Mega Man X: Command Mission any%/DN RTA Route v5.3

Mega Man X: Command Mission any%/Defeat Ninetails (Glitched) Route
By Auchgard and Justincredible83

1. Housekeeping Things

*You will be unable to check your IGT if you don’t have a Memory Card in your console.  After beating the game, you save the file, go to the Data Room (or w/e it’s called) and scroll through the info to find your Clear Time.

*RTA timing starts when you choose "New Game" and stops when the in-battle HUD disappears after landing the final hit on Great Redips.
*JRTA timing starts at the same time, but ends when the "Game Clear" message appears after the credits.
*For Defeat Ninetails, time starts at the same time and ends when Ninetails explodes after losing all of his HP (or, if you take a Final Strike, when the BREAK DOWN text appears) in the battle.  To check the IGT value for your DN run, pause the game and hit Z after the battle.  The IGT should appear in the bottom-left corner of the menu.  Your run's IGT is either that or one minute faster - there's no way to tell which because the game doesn't let you check immediately and you don't get a timestamp for it in the Data Room.

OPTIONS:
-Messages: Fast はやい (LEFT)
-Rumble: Off オフ (RIGHT)
-Sound Type: Stereo (DEFAULT)
-Volume: SE/BGM Max (DEFAULT)
-Subtitles: On オン (DEFAULT/LEFT)
-Z Shortcut: Run 逃走 (2 RIGHT) ********THIS ONE IS ACTUALLY IMPORTANT********
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2. Main Route

CHAPTER 1 - Infiltrating Giga City

-Head Straight into the door to East Block 1F

EAST BLOCK 1F - Enter last door on the right. Activate the panel, left door to stairs to 2F.

EAST BLOCK 2F - Go to the door on the right behind the Yellow Gem. Go examine the 4 capsules, then proceed to the left door to stairs to 3F.

EAST BLOCK 3F - Same as 2nd floor, only 2 capsules to examine this time. Then go to last door on the right. Activate the timed panel in 2nd room, mash text, leave room...

PREON FIGHT:
-Double Sub + Attack
*IF PARALYZED: Hyper Mode, Double Sub + Attack
*IF NOT PARALYZED: Double Sub + Attack x2
*If you're using a Power Charge and another Sub Weapon before Attacking, NEVER use the Power Charge until the damage number pops up from the other Sub Weapon.  Otherwise, the Power Charge gets wasted on the wrong thing.

Head to the left door and up the stairs to 4F.

EAST BLOCK 4F - Go to the first door on the right, heal before the door.

BOSS: Hippopressor (LE: 5,000, EXP: 200)
Zero, Hyper Mode and Attack
	X, Hyper Mode - Power Charge + Attack
Zero, Attack
	X, Power Charge + Attack
Zero: Heat Haze, Action Trigger get at least 8 commands
	X: Shell Buster 1st then Power Charge + Attack

*He drops a Fire Missile (ファイアミサイル) and Guard Buster (ガードバスター).

Go straight into the West Block.

WEST BLOCK 4F - GO LEFT, go up the stairs
WEST BLOCK 5F - Go to the door, skip 2 cutscenes.

LE, Sub Tanks and Hyper Mode turns are restored to full at the end of each chapter.

CHAPTER 2 - Recapture Central Tower

MENU
-"432434"
FORCE METALS:
	Speed+10 out of glitched slot
WEAPONS:
	Guard Buster (ガードバスター) on X
	Replace one of X’s Micro Missiles (マイクロミサイル) with the Fire Missile (ファイアミサイル)
ITEMS:
	Items --> Weapons: X-Buster out of top slot; TOP SLOT EMPTY
FORCE METALS:
	Speed+10 in glitched slot
WEAPONS:
	Equip X-Buster; now you have a 0 stack and a 255 stack
FORCE METALS:
	Move the 255 Speed+10s into the third slot from the top

SHOP:
-Talk to the girl in the back-left corner of the starting room
-Sell	Speed+10 x255 (1,800Z each; 459,000Z total)
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-Buy	9 Mega Fires (メガファイア bottom item; 160Z each)
	9 Cure Ones (FULL REPAIR/フルリペア 3rd item; 240Z each)

-Get the third item in the initial hallway (Build Power/ビルドパワー)
-Get the blue CRYSTAL a couple rooms later (Gain Hyper/ゲインHYPER)

CUTSCENE

-GO LEFT, through hallway and doors

CUTSCENE

BOSS: Spider
-2 Mega Fires (メガファイア), then both Sub Weapons + Attack
*If Spider lowers Power by 25% (1st debuff パワー -25%), 3rd turn must be in Hyper Mode; Shell Buster 1st then Power Charge and Attack.

