie, this weapon probably has the highest rapid shot rate out of them all. The shot speed is really nice, and like I said, It spreads out making it easy to stay near the back of the screen and just hold down the shot button all day. Its a little harder to take out bosses, actually, its alot harder.... DO NOT USE THIS WEAPON ON LEVEL 2! \ VULCAN looks like... XXX = Your ship (Very Bad ascii Art approaching) ))) ))))))) \ ))))))))) XXX >))))))))))} ))))))))) ))))))) ))) LASER Shot Speed B Shot Power B Rapid Shot C Welcome to the worst weapon in the entire game. Laser dosen't have an A on anything, which is completley insane, every other weapon has at least 1 A. Im not surprised though, its just a beam from your ship or your satellites. This weapon would be better if S.LASER didn't exist, but it does, and its better than LASER in every way. Its not that powerful, not that fast and it has obscene Rapid Shot, its just a plain old waste of time, try it for fun, and laugh at the guy who thought it up, blahh..... LASER looks like..... \ XXX <==================== (Gets bigger on higher levels, I didn't say it gets more useful though..) ATOMIC Shot Speed B Shot Power A Rapid Shot C ATOMIC is VERY powerful. The shot speed they gave it is something of a lie, its as fast PHOTON and EXPLODE. Its basically a little capsule your ship shoots out, when it comes in contact with an enemy, it explodes in pretty blue flames. Like I said, its VERY powerful, you can take bosses out right quick with this baby. Unfortunatley, its nearly useless for normal enemy combat, its just too hard to hit things with, even your satellites miss the enemy with it. I Certainly Don't recommend this for newbies... ATOMIC looks like..... --- = Travelling Equal sign = ATOMIC + = Enemy 0 = explosions \ XXX -----------=----- + \ 0 0 XXX --------------------0-0 0 0 0 HOMING Shot Speed B Shot Power C Rapid Shot A HOMING rules! Its ridiculous how overpowered this is, you just sit there and hold the shoot button while these little O's and triangles go destroy your enemy. Ill tell ya, its weak, but it makes no difference, you simply whoop up on the enemy no matter what. Shot speed is another outright lie, its faster than vulcan I Think. Shot power is an outright EXAGGERATION, this deserves an E in power, its incredibly weak. Rapid shot A is right on the dot, it has the highest Rapid shot in the game, which makes up for its lack in power. This one is good for newbies and intermediates, its also very relaxing!! HOMING looks like.... \ XXX 00000000000000000000 0000 0000000000 0+ EXPLODE Shot Speed A Shot Power B Rapid Shot C EXPLODE is great! Its my favorite weapon definetley, and its great to use if your an expert! Shot speed is great, you will hit somone with this puppy. Shot power is B, which BTW, is Another outright LIE, this might be the third most powerful weapon in the game! Rapid shot C is 100% true, it has a very long reload time, something like 1.5 seconds. EXPLODE is basically a fireball that travels across the screen, once it hits something, it explodes into different, smaller fireballs, in different directions. On level 1 it only goes in 2 directions, but on level 5 it goes in all 8 button directions. The best thing about this is its power, and a good ability to take out large groups of enemys. EXPLODE looks like.... \ | / \ | / \ \|/ XXX --------------->+ /|\ / | \ / | \ (Thats EXPLODE on a higher level mind you...) S.LASER Shot Speed C Shot Power A Rapid Shot A I LUUVV this weapon. Its like the normal CRAP lASER except it automatically AIMS for the enemy, and it also TRAVELS through them so large enemies take cumulative damage from this.... The shot speed is...umm....Pathetic.... The Shot Power is umm... Awesome! This weapon could be the most overpowered ever. The power alone is staggering, then it aims for you.... lord, what a cheesy weapon. Rapid shot is great, your screen will be swallowed by a barrage of fat blue lasers before you know it. S.LASER looks like..... Sorry, to crazy too draw.... :) PHOTON Shot Speed A Shot Power A Rapid Shot C PHOTON is the most powerful weapon in the game. You basically hold down shoot, and when your charged up, let it loose! Watch the carnage that lies in its wake, ships exploding, lives lost, this is the power of PHOTON! Shot speed A is correct, its flys across the screen(It also flies right through enemies mind you again) at high speeds. Shot Power A is a little off, this is just too powerful, it should have an A+ or something. Rapid shot C?? Rapid Shot F-, this weapon has terrible Rapid fire(If any Rapid Fire) the simple fact that you have to charge it is an obvious way of showing how bad the rapid fire is. Experts only for this one, its not that great for normal fighting. PHOTON looks like...... <-\ < | \ < | XXX < | < | < | <-/ Thats a High level photon.... Holding down for a smaller amout of time will result in a small beam. GRENADE Shot Speed C Shot Power A Rapid Shot C I haven't had much experience with GRENADE, mainly because I hate it. Its like atomic, except more powerful, slower, and harder hit to anything with. Instead of hitting the enemy, it just kinda hovers in mid-air and explodes after a bit. The game gave it a a fair rating. I don't recommend using GRENADE, it kinda sucks. GRENADE looks like..... Bah, Im not drawing this crappy weapon.... My rating of weapon usefulness 1.HOMING 2.S.LASER 3.EXPLODE 4.VULCAN 5.PHOTON 6.ATOMIC 7.GRENADE 8.LASER (Never use LASER) Well, that my weapons section, if your a newbie, use homing for a while, if not, try S.LASER or EXPLODE, maybe even VULCAN. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |5.Complete Ultimate Walkthrough | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Okie dokie, got your weapon? Lets go! ** ** ** ** ** Part 1 - Stage one *SKIES ABOVE KILGAMESH's HOUSE* First things first, pause the game, and take a look around. In the upper left is your score, which obvisouly says zero right now. In the upper right is your sheild meter, the green boxes show how many sheilds you have left. Each time youget hit you lose one shield, it should be at 3 right now. Right next to the sheild meter to the left is your Speed meter. Its at 2 >> right now. using the X button you can change your speed. > is slow, >> is normal, and >>> is fast... DoI o_0 :). Ok in the top middle part of the screen is your weapon level meter, right now it should say pause(I hope it does, your not reading and playing are you??). When you start playing the game, the PAUSE goes away and it shows you your Weapon level meter, which is at nothing right now. All the points you get from killing enemies gets added up here, and when the red bar reaches the end, you get a weapon level up! When your weapon levels up, cool things happen. Your weapon becomes more powerful, and sometimes, more effective (Like EXPLODE). Each time you get a Level up its PERMANENT, meaning if you switch weapons later, that weapon will be on the same level as the weapon you gained the weapon with. Phew! The last thing to explain is that little thing on your ship. That is your Satellite, that is the thing thats shoots whatever weapon you chose earlier. Your main ship(The big one) Can only shoot a little one way vulcan type weapon, which frankly, isn't worth having a party over. Right now, at level 1, you can switch between 2 different satellite "Stances". The one you have right now is stance 1, its generally the worst stance, and once you start playing, I recommend that you press the F.Change button to change to stance 2. You won't get other stances until you gain some levels. Heres the Stance list. Stance 1 - Start with it Your satellites stay right by the nose of your ship and shoots powerful bullets, I dont recommend ever using stance 1 because Satellites can block bullets, and its hard to block when your in stance one. Also, the bullets it shoots usually have a hard time hitting things, you get a better spread fire with stance 2. Stance 2 - Start with it Your satellites revolve around your ship counterclockwise. This stance is very good, I recommend using this stance until you get stance 4. You get alot of spread with this