FF IX Excalibur II Perfect Game - Part 2: Stage Fighting

[Johnyster]

i did it \o/ in the 3rd attempt, my time is at 23:09 after the save, how bad is it ?

[LeoraDenitasg872]

najo schaut mich an bin ein frosch

[marccelani]

You don't pick up the tent in the steeple - are you able to get this later?

[marccelani]

@marccelani lol. nevermind.

[marccelani]

nevermind

[DasKleineEngelche100]

the best thing is : 100 of 100 nobles were impressed. queen brahne was not impressed "well f*ck you old green/blue lady" xD

[jsoucy64]

This challenge is crazy!!!! I have spent a good two hours trying to get past the fight scene and it is so infuriating when you impress 98 or 99 nobles. Good job, I am trying my best and am still a min and a half behind your time...

[ciaranmorcombe]

lol's at vivi walking slow: "come on iv got an excailbur 2 to get!"

[clouds86]

99/100.,... I want to EX-II that m0f0!!!

[johannhowitzer]

In other news, not only did I finally re-complete this segment with the 100 nobles AND the potion from the first segment I'd missed... I shaved off six seconds, so I have 18:35 now.

Onward!

[johannhowitzer]

OK, I did part 1, then got 100 nobles without much trouble on part 2... then I found out I missed a single potion in part 1 and had to start over. Since then I've gotten 99 nobles about five times... sigh.

[vandal357]

I CANT READ THE TEXT U NOOB... ITS A LETS PLAY LET THE VIEWERS READ THE DAMN TEXT

[johannhowitzer]

@vandal357 Read the description. Or the video title. This isn't a "let's play," it is a video walkthrough for making a perfect save file. To be perfect, he needs to get all missable items AND reach the end of Memoria in under twelve hours... that means skipping text as fast as possible.

So... right back at you about the noob thing.

[vandal357]

@johannhowitzer i love how u thought i was serious about all this rofl

[johannhowitzer]

@vandal357 Not a thing in your message suggested you were joking. It's the Internet, learn to sarcasm better.

[KuwaSai]

I just did it too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Gotta keep your fingers ready, not relaxed on the gamepad.

[Laurelindo]

It fucking sucks when you get the buttons right and then suddenly make ONE single little mistake; everytime that happens I am like "ok screw this I stop playing now".

[delekgreece]

what ig if tou dont impress all 100 of them???

[TrustyBell]

@delekgreece then you don't get the moonstone which is a unique missable item.

[kylemenos]

FF9 is back on ps3 and I'm stuck with 99 nobs liking my performance almost everytime. This minigame is ruining my time :( Awesome game though I must find my old merory cards and see if I can get the data from them so I can woop ozma. Did skip rope king and 100 nobles before dunno how the fuck I managed it before lol. ' )

[crozen]

okay, i really dont get this. I've watched some other videos on youtube and im definitely hitting the button faster than them and im still only getting 98/99 nobles impressed. At one point i impressed 99 nobles 6 times in a row, wtf am i doing wrong?

[Eldxale42]

I can't get 100 nobles. I think I have the speed down, I just have to work on pressing the right buttons.

[imperialguard103]

i dont need to get 100 nobles if im not gonig for perfect game right? i just want to get excalabur 2 and be happy

i done everything else on differnt files

[Papu1234]

yeah, you probably don't even need this guide because getting excalibur 2 without going for a perfect game is pretty easy tbh

[pYz2z7]

Whats the affect for the perfect game for not getting 100 Nobles?? Just the fact that you did it? Cuz I got mad at it and just skipped it. That really a big deal?

[Breaker242]

You get 10.000 gil and a moonshard/moonstone or whatever its name was.

[Papu1234]

wth? I only got 10k gil, no moonstone.

[Breaker242]

You have to talk to queen brane with steiner to get it

[MrBalthu]

it's absolutely mandatory for the level 1 perfect game because otherwise you can't get the gil trick work later so you're screwed.

[evaMASS]

favorite part of the game. I liked there games. the jump rope was pretty fun too.

