Phantasy Star Online Episode 1 and 2 Cheats - Xbox

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Dressing Room
If you have 10,000 Meseta in your inventory, when you load your character you will be allowed to enter the dressing room to change your head (Android only), hair color, costume color, and more. However, you cannot change the proportions or name of your character.

Hard difficulty setting
Successfully complete either episode under the normal difficulty setting to unlock the hard difficulty setting for both episodes. Note: Get to level 20 or higher to unlock the hard difficulty setting in online mode.

Very hard difficulty setting
Successfully complete either episode under the hard difficulty setting to unlock the very hard difficulty setting for both episodes. Note: Get to level 40 or higher to unlock the very hard difficulty setting in online mode.

Ultimate difficulty setting
Successfully complete either episode under the very hard difficulty setting to unlock the ultimate difficulty setting for both episodes. Note: Get to level 80 or higher to unlock the ultimate difficulty setting in online mode.

FMV sequences
To view two FMV sequences (one when you create a character and one new sequence), remain idle at the "Press Start" screen. After the background pulses four times, one of the FMV sequences will start.

Control loading screen
While going online, move the Left Analog-stick to move the light around the screen. When entering an area, move the Left Analog-stick to turn the tunnel or the "Right Analog-stick" to change the tunnel's speed.

Avoid walking near traps and enemies
Normally, you cannot run when near a trap or enemy. To avoid this, press [Start] to display the main menu. You may now run again.

Avoid mine field damage
When in a level with a trap mine field, hold [Start] and run through. You will not get hurt.

Fun with traps
If you hate waiting around for Rappys to get back up and you are an Android, set a fire/explosion trap by them. Run to the other side of the area. As soon as they get up to run, the trap will go off and you can grab the items.

If you are being attacked by multiple enemies, herd them into a group then run away from them. When you are about 10 to 15 feet away from them, set a trap and turn back towards the enemy, so that the trap is between you and the group. Fire a shot at the trap to set it off (like the preset traps in most levels). The effect of your trap will still go off, but you will have a bit more control over it.

Slip through blocked and laser blocked doors
This trick requires a Saber, Brand, or no weapon at all. Go to a corner of a blocked or a laser blocked door. Face the corner, then start attacking. Keep doing this, and you will eventually slip through the door. This trick is useful for getting to new places early. Note: This trick is difficult to execute.

Ice break
When you are frozen by an enemy, trap, or Boss, move the [Analog-stick Up] and [Down], or [Left] to [Right] very rapidly to break free of the ice. This works very well when fighting Bosses with Ice Element attacks such as the Gol Dragon or Sil Dragon. This trick also works in battle mode.

Unlimited number of MAGs
Note: At least two controllers are required for this trick. Make multiple characters and enter cooperative mode. Have one character drop his or her MAG and the other pick it up. Go back and recreate the person who dropped the MAG and go through the process again until you get as many as desired. Note: You can also do this for Meseta.

Specialized MAGs
Being able to equip Busters to level 1 Force and have them learn Megid is simple if you have specialized MAGs. Put levels of only one type on a MAG and when equipped, it raises that stat by 400. Every stat level on a MAG puts up the corresponding stat by 2 points. Since all MAGs start with 5 levels on Defense, it is the only stat that can truly be maxed.

Change MAG
Get MAG to level 200 and trade with someone else. Get them to use a Star Atomizer and it will evolve into something else. Do this as many times as desired.

MAG fourth evolution formula
This works best if you started a new MAG. First, give it Monomates, Dimates, and Trimates to boost the ATP score. Do this long enough to get attack to 50, then use Anti-Paralysis for a while to boost DEF to 20, and at last DEX to 30 (50 + 30 + 20 = 100). Your MAG will change by your sex and Section I.D. number. Also, once the MAG changes, it will never change again. For example a male Viridia will get Deva. If you change your MAG in different orders, make sure you get a 3 Photon Blast. Once it changed, it will not get a Photon Blast.

