items

[feioncastor]

Imp, Bomb, Cockatrice, and Flayer.

Good luck though. I've beaten the game over twenty times and haven't gotten a single one.

I've gotten Imp, Bomb and Cockatrice, but never on the same game. Right now, I have cockatrice.

Imp is stupid, though. I've never seen it do more than 1 damage.

[KoShiatar]

Yeah, they're funny, but not really useful...

[Nick Schovitz]

So what does Succubus, HrGlass, Vampire and Boreas do?

[Zeromus_X]

1: not sure. (casts "confuse?)
2: casts slow or stop?
3:casts drain
4: some kind of blizzard spell.

[Masamune·1600]

I was wondering what alot of these items do in IV, they don't give you any help on what they do if you press select or anything. Here are a few of those items, in case you do know what they do.

Ag Apple
Hermes
Bachuus
Bomb
Unicorn
Barcceas

Ag Apple, as Kishi said, increases max HP by 50. Ag and Au are the symbols for the elements silver and gold on the periodic table.

Hermes adds Haste.

Bacchus adds Berserk.

Bomb teaches Rydia the Bomb summon.

Unicorn removes battle-only status effects like Sleep, Confuse, and Paralyze.

There is no "Barcceas" item; I can only assume that this is a reference to the Bacchus or Boreas items.

You have a 1/64 chance of getting it dropped... I don't know how SNES would read it, but if it's like the NES, after 64 Imps/Bombs/Cocks/Mages you would 100% surely get it...

So, if you are fighting 8 imps, you have a 1 out of 8 chance of getting a summon... I tried the Life trick, whenever the item is used it just has no effect...

As I understand it, the odds are actually worse than this. The 1/64 value applies to the likelihood of an item drop being the desired item; however, a true 1/64 value would require an item to be dropped every time. The real odds, then, would be 1/(64*(1..x)).

So what does Succubus, HrGlass, Vampire and Boreas do?

Succubus absorbs MP. HrGlass causes "Stop" for a short period of time. Vampire absorbs HP. Boreas causes powerful ice elemental damage.