Breath of Fire IV FAQ v 1.2 by Jae Church >tarudriller@hotmail.com< revision history May 3, 2000 Started FAQ, Walkthrough up to after Boat Ruins May 6, 2000 Finished game, added Dragon List and Master List, fixed some errors(particularly in grasslands area) and a few minor changes. May 9, 2000 A few things here and there May 15, 2000 A few more things May 26, 2000 Added some more tidbits and a skill list courtesy of Romain Deckmyn Feel Free to do whatever you wish with this FAQ. Just make sure all proper credits and such are given. If you don't bad things might happen to you and your pets. All character names and such are property of Capcom. I can't read most of the names anyway... This FAQ is meant to give all those who imported this game a hand if they get stuck. I found all the dungeons and puzzles to be very simple and straightforward. So I will leave most dungeon exploration and puzzle solving to you. If any see anything i've missed or has a better way to do something please let me know and I will add it. Keep in mind I only can read the menus and whatever is in Katakana. I have no idea what is going on in the story and I don't know many names of things, most towns, and people. One thing I hate about a lot of FAQS is that they cause a lot of people to not play, but just coast through games. I will go out on a limb and assume if you are importing this, you at least moderately enjoy RPGs. So, EXPLORE, take the time to look first. Then, if all else fails, check here. The import version has mod chip protection, so use the following code: >thanks to Darklore for the code< d01ce422 1040 801ce422 1000 All the menus and such are icon based so they are pretty self explanatory as is the battle system. Switching Party Members you can use all 6 of your party members at a time in battle, but only 3 can act on a single turn. The other 3 can be switched in at any time simply by selecting them over who you want replaced. Characters not in use will restore AP, fall asleep, or chip in with support attacks and healing spells(occasionally). Combo System(BIG THANKS TO SCYTHE99) You can link different skills and spells together to get new spells and do more damage. For example you can have Ryu cast Burn(learned from a Red Goo) then have Nina cast Shiga to produce a new spell that does more damage and hits every enemy. The more enemies you fight, the more damage and hits you can do. Example: (this one is later in the game but works very well) Cast Ursula's 6AP fire spell then Nina's 6AP Wind spell against 4 enemies for 8 hits(4 each) and the Domega spell. Combos are key when the bosses actually get tougher later. Experiment and see what you can come up with. The best combo I have managed is Seven Senses+ Refaron+ Refaron for 72 hits. Late in the game when you have to do insanely high combos to get skills from Masters, go to the place Ryu freaked out and fight the Mokujin. They always come in groups of 6 and heal for 15000 after every turn. Cool thing is they don't attack. Dragon forms and spells As in all Breath of Fire games our hero will be able to change into a dragon. Both Ryu and Fou Lu will have a form available from very early on. Eventually you will gain more(both automatically and by finding genes). Fou Lu has 2 and Ryu has four. Dragon spells are gained by finding and talking to the various Dragons found throughout the world. Some of them are obvious, some aren't. I will tell you where they are as you can get them. I'm not going to dp a list though. A quick mention about the Fou Lu/Ryu connection While playing as Fou Lu, you may want to ignore all the chests and things you can find. Eventually Ryu and the gang will have access to the areas that Fou Lu has been. They are better off with the items than Fou Lu is. Walkthrough The game will start with scenes of Nina and Cray on a ship in the desert. They are looking for Ninas' sister Elina. They will be unceremoniously dumped by a giant sand dragon and they will wreck. Cray will give Nina a sword and tell her to head to some town. When you leave the area you will be on the world map. Walk to the first ! area. Here you will see an old man running off and a giant monster will appear. He'll disappear and leave (in typical Breath of Fire fashion..) an ass naked Ryu behind. The two will exchange pleasantries and join up. Ryu will jack some of the old guys clothes and they'll be off. Head out and you will be able to advance to the first dungeon. This area is very simple with one treasure. The combat is very simple so gain a few levels for level 1 Ryu. Eventually you will camp for the night. The scene will switch to our other main character Fou Lu. After some chatter you will gain control of him and his 64 levels(bad-ass.) Look around for an item and head out. Eventually you will run into a couple soldiers and a guy with a huge red nose. Fou Lu will call the beast from earlier and unleashes some megaton fireworks on them.