Talk:Rance IV:Walkthrough

(NOTE - this is done with my own translations, so names, etc. are likely to be different from the translation that is being worked on)

CHAPTER 1
Look at town

Move, you'll go to the inn because Rance is hungry - lose Sill

Go to the mystery building (Youth Organization) and ask everything

Talk to Yocchan at the shop for dilivery sidequest (assaulting her will double prices, up to 8X) (talk to Reagan a few times to halve prices)

Talk to Cynthia for Alicia rescue quest

Can now leave town - do so, go to west Tower, enter

2nd floor:

North rooms each have a bronze hanny statue, needs a girl to touch - can come back with Sill and have her touch one of them to get 500 Gold)

Southwest room has a happy KyanKyan - gives 1990EXP (DO NOT ASSAULT! - you don't get the EXP) - enough for level 9

Return to town, can now rescue Sill.

Sleep at inn

Go to youth organization (can bully for gold, once a day)

Go to church, move to secret room

Get empty can and statue from SW room

300 Gold in chest in NW room

Place the can and statue on pedestals in side rooms in NE (door should unlock), retrieve the items from the pedestals and enter enter

In the final room, kill the monster (Okayu Fever) and the Magician will run away

Go to the previous room and save girl

Go back to town

CHAPTER 2
You will need a rubber glove soon, buy it from Yocchan

After sleeping, go to the church and ask about Purple

Go underground, go through device in SE

Will encounter chests in random encounters with Okayu Fever - contains fever antidote for Purple (will be used to cure her next time she comes)

First room down the S passage, knock on the door and assault the Science that comes - meet Hanny king [When you get her, bring Julia here - Gives her sword and shield skills lvl1 after a day of training]

(locked rooms going south, need believer key, betrayal key, illusion key - don't know how to get the believer/betrayal keys, illusion key is available much later)

In the bottom screen, go to W room to finish delivery to Happy Fukuda (Pinteru 486) [talk to Yocchan for half prices, and again to get another quest to deal with Hanny in West tower - can't do this yet]

East room chest has fire shield, can't enter S area yet

Return to top screen and go to the furthest NE room (Research core) and use the device

[First room on the left has 4 switches - don't seem to have any function]

Room further left spawns 6 enemies

Center room has hole (can see Ran through it for a bit, also a deep hole)

Bottom room has person - won't open for now (need naginata)

Last room has fire rod - use the rubber glove to get it (otherwise the character attempting to take it will lose all current EXP - Io won't do it)

Go to the East hall (somewhat difficult encounter), in the furthest SW room search desk in top left to read the memo

Go down stairs, check blue light in N room, poison gas in left tunnel

Go down stairs

NW room, take orb on table

Go back up and take left passage (the orb is used to neutralize the poison)

Chest in W room with power-up sword

North central room (ignore warning to pass - tough fight), girls body chained, examine

Go to church, talk to Cynthia, return and examine corpse

Go down a floor

Middle rooms, Bad dude (tough), examine and fight (damages all party members)

Bottom middle room, read diary on BR table

Go to SW room, examine TL bookshelf, go down stairs

Middle East room has clothes in it

E has mirror fragment A1

West middle has mirror fragment A2

Far left corridor, meet 3 girls in sequence (will encounter each 2 more time) (chest with second one has famous painting 8)

Go down stairs

Meet Muganda, right passage T, meet Hanny's with painting 9

Meet Muganda in BR room

See him dance in the three north rooms - enter the SW room from right door

(before continuing, you may want to remove any items from Io you want to keep)

Get E-Key from chest in S room

CHAPTER 3
Move to grass plain, look at surroundings, go to underground entrance

Go to N, W, S rooms (scarecrow farmers), then go to NE square in center room

Go to N room and take a potato and retrun to center farmer, then W for a rice ball, then S for a mandrake and return, then sleep for the night

Return again, go to bottom middle square in center room, you'll have a battle, return to tent and use lodgings

Go back to the center farmer, go to S room, examine the grating in the waterway and get Ricks helmet back, return to the farmer and he'll finally give you the key to the storeroom in the east - (before going downstairs, get another riceball from the W room)

Bottom path - nuclear missle launch botton in bottom left, big monster in middle top room, hirara alloy in bottom. Room through W the door (which Rick can't pass) has fight with painting 11 (will automatically retreat back to Rick after a few rounds because you can't damage the fairy-thing)

Go back to the room and press botton to lower piston thing - unlocks the door in NW

Top path - (E/N room needs love key), go to left door and give the Hanny a riceball, go to top room, step on plate a few times to open chest with W-key in it

CHAPTER 4
Go down through the church (make sure you have at least 1 Seirogan)

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Can go to the Hanny King (first room down the South passage) and leave Julia therefor training)

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Go through the third teleport device (food core)

Go down to where the other group fell down - give the Hanny a Seirogan this time and go down the stairs (so he'll block to N passage - theres nothing you can do there)

(you can press the nuclear missle launch button now, doesn't have any affect)

East room with door - chest with mirror fragment A4

Middle room - Kanami - talking to her returns you to town (nothing else here for now - Leila and maria are trapped in giant Puryo's you can't kill yet)

Go back down to the teleporter rooms - have an encounter that opens the next teleporter and gives you Merim

You'll return to the inn and can now rearrange your party

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Leave Rick and enter the town streets until you run into Bell again for an H-scene, then go ask about it at the youth org for another at night

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With Kanami:

Go to the west tower, 2nd floor, West passage - kill the Hanny for Yocchan (further reduced prices)

Go down through the church to the teleporter area and walk out on the balcony like area overlooking the tower to get a naginata.

