I would beat the first three temples without placing the Crystals. Then grind the enemies in the temples until you have 7s in everything, then place the crystals.
There is another one that works if you had the Turbo controller. Go to the swamp region, I believe. It's the one where the blue bird flies down and across the screen. Go to the edge of the screen and face the incoming birds. They will keep coming forever and if you have the Turbo controller... you just hold down the attack button with a C clamp (you can get one cheap from a hardware store or online) and it will keep firing without you having to touch anything. Just let it run while you do other things and check back on it from time to time to level up a stat. It will keep firing while you're doing that so you don't have to adjust anything. You can easily max out every skill before you go anywhere big. Learned it from David, Brian or Brent... always seem to get them the most... at the Nintendo Power Tip Hotline when I was a kid.
Only farm bubble experience in Parapa Temple, skip upgrading health and magic and go straight for Sword until 4 (around 1k exp), then get enough exp to skip health and magic and clear the temple, you'll get 2k exp to upgrade to sword 5. That's how I've played Z2 for years and it's the fastest way to finish the game under 3 hours
I find it easiest to raise your attack levels to the highest first, so that you can defeat some of the more difficult enemies without excessive grinding.
I would always plan it so that destroying the palace boss would raise a level, and then placing the crystal would raise another. I would fight a lot of bubbles in the first palace too, and usually by the time I beat the first boss my stats were 4’s and 5’s.
Though if you're good enough to avoid taking damage most (if not all) of the time, you could forgo upgrading health altogether, right? Seems to be what the player behind Nintendo Unity did, but then again, they could be using an emulator and/or save states.
the 7th trick is so good for making the early game easy, at the cost of beating the entire game. This could be useful if you have 2 people playing the game!
The only correct answer to grinding the levels is to get the special item from each castle, then when you have everything most of the way leveled up you pound the six castle bosses and get the last ones.
Tip 0/7: when you first start, encounter an easy enemy in the field, then go back and forth killing them (sometimes you’ll get a point bag worth 50). Easy way to get your first levels before going somewhere without a saved game, and you can exit any time and heal.
A really good way to level without grinding of controller tricks that only work on original hardware... Commit to clearing only enough of each dungeon to progress in the overworld. Collect all the treasures, heart & magic containers, sword techniques and spells. This should get you to within 6 total levels of your max. At this point complete the dungeons. Not only will they be much easier because of your advanced level, but you will be gaining max XP from the crystal drops and you can largely play an avoidance game with the tougher enemies and ignore the XP satchels which can be tough to get.
Or clear first the dungeon of all enemies including the boss and instead of walking to place the crystal jump over the center, walk out, rinse and repeat. Less tedious than fighting the bubbles
If you get good enough at the game, you don't have to worry too much about leveling up. My strategy is get the first magic and heart containers and the 50 P bag. Cancel leveling up magic and life. Instead increase attack, just play the first palace, destroy all enemies. One of the iron knuckles will drop a 200 p bag. When you finish the palace, you should have attack at 4, life 1 and magic 1. By the time you reach death mountain, you should be attack 4,magic 2, and life 3. All this by just defeating the enemies on the way to death mountain
I would beat all the palaces without using the crystals. Max out your attack, magic and health. Then flip the crystals. You get an extra life. So the 3 you start with, the 7 crystals, plus the 3 or 4 you find on land. I enter the last level with 11 extra lives.
Trick 2/7: you did only the 20+20 points. There's that jumping enemy that will give you 5 points also. So that "room" is 45 points (most often) and not only 40. That's a good trick early in the game. And when you are low on life/health just go to the town and refill the life/health thanks to that lady then do that 40 or 45 points again and repeat that as long as you have the patience for :)
Very interesting, especially trick 5, I remember that I just went around the Death Mountain route many times, it was good because there were many orange/red dairas in some places that gave a lot of XP, few rounds are necessary to level up.
Finally time to get revenge to those bosses that caused me pain after all these years. Helmet Head, the 5 and 6 bosses and shadow link, without the corner tricks. This is great for speed running. 30 years later finally got to beat shadow link, without the corner trick. Thanks for the tip, what if I use the final slot with the same name.