(Ryu shudders...). When you regain control head out to the map. In the next area you will encounter the first boss. Boss: Kamu(?) Change into a dragon and unload, easy. You will be surrounded by soldiers but will get away. You will be an easy maze with one item. You'll be caught at the end. Back to Ryu and Nina. Leave the area and head to the town. Do some shopping, do RPG town stuff. Be sure to get some Tonics and Poison cures (12 z item). Head to the bar. The frog guy will be your first opportunity to trade gems. I have no damn clue what significance this has besides getting a master later, you should do it though, with everyone you find! Talk to the hungry guy at the counter to get in a mini game. I didn't get at all. You have to use the buttons to feed him. It seemed easy. You get something when you succeed. Head out and talk to Nina and she will rejoin. Now this next part I have no clue what goes on. Go talk to the guy across from the inn, pick all options. Make sure you have at least 123 zenny and talk to him again. In the bizarre minigame give him precisely 123 zenny and you'll get the info you need, plus 1000 game points and an item. He'll tell you about some item. Leave town and keep entering ? spots until you find one with a guy and a black ostrich/chocobo thing. He'll give you the item. You can open the first fishing spot by entering ? in this area also. Head back to the bar and go behind the counter. The barkeep will let you past. After a short event you can go to a new area. In this area you will have to push the captains wheel to get around outside. Work your way to an old man. You will have to pay him to dig. 50z to dig blind, 100z to have his dog sniff out items. When you've found the gear thing dig for other stuff all you want then head back to the town. In the bar there will be an event with some soldiers and a very cracked out guy(name anyone?). Nina will confront him and will be forced into a fight. Boss: Shyo(?) Use Shiga and heal if needed. Not hard. When you're back on the world map head east to ? area. After the event you'll have a new town to go to. Talk the old monkey in the back then head into the northernmost house and talk to the guy on the left. Pick the bottom option twice. Talk to all then leave town and re-enter(easier way?anybody?) Talk to him again and Master will show up. After talking he will join you. He's powerful but misses alot. Make sure you have a few poison cures and then leave from where Master came from to get to your next area. You'll need to use the party separately to get around here. You'll have to face a boss in the end. Boss: Skull Fish Thing Your first full party boss can do some damage and can poison everyone at once. Change Ryu into his form and use Masters' punch to do damage. Use Nina as medic and have her cast Shiga. He'll go down quick. Afterwards head out and you'll be on the world map. Move on to the crash area. After the tearful reunion with Cray and intros and the recap is told you will find yourself in a dungeon with Cray and without Master. I like Cray he does a lot of damage and has some good spells. Whilst exploring be sure to check the shelves for some little items. When you get to the throne room you'll have to sneak behind the curtain. You will then be.. back at camp?? Hmmm.... Go to the new area east of Masters town. Here you will find Rawulf the first master. Apprentice whomever you wish. His requirements are combo hits. First 5 then 10 and so on.(THANKS AGAIN TO SCYTHE99). Continue on. In the next area go past the locked gate and find a guy who looks like he's weaving baskets. Talk to him then the guys near him to get the key to the gate. Activate the switch and a new path will open. Take it. Advance forward until you get to the next switch. It no work. A woman will come in and tell you how to do it. I smell a minigame! Rotate your controller until the woman gets an ! abovew her head. Hit circle and voila! Keep going and you'll end up back at the weaver guy. Something bad brews, and you'll get the missing part for the empty switch you just passed. Activate the damn thing to avoid demise. In the next area there will be an event with a guy with a sitar and a big ass serpent. Pay 100z to hear a bad song or 50 for something else. The next town is full of traps so beware. Behind the first row of houses is a monster in a box that's scores you a new fist for Master. Next to the parrots house is a dog house, where you can fight an enemy. Fall in the hole behind the parrots' house. You can climb a ladder to avoid the cage trap so you can talk top the bird. Talk to him and pick first, second, third, and fourth option or second, third, fourth options to get done what you need to. (I lost my notes for this area so I don't remember exactly what it was you had to do with the parrot.)Finish your town stuff and head to next area. Talk to the guy to get an item (Ringo?). Use Master to bonk the tree to get more of them. In the next portion there are a bunch of annoying and funny traps. Underground you can get a few items if you fall right. Work your way through until you reach a boss. Boss: Memen? He uses quake to damage everyone and have a tough physical attack. Use the Dragon form and switch between Nina and Master. Try to