MGQ Paradox English Patch v1.21a

Well this has been a long time coming. After the nightmare of patches to the game causing dozens of hours of extra work and invalidating plenty more, we finally have a patch that’s actually compatible with the current version of the game. Yes, that means you need 1.21.

So… if you’re waiting on a patch that translates a big chunk of the story, you’re still going to have to wait. If you’re already playing the game anyway, a giant portion of the skills, items, jobs, interface text, etc. is done and this patch should help. All the h-scenes that were available in the demo are copied over, but no more than that. Now that the giant hurdle has been overcome just to get this far, actual content translation can progress at more than a glacial pace. Thanks for your patience, and sorry if the lack of content in this patch is disappointing.

Install instructions:

Copy patch into fresh copy of Paradox 1.21. Run the patch.exe program and click ‘patch.’ That should do it.

Bugs? Probably. Feel free to report them. If you’re having problems with the patcher itself, it DOES eat a ton of RAM so reboot, close other programs, etc. if you don’t have much RAM in your computer. If you hacked your 1.20 to 1.21, I can’t guarantee that the patcher will work with it either. I’ll probably upload some manual ways to patch because this patcher can be really finicky and slow…

MGQ Paradox English Patch v1.21a Option 1: https://anonfiles.com/file/a40ae6529a0bd4e51a2dcf71a548a1c7

MGQ Paradox English Patch v1.21a Option 2: https://mega.nz/#!bJZFWaSL!6RH6bG_p_QNmOxFgldt52aloC5CHzqJzc28epPjoO0I

1,489 Comments

  1. CwHart

    So everything concerning items, abit of the story, and the demo H scenes, well with the shit storm of all the patches Toro has been given, I can’t really ask for more, thanks for toughing through that bullshit dude. Hope there will be less bullshit to tough through

  2. Thank you Dargoth,

    Till you release a manual patch, here is the one I made using your executable patch and decrypting the contents afterwards
    MGQ Paradox 1.21_Dargoth.rar 6.8 MB
    https://mega.co.nz/#!WMlW3YzA!hnXFC1oeupPvZtiRXIBGS_yjsxVpQ8lHa_qJA_6VfkM

    This only contains the Data Folder and Game.ini
    If you aren’t using 1.21 well upgrade before overwriting the Data Folder, if you are using the EX with 1.21 just overwrite the Data Folder and it will essentially uninstall EX.

    Use the Manual Patch Method For MGQ Paradox 1.21

    1. Download an RPGMaker decrypter (Included in EX or google it)
    2. Decrypt all files in Game.rgss3a
    3. Move decrypted files into game directory, overwrite when asked
    4. Rename/delete/move Game.rgss3a so it doesn’t conflict with the decrypted files
    5. Move and overwrite using “MGQ Paradox 1.21_Dargoth.rar” patched files

    On step 2: Run RPGMaker decrypter, Open File Game.rgss3a, Tools, Extract All Files; This should make an Extracted Folder containing two folders, Data and Graphics;

    Note 0: MGQ Paradox English Patch v1.21a was not designed for versions bellow 1.21, please upgrade to 1.21 before using

    Note 1: If Game Folder is in Japanese or Gibberish (A Sad Attempt To Display Japanese) rename it to something like “MGQ Paradox”

    Note 2: Game.rgss3a must be either changed or removed as it is read before the content that you are overwriting

    Note 3: If you already have a decrypted version of 1.21 only Step 5 is needed

    Note 4: If you encounter a save error try EX_0.5d_Save-Fix.rar, found in the readme for EX

    • DungeonMasterBobbySmith

      Thanks MGQ_EX, but the princess is in another castle! lol…

      I’ll wait for the more content patch, I might as well stick to the EX untill then.

      I know your .05f patch had some content from Dargoth’s earlier patch, so could you please make a new EX patch incorporating the changes in Dargoth’s latest patch?

    • DungeonMasterBobbySmith, I’m working on it though it will probably be a while to parse through all the data. Right now I’m reviewing Dargoth’s scripts to mine, noticing things that where off aesthetic differences, etc… Once that is done well down down the rabit hole

    • Casian Sarpe Socaci, I’m tired and have only got to the extraction part so I leave this for when you get the memo…

      Included is a modified version of Dargoth’s Patch (Based off the one I did right above) which has a few script interface alterations (If it wasn’t translated it got copied from what EX had as I went down the list making adjustments to both sides) and I also included this:

      Modified Game.ini For These Additions:
      WinMode= Discription
      Fit fits the game window to monitor size
      Full switches to full screen unless already full screened
      Window switches to window screen unless already windowed
      Resize resize the window to whatever size defined in
      Width & Hight (Might Cause Crash)

      Width Set As Positive Integer
      Hight Set As Positive Integer

      If for some reason someone wanted to play in close to full widescreen, as its a nice feature EX had why not have the same for Dargoth’s

      MGQ Paradox 1.21_Dargoth_Mod.rar 9.2 MB
      https://mega.co.nz/#!2FlmXLBY!zhnglOFzaW6mNGYLG4Gh4cPYsRrC_9rK-oNHAAvKm18

      Also included is the extracted rvtext files that I have yet to review. Good night, morning, or whatever the case may be…

      • top key

        Is it possible to encrypt the files back once the patch is applied?
        Leaving it decrypted makes the game take a few seconds to start up, and a bit laggier on Windows, exponentially longer start up and magnitude of lag when trying to emulate on Linux.

      • It’s possible Top Key, however as most of my work involves decrypting it I haven’t looked much into it.

        In RPG Maker VX Ace Editor it is rather simple to recreate Game.rgss3a,
        File > Compress Game Data, Create encrypted archive

        I assume there is probably a standalone tool somewhere that would handle the task, perhaps something like https://github.com/gavin-black/rpgm-patcher

        If you find more info on it I would like to know but right now I’m a bit busy to research it further

      • I just got home and I’ll look over the file. I’m only interested in the database one since that’s where I saw the changes. I did get a clean copy before I left when I woke up and applied Dargoth’s patch and looked around in the items via the game. I saw very slight differences in weapons and armors and where I used simple clear descriptions Dargoth used fancier words. He did however have proper descriptions for the ones I did not but I know that’s because he has Jap knowledge and I just had crappy machine translations. I’ll see what and how many of the skills he did compared to what EX had and I think it’s time we took our conversation to private about EX. This is the name I go by on FB if you could contact me there that’d be great if not then you think of something else 😛

    • Chiron Maximus

      Ok, I did everything the post said, and when I try to fight enemies using abilities, I keep getting an error! I took a pic of the error: http://www.mediafire.com/view/da71bdc2q194oup/Constant%20error.png#
      It’s the exact same error every time I try to use an ability, a normal attack, and even when I use defend all around! If it’s going to do this every time I fight, then I still can’t proceed with the story, and I can’t even farm enemies for job points! Luckily, I made a copy of my game before doing this. So, I guess I’ll hold onto the game in 1.21 and wait for a fix. Just one question though: is it possible to transfer save files form my original game to my updated one? In case you needed to know, my original is a 1.02 with an ex patch.

      • I’ll look into this, as for transferring saves it shouldn’t be a problem. There was an error with EX 0.5d though, however clean the save and it works just fine.

        Mind uploading a save that generates this error? I tried normal attack, special skills, used some items, and it does what it does…

      • Of course it is, just copy the Save folder over to the directory of the version you want them to be in. I don’t think versions of the saves matter though, just don’t use a recent version save in an earlier version of the game. That should be obvious that crashes may occur if you use recent saves (e.g 1.21 save) with early versions of the game (e.g. 1.02)

      • Chiron Maximus, you have the combat set high really no more then two steps… But I don’t see a problem, tried normal attacks, defending, stealing, talking, and spells.

        Try the latest version and if that doesn’t fix it try getting a clean copy of Paradox.

        MGQ Paradox Translation EX 0.5g.rar 12.7 MB
        http://pastebin.com/k9MNPZsb

        • Chiron Maximus

          It worked. Now I can fight again. I’ll hit up the Forest of Spirits and see if I can get through the cutscene. Might be untranslated, but I won’t care.

        • Chiron Maximus

          IT WORKS COMPLETELY!!!!!!! I was able to continue through the cutscene and the sentences actually made sense! I guess all that’s left is to wait for the next stuff, and to make sure I pay attention to future updates and such. Thank you so much for you help!

      • Chiron Maximus

        Well, the combat does work, but the h-scenes and some of the conversations in the castle are botched up again.

      • Chiron Maximus,
        First off, yey its fixed!
        Second, yeah h-scenes are gonna be crap for awhile…

        I might temp them after a few other things are looking better, however if anyone wants to take a crack at Common Events 2000 – 5000 in the Dialogues file please feel free, post a link to what got changed, and I’ll see about integrating it into EX

        • Chiron Maximus

          English or Japanese one? Also, is it fine that I opened it in Notepad? I’m not trying to change anything, I just wanted to see what it was about.

      • Either really, English contains the translation and Japanese contains the original. Notepad or Notepad++ is fine, they are just text files. Changes to the English one will take effect next time you start the game.

  3. Anonymous

    I might wait a bit longer for some more content, also I don’t have internet at home atm so I will wait also for when I have a internet connection at home as well. Thanks again for all the hard work Dargoth 🙂
    Tamam0

    • Anonymous

      I am waiting for translated fights, conversations and h-scenes. Until then I won’t touch it.
      It is good to see some progress nevertheless

  4. pertamax

    ty for your hard work sir!
    how many percentage progress in this patch? i guess it is still 30 % anyway good job sir dargoth

  5. machinaforce

    Gonna ask a noob question where do I get the 1.21 update been to the dlsite I used but just shows update info and not a dl link…. I’m lost.

  6. Anonymous

    Just curious. So, the only h-scenes that are translated are slime girl’s and bunny slime’s?

    Thank you for your hard work.

  7. Anonymous

    bit disappointed in it only being the demo content and nothing more. But that’s mostly because of how much time it took which was mostly because of waiting for 1.20.

  8. Anonymous

    It seems like the translation doesn’t take into account changes to traits that were made in 1.20? Most traits have been significantly altered since the last translation patch…. (for example, Kitsu now has 10% increased crit chance)

  9. DirtyCuckingFunt

    “All the h-scenes that were available in the demo are copied over, but no more than that.”

    Jesus christ, see you all in a year when the 10% translation is out.

  10. “a giant portion of the skills, items, jobs, interface text, etc. is done and this patch should help.”

    What kind of percentage would you say is translated in these categories? 100%? 60%?

  11. Anonymous

    This project operates on Dargoth time, comparable only to Valve time. Next month means 3 months from now. Bad weekend means another two months. It has been this way for all of his projects, for many years now. To expect anything else is unrealistic.

    But it’s still honestly disappointing to know that this is still not farther along than the demo.

    • CivilDeviation

      Yeah, a touch disappointing, though I am honestly grateful since I didn’t have to lift a finger to do the translating myself.

      That said, I am battling the compulsion to play whack-a-mole with the prattling trolls… Sadly, the efficacy of such antics is akin to dynamite in Caddyshack.

  12. Anonymous

    This isn’t surprising considering how many months it took TT to fix bugs lol. RPG Maker games suck for this type of thing.

    At the very least it’s nice to be past that giant hurdle. Thanks for the update!

  13. I don’t care if this patch almost add nothing new to the table but the fact that you update your blog is good enough for me.

    I go playing skyforge&the way of the samurai 4 in the mean while…Ah and yes testing English tree of savior cb as well 😀

  14. Anonymous

    Wow, not even the battle talk for the first few enemies is translated? I didn’t expect too much from the start, but this is ridiculous, since it means, you can’t actually PLAY the game in its current state at all…

  15. Anonymous

    Thanks for the hard work. I’d be lying if I said that I that I wasn’t disappointed at the amount that’s been translated over the past three months, but you’re volunteering your free time so frankly, i’m grateful for whatever i’m getting.

    I suppose it’s my fault for letting my expectations run wild, but if there’s no communication on the progress for three months it’s hard not to let it. I guess what i’m trying to say is- Thanks for all your hard work, It would be nice if you could let us know at least once a month if there has been any progress on the translation so we know what to expect. If you don’t like doing that then that’s fine too, after all, in the end it’s your show.

  16. Chiron Maximus

    Awesome, now if only there was a link to 1.2, so that people don’t have to look back into older posts to find it. *hint hint*

      • Chiron Maximus

        Dude, I can’t read half of the stuff on this page. how am I suppose to find- *sigh* Ok, I’ll try reading through all of it, but just so you know, if I don’t find it, which is likely, I will ask for a more direct link.

        • Duuuuude! Chrome translates foreign languages automatically, the search bar is somewhere in the upper right corner just type Paradox in it and you’ll get all the versions as a result. Go by version number not by text.
          Honestly that site always gets translated in my browser.

            • I was a firefox user myself once but I found that chrome fits my needs a lot better. Each to their own I guess but I’m pretty sure firefox should have an option to auto-translate foreign language webpages to your preferred language. Also that site isn’t necessarily for Paradox I’m pretty sure you can find other great games. Well mostly for fapping 😛

  17. Anonymous

    Can someone enlighten a dummy over here on how to update from a fresh 1.20 to 1.21? I have all the files ready.

  18. Arji

    Glad to see you are done with a big chunk of the non-story content stuff. Alot of people complain that there is little story progress, but these things are needed, and might aswell get them done with first so you can focus on getting the story content done after.

  19. Anonymous

    Anyone experience Luka just start walking in one direction without any way to stop it? Seems to happen whenever I click out of the game to do something. Definitely wasn’t happening before.

    • Anonymous

      Huh, actually it seems to happen whenever I try to use Cheat Engine. Just starting up the thing causes the game to mess up for some reason without even having to hook the engine up to the game itself.

    • Anonymous

      BF girls were recruit-able back in 1.20 so they will be recruit-able in all future updates sans bugs on ToroToro’s part.

  20. Chiron Maximus

    Ok, I’m just going to come out and say it: During the whole wait, I’m not sure what version I have and I’m not sure what to do. Can someone give me step by step instructions? I might just download the things and see what happens, but I’d like to know what to do so that I can do it properly and not half-ass it.

    • Chiron Maximus

      I checked my files and I think I have 1.02 cause there’s a file with Japanese that says “v.1.02”, as well as an EX patch, but I’m not sure which one.

    • Desert Eagle

      If it says 1.02, then it probably is that. If you don’t believe it’s 1.02, open the game.exe and check the upper left corner; The version number is there.

  21. The Noble Shade

    No story progress. Well, that’s the way it is. I really wish that I could help or contribute in some way, since my offer was denied (that’s fine, I understand). But all I can do is wait patiently. I believe in you and the team. Not in a “It’s-five-on-one-in-Gears-and-I’m-just-being-a-sarcastic-dick” way, but in a “It’s-five-on-one-in-Gears-and-you-have-the-Torque-Bow-and-I-know-you’ll-win-it” way.

  22. Anonymous

    I don’t mind the wait and I won’t complain because you are doing this completely for free but I do want to express my feelings and I feel terribly disappointed. I was hoping you would have translated all or most H scenes plus all the items, skills etc… Only then you should focus on the story… At least thats how I think a game like this should be translated but then again you can do whatever you like. I’m disappointed because the very long wait didn’t translate in content of any of the topics I mentioned above so you basically failed to deliver everything I was hoping for. It didn’t took me more than 10secs to find text in japanese as soon as I loaded my save and I’m not even one of those who are playing the game in engrrwish so I’m still at the beginning of the storyline! I thought you had people helping you!
    Anyway this is way better than nothing so I will check and play until I reach the end of the translated storyline. Thanks for your effort and see you in the next patch.
    PS: If you played the game already you should have an idea of how much % of the storyline you have translated so in future updates you should mention how much its translated just like rogue did, even if its just a rogue estimate. Better yet you should mention on the comment section how much % the next patch will cover to avoid a wave of disappointment.

    • Anonymous

      Same anon here. Now that I’ve checked more carefully there are really LOTS of translated items! I hope the team puts this much effort in translating the H scenes for the next patch.

    • Anonymous

      Why would you need a translation for the h-scenes? I can tell you what’s happening without even watching them. There are much more important things to translate in the game.

    • Anonymous

      Fuck the h scenes honestly. I’d prefer the story over the h scenes. Would be happy if that was the last thing translated honestly.

      • Anonymous

        You are missing the point though. The thing is its not only MUCH easier to translate H scenes because theres not a whole bunch of npcs involved but also requires MUCH less text to translate. If you play the game for the story only then you belong to the really really small minority of people here. While I do care much more about the story I realise that is something that’s gonna take a while to fully translate and considering the difficulty and demand of our community it’s wiser to translate the H scenes before the story. It would be even wiser to translate the H scenes of the girls that can appear within the translated story but that would only bring more work.
        I want to take this chance and speak about something else. I noticed during the storyline at the village where they are selling the phoenix feathers there are some npc’s with their speeches translated and some who are not. That’s something that I would definetily not do. In a RPG people like to wonder around and speak with npc’s so you either translate the whole village or none…

      • Anonymous

        You can’t be serious Anon above me. If you play the game primarly for the tits then YOU belong to the minority my dear friend. Why do you think this game has gotten so popular? It wasn’t because of the H-Scenes thats for damn sure.

        While I do enjoy the various H-Scenes I play mainly because the story is so great and it’s also the reason why fans are so fanatic about getting the translation out. Even if you knew what was said in the H-Scenes you would not learn much new other than Luka’s pleads for mercy and the monsters being all dominant.

        So my point is that Dargoth must take thats most important to the fans first and that is NOT the H-Scenes.

      • Anonymous

        Not like ony of us can change the way Dargoth is going at it, but I have to agree with anon 2 spaces above me.

        H-Scenes might not play important role story-wise, but those are integral part of the game and I dare you to tell me that you don’t sometimes lose on purpose out of boredom or just for the heck of it.
        And then you see wall of japanese or piss-poor machine translation which is a huge put off.

        There is not that much content to translate, and while I disagree to translate all of it at a time, it would be more than nice to have them translated continuosly together with main story.

  23. I have to ask, does anyone know of a good way to get Small medals? been farming the bloody things in the final tower basement for 4 hours and only gotten two. there has to be a better way

    • Anonymous

      You could remember their locations and quickly run through NG+s. Amira gives 10 from affection and you get some from the Saki performances, iirc. Other than those and raising your item drop rate, there’s also the option of using Cheat Engine to acquire them.

      • been considering using cheat engine, but finding the right code for the medals is beyond my skill >-< its easy enough when you can raise and lower the amount you have at will.

        Might work if i scan and spend some and then re-scan for lowered value… gonna try that

      • nvm that, apparently you dont lose medals when you turn them in as i thought, so scanning like that wont work. can ayone tell me how one would go about finding a value that wont change? out of all the other 6k values i mean

        • Chiron Maximus

          Dude, you don’t lose medals when you use them at the queen? Then why, when I got the King and Pop classes (of which I had to choose the choice under king of the place), I lost the 30 that it costs? Care to explain that?

      • i went to the medal queen to decrease the amount i had to scan for the decreased value, but when i asked for the noble job i didnt lose my stuff, still had the 32 medals i had before. ive got everything up to the lord thing for 30 medals and still got my 32 medals on me. i havent even used the cheat engine yet, so either this is something new for the patch or my game is drunk. either way, im not complaining.

        guess ill just go through ng+ for the last 18 and imma be golden

      • Desert Eagle

        Well… I don’t know about cheat engines but it is possible to improve your chances of getting small medals from Honey Pots and Mimics. Merchant and Black Marketeer jobs get a passive bonus to item drop rates. Master the jobs sufficiently, and you earn the ability to increase item drop rate regardless of your current job.

  24. Incubusknight

    Thanks for your hard work Dargoth. The nightmare of patches was indeed mildly aggravating, but I’m glad it looks like we’re finally past that hurdle. As always do what you do and take your time and I’ll be looking forward to the finished project.

    For those of you who have grown impatient there are plenty of alternatives. Machine translator is of course one option, but better then that you can find other players who’ve completed the game and have typed up a basic guide with a rough translation of what’s happening.

    Many-Eyed Hydra’s MGQP play through is a prime example.
    http://www.manyeyedhydra.com/2015/03/lets-play-monmusu-quest-paradox-part-1.html

    If folks still prefer completely translated English version of the game well just be patient.
    It will come, and when it does it’ll be glorious.

  25. Anonymous

    Thank you for your hard work. Just found out this today and can’t wait to get it. Looking forward the story translation xD

  26. Sevalle

    Don’t want to troll, but I somehow expected a bit more. Guess I should forget about this for a few months and check later to see if story progressed a bit. Thanks for the hard work.

  27. Grandork

    Hey Dargoth, is there a special way I can send you the bugs?

    Fire Veil, Water Veil, Lightning Veil are listed as Normal Attack, instead of their perspective element.

    • Grandork

      Sun Slice is weird, it should deal Fire Damage, yet it’s a Normal Attack and it’s lacking the Effect: +
      Royal Life Sword is the same deal, except it has the Effect: +.

    • Grandork

      Rising Heavenly Inferno Slash, Red Lotus Heavenly Cyclone, Red Lotus Flame Dance are considered Normal Attack, instead of Fire.

      • DungeonMasterBobbySmith

        親子丼 means Oyakodon (parent-and-child donburi), a donburi, or Japanese rice bowl dish, in which chicken, egg, sliced scallion (or sometimes regular onions), and other ingredients are all simmered together in a sauce and then served on top of a large bowl of rice.

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyakodon

        Oyakodon is also Japanese term describing a situation in which someone manages to have his/her way with a mother and her daughter at once (most often, in a sexual way).

        https://vndb.org/g1691

    • Grandork

      Hm… I just noticed that these skills I said had in their Note that they were elemental, I guess that changes them right? If so, Ignore the ones I said were Normal Attack. Sorry about that.

      But this is not, 1130: Frozen Club is Physical, should be Ice Element.

    • Anonymous

      The grey kitsune’s name after recruitment is Kitsu, but is originally Kitsune. (Not necessarily a bad change, though)

  28. Anonymous

    hello anyone knows what are the traits of the battlefuckers girls?, those are the only non-translated ones

    • Chiron Maximus

      Honestly, you could probably guess based on their jobs upon recruiting and their personalities, but that’s just me.

  29. Anonymous

    I don’t see any difference between dargoth patch and EX patch. Doesn’t EX patch has more stuff than dargoth ?

    • CivilDeviation

      EX patch is machine translation with quite a bit of tinkering, however while it has almost the entire game translated, the grammar and wording is funky at best.

      The Dargoth translation is a man-made, line by line translation. As such it should have a much better feel and the grammar will be sensible. The con is that takes umpteen hours to do a line by line translations.

      While I prefer Dargoths work by a long shot, the Ex-patch makes the game playable without need of text-hooking soft-ware and even worse auto-translations.

      • Chiron Maximus

        There just needs to be a patch/ex patch that combines the working capabilities of the EX patch, but has the proper sentences and translations of Dargoth’s work. What do you say guys? work together to bring a masterpiece to reality?

    • Chiron Maximus

      You should already know that you change jobs and races at Ilias Temple by speaking with the High priest, or whatever he’s called. As for cooking skills, well, you use them in combat and you’re suppose to get the food when you choose it, but I’m not sure if the bug is fixed yet.

      • Anonymous

        I started playing the game and remember being told about changing jobs with the priest, but now I’m using a save state and idk where I am or how to get back to Illias Temple. I figured there must be some other way to change jobs since Idk how to get back to the Temple.

        I’m assuming in order to use my cooking skills that I must change my job to a Cook right?

      • Anonymous

        Some characters or races will allow you to use cooking skills in any job. That scylla with the mouths on her tentacles is an example of a character that does it and Kitsune Geisha is an example of a race that does.

        The temple is connected to the north of the initial village. The temple is always the second teleport option (top-right corner), assuming you have the pocket castle. If you have any Harpy Wings in your inventory, you can use them to teleport there.

    • Anonymous

      You can change jobs with the head priest in Ilias temple. You should be able to use cooking skills from the menu at any location. Before 1.20, they could only be used in combat.

  30. MGQ_EX I got as far as mercantile skills go for now or skill 1881 and I’ll have to turn in since it’s 2 am already, I’ll continue tomorrow and hope to finish with the skills at least and when I’m done with them I’ll send you the database and you decide if to go all Dargoth or keep what I didn’t replace. I’ll get on equips after I’m done with skills and that will probably be it.

  31. Anonymous

    Would love to enjoy this patch, unfortunately I can’t find anyone anywhere that has the base V1.21 so I can use this patch lol ._.

  32. Anonymous

    I can’t understand how they thought it’s a great idea to make a mgq sequel with rpg maker. The old formula was fantastic, I’m not too sure about the new one… kinda sad actually

    • Anonymous

      I kind of like it but also wish they had just reused the original engine instead because it was better for storytelling.

    • Anonymous

      I on the other hand really love this version. The feeling of freedom is great, customizable party and eq are great too. Feel a bit like pokemon games on steroids. Or final fantasy with more potential party members.
      The only weird moments are those when you are creeping around in bushes to get some girl you want. Some can be very stubborn even with 100 affinity.

  33. Chiron Maximus

    I just realized something funny! The strange being, Nuruko, follows you around and moves to get to you when you get close enough. It’s too funny how when I move around, she moves through the environment to get to me. The next time you’re near Nuruko, try it out and see for yourself.

  34. themengsk176

    Thank you for the patch. There are many here that appreciate your hard work and willingness to continue to put effort into a hobby project like this. Thanks again.

    • Anonymous

      Working ‘harder’ may not be the best solution when translating a porn game. It usually leads to unexpected breaks.

  35. Harbinger

    Hey Dargoth, when I try to apply the patch it reaches only to 49% then it stops and says “wrong version” What is the problem?

  36. A small request Dargoth can you please translate Luka’s shout in batlle it always annoys me that the first thing in battle has not been translated.
    Also would like it if the chevvos were even machine translated..

  37. Anonymous

    Not gonna lie, I hoped for partial story translation in this patch.
    Still, thank you for translating and good luck with future patches 🙂

      • Anonymous

        I don’t want to be rude but please don’t share any illegal download links here.Let them find it on their own.

        • Chiron Maximus

          Oi, just what are you insinuating? I got this link from MGQ_EX himself. Well, I got the link to the site to get it, and I clicked the one for paradox 1.21 and copied the link from there, but it was legitimate the whole way, so don’t be giving me any crap ya silly wee lad/lass.

      • Anonymous

        You can at least give them some hints but don’t give the whole thing. I think I’ve read somewhere that Dargoth disapproves sharing of links.I’m just concerned 🙂

        • Chiron Maximus

          I either give my full help, as much help as I can, or no help at all. It’s my policy, so if you don’t like it, rant about it somewhere else. Besides, imo, teasing belongs in pillow talk, sweet nothings and friendly banter.

      • Anonymous

        Ok ok cool down. I don’t want to start a misunderstanding.I appreciate you helping others like you said earlier you got the link from MGQ_EX. He just gave you the link to the site.Not the direct link to the Paradox link you just posted. We don’t want to have the risk of Dargoth and his site getting busted.

        • Chiron Maximus

          Bruh, why would I want to bring all his hard work down to ruins? If I really wanted to do it, I would have done it differently and a long time ago.

      • Anonymous

        We’re all the same.I don’t want his work go to ruins like what you said. But sometimes, we’re unconsciously doing so. I really really appreciate you helping other people man I mean no offense.Sorry if I said something that may have meant something bad to you.

        Let see…
        You can find other ways of telling the link to him right? Like a private message or an email for example.Just don’t put links to the site directly. That way you can still help fully, yes?

        PS:I messed on the reply part somewhere…there’s a post below similar to this.

  38. Gadgetfeak

    my save is not playable after upgrading directly to 1.21 then Ex 0.5g
    i use to use 0.5 c before this.
    please fix save the last save only…

  39. Harbinger

    Just ran into another problem, when I try to start a BF battle with claire in Illiasburg I get this huge error message and so I wondered if anyone might know what the problem is?

    Verv1.21.00
    Error Errno::ENOENT For but it occurs, it could not continue processing.
    If No Similar Bugs in the Official Site, [Patch Support],Please report.
    We are sorry for the trouble …..

    Details:
    No such file or directory – graphics/pictures/ev_mob_murabito1_h1
    ** backtrace:
    ( KilloZapit – Cache Back ):199:in `initialize'( KilloZapit – Cache Back ):199:in `new'( KilloZapit – Cache Back ):199:in `normal_bitmap'( Cache ):91:in `load_bitmap'( KilloZapit – Cache Back ):115:in `load_bitmap'( Language File System ):4498:in `load_bitmap'( Cache ):57:in `picture'( Sprite_Picture ):40:in `update_bitmap'( VXAce_SP1 ):130:in `update_bitmap'( Sprite_Picture ):30:in `update'( Spriteset_Map ):252:in `block in update_pictures'( Game_Pictures ):25:in `block in each'( Game_Pictures ):25:in `each'( Game_Pictures ):25:in `each'( Spriteset_Map ):250:in `update_pictures'( Spriteset_Map ):184:in `update'( 視界制限 Ver1.2 ):192:in `update'( Scene_Map ):64:in `update'( Scene_Base ):14:in `main'( KilloZapit – Cache Back ):257:in `main'( Base/Module ):129:in `run'( 【WF-RGSS】Exit-EX 終了処理 ):118:in `run'( 【WF-RGSS】Exit-EX 終了処理 ):127:in `block in ‘:1:in `block in rgss_main’:1:in `loop’:1:in `rgss_main'( 【WF-RGSS】Exit-EX 終了処理 ):127:in `’ruby:in `eval’

    • Chiron Maximus

      You’re missing an important cg. You will need every CG to make it work. Give me a moment and I’ll make a rar that has every graphic you need.

    • Did you:
      2. Decrypt all files in Game.rgss3a (The 1.21 version)
      3. Move decrypted files into game directory, overwrite when asked
      4. Rename/delete/move Game.rgss3a so it doesn’t conflict with the decrypted files

      Graphics Folder needs to be in the main game directory, also that file was added in Paradox 1.10 so if you went from 1.02 and didn’t update the assets beforehand probably a good time to do so

      MGQ_Paradox_1.02_upgrade_clean_1.21.rar
      https://mega.co.nz/#!SQ1QlAbS!_B9-oPG95ItrektJFdt8jPZiOnW4vb2cpUUaRTGkZig

      Only need to worry about the ‘Audio’ & ‘Graphics’ folders, if your missing any files from either copy them over

    • Anonymous

      Just noticed that I don’t lose medals when I turn them in to the Medal Queen…

      Is this a bug or is my game just broken

    • Anonymous

      For me it seems random. Sometimes I do get the item, sometimes not. A shame, my first golden breastplate was given to me by monster and never appeared in eq.

  40. Anonymous

    We’re all the same.I don’t want his work go to ruins like what you said. But sometimes, we’re unconsciously doing so. I really really appreciate you helping other people man I mean no offense.Sorry if I said something that may have meant something bad to you.

    Let see…
    You can find other ways of telling the link to him right? Like a private message or an email for example.Just don’t put links to the site directly. That way you can still help fully, yes?

  41. Anonymous

    I am not sure if this is a bug or not, but when I create a food dish it does not appear in my inventory. Its like its lost somewhere. Even when I create food thats already in my inventory, the amount doesnt change. Am I missing something?

  42. machinaforce

    Question about the EX patch I placed it in a fresh copy of the game moved the files into the game directory that were needed and moved the old game.rgss3a out, but the game still comes out in Japanese am I doing something wrong?

    • Did you decrypt game.rgss3a first?
      If not get the files from it and put them in the game directory
      then overwrite those files with the ones from the EX.
      finally either delete or rename game.rgss3a to game.rgss3a.bak

      • machinaforce

        Ok so what I did was I started the Decrypter selected the .rgss3a went to tools extract all it made a folder with two folders inside Graphics/data I moved them to game main folder overwrote when asked deleted the .rgss3a and moved over DatabaseTextEnglish.rvtext, DialoguesEnglish.rvtext, and ScriptTextEnglish.rvtext. Loaded them game afterwards and still just the japanese characters I was following what was in the readme don’t know where I went wrong.

      • You didn’t move the other files from the EX over…
        ‘Audio’ folder contains an audio file EX can use but mostly its there just for show…
        ‘Data’ folder deals with how the game works, if you don’t overwrite these then the game won’t read the rvtext files and thus won’t offer any translation
        ‘Graphics’ folder contains some presets for a cache system to try and compensate for speed
        ‘Patch’ contains the latest patch, not really needed if using direct 1.21

        Just copy everything in the EX archive into the main game directory, overwrite any file with the ones in those folders

      • machinaforce

        Oh I see the read me didn’t mention that… Thanks for putting up with me I done goofed. Got it thru thanks for the assist!

    • Well anonymous you should really try 1.21,
      Now cacao should effect the Casino scripts, as you modded them not much help there though you could either use Dargoth’s 1.21a patch (auto or manual in the first comments) or EX 0.5g and open up the scripts and copy them into something like WinMerge to compare those scripts to see what doesn’t match as it could be a simple typo that you added. However unless you did a major overhaul to the scripts its easier to just copy the changes you think where good and start clean to fix that error.

      Though a simple script call like: $game_party.gain_coin(I’m Rich Bitch)
      Changing “I’m Rich Bitch” to the amount you wanted say 1,000,000
      So: $game_party.gain_coin(1000000)
      And gain a million coins, ah its fun to play with the backend though getting help with it not so much

      EX 0.5g
      http://pastebin.com/k9MNPZsb

      • MGQ_EX could you check for me if skill 2044 is single target or affects all party. EX says it’s all party dargoth’s says it’s single party member. You know voodoo better than me so I guess you could find it faster.

      • Alright thanks one more question. Dargoth added the power of healing skills as well to some or all I’m not entirely sure should I bring those over to ex as well or keep them as is?I alalso found the sonic icon thanks to Dargothth’s file, 176 if it may help you in the future.
        Also I think by tomorrow all skills and items that are in Dargoth’s file should be integrated in the database, I’m on a 24h shift no one bothers me and there’s just mobile internet which means no distractions.

      • Not a problem. Power of healing? eh unless you feel the wording is better don’t worry about it. Sonic Icon added to the list thanks! Damn 24h shift, well what ever keeps you from going insane… Standing the mid watch used to be so boring… ah fun time fun times

        Is it just me or is windows 10 somewhat duller… seems less 3d and more 2d

      • Casian Sarpe Socaco

        No idea about Windows 10 I’m still on 8 with Classic Shell so I don’t have to put up with the swiping. To be honest I would of stuck with 7 but there are no drivers for my laptop’s components for windows 7 so I was forced to move on. I didn’t copy everything from Dargoth more or less the technical stuff and the messages the equips should go a lot faster since there’s only a handful that really need changes, I won’t change descriptions or names unless I was clueless about them or if they involve mgq world history. If anything else comes I’ll pester you with questions here.

      • All of Dargoth’s skill entries assimilated in the EX database file. I will skip consumables and materials as they have already been translated and go straight to weapons armors and accessories. When I’m done I’ll mail you the file if my crappy net will allow me.

  43. kana-art

    Please answer me. If I finished the event in the Witch Hunt Village, I will get Lily and Lucia or can I choose only one?

    • Chiron Maximus

      I’m guessing you can only choose one, but when you complete the whole chapter, you can go into NG+, keeping everything you collected so far, and go through all over again, this time, letting you get girls you couldn’t before!

        • Chiron Maximus

          New Game Plus. It’s basically starts you off from the start, letting you have everything you gotten throughout your play through: Your level, characters, items, and other things, and since it’s a start over with all the characters you collected, you can choose differently the second time, getting the girls you didn’t before. For Example, if you start the chapter with Ilias, then go into NG+, you can choose Alice the second time, adding her to your ranks, so that you have both the tiny monster lord and tiny goddess on your team. At least, I think it works for them, but I know with a good feeling that it works with Lucia and Lily.

      • CivilDeviation

        Incorrect sadly, in NG+ you get EITHER Illias or Alice, not both. That being said, with NG+ you can get Lucia in one run through and Lily in the next so you have both. Just can’t do that with Alice and Illias

      • Anonymous

        That’s a bummer.

        They might tweak it to let you have both in your team/harem/whatever in the final part. Maybe they opted to not let you have Alice and Ilias for now for plot purposes or something. It would be nice to have them both.

  44. A0

    Not sure if this question has been explored before, but is there any value in using the machine translation to make the hand-translation easier / faster? ie: instead of translating for Japanese to English could we translate from Engrish to English?

    • Well a machine translation helps those not fluent in Japanese lend a hand, somethings don’t come out right however some research usually corrects that, however a few things are lost in the machine…

      Stuttering, cute sounds or sound effects in general, and some concepts (especially the happy kind so many love).

      You could look at the EX rvtext files, though they received a lot of work correcting the machine there is still plenty of raw google translate data in it especially in dialogues and scripttext.

    • Anonymous

      Theoretically? Sure, can be done.
      In practice you’d still need to look up the original all the time if you want a good translation.

    • Depends on personal preference

      If you don’t know what your doing (or don’t care to think about it) download the latest version (1.5gb) from the official site (or learn to use google so you don’t flood the forms with request for things that can be found in 10 min or less)

      If you feel competent in yourself and already have a previous version just update the files that changed, this involves using unencrypted files. Roughly from 1.02 to 1.21 only 200mb changed so either download 1.5gb for the complete game or 200mb and update the changes

      As for patching for translation, if you got the latest official version with no modifications Dargoth’s automated patch should work however if you update content the manual patch will be needed.

      • CivilDeviation

        MGQ_EX: I apologize for my naivete on this, but would it be feasible to install the Ex patch then install Dargoth’s patch over it? I’d love it if it worked though I am afraid I’m grossly underestimating the complexity of patching.

        • Chiron Maximus

          I don’t thinks so. I tried playing without the EX, and it didn’t work when I reached a certain point. I think it was in battle, and it didn’t work until I put the EX patch in. So I think you plan won’t work, since the EX stuff would be overwritten and not work.

      • CivilDeviation, its possible but error prone… Though until I finish going through it I guess it couldn’t hurt, here is the dialogue changes update file (Casian Sarpe Socaci is currently handling the database and I haven’t gotten to scripttext)

        Unofficial_Dargoth_DialoguesEnglish_Update_EX_0.5G.rar 205 KB
        https://mega.co.nz/#!uZ1yDK4D!TMoO-P2Z82LEsqeRa782-5wDZtBj4Yw2_6U1vIpo4rs

        Note: though my equation mostly worked some unintended things got caught
        Dargoth’s 1.21 Patch – Japanese 1.21 = Only Dargoth Changes For 1.21
        Only Dargoth Changes For 1.21 – EX 0.5g 1.21 = Only Dargoth New Changes
        Only Dargoth New Changes made into an update file so I can compare EX 0.5g with Dargoth 1.21 changes

        Things probably wrong with this:
        1 – Some things are untranslated, Dargoth updated some names through a mass search & replace. Nothing wrong with that but that makes those entries unique to both the original Japanese and the EX modifications…
        2 – Looks like a few errors occurred with some entries in Dargoth’s patch, causing some content to blur.. Some conversations might get shifted with this; Like the Head Priest is suppose to complain twice about Luka and Sonia running in the temple but one of the Head Priest text gets cut off in Dargoth’s patch.
        3 – Some items might not have been updated correctly. As paradox is massive and changes with versions well somethings might simply have not been corrected between versions. Only way to really check for this is comparing to the original Japanese

      • CivilDeviation the misc stuff from Dargoth’s patch(items weapons armors ALL skills) will soon be absorbed in the EX patch, I just sent MGQ_EX the database file with all those integrated, As for story and such we’ll have to wait and see

      • Dargoth and his team didn’t touch any of the DownWords neither for Actors nor for Enemies. I checked. I’ll see if I can come up with anything for later on since I just got home from my 24h shift and I won’t be able to do anything now no matter how hard I try. I’ll have to compare what’s in the script file with scraps I can find from online translators and we’ll see if I can come up with anything decent, though at some point these cries of desperation should repeat themselves. Or at least I hope they do. If they don’t repeat respect for Torotoro team for putting so much effort into making every character unique and fuck them for giving us so much to work on e.e

      • Casian Sarpe Socaci, Get some rest, they wet themselves a lot in those… They repeat, each one could have a few variants spread out from type and class… Some change to be more unique while others just change the end to something like a music note, shorthanded, and such. Alice and Ilias are considered the base and many derive from them. Still working on dialogue, getting distracted so its taking longer, go through see something that wasn’t changed then an error right next to it and yep still going.