stance, and the satellites have saved my life a couple of times from blocking a couple of bullets. The downeside to this stance is that the bullets are a bit weaker, but since there are 2 satellites here instead of 1(or 2 put together) it adds up just fine. Stance 3 - Level 3 Your satellites follow your ship around like a snake. This stance has its moments, but other than that, I don't recommend using it. Its useful for killing the Second Boss. Stance 4 - Level 5 This is the Best stance. Your satellites group together to form a little link like this. X - - - - X - - - - <---Bullets The best thing about this stance is that the satellites RUN UP TO YOUR ENEMIES! Right up to them. With something like EXPLODE, This literally rules.... (NOTE: When you gain a level after Level 5, it just refills your shields by one. Maximum number of shields that you can have is 5.) ALRIGHTY THEN!!!! Lets get moving, now that i've explained everything already. Shortly after starting, there will be a line of enemies approching, I feel sorry for you if you have PHOTON. Destroy 2 of these large lines of enemies. Now, If your not there already, move to stance 2, you'll need it to hit the enemies that start falling from the top part of the screen( You need to position yourself so your satelites hit those guys if you don't have a weapon that aims for you). After thoose fools, there will be some mediocre ships flying in slow formations, dispose of them. Once you see medium sized ships coming from the top and bottom, GET IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SCREEN(Near the back part of the middle), They can't even hit you here. A couple of slow formations guys later, you will meet one of the most annoying enemies in this stage. Hes that circle shaped guy with a 360 degree rotating turret. Be careful here, these guys actually shoot at you, and they have alot of life. The second you see them shoot, just move down or something. Try and stay away from the turrets, the bullets are pretty damn fast. Now a few more top - down and bottom - up flyers. Once again, more 360 guys appear, theres more here so watch out(Try and make it without getting hit, you'll be niceley rewarded). Even more slow formations... then more top - down bottom - up guys, stay on the horizon here. Now one 360 fighter comes down fast here, don't stay to near the back. Now 2 more of them(This is a common spot where people get hit, just plan out what your doing here) Theres about 3-4 on the screen at once, be careful. If you have a forawrd only shooting weapon, don't even try and attack the one near the back of the screen. Now, slow formation guys get angry and lose formation, they start appearing at random places while annoying 360 fighters start appearing too. This part is actually pretty hard. By the time your finihed with them all. You probably gained a level by now, you can see the change in your weapon. Shortly following that A big silver ship appears, don't worry, hes a l00ser, he'll appear from the bottom right, and go near the left part of the screen. Just stay RIGHT in front of him until he makes his way to the top right of the screen. By this time, he should have deteriorated and hes half dead when he does. He'll start shooting once he reaches the top right, don't worry, its a slow string of bullets in a 360 rotation even satellites can block it. A good trick to killing him fast is going into Stance 2 and staying close to him, he will take alot of extra damage from your satellites traveling through him. Once hes gone... Part 2 - Stage one Alright, hes gone, time for part two of this stage. After a 360 turret ship A new enemy will appear from the bottom right hand corner of the screen, ill call him Junkbot. His big strategy is throwing used rocket containers at you, hes not very smart is he? Once his containers are gone, he'll start shooting lazers from his main cannon, there pretty fast. My advice is stay away from the front. Another will follow shortly behind this one, stay out of the way of there beam cannons. Oh wait, whats that? A 360 turret ship from the upper left, this is getting interesting, I hope one of the junkbots is gone already. I suggest you concentrate on the junkbots, the turret ship will be on screen for awhile, its not worth the risk of standing right in front of him. One more 360 bot is following him, both junkbots should be dead by now. After that carnage, more carnage awaits you. 1 more junkbot and 2 360's. Bastards... Concentrate on the right 360 until hes gone, then junkbot, then the other 360. Oh dear Kilgamesh, what was that lightning? ITS BOSS TIME! -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ BOSS 1 - The Detachable Mothership o' Doom First off, stay near the left side of the screen, or else her entrance will crush you. This Boss is relativley easy, you probably won't even need this next part, but if your feeling laggy, read on(It would be wise to survive without getting hit) The DMD(Detachable blah blah) Is very weird, it can split itself horizontally and annoy you with a badly aimed energy shot. Its main weapons are the 2 Gatling Cannons on its front side, it also tries to shoot you by moving around vertically. Once its half dead it loses the Gatling Cannons, Its not out though, it starts using an even more deadly weapon. RANDOM GUNS! Yup, two small guns On the ship start shooting 3 way bullets at you, which are easily dodged :) Strategies VULCAN - This is retarded, all you have to do is move to the top, and I mean TOP of the screen, and hold the shoot button down, once energy bullets start coming out, just dodge twice, and repeat. For the 3 way bullets, Use Bait-And-Switch. Stay near the top so when the bullets are moving in that directino, just go somewhere else. LASER - Just stay in between the 2 Gatling Cannons. For the other attacks, see VULCAN. ATOMIC - See LASER, except atomics explosions eat all of her bullets up! HOMING - see VULCAN EXPLODE - Keep your ship VERY close to her. Try and stay near her bottom side while right next to her in stance 1. This can result in a 8 second vicotory, BEFORE SHE EVEN SHOOTS! S.LASER - see VULCAN PHOTON - see LASER GRENADE - See LASER, just stay close enough.... Hopefully, you won't have any problems here. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Well you whooped up on her(I hope). Just to let you know, If you made it through without getting hit once, YOU GET 100000 extra points!! Whoa!! ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** Part 1 - Stage 2 *CITY OF MIDNIGHT* Ok, your prompted to change weapons again right here, If your feeling a little giddy, Go for S.LASER, if nto go for homing. BTW if your feeling suicidal, go for PHOTON, trust me, you'll die..... (EXPLODE Would be a nice one for experts.) Immediatley at the start, your greeted by diamond fighters from the top down and bottom up. Switch to stance 2 quick!!!! Next, skywriters, there are alot of these gus in this stage, if you stay right on the horizon, he can't touch you. Try and stay on the horizon for alot of this stage. Before you can kill the first one, another one races down, keep in the horizon and you'll be fine. Man this is fast paced, beofre your donw with those guys, 4 embryo's come out. Once again, stay RIGHT on the horizon, they have circle wave beams which do a little spreading. After those fools Enemies slowly drop from the sky, nothing to worry about. Next, more embryo's, horizon is the word.... Unfortunatley, this time 3 more come out, succesfully making the whole screen a wave cannon warning zone. Try and take out 1 of the first 4, and if it dosen't look like there going to be killed before they shoot, move into his spot and just wait it out. Its not worth the 100000 points you get if you survive with all sheild... A couple of more diamond fighters come from the bottom, and top of the screen, then another row except a little more towards your side of the screen. BTW, you shoudl have gained a level at about now, which is probably 428400 points, GJ. Now something a little weirder, diamond fighters coming from all sides, starting in the lower right corner, clockwise to the lower right corner. Could