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D I S C L A I M E R S _______________________________________________________________________________ I want to start out by saying that I'm allowing anybody and everybody to use and/or host this guide. But ONLY on these conditions: 1. This guide is not to be altered in any way, shape, or form 2. I'm given proper credit for my work 3. This guide is NOT used to make any sort of profit As long as those guide lines are followed, then... cool. As of now, my FAQs and Guides can be found at the following places: www.Gamefaqs.com www.supercheats.com www.neoseeker.com Please note, that even though I am not a lazy person, I am a busy one. So Gamefaqs will be the only place I submit updates. If you want to make sure you're viewing the most up to date version of my work, then please check there. Nothing against the other sites, as I fully enjoy them as well, its just easier for me this way. Finally, please don't email me and ask for the ROM. If it does exist, then use google to find it for your self. _______________________________________________________________________________ 2. W H Y ? _______________________________________________________________________________ I know this is a rather bare bones FAQ and unlike what I usually write, however, when I first got this game I wanted to know all the different ways to obtain duel points as well as how many you could get by doing what. Eventually, some of my friends obtained this game and wanted to know the same information, so I handed them what little I knew. And soon I found more people on the internet that also wanted to know the same thing, so I finally just decided to take what I have, figure out the rest, and organize it into something that people may get some use out of. So hopefully, this guide will help you get an idea of the best way to obtain duel points so that you will be able to obtain all the cards and fully experience this game. _______________________________________________________________________________ 3. W H A T A R E D U E L P O I N T S _______________________________________________________________________________ Duel points are the currency of this game. They are used for everything from buying cards (singles, sets, packs and decks) to entering tournaments. They are obtained by doing a variety of different things, but mainly are gained by dueling other characters in the game and by winning tournaments. In order to fully play everything in this game, you will need to eventually obtain a very sizeable amount of duel points. So it is important to get as many as you can, when you can. _______________________________________________________________________________ 4. G E N E R A L D U E L S _______________________________________________________________________________ At the start of the game, most of your duels won't be anything special. They will be against the people (and animals O_o) you find on the street. After the duel, you will be awarded points on various outcomes that happened during the battle. This section will tell what outcomes you can obtain points by, and how to judge how many points you will receive accordingly. IN THE 4 MAIN DUELING AREAS: Total damage inflicted on opponent - 1 duel point awarded for every 100 points of damage inflicted on the enemy (Including direct attacks, spell/trap cards and monster effect) Total damage inflicted in battle - 1 duel point awarded for every 100 points of damage inflicted on the enemy (NOT including direct attacks, spell/traps or monster effect) Number of monsters destroyed in battle - 20 duel points awarded for every monster you defeat in battle. Monsters destroyed due to magic, trap or monster effect do not yield duel points Victory Conditions - 50 points for depleting opponents life points to zero - 50 points by winning with Last Turn. - 100 points for decking out your opponent - 1,000 points for winning by obtaining all 5 pieces of Exodia - 1,000 points for spelling out FINAL with Destiny Board - 1,000 points after 20 turns have passed after activating Final Countdown Number of turns - If the Duel lasts 40 turns or more, the points received are Halved. - If the duel lasts 3 or 4 turns, the points received are doubled. - If the duel lasts 2 turns, the points received are mutliplied by 5 - If the duel is over in 1 turn, the points received are muliplied by 10!! After you have beaten the Nationals Tournament, a new area is accessible for dueling. It is labled as ??? on your stage select screen, and judging by the characters dialogue in there, is probably what the show dubs as "The Shadow Zone". Regardless of what it is, dueling in this area is a little bit different than it was in the initial four locations. First off, there are no restrictions on what cards can and can't be played. So you can build a deck with any card and with as many of any card that you wish. Secondly, as the opponents here use stronger (and cheesier) decks than your probably used too, the points awarded for general duels has changed accordingly. IN THE ??? AREA: Total damage inflicted on opponent - 20 duel points for every 100 points of damage inflicted on the enemy (including direct attacks, spell/trap cards and monster effect) Total Damage infliced in battle - 20 duel points for every 100 points of damage inflicted on opponent NOT including direct attacks, spell/traps or monster effect) Number of monsters destroyed in battle - 20 points for each monster you defeat in battle. Monsters destroyed due to spell, trap or monster effects don't count toward this Victory conditions - 250 points for depleting opponents life points to zero - 250 points for winning with Last Turn - 500 points for decking out your opponent - 5000 points for winning by drawing exodia - 5000 points for winning by spelling out FINAL with destiny board. - 5000 points after 20 turns have passed after activating Final Countdown Number of turns - If the Duel lasts 40 turns or more, the points received are Halved. - If the duel lasts 3 or 4 turns, the points received are doubled. - If the duel lasts 2 turns, the points received are mutliplied by 5 - If the duel is over in 1 turn, the