If you have beat the game in one player's slot, you can have a new player get increased skill levels earlier if you do this. First, use the player you already beat the game with, and go to the first palace and defeat the first boss. After setting up the crystal there, while the experience points counter is ticking upward to the maximum of 9,000, press Start to bring up the spell menu, and then on Controller 2 press Up and A together to bring up the Continue/Save menu. Going back to Controller 1, select Save and the game will return to the title screen, then hit Start again to bring up the player menu. Go to the second player slot and as your experience points counter continues ticking upward, your new player will have multiple opportunities for increased levels of life, magic and attack so you take out the harder enemies without too much farming at this early stage.
Trick 6 was my favorite spot to level up, before Barbas and the GP. ^^ I didn't know Trick 5, but it looks like easy points for me. Just need some time.
@@GamingShroom1 go to floor below the floor where you find the power glove. In the first room you will be greeted by a moa. There's a certain spot where you can use the jump spell and upthrust but you must time your strike otherwise you might lose experience points. Upthrust you can get in the mountains town of Darunia, just look for a chimney and press down on the controller.
That bubble is not worth grinding on. Spending that long fighting a single bubble for 50 exp when one room over there's a skeleton you can kill in a handful of hits for 30 exp? You can kill a dozen of those skeletons in the time you can kill a single bubble.
1st of all, you stop to stab each enemy.... Bruh you have to jump and kill enemies (that are one hit) to keep momentum. Not stop and stab. Also killing the skeleton heads are a horrible way to grind xp
The biggest problem is leveling up at the beginning of the game. His methods were terrible, and mostly pointless when it required the skills he was using. The end game XP doesn't matter because you max out long before beating the whole game. The only useful information in this video is naming your account LINK.
I would beat the first three temples without placing the Crystals. Then grind the enemies in the temples until you have 7s in everything, then place the crystals.
There is another one that works if you had the Turbo controller. Go to the swamp region, I believe. It's the one where the blue bird flies down and across the screen. Go to the edge of the screen and face the incoming birds. They will keep coming forever and if you have the Turbo controller... you just hold down the attack button with a C clamp (you can get one cheap from a hardware store or online) and it will keep firing without you having to touch anything.
Just let it run while you do other things and check back on it from time to time to level up a stat. It will keep firing while you're doing that so you don't have to adjust anything. You can easily max out every skill before you go anywhere big.
Learned it from David, Brian or Brent... always seem to get them the most... at the Nintendo Power Tip Hotline when I was a kid.
Only farm bubble experience in Parapa Temple, skip upgrading health and magic and go straight for Sword until 4 (around 1k exp), then get enough exp to skip health and magic and clear the temple, you'll get 2k exp to upgrade to sword 5.
That's how I've played Z2 for years and it's the fastest way to finish the game under 3 hours
I find it easiest to raise your attack levels to the highest first, so that you can defeat some of the more difficult enemies without excessive grinding.
I would always plan it so that destroying the palace boss would raise a level, and then placing the crystal would raise another. I would fight a lot of bubbles in the first palace too, and usually by the time I beat the first boss my stats were 4’s and 5’s.
Though if you're good enough to avoid taking damage most (if not all) of the time, you could forgo upgrading health altogether, right? Seems to be what the player behind Nintendo Unity did, but then again, they could be using an emulator and/or save states.
Wow! I did NOT know about that last one!!
9:08 fire works here too
I remember I always used trick #5 to cap everything; just sit there killing the mobs for over an hour or so.
I did this too. In fact, I also saved all my life dolls for the final dungeon and used this trick for at least 3-4 more lives.
the 7th trick is so good for making the early game easy, at the cost of beating the entire game. This could be useful if you have 2 people playing the game!
Very good video I've done the same thing except the island Palace❤🎉
The only correct answer to grinding the levels is to get the special item from each castle, then when you have everything most of the way leveled up you pound the six castle bosses and get the last ones.
I would save the most expensive power
Ups for the dungeons endings cause they fill your XP until you reach it.
That's what you are supposed to do
Tip 0/7: when you first start, encounter an easy enemy in the field, then go back and forth killing them (sometimes you’ll get a point bag worth 50). Easy way to get your first levels before going somewhere without a saved game, and you can exit any time and heal.
I was doing that at least 30 years ago. It's most effective with the fire spell...
A really good way to level without grinding of controller tricks that only work on original hardware...
Commit to clearing only enough of each dungeon to progress in the overworld. Collect all the treasures, heart & magic containers, sword techniques and spells. This should get you to within 6 total levels of your max. At this point complete the dungeons. Not only will they be much easier because of your advanced level, but you will be gaining max XP from the crystal drops and you can largely play an avoidance game with the tougher enemies and ignore the XP satchels which can be tough to get.
