Star Ocean: The Second Evolution PlayStation Portable Cheats

Extra Difficulty Modes

Defeat 2,000 monsters to unlock the Galaxy and Universe difficulty settings for your next new game.

Voice Player

Beat the game once on any difficulty, and you unlock the Voice Player. Beat the game with additional characters in your party to unlock their respective voices.

Easy level up (after Salva)

If you want to easily gain levels at this point of the game, don’t enter Krosse yet. Take the road to the left and follow it until you see a mountain path at the end of the road. Save your game and enter the Largus Mountains. The enemies here are too powerful for you to beat but you’re specifically seeking battle to only one type of enemy: The Black Balloons.

The Black Balloons only absorb your MP so you can easily defeat them with ordinary attacks. Furthermore, getting ambushed by these guys will usually reward you with multiple level ups since they ambush you in groups of 6 or more. Keep battling them until your level is high enough to endure normal enemy attacks. Remember to keep fighting only near the entrance so you can save immediately after defeating a group of Black Balloons. Don’t mind getting killed and reloading your game since this is an easy (and lazy way) of boosting your party levels early on. You can train over level 20 if you want.

Cave of Trials

There is a secret dungeon in the game called the "Cave Of Trials". To unlock it, you must use the save point right before fighting Gabriel. Your save icon should turn blue. Then, return to the arena in Fun City, and talk to the old man in the stands in the north side of the arena. He says he can recover your memories; accept, and you'll return to Arlia on Expel. Leave Arlia and you'll have your Psynard; the Cave Of Trials is located at the lone dot on the desert island, southwest on the world map.

Removing Gabriel's limiter

First off, you must witness the Private Action in Kurik where a woman named Philia is warning the citizens to evacuate the city. Next, you must reach the final save point in Phynal. After that, you must leave Phynal and view a Private Action in Centropolis. You'll find Philia again in the lobby of the main building. After you talk to her, Gabriel's limiter will be removed and he will be much more powerful than his original form. It is recommended that you go through the Maze of Tribulations and get your levels very high (120+ at the very least) before attempting to fight him.

Battle Suits

If you have Ernest in your party, do private actions in Marze and Linga and try to steal Battle Suits from him. They are the most powerful armor in the 'main' game.

Orchestra

First, you’ll need to unlock more songs by having somebody with high Music specialty level compose songs from each instrument. Composing consumes a Feather Pen so do this while inside the item shop so you can immediately buy more as you need it. Try to compose as many songs as you can per instrument. (so far I have only observed that you can compose 2-3 songs per instrument) Once you have enough songs, you can now use the Orchestra super specialty. While the orchestra music is playing in the background, your chances of success are increased dramatically when using your specialty or skills to create, modify or enhance items.

Machinery

This specialty allows players to create machines that will increase the success rate of specific specialties. Also, these items can be sold at high price as well.
EQUIPMENT - SPECIALTY
Element Analyzer - Appraising
Graphic Tool - Art
Keen Kitchen Knife - Cooking, Master Chef
Lezard Flask - Alchemy
Magical Rasp - Customization, Blacksmith
Music Editor - Music
Ririca - Replication
Soldering Iron - Crafting
Sterile Glove - Compounding
Survival Kit - Survival
Triangle Flask - Alchemy
Word Processor - Writing, Publication

Determination

Don't spend your SP early in the game. Wait until you get the skill Determination and focus in maxing it out first. This skill lowers the skill points needed for all the other skills.

Easy Experience Trick

Using the Super Specialty Skill Contraband, keep forging materials until you get the Counterfeit Medal. When used on a character, it will reduce the required EXP to 1. The higher the Contraband level, the better chances of producing this item.

Since it is hard to produce,Replicating it is a viable solution. You'll need a Magic Camera and some Magic Films to attempt to reproduce it. If is advisable to have a maxed out Imitation skill before attempting. Try to create a RIRICA camera through Machinery skill to increase your replication chances dramatically!

Staying at the inn for free

Using the Contraband super specialty, keep creating items until you create a Contract. When used in a town, the inn there will offer free lodging FOREVER. You can reproduce several copies and use it on every town you visit to get free lodging anywhere.

Easy money

Its easier to do this with a high level Group Appraisal super specialty where you can control the prices of the shops at will.
Using the Contraband super specialty, keep creating materials until you get Forged Bills, Checks, Stocks, Documents, etc. These can be sold at a really high amount if you Raise the price using the Group Appraisal super specialty. Use this trick to earn millions of fol early in the game.

