Shining Force II

When you find the Arm of Golem, take it to the nexis between Grans Island and Parmecia. Travel to the far western side and you will find a golem slumped against a pillar. Use the Arm and Claude will join your party.

When returning from Galam to Old Grandseal, look in a little shed. Inside you'll find a little tortoise who will join your party after you name him. Once promoted to monster he starts out weak in attack strengh but he also can blech flames which does nice damage!

To have May join your force, follow these directions. After your ship crashes, do what you're supposed to do. Travel east from your new town. You'll find a river. If there is a cave surrounded by water, you're on the right track. Go North a little and then east. When You find a town, go in. Follow the person that is scared of you and when you get to his house, talk to the old person. When he's done talking, go south of the village. You should see a centaur. Talk to her and she will join your force.

After crashing the ancient ship. One of the first cities you come too will have training monks in it. Walk around on the left side of the city and go up. You will find Sheela bathing in a spring.

After you go to talk to Volcanon you would normally go talk to King Bedoe, don't! Go down a level and go to the first outside pirch you see. It will hold a bird telling you her hatchling is sleeping. Go back up a level and go to outside pirch there. Talk to the little bird. Go back down and talk to the same mother bird from earlier. Go out side. Walk around the left hand side without leaving. The "camera" should move up to the same mother bird. The baby is jumping around. It will fall off and land on you head. The mother will thank you for saving his life and call him back. Once you save mitula and start to leave tristan you will meet the same bird that you had saved earlier and he will join your group.

When you save Mitula go to the room on the left. There will be a stone. Look at it and the SORC TAYA will talk to you and then she will join you.

To name all of your characters besides the leader, simultaneously press A, C and Start while at the name leader screen.

After selecting the name for the main character, hold [START] as you choose "End." Another name screen will pop up for another character and you get to name everyone else.

Give a healer any HP restoring item (I.e. Medical Herb), and use it on themself. This will garner a quick 10 experience points for the healer. If you don't have herbs, use Heal 1 until you run out of MP. You could possibly have Heal 4 and Blast 4 for Sarah before you even finish the first battle in the game if you do it right. Also, if you use Aura and have 3 or more people in the targeted range, the healer will get 25 experience for their effort. If you use Detox on one, the healer will only get 5 experience. Make sure to do this trick if you want easy victories.

Trying to get that spell to always hit or get that +4 on all your power up items, but you just can't seem to get the random to work for you? Well I discovered the counter to the random number generator is the number of steps taken.

Say you save your game and use an item for a stat increase. Well if its not what you wanted, reload and take one more step befor using it. The pattern I noticed was something like 2, 3, 2, 3, 3, 2, 4. Thus taking 5 steps gave me my +4. This works for spells that don't hit very often. Fun with desoul.