Getting Al or Pal Rappies to appear
You must have access to the second tier of quests in order to do this. Select the Fake In Yellow quest and go through the first three areas with Rappies, killing them off. Once in the fourth area with Rappies (where you meet the doctor in the Rappy costume for the second time), there should be a huge amount of Rappies dropping down. Drop a Telepipe and examine them all to see if any of them is an Al (or a Pal under the ultimate difficulty setting) Rappy. If not, enter the pipe to town then quickly return to the area. The Rappies will drop again. Repeat this procedure until eventually one of the normal Rappies turns out to be a rare Rappy. It is recommended that you have the ability to use Ryuker when doing this, as it is cheaper then going back and forward to pay for Telepipes (350 each).

Before the room that you usually teleport to in Forest 1 without the quests, there will be three Rag Rappies that drop down. If you are level 13+, one of them can turn into an Al Rappy (a Blue Rag Rappy).

Addslot
The best way to find an Addslot is to first go into multi-player mode. Try to have a Redria, Oran, Viridia, and a Yellowbeeze. This increases the chances of any player finding an Addslot. It also helps if you are playing under the normal difficulty setting.

Akiko's Frying Pan
First, complete all the Hunters Guild missions. You need to also do claiming a stake. After that, go to Secret Delivery and talk to the man near the transporter. He will give you an emblem. Then, finish the mission. Next go to Value Of Money and talk to the person. They will give you clearance to be in the "Weapons" group. Finish the mission, then go to Gran Squall. Talk to the person finish that mission as well. Next, go to Lost Bride and do the same. Then, go back to Secret Delivery and go near the stores. You will see a fat lady. Talk to her and she will give you Akiko's Frying Pan. Note: When the guard asks you what weapons should make you feel like, say "Enthusiasm". Also answer "!!" whenever someone asks you a question.

Angry Fist
Play under the Ultimate difficulty setting. The easiest way to get an Angry Fist is to shoot an El Rappy when it is getting up. Bartles and Barbles also seem to drop them. However, if you cannot seem to get one, try to find a Pal Rappy because they always give something red.

Double Saber
To get the Double Saber weapon, play the game on hard mode in Episode 2. Keep defeating the Barba Ray and he will drop it on the front end of the raft.

Dragon Slayer
The Dragon Slayer is rarely dropped by the Dragon under the hard or very hard difficulty settings.

Kireek's Soul Eater
You can do this only once per difficulty setting. To get Kireeks' Soul Eater, you need to play "Dr. Osto's Research" quest. Then, after you get the information at the end, talk to Sue. If she asks your name, say "No". After you finish that quest, go to the "Unsealed Door" quest. You will meet Sue again. Talk to her and listen to what she says. Then, complete the quest. Next, go to the Waterfall Tears. After defeating Anna, continue on to Cave 2 (same quest) and you will eventually meet Kireek. He will greet you, then you will have to fight him. After you defeat him, go to the "Black Paper" quest where he will try a rematch in Cave 1 of this quest. Note: You are in the dark in this battle. When you defeat Kireek in that battle, you will meet him again in the "From the Depths" quest. In that quest after you separate from Ash, go back to Ruins 2 (in this quest) and go as far west you can. You will confront Kireek for the final time. It is recommended that you equip some armor, shields, units that can withstand Dark/Draw/Shadow or whatever that weapon is made out of, or use Razonde (or Zonde, if that is all you have). When you defeat him you get to keep his weapon for your accomplishment.

Photon Launcher
To get the Photon Launcher, defeat Vol Opt under the hard difficulty setting. This works best with the Force-type character; you can also get the Photon Claw.

Yamato
To get the Yamato weapon, kill the dragon under the very hard difficulty setting and the Sil Dragon under the ultimate difficulty setting..

See Flowen
Defeat Olga Flow with a Red Weapon and then go back to town via a Telepipe. Return and Flowen will be there. Note: This is where you get Parasitic Gene "Flow" on Ultimate. Note: You must be playing online or offline multi-player mode. It is only in these modes that you can go back to town after the Falz/Olga Flow battles.

