Walkthrough

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      Treasures: Cure In Cave Mouth area, more immediate attack and surprise monsters. Don't worry about falling in the holes in the screen to the north (go up stairs on west side). You can try to enter the waterfall, but it won't let you. But remember it for later... Enter the cave to move on.

      Now you'll get a sequence with Dr. Einst and people from the town. You'll have to play around with moving to different places on the screen and pressing buttons to get things to happen in sequences like this. When it's done, you have to leave the room because the north exit is still blocked.

      Because of the explosion, you can now enter the big hole (was a bunch of little ones) in the screen to the north. I suggest you save before doing that, as you will be momentarily trapped in a part of the cave once you fall in.

      Treasures: Rusty Drill Make sure you get the Rusty Drill treasure before you let yourself be swept out of the cave by the fast water current. You'll end up at the waterfall. You can either use an Invention Machine when you go up a level while still in the cave, or leave via the waterfall, to fix the Rusty Drill. o fix it, just combine it with a Clean at the inventors screen, and you will now have a refurbished drill that can bore through some walls!

      Treasures: Cure, Clean, 250gp, Cure Return to the Cave with your improved Drill and either use it to get rid of rocks blocking your way, or fall in the hole again. Work your way through the cave rooms fighting monsters until you get to either a room with several kids in it, or one where you can hear them crying. Use the Surprise Horn in the "crying" room to hear them tell you to go to another room with a blocked entrance. Use the Drill at the north end of the room with the kids to let them out (except Carl, although he's gone if you return). Leave through the north exit, and then the eastern south exit of the next screen (outside) to reveal the path to the western Cave Mouth area.

       Now go back to Rococo. Talk to people, including Nagisa and the Mayor. After you get $1000 from the Mayor, leave the room and return to catch Rose and the Mayor together on the couch! Talk to the Receptionist on your way out to be asked to bring Carl back to there. When you leave the building, Nagisa asks you to come home ASAP; you won't be able to leave Rococo until you do. Talk to your father when you get there; he mentions Flavon and leaves.

      Nagisa will now suggest that you search the cave again for Carl. If you go back to the cave entrance where the boxes of bombs where, the bombs are gone and a policeman thinks you did it! Go to the room where you heard the kids crying before (one with a lake in the middle). Now there's a hole with a rope in place of the water. Either fall through the hole, or climb the rope, to get down. To navigate the rope, move to it and then press up or down to climb it.

      Down here is your first Boss: Meta Crab. Move through a few rooms until you get to a Hacker blocking the way. Use the Surprise Horn where he can't see you to make him move out of the way long enough for you to move to the exit. If you don't get it right, he won't move at all, or he'll spot you, and you'll have to try again.

      Now you'll be captured by the Hackers, and find another prisoner. Go along with him when you talk, and you can go on the Trolley. Find a Scrap4 on the other end. Another room with monsters, then talk to the guard at the door to fight. Finally you get to Meta Crab's boiler and shower, press A at the boiler until the door opens. Go in and get the Key from the holes on the North wall. The screen you passed earlier will turn on when you leave, and somebody will think you're Meta Crab and tell you to keep looking for Tetron in the cave. Return to the guy with the ball and chain, then equip the Key, and he'll escape. He's Kotetsu, and you'll see him again later. Now go back to the door just west of the rope and lake. This time, there's a Hacker guard in front of it. Talk twice to fight him, then enter. There's another closed door, and an ominous opening with a skull on the floor. That's your hint to save the game, then enter for your first Boss fight; it's Meta Crab!

      I was able to beat Meta Crab using only one robot at level 9, just by shooting him a lot with a Shot 1 L 9. When fighting Meta Crab, ignore the small crabs, they're just there to be in the way. Had to use 1 Cure and 1 Clean (he can inflict Rust) during the combat, but I did it without changing robots or losing any. If this wimp is giving you trouble, go beat up lesser monsters for a while until you go up a level, then come back.

      After getting 20.0 Megs (probably going up a level) and $1000, follow Carl out to that closed door you passed just before fighting Meta Crab. Either way, you get Scrap1 and Carl gets the Litho. Leave the cave and return to Rococo.