Recipe #34 FAQ for Suikoden II Written By: KatanaSoul Version: Final Date: August 25, 2002 Email: Katanasoul@hotmail.com Yahoo: DejaGuardian MSN: Katanasoul AIM: HolyKnightDias Other Guides/FAQs by me: www.gamefaqs.com/features/recognition/23119.html Disclaimer: This FAQ is Copywrited 2002 to me Dale Ray (KatanaSoul) and cannot be reproduced in any way, shape, or form and cannot be sold, distributed, or used in any way to make money or for any promotinal purposes. I write FAQs to help all the gamers out there, not to benefit myself with money or anything else so respect that. If you wish to place this FAQ onto your site, drop me a line at my email above, it is very doubtful that I would refuse. Table of Contents 1: What is Recipe #34 and why an FAQ just for it? 2: How to Acquire Recipe #34 3: The Uses of Recipe #34 4: Other Recipes 5: Credits ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 1: What is Recipe #34 and why an FAQ just for it? Recipe #34, also known as the Japanese Stew recipe, is a Recipe that is extremely hard to acquire in Suikoden II that is used in Hai Yo's restaurant to make items that do various things for your party, such as heal a characters HP and give your characters various status effects. The Recipe can also be used in the cook off mini game that you can participate in at random intervals during the game. You can recruit Hai Yo and have him open his restaurant by speaking with him on the balcony of your castle on the second floor to the right of the castle's bath area after the events in Two River. The reason an FAQ is needed for just this recipe is that this recipe is very tricky to obtain, and in some cases impossible, unless you do certains things during your play through the game. In the next section I'll explain how to obtain this hard to come by recipe. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 2: How to acquire Recipe #34 Like I said in the above section, Recipe #34 is very tricky to obtain. Many people on the Suikoden II message boards at www.gamefaqs.com have claimed to obtained the Recipe its normal way, which it is dropped by the Yellow DoReMi Elf in the forest path of Greenhill the second time you enter to recapture Greenhill. But there are alot of people, including myself and every one of my friends that play Suikoden II, that have never had the recipe dropped before, even when using the hunter rune for hours at a time. After this recipe ruined my perfect game for about the 20th time I began to experiement with various ways of getting it. A friend of mine mentioned that it could have to do with how many recipes you have gotten previously, considering we both loved to acquire all the recipes as soon as possible during our play throughs this could have very play a factor in if the Yellow DoReMi Elf drops the recipe. So I began a play through only getting the recipes that you cannot get later in the game and low and behold when I reached the Greenhill forest path I got the recipe in the 3rd battle with the DoReMi Elves! So apparently the game looks at how many recipes you have (not including the ones Hai Yo comes with) and if you have too many the DoReMi elf will not drop the recipe. So below are the ONLY recipes you should pick up during your play through the game. - Recipe #3 from Dr. Huan in Muse right after recruiting Tuta - Recipe #16 shelf in Taki's House in Lakewest before recruiting her - Recipe #20 from the cook in the Greenhill inn on visit as students I'm not 100% sure that you have to get Recipe #20 on your first visit to Greenhill or not, but I got it on my playthrough along with the other two and still got Recipe #34. Below are some other tips on what to avoid while trying this method. - Never buy Recipes in Rare Finds - If an enemy drops a Recipe reset your game - Refrain from searching shelves and talking to people in town, if you accidentally get a recipe from one of them, reset your game If you try this and still have problems getting the Yellow DoReMi Elf to drop the recipe, try using the Hunter Rune. With the Hunter Rune attached to a characters weapon