Borneo and Erik become available to move into the houses you build in the Georama area in chapter 5.
Butterfly Forest: Elements
If looking for Elements to build up your weapons or to build your towns, revisit Butterfly Forest. Before entering the level press Triangle to see what Elements can be found there. Its an easy way to look for the particular Element you need. Its also a good way to level up your characters.
Cedric
As the game progresses, Cedric begins to get more parts for the Ridepod in every new chapter.
Duplicate Lures
Once you have a lure rod and two two of the same lure (available in chapter four after you've recruited Olive), you can duplicate it as many times as you want to. just equip the lure rod and a lure. Then press R2 so you will have Monica displayed instead of Max. Now select the same lure and equip it as many times as you want, it will seem nothing will have happened, but you will now have multiple lures equiped and still have the one in the menu. once you remove the lures you can have up to 999 lures (don't go over 999 or it will reset the number to whatever you had before you did it) then you can sell them all for a lot of money.
Easy items
To get health and battle items easily, go around and collect more people to put on the train. Then go on the train and make them join your party. Use them to make things such as Cheese, Roasted Chicken and Improved Bombs. To swindle some free items, get Polly and/or Ferdinand to accompany you on your journey. When you are on the train, add them to your party. Press Triangle and go to character. Go to them and use their ability to gain free items. Parn is also a good character to get. Put him in your party, and if your better character dies, use his special ability to leave a dungeon for free.
Easy level up
Take one of your strong characters (i.e., most health, strongest weapon) but not the Ridepod, and go to a dungeon that you can get minimal damage done to you. Kill the enemy with your strong person, and immediately afterwards, press L3 to switch characters or R3 to switch to the Ridepod. This is especially useful when trying to build up the Ridepod since he loses fuel easily. This makes it so he does not move or get hurt.
Enable the Debug Mode Camera in Dungeons
When you're in a normal map - i.e. a Georama - use R2 to go into first-person mode, then go to any dungeon floor by entering the menu and using Move. In the dungeon, immediately go to the menu and equip the fishing rod and exit the menu. Just like that you have glitched the camera to be much like the debug mode camera, in that you can go at any angle desired; pausing and unpausing will change the camera distance. Unequipping the rod will rectify this state.
Enlist The Mayor
At the town of Sindain, head to the mayor's office. There the mayor will tell you he forgot the combination to his safe. Keep talking to him and he will tell you that it's on the same day as Claire's birthday, etc. Select the choice that allows you to put in the combination and pick 1221.
Fish Cloning
This can be done once you have an aquarium and any desired fish to clone. Once you have the fish to clone, assure it is in the first slot of your inventory outside of the aquarium. Pick it up with Square, then repeatedly use Select to sort your items menu until the aquarium is in that first slot. Then press Circle and Square in that order - you'll still be holding the fish, but a clone of it will also be in the aquarium! This can be used to clone fish to cook for healing, to sell for money (though the Lure glitch is faster), and to just making breeding a bit easier.You can also more easily win Fishing Contests as you only need to catch a big fish and clone it twice as opposed to catching three separate big fish.
Fish race stats
Stamina: Determines how fast your fish can go. It increases by 1 point when a fish is feed a Evy.
Tenacity: Determines how badly the fish will try to win. It increases by 1 point when a fish is fed a Prickly.
Endurance: How long your fish can stay at top speed. It increases by 1 point when a fish is fed a Petit Fish.
Boost: How fast your fish will start off at the beginning of the race. It increases by 1 point when a fish is fed a Carrot. The gender of the fish will change
Weight and Length: These stats do not affect how your fish will do in the race.
Power: This does not affect races. It is used in the Battle Tank.
Julia Glitch: Chapter 5 Boss
During the first part of the Chapter 5 boss battle at the end of Mt. Gundor, while the boss runs at you and while Julia is one of your support characters, have Julia confuse the boss. The boss will glitch, and be stuck running in place, and will remain stuck until you use an attack that knocks him back. A noteworthy example of an attack lacking this knockback are the Machine Gun Arms on the Ridepod; using such attacks, you can quickly eliminate the boss's health without any risk to yourself.