points received are muliplied by 10!! _______________________________________________________________________________ 5. S P E C I A L D U E L S _______________________________________________________________________________ After certain conditions are met (usually after obtaining a certain card or buidling a certain type of deck) characters on the street will occaisionally challange you to a special duel with certain handicaps. These can range from a match with Solomen (Grandpa) where the only way to win is by drawing Exodia, to a Luck duel with Joey where you have to win by using cards dependant on "luck". In these special duels, you are sometimes "given" a special deck to play with, and other times you have to use a deck you constructed yourself. Depending on whom you have a special duel with, one of two things will happen when you win. You will either be given a large amount of a certain type of cards. (165 water related cards for beating Makos O_O) or you will be given 700 duel points. This can sometimes be advantageous to you. The Joey duel is relatively quick and easy, and you usually wouldn't earn that many duel points against him anyways. However, it can sometimes hinder your progress as well. Normally when you win by Exodia, you'd get one-thousand duel points, but in the special duel against Grandpa, its cut down to the 700. Even though these duels are fun, and sometimes challanging, due to inconsistancy of them occuring and the limitation on what you can receive for winning, I wouldn't reccomend these for serious point accumulation. _______________________________________________________________________________ 6. T O U R N A M E N T S _______________________________________________________________________________ Tournaments are the fastest way to way to accumulate duel points in this game. Some tournaments also have added restrictions to the cards you're allowed to use ON TOP of the weekly restrictions you already have. Also, as opposed to the one round duel that occurs in general street dueling, tournaments are usualy best two out of three rounds. Tournaments also consist of you having to defeat multiple oppoents (obviously) over the course of a couple days, at one opponent a day. So expect to have to duel over the course of days before you obtain the final pay off. Thankfully, your usually rewarded with duel points after each match, thus you can improve your deck, if need be, before the next match takes place. Here is a list of all the Tournaments and what you win after each match. TOURNAMENTS Weekend Tournament - 300 points winning saturday duel - 700 points for winning sunday duel KC Tournament - 1000 points for first match. - 2000 points for second match - 3000 points for third match - 4000 points for 4th match (quarter finals) - 5000 points for 5th match (Semi Finals) - 10,000 points for winning the finals Limited Tournament - 1000 points for winning the first duel - 1000 points for winning the second duel - 1000 points for winning the third duel - 1000 points for winning the fourth duel - 1000 points for winning the fifth duel - 1000 points for winning the sixth duel - 7000 points for winning the seventh and final duel Regionals Tournament - 2000 points. Only after winning all 3 matches Championship Tournament - 30,000 Points!!! Survival Tournament - 100 duel points for beating the first opponent - 200 for the 2nd - 400 for the 3rd - 800 for the 4th - 1,600 for the 5th - 3,200 for the 6th - For the 7th duel, you points are calculated as if it were a regular duel in the ??? area plus your remaining Life points are converted to Duel points. Dark Survival Tournament - Duel Points received equal your remaining life points multiplied by the number of opponents you faced *CAUTION* - If you lose, your current duel points are divided by the number of opponents you faced _______________________________________________________________________________ 7. R E C O M E N D E D W A Y S T O O B T A I N D P _______________________________________________________________________________ Though I encourage you to play this game however you'd like too, here are some of my ideas on how to obtain the most duel points on what ever stage of the game your in. JUST STARTED: At the very start of the game, use the duel points your given to build a standard deck, if possible, try to comprise your starting deck to be of a "Beat Down" type. Since, at this point, you just started the game, try to ensure that you have no monster with an attack score of less than 1600. And if possible, have a way to power them up by use of field cards, spells or traps. (Reinforcements is a great starting trap card) Go out and start dueling anybody, until you gain the feel for a beat down. Then take whatever duel points you have earned, and try to obtain cards to strengthen your beat down theme. At this point, try to obtain cards with an attack score of 1700 or higher as well as more equip cards if need be. Once you have a basic beat down started, go out and duel Tea`. Tea`'s deck consists mainly of cards centered around her regaining life and weak monsters. If your deck is built sturdy enough, you should easily be able to toy with her. Destroy any monster she lays down in battle. Then when her field is clear, attack her directly until her life points are very low. At this point, wait for her to build up her life points some more then repeat the process. Doing this, you should easily be able to obtain any where from four to eight hundred duel points after each match with her. AFTER ALL THE PACKS ARE UNLOCKED: After you have unlocked all the buyable packs in Grandpas' shop (this is accomplished by, roughly, beating each duelist in the street once and by winning the weekend tournament a few times) and have obtained a decent amount of duel points I suggest one of two things. Or both if you so desire. First suggestion is to build up your beat down deck, so that you may further drag out your battles with Tea`, and thus earn more points when dueling against her. Alternatively, you can start to work on an Exodia deck. (some cards that I recommend to put in for an early Exodia deck, other than Exodia, are Sangan, Witch of the black