Monster Rancher 3 Monster List Ver 10.09.03 Written By: Adrian McDaniels Additional Contributions from: ShadowZX99 Redraven Schombalia Getcheffy - home - com mr_socko_316_69 - hotmail - com Jacjr476 Xboxattic DrSnotspill - aol - com Nathan Storberg: golden_slayer - hotmail - com Jordan the_great_milenko15 BldOmn - cs - com DMX1467 - aol - com Mike Aarong Joy Retaya !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No longer accepting contributions !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This document Copyright 10-08-2001, 10-11-2001, 10-13-2001, 10-15-2001, 10-19-2001, 11-08-2001, 10-09-2003 Adrian McDaniels. I am obligated to mention that stealing copyrighted work for personal gain is illegal, so please, if you want to reproduce my work here, please be honest about it, at least keep the original contributors' (including myself) list intact so credit will go to those it is due. In the best case scenario, this FAQ will only be posted at http://www.gamefaqs.com/ http://www.gamespot.com/ http://www.a2zcheats.com/ http://www.neoseeker.com/ http://www.psxcodez.com/ http://gamenotover.com and my website http://home.cybertron.com/~megatron/ (All nice and spiffy because it's all in html with nifty pictures :) until I get a request from someone who wants to post it somewhere else. I could go on, but why bother. I wrote this because of the depressing lack of many other lists like it, so take any information you need: Copy it, paste it, print it out, download it; but if you re-post it, again, please give credit where credit is due and list all of the pages contributors including myself. Hopefully, there will be at least a few people out there that this may help. 10.09.01: If you do contribute, please specify how you want to be identified in the contributor list; thanks much. 10.10.01: If you would like to contribute a monster list to be included please make sure that the format is as follows: ======================================================================= Monster Band:Album/DVD name/Game Name(version) ======================================================================= The monster needs to be either a description of the monster or the monster's genotype and geographic attribute ie: Zan/Ocean - Dragon/jungle - Durahan/Desert - Pixie/Forest Henger/Tundra - Zan/? (If you are submitting a question mark monster, please provide a description as well. It is not a requisite, just helpful.) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 10.09.03: No longer accepting contributions. Dedicated to My Best Friend Shana, without whose patience (at letting me hog the game all of the time ~_^) this list would not be possible; and Dave, for his help in finding a few nice monsties. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Contents ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ i. Introduction ii. List of monster genotypes iii. List of monsters found on CDs iv. List of monsters found on DVDs v. List of monsters found on Game CDs vi. Miscellaneous other info you may or may not find useful vii. Frequently Asked Questions (sort of) viii. Version history and propers given for updates ======================================================================= Introduction ======================================================================= Although it may be safe to assume that most who read this have played Monster Rancher 1 & 2, I must (for argument's sake) take it as read that quite a few of the readers have not. If you have, please skip past. The Monster Rancher Series, called Monster Farm in Japan, was one of the first (if not THE first) monster raising games, predating even Pokemon (Pocket Monsters) if I remember correctly. It was made wholly unique by the fact that a new interactive spin (no pun intended) was included into the play of the game. The 'spin' I am referring to is the ability to generate monsters from any data disc small enough to fit into the drive of your Playstation. I'm still not sure on what the game reads from the discs, but it seems to include the number of tracks, the unique number assigned to certain music/DVD/game titles encoded into the disc's data tracks and (in the previous games at least) the size of the data tracks. You then took the monster home and raised it as you do in the third installment of the game. That is where the similarities end (aside from keeping some of the originals games' monsters). In MR1 and 2,you trained in one area, your farm, and your creature had its very own barn to sleep in, while you and your assistant (a role taken over by Fleria in MR3 as your "mentor") stayed in a housein the