get some combos. Head back to parrot town. After the event there you will be back to Fou Lu. He will wake up in a small hut with a guy who looks like Bunyan from Breath Of Fire 3. After some small chat you'll be back to Ryu. You can now enter the cave in Parrot Town that was blocked by guard before. Advance and so on and so forth. In the next town talk to the woman chasing the dog-boy to get into a game of tag with the little bastard. Chase him around the perimeter to catch his ass. After the event you will have to find 4 or 5 kids. They are all easy except one. He is in one of the blind stairways. Rotate the camera to see him. Go back to the orphanage to find out the Dog kid from before has gone into that stairwell you couldn't. (I would leave his troublemaking ass there...) NEW INFORMATION NEW INFORMATION NEW INFORMATION It turns out that to get in here, you have to wait for a woman with a water jug to come over and talk to him. It will give you a chance to get in. When I played, she just happened to be there when I went to go in. You know what to do. Search the bookcases for items. Pass by the cell he's in and go upstairs. Go into the farther cell and step on the boards. Found him. After the event go and talk to the Zangief looking guy. He'll challenge you.(his name is Kahn i think.) Kick his teeth in. After the event Nina will stay behind. Head out and enter the first ? area. Event. Chase the guy to next area. You will have to use the barrels to block him off. Catch him! He'll become a master afterwards. He requires you to have X# of items in your inventory. Back to town with you! Go talk to Nina and the smoking Captain. After events a new town will open. Talk to the human near entrance. There will be a mini game with barrels and pottery. Have Cray push the pottery onto spaces on left side and push the barrels onto the right. Use Master to break the discolored barrels. After you succeed you get... another game. Pick up the crates in front of Cray and place them on spaces. Do well enough and Nina and Cap'n will show up. He'll give you all, ahem, VIP passes for your trip on his vessel. Fou Lu. You have control of him. Head down the path. You will see red nose and have to fight a boss Boss: ??? Change and hammer him. He can do some damage but not much. A chase ensues where Fou Lu gets his ass shot up. Back to Ryu. After your stellar boat ride leave to the left. Shop, talk, etc. Be sure to buy some Hi-Tonics that heal 800 hp. They are the 2nd choice for 100z. Go up stairs and enter the dungeon. Use elevators and stairs to get around. On the 4th floor exit, and keep going up. The insane man from earlier will show up. He'll summon... Boss: ??? Change Ryu and go for 3 hit combos. They seem to turn him around so you can do more damage. Ryu Dragon Fire spell with Nina's Shiga will suffice for that. After the battle you will jump into the portal and teleport away. Take the elevators down and head for next town. You can only shop and rest here. You can't pass the giant cannon. In the dungeon talk to the little guy when you get to him and pick first option to get elevator. When you get to water jump in it. You'll be in a familiar place. Rest and save. The area is unchanged. Do what you did before. But instead of waking up in camp, your ass is busted! After an event with Cray and a guy with a beard you will regain control of the party. When you try to leave Scias will join. He's badass(for now). Try to go into the castle. You'll get booted. Leave town and head south.(you can't do anything in the northern town yet but shop.) Here you can learn Double Hit from the Nut Troop, be sure to get it. It combos well for now. Take the left path and Nina will be shrunk. Master will laugh until a bird snatches Nina. Look for her until some Fairies appear. Master will use his Super-Fist during this humorous event. You will see Nina in a bird nest. Have Master hit trees until you find the one shes in. You'll control Nina in another cute and funny event. Food for you!:-) MiniBoss: Mommy Bird Don't attack. Just defend and she will run off. You get 100 game points and a fishing rod. Climb on down and you'll be restored to size. Leave and to the next town. This appears to be Crays hometown. Go talk to the elders in their house. Get the item in their basement and go talk to our old friend Kahn on the roof. When you try to leave he'll attack again. Boss: KAHN RETURNS! He's still a joke. After the battle his wife will become a master. Her requirements are combo damage. 