be a little hard, you might even want to try Stance 3 here if you are repetadley dying(or you could just change weapons next time you die....). Next, just a couple of stupid slow fighter formations. The end of part 1 Part 2 - Stage 2 Now something a little challenging for non aiming weapons. Diamond fighters coming from top and bottom, plus a skywriter, stay on the horizon....hope your satellites can take out a diamond fighter so you can slip through the formation without getting hit... Now, the hardest part in the game for at least 2 stages. If you don't have an aiming weapon, I feel sorry for you. From the top left, and bottom left, you have BigWings going to the front of the screen, make it halfway there, then make a U-Turn down to the middle and turn to leave from the left side of the screen. Don't worry, theres more. Large horizontal formations of random fighters are also coming at you from the right side of the screen. Heres my plan, which might not work that great for something like PHOTON. Stay to the right horizontally of the topmost layer of random fighters, firing like crazy. I hope you can mow them all down before they run into you. If things start looking bad, you can always run into a corner of the screen or something, hope ya make it! After that hell and death, just a stupid embryo formation, the full formation with 7 of them mind you. Horizon....... Then, another top down bottom up diamond fighter formation, use the Satellites luke... Next, even more annoying diamond fighters, in the spiral formation too! Now a weird skywriter, for this part, DO NOT STAY ON THE HORIZON. After a few of those fly by, more bigwings appear except this time without the random fighters horizontal formation, thankfully, its much easier this time, 3 or 4 stupid skywriters fly by too, followed by a slow formation of Dropping diamond fighters and a full 7 formation of embryo's. Strangley, that part isn't as hard as the earlier BigWing catastrophe. Oh dear Kilgamesh, More lightning... ITS BOSS TIME!! -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- BOSS 2 - Nuclear Wannabe Gundam Fighter Ok, this boss is umm, really easy... Easier than the first as a matter of fact. Im not even going to bother writing weapon specific strategies. Now listen carefully, go into Stance 3, and once the boss comes back on screen and flies way over to the left,stand at this part of the screen(Illustrated below) ------------------------------------------- | | X = Satellite | | | | \ | | ---\ = Your ship | + X | | +++ | + | + X | +++ = Boss | | + | \ | | ---\ | | | | | ------------------------------------------- Now, you have to move to that area of the screen while in stance 3, then just move down while your Satellites are hovering up there. This works becuase, that guy comes back to the right side and starts shooting crap from his hand, which can't hit you very easily from your current position. Now, since your satellites are right one him, he'll be taking ALOT of damage from that plus the damage from you shooting at the same time. Now be careful, the second time he comes around, he WILL do damage from hitting you. He moves up and down and all around a bit, if it looks like hes gonna hit you, just move down some more. I killed him before he could use his aimed weapons, heh, what a foolish little creature.... Well that was hard wasn't it?? :) -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ ** ** ** ** ** ** ** PART - 1 Stage - 3 *NAVAL INSTALLATION* Ok pick yo weapon foo! I suggest S.LASER, Or EXPLODE......or LASER!!! (Just kidding) You'll be attacked by some stupid random fighters flying in wave pattern and then more stupid random fighters falling from the sky. A couple level 2 skywriter are around here, don't worry, all they do is shoot 1 missle at you. A couple of slow formations later... You will be greeted by the second most annoying enemy in the stage, crystal man. They attack in pairs of 2 and show up from different corners of the screen, if you don't have an aimed or spread weapon you may want to consider letting them pass by you, they fly around pretty eratically. After the crystal fighters, you meet THE most annoying enemy here, SharkBOT. STAY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SCREEN UNTIL YOU SEE HIM. He comes right from the back of the screen, and will probably hit you if you don't know hes coming. You can't damage him yet, wait until he comes back around. Don't stay to close in front of him, he shoots fast wave beams. Be warned, 2 crystal fighters interrupt you in the middle of this battle, bastards.... 4 Skywriter 2's later, even more carnage, 2 SharkBOTs. Stay right at the top of the screen (The stagdalites can't hurt you) until there past you, and be ready for whirlpool ship, a small fry with alot of ammo. Take him out before he can start shooting, he comes from the middle, exaclty on the horizon from the right. After him, a couple of slow formations and 2 SharkBOTs, crystal men start interupting you again. Not enough? Well a Whirlpoll ship comes out after you too, use that information wisely. PART 2 Stage - 3 You will be once again greeted by yes, even more crystal bots and skywriter LVL 2's. Destroy the with you Mad Sk11lz and meet your mini boss, Crabmaster. YOU CAN"T HIT HIM YET! Stay near the upper right until you have alot of bullets coming at you, then slowly move down and AROUND him. Yes IN BACK OF HIM too. After that, hes vulnerable at his center. Halfway done means he loses his arms and hes vulnerable everywhere. Your safe at the bottom of the sceen most of the time if you've got an aimed weapon, his weapon now is a huge spread fire cannon, that means stay away from HIS FRONT. New enemy now, minimaster. Hes just a stupid little ship in the water, after he shoots his get behind him and kill him, its much easier with an aimed weapon. After 4 of those guys, another worthless enemy - gatlingbot. Hes just a feeble little thing that flies up and starts shooting horizontally to the left, nothing to worry about, blahh. After a couple of them and a couple of minimasters, stay in the middle and just shoot. These disc things don't really do anything to you except fly in a circle around the screen, free points! A couple more mini masters and another volley of disc things. After 2 more gatling bots, you'll meet another new guy, cept this ones almost dangeruous. its Edenbot, he shoots a spray of fire from his underside down into the ground. Stay next to him and you'll be fine. Theres some carnage next, minimasters floating around, gatling bots flying up along with Edenbots. The best thing to do here is take out the eden bots, and then the gatling bots, just forget the minimasters, its pointless to go down there and lose your 1000000 point bonus. Oh dear Kilgamesh more lightning...Again?? ITS BOSS TIME! -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- BOSS 3 - MegaMaster Yups, its a big ol version of those little mini masters. He'll enter from the bottom, and begin by shooting big balls of energy, which explode into smaller balls of energy, they are VERY slow, but they are still quite dangerous. His second, and most dangerous attack is his mini missle burster launcher, the missles are tiny, hard to hit, homing, slow, and 6 in a pack. After hes half dead, he deteriorates and comes out of the water and halts at a nice hovering action in the air. Hes easier now, no more minimissles. Now he can still do the energy bullets, but his new attack is pink lasers, that bouce off the ground. Combined with the energy bullets, he can sometimes put you in a "bad situation" Weapon strategys VULCAN - What you need to do, is stay to his left and keep shooting, let his enegry bullet get close to you, then QUICKLY fly upwards, thats an advanced version of bait-and switch. For the minimissles, use a similar technique, stay near the bottom left, and "lure" them after you, once they are all coming towards you, fly UP, and escape around them. They dissapear after a little while, go back to step one and repeat. For his second part, try and stay uner him, but not in the way of the pink lazers. Do it like that so the energy bullets will be travelling in the opposite direction of your escape route. LASER - See VULCAN, except it seems like LASER has no trouble destroying those annoying missles, maybe it is a little useful?? Nah..... ATOMIC - See VULCAN Except you WILL destroy those annoying missles with this, very easily too. HOMING - You can stay pretty far away from him and safely too. Watch out for the missles, HOMING sucks quite badly against them. EXPLODE - Same as VULCAN except try and get in and out faster, my record time for this guy is like 20 seconds with EXPLODE! S.LASER - See homing, cept thse time, the S.LASER won't even attempt to kill the missles. PHOTON - See VULCAN, except this time, a well placed PHOTON will rip the missles up easily. GRENADE - Belive it or not, GRENADE completley obliterates those missles, and it might even stop the energy bullets! WHOA! This is the best weapon for taking this guy out. 18 seconds man. Hope you get your 1000000 bonus :))) -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Well, thats half of the game gone, don't worry, things start to get hard now. ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** PART 1 - Stage 4 *Colony of Sunlight* Well, this stage is really hard, You might want to drop HOMING already and pick uo S.LASER, or EXPLODE if your feeling giddy. Now that you have the coveted Stance 4, START USING IT!!! WHOA!! This stage starts off with some slow bloobots, then immediatley speed up when 2 more come up along with 2 speedy sunburst bots. You need to stay calm, stay near the middle left. THERE ARE ALOT OF FRIGGIN BULLETS FLYING AROUND!! Before thats even finished, ALOT of quick formation random fighters appear, stay calm, and stay near the middle left still, at least until they start shooting at you. Some of them come from the back so once again STAY IN THE MIDDLE LEFT!! After that hell and death, more random fighters from the bottom along with a sunburst ship making a U-turn from the top, then the same thing, cept random fighters on top, and sunburst on the bottom. Then 2 Sunbursts from the right, and some slow formations, not a big problem. A couple of sunbursts later, rocketships appear from the top and bottom right. What you need to do is stay near the back, and once they are on the same level as you horizontally, MOVE FORWARD, or try and take them out. Yet more random fighters, stay right in the middle of the screen, its crazy I tell you, CRAZY!! Now, the hardest thing since stage 2. 2 bloobots from the back top and bottom, followed by 4 sunbursts from the top and bottom. Try and stay near the middle until the sunburst look like are soone going to crash into you< then move down to the bottom left Corner and dodge anything that might come your way. A little refreshing pause while random fighters fly around, not a big problem. Now missles start falling, while random fighters come from the bottom right. Use your normal gun to stand in one spot and kill any random fighters that appear, while your stance 4 satellites take out the missles. 4 bloobots appear, use bait-and-switch. Another refreshing pause here with slow wave formations... A couple of bloobots here, man they have a lot of life, go up and around them. Part 2 - Stage 4 Okie time for part 2 This starts out hard, 4 fishmen attack followed by alot of random fighters in v formation. Diagram time ____________________________________________ | | You are that thing in the lower left corner. | F | | | K is the bloobots you should kill | V | | V | V is random fighters from left side | V F | | V | F are bloobots you shouldn't worry about | V | | V | | V | You should be attacking K, once hes dead, | V | you can just chill out at the bottom dodgin | V F | until the V fighters pass. Hope you didn't get | V | hit.. | V | | \ | | ===\ K | -__________________________________________- PHEW! After the black holocuast, its the return of skywriter!! whoo! stay on the horizon...Doi:) Whoa!! Its the embyo fighters too!! Feel free to give them a nice welcome. After the celebration , more skywirters with random fighter slow waves, oOoOoo scary..... More embryo fighters, this time with a new formation, just move up a bit, good one guys, ya almsot got me there... A couple of Fishmen later, something actually hard happens. STAY RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SCREEN. A horizontal string of random fighters, comes from your backside, while 4 embryo fighters in close formation come from your frontside. Stay in the middle, or maybe even get really close down, to the bottom here. 4 more bloobots and its rest time. The colony in the background is happily being chewed up by a high inetisy laser. Aww.... feel free to laugh at people as they squirm and suffocate in the blackness of space. }:) Kilgamesh... More lightning?? ITS BOSS TIME!! -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- BOSS 4 - HIGH Mobility Orange Horseman of the Plauge of Destruction This guy is umm, pretty hard ill say... He enters from the right side, and dosen't look very intimidating either. Stay FAR away, his main weapon is a VERY big spray of medium sized, medium speed stars, if your far enough a way, you can easly slip between them. The other thing he does is shoot little satellites at you, they shoot about 4 laser before they fly off screen, combo that with the stars, and you've got a somewhat hard boss on your hands. His ultimate attack (which I hope you kill him before he uses) Is lining up the satellites in a vertical row of 5. After they are done shooting 5 fast lasers at you, they then suicide ram you + HMOHPD is shotting stars and crap at you, bah, what a bastid. I consider myself a shooter master, and he ALMOST got me with that attack. Once hes half dead, he gains the ability to shoot a large stream of stars straight at you, its not every dangerous using bait and switch, but could be otherwise. All the weapon strategies are the same. Just hold the shoot button, and dodge his stuff, he will die eventually, his HPS, aren't that great. I feel bad for you if your using photon or laser, you will have to keep your eye on him and yourself. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Wow what a hard boss Kilg.... The next one is harder..... ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** Part 1 - Stage 5 *Approaching the Apocalypse* Use S.LASER - or EXPLODE. Maybe HOMING if you want to be very safe(But bored cause it takes 10 minutes to kill this boss) Okie dokes. You may notice the cool music in this stage :) After a bit of staring, 10 STRONG random fighters appear with some ladybug ships. This could be trouble for HOMING. After some more StRandom fighters and ladybugs appearing at obscure places, you'll see that little colony in the background :(. After a few mor StRandom fighters, Go to the middle of the screen and a little to the left, 2 ladybugs from the back and ALOT of StRandom fighters appear. Now something annoying, ice asteriod start falling towards you,while a bunch of ancient ships(Invincible at this time) line up on the right, bah, bastids... ITS VERY HELPFUL TO NOT SHOOT ANYTHING UNTIL THE ASTEROIDS HAVE PASSED. After a few confused yellobots and St random fighters, 4 ladybugs come from the left side. Just let them pass if you took explode. This part is annoying, more ancinet bots(invincible right now too) line up on the right. After 1 row is gone, another appears, this goes on for awhile.. Until 3 yellowbots appear(Thankfully, yellowbots suck). After the 2 ladybugs, its time for some strategy. Ancient bots from the right and left sdtart lining up, its pretty tricky here. Stand at the middle bottom of the screen and when they charge you go to the top, stay at the top and when the next wave charges you, repeat. Its better to just let them pass, they are invincible until they start moving at you. However, before those guys are even gone, ALOT OF YELLOW BOTS, and I mean ALOT OF YELLOW BOTS start appearing in random locations from the right side of the screen. Stay up high, and pray. Part 2 - Stage 5 After the last pair of yellow bots, STRandom fighters start flying up from the bottom of the screen at really high speeds, Stay near