      • Well unless I pull translations out of my ass I won’t be able to do anything. All the translations from online translators don’t even come close to what should be there. I even tried to get them to translate in my native language to see if I can then translate in english but no luck. So unless I make something up using what’s given in the script file I can’t help you with DeadWords at all. I still have some real life issues to attend to for now and when I’m done I’ll see if there’s anything left in the Database left I can work on like the enemy skill descriptions(what they’re actually doing when they’re used). Also I’ve seen a minor difference when it comes to skill messages. Dargoth uses a present continuous and I used past simple, or vice versa I can’t remember well now. Should I go through them again and go with Dargoth’s tense or leave it as is?

      • Thats fine, I can’t expect you to work miracles and some of those lines are probably broken (I’m done foooor…) and I doubt the machine can do jack with those. Hopefully your real life issues aren’t to bad. As most of the skills should be present (they are using that skill at that moment) eh I’ll look at it when I get to it, so many things on the to do list. Thanks Casian Sarpe Socaci

  45. Chiron Maximus

    When the Angels get put in, I hope Eden is one of them, and that she has her paradise rape scene as a request. I gather that if Angels do get in, I would surmise their affinity would have to be even higher then the base 10-100, since angels are very strict about sex and stuff.

    • Anonymous

      Angels didn’t give me the impression of being very strict about sex in MGQP3… But yeah I’d love to have Eden in my team. She’d permanently be in my third row.

      • Chiron Maximus

        Oooooooooooooooooh. Burn.
        Also, the reason I say strict is because they’re angels, beings of purity and light, and in MGQ3 they had to fight with pleasure because that was their order from Ilias. The only ones that actually took joy in using pleasure on humans was Cupid and Dominion Endiel, the “Angel Whore”.

      • Desert Eagle

        Where does it say they were ordered to use pleasure attacks and that being against their preference? It seems to me they were simply exerting their own skills in their invasion on human world. Heck, they even have angels like Ranael, Power Berryelle and even Power Muzukiel. Not to mention Eden’s little transformation.

        • Chiron Maximus

          Dude, during most of the angel battles, the angels actually say it in one form or another, like “Neuter the hero with pleasure” or “As the Goddess commanded …” You were probably not reading the entire thing, or haven’t payed attention at all to the text outside of battle. And of course they were exerting all of their skills and angels, it was a world wide war; and Eden’s transformation was only to fight Luka in the event her made it to heaven’s gate and gotten through!

      • Desert Eagle

        It could also be “As the Goddess commanded, (eliminate the human).”

        What you’ve said can be considered as circumstantial evidence. There isn’t a clear statement that says they don’t like fighting with sexual attacks. On the contrary, a lot of them smile and/or tease Luka during the H-scenes. That doesn’t point towards disliking the act.

  46. Anonymous

    Been wondering about something.

    The ‘Devil Fighter’ Regina’s trait says ‘Succubus Swordsman,’ but her race is Yoma. Not sure if that’s a mistranslation or just a weird thing from the original game. Maybe it should say ‘Demon Swordsman’ or something instead? Not that it really matters.

    Also, there are lots of really random things translated throughout the game. Like when you talk to the Devil Fighter girls in battle near Witch Hunt village a lot of their dialogue is translated now. Pretty sure I’ve seen other things too.

    • Anonymous

      The original doesn’t say anything about Succubus. Don’t know if it’s a translation flub or some weird conscious decision.

  47. Cellulanus

    Ah well. I’m only interested in the story really so I’ll just keep waiting for a large story patch.

    I just hope toro is done with the patching on his end.

  48. Anonymous

    Hmmm

    Interesting game,

    wish I could understand Riot’s backstory if she has one…guess I gotta wait for translation.

    hmmm Paintgeist h-scene is just one and it’s lethal…hmm bit of a letdown but it is just a painting.

    And hopefully more angels show up later though….

    anyways thanks toro and dargoth

    • Desert Eagle

      Riot probably has a backstory but I suspect you can only find bits and pieces of it from her conversations with others. That, and the general story behind the apoptosis monsters.

      And yeah, monster girls with only lethal scenes is kind of depressing.

      • Anonymous

        Riot has a decent sized back story compared to some of the others and I suspect some more will be added in as Tartaros and Apoptosis are explained. I wrote up an explanation if anyone is interested but it’s a bit wordy despite my best efforts so take a seat.

        A couple of things to note:

        I’ve had a couple beers. It’s part of the reason I went out of my way to write this.

        My interpretations of her and the wording may not be completely accurate but it should be fairly close.

        All information was taken from her library entry, her combat dialogue, and her request scenes.

        I wrote this up in the span of half an hour on August 5th / 2015 and all these interpretations are mine and mine alone. If anyone says I plagiarized them, they are lying, at worst, and at best, simply mistaken, because we both have to work with a small amount of source material and are likely to draw similar conclusions. If I’m still accused of plagiarism, I don’t care. I’m just an anon voicing an opinion over a character from a porn game. They can have the credit for all I care.

        Her library entry is pretty basic but it does give a few clues. Her brain was programmed to repel invaders on instinct and her body is basically in heat all the time. It mentions she’s a beast hybrid with cybernetic augmentations, possibly in an attempt to create perfect lifeform. In one of her combat conversations, she states she has no allies or comrades so I’m pretty sure she is unique, probably a trial run or failed experiment. The fact that you only ever fight one of her at a time supports this. It mentions she has brutal and proud nature and prefers to fight with overwhelming force. If she wins the fight, the man becomes her victory prize and breeding stud. However, it does make special mention that how or even if a cyborg, Beast Hybrid, Dragonoid can have children is unknown. It is entirely possible that she has a high breeding instinct but is effectively infertile. If she was an experiment to create a perfect lifeform, whoever created her wouldn’t want her to be able to breed if she turned out flawed and make a bunch of imperfect children. They’d wait until they could make a perfect lifeform and then give it the ability to breed but all this is just speculation on my part.

        Actually interacting with her yields better results, unsurprisingly. She says she has no idea how she came to be in Tartaros and anything even before that. She doesn’t even know that there is a world outside because the only indication she has been given is the appearance of Luka and maybe a few members of the expedition team. She only stays in Tartaros because her instincts are telling her too and she doesn’t know anything else. In one combat conversation with her, she’ll ask Luka what she was before this Luka can respond with Human, Dragon or Pet Lizard but really his guess is as good as ours or hers. However, the third option is just the troll option and the library makes no mention of Dragon DNA, just a hybrid of beast and something else so I’m inclined to believe she was once a human, but captured, and experimented with gene splicing and then cut up and turned into a cyborg.

        One last thing to note that is pretty important is that while she primarily a slave to her nature, synthetic though it may be, she is capable of overcoming it. She manages to go against her nature and leave the Tartaros because she was curious and probably a little bit attracted to Luka’s shota swagger like every other girl in the game. And while her first request scene is the same brutal push down as her loss scene with minor variations, her second scene is nurturing to say the least and while it might be possible she has mothering instincts along with her breeding instincts, it seems far more likely that since the scene requires 100 affection, she just didn’t want to break the pelvis of the guy she kind of liked. She doesn’t even force Luka to be her mate after it’s done, going against her supposed described behavior in the library unlike the first scene where she does force Luka to be her nightly playtoy after the deed is done.

        I really really need to make a name already.

      • Anonymous

        I feel bad now. I thought the posts detailing the change log in MGQ_EX were long but this is just ridiculous now that I can look at it in its actual size. I hope that other Anonymous comes back here and reads this so I didn’t clog up the comment section for no reason.

      • Anonymous

        The thing about apoptosis is that they’re horrifying amalgamations that are created by chaos time space combining a bunch of raw material into a new form so any physical facets they have aren’t necessarily a reflection of what they were like in their past life. She reacts pretty strongly to the indication of being a dragon so she might have been a type of dragon in her past life, but the apoptosis phenomenon has combined her with a bunch of other weird things that weren’t originally a part of her.

      • Anonymous

        To be honest, I hadn’t really taken into Riot’s nature as an Apoptosis because is still so much unknown about it. I know it is supposed to be the embodiment of chaos brought about by the fusion of light and darkness at the end of the first game, thus retroactively fucking up the timeline because that’s how chaos rolls but my story sensibilities tell me there is more going on here. Torotoro could easily just make Apoptosis some crazy big bad out to destroy the world for chaos’ sake but that feels a bit lazy if not thematically accurate. I just get the feeling that there is going to be a head or a voice at one point which implies some sort of intent or intelligence behind Apoptosis. It it highly likely that Riot was born by a bunch of random stuff thrown together by the fact she is supposed to protect Tartaros makes me think there is something else going on. To be fair, it seems like the library entries are written from Luka’s POV so anything in there might just be his interpretations and not factual at all. There’s also the idea that nature, although chaotic has certain compulsion like breed or eat so maybe Riot’s instincts to protect Tartaros is like an animal’s instinct to protects its home or its family because to an Apoptosis, Tartaros is their home and family.

      • Anonymous

        The entries aren’t wrong. Riot as she exists is a ‘beast type apoptosis’ (stated by both the encyclopedia and Ilias in the evaluation) and whatever is written there is most certainly fact. The thing is, the original being that forms the base of her personality is not “Riot” and thus doesn’t necessarily have to have anything to do with beasts. The machines parts were also most likely something that combined with her after becoming an apoptosis since she seems confused to their presence and wonders how and when they got there.

        As for apoptosis, they don’t seem to have any evil intent or intelligence to me, really. It’s just a self-defense mechanism from the ‘world’ itself. Apoptosis is something programmed into the DNA of all living things so they’re basically just following their genetic programming. The idea of something/someone controlling the process isn’t unfeasible but it seems to me like it would have to be more of an abstract being or a concept rather than an actual person.

      • Desert Eagle

        Riot is definitely has something of “beast” in her but definitely dragon as well. One strong indication of this is that she has access to both beast and dragon races. I think she identifies more with the dragon part than anything else though. Perhaps she’s a land dragon of some sort? Wingless dragon.

        In any case, I like her a lot. She’s part of my main team and quite possibly the strongest member. Or, well, she becomes the strongest when under the influence of Luka’s skill “Einherjar”. She contributed the most to the defeat of Death (before 1.21).

      • Anonymous

        I did a bit more digging and found some stuff. I think that it is fairly safe to that she was an originally a Dragonoid like Granberia. As Desert Eagle said, she identifies as a dragon in most of her conversations and others like Mummy Girl, Dragon Pup, and Miranda all recognize her as a dragon. When the Apoptosis phenomenon came along she was merged with Beast DNA giving her the Beast Races and the Minor Chaos race all apoptosis monsters have. I’m still inclined to believe the cybernetics came after the merger though. When going through the Labyrinth of Chaos, if you enter a lab area like where you find Hild, Riot will say was born in a place like this. Either, she was made a Beast/Dragonoid Hybrid by apoptosis and then modified in the lab or she formed as a cybernetic Beast/Dragonoid Hybrid and she just happened to appear in a lab. The former sounds more likely. I also doubt that she was born in the Tartaros we found her in. For starters, the tilesets between the lab and the Tartaros are completely different so Riot wouldn’t mistake a lab for a Tartaros zone especially considering the South Eastern Tartaros didn’t visibly incorporate a lab. Secondly, their purposes seem entirely different. The lab is obviously for research while Tartaros seems to be me made of some sort of military complex mashed together with other environments. If Tartaros incorporated a warehouse or an assembly line, that would explain all those weapons we keep finding inside them. I still don’t know what she is doing in Tartaros. She was either placed there by someone or she simply ended up there after the dust settled and apoptosis finished blending the world.

        Also, I can’t wait until we get the Berserker job change item considering I learned the berserk status 50% attack boost stacks. I use Mina with battle master dual axes, her passive berserker ability, the berserker mask, and Einherja when she dies and she hits godly strong. Combine that with Enhance Attack, LittleBug/Lippy’s armor break on an enemy and you got yourself a boss killer. I can’t wait to apply that to a Minor Chaos Riot so she is immune to almost all statues.

      • Anonymous

        A lot of the Tartarus is mostly made up of Remina, at least one of the Apoptosis is a former Remina researcher, and it’s highly implied that an experiment in the Remina laboratory that went wrong is a part of the origin of what’s happening. I would figure that she’s just referencing the Remina lab.

  49. Anonymous

    ok so im trying to patch the game, but i keep getting cockblocked by a secured file, “acces to the path C:WindowsSystem32wfp is denied”, ive been looking for ways to get around this, deleting it isnt an option and i SUPPOSEDLY got full control to it and it’s still denying me, i dont know what to do at this point.

  50. Jam

    Hey guys, I’m having some trouble recruiting Chrome. I’m at the lowest level of the cave where you get her doll kit from the blue chest, but it’s not opening for me. Luka says it’s sealed with magic… I have a thief with the level 2 lockpick ability in the party, but it’s still not opening… Is there some item/event that I need to clear first?

    • Anonymous

      Did you actually get Chrome to ask you to find it and offer to join if you do first? Seems obvious but there seems to be a lot of people who have that issue for some reason.

      • Jam

        I figured it out just now. Yeah, I defeated her and tried to get to join, but it turns out that in order to recruit Chrome, you need to head back to Monte Carlo (or whatever it’s called, the slum place ) and head into the rogue/freedom fighter HQ–the building with the guard in front. Once there, you need to go up to the second floor and talk to these two women towards the lower right part of the room. One of them will give you a clue as to where Chrome’s doll kit is, and it’ll trigger some dialogue from Luca and the gang to head there.
        Once you go to the cave (it’s located east of Rubiana), make your way down and there will be a cutscene with a shady puppeteer, and some part 2 foreshadowing. After all that, head to the lowest level and Voila! The blue chest will be unlocked (granted you have a thief with you).

        Sorry for the long-winded post, but after everything I went through trying to get that blasted chest open, I want to make it perfectly clear for anyone else who may be having trouble getting Chrome.

  51. Havin small graphical problem with win 10 my Pc is hooked on to my TV but every time I get the game to fullscreen It switches from modes on the tv to 16:9 and a small percentage of the game is not seen i can’t see the edges of the game it’s small stuff but it’s annoying.

    • Chiron Maximus

      I think it would be one of the new girls, somewhere along the lines of a perverted RPG, like Saki the Succubus Popstar, or maybe a silhouette of a certain new face in the game.

    • Anonymous

      Sonya? Ilias and Alice were both pretty big in the last game, but now that you can choose between them, it would seem weird to have a mascot that’s not with you all the time. Promestein has the same problem as Alice and Ilias even if she has her moe nerd librarian look now. Sonya is Tsundere Childhood Friend and she’s always with you but she’s only human right now and it would be weird for a mascot to show up in part 2 or 3 when it’s revealed she’s a monster or is made one by apoptosis or whatever horrible fate surely awaits her. So I guess we’re left with Nuruko or Hild? Nuruko will probably win out due to being a big breasted adorable bundle of tentacles that would make Nyarlathotep squee in delight but Hild has the charm of being all like, “I’m a murderous chaos cyborg but I’m innocent to the ways of the world like morality and emotions.”

      So of course the winner is Shinifa. It’s so obvious she is best girl with that gorgeous smile.

      • Chiron Maximus

        Tsundere? Sonya? She’s a bigger Tomboy than Sara, and she’s an all work, never play priestess. So tsundere ain’t gonna cut it.

      • Anonymous

        Wait, I’m confused. Are you saying Tsundere is too weak a term for Sonya or that it’s not appropriate? I get that Sara is a tomboy. After a long day of politics, she’s like, “Hey Luka, wanna fuck?” as if it’s no big deal but I always found Sonya really girly. Sure, she likes to play detective and go on adventures but she’s always looking after Luka, making sure he’s on time and that he doesn’t make stupid life choices like sewing his oats in every field of monster girls he finds. And then, whenever they have to do something scary like go into a dark place she chickens out and wants to leave. Or when she is in the town of perverts and finds them all disgusting repulsive people. Of course, if Luka does do something perverted like fall for a seduction or grope Don Dahlia’s tits, Sonya gets super pissed because the guy she likes, who she hasn’t admitted it to yet, is doing something she’s not okay with, like its her business or something. I mean, who cares if Luka wants a blowjob from an Orc? But Sonya buts in anyways which screams classic Tsundere behavior to me. I don’t know, maybe there is another level beyond it which mortals have yet to reach like SSGSS Goku.

        • Chiron Maximus

          Dude, she has deep feelings for him AND she’s a All-Work-Never-Play Preistess of the Goddess of Light, so of course she’s gonna have a fit if Luka gets flirted with or does something naughty/stupid.

  52. Anonymous

    How can I hack the game to change stuff? I want to have 0% EXP and JP on everyone for a challenge run. Do I need some tools?

    • Using RPG Maker VX Ace editor you can alter the backend scripts…

      Probably override: Game_Actor gain_exp


      class Game_Actor < Game_Battler
      def gain_exp(exp, cexp)
      # No EXP For You
      #change_exp(base_exp + (exp * final_exp_rate).ceil, true, :base)
      #change_exp(class_exp + (cexp * final_cexp_rate).ceil, true, :class)
      #change_exp(tribe_exp + (cexp * final_cexp_rate).ceil, true, :tribe)
      end
      end

      Commenting them out to get the effect you want… Have fun with Paradox in Paradox you masochistic

  53. Anonymous

    Hey Dargoth,

    I tried to patch the game, but I got an error box saying Error: Wrong Version. I’m trying to patch 1.02 to 1.21. Did anyone else have this issue and have a way around it? Thanks!

  54. Anonymous

    Wait, so let me get this straight: to update to the next patch(es), I have to decrypt the game all over again?

    As stated, I have 1.02.

    • Anonymous

      I’m sorry, I’m just *REALLY* confused and frustrated right now. I’m not too good with understanding how to keep this game patched and updated, and not sure why I can’t just find the download patch on the main page instead of digging through an ocean of 800+ comments to find the right link I need.

      • Anonymous

        OK, I think I finally got it. I removed the game.rgss3a file and copied the 1.02 to 1.21 clean patch into the MGQ Paradox directory; but when I tried to load the game I get an error: Unable to find file Graphics/Casino/PokerTrump

      • Anonymous

        I placed the RPG decrypter into the MGQ Paradox main directory folder to save some time, selected game.rgss3a, then selected extract all files, then deleted game.rgss3a.

        I apologize in advance for any frustration or confusion I may have caused; I’m probably stressing myself out or either misread/skipped a step.

      • Eh take a deep breath, now relax…

        1. So did you move all the decrypted files back into the main game directory?

        2. Copied everything from that 1.02 to 1.21 archive into the game directory? You should be overwriting files

        3. Copied everything from the Dargoth Manual archive into the game directory? You should be overwriting files

      • Anonymous

        I’ve attempted so many things in this folder several times it’s a jumbled mess right now. I honestly can’t remember what I did or what version I’m on. I might just have to delete the folder and start completely from scratch all over again back to 1.02. When I do this is what I’m going to do:

        1. Decrypt the game.rgss3a file into the main directory
        2. Delete the game.rgss3a file
        3. Extract the 1.02 to 1.21 patch into the main folder and overwrite everything

      • That or just download the latest and be done with it.

        However make sure you copy over your ‘Save” folder. In fact do yourself a huge favor and make a backup of that!

        Figuring out the process is one thing though loosing your progress is a different beast

      • Anonymous

        I would LOVE to do that; but unfortunately DL site has this stupid policy about deleting downloaded files after the first month or so; then you have to pay to download the whole thing all over again. >_<

      • element

        The poker trump error is caused by not putting the extracted files back into the original game. In the ex patch folder after you extract the files there should be a folder called extract copy and paste that into the clean 1.21 game, then copy paste the patch on top of it. After that delete game.rgss3a file and it should be good to go

      • Anonymous

        OK! Clean slate!

        I deleted that jumbled horrific mess of a folder I recently had and currently now have an english version of patch 1.02. Now to just take a calm deep breath, and need to know the next few steps to upgrade to patch 1.21

      • Anonymous

        Damn, I got another error. >_<

        Script (Japanese Symbols) ver1 line26: NameError occurred
        uninitialized constant Object::NWPatch

      • 0 – Decrypted Files, changed game.rgss3a, game still works? Good
        1 – Copy 1.02 to 1.21 files into game directory, overwrite files? Good
        2 – See if game runs, it will be untranslated but for this if it works it works? Good
        3 – Copy preferred manual patch into game directory, overwrite files? Good
        4 – See if game runs, this time it will be translated? Good
        5 – (Optional) If you backed up your ‘Save” folder copy it back into the game directory now

        If at any time you say this step isn’t good figure out what went wrong before proceeding to the next step

        Unless you know what your doing don’t cherry pick files & folders, they all go in the main game directory

      • Anonymous

        Ok, so far so good! I’m near the end of the forest! I’m currently at 1.21 patch (Japanese, Untranslated); but I can’t get past step 3. When I tried extracting Dargoths english patch into the main folder and running patch.exe, it says error: wrong version

      • Anonymous

        Nevermind; I got it! Used your Manual Patch and it works! I am now finally up to date with an english version of patch 1.21! Thank you very much for your time and patience helping me through this MGQ_EX, I apologize for the wall of text and any frustration I may have caused. Now for sure I know in the future I only need to decrypt the game.3gssa/whatever file ONCE and keep an eye out for your upcoming manual patches in the near future. Thank you so much all again. 🙂

      • Anonymous

        “I would LOVE to do that; but unfortunately DL site has this stupid policy about deleting downloaded files after the first month or so; then you have to pay to download the whole thing all over again. >_ [Left Sidebar: “Download History/Redownloads -> History: All] -> [Month Selector: Either the month you bought it in, or “All”] )

        I should know, I purchased it in April and redownloaded it this month.

      • Anonymous

        Whoa, that got garbled. Apparently, this blog doesn’t like what I did with parenthesis. Here in a hopefully less garbled version:

        Go to “My Page” in the upper left corner, then, in the left sidebar, select “Download History/Redownloads” and “History: All”
        On the page that follows, it offers you which month’s purchases you want to see – it defaults to the current month, but you can select either the month you bought MGQP, or you can just select “ALL”.

        I bought Paradox in April, I redownloaded it five days ago. You just have to deal with their… interesting UI.

    • Good questions…
      1 – Keeping The Game Updated;
      * Torotoro’s current update system is why this is a hassle, he offers patches to fix minor bugs and re-releases the whole game on important updates
      * As Dargoth works with translating he doesn’t take on the additional burden of keeping people updated and relies on Torotoro’s distribution system
      * I however if only a few files change well just download the changed files hence the link from the first post.
      2 – Keeping Up With Translation Patches;
      * As Dargoth relies on Torotoro’s distribution system he only released the automated patch to work with the current files (keeps people from crashing for not having files from the newest version)
      * I however am not fond of the automated patch so took the files it changed and made a manual hence the second link

      As for it being hard to find well it would be nice if it was put in the main news page…

      However you could also try the EX 0.5g
      http://pastebin.com/k9MNPZsb

  55. Anonymous

    “Using RPG Maker VX Ace editor you can alter the backend scripts…

    Probably override: Game_Actor gain_exp”

    Where can I find the editor? And where is that file with “Game_Actor gain_exp”?
    I managed to open files like “DatabaseTextEnglish” as text files but I can’t find it.

    • From the sea that is the internet… Perhaps where those that still fly the jolly roger… Just search for RPG Maker VX Ace

      As that is a script you won’t find it in the rvtext files. You will be messing with “DataScripts.rvdata2”

      Mistakes here can crash your game, so be a bit careful messing with the backend

      • Anonymous

        Thanks for your patience. I got Gemini and can now access all scripts. I went to Game_Actor and found “def gain_exp(exp)” on line 448. But I don’t understand which lines I should overwrite.

      • It gets overwritten a few scripts down, its a ruby thing…
        While looking over the scripts
        press: Ctrl + Shift + F
        (This will let you search all scripts, Ctrl + F searches the current script)
        enter: “def gain_exp(exp, cexp)” without quotes
        (This is the one Paradox uses, def is where the function is defined)

        Now as you simply want to nuder this well everything between def to end gets commented out. Review the post with the code section, copy that into notepad so you can see a template

        I can go on to say what each line does as there is only 3…
        1st change_exp handles the base level (F Power Levels comment this out)
        2nd change_exp handles the job level (F Job Levels comment this out)
        3rd change_exp handles the race level (F Races, its discrimination comment this out)

        Having a # in from of them comments the line out though I would add another comment right above it to
        A – Leave a note as to why you did it and B – easily find it if you want to change it back

        Now after battle the game will call gain_exp(exp, cexp) with the exp you won from battle however as nothing gets processed (you commented out the calculations) you don’t gain any exp

  56. Anonymous

    Why not just wait with all that until the game is completely translated? half the fun is to actually understand whats being said and not just look at the pictures.. watch a porn movie or two meanwhile or something lol..just saying 🙂

    • Anonymous

      Ironically that’s my plan all along. I just want to stay updated so I don’t fall behind. I still have a LOT of other games to finish before I tackle MGQ Paradox. 😀 (Elder Scrolls Online, Witcher 3: Death March!)

      • CivilDeviation

        Yeah that is the unfortunate part of inadvertently training one’s arousal to be paired with novelty it creates specific overused neuropathways with diminished returns. Add in changes in testosterone with aging and yeah… porn doesn’t do it all for a lot of us.

        • You’re not. I’m pretty sure mostly everyone plays for the story but the porn is a nice added bonus and honestly chrome’s scenes in jibberish english are far better fap material than any of the crap brazzers shits out.

    • Desert Eagle

      I am waiting. I’ve played through the game once. Now I’m waiting for a full translation so that I can start NG+. 🙂

  57. MGQ_EX add to the database the following description for <>
    [Accessory] Normal attack becomes “Random Attack”
    I forgot about this one and finally remembered now since I’m sure that item is in the current version of the game
    Also <> Desperate Attack
    <> [Accessory] Normal attack becomes “Desperate Attack”

    • Anonymous

      From what I’ve played, it adds a bit to the story. It used to stop at the bandit’s cave, but now it’s translated up until what I believe is the end of the slums.

    • Anonymous

      Well I was back to EX patch in half a day after starting new game. Though I must have fucked something up with translation since I had unstranslated parts even before slums

  58. Anonymous

    Which is the best difficulty to play PARADOX? Like when it’s challenging but still playable? The original trilogy was way too easy on normal and unbelievably well balanced and challenging in the best way possible on hard. PARADOX though has so many difficulty levels…. I don’t even know what to chose.

    • Anonymous

      If you do not have the habit of running away from most fights you don’t want to fight you will find normal difficulty veeery easy. Maybe the exception would be if you change party comp often.

      So aim for one of higher difficulties. You can always change that in the middle of the game anyway

    • Anonymous

      Difficulty = Time Grinding. This is how you choose. Do you want to grind for hours on Paradox or not at all on Very Easy. Most pick something in between to suit how much grinding they want to do

    • Anonymous

      Normal is actually a pretty good difficulty. The enemies aren’t too tough but they will still kill you if you’re underleveled or if you are goofing off. That being said, Paradox is a very exploitable RPG and it is pretty easy to turn your characters into death machines with the right skills, abilities and buffs, making most fights a cake walk. If you want to steam roll over enemies, take Very Easy or Easy. If you want a balanced experience take normal. If you feel you’re pretty competent and would like some challenging fights that require thought, take hard or very hard. Unless you like steep learning curves, I’d hold off on Hell and Paradox until you really know what you’re doing, like enemies’ weaknesses, where the best items can be found and good group tactics.

      • Anonymous

        so it’s hard or very hard then. I was just wondering if hell and paradox are impossible difficulties like hell was in the original trilogy. Well, anyway, thanks for the advice, guys.

    • Desert Eagle

      Play it on Hell mode. It’s still playable at that difficulty but still challenging enough. That’s the difficulty I chose and I’m not regretting it. You won’t get bored.

      I tried Paradox mode at first but after being raped by slime girls for two hours, I decided it just wasn’t going to work.

  59. Anonymous

    Question for sir EX,
    Is your latest patch (0.5g) compatible with Dargoth’s v1.21a patch? By compatible I mean if it adds your translations without overriding absolutely any translation made by Dargoth. If it is then I think you should be clear on that at the very top of the readme file. If it’s not, are you planning on releasing such patch soon?
    How does your patch compare to using ITH+TA ? What are the advantages?
    Sorry for all the questions but I couldn’t find the answers at your readme file.
    Thanks for your time.

    • At the moment they don’t overlap that way, its one or the other (as both overwrite critical files in different ways). Though a few comments back I did post a raw dialogue difference of Dargoth’s patch for EX 0.5g (The words raw apply as I’m not done with it)
      I’m reviewing what got added with Dargoth’s patch and plan to release an update when thats done.
      Your the first to ask that so I thought it was clear however perhaps I’ll add something to the readme later.
      As for time estimates perhaps by the end of the weekend if I don’t get to distracted however as I tend to help people out, easily wonder off to shiny things well, and after a few hours get tired of sitting looking at a light bulp (essentially what all monitors are)…
      For comparison perhaps a player that used either more frequently then me could comment however EX overwrites the text in game so your not looking at an external window plus it has some extra features if you read the readme such as full widescreen or a close fit to it. As for the quality of the translation well anything the was pulled from Dargoth’s patch, some of the items Fanservicefan posted, the works of Casian Sarpe Socaci, and anything I did will always be far better then raw google translate which was the initial base for EX. Though because EX externalizes the text on startup it is slower then Dargoth’s patch which just changes the internal data.
      Hope that answers your questions.

      • Anonymous

        Thanks for answering all of them and so quickly! 😀 I did read the readme (not the whole thing tho obviously) and the window features seem really cool. I wonder if Dargoth will implement that in the future. I assume it doesn’t conflict with any of the edited files so it should be a plain and simple addition to the patches.
        I’d love to install your patch but since for now I must choose between yours and Dargoths there’s really not much of a choice. I’m really looking foward to your next update so I will finally be able to play on a decent sized game window! (since I use ITH+TA I can’t play on fullscreen)
        Once more thanks for your time and effort!

      • Anonymous

        Sry to bother you again, just a quick question. Do you know if there’s a monster item steal + item drop list somewhere? I lurked for a bit and didn’t found anything so I’m currently making one myself but it would be a waste of time if there’s one already.

      • Not a problem, though on the first page of the comments I did update the manual patch I made for Dargoth’s 1.21a patch with a mod that would add that functionality and from comparing the scripts translated a few things that where not in Dargoth’s patch (Like achievements and some menu items) so if your bored and don’t want to switch perhaps try that.

      • There is no steal and item drop list probably because you get that info ingame in the Library. Grandork’s lists consist of what each class and race learns, skills and abilities. So go for it, no one made one yet or mentioned the intention of making one.

      • Anonymous

        The mod is great! I managed to resize the window multiple times until it got to the exact size I wanted without a single crash. As for Grandork’s guide, it’s not exactly what I was looking for but quite useful info as well. I will keep making my guide/list then. It will probably help someone in the future.
        Thanks again!

  60. Anonymous

    I’m having some problems with the latest EX patch. You see, I have version 1.20 patched with EX 0.5a, and I recently got ahold of a separate copy of version 1.21. I patched the 1.21 with 0.5g and transferred my saves from 1.20. What happened next was that the 0.5g patched 1.21 couldn’t play my saves from 0.5a 1.20! Right now I’m trying to mess around and find a fix.

  61. *Error – v1.21.00 – 2015-08-07 18:15:14 (Friday)
    Exception : NoMethodError
    undefined method `+’ for nil:NilClass
    trace:
    [“( ベース/Window ):712:in `display_use_item'”, “( トリス修正J ver7 ):179:in `display_use_item'”, “( トリス修正J ver7 ):224:in `use_item'”, “( Scene_Battle ):573:in `execute_action'”, “( ベース/Scene ):449:in `process_action'”, “( Scene_Battle ):48:in `update'”, “( Scene_Base ):14:in `main'”, “( ベース/Module ):129:in `run'”, “( 【WF-RGSS】Exit-EX 終了処理 ):118:in `run'”, “( 【WF-RGSS】Exit-EX 終了処理 ):127:in `block in ‘”, “:1:in `block in rgss_main'”, “:1:in `loop'”, “:1:in `rgss_main'”, “( 【WF-RGSS】Exit-EX 終了処理 ):127:in `'”, “ruby:in `eval'”]

    What’s my problem ?

    • Not exactly sure Nikolay Gavrichev, so this happened when using an item or a skill? If so do you know what the item/skill was and who you where using it on? Any chance you have a save that can easily recreate this error? Also what patch version is this for?

      • I start ng+ with save from previos game version. When i patched jap ver 1.21 half of characters have no names. The problem is , when i play with them and they start attack this
        Exception : NoMethodError
        undefined method `+’ for nil:NilClass
        trace:
        [“( ベース/Window ):712:in `display_use_item’”, “( トリス修正J ver7 ):179:in `display_use_item’”, “( トリス修正J ver7 ):224:in `use_item’”, “( Scene_Battle ):573:in `execute_action’”, “( ベース/Scene ):449:in `process_action’”, “( Scene_Battle ):48:in `update’”, “( Scene_Base ):14:in `main’”, “( ベース/Module ):129:in `run’”, “( 【WF-RGSS】Exit-EX 終了処理 ):118:in `run’”, “( 【WF-RGSS】Exit-EX 終了処理 ):127:in `block in ‘”, “:1:in `block in rgss_main’”, “:1:in `loop’”, “:1:in `rgss_main’”, “( 【WF-RGSS】Exit-EX 終了処理 ):127:in `’”, “ruby:in `eval’”]
        always happened. So, any suggestions?

      • There was a name error going from EX to Dargoth’s or Original. EX 0.5g added a few rename functions to correct this.

        Use EX 0.5g and do this:
        1 – Load Save with actors that aren’t showing their names correctly
        2 – Go To Pocket Castle 1F South (If already there leave then return)
        3 – By the large door to the left is a sparkly scroll
        4 – MGQ_EX Extra Menu, Select Rename Actors, Clean Up Actors, Custom ‘Actor List.txt’
        5 – Save your game

        Note: Actor List.txt needed to be in the main game directory.
        You could also use Restore All Default Names

        That will restore all actors to the defaults used in Dargoth’s 1.21a patch
        Should also fix display_use_item error as it will correct the subject line throwing the exception.

      • Chiron Maximus

        You need the latest EX patch written over Dargoth’s 1.21 patch in order to get everything working again, right?

      • I don’t know I have separate versions and always keep the latest version clean and archived. EX doesn’t have this problem Dargoth’s does. Heck I don’t even play anymore I just keep it for viewing how the descriptions look been a long time since I actually sat down and played since every job and race available to Luka and Alice are already mastered and every job up to the Soldier mastered for everyone else except the new additions like the BFers scat captan panties teacher pilate the sabasa and san ilia generals. All that would be left if the Chaos Dungeon but I honestly don’t find it that appealing since it seems pretty unfair in power balance. I don’t plan on tackling it till the level cap is removed and the other classes and races are available especially the fallen angel race that’s probably where you get Daystar which was my favorite skill in the original.
        And from what I read, some of MGQ_EX’s comments overwriting with EX over Dargoth’s causes errors so it’s best to either have one or the other. Or both but not on the same version of the game.

  62. Anonymous

    kind of a noob question, is there some kind of quest log in the game or not?
    because if there is i sure as hel can not find it.

  63. Does anyone know if you can find a recruitable Onahole Girl in the game? I have seen her several times within the labyrinth but she is the only monster that I had not seen prior to 1.2 so I was wondering if I had just missed her when I was doing the story.

  64. Anonymous

    Hey i gotta ask , i downloaded it from hentaibedta its a 1.21 version but i cant patch it, cuz it says , wrong version, what to do , pls help q.q

  65. Jam

    Hey, does anyone know how to unlock the ninja and the berserker jobs? I can’t seem to find a guide on how to obtain all of the intermediate jobs anywhere.

    • Actually Ninja I think comes from the Chaos Labyrinth, I’m pretty sure I seen it in the files I was looking over 🙂 once all this is done and I’m done with the next patch I’m going for god

      • Not so much an item… You got to go through Nanabi’s boot camp, and she only teaches you one thing per visit so you got to meet her multiple times to learn everything and multiple more times if you want everyone to learn as she will also only teach one person per visit 😛

        Common Events/969:イベント:七尾/Page 01/002
        face: nanabi_fc1, 0
        [Nanabi]
        After the Beginner Course, Ninjitsu is available.
        Rudimentary Ninjitsu you will also be able to learn.

      • Jam

        Alright, thanks for the reply! So what exactly is this chaos labyrinth and Nanabi’s boot camp? I’ve played through the whole game so I may have been there but don’t quite remember it.

      • Not a problem. In the Chaos Labyrinth (Talk with Death as its a new feature) they added some random events to spice it up and make you actually want to take the challenge.

        Some rare items and skills can only be gotten from there. So at random some character will appear to teach you something and Nanabi is one of them. If you take her Beginner Course (Aka initial Boot Camp for new ninja recruits) you get access to Ninjitsu, and the ability to learn lower skills from her though you have to do this multiple times. There is also an Advanced Course to learn even more powerful Ninjitsu skills.

      • Jam

        Okay, thanks. Where can I find death? Is it that girl with the scythe who’s in that room where you go when you die?

      • Yep, thats her. After you get far enough in the game to pick up the “Key of Hades” you can go there from Iliasville Temple, the place you change jobs, just go one floor up and have a look at the wall thats guarded for no good reason.

      • Sounds like a pain to get. Let’s see if I understand. So after you meet Nanabi in the chaos labyrinth the Ninja class becomes available to just 1 person and you can only learn skills one by one by meeting her inside the labyrinth and not through job mastering?

      • It sure does 🙂 And this is only Part 1… If we are lucky perhaps 10-15 patches per chapter so maybe 50 more parches to go… I’m sure this will be expanded on sometime later. I highly doubt the labyrinth will only have 300 or so floors… the funs just getting started

        So enter the labyrinth, randomly hope the character with the skills you want to learn appears, learn 1 skill for 1 actor, rinse and repeat until you either go insane or master everything.

      • NOPE! There’s 162(I think) characters and 10 skills to learn. That’s 1620 approx trips through the labyrinth to get them for everyone and that’s without taking into consideration the random nature of Nanabi’s appearance. The skills aren’t that strong either. I pity the one who has that completionist obligation to get everything. I have that too but I’m not going that far.

      • Hehehe… As I said they plan to expand 🙂 Chaos Labyrinth God achievement is obtained at LV 200 (and once I’m done I’m taking a break to do just that), and I’m sure they will freshen it up when Part 2 comes out and it will probably get even more love when Part 3 comes out.

        It was meant to test your soul, or eat away at it whichever comes first

  66. Anonymous

    hey guys n gals, ive recently switched to windows 8 from xp but for some reason it doesn’t like chiitrans lite at all and keeps coming up with server error every time it tries to translate even with atlas v14 which its not recognizing as being installed. can someone suggest a program combination that will work please.

    • Desert Eagle

      ITH (Interactive Text Hooker) + Translation Aggregator + TAHelper. Use substitution plugin as well if you’re capable of identifying a japanese word.

