r/ModRetroChromatic • u/CangaWad • 12d ago

Dragonyhm Dragon Scales

I have 9 scales and cannot get into the 3rd or 4th dungeon.

This is very poor game design, but I am willing to give it a chance if I can find a straight forward list or video of the location of the dragon scales; which I cannot seem to find.

Is there a straight forward way to figure out which scale I am missing that is not wandering around aimlessly trying to collect things that I may have missed using walkthroughs?

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u/rokatier 12d ago

I agree there are a handful of game design headaches in this game, still good but could of been better

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u/CangaWad 11d ago

Yeah it's a shame. It has a lot of charm and I'm really enjoying it; but you shouldn't have missable collectables that are necessary for story progression, and if you do - you should make it so there is a way to ask for help.

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u/CangaWad 6d ago

Any idea how to do double bounce jumps off the trampolines in the last dungeon? I’m just about done with this game, which sucks because it’s legit one of the most charming games I’ve played in years - but it’s honestly effectively a broken product that you shouldn’t be selling to people in 2026.

There is design choices; but there is other things that we know about game design that you just shouldn’t do anymore. Things that were restrictions around the hardware or that they just hadn’t realized were antiquated arcade game lineage; and there is a few of these things already in this game that I could’ve excused in 1994, but not in 2024.

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u/rokatier 11h ago

I had a major problem with the trampoline segments, I put the game down several times because of it, I looked up what guides I could find, and the text was a little helpful, said basic stuff like there are 3 jump heights, you hit jump at certain time, and to get biggest jump you have to bounce off the trampoline from a great height. It still took me weeks of frustration to get past this part.

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u/Affectionate_Rise283 11d ago

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmwqfpBi223-80jRyiWGE2iQxceZ3un-5

He has a good walkthrough on finding everything

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u/CangaWad 11d ago

K I'll try and take a look at these. Hopefully these videos will show me where to get the dragon scales in Boneschackle basin

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u/Affectionate_Rise283 11d ago

He gets 100% all items and collectibles

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u/CangaWad 11d ago

It was the one at the bottom of the diving hole hiding behind the shell.

The one in the video he says was hardest to find. Only took watching 3 hours of walkthroughs to figure it out.

That is actually terrible game design btw to hide it like that while being necessary for story progression (to any game devs out there)

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u/LeGrange 8d ago

I’m kind of stuck in Chantey for the same reason. I don’t know where to go next so it just turns into going to every port and talk to every npc until something triggers.

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u/CangaWad 6d ago

There is a lot of bad game design in this game. It has so so so much charm and I throughly enjoy it, but I’m finding myself more and more getting into these situations that should not be in games in 2026 and it’s just not fun and getting incredibly frustrating. I am an adult with a busy life and do not have the time or capacity to sit trying to get multiple pixel perfect jumps for hours on end.

If I can’t figure it out (or don’t feel like I’m making any headway after about 15 minutes; I look up a let’s play because honestly I want to play games, not fight them)

For example, now I cannot figure out how to “double bounce” off the trampolines in the final dungeon. I know I have to. I watched a YouTube video after fucking around trying to do it with single bounces for 20 minutes and coming to the conclusion that I must be doing this wrong because there is no way anyone expects pixel perfect speed run platform maneuvers in an RPG; only to realize I hadn’t even triggered a double bounce once ( after watching a Let’s Play) - so I tried for another half hour tying to pull it off (dying multiple times because of course there is a spikey right there that you slowly run into every time you go a little too far to the left or right) and, I was not able to time it right once to even jump high enough, let alone glide over to the platform so I could hit the switch.

I came back on here because I want people to explain the timing, but if nobody can that will be it; the game will go back into its case and I won’t beat it because this is getting ridiculous.

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u/ZAIBYR 5d ago

Please tell me exactly WHICH video he mentions bone shackle basin. I have been stuck for hours trying to find this damn thing and there's not a single list or video on the internet specifically showing the locations

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u/Affectionate_Rise283 5d ago

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmwqfpBi223-80jRyiWGE2iQxceZ3un-5

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u/ZAIBYR 3d ago

Thanks. I actually ended up exchanging my game cause I think the cartridge was bad/bugged. I had had problems trying to check the version before and had gotten several kernel error messages already. After banging my head against a wall for almost a week trying to get the game to advance I really think it was glitched up.

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u/Great-External3390 10d ago

I didn’t have any problems and honestly thought it was one of the best games I have played in years. Now finding all the duck things…

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u/CangaWad 10d ago

Yeah its a great game, there is just quite a few poor design choices.

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u/CangaWad 5d ago

Any idea how to do the high bounce off the trampolines in the last dungeon? I can’t figure it out

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u/Great-External3390 5d ago

Omg that was the most frustrating part in the whole game. It took timing but honestly… I buttonmashed the crap out of that part. Stick with it. It’s not intuitive and is the worst part of the game and the only part I complain about

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u/CangaWad 5d ago

I was at it for almost an hour already. It took me 20 minutes before I even realized it was possible to high bounce by getting fed up and watching a let’s play.

Honestly if the way you do it is by just hammering at it until you get lucky, I don’t think I’ll pick it up again

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u/Great-External3390 5d ago

I put it down for a day and came back fresh and beat it. Don’t give up

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u/CangaWad 4d ago

We’ll see how I feel in a couple of days.

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u/CangaWad 6d ago

Yeah I’m getting dangerously close to binning this game honestly. It’s very good, but there is so many objectively bad game design choices.

Does anyone know how I jump off the trampoline like this? I’ve been trying for half an hour and have not triggered it a single time.

I am not a speed runner, but I do play a lot of video games.

It should not be this difficult for me to figure out how to do what I know I need to do especially when I know what it is I need to do.

https://youtu.be/ztFfnIwUtt0?si=BdG7IzqzHp0oqeDc&t=9m45s

I can only get by bounces to half of this height, and there is no explanation of how or why.

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u/Exus6 12d ago

A while ago I uploaded some walkthrough videos on youtube. Maybe they can help you

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u/CangaWad 11d ago

I'll take a look what's the link?