it garuntees that an enemy will drop an item if they successfully strike the enemy, the only problem with using it is that your character has a 1% chance to strike the enemy. This can be helped though by attaching a Long Range characters weapon with the Killer Rune. This will drastically increase the characters chance for a critical hit, which is a 100% chance for a hit if you get one. It works well on Long Range characters because they have not only a high chance for a critical hit to begin with, but they also have a high rate to attack more than one enemy, which if they do attack more than once it is a 100% chance for a hit. When you enter battle kill off all the DoReMi elves but the Yellow ones, you can achieve this faster by using the Lighting/Thunder runes or the Blinking Rune and then have all your characters but the one with the Hunter Rune defend and have the Hunter Rune character attack until they hit the enemy, this will garuntee that the elf will drop an item, which will most likely be Recipe #34. The following are ways to obtain the Hunter Rune, Killer Rune, and a list of long range characters. Long Range Characters: Clive, Tengaar, Eilie, Rina, Tuta, Millie, Gabocha, Shilo, Kinnison, Meg, Ayda, Lo Wen, Sasuke, Stallion, Simone. Killer Rune: Sasuke, Tai Ho, and Georg come with them attached. They area also dropped by the Woodpecker enemies in Ryube Forest. Hunter Rune: There are only two places to get a Hunter Rune, you can get one after defeating the Beast Rune and returning to Kyaro Villiage and searching the Tree at the back of the Genkaku's Dojo. The other place to get one is the Statue Event. When you first recruit Jude from the Greenhill academy bring him the following plans. Unicorn Plans #4: Inside chest in Rockaxe Castle Turtle Plans #1: Dropped by Rockadillo enemy outside of Lakewest Unicorn Plans #2: Inside chest on Rakutei Mountain Unicorn Plans #3: Sculptor in Tinto Tell Jude to build the statue like this: - Body: Unicorn - Tail: Turtle - Legs: Unicorn - Head: Unicorn The statue will reward you with the Hunter Rune. Well I think thats just about it on how to acquire the Recipe. I guess you are wondering though if the Recipe is really worth getting. Well if you are one of those gamers that has to have everything, than yes it is, if not you probably don't want to waste your time, Don't worry about the other recipes you can always go back and get them after you have acquire Recipe #34. I can't say that this method will work for everybody, but so far everybody that has tried it that I know it has worked for, It may be miss programming in the game that causes this, which Suikoden II is known for its horrid programming, or it could be a clever tactic used by Konami to make you think, who knows. The next section is on the uses of the Recipe. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 3: The Uses of Recipe #34 The only real use of the Recipe is the Hai Yo mini game and the various items you can make out of the recipe. It is a decent recipe to use during the mini game, especially if you get a judge that likes Japanese Food. Below are the various items you can make out of the recipe via Hai Yo's resturant and Ingredients. You'll need to make a menu out of the recipe before you can buy them. Japanese Stew (No Ingredient) Cost: 1000 Potch Use: Restores an allys HP by 550 Sweet Tofu (Sugar) Cost: 1000 Potch Use: Restores an allys HP by 580 Bouillabaise (Salt) Cost: 1100 Potch Use: Restores an allys HP by 620 Shabu Shabu (Soy Sauce) Cost: 1000 Potch Use: Restores an allys HP by 600 Dark Stew (Mayonnaise) Cost: 1000 Potch Use: Heals an allys HP by 550 and can cause status effects, some good, some bad Spicy Stew (Red Pepper) Cost: 1000 Potch Use: Heals an allys HP by 450 You'll need the following Ingredients to put the items on the menu: - 1 Spinage Seeding - 1 Calf - 1 Shellfish - 1 Sugar, Salt, Soy Sauce, Mayonnaise, Red Pepper (If needed for Item) The Locations of the Ingrediants are as followed: Spinage Seedlings: - From the Winger Elder, Susu, in Two River after the events there - Forest Villiage