the top, and let stance 4 take of anything. Now 2 rows of anceint bots on both sides of the screen, wait for them to charge, then just go to the top or bottom(Depending on what the recipricol is at the time) Mini boss time! BE READY. Once he appears, he stands there, then the asteroids surrounding him COME AT YOU, quickly! Plus, he starts shooting at you the second hes free. This guy basically just fly up and down wavily, while shooting a spread 5 of slow bullets at you. He also summons electrical ball of plasma from his sides and then throws them at you. Keep using advanced bait-and-switch tactics, which means stay near the bottom while stance 4 is attacking him, and once bullets come at you, move to the middle, then, once the electrical balls start shoooting you, wait for them to almost hit you and move to the top and dodge around them. Then go to the bottom and repeat from step one :). He dosen't have that many hps. Now your descent down to the planet in MODE 7 begins. Asteroid are coming at you, so go into stance 1 (Yes, im telling you to go into stance 1) and just dodge them, no shooting! Beware a couple of samurai ships come out at you around here, it's not really that bad, don't shoot them though, it could cause an asteroid chain reaction. Once your down there, a whole squadron of samurai fighters appear, its time to start shooting. If you have EXPLODE it shouldn't be any trouble. Some rocketships also appear, but there not much trouble. Unfortunatley, the real carnage begins when a bunch of rocket ships come from the top right and bottom left while another squadron of samurai ships appears. Use whatever kind of weapon spread you have and take out the samurai ships, then just worry about dodging the rocket ships. Immediatley after that, a couple of lady bugs appear, followed shortly by a bunch of missles falling from the sky. All I can say is, Stance 4. You may notice the small dots in the background flying around, GET OUT OF STANCE 4, Stance 4 trys to aim for those things, so get into stance 2 and destroy the missles. Once those dots fly up to your screen, they can now be attacked, you'll see they are r-fighters, and aren't really anything to worry about. Just keep killing the r fighters and missles. Uh oh Kilgamesh, I saw lightning. ITS BOSS TIME -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- BOSS - The White Ice Snake of Destruction Ok, welcome, to a pretty damned hard boos! He is VERY FAST, as you may have noticed on his entrance from the right side of the screen. His first attack of the fight will be trying to ram you, this is very dangerous because. 1)Hes VERY FAST! 2)There is a small wait period where your basically just staring at each other, then BAM! Hes flying straight at you. Be ready. Next, he will appear from the bottom right in his full snake form, he pauses at the top, shoots 3 REALLY fast spreads of 6 small ice asteriods, then scurrys down to the bottom right. While scurrying, he shoots about 8 small ice asteroids in a string aimed at you. Finally, once hes at the bottom right, 3 More quick spreads of 6 Ice asteriods. He then scurrys back to the top right and reapeats. See that paragraph? Thats in a 4.5 second time span, THATS HOW FAST IT GOES, Thank god the game lags becuase of graphics on screen, this could in fact be too insane to handle. Weapons Strategies VULCAN - What you need to do here, is make sure your in stance 4, hold down the button, and dodge like there is no tommorow. When he rams you, just pay attention and react quickly or else.... Once he begins his loop, you need to watch your ship. Since your satellites are doing all the work for you, thats all you need to do. It might feel a bit weird, becuase most people don't keep their eyes fixated on their ship while fighting, but its the safest method. As for his scurrying string, use advanced-bait and switch. LASER - Why are you using this piece of scrap tin? ATOMIC - Same as VULCAN except ATMOIC is really great for this guy. HOMING - Same as VULCAN except it will take you ten minutes with this weak thing. EXPLODE- EXPLODE is great here, its the same as vulcan, but it only takes about a minute. S.LASER- Same as VULCAN its not very good here though, this guy moves around too much. PHOTON - *Shiver* You'll have to do the same as VULCAN, but now you must pay attention to when to stop chraging and shoot, I don't recommend it. GRENADE- Same as VULCAN buts its not too bad for this boss. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Hope you got you 1000000 Points, I sure did :) ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** STAGE 6 - "Inside The Apocalypse" Last stage guys, Load up with EXPLODE, or S.LASER. This is the hardest stage in the game, its pure hell. I hope you have some continues left. Immedialey upon starting, you'll be in a rather small corridor. WARNING, you can and will take damage if you run into the walls on the top or bottom, or those little annoying barriers that are flying around at the beginning. BTW, they can't be destroyed, just pay attention to where you are, they are a bit camoflauged becuase they match the color of the background. After you leave the tunnel, your now in the heart of the apocalypse. Get into Stance 4, very quiclkly. You'll soon meet 2 yellow bots and a 2 large horizontal strings of random fighters from the right side of the screen. Stay near the bottom, and worry more about surviving than killing these guys off. Before the random fighters are off the screen, NOOO!! Its the return of 360 ships! Now there silver, and even more annoying, let stance 4 do the job. After a pretty long pause, A WHOLE DAMN ROW OF VERTICAL YELLOW BOTS APPEAR! ARGG! Whichever one your stellites decide to destroy, you should stay on the same level horizontally with, once your satellites have punched some holes in the defensive line, slip through and pray you don't get shot at. Get into stance 2 immediatley after that, 4 sunbursts and 2 combobots appear, but stance 4 will try and aim for the fakebots in the background, so be ready in stance 2 for them. The fakebots will be destroyed easily. Some crystalmen appear from the to right and bottom left here, just let stance 4 kill em off. Now 2 sunbursts and 2 combobots, followed by a couple more sunbursts, Stance 4....... STAY right in the middle after that, 4 sunbursts from the bottom-middle right, and top middle left SPEED over to you, once they slow down, just worry about dodging. Stay in stance 4 here its the return of....SHARKBOT. There are 4 of them, and 2 more appear from your backside after a few seconds, you might want to stay in the top middle with stance 4 until the other 2 SharkBOTs have passed by(Keep in mind, you still have to dodge them while they're passing you by). Before you are even finished with them however, 8 COUNT em 8 silver embryo fighters appear, I suggest you take a detour to the bottom of the screen and take the ones down there out first, let stance 4 guide you. Part 2 - Stage 6 Now your travelling speed is slowed down, and a tunnel appears in front of you. Once again, you can take damage from touching the walls. Theres nothing in here for a couple of seconds, then the room opens up to 4 turrets and a gundam charging you from the middle right. Its not to hard , stance 4 will take care of everything for you. Next, an immobile station, and a couple of spark flayers shortly after. Your satellites easily block their shots in stance 4, nothin to worry about. After a couple of immobile stations and a couple of turrets, you'll come to a wall, destroy it! Next, 4 shooting posts and another gundam, also nothing to worry about for stance 4. Now another Immobile station and some more turrets, then a gundam, damn, this is easy :). After a row of turrets and a shooting station, your finally out of that hole, now there are just a bunch of stupid gundamns flying around. This is getting pretty easy..... Uh oh...Lightning kilga...... Nah, its just a weak mini-boss. All this guy really does is shoot a very big and fast spread of small red bullets, now and then there will be a small bullet hoving at the bottom of the screen, keep that thing at the side of your