See Red Ring Rico
Defeat Dark Falz with a Dark weapon then go back to town via a Telepipe. Return and Rico will be there. Note: This where you get Red Ring in Ultimate. Note: You must be playing online or offline multi-player mode. It is only in these modes that you can go back to town after the Falz/Olga Flow battles.

Defeating Dark Falz
This trick only applies to forces. Make sure you have a high level MAG -- level 100 or more with a lot of power. Also have two Scape Dolls with you. Before this fight, learn Grants level 1 or higher. First of all, destroy the mines. On his next giant form, keep using Grants on him, but always make sure the pointer is on him, and not on the mines that he fires out. When his first easy form is destroyed, make sure you have Resta and Grants customized, plus Difluids and Dimates. There is only one good way to defeat this form. Stay directly next to him when he is moving. When he stops, get as many Grants in until he fires the photon beams at you. Then, heal and cast more Grants until he hits you again. Then immediately heal and repeat this until he starts moving again. Stick to his side, and repeat this until he is dead. For his last form on Hard +, just use Grants. This can hurt him when invisible and cast Resta when you are hurt.

Defeating Dark Gunners
When you fight a group of Dark Gunners, look around and you should see a red one called "Death Gunner". If you attack it, the others will be paralyzed for about five seconds. If you destroy the Death Gunner, they will be paralyzed for even longer.

Defeating De La Rol
This trick only applies for forces. Before fighting the caves Boss, get a MAG of level 100 or more from a friend, or just train it. Have a friend who can buy Rafoie get it and give it to you. Make sure your MAG has a high mind. Learn it, then when fighting the Boss of the caves, you can attack every section of his body doing about 70 damage to each of them. You can even hit him when he is not at the side of the boat.

Defeating Dragon
When battling the Forest Boss, the Dragon, it is possible to dodge him easily. When he burrows, run up against the wall. Chances are he will not hit you. If he does come for you, it is easy to dodge by running left or right against the wall.

This trick is recommended if you are a Force/Hunter, although it might work with a Ranger. First of all, make sure you are at least level 5, with a good MAG (MIND high) so you can learn Resta. If you can get two MAGs (by creating a character, and taking his MAG in two-player mode), it is a good idea to specialize a MAG in the MIND area just so you can learn the techs (Rangers/Hunters), Also, have Dagger/Saber/Cane and Monofluids. Get to the Dragon. Circle around him so that he does not stomp you, and attack his feet. Daggers work best here, as they can do about 30+30 damage. That way, you are safe from his fire. He may fall while you are attacking him. Dodge if needed, but to get the most out of the attacks, get hit, use Resta, and attack again. If he flies, stay underneath him, except when he is landing. After awhile, he will burrow into the ground. If this happens, activate the map to see where he is and try to dodge him. About the second time he does this, he may change direction and try to hit you. You will eventually defeat him. Remember to use Resta when you are weak. As long as you have TP, you will survive. Also, you can try casting Shifta and Deband, Jellen and Zalure. If you have a Varuna (MAG), Kalki or a Vritia, it casts Shifta and Deband for you, even if you do not have it.

Defeating Dubchics
Notice that they return to life. After killing a Dubchic, a brown orb with yellow rings around it should fall to the ground somewhere in that area. Destroy it and all the Dubchics will be destroyed.

If you find a room with Dubchics and they keep coming back to life, keep attacking them for about three minutes. They will actually die and you will get experience from them.

Defeating Garanz
When you are in Mine 2, you will probably encounter a Garanz. When he shoots his missile, run behind him and he will eventually kill himself. Note: You can get extra experience when this happens.

