Any% (Memory Manipulation Route)

** Starting Manipulation:**
- Make sure you have a save file.
- Soft Reset on title screen.
- Hold Start until NEW GAME screen appears
- Time a B press for Seed 72. (It's 5 frames after first input is allowed)
- Head into training (If you accidently hit Save, it will change your RNG)
- Config before you move:
                   > Message Speed: Fast
                   > Auto Type 2
- Walk forward and hope for seed 72:
                   > 71: 4x preta, after door&turn
                   > 72: 3x dog, kill 1st slot first
                   > 73: 2x polt, after door&turn

**Encounter Manipulation Route:** (Please watch a PB for movement)
- Walk past the first door, turn around and leave. AUTO everything here (Lvl up -> SPD)
- Don't name anyone
- Fortune -> Virtuals -> Virtuals -> Gym (Leave) -> Zain naming room -> Leave
- Knocker: Escape
- Zombies: Escape
- High Pixie: TALK: 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, Mash A
                     > Dogs: AUTO
- Take 1 more step within encounter zone. (Again watch video for the movement)
- Enter Colosseum at NEW.
                      > Get Treasure up to the weapon. Always use down to turn around
- Oracles: Escape (Fail), Escape
- Spartan: TALK: 2,1,2, Mash A (Takes forever)
- Zombies: Escape
- At Weapon chest, BEFORE turning around, equip all gear you picked up
- Oracles: AUTO (Point into STRENGTH)
- Oracles/Spartan: TALK->Spartan
- AUTO Red Bear (Point into SPD), Yes to Hiroko, Leave
- Bookmark the Terminal on the way. (Enter at HALF)
- Go get Cerberus -> Bridge
- Before entering Bridge, should encounter:
                       > High Pixie: TALK
- Make sure your next movement is entering the bridge exactly
- Poltergeist: Escape
- (If movement is good) Movement after escaping: 3 Left, 2 Down, 1 Right
                        > (This movement takes 1 extra step which is needed)
- Poltergeist: AUTO (Should be 2 tiles after first text boxes appear)
- Poltergeist: AUTO (1 Tile before Boss room)
- AUTO Mecurius (SPD), Leave
- Movement after leaving: 2 Up, 1 Right +1 Up (Escape from dogs), Continue all the way to Starting area)
- Escape from Hanged Man
- On Bridge (7/8), Empusa: 1, Mash A
- Manip is done for what we need, but can be held till Yesod Save.

**Memory Manipulation Preparation:**
- Unequip Aleph and Hiroko (Except her bullets)
- JUNKS, Sell everything but
                        > ヘッドギア
                        > サバイバルベスト
                        > レザーグラブ
                        > レザーブーツ
                        > ハイレグアーマー
                        > フリッツヘルム (You should have 2 of these, make sure you sell 1)
- Buy: 
                        > 9 Medicine + 5 ディスポイズン
                        > 9 Medicine
                        > 9 Medicine
                        > 9 Medicine
                        > 9 Medicine
                        > 9 Medicine
                        > 8 Medicine
- Sell: 1x Medicine
- Go into SORT. Put a 9 stack on medicine in the Top right of your inventory.
- Use a Medicine on anyone. Put another 9 stack in top right. Repeat 2 more times.
- Sort your inventory to look exactly like this:
                           9 Medicine - ヘッドギア
                           9 Medicine - 5 ディスポイズン
                           8 Medicine - サバイバルベスト
                           8 Medicine - レザーグラブ
                           8 Medicine - レザーブーツ
                           8 Medicine - ハイレグアーマー
                           8 Medicine - フリッツヘルム
- Summon Empusa in slot 4 and do the Disco Traesto Warp (Watch PB if you don't know)
- Head to Yesod Terminal, enter twice and teleport to Valhalla
- Before leaving, Summon High Pixie in slot 6 and Spartan in slot 1
- Leave and find a weak encounter. (If you're on manip you have to go the bridge area)
- First Turn: Defend everyone else, High Pixie: Dia -> Spartan
- Second Turn: Select Attack with Spartan then back out and escape
- Back into the church, heal everyone here
- Walk around until MAG is 0 or close to it
- Remove all demons except Cerberus
- Warp to Yesod then Save and Reset.