eye, after a small while it will charge after you. All you have to do is move up a pinch when he shoots and let stance 4 take care of everything. These spreads aren't as bad as boss 5's. BE WARNED, once hes half dead, the hovering bullet now appears at the TOP of the screen. NOW ITS TIME!! (Alot of fanfare) FOR THE ULTIMATE (A ridiculous abundance of fanfare) BOSS!! -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- BOSS - 6 "The Stallions Gale of Apocalypse" Here he is, the final boss of this game, and hes really hard too. Hes immobile, just a big metallic horse head sticking out of the ground. Upon meeting him, you will be greeted by a large, very very slow ball of energy that travels around the screen, then a very very fast random spray triangluar bullets coming from his face. Right after that, an electrical rod begins charging at the upper right hand corner of the screen. This thing comes out and flys over to the large ball slowly flying around the screen, its not hard to dodge, just stay away from the path of it, and the large ball. After he shhots alot of those, a slow moving fireball shoots out of his eyes. This fireball acts alot like his random traingular spray, except it starts from the fireball, and travels to the right side of the screen. After the fireball, a blue light appears from his lower body. This light will shoot a veryyyyy big string of electical bullets at you, then a HUGE spread of bullets. Back to step one he goes now. Weapons Strategies VULCAN - DO NOT GO TO STANCE 4! Stance 4 aims for that ball travelling around the screen, just keep in stance 1 or 2. Shoot and dodge, hold the button, and watch the bullets coming at you, its the best way to dodge stuff from him. For the random spray, stay near the left hand side, and dodge like mad, for the lightning, stay away from the black ball of death. The fireball isn't dangerous at all, just stay near the left! As for his electrical bullet string, use advanced-bait-and-switch, as for the following spread of bullets, watch the first row of them appraoch you, and move your ship accordingly. LASER - Same as VULCAN except you might be able to stay in stance 4 becuase laser might travel through the black ball of death.... ATOMIC - Same as VULCAN, but it really really sucks here. HOMING - Same as VULCAN, but good lord, it takes 20 minutes to kill him! EXPLODE- Same as VULCAN, except it RULES here. S.LASER- You can kinda be in Stance 4 here, Same as EXPLODE PHOTON - Stay in stance 4, Same as VULCAN, but much more skill is needed. GRENADE- This is by far the worst weapon to use here. You can't use stance 4 and you have to stay close enough for the incredibly short range of GRENADE to actually hit him, Good luck! -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- WOW! You did it, and got about 2 full red bars of expeience points! now all you have to do is make it out of here alive. Meaning fly backwars through everything you've just done :( After a whole lot of exploding, you start going backwards, VERY QUICKLY. Stay near the top, and when you see the tunnel, get ready to make a quick downards drop through pretty small quarters. Sit back for a bit now until you get out, Phew! Now just stay in the middle for a short while until..... WHAT THE HELL IS THAT THING!! The TRUE Final Boss!!! -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- FINAL BOSS - "The Defiled Pheonix of Apocalypse" Boy that was a big surprise huh? Hehe, I Didn't want to spoil it :) I won't lie, i've played alot of shooters, and I can say this is probably the hardest boss ever in any game. Get ready!! The End is near!! DPA looks like a big green eagle at first, and isn't very intimidating, until your screen is swallowed by a whole ass load of little green bullets. Why is that so hard?? Diagram time. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | | . = bullets | . | 0 = DPA | | \ X = Sunburst packets | . | ---\= You | . 0000| | 0000000| | . 00000000000| | . 000000000000| As you can see, you are | . X---------------------- 0000000| slowly being blocked in | 0000| by alot of spray bullets | . . | | | The bullets explode from | . | the sunburst packets he | . | shoots out of his mouth | \ . | | ---\ . | Your escape route is | . | blocked becuase of this ---------------------------------------------------------------------- and this diagram is mis- leading, there are WAY more bullets traveling around then expressed in this crappy little ascii art. Its quite insane let me tell you, and there is only 1 strategy for all weapons! WIN!! What you need to do, is pray. Now after you've finished that, keep your ears open. Once hes on the screen, make sure your in stance 4, and your on the highest speed level. Stay on the middle bottom right until his first sunburst packet explodes. Now, this is called super advanced bait and switch. Move all the way to the left, then all the way to the top, and then to the middle right of the top part of the screen. Now you should be on the opposite pole of the screen where you were when you started. Now after he shoots his next sunburst packet, go all the way to the left, all the way to the bottom, and then go to the same position where you were when you started super advanced bait and switch. You may have to do some dodging in between this mind you. After you've done that a couple of times, his sunburst packest are now big pink things. This is how you know hes 1/3 dead. His new sunburst packets are different, these level 2 sunburst packets now only shoot a spread of 3, but they are a bit bigger,and they are ALOT faster. Beleive it or not, things are alot easier now. All you really have to do now is stay in the middle moving up and down dodging the sunburst packets and his bullets. A little while of that, you may have noticed he stopped shooting his sunburst packets at you, and now EYES ARE APPEARING IN RANDOM DIRECTIONS ALL OVER THE SCREEN. This is his ultimate attack, and his strongest. Look at where they are while they are blinking, you can move right through them at this time, then look for a space where there aren't that many, look for an escape route once they have started charging you, AND MOVE!! THATS IT, you beat that bastard!! Now enjoy the ending, although crappy, you've earned it. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |6.Mechanics Guidebook | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ahh, this is the mechanics guidebook. Its basically filled with a bunch of information about the game workings, and little things you should know. Perhaps pointless, but this is THE ULTRA COMPLETE E.D.F GUIDE!! And the only guide you will ever need for this game. ----Stances---- Stances are a little strange as you may have noticed, there is a little equation for figuring out what stances you can do, and at what period of time you can do them. Its really pretty simple, but not as simple as "your level". Weapons Level + Stage = Stance points Weapons level being the current level of your weapons(Which can be easily checked by looking at the top middle of your screen) and stage being the current "stage" your at, meaning before the first boss, your on stage one, before the third boss but after the second boss, your on stage 3, Its not that hard to figure out people :) Now if your at weapons level 3, and on stage 2, you have 5 stance points. But what does that information mean?? Heres the stance points list. Stance Alias :) Stance points Stance - 1 "The crappy stance" 0 Stance - 2 "The good stance" 1 Stance - 3 "The ok stance" 5 Stance - 4 "The ultimate stance" 9 Thats a bit weird, but thats how it works :) Stance 1 --------------- X Satellites \ ---\ X It stays in that position Except its a little higher up(Hard to do in ascii art) Stance 2 --------------- X Satellites _X__ / \ / \ \ | ---\| \ / \-X--/ (Very bad Ascii art) Satellites Rotate around your ship. Stance 3 ---------------- X Satellites - = Satellite following your path \ X------- ---\ | \ \-X (Very bad ascii art) The satellites follow you around. If you don't move, they don't. /\ Stance 4 ---------------- X Satellites \/ = Enemy X -=== /\ X -=== \/ \ ---\ The Satellites stray away from you