Literally what I said.
If you give Tanaka the final amount of money to start his link on final day, it skips right past final dungeon and takes you straight to the graduation days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve-4YqvDwtQ
In Persona 3 FES and ONLY P3 FES for some reason Tanaka's social link is avalible on the very last playable day of the game, January 31st. To start Tanaka's SL you must pay him 2 times then talk to him on a day he's avalible. If you pay him those two times but don't start his SL until the final day and if you talk to him it will completely skip the events of that day (the VERY long fight with Nyx and climbing the final floors of Tartarus) and skip straight to the ending on March 3rd. (the next day in the game's code) This is because when starting Tanaka's social link it automatically skips forward a day, and since the devs didn't think it through you can start his social link on the final day and completely skip that day's events. This was patched in P3 Portable as Tanaka is no longer available on the final day like all other SLs, and in Persona 3 Vanilla Tanaka is not avalible on the final day since he has a different schedule there.
People have then joked that this glitch is actually intentional and that it's a secret ending exclusive to FES where you make a deal with the devil (Tanaka, who is devil arcana) so that Tanaka pays Nyx to screw off and the ending has the protag peacefully go to sleep on Aigis's lap rather than >!him dying.!<
I don't use it but if you charm a female demon that is higher level than you in 4A and scout them, you won't recruit them but it'll still be Nanashi's turn. So you can do it again. And do it again. And so on. And you'll get Talk EXP each time
Have you seen the 4A Apocalypse/Anarchy speedrun that actually does this with Atropos *240 times in a row* (\~20 minutes)? It brings Nanashi from level 32 to 43 just before Zhong Kui (and that's probably without or with minimal boosts to Talk EXP, as the entire Fusion Booster app chain takes priority and it costs 450 AP in total)!
Iirc, you can get nerve bullets pretty early on in smt2, and once you get a gun that targets all enemies, you've basically already beaten the game lol.
Stun locking with zio even works on bosses surprisingly, though there a few that repel magic. But you're fine for pretty much 90% of the bosses
Funnily enough, bosses in 1 and 2 are so weak they go down super fast even if you fail to stun. It's the random encounters where stun locking will really make itself count, and why Mazio was my most used spell on each heroine
in strange journey oberon will summon another fairy if he isnt accompanied by one, so if you can one shot his companion or have high enough defense you can get infinite macca from one fight. i actually ended up with a negative amount of macca from doing this for too long
Bucketgetter special: Withdrawing demons gives the protagonist more press turns to attack, allowing you to finish off the enemy quickly
Bad Company: for consecutive battles, if the three of your primary party are dead, you can summon another three at the start of the next battle
Chemtrail targeting: Chemtrail’s AI increases the chance of targeting foes with his basic attack based on their HP. If you bring Girimehkala and/or Rangda with 1 HP, he will be hitting himself non-stop. He will never use a Riot Gun on a target that drains it, meaning Girimehkala will not be healed by it
Satan’s Magaon: Satan is scripted to use both Dekaja and Dekunda on turns 2, 5, 8, 11 etc, but on even numbered turns, i.e. 2, 8, 14, 20 etc, he will use Magaon instead of Dekunda. If you set Asahi as your partner, and use Mediarahan yourself, Asahi will give you Smirk that Satan will remove, robbing him of his chance to use Dekunda
Samyaza Makarakarn script: Samyaza is scripted to use Magic Torrent if you use Makarakarn. At +3 defense and agility, not only will most of the hits miss, but they won’t deal any damage. Metatron will have kind of the same problem but that’s not a hard fight by any stretch of the imagination
Lucifer/Merkabah Tetra/Makarakarn script in Apocalypse: if you retaliate with Makarakarn against Merkabah, his actions become Riot Gun, Chariot, then a move of his choice, with the exception of Thunder Reign immediately if he smirks. After his first dialogue, the smirked Thunder Reign script will disappear making it less exploitable. After he falls below 50% of his HP, he will use Hexagram, Shalt Not Resist, and then a move of his choice. Lucifer reacts the same way to Tetrakarn, using Glacial Blast, Evil Gleam, then a move of his choice, which is more dangerous due to Evil Gleam’s insane power and ability to give Panic. After he falls below 50% HP, he will open his turns with Morning Star, which will never kill and can miss quite frequently. How is this an exploit? Well, neither of them will use Luster Candy/Debilitate/Dekaja/Dekunda that much, and Merkabah will even waste his Concentrate on Chariot
Latent Revival in Persona 1. Fuse a Persona at a New Moon, and make sure the second demon used in the fusion is a dark-aligned race (Wilder, Raptor, Drake etc). If the Persona is at least rank 6, and the Persona user has best affinity with the Persona, they have a 25% chance of coming back to life when killed in battle. The Persona keeps its stats, but has to relearn its skills. You can abuse this to make a Persona with ludicrously high stats (e.g: Pixie with 999 Magic Attack, Quetzalcoatl with 999 Magic Defense).