Defeating Gol Dragon
You should be about level 15 if you are a Hunter and have Resta, an Autogun, and Monofluids to restore your MP. When starting the fight, keep shooting at any part of his body. When he is up in the air and is about to land, get away from him or the rising floor will hurt you. His first attack on the ground should be an elemental breath attack. It consists of a fire breath (the weakest one), an ice breath which freezes you (the most dangerous as you can easily die while you are frozen), and a lightning breath which paralyzes you for a short while. When he does the breath attack, walk towards him until you are under his attack and shoot at one of his body parts. He should eventually take flight again. If he starts spinning in the air, then he is using his elemental ball attack. Like the breath, it consists of fire, ice (still the most dangerous), and lightning. During this time, try to evade as many as you can and heal if needed. After this, he will land again. Keep repeating the previous steps until he roars and goes underground. When he re-appears, there will be two of him. Fortunately, one of them is a mirage but it can still hurt you. You can tell if one is a mirage by killing it. When a mirage dies, you will see a bluish flash and it will disappear. The mirages also have a lot less HP. If you kill a mirage, the real one will be by itself again. Just keep attacking and evading as best as you can until it is dead.

Defeating Nano Dragons
Use Zonde and it will either fly up then down, or use its beam attack. If you are fighting three of them, you can stay out of the way or exit the room. They should then start to attack each other.

Defeating Olga Flow (Ultimate)
This trick will work best for the HUmar. First, have the Dragon Slayer Sword and the Delsaber Buster, with Delsaber's Shield. Have Mono, Di, and Trimates and Fluids. Also have a gun with you. Starting the fight, hope that your Mag will give you a power boost. As soon as the fight starts, drop Olga Flow's defense with Jellen and Zalure. After that, when you have the advantage, use you gun to fire at will. Repeat this until you see a small intermission sequence that shows him falling down the elevator. Touch the floating spirit and begin round two. To start, run away from him, because he is about to launch a one-hit kill. Use your gun, duck out between rocks, and get your shots off. When he shoots off his shockwave, equip the Dragon Slayer and go to his left leg. With luck, you will hit both legs with your attacks. After awhile, you will turn into Flowen. Do not attack Olga Flow, because he will just redirect damage to you. Instead have a Scape Doll and kill yourself by attacking. You will die and be revived. You will change back and be your own self. Continue the attack until you win.

Defeating Pofuilly Slimes
It takes a long time to kill a Pofuilly Slime. Instead of having to hit it once waiting for it to pop up again, use a paralyzing or freezing weapon.

Defeating Rag Rappys
When you see a Rag Rappy sitting, quickly hit it with a ranged weapon. It will run. You can hit it again to get an item.

Defeating Volt Opt
Volt Opt is more difficult than in the Dreamcast version of the game. If you are an Android, you will get shorted about 8 out of 10 times that he shocks you in his first form. Kill the center thing that hangs off the ceiling. Once that is down, shocks stop occurring more often. Shoot Volt Opt in the monitors when you see him. When the poles appear from the ground, find the red pole and take it out. If not, you will get a nasty shock that could short you out for awhile. Repeat these steps with 10 Monomates and 10 Dimates and you should be fine. Once his first form is done, he will become a huge red robot and have multiple attacks (but no more shocking). He usually starts by turning his missile pods towards you, and fires them after three seconds. You can avoid the missile by running around Volt Opt (get a 3-hit combo in before he fires them, then run). He will then turn his laser sights on you. Do another 3-hit combo and run. Keep running and when you hear him powering up, he will drop a huge pole on you. He does this three times. Yet again, you can avoid this by running. He will chase you with the laser sights twice. After that, he will heal himself by about 40. During this time, attack him heavily. He will then switch over to his front and shoot a floating ball at you. Do not stop running or you will be imprisoned in dirt wall while he charges up to do his ultimate attack. If you get hit with this ball in multi-player or online mode, call someone over to. They can get you out by attacking the dirt walls. Repeat this to defeat him and get good experience.

This trick applies to forces only. When fighting Volt Opt, make sure you have Gizonde and a lot of Dimates. When Volt Opt hovers past the screen, use Gizonde three times on each screen (when you are about level 15-20). It will break each screen, doing lots of damage to him. You can do this to up to three screens at a time, even the ones he does not stop at. Do not worry about the thing in the middle; just let it paralyze you and heal afterwards.

Defeating the cave Boss
When the worm grabs ahold of the boat, depending on the difficulty setting you can hit it a couple times and it starts launching spikes. Dodge it by moving around, then attack it a couple times and repeat.

