psp original

Just some thoughts about the PSP FF4 run:
EXTREMELY ROUGH NOTES - Original

THESE STRATS HAVE BEEN UPDATED HEAVILY. These strats should get you started, at least, on your way to understand the run.


Start

Set cursor to keep (if you can stand it)
Turn change "battle order" to "on" (this will make it so you can skip turns with triangle and not lose ATB)
BS1 (eventually it is likely better to lower this overall as turns will hang up if more than 2 characters have ATB full)
BM1


Baron Castle:
Pick up Tent, Ether, 480 GP

Baron Town: (Nothing essential - could be skipped, but second hourglass is nice to have)
Tent, Bronze Hourglass (both in water), phoenix down x 2 (both in secret area at up left)

Mist Cave: (also likely not essential, but will save some GP later)
Top Chest - Potion
Right Chest - Potion

Fight Mist Dragon
Kain Jump, Cecil Attack
Auto Battle
After cecil's fifth attack (or 6th if you're fast enough), disable auto, wait
after 6-7 seconds, reenable auto

Before Mist:
Unequip all of Kain's Equipment, Unequip Cecil Head, Body, Guantlet

Rydia Fight:
Cecil and Kain defend, Auto battle

Kaipo:
Battle: 2 darks or auto attack
After battle: Sell all of kain's equipment except iron gauntlet, sell cecil's equip, buy 5-10 lifes and 5-10 potions
Pick up: Ether in pot south of Rosa's house

Underground Cavern:
Do: Level up rydia twice? Pike battles, lit all with tellah? (will help with antlion fight later and give her enough MP for 4-5 casts of choco by then)
Pick up:  All treasures in waterfall room, ether (on main path to save room), 580 GP, bomb frag (both Treasures in 2nd room after save room), Ether (maybe? left of sword room), Antarctic Wind (maybe? left of the sword room - can be used in fabul battles), Dark Sword, Hourglass (right below the sword)

2nd Part of Cavern:
Pick up all the chests (Cecil's new armor, guantlet, headgear, hermes sandals), change party order, optimize cecil equip, unequip tellah completely if you want to sell his stuff

Octomaam:
Cecil hermes sandal, Tellah Parry, Rydia Parry, Cecil Attack, Auto Battle (20 seconds faster for cecil to solo the battle) - If tellah of rydia die, just leave them dead

Damcyan:
Grab tent in 3rd room?
Unequip tellah to sell his stuff?
Nothing exciting

Antlion:
Arctic Wind (in chest where life would be in SNES version), All save room chests, spider silk (upper left chest in big room)
Fight antlion - I think you get a full heal after damcyan in this version so rydia should have MP
Rydia Choco, Cecil Defend, Edward Defend, Auto
When rydia out of mp, disable auto, cecil attack, rydia defend, edward defend, auto
It is ok if rydia and edward die after rydia has used all her chocos
Use emergency exit

Kaipo:
Win (auto)

Mt. Hobbs:
imps: auto
mombomb:
cecil attack, yang attack, rydia choco, edward defend, rosa heal yang or cecil (auto as needed)
after explosion, use hourglass, then spam dark and kick, auto

Fabul:
Edward's attack is very slow here - Useful to unequip him prior to the battles and have him defend, and have cecil and yang auto battle (and use items on the guard battles to make then safe and speed up)
Kill guards using battle items (bomb and arctic winds you picked up)
Kill other enemies by auto battle attack -
Kain: defend - auto
After kain, pick up hermes sandals in first pot you see south of crystal room
After king scene, pick up chest (maybe?), pick up bacchus wine in room south of king chamber

Mysidia:
Buy things after getting twins. I would say you can probably get a couple of magus hats - probably 2 - (armor doesn't increase magic stat so I wouldn't bother) and a flame rod (same magic boost as thunder rod), buy paladin shield -  After equipping death sword on cecil, flame rod and magus hat on palom, go to item shop, sell cecil's sword and the hat you took off porom and buy 10-20 hi potions or so and restock on life potions if you can afford it or if you feel the need

Mt. Ordeals:
Pick up the two ethers on the way if you want
Level up palom so he has ice 2 - helps things along later- easily done in lamia battles by throwing hi-potions at enemies

Milon:
use hourglass, throw hi-potions with everyone except palom until one ghost left and have palom use bluff every turn until 4-5 uses. Then use ice2 on milon a couple of times.

