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\ Shinobido Imashime "The Way of The Ninja" /
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\ An Alchemy Guide /
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\ Powerful Items Revealed!! /
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By serenitychan
E-mail: [email protected]
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Author: Serenitychan ; /=====/\
Date: 12/01/07 | \=====\/
Version: 1.00e \ \ \ \ \/
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| Table of Contents |
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| 0. Prelude |
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| 1. Alchemy Basics |
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| 2. Special Mushrooms |
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| 3. Lw Scrolls |
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| 4. Alchemical Genius |
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| 5. Tips and Tricks |
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| 6. Recipes |
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| 7. Credits |
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| 8. Contact |_
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0. Prelude | |
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Hey guys, here's a quick Alchemy FAQ, it will teach you how to make +999
spheres and potions all yourself, assuming you know how to use
ingredients in pots, how the -/+ yellow green system works, etc.
If not you should just experiment with some already collected ingredients.
My other faq is a bit big and I know this is a popular yet underated
aspect of Shinobido. So hope this helps. Just e-mail me if you have
any further questions (top and bottom of faq)
I submitted this earlier but it was Rejected for having my beautiful
"box" aka "scroll art". ._. but nevermind. I have some good tips to add anyway.
In this update, I've written about Geckos and multi stat items,
Enjoy v1.00e,
Serenitychan
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1. Alchemy Basics | |
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Alchemy is located in Equipment section. You need to have it activated
first after a certain point in the story. Just do the story missions and
you'll get it. I don't recommend doing alchemy til you have a good share
of Mon or herbs/mushrooms. Basically you use those ingredients to create
items. And then you use those created items to make other items.
It's a skill you need to learn to get 100% out of this game. If you don't
know Alchemy and all the wonderful things you can do with it, you are
missing out.
You won't be able to do without alchemy;
Play Very Hard
Robbery missions (contract:kill noone)
Of course you CAN but you'll be constantly using the same hand to hand
moves on those bosses and it's just ridiculous, when you can chuck some
+999 bombs, and get it over with in 2 seconds, and continue about your
Ninja business.
This FAQ will teach you how to make Special Mushrooms, LW scrolls &
the all powerful, mighty and hailed Alchemical Genius.
To start alchemy, do the following.
a. Collect 11 Special Mushrooms
b. Collect Even Weeds (They distribute pots TOTAL VALUE among 5 compounds)
c. Pick up all items in missions and circle (O) them when you're at home,
to put them into your home storage and use later.
If you already are doing c and have a bunch of weeds and mushrooms you can
use, then proceed to making special mushrooms.
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2. Special Mushrooms [Beginner Level] | |
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Might be the best item in the entire game. Of course it *isn't* but it
certainly helps you get the best items in the game =]
What they do in Alchemy, is add a value of 10 to the highest value.
What's beautiful about them, is if there are two or more values which
are the highest, all of them get an added value of 10. That includes
all zeros, a clean pot. Which means 0,0,0,0,0 becomes 10,10,10,10,10
when a special mushroom is added ̂ _^
If you don't already have some from picking them up, follow this easy
and simple method to get them. You need as many even weeds as you do
special mushrooms. Say you need 5 special mushrooms to get 11, you need 5
Even weeds. Luckily for us, they can be bought in "buy ingredients" shop.
Special Mushrooms are made by the values 3,3,3 next to each other.
3,3,3 can be in A, B, C or B, C, D or C, D, E.
A, C, D = No.
If you aren't following me so far, go read your shinobido manual xP
How to get 3,3,3 easy
1. Make your TOTAL VALUE of compounds 15-19
2. Add Even Weed
3. Extract Special Mushroom
Note: Total Value reffers to the pool value of all compounds. For example;
-1, +5, -3, +10, +2 has a TOTAL VALUE of 1+5+3+10+2 = 21
Do this however many times you want, and when you get 11, go to section 3.
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3. Limitless Weapons [Intermediate Level] | |
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Limitless Weapons, are beautiful, beautiful scrolls. They are perishable,
but last an entire mission. They allow you to throw/use things infinite
times during the entire mission. Think of the possibilities and multiply
that by an infinity.
You need a clean pot with 0,0,0,0,0
1. Add 10 Special mushrooms to make 100 x 5 Current Total Value is 500
2. You should have 1 special mushroom left over
3. Limitless weapon requires 99 x 5, this is where Even Weed comes into
action.
