I played this game as Lufia, it was the only Dutch PAL version game ever released on the SNES, sold in a big box with nice looking guide book. Same with Secret of Evermore btw in a big box. One of my favo games and the ancient cave was one of the coolest things i ever came across. I still hope more games have these kind of thing. Back then i wasn't able to beat the cave, just took too long and my SNES adapter was heating up to much. Later i was able to beat it via a ROM using the tactics described in a guide about monster movements etc and killing yourself in the end. Like 10 years later i came back to fire up my SNES and beat it in 2 hours or so on the normal version of the game and killing the boss in the end. It felt as a great achievement :D So good memories about this game.
Yep, the european big boxes and guides are awesome, I am from germany and I also had them. The NTSC-US version also have some nice guides, but they are sold separately, I just got my hands on the official guide for Chrono Trigger and its also super awesome with nice illustrations. Looking for FF6 next. Well, the third Lufia for gameboy color also has an ancient cave, and I believe this time it has 200 floors. :D
@@TobiContinued93 nice, then you probably had the german big box version of Secret of Evermore right? Btw is there been a sequel of Lufia where Arek is shown? He seems like the uber boss above those sinistrals, Daos references to him. Do you know any other games who has something similar to old cave? Only thing which gave me a similar vibe of fun was that arena (golden saucer) thing in FF7. Where it became more and more diff and all status etc carried over next battle 😎
I have/had all the major big boxes, those were the first things I got once I started collecting old games. ;) To be honest, I only played Lufia 2 (Lufia in europe) and wondered for a long time what Arek is up to, but from what I have read, he is also merely referenced in other Lufia games and does not take direct action. There is a mod for FF5 that puts an "ancient cave" into the game and as I mentioned, Lufia: Legend Returns for gameboy advance also has one. Beside of that, Evolution for dreamcast, Etrian Odyssey or dungeon encounters might be worth a look.
As for Capsule Monster, I'll make a case for Jelze: His Secret Fruit for his final form transformation is easy to find (they can be dropped by golems early in the cave), and all of his attacks are non-elemental which means they will work on everything. He will defend occasionally, but he very rarely runs away unlike Darbi. And in his final kitsune form, Tail Smash hits really hard. But then so does anything else he uses, too. Earlier in the cave, his 3rd form+ has Tackle which is a wickedly overpowered AoE attack hitting all enemies, and if you get it early enough, it's basically a one-shot to the whole enemy party for several floors of the weaker enemies. Head Butt is no joke either, and his 4th Form's Foomy Punch will hit twice instead of just once.
First time I got to floor 99 was special, the glow of my CRT at like 2am on a rainy school night, the anticipation turned to a chuckle when I saw the boss was a jelly 😂
The 18 year old me spend hours and hours to finally get to lvl 99 and the game glitched. These days it is much easier to play this when you can save the game anytime and any where and restore it.
The game glitched on level 99? Man that sucks, sure it wasnt just the graphic glitch on the NTSC version? Well, you can only save it when you emulate the game. :)
@@TobiContinued93 There's also a menu glitch in the NTSC version, if you go into Config and switch between Stereo and Mono sound, and it has a lot of jank weirdness that can have many effects, and IIRC, it can crash the game, or even brick the whole cart, not 100% sure on the latter point. So maybe they accidentally did that?
On the subject of USA vs PAL version: -Capsule Monsters are WAY easier to grow on USA version (I did a couple videos showcasing this) -50 FPS on the PAL version is jarring and it screws with inputs and music playing; you can tell that the original Japanese version was coded with 60FPS in mind and it was bumped down to 50FPS for the PAL version, because that's standard on PAL TVs. To do this, they had to slow the entire game down by 10 FPS which affects inputs, animations, and yes, even the playing of sound effects and music. For these reasons I can't recommend anybody actually play the PAL version. It'd be nice if someone would romhack the NTSC version to fix the glitched tileset, but eh.
Wait a sec, the PAL versions still run slower even on PAL systems? Didn`t they adjust the timings accordingly? I never did a direct comparison though... What I do know is that if you play an NTSC game on a PAL system with the region unlocked, it really plays slower. Had this issue with an NTSC version of Gargoyles Quest 2 on my PAL NES (I removed the PIN for the region lock). Everything was slowed down...
@@TobiContinued93 PAL standard is 50FPS. PAL TVs play at 50FPS. To make a game be PAL-Compliant, it has to play at 50FPS. That's why the region locks existed in the first place. You can see this if you load a PAL game up in BSNES, it will tell you that it is playing at 50FPS. Now, to make the music sound right, they would have had to reprogram and/or recompose the music. Do you think they did that? Of course they didn't. What they did, was slow the game down to be PAL-compliant, and PAL people never noticed because that's what they're used to.
You are right. I think that is because those jewels can also be found in blue chests. so they count as blue chest items. Same with the twist jewels and glades blade that you can even get outside the ancient cave. Every item that you can find inside a blue chest but also by others means can be taken inside the cave, no matter where you got it.
Super interessante Videos, aber ich wünschte, es würde einen ordentlichen Untertitel geben. Dein Englisch ist nicht schlecht, aber die Aussprache in Verbindung mit der Audioqualität hat mich schon öfters mal zurück skippen lassen. Der Inhalt ist aber Bombe.
@@TobiContinued93 you made yet another tribute to a game I cherish dearly. The memories attached to this masterpiece laid dormant for way too long. Mucho love