Go through the fourth portal (research core), and go to the middle room on the left and examine the hole to get a diamond

Go down to the south room (you'll pass the naginata through), examine dresser

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Go to teleporer area, take 2nd one (air defence core)

Model T33 shield, Muramasa in random battle

West room, MIGs and chest with Mirror fragment A4 - combining A mirror gives 2000 gold

East, same, chest has painting 1

Head down the passasge, return there after a day and pay him all your money or kill him to get a picture (possibly not killing him will let you meet him again at some point, I don't know)

South room has a high level goddess, first conversation will set Rance EXP to 0, then you can offer Gems to her (Diamond, Ruby, Emerald) to increase the max level of one character by 15

North room, "giant" monster

Go downstairs, SW room has three buttons/plungers, hit right two first and take north passage to get Love key, then hit all buttons and take south passage for famous painting 5

[you can now go back to the food core, level 3 and enter the to northern rooms. E one has strong spray (increase weapon power by 3), W has tough spray (increase armor strength by 3) - used in equip menu]

Go to the side rooms near the down stairs and place the items on the pedestals (same ones you used for the Okayu fever at the end of chapter 1)

Go downstairs

East room, unrivaled strong man sword (60 power, 100 stamina)

NE, fight with gourmand and Famous painting 6

Go West, stuff will happen and you're back in town

Go back to the second level and enter the NW area

Enter the middle West room and fight Sanakia

Go towards the end and pee in the lake, fight the battle, and go down stairs

NW room, Puryo Slayer

NE room, west tower key

Can't procede down stairs because too cold

Can now go free Leila and Maria (bottom of food core, SE and N rooms, Rance needs the Puryo Slayer sword equipped) - Maria walks away

Return to town, go to church, go to youth org and talk, then back to church

Go and enter the tower in town

Go downstairs

SW room is fight with course armor

Immediate north room has fight with Death God coat

Go up to floor two, can walk through the wall directly south of the upstairs, S room has a tough fight with cursed armor in the room chest (32, dark)

Go up a bunch and meet Maria

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Call for Maria at night for quest - with her:

Go to food core, 3F, South middle room for Hirara alloy

Go to the research core, 3F, E room, examine shelves on bottom left for hot glass

call at night again for a big upgrade (+100 damage) to her weapon

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Keep going up

Second floor has trap holes (marked as .): DX X.X. XXX. XX.X XU

On floor 6

Door to downstairs room is lock, surrounding rooms all have a button next to a circular thing on the floor, the button rotates it. Rotate them all so the red dots are all pointing to the center

Go up to the top room, listen/don't listen doesn't matter, afterwards, call Ferris and Willis and talk again

[Can come back with Athena 2 after calling her at night, and then again]

Go to west tower and head up to the fifth floor

Take the SE stairs up to floor 7, SE room has Mirror fragment B3, continue on the path, last room has heating pad - can now return and continue in Air defense core

Back in the cold room, bring Kanami to the North section of the circular passage for Famous painting 7

Continue down two floors and go to the end of the passage (second chance for the three girls from chapter 2) Need to find cold medicine

Have Merim in your party and go to the teleporter area, and enter the main tower

Various things in the surrounding rooms - Painting 10 in right, shit in top right (appears useless), Bottom left has three pedestals, place a sword in each (any kind, can't remove) and go to bottom right room to get a Black Sword (power equal to half of the sum of those you place in the other pedestals, 10 stamina required, dark element) - may want to wait for this

Teleporter goes to town

Down Stairs

Random battle drops mirror fragment D1-4, collecting all and using gives strong spray

NE room has difficult fight (one of two chances to assault humming, other is in the NW room), Mirror fragment C4

SE room has crystal with Alicia (can't do anything yet)

Top middle rooms: energy storage pillars, nothing special yet

NW room has difficult fight (other chance for humming), Mirror fragment C1

SW has empty spher

Down stairs: Bebetar gaurd, the number you choose is how many you fight (10 has a chest with Bebetar costume - 10 defence, normal clothes)

Down more stairs: the (female) champion Replica will stop you

Down middle stairs: control room (Nothing yet) and teleporter to a new area - take it to the center tower

Can go out the bottom to unlock the door and be able to enter here from the field

W bot room, Ralga 1st fight (total of 5 fights with her)

E top, Ralga 2

E bot, Ralga 3, candy in battle chest, mirror fragment B4 in room chest

W top, Ralga 4, strong spray in battle chest

Can now find Cherunen powder in random battle (to buy Yocchan item shop - free stuff!, but only 100? items can be carried)

