Played on ps1 console (model 9001)

I made an extremely bad blunder during the run, and didn't realize it until near the end. It's really easy to duplicate items during the game. I did this to duplicate Folklore so that all my characters had it, and monsters completely stopped spawning during the non-story missions. You may wonder why I didn't duplicate some of the higher value items, like the jewels worth 1-2000 credits. I haven't done the math to be sure, but my instinct tells me that's just not worth it. You basically need to waste several rounds to duplicate enough of the item to matter, and in most rounds, you'll be picking up some decently valued items anyway, so the value of duplication is minimal.

However! At one point during the run, I picked up an item worth 6666 credits. I think this was the cursed gem, but I didn't identify it and I don't know all the items off the top of my head, so I'm not positive. An item worth that much is absolutely worth duping. If I can pass 5 of those to the main character every round (not 6 because I do still want to be holding Folklore), then main character is earning more than 30000 credits per round. It would take a few rounds to set up, but getting to max level from that point would be extremely fast. Again, I haven't done the math, but I suspect that if I had thought to dupe that gem when I got it, this run would have been more than an hour faster.