forest, Skelangel, pot of greed, gracefull charity, dark hole, Airknight Parshath, jar of greed, Giant Germ, nimble momonga, card destruction and Des Lacooda) Even though this can be very tricky, as a lot of those cards are often limited or restricted, if you can build a decent exodia deck you will now be earning at least one thousand duel points for every duel won. And if you can get Exodia out within your first 4 turns (unlikely, but possible) you can gain up to ten times that amount! AFTER WEEKEND TOURNAMENT IS BEATEN 7 TIMES: After you beat the Weekend tournament 7 times, you should be able to register for the KC Tournament. At this point, register for the KC tournament. The KC Tournament consists of 1 duel every saturday, with duel points obtained increasing after every duel. In between saturday duels, use a combination of using your exodia deck and/or dueling Tea` with a beat down deck should net you some significant duel points by the time you win the KC Cup. AFTER THE KC TOURNAMENT IS BEATEN: After you have beaten the KC Tournament, you should have accumulated a strong deck as well as a decent amount of duel points. So from this point on its all about the tournaments. Keep entering them, and duel Tea` and/or use your exodia deck when needed to obtain more points. AFTER THE ??? AREA IS UNLOCKED: After you have unlocked the ??? area, its almost like a whole new game. All the card restrictions are out the window, so you can now build some truely terrible decks. (In a good way! =D) I suggest the first thing you do is locate Rare Hunter in this area and defeat him. That way you will be able to buy his deck from him. (for a very HEFTY price). His deck is an Exodia deck. So take the cards you get from there and revise your Exodia deck as needed. (or if you haven't made one yet, now is the time). I suggest having you deck comprise mostly of sangans, witches, dark holes, graceful charities, upstart goblins, pot of greeds and jar of greeds. Put in anything you can to ensure that you can get all 5 pieces of Exodia in your hand fast! By winning with Exodia in the ??? you get at least five thousand duel points for each victory! AFTER THE DARK SURVIVAL TOURNAMENT IS UNLOCKED: Once you have unlocked the Dark Survival Tournament and have accumulated at least seventy thousand duel points, as well having built a deck that can take on a horde of opponents, the best option you have is taking on the Dark Survival Tournament. You can participate in it as many times as you want and, as long as you know when to quit when your ahead, can pay off some truely insane duel points. Best part is even though your required to have at least seventy thousand duel points to enter, it actually costs nothing! So if your patient, you can really rack up some duel points here. WHAT I DON'T RECOMMEND: Even though winning with Destiny Board, Final Countdown and Last Turn yields the same points as winning with Exodia, I highly recommend against using them to gain duel points. I'll explain why here. DESTINY BOARD: In my experience, it is not as easy or fast to spell out FINAL, as there are no cards that allow you to get Destiny board in your hand faster or that help you spell out FINAL any faster either. Also, while trying to Spell FINAL, you give up the privelage of using any other spell or trap cards, which can really restrict your dueling capabilities. FINAL COUNTDOWN: Main reason I'm against this, is speed. With a good Exodia deck you have the possibility of winning in the first 4 turns, which can yield a nice multiplier to your duel points. Final Countdown is unable to get that luxury. Also, if you draw Final Countdown late in the duel, you run the risk of having your duel points HALVED if it causes you to win during or after the 40th turn. LAST TURN At first, I wasn't against this card. With the right deck build, this could potentionly be used to win as fast, if not faster, than exodia under the right conditions. Unfortunately,winning with this card counts as dropping your life points to Zero. Not a victory condition in its self. So you can't really rack up many duel points by winning with this deck. *As a final note, I'm not saying don't use any of the deck types above, i'm just saying that when it comes to gaining duel points, they aren't as fast or as reliable as a good exodia deck. If your not trying to amass duel points then I encourage you to give those decks a try, so that you can expand your knowledge of decktypes. Remember, this is a game. The main thing you should be doing is having fun. _______________________________________________________________________________ 8. C O N T A C T I N G M E _______________________________________________________________________________ If you notice anything in this guide that I have wrong, or maybe have something that I missed or skipped over that you feel belongs, you may email me at Shen_Long36@hotmail.com But please note, this is an old email address that I only check once a week, so if you expect a response to an email, please be patient. Also, this email is also bombarded with spam, so please put GAMEFAQs or similar in the subject, so I don't unknowingly delete your message as spam. _______________________________________________________________________________ 9. R E V I S I O N H I S T O R Y _______________________________________________________________________________ Don't know why I keep posting this, but apparently some of you are curious. So here it is... 9/15/2005 - Got the game, and played the hell out of it 9/16/2005 - noticed points obtained varied on different outcomes 9/20/2005 - Started to take special note on what affects the points received 10/1/2005 - helped out some friends with my notes, decided to figure out the rest of the duel points 10/10/2005 - started formatting this into a decent guide, and started taking notes on ??? area 10/23/2005 - finally decided this guide was "complete", and submitted it to Gamefaqs. 11/2/2005 - Remembered that there was at least two more ways to win duels, so added notes on points received for winning with those conditions. Also added in that my FAQs and guides can now be found at 2 more sites, other than Gamefaqs.