1000, 3000,10000, etc. Talk to the girl near the floating snail for a great event. Head out to the new area. !!!NEW INFORMATION, MANY CORRECTIONS!!!!! This area can be very frustrating if you don't know where to go. It's very similar to BoF3s' Desert of Death or Despair. (MANY MORE THANKS TO SCYTHE99 FOR HIS ADVICE AND HELP. MOST OF THIS BELONGS TO HIM)All this information and directions are confirmed now. Sorry for the confusion. What you want to do is go straight until you see a bird. Follow that bird until you get to a big rock with white lines on it. For now turn and go NORTHWEST. You will end up at a woman's hut. There will be a few events. Talk to the lady and choose all three options to get filled in. From here head back and talk to the three little elders in Crays' town. Leave and go back to the area you rode the snail in. Head back to the white rock. This time go South, towards the volcano. Dungeon. In the third room the ground will change every time you exit from battle. So use this to get around. On the second level the door to the left has an item, to the right the exit. Enter the house and speak with the Blacksmith. Take the ladder down, get the chest and leave the area. Go to the Fairie Woods. Find the Fairies. you'll get knocked out and will wake up in their village. Agree to help them. Examine the ZZZZ spots to get into fights. After you find them all a boss will emerge. Boss: Monme? He can hurt you. He'll get smaller as you damage him. Use your best combos. After you beat him you'll get an item. Take it back to the guy in the Volcano. He'll make something out of it(a sword that sucks.) Go back to the castle. You'll get booted after some events. Go to the house you got Scias in. Go upstairs and rest. ..Quick scene of Fou Lu... Sneak into the castle. Challenge the guard on the left. You have to beat him in one turn or you'll be caught. Go up the stairs and beat all the guards. At the top Cray will finally rejoin. Leave and go to the womans hut. After the event go to the Grasslands place. To the White Rock, then west. You'll arrive at an ancient place. Put the item you got from the woman on the pedestal. There will be a straightforward maze then a switch puzzle. Use Cray to push the levers. Pretty easy. The north door houses a chest, west door is the exit. Talk to the guy you see for an item. Head to the new area. In the second screen stepping on the discolored boards will cause the snakes to move. Use them to get around. There will be 2 new areas. To the right there will be a house with a fairie. Return to her after you start your Fairie Village and she becomes a master. Head to the northern area. Event in camp. You can now begin your Fairie Village. Move on to Wyndia. Here you are going to want ot put Nina in the lead to talk to people. In the windmill you will find Momo from BoF3. She will become a master. Apprentice whomever. I have no idea what her requirements are. Take the elevator up to the castle. Explore it thouroughly for stuff. Talk to the guy with the long nose to trigger the next event. After talking to the king leave Wyndia and head to the new area. Do your dungeon thing. Be sure to talk to the guy to the left on the first screen. Make your way to the old ladies' house. After the event leave for another event in camp. Scias? Where are you? A new fishing area will open up along with a new area. You can't do anything there yet. Return to Wyndia and speak with the king. You will now have access to the area in the left tower basement that you didn't before. Simple. Avoid the windmill wind or you'll be pushed back. When you get to the area wit multiple blowing fans. Grab the ocarina at the bottom and leave. There will be a short event with some old guys and Scias. Damn him!!! Go to the previously useless area. At the first cross section go right for the Homing Bomb weapon for Master. Awesome. He won't miss with this. Head left and out. Jump when the wind blows to go up. Exit out the door on the second level and take stairs around. On the top platform jump up and out. Be careful not to thwack your head. Use the same methods in next area. Just keep going up. On the roof you'll be caught by the old men from earlier. Damn Scias!!! Boss: Three Bastards They are more annoying than hard. The one can put you to sleep so take him out first. More? Hey look who's back. I guess maybe he's not so bad.... Boss: Same as before... Same as before but with Scias as a guest you can't control. Just be careful not to kill him. Afterwards there will be a BEAUTIFUL event with dragons and such. New dungeon. Use Cray to push to snowballs to unblock and create new paths. On to the next town. All kids? Hmmm. Head to the rightmost house for a cool event. Afterwards you have to find Master to enter his mind(?). Work your way up to the lightning and pillars area. Talk to the woman in the the diamond than examine a pillar to instigate a boss fight. Bosses: Four Pillars Each of them are immune to the element their colors represent. RED=fire GREEN=air BLUE=water GREY=earth plan your strategy around this. Combo, combo. be careful not to let your HP get to low. Take out one at a time for the best results. After the battle head back out. Back to Fou Lu. Try to exit the town. There will be an event with the woman from earlier. Back to Ryu, FouLu gets mentioned, back to Fou Lu, there will be a second event with the woman. Head to the direction the noise came from. At the end of the short path there will be a boss. Boss: Vavan(?) Change and use your first skill to fry him. Head back to the village for your praise. Back to Ryu+friends. Head to the old womans house again. Pick the top option to enter another