Secret of Mana

Notes

• Game can be done much faster with two or more characters. If you have all three characters controlled, there is much less time lost to players getting stuck.
• Learn to alternate running/moving between characters to optimize speed/not get stuck.
• 2-player glitches can be done by 1 person if they have two controllers. It can be a little tougher though.
• Some bosses may be faster to spam magic on than to weapon charge glitch on.

Glitches

Weapon Charge

Must have a level of 2 on a particular weapon (usually Sword or Spear). Set ACT on computer controlled character with weapon to charge to 1. After fully charged, set it in ACT to 2. As it starts charging, go to ACT again and change it back to 1. The weapon charge will glitch out. Chances are you can get a Level 8 charge attack, one-hit killing early bosses.

ALTERNATIVE: REQUIRES TWO PLAYERS - If you have two players, you can have the player not charging switch weapons with the player charging. Switch weapons back, and the same effect will occur. A major advantage to this is that a player is actually controlling when and where he or she attacks.

Infinite Money

To trigger a BLAT, you usually will want to do it with the Magic Rope.

• Have the Magic Rope, 1 Candy, and 1 Medical Herb handy.
• Go to the item menu and while in the middle of switch from herb to Magic Rope or vice versa, use Y to cancel out.
• Go sell the Candy and the Medical Herb (in that order). Exit the selling menu.
• Re-enter the selling menu. You can now sell the Magic Rope infinitely (you'll notice that it has a name called BLAT. If you try to use BLAT in the field, game will freeze.) Sell 7 if you want an extra space for an item. Sell exactly 8 (or a multiple of 8) to get rid of the BLAT.

This glitch is used in conjunction with the extra item slots glitch.

Extra Item Slots Glitch (or Many Walnuts Glitch)

This is an extension of the Money Glitch. It allows for multiples of items to be in other slots (for examples, four item slots for four walnuts each, 16 walnuts total).

Example on how to use it: 1. Execute the Money Glitch until you get the [Blat], do not sell all of the Blat-items 2. Leave the selling menu and enter the buy-menu and purchase the desired item 3. Sell the rest of the [Blat] 4. Now before you buy anything else, buy the desired item again, and it will fill into a different slot

In-depth explanation: From executing the previous example to step [X], your inventory currently looks like this:

Slot 1 [Magic Rope] Slot 2 [Blat] Slot 3 [Empty] Slot 4 [Empty]

When buying a new item, the game will always look for the first [Empty] slot and put it in there. If it finds the same item of it's kind, it will attempt to stack it. If we bought a Cup of Wishes, the inventory now looks like this:

Slot 1 [Magic Rope] Slot 2 [Blat] Slot 3 [Cup of Wishes] Slot 4 [Empty]

If we now sell the [Blat], the inventory will look like this:

Slot 1 [Magic Rope] Slot 2 [Empty] Slot 3 [Cup of Wishes] Slot 4 [Empty]

As mentioned, the game will always look for the first [Empty] slot to fill in a new item. Buying Cup of Wishes now will result in this:

Slot 1 [Magic Rope] Slot 2 [Cup of Wishes] Slot 3 [Cup of Wishes] Slot 4 [Empty]

Because the game always fills the item in the first new slot it finds, it does not notice that there already are [Cup of Wishes] in the inventory. Please note: Doing this only works with the [Blat], because it does is not being "outsold" in a regular manner. If you sell the last piece of any other item, the game will re-arrange your inventory and thus close any gap.

Midge Mallet

Midge Mallet can be obtained any time after defeating Jabberwocky in the Water Palace. Useful for quick casting spells as well as nullifying damage/effects done by enemy spells.

Experience Glitch

Find an enemy that can case Wall on itself (Palace of Darkness is a great place to do this, before completing it). Unequip all items on the partner you want dead (usually the girl). Cast a high level spell with Sprite on the waller. Hope that it reflects onto the intended party member. Depending on dead member's total experience, other members will get a good chunk of experience points. Experience points gained is as follows:

[Total Experience of Dead Member] % 65536

If you're not sure what Modulo (%) is, it's basically the remainder of a division problem (i.e. 10 modulo 3 is 1, since 10 divided by 3 is 3 REMAINDER 1). The most experience you can gain from killing a party member is 65535.

Save Data Corruption Glitch

This glitch is done to skip the underground portion of the Great Palace. Do these in order:

• Before fighting Aegagropilon (and while continent is sunken), make a save file where Neko is in Ice Country next to Ice Palace.
• After getting Dryad (and after continent is no longer sunken), go back again to Ice Country with Neko and save on another save slot.
• Go back to Great Palace. Enter the entrance of the Underground portion of Great Palace. Do a soft reset (L+R+Start+Select) and hold it down for 5 seconds before letting go. Go open the file while continent is sunken. Should load to entrance of Underground portion.
• Go back outside. Go up to the actual Great Palace. Do another soft reset (5 seconds). Load the file where it is no longer sunken.

Rope-pole Glitch (or Skipping map event glitch)

NOTE: REQUIRES 2 OR MORE PLAYERS

Hitting a rope pole with a weapon while calling Flammie causes the game to skip the first event that will happen at the landing maps. For example, if you have Player 1 begin striking at a rope pole with his weapon and Player 2 calls Flammie, you can skip going to the Pure Land and go straight to the Mana Fortress. This bypasses the barrier.

Walk through barriers glitch

NOTE: REQUIRES 2 OR MORE PLAYERS

If player 1 is attacking a rope pole while computer-controlled character is casting a spell, player 2 can walk through barriers, walls, pits, etc. This is especially useful in the Great Palace and the Mana Fortress.