  67. Anonymous

    Dargoth did you and your team added some extra lines in the english translation request scenes in the castle? for some reason the scenes last longer now (which i think is a good thing)

    i also don’t recall the imps calling you boss and stuff 😛

    • Yes, they took the raw data and spiced it up in their own special way 🙂 Took quite a bit to go through as some of it didn’t line up properly, a few minor errors, etc… and I still have so much more data to parse through

  68. Xoverguy

    Ok I am a bit stumped here, but more in terms of a specific item. Where can you find the Combat Item known as Grimoire Page? It’s an item that Promestein uses as ammo for her elemental page skills in her Magical Librarian Job. I tried searching in the normal town shops but only found Shurikens. I also tried stealing from the Page monster girls in the Library but so far no dice. Any help on this would be gratefully appreciated. Thanks in advance.

      • Xoverguy

        Thanks a lot for the answer. It definitely steered me in the right direction. To be specific to the rest of those who might be looking for the same, I specifically went back to the Cathedral Library and recruited Yoko, whom is the magic book with a huge stone hand behind her. After you recruit her you have to maximize her “Magic Book” race level to 10 and then she will learn Page Creation. If you want the unlimited surplus of Grimoire Pages to rain hell on anything (Except Archangels in the apparent bad future), you’ll have to work for it so to speak.

        Speaking of Archangels, despite me not thinking it will be possible until part 2 at the very least, but is there anybody here that has tried to fight and beat the Archangles? If so, I would like to hear what you figured out. Do they still have the “Only Luka can kill them due to an angelic barrier” gimmick that was shown in the original? If anybody finds a youtube link of an attempt, I would love to see that too if possible. Thanks a lot for the info on the Grimoire Pages, though. I really appreciate it. Have a nice day everybody.

        • Archangels can be beaten and even farmed. I know I did so in an attempt to get them to drop items. From what I remember Luka was my damage dealer but I’m not sure if the others did any damage at all to the angels. I remember everyone but Luka bit the dust and I kept going like that because I was doing it only to have them drop items, which they don’t. I’m pretty sure you can beat either of them if you have Gnome and Sylph you’re good to go and something to really hurt them I’m not sure what I used maybe something with the Dark element? I usually go with Purifying Light since my Luka is quite doped with seeds and such.

          • Chiron Maximus

            The archangels take heavy damage from Pleasure, since they’re angels, also the snake one takes more cold damage and the one with the snake hair takes more Lightning damage, but Pleasure is your best bet. So, use Luka or another team member to get that defense up for the whole team, cause both hit the entire team and can hit hard, and them nail em with pleasure and powerful normal skills, or skills with the element they’re weak against. If you can’t raise defense, then raise agility or evasion for the team and they can dodge, but defense or evasion boost, you have to make sure to us pleasure attacks mainly, as it will drop them fast. They’re tough and a bitch and a half to fight, but they give the most job XP bonus than any reoccurring monster in Chapter one. When Chapter two comes out, there’ll be better monsters, but for now, the archangels are the best bet for fast job growth. If you need regular Xp as well as job XP, then go to the Safaru Ruins, near the entrance of the building in the second area, as Sandworms and Sand traps there can give 10 XP a pop.
            Wow, I really went to town on this. Hope it helps.

            • Chiron Maximus

              Well, this was my method until I recently got the patch, and I just gotten Luka’s new race, and I’m gonna do a bit more farming before I continue. Good to know in the future though. Thanks!

            • No you should continue, beef up Luka’s willpower, give him a holy staff (in Lucia’s tower, give him a royal crown archangel bra and a convert ring + convert magic ability. Mow down everything with Purifying Light.

            • Chiron Maximus

              Ok, got the tip, but I will still have to do some grinding, cause I just got lowly angel for Luka and I”m farming the archangels for some jobs. He’s rank now and I’ll have him finish up soon, then I’ll have him take High Angel, Valkyrie and Cupid, and along the Way, do some jobs that’ll grant more willpower, so when the time comes, I will mow them down. Also, I have promestein, with max levels on all Angel Races available for now, in my team, so I will have two sets of Purifying light, instead of one.

    • Fozze

      Dont quote me on this, but i think its an item you make. Some class should be able to make them for 10 mana each if i remember correctly.

  69. silverlik

    hi, i’m wondering, untill where in the game is it patched, because i’m playing the game, and after a decent part of the story, everything became japanese again. so i was wondering untill what part in the game is it patched?

  70. lythka

    why is it that certain files, from upgrading to overwriting of patch 1.02 to 1.21a, are all scattered? The post is so disorganized, missing some of the patches. To top it up, all solutions are all found at the comment section. Heck!, even instructions on the comments are all messed up. It’s very frustrating that it makes me laugh

    Is it even possible for someone to make all information in one post? Even for the very least, show each step properly & what to download. Even if your way of words are bad. please, just be clear. I beg of you! someone!
    Oh. and, please use ” “. I even messed up merging 1.21 to 1.02 knowing that “1.21 to 1.02” is a whole file

    • because… this is dargoth’s blog, and he’s not making the EX patch, or the method for people to upgrade stolen version of the game, if you paid for the game, using an account at dlsite, you just download the game there, and it’s up to date, so you install the dlsite version, and dargoth’s patch works on it. No further instructions needed. All the other comments are helping people with stolen versions upgrade, because they don’t have a legit copy on the site where it’s for sale, and are doing their own machine translated version, while also not being dargoth.
      Clear?

    • Anonymous

      thats right you have no right to bitch about anything. all these retarded noobs who can’t even follow simple steps… sigh.. thats what makes me laugh.

      just buy the fucking game and you won’t have any problems.

      • JohnTitor

        The issues are caused by the upgrade patch, whether you applied it wrong or something went wrong.

        You don’t need to buy the game to not have issues with it, just download v1.21 and apply the translation patch.

  71. Let’s see I got a few questions how do you get the Exhausted and Frightened Imp panties and milk? Are these versions of the Imps in the labyrinth? and finally does the Imp in the labyrinth use Omega Blaze because the normal ones on the overworld map don’t seem to have enough MP to cast it. I’m only asking the last question because I’m such a glutton for punishment and I’m sure there will be a “Hit by x techniques” achievement. It’s a MGQ tradition. I’m just planning ahead.

    • For the finally the answer is yes as they are of an entirely different breed some could even contend with Monster Lords in their own realms, now go forth and get punished 😛 Though I haven’t finished with the changes to ScriptText from 1.21 that dealt with a lot of their battle cries… ah so much still to do

      • Yea I’ve seen the script file and it’s huge compared to the database. How long do you estimate till the next EX patch? I’m still looking through the database looking for things I might be able to make sense of and I corrected Daystar’s messages and some of the tentacle enemy skill messages but still not really making any progress with the “sexy stuff” I don’t think I got what it takes to make it sound appealing or understand what the actual message describes that’s happening. I still wanna know what “brute man stir”, “blame” and “potash” refer to these sound so silly during rape scenes…

      • Eh depends on how much I want to cram in though I’m hoping to have something either later tonight (use the last island on the far edge of the planet for time tables :P) or before Monday. Dialogues is updated, I’m parsing through the Database now but for things that aren’t matching up well I’m cherry picking as I cross reference with the Japanese database (other then for a select few I’m using E-SSS ranks that the original uses, I can easily verify them not so much with the percentages), the backend equations are nice but with a couple thousand entries I’m going with how it appears, after that I probably glance through ScriptText to see if anything significant was changed. So many tens of thousands of lines left to go…

      • By the way, where are the entries for the library stored and the additional info for the weapons and armors that appear when you press “A”. I could probably clean up the enemy skills as some of them look like garbage due to Google and there’s the thing that bugs me where if an armor has elemental damage reduction it says for example WaterAttributeTolerance x%
        Although I can’t see it all the time somewhere in my subconscious that really bugs me. As for the monsterpedia I’m sure I could just copy the descriptions for the monster girls that appear in the original from rogue’s monsterpedia translation. I just looked at the Slime Girl’s Monsterpedia entry and it seems to be exactly the same as the original. So if you could tell me where I can find these descriptions I could potentially fix all the nonsensical Google descriptions since it’s just typing from one source to the other. I also checked and Dargoth’s version is still untranslated.

      • The Library shouldn’t add much more details to the items, other then for where they came from.. I’m probably wrong on that eh good questions 🙂 If anything is additional it might come from notes though most of it should be pulled from the database

        Job Descriptions
        JobChange/1/note0

        Actor/Enemy Descriptions
        actor_description/1/note
        enemy_description/1/note

        Presents (Response to Love/Hate)
        present/actor/

        Custom Skill Phrases
        SkillWords(Actor)/
        SkillWords(Enemy)/

        Special Names From Notes
        WarpPlaces/
        TRAN/NWConstLibrary/PLACE/
        TRAN/NWConstLibrary/RACE_SPECIAL_NAME/
        TRAN/NWConstLibrary/SKILL_SPECIAL_NAME/
        TRAN/NWConstLibrary/ENEMY_SPECIAL_NAME/

      • No the Library doesn’t add any details to equips except where they’re found. I’m not sure where the pop-up window draws the info from because if it were from the notes in the database the info would still be in japanese. What I’m asking is in which of the 3 files can I find the Monsterpedia entries (Database, Scripts or Dialogues)

      • Ok I found the monsterpedia entries but this will take a while since there’s a fair amount of text to copy. And it has to be done manually. I’ll only replace the script entries that seem to be identical to the original. For example the imp ones don’t 100% match from what I can tell. I probably won’t be able to do much till Tuesday when I’m at work again. There’s always peace and quiet over there and I can work a lot better than I do at home.I’ll keep track of which entries I edit and mail you the list and the script file when it’s done.

    • Chiron Maximus

      First you have to talk to the harpy near the beds in the inn of the haprie’s home near happiness Village (The town with the big tree next to it, you enter the tree), then you go to where you save Hans and fight the Bunny slime, there will be a sparkle on the spot you have to go on for the cutscene to play, then you go to the Sacred Mountain Amos. There may be another cutscene that plays when you get there, it played for me and if it does play for you, prepare your tear ducts, then you go to the top and find the sparkle, like before. After that, you will have to wait until Chapter 2 comes out.

  72. Anonymous

    Can someone please tell me how to display wolrd map? the guard in ilias temple tells me to press button 8 but i tried every button on my keyboard without any result :/

    • Chiron Maximus

      You must have the setting on display gamepad. go through the settings until you find the word gamepad, then click it to set it to keyboard.

    • Anonymous

      ok seems to be a problem with the ex 0.5g patch i tried to reinstall the game and tried to display the map step by step and it failed when i installed ex 0.5g

      • Yep seems like it, I checked it on both versions, Dargoth’s version has a world map EX version doesn’t. MGQ_EX will probably fix it after he’s done implementing Dargoth’s translated dialogues.If we bug him enough 😛

      • Actually I’m finishing up things now. That bug was in the Language File System, what happens is a blank message is to display until someone presses a button to close the map however it wasn’t displaying the blank message… Will be fixed in the next update

        Any feature request or other bugs while I’m writing up the changes in the readme?

      • MGQ EX 0.5h
        http://pastebin.com/k9MNPZsb

        Bug fixes, updates, and all the good things… Now lets break it 😛

        Special Thanks To Casian Sarpe Socaci for his outstanding help with the database.

        Cleaned up EX Readme, hopefully it is more clear also archived any History item before EX 0.5 to save space.

        • Chiron Maximus

          … I don’t know if I should download this or not. I’m not having any issues at the present, but can you tell me this will fix some of the problem I might have in the future?

      • Eh hard to say on that one Chiron Maximus, that’s more philosophical… Though as I plan to keep moving forward you either keep with what you know as there is safety in such practice, you might be tortured but at least you know how big the dildo is where if you try the next version, it could be a nicer experience or the dildo could triple in size however each new version tries to fixes bugs though it is possible new bugs will be introduced and the cycle repeats. Now if you want better dialogue and bug fixes well this one you can use the map feature, Dargoth translated some of the earlier scenes that people love which got introduced in the version, some areas where cleaned up so they are legible, and I’m sure it fixed a few underlining things people haven’t noticed yet. I recommend updates as if you report a bug on an old version and it got fixed in the newest one well that is a bug neither of us had to deal with.. Report all bugs and hopefully with each update sooner or later they all get squashed or a work around to make them tolerable

        • Chiron Maximus

          Ok, 1) a little weirded out by the dildo thing. 2) Really weirded out by the Dildo thing. 3) By what you say, I guess I’ll just upgrade when they come out and report any trouble in my side.

      • Chiron here’s what you do. Always have a clean decrypted japanese copy with your save folder in it. Keep it separately and don’t patch it. Make a copy of it and use the patch on it. Do this every time you want to update to a new version of the patch just to be sure you don’t screw up your game if you’re that afraid of copying over new patches. Honestly ever since the EX patch got around I’ve had very few errors that eventually were fixed in a matter of days.
        @MGQ_EX I’ve sent you the Script file with the Monsterpedia entries that could be brought here from the original. What is it specifically that I should be looking at between the h and h rc1 versions? I’m rather confused. They both seem to be ok looking although there’s something aesthetic that really needs to be corrected. The fact that you made the descriptions be 4 lines long makes the description box overlap with the abilities box. If you can you should shrink that box by 1 line so they don’t overlap anymore. Also since the 4 line description box effect I’ll have to go back to the database file and add punctuation to the descriptions. They look very unprofessional now and I don’t like that. There’s also one thing that I’m not sure how to fix. The Oracle skills that have random in their description even though they had a full line space between Random and the rest of the description they appear in 1 line instead of two and again it looks amateurish and idk not appealing.

        • Chiron Maximus

          Honetly, I just don’t know anymore. So much work to stay safe, and I really do like this game, but I’m starting to get overwhelmed. Even if I got a new japanese copy of the game, my save data is already patched with ex and such.

            • Chiron Maximus

              Ok, I’ll download a fresh japanese copy and copy my saves into it, but I do have a question. because of my cautious nature, I made a copy of my game before putting the most recent EX patch into it. So, when I download a fresh japanese copy, should I copy my saves form the game copy with the EX patch, or the one before the ex patch?

      • Either one should work just fine after all the EX patch does have an option that fixes save files. Don’t ask how it fixes them that’s something only MGQ_EX can answer. But if there’s no difference in progress and you want to be extra safe use the one you haven’t played with EX. also, don’t forget to decrypt the game.rgss3a(I can’t get that extension right) move the extracted stuff into the game folder and delete it or move it. After that you have a clean copy that you can copy and apply upcoming patches. Also I’m pretty sure the saves from a japanese copy are no different than the ones from an EX copy. But I could be wrong.

        • Chiron Maximus

          OK. I’m redownloading a fresh japanese copy of 1.02 and I’ll decrypt when It’s done. One final question, regarding the copies I have already. should I keep them for any reason or just toss them?

          • Well I see no point in keeping them. After all EX 0.5 h includes everything skill item and equips related from Dargoth’s patch and idk what else but definetly more content from his patch. Next one will contain some encyclopedia descriptions since I sent them to MGQ_EX already and who knows what else we’ll include after that. Don’t download 1.02 download 1.21

            • Chiron Maximus

              Right. Forgot. Also, while I do respect your advice and opinions. I’m going to keep them. That way, I can still follow your advice, but I’ll also feel safer i I still have my playable versions.

            • There’s absolutely no harm in keeping them but I thought about saving space since I used to have a small HDD before and each copy takes about 1.2GB of space. Even if that’s not your case. Ever since I started using EX I had very few errors. One was by port natalia, crashed after a battle, was fixed very quickly after that, next 2 or 3 crashes were my fault since I edited the database and Wordpad didn’t save the japanese characters and instead turned them into question marks. Next 3 crashes were again my fault since MGQ_EX posted a save for testing purposes that had an airship in it and I went to places that aren’t yet implemented in the game. And finally there was a save game error as in I couldn’t load my 313h save at all and that was also fixed. Apart from those I never had any crashes at all that happened because of the patch. EX was pretty stable for me.

            • Chiron Maximus

              Ok. I;m going to move my save data over to the fesh japanese copy after I decrypt everything. then, I will start up the copy that has the EX patch and go through the story using the guide. If I run into any errors, I will let you know immediately.

    • Desert Eagle

      Keep trying. Some monsters are more difficult to recruit than others. You just have to keep at it. (There are items and abilities that can increase the odds of recruitment though.)

      Personally, I had trouble recruiting the Sandworm Girl. That took a long time.

      • Chiron Maximus

        I found that alternating between normal and pleasure attacks when defeating them helps recruit them faster, because I noticed sometimes when I defeat some monsters with pleasure, even if their affinity isn’t that high, they’ll ask to join. Try beating her a few times with pleasure attacks and see where that takes you,.

      • Desert Eagle

        I dunno… That sounds more like a myth. Is there an actual mechanic for pleasure attacks increasing the odds of recruitment?

        I mean, I could defeat an enemy without taking any damage and then they would offer to join with me. That doesn’t mean perfect performance increases the odds of recruitment. It’s just a coincidence in a random chance.

      • Anonymous

        The first time I met a candle girl I was way too weak so I couldn’t afford to rise her affinity and went straight for the kill. Ended up defeating her with a pleasure attack from Lime and recruited her. She only had 27 affinity or something and still asked to join me. It was not only the first time since the begining that I defeated an enemy with a pleasure attack (Lime is not on my fight team) but also the first time someone with such low affinity asked to join me.
        I honestly didn’t even thought it could be related to the pleasure attack until I read this post but now I’m starting to wonder. Might be just a coincidence…

  73. Anonymous

    Just wondering, is there some sort of bonus for getting max Affinity from talking to the various monster girls besides increased recruitment rate? Like an achievement or some sort of conversation that has an affinity threshold requirement? I know they give you items sometimes, but anything besides that?

    Also, I was wondering if the abilities that affect EXP types affect the whole party or just the individual using them? I’ve been staying away from playing through the whole thing since it’s not fully translated; and as great as the EX patch is, I would like a better understanding of the story before I proceed, so I haven’t really put in the time to experiment with numbers yet. If someone could enlighten me it would be greatly appreciated.

    • Desert Eagle

      EXP effects usually only affect a single individual.

      If you want to be sure, you can make sure of that by checking their statuses. Under Basic Info –> Adv.Stats, you can find a character’s XP rate. If it’s 100%, it’s normal.

    • The only EXP related thing that affects your entire party are songs. And those I think only affect the ACTIVE party members not those in reserve. As for abilities yes they only affect the party member equipped with them. Same goes for the wrists, shoes and bracelets with the same effects as the abilities.

      • Purple Haze

        Yep, I’m using Saki as my main singing dancing prostitute and equipped all my reserves with EXP items or abilities. Even without the EXP song, her other songs and dances are still very vital so far. That, and how can you bench such a sparkling face..

      • Purple Haze

        I still haven’t done any Chaos Labyrinth (I should probably try Sphinx out first), but I do imagine myself still using the Regen songs, But I do not know what this Daisy Bell is you speak of,

        • Daisy Bell is a song the Vocaloid race learns. I can’t say what it actually dies because I’m not sure and I can’t look at the description right now but I assume it raises Mag and Willpower since holyarts do more damage afterwards

      • Desert Eagle

        Yes, Saki is a great girl, isn’t she? I can’t fit her in my team though; Nuruko’s already filling the prostitute role and I’m not taking her out.

        Saki sparkle!~☆

      • Purple Haze

        I see, I might have to consider that for my Purifying Light bringer Illias. And yes! I have the exact problem with Nuruko on my end, can’t seem to fit her in yet. I might just save her for the NG+.

      • Purple Haze

        Holy Moses, that IS sweet! Combine it with ATK/MAG Up and that should do some diabolical pains. Damn you vocaloid…

        • Yes but your vocaloid has to have the SP for it since it costs 7 SP to cast. I turned Luka into my main damage dealer since he mastered all jobs and races and didn’t need exp or job exp anymore. So Holy Rod, Archangel Bra, Royal Crown, Convert Ring, Medium as job, Cupid as Race, Holy Boost 15% ability, Magic Convert ability+Daisy Bell=1 hit KO for Honey Pots. That’s over 12k damage in 1 hit. I’m pretty sure you can do this with Ilias as well or with Promestein. I don’t like Ilias very much especially after I went with her to the Chaos Labyrinth. On one floor she said something like “One day the power of chaos will be in my hands” and that really bothered me because we all know what she did in the original trilogy e.e

      • Purple Haze

        Yes, indeed. That’s why I’m hoping something will go horribly wrong for her near the end of the trilogy. As in “Thank you for lending me your power and your lovely banter, now you may die.” for example. I certainly did not expect Luka to turn into an angel so early on, otherwise I probably would’ve stuck with Alice. I was thinking SP wouldn’t be such a problem with Battle SP Start Up, thinking it was a class ability, but sadly it’s not. So that’s gonna take 1-2 turns before I can use it after the Regen song. I’ve been walking almost the same path with my Illias, only things I’m missing are the Archangel Bra and her being a medium, I’m still doing the other Will based classes. Small medals are such a pain, even with 2x Item Drop and Begging for Items.

        • Well if you get crazy like me and start leveling everyone up and max their jobs out they won’t be a problem anymore. Honey pots and mimics drop them and seeds for exp and job exp so it’s a win-win situation. I say don’t beg for items just go for the kill if your party isn’t well prepared Honey Pots can be quite troublesome. Mimics are less of a pain to be honest if you have the scythe skill Darkness Seal Formation or any other skill with Ghost Killer attached to it, there should be one Heroes can learn too it’s called Undead Slicer maybe that would work better if your Luka is on the melee path,

      • Purple Haze

        Oh no worries about that, Honeypots are dead before they even have any chance to scream. That’s why I have the luxury to Beg for Items while Singing about Luck. It’s just the usual story that sometimes I won’t see a Small Medal for hours.

  74. Anonymous

    so when will the combat text, talk stuff be translated priority wise, as it’s a bit disconcerting to be fighting when half the stuff is untranslated.

    • Anonymous

      I’m curious about this as well. Personally, I have no intention of touching the game until the combat text/dialogue is translated, so know how it’s weighted on the priority list would be nice.

    • That will take a while, a long while. there’s approx 600k lines in total for battle text and dialogue together. 309899 for battle text and present responses each entry has 4 lines out of which 2 don’t need to be translated 1 is a blank line that serves as spacing the other is the name of the entry that’s already in English. So 2 sometimes 3 to translate.
      334533 lines for dialogues. each entry consists of 5 lines, 1 is blank that serves as spacing 1 is the name of the entry and the other 3 are the name of the person talking and 2 lines of dialogue.
      This is a rough approximation using the files from the EX patch but I think you can get the general idea of how much text there is to translate.

  75. Anonymous

    Is Mary (first BFer bugged in this version? I beat her, but it won’t allow me to recruit her. Every other one works so far.

    • Chiron Maximus

      You have to recruit almost all other Battle Fuckers before you can recruit her. I think you need just 10 or 15, but try to get all of them, just to be safe.

    • You need to defeat 15 BF-ers in order to recruit Mary but honestly I don’t recommend recruiting them for one reason and one reason alone. After you recruit them they won’t be there anymore and in your next playthrough you can’t visit them and do BF in order to have them in your teleport list from the pocket castle. I honestly regret recruiting them since they’re not all that spectacular.

      • Anonymous

        None of that is true. You can still go to them for Battle Fucks and on a New Game + you can still use them and they appear in your teleport list once they do. Perhaps you should actually try doing this before apparently pulling things from your ass

      • Ok I apologize for misinforming, that was what I noticed. I didn’t notice until now why it happened. Some of them appeared some did not, the ones that did not appear were in my current party and I didn’t notice and thought it was just how it goes.
        @Anonymous I’m pretty sure I’m not the first to pull things out of his ass so calm your tits I made a mistake.

      • CivilDeviation

        Easy mistake given the bugs, the translation changes, patches, and our own perceptions on game often unclear game mechanics. That said, please don’t be shy about posting, you’ve given some really helpful game insight in the past.

      • Jam

        Might I add that if having them in your teleport list is what you’re concerned about (since you can teleport to them in order to reach areas quickly), with a time mage’s “warp” skill you can teleport to any town or city that you’ve visited before; they also have a skill that teleports you out of dungeons.
        Far more useful than relying on the BFers’ teleport feature.

        • And then there’s harpy wings and escape ropes. I know about those don’t worry but I don’t usually have time mages around and I’m very stingy with everything by nature, that’s why I relied on them a lot

    • CivilDeviation

      Depends on how you build them, personally I like Alice and Illias when using their perspective Dark Magic and Holy magic with appropriate race and job…. That said it is always good to have a few skills that return MP if you want to try the Chaos dungeon. Correct me if I am wrong, but magus fist, black mage, and alchemist have a few mp returning abilities.

  76. kore

    Hey just wanted to stop in and say thank you, I am a massive fan of this series and am not exaggerating when I say that if not for people like you and Rogue I would have never gotten to enjoy them at all. thank you so much for doing all this.

  77. goten1986

    I have a Japanese 1.21 version, but whenever I try to use the patch I get like this “Unhandled exception error” thing. Help please. 🙁

    • You keep your level job and race mastery for all your characters, all your money, all your key items, all your items, all your weapons, all your armors, all your accessories, affection for monster girls, all your recruits except for Alice/Ilias, you can’t have both at the same time. Yes you can do side quests again. The only thing I noticed that reset are Vanilla and Papi’s shops. Also all treasure chests are refilled so are drawers closets and pots you can get items from.

  78. jchris1_2000

    Should be fun to see how some characters recruit or work out, I could only get dark elf to join and not the mage but then got the mage class so just change her job over 🙂 Like Alice the apprentice hero I am working on 🙂

  79. Anonymous

    Just wait dargoth your going to get a ton translated and right before you make a translation patch a surprise patch will get dropped on us by Torotoro again adding new content and changing the line numbering and map names again

      • DungeonMasterBobbySmith

        Hey Casian Sarpe Socaci,
        I read that apparently at one time, you received a save with an airship.
        Is that airship natrually part of the game, or did MGQ_EX add it?
        If it is already part of the game, where do you obtain it at?

        When I heard of this I immediately thought of the boss ships from “Super Mario Bros. 3”.
        http://www.mariowiki.com/images/4/43/Airship.gif

        • MGQ_EX said every RPG Maker game has its own version of the ship it’s something that’s implemented in the program I guess and PAradox’s airship will most likely redesigned to look like Galda. There is no such thing in the game yet and honestly there’s nothing to see beyond the borders of the game. There are no encounters on the land outside of what you can visit, hellgondo isn’t even drawn on the overworld and neither are the other things outside your visual field it’s just water. And where there are islands or terrain where you can move on there are no encounters and if you enter an area outside of what you’re allowed to the game crashes. Obviously because those places aren’t in the game yet not due to patches and such.

      • DungeonMasterBobbySmith,
        Test save was posted in the link bellow, it was an added feature for testing and is not in the original game (in fact some areas will cause crashes because they aren’t meant to be reached yet) though I assume something similar will be added later. Super Mario Bros Airship would be nice but its the generic RPG Maker blimp similar to Final Fantasy 6. Only reason it will cause a crash outside of EX is do to a missing sound file…

        https://dargothtranslations.wordpress.com/2015/07/11/oh-look-1-20-actually-came-out/comment-page-3/#comment-11130

  80. element

    Hey MGQ_EX whenever I try to look at the turbulent jushin accessory my game crashes. Is that just from looking at something that isn’t supposed to be viewable?

    • Actually its a bug in Paradox itself, the game is trying to pull data for the item but a typo prevents it from doing that. I also informed Dargoth of the problem and it will be fixed in the next update

      def battle_start_skill_name(ft)
      Original Line
      prefix = ft.value[:per] == 1.0 ? “” : ft.value + “%”
      Correction
      prefix = ft.value[:per] == 1.0 ? “” : ft.value[:per].to_s + “%”

      What it is suppose to do from how I read it was return the percentage if there is a probably of it using a battle skill on start but instead it returns a hash value which can’t be added to a string, the correction will return the percentage converted to a string then add the percent sign to that

      I would release an update sooner but I’m currently also testing a new feature I want to implement and want it somewhat tested before I make it public, someone will probably break it anyway but a man can dream, a man can dream…

      • DungeonMasterBobbySmith

        Granted the air ship won’t allow you to go outside the continent. (unless the game already has content there)
        However will the airship allow you to fly over mountains & lakes on the overworld. (You usually pass them by going through caves, tunnels, and dungeons)

        Does it stop monster encounters?

        Will it interfere with events on the overworld?

      • Oh you can go outside the continent, there isn’t much out there though… some concept art perhaps.
        Its an air ship… A ship that goes through the air 🙂 I guess that bs existed in Final Fantasy 9 so eh perhaps some merit to that one but overall goes over everything, like in Final Fantasy games is particular on where you can land (not on forest, mountains, water, etc).
        It stops all encounters because nothing was programmed to handle it and on that note yeah probably would do a number on continuity of the story as its not suppose to exist. Treat as a joy ride test feature, something if you have got to the end of the game (or just bored) and just want to see things that are in the works.

    • I honestly have no idea what you’re trying to ask. If you’re talking about BF just stay at an inn or use a couple of herbs or a healing spell. If you’re talking about getting the monster girls to rape you give them gifts in the pocket castle(mostly food items). If you can’t endure a BF try leveling up or changing race and/or jobs to one with more HP. Increase your HP with nuts that you find throughout the world in pots, chests and drawers. If none of this answers your question then you need to rephrase it and give more details.

      • Desert Eagle

        Ummm… Hmm. Luka doesn’t require recharging between castle scenes. You can replay request scenes as many times as you want.

        • Chiron Maximus

          He’s right. The scenes are how the monster interact with him if he asked for it, and no, if you go through the ore scenes, the deaths don’t count (at least I think they don’t). Since the scenes don’t actually impact the game (so far in the game, might change ahead), Even if Luka plays a scene where he goes full genital sex, he’s still a virgin in the story.

  81. CivilDeviation

    Not sure if these are bugs or not… After installing the new g ex patch onto a fresh copy I had a couple of issues:
    1) Anytime a monster requests money or items during battle (talking or otherwise) I do not lose the item or money.
    2) At the casino, I do not lose money while buying sheets/coins.

    When using just the Dargoth patch:
    1) I was able to get special items from regular enemies: like the holy dagger from slimes (showed up in their library index), and muskets from one of the apoptosis enemies in the first tartarus hole.

    • Looks like the script I added to correct another bug, XS – Popup Item, changed how it decreases values for items and gold, currently you get a free pass but will be corrected in the next update
      Doesn’t appear to effect gaining items and gold though

      For the part about Dargoth’s patch, is EX not adding items gained from enemies to the Library?

      • Sean

        I’m currently using the EX version that was updated on 08/09/2015, but it still seems to have problems when I try to obtain items from monsters with certain skills. I think all of the thief skills are working fine but I can’t obtain any items when using the [Talk] skill called [Beg for item].

        I’m not completely sure, but I think [Garden Harvest], [Product Delivery], and [Black Market Connections] all have the same problem as well. It says that I gain XX item but it’s not in the inventory whenever I try to find it. 🙁

        I hope you can figure out how to fix it soon. And thanks for the translations guys! 🙂

  82. Anonymous

    So I installed the EX patch for the first time and I’m loving it so far. Only one down side, why change the % values of combat attacks and job and race status values with ranks from A-E(?) ? I would like to hear the reasoning behind that decision and if there’s a way to revert to the original values I would like to know how. Thanks for the awesome patch!!

    • Reason for that was the percents are an extra Dargoth added, and the ranks was easier to cross reference with how Paradox originally has the data as a few entries where incorrect so I either went with comparing to what the Japanese version making it as accurate to the original as possible or spent time with a few thousand entries, percent charts, pulling data one by one from the main database (internal one with all the data and not just translation information), and such comparing the difference. To save time used the literal translation (as Paradoxes ranks are already in English) though a few entries where not changed as from what I got from the description in Japanese was something generic like variable dependent and Dargoth pulled data from the backend to make it appear nice. Probably could make something to toggle between the two views but thats a possible feature for a later date.

      • Anonymous

        (Same anon)
        Didn’t knew those were added by Dargoth and I was afraid the data wouldn’t be accurate. In that case I welcome the rank system. It actually didn’t bothered me much on combat but when I got a new companion I wanted to check if her race + job + trait were a good combo and noticed the % were also gone there. Not knowing if D represents 100% or 95% or anything else really was a turn off because I love RPG’s and I’m a perfectionist no less…
        Anyway if the data isn’t 100% accurate then it’s better to have a ranking system instead, however being able to toogle between yours and Dargoth’s would be really cool. I would love to help you out since you are doing an amazing job and I have lots of spare time for now but my coding abilities are non existent and even my english is very limited.
        Almost forgot! This would be much harder to do but possible I’m sure… until now, whenever I missed some important text during a conversation I could simply check ITH’s log. But now that I’m playing on fullscreen with your patch, doing that would be bothersome. Yap! I’m asking if it’s possible to add a backlog feature in the future… if it doesn’t require much work ofc because there’s a chance torotoro might add that at some point.
        Anyway thanks for the patch it really helps me a lot!

      • I’ll see about a toggle feature, though right now I’m digging through data and making corrections, standardization, and bug fixes so its a little low on the to do list (though still on it). As for helping out well all levels of talent are appreciated, I only have one set of eyes and Paradox is massive so even just trying to break it is useful.

        If you wanted to try a test build you could download the zip from
        https://github.com/MGQ-EX/Paradox

        Being a test build though its still in the works and probably buggy, not all features in the readme are fully flushed out, etc.. github has an issue feature, use that to report any errors with the test build

        As for a log… I’ll look into it as a feature request, though anything that saves anything to the save isn’t an option, as it breaks save compatibility

  83. Soultwist

    Hi. Ran this translator so I could try the game and in the game almost nothing in battle is translated? Like if you use “talk” nothing is translated, making everything a guesswork. Is it just not translated yet or have I done something wrong?

  84. Anonymous

    Just want to report some bugs which I think have to do with the EX patch. At least that’s what I’m using.

    Changes in item count or gold don’t occur during conversations with monsters in battle. So if slime girl asks you for a herb and you give it to her, you don’t lose a herb. On the other hand, items (and I think gold) given to you by monsters do not appear in your inventory. So if slime girl gave you a herb, you wouldn’t actually gain it in your inventory.

    Medal queen doesn’t seem to take away any small medals when you trade in medals. So essentially once you reach the required amount of medals for one item you have access to an infinite amount of them. Kind of breaks the game early on.

    • Anonymous

      Also forgot to add…

      Not sure how it happened but I was getting crazy equipment from later in the game in the early game. I’m not sure how but I noticed in Harpy Village I had a crystal plate and a knife that was more than double in stats from other weapons… no way to access this equipment this early in the game but I have no idea how I got them.

  85. DungeonMasterBobbySmith

    What levels are necessary to open higher ranked chests.

    Also, out of the basic job classes, which three give you the highest hp; or atk; or magic, or will boost.

    Also, out of the advance job classes, which three give you the highest hp; or atk; or magic, or will boost.

  86. Anonymous

    I feel like I should say for everyone here trying to open metal chests. There IS an item now in the chao Labyrinth that allows you to unlock Metal chests if you equip it to a party member.

  87. Anonymous

    One question:
    Is it possible to recruit both Lucia and Lily?
    I’ve heard that it could be possible only in NG+. Is that true?

  88. jchris1_2000

    should have the quests again, but imagine already having Promistine when you go to the lab and meet with her, or having the bandits when you go to the hideout. I’m waiting to have the level and items to beat Nanabi and the Arch Angels to bring them along 🙂

    • CivilDeviation

      Nanabi is recruitable, the archangels are not. All you get for beating the archangels is gold and exp, no items. Sadly not worth it, though if you are aching for exp it is the second best place for it other than the basement of the final tower.

  89. CivilDeviation

    MGQ_EX: found another bug.
    After leaving the continent and going to look at the mithril deposit Papi was unable to use her blacksmithing skills. She acted like she never got the training even though she had.

    • Wouldn’t happen to have a save of that CivilDeviation? Sounds like something got switched off though neither EX or Dargoth’s Patch should be switching variables so thats an interesting one.

      Also though a bit rushed EX 0.5i
      http://pastebin.com/k9MNPZsb

      Fixes the Free Pass where gold and items wasn’t being deducted (Removed XS – Popup Items)
      Removing that means some items gained won’t display correctly (though they still will appear in the inventory, a cleanup will be done but its a few thousand entries so a slow process)
      Added Script: YEA – Ace Message System
      Standardizing some entries to use codes that reference the Database more, should make some translation errors easier to fix in the future (will update further later)
      Fixed a Database entry error submitted by LostDGod 08-13-2015
      Corrected Battle Start Percentage Hash Not Returning Intended Value
      Added an option for Game.ini to toggle between default Ranks and Dargoth’s Percentage Chart (Only works for Job Change at this time)

      • Chiron Maximus

        Well, in the statistics there is the “Raped by companion” thing, but I don’t think it’s truly in the game yet, otherwise it would have happened to somebody by now. Maybe, they’re gonna add it in for Chapter 2, or it’s a bug that everyone seems to have at the same time.

      • PR

        I assume he means from the seduction status effect. It causes females to sexually attack Luka and causes Luka to masturbate. I haven’t tested to see what happens when a male companion is affected by it.

        Outside of the labyrinth, the only monsters that I have seen cause it are Vampire Girl and Alice XVI. There are likely more that I haven’t noticed that use it.

      • PR

        I just went to rebattle Vampire Girl on Paradox, waiting every turn. Rechecked that the count was at 5 when the party was seduced. The next turn when my party attacked and made Luka come, it incremented to 6.

      • Desert Eagle

        It’s happened to me. Lily was seduced and decided to sexually attack Luka with tentacles. He was low enough on health that he came.

  90. Anonymous

    Do harpy sisters ever separate into two companions? It seemed hinted to me by their separate scenes in image files and their request options do not lead to those images ever being used. I am a bit confused now

      • Anonymous

        True, but there are images for two scenes that I can’t request. Ones that weren’t there back in MGQ. That’s why I thought they separate after they level up or something.

  91. CivilDeviation

    Gotta say, playing on Hell and paradox mode I am really loving the digestion + predation combo, not just for killing enemies outright, but because the commentary the monsters have when the tables are turned are hilarious. Ex: Kelp Girl 🙂

    Oh and MGQ_EX & Dargoth: just in case the page flip caused ya to miss it, I posted a new bug on the other page. I am not sure whose patch resulted in the blacksmithing bug.

    • Hey CivilDeviation, commented on your previous problem dealing with the blacksmithing bug. but seeing as its a page back wondered if you seen it? If not mind posting a save?

  92. Anonymous

    i just want to know if the english patch for sei monmusu gakuen its still live or working on my hopes are that still alive u.u

    • Purple Haze

      Actually I haven’t. Closest would be Illias at 29, others are around 24-26. I’ve been focusing on Job Exp exclusively. So I guess when the time comes, it would be Post story around the Final Tower. Hell, it could even be in NG+. But that’s a very unlikely chance, unless I really want a spare item such as another Holy Rod.

    • Chiron Maximus

      Well, when I reached 30, I hadn’t gone to Ilias Port yet, and I was farming in the cliff area where you encounter candle girls, since at the time they gave the most job exp while being wicked easy to beat.

    • I haven’t even had any body reach 30 yet except for Papi I beat the game at low 20’s My second playthrough is more focused on recruiting, leveling, and finding the right jobs for people.

  93. Anonymous

    I’m recently playing without getting any EXP and JP on Hell Mode. So basically I replace my team throughout the whole game. I believe that aside from the first boss (I could only beat Bunny on Very Hard), every story boss is possible even on Paradox Mode, because every boss is vulnerable against some status effects. Kind of disappointing.

    • Anonymous

      well some people don’t play on those modes…if they did put an unbeatable boss in there you would complain about that too 😛

    • Oh hush, if there’s one thing I truly despise about all the RPGs i’ve ever played it’s the fact that they’re all immune to status effects. And if they’re not immune to a certain status it doesn’t make a difference.