background. Whenever you built up enough money, your assistant would let you know that you could build your house or barn bigger. The advantage being that a bigger house let you keep many more items in your inventory, and a bigger barn let you raise bigger monsters such as Golems, Beaklons, and Baku. Another change in the MR series is that in MR2, you could send your monster off to train for a month in a different land, where they would raise their stats dramatically and learn new attacks. This, of course, cost your character a nice piece of change. The main change; the most disappointing one so far, is that the ability to breed your monsters has been removed. Instead of letting your monsters die, as in MR3, you froze them and raised another monster until it was also ready to die. When you had two monsters that you wanted to breed (preferrably two that you have actually raised) you would tell the gentleman at the hibernation facility to breed the two monsters. This was like giving a monster heart to you monster in MR3, except for the fact that you ended up with a new monster that took the primary trait from the first monster you selected, and the sub trait from the second to form a new monster (or was that vice versa) giving you a completely new monster (maybe), because one of the other changes to the game was to exchange the subtraits of your monster (land of origin in this game, monster type in the old games). For example a Zuum's traits were Zuum/Zuum, while a translucent blue Zuum's traits would be Zuum/Gel. Likewise the removal of many of my favorite monster types is also a bummer, the addition of the Raiden and (especially) Zan makes up for it. I have so far beaten everything in the game, all four big 5 tourneys, and the strongest of the monsters. (a few times actually), so if you have a CD that you don't know what is on, e-mail me with a description of the shadow that appears and I will tell you the monster associated with it if you really want to know. On to the Monster List. Monsters you see listed here in Ver 1 are only the ones I felt like writing down: just the interesting ones. ; ) ======================================================================= List of Monster Genotypes ======================================================================= Suezo: A yellow ball with a tail, one BIG eye and a big mouth... If it were purple with a horn....... Mocchi: A nauseatingly cute monster whose name literally refers to the ball of sticky rice wrapped in seaweed that it is named after. Jell: A blob of clear, blue gel/liquid. Octopee: It sort of looks like they took Q-bert, stuck long floppy ears on him, and gave him a blobby body with four blobby little legs. Momo: An anthropomorphic squirrel that carries a walnut everywhere. Golem: A colossal man made of stone. Zoom: A medium sized Dromaeosaur (Deinonychus and Velociraptor were Dromaesauridae) sans the eviscerating sickle claw. Tiger: A wolf with horns (?).... Why it is called tiger, I do not know. Hare: An anthropomorphic hare... Kind of like a fat Bugs Bunny... A fat -brown- Bugs Bunny. Mew: Why did they have to pick this name? Were they trying to confuse my friend who plays Pokemon? In the previous games, they were called Cat Dolls. They are basically little kitties. Beaklon: A cool big Stag Beetle.. Or Rhinoscerous Beetle.... Anyway, it is called Kabuto in Japanese. I'm not sure who came first, Beaklon from MR2 or Megakabuterimon from Digimon, but who cares? Dragon: Dragon. 'nuff said, huh? (you need to be A rank to breed these, though, so get to work. ; ) Dakkung: Acompletely rediculous monster left over from MR2 (why, god, why?) that seems to be a duck made of colorful round(ish) blocks. (egg shaped body) (why did they have to omit the worm and leave this atrocity in the game?) Baku: A giant furry dog (Saint Bernard?) Pixie: A small (bat) winged girl with horns and a barbed tail. (I do miss all of the different variations of her from Monster Rancher 2) Durahan: A ghostly suit of armor. In my humble opinion, one of the coolest monsters in the games. It is a suit of armor with a cape and sword and no one inside. Rank A is needed to raise this monster. Naga: A humanoid torso on a serpentine lower body. Nowhere near as cool as they used to be, but hey at least they kept them. (My favorite is the Aspis, the desert/egyption Naga) Color- A trio of... creatures that used to be a caterpillar-like Pandora: monster in the previous game that only broke into its component pieces during special attacks or after getting hit. But.... One of its new animations has it in a very compromising position with one of its