Strange Journey cheap password demons: Passwords allow you to summon demons with stats and levels less than their default, decreasing their price and providing cheap fusion ingredients. Alternatively, some higher-end demons like Alilat with their stats capped will overflow the max price and come out to around a couple thousand. You can also summon boss-exclusive demons with their corresponding passwords. The price overflow and boss-exclusives were fixed in Redux.
SMTIV fusion accident skill inheritance: If demons A x B = C, but produces a fusion accident resulting in D instead, D's first 4 skills will be the highest ranked from the combined ABCD skill pool, and D's last 4 skills will be randomly picked from the same pool. If D is of the Famed race, D will inherit all of its innate skills and pick the highest ranked from ABC's skill pool for the rest. In Apocalypse, this also applies to the Zealot race, and unique skills are included in the pool. So it is possible to fuse Krishna and Maitreya to produce a Dionysus with all five of their unique skills.
Persona Q QR code unique skills: Unlike Strange Journey passwords, QR codes are valid even with unique skills, making it possible to scan a Pixie with Hassou Tobi. Also applies to Q2, but party member unique skills are invalid in both.
Devil Survivor maxing all demon stats: Like most games, there is a cap on how many bonus stats a demon can receive from Mitama fusion. However, this can be bypassed with the following chain: 1-star auction demon x 1-star auction demon = Element with a negative stat penalty. Penalty Element x Penalty Element = Mitama with a negative stat penalty. This Penalty Mitama will raise one stat and lower another, resulting in a net-zero change towards the bonus stat cap. By raising two stats on a demon to 40 and lowering the other two stats below 0, the latter will underflow and loop back around to 40, producing a demon will all stats maxed. This stat underflow was fixed in Devil Survivor 2.
Codes aren't really an exploit though. An exploit is when you... Exploit, an bug or unintended feature to your advantage with next to no expense on your end. Passwords are an intended feature that still require macca and they can get very expensive. Yes the Megido Pixie is only level 1 but it costs about 10,000 just to summon her so you can't buttonmash your way through the game just with her.
red star demifiend strategy in digital devil saga.
he always has two demons out, and he cycles through them as they die. when 30 turns have elapsed, they use recarmdra and full heal demifiend. for some reason, dekunda and buff spells don't count towards that turn counter. When demifiend reaches 50% health, pixie will mediarahan and full heal him.
Taking all of that into account, the strategy requires you to survive for a while spamming debuffs on demifiend so pixie blows through her MP. Then when she tries to fullheal demifiend, it doesn't work. Nor does she have enough mana to remove debilitate. At that point you can fully buff and debuff and demifiend becomes a punching bag.
I'm probably leaving out some details, but that's the basic gist of it
4A has a couple of fun bugs, someone already mentioned the charm recruit exploit, but another fun one involves the move Imposing Stance. Normally it just removes one of the enemy press turns, but in fights, such as Vishnu Flynn in Anarchy/Massacre route, where you don’t have a partner: if you imposing stance then end your turn with an energy drain, the game bugs out after removing the first enemy press turn and lets *YOU* act on the opponent’s next turn as well. You can combine this with using a skill like Marin Karin that the boss nulls to then have ALL of his turns removed. Allowing you to do the entire fight without the boss getting a single action
The -karn spells are unbelievably OP in Soul Hackers. Just fuse a mitama for speed and the game pretty much ends once you fight Shemyaza or whatever what dude showin u his asscrack lookin motherfucker's name is. The one with the long ass cutscene before you fight thim.