  94. jchris1_2000

    zombie girls and twin fares still had japanese names and text, but were able to join, still didn’t get the chrome quest so left the mansion for now.

    • Probably a good idea to refresh the names in the save as the system is becoming more reliant on them. In the readme under “Using MGQ EX Rename Functions” are instructions to reset to default (or for any area thats been coded whatever name you want within reason) As for dialogue, I’ll look into that

  95. Xoverguy

    Hi guys its me again. Thanks for all the help with the strategies on killing the archangles. Now I have two more questions that I need help with.

    The first is in terms of recruiting Chrome and Fredrika. I understand that you need to go to a cave and lockpick a treasure chest that has an item that is needed for the recruitment. However, when I get to the chest that I know has the item required, I cant lockpick it, and the ability is active on Lime my Slime girl. When I try to do so, it shows me some Japanese text that I can only assume means I need to accomplish something else first. I heard on other forums that you need to go to an isolated tower accessible through the same cave (one that has poison swamp around it) but when I try to get into it it says its locked from the inside. Kind of hoping that I did not hit a bug here, since I returned to Chrome and she doesnt offer me any other options.

    Secondly, since I saw a lot of talk here about update patches and the sort I wanted to be sure. Do new patches render older save files obsolete, as in unplayable? Just want to be sure since I really would not want to have made so much preparation on my game just to have to redo it again. Thanks in advance once more for all your help.

    • Purple Haze

      I see your first question coming up quite often lately. I’ll try to backtrack what I did to get Chrome.

      After the Chrome fight I talked to her, but she didn’t want to join, telling me I had to go fetch some item, I reluctantly moved on. Then I wanted to go into a cave, but Illias said NO and wanted me to go to the tower first. I did my talkie talkie business in the tower until I got escorted back to the world map. Then I just went back and entered the cave and looted all the chests including Chrome’s. She was happy to join my party after.

      So if after you returned to Chrome, went back to the cave and you still can’t loot the chest. Then I guess messing up that order proves to be more fatal than one would expect, and you should try again in NG+?

    • With Chrome it’s not a bug, there’s just one more trigger besides her asking for the puppet string, someone made a more detailed comment on this post a while ago about recruiting her. I’m not sure but I think you have to talk to one of the people inside the rightmost house in Salon and only after that go to the cave and get the string. Again I’m not sure about this, if you read the older comments I’m sure you’ll find what you are looking for.

    • Desert Eagle

      You talked to Chrome again and accepted the quest to go fetch the magic-imbued thread. That’s good. However, Chrome doesn’t know where it is and cannot guide you to it. Before you can go get it, you must have a good idea of where to get it. Luka must be aware that the puppeteer’s tower exists.

      Try to get into the mafia building in Saloon (the eastern most building, large. Can’t miss it). I think someone in there has the information you need. Then you can go and get the thread/quest item.

  96. Anonymous

    Weird the enemies on this game don’t display an HP bar when even the original trilogy does! Played around a bit with RPGVXAce to add Basic Enemy HP Bars v2.1 by V.M. and altough adding the script was as simple as copy paste, I couldn’t make sense to connect it with game.ini at the end since I have no programing skills… I think I got pretty close though…
    From what I’ve seen so far it works flawlessly with the exception of enemies that occupy the entire window (mostly bosses).
    What do you think of adding it as an additional optional feature EX? Not sure if people will enjoy this one although I certainly do!

    • Hmm pictures on top of the pretty pictures that keep people coming back… If it can be toggled and doesn’t cause issues I’ll look into it, though I’m still fixing a mass about of other things so thrown on to the list of possible future features, you got close huh, where did you place it in the script list?
      Try placing it right bellow Script: “VXAce_SP1”, it might be other scripts bellow are effecting compatibility

      • LostDGod

        I placed right bellow “YEA – Debug Extension” and it works but to make it public it must be toggle-able through game.ini and that’s the part I failed to do. I tried to make it by coping how you added the “UseJobChangePercents” but there was some part of the code I didn’t quite understand what’s for (I did it just like you did anyway) and placing DTP_HP::USE_HP_BAR(True) like you did on the “Enable Bonus Features from Game.ini if an entry exists” part would result in a crash on opening the game. The rest of the code I added didn’t affected the game though. By the way “DTP_HP” is the module for the HP Bars script and “USE_HP_BAR” is the command (?) you can set true or false.
        And yes I agree that adding a bar on top of cute girls isn’t a great way to add the hp bars. Ideally it would be right on top of the attack menu. The script is pretty malleable so I might try to work on that… it should be actually very easy considering you can only find 1-3 enemies at a time.

      • DungeonMasterBobbySmith

        An HP bar would be nice, however I’m not sure if it should be added unless you make sure it doesn’t block the Sonya battle cgs or a great deal of the pictures. Maybe instead of a bar you should do a small pie that also changes color. (green, yellow, red)

      • LostDGod

        It’s optimized to be displayed either above or bellow the enemy pics, never on top of it. That’s why it would probably not show up on enemies that fill the screen with their pic.
        What I would like to make though would be placing the bars with a definitive position based on how many enemies there is and right on top of the fight menu with the same design as the original trilogy HP bars. But that requires programing skills I certainly don’t have… Nonetheless I will try to do it.

      • LostDGod

        The pie suggestion is actually a really good one. It opened my mind to several other good possibilities in case a bar doesn’t work on every case. It’s pointless to add it if it doesn’t always works. I’m still kind of early in the story line of my save so I’m yet to see all the enemy pics which makes me unable to judge wether it’s better to add a bar or something smaller like a pie.
        Another question is, should the bar be added for bosses? It’s kind of more exciting to fight them without knowing their HP (%).

      • MGQ_EX I honestly would love to see enemies have hp bars or something similar but won’t that slow down the game? It’s not like you need them anyway, you get their hp value in the monsterpedia and most of them you can 1-shot anyway after a while. Maybe it’s just me but after the rename and cheat features were added the game seems to start up a lot slower. I’m not against this just wondering if it’s gonna affect performance

      • Hmm… Well as you all would love it you get the chance to peck the sh@t out of it 😛
        Deleloper test version
        https://github.com/MGQ-EX/Paradox

        Probably a slight slow down do to it reading that ini file for the additional settings, I probably should look into an optimized praiser for that… code monkey like fritos

        As for standards, settings, customization well r&d it and see what happens. EX Readme has some basic things I pulled at a glance

      • LostDGod

        Well that was quick! And you even rewrote a hell of a lot of code! It’s working really great well behond my expectations. I like it! Making it only visible when you select the enemy solves a lot of problems! There’s just a small error(?), even though it’s supposed to appear only when you select the target (if you don’t turn that feature off) it still shows up for a small fraction of a second at the start of the battle. Not sure if that’s something that can be fixed but it’s negligible anyway.
        I really didn’t expected you to put so much effort into this… at least not this fast so I feel bad for saying this but there’s just one additional feature that I think it would be the killer one… Adding status icons on the right side/below the bar(s) just like in Final Fantasy. So if you inflict an enemy with sleep its respective icon would be displayed and so on…
        It’s already an amazing work as it is so take your time I’m sure you have lots of way more important things to do.
        Thanks for everything!

      • LostDGod

        That’s probably because the icons are too big? It’s possible to resize the images through code so I think it’s quite possible to add this feature but it might add latency.

      • No the icons aren’t too big there’s just not enough space to display them probably due to how much space is allotted for names. If the battle interface would have been something like the one in Breath of Fire 1 where all chars had separate battle windows overlapping as you input your command maybe the status icons would fit and only 3 at a time fit currently.

      • Oh I’m sure a lot of it is possible but I’m not rewriting the whole battle engine, not because it wouldn’t look cool when done but because this is part 1 of 3 😛

        Here is one of the many overhauls for just what is possible
        https://yanflychannel.wordpress.com/rmvxa/battle-scripts/ace-battle-engine/

        So lots of reading and not much done, updated Developer test version
        Good, you get states and the option to customize the display text
        Bad, the current method used is a simple method with not a lot of features and I rigged something to work but its not the correct way though it does do what it does.. Also there seems to be a limit on how much text can be displayed (I assume it has something to do with proportions of the draw area and a few other things but for a later date)

        If nothing else it was a fun learning experience and probably will keep the concept on the back burner to revise later, let me know if it breaks anything

      • LostDGod

        Very interesting features I didn’t even thought about. I agree it’s better to leave it as it is since the game is still being developed and there’s a big chance devs will implement some of those in the future.

  97. DungeonMasterBobbySmith

    In the original MGQ, in the forest of Sylph, a few characters mention of an Alraune who also lives there. Yet for some reason I don’t fight an Alraune until after I obtain Gnome. Did I miss something?

    • Purple Haze

      If I remember correctly, you don’t fight an Alraune in the original MGQ until much later either. Chapter 2/3 was it?

    • LostDGod

      From what I recall they mention a strong weird-looking enemy (chimera) that has been eating monsters. When they find her, Alice said she would deal with her since all monsters are her responsability and that one looked really strong but Luka being confident after just getting Sylph decided to handle her on his own.
      You only fight an Alraune later on part 2 of the game I think.

      • DungeonMasterBobbySmith

        Yes, my point exactly, wtf was sylph and Alipheese Fateburn XVI refering to? At least I think it was sylph who brought her up. (If not then it was the elf who mentioned her)

      • Purple Haze

        Maybe it’s Queen Alraune? I think I remember either Alice or one of the plants mention that she hasn’t been in the Plant Village for quite a long time and was surprised to see her return. So she might have been the one sleeping in Sylph’s forest. Or perhaps it was some random Alraune, someone who might even be next in line.

      • Anonymous

        She was just saying that alraune live in the forest and that the monster in question is different from an alraune. Just because they’re brought up doesn’t mean they have to set up a fight with one.

    • In the original you fight the Chimera Dryad, in Paradox you fight Berserker Armor not sure if they mention an alraune in paradox or not since I haven’t seen that part in a long time but the chimera from the original is replaced here by the Berserker Armor so no you didn’t miss anything. Remember this is an alternate universe, not the original so things won’t be exactly the same.

      • DungeonMasterBobbySmith

        I know paradox is an alternative retelling. I was just started playing the original (again) and took note of it. Also the Ika Musume sample battle still crashes.

    • Desert Eagle

      From top to bottom, and left to right:

      Aheru, Gina, Hilda, Mei Lin, Captain Fuck, Succunpuppy OR Succunpapi, Rosario, Candida and, finally, Himiko.

      I think the lady with the hook is Captain Fuck? “Fakku” is “fuck”, and the kanjis mean “captain”. So, Captain Fuck.

      • DungeonMasterBobbySmith

        Nevermind I got it.

        アベル Abel
        ジーナ Gina
        ヒルダ Hilda
        メイ リン Mei Ling
        フアツク船長 Captain Fuck
        サキュバビー Succubby
        ロがリナ Rosario
        ママ Mama
        カンジダ Candida
        ヒミコ Himiko

      • Desert Eagle

        「アベル」 is indeed “Abel” but that’s because its romaji form is “A-be-ru”. The hero of Peniban quest is 「アへル」 = “A-he-ru”. Letters 「ベ」 and 「へ」 are different.

        There’s no space in 「メイリン」.

        The succubus lady is 「スキュンパピー」 = “Su-kyu-n-pa-pi-i”, not 「サキュバビー」 = “Su-kyu-ba-bi-i”. It’s not written with B’s and there’s an N in the middle.

        Rosario is 「ロザリナ」.

      • DungeonMasterBobbySmith

        My bad, I need glasses. If you save the images from official site they are titled characer_name. The アへル is labeled character_ahel.

        wouldn’t スキュンパピー be Scypappy.

        Scy as in スキュラ =Scylla
        and papy as in ンパピー

      • Desert Eagle

        In this instance, the 「スキュ」 comes from the word 「スキュバス」, which is “su-kyu-ba-su”, or “succubus”. Since the person is a succubus, I think the word is succubus.

        「パピー」 can be interpreted almost as any (English) word that its pronounciation matches to. One interpretation is “puppy”, further backed up by japanese-english dictionaries. The name of Papi from Monster Musume is written as 「パピ」 but it doesn’t have the same “line” as 「パピー」 does, which indicates that the vocal is continued (“Pi” becomes “pii”). “Puppy” is the only word I can think of that would match the word.

        And there’s still an N in the middle. That’s why translated it as “Succunpuppy”. What significance it has for the story, I don’t know.

  98. Anonymous

    After installing 1.21a it seems Player can recruit BF into party. So many cute girls for BFF, but not all of them are reliable and useful. Regardless, they are all humans – perfect in some way.

  99. Have a question on ability buffs and skill buffs does steal rate work with food and shamless steal?
    And does recruit rate mesh with party invitation+
    Have tried to rec the Eyes girl on 42 tries had 100 in aff and Use party invi all the time with rec rate 1.5 and a Invitation ticket yet nothing.

    • Purple Haze

      I have recruited girls with just 2x rate ability and with the rate + Ally invitation. I must say that the latter has gotten me some girls much faster, and others still are taking too long (currently struggling with the Cactus girl). But because I think every girl differs, I should really test it with a clean save. 2 saves where I don’t have a particular girl and try one save with just the ability, and the other one with ability + skill.

      • Anonymous

        I doubt they stack. The invitation skill gives a 3x chance already. If it stacked with the 2x that would make it 5x. If that were true then even the hardest to recruit monsters in the game would be practically guaranteed to join after a few battles(and a good near half of all the enemies in the game would literally have a 100% join rate at 100 affection. The cactus girl in that instance would have a 5/8 recruitment rate at 100 affection) I think personal experience generally refutes that.

    • As Grandork stated long ago recruiting money and item drop bonuses do not stack highest one takes priority and I guess it’s the same for stealing if you wana steal panties try the panty teacher his trait allows him to steal panties no matter what action you take.

  100. I want to thank you you dargoth for translating games for us non-Japanese readers.I like that you speak with your actions rather then your words and I wish you the best of luck.

  101. Rauzer

    So, after having beaten the game and having recruited almost every character possible. I was looking around for the NG+ option, to just play it through fully on a higher difficulty, and do the things i missed. After the end boss the text did say something that i can now save and that my progress can be used for further chapters etc.

    But i don’t see a NG+ option in the title screen, nor when i start a new game, or anywhere in the menu if i load my completed save. I’m running version 1.21, so afaik it should be in the game (right?).

    Anyone have a clue as to why this is, or where i can find the NG+ start/button/thingy?

    • rvtext files are part of the EX project, I assume you actually wanted to ask a question related to them? Also Casian Sarpe Socaci has helped immensely with that particular file.

  102. Anonymous

    It’s a little of a shame that some monsters don’t have rape scenes that involve actual sex. Like Lily or the Onahole girl. Also I have a question, the skill Dissolving Liquid’s text is still almost unreadable, is this happening to anyone else?

    • Yeah as a lot of it still hasn’t been properly looked at, google translate was used to translate a lot of the original data over as Paradox has a few hundred thousand lines. As it gets looked at by more people it gets better though for what takes me a few hours to parse through in game probably takes someone a few minutes… In DialoguesEnglish Common Events 3000-5000 should be the range most of the rape scenes are in, though Dargoth’s recent patch translated a lot of the early ones there is still so many more girls who need love

  103. Nihontopride

    Question for Dargoth if he’s available to answer. I know most of the items, skills and jobs have been translated but once those are finished what to you intend to focus on next? Rape scenes? NPC dialogue? I would love to see some more rape scenes translated but whatever you focus on next is fine with me, just keep up the good work 😉

    • Probably, RPG Maker default settings is to set one track for battle. That one track is:
      AudioBGMbattle.ogg

      It probably wouldn’t be to hard to add some randomization to it, perhaps I’ll look into it

      • Yea I know that and that can be changed with any other file if you rename it to battle.ogg. It doesn’t need randomization it literally needs a better theme. Or at least that’s what I think, I wish to know what other people around here think.

      • Chiron Maximus

        I’m thinking two ideas for this: One, a feature to go into the computer’s music folder and choose a file to use during a specific place, or just changing the file itself. You try out the first option, I’ll attempt the second.

      • Chiron Maximus

        true, and there’s nothing wrong with that, but sometimes we want a change. I do like the battle theme, but after hearing it so many times over, I turned music off and played my own. Now, I’m gonna try out a theory of changing the battle music with a custom file. Also, there is a piano version of the battle theme that I find is much better. You can listen for yourself here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0EJyy8aGn0

      • Chiron Maximus

        It works!!!!! All I had to do, was choose what I want to play, then name it the file’s name, move the original so it wouldn’t be overwritten, then used audacity to change the file into an OGG, then moved it to the spot, went to a battle, and it works!!! This pens up so many possibilities for people!

      • Chiron Maximus

        I tested out songs of different lengths and also if loops worked if they were really short, and they all work! Now, I haven’;t tested if a custom song is longer than the original file, but I’m sure it’s nothing to worry about. if someone does try it, let us know here, so that we know for the future.

      • Any and all songs work no matter the length or size as long as they’re named battle.ogg and they’re in ogg format. I’ve tested it since I changed my battle theme long ago. Chiron I don’t mean to be rude but what you posted there isn’t appropriate for a fight. That’s for a side scrolling game where you shoot bubbles in candy land. I’m sure the uploader put effort into it but that’s just not a battle theme anymore. The one I found that fits best with the sound effects of option choosing was this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZOQ8sLO-vU
        Anyways MGQ_EX said something about finding a way to randomize music from a list for a future EX update so you don’t hear the same thing all the time, as the songs will be different in each battle.

      • Chiron Maximus

        With a bit of experimenting, I found you can change the other files in the Audio folder, like the lvlup file, which plays after every battle regardless of a level up or not, I made it so that it plays a domination line that the Heavy Weapons guy from Team Fortress 2, since at this point I’m dominating every opponent. For those who are curious, when i win, the file says “You are dead. Not big surprise.”

  104. Anonymous

    So Ive been playing the equivalent of a nuzlocke in this game. Basically If a party Member cums they cant leave the castle and if Luka cums its game over. Its pretty fun but I wouldn’t recommend trying it on PARADOX difficulty XD

    • Desert Eagle

      “Permanent death” on cumming? It sounds a bit interesting, yeah. I don’t think I’d like leaving my favourite party members in castle though.

  105. Chiron Maximus

    I just realized that Naruko, the tentacle girl, is even more cuter! Not only does she follow you around the castle if you stay close to her, she also follows you around camp! I made camp in the game, and she follows me around like she did in the castle! X3 Can this girl get any cuter?

  106. ztztzt39

    I have some questions about new game plus: Is there only 1 ng+ or more (Can you ng++ the game)

    Is it interesting to change of companion? (Ilias/Alice) (Is the story really changing or can you unlock things only with one of them)

  107. Anonymous

    Can anyone be so kind to provide me with the EX patch? I can only find incomplete files in the other links 🙁

  108. Chiron Maximus

    Just thought of something. Every Rape scene and request scene are pretty much the same dialogue, right? I mean, I know there is variants between the rape and request scenes, like there are vores that don’t end with death, and getting sucked to the fainting point without dying, like in the rape scenes. So, my question is: Since the Mandragora Rape scene is completely translated, couldn’t you guy just move her text over to her request sex scene and change certain parts?
    Also, gonna start a chain of chat of CG rewrites. If you have an Idea for CG changes, reply here. I’ll start it off with POV CGS for Ragora’s Blowjob and Paizuri scenes, and then, maybe a side view of Ragora on Luka, like with the Oni girl, but reversed, so we’re seeing Luka’s left side as he lies on the ground.

    • I thought of that and did it for the Encyclopedia entries. I currently have my hands tied with battle dialogue and battle messages descyphering and I can say it’s roughly half done. Your idea is good but can’t be put in practice by people who don’t know the language. Not that it would make a difference if the differences were totally ignored, the normal player won’t notice anyway, he’s busy undoing his zipper and enjoying the scene and not paying attention fully to the text half of his attention is directed to the CG. Then there’s those fucking nitpickers who always find fault with everything no matter how hard you try and who feel entitled to everything even though you’re doing the transition for free in your own free time. They see the difference isn’t there and start a flame war and express their disappointment etc.

      • Chiron Maximus

        Well, I’m in between of those kind of people. My slight OCD does nag me a bit when the sentences are off, but I can usually suppress them, and when i watch a scene in MGQ or paradox, the text helps make the scene all the more pleasurable, because you know what is happening at the time, rather than just staring at a still picture with sound effects playing. I just wanted to see if this was thought of, and I will wait patiently for when most (if not all) dialogues are translated (because that’s when I start my playthrough with Ilias).
        Also, on a side note, since I could change the audio for certain scenes, and also getting real tired of the old ero1 soundfile, I changed it to play a modified loop from “time of the Season” by Zombies (The whole song works too, but I like to work with loops a lot.)

      • Anyway it seems kinda impractical because you’d have to open up the original game, play the rape scene and copy it manually line by line. Unless you have the original’s full script in text format somewhere it would probably take a lot of time to copy it over manually, but hey if you think you’re up for it I’m sure MGQ_EX won’t mind all you have to do is find the scenes in the dialogues file from the EX patch and you’re all set.

        • Chiron Maximus

          On impulse, I did screen record Ragora’s Rape and service scenes from the Demo when it was semi-translated, but I deleted those when I got the full chapter one. Besides, I don’t know anything about game programming; I can change a few sound files and make small changes to side stories in MGQ, but that’s about it.

          • It’s not brain surgery trust me, it’s just finding text delete, replace. That’s it, that’s exactly what I’m doing now, looking at google translated text interpreting it and replacing it with what I think the message is trying to say in a manner that won’t make your inner grammar nazi cringe. I don’t have any programming skills either the best I know what to do in terms of programming is extending songs and that’s it.

      • Updated the developers version to test a random playlist for battles, so instead of swapping out one file you can add a few and will play instead of the default. Doesn’t effect special battles that set the music to something else (like Bosses or if Paradox ever uses its custom Troop replacement music)

        To test added 1 audio file recommended by Casian Sarpe Socaci and list it along with the original ‘battle’ track. This just displays how the list can be set up. All new audio goes in folder ‘AudioBGM’ and I haven’t tested what audio is supported or what happens if you have a music file with multiple extensions. RPG Maker uses the file name without extension for reference and I didn’t add any code to strip the extension so when making the list don’t include the extension. If any files aren’t found they are ignored, if no files are found it defaults to ‘battle’, if one file is on the list it will replace ‘battle’, and if multiple files are on the list it will randomly play them per battle (I tweaked the random effect so the same song won’t play twice in a row) Make changes to Game.ini to see how it works, also this isn’t itunes so don’t go adding your entire music library to the list as the game might never load, keep it reasonable to 10 tracks or less though if it works add more to see what the real limit is…

        Now with two additional features in testing phase back to fixing things. Some bugs might be in the new features but unless they cause major problems I’m going back to the really annoying ones and putting them on the back burner

        https://github.com/MGQ-EX/Paradox

  109. Probably not for some time, as the full game isn’t out yet and there is a lot of content in just Part 1, so as what has been said before when it is done it is done… Inquire on it perhaps every 3 months

  110. Finished it so far had hoped you could rec the Sabasa king he was one of my fav char.
    how many human allys are ther I have 24 now not counting Luka and Lucia and other that can change race.
    Also can Sara change race in Ep1 or will that come later?

    • Desert Eagle

      *Possible spoilers for those who haven’t played through Sabasa*

      Sara has talked about that thing to Sphinx (optional dialogue). Even though she became a monster, she retained human appearance and abilities. It seems that something is interfering with her powers – something related to the Succubus Sisters. She’ll probably find a way to unlock her succubus powers in part 2 or 3.

      *End of spoilers*

      • Desert Eagle

        Ehhh… Ummm… I’m not really sure.

        Is that a person’s name? If so, it could be: “Hayashikimo Lumina”. I’m pretty sure about “Lumina” but not the surname.

      • Chiron Maximus

        You talk to the Reaper behind the door on the 2nd floor of Ilias temple and Yes, the Chaos Labyrinth. I should try and find that. Also, a question to the experts: Is the plasma Scythe obtainable in Chapter 1, and if so, where is it?

      • The Chaos Labyrinth is available after you beat the game, to access it just examine the bookcase in the netherworld where you can do battle recalls. I went through the game twice Chiron and I haven’t found the Scythe. I assume it will be in the next tartarus(and next chapter) since all other tools are found within these places

        • Chiron Maximus

          … oh. Ouch. Guess I’m not watching Cactus Girl’s Rape scene any time soon. (The recruited one, yes, but not the wild one).

          • I’m not really sure what’s in the rape scene I’m only on what happens during battles. But to be honest rape like that has been done before. There is a scene like that in Violated Hero 3 if I’m not mistaken where the plant girl squeezes the hero with thorny Ivy and even makes him fuck her spike filled pussy.

      • All monsters in the Chaos Labyrinth are not recruit-able and yes Watermelon girls do lurk around San Ilia, you should try the forests though. On a separate note I missed on my first time around the Canceroid girl. if you’re missing her she can be recruited on the last part of the ruins inside the village north of San Ilia. I forgot the name, it’s where the succubus sisters drain everybody and destroy everything, where you fight Astorah

        • Chiron Maximus

          Got it. Thanks Casian. Soemone should make a guide explaining EVERYTHING, from the story guideline to the sidequests and loot locations. Would take forever and be a dreary job.
          … NOT IT!

  111. Xoverguy

    Ok I got Chrome and Frederika. Thanks so much for that assist. But now I have an even bigger question that has been bugging me. So far I have clocked more than 90 hours into MGQ Paradox and advanced a lot of races/jobs. However, a side of me feels I am cruising for a bruising, since I remember when I tried transferring my save files from the demo to part one, they could not be opened. Now i wonder if anybody knows if I did something wrong there, or how to properly do that, since I don’t want to have to restart a patch and/or part 2, after investing and unlocking so much already. Just beat Alipheese the 16th/Death yesturday even. Thanks again.

    • Desert Eagle

      Everything went fine with me when I patched the game; My 200h saves were still usable. I don’t think there’ll be a problem with part 2 but you might want to create a backup file for your saves.

  112. MGQNikko

    Hello I was wondering if i could get some help. For some reason before every fight I get this message that pops up before and after the fight followed by a series of a few more messages. Also when I try to save my game I get an error. I have version 1.21. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

    • So 1st, what patch are you using and version. 2nd what does the error message say? As you can’t save are you loading from a save? If so can you post said save?

      • MGQNikko

        Okay I am using patch 1.21 and MGQ Paradox version 1.21. I have no saves as I started a new game, before I enter a battle a message pops up, I click OK and it allows me to enter the battle. Then after the battle several series of message pop up before allowing me to continue. When I go to save a game gives me an error and crashes.

        • Chiron Maximus

          If you can, go back into your game and take screen shots of these messages. Post them online, link us to them, and we can tell you what’s up.

      • MGQNikko

        Also Idk what the messages says because its in Japanese. I took screenshots and posted them in a comment but its awaiting moderation for like 48 hours now. Is there another way I can post you the screen shots?

        • Chiron Maximus

          When I had problems, I took a screenshot, and put it up on mediafire, then linked to the picture. Do you have a MediaFire account?

    • Chiron Maximus

      You need to download and install the ex patch for semi-translated text and bug fixes. Look back in the comments for the most recent patch, EX.5j, or something close.

      • MGQNikko

        Well I installed the patch, and I still get the same result, same messages during battle and same crash when I try to save >.<

    • Most of those are the generic error message, can’t read the Japanese for jack but I know the rather fun message of “Please restart your PC”… Now the last one looks promising

      Where do you currently have the game located on your PC? KrWXdbd.png states it doesn’t have write access to the directory of the game, this is also why you can’t save.

      • Ah… Well I know whats wrong but I’ll have to look up the fix for it

        As you are using ‘C:Program Files (x86)’ this is a protected folder Windows 7 and up; if I recall correctly windows is particular of programs having write access to (Prevents old school viruses and what not from wrecking havoc, was actually something people complained about when it was new)

        Now while I look that up you could try the following:
        1 – Right Click On ‘Game.exe’ in the directory and ‘Run As Administrator’ which should give it write access, though technically not the correct way to fix it
        2 – Move the game outside the Protected Directory, something like ‘C:RPGsMGQMGQ Paradox RPG’ and it shouldn’t have that problem

  113. MGQNikko

    Thank you so much MGQ_EX I ran it as administrator and that made everything work perfectly. I will move the game into a different directory now.

    • Great, there is another way to fix it but that would be the easier method and more secure

      User Account Control (UAC) was introduced in Vista so I was a version off and was designed to prevent programs from doing things they shouldn’t be coded to do (even going as far as not writing to their own directory if it was a protected directory), RPG Maker probably wasn’t designed to ask for an elevated prompt and thus just denies the action. You could turn this off but moving it’s location or even just giving it higher access would be the better action.

      http://www.howtogeek.com/124754/htg-explains-why-you-shouldnt-disable-uac/

  114. jchris1_2000

    I’m at the tower after gnome and didn’t do anything about Sabasa or Witch Hunt Village yet, did I miss something or just just strange

  115. deuxvolt

    When you recruit a BFF are they permanent? because the moment I went to go see if they would appear in the pocket castle they just end up back at their huts asking for money to be issued a challenge.

    • Anonymous

      Assuming they’re not in your party, they will show up both in the castle and at their previous outpost. They are scattered around the castle but most show up in the smaller bedroom on the second floor. They won’t grant any favors in the castle though, I’m assuming cause it was a last minute thought to add them to the party options.

  116. Anonymous

    Trying to complete my current castle list. Besides the originally encountered monster girls, I’ve got the BF’rs, the two generals Samon and Yohan, and the Scat Captain. Was there any other odd recruit still out there? Thanks for any help.

  117. Anonymous

    hey guys. i got a problem. some time back i bought the game at dlsite, but i didnt sign up to it. and according to them there is a window for how long u can download what uve bought if ur not signed up. so im stuck at version 1.02. ive looked and looked and i cant seem to find a fresh 1.21 copy or such anywhere. anyone got a download link or something i could use? that would be most helpful. thank you in advance

  118. jchris1_2000

    I Finished Sabasa and and Witch Hunt village after the last tower and and no credits or new game + listed. After taking Lily to check out Ludville she mentions looking for the Lilith sisters though so now I’m stuck as to where to look

  119. jchris1_2000

    Does the level cap stay at 30 for all difficulties or just easy? I found new game + with Shinigami instead of main menu

  120. Anonymous

    Dargoth when can we expect the next partial patch? i’m assuming you’re gonna release in a similar fashion as Rogue did? 25% 50% 75% 100% or?

    • I think it will be story next part will either be to the harpy chapter or even the Illias continent but most likely not all monsters and battle dialogue.
      1.Story
      2.Npc
      3.Battle
      4.Battle daialogue and scenes.
      5.Pedia and misc info
      6.All the rest
      This seem to have been the focus so far.
      As for the next patch at least 2 weeks most likely 2-3 months.
      But as he is not alone now it can be different it maybe wont be faster to the next part but it will contain more.

  121. Purple Haze

    So I guess the Holy Rod is pretty much the best Rod in Chapter 1, or at least pre-Labyrinth. What are the other weapons equivalent to that, pre-Labyrinth or not? Perhaps Kaladbolg is one? It would be great to know if it’s worth chasing after once I got the Archangel Bra (I really did get 2 medals in 2.5 hours last night… Either you guys are damn hardcore or I’m just darn unlucky at this moment)

      • jchris1_2000

        The other way to get some is Pochi, the dog girl, when she looks around or digs each round and finds a medal every so often

      • Purple Haze

        Ah yes, Pochi.. She didn’t want to join me at the start of my journey, so I just moved on. Now I got her and I’m training her to be a good little girl and fetch me some medals!

        Oh please don’t tell me the 2x drop needs to be in battle. I figured since things like Nullify Ambush work in Standby, 2x Drop must work too, right? Right?

        • Abilities do not work unless they are equipped. If you don’t have the points to equip the 2x drop ability make somebody a Gambler. Gambler has that ability no matter if you equip it or not. You only need it on one character, your chances don’t stack the more of it you have equipped.
          Nullify Ambush doesn’t work unless equipped or if you have a Thief or Master Thief in your party.

          • Chiron Maximus

            I love Nullify Ambush. It’s such a useful ability for farming, and when equipped with Preemptive strike up, it’s even better. I hope there’s a more powerful version of preemptive strike in Chapter 2, so that you always (or 90% of the time at least) ambush the enemies.

      • Purple Haze

        I’ve always got those equipped, but they’re in the Standby party. So as long as that doesn’t matter, I can pretty much conclude that my luck just isn’t grand. But once Pochi is strong enough, I guess I might even have a slightly better chance of collecting them. (90% Preemptive Strike would be darn sweet! Though can’t really complain about the current one)

  122. LordBone

    Hello Everyone!

    I wanna ask a few questions about the game, I wonder what you guys experienced about these (I’m using the latest EX patch):

    1. Instant kill effects seem to be bugged? Slime crusher, Snake strangler, Undead slicer etc. seem to never instant kill anything (they check race right?) I fought over 30 lamias and snake strangler never seem to work on them even if used multiple times. Also the same with the slimes and slime cursher near Port Natalia.

    2. Is there a good item + ability combos that allows to get more than 200 % Job EXP, since many of them don’t seem to stack.

    3. (Minor spoilers) Where do you get the item for the blacksmith so Papi can learn Mithril forging?

    Thank you for taking the time to read.

    • I don’t remember slime crusher being instant kill it thought it was extra damage aainst those types.
      And as for question 2 no could in the first demo but that was taken away.
      Number 3 you need proof of belief that you get from the nun monsters at aff 100.

      • LordBone

        Oh you actually have to raise affinity, I thought defeating them would do the trick and they would drop it. It’s time to feed somebody a few cookies I suppose. Thanks

    • Those skills are more effective on their respective races but they aren’t instant kills.
      Slime Crusher
      Formula: a.atk * 2 * 1.5 – b.def / 2

      You can enhance them further with the Race Killer Book (15% Bonus) and Race Killer Secret Notes (30% Bonus) which increase damage, those probably wouldn’t need a reason to exist if they where instant kills.

    • The thing that allows you to get 300% job exp isn’t anywhere in the game yet or I didn’t find any. I’m pretty sure you can’t find it outside of the chaos labyrinth. If what I heard about people finding Godly Thief Gloves then I assume you can find Ultimate Head Dresses in there too but that’s probably after you went down 100 levels or more. Other than that I don’t know of any combination that gives you more than 200% Job exp.

      • Armor – 1693
        Ultimate Head Dress
        [Accessory] Gain Triple Job EXP

        Skill – 2103
        Miracle Song

        State – 155
        Job XP Triple

        note:

        I don’t know where they are 😛

    • Desert Eagle

      3. It’s near the top of Mt. Amos. There should be a small path that leads to it. In any case, it should be on that mountain.

  123. Question about the monsters got from ep 1 an 3 of the original but not one from ep2 Also in the Harpy villiage there was Siren’s yet I never saw them at the tower or area oa opponents or are they the same as the nekomata just there?

    • Desert Eagle

      Err… What?

      Are you asking about Siren and Nekomata? In the original MGQ trilogy, Siren appeared at the northern sea. She’s not in part 1 but I’d imagine we’ll meet her in part 2. We’ll probably meet Nekomata in part 2 as well since they’re native to Yamatai.

    • No in Paradox you can recruit monsters from episodes 1 and 3 from the original but not 1 from ep 2 from that series.
      But In Paradox there is a Nekomata in Illiasburg and several Siren’s in The Harpy villiage.

      • Anonymous

        NPCs, not recruit-ables. If they were recruit-able, they would have Rape and Service CGs already in the folder.

        • Anonymous

          Honestly, don’t try to make sense of when girl will appear based on another game; and remember, this is a Paradox dimension, so there’s not a lot in common with the MGQ dimension. Besides, There was a vampire somewhere and you encounter her in Hellgondo in the original, just to prove my point that we don’t know what girls will appear where.

      • Purple Haze

        Just give me Queen Harpy man! I tell ya, when I realized everything is different here and one of the goals is pretty much capturing any or all Monster Girls, she was the first one that fell from the sky right into my temple’s mental garden. My dream!

        And finally I enter the Harpy Village. I frantically search every house, in tree or not. After finally reaching the top, all I got was a “Thank you, Luka! But the Queen is in a different tower!”. So I go to this other tower and fend off all these horny Harpies until I finally reached the top, again. But this time she is there! My Queen! My Dream! I fight her, because of course I have to for some reason, I defeat her and talk to her to see if she wants to join me! No, she does not. Do I need to do something else like finding an item or something? Nope, she’s just not gonna join ya. My dream.. My beautiful dream..

        So all I can hope for is for this world to turn into shit too, if that’s even gonna happen in Paradox. Or for some whatever other reason she could join in Part 2 or 3. I don’t know man. I just want my Queen..

        • Chiron Maximus

          … Bruh. Just … wow.
          The Harpy queen suffers from a lust spell, or something of the like, and needs medicine from the world tree, I think. Casian, MGQ, what do you guys think?

      • Ancient illness and needs extra strong medicine. She is to concerned with letting it spread and won’t leave the tower… Funny enough her subordinates are ‘cured’ but they stay because they love the lifestyle and use the ‘illness’ as an excuse. Though as Paradox is multidimensional it is hard to say which version of her you will be able to acquire, sooner or later you will get her but being a ‘Queen’ class probably late in chapter 2 or worse chapter 3… I wouldn’t be surprised if something like Chrono Cross takes effect and you start hopping dimensions.

      • If I remember correctly Nero’s antidote does not work on the queen due to the fact that she’s much stronger and her lust is more powerful or some shit like that. She needs the world tree fruit or something of the likes but the respective tree is nowhere to be found anymore in this dimension. Seeing how Luka and the gang travel across different worlds like the ruined Iliasville or the restored Rostomoru(or whatever it’s called) I believe that you’ll find her antidote in a future parallel world. Of course this is only a theory and you may find it on the Hellgondo continent, who knows. Rest assured you’ll recruit your queen in part 2 or later. That I’m sure of since you have other leaders in your party including a King, a Queen, a Monster Lord and a Goddess. so I suspect the Queen Harpy will also be recruitable along with the Sphinx heavenly knigts and who knows who else.

      • Purple Haze

        Oh of course, the world tree! Yeah, I blanked out at that part when my dream shambled. But thank you guys for keeping me hope alive. I’m fine with any version of her, I’ll traverse countless dimensions if needed. Just as long as I get her. All we need to do is wait eh?

      • MGQ_EX I hated that game. The battle and leveling systems were awful story was rushed, There were TONS of underdeveloped party members story-wise. I liked their way of speaking though and the music was pretty good, the graphics looked rather impressive for that period but the rest shesh, it’s like they rushed everything just to make some quick cash thinking people will buy it because it has the word Chrono in it. It could have been a much better game and I think it suffers from the same illness as Secret of Mana. about halfway through it seems like the game is rushing you to get to the end as fast as possible. Sad sad.

      • Purple Haze

        I do miss Seiken Densetsu 3. Man, how many times did I replay that just to try different combinations. Can’t remember much of the story no more, let alone Secret of Mana’s story, since I’ve completed that way less than it’s sequel thingie.

      • Eh Chrono Cross has its own love 😛 Probably would have been better if they didn’t try making it a part of and isolating it from the world of Chrono Trigger along with messing up the multiple happy endings to make a conflict plot (I gave that mayor jerky how dare he revolt, I also tried to kill the King with jerky, now I sit here eating jerky…) On it’s own merits the game has a lot of good things but when you pin a participation medal on it and say this is the next Chrono Series it suddenly has higher expectations. Funny enough the situation with Queen Harpy is similar to Kid… Ah sweet sweet poison

        • Chiron Maximus

          Chrono class? Are you guys getting sneak previews of what’s to come in the future chapters or talking about an entirely different game?