Easy power-up
Whenever you enter a Boss room, you will get charged up in defense and attack. You should see one or more red rings glowing around your Mag or shoulders. There also should be red and blue symbols to the right of your HP/TP bars. Get to a Boss warp, such as the Forest boss (the dragon). Before you enter the Boss warp to the room, use a Telepipe or the spell Ryuker. Go in the warp and defeat the Boss. After that, when you are back in Pioneer 2, you should see the Telepipe that you created. Go back through that and enter the Boss' lair again. The Boss will not be there, but you will still get charged up. Quickly find the warp and take it to Pioneer 2. After that, immediately enter the area that you want (caves, mines, ruins). When you appear, you will still be charged up. This should work with every Boss under any difficulty setting. This is an easy way to have the advantage while playing through the levels.

Quicker technique levels
Use the following trick to gain higher levels of techniques without waiting for your levels to add up when you cannot find MIND Materials that often. First, have an armor that has four slots. It does not have to be the best one. Take four Angel Minds + or ++ and equip these to your armor. Then, equip a weapon that increases your mind stats. Your mind stats will jump at least 64 points, up to 68 with the Angel Minds alone. Add the stats from your weapon, and you can then take on new techniques. Use them to gain the "spell", then unequip everything. Your stats will drop back down to normal but you will still know the techniques. If you are lucky, you can take a MAG, increase its mind stats, and equip that MAG, adding an extra 100 points to gain even more technique levels.

Poison immunity
If you are a robot, you cannot get poisoned.

Cheap kills
If you are having trouble in a room, try running out of it and go back in. Some monsters will probably go into a dormant mode and allow you to get off a hit or two before they retaliate. This is especially useful against Garanz.

Refill health
If you are a robot in the game, you can refill your health after receiving damage from an enemy. Find a safe place to rest and remain in that spot for a least a minute. Your health meter will go up a little bit at a time.

If you are playing as a Froce or a Newman, you have the ability to refill your TP. Find a safe place and wait for it to go up.

If your short on money or just do not want to pay the 10 Meseta to heal, go to the Hunter's Guild. Once there, talk to the person behind the counter. Then choose and start any mission. Once the mission is loaded, your HP/TP are fully healed. Talk to the person behind the counter again, and choose to cancel the mission. Note: This is useful if you want to do an area again, such as the Forests, without having to reset the game. Once you are ready, talk to the person at the Hunter's Guild that is behind the counter. Choose "Load", then quit any mission and all areas will have been reset.

Fighting invisible enemies
Use the environment to help you. Enemies such as Sinow Zoa can easily be spotted by their reflections on glass or water, as well as the targeting system. However, that can be unreliable at times.

Dodging De Rol Le's Energy Balls
After De Rol Le has shot his timed mines onto the raft, go to the upper right hand corner of the raft and face directly to the corner at the edge. Do not move until De Rol Le is done with the energy balls. This works about 80% of the time. If you are online, this may not work because other players may do the same thing. It only works if one person is in the corner.

Resta Dodge
If you time the technique Resta correctly, you can avoid almost any attack. The trick is to just cast Resta before your enemy attacks, but long enough that you can gain life; otherwise you will just get hit.

Easy Meseta
This trick requires an empty file and two controllers. Create a new file, give the character any name, face, color, etc. Return to the player screen and select multi-player. Have the new person drop the items. You should get 300 Meseta some Monomates, Monofluid, and a Mag. Keep repeating this until you can buy the item you want.

If you are at a very high level, there is a quest found in the Ruins where you have to test out a weapon which will give you 9,000 Meseta each time, and it only takes about five minutes.