dungeon in Master's mind. Work your way to the woman from before. Isn't she living well? Talk to everyone and then leave. Afterwards leave the town. In the next area Master will try to rejoin but will be asked to stay behind. Head to the next dungeon. Here when you get to the room with 2 doors take the lower door. Go activate the eye switch and book out. You have until the timer runs out to make it to the upper door and across the pillars. There are some items in the room behind the lower doors. Jump across and take the upper door to get out. As Fou Lu head to town exit after the small event head out to the dungeon outside the town. Do your thing, get the dragon gene , at the end is a Boss: ?? Change, yadda, yadda. You might need to heal but not likely. Afterwards leave. (Of course.) There will be a short event at the exit. There will then be an event with Ryu and all the dragons of the world. When you have Fou Lu again head home. After the events, escape through the stove. More events, Ryu gets a new Dragon Form and spell(YAY!), finally. Leave the area. You will now be back in the village with Master. The insane guy will return and do bad stuff. Master will fight some fights by himself. Be sure to have the Homing Bomb. After the sad events you know where to go. Leave and go north. Explore, leave, rest, event. When you wake up you will have your meeting with Ursula. She will mention Fou Lu and then Insane Guy will return. There will be a boss Boss:Aito(?) You have to lose this battle. When you do sit back and watch the fireworks. As FouLu, head to next area. There will be 2 straightforward dungeons that are mind-bogglingly easy. There will be a weird event afterwards ivolving men with hoods. WTF? Go back to the old ladies' house then talk to Master. VOILA! He will back and full of beans. He rejoins (with new personality in tow) and you will also be able to use Ursula now. She has some good spells and can do decent damage with a 2-hit gun. Talk to the Elder here before leaving and she will become a master.(you had to have met 40 different enemies as well...) Onward ho! Another simple dungeon with a fun rafting mini-game. Head to the town you visited earlier(Shyuto?). Now would be a good time to go and get skill from the masters in the area if you qualify. Before heading to Shyuto, go back to the, shudder, Snail Riding grasslands. Walk around aimlessly, until you find a glowing bird. Follow him to the Grass dragon spell. It takes a long time, but it's the best healing spell in the game. Head to the bar in Shyuto. Talk to the frog-guy, exit and the Smoking Captain will return. Talk to him to get an item. Take the item back to the frog- guy. You will now have another mini-game involving a speedboat. Just head to the end. When you reach the other side talk to the guy who looks like/is the master from the barrel cave. Then try to use the teleporter. When you can't head back to the ship. Talk to the guy, agree to do whatever he asks, then pick the top option (if you choose the third option you will be on the world map, you can now return to some of your old masters, also head to where you first met the smoking captain, he will also become a master) Head to the end of the course. After the event you get an item. Before moving on, keep entering the sand cruiser courses until you get one that seems to have an area you can't reach. Use the sand dunes to jump to it, and the Desert Dragon spell. Then, on the world map, go back to where you saw the guy with the sitar way back. You get a spell here, also. The Mud Dragon Now, move on to the new area. Easy, don't miss the dragon gene that's here. When you reach the next town the path will be blocked. After vain attempts to get through you will have to have Cray push the carts to jump on. Push the one between the house and chest and jump off the roof to get that, then use the 3 carts on the other side to jump up and over the gate. Why don't they chase or stop you?? Before hitting the next town, enter ? spots until you find one that opens a new area. Go there to get the Tree Dragon summon. In the next town do your town stuff. Go talk to the sailors in striped shirts in the bar in the basement of the bar. Pick the top option when asked a question. Leave town. Head to the next dungeon. Move until you get to two caves. Enter the lower. When you get to the room with 2 doors, the right leads to an item, the left to a crystal. Head back to the small pond near the beginning of this cave. Throw the crystal and go take the upper cave from earlier. Go through the events. They net you a key item. Return to the bar with the sailors. There will be a short event and >GASP!< Kahn returns! Sort of. After he takes himself out there will be a short mini-game. You have to jump on the guys head then push him in the back to knock him off the end. Use circle to jump and square to run. Talk to captain. In the boat Nina and Ursula will have a few battles, nothing major. Ewww, what are those things? When Ryu and Co. wake up from their cozy night in the inn go talk to the captain. There will be a short event where Ursula drops her pants.