      • Two different games actually, Chrono Trigger was a great game based on Time Travel where Chrono Cross was somewhat of a sequel based on multiverse and time travel. As for sneak previews well there is some interesting dialogue that probably will come to play later on along with some currently unused assets.

        http://chrono.wikia.com/wiki/Chronopedia

  124. I sold the dark claws to an NPC, but forgot where I got them. Now that I’ve started a new game, does anyone remember where they are? Need them to synthesize.

    • Desert Eagle

      I don’t know… I don’t remember having too much trouble after Morrigan. Well, not more than what Hell mode was already throwing at me.

      Perhaps you just need to adjust your strategy? Make more use of thunder and crowd-control spells? Blind. Silence. Confuse. Paralyze. And time healing spells so that they heal damage immediately after it’s been dealt.

    • Give Luka a good weapon, boost his strength and keep using Burn! Spinning Decapitation. A lot of monsters after Morrigan are weak against fire and it deals good damage to the whole group. I remember that was my main attack when my Luka was below lvl 30. Or you could always go back, master some jobs gain some defensive abilities. 😛

    • Purple Haze

      I don’t know if you picked Alice or Illias. If it’s Illias, you could make her your Holy hitter. Boost her WIllpower and Agility and fire away, or enlighten away. Throughout my journey Luka has always been trailing behind Illias in terms of damage (which is pretty easy when almost everyone is weak against Holy). Only now he’s starting to catch up in Battle Master mode.

      If it’s Alice, then I wouldn’t know. I’d imagine she’d be a great mage. In that case Luka would probably be your only potential Holy hitter. But either way, a mix of Support and Heavy Hitters can do wonders.

    • machinaforce

      My team was around levels 17-21 when fighting Morgan I had Sonya as a Paladin buffing the team that half physical and magic dmg skill really made her no a problem.

  125. Purple Haze

    I’ve been thinking, Nuruko really is strange, isn’t she? If I equip her with Killer Earrings, she attacks thrice instead. BM’s Double Attack doesn’t seem to stack with Killer Earrings, and Slug Queen’s Triple Attack doesn’t multiply with Killer Earrings. But would the Mysterious Strange Being be strange enough to have BM’s Double Attack stack with Killer Earrings? Man, if she could be a Berserker class..

    If all that’s just a fairy tale, then I’ve always got Nanabi’s Seven Moons to boost up with seeds.

    • Desert Eagle

      Nuruko hits three times because of her scylla racial ability. It IS possible to make her hit seven times though; Tentacle ability “Tentacle Up” makes her hit five times, and “High Tentacle Up” makes her hit seven times. Combined with a sex toy and her natural sliminess, her attacks become a devastating pleasure attack combo.

      • Purple Haze

        Which means her accessory slot is completely free! Thank goodness then. I see so many more possibilities now, making her more intriguing than Seven Moons. No wait, holy hell! Nuruko AND Nanabi! Once I’ve boosted them both, it will change my whole game! I don’t think I’ll be seen here for a while..

      • Desert Eagle

        Add “Horny Strike 25%” to the mix, and you got some seriously awesome attack. Inflicting Horny status to enemy doubles the pleasure damage they receive, including attacks made with a sex toy. And “Slimy” status, which Nuruko inflicts naturally as her character trait, also ups pleasure damage. No beast or dragon will ever be able to escape her tentacles!

      • Purple Haze

        Yes! I’ve been thinking about equipping lotsa Strike Abilities, unless they overwrite each other. If they do, then Horny Strike is gonna be the obvious winner. And as accessory I was thinking of 30% normal attack, Holy Strike or Death Mark (for normal girls mostly as I’d reckon bosses are immune to Death and Expel). If only Nuruko could learn Expel Strike, then combining that with Death Mark would be crazy in normal encounters!

    • Desert Eagle

      Fortune Teller and Gambler. Both have “Item Drop” but Gambler’s is the one you want. I don’t know what level you have to train it to to get the ability for keeps but it doesn’t matter; As long as you have the job equipped, your character will always have “Item Drop”.

  126. Xoverguy

    Hi again everybody. I apologize if my constant questions are a bit grating, but these two will be quick. 1. How do you get the job change item for “Hero of Justice?”. I understand it is accessible. Secondly, and this is more speculation: Is there any plausibility of finding any of the currently inaccessible job change items (like taoist) in high areas of the Labyrinth of Chaos, or even more interestingly, as the 2000 affection reward items of specific recruitable monster girls? I ask this since in all honesty, I highly doubt that they are going to only leave us with 3 advanced races and 3 advanced jobs for the next 2 parts, so I assume that as they expand the Job/Race set, they would also expand the means to aquire these unlocking items…possibly? As I said, this is just speculation. Thanks for the answer to question one. <3. Seeya all around and have a good night/day

    • Purple Haze

      I’ve heard something about if you beat Nanabi in the Labyrinth, she will grant one of your party members the Ninja class. If that really is the case, then I hope someone would do the same for the Berserker class. I’d really love another one.

      • There is no job change item from nanabi. If you meet her in the chaos labyrinth she will offeroffer to teach one of your characters the ability Skill Use: Ninjutsu and the basic ninjutsu skills.Next time you meet her she will teach you either the basics again or 1 of the 3 advanced ninjutsu skills. That’s about it for nanabi. Same goes if you meet Shinigami She will teach you “Dark” skills one at a time but not the ability Skill Use: Dark. So if you meet her make sure you teach her Dark skills to someone who can already use Dark

      • Purple Haze

        Ah I see, same with the Rapier skill I learned yesterday then. Shame though, I guess I’ll have to keep Mina around and mold her into an unstoppable beast. Perhaps there are some advanced Axe skills in the Labyrinth that she could use.

  127. Desert Eagle

    1. You get it from Monte Carlo, south-west from San Ilia. You need to help its local superhero, “Justice Kaiser”. You’ll need a bit of info from the local mafia before you can be of assistance though.

    2. Dunno. Haven’t been there yet, to my regret. And none of the 2000 affection rewards include job/race items. I know because I unlocked all of them.

    3. Highly likely. Mastering current jobs will probably help you get those advanced jobs when the time comes.

  128. Anonymous

    excuse anyone knows how to spend the saved from MGQ ex, to version 1.21 with the final patch installed or I have to reuse a saved well back?

  129. Anonymous

    Thank you very much friend save me the trouble of losing 20 hours of advance between saved, perfect patch works Dargoth and ex MGQ truth but did not think it better not to know XD

    indeed I have 2 questions about the game maybe you know:

    1- how to get the sword again, custom sword has to start?

    2-in where you can get the key weapon that is needed to perform the skill (machine) beam scythe, or will only be released to the second part of the game?

    • I answered #2 some time ago. The beam scythe item is nowhere to be found in this chapter and is probably in the first tartarus of chapter 2 since all the Makina items were found in the tartaruses. I’m not sure on #1 but maybe you start out with it in a NG+? I don’t now I haven’t tried and I didn’t pay attention last time I started a NG+

    • Desert Eagle

      Custom Sword is the sword Luka starts with. It’s the sword the blacksmith of Iliasville made for Luka. It’s a very unique weapon, so you can’t get another one of them.

      I’m guessing you’re asking for that sword because you want to follow its upgrade path? Perhaps you’ve already upgraded your Custom Sword? If so, you can just continue to upgrade that sword instead of starting from scratch.

      • I thought it was a good idea with the custom sword reminds me of some of the old rpg games where the best sword was the worst.
        And now he won’t have a weapon that will kill him slowly like Angel Halo.

      • Desert Eagle

        Yes, upgrading Custom Sword is a very neat idea. I kinda miss Angel Halo though. I wonder when Nero will give it back?

      • Anonymous

        Who will speak at the end, I have no sword that had improved four times, and looking everywhere xd
        Thanks for clearing the doubts of the game.

      • Desert Eagle

        Custom Sword’s full upgrade path is:

        Custom Sword: You start with it.
        v
        Custom Sword+: 「ハピネス村」 = Happiness Village (Harpies)
        v
        Element Custom: 「エンリカ」 = Enrika (Forest, elves)
        v
        Holy Custom: 「サン・イリア」 = San Ilia (West of Natalia Port, the mermaid town)
        v
        Holy Custom+: 「サバサ」 = Sabasa (Big castle town in desert. Blacksmith is in the building west of Item shop)

        Check your inventory for any of these weapons.

        • Chiron Maximus

          Nice to know, and I bet when Chapter 2 comes up, there will be more custom sword upgrades waiting to make it even more stronger than ever.

      • Desert Eagle

        I certainly hope so. It’s an awesome weapon. It has Fire, Ice, Lightning and Holy attributes. The damage is calculated based on which one of those attributes is the strongest against that enemy. Very handy.

        And it’s not the only weapon going through a long upgrade path. Fish Boomerang goes through a long path to become “Fish Boomerang Nature++”. It has Earth, Wind and Water attributes, the opposite of Holy Custom+ minus holy attribute.

  130. Purple Haze

    So I tried out the Chaos Labyrinth for the first time. Not because I felt ready, but I just needed a change of scenery (farming Honeypots and Mimic Girls for weeks can do something to a man, or at least me. And I say weeks, but it’s really just about 2-3 hours a day). And Alice obliterated me in 2 turns, so I said to hell with it, maybe the Labyrinth houses some sweet items for me. I’ve heard all the frightening stories. which is why it has taken me this long to try it out.

    Thus I entered with my ragtag team of misfits. Well, the very first floor immediately turned out to be Luka’s hometown. And even though a Slime Girl could do some serious damage to me, I still stuck around for a little while to level up my Nuruko and Pochi (an average of 24 per easy battle is still something). After that I kept exploring every floor for chests, mostly disappointing food though, made me wonder if it was really worth risking my life in this chaos for. After a few bosses I stopped the explorations, I limited myself to opening chests on my way to an exit. But even without the exploring this Labyrinth was still quite a strange experience. You see, getting to a boss could sometimes take more than an hour or just 15 minutes. Just the luck of the draw eh.

    I’ve been in quite some pinches. Mostly during normal encounters instead of bosses (though drawing Sylph twice was quite annoying). At floor 69 a Mimic Girl almost got me (I’m not joking or randomly giving you a number, this was the actual floor). People were either Death or just dead, and surely some abilities helped me revive back to life, but I still didn’t see any hope to win. She was stronger and faster, so I just kept attacking in a haze (of course still with the best intentions, I didn’t go completely berserk..) and somehow I still won! Well, sure I saved after every boss, so it wouldn’t have been THAT great a loss. But I stumbled upon a sweet Job Exp boost guy in the 60’s which I gave to Nuruko that got her 4 job levels up. I didn’t want to lose that.

    But it did level me up deep inside. I’ve made my play even more efficiently now, wasting even lesser turns to kill my enemies. I cooked up a way to lock down most opponents, it even worked on one boss (Vampire Girl, she was such a breeze). And then I arrived at floor 100, took the blue pill on the right, got Sonya Manyu, and everything was over.

    Soooo yes, after this super long text I do have a few questions. Sorry about that thing up there. Sometimes I just.. you know, can’t help myself.

    1. Is the Blue Pill always gonna be Sonya Manyu or was I just unlucky?

    2. You can only see 3-4 Buffs active at a time. Does that mean if the next Buff pushes one off the screen, you’ve lost that Buff? Or is it still active offscreen? It never really bothered me until the Labyrinth,

    3. In the ability screen, the upper window is blocking my Attack Abilities bar. Is that something I can fix manually? I switched to EX 0.5j recently.

    • PR

      1. It’s not always Sonya Manyu, but it is always a much harder boss than the other one. Sonya Manyu was around middle difficulty for those, iirc. Once you reach them, you can restart the labyrinth at floors 51, 101, and 201. The harder bosses aren’t required to get there, as the red flame selects one of the lower tier bosses. I noticed the better accessories started dropping around floor 150. For general fights, someone that can sing or dance is useful. Singing and dancing skills include some stunning effects and go before other types of attacks, assuming there isn’t a massive difference in agility.

      2. The other buffs are still active. It will announce when they wear off.

      Not sure about 3. I’m not using the EX patch.

      • Purple Haze

        Yeah, I’ve incorporated 2 singers in my party for locking down almost anyone, because Saki can’t learn Daisy Bell. Thank goodness I won’t always have to face Sonya Manyu though. But for now I’ll just take the red pill to unlock 101.

      • Music ‘battle_ex1’ is an alternative to ‘battle’, if you change Game.ini UseCustomBattleBGM=On you can have a custom random playlist for battle music; Only effects battles that use the ‘battle’ track; That way not every battle uses the same track

    • Desert Eagle

      I went there recently too for the first time. Currently, I’m at lv 20. I got an idea to start to start training reserve party members, so I switched my main team out.

      I need to actually train them before they can pull their weight though. To get through the fights quicker, I decided to make use of Mercantile skill “Super Money Throw”. It usually one-shots most monsters on those levels. Time is money, as they say. 😛

      • Purple Haze

        Oh boy, how many times did my Merchant save my ass in there against those Phys reflects and high Magic resist girls. I specifically trained my merchant in the arts of everything item related and especially maximizing Super Money Throw’s damage.

        If all else fails, just throw money at it, right?

    • Purple Haze

      I farm them in the basement of the ruined tower east of Salon. The final tower thing. You don’t have to check the pots, they’re normal encounters now. There’s also the bookshelf near Death where you can reenact battles. Haven’t tried it, so I don’t know if it’s more efficient than farming them in the final tower.

      • Chiron Maximus

        They occured naturally in the tower basement. … I wish I knew that before completing the tower like an idiot! *sigh* Better rev up NG+ … after I try Chaos Labyrinth.

  131. CivilDeviation

    MGQ_EX: I just finished my exams and here and the bugs
    1) medal purchases and item requests from monsters not deducting from stash
    2) Unable to obtain spiritualist job despite meeting prerequisites
    Any help would be appreciated,sorry this is laterish.

  132. Chiron Maximus

    HOLY SWEET MOTHER OF ILIAS AND ALIPHEESE!!!! The Chaos Labyrinth sucks!!! Battles are hard as fuck, rewards were sucky and it get’s worse every level?! Well NO THANK YOU!

    • Though the battles are indeed very challenging the rewards can be pretty good you can get the 30% stat boost accessories from floors 70-100 and the boss floors can have small medals or seeds which permanently increase a characters stats. Even though I’m stuck at 110 I’m sure the pros who can defeat the hard boss at level 100 and can go to floor 160 (or higher) absolutely adore it.

      To be fair though Chaos labyrinth is only there for people who like to play the game for more than just the story and want to play the game more prior to part 2.

      • Chiron Maximus

        … To me, a comment like that, is an observation of a hanging bag of money in a room filled with every type of gun, ready to shoot anything that moves, gives off heat, or even breathes. In short, I’ll probably never get it, and I have quite a few players at level 30 and maxing in some powerful jobs. In all honesty, I just tried it for the job EXP farming, but with it being as hard as fuck, I’ll just go through NG+ and stop when I get the the tower at the end, cause like an idiot, I competed it, thinking I could go back to it.

      • Chiron Maximus

        … Omg Thank you for letting me know this BEFORE I did NG+ like an idiot. I really need to get more info before making choices.

      • Chiron Maximus

        It is there, as you said, but when i roamed around the basement, I get the usual fodder. I don’t check the pots, cause i know they’re already honey pots that disappear after I check them. Didn’t someone say that Honey pots occur naturally in the basement, or did I make that up?

    • Xoverguy

      To your comment about the Labyrinth of Chaos. Yeah, it can be hard, but doable. However, the way I do it is the foloowing. For normal battles up to level 100 I run Luka, Stella, Doramier (Unfortunate Mermaid) and Mini. Each battle consists of: 1. Luka using Saint’s Self Destruction combined with the accessory to activate “Companion’s Bio Weapon” to essentially double hit for over 8500 damage. 2. Holy Martyr to pick him back up and anybody that might have gotten hurt before then. 3. Stella and Doramier sweep up the mess with Gold Throw/Super Gold Throw if needed. If you by any chance run into a Tarantula girl, whom, like bosses, is immune to set damage attacks like gold throw and self destructs, just bring out your full power team and beat her up. Holy attacks are preferable, unless you have a character with enough damage buffs to punch through her resists by default.

      As for the normal bosses (not the lv 100 super bosses) most of them are simple enough to handle. Only thing to remember is that Lily and Lucia are magic reflectors, so its best that you focus your magic dominant players to support while you let your physicals wail on them. The only real problem for me at one point was Brunnhilde and her firepower, but with the Water Ninjutsu Nanabi was able to teach me in the Labyrinth, I was able to exploit one of her weaknesses and take her down.

      I cant say much for above level 100 but I am currently training my primary teams to be more versatile job wise, as there are many enemies that now are carrying mass buffs/debuffs (Mass Dispell, Quick all, And tarantula has a mass webbing skill that has a chance to bind everybody. (that battle was real tough. Only reason I did that was due to using promestein’s new book skill, which I will dub “Page 666 of darkness” due to the text still being japanese, which was taught to her by Page 65K in the Labyrinth as well.))

      That’s my two cents. Hope it helps.

      • Chiron Maximus

        Well, I can’t say that I’m not impressed with your strategy, but I think I will skip out on Chaos labyrinth, until I have everyone max out every job.

  133. Desert Eagle

    I couldn’t help but notice that Mimic’s predation ability is called “Mimic Boa”? Perhaps by “Boa”, they meant “vo-a” which would be “vore”. Mimic Vore.

    • Desert Eagle

      And the machina skill “Kalina Ann Range” might be better translated as “Kirlian Range”. Kirlian photography has been associated with the occult, and this is an anti-undead skill.

    • Skill 2970 – ミミックボア – Mimic Boa, Perhaps ‘Mimic Vore’ would be better,

      There are a few entries for “Kill Lian range” which seems be be a custom line sometimes said for Skill 2240 – Incorporeal Debilitator; As that seems to be something the google beast spewed forth changing that to occultist philosophy sounds good

    • I still liked Incorporeal Debilitator best because that’s basically what it does if I remember correctly. It sounds so high-tech too.

      MGQ_EX I have to ask why are double entries for some of the pleasure skills in the database file and by that I mean enemy skills. I think I remember the elf-specific ones having two entries.
      Are the skills grouped as the dialogues are or?

      The database will be on its way soon enough, I just couldn’t have Lavos have his way and destroy the world. But now the world is saved and I’m checking what I previously did and what still needs to be done, I suspect not much since I went over the skills as I was correcting the dialogues.

      I also “unwrapped” the original and oh boy is it a mess…I’ll see what I can do after I’m done with this but first I want to mess with the present dialogue and see if I can untangle anything there since a lot of the responses to different items are the same.

      • Could you list a few of the offenders? Some have a Male version and a Female version, but mostly are the same thing. Funny enough there are 3 classifications of gender… Man, Woman, and Luka 😛 So did you revive the forest? Save a young mother from a death trap?

      • I saved the forest and the mother put Cyrus’ soul to rest put Ozzie in his place helped the reptite village survive and got statues of my chars built, shut down a human killing facility and basically all the sidequests available in the game and raised a monster with perfect stats(99 on every stat).

        The offenders are the Elf type attacks and I can make the difference between male and female they have the corresponding name in brackets for either gender. And yes apparently Luka is a gender too =))

        <>
        Elf Masturbation

        <>

        <>
        Elf Masturbation

        <>

        Same skill same name diff # I’m not sure if there’s more but I’ll find out eventually since I noticed I skipped a lot of the skills and just focused on the dialogue.

        I did take the liberty of changing things like Oral for male to Blowjob or Handjob to Fingering for females and some other nonsensical stuff like Luxuru Slow Down> Luxuru Lock Down. Makes much more sense since she binds you with that move.

        I assume the same skills with diff # are used for chaos girls but I’m not sure since I didn’t pay attention to the numbers when I did the chaos girls dialogue. I just copy/pasted more or less from the normal girls since they do say the same thing. And sadly the chaos girls dialogue is probably typo-less compared to the normal ones.

      • Well it seems intentional… Though the only difference at a glance is 3705 has a 50% chance to cause Horny where 3961 doesn’t; Might been to compensate for RPG Maker limitations

      • Oh well I wouldn’t know it’s a shame the notes didn’t get translated as well, some are really helpful while editing text but there’s no need for that now since the items and skills are translated.Anyways I’ll mail you the database after I’m done but I have one more question, there are some skills that just state the attack name instead of an actual description in the message. should I leave them as is or make something up?

      • I honestly doubt people will notice anyway. Does anyone actually read the battle dialogue and messages? From what I read most of the people around here are after the story. I don’t think I read one comment about battle dialogue or messages and I went through all the comments since the initial translation patch post.

      • Arj

        Sure is usefull to know what they say, and what you can chose as awnser, when doing the Talk thing, because right now Im just blindly clicking and hoping it wont piss them off…

      • Purple Haze

        Well, technically or actually or even canonically Luka has been a virgin until he slept with Alice, right? So most of these “things” actually never really happened. But for the sake of enjoyment, he was a good trooper. There’s just nothing to acknowledge, canonically.

      • Desert Eagle

        In the original MGQ, yes. In MGQ Paradox, Luka’s virginity is never spoken of. Player might beat the entire game without touching a single girl or by sleeping with every single one of them. I don’t think Luka’s virginity will be important at any part of the story; The player chooses that themselves.

        • Chiron Maximus

          Well, given how Luka was grown up, I think he is a virgin, it’s just not blatantly said, and if it is, I didn’t notice it. I think they’ll get in on that subject in Chapter 2, cause it was in Chapter 2 of MGQ where Luka had full sex with Alice and they both lost their virginity, so maybe something along those lines will follow, or they won’t, but we’ll jsut have to see. Also, replaying through the original MGQ and I’m so looking forward to have certain girls as my partners and dying to see what new ones they put in, like the Elf Queen and Fairy Queen.

      • Purple Haze

        I’m just not going to acknowledge putting Luka through horrid things just for my enjoyment, because it didn’t happen in the story! It’s not like Alice went “Do you remember that time you were devoured by that plant girl? You sure you wanna go down that road again?”.

        But yeah, I’m pretty stoked to see what other creations will leave his fantasy world. He’s trying to push around 500 in total, right? That’s gonna be alotta crazy stuff. I just met Salamander in the Labyrinth and now I can’t wait to use her power in Chapter 2, she’s also probably gonna be a monstrous Berserker. Those Canaan Sisters and Cassandra would be cool mentions too, but if I have to trade them for my Queen, I will.

        • Chiron Maximus

          Well, yeah in the original MGQ game, i would never want him to go down those roads, so I’m looking forward to getting the girls in Paradox, so there will be some non-fatal versions of scenes that I like. I especially can’t wait for the Queens, and the Succubi (cause of their paizuri cgs, and I’m one hell of a POV nut), but as for the canaans, I would think they’d be non-recruitable, seeing as they’re the evil, monstrous, would-rather-die-than-obey-a-human sort of monsters.

          Just for the hell of this, here’s my list of girls in the future that I believe will be Non-recruitable:
          The Canaan sisters
          The Beelzebubs
          Chimera beasts, like the lamairoid and such, but I could be wrong about them
          Kraken
          Poseidoness
          Emily (Lady Village)
          Cassandra (Lady village)
          The Heavenly Knights (Maybe,, but for now I don’t think so)
          Golem girl (the one from MGQ, they may put in a whole new chain of golems)
          Some of the queens, like Queen Ant and Queen Bee
          Giganto Weapon
          Spider princess
          Some Angels, like the base angels that you never face in the original MGQ
          Shirohebi (the Lamia from yamatai that you fight)
          Any of the Seekers of truth (that may change, since at the end of Chapter 1, we have to find our world’s La Croix)
          Cirque du Croiz (If we do recruit La Croix, then maybe they become available through extension.)
          Alice’s Mother
          Themis Trap
          Heaven’s Gate
          Doppel luka or Doppleganger (if they get added in at all)
          Any of the Next dolls
          Aaaaaand that’s pretty much every girl from MGQ that i think won’t be recruitable. What do you guys think of my list?

      • Alternate universes would make all them recruitable… Go to one universe with Doppel Luka, hey baby I just beat myself join the party, another universe Spider Princess doing something funny why not add her, perhaps in a Tartarus as there are still quite a few of those, and so on and so fourth. Really we get Promestein as a school girl I wouldn’t be surprised if we get Black Alice at some point and if Alice’s Mom isn’t dead why not have a mother daughter scene, so many possibilities when you throw reality out the window. Also at some point there will probably be a few super hard unlockable characters, think some of the girls in Part 1 had a fun story line wait till the landscape doubles and you have to back track… Undine and Erubetie should be interesting, as if Slime Girls are no longer endangered but thrive so why are the reasons to dislike Humans? A lot of plot changes with the old laws not being enforced and with so many girls that could kill you just to kill you being in the party that isn’t much of a reason to not have them, plus it is an easy way to fluff the numbers up as we where promised a minimum of 2 scenes per girl

        • Chiron Maximus

          … Wow. I figured you or Casian would respond, but I didn’t expect you to just throw that whole thing at me. Ok, I’ll bite. I’ll just wait and see what develops, but even if they’re recruitable, I will never accept the Canaans or the Beelzebubs, cause even a pervert like me has standards.

      • Anonymous

        The Canaans were just mercenaries. Both plants and insects killed each other, so they are hardly truly evil. Keep in mind that many cruel monsters like Roper, Mimic and so on are already recruitable. Alice 17th intervened in the Plantsect war, so it is possible that all monsters there are less aggressive and more redeemable.

        Beelzebubs just want to breed, like many other monsters. They can be completely harmless, as long as they are kept in control. Why shouldn’t they hang out in the pocket castle, just like all the other monsters, that murder, eat and enslave other creatures?

      • Desert Eagle

        A lot of those “unrecruitables” are monster girls that I’m looking forward to. I even have a spot reserved for Lamianroid. 😛

        Well, it doesn’t matter. Most girls give you an option to not recruit them. I never use that option though. Even the Beelzebubs are welcome as long as they don’t turn me into an anal egg incubator.

        Captain Scat can stay the hell away from my Pocket Castle though.

        • Chiron Maximus

          Bro, you let those bug s in, they’ll do that anyways, I just know it; and same for me about Scat Captain, that guy can go to hell.

      • xDyaN

        By the way every single one of the monsters from the original trilogy will be recruitable, for sure. It was one of the first statement Toro made.

  134. jchris1_2000

    Is it a good idea to max out Luka’s job skills before new game plus, maybe some labyrinth tries before new game plus as already got Alice up to 2000 rep for the items and skills available as a cursed knight for now

  135. Anonymous

    Hoping for a at least a half way translation before the years out. 🙁 almost half a year deep and, seemingly to a normal pleab gaijin like myself we’re no further along than in march. I really can’t complain or rather I shouldn’t because it’s a free service but, I fear we may hit the one year mark before the translation is anywhere near complete. take my energy dargoth GL.

    • Desert Eagle

      “Can always use Beast and Breath attacks”… Hmmm…

      I think it would be interesting to invest into breath attacks, or at least try them. If my memory serves me, breath attacks use ATT, MAG and DEX in their damage calculation. The job “Magus Fist” has a pretty good balance between all three of those. On top of that, Magus Fist can also support the beast skills with its ATT and DEX.

      • Desert Eagle

        Yes, that was indeed very interesting. I think in Bunni’s case (if I understood it correctly), her beast blood was dormant, and Promestein simply awakened it. Still, genetic manipulation. I’m interested to see if we’ll see this kind of thing more in future chapters.

      • In the meantime the pleasure attack messages have been completed and sent to MGQ_EX, next patch will make the battles look more like the original as in Skill name appears at the top, monster girl says something sexy, a description of what the monster girl did followed by the damage taken by the char. I really wish and hope with all my heart there’s no more tentacles in the next 2 parts of the game. I’m sick of them…

        • Chiron Maximus

          You do realize where we haven’t been to yet, right? Sorry pal, but tentacles are still in the future of this game.

        • Chiron Maximus

          Trust me, so long as there’s new tentacle monsters, there will be new tentacle attacks, and I can say that for a fact, because we haven’t ran into MGQ’s scylla, with the pink flesh and gold hair.

      • Chiron there’s plenty tentacle attacks in the game as it is. Just open your DatabaseEnglish.rvtxt file and just search for the word tentacle and see how many you can find. Tentaclejobs tentacle anal and vaginal, squeezing, energy draining, vore it’s all there, I’m not sure if there’s anything new they can really add.

        • Chiron Maximus

          They’ll find a way. They always find a way, and when they do, you’ll be there saying “Clever girl …”

      • element

        speaking of over used fetishes why do so many monster girls try to put stuff in your but there are zero scenes where you put it in theirs?

      • Desert Eagle

        I know at least one anal scene so it’s not completely zero; The third eldest daughter of the Nefertiti Lamias does only anal. I get what you mean though.

        On a personal note, I don’t really care about those scenes.

      • element

        Thats true but its a repeat from the first trilogy, there’s a new scene with chrome but i don’t think it can be accessed yet.

  136. CivilDeviation

    Dargoth, do we have any idea on how the actual translation is going since the 1.21 bit?

    Also trolls, pessimists, and cynics do those of us who want a real answer a favor and just hit “Alt + F4” instead of responding.

      • CivilDeviation

        Fair point, guess I still have some bad blood over how folks responded to the 1.21 patch, best for all if I let it go. Thanks for the reminder.

        • You shouldn’t concern yourself to how people reacted to the 1.21 patch unless you put in a fair amount of work in it. Other than that I see no reason why anyone would get upset, they’re not worth getting upset over anyway, most of them don’t even have the ballz to show themselves and hide behind the name “Anonymous”. Enjoy what you have, chill and most importantly, don’t feed the trolls.

  137. JeanMichaelHeredia

    good day sir, i need some help. whenever i try to run the 1.21 patch i keep getting the error saying wrong version after i click the patch button. i dont know what to do next? please help

  138. Banks

    Hi guys, sorry to ask but after I’ve applied the translation my game presents an error and close after I use any skills. I’ve just copied patch into Paradox 1.21 folder, executed the patch.exe and clicked ‘patch.’ Is there anything else that I need to do before or after running the translater? Thank you all.

    • Desert Eagle

      What kind of error does it give? If you press CTRL+C when that error message pops up, you can copy it, and then paste it in a text file or something.

      It’s when you use a skill, right? Could it be a problem with Japanese locale? Or maybe some of the files related to the skills are missing?

    • Desert Eagle

      Congratulations! I got that achievement too. I got mine through repetition and practice though, not on my very first try. I guess you got a real “777”. 😛

      Learning to manipulate slots is a very handy skill in casino. 🙂

  139. Chaincat

    Ok, I’m bashing my skull in over this one. How do I get the doll to recruit chrome? The last thing I did was the lab, I still have to go get sylphy. I went to the cave and when I go to the tower there’s no cutscene. I go to the bottom floor of the cave and try to open the blue chest, Luka says some stuff and then nothing happens. If it makes any difference, I choose Ilias.

    • Desert Eagle

      Did you actually get the quest from Chrome to go retrieve magic-imbued thread? Did you talk to her again after you fought her?

      Does Luka know where magic-imbued thread is? Chrome cannot guide you to it. If he doesn’t know, he probably thinks he has no business in those caves. In order for your character to know where it is, you have to get information from Monte Carlo’s mafia. To be safe, enter the mafia building and talk to everyone. That should do it.

  140. Anonymous

    hey guys i noticed something rather interesting. when the twin harpy sisters cast a wing spell it goes off twice rather than once. would increasing the number of attacks increase the number of
    wing spells or no?

    • Desert Eagle

      You are correct; In addition to attacking twice, Harpy Twins also execute Wing skills twice. It was probably changed in one of the previous patches, and hasn’t been updated in the translation.

      And no, increasing the number of normal attacks won’t change how many times Wing skills are executed.

  141. Desert Eagle

    So, I decided to go and check the untranslated version of the game for changes to some of the characters’ inherent traits. I made a little list of things that need to be added to the patch translation:

    Luka:
    – Axe, Spear and Holy skills are no longer inherent (2/3 still available through Angel race)

    Shinifa:
    – Trait name is “Laughing Harlequin”, not “Laughing Arachne” 「笑うアルレッキーノ」
    – +5% Crit chance no longer included

    Saki:
    – Instead of “being targeted 75% more often”, she has lower probability of being targeted

    Lippy:
    – SP cost of weakening skills (Armor Impact, Mind Impact, etc.) is now halved

    Pina & Pii:
    – “Wing skills execute twice” added

    Alice:
    – Only the HP cost of dark attribute skills are halved

    Shesta:
    – SP cost of HP drain Insect skills is now also halved.
    – Evasion and Magic Evasion are still there but I cannot confirm any numbers

    Riot:
    – Just wanted to point out that the kanji 「魔」 is in the name of her trait. It should be something like: “Demon-Beast Apoptosis”.

    Hild:
    – Holy and Dark skills no longer included in traits

    Lily:
    – Tentacle skills are also powered up

    Sonia:
    – “Can always equip staves” added, in addition to clubs.
    – “Can always use White Magic” and “Effectiveness of White Magic is increased” added

    Queen of Grand Noah:
    – “Can always use Ruling skills” and “Effectiveness of Ruling skills is increased” added

    No changes to: Jade, Promestein, Radio, Sully, Mini, Nuruko

    • Desert Eagle

      Also, I think the race name 「エビルマータ」 should be “Evilmaton” or something like that. If it was “Automata”, it would read as: 「オートマタ」.

      • DungeonMasterBobbySmith

        Desert Eagle, I’m a fan of the Koihime † Musou games. Baseson has been coming out with new additions to the series, “Shin Koihime † Eiyuutan”. There are new characters and I am having trouble finding their translated names. Will you help, please. I need their first name, last name, and if they one listed their alias/real name. Also I need the kanji for what you translate, without it the information is useless.

        http://baseson.nexton-net.jp/koihime-eiyuutan/character/index.html

        example:
        Hongou Kazuto 北郷 一刀 
        Kan’u Unchou 関羽 雲長/Aisha 愛紗
        Sousou Moutoku 曹操 孟徳/Karin 華琳
        Sonsaku Hakufu 孫策 伯符/Sheren 雪蓮

      • Desert Eagle

        Interesting. The game is based on “Romance of the Three Kingdoms”? They use the names of famous people from it but use Japanese reading for their names.

        「蜀」 = Shu (The first kingdom on the list; Green)

        「糜竺」 = Bijiku (Mi Zhu; Advisor to the warlord Liu Bei)
        「糜芳」 = Bihou (Mi Fang; Sibling of Mi Zhu; Served under Liu Bei as well)
        「孫乾」 = Sonken (Sun Qian; Another advisor and emissary of Liu Bei)
        「馬休」 = Bakyuu (Ma Xiu; Child of warlord Ma Teng)
        「馬鉄」 = Batetsu (Ma Tie; Child of warlord Ma Teng; Sibling of Ma Xiu (Bakyuu))

        「魏」 = Wei (The second kingdom on the list; Blue)

        「曹仁」 = Soujin (Cao Ren; Military general serving warlord Cao Cao)
        「曹洪」 = Soukou (Cao Hong; Military general of Cao Cao; Also cousin of Cao Cao)
        「曹純」 = Soujun (Cao Chun; Cavalry general under warlord Cao Cao)
        「徐晃」 = Sokou (Xu Huang; Military officer serving warlord Cao Cao; Previously served Dong Zhuo)
        「陳珪」 = Chinkei (Chen Gui; Served as minister under warlord Cao Cao)
        「陳登」 = Chintou (Chen Deng; Strategist; Child of Chen Gui (Chinkei))

        「呉」 = Wu (Third kingdom on the list; Red)

        「魯粛」 = Roshuku (Lu Su; Politician, militarist & diplomat under warlord Sun Quan)
        「程普」 = Teifu (Cheng Up; Military general serving the Sun warlord family)
        「張昭」 = Choushou (Zhang Zhao; An official in the kingdom of Wu)
        「孫堅」 = Sonken (Sun Jian; Military general and warlord in Wu)
        「太史慈」 = Taishiji (Taishi Ci; Military general)

        「袁」 = On/Yuan(?) (I can’t figure this out. Probably the northern territories of China)

        「田豊」 = Denhou (Tian Feng; Advisor to the warlord Yuan Shao)

        「その他」 = Others

        「皇甫嵩」 = Kouhosuu (Huangfu Song; Military general)
        「盧植」 = Roshoku (Politician, militarist, scholar; Don’t confuse with Roshuku of the Wu kingdom)
        「何進」 = Kashin (He Jin; Elder half-sibling of Empress He (Kataigou?))
        「何太后」 = Kataigou (Not sure; I think she’s Empress He of Han; Mother of Emperor Shao)
        「献帝」 = Kentei (Lie Xie; Emperor Xian of Han; Sibling of Emperor Shao)
        「霊帝」 = Reitei (Emperor Ling of Han)
        「劉度」 = Ryuudo (Warlord Liu Du)
        「趙忠」 = Chouchuu (Served Emperor Ling of Han (Reitei) as one of the Ten Eunuchs)

        You can use their Chinese names if you wish. However, I think the japanese reading is their name in this game. It should be made clear in their spoken conversation.

        I don’t think I’ll take a job like this again. It takes far too long; I spent hours trying to find the kanjis of all the characters. It’s mentally exhausting.

      • Desert Eagle

        Err… Most of these traits were buffed, not weakened. SP costs were halved, new skills were made available, more power ups… It’s not bad at all. Hild got the shortest stick when her Holy and Dark were taken away but she can still work around that.

  142. Banks

    Hi Desert Eagle. Thanks for your reply. look at this

    —————————
    Monster Girl Quest Paradox! RPG
    —————————
    ?????v1.21.00
    ??? NoMethodError ??????????????????????
    ?????????キ?????????????????????????????
    ??????????????????

    ????:
    undefined method `+’ for nil:NilClass
    ** backtrace:
    ( ???/Window ):712:in `display_use_item'( ?????J ver7 ):179:in `display_use_item'( ?????J ver7 ):224:in `use_item'( Scene_Battle ):573:in `execute_action'( ???/Scene ):449:in `process_action'( Scene_Battle ):48:in `update'( Scene_Base ):14:in `main'( ???/Module ):129:in `run'( ?WF-RGSS?Exit-EX ???? ):118:in `run'( ?WF-RGSS?Exit-EX ???? ):127:in `block in ‘:1:in `block in rgss_main’:1:in `loop’:1:in `rgss_main'( ?WF-RGSS?Exit-EX ???? ):127:in `’ruby:in `eval’
    —————————
    OK
    —————————

    If I fight without using skills it works but play without skills is “impossibler” than mission impossible lol

    • Desert Eagle

      Hmmm… I can’t quite make sense of it. You can fight normally, so… Japanese language shouldn’t be a problem? Yet the error message is ridled with question marks which suggests japanese letters are not showing up properly. Unless it’s just meant to be like that.

      My best guess is that your computer has problems with Japanese language OR the file names related to skills have become jumbled-up garbage. Someone else might know better though.

    • More likely there is a problem with Actor names, rename feature in EX can be used to fix that. In the EX Readme section “Using MGQ EX Rename Functions” just restore to defaults.

    • Why not add a World Map to it,
      sys_map_current_warp.png 7.9 MB
      http://www.4shared.com/photo/SW0fO8RZce/sys_map_current_warp.html

      Made using RPG Maker Editor, SnagIt, and Photoshop. SnagIt failed to capture at 1/1 so it is currently 1/2 scale. Marks the Warp Points on the map though the low res version was used to fill in the blanks. Blue dots are Warp Points that aren’t labeled yet. Was trying to capture with scripts but this map is just to big for them…

      • It’s a stand alone map and doesn’t integrate into the game. I figured it might be good for walkthroughs and such. Also it reminds me of the old days when games where so large they included real maps with the packaging.

  143. Banks

    Sorry the spam but just want to let everybody knows that the link above worked for me..hope it can help others 🙂

    Tks again D.E.