CUTSCENE

-Go in the door, get the green CRYSTAL on the left (Power Charge/パワーチャージ)

Head up the tower to Aile's Room.

CUTSCENE x2

-Get the first two blue and the yellow CRYSTALS on the left in both parts of the orange hallway (Gain Hyper/ゲインHYPER + Mega Fire/メガファイア, then Tank Energy Infinite/タンクエネルギー∞)

Equipment Maintenance B - Go straight up to Equipment Maintenance A

EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE A - Go Right (Red upright triangle on door) up to Base Security Station

Base Security Station -
PREON FIGHT:
-Just Sub Weapon + shoot the Preons to death, Sub Tank if needed

CUTSCENE

SHOP - Right shop lady
-Buy	1 Thunder Guard (サンダーガード 1st item; 500Z)
	4 Power+1s (パワー＋1 2nd item; 120Z each)
	1 Analyzer (アナライザー bottom item; 1000Z)

MENU
FORCE METALS:
	Thunder Guard in the glitched FM slot.
WEAPONS:
	Equip the X-Buster MKIII (エックスバスターMkIII) on X
	Equip the Power Charge (パワーチャージ) over the other Micro Missile (マイクロミサイル)

-Go in the door behind the right shop lady for a CRYSTAL (Ultra Fire/ドメガファイア)

-As you back track, go in door now on the left (red upright triangle on door) and up to Data Backup Room Hall A

DATA BACKUP ROOM, HALL A - GO LEFT at the yellow gem and keep going forward in Hall B.

CUTSCENES x3

GO forward to Red Preon fight

PREON FIGHT
-Power Charge + Attack the Preon
*Hope for Mega Thunder (メガサンダー) drop, this will help in the Mad Nautilus boss fight at the end of Chapter 4

CUTSCENE
Countdown starts; go back the way you came

PREON BATTLE 1 - First turn AT 50%
Next room: Get the Eagle Eye (アイポイント) that is past the exit then next room.

-GO STRAIGHT past the yellow gem Tank Energy 25 and up the ramp

PREON BATTLE 2 - First turn AT 50%

MENU
FORCE METALS:
	Equip 4 Power+1s (パワー＋1) on X

-GO RIGHT in the room with 3 couches in the middle of the room go down the hall and up the ramp

-GO LEFT at the next yellow gem, then straight into the command center

PREON BATTLE 3 - pray not to get paralyzed; first turn AT 50% then next turn Attack the red Preon

-Disarm countdown, go back through door, straight through nearby door, make a LEFT at the yellow crystal and up towards helipad
-Get the blue CRYSTAL before the helipad door (Backup/バックアップ)

BOSS: Wild Jango 1 (LE: 9,000, EXP: 1,000)

AGGRESSIVE STRAT:
Spider: Double Sub + Attack every turn
	X Turn 1: HyperMode: Dbl Sub + Attack
	X Turns 2-3: Shell Buster + Attack

*He drops a Thunder Buster (サンダーバスター) and a Sub Tank (サブタンク).

CHAPTER 3 - The Paper Hero

-Go straight into the Mission
-Go down Lift 1

MENU
FORCE METALS:
	Remove Massimo Plus (The Massimo aka ザ・マッシモ) from Massimo
	Analyzer (アナライザー) in glitched FM slot
	Eagle Eye (アイポイント) in Spider's 2nd slot
WEAPONS:
	Queen of Spades (スペードQ) on Spider

Next area:
-Dodge all the lasers
-Go down Lift 2, go straight.

-GO RIGHT, pass 2 crystals and go RIGHT again to next door to Lift 3
-Go down Lift 3, go straight

Battle 1:
-Double Sub + Attack Wolf 1 with Spider
-Power Charge + Attack Wolf 2 with Massimo OR heal if Massimo's getting bullied (he dies very easily in this fight)
-Attack Gorilla with X
-If Spider or Massimo get another turn before X, turn cancel, AT with X at 75 WE

-GO RIGHT past save point.

