Full Metal Alchemist: Dual Sympathy Hagane no Renkinjutsushi: Dual Sypathy By Chaosdragon13 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Index: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Menu Translation - About saving - Game Controls - How to Unlock Everything - Hidden Alchemy Books - Common Questions - Final Comments --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Menu Translation: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Main Menu 1) Continue(if no game is saved it will appear as question marks) 2) New Game a) Story Mode i) Normal Mode ii) Hard Mode* b) Character Mode* i) Normal Mode ii) Hard Mode 3) Omake* (you may start with parts of this but I don't remember) a) Media Library b) SOund Library i) BGM ii) Voice c) Character Profiles d) Character Clock e) Foutune f) Gallery 4) Mini Games* (list goes right of the first game, and I also don't remember if you start with any of these) a) Arm wrestling game (not sure what the exact translation is) b) Trap c) Survival d) Armstrong breaking wood game (again not sure of exact translation) e) Flame VS Metal f) Scratch g) Poke Poke Homunculus 5) Options a) Menu Character Configuration i) Edward ii) Alphonse iii) Mustang* iv) Winery* v) Armstrong* vi) Gates of Truth* b) Button Configuration i) A:attack / B: jump ii) B:attack / A: jump iii) Set Configuration and Return (or something like that) c) Sound Configuration i) Set Configuration and Return d) Data Clear (options are listed left to right) i) Yes ii) No Pause Screen: 1) Continue Game 2) Return to Menu (*: Things to be unlocked, everything under this menu also has to be unlocked) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- About Saving: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The game has auto saving, so there is no need to turn saving on. It saves after every level you complete when Winery comes on screen. But be aware not every time she comes on the screen is it saving, sometimes it only tells you that you have unlocked something. Your best bet to be sure it saved is to wait until after you fougth a boss and see her. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Game Controls: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Button Controls: A/Y - Attack B/X - Jump (these change depending on what you set them to) D-pad - Move around Start - Pause / Skip dialogue once you have seen it already Select - Nothing L - Nothing R - Nothing Touch Screen Controls: Alchemy Symbol - Bring up sub menu to change alchemy attacks Bottom Left Corner - Alchemy attack Bottom Right Corner - Alchemy defense Touch Screen (sub menu): Alchemy Symbol - Return to game Books - Change alchemy attack and return to game Using Alchemy: In order to use alchemy simply tap either the bottom left or right corner depending on which type you would like to use. Attacks range from things like Ed's cannon to Mustang's fire. Defense puts up a wall for which enemies and projectiles can't pass through. After a given time the wall disappears. After defeating enemies they will leave behind a blue orb which will slowly get smaller and disappear if it is not picked up. Collecting this orb when it is full sized will give you three red symbols on the bottom screen, collecting them at smaller sizes gives you two or one. You can have a maximum of 24 floating around down there but what are they used for? If you continue to press on the screen when you use alchemy you will power it up by using up a given number of symbols. The attack will power up once if it's not the respective character's attack and twice if it is. A fully powered attack will do damage to the whole screen. The defense alchemy can always be powered up twice and will create two or three walls in a row depending on the power level. Note: You do not need the red symbols in order to use alchemy, only to power it up to higher levels. This kind of makes powering up the defense alchemy pointless since you can make as many walls as you want anyway. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- How to Unlock Everything: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Character Mode: Beat Story Mode Hard Mode: Beat Story Mode Alchemy Books 3-4: I believe you get them about half way through story mode. Alchemy Books 5-6: Beat Character Mode with the character it belongs to Alchemy Books 7-8: Explained further down this FAQ Media Library Scenes 1-10: Beath Story Mode Media Library Scenes 11-12: Beat Character Mode with certain people, I it is with Mustang and either Scar or Al Sound Library Voices: Beat Character Mode with the respective character Character Profiles: You get some for beating Story Mode and others for beating Charater Mode with different people Character Clocks: You may get some from Story Mode, but I think most are gotten from beating Character Mode. Just beat Character mode with everyone and you will unlock all of the clocks Gallery Picture 1-1: Clear the game in any way eight times and select the squares at the end of the game Gallery Picture 1-2: Play FMA DS with one of the two FMA GBA games in the bottom game port Gallery Picture 1-3: Play FMA DS with the other FMA GBA game in the bottom game port Gallery Picture 2-1: Beat Character Mode as Ed without continuing Gallery Picture 2-2: Beat Character Mode as Al without continuing Gallery Picture 2-3: Beat Character Mode as Mustang without continuing Gallery Picture 3-1: Beat Character Mode as Armstrong without continuing Gallery Picture 3-2: Beat Character Mode as Scar