Star Ocean: First Departure

If you're in a dungeon or cave, you can open the UMD tray, or just take the UMD out, and not have to deal with random encounters. If you're coming up on a boss fight, though, make sure you put it back in before you initiate the battle.

Remove the UMD during game play to avoid random encounters. Note: Replace the disc before any important event to avoid crashing the game.

Get the Survival skill by leveling up your Herbology and Resilience in the first town you go to after the time portal. Go out to the world map. Enter any forest area or just remain on the world map. Keep doing survival. You will get random ingredients. Also, if you level up your Survival skill it becomes easier to obtain and you will get better ingredients.

Successfully complete the game to unlock the voices of the characters in your party for all of your saves.