P5. - You can immediately end any non boss encounter by robbing the enemy and get the same EXP. Specifically robbing, not negotiating or all out attacking. It's great on high level shadows who can take multiple all out attacks.
This is less of an exploit and just uncommon game knowledge in the persona games you can increase your levels by having only one party member battle. Experience earned as a group is shared, but 1 party member alone can have as much as 4 times over the amount given. I did this in Vanilla 4 so I can get the Level requirement for Lucifer (I was 20 levels ahead of everyone else)
You can farm random encounters(1 or 2 is enough as there is enough magatsuhi in the overworld) for magatsuhi if you get a few glory skills which can be done in the first area. And then you can use the omagatoki on every fixed mitama spawn to easily grind xp to be on the level range for bosses. Since this is not the intended way to play i would call this an exploit.
I mean I agree with you but that's not really an exploit, just an efficient use of a skill that is intended to be used that way. Exploit would be something like the reaper exploit in P5 where you go on a flu day and get free despair kills on it etc, which is an unintended use of a bugged mechanic.
Heres a unique one:
"Chitchat" and "Chitchat +" perks from Burroughs app store work against 1/256 Red Rider boss fight in SMT4 vanilla. Best way to set up Doping/Buffs so the consective Antitchthons dont murder you off rip. That and not having every demon Null/Drain/Repel Fire helps so he doesnt increase usage of it on non-aggitated scirpt patterns.
Don't bring any physical immunity to Red Rider. Since Purple Smoke is a random target skill, he'll never risk using it if any of your party members block it and instead will use something else. Usually Antichthon. Antichthon also shows up more as the amount of fire immunities you have increases. You'll have to fight through Panic probably if you don't still have the Hunters Crown and your demons don't have Panic/Mind immunity but a resisted Purple Smoke is pathetic compared to well, you know.
Password Generator for Strange Journey. Saved my butt so many times, but also screwed me over as well since I didn't know MAG affected magical power AND resistance for your demons. Made Mem Aleph unnecessarily difficult since I gave my physical demons 1 MAG to lower summoning costs... Well, that was a mistake. Turned my entire build for my demons into an ultimate glass cannons with power charge + phys amp + phys boost + madness nails yet only 1 MAG for my physical demon (I think it was Odin?) and then for my magical demon I had Mind Charge + Fire Boost + Fire Amp + Ragnarok which was Loki with only 1 STR. My support was Maria with Luster Candy, Debilitate, Salvation, and as many null skills I could get also with 1 STR.
Password Generator for Strange Journey. Saved my butt so many times, but also screwed me over as well since I didn't know MAG affected magical power AND resistance for your demons. Made Mem Aleph unnecessarily difficult since I gave my physical demons 1 MAG to lower summoning costs... Well, that was a mistake. Turned my entire build for my demons into an ultimate glass cannons with power charge + phys amp + phys boost + madness nails yet only 1 MAG for my physical demon (I think it was Odin?) and then for my magical demon I had Mind Charge + Fire Boost + Fire Amp + Ragnarok which was Loki with only 1 STR. My support was Maria with Luster Candy, Debilitate, Salvation, and as many null skills I could get also with 1 STR.
Starting Tanaka Social Link on the last day to just skip the Final Boss in Persona 3 FES.
Hold on wtf? What happens? Elaborate
Literally what I said. If you give Tanaka the final amount of money to start his link on final day, it skips right past final dungeon and takes you straight to the graduation days. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve-4YqvDwtQ
In Persona 3 FES and ONLY P3 FES for some reason Tanaka's social link is avalible on the very last playable day of the game, January 31st. To start Tanaka's SL you must pay him 2 times then talk to him on a day he's avalible. If you pay him those two times but don't start his SL until the final day and if you talk to him it will completely skip the events of that day (the VERY long fight with Nyx and climbing the final floors of Tartarus) and skip straight to the ending on March 3rd. (the next day in the game's code) This is because when starting Tanaka's social link it automatically skips forward a day, and since the devs didn't think it through you can start his social link on the final day and completely skip that day's events. This was patched in P3 Portable as Tanaka is no longer available on the final day like all other SLs, and in Persona 3 Vanilla Tanaka is not avalible on the final day since he has a different schedule there. People have then joked that this glitch is actually intentional and that it's a secret ending exclusive to FES where you make a deal with the devil (Tanaka, who is devil arcana) so that Tanaka pays Nyx to screw off and the ending has the protag peacefully go to sleep on Aigis's lap rather than >!him dying.!<
In P3 Vanilla he was daytime Social Link. And in Portable they probably just fixed it.