[somberfox]

I always hated the backward/forward movements in the duel because the short pause afterwards often makes me lose my rhythm.

[plutte000]

hehe at 0.48 wasent perfect;D;D ok sorry this is great

[SomeComAddict]

I remember when i first started out, i was like what the hell is SFX? Pyro sounds like it can light em up, gogo pyro! (0 damage)! What the fuck? GOGO POLY! (0 damage)

Okay, just whack him upside the head.

[Papu1234]

Yeah I thought it was a glitch :D Kept trying but never succeeded killing them with it

[Fluctuater]

Oh! Well I hope I helped a little bit. You're welcome. Now that you've taken a little break maybe it will be easier for you. :)

[onewing01]

I'm playing on an emulator so I can slow the game speed down considerable (as much as a frame a second if I wished) which makes such timing-based minigames a breeze. I got 100% on my first run through this.

[Fluctuater]

Although you've probably gotten it by now, I'll just answer you `-`

The fight does not affect the noble count. You have to get 100% accuracy on the button pressing and it has to be fast enough. A little less than 1 second reaction time should do it. It is very frustrating though getting all the buttons pressed and still hesitating on one button on accident. Happens to me whenever I do this, all the time. ):

[joemom1]

i love the music during the fight!

[capostatus64]

nah you can't. If you're curious, I ended up restarting the entire challenge. Not for this but I corrected this in my second time through.

Thanks though

[capostatus64]

do you have to get the gil on the roof tops?

I missed the 29 gil one and it'd be unfortunate if I had to go back now...

[ice9tgn]

I won't tell anyone if you don't. I'm sure no-one will mind if you miss one.

[capostatus64]

well it's not so much for anyone else. It's just I don't know if there is an item or some other thing that can be gotten by getting all feild tokens.

[SkeletonAthena]

umm,excuse me here... i've been trying to nail the "100 nobles" part for, i dunno, 6-7 times, and i got 91 nobles 4 times and a 99(!) nobles once. I never got the 100 to come. How DO you people do it? i just really wanna know.

[firestormiv]

Target Time: 00:09:30 (00:18:21)

Done in: 00:09:13 (00:17:39)

Time gained: +00:17 (+00:42)

I'll probably give myself two tries to avoid resetting too much. Never seriously tried this minigame so I could get lucky.

[tonybendei]

Hey man. Now i know that the trick is to push the bottons really fast. The faster you do the more nobles you impress.

P.S. If you want to impress 100 nobles, you have to push the bottoms really fast.

[tonybendei]

can i get Excalibur 2 even if i can't impress the 100 viewers. This trick is to unlock something in the game or just to make it perfect?. Please let me know as fast as you can. 5* on your videos man.

[Mekk69]

You don't need to impress 100 out of 100 nobles in order to get Excalibur II. The thing is just to make the save perfect

[the123of4567]

The only requirement to get Excalibur 2 is getting to a certain point in the final dungeon with under 12 hours played. If you want/need more information on it you should just google it :P

[yugioh1126]

he's play a PERFECT GAME. Read the title.... and discripions.

[the123of4567]

Yes, I know. I was responding to Tonybendei...

[omgwtfbbqsteak]

Oh crap, I just beat this at 00:21:11...I'm not screwed am I?

[JJTFFF]

Can the queen me any more impressed than just quite?

[Coldhoof]

Wow when i had this game 5 years ago on the PS1 i would get 100/100 nobles *every* single time, but playing it now on an emulator (I sold my PS) i cant get higher than 93 nobles, and this is making no mistakes and getting 50/50 commands right every time, this is a LOT harder to do on a keyboard!

Or maybe im getting old... =/

[maxnanii]

Actually it is the keyboard... playing this challenge on emulator is a hellalot harder than on PS1, I live in europe so I don't have any other choice >_>.. I wouldn't worry , I'm 17 ang I also used to get 100 nobles everytime on PS1. (I'm not imposing we are better or anything than others, it's just that u get a little more confused with a keyboard). Kudos to 1whoistornapart, U fucking rock, and u rock at playing guitar too ^^

[NecroSora190]

OMFG I finally got past the nobles thing!!!!!!

