I'm taking part in a small discussion about it on the GameSpot forums, but I wanted to expand it to here. For those of you who have played Dragon Quest V (I'm talking about the DS remake, although if you've played other versions it would still be applicable).

Please ignore the post below if you are concerned about spoilers for chapter 3: I am discussing a cheat and some pro action replay codes.

Hello again,

I thought I would post a question about DQIV DS, Chapter 3, Torneko Taloon's (I'll say Taloon for now because it is how I remember him from DWIV NES) chapter.  I am currently towards the end of the chapter, where Taloon is running his own shop in Endor.  I have used the 'store cheat,' where I used the money that I got as reward from the king for filling his order to buy Cautery swords, selling them for added profit at his own shop, then buying more, selling them, etc.  Now Taloon is at level 12, and I want to kill metal slimes in the cave of the Silver Statuette to gain levels.  I found an action replay code that claims to cause the character to land critical hits on every hit, so that I can catch a few before they (almost always) run away.  Unfortunately, there seems to be a problem with the code, and it doesn't work.  Does anyone know what could be the problem with the code?  Obviously it would seem that the code syntax, as I found it, is incorrect, but I also wonder if it is indeed correct, and simply won't work in Torneko's chapter.  I was given the reference for a site called kodewerx.net, but I was unable to access it due to some MIME/compatibility issues.  I will post the code below, to see if anyone knows the problem and how to fix it, but also if indeed it does work, to allow others to see it.  By the way, in my travels, I have collected a bunch of Action Replay codes from the 'net, so if anyone wants me to post them here in this community, I will do so.  Just let me know.

Always Land Critical Hits

12019068  0000E012
120190C8 0000E02B

I'm willing to bet it could be a typo between the 8/B characters or something like that.

In case anyone is wondering why it is I would use the Replay codes, being that DQIV is such an easy game, it is not that I *could* not do it without them.  I've played DWIV on NES start to finish, and I tend to use the codes as needed to override something really tedious that doesn't necessarily add to the fun of the game (ie casino tokens, despite having a winning strategy posted earlier with awesome help, take a huge amount of time for one to amass *huge* quantities).  And hey, sometimes I like to cheat a bit.  Obviously stuff like infinite gold, max health/level/experience are going to really take away from the game, for the purist at least.  But I digress.

Does anyone have any ideas/suggestions?  Also let me know if I should post the Action Replay codes.  I will try to get them down before I'm off back to home in Calgary, tomorrow.

Cheers!!

--IanFrederick