(???WHA??) On the ship you will be greeted by some familiar music. Explore, talk, go to where Ursula+ Nina Spent the night. There will be some noise, run to the deck. Well,well,well. Kahn returns! Again! For a total joke he has one of the greatest entrances ever. Period. Boss: Kahn-Take 3 He can poison everyone and can do a ton of damage to everyone. Combo Ursula's Fire and Nina Wind spells and have Ryu change into Kaiser. Down again! Until next time,old friend. Go onto the deck and talk to everyone. You will eventually have access to another dungeon- the ruins of an old ship. AKA Volcano Island. Use the blue flame as guide. When it turns red you are close to a broken part. You'll fall to an area with some chattering skulls. Use the ladder to go back up. When you get to the cave part there will be a boss. Boss: Rehash of one from earlier Again, simple, use your best combos. Fire does good damage. He can't do that much to you. Return to the ship and rest. When you wake up you'll arrive in Reef. Explore, shop, if you have 3000 fishing points the frog guy fishing will become a master. If you qualify for him, apprentice someone and head back to the town you had to find the orphans and talk to the sister in the orphanage. She will now be a master. When you're done leave. In the next area, there will be a little red puffy thing. Feed it fish until it seems satisfied.(very important)Leave to the right and move on. Easy area.(they pretty much all are, though...) In the next towns you will be greeted by a rain of arrows, until the red thing you fed comes to help you. After the events, go talk to the blue puff that is sick. Go talk to the human and red puff. Leave and go back to Reef. Talk to everyone. One of them will reveal the location of the medicine. Talk to the captain, you will get in a mini game involving the ship. You have to use your booster and sail to get to the area with the blue flag. When you get to it, hit triangle. Here, use Ryu to cut some of the plants. The areas with red flags contain items, so you may want to take the time to get some or all of them. You have to leave from the town you met the sailors in to get some of the items. Also if you talk to one of the 3 striped sailors in the original town and have done a 25 hit combo, he will become a master. Finally, you can open a fishing spot by heading to a blue flag area. I've also finally found the dragon that's here. Go to the rocks east of the Volcano Island area. There will be some rocks here. Go to south portion and enter from the west. You will be at the water dragons area. Back to the sick puff. Use the plants on him to restore him back to him back to puffy health. In the morning talk to blue puff again. Leave. There will be an event with the red puff. Move on. There is a dragon gene here, don't miss it. When you get to the end you will see a pretty sunset. When you wake up the next morning, the path to get out will be gone. DESERTED! Find Ursula. As Fou Lu, you'll end up in a town where people seem to know him. In camp, talk to everyone, try to leave. With Nina and Ursula look around. Find the DX Rod, head out and you will end up in a fishing spot. Catch a fish to sustain your parties' health. Head back to camp. Event. As Fou Lu you will see just how badass he is. Back on the island, to the fishing spot with you! Fou Lu, Go straight, hey, it's Red Nose! You will have to fight two quasi bosses that alone aren't hard but back-to-back the damage can add up. Use Fou-Lus' new form and use it's breath attack or physical attacks for best results. There is a place to rest here, do that first. Head back to the boss area and pick the top choice. Get the item and kill the 2 soldiers. Confront the emperor. Again I have to say, BAD-ASS. You are done with Fou Lu and his quest. Back to Ryu, go back to camp and rest. In the next morning the path will be back. Head out towards the fishing spot and there will be a new path along the way. Leave. Head north first to find, wait that music, could it be, yes!, KAHN, it's KAHN, hellfire and brimstone! Actually, he'll become a master if you've had 100 battles. Now, back to business. Head to the next town and shop. Remember this town, you have to come back. Trudge on, in the next area, here you have to use the pulleys to get around. When you get to the second area with pulleys, hit the logs to get the items. Move to next town. Talk to all, most importantly the fat, priest looking guy. Okay, now when you talk to him he will give you 3 options. They are: 1. Retrieve a jewel from a nearby cave 2. Retrieve an artifact 3. Catch 3 kinds of 3 different fish Choose 2 cause it's the easiest. Head back to the small town from before. Talk to the guy who used to sell you items. He'll offer to make you the antique for 100z. Go fight some battles for a while, come back and it will be ready. Take it back to fatty. But, before moving on... Go to the dungeon on the east of the pulley dungeon. There will be a man in front of an empty chest in the first door.