New Northern Crater Duplication Method?
Absolute Steve's guide has a section around duplicating Shield, Mega All, and Counter. This is for folks who plan to use the extended W-item dupe method to get 99 of each armor. I could never get Absolute Steve's method to work, always getting the Vaccine from Yuffie instead of Counter. I don't think I am fast enough getting down the circular descent.
The method below produces the same outcome (dupes of Shield, Mega All, and Counter) but uses different techniques:
- Send Yuffie, Vincent, and Nanaki to the left, everyone else right.
- Per usual SOP, go all the way down to the circle. Before contacting the rest of the party, leave the circle area via the 2 o' clock exit. Once getting to this room the game will no longer block your access to the other paths.
- Collect all the treasure from the other paths except Shield and W-Magic.
- Use the save point paralysis break to dupe the W-Magic materia, then use the water paralysis break to duplicate Shield. BrutalAI has a video on these tricks. Both can be repeated however many times you want.
- Save your game at this point, and you will be a quick walk to the gang down near the point of no return.
- Enter through the 5 o' clock door and then exit the 2 o' clock exit and back four times.
- Meet up with the gang and you should get Mega All from Vincent and Counter from Yuffie.
Absolute Steve's guide mentions the "exit the 2 o' clock exit 6 times" thing, and I can't find any information about it, but it seems like it increments a counter which influences the items you get from the gang. After four times I consistently get a dupe of Mega All from Vincent and Counter from Yuffie.
I haven't been able to get all three this way, but you can dupe as many Shield materia as you want via the water paralysis break.
Other data points on # of 2 o' clock exits:
- 1x - Shield only.
- 2x - Shield, Mega All.
- 3x - Shield only.
- 4x - Mega All, Counter.
- 5x - Nothing.
- 6x - Mega All, Counter.
- 7x - Shield only.
- 8x - Mega All only.
- 9x - Mega All, Counter.
- 10x - Counter only.
- 11x - Counter only.
- 12x - Shield, Mega All.
- 13x - Nothing.
- 14x - Shield only.
- 15x - Shield only.
Hope this helps someone out there struggling like I was.
Posted Jan 30, 2020, 5:13 AM UTC
I think its really neat that we're still discovering ways to manipulate RNG in this game, but you can get 99 of every item with a gameshark or savefile editor in like 5 minutes. Which is useful if you want to equip all 99 of your party members with the same piece of armor.