Battle 2:
-Same strat as Battle 1 except all enemies are Gorillas (attack a different one with each character)
-AT with X at 75 WE

-Next room: Activate Panel on the right and talk to the prisoner, backtrack
-Full heal everyone before the yellow CRYSTAL (Tank Energy 100/タンクエネルギー100) between the two encounters
-Go straight ahead and use Lift 4, straight to Maze Area 1

MAZE AREA 1 - GO RIGHT past the Yellow Gem until...

CUTSCENE

-GO STRAIGHT, then left door at the Blue Gem to Maze Area 2

MAZE AREA 2 - GO STRAIGHT to Lift 5, next to Dark Room.

DUMB SCRIPTED BATTLE
Spider: Twin Missile + Attack the Ice Preon
	Massimo: Ultra Fire/ドメガファイア - This deals 4,000 damage which upgrades Massimo's AT
		X: Attack the Ice Preon (Defend if X goes before Massimo)
*Massimo - X - Spider is the lottery turn order here.  It skips having to do anything with Spider.  Unfortunately, this almost never happens.

CUTSCENE, the forward to the panel rooms, left at the save point.

Color Panel Room 1 - Blue, Red
Color Panel Room 2 - Blue, Red, Yellow
Color Panel Room 3 - Yellow, Blue, Red
Color Panel Room 4 - GREEN, BLUE, RED, YELLOW FIRST
                then Yellow, Red, Green, Blue
*GET THE GREEN CRYSTAL for Queen of Diamonds (ダイヤQ), which can be converted to a Caution FM.

MENU
ITEMS:
	Sort Items by Attack
	Put the Queen of Diamonds (ダイヤQ) in the top slot of the Items -> Main Weapons menu
FORCE METAL:
	Move the Caution (けいかい) out of the glitched FM slot, then put it in Massimo's
	first slot

CUTSCENE x2
-Go right to the lift to the Deep Prison, talk to Massimo
-Return to boss hall

MENU
-Heal

-Get the Tank Energy 100 (タンクエネルギー100) and the Gain Hyper (ゲインHYPER) in front of the boss door.

BOSS: Silver Horn 1 (LE: 17,000, EXP: 4,000)
*If any character gets frozen by Silver Horn's physical attack, use a Cure One (FULL REPAIR aka フルリペア)

X Turn 1 and 2: Hyper Mode, just Attack
	Massimo and
		Spider: Mega Fire until 3 left in inventory (heal around 5-4, after first Tidal Wave)
X Turn 3: Power Charge + Attack
	Massimo: Hyper Mode, Power Charge (x1) then turn cancel
		Spider: Heal
X: Defend to get him another turn after Massimo
	Massimo: Power Charge (MAX) + AT (70WE)
		Spider: Hyper Mode, Double Sub + Attack (safe) OR Double Sub + Attack (fast)
X: AT (100WE)
-Take Final Strike
*If you can't get a Final Strike due to turn order, one more round of attacks (concluding with Power Charge + Attack with X) should finish him.

*He drops an Ice Buster (アイスバスター) and a Build Hyper (ビルドHYPER).

CHAPTER 4 - Gaudile Laboratory

-Go straight into the mission

*Black Preon 1 Battle
X: Hyper Mode - Attack Black Preon
	Massimo: Attack (no Power Charge) other turret
		Spider: Double Sub + Attack Massimo's turret
X: Power Charge + Attack other turret

CUTSCENE

-Go up the elevator, the door to the next area is to the LEFT
-Don’t get caught by laser panels (need to dash over them)
-Go LEFT at the Yellow Crystal / Save Point

CUTSCENE

*Black Preon Battle 2
X: Hyper Mode, Double Sub + Attack one black Preon
	Massimo and
		Spider: Sub Weapon + Attack the other black Preon
X: Power Charge + Attack other black Preon with X

CUTSCENE x3

-GO RIGHT
-DON’T GET CAUGHT, stand in the middle of the turn in the hallway and dash to get in between the pairs of sensors. You have a few rooms to dash through before the next elevator

-Door is BEHIND the elevator
-More dashing until the next set of crystals
-Get the furthest-back blue CRYSTAL (Cure All aka Full Repair All/フルリペアオール)

-Continue to dash uphill into the next room where there is a save point. Go right toward Dr. Gaudile

CUTSCENE

-Get the three CRYSTALS on the left (Build Armor/ビルドアーマー, Gain WE+5/WEゲイン＋5, Build Speed/ビルドスピード)
-Go forward to next room

CUTSCENE

-Go forward into the Eternal Forest

ETERNAL FOREST:
-Go RIGHT
Battle 1: X: AT 50%, skip other turns if necessary
-Go RIGHT
Battle 2: X: AT 50%, or Power Charge + Attack with everyone if turn order RNG is bad
-Talk to the guy for a Tank Energy 25, go forward

CUTSCENE

-Marino joins the party

MENU
ITEMS:
	Sort Items by ST --> Build Power (ビルドパワー) on Spider, Gain Hyper (ゲインHYPER) on X
	Sort Items by Attack
FORCE METALS:
	Eagle Eye (アイポイント) on X
	Power+1 on Spider

-Save Point is ahead. Heal and get the blue CRYSTAL (Gain HYPER/ゲインHYPER before the Boss Door.