4. Using same method as before, make the TOTAL VALUE add to 495-499
With any ingredient. Check bottom line to see what'll get you 495-499
Example; 99, 101, 98, 100, 99 = 497 = OK
5. Use an Even Weed, to make this now 99 x 5
6. Extract Limitless Weapons
Now you have a decision to make, do you want easy Mon (in game currency)
or don't want the game to be too easy? If you want Mon, do the following;
Go into your equip menu and put these things, in your throw/use slots
a. 1 Limitless Weapons
b. 1 Even Weed
c. 1 Special Mushroom
d. 1 Valuable Gecko
e. 1 Salmon
If you don't want to make money, don't worry about putting in the Salmon.
Once a, b, c, d & e are done, Go play in your garden.
1. Find a nice corner
2. Use Limitless Weapon
3. Start throwing your Special Mushrooms out
4. After 50 the game is going to get pretty laggy (on my machine it does)
so pick them all up and keep throwing more out. Do this til you
accumulate over about 300 of them.
5. Do this step with Even Weed, Valuable Gecko and Salmon
6. 100 Salmon = 70,000 Mon
When you have several hundred Special Mushrooms, and some more
Even Weeds (optional), leave and proceed to making Alchemical Genius
The Valuable geckos are to add to your AG pots to make them multi
compound active ie; you can extract potions which give you +speed +strength
+cure all in one.
If you opted to make money, sell your x amount of salmon that you cloned
in garden for lots of Mon ^___^ If no, you can always make more LW scrolls
later with all of those Special Mushrooms and o what you like.
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4. Alchemical Genius [Advanced Level] | |
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These are awesome. These are what allow you to create +999 spheres and
potions.
First, this is how you make them;
1. Find an empty pot
2. Put 100 Special Mushrooms in it, to create 999 x5
3. Extract Alchemical Genius
Now go into BUY INGREDIENTS, and if you took the salmon with you before,
the money is really going to help here.
Buy as many Empty Spheres/Bottles as you can afford, or however many
you want.
Now go back into alchemy and you have a decision to make.
You can choose between the following +999 items, all potions are
positive of the compound, and all spheres are the negative of compounds.
(Note that you can make the positive, spheres also)
A Cure potions? or Confusion spheres?
B Strength potions? or Weakening spheres?
C Speed potions? or Unconscious spheres?
D Potency potions? or Amnesia spheres?
E Health Potions? or Explosive spheres?
YOU CAN ONLY CHOOSE ONE OF EACH COMPOUND.
[v1.00e update]
_[Now learn about Gecko Manipulation]_
Well I've recently discovered a trick you should do at this stage,
and that is
1. make one AG full of all positive, and
2. make one AG full of all negative.
Because you can make spheres and potions which have multi active stats =]
Dupe some valuable geckos for this. Every Valuable gecko you add to your
pot lets you have one additional active stat. If you add 4, you'll be able
to have all of AG's ingredients active, however, it just sorts them by
highest -> lowest.
So say you added two valuable geckos and your AG pot has the following
values; +999, +990, +991, +992, +995
The active values will become +cure +potency +health. And you can make
your sphere/potions with those 3 active stats. Note it won't say it
in the description, but when you use it in mission you'll gain health,
while getting immunity and potency stat ups for a limited time.
You should also get +1 in both flavours (green and yellow) geckos, for
every single compound. This is because you can actually manipulate the
pots active compounds themselves with the geckos, Regular +1 geckos can be
found in "BUY INGREDIENTS" and cost 600 Mon each. I think it'd be good
to take all 10 Geckos with you and LW scroll them in your garden to get
at least 50 of each, as well as some valuable geckos. That will last
you pretty much forever.
For an easier time using alchemical genius to get all + or all -,
try the following
1. Look if any of your pots have the correct flavours you need on all
compounds.
2. See if any ingredients you own have the right flavour set to change
your pots flavours (or try the shop).
3. When all else fails, put in the AG, take out the AG, for a new random
AG compound flavour set.
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When you decide, put your Alchemical Genius into a pot which will produce
the values you want. (-A +B -C ,etc) The pots are different so each one
will produce something different. Just decide what potion you want for
now. The Alchemical Genius won't be wasted, I'll tell you why in a bit.
So say you wanted to make Explosive Spheres and Unconscious Spheres.
Then you can have X, X, -C, X -E where the X's you don't rly care about.