(significance, any?) Head up the stairs and have Master destroy the discoloured wall. Take the stairs up, then down. Go straight, enter the side door, slash the ropes. Enter top door to get treasure, head back down, go back to where the chests were hanging and grab them,(nothing huge or even good so skip it if you wish.) Go back down and take the ladder down. Use the various jumps to get the chests. Take the exit, head down and grab the dragon gene. It sucks, but hey, take what you can get. Move on to the next area. Here you have to raise and lower the water levels using the dams, then have Cray push the crates. When you get to the guy, choose 3,1,1,3 then 3,2. You get something for this, I don't know if it's gem trading or what. Finish up and leave. Head to the west ? spot to get a new dragon spell. Head to the next town. Go into the first house and talk to both people. Leave the town and go to the new area. Here you will have an amusing mini game. Your objective is to get the gold chicken into the pen. Not as easy at it sounds. Bring it back to the guy. Short event. Head to the new north areas. First one is easy. It is important, though, that you look for a not so obvious path on the top of the screen somewhere in this area. The next screen houses the final dragon gene. The Warrior. The next area is familiar... Move on until you find Fou Lus' horse thing. Examine it for a battle. Boss: Onku? Well, been asking for a hard one? Here we go. His physicals are hard, he has a dearth of spells, (uses Earth mostly, so protect against it), and his breath attack can wipe you out if you're not careful. Hope you have some revives. Oh, yeah, and he can put you to sleep. What to do, well, what can you do? Combos, Dragon spells, etc. Try and be at max HP at all times. Leave to rest, stock up and save. Return. Head down the stairs and ride the block down. In block puzzle room, you have to line up the same colored ones to get them to create a path to the gold thing and the chest. Leave and take the new path. In the dark path room: 1st door: chest left path: dead end at crossroads: right dead end left path: exit read the tablet and go down the ladder. Step on he block to move. Falling off the edge and stepping on the red eye will permanently lower Ryu's HP until you rest at an inn. After you're done here go back to the room before the dark path. Take the new path. Exit, use the blocks as elevators. Head up, examine the pedestal. Boss: Devil Dice You will spend the majority of this battle unable to use combos. They're attacks depend on what they roll, so this battle could be insane, could be easy. Hope it's not as hard as it was for me. If you need it, use the Kaiser form. Difficult. Afterwards the talking horse will return. Exit, Jump on the block and pick the 1st option. Before leaving look around for a cave that has a crack that Master can break through. Explore for awhile.. When you get to the last room and grab the chest, you will be able to fight a new enemy, specific only to this room. See the section called Hell Riders at the end for more on them. If you encounter one, run for your life, for now. Leave and you'll be back on the world map. Head south. There will be an event in camp. Head to the southernmost area, the path will be blocked. Talk to the main guard as Ursula. Now, head north and go to the cannon town(east of last dungeon). Head to the stairs that the soldier was blocking before. Go down. Explore, there will be some chests scattered outside. Go in, hmmm, familiar place. Take the left exit (where you were caught earlier). Take the elevator down. Use the switches to raise and lower the gates. Take the exit. What the hell?? Have Ryu slash at the red vein. Holy Crap! It's Elina! Finally! After the event, leave and head to the town with the blocked gate to the south. Talk to the guard with Ursula in the lead. You'll be let in. Go through the events and get the sword you need. Back to Elina. Equip the new sword and slash through the red thing. Head up and out. Search around outside for some items. Go in the house. After the sad and kinda gross event head, back to the blocked path area. Work your way through, you can learn 2 skills from the Assassin looking enemies. At the end there is a boss. Boss: Aadee?? First off, his breath attack can take full health characters out in a single tap. Just use your best attacks, depending on what you have. The Dogiga combo works pretty well.(Mid-Strong Fire+ Shezaaga). After the long event, you will have access to the last dungeon. Use this time to go back and re-visit masters, fish, do what you need to do. When you're ready, heal up, save, and enter. Immediately the area will look familiar. I will not give you any walkthrough for this place. Just a few tips, you need to find key cards to unlock doors. The color door you can unlock matches the color key you find. Easy. Explore each floor thoroughly. There are a ton of items and 3 bosses here. Boss: Dragon Lord He will heal himself for 15000 Hp and the end of the first 4 turns. When his re-generation ends, he is particularly vulnerable to fire (it seems) so attack accordingly. Boss: Fou Lu Ryu has to fight alone. Use the earth dragon form. You may not have to win this, but since you get completely healed, Ap and all after, don't hold back. Afterward this battle you get two choices. Choose the one without the ... to get the evil ending that lets you kill Nina and co. Or pick the ..... choice for. . . Boss: Holy Dragon? His lengthy summon spell hurts, he can hit all with poison and blind in one shot, and has a strong physical attack.