without continuing Gallery Picture 3-3: Beat Character Mode as Izumi without continuing Mini Games 1-5: I think you just beat parts of Story Mode Mini Games 6-7: Found in the the wood outside Dante's Mansion. One is as far down and right as you can go and the other one isn't too far from where you start I don't think. Just search the whole place. They will show up on the screen as a small sparkle. When walk over the sparkle it will be picked up and when you leave the screen Winery will show up telling you that the mini game as been unlocked. Menu Characters: I don't remember exactly but it has to do with beating a combination of Story Mode and Character Mode certain people. Silver Clocks: Beat Character Mode on hard with any number of continues ans you will get a silver clock next to that character's name on the character select screen. Harder Difficulties in some mini games: Beat the previous difficulty and afterwards the harder one will be available. There are no more than three difficulties for games that have them. The quickest way to unlock everything: Beat Story Mode. Then beat Character Mode with every character on Hard Mode using no continues. Then beat any mode once on any difficulty with any number of continues to get the last piece of the the first picture in the gallery. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hidden Alchemy Books: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Playing through character mode with certain characters you will notice that in the laboratory there is a wall trap that does not go off when you walk by it. When you come across this, walk up to it and hold up on the D-pad for a few seonds. You will see a small alchemy symbol flash and then the door will open and bring you into a secret room where you will see a sparkle on the ground as you did with the two mini games. Pick up the sparkle, leave the room, and Winery will tell you that you ahve unlocked one of the two books. The book you receive depends on who you went into the room with. If you go there with Al you will receive Margoh's book and if you go there with Mustang you will receive Kimblee's book. Using Kimblee's book causes your next attack to have a small explosion accompanying it, which causes the enemy more damage. The more you power it up the larger the explosion, the more damage it does, and teh more enemies you can catch in one attack. Using Margoh's boos causes you to gain some health back. The more you power it up the more health you regain. Also, for some reason the more you power this book up the quicker you are able to use it again, which is just the opposite of every other alchemy attack. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Common Questions: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- I won't include too much here since finding out how to get around things is really where half of the gameplay is. But these are a few of the small things that people may ask or get stuck on. Q: How do I get this thing to work where it shows me a bunch of dots on the botom screen? A: Tap the dots as they flash on the screen. There is no need to draw lines to them. Q: How do I get rid of these battery things that are in my way? A: Hint only; take note of their and match it Q: How do I get passed these spikes/fire? A: Hint only; find something high to step on Q: umm... whats this bouncing cow? A: That's extra health. The cow is used by the author of the manga so I guess they thought it would make for a good item. Q: What does that message say after I hit the cow a bunch of times? A: It is something to the extent of, "Nothing happened. It's only a dead cow." Q: How do I beat such and such a boss? A: I am not telling anything specific, but I will say that two bosses in story mode are endurance fights. Just survive long enough and their health will slowly go down. Also for other fights watch for you defense alchemy button to change to a different action. Q: How do I stop the fox from eating the fish in Survival? A: Tap him with the stylus and he will fly off the screen. Q: What's with these stone heads, they just keep coming back? A: After two hits they turn into Armstrong heads. At this point use an alchemy attack on them and the ones you break won't come back. Q: What do I do in this room with the pillars? It just keeps repeating itself. A: Hint only; Look for a small difference in one of them and walk up to that pillar. It is not the broken one. Q: I heard you can unlock Hughs and Hawkeye as playable characters. How do you do that? A: If only it was true. But unfortunantly the only unlockable things in the game are the ones in the unlockable section of this FAQ. Anything else you hear about is a lie. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Final Comments: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Well, that's about everything. All the other things in the game you should be able to figure out on your own. I don't want to make the game too easy since that would take the fun out of it and would make the game incredibly short. That's why I didn't include a level by level walkthrough. Thanks to: Hiromu Arakawa for creating FMA Bandi for making the game Nintendo for making the system All names and such are copyright of their respectice companies. Feel free to spread this FAQ, as there is not much information about this game out there in english. Just give credit where its due. Any other questions can be posted on the gameFAQ board or e-mailed to me at superurbie@hotmail.com.