So as long as the pot gives you the spheres you want, then put the
AG into it. When you do it you'll notice it'll say either CURE/CONFUSION.
That's because of DOMINANT VALUE.
_[Now learn about DOMINANT VALUE]_
A dominant value is the value which is highest in the pot. It shows by
writing underneath the compound. When values are all the same, A, or the
one closest to A, gets priority.
Using this knowledge, we can manipulate the 999 x 5 (CURE/CONFUSION) very
easily. Go into Buy Ingredients and buy a bunch of Geckos (both yellow
and green flavour) that +1 to A, B, C, D. They are found at the bottom
of the ingredients list.
Manipulate the DOMINANT VALUE by +1 with a gecko to make it either +998
or -998. Then the next dominant value is now STRENGTH or WEAKENING.
Do it with compound B now, and you can now make your unconscious spheres
(assuming you want them).
Simply put in EMPTY SPHERE into the jar, and it will produce an item
the name of the jar with it's value next to it.
Ie; You named the Jar "Knock Out" it will make Knock Outs +999
Note: Naming your jar before making item helps you to remember what the
item is that you are using. They are colour coded, though.
_[Now learn about AMOUNT REMAINING]_
1. When you extract potion/sphere/sushi you -1 Amount Remaining.
2. Everytime you put in an AG, the pot gets +99 Amount Remaining.
3. Abuse this by getting to 3-4 Amount Remaining, then doing the following;
4. Add Even Weed to pot making A, B, C, D, E values all the same
5. Special Mushroom pot back to 999 x 5
6. Extract Alchemical Genius
7. Put Alchemical Genius back into pot (or different one if you want new
spheres/potions)
You can do multiple items from the one Alchemical Genius.
You have infinite "amount remaining", so long as you have Special
Mushrooms and Even Weeds, and
As long as you have EMPTY spheres/bottles/sushi,
You have infinite spheres/bottles/sushi with the effects you desire.
You can now manipulate and make items however you wish.
For a full understanding of neat tricks to do in alchemy, I recommend
that you read the entire section 5. (especially about multi status)
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5. Some Alchemical Genius Tricks & Tips | |
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_[How +999 Effects all items]_
Value Relates to Time that the User is under effect -
- Cure
- Confuse
- Strengthen
- Weaken
- Speed
- Knockout
- Potency
- Amnesia
Value Relates to power of the item
- Heal
- Explosive
_[Valuable Geckos]_
Adding Valuable Geckos to your AG pot is quite ..valuable xD
The more you add, the more compounds will become "active".
You can extract items with multiple active abilities this way.
So you can have a health, speed, strength, immunity, potency
potion, all in one XD (likewise for negative spheres).
_[Getting the first 100 items that you want, trick]_
Here's an easy way to manipulate your "AG POTS", the very first
time you make one from the special mushrooms.
Find a clean pot, and do the following. If you want a compound to be
+/- , have some +1 geckos, both flavours, for all compounds ready.
If its a Yellow 0, for +1 you'll need to add a yellow gecko.
For -1 you'll need to add a green gecko.
If it's a Green 0, you need a green gecko for +1, and yellow
for -1.
If the gecko you need is unavailable, try a correctly flavoured swap weed.
When you extract the Alchemical Genius (after your amount remaining has
dwindled down close to zero), the +/- and flavour seems to be completely
random.. :o Then you have to re-do this trick to a pot, but instead make
it so the pot flavours will fit with your AG to make the AG pot how you
like. You can't use geckos again though, unless the ONE gecko has the
flavour set that you need =( Try to collect various flavour sets in
forms of geckos/even weeds/swap weeds/valuable geckos, etc. XD
_[Speed Potion +999 trick]_
Do this for "duping" in the future.. take your LW scroll, and whatever
you want to duplicate, and a speed potion +999.
Use LW scroll, then speed potion. You will now throw AND pickup about 2-3x
faster than normal. Nyahahaha.
_[Holey Moley]_
Edit your garden a 1square deep pit to jump into for cloning items ̂ _^
Easy throwing, easy pick ups.
_[Sushi Nyaa]_
Any type of sushi you want, such as knockout, etc.. can be cloned.. just
do one of each type you want (name them differently) and take em
with you to be cloned ̂ __^
_[Something smells fishy]_
Another trick is duplicating your Salmon! Each one sells for 700Mon, use it
to buy all things from the shop rather than cloning things from the shop.
It's the most economical way, anyway..