siblings.... ew. Just... ew. Plant: A Large bulb with leaves and roots and a huge flower. Henger: A Transforming Robot! Too cool! Another of my favorites. Zan: Possibly the coolest monster of the entire game, maybe even the entire series. I'll leave the description out because it is a secret monster that you need to release from a disc stone and I don't want to ruin it for you. I'll tell you how to do it at the end of the FAQ. Lesione: A small blue (sort of cute) Plesiosaur. The name could possibly be taken from Nessie, the fabled Loch Ness Monster. Suzurin: Another impossibly cute monster. This one seems to be made of small bells. (hotel front desk)bell hat, bell arms, bell skirt. Psiroller: A cutesy blue rhinocerous that rides around clutching onto a large tire. It does have a pretty devestating attack called cannonball in which it tears off and zips around the world before ramming you. Pancho: A Pumpkin... A clamshell pumpkin with a cute little monster inside. For some reason, you need to be Rank B to raise this thing. Mogi: Snoopy? With a cone shaped drill hat and huge front paws with big claws. Raiden: Another of my favored monsters, referred to as a Gryph in some mythos, as a tengu in others. It's not either actually, rather an anthropomorphic eagle. Some of its other forms though... Gitan: The only cute monster I like. Sort of a floating.. well... to me, it looks like a purple floating, cannibalistic devil bunny with a beaver-like tail. Ogyo: Another neat monster. An incredibly feminine, pink, dolphin with long blond pigtails. Joker: Another very cool monster I shall with-hold the description of. I will reveal the basics of how to unlock it at the end of the FAQ. ======================================================================= Monsters found on CDs ======================================================================= As stated before, these are not all of the monsters unlocked from my CD collection, just the interesting ones I wrote down before I decided to write an FAQ on them (and before I knew that you could pull them out of the Encyclopedia ;) I will also list monsters by their description, not their proper name, because unless you have already unlocked the monster, you will have absolutely no idea what I am talking about, or what the monster is. And now, in no particular order except the order I wrote them down in. ;) Eagle Armor Durahan: AC/DC: Blow up your video Humanoid Griffon: AC/DC: Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap Offspring: Americana (Thanks Nathan) Multi-colored Dolphin: AC/DC: For those about to rock Snow-Patrol Henger: AC/DC: High Voltage Ogyo (Pink Dolphin): AC/DC: Highway to Hell (Panzer) Dragoon (sorta): AC/DC: Let there be Rock Dragon: AC/DC: Who made Who Pancho (pumpkin): KISS Alive 2, Disc 1 Faerie (grey, spiky hair): KISS Alive 3 Egyptian Asp Plesiosaur: KISS Greatest Green Dolphin: The Mask (movie soundtrack) Knight (Durahan): Chico and the Gypsies: Vagabundo Mr. Spock's Music From Outer Space Monkey Suezo (w/big ears): The Who: Tommy Disc 1 Arctic Squirrel: The Who: Tommy Disc 2 Shark Naga: Beatles Anthology 1 Disc 2 Pelican man (raiden): Dr. Demento (either 20th or 25th anniversary, sorry, for some reason I didn't write down which one.) Ice Beetle: Jane's Addiction: Ritual de la habitual Scorpion Beetle: George Carlin Classic Gold disc 1 Ice Naga: Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits Bunny Suezo: Kid Rock: Devil without a cause Monty Python Instant CD collection disc 1 Phoenix: Monty Python Instant CD collection disc 2 Ice Golem: Monty Python Instant CD collection disc 3 Nordic Armor: Sarah McLachlan: Fumbling towards ecstasy Old Grandpa Zoom: Wierd Al Greatest Hits 2 Pixie: Enya The memory of trees Bear Roller: Cranberries (The Couch picture CD) Ocean Golem: Cranberries To the faithful departed Fawn Kitty: Carpenters Singles 1969-1973 Wooden Bell Girl: 10,000 Maniacs Unplugged Beetle: No Doubt: Tragic Kingdom Raiden: Cranberries: Everybody else is doing it... Cat in Giraffe suit: Natalie Merchant: Tigerlily Angel (Pixie): Dire Straits: Money For Nothing Pixie: Metallica: Load Genie Pacho in Lamp: Guns N Roses: The Spaghetti Incident? Leafy Plesiosaur: Guns N Roses: Appetite for Destruction Sand Jell: Bubble Gum Crisis: Best Collection Green Forest Wolf: Bryan Adams: So far so good (Don't ask) Camel Baku: Sting: Best of 1984-1994 Unidentified Zan: Men in Black Soundtrack (Thanks mr_socko!) Arctic Naga: Cheryl Crow: The Globe Sessions Pineapple Mocchi: Pharoah Soundtrack: Music to build Pyramids By Green Zan w/Blades on arms: Men in Black Soundtrack (Thanks BldOmen - cs - com!) