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  1. Final Fantasy IV Any% (Diehard%)
  2. Updated Strategies and Notes
  3. Catastrophic4
  4.  
  5. Game Starts, things occur
  6. When gain control, go south one room, get far right treasure chest (tent)
  7. Proceed to Cecil's room, sleep, proceed with long scrolling text
  8. When gain control, menu, set Battle Speed to 1, Battle Message to 1 (and change window color to glitch settings if you wish)
  9. Walk to chocobo forest, catch chocobo, run to mist cave, proceed through cave
  10.  
  11. BOSS: Mist Dragon
  12. (K) Jump
  13. (C) Attack
  14. (C) Attack
  15. (K) Jump
  16. (C) Attack
  17. (C) Attack
  18. (K) Attack
  19. Dragon turns to mist. You will want to select jump about 8.5 seconds after he finishes transforming
  20. during that transition, (C) Parry
  21. (K) Jump (8.5 sec)
  22. During "Get ready to fight" message, duplicate Cecil's shield (select position under tent, select shield, select empty left hand, select position under tent)
  23. (C) Attack
  24. (K) Jump
  25. (C) Attack
  26. (C) Attack
  27. (K) Attack
  28. (C) Attack
  29. (K) Attack
  30.  
  31. Exit mist cave, walk towards mist. Perform mist skip/event trigger skip. To perform skip:
  32. Stand with one spot in between you and mist (So, its Cecil, Blank, Mist, Mist, Blank)
  33. Walk right one tile, and while walking right, hold left and hold menu. (You will see that right before the menu opens, Cecil will have turned left.) Use tent. Now you will be next to Mist.
  34. Walk right onto the first tile of mist. While walking right, hold right and hold menu. (It will be more difficult to see, but Cecil will take a step right one frame before you enter the menu.) Save, reset, walk right past mist then enter mist from the right side.
  35. Walk to weapon shop, enter menu, unequip Kain's Iron Gauntlet, equip Cecil's shield, unequip shield (shield will disappear into your inventory).
  36. Talk to weapon salesman, select sell, select the empty spot in the inventory where the shield should be. Sell that spot, earn like 6.5 million GP. Buy 10 Dancing Daggers
  37. Walk to Rydia's house (northern most house), get tiara (Chest on left in fireplace), get change rod at end of hidden passage
  38. Walk to scenario trigger tile, activate mist sequence
  39. When gain control, walk NE to kaipo, fight soldiers (just hold attack). When only general remains, allow him to escape.
  40. After gaining control, walk to NE most house and talk to Rosa. Exit house, enter menu, move Cecil up one position, equip Rydia with Tiara.
  41. Exit Kaipo, walk NE to Underground Waterway
  42. Proceed through waterway, get Tellah. In last room of first section of waterway, head south from the exit and pick up chest on left (Darkness Sword). Exit through exit to the north.
  43. Proceed through second part of cave
  44.  
  45. BOSS: Octomamm
  46. (C) Equip Darkness sword, Attack
  47. (T) Lit 1
  48. (R) Equip Dancing Dagger, DD as item
  49. (C) Attack
  50. (T) Lit 1
  51. (C) Attack
  52. (R) DD as item, repeat process until Octomamm dead. (When Octomamm has 3-4 tentacles left, you can cast stop if you want on Tellah to slightly increase overall DPS). Heal as necessary throughout fight (Ideally, Rydia needs to survive this battle).
  53.  
  54. Exit mist cave, walk to Damcyan (Damcyan clip if you wish), proceed with cutsce(YOU SPOONY BARD!!!)ne
  55. When gain control, take hovercraft east over shoals to antlion cave.
  56. Proceed through antlion cave. (On second floor, chest directly in path has a life potion, pick this up if Rydia is dead and use it on her). Head to bottom of cave
  57.  
  58. BOSS: Antlion
  59. (C) Parry
  60. (E) Equip Dancing Dagger, DD as item
  61. (R) DD As item
  62. (C) Parry
  63. (E) DD as item
  64. (R) DD as item
  65.  
  66. Exit cave, board hovercraft, return to Kaipo using shoals southwest of Damcyan
  67. Park outside of Kaipo, enter town, take Sandruby to Rosa, talk to rosa and use ruby on her
  68. Fight miniboss (sahagin) - Just hold attack for the whole fight
  69. Exit Kaipo, take hovercraft to Mt Hobbs (East of Antlion Cave).
  70. Park Hovercraft directly left of Mt. Hobbs entrance, enter mountain.
  71. Walk through northeast door to find Yang fighting imps. Hope that he kills them quickly.
  72.  
  73. BOSS: Mombomb
  74. You need to do 800 damage to make mombomb switch forms. Ideally he will do this in one round of turns
  75. (E) DD as item
  76. (C) Attack
  77. (Y) Attack
  78. (Ry) DD As item
  79. (Ro) Cure if edward or rydia took damage, attack if not but mombomb not at 800 damage, parry otherwise)
  80. Once mombomb changes form, Parry to yang's turn
  81. When you see the "exploding message" - Count to two, then
  82. (Y) Kick
  83. BOSS: 3 Bombs, 3 Gray Bombs
  84. (Ry) DD top grey bomb
  85. (E) DD bottom grey bomb
  86. (Ro) Aim at red bomb that took 28+ damage
  87. (C) Attack front red bomb
  88. (Y) Attack front red bomb,
  89. (Ry) DD remaining grey bomb
  90. (E) DD or attack remaining bomb
  91. (Y/C) attack if needed
  92.  
  93. Exit Mt Hobbs, follow path to Fabul
  94. Enter fabul, walk straight north, talk to king, agree to help
  95. Battle gauntlet begins; in all battles, use "can't run" strat if you know how to execute it
  96.  
  97. --------------------------
  98. If you will be doing alternate/newer buying strat in Mysidia, be sure to unequip fireclaw at some point during fabul battles
  99. --------------------------
  100.  
  101. Solider Battles:
  102. (E) DD Top Solider,
  103. (C) Attack Bottom Solider
  104. (Y) Attack Bottom Soldier - While general runs, adjust inventory
  105. Monster Battles:
  106. (E) DD Weeper
  107. (C) Attack Sahagin
  108. (Y) Attack Imp
  109. (E) Attack remaining enemy, if needed
  110. Gargoyle Battle:
  111. (E) DD Weeper - while attack animation going, adjust inventory
  112.  
  113. BOSS: Kain
  114. Die. Have cecil attack himself to speed it up.
  115.  
  116. Exit Fabul, board ship
  117. After washing shore and gaining control, walk to Mysidia
  118. Shopping time! Purchase:
  119. 10 Gaia Hats
  120. 10 Gaia Gear
  121. 10 Silver ring
  122. 10 Paladin Shield
  123. 10 Paladin Gauntlet
  124. 79 Life
  125. 79 Cure 2
  126. 79 Heal
  127. 89 x 6 Ether1
  128.  
  129. --------------------------
  130. Updated buying strats:
  131. Alternatively, you can purchase the following:
  132. 10 Gaia Hats
  133. 10 Gaia Gear
  134. 10 Silver Rings
  135. 10 Paladin Shields
  136. 10 Paladin Guantlets
  137. 58 Life
  138. 58 Cure2
  139. 58 Heal
  140. 58 x 2 Ether1
  141. --------------------------
  142.  
  143. Walk to northern-most building, talk to elder, get Palom and Porom
  144. Exit Mysidia, walk east and follow path to Mt. Ordeals, enter mountain.
  145. Follow path through to the summit, obtaining tellah along the way
  146. Once at summit, Rearrange party (not necessary, but you will have to rearrange later anyway, so might as well) to be Tellah, Palom, Cecil, Porom, Blank, cecil and tellah in front row. Equip Tellah with Gaia Hat, Silver. Equip Palom with Change Rod, Gaia Hat, Gaia Gear, Silver. Equip Cecil with Death/Black Sword. Equip Porom with Gaia Hat, Gaia Gear, Silver. Move cure 2 to top left position in items.
  147.  
  148. BOSS: Milon
  149. (C) Cure 2 -Zombie
  150. (T) Cure 2 Different Zombie
  151. (Pa) Cure 2 Different Zombie
  152. (Po) Twin
  153. (C) Cure 2 Remaining Zombie
  154. (T) Parry (can adjust inventory while twin is casting.
  155. (C) Attack if twin damage was 800ish or greater, parry otherwise.
  156. (T) Parry
  157. (Pa) Twin
  158. (C) Attack if Twin damage 800ish or greater, otherwise parry.
  159. (T) Parry
  160. (Pa) Twin.
  161. (C) Attack
  162.  
  163. After boss, heal everyone HP to max and MP to max using Cure 2 potions and Ethers. Switch rows.
  164.  
  165. BOSS: Milon Z
  166. (C) Attack
  167. (C) Attack
  168. (T) Cure 2 on Milon
  169. (Pa) Cure 2 on Milon
  170. (Po) Twin
  171. (C) Attack/Cure 2 on Milon
  172. (T) Use heal on poisoned party member or Cure 2 on Milon
  173. (Pa) Cure 2 on Milon
  174. (Po) Twin.
  175. Repeat process until Milon is dead.
  176.  
  177. Walk to Paladin room, become paladin
  178. BOSS: D. Knight Cecil
  179. (C) Equip Dancing Dagger, DD As item
  180. (C) DD
  181. (C) DD
  182. (C) DD
  183.  
  184. Walk down mount ordeals, walk south from mt ordeals to chocobo forest, pick up chocobo, head back to Mysidia.
  185. Talk to elder at mysidia, read a nice poem
  186. Head to eastern house to warp to Baron.
  187. Once in baron, walk to Inn. Walk up to find Yang. Talk to yang
  188.  
  189. BOSS: Guards
  190. (C) Cover Tellah
  191. (T) Virus
  192. (Pa) If alive, unequip change rod and equip dancing dagger
  193. BOSS: Yang
  194. (C) Parry
  195. (T) Equip change rod (if unequipped in last battle); After Yang Kicks twice,
  196. (C) Attack (to end battle)
  197.  
  198. After gain control, walk north to Equipment shop (use key to enter)
  199. Purchase:
  200. 10 Headband
  201. 10 Karate
  202. 10 Iceclaw
  203.  
  204. --------------------------
  205. If you did alternative buying in Mysidia, instead purchase:
  206. 10 Headband
  207. 10 Karate
  208. --------------------------
  209.  
  210. Exit shop, walk west, enter door (using key)
  211. Walk through passage. On second screen, use the secret passages to the right of each small room to walk directly across
  212. After reaching baron castle, Unequip Palom's change rod if needed and equip to Tellah. Equip Cecil with Paladin Shield, Headband, Karate, Paladin Gauntlet. Equip Yang with Ice claw (or fire claw if you use alternate buying strats and did not buy ice claw in Baron), headband, karate, silver. Use MP Underflow glitch on Tellah. To execute:
  213. Enter menu, enter tellah's white magic. Use cure 4 until you have only 10 MP left.
  214. After this, move cure 4 to be left of cure 1. Select cure 4, hit right (so now one cursor is on cure 4 and the other on cure 1). Hit left and "A" simultaneously. This will force the game to cast cure 4 even though you don't have enough MP. Tellah's MP will look funny now.
  215. Head toward middle room in castle
  216.  
  217. --------------------------
  218. From this point forward, you will have to decide if you want to have Kain at level 18 or 19 by the time you get to the Valvalis boss fight later in the run. The level 19 strat is overall faster, but the level 18 strat might feel more manageable if you are learning. To get to level 19, you will need to Kill off yang/cecil (probably better to pick yang) for two of the four next boss fights. These boss fights are Baigan, Kainazzo, Dark Elf, and Magus Sisters. In addition, you can kill off yang for Flamedog fight in Tower of Zot to give yourself a boost in exp.
  219. --------------------------
  220.  
  221. BOSS: Baigan - (note we want both twins dead at the end of the battle)
  222. (C) Cover Tellah
  223. (Y) Parry
  224. (Pa) DD Porom if needed
  225. (T) Meteo
  226. (C) DD Palom if needed, Parry if Palom still alive
  227. (Y) Parry
  228. (Pa) DD Palom
  229. ----------
  230. For level 19 Kain, kill off Yang using (C) DD Yang
  231. ----------
  232.  
  233. After battle, heal HP using cure 2 potions if HP is low (would recommend healing if below 60%)
  234. Walk North
  235.  
  236. BOSS: Kainazzo
  237. (C) Attack (equip legend if needed) or Parry
  238. (Y) Attack or Parry **or still dead if you killed him during Baigan**
  239. (T) Lit 3
  240. (C) Attack.
  241. If Lit 3 kills him, great, if not, parry to tellah's turn and cast bolt 3 again
  242. ----------
  243. For level 19 Kain, kill off yang using (C) DD Yang or keep him dead if he died during Baigan
  244. ----------
  245.  
  246. After gaining control and airship, fly Northwest to Troia
  247. Enter Castle, walk north and west to Edward, obtain Twinharp
  248. Use Ether on Tellah to fix MP, Cast exit
  249. Walk north to chocobo forest, catch black chocobo
  250. Fly east to Magnetic Cavern, enter cave
  251. Follow main path to Dark Elf Room
  252. In Crystal Room, swap Cid and Tellah position (now formation is Cid, Tellah, Cecil, Blank, Yang)
  253. Equip Cid with Headband, Karate, Iron Gauntlet
  254. Talk to dark elf, lose battle immediate, cutscene occurs.
  255. Talk to dark elf again
  256.  
