ah, so there's a new game+ feature.. i'm beggining to feel this is going to be a trend. what carries over? any bonuses such as extra recruitables or alternate paths/endings you can unlock in a new game+?
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Stuff that carries over:
-Play time
-Hero name
-Money
-Total shared pool of items
-Items in warehouse
-Formation, skill books
-Shared SP(not personal SP, so you may want to convert personal SP to shared SP before beating the game)
-Complete set of goods at headquarter's shops
-All handed over window, voice, sound sets, old books, food(Fish, field items that were left in menu will remain)
*Chess pieces collected in Eggbert's minigame

※Put lots of goodies in the warehouse for an easy second play. Sun set equipment doesn't carry over.

Stuff that doesn't carry over:

-Castle, army name
-Those major story runes
-108 stars and doremi spirits
-Character level
-Personal SP
-Skill rank
-Weapon level
-Equipped stuff during game clear time
-Total # of enemies killed, damage dealt, HP recovered
-Sun set equipment
-Important story items
-Unappraised stuff
-Trade items
-Items that appear when making profit by trade(like wine, sake, goldwork)
-Blacksmith upgrade limit
-Teleportable locations
-Comment Box
-Oboro investigations
-Preserved fish
-Chuck's field items
-Character affinity rating


Bonuses
-Additions to certain events and conversations(details under investigation)
-L2 or x dash(doesn't matter if you got Cathari or not in last playthrough)
-Even if you don't recruit the doremi spirits, Cornelio's music appreciation is possible. (doesn't matter if you recruited doremi spirits or not in previous playthrough)
-Georg and Zweig can participate in final boss battle
-In those treasure chests where sets, books used to be and you got them, the contents are replaced by 10,000 potch.

It seems like money, skill&formations books, total shared pool of skill points, stuff in immediate inventory, and I'm guessing all the goodies in the warehouse are still here.

I'm concerned about whether attached runes carried over. My Kyle had a flowing rune attached for the final boss battle. Will that flowing rune re-appear in the warehouse? That's what I need to find out. I recall in Suikoden IV, you had to unequip runes to carry over into new game+.

Oh yea, there's also the new dash feature by holding down the 'x' button. No more qualms about loading time with this.

Care to explain?

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Dash, as in move faster in towns; think of Suikoden IV's dash.

I think this is the part that he's asking about. I would like to know what you meant by this, too.

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Just a personal opinion. Loading time doesn't bother me so much now thanks to the dash.

It's too bad the damn thing is only available in New Game+, it sure is useful.

I believe Cathari allows for dashing in the 1st Game. All you have to do is keep her in your party.

Also, here are the New Game+ details from this JPN site. I got the JPN details instead of the Babelfish translation because I figured a translation would make more grammatical sense then jusy copying & pasting the Bebalfish translation. Also, it seems that most people who know Japanese around here have already finished the game, so the New Game+ details in Japanese won't be very spoiling. If none of the translator feel like translating, I'll just post the Babelfish translation; just let me know by posting in this topic.

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Stuff that carries over:
-Play time
-Hero name
-Money
-Total shared pool of items
-Items in warehouse
-Formation, skill books
-Shared SP(not personal SP, so you may want to convert personal SP to shared SP before beating the game)
-Complette set of goods at headquarter's shops
-All handed over window, voice, sound sets, old books, food(Fish, field items that were left in menu will remain)
*Chess pieces collected in Eggbert's minigame

※Put lots of goodies in the warehouse for an easy second play. Sun set equipment doesn't carry over.

Stuff that doesn't carry over:

-Castle, army name
-Those major story runes
-108 stars and doremi spirits
-Character level
-Personal SP
-Skill rank
-Weapon level
-Equipped stuff during game clear time
-Total # of enemies killed, damage dealt, HP recovered
-Sun set equipment
-Important story items
-Unappraised stuff
-Trade items
-Items that appear when making profit by trade(like wine, sake, goldwork)
-Blacksmith upgrade limit
-Teleportable locations
-Comment Box
-Oboro investigations
-Preserved fish
-Gesh's field items
-Character affinity rating


Bonuses
-Additions to certain events and conversations(details under investigation)
-L2 or x dash(doesn't matter if you got Kyazarii or not in last playthrough)
-Even if you don't recruit the doremi spirits, Cornelio's music appreciation is possible. (doesn't matter if you recruited doremi spirits or not in previous playthrough)
-Georg can participate in final boss battle
-In those treasure chests where sets, books used to be and you got them, the contents are replaced by 10,000 potch.

the investigations don't carry over??? you have to do ALLLLLL of them all over again? of all the things in a new game+ i'd want to carry over... this is probably the only one really necessary in order to avoid spending 200+ hrs at the end of the game completing it.. bah, i've never completed investigations in all my suikodens -_-

then we are gonna have to put top priority on making a investigations section for suikoden 5, this way we can always come back to suiko source and and get investigation info when we need it

im sure the administrators will agree with me on this 1

right KF?

Yea, that would be nice. I'll be looking forward to your guide on investigations, son_michael.

OK, let's split this up.

I would be happy to do it after I beat the game it would be nice for me to contribute something to suiko source

I agree with jowy, we should organize a bunch of people to do this

You know I'm in. I've got nothing better to do for Spring Break.

It'd also be great if we could get a few people to do the investigations in the japanese version of the game as well to check and see if everything is correct and what not.

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