    😀

  144. Chiron Maximus

    So I tried the name changing thing in the castle, and it’s alright, but I think a few changes would make it better. For one thing, make it so that you can change the names of others who aren’t in your active group, so that you don’t have to get every girl you want to change the names of, and have a program in the game that changes the names of the characters for the rape scenes as well, since I thought that would be the case, but instead it was only in combat, and the combat text worked against my renaming of Luka into “You”, so in combat it said “You is damaged by ## points!” and that’s just too silly.

    • I don’t think what you’re asking is possible Chiron at least for the combat text. I haven’t found the damage you take text while editing but I know skills go be the formula U does this to E where U is the one using the skill and E is the one the skill is being used on. I’m pretty sure Torotoro never intended Luka’s name to be changed to you and even the rename function was introduced to change character names into other names not pronouns. As far as I can see the game works with templates and doesn’t change the text according to x factor just to get grammar right after all this is originally a japanese game.
      And I’ve rarely seen first person RPGs that use You instead of an actual name.
      If you don’t want to go through the trouble of having every girl you want to rename in your party simply open the Actor list.txt in your MGQ folder make the changes you want to the names you don’t like then close and save, open your game, talk to the shiny scroll left of the big doors in the Pocket castle chose Rename Actors then Clean up actors then Custom Actor list.

  145. Anonymous

    hey, is a way for recruit to monster girls how to mimic and the zombie girls? and in where can found more of this?

    • Your question is kinda hard to understand the sentence structure is jumbled. Are you asking how to recruit the zombie and mimics girls? If so just encounter them in fights and raise their affinity high enough they’ll eventually join if you have *1.5 recruitment rate on one of your party members that will help the odds.

      • Desert Eagle

        Yup, Ally Invitation is from Informant / Smooth Talker. Using that triples the chance of recruiting a monster girl in that particular battle. If you don’t have that skill yet, you can also use a “Ticket of Invitation” accessory which increases the odds of recruitment passively. You can find one in Pornof’s casino.

        Mimic girls can be found in certain chests and pots. If you find one, you can keep fighting and re-loading the game until they agree to join you. If you cannot find mimics this way anymore, you can find more of them in the basement of the final tower after you’ve beaten the game. They roam around there as random encounters – and also happen to drop small medals. Heh heh…

        Zombie girls are in Chrome’s mansion, and are recruitable.

      • LordBone

        Mimics roam around there? And here I thought there are only Honey pots there and have to wait until NG+ to get a mimic, thanks for that info!

        Also does anybody know where to get the job license for the following jobs: (If they are acquirable at all) Nurse, Ninja, Berserker and Taoist? I seem to have missed them somehwere.

        Also is there a cheatsy way to fly around the world map to look at the unfinished parts of the world (if there is any at all) for fun?

      • Desert Eagle

        Yes. Both Mimics and Honey Pots roam there. I farmed small medals there for quite a long time. (And then recruited Medal Queen.)

        You can get Nurse job item from the nurse Battle Fucker in the university of Iliasport. Ninja, Berserker and Taoist job items aren’t available yet. However, those jobs are inherent to some of the characters, and can access them without the appropriate job item. For example, Minotaur lady is already a Berserker.

        Even though you can’t learn Ninja job yet, you can gain access to its skills. In the Labyrinth of Chaos, you may sometimes encounter Nanabi. If you talk to her, she’ll offer to teach the basics of ninjutsu to one of your party members. They’ll get job ability “Skill Use: Ninjutsu” and three ninjutsu skills to start with. If you find her again, you can have her teach you more advanced techniques or have her train another one of your party members.

        If you want to “fly” around the world, just use the item “Harpy Feather” or the time magic spell “Warp” to teleport around. That should do it.

      • LordBone

        That’s good to know too, I only did around 12 floors of Chaos labyrinth before I decided that I should max a few jobs first.

        As for flying around I meant going out of bounds of the intended world. Going places that are unavailable normally, or fly trough the sea and stuff. Think of it as an airship from final fantasy games. I wanted to know if there are any tools or cheats that allow you to do this. I know it’s pointless but I just wanted to try it for fun, sometimes pointless things are fun.

      • I’m way too lazy to do this but if you dig through the comments there is a link to a save that has what you’re looking for. But honestly I don’t see the point. A big part of what you see on the world map is actually missing and it’s only water and if you enter any of the towns that are out of bounds the game crashes. + you can only do it in an EX patched game version.

  146. Anonymous

    very well, is some mode for “re-play” again the game with all the monster object etc etc for the new play of game? type GAME+

    • LordBone

      If you are asking if there is a New Game+, yes there is. After clearing the final tower go back to the Shinigami (the Netherword room on the 2nd floor in Ilias temple), and talk to her about it.

      You keep almost everything (items, monster girls, EXP, JobXP etc.).

  147. Chi Pa Pa!,
    I wanted to know if there a solution for the game crash with the tears like item in the labyrinth of chaos? Its a red tears with something inside , when i found it and if i look at my inventory the game crash.

  148. Anon

    For some reason, when I use the maid milking skill and succeed getting milk, it doesn’t add to my inventory. Is this a bug?

  149. Anonymous

    I think I’ve found a bug. Whenever you goto battle, then look up a monster library -> select monster and then leave, the game seems to crash.

  150. What characters should I take for extra dialogue
    I want to know so i can take them to ng+ and see extra scenes with them.
    an example will be like the four bandits or slime girl.

    • Desert Eagle

      All characters have extra dialogue. You can take anyone you want.

      Lily has some funny reactions, especially when she sees the loving couple. 😛

      • Desert Eagle

        Ah, no. Sorry. Whenever you have a certain character in your party, that character might join a conversation you’re having with someone. It’s the same whether you’re on NG+ or not. Neocombat wanted to know what characters to pick for NG+ so that they can see more stuff like that. All characters have these miscellanious scenes though so I just gave a recommendation.

        Characters important to the story, like Alice or Ilias, always give their input, whether they’re in your party or not. Or, at least, whenever it’s important to the main storyline.

      • There are actually a few added NG+ lines. For example, if you have the bandits in your party when you go to their hideout at the beginning of the game.

  151. jchris1_2000

    I know someone mentioned a item in the last tower that could open all the chests, what was it as I may have missed it 🙁

    • For opening all the chest you need the glove unlock 3 available in the chaos labyrinth , i found it in a chest floor around 150 i think. I want some ribbon its available in a red or green chest? And which floor? Im around floor 400 and still no ribbon … bad luck maybe. If someone know , an answer would be very appreciated,.

      • You may have found it on floor 150 but other people may not be so lucky. The chaos labyrinth is a totally random generated dungeon and it’s different every time you enter it. There is no template you can’t make a walkthrough for it or say for certain that a character or a certain item is on floor #X. It’s all up to the RNG probably and yes Chiron. Open your Database.rvtxt file and search for Godly Thief’s Gloves and copy the description from above in a comment 😛

      • Damn! floor 400? how did you get that high, is there any site I can go to get some good party builds? my only decent character is Nanabi who is a battle master 3,000-6,000 x6 per turn but once she dies I can’t sustain enough to have her finish the fight…

      • Well more pseudo random 😛 Lets see for those going after ‘Godly Thief’s Gloves’
        It is a Rank 4 reward item. Your chance of getting one starts above Level 100 and that chance increases around Level 200. To up your chance of getting one make sure you examine every treasure chest that spawns on a given floor and never shy from the blue flame. The current reward tier is 1-4 with 4 being the highest however in future updates this will be expanded upon to include 5 and S. Oh, Skeith… Ribbon is an S Rank item and I don’t see it currently implemented, given reward tier speculation it might appear around Level 800 in a future update.

      • For lv 400 i used always the same pattern > luka>alice>reina>promestein the first turn i use with luka >buff triple atk next turn > alice i use def song > reina i use harpy dance “+50% eva phy and mag” > promestein dopping all . With endure and goddess rez abilities i always survive the first turn. the next turn luka> heroisme fire 600% all > alice seadragon song -25% elements resist, reina > dance +50% atk and agl and promestein> holy 760% all. luka did over 40 000 and prom over 15000 .

        The major problem are the statut ailment on the first turn , you need a lot of status resistance sleep>stop>death>silence>incontinence well a lot of them …
        Minor chaos monster can solve this problem but man i dont know why they suck, black hole suck , machine technique suck… dex abilities are a pain.

        I started the honey/ francesca self destruct abilities and its a waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better , +20k x2 and dealable in the first turn with a battle master promestein doping skill.

        For MGQ_EX the ribbon is implemented , its on the green chest behind a super 100 floor boss … what a pain seriously.
        I need to farm those magic reflect bracelet. its vital , the +200% physical damage is not a problem since every super boss physical attack over kill my team xD

      • Also a good tactic for floor bosses is that you get a cook and ingredients, and buff your party up with every possible cooking buffs before you start the fight, so you can preserve precious turns that would be used to buff your party.

        On that note, does anyone know where to buy cheese?

      • Yes you can use certain cooking skills from the character’s skill menu to buff party before fighting. It wears of after a certain amount of steps tho so be sure to use it near the fight.

        I maxed 3 star chef with Petit since she can always use cooking despite of jobs.

      • Yeah buffing the team with cooking is really helpful , can buff atk , mag, dex, agl , phy and mag eva , hp , sp for the 3 first turn during the fight. i always have a kitsune geisha for the cooking skill use ability. i redo the game now i have the ex patch i want to understand the story … i will tell you if i find the cheese, but it is not in midas burg? on the left side of the city? i’m not sure

  152. Anonymous

    Excuse me, does anyone know where do you find the scroll to always be able to use Sword skills? Or if its a gift by one of the girls, which one give it to you?

    • I dont think its available yet , i completed every drop/steal/affection gift and i dont have that item. its maybe in a red chest in the labyrinth of chaos but i doubt it . you can have hunter , holy magic/ taoisme/dancer/martial artist/black magic and merchant scroll skill use .

  153. Anonymous

    Does someone know if they are going to translate the h-scenes? (Well, they’r already translated, but “google translated” ;))

  154. Anonymous

    Is there any potential for regular patches, say every 6-8 weeks? I realize this game is a massive undertaking in terms of the amount of text, but it would be nice to periodically play just a bit more.

  155. MGQ Paradox Translation EX 0.5l
    http://pastebin.com/k9MNPZsb

    Bug-fixes, Updates from Casian Sarpe Socaci, Typo found by LostDGod, reviewed changes found by Desert Eagle, changed some Bonus Features, and added a link to that World Map bellow the link to Grandork MGQ Paradox Guides & Walkthrough. All rvtext files updated and backend items affected.

    • DungeonMasterBobbySmith

      MGQ_EX,
      Did you and your team ever clean up the dialog of the various residents from the city the panties or pantsu teacher resides in. I was wating to start playing again for the NPC’s from there to be more “understandable”. I have a feeling a few laughs went over my head the last I played. I haven’t started playing again, since 3 to 5 patches ago. I was waiting for that.

      • I was in charge of cleaning up dialogue but it was just battle I’m not sure if MGQ_EX actually went ahead and translated story related stuff. I don’t think he wants to take away the bread out of Dargoth’s mouth =))

        But yes MGQ_EX should know better what was altered apart from what I did. From what I can tell in the update history no such thing has been done unless it’s coded and I can’t understand it 😛

      • Did a rough cleanup of 051 – Pornfu before 1.21 came out and the old history was backlogged on ver EX 0.4s, I can see about running a second pass on it as quite a few things changed. As for taking Dargoth’s bread, Casian Sarpe Socaci of all people should know how much ‘bread’ is in this game I don’t think anyone is in fear of going hungry.

      • Desert Eagle

        …I’m sorry, “Pornfu”? Is that what it was named?

        The romaji version of that town’s name is “porunofu”. In names like this, the “u” is pronounced silent, so it becomes “por(u)nof(u)” => pornof. It quite clearly translates into “Pornof”; Why not use that name instead?

  156. MGQshouldneverdie

    I started playing the normal MGQ again. And after i saw the Monster Musume Anime i think Torotoro should make Monster Girl Quest into an Anime. It doesnt need to be an Hentai. For a little bit fanservice Ecchi is enough. But making Part 1-3 into an Anime would be so nice. With good Animation and a very nice story that MGQ has i bet it would be a great succes. What do you guys think about that?

    • Desert Eagle

      Hmm… It sounds a little interesting. I’m not sure if it could actually be an anime aired on TV though. Maybe it could be made into a trilogy of adult movies?

      I still don’t know how well it would work though… It sounds interesting but I have no idea of how it would actually turn out. Still.

      • MGQshouldneverdie

        Well Monster Musume is a Web show i think. Maybe it would be possible to make it with MGQ the same. Well and the Hentai aspect could just be reduced to ecchi. I mean if you never lose in MGQ you didnt see any hentai scenes. Only some with Sarah etc. and some Bond stuff. But i think it would be ok if they reduce as example the bond scenes to just bond and some Dirty talk before Luca somehow frees himself. Like i said doesnt need porn. MGQ has so many to give. Alone the story with the good music and many interesting characters is enough. Then a little bit fanservice with bare skin, breats and dirty talk should be enough. I even thought about to make seasons. As example the first game is the shortest so the first season has only 10 episodes in which the biggest events get shown like the time when Granberia attacks first time or Luca gets Angel Halo. Then the second Season would be a little bit longer because the second game is bigger then the first one. Well and then the third would be the longest because the third game is the longest. This way it would be possible to show a little bit of the perverse aspect of MGQ but you also make the nice story to be the main point. And in the end there would be some extremly nice action scenes like the battle between Luca and Granberia in the Monster Lord Castle. Good animated that would be awesome i think. Well a Hentai movie wouldnt make that much sense i think. Because the only scenes would be with Alice, Sarah etc. Because when Luca lose to a Monster its over.

      • Chiron Maximus

        Really? When you played MGQ, did you at all looked at the story, comedy, romance, touching moments, and insane fiction action, or was your hand on your pants the whole time?

      • Anonymous

        Anon has a point, you know. MGQ is rather good for a porn game, but lacks any real depth or emotion. If it wasn’t fap material, it would be nothing more than mediocre. That doesn’t mean it couldn’t be fun. Just that it wouldn’t be any good.

        Paradox is a bit different. I haven’t had the time, nor energy, to look into the combat system, but I suspect that it is rather good, if you choose not to use the exploit characters.

      • MGQshouldneverdie

        I dont think so. I mean the emotion part is all in one big. But you see only some picturs and not even your mainchar. How often is Luca depressed of something or angry and such stuff. But you didnt see it. The music is there and what they say too but only writen and not sayed. Now think about how incredible it would be to see for example the scene as Luca remembers himself asking around the village for medicine for his mother. Or after he beats Queen Bee and is extremly angry because the plant monsters still attack the insect monsters and he is in some sort of berserker mode. The games have a lot of emotional and funny moments but without actually see something they goes down within all the Hentai stuff. So i think if you make an Anime out of it you could bring those thing in a better light. Good animted with the right music and good syncro cast i bet many people would start to cry or laugh on many moments.

      • CivilDeviation

        Unless it was a hentai with all the freedom that comes with making one, I am with the Anons on this one. Any mainstream MGQ anime would turn into another of those romantic/comedic pseudo-harems without shota, vore, or true rape situations. Mainstream ethics on what can and cannot be depicted would turn our masterpiece into water-down trash ready for mass consumption. Imo better to keep these ideas left for fantasy.

      • MGQshouldneverdie

        Well looks like it will never be an Anime or so. Too many people are only interested in the Hentai/Femdom/vore aspect and doesnt really care for something else. Its a shame but so it be.

      • CivilDeviation

        Perhaps, while I love the aspects you also mentioned, I enjoy the genuine terror combined with eroticism as it contextualizes the story universe in a truly creative way. I sadly doubt that the present day japanese zeitgeist for anime or hentai (profit driven canning for what is known to work) could capture the depth of the game to any meaningful level without leaving it in shambles. While this is just my opinion, I prefer “art” to maintain its original forms without catering to the appease the palette of the masses.

      • Takata

        If you wanted to make a Monmusu Quest hentai anime, the same approach as Brandish would probably work: Just animate a couple of h-scenes between Luka and Alice, and include only small hints to the larger story arc. Might have to re-write them a little to make them work better within an episode. Also, most h-scenes with Alice are immediately preceded by important story material, which would probably seem odd if included in a short h-anime.

      • Anonymous

        I agree that an anime probably wouldn’t be as good, ESPECIALLY if they take out the hentai.
        For the people that think we reached this conclusion only because we like hentai, it seems they didn’t quite pay attention to the story and the world it takes place in. The monsters use sex as a weapon 90% of the time, most of the problems in the game involve sex, in other words, the hentai IS part of the story in itself. Taking it out would mean drastically modifying the story, which would, in my opinion, water it down as a whole.

    • sazaju

      I definitely agree with that! A card game could be made too. there is a lot of potential in MGQ. And by extension, even more in MGQ Paradox.

    • You don’t need to repeat the game for Angel Bras, just farm Small Medals from Honey Pots and Mimics. I’m not sure about the Gaia Robe though since I didn’t find one in 2 playthroughs but I didn’t visit the Chaos Labyrinth either so you might have gotten it from there, I’m not sure

      • Ho ok , Its more faster to do a new game + for medal (more than 30 in pot and chest etc…) than farm mimic and honey pot then, i completed every job for 8 characters and still needed 53 medals …
        The gaia robe is a drop from reaper , and she drop it only one time. its for that , well it was for me only a bonus for the alice’s path this time , no big deal.
        Thx.

    • Just give her enough small medals, Medal Queen Companion (45)
      No H scenes for her yet, so tragic but it is the beginning of the month wonder if any news updates will come out

      • Queen of Grand Noah:
        – “Can always use Ruling skills” and “Effectiveness of Ruling skills is increased” added
        One guy said ” Ruling skills also deal +30% damage/heal 30% more HP” need to confirm.
        Being human suck on the first part , for finishing the game its completly good , but for the aftergame she’s outclassed.
        Well … with a ribbon she’s ok like every human, but good luck for the drop.

  157. Anonymous

    Quick question for anyone who knows:
    If I buy the game on dlsite.com will the version they have work with the english patches Dargoth is making? I know he is sticking with 1.2, I didn’t know if the official game had gotten additional patches

    • PR

      The current patch is for version 1.21, which is the most recent version on dlsite. Dlsite lists updates near the bottom of the page. To be safe, you may want to keep an unpatched copy. TT has said that he won’t release any more updates for part 1, but that may change.

  158. Anonymous

    So for someone who wants to play on Very Hard, what’s a decent build for Alice? Ilias seems to be easier to use but Alice feels canon so I want to leave Ilias for NG+

    • Desert Eagle

      I made Alice a fencer with black magic skills. The skill “Noblesse Oblige” will make rapier skills execute twice which dishes out pretty nice damage. She can always use Demon Arts if the situation calls for it too. The ability “Technical Magi” allows her to use DEX instead of MAG for her magic.

      • DungeonMasterBobbySmith

        Thanks Desert Eagle,
        for answering my request for character translations for Shin Koihime † Eiyuutan. I had also asked this in another blog. Someone responded to that one just recently. However, I believe your translations are more accurate than his.
        Sorry, had I received his reply earlier I wouldn’t of sent you on the scavenger hunt for kanji. Rather then a scavenger hunt I would have requsted for you to proof-read his post.

        Which brings me back to the point of this lengthy reply. Will you please proof-read his post. He posted all the kanji for the first, last & aliases. Again, I apologise.

        You had only given me translations for their first name, I need their aliases and family names too for my translator. Just give me your take on the ones you believe to be incorrect, or at the very least your sceptical of. (below)

        http://www.anime-sharing.com/forum/questions-answers-59/%5Btranslation-request%5D-character-names-%E7%9C%9F%E3%83%BB%E6%81%8B%E5%A7%AB%E2%80%A0%E8%8B%B1%E9%9B%84%E8%AD%9A-401833/

      • Desert Eagle

        I did give you the whole name. For example, “Bijiku” contains both the family name and first name. It’s the same for other girls.

        But yes, each characters also have two other names. I honestly thought they were descriptions of something else, like occupation and disposition, and not names. The first of the two is 字, “courtesy name”, that is sometimes given upon reaching adulthood (I don’t think this is practiced much anymore). I don’t quite understand what the second one, “true name”, is though. I guess true name is just true name. The names on the other translation should suffice.

        The empire names on the other list are japanese readings of the kanjis used for them. I used the dictionary definition of them which are Chinese. You can use either version you want. It might be more probable that they pronounce them using the japanese reading.

        There was an error on my list. The fourth girl in Wei / Gi Empire is indeed Jokou (徐晃), and not Sokou.

        There is one error on their list too though. The girl of the “袁 En Family” is Denhou (田豊), not Denpou.

        There’s nothing else to note.

      • Desert Eagle

        Back to the topic. I think Alice gets Technical Magi naturally. She gets rapier and demon arts skills by mastering Noble and all the Yoma races.

    • Desert Eagle

      I gave it a try. It seems pretty nice but I get a feeling all the sex scenes in the game are text-based. There was a Lamia but her CG was only her holding the MC and nothing else. I feel like that if I got the game and expected more from it, I would just be buying a pig in a sack.

      I’ll pass.

  159. Anonymous

    Is there any way to customise the game so you can add your own battle cut-ins? I was able to replace Luka’s one so I want to know if we can make ones for the girls that don’t have.

    • It is possible to add ‘new’ cut-ins however would make upgrading a bit more work but for those that are interested a decrypted version is needed (though it doesn’t have to be EX)
      [spoiler][code]
      1 – create new image and save it in ‘GraphicsPictures’ as ‘ct_(actor name)(index).png’
      I would use a current one as a template for dimensions and resolution
      2 – Using a script editor (RPG Maker VX Ace Editor or similar) find script: SkillWords(Actor)
      format is
      Actor ID => {
      [Skill ID] => {
      3 – Add these lines above :word_1
      :ct_pic => "(Image Name Without Extension)",
      :ct_se => "(Sound Effect Name Without Extension)",
      :ct_type => :basic,
      4 – Test using that actor with that skill ie:
      1 => { # Luka
      [1] => { # Attack
      :ct_pic => "ct_ruka1",
      :ct_se => "wind10",
      :ct_type => :basic,
      Makes Luka have a cut-in whenever he performs a normal attack with the wind sound effect, seems to get overridden if other effects are in play
      [/code][/spoiler]

  160. Anonymous

    is some skill for stolens materials of the monsters? i know of the jobs cooks and similate can stolen food of monster, then what job can stolen materials?

    • Desert Eagle

      I’m not sure… I do know that some races allow you to use one of those. Valkyrie race allows you to use spear skills, and I think a centaur race allows that as well. Combining that with the right job would allow you to use both sword and spear skills.

  161. element

    Anyone getting some screen hanging when in some towns? san ilia is particularly bad, might just be places with npcs because it never happens in the field.

  162. Alright horny people someone complained a while ago that they wish to understand the “Talk” conversations. I took it up and EX 0.5 m or n I’m not sure if I’ll finish till MGQ_EX wants to release m, will have talk conversations fully or partially translated depending on how much I can understand from google translate. Also I’m working on a very detailed walkthrough which isn’t done yet just up to where Dargoth’s translation ends but will be finished with time. I plan to add a lot of crap to it as well mostly the stuff I saw here people asking.

    • DungeonMasterBobbySmith

      Thanks Casian Sarpe Socaci. For the moment I just want a clean up on the convesations you (and party) have with the panties teacher, as well as other NPC’s that reside within the same city. For the rest of the game I’m content waing for Dargoth-sama.

    • The walkthrough is currently on hold till I finish with the “Talk” dialogues and it’s going kinda slow due to the fact that the girls have so many things to say to you. On another note the replies you get when milking a girl are @80% made sense of and will probably be in the next patch.
      I’m sorry to disappoint Bobby but that’s way out of my league, I just make sense of google translate phrases so I won’t really touch long strings of dialogue. That’s up to Dargoth to translate since I only take care of misc stuff that’s barely noticeable.
      Also thanks to MGQ_EX’s initiative and effort the walkthrough will come with maps as well(his idea, I would of never thought of it). When it’s done that is.
      I could of done much more work till now but there’s that pesky thing called real life that keeps getting in the way 😛

      • DungeonMasterBobbySmith

        How about just cleaning up only the conversation between sonya, panties teacher , & you or the one sonya, you and the man in the first house have.

  163. A0

    I beat Paradox on the EX patch the other week and while I enjoy the experience a lot, I don’t think it scratches the same itch that the original trilogy did. I am wondering how much of that was because of the gameplay change and how much was because of machine translation.

    I also noticed that romantic connections between Luka and Alice/Illias was somewhat absent. I hope that gets more attention in part 2 & 3.

    • CivilDeviation

      In all fairness, it really can’t be the same game with the same connection given the harem component with Luka’s slowly hole punched v-card, and no Illias ban on MG fornification. I know what you mean though, I hope the 2nd and 3rd game allow Luka to build a more meaningful relationship with Illias and/or Alice.

    • Maybe later the story will diverge for Alice and Ilias routes? (Hey a man can dream right?)

      SPOILERS~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

      I can understand enough Japanese to get by (though nowhere near a good understanding of all the kanji) and i’m personally stoked with the idea of multiple alternate worlds and staying as close to the original as possible or being destroyed by apothesis, the final holo scenes that radio shows you of the last remnants of humanity in the alternate world’s attempt at fighting off apotheosis was actually heart wrenching! Especially the scene where both monster girls and humans are celebrating a birthday together and the birthday girl’s older sister actually turns into an apotheosis, that change was very well executed!.

      Then there are multiple other major storyplots such as multiple monster queens and angels that shouldn’t exist, along with the mystery of Sonya!

      I have to say that right now i’m more interested in this story than I was with the original MGQ. That said I think i still prefer the original MGQ system instead of this RPG maker stuff, but I understand each has its limitations.

      I myself did not use machine translations but I can understand that a bad one could easily lead you to miss plot points and actually detract from the story as you struggle to make sense of it.

      • Chiron Maximus

        Exactly, and that’s why I’m waiting for the full chapter 1 patch to be done before I go on my Ilias playthrough, so that I can understand the Entire story when it goes. For now, I’ll wait patiently, grind jobs and max out everything I can.

  164. Anonymous

    Dargoth I hope your doing ok haven’t seen a new comment from you in a while. Maybe make a new post just letting us know your fine I know you will get the game translated eventually so I’m not worried about that just worried about you since its been a while since an update but then again I always have been a person who worries too much.

    • Anonymous

      i think the Chinese government has him detained again.
      either that or he might be missing because people stopped sacrificing goats and infants to the lord Satan in order to speed up the translation.

      • CivilDeviation

        Might not be the Chinese but the remaining Buddhist monks tempted him in with promises of peace and detachment from suffering. That said, as a fellow-worrier I still fear that the EX patches made his work seem less meaningful thereby killing motivation for the project. Lets hope it’s the Buddhists…

      • CivilDeviation

        By chance are you a Vulcan? Not to pull a Kirk, but if we assume Dargoth is human, then what gives him meaning and motivation incorporates emotion. All of which are poorly explained by logic for the human species.

        Perhaps an allegory may better explain my point: I recall a childhood birthday party where-in I gave the same gift to a friend that someone else did. As I think back, I was angry that the first kid got such a delightful reaction, whereas my gift got the reaction of surprise, disappointment, and a laugh. I was jealous of the reaction that the first kid received, and I didn’t really feel like going to the birthday kids next party…

        Anyway, whatever the reasons, I think we all want the project to go more smoothly, clearly, and predictably moving forward.

        • Chiron Maximus

          Look at it this way, for every second that dargoth isn’t talking to us, the more time he has to work on the paradox translation, or get obstacles out of the way so he can work on the said translation.

      • Well Civil by your analogy Dargoth is the kid you were angry at and EX is you. I say that on the basis that everyone praises Dargoth and they’re over-delighted whenever a patch comes out.
        Seen that when the EX patch gets updated? I didn’t and I’ve been following the comments since the initial translation patch.

      • CivilDeviation

        Nah, nothing so repressed, I was the boy getting the presents (supersoaker 50s as it was). Though switch the roles ya came up with a bit and maybe my point will make sense. Anyway, I am a bit to invested in winning this valueless tiff, so cheers on my side.

        I like the positive outlook Chiron. I think perhaps I am on the otherside assuming “little effort seen, means little effort made”. Still I have a bit of a vendetta against those complaining and here I am doing it, so I guess we wont know until we do.

        • Chiron Maximus

          It’s not just positive outlook, it’s common sense. The reason dargoth isn’t answering all our comments is because he’s working on them. I will grant that we would feel better if he did answer us every now and then, but i think that he needs to have full focus in order to get all the work done, so we need to respect and appreciate him, by not spamming comments like “WEN EZ NECST PACH” or “dargoooooooth, when’s that patch coming ouuuuuuuut?!!!” and such. I know that’s not how we were asking, but it may has well been.

  165. Xoverguy

    Hi everybody its me again. Just need to ask a few more questions if possible.

    1. Is there any way in the original game (not EX version) that you can speed up or skip the attack animations of yours and opponent skills? I have seen something like that in some youtube videos of the game but I dont know which config command or button I need to use in order to make it happen. The reason I ask is because certain attacks (Like Luka’s Grand Cross or Archangel Ranael’s huge tentacle slam) really put the slowdown my game during their execution, due to my laptop being a decade old. Any help with this would be appreciated.

    2. in the 4chan MGQ:P archives I do remember seeing a link to an imgur area that had all the locations of all the findeable small medals without resorting to mimic/honey pot farming. I keep on forgetting to bookmark that fricking webpage, and since all 4chan MGQ:P pages look alike but are different, I lost the link again. If anybody knows the link could you give me a hand with it? Thanks in advance.

    3. Ok I call Hax on this:

    and this

    Seems the guy actually was able to: 1. Hack the level restriction to get to lv 99. 2. Cloned and forced fed seeds to his team to heck and back. Or 3. Unlikely, but maybe somehow has the full game, given Hild had Beam Scythe, since to my understanding, the Machina corresponding to it cannot be found in part 1. If I am wrong on this though, I would love to know whats up here.

    Thanks in advance for your time and answers. Good day/night to you all.

  166. Xoverguy

    BTW, I did not know that the youtube links would actually show the video here instead of stay as links. If this creates a problem in terms of TOS or making the blog NSFW, tell me and I will gladly try to edit the links out, or allow them to be taken down if necessary.

    • http://imgur.com/a/WDPQi

      You’re probably looking for that. As for the videos whoever made them hacked into the game and changed their stats. Hild can use the Beam Scythe since I’m sure it’s one of her traits. Go through your settings and set everything to Fast and disable cut-ins and the battles should go a lot faster.

      • Ho i missed that damn slug . I want some video vs archangel and sonya manyu without hack.
        For battle speed boost keep pressing the A button while playing , it will pass the text much more faster. But change your setting first > text speed > faster and battle wait >omit and some others.

  167. Anonymous

    I was obliterated by the angels on the other side of first Tartarus, I’m at level 30, how is that other people can get as strong as them? I thought that just going on level cap should do but they are just too strong, how can you defeat them? I’m on normal by the way.

    • Just certain builds really, you need to have each character master many classes to get the passive abilities. For me I use the attack song with saki and then have my Nanabi use total rampage and gnome use the 6 strike multi-weapon attack, with crits this can deal up to 70K. However there is no point in fighting them as they don’t seem to be recruit-able as it does not have the party member text in the “library” once you’ve defeated one (if I’m wrong somebody please correct me)

    • Chiron Maximus

      Well if you want to farm them for their consistent 25 job xp, then you will need to buff our team with defense, and attack with pleasure or an element they’re weak against, Ice for the snake lady and thunder for the snake haired, plant wielding, octo-legged freak show.

    • Xoverguy

      Before anything, a small correction. The Angels in alternate Ilias Continent only give 15 Job exp.

      Ok. My first initial strategy to consistently beat them was to run Luka, Karumo, Nanabi and Mini. First turn I had Mini use Sky Song, for the mass evasion buff, while I had Luka use Sylph and two kitsune’s use spirit stance. Since Ranael and Nagael can outspeed everybody but Mini, I slapped some endure items on the kitsune so I know they can take that first hit to get the ball rolling. Second turn Luka uses Gnome, while the Kitsune’s use their earth resistance weakening attacks, and Mini just wastes a turn with a MP or SP buff. The enemy should completely miss at this point. Then third turn you move in for the kill with Gnome. With buffed earth element and crit, along with weakened Earth resist on the angel, the KO is guaranteed.

      My current strategy is running Luka, Nuruko, Shinifa and Mini, which gets me the win on the first turn. I run dual Gaia hammers on Luka with other earth boosters, while I run a 100% Crit Rate set on Nuruko with dual Ox Claws (Ox claws x2 + crit rate +30% passive and a Fist Rosary).

      As with the first strategy, I have Mini use the Sky Dance, but then I have Shinifa do the Vocaloid Race Daisy Dance to buff up elemental power. Then after the Angel attacks (seems singing and dancing skills have speed priority for the most part), Luka and Nuruko obliterate with either Thunder God Fist or Ice Rebellion Fist depending on the Angel, literally ripping them apart. Another interesting bit of information is that the elemental fists have the “Effect: +” Attribute to them, which I understand means that it also tags whatever extra effects you might have equipped on you. I think this might also apply to attack or elemental buffs as long as you have the appropiate “Strike” Attribute. (Ex. Gaia hammer has Earth Strike and Earth Booster 50%, so it should, keyword should, add onto the total damage calculation due to earth strike being integrated with the “Effect: +” Attribute.) This is unconfirmed speculation to an extent, but I think it checks out since Luka usually one shots the angels for 15K damage after damage calculation.

      Now what I am trying to do is eventually get the ultimate Fist from Labyrinth of Chaos or two and see if I can use them to outspeed the angels and one shot on the first turn. The reason I want to outspeed is because, for Archangel Ranael specifically, her giant tentacle slam makes the game slow down and lag on lower end computers and laptops such as my own, thus making proper Job exp power leveling inefficient compared to the Administrator Tower’s Mimics/Honey Pots. This slowdown can also be noticed on skills that cover the full screen for the most part, like Grand Cross, the 8 SP electric ninjutsu skill, Honey Pots own tentacle strike (And the fact that she taps her tentacle 3 times before attacking wastes even more time :P), etc. As such, if i am power leveling, I avoid using those kinds of attacks. But obviously use them if I am in a Labyrinth battle of course :P.

      These are my two cents. Hope they help.

      • Anonymous

        Thanks to everyone for the great tips! Just one question, you guys have equipment from the end of the game or mid game? I’m asking this because I’m using equipment from the start of the game (yeah I know it was stupid of me) but I want to know if everyone else gets their status buffed by equipment or farm lots and lots of seeds to have status over 400 or something like that since I have seen people go par with them.

      • Xoverguy

        The only seeds I actually farmed are the normal experience seeds and the Job exp seeds that you get from battling Mimics and honey pots. I usually run Job Exp grinding with a gambler on the team to buff up the drop rate and have the chance for an occasional Small Medal to invest in the higher cost gear that the Medal Queen can offer you. Her higher grade gear is easily some of the better equipment that you can find in the main game without resorting to Labyrinth of Chaos. Just be warned that the Magic Sword you can get there for 40 small medals can, as of now, be only used by Popes, Sages, and maybe Magiknights, but it DOES have 140 Attack, Magic and Dexterity, and it has its own weapon skill that, although single target, did do 2000+ damage with alice holding it.

        Ok I diverged off tangent a bit. Back to your question. Yes, I do have late game equips. The game changer for Luka, aside from me having run across a very good chunk of the Jobs, is that has the Gaia hammers. You can find one copy in a chest in the Sarafu Ruins, just before you face Gnome, and Gnome herself carries a second one. Under the Battle Master Job, with these two clubs, along with one or two Earth boosting equips, you can do some significant damage with them, especially if you spam Gnome summons like I used to. Its a really good starting strategy while you are still developing other strategies and a feel for the game. However be warned, as both weapons are Clubs, your speed (and maybe dexterity) takes a bit of a hit, So just be sure that you can take a hit or two. Fortunately enough, Battle Master has a high base HP rating to begin with. Usually with passive buffs and the hammers, either on Luka or any other physically oriented monster girl, the attack stat can get over 350 points easily. Just make sure you got the attack +20% passive on your character which should be learned in one of the physical attack Jobs, and you should get to that stat range. Thats all I can say for now without babbling. Hope it helps 🙂

  168. Desert Eagle

    So, I’ve been thinking about something lately… It’s about “Sonya”. Shouldn’t her name actually be “Sonia”?

    Her literal name is ソニア / So-ni-a. When pronounced normally in English, the “i” becomes somewhat silent. Because of that, its pronounciation becomes “Sonya” or “Son-ja”. I think this is the reason she was named Sonya.

    But when her name is pronounced in Japanese, more emphasis is put on the letter “i”. It’s pronounced more audibly. In the same way we put emphasis on “i” when we pronounce “Sonic”, the pronounciation becomes so-ni-a.

    This is the reason why I prefer calling her “Sonia” instead of “Sonya” (I think it’s prettier too). I was thinking that maybe it should be changed. I know it’s been many months since the release of the game and people are used to calling her Sonya. The pronounciation difference is pretty small but still noticeable. Are things fine as they are?

    • CivilDeviation

      Good question, I like Sonya better personally, though you are right given the spelling. Still if we used the same rule for Alice it would be アリス or a-ri-su. This is where katakana and adopted foreign words gets difficult for me as its a bit like constant “Madgab”. Heck, one could also make the argument that it isn’t Luka, but Luke. I think it ends up being about preferences.

      • Desert Eagle

        For Alice and Luka, it still makes sense. The “R” in “arisu” is read as the letter “L” in this case. The “U” at the end is pronounced silently. That way, “arisu” becomes “alis” => “Alice”.

        Same thing applies to Luka. “R” becomes “L”, and so “ruka” becomes “Luka”. If it was “Luke”, his name would read as ルーク / Ru-u-ku.

      • Anonymous

        Personally, I prefer Sonya over Sonia, in spelling and pronunciation even though they are pretty close. Assuming Torotoro intended it to be Sonya, I can see why they didn’t spell it ソニャ / Sonya. It is way too close to ソニャー / Sonyaa. For those who don’t know Japanese and are mildly curious in what I’m saying, にゃあ / Nyaa is the sound effect given to cats in Japan instead of Meow but it’s pretty popular so maybe you already noticed. I can’t remember what Rogue did with the Nekomata’s dialogue so you might have seen it there. Anyways, if Xelphy and Sonya Manjuu are any indication, I’m pretty sure Sonia isn’t supposed to be associated with cats. And just to cover my ass, that wasn’t a slight against Xelphy, I like his art even if his fetishes don’t always line up with my own.

      • Desert Eagle

        If we accept that “Sonya” sounds ridiculous to Japanese because of the similarity to a cat sound, then wouldn’t it make even more sense that her name was intended to be Sonia?

    • Anonymous

      Sorry if I was unclear but I was actually agreeing with you and discussing the possible intent behind spelling her name Sonia rather than Sonya. Sonia, Sonya, and Sonja are just different spelling variations of the same name. The ‘Nya’ is a just a contraction of “Ni’ and “A” that developed when the pronunciation is sped up so really they’re the same sound in both English and Japanese. For the sake of fidelity, her name should have probably been translated as Sonia, but as CivilDeviation already said, it really comes to which way you prefer to spell the name Sonia / Sonya / Sonja.

      • Desert Eagle

        Well… yeah. It’s not the end of the world if she’s named Sonya. I still would prefer Sonia because I feel it’s more accurate. Because I feel that way, I wanted to bring attention to this issue so that it might be given a second thought. I think it’s been accomplished.

        • Chiron Maximus

          Well, if the patch adding in a name-changing feature, you can change it so that you feel better. Just don’t expect it to show in rape scenes and discussions.

