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Phantasy Star 3 - Climate Change

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Channel: Adrastia · 2017 · Gaming

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I was experimenting with walk through walls and just discovered this by accident. I took the sapphire without obtaining Mieu by using that code. I then traveled to Aquatica while it was still frozen and walked across the ocean to Sage Isle.

When you enter Sage Isle in gen 1 prior to fixing Aquatica's weather, exiting the cave will show the overworld map as being green. Entering and exiting a town will fix this. My theory is that since you are not supposed to enter Sage Isle until gen 3 exiting the cave only pulls up the thawed version of Aquatica. I don't think there's any other place I can try this out that would produce a similar result. The Landen/Aquatica tunnel and the ruins connecting Aquatica to Aridia both revert Aquatica to a frozen state if the Weather Control Tower has not yet been repaired. So it must be that they would have never taken Aquatica's former frozen state into account when transitioning from the Sage Isle cave map back to the overworld one.

I'll also note that battles do not revert the map back to frozen. But I don't know what kinds of other flags might be set by this. But I don't really think the game is acting as if it's gen 3. 

The battles in the gen 3 portion of the map are always single chirpers. I've seen this behavior in other places that I'm not supposed to be yet that correspond to specific gens. A single chirper may be the default formation or a placeholder then. But I don't know.

The video also features a bonus. Siren is in the cave this early. Although his sprite's palette is Wren's. I don't know whether this is a placeholder or a generation issue. But similar things happen elsewhere. Talking to this Wren colored Siren causes the game to freeze. The music still plays but the scene with Siren doesn't come up. Probably because it is tied to gen 3 specifically. YOu'll have to rest at this point. However, I'm wondering about what happens if you try to talk to Siren in gen 3 before finding out about the Nei weapons in Skyhaven. I'd have to get a savestate to try this out.

Codes used:  
Walk through walls - 006ABC:0012
No random battles (optional. for convenience) - a2nt-aa8r

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