If anyone's interested this is what i did

1.) I noticed he put in 50 commands so I figured for every command is like 2 pts.

2.) I just started counting up. (for some reason it relaxed me.Unlike system of a down XD.)

3.) After some odd tries maybe 30 I hit 49 and got 100!

P.S. to 1woistornapart thanx man for putting this vid up. I just started this challenge like 4 yrs after getting this game.

[CodyNabrotzky]

lol...any tips on the battle scene part? I can get the battle scene down perfect but does the King Leo battle determine the Nobles Count? I'm about to just skip this part, you're way to good!

[Squish7]

i've played this game so many times, but this is my first time trying for excalibur. :D and i just got 100 nobles on my second try!! :D :D

[nebigon]

ZOMG I DID EET 100 nobles!!!! :OOOOO

I can now move on with my life an die in peace. Future generations will hear of this moment. Anyways... wewt

[1whoistornapart]

Congratz :)

[nebigon]

I would be able to do this challenge if it werent for this minigame. I have to quit this challenge because I simply cant get 100. Ive tried at least 200 times (yes 200). Quiting of a minigame in disk 1... sigh i lose

[Csokolom]

Excalibur II is fine. Excalibur II with all chests and icons is fine. Excalibur II with all chests and icons at Level 1 is FINE.

Impressing 100 nobles is losers, cheaters, and weirdos.

This is the most insidious mini-game in any game I've ever played.

[Littlearu]

I did it 100 nobles but it took me my third attempt on the run would you suggest redoing it till i got it on the first or going with if from there my save time is 19:34

[1whoistornapart]

I would say try it again and if it proves to be too much trouble just continue with the save you have now. That time can be made up later if necessary.

[PB1316]

was it just me or when you had to move left/right in the fight with blank, did it fuck you over for like a split second cause you had to readjust your eyes?

[1whoistornapart]

Yeah that, plus the rhythm changes. If you ask most people I think they'd say the inputs directly after a left/right movement are the toughest to get correct, so it's not just you ;)

[TheSilentOne666]

I hated this part.

[Lunchmeister695]

This man has a Computer Brain. I'm positive haha. No one is that fast.

[tidq]

I think my E2PG run is already at an end. It took me like 20 tries just to get 95 nobles happy, and it took like 30 more for me to get up to 96. I just don't have the reflexes to do it fast enough and not screw up. All those mini-games in FFX that people complain about, like the lightning and the butterflies, those are easy for me. This is the worst. Just the worst. The designers of this game were evil to make it this hard to get everything missable.

[pbamba]

i absolutely agree- it is complete bs for any minigame to be mandatory to collect rare items.

that being said, i can make three suggestions-

[pbamba]

i absolutely agree- it is complete bs for any minigame to be mandatory to collect rare items.

that being said, i can make three suggestions-

[pbamba]

the first method for tackling this minigame is how i got 100 nobles. the pattern of buttons they have you press is not completely random, and there is some degree of predictability to it. so, what i did was write down one sequence of buttons, then keep trying until the same exact sequence (or something very close to it) came up and i was well prepared to press the buttons quickly enough to please all 100 nobles. it goes without saying that this method takes a very, very long time to do.

[pbamba]

the second method i saw on a japanese web site- it involves holding one controller between two people. one person is responsible for the d-pad and the other for the buttons. they say the task is much easier when you're only responsible for the half the work- thereby leaving you required to have two people with fast reflexes instead of one person with godlike reflexes.

[pbamba]

the third suggestion i've heard is to cover the screen with a piece of paper with holes cut out over the key prompts, so you aren't distracted by the rest of the movement on the screen. maybe this works for some but i didn't find it all that helpful.

hope one of these methods works for you.

[InsidiousBo]

I'm pretty much going with the second method but I highly doubt it's gonna get me 100....if so I think that way. :s

[nergetic]

The King Leo Battle affects the NOBLES POINT??? Didn't know that.

[nergetic]

Oh nvm you're trying to play a perfect game. So you're hoping they won't cast SFX.

