Who's got the original ?

[Inferno]

I was just wondering... how many of you, crazy people of EOFF, actually have the original game on SNES.

I do.

[Flying Mullet]

I do and I imagine that a lot of people here do.

[blue_midget192]

i dont yet, but i will be getting it as soon as a accumulate enough money to get a snes!

[feioncastor]

I bought it a few years ago. I actually have two copies of it now, just in case one gives out on me.

Feion

[Braindead_Paul]

I do.
And it was really hard to get in Europe in 1995!

[Doomgaze]

It's not exactly rare. FF2us, though, that was hard to get.

[abrojtm]

I have FFII and FF III (US). The battery died on FFIII though (probably from using the Lete River trick).

[blue_midget192]

I have FFII and FF III (US). The battery died on FFIII though (probably from using the Lete River trick).

sorry for densness but the what trick?

[XxSephirothxX]

One of my friends found it in a pawn shop about a year and a half ago for 4 bucks.

[SeanWY]

The original is great, I got it.

I love th MBlock/Evade Glitch.

Just get enough MBlock and nothing can touch you.

[feioncastor]

sorry for densness but the what trick?

I'm going to list the lete river trick as a spoiler, for those who don't want to see it. Some consider it cheating.

(SPOILER)As you know, your journey down the lete river, you have Banon with you. Banon has a handy move called "Health" which heals everyone in your party, and consumes no MP. So what you do is you set the cursor to "Memory" (in the config menu), and head down the river. After the part where it first says "Hey, which way?", You select "Up", and that will take you in a circle. Hook up a turbo controller and pin the A button down so that you will continually go in circles and Banon will automatically heal your party, and have the other three (Terra, Edgar, Sabin) attack. It's good to have Edgar do Auto Crossbow instead of just a regular attack, and if you got the Genji Glove, you should slap that onto Terra so she can attack a bit better. So once you've got that set up, you just turn off your TV and go to bed, school, work etc... and after a few days, your guys will have been traveling in circles the whole time, just fighting on their own, with Banon to heal them. It is interesting that the monsters in that area give INSANE exp for that part of the game. It's almost like the designers wanted us to do this trick.

However, there are some SERIOUS downsides to using this trick, and if you want to know them, let me know, and I'll fill you in. I mean, honestly, the bad does outweigh the good, in my opinion, and I've been through FFVI many times so I have a pretty good grasp on that sort of thing.

Feion

[Diablos]

So what are the bad things about using this trick? I would have to say that would most probably mess up your snes.

[m4tt]

I used to have it.. foolish me sold it to Electronic Boutique a while ago for crappy store credit.

[feioncastor]

So what are the bad things about using this trick? I would have to say that would most probably mess up your snes.

Well, it's probably not good to leave your SNES on for 3 days straight, but even aside from that, it makes the game awful, and here is why:

(SPOILER)Later on in the game, you get Espers that help you to level up better. For example, Bahamut gives %50 more HP than what you would normally get at level up. So if when you level your max HP would normally increase by 400, with Bahamut equipped, it will increase by 600 instead. But if you gain most of your levels on the river, long before you get Espers, you'll probably never be able to get 9999 HP, and your other stats such as strength and so forth will never be that high either, since normally, you'll have espers equipped as you gain levels. That's not all, either. The game is just no fun if no one is hard. You can kill every boss in one hit from that point on, all the way to Kefka (depending on how long you let them float around out there), and one more funny downside. If you remember, Locke heads for South Figaro right before then, so when you go to do Locke's little mission thing, he's only like lvl 10 or so and your other guys are like lvl 60, and then when Celes joins him, she'll be around lvl 50 and it's just funny because of how weak Locke is now. He eventually catches up when you go to Thamasa with Shadow and General Leo, he automatically goes up to a more fitting level.

Anyway, the game isn't fun at all if you use that trick, and you can't ever get as good anyway, so I recommend going through the game legit before messing with that kind of stuff.

Feion

[MoonsEcho]

I have it, but sadly my SNES is at my parents' house in Louisiana. I finally broke down and bought Anthology yesterday so I'm not deprived any longer.