BOSS: Psycho Nautilus 1 (LE: 12,000, each needle gives 50EXP)
1st set of needles - DO NOT attack Psyche
    	Spider: Twin Missiles ONLY + Attack (WE should be 50%)
	Massimo: Mega Fire
X: Attack
2nd set of needles
	Massimo: Mega Fire a needle
    	Spider: Attack all (WE at 75%) In Final Strike, hit every Needle
X: Attack any surviving needle
3rd set of needles
	Massimo: Hyper Mode, Power Charge + AT Dr. Psyche
		Spider: Same as last turn
             X: Hyper Mode, 100% AT DR. PSYCHE - FINAL STRIKE

ROUND 2 (LE: 10,000, EXP: 8,000)
X: Heal
	Massimo: Cooldown (choose the menu option!), Mega Fire/Mega Thunder/heal
	*This fight is why you want Mega Thunder drops.
	*DO NOT EVER POWER CHARGE + TURN CANCEL WITH MASSIMO IN THIS FIGHT
		Spider: Mega Fire/Mega Thunder/Cure One/Cure All
X: Shell Buster
	Massimo: Mega Fire/Mega Thunder/Heal
		Spider: Mega Fire/Mega Thunder
	Massimo: Defend
X: Heal
		Spider: Defend
	Massimo: Power Charge + AT, pray for crit
X: AT, pray for not a million misses
		*If necessary, Hyper Mode and 100% WE AT with Spider.
*If you don't even get a Final Strike out of this (rare, but it happens), there aren't really any good backups except for using Cooldown --> Defend until he reopens his core.  Make sure to heal if necessary at this point, too.

*He drops a Sub Tank (サブタンク) and a Virus Missile (ウイルスミサイル).

Cinnamon joins the party at Level 1.

CHAPTER 5 - Maverick Hunters Join Forces
-Go shopping...

SHOP
Buy:	2 X-Buster MKII (1st item)
	2 Crash Hammer (4th item)

MENU:
-Convert the 2 X-Buster MKIIs and 2 Crash Hammers into 2 FullSpec+10 and 2 glitched FMs, move them out of glitched slot and put all on X

-Go back and enter the mission

-Forward, skip text into the security area, GO RIGHT around the first barricade of boxes
-Wait near the blue CRYSTAL that is out of initial sight.  After the alarm goes off, go around the boxes from the nearby door to the other one and continue on
-In the 2nd set of rooms, go through the opening on the right, wait in front of the patrol bot
-Around the boxes and through the right door, ignore the CRYSTAL and wait in front of the patrol bot.
 Once it moves, go to the right and into the hallway to the next area.

CUTSCENE

Axl joins the party at Level 17.

-Continue on past the Save Point and through the next 2 rooms into the 1st conveyer belt room.

-CONVEYOR BELT ROOM 1: Straight -> Right (Battle 1)      T---2---Exit   T=Terminal
                     -> Right (use terminal) -> Back     |   |          0=1000z
                     -> Straight (Battle 2) -> Right     O---1          1=Battle 1
                                                         |   |          2=Battle 2 (WE+5)
                                                      Start  T

***NOTE: If you get any Boost Power drops from the sword/shield enemies in the 5 following battles, use them on, in order of priority, (1) Botos, (2) Mach Jentra, and (3) Incentas.

Battle 1 - Power Charge + Attack

*At the terminal before Battle 2, get the Gain Hyper (ゲインHYPER)

Battle 2 - Attack, then Power Charge + Attack each one
*Do the steps in this order to skip Final Strike prompts because those are slow.
*Don't need to get the WE+5.
                                                                        Exit
                                                                          |
-CONVEYOR BELT ROOM 2: Straight -> Straight -> Straight      3T---4---X---5
                      -> (Battle 3) (use terminal) -> Back    |   |   |      T=Terminal
                      -> Left -> Left (Battle 4) -> Right     X---X---T      3=Battle 3
                      -> Straight (Battle 5) -> Left          |   |   |      4=Battle 4
                                                              T---X---P      5=Battle 5
                                                              |
                                                            Start
Battles 3-5: Two-shots

-In the next room, mash text + skip CUTSCENE
-Go up the lift and through the door
-Up the lift to next room...