[bobach720]

OH and is the battle different every time or the same

[1whoistornapart]

It's random each time, it would be too easy if it was always the same :P

[bobach720]

fuck yeah i downloaded onto my computer and i got 100% and now i got to the part where you leave dali on the airship and now it freezes on my computer.......HOW DOES IT DO THAT WHEN I TOOK IT FROM THE INTERENET and nothing is wrong with the file

[Vierza420]

Uhh just fyi, the battle isn't entirely different each time, alot of them follow a sequence depending on your timing and which button sequence it is that starts up...

like... I consecutively got

AXAXAXAXAXAXAvXvX^AXV[] as a startup and memorized it when it came up... so yeah (A=triangle)

oh right, the sequence changes if you get something wrong, or are off by the timing required

[TimeSpaceMage]

In case you're still having emulator problems, you will need to use ePSXe 1.52 instead of 1.60 for that part. Actually, just use 1.52 for all Squaresoft games and save yourself a bunch of headaches.

Haha I liked this run so much, I decided to watch it all over again.

[bobach720]

if i remember right can you keep getting more and more money if you keep doing the stage fight?

[1whoistornapart]

No, you only get the money after selecting not to do the fight again.

[bobach720]

so how many rare accessories are there? and what does the moonstone do? yea sry i havnt played this game for years, my favorite fucking game though

[DbzAndTitanicLover]

imune to lightning i think

[bobach720]

kick ass dude thats fuckin like idk but its perfect well for one guy

[Tuppenfall]

I have been wondering around, that is the Moonstone a missable? I didn't find it out of the FAQ... Something missable missing (LOL) on the FAQ..? Lol ;) But is it? I think it is. s_s

[Tidusrox]

perfect entrance ..this game is really made good from the beggining to the end

[Smorgso]

I finally got 100 after about 15 runs through this circuit.

[bobach720]

haha nice

[RoflTheWay]

mh question

For what is Poly and the other spells?

They do 0 damage o_o

or is it just for fun?

[bobach720]

its for the show like so the fat ass queen is happy

[salvamg89]

why do you have to get 100 nobles?

[1whoistornapart]

You need the Moonstone for the perfect game because it is a rare accessory

You need the 10,000 Gil for the Cotton Robe trick, which is needed to buy strategic equipment for the level one game and missable equipment for the perfect game.

[Shademp]

I succeeded in the task of impressing 100 nobles, though I barely noticed it because I clicked away that message very quick. I was very surprised!

[DbzAndTitanicLover]

can i complete the game in 22:02 from there?????

[DbzAndTitanicLover]

hey i cant skip intros on my ps3

[1whoistornapart]

I don't have a PS3 myself so I don't know for sure that this works but from what I hear it should:

a) Once the FMV starts to play, open the lid

b) Replace the current disc with another one, possibly another FFIX disc

c) Close the disc cover and wait a moment for the console to begin reading the disc

d) Open the lid again and put in the proper FFIX disc

e) Close the lid and wait for the game to resume

[bobach720]

hahah

[Raymetrious]

Well aside from the optional boss and other mini games coz this the only 1 that i'm able to achieve.Yahoo 10000gil :p

[davnmunson]

any suggestions on how to get all 100 nobles? I keep getting 99.

[1whoistornapart]

If you got 99 that means you were too slow on one of the presses. As with most challenges in life, the only advice I can offer is to keep practicing and don't give up!

[deanriam]

That game is SOOOOOO amazing!

[Mana8D]

whats the music that plays during the battle for the nobles

[1whoistornapart]

Either "Feel My Blade" or "Vama' alla Flamenco" depending on which battle you're asking about.

[GhostCell07]

Whoa I just got me IX and this video so awesome. Right now im just using it as a walkthrough for items if thats ok. When I give the game a second go I'll definitely try to get Ex. II nice vid btw.

[1whoistornapart]

That's fine with me, there are a heck of a lot of items in this game. Thanks, and enjoy the game!

