Questions about Dragon Quest/Dragon Warrior series...

[isamu]

There are a few recruitable monsters in VI (but nowhere near the amount you can get in V), and even a Slime Arena side-quest where you can pit your best slime character against others. Unfortunately, there's no monster recruiting in VII. In VII, you can find monster hearts that let you change your class to the specific monster, and you can gather monsters to put in your monster park, but none that actually join your party.

WOAH!!!! That's dissapointing news I didn't know that! Thanks for the clarifications. Looks like V is the only one that allows that many monsters to aid you in battle. Oh well, thems the breaks I guess. Yeah, I noticed the animations on the monsters in III, that was a nice touch. But damn, could it have hurt them to add some kind of background art? Well, what I think I'll do is play the remix of I&II on the SFC, then I will give the remix of III on the GBC another chance and try REAL HARD to get past the GBC's primitive graphics and "bleep blop" sound limitations.

But right now, my mouth is watering for VI

[isamu]

Guys...can someone tell me what the deal is with this DQ VI patch? To my knowledge I have patch 0.40 and so far only about 60-65% of the dialog has been translated! Now, I have just returned to castle Reidock with the MIrror of Ra like the Castle General asked me to do and NONE of the dialog during this important cut scene about my return is translated!!!! It's all blank! Can someone please address this issue? Is there a more recent patch say, after 0.40 that maybe I need to get? I was led to believe that a 90% English translation was accurate and that only a couple of towns (Lifecod) were unstranslated. This has not been the case. Several characters are just untranslated blanks!

Please help...I am really getting into the game!

FYI...I'm using the latest ZSNES WIP.

[Damian79]

http://www.geocities.com/noprgress/

^ 90% patch there.

[isamu]

http://www.geocities.com/noprgress/

^ 90% patch there.

YESSS!!!!! This looks like it *could* be right one!!! What happened was I went directly to DeJap's site and downloaded the 33% patched ROM released on 11/20/2000, thinking it was the 90% complete one. But lemme get this straight...DeJap and NoProgress are two different fan translators? And that there does not exist a 90% version from DeJap?

Oh well, said scene is now translated and I'm stoked! I also noticed the better grammer in battles and even the font is much better! Thanks guys. Back to playing!

[Yamcha]

I'm sure I can find the answer to this elsewhere, but I'm lazy so:

I know the first three games are kind of a trilogy, how about the other ones, are they connected story-wise?

[Damian79]

YESSS!!!!! This looks like it *could* be right one!!! What happened was I went directly to DeJap's site and downloaded the 33% patched ROM released on 11/20/2000, thinking it was the 90% complete one. But lemme get this straight...DeJap and NoProgress are two different fan translators? And that there does not exist a 90% version from DeJap?

Oh well, said scene is now translated and I'm stoked! I also noticed the better grammer in battles and even the font is much better! Thanks guys. Back to playing!

NoProgress is one guy, and also part of the Dejap team. The 90% patch is all his work, Dejap is continuing from there.(the 40% patch is the old one before they continued from this patch.

[OmegaFlareX]

I know the first three games are kind of a trilogy, how about the other ones, are they connected story-wise?

As far as I can tell, not at all. 6 and 7 have a few gameplay similarities (job system, alternate worlds), but that's as close as they get to each other.

I liked the trilogy concept. Imagine my astonishment the first time I played DW3 as I found myself in Alefgard near the end of the game, and I turn out to be Loto/Erdrick himself.

[jarrod]

List time! Sorted by developer...

ChunSoft
-Dragon Quest (MSX) 1986
-Dragon Quest (Famicom) 1986
-Dragon Quest II: Gods of Evil (MSX) 1987
-Dragon Quest II: Gods of Evil (Famicom) 1987
-Dragon Quest III: Into the Legend... (Famicom) 1988
-Dragon Quest IV: The Chosen Ones (Famicom) 1990
-Dragon Quest V: The Bride of Heaven (Super Famicom) 1992
-Dragon Quest I+II Reprise (Super Famicom) 1993
-Mysterious Dungeon: Torneko's Great Adventure (Super Famicom) 1993
-BS Dragon Quest (Super Famicom BS-X) 1998
-Dragon Quest Characters: Torneko's Great Adventure 2 (PlayStation) 1999
-Dragon Quest Characters: Torneko's Great Adventure 2 Advance (Gameboy Advance) 2002
-Dragon Quest Characters: Torneko's Great Adventure 3: The Mysterious Island (PlayStation 2) 2002
-Dragon Quest Characters: Torneko's Great Adventure 3 Advance (Gameboy Advance) 2004