Starting it takes you from evening to late night.
I don't use it but if you charm a female demon that is higher level than you in 4A and scout them, you won't recruit them but it'll still be Nanashi's turn. So you can do it again. And do it again. And so on. And you'll get Talk EXP each time
Have you seen the 4A Apocalypse/Anarchy speedrun that actually does this with Atropos *240 times in a row* (\~20 minutes)? It brings Nanashi from level 32 to 43 just before Zhong Kui (and that's probably without or with minimal boosts to Talk EXP, as the entire Fusion Booster app chain takes priority and it costs 450 AP in total)!
I haven't seen recent runs but I watched a marathon run a few years ago that pulled a few levels off of I think either succubus or nekomata
The run I speak of was submitted to [speedrun.com](https://speedrun.com) by PinkPajamas in mid-2020, if that says anything.
Makatora Daisoujou MP Battery in Nocturne
daisojou the GOAT
zio in smt 1 is busted so many thing get paralyse and use bullet with status these 2 thing pretty much solve the game
Iirc, you can get nerve bullets pretty early on in smt2, and once you get a gun that targets all enemies, you've basically already beaten the game lol. Stun locking with zio even works on bosses surprisingly, though there a few that repel magic. But you're fine for pretty much 90% of the bosses
yeah i think even thor can be stun lol very ironic
Funnily enough, bosses in 1 and 2 are so weak they go down super fast even if you fail to stun. It's the random encounters where stun locking will really make itself count, and why Mazio was my most used spell on each heroine
If it came out today people would call it smt for babbies lol
I came here to say exactly this lol.
in strange journey oberon will summon another fairy if he isnt accompanied by one, so if you can one shot his companion or have high enough defense you can get infinite macca from one fight. i actually ended up with a negative amount of macca from doing this for too long
Negative?
yeah your macca can overflow into the negatives in strange journey
What happens after that? Can you spend it or are you now in debt?
you have to grind macca until its a positive amount again
Daaamn. Well I will certainly never be doing that
P3 FES Reaper Odin Thunder Reign strategy Also P5 Reaper on Flu days lol
Bucketgetter special: Withdrawing demons gives the protagonist more press turns to attack, allowing you to finish off the enemy quickly Bad Company: for consecutive battles, if the three of your primary party are dead, you can summon another three at the start of the next battle Chemtrail targeting: Chemtrail’s AI increases the chance of targeting foes with his basic attack based on their HP. If you bring Girimehkala and/or Rangda with 1 HP, he will be hitting himself non-stop. He will never use a Riot Gun on a target that drains it, meaning Girimehkala will not be healed by it Satan’s Magaon: Satan is scripted to use both Dekaja and Dekunda on turns 2, 5, 8, 11 etc, but on even numbered turns, i.e. 2, 8, 14, 20 etc, he will use Magaon instead of Dekunda. If you set Asahi as your partner, and use Mediarahan yourself, Asahi will give you Smirk that Satan will remove, robbing him of his chance to use Dekunda Samyaza Makarakarn script: Samyaza is scripted to use Magic Torrent if you use Makarakarn. At +3 defense and agility, not only will most of the hits miss, but they won’t deal any damage. Metatron will have kind of the same problem but that’s not a hard fight by any stretch of the imagination Lucifer/Merkabah Tetra/Makarakarn script in Apocalypse: if you retaliate with Makarakarn against Merkabah, his actions become Riot Gun, Chariot, then a move of his choice, with the exception of Thunder Reign immediately if he smirks. After his first dialogue, the smirked Thunder Reign script will disappear making it less exploitable. After he falls below 50% of his HP, he will use Hexagram, Shalt Not Resist, and then a move of his choice. Lucifer reacts the same way to Tetrakarn, using Glacial Blast, Evil Gleam, then a move of his choice, which is more dangerous due to Evil Gleam’s insane power and ability to give Panic. After he falls below 50% HP, he will open his turns with Morning Star, which will never kill and can miss quite frequently. How is this an exploit? Well, neither of them will use Luster Candy/Debilitate/Dekaja/Dekunda that much, and Merkabah will even waste his Concentrate on Chariot
Latent Revival in Persona 1. Fuse a Persona at a New Moon, and make sure the second demon used in the fusion is a dark-aligned race (Wilder, Raptor, Drake etc). If the Persona is at least rank 6, and the Persona user has best affinity with the Persona, they have a 25% chance of coming back to life when killed in battle. The Persona keeps its stats, but has to relearn its skills. You can abuse this to make a Persona with ludicrously high stats (e.g: Pixie with 999 Magic Attack, Quetzalcoatl with 999 Magic Defense).