CUTSCENE

-Zero rejoins the party and is now equipped with a Z-Saber+ (Zセイバー＋)
-Mash text
-Go back to where the 3 crystals are, go LEFT and through the light passage

Before Jentra MENU:

FORCE METALS:
	Remove all of Spider and Marino's FMs
WEAPONS:
	Remove Marino's Sub Weapons
	X: Hawkeye over Fire Missile

BOSS: Mach Jentra 1 (LE: 28,000, EXP: 10,000) (ABSORBS Fire, 100% Thunder, 150% Water)
-Power Charge + Attack spam

BOSS: Preon Waves
-Hawkeye then turn cancel 16 times!

CHAPTER 6 - The Meaning of Friendship
-Go out of room, CUTSCENE, immediately back in, and talk to the lady and enter mission.

CUTSCENE

-Straight, get the right and middle CRYSTALS (Ultra Thunder/ドメガサンダー, Ultra Blizzard/ドメガブリザード) then go to B2F

B2F:
-GO LEFT in the big room THEN RIGHT, keep going to the left toward the Rush Loader fight.

RUSH LOADERS:
-One-shots (with Power Charges)
***NOTE: If you get any Unlock Limiters, use them on, in order of priority, (1) Botos and (2) Incentas.

-Go back to the main hallway LEFT and straight to the rocks. Dash through and use the terminal, unlocking the elevator to B3F.

B3F:
MENU
ITEMS:
	Sort Items by Attack
FORMATION:
	Swap Spider and Axl (Axl, X, Massimo)
FORCE METALS:
	Equip Massimo's Caution (けいかい) on Axl

BOSS: SHADOW
-Power Charge + Attack endless combo (both phases)
*He drops the Z Ichimonji (零) and a Figure Token.

-CUTSCENE, Zero rejoins, go STRAIGHT

-Talk to the yellow guy behind the last door, turn around and go RIGHT (or left if camera stays put)
-Go right at the split, talk to the red guy (top option)
-Go back to previous room, LEFT and talk to the yellow guy again
-Go to B4F

B4F:
-GO LEFT, then left door.

Water Glob
-Two-shot the Thunder Glob, Ultra Thunder

Fire Glob
-Ultra Blizzard then Power Charge + Attack each enemy once
*If you don't have it: 2-shot Fire, 3-shot Water

Lightning Glob
-2-shot everyone

BOSS: Incentas (LE: 36,000, EXP: 12,500)
-Attack!
*Incentas drops Twin Ice (ツインアイス) and Twin Thunder (ツインサンダー).

CUTSCENES x2, R.I.P. Spider OneHand b

CHAPTER 7 - Block Transmissions

-Go shopping
-First Guy (Weapons): Buy 3 Protect Lance Betas プロテクトランサーβ (3rd item) (5900Z)
-Last Guy (Force Metals): Buy 1 Minus Metal 10 マイナスメタル10 (2nd from bottom item) (400Z)

MENU
WEAPONS:
	Put the Protect Lance Betas プロテクトランサーβ in the top weapons slot (this creates a
	glitched force metal (no name) that Zero can equip)

FORCE METALS:
	Move the 3 glitched FMs out of the glitched slot, then equip them to Zero
	Put Minus Metal 10 (マイナスメタル10) in the glitched slot. This creates the Red
	Lotus Saber (紅蓮剣)

WEAPONS:
	Red Lotus Saber (紅蓮剣) on Zero

-Go back and enter the mission

-Go to the 100% pole and walk in the direction of the cord until the cutscene activates
-Skip 2 CUTSCENES

-Go straight all the way through a door until you have to turn right
-Right -> Tiny right -> Left -> Left -> Through a door
-GO LEFT THEN STRAIGHT all the way to the door
-Follow the path to the door, but turn right before it for a CRYSTAL (Build Hyper/ビルドHYPER)

-After that door, go straight and follow the winding path all the way to an elevator and Save Point. Go to 1F.