and go right up to the enemy. This is a bad thing sometimes, like the boss of stage 6. ----Sheilds---- Here is just a little general information on sheilds. --Once you have 0 sheilds, you die :) ****************************************FALSE************************************************** --The maximum number of shields is 5, and the minimum Number of starting shields is 1. You can Toggle your starting sheild points in the options menu. The choices are 1,2 and 3, That being the number of sheilds obviously :)(Sorry, no starting with 5 shields) *********************************************************************************************** I found out thats false, but it will remain there for historical purposes. Everything is true except the part about max 5 shields. You can actually get more than that, its just not shown on screen. You don't get extra continues either..... --If you are at weapons level 5 and then incease another level, you get 1 extra sheild. If you Are at your max of 5 shields and gain a level, you get another countinue! Whoa! --If you have just killed the boss of the level, and one of his stray bullets hits you after his defeat, YOU STILL DIE, and have to start from the begining of the stage :((((. --Your shields are automatically refilled after every stage, Meaning, they just get refilled :) (Contrary to what the weapons screen will show you). If you have more than 3 shields, they stay where they were. --If you have 2 sheilds at the end of a stage and then get the 1000000 point bonus and get another sheild, YOU WILL ONLY HAVE 3! Bastards! Why didn't they refill the shields before you get your points?? ----Weapons EXPLODE - Power - 2ND best Reload time - Special(Once your shots are off the screen, you can shoot again, if any piece of the bullet remains, you cannot fire) Shot Speed - 2nd Best LVL1: Fireball (2 Direction impact bound) LVL2: Medium Fireball (3 Direction impact bound) LVL3: Big Fireball (4 Direction impact bound) LVL4: Bigger Fireball (6 Direction impact bound) LVL5: Pheonix Fireball (8 Direction impact bound) *Properties - Impact Explosion S.LASER - Power - 4TH best Reload time - Special(8 shots on screen at once only) Shot Speed - 7th best LVL1: Tiny Lasers LVL2: Lasers LVL3: Large Lasers LVL4: Huge Laser LVL5: Gigantic Lasers *Properties - Travel through lasers - Aiming HOMING - Power - Worst Reload time - Best Shot speed - 3rd Best LVL1: Small i's LVL2: Small o's LVL3: Triangles LVL4: Squares LVL5: Stars *Properties - Aiming - Homing VULCAN - Power - 7th best Reload time - 3rd best Shot speed - 4th best LVL1: 2 bullet spread, 1 cannon fire LVL2: 2 big bullet spread, 2 cannon fire LVL3: 2 bigger bullet spread, 1 huge cannon fire LVL4: 2 windslice bullets, 2 huge cannon fire LVL5: 2 Big windslice bullets, 2 gigantic cannon fire *Properties - fun to play with - no cool properties ATOMIC - Power - 5th Best Reload time - Special (1 big ATOMIC on screen, or 2 satellite ATOMICS one screen only) Shot speed - 5th best LVL1: Capsule (4 way blue explosion) LVL2: Capsule (1 big blue explosion) LVL3: Capsule (8 Way rotating blue explosions) LVL4: Capsule (2 bigger blue explosions travelling vertically) LVL5: Capsule (1 Huge supernova explosion) *Properties - Destroys many types of nearby bullets - Explodes on bullets - Impact explosion PHOTON - Power - Best Reload time - Special(Have to charge) Shot speed - Best LVL1: Front Begins Charging (1 Small beam) LVL2: Front Begins Charging (1 Large beam) LVL3: Front Begins Charging (3 Medium beams packed together) LVL4: Front Begins Charging (4 Big beams packed together) LVL5: Front Begins Charging (4 Huge beams close together) *Properties - Can block many types of bullets while charging - Beam eats bullets - Travel through laser GRENADE- Power - 4th Best Reload time - 5th best Shot speed - Worst LVL1: Shoots 2 tiny grenades LVL2: Shoots 3 medium small grenades LVL3: Shoots 3 pretty big grenades LVL4: Shoots 5 big grenades LVL5: Shoots a ridiculous amount of big grenades *Properties - Impact explosion LASER - Power - 6th best Reload time - 7th Best Shot speed - 5th LVL1: Medium sized long laser LVL2: Medium sized longer laser LVL3: Medium sized cooler looking longer laser LVL4: Big spiral laser LVL5: Big fat laser *Properties - Worst weapon in the game - It sucks badly - Don't use it ************************************************************************************************ *******************REALLY BIG HUGE SPOILER THAT COULD RUIN YOUR GAME**************************** ************************************************************************************************ *****************DON'T READ FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE A SPOILER************************** ----Invincibility Hehe, would the game have been any fun with this code?? Heck no! Anyways, this makes you immortal. I found this code in one of my old game magazines(can't remember which one). The code is....... ************************************ *ABXY Right Left Up Down Left Right* ************************************ Pause the game and put the code in, you are now god, feel free to laugh at the defiled pheonix of apocalypse as he shoots his weak sunburst packets at you. Laugh at him as you destroy him with a level 1 LASER, hahahahah!!(Its a real riot!!) *********************************************************************************************** ************END OF REALLY BIG HUGE SPOILER THAT COULD RUIN YOUR GAME IN A SECOND*************** *********************************************************************************************** ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |7.Enemys | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This section contains all the enemy from the game, and the points you get from them. They are categorized in order of appearance. They also have hps based on units of "PHOTON shots", meaning thats how many fully charged level 1 PHOTON shots it would take to kill the enemy. The is what levels you'll meet them on. --++-- Random Fighter 1,2,4 1/32 100 Ran.figh.Slow Formation 1,2,3,4,5 1/32 200 Top-Down Trianglebots 1 1/12 500 360* Fighters 1,6 1 3000 Silver Brothership 1 10 25000 Junkbot 1 1 4000 DMOD(BOSS 1) 1 7 50000 Diamond Fighters 2 1/32 500 Skywriters 2 1 3000 EmbryoFighters 2,4,6 1 1000 BigWing 2 1/3 1000 NWGF(BOSS 2) 2 15 1/2 75000 Crystalmen 3,6 1 1000 SHARKBot 3,6 3 7000 S.B Satellites 3,6 1 1000 SkywriterLVL2 3 1 5000 Skywriter missle 3 1/8 1000 WhirlpoolBot 3 1/6 5000! CrabMaster 3 17!! 50000 Discers 3,6 1/24 500 MiniMasters 3 1 5000 GatlingBots 3 1 3000 EdenBots 3 1 1/2 5000 MM(BOSS 3) 3 11 100000 Bloobots 4 1 1000 Sunbursts 4,6 2/3 1000 Missles 4,5 1/2 1000 Rocket ships 4,5,6 1/38 300 Fishbots 4 1/3 1500 SkywriterLVL3 4 1/6 10000!!!! HMOHPD(BOSS 4) 4 23(What a rush!) 100000??(WTF?) Ladybug 5,6 1/5 10000 Strong random fighter 5 1/24 1000 Anceint bot 5 1/32 0 points!!!Whoa! Asteroid 5 0.0000001 500 Yellow BOTs 5,6 1/8 7000 Mini Boss(Stage 5) 5 3 75000 Samurai fighters 5 1/32 700 R-Types 5 1/18 500 WISD(BOSS 5) 5 24 150000 Barriers 6 Invincible ......... 360 Silver 6 1/10 50000!!! Combobots 6 1/6 20000 Fakebots 6 1/14 500(WTF!) Gundam 6 1/10 10000 ImmobileStation 6 1/8 1000 Gunstation 6 1/5 1000 Sparkflayer 6 1/20 1000 TowerStation 6 1/5 10000 Turret 6 1/14 200 MiniBoss(Stage6) 6 15 150000!!!!! SGA(Stage 6 BOSS) 6 13 1000000!!!!!!!! DPA(Final BOSS) 6 11 1/2(WHAT A RUSH!) 15000000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 15 MILLION POINTS FOR DEFILED PHEONIX OF THE APOCALYPSE!!!! GOOD GOD! WHAT A RUSH!! KILL DPA WITH PHOTON, WHOA, LOADS OF HEART POUNDING ACTION!!! Number of enemies in stage 1: 140 Number of enemies in stage 2: 230 Number of enemies in stage 3: 143 Number of enemies in stage 4: 243 Number of enemies in stage 5: 238 Number of enemies in stage 6: ??? Its a little random..... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |8.Some other stuff | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Well, I was gonna put the game manual here but unfortunatley, I can't find it :( Maybe in the future i'll find it and add it. ------Fun stuff to do Heres just a couple of challenges listed in order from easiest to hardest, ones I have done are marked with a =/*^*\=. =/*^*\= Make it to the Defiled Pheonix of Apocalypse =/*^*\= Beat the Defiled pheonix of Apocalypse with EXPLODE =/*^*\= Same as above, But use S.LASER =/*^*\= Same as above, But use PHOTON in Stance 1 =/*^*\= Beat the whole game without losing a continue =/*^*\= Beat Kilgs High Score of 10329700 =/*^*\= Beat the game without shooting(Except for bosses) =/*^*\= Beat Defiled Pheonix of Apocalypse without getting hit =/*^*\= Last 5 minutes in the ring with Defiled Pheonix of Apocalypse =/*^*\= Beat the game on HARD mode Last 10 minutes in the ring with Defiled Pheonix of Apocalypse on HARD mode Beat the game wihtout getting hit EVER Beat the game on HARD without getting hit EVER Beat the game on HARD without getting hit EVER and lasting 10 minutes with DPA Same as above, except no shooting, and use PHOTON only on bosses If you can do... 1-2 Your ok 3-4 Nice work 5-6 Awesome shooter 7-8 Divine spirit of dodge 9-10 Shooter Master 10-11 Shooting God 11-12 Supergod of Dodging 13-14 King and Divine Ruler of all that is shooter 15!!! Undisputed OmegaSuperTitan of all that is Dodge and Living Embodiment of Ultimate Shooting ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |9.Idiot list | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Heres the idiot list from Wild Arms_2, since I doubt I will get even 1 e-mail about this game, it dosen't even need one. _==+==_ _==+==_ _==+==_ _==+==_ _==+==_ _==+==_ _==+==_ Well heres my idiot list, There are a variety of techniques used to get on this list 1.Sending mail that says "How do I beat xenon" or even worse "How do I beat titanius" Everyone from the board gets enough of this, and if you dont have a very good excuse for sending such an ingnorant email (like if he has an attack i dont know about or something is continuously going wrong) your going on the list and once your on, you never get off 2.Sending me rumours. Im just tired of it, hearing it is bad enough, but having the rumor sent directly to my email is just hellish. I dont care if you got info from the game makers , if you have 100 people who will say its true, or even if you are the game maker, matter of fact, even if by some strange random possiblity I try it and it does work, I still dont want to hear it, and your still going on the list. I simply dont want any! 3.Iming me on Aol. First I would like to point out that aol is for peons. Second, never im me. I get enough ims from XXX porn sites and aim mass mailers. Third, I will never answer you so your wasting your time. If by some strange chance you im me and my ims are on, im eaither talking with somone very important, or my brother is on the computer. If you talk to my brother your talking to a wall, he types 0.5 words an hour, hes an idiot, and hes a peon. Talking to him could indeed show you how dumb someone can be. 4.Asking me were to find certain items, monsters, or abilities. This is a pyramid monster faq. Wa2 crew has a guide for allllll of that stuff and if you cant find it your looking in the wrong place. 5.Insisting my angolmois strategy dosent work. Your on the list forever. Im 100% sure it works becuase ive friggin done it. As long as you meet all the criteria and do exactly what I say you will win. I know it takes a couple of tries till you get lucky, but you cant be so unlucky that by your 10th try its still not working. If your not surviving the 3rd turn or if its not 7th moon but normal attacks that are killing you gain levels. if something else is wrong, just email me. 6.Stealing my work. 7.LoL, I got nice mail and the guy said "please don't put me on the list", This thing must be pretty intimidating IDIOT LIST (In no particualar order, All here have an equal price on their head) 1.ZakAattck (Location: FFT Message Board) Ok, heres a piece of my orginal message. "I might even be mean enough to say FFT was a copy of TO(Tactics Ogre): Couple of posts later, "Kilgamesh, TO can't be a copy of FFT because Tactics ogre came out first!!!" Ok ZakAttack, when you learn how to read, apologize and I will take you off if you ever see this FAQ. 2.MODERATORS (LOCATION: LEGEND OF MANA MESSAGE BOARD) August 1 A man named Mana Knight created a topic called "A Gross abundance of idiots" or "The death of common sense". This may have been the most interesting topic on all of gamefaqs, Why it was started is still unkown to me, but after 430+ posts, there were deep discussions about EVERYTHING from life to RPGs to love and school. Suddenly, September 6th, someone appeared atop the large hill by the LOM board, it looked only like a black sillouette against the heavy rain that day, with a huge two-handed blade of retribution, a runic symbol was carved into the air by the tip of the sword, it was the "off topic deletion spell", the sky opened up raining beams of white light, the hand of moderation appeared, the topic was vaporized, leaving not a record for tracing. Rule: Intelligence is not appreciated Rule: Don't say anything, youll get moderated Me and others who participated in the gross abundance topic have changed our signatures, they are all anti-moderation now, join the petition, make your sig anti-moderation. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. ******************************************************************************************** ******************************************************************************************** _==+==_ _==+==_ _==+==_ _==+==_ _==+==_ _==+==_ _==+==_ Well there it is, and there it was. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |10. Credits | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- !!Umm, Im the only one who worked on this FAQ :) But I guees I have seom people to thank !!The Fathers(And Mother:) of the SaGa Frontier board (In Alphabetical order) AshtonRPG The guy who says "jajaj" :) Asurahime Insane Princess of Mystics and Killer of Ciato CJones The Bane of Revolution 9 Dekar~TKB~ The Hunter of Illdon, and the Prey of Asurahime Knight of Rage Killer of Mass p33ps Br0!! Kusanagi Minion of Asurahime RPGMaster999 Master of Non-Capitalized Stuff :) Saint Ajora Character Master and Bloody Angel Sariel Procrastinator....of Death!!(Hasn't beaten Riki) Sirea Carnage - NO FUTURE !!CJayC For making this bad-@$$ site, and letting me post my obscure little FAQS :) !!Umm.....I dunno, I guess all the other atheists out there!! We need to rise up against the evil religions! :) (j/k) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |11.DISCLAIMER | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THEIVES AND WEBMASTERS, READ THIS!! ************************************************************************************************ This FAQ is for private and personal use only. It CANNOT be reproduced electronically, and CANNOT be placed on any web page or site EXCEPT WWW.GAMEFAQS.COM. This FAQ is not to be used for profitable/promotional purposes; this includes being used by publishers of magazines, guides, books, etc. or being incorporated into magazines, etc. in ANY way. This FAQ was created and is owned by me, Anthony M. Ramirez . All copyrights and trademarks are acknowledged that are not specifically mentioned in this FAQ. Please give credit where it is due. ************************************************************************************************ \ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ / \ DISCLAIMER / \______________/ DO NOT E-MAIL ME ASKING FOR PERMISSION TO USE THIS DOCUMENT ON YOUR SITE, DOING SO WILL GUARAUNTEE YOU WILL NOT HAVE IT. IF IN THE FUTURE IF I WISH TO SUBMIT IT, ONLY I AT GEOMEDUS@AOL.COM CAN DO SO. ONCE AGAIN, ASKING TO USE IT WILL GUARAUNTEE I WILL NOT SUBMIT IT TO YOU. IF YOU WISH TO STEAL THIS FAQ, AT LEAST LEAVE MY NAME ON IT, HOWEVER, I WILL FIND YOU AND PROSECUTE YOU TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW. THIS FAQ IS COPYRIGHTED BY ME, AND EVEN IF YOU CLAIM IT IS YOURS(WHICH IT IS NOT) I HAVE SUBMITTED THIS TO GAMEFAQS.COM ON 10/14/00 AND PEOPLE WILL VOUCH FOR ME THAT THIS IS INDEED MY FAQ. IS THIS LITTLE FAQ REALLY WORTH THE RISK? Copryright (c) Kilgamesh 2000 ...muhahaha........