Elder after Tony is recruited - Dropped by Eye Flower enemy outside of Greenhill (Post Recapture) Calfs: - Buy in Highway Villiage - Buy in Drakemouth Villiage - But in Highway Villiage after taking Rockaxe Castle Shellfish: In order to obtain shellfish for your resturant you need to fish with Yam Koo on the castle docks. After you catch the max number of Squid, Stonefish, blowfish, and whitefish before you can catch shellfish. Yam Koo will tell you when you have caught the max number of the fish. Sugar: - Buy in Trading Posts in Kobold Village, Highway and Forest Villiage Salt: - Buy in Trading Posts in Forest Villiage, South Window, and Rokkaku Soy Sauce: - Buy in Trading Posts in Rokkaku and Gregminster Mayonnaise: - Buy in Trading Posts in South Window, Kobold and Highway Villiages Red Pepper: - Buy in Trading Posts in Gregminster, Crom, and Rockaxe ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 4: Other Recipes Here are the locations of all the other recipes in Suikoden II. Recipe #1: Hai Yo joins with it Recipe #2: Win in Hai Yo's first mini game cook off Recipe #3: Received from Huan in Muse after Tuta joins Recipe #4: Hai Yo joins with it Recipe #5: Cook in Coronet's Inn will give it to you Recipe #6: Hai Yo joins with it Recipe #7: Hai Yo joins with it Recipe #8: Win in Hai Yo's second mini game cook off Recipe #9: Bookself in a house in Kuskus Recipe #10: Hai Yo joins with it Recipe #11: Kuskus item shop rare find Recipe #12: Dropped by Eagle Man enemy in Kobold Forest Recipe #13: Kobold in Kobold Villiage Elder's house gives it to you Recipe #14: Cook in Radat's bar will give it to you Recipe #15: Hai Yo joins with it Recipe #16: Bookshelf in Taki's house in Lakewest before she joins Recipe #17: Win in Hai Yo's third mini game cook off Recipe #18: Radat item shop rare find Recipe #19: Win in Hai Yo's fourth mini game cook off Recipe #20: Cook in Greehill's inn will give it to you Recipe #21: Dropped by Land Shark enemy in Two River's Sewers Recipe #22: Win in Hai Yo's sixth mini game cook off Recipe #23: Two River item shop rare find Recipe #24: Win in Hai Yo's fifth mini game cook off Recipe #25: Greenhill item shop rare find Recipe #26: Highway Villiage item shop rare find Recipe #27: Win in Hai Yo's eigth mini game cook off Recipe #28: Gregminster item shop rare find Recipe #29: Dropped by Zombie Slug enemy in Matilda forest path Recipe #30: Win in Hai Yo's seventh mini game cook off Recipe #31: Kobold Villiage item shop rare find Recipe #32: Kent's mother in Highway villiage after Dragon Quest Recipe #33: Win in Hai Yo's tenth mini game cook off Recipe #34: Long Story..... Recipe #35: Muse item shop rare find (Post Recapture) Recipe #36: Dropped by Highland enemy (Archer) in Rockaxe Castle Recipe #37: Bookcase in Garudo's Room in Rockaxe Castle (Recaptured) Recipe #38: Win in Hai Yo's eleventh mini game cook off Recipe #39: (See Below) Recipe #40: Win in Hai Yo's final mini game cook off Recipe #39 can only be gotten if you have loaded your Suikoden I data and have done the Mcdohl side quest in Banner Villiage. If you have already beaten Lester in Hai Yo's mini game than Gremio will never give you the recipe, wait until after you have done the side quest then do the cook off with Lester, aftewards Lester will tell Hai Yo about Gremio's special stew. Return to Gregminster after that and speak with Gremio and he'll give you Recipe #39. Well thats it for my FAQ on Recipe #34, I hope this helped some of the people that have gotten many headaches trying to get this recipe. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 5: Credits - Myself for typing this FAQ and the many many many times I played through Suikoden II just to make sure this method wasn't a coincidence. - The People at www.suikosource.com and all of my friends whom had also tried the same method and proved I wasn't the only one getting these results. - CjayC at www.gamefaqs.com for not only excepting this FAQ, but for creating the best site on the net. - You the viewer of my FAQ, thanks for viewing my work. Drop me a line sometime. ~Fin~