Kuja, Necron Beaten — Ambalamps Style

Finally… after working all week on defeating the 4 chaos gods, I’ve finally beaten Deathguise, Kuja, and Necron.  Let me just say this.  Beating these guys is no easy task for Level 23-36 characters.  A lot of fucking luck and patience is needed.  There were a few times I had to warp back to the beginning of Memoria so I could travel back and do some shopping for phoenix downs and the like.

Deathguise was a joke.  Either that, or I was lucky on my first attempt.  Kuja and Necron on the other hand took me a while.  I had Auto Life on Zidane, and Zidane had to survive Grand Cross, and then die at Neutron Ring so I can revive Steiner.  Then have Steiner use ‘Charge!’ right after Zidane revives one more person.  Therefore all three attack instantly (because of low health and Charge!)  while Necron uses ‘Blue Shockwave’  which knocks your HP down to 1.  He uses this spell 3 times in a row, which essentially gives me 7-10 attacks after reviving.

Necron -- Help! Hail the amberlamps!

I kicked tha shit outta him so bad, he was calling tha amber lamps!  *See Epic Beard Man on AC Transit*

I beat the game in 14 game hours.

23 Days, 0 Hours, 0 Minutes, This Isn’t Going To Happen

Ain't Happening

Alright… so it looks like I’m screwed.  I’m not even done with IX yet.  I still have 7 FFs to complete, and 23 days to do it… CFFP.  I will pwn you.

Disc 3 — The Meaning Of Life And Death

So, I’ve blazed through the story of Disc 2 and gone through the Iifa tree.  Now it’s time to finish this up.  I don’t think I will have enough time to get the Excalibur II.  I’m at 9 hours and 28 minutes, and in the Desert Palace with Eiko, Quina, Freya, and Vivi.  Either way, at least I can beat this game by tonight!  It will be finito, and I will move on to Final Fantasy VIII.

I am getting burned out though.  I really need to finish this as soon as possible.  I’m also thinking about getting a save file with all magics in VIII at the beginning of the game so I can just worry about story and progression.  I’ve beaten all these games before, so it isn’t cheating if you’ve beaten it 🙂

Either way, here’s a quote from Vivi.

Vivi Rocks

“Mr 288 told me that I understand what it means to live and to die… But it’s only because I thought stopping was different from dying… I don’t think I really understand what it means to live or to die. Where do we come from…? Do we go back there when we die…? If that’s what it means to live… I wonder where I came from… Where will I end up when I die…? Why am I shaking? What is it I’m feeling…?”

And an unrelated note —

They call him Mr. Pig

“Get off me you scumbag” ~ Disc 1 Complete

Ahh, it feels so good.  This is such a great game.  Just sucks that I am rushing through it.  I have killed myself many times to make things roll faster.  For example, I killed myself as soon as I could in the Festival of the Hunt to knock out 12 minutes of playthrough.  I killed characters so they wouldn’t talk in battle, I’ve end killed off Quina numerous times.  Mainly because I don’t dislike s/he, but more rather because Quina needs 1 HP for the great Limit Glove to work 🙂

Garnet

Garnet Til Alexandros, the heir to the throne of Alexandria, is so sweet.  My favorite part, ever, is when Zidane is climbing up the ladder of the airship too fast and accidentally touches Garnets booty, haha.  So much character in this game.

Another good part that displays this character is the end of Disc 1.  Freya jumps up a good 100 feet to the top of a building (since she is a dragoon), while Zidane begins to scale the wall.  He then motions to Vivi and Quina to follow him.  Vivi straightens up his hat, prepares to jump, and falls flat on his face ~  poor guy.

Squalldane, Meet Zidane — Okay! Let Us Rock, Let Us Rock, Let Us Rock!

Alright, I know it seems that I’ve been on a small hiatus, however I’ve been busy with Potsdam Pride weekend (Fiances’ College 🙂 Not to mention the Superbowl Party @ my place today with Alicia, Tim W, Tim B, Logan and Derek)

I’ve also been squeezing in time to try and perfect the sword fighting scene. I’ve never gotten 100 nobles impressed before… and guess what. That hasn’t changed. My highest count was 93 to 95 out of 100. I gave up with that crap and did a lot of research about ePSXe. I was able to get to the part, and do it in halftime. No problem with 100 out of 100 (after I got a good mapping with the keys)

Zidane knows, when there's someone to help, help them. This is where I get my 'dane' name from. I'm a strong beleiver in this.

Now a problem, I saved the file as an MCR ePSXe memory card format. I need to convert this to a PS3 memory card virtual game save, PSV file. NO WAY is this moderately possible. I’ve spent the rest of my day figuring a way to do this. And I really don’t want a custom firmware on my PSP, so I decided that I was shit outta luck.

Therefore, I found a PSV file on Gamefaqs that had the 100/100 nobles impressed and saved right after that! Thank God! And I don’t really consider this cheating. Yeah, I was never able to get all 100 of them impressed, and get the 10,000 gil legit. But I worked really hard to try to get it. I tried over 100 times normally, then I did a lot of research on ePSXe. And a lot more research on converting save files. -.-

With that said, let us move on! 10k gil, and about ready to kidnap the heir to the throne! Let’s roll that beautiful bean footage!

Let's roll it.