Level Grinding

With the Train skill, your characters' stats will decrease but the experience gained increases. If you have several characters with Train, you'll unlock the Enlightenment super specialty. Activate this to earn more SP per level up. If you have Scouting, you can set it to search for enemies and you're good to go. Its better to do this outside towns so you can rest and save as needed.

Art

The Art Specialty can also produce very helpful support and recovery items. Make sure to have someone with the right talent to specialize this skill.

Weapon Sharing

If there are anybody in your team that are using the same weapon, have one of them concentrate on leveling up his/her customization skill. This way, you will only need to have that character forge the weapons and share it with the other, saving SP.

Familiar

Have someone with talents pertaining to animals learn the Familiar specialty. This will enable you to send a bird to order recovery items. Having this specialty can be a life-saver in deep dungeons.

Bunny Call

If several characters learned the Familiar specialty, the Bunny Call super specialty will be unlocked. This will allow your party members to summon a large bunny which they can "ride" in the world map to travel faster and avoid enemies. The bunny can also run over mountains but not on seas.

Claude's Aeterna

Before leaving Lacuer after the Arms Tournament, make sure to visit Gamgee's house in the western portion of the town. You will receive the Deadly Edge sword as part of the scene.

Once you have two mithrils, make sure you have a high customization level. Save your game, and try forging the Deadly Edge with a mithril to get Sword of Minos. Forge the Sword of Minos with another Mithril to get the Aeterna.

This is Claude's most powerful weapon in the main game; the other one is located in the secret, optional dungeon.

Recruiting Welch Vineyard

Welch is the additional and only secret character in the game. To recruit her, perform a private action in Lacuer before heading to the Hoffman Ruins. You'll encounter her on the bridge going to the castle.

Sprite's Bracelet

It is probably one of the best kept secrets in the game and previous players of the game’s Playstation version should know about this; getting the “Mischief” or what is known in the game as “Spite’s Bracelet”. This is a very, very rare accessory that can only be STOLEN only from a girl named Filia, just before the pending incident in Kurik. As long as it’s equipped, it will give you random items while walking.

Pixie's Bracelet

In the second floor of Eluria Tower, go to the left to a find a secret room with three chests. The middle one contains the Pixie's Bracelet, which is an upgraded version of the Sprite's Bracelet that can be stolen from Filia early in the game. It will give you better, random items while walking and can be equipped alongside with the Sprite's Bracelet.

Famed sword veinslay

This is the most powerful weapon in the game go to fun city go to the tournament participate in the tournament and pick duel battle pick claude make sure you have godslayer and put the special art helmet break keep using it to win and make it hardcore the win the four rounds then you will get it.

Customization skill

This can make your weapon more deadly or more powerful anyone who has it can only create the one that they can equip.

No Encounters in Dungeons

Like the other Star Ocean for PSP, if you open the disc tray while in a dungeon, you will not face any battles. Just remember to close the disc tray everytime you change screens (causing it to reload data), or before boss fights.

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Star Ocean: Second Evolution Cheat: Suspend Random Encounters

In a dungeon or cave, pop open the UMD slot and remove your UMD from the PSP and random encounters will cease! Pop it back in before a boss battle and you're good to go.

Star Ocean: Second Evolution Unlockable: Extra Modes

Defeat 2,000 monsters to unlock both Galaxy Mode and Universe Mode (the latter is the most difficult).

Star Ocean: Second Evolution Unlockable: Secret Dungeon

To unlock the secret dungeon, the Cave of Trials, head to the save point just before you fight Gabriel. Your save icon will be blue. Now, head to Fun City and go to the north side of the Arena. Here, you'll find an old man that says he can recover your memories. Accept, and you'll be transported to Arlia on Expel. Leave Arlia and travel to the Cave of Trials, located in the southwest corner of the world map. It's a dot on a desert island.

Star Ocean: Second Evolution Unlockable: Voice Player

Beat the game to unlock the Voice Player. Each additional character you beat the game with adds their voice for sample playback.

Star Ocean: Second Evolution Hint: Uber Gabriel

In Kurik you must witness the Private Action of Philia telling people to evacuate. After reaching the final save point in Phynal, leave Phynal and viewa Private Action in Centropolis. Philia appears here in the main building's lobby. Talk to her this time and Gabriel's limiter will be removed and he will be ultra-powerful. Make sure your levels are significantly high before taking him on.

Star Ocean: Second Evolution Hint: Instant Kills with Algol

First, you have to blacksmith (with the Magical Rasp) Damascus and make 'Algol,' a shield strictly for Precis. Equip it, and a Stone Check just in case. The only other thing to do is make sure she can parry an attack and have her charge the enemy. A successful parry will instantly kill ANY enemy, including Iseria Queen.