1F:
-Straight, Left at the fork, go in door. Use panel in upper-left corner. Go to 2F

2F:
-Straight, Left at the fork, go in door. Use the terminal. Back to 1F.

1F:
-Left door, Left at fork, door.  Use nearby left panel then one in room's center next to yellow CRYSTAL
-Back out door, go back to elevator area, then left into hallway, right at the fork, go in door.
-Use nearby left panel and panel in center of room next to Yellow CRYSTAL.
-Go through the other door, straight to the other corner room, use upper-right panel, back through the same door, left to elevator. Go to 2F.

2F:
-Left, Left at fork, use the terminal, then back out to the elevator chamber
-Left, Right at fork, use the terminal on the left wall
-Go out the OTHER door, go straight to other corner room and use terminal, BOTOS OPEN (you'll get dialogue with him at the last terminal)
-Back out the only door, left and to elevator, go to 3F

MENU
ITEMS:
	Use 2 Build Hypers (ビルドHYPER) on Zero

BOSS: Botos (LE: 40,000, EXP: 15,000) (50% Fire, 150% Water, 100% Lightning)
-Attack!
*He drops a Twin Fire (ツインファイア) and Fire Stella (ファイアステラ).

CHAPTER 8 - The Ultimate Weapon

-Enter the mission
-Go inside the plant, SKIP CUTSCENE

B1 Entrance Hall:
 -Get on the elevator

Area E-B02:
 -Go forward, CUTSCENE, go RIGHT after
 -Go to the next door, use the elevator inside

Area E-B03:
 -Go straight out the door, straight ahead in the next room, Use the elevator.

Area E-B04:
 -Go straight out the door, straight past Yellow Gem to next room. SKIP CUTSCENE.
 -USE THE PANEL.
 -Go back and GO LEFT where the yellow CRYSTAL was, keep going straight to elevator

B5 East Block Access Tunnel:
 -STRAIGHT into CUTSCENE.

“BOSS”: Botos
-Attack him (he only has 3 HP)

-SKIP CUTSCENE, go forward.

Missile Silo Lower Section:
 -Go left around the missile, get the first of the 2 CRYSTALS (Gain Hyper/ゲインHYPER)
 -Go forward, through the door, get the CRYSTAL (Build Speed) and get on elevator.

Area W-B04:
 -Go straight into CUTSCENE, GO RIGHT

“BOSS”: Botos
-Power Charge + Attack

-Go through next door and up elevator

Area W-B03:
 -Straight into CUTSCENE, GO STRAIGHT this time

“BOSS”: Botos
-Power Charge + Attack

 -Go to elevator

Area W-B02:
-Straight into CUTSCENE
-DO NOT ENTER THE BOSS ROOM UNTIL YOU DO THE BELOW MENU

MENU
WEAPONS:
	Remove Hawkeye (ホークアイ) from X, put it on Zero over his first Heat Haze (カゲロウ)
FORMATION:
	Swap X out for Massimo

-GO LEFT to Ferham

BOSS: Ferham (LE: 50,000, EXP: 20,000) (100% Fire, 150% Thunder, 50% Water)
-Just Hyper Mode with Zero, Double Sub + Attack until dead.
*Attack with Axl if necessary

*She drops an Ice Stella (アイスステラ) and Heat Haze (カゲロウ).

CUTSCENE

MENU
FORMATION:
	Swap back in X for Massimo

Go forward and through the door, now to backtrack!

Area W-B02: GO RIGHT, down the elevator, CUTSCENE

Area W-B03: GO STRAIGHT through all rooms to elevator

Area W-B04: GO LEFT at the split to another elevator

B5 West Block Tunnel: Straight, left around the missile, CUTSCENE, straight to elevator, CUTSCENE

Area W-B04: GO RIGHT at split, get on elevator

Area W-B03: GO STRAIGHT to another elevator

Area W-B02: GO RIGHT at split to elevator

Area W-B01: Straight into final CUTSCENE
*RIP Botos.  No one will miss him.

CHAPTER 9 - When Giants Duel

-Swap X and Massimo, go shopping… and get interrupted

BOSS: Scarface 1 (LE: 37,500, EXP: 6,000) (150% Fire, ABSORBS Thunder, 100% Water)
Zero: Heat Haze, turn cancel
Zero: Check turn order
	*If Zero will get a 3rd turn before Axl, just Heat Haze
	*If not, Hyper Mode, Heat Haze + Attack with Zero
-Attack with Axl
*Turn cancel with Massimo if necessary
-Heat Haze + Attack with Zero

*He drops Tank Energy Infinite (タンクエネルギー∞) and a Shock Lance Beta (ショックランサーβ).