      • Chiron you will see the name change in the H-Scenes as well. From what I can tell the rename function from the EX patch works with codes not actual names. It takes the name from that little text file called Actor List.txt. And where the names should be they are replaced with codes like let’s say Luka is actor #1 so his code is n1. This code appears everywhere where instead there should be Luka if you decide to name him differently. I’m not sure if MGQ_EX managed to change all name entries to codes yet but I’m sure since the rapes aren’t translated it would make no sense to change the names to codes yet.

        We should give Sonya this theme too then if we were to change her name to Sonja 😛

        • Chiron Maximus

          It does work, but for some reason, for the characters that are more than just one, like the harpy sisters and the two gnomes, It will show their altered name when they talk together or are grouped together, but when they talk separate, they have their original names. I figured I bring this to you so that you can fix it or explain what I did wrong during the renaming process.

          • That’s something only MGQ_EX can explain to you, and I’m not sure it can be fixed at all. But nothing’s impossible so when he gets around to it I’m sure he’ll look into it. I’m not sure how it works though since there are a number of “multiple” party members and you can only rename the whole group. I’m trying to think of stuff why that happens but I can’t think of anything since I don’t know the core of how that function works. I’m fairly certain it’s nothing on your side wrong but if they appear under different names then it’s kinda obvious they are not the “group” anymore and are named differently. I’m not sure if it can be fixed but if it can be fixed it will be.

      • Its an interesting problem, all actors are given 1 variable location so that is why the group name works; As name codes where not used in the original project everything is just written in and additional variables aren’t made for individual names within the group. A few concepts on how to fix it but its still on the back burner. 1 is to use the ‘&’ as the separator and split the name into two as needed which would work fine for twins but not for very large groups as there is a limit on how long a name can be… Also the problem of error handling for people that forget to add an ‘&’ for groups. Another would be to simply increase variables but given the current stage of Paradox would effect forward compatibility. Name feature will be an extended project goal to be completed in good time.

        • Chiron Maximus

          I did put the & in though. Instead of “Pii & Pina”, I did “Marie & Ann”, and the same thing with the gnomes. Should I take out the spaces?

    • sazaju

      Normally, it should be translated Sonia, because Sonya would be written ソニャ and not ソニア. Moreover, I think that Sonia is the normal English writing (katakana are first and foremost used to transcript English terms since the second world war, as far as I know).

  169. Anonymous

    So it’s 9/7….Will there at least be an update on what is currently translated sometime soon? Thanks for your work thus far though.

  170. Anonymous

    So I’ve heard that in the mystical Chaos Labyrith there is a mystical merchant mermaid that appears randomly in some floors. Could it be that this mystical merchant mermaid sells mystical items that don’t appear in other shops because they are not mystical enought? Like say, drops from monsters and/or seeds so you don’t have to farm THAT much? Because if that were the case, it would be so… …so… …MYSTICAL!

    • Anonymous

      There is a mermaid merchant, a new one drawn by Arekishi, and she does sells ‘mystical’ items but only one at a time. I haven’t seen anything new though but it appears to be random so maybe there are upper level seeds she’ll sell. You’ll spend more money throwing gold at monsters then you will on those seeds so they’re a pretty good investment.

    • Casian Sarpe Socaci

      The mermaidell seeds for 3k a piece occasionally and she has an inventory of weapons and armors too I think. The one thing she sells that I’ve noticed that you can’t buy anywhere else are magic pages that are used for Magic Book skills. Other than that the only thing worth mentioning are the stat buffing seeds.

    • Desert Eagle

      I haven’t seen her sell any mythical or mystical items. She does, however, sell crystal shurikens and grimoire pages. I was able to use Magic Book spells for the first time thanks to her.

      On a side note, do you think she’ll be recruitable in part 2? I kinda wanna recruit her. :3

      • Niander

        There seems to be 3 versions of her. One that sells the common items including the grimoire pages. One that sells a few decent equipment items, and finally the last one that sell you a seed or small medal for 3000 gold.

      • Niander

        She only sell one seed at a time unfortunately, so you’ll most likely have gathered more than the cost of the seed before you meet the version of her selling the seed ( or medal ) again.

  171. Anonymous

    So, it’s possible to solo the Armored Berserk on Paradox. I probably shouldn’t be surprised considering everything else people have done, I just didn’t expect to win. I decided to do a quick solo run to find all the seeds, medals, and other things and put it on Paradox just for fun to see how far I could get. Technically Sylph forced her way into my party but she died immediately because I’ve never levelled her so I still count it as a solo fight. You get a gold star achievement for it so at least they intended you to beat it unlike Death. No other loot though and you miss the revealing cut-scene if you lose so it is probably better to take the fall. I guess it’s not much of an achievement considering I went in with no plan, build, or intent but I just thought some people might be interested to know how powerful you can get without even meaning to, never-mind the crazy stuff you can pull off when actually try.

    • A solo luka with battlemaster class 1000hp and vicious clara can easly beat him since none of his attack pass through clara , or with sylph with some mega heal but the fight could last long. Yu can get a gold achievement if you beat reaper no? since the monster lord get one silver.A solo reina,mimi,pihar well a phoenix girl with carbuncle can solo reaper (carbuncle for the 7000-8000 damage reflect) but its still the same , the fight could last a long time because of her 300k hp .

      • Anonymous

        I haven’t bothered with the reaper yet so don’t know if they already included an achievement for beating her. Since you weren’t supposed to beat her, I assumed she wouldn’t have an achievement yet but they have implemented other elements from part 2 and 3 already so I wouldn’t be surprised if they did. As for the berserker, I forgot about the summoning skills because I haven’t optimized Luka yet. I just played shot for shot with the armored berserker which is why I’m surprised it worked. I just bumbled into a fight I thought was unwinnable and halfway through I remembered the reaper was also supposed to be unbeatable and a minute later the berserker fell down. I was just really surprised because I won completely on accident and wanted to share it.

  172. For those of you who like the Rabbit Girl I believe she will have a new H-Scene in the next part as it is mentioned over and over in the “Talk” conversations. If it’s not there just for spicing up the conversation there will definitely be at least 1 more H-Scene for the Rabbit Girl. But this is just guessing and speculation. 😛

    • Anonymous

      I don’t think it is too unreasonable to say that other Part 1 Paradox monsters will have more H-Scenes depending on if the artists are dedicated and/or paid enough. I know Kate the Maid has an unused set of sex scene cg in the graphics folder but maybe that just means all Battle Fuckers will have full sex scenes later on. SPECULATION: Someone mentioned Gnome’s last gift is an engagement ring so maybe characters will get an extra “marriage” sex scene like Alice at the end of the game and the characters with absent or unpaid artists will just get re-used cg. That scene with Kate the Maid has her at one point putting a collar around Luka’s neck so maybe that was an endgame CG where she declared him her permanent new master or maybe I’m just shoveling coal into the hype train’s steam engine. To be fair, most of the request scenes in the game imply that Luka ends up with the girl he makes a request of through variations of the line, “and then she raped me every night from now on” so maybe that is all we’re get in terms of “marriage” for most of the girls.

      • Anonymous

        Most companions’ final gift is meant to be at the 2000 affection level. Nanabi has a 6000 I believe and the medal queen, who is totally unrelated to the Queen of Grand Noah, has a 4000 item. Gnome’s earth orb is supposed to be her final gift but her present list is bugged right now revealing all her presents up to 10000. I think it was bugged in version 1.20. I have 1.21 and i can confirm it is still bugged so if you get her affection to 10000, you can get the “Engagement Ring of Earth.” She is listed as a main companion so may only they’ll get engagement rings but maybe it’ll apply to other characters … like Shinifa. No hate though, I’ve already complimented Shinifa on her gorgeous smile in an earlier post but to be fair, I didn’t know what the fuck she was even supposed to be until I looked it up. A Doll Zombie-Land Dweller hybrid, isn’t it obvious? She looks more like an Evangelion.

  173. Haha evangelion , yeah you are right ^^”. Well it was a joke for shinifa , im not that weird . Alma Elma FOREVER !!! Thx for the info its good to know. i will try for sara soon ” Succubus Sara ♥ “

    • Tested , Yes it work with Gnome , her 6k gift is a book who deal +50% damage earth and her 10k is a ring that absorb earth. Doesnt work with alice, promestein, sylph,sonya and the mimic box. Too bad :'(

    • Desert Eagle

      Aww. I’m sure Shinifa is a sweet and caring lady. And fun. When she’s not draining you to death.

      (I wanna complain about that “death” part.)

      • XD , im a little surprised , she didn’t kill Luka 😮 ; by seeing her face I have thought otherwise. That mean i can’t judge a lady by her face , shame on me .

  174. Desert Eagle

    I reached floor 100 at last. The progress is kinda slow when you get an idea to level miscellanious characters while at it and playing in short sessions. But I reached it.

    I chose the difficult, rare boss at floor 100. They threw Death at me. I had forgotten the tactics I used against her last time so she wiped floor with me. Next time will be better.

    Anyway, I met someone interesting in Chaos Labyrinth: Black Alice. She wanted to make a bet with me. If I could last 10 floors with one category of skills sealed away, I would get a special reward for it. The categories were: Military (physical and warrior-y attacks), Magical (All the spells) and Occupational skills (Skills related to jobs, like nurse, merchant and so on.)

    I chose the magical category. I wasn’t able to use healing spells or any magic but I was able to use ninjutsu, medicine and money throw. After I advanced 10 floors, I received: Dragon Robe, Wizard Rod and two seeds. Not bad. I hope I can make that bet again.

    • Desert Eagle

      Hey, wait a minute. I chose the “magical” category, and I received magical items as reward. Is there a connection there? I need to test this.

      • Anonymous

        There is. The military one gives you a sword and an armor. And the last one you didnt take gives you a ninja sword and a bikini if i remember correctly.

  175. Hey guys , i found a good site , i hope it can help . Google translate is needed . http://seesaawiki.jp/mong/ . I found my accessory +100% magic reflect and the translation is “Treasure: Ancient temple ruins other: darkness goods delivery ” somone know what darkness goods delivery mean ?

    • Desert Eagle

      “Darkness Goods Delivery”? I think that might be Black Market Product Delivery, a mercantile skill gained by Black Marketeers.

    • Anonymous

      Nice Find. I’m don’t have time right this second but I want to take a look through it and see how complete it is. I’m thinking I might have to start my own English wiki if no one else will. With hookers and blackjack. I’ve amassed quite a bit of info for my own use but I’d like to share it without dumping it on random forums.

      • Anonymous

        I’m think I’m going to contact whoever is in charge of the MGQ Wiki first or make a post on their forums and see if they want to just incorporate the information there. I love the idea of centralized information and hate the redundancy that another wiki may cause but it could be confusing due to the alternate setting. Either each page would need a MGQ and MGQP section or there would separate pages for the vanilla and Paradox clones of things like monsters, characters and places. I’ve been debating this for awhile with myself but I’ve made sure to be collecting information while I do it so I’m not wasting my time.

  176. DungeonMasterBobbySmith

    I can’t make out what’s being said in the conversation between you, Sonya, and the panties teacher. Any body got a clue?

  177. Anonymous

    NEED SET UP GUIDE FOR NEWB:

    Downloaded Monmusu Quest! Paradox RPG [Part One] tonight 09/09/2015.
    Downloaded MGQ_Paradox_1.02_upgrade_clean_1.21.
    Downloaded Paradox English patch 1.21a.
    Unzipped items in chronological order.
    Attempted putting the files unzipped from 1.02_upgrade_clean_1.21.
    Attempted to install Paradox English patch 1.21a.
    Ending result: Trying to patch with English patch 1.21a, received… ‘Wrong version’.
    Ending result: Trying to launch application file, told of file being, ‘Corrupted’ or ‘possible virus’.

    Questions:

    A. What could have gone wrong?
    B. How can I tell what version of the game I currently have to know what I need to update it to?
    C. When I read the topic outline at the top of this page, it said version 1.20, was available on dlsite, which was (I assumed), the one I paid for, and downloaded tonight, am I wrong?
    D. Could anyone could help me out with this predicament?

    After thoughts:

    Was really looking forward to playing this game tonight, after having waited since the end of March, to pay for the game the first time, only to have paid for the game once more, tonight, and still being stuck, unable to play it, even after reading the forums, delving to what I needed to try, in order to ‘fix’ the patch; thought I had done everything right. I remember from the MGQ I II and III, all I had to do, was simply overwrite the old game files, with an English patch install, and everything would work right after that… I have no idea, why this has to be so hard.

    End notes:

    Frustrated, and bummed out, yet remaining hopeful for help.

      • Anonymous

        EDIT Cont:

        For shits and giggles, I did a fresh install of the game. Everything seemed to download into the install folder, correctly, yet upon trying to execute the ‘Game’ exe, it said file was corrupt, and to please run a virus scan, and then to reinstall the file.

      • Anonymous

        P.S.:

        Also made sure the zip files themselves, weren’t RJ150726.part2.rar .. as the dlsite said, that was a corrupted file, but that didn’t seem to be the case here… is it ‘installed properly’. I wish installed properly, meant, I could ‘play’ the actual game.

      • Anonymous

        EDIT Cont:

        Did a virus scan on the ‘clean’, newly installed folder, right after I ‘unzipped’ everything, and my virus scan, didn’t pick up any viruses, within the program.

      • Anonymous

        EDIT 9:50 P.M. 09/09/2015:

        Did a fresh install, unzipped where I was told. This time, I put the files I noted that were of likeness, from the patch, into the like named folders. Now, the overwrite, seemed to work, because when I tried the English patch 1.21a, for the first time, it actually installed correctly.

        However,

        Problem still remaining:

        “File Corrupted, please run a virus scan, and then to reinstall the file.”

        Got excited there for a minute, only to be let down, after getting that message.

        Odd thing:

        The fresh install, even if in Japanese, without anything modified, launched correctly, only problem, I can’t read written Japanese….

      • 1 – If you downloaded the game tonight from the official site you would have 1.21, so Downloaded MGQ_Paradox_1.02_upgrade_clean_1.21 is not needed.
        2 – On “For shits and giggles” using a fresh copy with no modification is the Game Folder in English like: “CRPG GamesMGQ ParadoxGame.exe”
        Game should run without translation patch, and will show the version number on the title screen top left
        3 – As you are using Dargoth’s automatic patch then all the original data should still be encrypted, decryption is only needed for manual patch
        4 – From “EDIT 9:50 P.M” you got the a raw version of Paradox working so good, have you tried manual instead of automatic?
        https://dargothtranslations.wordpress.com/2015/08/03/mgq-paradox-english-patch-v1-21a/comment-page-1/#comment-11420

  178. Anonymous

    Hmmm, I will have to make sure I try that next time I want to reinstall. Weird Edit: I was messing around with the different rpgmaker games game.exes, I moved one over from gulp quest and replaced the one that was in the main folder for MGQ Paradox. The game is ‘working’ right now, knock on wood, but… is it normal to be seeing some blocks in the middle of the text, or should I try reinstalling it again?

    • Anonymous

      P.S. I wrote down what you said, and copied it to a file on my harddrive so I can reference it again, in the future, if needed. Game seems stable so far, wish me luck 🙂

    • Game.exe funny enough is pretty standardized with RPG Maker VX Ace games so though that works the original shouldn’t have been corrupted. Fonts VL-Gothic-Regular should handle unicode characters however if you don’t have a unicode font it will display unknown characters as blocks, at the beginning Ilias does have a few lines intentionally made to appear corrupted with blocks. Did you get it to work with automatic or manual patch?

  179. Adam

    Whenever I try to run the patch, I get an error message. It reads, “Could not load file or assembly ‘System.Core, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKey Token=b77a5c561934e089’ or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.” Anyone have any idea what this means and how to fix it?

    Also, how do you install Part 3? Do you just extract the files from the .rar file into the main directory, or is there some other method I have to use?

    • Adam

      EDIT: I got the patcher to at least start by putting it on a fresh copy of Windows, but when it hits 50%, it goes back down to 49% and says “wrong version”. I know the patcher is wrong because I have v1.21 of MGQP and the translation patch for v1.21, so any thoughts on what’s wrong?

      • Every time I’ve seen that problem, it was because the wrong patch was trying to be applied to the wrong version of the game. It’s happened to all of us. If that really isn’t it, try deleting any extra files in the MGQP directory like saves, readmes, etc.

      • Adam

        Never mind, I figured out the problem. It wasn’t that it was the wrong version, it was that I had the files from Part 3 copied and pasted into the game directory. I got it to work.

  180. Xoverguy

    Well, then, after roughly a grueling battle that I think was one hour and a half I finally defeated my 2nd Super Boss in monster girl quest paradox, being Sonia Mainyu. (My First was Sphinx). I wanted to tell of my experience. I will try to keep this as short as possible, but the strategy is somewhat extensive.

    Ok, first of all, the team that I used was the following:

    Luka (Battle Master/High Angel)
    Shinifa (Adventurer/Minor Chaos)
    Vitae (Item User/Minor Chaos)
    Mini (Superstar/Harpy Knight)

    Another note is that all characters, and the 4 supplementary teammates that were not used, were run through many jobs so as to aquire the skills Vicarious Clara, Carbuncle, Geyser, and the ability Endure, and Luka, Vitae and shinifa were run through Pope for Holy Martyr (I did not put Holy Martyr on Mini since it conflicts with her innate revival ability). All players also had Metabolism from Cook lv 3.

    Ok, the battle VS Sonia Mainyu is by far MUCH harder than Sphinx, so ill get to the point.

    First of all, preparation. Before you even set foot in the labyrinth, be sure that you got 99 of all of the following: Herbs, High Quality Herbs, Miracle Drugs, and boost drinks. Make sure you also have a surplus of De-love potions just in case. In terms of indespensable equipment, Luka will really need the Lamia Crown (nulls trance/seduction) You can find its original component in Midas village (golden or beautiful tiara), and synth it in San Ilia, and synth it again in Sabasa to get it

    Thats all the help i can give with preparation. Lets move on.

    The actual battle. Lets go with the priorities

    Priority 1: Vicarious Clara
    This is self explanatory. Going into a super boss and not using Clara is asking for a one shot and wasting your effort climbing from floor 90. Until Part 2 and/or 3 come out, this reality is not changing.

    Priority 2: Get Vitae to use slime division.
    This splits her in two literally, dropping her offensive stats but giving her two turns instead of one. This is indispensable for this strategy to work. Keep this up at all times, and bring it back up ASAP after a Disrupting Wave (removes all buffs). However, remember that Clara is priority if both go down at the same time. (A VERY important thing to note is that, if you do a double turn with Vitae, and Mainyu pulls Disruptive Wave, you STILL execute both of your commands during that turn. THEN Division dispels.)

    Priority 3: Massive SP recovery
    Vitae can use Dilution: boost drink to give SP regen 20% to the entire team, and Mini can do half that with a Song of Energy. You will want to have these up almost at all times, so that Luka can pull off his Geysers

    Priority 4: MP recovery
    If your running out of MP you will se it coming and will be able to counter it relatively easy. Just put this up more to point out than anything. If you brought in 99 of the itmes I told you, you shouldn’t have an issue in that aspect. So don’t be afraid to spam the same Ex-item commands when in doubt. Sometimes, well timed, it can partially render a Disruptive Wave Null and Void.

    Ok, the battle itself:

    My team had command cycles, which were the following:
    Luka: Clara –> Double Dex Buff –> Geyser
    Shinifa: Clara or Carbuncle depending on what Vitae was casting
    Vitae: Clara or Carbuncle depending on what Shinifa was casting, and the second turn consisted of either using an EX-item skill, or keeping Division up
    Mini: Clara –> Sky Dance –> Song of Energy

    Ok, quick lowdown. Expect to get hit hard on the first attack, that is what Endure is for. The startup in all honesty is a bit of a wild card, but if you can get Clara up before you are obliterated, then your starting out good. Dont worry about having 1 or max HP, as with most super bosses, after Endure clicks, you will be wiped out anyway. Then keep Clara up on everybody else while you have Vitae use division, giving her double turns. At this piont, it falls into the turn squence that I previously mentioned for the team. The SP momentum can be slightly tricky on the beginning or after a Disrupting Wave, but its not something that can’t be handled.

    Roughly around what I understood to be a third or quarter of her health Mainyu gets more aggressive with the all range attacks. At the same time, i realized that Carbuncle was not blocking anything, making me realize that all her attacks even if they looked multi element, were dark. So eventually I shifted to a tighter defense consisting of the following:

    Luka: Clara —> Geyser (rinse Repeat)
    Shinifa: Clara/pheonix tail on Luka when needed
    Vitae: Clara and either EX-Item skill or Division
    Mini: Same as before but extra priority on Clara

    Extra note: The EX-item skills I used were Distribution: High Quality Herb/Miracle Drug, Dilution: Boost Drink, and Prevention: Phoenix Tail (essentially the same as Anti-Death Dance)

    Using this strategy, after a extremely long and tedious battle, I eventually came out on top, grabbed her SP 25% accessory, and got to the Lockpick 2 chest behind her, which this time around had what seemed to be a bowtie accessory that nullified a LOT of negative status effects.

    Sphinx, my first boss, was pretty much the same, just make sure you have Prevention: pheonix tail up when she does what seems to be the Mass Death spell, and you should be good, and I never really needed to tighten defenses since Carbuncle really helped there, contrary to here. Only thing that was slightly annoying was her Hunting instinct, which eventually took down Mini, but Promestein was a suitable replacement with her doctor skills, aside from the skills from the Scholar Tree. I got her accessory and the King of Hearts from the chest behind her.

    • Looks good , very good. Just one question , it looks like you love geyser , why you didn’t bring one kitsune for a +50% water weakness ? or a seadragon dancer but for only a +25% water weakness.
      Slime division rules !

      • Xoverguy

        *Epic Facedesk* I TOTALLY forgot about that, and to add insult to injury I DID have Both Seadragon Dancer Alice and Pope/Fox Geisha Nanabi with me, in reserve. I will admit, the thing that cramped my style was the fact that, I realized that she nullified physical attacks. Still I understood the Demon/Yoma slayer Heroic skill was effective against her by a superboss guide I found in pastebin. I then figured that, since Holy bypasses magic reflection (as does dark) Maybe my Holy/Earth attacks could get through that Null resistance, due to the “Effect:+” Attribute of the Heroic skill. However, unfortunately it did not. That really cramped up my style, as that is what did Sphinx in. After that realization, I went as safe as I possibly could, keeping defenses up while I whittled her down with geysers ranging from 4K-12K damage. That is why I understand it was a 1 1/2-2 hour battle.

        Secondly, the reason I did not switch in Alice or Nanabi was because, it is REALLY hard to get a character defensively set up against Sonia Mainyu, even with Endure. At least this is my experience.

        An example of this was the fact that, despite my Luka having like…25% to instant death, there were 2 or 3 times that Sonia got a insta death through before Vitae could pop a Pheonix Tail to stop it. Since he is the main attacker, that put the entire party at risk, as Shinifa had to stop Clara’ing to revive Luka, and then we have to HOPE that Mainyu does not Pleasure attack him next turn, or pull off an all range attack before he can Clara. I am sure there were 1-3 turns in each of Luka’s deaths that we had to forget about him, and attacking altogether, so that we could focus on keeping our defense solid. I feel it would have been the same with Alice and Nanabi, and if I were to have put them in place of Shinifa or Vitae, that would just cripple the team since they were the Anti-Status gods so to speak.

        In hindsight, I could have switched out Mini, but at this point my mind was running on pure adrenaline, and the logic was: “Clara is protecting us, and Sky Dance can protect Clara” Since I understood that, if you miss an attack, it does not count against one of Clara’s layers of defense. But from now on, I will consider them both for resistance weakening. More Nanabi than alice as her water weakening is guaranteed to hit, contrary to Alices all elemental weak dance, when it comes to bosses.

        • Yeah i understand , with that kind of boss it can be hard for placing characters. But i think holy skill is more viable ,look : For luka : gaia robe +30% holy , daisy bell song “vitae” +50% , kitsune taoist -50% resist holy = already 130% bonus without cupid race “15% holy bonus “not sure” and some stuff with holy boost. with a magicknight luka for a holy weapon with heroism +30% innate its crazy , yu can use his magic if needed or a basic holy spear skill if you dont use magicknight.

          If you used a magicknight job you need a genji glove ” allows dual wield” for some atk+agl.
          Slow or debuff ” seadragon debuff song or dance i dont remember ” is awesome against her ” and some other boss” -25% every stats and -90% def and will.
          Stop works too but its more rare, with slow/stop/debuff you can place some characters like a battlemaster kitsune with a antideath song and a weakness elements spell.
          A mana drain ” evil mist ” works too.
          Ex item job is very good , a +50% sp all or some immunity. Pope job regen some sp ” not 50% but 5-7 sp”, regen health and can cast auto revive which is always good if you already died one time.
          Aventurer job learn anti death 50% , for a 87.5% resist death with an angel if i remember right .
          Sky dance rox too ! Man i want my harpy queen in the part 2 .

  181. FickleArchivist

    I have a name now. After much lurking, I have chosen FickleArchivist.

    I’ve been posting as anonymous for awhile, answering questions about lore, game play, items, etc… and I’ve decided to upload all information to a site to better centralize this information. I just registered on MGQ’s wikia and posted on their forums about this

    http://monstergirlquest.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:An_Introduction_and_Question_about_Paradox_Submissions?t=20150912031718

    but I will endeavor to make my own site if it comes down to it. If there is another English site out there that I do not know about, please direct me to it so as to avoid redundancy.

    Lastly, I am a university student so my time is limited. If someone could direct me to a good place to make polls, I can make sure I upload information that people most want to know about it. Otherwise, I’ll just start with the obvious stuff like Job Change Items and things I care about like the locations of Small Medals and Seeds.

    My goal is to have as much information out there as possible before Dargoth’s translation is complete so people who do not know Japanese or don’t want to use a machine translation, who have been waiting patiently, won’t have to resort to asking questions individually on comment sections or forums if they get stuck.

    I might make a word press account to claim this name here but unless some jack wagon starts posting aggressively under this name, it shouldn’t be a problem. Even then, it should be pretty clear it’s not me because I strive to be polite and informative. I plan to fade away once Paradox is complete or more people start to submit information to one repository so I’d prefer to make as few accounts as possible.

  182. Anonymous

    Hello, I have one question, the skill “Early Bird” for harpies seems to be reaaaaally weak regardless of how high your attack and agility are, I’m pretty sure that it wasn’t like that before so my question is this: Is this some kind of bug or it was supposed to be like that if you don’t use the skill against a Beast/Insect enemy? Because other “killer” skills still do decent damage if you have your status high enough.

    • CivilDeviation

      I’m not sure what the equation for damage is, however after using it on an insect it appears quite potent. Supposing other killer skills add +50% damage with -25% on inapplicable types, this might be a +75% with -50%. Not sure.

  183. Hiya guys , someone can help me ? It looks like i missed pochi in some towns but i dont know where … i found her in : Iliasburg , Happiness Village , Enrika , Port Natalia , San Ilias , Sabasa , Grandoll , Salon .
    If someone can tell me where is missed her . It would be appreciated.

    • FickleArchivist

      No.

      The first encounter in the Harpy Tower is translated though, for whatever reason, but nothing else before or after that concerning the Harpy Quest-line if I recall correctly.

      Torotoro’s blog has been silent since August 2nd so it doesn’t look like they’ll be releasing anymore patches for awhile so I imagine Dargoth will be focusing on releasing the next big patch for 1.21 too but I don’t really know. That’s just an educated guess.

      Either way, I’ll bet it’ll still be awhile before a significant portion of Paradox is translated. I was poking around the game files, gathering information for the wiki, and what I saw was nightmarish. Dargoth ain’t fighting some Kaiju of Kanji but a Cosmic Abyss of Game Code that’ll rend your soul apart and use the leftover tatters to incubate its Infinitesimal Brood Eggs. I really didn’t understand the scope of this project until I peered into the data files and even now, I’m having a hard time comprehending it.

      So to answer your question,

      No.

      Happiness Village hasn’t been translated yet.

      Oh, and don’t mind the ramblings. I’m just procrastinating from doing my Political Science readings for next week.

      • Adam

        Thanks. I was worried that I screwed up with installing the translation patch.
        I don’t mind your ramblings. I’m in college also, so I understand the procrastinating all too well.

  184. Anonymous

    hiya, only curiosy, i know how stolen of the enemy the items, but and the materials, food and panties how i can stolen all this?

      • Anonymous

        but for stolen need to the harpy with the job of thief or master thief for stolen or any harpy got a special move for stolen?

      • Harpy get special move for stolen ” in the thief skill’, food/ material steal and random x4 steal but yes you maybe need to master thief or/and master thief first .

  185. Anonymous

    I recently finished my No EXP No JP playthrough of Paradox. Here is the Playlist:

    – Difficulty Level 6/7 – Hell Mode. The exception the the first Boss, that fight went on 5/7 – Very Hard). Paradox is probably possible as well. Theoretically, you could even beat Bunny on Paradox, if you just dodge everything.
    – No EXP and JP – The growths were hacked out, no one levels up ever. This means that I can only fight with untrained monsters and always have to recruit new ones to keep up with the enemies. I can`t grind and have to utilize my limited pool of monsters. Beating Adramalech with Gnome and the scrubs of the final dungeon sure is fun.
    – Not changing in other level 1 basis classes. Changing in higher classes is allowed though.
    – My playstyle is sloppy and not optimized. I’m more like a casual player. I usually beat the bosses through sheer force. Many interesting support classes like Alchemist, Black Marketeer are left untouched.
    – The pics were censored, the dialogue not. Because of the auto translation, it is gibberish anyways.

  186. Adam

    When I talked to Marie, the BF gladiator, I noticed that she looked familiar. It took me a while to place it, but she looks very similar to Nightmare from the Nightmare spin-off story for the original MGQ. Anyone else notice that, and is there any possibility that the artist that drew nightmare also created Marie’s CGs for MGQ Paradox?

    • FickleArchivist

      I’ve never played Nightmare but the MGQ Wiki says that it was created by albert-art and Sitien14, whoever they are. Marie/Mary’s artist is frfr, one of MGQ’s artists from the very beginning. I know frfr does art outside of MGQ so maybe they were commissioned or maybe the artist wanted to emulate frfr’s art. Hope that helps.

    • Chiron Maximus

      It could be possible that either Marie was drawn by, or at least inspired, by Nightmare. You would have to check sources, but since Nightmare was created before paradox, I think Marie was inspiration from it. Good catch by the way. I played Nightmare a long time before, and I never made the connection when I saw Marie.

  187. Anonymous

    Is panties stealing really hard or is it just me? I can only seem to get it when i both Bind and Paralyze them, otherwise i never get it no matter how much i try. It’s basically impossible for me to even get it on lower lvl monsters like imps or shesta.
    Any tips?

    • Its not that hard , 4 members master thief job + flirt mastered ” steal rate*2 ability” and its ok, sometimes i need 3-4 turns for one panty but its rare ,usualy it took only 1-2 turns

    • FickleArchivist

      It’s not you. They have a really low steal rate for some reason. Skeith’s strategy is definitely the way to if you want to do it efficiently but it can become trouble when you need to steal something from stronger enemies like Alice or Reaper. To break it down, Skeith can steal them with 4 members with double steal rate in one or two turns on average. 4*2*(1,2) = 8 to 16 turns if you are only using one character without double steal rate. Or 24 to 32 turns if you’re unlucky, so yes, panties are stupidly hard to steal but if you think about it the actions required in the middle of battle, it makes sense. I don’t know if Status Effects like Bind or Paralyze affect the chance, but if they do Time Stop is probably the best way to increase your chances. I think Sea Dragon Dancer has an ability to stop time or at least slow it down and Stage Time will let is activate twice in one turn so it’ll definitely work on most enemies.

      • Easy configuration Luka and Reina with endure , god rez and flirt + master thief mastered .
        With a battlemaster job use sylph with luka and sky dance “wing harpy” with reina , now you are safe for three turns , use carbuncle for magic reflect and keep stealing her ,

  188. Xoverguy

    Well, I finally cleared the floor 200 mark of the Labyrinth of Chaos and Got the 201 floor checkpoint. Think I can finally take a break for a bit from the labyrinth. However, I got a got a good amount of stuff from running those 100 floors, including the gengi glove and a strange booster book here that apparently gives 50% boost to ALL RACES. I still don’t know if it is just the basic races, since it listed the basic names of said races: (Human, Vampire, Mermaid, Yoma, etc), but it might include intermediate and advanced races since it also had Angel Booster 50, and as we know the basic level for Angels is Lowly Angel. If its true that this buffs all races, then it is a truely awesome booster book that can work with all characters.

    Well, floors 150 and up were a bit of a challenge and I had to get crafty to clear them, since a lot of enemies (Like third tartarus mobs, and beasts like anteaters) could outspeed. However, with my Luka, Shinifa, Stella Super Gold throw combo, I was able to come out on top most of the time. Holy Martyr HP reset was invaluable as well. I also used element type countering when I knew that the opponent did not have reflect. (Mini Encouraging dance+Alice Dragon Palace Dance+Shinifa Daisy Song+ Luka Elemental Skill that counters opponent.) With these skills in play i could hit 20K-50K damage on opponents depending on type and weakness. (Word of warning though. When it comes to the Labyrinth, never, and I mean NEVER use any elements except Holy/Dark on fairies or Tartarus Monsters. I have had one or two times that I have had 40K damage bounced back into my face. Same goes for Lucia and Lily. I use the previously mentioned combo with Deva’s Palm. Last word of notice, Centaur girls and Nancubus (Succubus nurse with the huge syringe) can also cast Carbuncle in the high levels of the Labyrinth. Death All is also a thing for some monsters like Mimics or Evil Spirits. Nancubus has her own variant and The Vore third Tartarus monster has All Rezone, which I will assume the worst that its their advance class specific All Death.

    All in all, The 1/4 SP accessory that I got from dropping Mainyu was invaluable in this run since it allowed me to spam my ultimate Heroic/Ninjutsu/etc element trumping skills with little to no consequence to my SP itself, and I am sure that the Ribbon I got from the chest behind Mainyu (that nulls all status except bind and deaths) allowed Stella to keep delivering her 10.3K Super Gold Throws in those countless oh so critical battle points.

    • “However, I got a got a good amount of stuff from running those 100 floors”
      Lucky guy , i just redo the labyrinth , i checked every chest past floor 101 to 201 and the only good item i get was the glove who open every chest … Found 3 nanabi , 2 nellis , 1 mandragora, and the rapier teacher , damn bad labyrinth .
      Mob who can cast song are the worst , kamuro/seaweed with confusion etc are dangerous.
      And red flame Nuruko is the worst …

  189. Xoverguy

    Last thing, if i were to choose New Game+ to get copies of the same equips (like Holy Rod) would I lose my Labyrinth Checkpoints?

    • FickleArchivist

      I don’t believe you do. I remember getting to the 51 Milestone on my first play through and starting a new game to get dupes of equips and when I got back to the Labyrinth, my milestone was still there. If you would like, I can speed run the game tonight or tomorrow and confirm it with absolute certainy? I am curious to figure out how fast it is possible to beat this game, for medal and seed grinding purposes.

      • Xoverguy

        I am impressed that you would go through all that for a fellow player. Although i am not asking you to do so, if you can I would appreciate it. I essentially got the 200th floor checkpoint so that I can start searching out for Reaper and Nero for their unique skills that they can teach both Luka and Alice. I understand that Nero’s skill cannot be used by Luka just yet, but I do understand that Reaper’s skill, or the skill that she gives can be used by Alice due to the fact that alice can use Dark Class abilities innately, even if she cant learn any in part 1.

        However, in all honesty, I have only heard about these “Skill Tutor” NPCs from old Archives in 4chan, and I realized recently that, they are good in giving out the info to pique your interest, but never follow through with deeper info on what they are talking about. I know about Nanabi btw. I got all her basic and advanced ninjutsu. Thats what helped me get up to 200th floor in the first place.

  190. Is the pocket castle supposed to be accurate to the real monster lords castle.
    if so, does that mean that if we visit the real monster lords castle in a other paradox game it will be like the pocket castle.

    • The way they explained the pocket castle it was like a moving fortress for the monsterlord using crazy powerful magic you could carry an army from Point A to B with just one person outside the castle to carry it as it conceals the wavelength that monsters give off allowing for a sneak attack. The only thing I dont know that I would REALLY like to know is what happens to the person who uses it because it looks like you enter it PHYSICALLY which would mean you would drop the castle upon entering it… The other theory is that its like the door to Where Death is where your just standing outside the door not moving while your spirit moves freely inside. The first theory makes WAYYYY more sense though.

      • The whole Moving fortress is also why you can find a habitat for any type of MonsterGirl inside of it. The Monsterlords castle is Just an ordinary…castle with no defenses as evident in part 3 where Illias invades with Literally no resistance something you would thing Tamamao would have in place to at least warn them of a Holy invasion. The Pocket Castle has many types of barriers and defenses. To avoid detection to even the mot powerful of enemies. Although it appears to have little defenses to teleportation.

        Alice Wasn’t kidding when she said she would give you something of equal value to Angel Halo. Im super interested to find out if the rumor that Alice the 1st is the one who made it or if its some other GRAND deity.

      • CivilDeviation

        we will see what they do, for me it seems like more of a utility game mechanic that creates a “rebel base” and “harem” rather than being a key part of the plot or the universe lore. I expect the most we will see of it is as a “staging ground” to explain or “prepare” for other big plot turns.

        • Oh yeah absolutely I just Love how ToroToro Include lore even for stuff like the castle. I’m expecting an enemy invasion on the castle as some point ToroToro are predictable in some areas and impossible in others. AKA ToroToro = Great Game devs and great LoreMakers. IMO Kentaro Cross Makes 90% of the Lore being the expert in the MonsterGirl Universe xD

  191. Just a Puny Traveler

    So, in the first mountain, I got trapped by a chicken next to the house and had to load the save file. Can you get out if you somehow get stuck like that?

  192. Xoverguy

    Replying to what Skeith told me about the skill teachers in labyrinth of chaos:

    So nero does not give you a skill? I recall somebody in 4 chan saying something about him teaching a skill to luka accidentally from nero, and now he has to wait to use it until the next parts to see if luka is compatible with it. Maybe it was a troll. Secondly, you said that to find reaper she usually hangs either in Tartarus maps or in Ancient Ruins. Do you mean the Sarafu Ruins? Or the Pyramid?

    On another note, just beat Super Boss adramelech yesturday night. And got the elemental damage cut accessory and a Genji armor for my trouble. Considering Mainyu and Sphinx, Adramelech was MUCH easier than I expected, even considering the low HP. I did use Nanabi to weaken water resistance as well. Although she does spam Disrupting Wave a lot more often than those other two.

    Ok, there is something I want to come clean on. I kinda sold out at one point in my gaming and kinda used an external program to edit my small medals to maximum so i could get 2 archangel bras, 2 caldablogs, and about 5 rainbow dresses. My logic for eventually selling out was the fact that the drop rate is so unreasonably low with mimics and honey pots, and as I (as well as many of us) have a real life, I really did not see myself farming hours upon hours of gameplay time when I had bigger fish to fry, both in Labyrinth and in real life. Thats the only thing I edited since I actually love the RPG style grinding. Should I feel bad about selling out there? In my defense. the bras and caldablogs were not used at all VS my first Sphinx and Mainyu.

    BTW, I wanted to share some data of some special Labyrinth exclusive equips I found that cant be found in part 1. Some of these weapons are actually pretty decent, despite not being untimate class. Here is what I have aquired so far.