**Memory Manipulation:**
- Cast Mapper. Walk around until Cerberus is at 441 HP on the tile outside of the Healer
                                > Good way to do it. Make sure Cerb is on Odd amount of HP
                                > On the tile before healer (You can heal him to make sure)
- Now get Hiroko to 16 MP (Spam Dia on Aleph), if you didn't manip then its  Max MP-18)
- Summon Spartan in slot 1
- Enter Heal and go to heal Cerberus and Hiroko, but only select them. You just need to show the price (279). 
- Walk around until Spartan dies (Glitchy stuff will happen, just mash through it)
- Leave and Warp to Valhalla.
- Before exiting the Church, summon High Pixie in slot 6
- Get into an encounter.
- AUTO then back out and do this for every turn.
- Hopefully numbers will appear on your screen. Once that happens, Escape
- Enter Church:, go into COMP and RAM Checker
                                  > Set Events: 11, F2, FF, AE
- Enter Terminal, Warp to Holy Town. (Return demons faster here?)
- Exit, enter the left entrance. Leave immediately and Neutral Ending should play.
GG

Glitchless Chaos End Notes (w/ Maps)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i7Ew33SkyoE8Ls5wPsk63orZkXj4rZFc/view?usp=sharing

Glitchless Law End Notes (w/ Maps)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZpJTs2kZDgqjOsHeXdG-6ONq1DNkoOVs/view?usp=sharing

Item Change Guide

Document containing all relevant information regarding Item Changing. 

Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yBIuZqcZVXKRCkznnXnnBqYO2WQYNAwoaCFEQnwnHlE/edit?usp=sharing

Law End Notes and Commentary Notes (w/ Maps)

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ECA0zZZlaMBf0pgDYcVRPkJ34yyS-6H-

Law End RTA (Glitchless) Notes by Mizusima40 (JAPANESE)

http://mizusima40.seesaa.net/category/24028314-1.html

Law End RTA Notes by ドミネーター (JAPANESE)

http://hwm6.gyao.ne.jp/dominator/records/shin2/shin2_ari_maegaki.html

Manip for Glitchless Speedrun

These notes are pretty rough around the edges but guide the general actions to perform the manip. The actions that consume RNG numbers are: opening menus that change the screen display (like CONFIG, STATS, COMP), using spells, summoning demons, fighting, talking and walking. However, these actions only consume RNG if you can encounter any demons in the area. 

This manip relies on hitting a specific frame when starting a new savefile. In order to do so more easily, already have the two saveslots with previous savefiles recorded. Turn on the console and, as the titlescreen shows up, soft reset. Then press B at the correct frame on the load-save screen.

To keep the manip going, simply execute all the actions as below. If you perform any battle action or walk any extra step then you'll have a different result than the expected, resulting in the manip ending. There are areas in which no encounters spawn so those don't consume RNG numbers - Valhalla in the beginning of the game, for example, has a lot of encounterless overworld areas. However, boss fights, such as Red Bear, Basilisk, King Frost and Betelgeuse, which are all manipped, not only rely on the RNG value, that determines their actions, but also the moon age, which determines their strength. If they deal any different damage on the party, that results in a different resulting RNG value. So, even in encounterless areas, you always have to move the same way to reach the required moon age. 

This is probably the only hard part of the manip - the movement. I recommend watching my PBs to see the way that I moved in the overworld. The manip officially ends after the Zayn fight which encompasses for an whole hour of manipped fun and games.

These notes do not include general actions to what you need to do and where you need to go in the speedrun - what's included are the correct RNG consuming actions to result in the predicted outcomes, such as recruiting all the required demons and defeating the boss fights. 
Below are the actual manip notes:

if the first encounter right after the first door of the training gym are two poltergeists, then you hit frame 72
defeat poltergeists
walk and defeat gaki, turn and walk back and defeat other gaki and dogs 
point INT
set options, then do more walking in that entrance til you level up again and leave
point SPD


outside talk to knocker say yes, run away from two encounters AUTO the others say Nakama ni Nare to pixie, say yes to maseki say yes to MAG auto the poltergeists leave
1 extra step


auto first encounter, point SPD, run away from the others
auto red bear 
point SPD


run away from the dogs on the way to the mansion, kill the poltergeists on the way to the bridge


kill encounter on the way to slum city
kill all the encounters on the way to mercurius (enter at 3/8 moon)
point INT
auto mercurius


gaki encoutner after mercurius do (Sword, defend defend -> auto)
next encoutner change to (Sword sword sword) -> auto
point INT
auto until alp


on alp encounter do (sword sword defend) on the second one
alp talk: yes, yes to maseki, yes, when she gets annoyed do persuade then first option then give maseki


talk to knocker then change to sword sword sword and auto
fuse


leave, defeat the encounter right outside the go away
run away from the encounter right outside the bridge then auto the next one