CUTSCENE

-Go back to the Command Room, talk to Nana, CUTSCENE, talk again, enter mission!

MENU: Swap back in X with Massimo
-GO LEFT, Mash text...
*RUN FROM EVERY SCRIPTED LASER BATTLE IN THIS CHAPTER.
-Go through a door and 2 more lasers (straight at the intersection)
-Go through another door and immediately left through yet another one

-Hit the laser, go left for another one, then immediately back the other way for a 3rd one
-Go down to the end and in the right door for a terminal, then go all the way back out (Left -> Left -> Right -> Straight -> Left -> Teleporter)

-Hit the laser and then go right and right again to find another laser
-Go right again for another laser
-Turn around immediately after that one and go in the nearby door (now on the right wall)

-Go right, hit the laser, then go around and hit the one on the left
-Go back to the middle door and up to the teleporter

-Get the middle CRYSTAL here (Build Hyper/ビルドHYPER)

-Go in the kind of hidden door on the right wall around the bend of the corner (should lead to a No.01 room)
-Go in the panel puzzle room

-Right -> Out -> Right -> Out -> Right -> Out -> Donzo
-Right and then left into the door with the teleporter

MENU
ITEMS:
	Use the Build Hyper (ビルドHYPER) and then a Gain Hyper (ゲインHYPER) on Zero IN THAT ORDER
FORMATION:
	Swap out X for Massimo, Give Zero a 2nd Heat Haze over Hawkeye

-Go straight into a room with 3 Gold Preon dudes

GOLD PREON FIGHT:
-Heat Haze + Attack all 3 (prioritize enemies earlier in the turn order to save time)

MENU
FORMATION:
	Swap in X for Massimo

-Go use the terminals on each pathway branching from the main door, then head that main door, Use the teleporter

MENU
FORMATION:
	Swap out X for Massimo

Final Room: Go straight through to next door...

BOSS: Scarface 2 (LE: 42,500, EXP: 24,000) (150% Fire, ABSORBS Thunder, 100% Water)
-Same strat as the first time (turn cancel until Zero doesn't go again before Axl, Hyper Mode, Double Sub + Attack; attack with Axl; Double Sub + Attack with Zero)
*He has a low chance of dropping a Thunder Buster MKIII (サンダーバスターMkIII) and/or a Thunder Saber+ (サンダーセイバー＋).

CUTSCENE...

BOSS: Epsilon (LE: 34,500 -> 51,500, EXP: 30,000)
-Hyper Mode with Zero, Heat Haze + Attack with Zero for 1st 3-4 turns.
	*For the third and fourth turns before Epsilon: skip the Heat Hazes
	if Phase 1 is already finished.
*If you only get two turns with Zero and Phase 1 isn't finished, kill Phase 1, swap out to Cinnamon, Defend until Phase 2 activates, then swap Zero back in immediately.
*Once you hit Phase 2, Zero should Sub Weapon + Attack spam, X or Massimo should use a Gain Hyper (ゲインHYPER) on Zero when necessary, and once his shield goes down Epsilon himself will follow soon after.

*He drops a Force Tomahawk (フォーストマホーク) and Tank Parts (タンクパーツ).

CHAPTER 10 - In The Name of Justice
-Go up to the Helipad

CUTSCENES x2

SHOP - Middle Girl
-Buy	3 Ice Saber+/アイスセイバー＋ (5th weapon)
	7 Ice Comet/アイスコメット (9th weapon)
	1 Axl Bullets 3/アクセルバレット3 (12th main weapon)

MENU
WEAPONS:
	X - Take off Power Charge
	Axl - Axl Bullets 3 (アクセルバレット3), Hawkeye (ホークアイ) on his Y button slot, and
	Power Charge (パワーチャージ) on his X button slot
ITEMS:
	Put the 3 Ice Saber+s (アイスセイバー＋) in the first Main Weapon slot to create 3 Block
	Alls (オールブロック All Block in J) in the glitched force metal slot.
FORCE METALS:
	Move the Block Alls out of the glitched FM slot.
ITEMS:
	Do the same for the 7 Ice Comets (アイスコメット) to get glitched god mode FMs.
FORCE METALS:
	Move the god mode FMs out of the glitched slot.
	Zero - remove all FMs
	Axl - 4x glitched god mode FMs
	X - Equip X Heart (Xハート), Caution (けいかい), and Block All (オールブロック) on slots 2-4
	Massimo - Block All/オールブロック
	Marino - Block All/オールブロック
FORMATION:
	Swap Zero out for X (formation: X Axl Massimo)
*This glitched FM pumps Axl's stats up like crazy.  In particular, it gives him 200 Speed.  This is useful for reasons that will soon be very obvious.