MilonZ:
Palom: Bluff and then fire 2, Cecil: Attack or throw cure2, Tellah x potion on milonz, Porom throw cure2 at milonz (maybe don't even need to bluff on the fire 2 cast - will test)
After Fight: remove cecil's equipment  (all)
Become paladin - Defend, auto

Level on the way down to level 15? super fast with auto battle - once you learn cura spell that should be enough

Baron:
Guards: Bio on all enemies w/ tellah
During yang, likely move flamerod off porom and put onto tellah
After yang, buy 4 headbands (one for cecil, yang, kain, and cid) and 2 kenpo if you can swing it (way expensive), iceclaw, boltclaw

Waterway:
Nothing looks particularly exciting - possibly the hermes sandals, but its out of the way to the south

Baigan:
Cecil Equip Shield, headband, kenpo
Yang Equip ice/lit claws, headband, kenpo
Tellah flamerod (if not on already), gaia hat
Kill baigan (cecil and yang attack front arm and kill it, then they attack the body every round - tellah use level 3 spell on baigan body, palom bluff every round, porom defend; when baigan reflect wears off, palom should be OP from bluff and can finish baigan and arm with multitarget level two spell)

Cagnazzo:
Kill Cagnazzo
Cecil Attack, Yang Attack, Porom Parry, Palom Thundara (after water barrier), Tellah Blizzaga

Mist:
Pick up Polymorph rod, tiara, and buy DD if you can afford it - cast exit w/ tellah

Troia:
Chat with edward; cast exit w/tellah

Dark Elf Cave:
Pick up treasures in second room (hourglass, hipotion, silk web)
Pick up fairy claw (maybe?)
Dark Elf:
Equip the metal stuff, adjust formation
Dark Elf 2:
Berserk Cecil (using magic, don't use bacchus item) and weak on dark elf makes for dead elf
Maybe use white chocobo to heal MP after?

Tower of Zot:
Flame Sword (battle) - Fairy claw can confuse him to make him easier
Earth Hammer?

Magus Sisters:
Spider silk (maybe?)
Cid spam using earth hammer as an item
Cecil DD middle, yang attack middle, after middle dead just go down the line (auto battle) - Once middle sister is dead, tellah can use level 3 spells
Unequip Tellah after (before?)

Before valvalis:
give rosa a gaia helm and some armor (gaia gear from tellah)
kain gets flame sword, headband, and kenpo (that cecil has on)
cecil gets DD

Valvalis:
Cid use bacchus wine
yang fights
rosa uses spider web (equal to two slow casts), defends after
kain jumps
cecil DD
Auto Battle

Agart:
drop magma key

Drawf:
Calbrena: Use hourglass to stop back three to keep from combining. kill dolls quickly (Kain should jump the back ones while cecil DDs the front ones (only one time each))
Cast mute on party before battle is over

Golbez:
Win (jump quickly with kain to avoid death from golbez, jump with kain, attack with mythgraven blade with cecil, fira with rydia, attack with kain, repeat)

Castle:
buy hi potions (50ish) and life (40ish) and cabin (5-10)
buy 2 rune rings, 2 sage's surplice, 1 miter
Pick up dwarf axe, strength ring, bacchus (left middle pot), elixir, ether, silver hourglass from east tower,
Pick up bacchus wine (bottom right pot) elixir and blk belt from west tower

Sell excess equipment and buy more lifes and hipotions if you didn't have enough money.
Fathlo's notes say to equip the Dwarf Axe on cecil - I kind of think you should sell if it short on GP and use DD with cecil

Tower of Babil:
Cat Claw
Ether 2 (chest on left before lugae room)
Maybe do the equipping here instead of earlier? Save a menu?
Adjust equip before fighting:
Yang Cat Claw, Lit Claw, Headband, Black Belt, Power Armlet
Rosa Sages Miter, Sages Surplice, Rune Ring
Rydia Polymorph Rod, tiara, sage's surplice, rune ring
Cecil DD or Drawf Axe, Paladin Shield, Headband, Kenpo, ___
Kain mythril Shield, Fire sword, headband, kenpo, mythril

Lugae 1:
Yang will devastate balnab here - Kain jump lugae, yang attack balnab, cecil attack or DD lugae, rydia magic on lugae, rosa defend, repeat (try to time it so they die at the same time)
Win

Lugae 2:
Berserk Yang or use power or just attack with him - kain jump, rydia titan or lit 2, cecil DD or defend, rosa heal or defend
Unequip Yang
Make sure you have unequipped cat claw (and fairy claw if you want the agl boost)

Baron:
Elixir in 2nd Pot in basement
Two Bacchus wines and two hermes sandals in room before basement (four chests) (tower room)
get hovercraft thingy

Eblan:
buy ice spear (or sword, if you can't afford it?) and ice shield, and boomerang (maybe? for cpu?)
Sell flame sword and mythril helm if you have to

Eblan Cave:
First Chest
Hidden chests with elixirs/cabins (3rd room?)
Spider Silk down from chests
Dry Ether left of where you recruit edge; equip edge with fairy claw and cat claw for +8 agl

Tower of Babil 2:
Chest on path with middle/ashura sword
Left of Rubicante is a chest with like 80K GP

King/Queen:
All Defend, auto battle

Rubicante:
Win (berserk kain w/ icebrand/spear, power armlet, blk blt gi, headband)
Edge can use flood
Rosa can use spider silk for slowx2 effect
Rydia ice2?
Cecil defends, maybe cover? If he dies, leave him dead...
If cloak closes, wait until reopen to resume casting spells on him

Dwarf:
after having ship fixed, talk to king giott, get key (or vice versa?)

Toroma:
After having ship fixed, fly SW to town and buy 1 ogre axe

Sylph Cave:
Heal to max before entering
Go North at fork in second room to get to avenger. Once you end up in the doorway to third room (there is a fairy rod in one of the chests in that room, btw, which is better than polymorph - not needed, but can make rydia's summons stronger), immediately go right and follow path (get bottom left treasure on the way) until room with 6 chests (3 and 3). Bottom middle is avenger
4 Malboros:
Rune Rings will prevent you from being Bad Breathed, so that is handy.
Use hourglass 2 to stop them and have rydia spam titan - everyone else does what they can to kill

Sealed Cave:
Use cabin before entering; change settings to default (not memory)
Equip Kain with avenger, middle position, all str boosting everything
when fighting trap doors, don't use auto (unless you have cursor still set to memory and you have everyone except kain set to defend)
after first and second doors, grab ethers from chests- everything else requires fights with doors
At save point, use tent
after getting crystal, heal up, set cursor to keep

Demon Wall:
Kain with avenger (and str boosting stuff), cecil with ogre axe (and str boosting stuff), edge w/ ashura and kunai (and str boosting stuff),
rosa cast slow, rydia titan, auto battle, change to rosa healing after 2 slow
After battle, unequip kain and get your str boosting stuff back and avenger
Walk down one room, then spam warp, trigger scene

Can sell excess stuff if you have any if you need to buy stuff;
Just counting the stuff you currently have, you will want to keep Avenger, two black belts, kenpo gi, 3 green berets or headbands, power armlet, ogre axe, sage's surplace, polymorph rod, wizard hats, cat claw
Enough to equip Yang, Cecil, Cid, Kain, and Rosa at the end

Mysidia:
Whale

Whale:
Moon

Moon:
FusoYa

Fusoya:
Old and cranky
 (At this point, I have 3 dry ethers, 13 ethers, and 5 elixirs - Should be plenty)


Giant of Babil:
Take all weapons off cecil, edge (and everyone if you want)
Grind Fight:
My guess is that the optimal way to do this is to collect the hell out of ether1s (which is why we have been picking them up so much) during the run, and then use weak, attack, ether1, parry, attack, and so on (maybe ether every other round?) You could also use osmose on your own people (edge, cecil, or rydia) to get MP. Faster to use ether on fusoya to regenerate mp than to have him use osmose on his own people in the middle of his sequence, although osmose is still an option.
Dragons:
Someone attacks eye, fusoya weaks dragon, someone attacks dragon, someone heals if needed, someone restores fusoya's mp if needed, repeat. In this game, using tornado on the eye will cause it to spawn a dragon, so make sure you account for that.
29 Dragons-ish - if no character has any weapons on (at least cecil and edge don't) then the searcher will easily have enough HP to survive the 30 attacks or so you do to it)
Rosa only survives, want her at level 55 or higher
After grinding, save (or YOLO), reequip everyone

Four Fiends:
Pretty much have to fight this battle like its intended
Milon Weak to Fire and Cure Spells (Fusoya Fire 3, Rosa Cure 4 on MilonZ a couple times)
Rubicante weak to ice (edge flood, fusoya ice 3, rosa will likely need to heal party here and slow the boss, cecil heal fusoya MP) - probably want to switch fusoya and rosa to back row before cagnazzo part
Cagnazzo weak to Lightning (fusoya lit 3, edge blitz)
Valvalis weak to holy (fusoya and rosa cast holy)
Unequip Lunar Staff and Luminous robe from fusoya either before or after fiends

CPU:
Kill off defender with flare
Cecil attack CPU
Edge throw stuff at or attack CPU
Rosa Cast cure2 all
Rydia Parry
Fusoya parry
Auto battle - memory (so cecil and edge just attack CPU)
When CPU at like 10K HP, use meteo

Tower of Prayer:
Unequip Edge
Set Party Cecil, Yang, Kain, Rosa, and Cid
Cecil will die at BB, so whatever
Kain gets Avenger, Bandanna, Black belt/kenpo, str ring
Yang Gets Cat Claw, Bandanna/Headband, blackbelt/kenpo
Rosa gets Lunar Staff, Sage's Miter, Luminous Robe, Rune Rings (for magic stat boosting)
Cid Gets Ogreaxe, Shield if you have one, Headband, Kenpo
Don't want magic users because they cause zeromus to counterattack

Moon:
Buy elixirs if you need to - You only need 1 for the ending (and can be done with 0)

Lunar Sub:
Pick up Protect Ring, give you someone? rosa? if needed?

Zeromus:
Kain is Berserked from Avenger
Yang Uses Bacchus Wine
Cid Uses Bacchun Wine
Cecil Dies from first BB
Rosa - Cure4 all party every round
Auto Battle
After black hole,
Kain unequip avanger and reequip to reestablish berserk
Yang Bacchus Wine
Cid Bacchus Wine
Rosa Cure 4 all
Auto Battle
Fight will fly by with this strat, and you don't even have to hold the controller during the auto battling!