Use the following trick to get 10,000 Meseta when playing online. Buy the item Night/Power under online or offline mode. Then in online mode, choose the Shops mission. When at the shops, go to the transporter. Ask to transport to Gallons Shop. At Gallons Shop, there are four computers. Two are games. Pick the game that you have to stop on eight seconds (should be on the right side). If you hit eight seconds, you get 10 points. Try to get 30 points. When you do so, go to the man behind the counter and ask to shop with Gallon points. Then, select "Wrap An Item". He will say it requires 30 Gallon points. Choose to continue. Finally, select "Night/Power" and when he says that you cannot wrap that item to select another, back out and leave. He tells you to take your Meseta back and go home. You will then have 10,000 Meseta. If you want 30 points, go to the computer next to the game. It should give you 30 points, only one time.

Easy level gain
If you want to gain some levels without much effort and are around a 25 to 40 level range, try going the forest levels under the hard difficulty setting. You can usually get about 8,000 experience points from it.

Find someone who has played the game longer than you have. Ask them if they can give you a high powered Mag. With this Mag, you can start using weapons from the Ruins (if it is at a high enough level). Also, you can join in a multi-player effort. If you are a Ranger, you will have an easier time then a Hunter. When a teammate has weakened a monster, aim and go for the kill shot. You should move up levels easily.

Since Hunters are naturally stronger than Forces and Rangers, they have an advantage. To gain levels quicker, defeat the Caves 3 boss. Hunters can use an effective Sword or Partisan against him by hitting all of his parts. After that, talk to the Priciple and go to Mines 1. You can now do a great deal of damage on the Mine 1 enemies. They are weak. The only three to watch out for are Sinow Gold, Sinow Beat, and Granas. The basic enemies in the mines area give about 15 to 22 experience points. By the time you get to Mines 2, you should have already gained a couple of levels. Mines 2 also offer a great deal of experience.

Go to the Forest (under the hard, very hard, or ultimate difficulty settings depending on your level). Enter a room which has a Monest (or Mothvist in ultimate) and killall the Mosquitoes without killing the nest. Once the nest stops spitting out mosquitoes, return to town via Telepipe or Ryuker. Return. The nest will spit out more mosquitoes. The experience given varies depending on difficulty, but the ultimate mode mosquitoes give about 230 experience points each.

Play in multi-player mode with a group of either high levels or low levels. Play through the game as you would in solo mode. Many of the monsters are harder to defeat, and you will get five points extra experience per how many people are on your team. By the time you complete the game you should be at level 20 or higher, depending how many monsters you have killed. Note: When you make it to hard mode, you will start finding special weapons earlier because your luck points are being evaluated as a team and not individually. Then, when you play in solo mode you will be able to pass through it without problems.

Use a weapon that can confuse an enemy. Use it on a Honest and when the little fly things appear, they will be confused and will kill each other giving you the experience.

When you fight a Pofuilly Slime, use Barta or another Ice technique on it. The enemy will duplicate into two. You can then make a copy of the copy (you can only make one copy of the original). You can create a total of six Pofuilly Slime. The copies will give you double the experience of a normal one.

If your gun has a name with "Master", "Lord", or "King" you will be able to equip a bullet that takes experience from an enemy on all your shots. Some guns also have other abilities.

Go to the forest level under the hard difficulty setting or higher. Find a Monest that spits out lots of Mothmants (pesky fly things). Kill all the Mothmants without defeating the nest. Use a Telepipe or Ryuker to return to the ship, then return to the forest through the pipe. Look for more Mothmants. Repeat this as many times as desired.

If you are at a low level and need experience, redo the forest level repeatedly. At the end of the level, do not talk to the principal. Choose to quit the game, then start the game again. All of the creatures will be there again, as well as the items. This will work in any level.

Use this trick If you are at a low level and need more experience. Join or create a team with people that are at high levels, or make sure people with high levels join your room if you create one. Have them accompany you to defeat enemies. Hit each enemy at least once. After hitting the enemy, run and let your teammate defeat it. When the enemy dies, you will gain experience. Do this as many times as desired. Note: Do not die and return to Pioneer 2 or this trick will not work.

Get Red Mechguns, and after completing the Two Towers quest, add the King attribute. Doing this will possibly be the fastest level up imaginable.

