Looking for a new RPG to run? Try Breath of Fire II - Terapin% (Introductory speedrun category for new runners)
6 years ago
Michigan, USA

Hello all. I started to speedrun about a year ago. I have been watching speedruns for many years but I never really thought I would speedrun. I always wanted to see a BoF2 speedrun but there wasn't a lot of information readily available. That desire made me interested enough to try running the game for myself.

I started with Breath of Fire II Glitchless and then moved into the any% category. This category has came a long way! It was just a year ago that the run broke into sub 8:00:00 territory and a few months later Elmagus got his amazing 7:09:XX run.

Since then a few new glitches have been discovered, which has cut everyone's time by at least 40-50 mins. The WR is now at 6:35:00 with room to improve. The glitch also made the run really safe for you have infinite AE healing items that also revive fallen party members.

The run is also interesting because there are no sequence breaks; again, we have some amazing glitches. The game play also changes up. You spend the first third of the game mainly doing physical damage. The middle part relies a lot on magic, but melee is still used. The last third of the run has a really nice balance between using magic and physical attack. The run is not a spam of dragon powers.

If you are familiar with BoF2 mechanics you know that the dragon powers consume all of your AP. With this glitch we don't spam or use the dragon nearly as much.

So What about this Terapin%?

This category was created so that people could get use to the game or for people who can't dedicate the time to do a full run. Getting a 1:30:00 to sub 2 hours should be easy to achieve within a few runs. At a high level the run can get to 1:10:00 - 1:20:00.

By learning the first part of the run (Terapin%) you get to learn and do the switch glitch (swch glitch) which has many forms. learning how to do it for one implementation means that you can do all of the glitches.There are several videos on youtube on how to do this glitch. This is used to get infinite money, duplicate armor and weapons and get bugged weapons (moondrop, herbs, van extract)

In this category you will get a chance to see the awesome power of the Moondrop weapon.

I have made notes and created a video tutorial for this category.

Full commentary video:

Notes: https://www.dropbox.com/s/jrqg9laqh9hl7lr/Breath%20of%20Fire%202%20-%20Terapin%20percent%20Notes.docx?dl=0

For collaboration of this game or any of the games in the Breath of Fire series join the Breath of Fire Discord: https://discord.gg/gBcFwZA

If you are interested in the full run:

For a video tutorial for the entire any% speedrun (older but safer route with the herb glitch):

New any% video tutorial with the moondrop glitch in use:

Edited by the author 6 years ago
Despatche likes this
Nebraska, USA

super mario rpg lmao

Michigan, USA

I didn't want to make a new thread to promote the full run, but I have created some full commentary/tutorial videos for any%.

The first video was done in 7:50:xx - this was done with the first version of a glitch that I found "the herb glitch". This run also does some different routing and has some safer strats than the second run (minus the fact of no infinite AE heals that you gain from the moondrop glitch)

The second video has full commentary for a 6:58:xx run that I did with the improved herb glitch "herb 9.0" which is what I called it; when I first found it, but moondrop glitch is how I normally refer to it. Search for bof II and one of those terms and you will find my videos on explaining them on youtube. This run also has some routing optimizations and tech changes for several fights.

Once I get back into BoF2 Glitchless I hope to add more resources and information. I have a set of notes for it but they are outdated, but are available if anyone really wants to see them right away.

Edited by the author 6 years ago