BOSS: Wild Jango 2 (LE: 64,500, EXP: 15,000)
-Spam Hawkeye + Attack with Axl until win (use a Power Charge as well whenever WE allows)
*He drops a Build Power (ビルドパワー).

CUTSCENE x2

-Go forward, up the elevator
-Go in the bottom-right teleporter

MENU
-Swap Axl out for Marino

BOSS: Psycho Nautilus 2 (LE: 38,500, EXP: 15,000)
-Spam Defend until Nautilus opens up (note: you can Power Charge + turn cancel with X on his first turn if you want to save a couple seconds at the expense of leaving yourself open to an extremely slim chance of disaster)
-Swap to Axl with literally whoever goes next (Massimo is optimal if you're doing DN; for vanilla any% it doesn't matter who swaps out) -> Hit Y and A (and maybe X) a lot
*Turn cancel/defend with anyone else if they somehow get a turn.
*He drops a Build Shield (ビルドシールド).

-GO RIGHT after exiting the teleporter

-Bottom-left teleporter
BOSS: Silver Horn 2 (LE: 73,500, EXP: 15,000)
*He drops a Build Armor (ビルドアーマー).

-Top-left teleporter
BOSS: Mach Jentra 2 (LE: 53,500, EXP: 15,000)
*He drops a Build Speed (ビルドスピード).

-Top-right teleporter
BOSS: Incentas 2 (LE: 51,600, EXP: 15,000)
*He drops a Build WE (ビルドWE).

-Go through the door past the teleporters
-Skip cutscene

BOSS: Depth Dragoon (LE: 64,500, EXP: 23,000)
*He drops a Build LE (ビルドLE) and a Force Tomahawk (フォーストマホーク).

-Just go straight through next rooms.

CUTSCENE

BOSS: Redips (LE: 51,500, EXP: 30,000)
*He drops a Beam Sword (ビームソード).
*Pay attention during the results screen to see if Axl levels up after this fight.  If he doesn't, you'll probably need to heal him before Great Redips due to Erosion penalties.

-Keep going straight, skipping cutscenes, and going up elevators and teleporters.

MENU
FORCE METALS:
	Take off the Block All of whoever swapped out in the Psycho Nautilus re-fight and put
	it on Axl over one god mode FM
SUB TANK:
	Heal if Axl isn't at full HP

CUTSCENE x2

BOSS: Great Redips

Phase 1
-Spam Hawkeye + turn cancel with Axl for 16 turns until the phase ends

Phase 2 (LE: 72,500) ENEMY BLITZKREIG!
-Axl spam with Double Sub + Attack!

Any% complete!

*Defeat Ninetails (Glitched)-exclusive stuff:

-Go shopping -> through the shop aisle and in the door -> down the hall, out the door and in the door to the left -> follow the path and go down NOT UP (start of chapter 2 but in reverse)

Every Tails Clan member except Fourtails will simply get slaughtered by Axl.  Fourtails, however, has Scarface's gimmick and consequently requires a bit of forethought.

BEFORE ONETAILS: MENU
FORCE METALS:
	Put a fourth god mode FM on Axl over the Block All

-Onetails through Threetails get curbstomped

BEFORE FOURTAILS: MENU
FORMATION:
	*Swap Marino with either frontliner who isn't Axl if she tagged out for PN2
FORCE METALS:
	Give Marino 3 of the god mode FMs
WEAPONS:
	Take off Massimo's Power Charge (パワーチャージ) and give it to Marino
	Equip the Beam Sword (ビームソード) on Marino (62/23/25/18)

About the Fourtails strat: If multiple actors on the battlefield have 200 speed simultaneously, those characters will endlessly take turns one after the other in perfect order.  We can take advantage of this to get around Fourtails's "block repeated attack types" gimmick by alternating Axl's Shot-type and Marino's Combat-type (with the Beam Sword - don't forget to equip it!) attacks.

BEFORE FIVETAILS: MENU
FORMATION:
	Swap Marino out of the party

-The rest of the run is free.

GG