[Thrall320]

Hey does... anyone know what the name of the Final Fantasy 9 victory music is? I can't find it anywheres. If anyone could give me alink to it or the name of the track that'd be awesome. Thanks.

BTW nice job on 100 there, I can never do it.

[LongLiveJM]

Dude your gonna laugh at me... but I finally beat the stage fight... I'm so fucking happy... I stared at the screen almost long enough to have to restart when I got it lmao.

[LongLiveJM]

I love your vids man.. I'm about to start a run myself today. I was wondering... how many MCs did you use over the course of your saves?

[1whoistornapart]

Two, but about halfway through I started overwriting the old ones. I think the final total was ~60 slots.

[sorcerousstabber]

It takes some resetting to get it on the first try, just try to react as fast as possible, but you can't miss one in order to get 100, accuracy is more important than speed.

[vellure]

You got to 100? My highest was only 96.

[17Master]

It breaks down like this. Blank gives you 50 commands, each one is worth two points (50 x 2=100 nobles). The first point comes from pressing the correct button, of course. The second point comes from entering it quickly enough. If you hesitate, even if you press the right button, you'll lose one point (one noble)

[vellure]

Ahhh that helps... But really i have no plans of repeating the game. Congratulations though. I don't know anyone else who ever reached the 100 mark.

[Thancruz]

i keep gettin 96 or 97,wuts the deal?????? :(

[shinkaito]

I'm trying a replay of FFIX (because your vids showed me how much junk I missed) and let me tell you, that minigame is absolute torture since I got the worst trigger finger ever. I salute for getting it on your first try.

[TrustyBell]

did you use the analog directional buttons or the stick in the mini-game? imo it is easier with the stick

[1whoistornapart]

I used the d-pad. But I've never had much trouble with this mini-game.

[theshmooinator]

you are my hero for getting all 100 nobles...I've been trying it now for 2 weeks, still trying!

[IiIbao]

What do you get if you impress all the nobles? and why is it that important?

[1whoistornapart]

10000 Gil and a Moonstone. There are only a limited amount of Moonstones in the game so if you don't get it then it's obvious that you missed one. The 10000 Gil is necessary for the Cotton Robe Trick, without which there would be no way to buy all the missable items you need.

[r3pure]

ok i also play on console but how do u rocord that nice?

ps: thnx for all help btw

[r3pure]

how do you download final fantasy on your pc?

and a ps1 emulator?

[1whoistornapart]

PS1 emulators can be found anywhere. You can probably find disk images on BitTorrent or something. Don't ask me for things like that though, this was all done on console.

[r3pure]

wow nice done!!!!!

[r3pure]

how do you skip a movie by pressing start?

[1whoistornapart]

I skip the movie by opening the disc tray. I press start to reduce the load times. The timer doesn't run while the game is paused, but the console can still load some of the data.

[XTC2525]

thanks for the advice i think i'll just practice that and get it mastered before i try to play for a perfect game

[1whoistornapart]

It seems to me that on your first try they are a bit more lenient. You basically have until the previous animation finishes to input the next command, so stay calm and don't rush yourself. Moving left and right often throws people off because the next prompt seems to appear quicker, that's where it's important to maintain your rhythm. Good luck, doing it the first time is the hardest, after that you shouldn't have much trouble doing it again.

[XTC2525]

for some reason i can't seem to impress all of the nobles. i gone through the whole sequence without messing up but theres always like 1 or 2 nobles who weren't impressed. is it more so keeping a rhythm than going fast?

[1whoistornapart]

Yeah this game has been keeping me away from FFXII for a while, I've still yet to finish it :(

[flak76e]

Very awesome job!!

I will also do a speedrun when I starts to play FFIX again!

To much FFXII the latest 6-7 month :P

[TheWingedCloud]

Awesome man! Good luck in further challenges in E II Perfect game. ^ ^ 7777 stars to this to man! Keep it up!

[InvincibleGarland]

Once again, very nicely done! I think the more you impress all 100 nobles the easier it becomes. Out of curiosity, do you know which is faster, Pyro or Poly?

[1whoistornapart]

I believe Pyro is slightly faster.