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That's pretty cool. Not particularly useful, but it makes a lot of sense.

I've done all those mods to get Swap Magic to work, but I have a PS2, not a PS1. In-motion swaps don't seem healthy for either the discs or the system, from other times I've tried them... Is there a way to safely use that trick to swap PS1 games in a PS2?

I'm interested in replaying this game, but as I'm not big on emulators, I'm looking for a way to play it on console this time. I have the disc, but no Japanese system to use it with. My system is an American PS2, modded to be able to run SwapMagic, which is how I play Berwick Saga. I bought Breaker Pro, hearing that it was supposed to do the same thing for PS1 games, but despite trying it a multitude of times, I had no success. My understanding is that it just doesn't work for some systems? So I'm looking for another method. Does anyone have suggestions for alternative ways of running the disc? Preferably methods cheaper than buying a Japanese PS1; those things are pricey. (And before someone asks, yes, I know I can't run patches on console; I don't use translation patches)

Donnel is the obvious choice, although Brady might be a competitor. Still, at least he can Rescue when you get him. Anyone who says Virion hasn't tried using him on the higher difficulty levels.

So while Sony's managed to thoroughly embarrass Microsoft and draw plenty of attention to that fact, those same points are just things shared with every big past system ever... including the Wii U, which is apparently the PS4's only console competition this gen.

TRS does have Narcus with the Transform skill, so maybe not too different at all beyond swapping characters around to have Xane in his place? Of course, Kaga was also planning on having an isometric view, but he held off until Berwick Saga for presumably unrelated reasons, so who knows what other plans he might still not have gone through with.

They never fixed the early EXPonential Growth release in America, so they're probably not gonna do anything about this, either. Even though it's a different "they" in this case? Probably won't make a difference.

Haven't beaten Apotheosis. I've been distracted.

Yes.

Gamble isn't risky; it's just bad. +10 Crit is nothing compared to +5 Str with axes.

Virion and Cordelia are great to have, Virion for bows and Cordelia for Rally Speed, but reclassing MU like that right now sounds like a really bad idea... I don't want to tell you to restart but you're not going to have an easy time losing a powerful mage before the rest of your team catches up. Are you using Renown? DLC? Perhaps any SpotPass recruits?

Minimal grinding is no grinding. If you want some extra Exp, though, make good use of sidequests and use the DLC the same way: maximum of one run of each map.

To clarify: the characters with universal reclassing, other than MUs, are the guest characters from previous games.

I'm sticking to my usual patterns for this gen. I already have a Wii U, as a primarily Nintendo player, and as someone who's never owned any Xbox, there's no way the One is going to change that. I have no immediate plans to buy a PS4, but I ended up getting a cheap PS2 and PS3 after they'd finished their runs, and I figure the odds are I'll do the same for the PS4 in five years or so.

Go for the Lost Bloodlines and Smash Brethren packs, at least to start. Between the two of them, you'll get both of the class-change items and a couple of neat skills, and they should be very much within your reach right now.

Did you not read any of the posts?

Yeah, I had that mindset. Even when it was announced, I figured the series was done worldwide and back to Japan-only, but here it is.

Probably the latter, since that'd make them actually worse than otherwise.

At the time it was released, many IR weapons were limited to that map, and some still are, but ultimately, they'll all be released otherwise in all versions, like they were in the Japanese version. Not that they're all convenient. You need Double Duel to get Hauteclere and Excalibur, and Excalibur requires you to take on... that.

Dammit, now I want to see Gargoyle Knights.

No, just skills.

Nice find!

No, it decays actual Exp while leaving WExp the same. I'm not sure where OP is getting this bogus idea that he's proven anything, but the only guess I can make is that he's saying that he trained Lissa and Avatar in staff classes and Avatar, with Discipline, reached a similar staff rank at half the level. Which doesn't work at all because Avatar would be at a much lower level with the same number of staff uses because of the lower Exp gain.

That's not a valid comparison without controlling to make sure the character with Discipline used staffs the same number of times as the character without it. If you reclassed your Avatar multiple times to learn Discipline as a Cavalier then to Priest, he'll have a high internal level and therefore have a much slower Exp gain than a Lissa who hasn't reclassed at all, so he'll end up at a much lower level with the same number of staff uses.

...Why do you actually care about the 3D light? That's like trying to remove buttons you don't use.