Easy materials
Get a character that can easily kill monsters in the Normal Ruins. Take him, and go through every Ruins under the normal difficulty setting. You should be able to find, on average, five materials. Def Materials and Mind Materials are more commonly dropped because certain creatures seem to drop them more. This is also a good way to improve lower level characters. Take all material found and give them to that low level character in Multimode.

Easier Boss battles
If you are having trouble with Bosses and want to avoid going through the enter level again after dying, use this trick. Use a Telepipe or the Ryuker technique at the entrance to the Boss. If you die, then you can just go over to the bank and find the teleport that you made. Go through it, and you will get back to the Boss.

To kill the Bosses from the forest, cave, and mines faster, you can use weapons like the Saucer or use Rares such as Slicer Of Assassin. Keep using hard attacks, and in about ten minutes it should be dead.

This trick requires the techniques Fole and Barta. Go into the Boss' lair and start attacking it with heavy and normal attacks. When you hit the Boss at least twenty times, start using the Fole technique (a fireball) or Barta (a freezing technique) until the Boss is dead. This should take about ten minutes. Make sure you have many Monofluids and the technique on your action menu.

Hunters Guild missions
If you successfully complete all the Hunters Guild missions, you will have access to all of the missions all over again. If you complete the mission again, you will be able to keep playing it repeatedly.

Weapons from monsters
If you obtain a special item such as G-Assassins Arms or Bomma's Right Arm, go to the Unsealed Door mission. Talk to the person standing to the right of the portal to the principal after all missions are complete. He will turn your item into a weapon.

Finding rare weapons
The best place to find rare weapons are at the Dragon (Episode I) under hard mode. You can find such weapons as Crush Bullets and Musashis. Its recommended that you enter hard mode at level 30 or high to be effective.

If you are level 20 or higher, choose the hard difficulty setting. Then, go to the warp and go to Forest 1 and 2. Over here, you should be able to find a very special weapon. If you do not find it here, you will most likely be able to find it in the caves. Once you have it, go to the Tekker or the person that reveals what a unknown item is. Take it to him, and he will probably be able to figure out what it is. Most likely, you will not be able to use this item if you just turned level 20.

Weapon recommendations

Heaven Punisher: The second most powerful gun. Its special sends a rain of lightning on everything you see.

Poushin: The best MAG. It is rare, at least level 1000.

Finding weapons
The following are places where beginners can find weapons.

Spinner: Anywhere in hard mode
Pallasch: Ruins in normal mode and anywhere in hard mode
Sword: Caves, mines, or ruins in normal mode
Giguish: Ruins in normal and mines in hard mode
Handgun: Anywhere
Auto Gun: Caves, mines, ruins in normal mode

Finding Dragonslayers
You can find Dragonslayers in a multi-player game under the ultimate difficulty setting. Use a Redria character and an Oran character. The Redria will find lots of weapons and the Oran can get them tekked. You can find lots of Dragonslayers and Cross Scars.

Finding Pouilly Slime
Note: This trick works best with the Forces or any character with any Ice-related attacks. When you are in Caves 1 through 3, you will find the Pofuilly Slimes. Attack them with the Ice attack and they will duplicate. Repeat this until you find a Pouilly Slime. They are red and will usually drop Resist/Light. Each Slime will only duplicate once, and if all of them stop duplicating, use a Telipipe/Ryuker and leave the board. Return and they should start duplicating again.

To find a Pouilly Slime (red, not the blue), have a weapon with either an Ice attribute (Ice, Freeze, Blizzard, etc.) or Fire attribute (Fire, Burning, Flame, etc.) and use the extra attack on the monster. There is a good chance the first hit will miss, but will cause it to make three circles, each within another, appear in the middle of its body. Use the extra attack again at anytime while the circles are present, and another slime will appear. Note: A Pouilly Slime will not always appear.

Glitch: Play as Dragon
If you have a red cursor for your character, you can be the Dragon in the Forest level. Find someone to play with, and start the Towards The Future mission. Talk to the girl by the bank and get the code that she has. Then, go to the machine in the Forest and talk to it. When you go into the Boss room, you will be the Dragon. Note: You will die when the Dragon does.