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Now is probably a good time to go get the Black Sword (near the control room) by using 2 gold swords and the strongman sword

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Upstairs, go to middle room and meet Shizuka, can't proceed for now but she'll give you the cold medicine for the dragon

Go through West Corridor to meet Ralga again - strong spray in battle

Return to the bottom of the air defense core for S key

CHAPTER 5
Some good new items have appeared in Yocchan's bargain bin, check them out

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After getting the Iron Hanny key, go to the teleporter area, and go all the way down to the South door in the lower screen

Go to the West room, talk to the kid and accept the challenge, go to the east room

Need to assault all of them in one battle - can be fairly difficult since Rance's light attack does 5 damage, and you need to get them down to 2 HP (after getting Shizuka may be a good time to do this - use Kanami as a shield since she can dodge most of the attacks, and Shizuka's weapon may help being weak and light-element)

When succesful, go back to the West room and get PTTP medicine (usable on Sill at night)

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Have Maria and Athena 2

You can now go past where Replica was - down by the control room, continue down and you'll meet her

Go down

SW room has mirror fragment B1, S room has light rod, SE room has frozen sword

In the West portion, the two southern doors need a certain girl to open them - Maria for the left, and Athena 2 for the right - left has mirror fragment C2 and right has mirror fragment C3

Can now put together the C mirror, get Lionette

Take the top left teleporter to champion core

(In the East passages, you can only exit from the same corridor you enter from (unkown if anything special there)

Go down stairs

Find Sharp, Epson, Fujitsu and NEC keys in random battle (some may only appear later on)

West side:

South room has poison jar, have Ferris check it out (get Ruby for high Level Goddess)

North room has Chai, wants you to defeat Atlanta and gives you the code for the first/West orange elevator - leave the room and meet Atlanta, who has captured Kanami and Leila (whether in your party or not)

NW room now has Kanami mirror 2, SW (need Maria to get there) has Kanami mirror 1

Counting the East rooms from top left:

2 - 1000 gold

6 - mirror fragment B2 - can now use B mirrors, get small bow

11 - Leila mirror 1

Battles in 9 and 12

3rd floor

West rooms:

1 - insulator armor

East rooms:

1 - (need sharp key) Course armor 3

2 - (need Epson key) Angels raiment

4 - (need Fujitsu key) Experimental T34D shield

5 - (need NEC key) 3000 gold

6 - Kanami mirror 4

Can't go to the SW room without "Nekotama charm" or you die

4th floor

NW room has a donation box thing, examine and put 1000 gold in (required?)

SW room has famous painting 2 and 3

S room has Leila mirror 2

NE room has Hanny shop - buy Nekotama charm - can now go to SW room on floor 3 and get Kanami mirror 3 (and get her back)

Equipment being sold:

Super sword: 35 power, 18 stamina, normal

Tokichiro's bow: 20, 10, 3 range, normal

Full shield: 20 defence, normal

Down to 5th floor

NW room - fake magicians clothes

W - Leila mirror 3

Need Shizuka to continue - Head to the big tower and ascend with no one but Maria (and Sill) in your party and Rance wearing the Fake magicians clothes - you can now pass the barrier

In the immediate room you can disable the barrier

Go upstairs

NW room has no knob - step into all the small rooms in order: Blue (4), Red(1), Purple(3), Green(6), Light Blue(5), Yellow(2) - has Emerald for High Level Goddess

Next floor, NW room has quiz, answers are: Kawa (may be changed in translation...), Fujitsu, Tokyo, 4, System 3.5 - in the NE room at the same spot is now a Fire blade

Shizuka is in the North room - go back to the magic barrier in the champion core with her and Merim

Room W of barrier has Leila mirror 4

South rooms all have a landing craft that can't be used yet (need Merim to know)

Room at end of long hall has sleeping pill (used on Leila at night)

Return to Chao's room on level 2

Go down the East elevator to level 5

NW room - famous painting 4

SE room, step on top "button" 3 times

E room, examine the girl twice

Fight Atlanta in NE room, then return to Chao

Go down to floor 6

Go to the East room

CHAPTER 6 / Final Chapter
Go down to the lower control room (down the side stairs in the center tower, then up the center stair)

Go in the command room, survive and automatically retreat

Corner rooms all have battles:

SE room has Lyonette R (armor, 38)

NE room has clothes (clothes, 20)

SW room has sun sword (sword, 23, 10, fire)

NW room has frozen spear (sword, 15, 8, 3 range, cold)

Go to the research core, to the Mid-west room (with the hole and peek-hole you saw Ran)

Take the portal back to the command area, and go to the 8 rooms there and above to detroy the pillars (there are a few Kamikaze and Magicians in some of these fights - only chance to get)

After the destroying the last one, go rescue Alicia (SE room on the same level as the top set)

Return to town, then go back to Upsilon in the lower command room

After all the battles, go to the 5th floor (W elevator) of the champion core and check all the SW rooms