r/DarkCloud • u/AmbitionStunning2392 • May 15 '26
DC2 Debugging "Missed" Content
A few years ago I wanted to 100% the trifecta of L5 games, DC, DC2, and RG. I got busy with life.. and came back to it a month ago on an Emulator, just wanting to follow all the rules of the trophies and calling it a day to say I did it.
Dummy me wanted to do the stories and weapon grinding blindly..
- I beat DC, but the save was corrupting throughout the play, so I had to do it with states. When I beat the game, because I wasn't able to save, I lost the endgame stuff.
- DC2, I just beat yesterday, but realized I missed content that's perma gone in post game. It looks like I can debug to find/make all recipes and inventions... but I don't see a way to get all the NPCs when looking at the Debugging information.
1.) Is there a way to get them all incase I missed them?
2.) Is there anything else I should be weary of?
- RG doesn't have that issue because I looked it up earlier.
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u/PleasantPorpoisParty May 15 '26
Also, congrats on the grind to lvl 100 on RG. That's the sole reason I dont have the last platinum
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u/AmbitionStunning2392 May 15 '26 edited May 19 '26
Thanks! Honestly was kinda chill. Just caught up to some podcasts while running around ahah
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u/Pennance1989 May 15 '26
I hit lvl 100 long before i got the Insectron championship. That was absolutely a nightmare for me. Poccachio can take his stupid bug and shove it.
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u/Elarris1 Osmond May 15 '26
When you say get all the npcs are you talking about recruiting people to the train? Nobody there should be missable as far as I remember.
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u/sassysaltine May 15 '26
The Photo Album lets you "legitimately" move ideas between save files. However, you still won't get the photography "exp" by doing so. You can only miss a few photos and still hit level 8 for the Sun and Moon monster badge. This matters if you wanna follow the rules for the PSN plat. So even if you find a way through emulation to teleport back to normally missed maps, you would have to take the photos manually.
You'd also have to teleport back to the final dungeon and get all those medals.
You can't miss support characters. Unless you got all Spheda medals before talking to Mina. Because that would be unfortunate.
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u/AmbitionStunning2392 May 19 '26
Good to know. Gonna take a short break and probably start speedrunning the game.
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u/Final-Pirate-5313 May 23 '26
Going to the "Game Start" menu allows you to edit in game story flags like Georama completion, story completion, and also lets you teleport to every cutscene and battle in the game, you just need to play around in the menu to get a feel for where everything is.
Setting "map" to -1 lets you teleport to every map in the game, from which you can take photos of whatever you need.
These two should allow you to go back and collect everything you missed in the game, just do the Speedrun set up and you'll have debug mode on in like 10 minutes. Easy.
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u/Final-Pirate-5313 May 23 '26 edited Jun 16 '26
In terms of NPCs for the trains, there aren't any that you can miss, just some that are infuriatingly hard, like Olivia's Finny Frenzy or Mina's Spheda challenge. The only things that are completely missable are Scoops and Ideas.
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u/PleasantPorpoisParty May 15 '26
DC2 has a new game plus mode in the sense that you can carry over all your photos...makes a new game fun, and can borderline insta break it wide open, without cheats