Hello! I was introduced to this series very recently through Vynnada's AGDQ 2022 run of FAITH: Chapter II and have a budding interest in running these games. I'm particularly interested in the Any% (All Notes, All Endings) run for this game and am wondering if the note that you acquire after beating the secret boss in the mirror is required? Currently the runs on the leaderboard that are intended to collect all notes do not collect that one and I guess I just wanted to ask so I can take the answer into account as I begin to learn and route the run.

Thanks so much in advance!

The other day I was setting up my file for advanced and while I was grinding on Beast Mountain something pretty bizarre happened. I'm not sure if it can be done consistently or how exactly it happened, but if it can be replicated it would be a very, very handy trick. It happened offline, so I'm unable to go back and actually watch everything that happened leading up to it, so I'll just provide all of the details and maybe we can brainstorm and see if we can't try and test it.

I was in the final area before the boss and as I entered the "door" to the boss room it played the boss fight music for a very brief moment and then started playing the victory fanfare before it even loaded the room. The screen was still black and loading. When it loaded up, the dragon and will-o-wisps did not spawn and the portal leading to Klantol was already open. I had essentially skipped the boss completely.

• Ninja
• Spd. Lvl 6 active
• Battle sword equipped
• Speed ring equipped
• Healing water highlighted
• Beast Mountain (No snow)
• GBA JP (not emu)

I was not doing anything out of the ordinary. My only theory at this point in time is that I quite possibly entered the door on the exact frame that it appeared and that may for some odd reason have caused the skip. Thoughts?