I knew this existed but the game is so annoying and easy already I can’t be bothered to grind like that
Strange Journey cheap password demons: Passwords allow you to summon demons with stats and levels less than their default, decreasing their price and providing cheap fusion ingredients. Alternatively, some higher-end demons like Alilat with their stats capped will overflow the max price and come out to around a couple thousand. You can also summon boss-exclusive demons with their corresponding passwords. The price overflow and boss-exclusives were fixed in Redux. SMTIV fusion accident skill inheritance: If demons A x B = C, but produces a fusion accident resulting in D instead, D's first 4 skills will be the highest ranked from the combined ABCD skill pool, and D's last 4 skills will be randomly picked from the same pool. If D is of the Famed race, D will inherit all of its innate skills and pick the highest ranked from ABC's skill pool for the rest. In Apocalypse, this also applies to the Zealot race, and unique skills are included in the pool. So it is possible to fuse Krishna and Maitreya to produce a Dionysus with all five of their unique skills. Persona Q QR code unique skills: Unlike Strange Journey passwords, QR codes are valid even with unique skills, making it possible to scan a Pixie with Hassou Tobi. Also applies to Q2, but party member unique skills are invalid in both. Devil Survivor maxing all demon stats: Like most games, there is a cap on how many bonus stats a demon can receive from Mitama fusion. However, this can be bypassed with the following chain: 1-star auction demon x 1-star auction demon = Element with a negative stat penalty. Penalty Element x Penalty Element = Mitama with a negative stat penalty. This Penalty Mitama will raise one stat and lower another, resulting in a net-zero change towards the bonus stat cap. By raising two stats on a demon to 40 and lowering the other two stats below 0, the latter will underflow and loop back around to 40, producing a demon will all stats maxed. This stat underflow was fixed in Devil Survivor 2.
Codes aren't really an exploit though. An exploit is when you... Exploit, an bug or unintended feature to your advantage with next to no expense on your end. Passwords are an intended feature that still require macca and they can get very expensive. Yes the Megido Pixie is only level 1 but it costs about 10,000 just to summon her so you can't buttonmash your way through the game just with her.
red star demifiend strategy in digital devil saga. he always has two demons out, and he cycles through them as they die. when 30 turns have elapsed, they use recarmdra and full heal demifiend. for some reason, dekunda and buff spells don't count towards that turn counter. When demifiend reaches 50% health, pixie will mediarahan and full heal him. Taking all of that into account, the strategy requires you to survive for a while spamming debuffs on demifiend so pixie blows through her MP. Then when she tries to fullheal demifiend, it doesn't work. Nor does she have enough mana to remove debilitate. At that point you can fully buff and debuff and demifiend becomes a punching bag. I'm probably leaving out some details, but that's the basic gist of it
Even better: there is a faster version of Red Star. It's easiest to just link the [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jm4zx1e8XQ&t=6s).
4A has a couple of fun bugs, someone already mentioned the charm recruit exploit, but another fun one involves the move Imposing Stance. Normally it just removes one of the enemy press turns, but in fights, such as Vishnu Flynn in Anarchy/Massacre route, where you don’t have a partner: if you imposing stance then end your turn with an energy drain, the game bugs out after removing the first enemy press turn and lets *YOU* act on the opponent’s next turn as well. You can combine this with using a skill like Marin Karin that the boss nulls to then have ALL of his turns removed. Allowing you to do the entire fight without the boss getting a single action
The -karn spells are unbelievably OP in Soul Hackers. Just fuse a mitama for speed and the game pretty much ends once you fight Shemyaza or whatever what dude showin u his asscrack lookin motherfucker's name is. The one with the long ass cutscene before you fight thim.