    Wind Knife

    Attack and agility: 75
    Dexterity: 94
    Basic Hit Rate 97%
    Evasion Rate +10%
    Drops from: Sword Lizard bandits roughly in the 90s in terms of layers

    Marvelous Staff
    Attack: 32
    Magic: 62
    Willpower: 100
    Dexterity: 62
    Basic Hit Rate: 90%
    Weapon Skill added: A minor healing skill
    Recovery Booster 50% (This renders the healing skill null and void. Just rock out with regular heal and heal all and you’ll heal up obscene amounts.)
    I remember seeing it drop from Slug Nuns

    Dragon Scale Flail
    Attack: 105
    Agility: -26
    Basic Hit Rate: 80%
    Attack all
    (Kinda disappointing considerng the other stuff I got.)
    I remember getting this from Sarafu Ruins mobs. Sandworm I think? Not sure.

    Lightning Blade
    Attack: 93
    Magic: 35
    Basic Hit Rate: 95%
    Lightning Strike
    Weapon skill added: A toned down thunder attack. (The untranslated text says its C Class so you can’t expect much from it in terms of power. Still, I haven’t seen too many lightning strike weapons around, so it has that going for it.)
    I remember it dropping from the same bandits that dropped the Wind Knife, but above layer 150.

    That’s all i got for now. Hope the data helps.

    • Desert Eagle

      I’ve met Nero once. He was short on cash and offered to kill the next floor boss for me if I gave him 2000 gold. I took up on that offer. When I got to the boss floor, Nero was waiting for me there and told me the deed had been done and disappeared.

      So yeah. Nero offers assassination services. But I suppose it’s still possible that he teaches something on other times that you meet him.

    • I’ve meet Nero a lot of time since i grind the labyrinth 101-200 for some good accessory ” mini ribbon , genji glove , that doll who protect against three attack at the beginning of the fight ” and reaper for her skill and he only propose to kill the next floor boss , so yes it was a troll .
      I dont like the cadabolg weapon , i prefer trade an angel bra .
      Ancient ruin mean the administrator tower and the place where brunhild was no?

  193. Can someone tell me if its normal that a seed can give +4 or +3 ? I used some power seed and it gave me +4 power , sometimes 3 but more often 2 . Same for hp seed +9 hp, 5hp , 3hp.
    Its only supposed to give +2 for stats seed and +3 for hp/mp seed no? Or the items description are bad?

    • I can confirm that the seeds will ALWAYS boost the stat the same amount for EXP and ATTRIBUTES. In other words I have NO CLUE how your getting +4 power from a power seed sorry.

      • No need to be sorry its a good thing … for me o/. Its maybe a bug with super metabolism .
        Weird because the first time i used 15 life seed found in chest during the story etc … my hp was boosted normally , and after i used 2 hp seed found in the chaos labyrinth and i gained 12 hp. Its because of that hp gain i knew something was weird. All my future test was with seed found in the chaos labyrinth.
        Weird bug but not a bad one , im fine with it xD

    • This is most likely because of your level. Level ups doesn’t just give you a added stat boost, but there is a % multiplier that gets higher as you go higher level. Seeds raises your base stats, so you the multiples come after it, and the seemingly randomness comes from rounding up or down. You can test this by feeding seeds to a low level character and you’ll notice that they almost always give only the same amount of stat boost. This is an easy way to make so that (in the next games) a level from 80 to 81 will worth much much more than 10 levels from 10 to 20 for example. People with the game data in hand can give you an exact formula.

      • For a solid proof , need a luka lv 30 high angel and give something like 15-20 power seed and watch if you get +3/4 power instead of 2 .
        Well anyway thanks for the replies guys , since its “maybe” or not a good bug its ok , i will survive xD.

  194. My Alice is weaker then my other teammates and she is fully leveled up in level, lord class, and high yoma race.I mainly try magic and attack and it does less damage then my other teammates.am i using her wrong.

    • Well , with her passive bonus Alice is a character more oriented magic i think , a pope class is maybe a good idea , but even with that she does less damage (best demon eyes holy spell ) than Promestein ( best holy spell ) .
      With the skill that reaper can teach , she will be maybe better. I still search reaper for that skill , she’s so rare .
      Alice power is her multi racial sing /dance skill , her accuracy song , slow/stop dance , and +25% elemental damage dance from lamia nun and seadragon dancer .

      • pejman92

        actually you can also build her dexterity (she got technical magi passive idk when, but she can have it) and then you can use the light magic to have her use dex to cast spell, and halve their costs so she can spam easy :O

      • Well , since reaper skill use str+mag you can also and like always farm seed power for extra damage boost. Since only power, def, agl can be farmed its a good idea , farming seed for alice and luka is a good idea , alice will kill reflect physical boss ‘taoist fire spell works here because alice spell is a fire element and daisy bell like always)
        fire or ice spell not lightning Micaela have 50% resist lightning

  195. pejman92

    Hi. I found an item (accessory) in the chaos maze/labyrinth it’s a red tear (same model as the elven material, but red). I get a crash when i try to look at it (no method or somthing, should have screened it -_-)

    Any idea on the reason of the bug?

    • The reason is an error in the original coding for obtaining percentage value, instead of returning the value it returns a hash and things go bad from there. Dargoth was informed of this some time ago and will be fixed when he decides the next update is ready. This was also fixed since EX 0.5i

      • An official update has not been released to resolve it yet (as of ver 1.21) also I’m not sure if it was ever properly reported, I just told Dargoth about it along with how I fixed it. As for fixing it EX patch is the only one the has the fix implemented, Dargoth will have it fixed when he rolls out an update however he tries to make them as content rich as possible so it might be awhile, and unless something major happens the official update probably will be on hold till Part 2 comes along as that is where their major focus is. For translation well either wait on the next update from Dargoth while leaving that item be till then or try the EX patch and you can switch back when you feel like it.

  196. Xoverguy

    Ok, I know this might sound a bit silly to ask but I really don’t know how to confirm it. Skeith, in the link you showed me I checked out the chaos labyrinth data, and I was able to figure out that, in the group of “Recommended Weapons” they recommended what were known as the Devil/Chaotic Hammer and axes. These are the weapons that have horrid hit rate (accuracy) but guaranteed crit chance. By what I read, despite the somewhat broken english, there are some skills that bypass the hit rate and yet keep the critical rate when attacking. I am not sure if it has to do with skills that have the “Effect:+” attribute also inheriting the horrid attack power, which would obligate you to use skills without that attribute to land the critical hits. Still, could anybody confirm this for me? Secondly, it seems like weapons like that, along with others like the holy custom+ are weapons that you cannot dual wield even if you are battle master or have the genji glove on.

    • I just tested it for you : I cant equip critical 100% weapon with a battle master with genji glove , but i can equip holy custom ( but you can get only 1 custom sword even with a new game +) . Since i cant equip them i not have tested a skill that guaranted a hit . And those weapon are bad for a chaos labyrinth . Magnus first buff give a 100% critical rate and +50% atk/agl .
      I tested something good , 2 gaia hammer with secret earth book ( +50% earth damage ‘6k gnome affection) with magnus buff/and trip atk next turn with 2 atk song boost and i did againt a junk doll 80-85k damage x 4 with the last heroism skill with Luka . Can easly do i think 130-150k damage x4 with daisy bell ” automata song” and seadragon dance -25% elements resistance. Will not work against boss who reflect physical damage .

      • Xoverguy

        When you say 2 attack songs did you mean 2 song of offense? Two repeated song of offense can stack? I always thought that the new Song of Offense overrode the old one. If they actually stack that is something new and good to use, and might explain why the death effects of the “Final Will” Accessory items stack as well.

        Even though I got lucky with a second King of Hearts, thus rendering Luka OP to all hell and back, I am wondering. Compared to the King of Hearts, does Lucifina’s Sword of the Heavens amount to anything in Luka’s hands? Anybody have specific stats of it? Thanks in advance.

        Pretty much now what I do for clearing the labyrinth floors is the following: Daisy song + Dragon Palace Song+Encouraging Dance+Luka Attack based elemental attack.

        If if is a monster that very likely has magic reflect, I go with the same, only change Encouraging Dance to Song of Defense, and have Luka use Purifying Light, although in all honesty that two shots at best. I gave Promestein my new God’s fist Rosary accessory (gives 100% crit) to see if she can replace Luka as a Will-based Holy attacker. (Luka is Attack+Agility based with Deva’s Palm.)

        Last question that just came to me. If you were to use Four Spirits Fist to buff up, and then Deva’s Palm (holy based), would the new elements make your attack magic reflect-able? Sometimes determining when magic reflect works against you is so hard to do that I just try to avoid the situations entirely.

      • Different song stack , the same no . offense song+will stack , encouraging dance + will stack etc… Buff boost atk 50%+encouraging stack .
        Lucifina sword : Attack +178 Defense +100 Seminal +100???
        And for the last question no. ( i think , but im quite sure its no ) , Well you can always test it yourself in the chaos labyrinth lower level for a safe marge.
        But you say magic reflect , since deva palm is physical you wanted to say physical reflect no?
        Magic relfect reflect all magic exept : water , holy , dark that all
        Physical reflect : the same , as i know one spear skill holy hit 4 randoms foes doesn’t work against physical reflect , meaning its not a holy skill ( bad translation or skill bug ) .

        I dont have yet 2 king of heart so i cant test it , but the heroism skill dont work against physical reflect ? i know heroism skills are fire based but since your weapons are holy …
        Because the magicknight holy weapon element work well with heroism skill as i remember .

  197. Anonymous

    Hello, I just noticed something. I have Elizabeth (High Slug) at max levels equipped with a rapier and she has 155 Attack and 154 Agility. Then I have Reina (Harpy) who knows rapier skills but does not have a rapier equipped and 143 Attack and 148 Agility. Now, when I use the exact same skill against the exact same enemy it seems that Reina deals more damage than Elizabeth. How come she can be more powerful if she doesn’t even have a rapier equipped and has less status? What is going on there? I thought that if you had the correct weapon equipped for a certain skill type you deal more damage, so why is Elizabeth weaker than Reina if everything should point at the opposite? Oh by the way, I’m not using the EX patch.

  198. Gogetters

    I have a bit of a problem.

    I’m trying to use ITH to grab the text from the battle screen, damage and attack dialogue stuff, since it’s only up for a very short amount of time before going to the next page. The problem I am having is that ITH isn’t adding in spaces between words so it’s all a jumbled mess. How would I go about fixing this?

    • I don’t honestly understand why would you want to use text hookers since EX has the battle text translated and partially cleaned up. I couldn’t make out all the girls’ dialogue but what I could clean up is understandable. If I’m not mistaken all the messages of all the skills of all the girls normal and chaos labyrinth are translated(amateurlish but translated nonetheless).

      • Gogetters

        Because I want to read the combat text but the game doesn’t give enough time to read it all before it continues on.

        If someone could make a script or something that would prevent the game from going through combat text by itself, that’s be fucking awesome, but no one has as far as I know so I’m stuck with using text hooker to get the text to read.

      • Gogetters

        The combat text I’m talking about is the text like “Luka attacks! Slime girl takes 15 damage!” or “Bunny Slime extends a tentacle made of slime! The sticky tentacle gently caresses the Sonya’s body! Sonya takes 1 damage!”

        This text is automatic and depending on the monster and attack flair, can’t be fully read before it’s gone.

      • Weird because by default the game is horribly slow , are you sure you didn’t speed up the text in the settings? Its normal by default , if its too fast for you you can set it to slow , and disable auto skip and set it to manual.
        As i remember the thing maybe too fast for reading is the battle nerris vs nanabi because the text display automatically and if the settings is set to fastest its way too fast for reading .

        • No Gogetters is right, that part of text is really fast no matter how you set the text to go, just look at it for yourself I remember wanting to test out to see if I didn’t screw up something after editing the rvtext files and I had a really hard time keeping up with reading the damage and description messages, those options only work for the dialogue of the current monster girl you’re fighting I think.

      • I just tested it with normal settings , my bad there is no slow setting for battle wait BUT i cant call it fast.( no speedup by pushing the A button , i just let the game display the text )
        I guess it just depends on the person .

  199. DungeonMasterBobbySmith

    I was reading the MGQ (original) wiki and found a mistake. It says “Nekomata is the only known monster that does not run away upon being sealed”. If I remember correctly the elf does’t run away either, though she does run after the Twin Fairies after they are sealed, lol. I beleive there were a couple others.

    If “run away” was taken literal the fairies flew awy, happy to be butterflies.

    • Technically Elves dont get sealed in the normal sense but their bodies shrink due to loss of magic as such they keep the ability to show reason. The Nekomata is already sooo cat like that her instincts don’t change much upon being sealed. The only reason most run away is because they become highly defenseless and probably go off to gain enough magic to revert to their natural form. Remember that Monster Girls Recover pretty fast from what would be a regular Mortal wound.

  200. pejman92

    I found an item that allows for lockpick 3 (opening the gray/metal chests)
    I know that there is one in the pyramid,
    1 in the job church
    1 in the ruins south of the slums
    and 1 in the grotto before black alice tower (where we get thread for dolls)

    Any other chests?

  201. Hello , i wanted to know if there something like a reset after reaching 999 in on stat . Well my luka have 4x more atk than honey pot and the damage against the same ennemy is the same …
    Dont tell me i farmed seed power for nothing >_<

    • Just tested , nude luka, no abilities i have 978 atk , and with normal atk against a slime i do 1600-2000 and same with honey pot 500 atk . There should be a limits of maximal damage inflicted . Atk – def ( foe ) to % or something like that .
      If someone have an answer.

    • In terms of your farming… the lvl cap will be raised in the next part so everyone who didn’t keep a save after finishing the game is… either gonna have to restart from scratch or be OP during part 2 and 3 xD

    • pejman92

      i don’t thin, i hae characters with stats above 1000 (9999 wisdom rachne, fml) and she does deal damage in the 100K per grand cross 😀

  202. Chiron Maximus

    So, I found another game to play while waiting for the translation of paradox, and it’s called RePure Aria. Of course, when I downloaded it, it had no Translation whatsoever, so naturally I looked for a translation online, and I cam up with jack squat. Then, I found notes about Dargoth possibly making a translation for RePure Aria, so I;m gonna ask straight out: Dargoth, did you make a translation for RePure Aria, or was it just a rumor, or did you start it, but it fell down the tubes?

    • Someone actually did get a translation done and if I’m not mistaken I think everything is translated. I’ll upload my copy for you since it is already translated. The only thing is I have a lot of exe files in the folder to start the game with and I forgot which one is the correct one since I haven’t played this game in a very long time. Repure Aria also has a successor it hasn’t been translated but the gameplay is similar the sprites are just as nice looking as the ones from repure but the enemies aren’t monster girls(Ririmu Paradise Iseki). I also recently stumbled upon an english h-game(sorta) probably developed by a german guy with broken english and not very impressive cgs called Evil Seeds. Kinda like it it’s an RPG maker game and it seems a lot of effort was put into it despite the low quality CGs(or maybe it’s not low quality just a different style I’m not used to) .
      Link to Repure
      https://mega.nz/#!ZEpwFQZb!ZS4jtGGAw8q1dcN6igbVP1AsEuLILAqy0eGM7q8hTG0

      • Chiron Maximus

        Thanks Casian! Ive pretty much beaten the game with no translation and had to mentally think things through, but now I can start again and have everything readable, and with I remember, I will really be able to enjoy it!

    • pejman92

      <– when you farmed alice so hard you actually OS her, i die sometimes on the 100s flors superboss (i have a stupid luka full def with gnome summon that deals random damage (battle master class and 2 gaia hammer :O)

  203. Anonymous

    I also would like it if Dargoth could do VH 5 because Never was gonna do it but then some random person said that were gonna do it and didn’t say anything again

  204. chibishiroiryu

    Hi hi …
    For someone who didn’t played Paradox, it’s a good time to try to play now ?
    Or waiting for the full releases ? If the game is coming or not ? 🙂
    I’m just really not sure about that …

  205. Anonymous

    It’s been awhile since the last update so how about giving us some news on your progress Dargoth? It does not have to be much just some progress update and how things are going 🙂

  206. Anonymous

    New Torotoro update. Seems he has some screen shots for some kind of VN or game. Doesn’t look like it’s related to MGQ though.

    • Desert Eagle

      Indeed. It seems to be a VN game of some sort. I can’t figure out if it’s his circle that’s working on it or if he’s just advertising it.

      In any case, it looks really interesting.

    • Anonymous

      Supposedly yes, but if you`re talking about Lab. of Chaos, many of bosses and superbosses can use certain skills even at 0 MP

    • They have 9999 mp (chaos labyrinth boss), mana drain dance =-99mp each <_< , i suggest the evil mist ability mana drain atk. It drain 25% of damages inflicted , works well with high scylla high tentacle ( honey pot) . Its a great help against reaper she will not be able to use chaos drive and dispel all .

      • Anonymous

        One question, You know how to learn the skill Chaos drive? I saw a video on youtube where Luka uses that ability, but not how or where can learn.

  207. hoping for a little info from Dargoth.
    I have palyed throught it once withe the Ex trans chose Alice for Lvl reasons as she has several races to lvl up.
    OIne question for all the fans what do you think of this version of Lazarus so far?

  208. kevin sheeeks

    Noob here I have verison 1.02 of the game I’m trying to figure out what I need to do to use the patch do I update to 1.10 then to 1.20 and finally 1.21 the link to the 1.02 is down so i cldnt use that

  209. DirtyCuckingFunt

    This is just getting silly.

    Can we at least get a monthly blog update so we know this is actually still being worked on? Just a minute a month to type up where the project is at would be great so we’re not waiting into 2075.

    • Yeah, I *used* to be good at constant blog updates, and I hate when content creators disappear off the face of the Earth too. I try to at least make comments to let you guys know I’m still alive, but the main page needs an update at least once a month. MGL and FSF have been awesome at getting work done and keeping the project updated, but I (and the few assorted other people that pitch in) have not been. I’m looking to turn that around and get back on a regular update schedule, perhaps even opening up our repository so anyone can grab the latest files and build their own patches without waiting for ‘official’ releases.

  210. Xoverguy

    Hey guys there is something that I wanted to just post here to see. First check out this video, of a Sylph soloing Reaper, and apparently seems to be spamming Daystars

    At first I had every intention of calling HAX, but I realized that the other two videos of the player seemed quite legit, so I took a chance, and despite the chance getting a Japanese answer I sent a comment asking where was the “Daystar” coming from. I just got a reply from the person. It was the following.

    回复晚了,不好意思。”窮地のかんざし”,你可以试试这个饰品。由于bug,它的实际效果为,进入濒死状态后,每隔一回合,自动发动一次明星。

    So I whipped up Google Translate. I don’t like using automatic translators as they usually dont really work, but I do use them as a last resort to gain some understanding at least. Here is what came out when I ran it from Japanese to English.

    Times复晚Ryo , not good intentions . ” Hairpin of predicament ” ,你可以试试这个饰goods . Yukari于bug,它的实际Effect currency and ,进入濒死like态后,每隔once case , the self-动发v. The primary star .

    Ok, so the translation really did not work all that well, but we do get the idea that the name of the item is called “Hairpin of predicament” or something along the lines. And by seeing the term “goods”, due to partially remembering the Japanese name of Black Market Delivery, it would not be a stretch to believe that maybe you can aquire this Hairpin from those means. We also see the word “bug” which could mean this is not a hax or cheat, but a bug exploit. Finally, “The Primary Star” seems like a good alternate name for “Daystar”.

    However, the google translate system gave me the option to translate from Chinese for some reason, so when I got curious and allowed it, it switched into Simplified Chinese, which gave me this, that surprisingly seemed to make sense:

    Reply late, sorry . ” Poorlyのka za san shi ” , you can try this jewelry. Since the bug, its practical effect is , into near-death state , every round , automatic launch a star.

    So…with this idea…I realize that there seems to be an item in the game that, weather it be intentional or not, can allow you to counter blast with a Daystar once per turn when you are at near death. Has anybody seen or encountered this item? Any information on it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you all in advance.

      • Xoverguy

        Thanks for the reply. I kinda confuse my Japanese and Chinese I am ashamed to say. Now that being said…does anybody know of this item/accessory that gives you Super Daystar powers like it did to Sylph in the previously posted video?

    • Xoverguy

      UPDATE!! I figured out what the Daystar Accessory was!! It is a hairpin that looks like both the Mysterious Ornamental Hairpin and the Magic Ornamental Hairpin, but has a White bead instead of a Red bead on its tip. (These previously mentioned are the hairpins that buff up magic evasiveness.) Unfortunately this indeed seems to be a bug, as by what the text description of the accessory says, it is supposed to raise magic evasion by 75% in a critical position, similar to its counter part which does the same with physical evasion. However, when I check the actual accessory effect it says “Critical State: Auto “Morning Star” ” The “Morning Star” section is in Japanese, but when you actually use it in battle Dargoth’s translation kicks in and calls it a Daystar. I have tested this on the angels in the alternate ilias continent and it seems that Daystar does not click all the time, but it does click a decent amount of times to be viable as long as you keep your HP in the critical zone.

      A side of me though is still debating weather this is a real bug or not. A side feels it is a bug since it seems to be a magical counterpart of a physical evasion accessory. However, if it were a bug, why would the “Morning Star” Japanese text even be coded in the accessory effect description? Well, seems like the only time we will find out is when Torotoro releases part 2 and decides to patch it or not.

      Hopes this helps some people. Even if its not meant to be and is patched in part two, it could be an aid in our overpowering of save files to totally annihilate Part 2’s main game.

    • Interesting bug indeed good job for finding that . That fight look uber , sylph who can solo chaos labyrinth Reaper , yes but its a crazy luck battle , she can die in several ways .
      In term of survavibility Sylph is the best , she must be pope ‘30% magic reflect’, +30% magic reflect abilities + venus shield maybe? i dont remember if she can equip that shield with the shield ability.
      Substitute form bill is the safer way to start a battle but that accessory is the best for dealing damage if you can survive the first turn.
      Too bad it doesn’t counter her multi hit attack each time, and if it dont “click” each time its so-so , but still good for support character which are not supposed to deal damage.
      Good discovery !

      • Xoverguy

        Well I cant take all the credit. It was the original poster of the video that discovered the video. I only had the thought to try to look into it deeper for the english speaking community. Still, thanks a lot. It is a bit of a game changer.

        BTW, by what I have seen, it seems the item uses the Daystar counter every other attack, leaving you vulnerable for one attack in the middle. I checked the video and it seems to be true provided that the opponent attacks and you do not reflect the damage. Ex. (First enemy attack countered —> Second enemy attack not countered and have to protect —-> Third enemy attack countered —–> etc.) Aside from the previously posted video, I tested the item with the Archangels in the alternate Ilias continent, and so far by what I have seen, daystar ALWAYS clicked on their first and third attack, but NEVER on the second, which I feel further supports my theory that it counters every other attack. Well either way, just for the first attack counter alone, you can go into a super boss battle with a weak Daystar user and just have them “NOPE” the boss when it attacks first and allow your entire team to Vicarious Clara it up right from the start.

      • Ho ok way better than i have expected , question it counter even dark/holy skill or it pass through because that sylph needed to spam vicious clara 3 times for counter reaper’s 8-9 darkness hits.
        I stopped to play but i will maybe test that item. Sound very interesting .
        Good info thx for posting it , it will help some guys for those annoying super boss.

  211. FickleArchivist

    The Mega Link is down and I’m having trouble with the anon link for some reason. Can someone please upload or point me to another copy of the patcher? My computer died recently and I lost a lot of files but I’m trying to get back on track so I can continue updating the MGQ wiki.

  212. One question for all the fans what do you want to see in the next part of paradox that you could not see in the original games like the elven villiage of yamatai or some monsters that was only mentioned?

    • Chiron Maximus

      I bet they’re gonna throw in some monsters from the Mosterpedia site and give them a paradox style, like the Nureonago, which is a slime native to plains and grasslands that acts like a housewife (Might appear in the Noah region), or maybe even high class monsters, like Ryu and/or Wurm in the mountainous regions. I know one thing for certain: when we get to yamatai, we’re gonna be able to recruit a Shirohebi, which is the white scaled lamia priestesses from the MGQ universe.

  213. Anon S

    I’m guessing with the lack of updates this game just isn’t as good as MGQ was. I was waiting for the patch to start, or at least a 1/2 patch like Rogue used to do before starting, but it really just looks like the interest has died off on this.

    • Interest hasn’t died off. It’s just an order of magnitude more difficult to manage a translation for a proper game compared to a simple VN, and I wasn’t nearly as ready for it as I had hoped. The good news is that the worst is over* and the project is very much alive and on track for completion.

      *ok, the worst is going to be what happens when part 2 is released. I don’t even want to think about it.

      • Chiron Maximus

        Well, whatever the case, we’re right behind you and ready to help when you need it. Not all of us, cause a majority, including me, are not savvy to the whole “game developer” thing, but we’re still here.

        • Thanks for being patient. Honestly, this project needed (still needs?) a project manager that is not the same person responsible for doing the bulk of the translation work. We’d be months ahead on the actual translation with better organization. Instead, my shitty organization has slowed us down and wasted a ton of my time and effort that could have been spent translating. At least it’s been a good learning experience…

          I have someone in mind that’s already involved and may be willing and able to help.

  214. Anonymous

    So I’ve been really curious and now that I see Dargoth mention it, it kind of popped up again…

    Will part 2 Paradox possibly rewrite or undo a lot of the translation work already done aside from adding a massive slab of untranslated content or what? I’m not exactly sure how P2/P3 would work in RPG Maker.

    • My current prediction is that P2/P3 will just be large patches applied to the first game. In that case, they won’t be any more disruptive than a regular patch to the game. If P2/P3 are implemented differently though…

    • Depends on how they incorporate Part 2 as new game + is a feature some of the older lines might get a refresher as new girls are added so old maps that might have been done will need revised, dependent on if each patch to Part 2 adds/changes features like the patches from Part 1 could change content, and of course it will also add new content. I don’t think they will be implemented differently as save compatibility will be a concern plus there are placeholders scattered throughout the project for one overall massive game. Adding content isn’t a problem as it just gets thrown to the pile however changes could mean lost work. Hopefully lessons where learned from Part 1 and a lot of the features are stabilized…

  215. Dunksquad

    Hi I downloaded this patch and ran the “Patch” application through virustotal.com. It seems to have picked up 4/56 detections. The antivirus software are Avira, Ikarus, Rising, and Virobot. My curiosity is yes there are 4 detections/warnings, but I’ve never even heard of these antivirus programs. Just wondering if anyone else got warnings because I see there are a ton of people using this patch, and I would like to as well. Thank you for any help.

  216. Anonymous

    Did the new link have any small updates in it? Also what is a recommended job to have luka and illas learn early on i currently have illas on hunter and luka is on the one he started as.

    • FickleArchvist

      Which new link? Do you mean the new mega link I requested? If so, it is still the same English patch for Paradox 1.21 as it was before.

      Early in the game, Luka is best kept as an Apprentice Hero because his Unique Trait gives Heroism Skills a damage boost. Likewise, Ilias is best with Holy and White Magic, so Priest is a good choice for her. After that, don’t worry too much about trying to make the strongest character you can because it’ll really suck the fun out of this game if you can defeat everything without even trying. Instead, experiment with other classes and races and find a play style you like. If a job sucks or you get stuck you can always switch back to Apprentice Hero and Priest.

      Of course, that’s just how I play games. If you want to break the game, you can start here.

      http://monstergirlquest.wikia.com/wiki/Paradox/Jobs

      I haven’t completed filling in the page yet because my computer died and I’m still catching up on writing my papers for Uni but I’ll be able to complete it rest this weekend.

      Long Answer for Simple Question is Long.

    • Sulphur99

      You’re better off keeping Luka in Apprentice Hero until it is maxed out. As for Ilias, can’t help you there, cause I haven’t tried her route yet.

      *SPOILER*

      Also, don’t bother with Warrior for Luka, it’ll immediately be maxed when you get Hero.

      • FickleArchivist

        Really? Getting Hero masters Warrior and Apprentice Hero instantly? I knew they were required but that’s pretty cool. Also, acquiring Hero isn’t much of a spoiler but I appreciate the concern anyways when it comes to spoiler. I was going to recommend that and White Mage for Ilias as Intermediate Jobs but my post was already getting pretty long for a one sentence question.

      • Rawr

        Luka will get Apprentice Hero and Warrior maxed for free later on so you’re totally fine having him be something else. I made him a Monk when I was starting out.

  217. Anonymous

    thanks dargoth for always commenting on here it really does make alot of known you care and hard at work translating

  218. Anonymous

    Did they add extra scenes since launch? I saw a couple of them on 4chan which were missing when I finished the game immediately after release.

    • FickleArchivist

      New scenes for Riot, Valto, Vetala, Lippy, Jade, and Banachi. Also, there are some new vore cgs for some old monsters but I don’t know where you can access them if at all. Finally, all Battle Fuckers have proper CGs for all their scenes. Before, most of the battle fucker scenes just showed their sprite and a text description but a few early ones had scenes. I think that’s everything.

  219. Anonymous

    so, dargoth, it’s been about a month, are you going to make an update post? not trying to hassle you, just want to know whats going on.

  220. Anonymous

    Man its really a shame that the battle cut-in for some girls are only activated with one specific skill and not with skill types. With that characters like the watermelon girl can only activate her battle cut-in with a sleep inducing plant skill wich is really not that useful if she is not the fastest so it can be cast first. So to end this kind of useless rambling, is there a way we could edit the battle cut-in so it can be activated with other skills?

  221. Chiron Maximus

    I just thought of something. Firstly, If there are going to be like marriage scenes, then maybe Gnomes marriage scene could be like the one she has in MGQ NG+ when you lose to her, and Sylph could be the same. As far as Salamander and Undine, let’s wait until we have them to consider them, although they might be added with the whole marriage thing.

    Secondly, I thought of something cool. I think it would be awesome if there were two different rape music files for when you get raped by monsters; one file for losing and scenes that end up at reincarnation, and another for scenes that aren’t gonna end with him dying. I know it might be annoying to set it up, but it would allow players to edit them so they play one kind of song for when they have request scenes that don’t kill off Luka, and another for every other scene that does. Just a thought.

    • EX 0.5m
      http://pastebin.com/k9MNPZsb

      Backend Bugfixes, Two Maps where updated, and an optional re-encryption tool provided by Tamakimouto (Might increase speed though I haven’t tested it and will probably have to be re-applied on future updates so if your interested test their app out and see if it makes a difference, can be found on the Git Repository)
      Complete Cleanup Of Map 052 – Pornof Indoors
      Small Edit Of Map 377 – Sabasa Castle 1F

      • Note 6: Does not overlap with Dargoth’s Patch, core files are changed differently.

        Did you and MGL have any interest in combining features? This is my fault for not paying enough attention to your project.

      • Well some features can be combined and a lot of errors overlap so as they get solved it helps both projects however the main problem is the difference between the Language File System (The Core Script EX Uses) and Ytinasni RpgMaker Translator (The Core Application You Use). They aren’t completely interchangeable do to different ways they change Map and Common Event Data though some of the new innovations to the translator you use has been quite helpful with making internal database objects readable using RPG Maker Editor which does wonders with debugging. Though some of the improvement suggestions to the editor you use will make compatibility more difficult I would still like to see them implemented. Hopefully some of the translated data I sent you as a result of the update was useful. Also as for not paying enough attention eh your a busy man though any questions, comments, concerns, or complaints just bring them to my attention and I’ll see what I can do.

  222. Keba101

    So is it just me or when i installed the patch everytime i press enter or move the arrows it’s super laggy. Takes forever. Did i miss something?

  223. Anonymous

    Out of curiosity, was there any other translations made to the 1.21a? While I appreciate all of the amazing contributions people have made so I can see a good majority of this game in English, there is still a huge gaping emptiness in the story line. I.E., when ever I want to see the hero Luka get devoured by any one of the named vixens, all I usually ever get to see is Japanese characters. The English has been translation near perfect in the city and even in some parts of dungeons, but most fatal monster scenes, I can’t enjoy it half as much as I would like, because I can only understand the picture, and not the beautiful words people that speak Japanese, are trying to get me to understand.

    If anyone has any info on this or helpful suggestions, I would be grateful, would love to enjoy the game even more fully than I already do.

    • Anonymous

      It may just be in my head, but, it seems like all of Luka’s god’s words, are all in Japanese too. I remember when I first started, I could understand at least half of what she said, because most of the characters were in English, however, since like level 4 and beyond, when ever she tries to give me an ‘evaluation’, it’s simply in Japanese lettering.

        • Chiron Maximus

          In all honesty, I’ve only gotten used to the crappy English because I mostly breeze through it. I just can’t wait until all the H-scenes are translated, cause the scenes are just oh so much better with proper english.
          While on the whole translation thing, I’ve noticed reoccuring things in the h-scenes. There are parts in blowjob requests that say “become bound” and like vaginal sex scenes there’s times when the text puts in *hehe* which is downright creepy, and not to mention that the Catfish girl and others mention an “eagle” during their scenes. I know it’s only half translation, but I just want to know about those ones specifically.

    • You can gather a lot of information if you read a little bit back. Dargoth will most likely make another blog post when it’s ready to be made. I think the best information you can get progress-wise is that you’re likely going to see another patch before the end of the year.

    • Anonymous

      Honestly the best approach here is to check every now and then and to not have preset expectations.

      Dargoth had a pretty solid plan in the beginning of the year but TTR delayed the translation so much that for all we know, Dargoth’s situation when Paradox could finally be worked on was much different than in the beginning of this year.

      I’m just saying because I had a lot more free time when Paradox was initially released than I do now. Only bits of translation work would be done if it were me throughout these weeks simply because life gets in the way whereas I could have devoted a lot more time when Paradox was released. Maybe something very similar happened to some members of the group of people translating the game.

  224. Keba101

    Are the H scenes and the dialogue during the fights supposed to be untralsanted? this is my first time actually playing the game so.. lol. i saw a video post in the previous comments where the fight text was translated. Did i do something wrong? I used the auto patcher.

  225. Keba101

    Also a lot of the dialogue in the fields are untranslated… Weird… i just made camp and it was all untranslated…

      • FickleArchivist

        Patch 1.21a does not denote the progress of the patch but the Version of Paradox this is compatible with. The majority of the game’s flavor content such as scenes, story, and places are not translated as Dargoth prioritized foundation content such as menus, skills, stats, etc… The current translated story content was transferred from the demo that was released by Torotoro before Paradox’s Part 1 was fully released, which Dargoth translated most of. Translation was delayed severally for several months as Torotoro released numerous patches at a time without warning and in order for Dargoth to patch each one, who would have to transfer all translated lines over to the new version and then recompile it into a patcher file. Now that Torotoro has seemingly stopped releasing patches, Dargoth can work steadily on the patch without having to stall and transfer lines but since it isn’t the summer anymore, his team has less time to work on it. His current release schedule for the next patch he mentioned in a post above.

        “I’d love to have every bit of text you can encounter on the Ilias Continent translated by Christmas. Any patch this month will contain technical improvements, miscellaneous translations with skills, items, etc., and a handful of H-scenes and towns.”

        So, if he does release a patch this month, it’ll be more minor foundation changes with some new content. His team will try and have the Ilias Continent, about half the game world, excluding dungeons, by Christmas but the amount of lines is hard to gauge.

      • Keba101

        Thanks for letting me know. And I of course appreciate all of the work Dargoth and his unfortunate friends have put into the patch! I’m busy with school and work or i’d help (i’ve worked 21 days in a row and don’t get a day off until next weekend ;-;…x.x;..)

        Thanks so much for your guys help too!

    • FIckleArchivist

      Complete the Pope of San Ilias’ Quest in Luddite Village. Talk to the Pope, go to Luddite Village and keep to the left until you find a path through the trees and follow it till you reach the Ancient Temple. Enter the temple, complete the quest and you will be able to go down those stairs for some slightly spoilery rewards. Also, you will be able to allowed to mine Mythril Ore so head north to Mt. Saint Amos to get the ore and buy Mythril Weapons in San Ilia. Something really spoilery is also unlocked at the top of Mount Saint Amos so head to the top after grabbing the ore.

  226. jchris1_2000

    can you complete the Lazarus quest in part 1 or is that continued in part 2 like getting imp girl to fly
    I already had the pope talk with him and went to the mansion to talk with the man

    • FickleArchivist

      You cannot complete it in Part 1 like Rami’s Quest. The cut-scene in the Grandoll Mansion is the last of it in Part 1.

  227. Anonymous

    Hey guys! Do any of you know if different booster abilities can stack with each other? For example, using Physical Booster and Insect Booster stacks the effects of the two? Or just one of them will be effective? Also, speaking about Physical Booster, does the effect works with any skill that uses SP whether or not it uses dexterity or attack for damage?

    • Desert Eagle

      Different booster abilities should work together, yes. You can use Physical- and Insect Booster to boost an insect skill that does physical damage.

      And Physical booster should work on any physical attack, regardless of whether it uses ATT, AGI or DEX in its damage calculation. As long as it IS a physical ability. I don’t think it will affect sonic attribute skills like singing.

  228. Anonymous

    Does someone knows any way to multiply the seeds using cheat engine or something like that? Farming them can get a little… …difficult.

      • Anonymous

        Thanks man! Now it seems that I managed to track the correct code and everything, but every time that I want to change the value RPG Maker stops working. I don’t understand why 🙁

  229. Anonymous

    same as abut comment somewhere XD the patch, when hit 49%, it say “wrong version” and i get fresh copy -_-

    and i say f*** it play with out patch and see what new so i use my old say from Ver.1.02 and get this pop up
    http://imgur.com/WRhnLPc
    (-_____-)
    so how to fix it and if there copy and post patch like 1.02?

    • Umm your not going to like it… The game thinks your using trial data and doesn’t want it

      Text pulled from the EX version
      “The save data is what it was created by taking over non-trial version”
      “It can not be used in the full version, please start from New game”
      Original
      “このセーブデータは、引継ぎ不能な体験版で作成されたものです”
      “製品版では使用できないので、ニューゲームから開始してください”

      • Anonymous

        craaaap now i how to start over all that hard work on max job lvl use Cheat Engine and all the pat i get my hand on on first world map T_T

  230. Anonymous

    Hello I wanted to ask something. Eva’s Trait is supposed to make her able to use a lot of skill types, but it does not unless you equip an ability that allows her to do exactly the same as her trait. So my question is: Why is her trait not working if that ability is not equiped?

    • FickleArchivist

      Torotoro updated and changed several characters’ unique traits so when Dargoth transferred already translated lines over to new version, some of them became outdated. As of right now, Eva’s unique trait gives her the equip-able ability to use those varied skill types at the cost of a chance to use a random oracle skill. Prior to 1.20 (I believe this is the right version), Eva’s unique trait gave her that as a passive benefit so she couldn’t turn it off which was annoying if you wanted to use Eva. Off the top of my head, some of the other characters who need updated translations are Luka, Ilias, Alice, Sonya, Grand Noah Queen, and Lippy and Sara too maybe.

  231. Anonymous

    Any new translators given? I am still suffering from not being able to understand more than half the words, and would like to be able to better interact with the options given, in English format, if anyone can help.

  232. Akushi

    Hi, i want to know something if possible !
    I haven’t played the game because im trying so hard to get a english patch but it fail every time..
    If i download 1.21 and patch 1.21a it will work ?
    And i need to download other version before 1.21 ?
    And finally, what the difference between next patch, and this one ? Update ? New endings ? Whatever, i want to know.
    Sorry for my bad english im a little tired, and thanks for the answer. 🙂

  233. Anonymous

    lol… i am stuck….. forget where to go . . . currently partner with Ilias[Flirt] witch is kinda funny , the only thing i remember is Ilias is looking for that bunny , donno witch town coz most of the town at upper map not yet tranlated =3

    • Have you finished the Amira quest (either pay her to go to the Slums)? All of that is translated. Amira will send you to Pornof in the southeast where you need to talk to a rabbit girl then return to Amira.

  234. Anonymous

    Hi, anyone maybe has the complete save data for this? Im having hard time finding the scene with bunny girl footjob in stocking, only getting the barefeet one. Would appreciate it. Thanks

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