(among other things). Use your best attacks, but save some AP and AP restores because. . . . Boss: Final Battle!!! This battle is more long than hard. All dragon spells will miss and regular attacks do next to nothing. I found myself relying on Dogiga comboed with Scias 10 AP Physical attack. His first attack will take everyones' HP to 1, his sword attacks kill instantly, he has the Holy Dragons spells(although he RARELY uses them) and a nasty party affecting magic attack. Keep at least one active party member fully healed and you should be fine. Good Luck! Of course, sit back and enjoy the ending. After the credits, be sure to save your game. You can now access the bonus chapter. There aren't any story events or dungeons, but you can go back and collect anything you've missed, and if you head back to where Ryu flipped out, fans of Breath of Fire 2+3 will find some old friends. If you've traded gems all the way through, one of them will give you the Gem of Gems, which apparently will net you the Roulette skill with Marock. Also, one will give you the Sabita sword. If you fight 1000 battles it becomes the 1000 Man Cut, worth it? Up to you I guess. That's it! You've finished Breath of Fire IV! List of Masters: (thanks to JL Lee for letting me use this!) Name Location Requirements Rawulf Crock Path X# Hit Combos(min 5) Stoll Barrel Cave Catch him/items in inventory Wuna Crays' Hometown Combo Damage Fairy Injinumo Golden Plains House x# Of Fairies in Village Momo Wyndia ??? Chik Elder Chik Village After you get Master Back, must have met 40 different enemies Marock Orphanage Town involves gem trading? Gurank Jeuik Village must have done a 25 Hit combo Gilugu Reef 3000 Fishing points Rita Orphanage Town must have someone Apprenticed to Gilugu Kahn Senesta Beach 100 Encounters Babaderu Mountain Hut do X amount of damage in one hit SKILL LIST: (HUGE, MAMMOTH THANKS TO ROMAIN DECKMYN. This is all his so please send all questions about the list to him at sefiro@free.fr) Name AP COST Wild Swing 0 ???? 0 Shadow Work 12 ??? 13 Super Combo 12 Magic Ball 5 Abareru 0 Sword Breaker 2 Megahon 4 Kametsuki 2 NeverNever 2 Poison.. 2 Masui 2 ???? 2 ???? 2 Masking 2 Air Raid 4 Kachiburi 0 Bokebokke 0 ???? 0 Attack Up 0 Magic Up 0 ???? 3 Counter 1 Oinori 0 Haisui no.... 0 Seven Senses 0 ??? 0 Otabeki 0 ???? 8 Meirei 0 Yasumu 0 Oyasuminasai 0 ???? 20 ???? 20 Benediction 45 Steal 0 Buntori 0 Hitotorijime 0 Omajinai 0 Double Hit 3 ???? 5 3Hit 8 ???? 2 ..Mushiri 2 Kuuki...chi 0 Sengiri 3 Fire Hit 2 Wind Hit 2 Water Hit 2 Earth Hit 2 ???? 2 Minuuchi 0 ???? 13 Chicken Attack 2 ??? 0 ???? 0 Abura 1 ??? 13 ???? 13 Minnagenki 20 Battle Song 20 Bakugeki 20 Dance Makabell 20 ??? 9 Roulette 0 Noukezuri 2 Burn 1 Tsumuji Wind 2 ???? 4 o...chitai 5 Neraiuchi 1 ???? 6 Rikimu 0 Homurabashira 6 A few unconfirmed secrets:(meaning I haven't done them myself) Apparently your dragon forms will go up in levels when you reach a certain number of Game Points, I sucked at pretty much all of the mini-games, so I only have around 12000 of them. There are apparently also ways to get shops to change their inventories and get items to change into different things, but I have no clue how. To get Ryu's best weapon and armor, you have to steal from the last two bosses. I don't know which skill is steal, so I can't do it. If someone wants to let me know what skill Steal is, (where on the list it is) I would appreciate it, I'd like to get them. If anyone would be so kind as to shed some light on these or any other mystifying things, drop me a line. Hell Riders: Well, what would an RPG be without some brutal optional enemy? But, sweet merciful crap! This is easily one of the most ridiculous enemies I've ever come across. Let's see, besides the fact that he regenerates 30000(!!!!) Hp at the end of each turn, he kills instantly with physicals, has a slew of strong magic and skills, and can't be touched by most normal attacks. Can they be beaten? Who knows? Has anyone? You can learn some decent skills, but for the most part you'll want to avoid them like a STD. If anyone would like to share a strategy to beat this bastard, PLEASE DO. You will however want to try and steal from him. You can get some good stuff. THANKS GO OUT TO SCYTHE99 JL LEE IAN ANYONE ON THE GAMEFAQS MESSAGE BOARD WHO HELPED ME TSEEY ROMAIN DECKMYN Well, to be honest, that's all I think I'm going to do. Right now all I'm doing is fishing and trying to get all the Masters completed, so.... If anyone thinks there is something I should add let me know and I'll consider it. If you've helped me out and I forgot to thank you or mention you, let me know and I will rectify it.