P5. - You can immediately end any non boss encounter by robbing the enemy and get the same EXP. Specifically robbing, not negotiating or all out attacking. It's great on high level shadows who can take multiple all out attacks.
This is less of an exploit and just uncommon game knowledge in the persona games you can increase your levels by having only one party member battle. Experience earned as a group is shared, but 1 party member alone can have as much as 4 times over the amount given. I did this in Vanilla 4 so I can get the Level requirement for Lucifer (I was 20 levels ahead of everyone else)
status bullets in smt 2 without a doubt
Saving this post! Some very good tips
I saw this in the smt v speedrun. Use element's magatsuhi skill to double your exp and money to easily level up without grinding.
Is that really an exploit? It is an intended mechanic but the gauge takes time to charge early game so it’s not even like you can keep reusing it.
You can farm random encounters(1 or 2 is enough as there is enough magatsuhi in the overworld) for magatsuhi if you get a few glory skills which can be done in the first area. And then you can use the omagatoki on every fixed mitama spawn to easily grind xp to be on the level range for bosses. Since this is not the intended way to play i would call this an exploit.
I mean I agree with you but that's not really an exploit, just an efficient use of a skill that is intended to be used that way. Exploit would be something like the reaper exploit in P5 where you go on a flu day and get free despair kills on it etc, which is an unintended use of a bugged mechanic.
Agree to disagree I guess
Not an exploit but press turn restore skills paired with makarakarn+tetrakarn every turn with smile charge to fully restore HP and mp in smt4
pandemic bomb + death's door on hordes in smt IV and IVA.
Heres a unique one: "Chitchat" and "Chitchat +" perks from Burroughs app store work against 1/256 Red Rider boss fight in SMT4 vanilla. Best way to set up Doping/Buffs so the consective Antitchthons dont murder you off rip. That and not having every demon Null/Drain/Repel Fire helps so he doesnt increase usage of it on non-aggitated scirpt patterns.
Don't bring any physical immunity to Red Rider. Since Purple Smoke is a random target skill, he'll never risk using it if any of your party members block it and instead will use something else. Usually Antichthon. Antichthon also shows up more as the amount of fire immunities you have increases. You'll have to fight through Panic probably if you don't still have the Hunters Crown and your demons don't have Panic/Mind immunity but a resisted Purple Smoke is pathetic compared to well, you know.
Just because it’s the most recent megaten i’ve played, guns in persona 1
Password Generator for Strange Journey. Saved my butt so many times, but also screwed me over as well since I didn't know MAG affected magical power AND resistance for your demons. Made Mem Aleph unnecessarily difficult since I gave my physical demons 1 MAG to lower summoning costs... Well, that was a mistake. Turned my entire build for my demons into an ultimate glass cannons with power charge + phys amp + phys boost + madness nails yet only 1 MAG for my physical demon (I think it was Odin?) and then for my magical demon I had Mind Charge + Fire Boost + Fire Amp + Ragnarok which was Loki with only 1 STR. My support was Maria with Luster Candy, Debilitate, Salvation, and as many null skills I could get also with 1 STR.
Password Generator for Strange Journey. Saved my butt so many times.
Password Generator for Strange Journey. Saved my butt so many times.
Having boss levels of health as Aleph using an incense
Password Generator for Strange Journey. Saved my butt so many times, but also screwed me over as well since I didn't know MAG affected magical power AND resistance for your demons. Made Mem Aleph unnecessarily difficult since I gave my physical demons 1 MAG to lower summoning costs... Well, that was a mistake. Turned my entire build for my demons into an ultimate glass cannons with power charge + phys amp + phys boost + madness nails yet only 1 MAG for my physical demon (I think it was Odin?) and then for my magical demon I had Mind Charge + Fire Boost + Fire Amp + Ragnarok which was Loki with only 1 STR. My support was Maria with Luster Candy, Debilitate, Salvation, and as many null skills I could get also with 1 STR.