  257. BOSS: Dark Elf - you want to go fast enough that he transforms before casting "Whisper"
  258. (Ce) Attack
  259. (Y) Parry
  260. (Ci) Attack
  261. (T) Virus on Cid
  262. (C) Attack
  263. (Y) Attack
  264. (C) Attack (should cause dark elf to change forms)
  265. (T) Weak
  266. (Y) Attack
  267. ----------
  268. For level 19 Kain, if Dark Elf uses Weak on Yang, kill him with a physical attack; if not, do not use this battle to level Kain
  269. ----------
  270.  
  271. Get crystal, walk out of crystal room
  272. Cast exit
  273. Mount chocobo, fly back to chocobo forest, get yellow chocobo
  274. Ride back to Troia, HOPE FOR LEFT HYPE CHOCOBO!
  275. Enter troia castle, walk to northern most room, after cutscene cast exit
  276. Board ship, fly to Tower of Zot automatically
  277. In tower of Zot, always follow the perimeter, this will lead you directly to the end
  278. In second room of Tower of Zot, treasure chest contains Fire Sword. Before opening chest, heal Cecil, Tellah to max HP.
  279. Flamedog:
  280. (C) Attack
  281. (Y) Attack
  282. (T) Ice 1
  283. (C) Attack
  284. (Y) Attack
  285. Continue following perimeter until approach Magus sister's fight. Before fight, underflow Tellah MP, heal up (keep cid dead).
  286. ----------
  287. If Yang/Cid are both dead;
  288. (C) Cover Tellah
  289. (T) Ice 2
  290. ----------
  291.  
  292. BOSS: Magus Sisters
  293. (C) Cover Tellah
  294. (Y) Parry **or keep dead if died in Dark Elf/Flamedog**
  295. (T) Meteo
  296. (C) When Meteo casts, enter menu, select and open spot in the menu and unequip legend sword.
  297. ----------
  298. For level 19 Kain, kill off Yang using (C) DD if you have time and if Yang is weak enough
  299. ----------
  300.  
  301. Head north, watch long cutscene (run to restroom, get some water, etc - you have a little time here).
  302. After *SPOILERS*, talk to Kain, save rosa, reunite party.
  303. When gain control, menu, Equip Cecil with Fire sword (will show he has 2 on). Equip Cecil With Dancing Dagger. Equip Kain with Fire sword, headband, karate. Equip rosa with headband, karate, silver. Switch formation to Cid, Cecil or Rosa, Kain, Cecil or Rosa, Yang (I use Cid, Cecil, Kain, Rosa, Yang). Heal everyone to max, walk one step down. Write down how much GP you have.
  304.  
  305. BOSS: Valvalis (Kain @ Level 18 Strat) - this boss is tough and takes practice so that you can get a feel for what is going on. If the turn order ends up different due to Stone/Death/Levels etc, make necessary adjustments
  306. (K) Jump
  307. (Y) Cure2 Cecil if Weak, parry otherwise
  308. (Ce) DD
  309. (R) Slow
  310. (Ci) Attack
  311. (Y) Attack
  312. (K) Jump
  313. (Ce) DD
  314. (R) Slow
  315. (Ci) Attack
  316. (Y) Attack
  317. (Ce) DD
  318. (K) Attack
  319. (R) Cure 2 cecil or heal stone from anyone
  320. (Ci) Attack
  321. (Y) Attack
  322. (Ce) DD
  323. (K) Jump
  324. (R) Cure 2 cecil or heal stone from anyone
  325. (Ci) Attack
  326. (Y) Attack
  327. (Ce) DD
  328. (R) Cure 2 cecil or heal stone from anyone
  329. (Ci) Attack
  330. (K) Attack
  331. (Y) Attack
  332. (Ce) DD
  333. (R) Cure 2 cecil or heal stone from anyone
  334. (Ci) Attack
  335. (K) Jump
  336. (Y) Attack
  337. (Ce) DD
  338. (R) Cure 2 cecil or heal stone from anyone
  339. (Ci) Attack
  340. (K) Attack
  341. (Y) Attack
  342. (Ce) DD
  343.  
  344. ---------------
  345. BOSS: Valvalis (Kain @ Level 19 Strat)
  346. *Use "can't run" buffer while selecting certain attacks, such as Cecil-DD, to give yourself extra time, if needed*
  347. --Don't worry if your turn order is a little different. Regardless of the order, you pretty much will always (K) Jump, (Ce) DD, (Ci) Attack, (Y) Attack, and (R) Cast slow or use cure2/heal--
  348.  