Julia Glitch: Duplicating Self-Sacrificing Enemy Rewards
When Julia is a support character, defeat an enemy that normally is capable of killing itself - such as the Bomber Heads in Mt. Gundor that can explode to hurt you. Once defeated, before it disappears, activate Julia's ability. From here, you can do this twice more (provided Julia has enough energy), though you have to let the enemy in question kill itself since from this point onward you cannot directly deal damage to the monster. Each time the monster dies, it will drop money and perhaps items, allowing you to duplicate the rewards you earn.
Monster Badges
Beast Badge: Sewer rat, throw gift capsule with Cheese X 3
Windup Badge: Bomberhead, Throw a bomb at it
Aquatic Badge: Froggy, throw gift capsule with Batton X 3
Flora Badge: Himmara, throw gift capsule with Jurak Mall
Magical Badge: Statue, throw gift capsule with Sturdy rock X 3
Darkling Badge: Spider Lady, throw gift capsule with Gold bar X 3
Reptile Badge: Wind Gemron, throw gift capsule with Wind Element X 3
Spirit Badge: Pixie, throw gift capsule with Gooey Peach X 3
Undead Badge: Skeleton(CH 2), Throw H. Water
Card Badge: Diamond Card, throw gift capsule with Diamond X 3
Sun Badge: Scoop level 8, Get from Donny
Moon Badge: Scoop level 7, Get from Donny
Name-change tickets
Use a name-change ticket to change the name of any weapon. The trick is, for instance, take an extra wrench you have, change the name to Island King, and you have an extremely powerful sword for Monica very early in the game.
Recruit Claire
Claire is located in Palm Brinks in front of the Coffee shop. She is afraid of monsters and getting dirty to you need to show her a very rare flower. That flower is located in the Rainbow Butterfly Wood in the bosses floor. Get the Scoop: Lafrescia Stem and give her the picture. She will then join you.
Recruit Donny
Donny is in the underground channel entrance. He collects coins and is waiting for two specific coins to finish off his collection. If you give him a Dark Coin and an Indestructible Coin, he joins your party. To get these coins, you will need to have the Tailoring shop appear in the future in Sindain. They are 1500 Gilda a piece.
Recruit Ferdinand
Ferdinand is Maximillian's chef which means he is Max's house. To get him, you will need to give him a Roasted Chestnut. You can find Roasted Chestnuts in the Rainbow Butterfly Wood.
Recruit Gordon
Gordon lives in Palm Brinks in Maximillian's front yard. To get him to become an ally, you must give him Holy Water to help a tree.
Recruit Parn
Give him the gold paint and Parn'll join the party. To get the paint, you must first get the tailoring shop to appear in Sindain in the future. You can then go up to the golden eggs (in the future) and get the golden paint. You can also buy it in the tailoring shop (in the future) for 1000 gilda. Then give the gold paint to Parn and he makes Julia come alive and you aquire both Parn and Julia.
Recruit Parn
Give him the gold paint and Parn'll join the party. To get the paint, you must first get the tailoring shop to appear in Sindain in the future. You can then go up to the golden eggs (in the future) and get the golden paint. You can also buy it in the tailoring shop (in the future) for 1000 gilda. Then give the gold paint to Parn and he makes Julia come alive and you aquire both Parn and Julia.
The Zelmite Mine
After you beat the Dark Element,The mayor will expant the railroad.However,the train doesn't have enough Zelmite to go that far.So the mayor has(of corse)you go to Zelmite Mine to get some Zelmite.It has about 35 floors and about 4 dead ends. Plus,every "dead end" you have to fight some gold monsters that have extra strength.
(NOTE1: You get Monica back on the 5th floor)
(NOTE2: I heard that Flotsam somehow comes back)
View 3D Item Models
Normally, viewing the 3D item model for items (bar special cases like equipment) is limited to the game's debug menu. However, if you have a Lure Rod and are willing to discard it, you can bypass this restriction. When in the item menu, pull up the stats for the Lure Rod, and then discard the Lure Rod: its stats will still be displayed onscreen however. Pick up an item and carry it to the spot where the Lure Rod was. While hovering over that slot, press Square twice, then Circle; you will have done this correctly if the Lure Rod's name is replaced by the item's name. Then equip any weapon or article of clothing and you will see the item's model. Do note that this only works one time and to do it again you'll need to procure another Lure Rod. Note that trying to display outfits crashes the PS2 version, and often does so for the PS4 port as well albeit with varying effects.