Trick 3 is super helpful for leveling up to 5 sword, 5 magic, 6 life.
Fascinating game
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Or clear first the dungeon of all enemies including the boss and instead of walking to place the crystal jump over the center, walk out, rinse and repeat. Less tedious than fighting the bubbles
That's a nice way too
If you get good enough at the game, you don't have to worry too much about leveling up. My strategy is get the first magic and heart containers and the 50 P bag. Cancel leveling up magic and life. Instead increase attack, just play the first palace, destroy all enemies. One of the iron knuckles will drop a 200 p bag. When you finish the palace, you should have attack at 4, life 1 and magic 1. By the time you reach death mountain, you should be attack 4,magic 2, and life 3. All this by just defeating the enemies on the way to death mountain
I would beat all the palaces without using the crystals. Max out your attack, magic and health. Then flip the crystals. You get an extra life. So the 3 you start with, the 7 crystals, plus the 3 or 4 you find on land. I enter the last level with 11 extra lives.
Trick 2/7: you did only the 20+20 points. There's that jumping enemy that will give you 5 points also. So that "room" is 45 points (most often) and not only 40. That's a good trick early in the game. And when you are low on life/health just go to the town and refill the life/health thanks to that lady then do that 40 or 45 points again and repeat that as long as you have the patience for :)
Very interesting, especially trick 5, I remember that I just went around the Death Mountain route many times, it was good because there were many orange/red dairas in some places that gave a lot of XP, few rounds are necessary to level up.
That's a good way to grind in early game too. Trick 5 is an awesome exploit!
Finally time to get revenge to those bosses that caused me pain after all these years. Helmet Head, the 5 and 6 bosses and shadow link, without the corner tricks. This is great for speed running. 30 years later finally got to beat shadow link, without the corner trick. Thanks for the tip, what if I use the final slot with the same name.
These are awesome!
Thx!
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Best video on TH-cam 👍
If you have beat the game in one player's slot, you can have a new player get increased skill levels earlier if you do this.
First, use the player you already beat the game with, and go to the first palace and defeat the first boss. After setting up the crystal there, while the experience points counter is ticking upward to the maximum of 9,000, press Start to bring up the spell menu, and then on Controller 2 press Up and A together to bring up the Continue/Save menu. Going back to Controller 1, select Save and the game will return to the title screen, then hit Start again to bring up the player menu. Go to the second player slot and as your experience points counter continues ticking upward, your new player will have multiple opportunities for increased levels of life, magic and attack so you take out the harder enemies without too much farming at this early stage.
Thank you!
Trick 6 was my favorite spot to level up, before Barbas and the GP. ^^
I didn't know Trick 5, but it looks like easy points for me. Just need some time.
Trick 5 is the best one in my opinion. Its a shame you can't access that dungeon earlier in the game.
@@GamingShroom1 trick 5 can also be done at the swamp palace.
@@steveboone1498 oh awesome! I didn't know that
@@GamingShroom1 go to floor below the floor where you find the power glove. In the first room you will be greeted by a moa. There's a certain spot where you can use the jump spell and upthrust but you must time your strike otherwise you might lose experience points. Upthrust you can get in the mountains town of Darunia, just look for a chimney and press down on the controller.
nice tricks 😁
Thank you
You're welcome!
I so wish I could speed up time like in the 1st trick. 😂
For real 🤣👍
What's that trick where you use magic when you're about to pick up magic, using it for less than usual?
The trick is to use magic as you grab the magic bottle
Fill up your life with the spell then use the magic
Is turbo buttons nesessary?
That bubble is not worth grinding on. Spending that long fighting a single bubble for 50 exp when one room over there's a skeleton you can kill in a handful of hits for 30 exp? You can kill a dozen of those skeletons in the time you can kill a single bubble.
Technically this game offered us the first mine craft experience
1st of all, you stop to stab each enemy.... Bruh you have to jump and kill enemies (that are one hit) to keep momentum. Not stop and stab. Also killing the skeleton heads are a horrible way to grind xp
Love tip 3 but damn its boring lol
Yeah but its a good option if you are stuck
Yep i agree. I'm not stuck but just getting my but kicked lol so this helps
The first tip is pointless.
I would apply that tip for the second palace
More fun to use the downward thrust
The biggest problem is leveling up at the beginning of the game. His methods were terrible, and mostly pointless when it required the skills he was using. The end game XP doesn't matter because you max out long before beating the whole game. The only useful information in this video is naming your account LINK.