As a side note, Salmon can also distract bears, so that you are able to
stealth kill them once they've begun eating it!!
_[Reasons why you should use +999 items]_
Whether or not it would make the game too easy is ridiculous, in Very
Hard difficulty, Kabuto is insanely hard. So if mashing the same 1 on 1
combat buttons for 20minutes is your idea of fun, all the while trying
to avoid his shocking damage, be my guest, but as for me, I'd rather pump
a couple of +999 grenade spheres into him and get it over in 2 seconds.
This game is about Stealth Kills. Where SK's fail, items reign.
It'll be fun for a bit to use them a lot, then you will just use them
in hard missions (with difficult bosses) in very hard mode. There is,
after all, no fun in a non-challenging game. I agree with that
5 Words. Robbery Missions:Don't kill anyone. +999 Unconscious sphere,
anyone?? These are impossible to do without +999 Unconscious spheres,
without leveling the whole stage, which breaks the contract, which
ruins the point of the game to keep contracts.
If you still require help with details on Alchemy & more, visit my other FAQ,
or simply e-mail me/add me to msn.
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5. Recipes | |
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Below are recipes I found in dek`s FAQ
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| A | B | C | D | E |
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| 1| 2| 3| 4| x|= Heart Medicine of Health
|100| x| x| x| x|= Liver Medicine of Health
| x|100| x| x| x|= Lung Medicine of Health
| x| 10| 20| 30| 40|= Kidney Medicine of Health
| 4| 3| 2| 1| x|= Super Strength Potion A
| x| x| x|100| x|= Super Strength Potion B
| x| x| x| x|100|= Super Strength Potion D
|500| x| x| x| x|= Super Strength Potion E(Any Compound with value of 500)
| 3| 3| 3| x| x|= Special Mushroom (3 lining up Compounds with value of 3
| 11| 11| x| x| x|= Special Mushroom(Any 2 Compounds with value of 11)
| 7| 7| 7| x| x|= Canine's Sense(Any 3 Compounds with value of 7)
| x| x|100| x| x|= Cicada Shell Scroll
| 24| 24| x| x| x|= Cicada Shell Scroll(Any 2 Compounds with value of 24)
|333| x| x| x| x|= Limitless Weapons Scroll(Any Compound w/ value of 333)
| 99| 99| 99| 99| 99|= Limitless Weapons (read comment below)
|999|999|999|999|999|= Alchemical Genius Mix +999
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Here are some extra ones not listed by him
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| A | B | C | D | E |
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| 55| 55| x| x| x|= Master SK Scroll (Any 2 Compounds w/ value of 55)
+---+---+---+---+---+ Thankyou Shion Sonozaki from forum!
| 99| 99| 99| 99| 99| = Alternative for making Limitless Weapon Scroll
+---+---+---+---+---+ Thankyou randymgreen from forum!
| 4| 6| 4| 9| x| = Salmon (Onji)
+---+---+---+---+---+
| 2| 4| 6| 8| x| = Double Jump Scroll (ONJI)
+---+---+---+---+---+
| 1| 3| 5| 7| x| = Double Jump Alternative (Onji?)
+---+---+---+---+---+
| 44| 44| 44| 44| 44| = Invisible Shadow Spell
+---+---+---+---+---+
| A | B | C | D | E \
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Thanks to Zap Gaspix for collecting some of the above recipes.
::Item Info::
Master SK Scroll - Known as "Master's Understanding"
Allows you to SK anyone, even bosses. Perishable after one use.
Use it after using LW scroll for the mission. You should [be able to] make
lots of LW scrolls if you read this faq, cause theyre so useful..
Master's scroll is best for Guarding missions in combination with speed.
Limitless Weapon - This might be the best item in the entire game.
Use one, and you can use other expensive @#%^@ infinite amount of times
for the ENTIRE mission. Including Master's Understanding..but that'd
be WAY too easy. LOL.
Submit your new recipe or a more efficient recipe for one already listed here,
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7. Credits | |
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- Gamefaqs for being hosts to my FAQ(s)
- Various people who have helped my understanding of Alchemy
(ie; randymgreen, Kazama Jin, Jade1000)
- Acquire
- Spike
- SCEE
- dek (Great contribution to Shinobido fans)
- K_Genjuro (his alchemy overview which I didn't really read :P hehe)
- Mystery Person who tipped about Infinite "Amount Remaining"
- You for spending time reading this faq, and credits =P
- Kinu's Hidden Clothes
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