Team Heartbeat
-Dragon Quest VI: The World of Illusion (Super Famicom) 1995
-Dragon Quest III Reprise: Into the Legend... (Super Famicom) 1996
-Dragon Quest VII: Warriors of Eden (PlayStation) 2000
-Dragon Quest IV Reprise: The Chosen Ones (PlayStation) 2001


Tose Software
-Dragon Quest Monsters: Terry's Wonderland (Gameboy Color) 1998
-Dragon Quest I+II (Gameboy Color) 1999
-Dragon Quest III: Into the Legend... (Gameboy Color) 2000
-Dragon Quest Monsters II: Marta's Mysterious Key: Ruka's Adventure (Gameboy Color) 2001
-Dragon Quest Monsters II: Marta's Mysterious Key: Iru's Journey (Gameboy Color) 2001
-Dragon Quest Monsters I+II Reprise (PlayStation) 2002
-Dragon Quest Monsters: Caravan Heart (Gameboy Advance) 2003
-Slime Morimori Dragon Quest: The Shocking Tails Brigade (Gameboy Advance) 2003


Square Enix Division 9
-Kenshin Dragon Quest (toy) 2003


ArtePiazza
-Dragon Quest V Reprise: The Bride of Heaven (PlayStation 2) 2004


Level 5
-Dragon Quest VIII: The Sky, the Sea, the Earth and the Cursed Princess (PlayStation 2) 2005


tba
-Dragon Quest Monsters (Nintendo DS) 2005

[isamu]

Hi guys. For those of you who have played DQ VI I'd like your advice on the following....

Here are the following stats for my current party:

Guld(my Hero's name) - Lv 28, Beastmaster

Hans - Lv 28, Fighter(physical type)

Mira - Lv 27, Priest

Chamoro - Lv 24, Priest

Amos - Lv 17, Soldier

Barbara - Lv 18, Wizard

I have just beaten Jiramah at his "Land of Happiness" Castle and received the floating Island. Problem is, I went and assigned jobs to all my party members a while ago, right after I beat Mudo and Dharma Temple was reconstucted. But up until now, so far none of them are advancing in their jobs except Barbara and, Chamoro, and somewhat slowly, the recently aquired Amos. The Hero, Hans and Mira are going NOWHERE, despite having fought what must have been at least a hundred monsters already after doing the Seed of Reasoning and Terry the Hero scenarios. I know it said that the monsters I fight need to be around my level to advance jobs, but where do I find said monsters and how do I know whether they are around the Hero, Hans and Mira's level?

Looking at my levels for the Hero, Hans, and Mira so far, what kind of monsters would you say I need to fight and at what location? Or perhaps I'm missing something?

Thanks in advance

[isamu]

Well, I finally beat DQ I and II Remix for the SFC just minutes ago.

I was a nice charming little game. But II, man, talk about an excersise in tedium!

I got to the last little shrine in Rhone, then talked to the priest, healed and saved my game. Then talked to the lady, who told me I can enter the portal to return to Beran. So I did. The problem? You need the jailor's key to get back into Beran, and like a crack angel I fucked around deposited it into the fucking VAULT!!!!

This meant that I could not get back into Beran and thus could not travel back to any towns NO MATTER WHAT, because I did not possess the damn key and there was NO way around it! You're probably wondering, why do I need to go back to Beran why not just continue on to Hargon's castle? Well, I would have, only problem is I also deposited the fucking Eye of Malroth and could not continue onto the second floor of the castle without it!

So... I looked at my save state inventory and realized that I used ALL my save slots while in the Rhone cave and still could not get back into Beran! I tried casting return but the problem is I fucked that up by saving the normal way at the shrine in Rhone, thus warping me back there.

I had to start the fucking game ALL OVER FROM SCRATCH and begin a new quest just because of one fucking Key!!!! I was going to say screw it, but I figured I MUST complete DQII for completeness!!! So I did. Another 30hrs wasted, and I'm finally done. Yippee! Playing 6 RPGs in a row will surely burn you out. Back to THUG