walk to the first encounter (Defend, dia - hiroko, attack ihika)
cait sith encounter - ある- おどる - yes
next encounter talk to ihika always say yes
unequip hiroko


in holy town run away from first encounter, second do one turn (Defend defend defend defend) then run away


chon chon encounter (sword sword sword sword) then jack frost
jack frost talk: no -> yes -> no -> all yes
summon jack frost and dia aleph then basilisk
basilisk fight (sword sword rakukaja tarukaja attack) auto


cast two medias
frankie fight (sword, sword, defend, defend, attack)
auto everything until the double frankie then run away


king frost fight: sword sword rakukaja tarukaja attack -> auto


walk and avoid earthquake tiles
in factory, fight the first encounter (sword sword defend attack)
deminandi -> always say yes


enter store, sell all items, traestro
hug the walls on the way to deminandi
always talk to deminandi encounters
cu sith talk: threatening -> second option -> talk again -> smile -> calm down -> always yes and first option
keep walking back and forth in front of the entrance, talk to the cu siths and enter on full moon
summon jack frost
betelgeuse: gun, media, rakukaja, tarukaja, attack


summon unicorn and estoma and traestro
daleth: first turn - gun, attack, attack, defend
	second turn - gun, attack, attack, media


go to mekata first and then to MAG chest, estoma before entering gaia, heal at Gaia
run away from encounters
walk down corridor before taking stairs before daleth

daleth: gun, rakukaja, tarukaja, media x2
	gun, attack, defend, media
	auto

heal at Gaia
yanusu fight: gun, rakukaja, tarukaja, attack x2
	gun, attack, defend, attack
	auto


summon demons
formation: aleph, unicorn, ihika, cait sith, heqet, demi-nandi
zayn fight: gun, rakukaja, defend, defend, media, defend x2
	    gun, rakukaja, defend, tarukaja, media x2
	    gun, attack, attack, media, media
	    auto

Maps

Most of the maps needed for the run.

Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jaqFy1pboNb0X-gduYZiv3cnB219cKIJqiDL9s9TCN4/edit?usp=sharing

Pack Dungeon Wrong Warp + Atavaka Boss Despawn w/ Commentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTz5DQqPRDs&feature=youtu.be

SMT 2 - Platform Differences

A list of speedrun-relevant platform differences. Does not mention stuff that's unlikely to come up in a speedrun, or self-evident changes.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GRt-ezTCD-UgPy9q5dZC6crngLdNjHhNqwDHMXIQv1w/edit?usp=sharing

Wrong Warp Tutorial Videos (OUTDATED)

Disco Wrong Warp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jW5BfPucaI

Factory Wrong Warp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RllIjDRSXw

Factory Wrong Warp 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOkMcVtCmlA

Zayin Wrong Warp Tutorial w/ Commentary

Symm

Electra13x7777

Sioneus

Jojo_07

Shin Megami Tensei II

Super Nintendo

Nintendo DS

PlayStation

Switch Virtual Console

Jonperi23

JPN / NTSC

Chaos

Neutral

Manip

No Manip

Ending

Whether or not the run makes use of manipulation.

After recent discussions among the runners some rules have been updated. I will be outlining them below as well as some other news:

- Starting time was updated from Console On to pressing NEW GAME, or pressing B to begin a new game on the Load Save screen. It's recommended to time the beginning of 

الاسم	المؤلف
Any% (Memory Manipulation Route)	Symm 2 years ago
Glitchless Chaos End Notes (w/ Maps)	Sioneus 4 years ago
Glitchless Law End Notes (w/ Maps)	Sioneus 4 years ago
Item Change Guide	Electra13x7777 6 years ago
Law End Notes and Commentary Notes (w/ Maps)	تم الحذف 5 years ago
Law End RTA (Glitchless) Notes by Mizusima40 (JAPANESE)	Electra13x7777 6 years ago
Law End RTA Notes by ドミネーター (JAPANESE)	Electra13x7777 6 years ago
Manip for Glitchless Speedrun	Sioneus 4 years ago
Maps	Electra13x7777 6 years ago
Pack Dungeon Wrong Warp + Atavaka Boss Despawn w/ Commentary	Electra13x7777 5 years ago
SMT 2 - Platform Differences	Jojo_07 5 months ago
Wrong Warp Tutorial Videos (OUTDATED)	Electra13x7777 5 years ago
Zayin Wrong Warp Tutorial w/ Commentary	Electra13x7777 5 years ago