North window castle - You only go through this area once so don't miss the treasures, especially the ones in the secret rooms ( if I remember correctly, there are 6 treasure chests including the two treasures in secret rooms)īefore the two river mission - A soon as you get control of the boat, go back to South window and recruit Clive (you don't have to bother with his side quest). If he get defeated, pay attention to the text to see if he got killed or only wounded (or reload for safety reasons). Muse war battle - Be sure to damage Gilbert' unit so that he joins your team. Muse-highland border : I'm pretty sure you go there only once so get the two chests in the forest and the third chest in the highland camp. You also get a cooking recipe by talking to Tuta (walking in the middle of town) which will allow you to get the recipe given by Huan Also there is an invisible book to pick up in Muse city hall. Muse second visit : Be sure to trigger Elza cutscene which triggers in the northeast part of town, this will allow you to recruit Clive and get a sound test. Sindar ruins - Don't miss the old book in a treasure chest or else it might be a problem going back there (and all treasures in there anyway for the related achievement for getting all treasure in the ruins and the ryube forest) Recruitment mission - Some of them can be recruited later, but for safety reasons, be sure to recruit Kinisson, Shiro, Millie, Rikimaru, and Zamza. (technicaly not missable because I think you can get it at the very very end of the game ) Once that's done, go to the dojo and get the invisible old book. Kyaro town - Play the game normally until you go to kyaro town (Hero's hometown), and locate genkaku's dojo, but don't enter it, instead, go past it to a big tree, and examine it three times. Note 3 Wrong answers for recruiting : This would be too long to try to list all characters that leave forever if you give them the obvious wrong answer, so I'll focus on the few easy to miss characters.įirst things first, transfer a Suikoden 1 save file with all characters recruited (and 1 revived) at the final save point in Gregminster palace. The list would be too long to list them all so i'm going to try to list missable INVISIBLE items like the old books Note 2 Treasure chests : Get all treasure chests and don't throw away unique items. Note 1 Clive quest : I'm not going to talk about it, and I'm just going to recommend players to do a second playthrough for it, which will be useful if you screwed up with some other achievements. Also english is not my first language so keep that in mind. I can't say it's gonna be 100% true but I'll do my best. So I'm writing myself a chronological missable list for Suikoden 2 and I figured that I might as well share it with everyone. Optional : Put back your backup suikoden 1 files in the folder if you want to keep your suikoden 1 saves (you won't be able to load them otherwise, since the saves have been moved to the suikoden 2 memory card, or to be more precise, to the memory card with the same name as your suikoden 2 ROM, so they can't be accessed with your suikoden 1 ROM unless you rename things but it's chaotic enough)) Step 4 : Simply choose to load suikoden 1 save data after pressing new game So, the next time the emulator loads suikoden 2, it's going to use the memory card that was supposedly reserved for suikoden 2 only, but it will now contain suikoden 1 files, and the newly created suikoden 2 files (probably thanks to step 2) Then I copied the suikoden 1 files and added a "II" after suikoden, and removed the (Rev 1) so that it would perfectly match the memory card namethat would get created when loading suikoden 2 for the first time. Step 3 : So in this example, I erased the two suikoden 2 file, while remembering exactly what the file name was. Suikoden II (USA).cue.sram (it was here because I launched the game before) Suikoden II (USA).4.mcr (it was here because I launched the game before) So what you gonna do is to rename your suikoden 1 file into the name that suikoden 2's memory card is going to take What I understand is, the emulator create a virtual memory card per game, and to be more precise, per GAME'S NAME. Step 2 : load the beetle psx core, go into setting => core settings and enable shared memcards (restart), and restart the emulator. Step 1 : Make a separate copy of your suikoden 1 file, and copy them to another folder, better safe than sorry
Here is a guide on how to transfer your suikoden 1 savefile in Ralibretro (EDIT : It works on Retroarch as well if you use the same renaming logic)ĮDIT Step 0 : I'm pretty sure your suikoden 1 save needs to be done at the final savepoint in the game, in gregminster castle