  349. (K) Jump
  350. (Ce) Cure 2 cecil if weak or DD otherwise
  351. (R) Slow
  352. (Ci) Attack
  353. (Y) Attack
  354. (K) Jump
  355. (Ce) DD
  356. (R) Slow
  357. (Ci) Attack
  358. (Y) Attack
  359. (Ce) DD
  360. (R) Slow or Cure 2 cecil or heal stone from anyone
  361. (K) Jump
  362. (Y) Attack
  363. (Ci) Attack
  364. (Ce) DD
  365. (R) Cure 2 cecil or heal stone from anyone
  366. (K) Jump
  367. (Y) Attack
  368. (Ce) DD
  369. (Ci) Attack
  370. (R) Cure 2 cecil or heal stone from anyone
  371. (Y) Attack
  372. (Ce) DD
  373. ---------------
  374.  
  375. While mashing through cutscene, calculate [(GP Before Valvalis +19500) - 1073407] (if you did the older buying route in mysidia) or [(GP Before Valvalis + 19500) - 5267711] (if you did the newer, alternate buying route). If the number is positive, divide it by 150 and round that answer up to determine how many life potions you will need to buy later. If the number is negative, divide it by 75 and round that answer up (rounding a negative number down really rounds it to the front integer - for example, if you get -4.965, rounding that "up" would be "-4") to determine how many life potions you will need to sell later.
  376. After leaving baron castle, if last chocobo didn't go left, catch another one and send him left.
  377. Fly south to Agart, enter town, walk north
  378. Drop magma in well
  379. Board ship, land in the crater
  380. After cutscene, change party formation to Cecil, Blank, Kain, Rosa, Yang
  381. Walk to left room and buy/sell the amount of life potions you calculated earlier.
  382. Walk into kings room and begin counting at "5" for glitch (begin counting at "3" if you didn't have to buy or sell anything)
  383. Walk back and forth into middle room and king room until you have gone from "5" to "63".
  384. Walk north, talk to the king, Cutscene ensues
  385.  
  386. BOSS: Cal x3, Brena x3 - Another battle where your timing is important. You want to kill the last remaining blue and red doll within 1-2 turns of each other to minimize chance of fighting big doll. Practice is the key.
  387. ----
  388. Note: At level 19, Kain can do 1000+ damage per jump. This means he can one shot a blue doll. Be careful that you don't accidently kill all of one color of a doll due to your attacks redirecting to a doll in which you did not intend to attack
  389. ----
  390. (K) Jump Back Blue Doll
  391. (C) DD Front Top Red Doll
  392. (Y) Attack Front right doll or Top Red Doll
  393. (R) Slow all dolls
  394. (C) DD Back Blue Doll
  395. (Y) Attack front right doll
  396. (K) Jump Top Blue Doll
  397. (R) Cure 2 cecil or Cast Mute on Party
  398. (C) DD Top Blue Doll
  399. (Y) Attack Bottom Right doll
  400. (R) Cure 2 cecil or cast mute on party (mute must be established before battle is over)
  401. (K) Jump bottom left doll
  402. (C) DD Bottom left doll
  403. (Y) Attack front right doll
  404. (C) Attack
  405. (K) Attack
  406. (Y) Attack
  407. * If Cecil doesn't kill a doll from a DD, you will need to adjust this a bit to have Yang follow up and finish it off
  408.  
  409. BOSS: Golbez
  410. As soon as Kain's turn comes up, Try to run, While it says "can't run",
  411. (K) Jump.
  412. While Golbez is talking, equip Fire Sword on Cecil
  413. When Cecil said "And you, Cecil",
  414. (C) Attack
  415. (K) Attack
  416. (C) Attack
  417.  
  418. After battle, heal mute from cecil, adjust window color to 64 floor hierarchy glitch settings, cast "warp" with Rydia, obtain crystal.
  419. Perform 64 Floor glitch through the end of the game. Notes for this glitch are available at various sources .There are at least three different variations of the glitch that are available for review. Please ask myself (catastrophic4), the_roth, or nocashnocash for the notes if needed.
  420. My notes for the glitch can be seen at http://pastebin.com/GjHqijwn
  421. Kain at Level 19 Notes: https://www.dropbox.com/s/okyci8glxxeh9uu/Kain%20Level%2019%20EXP%20calc.xls?dl=0
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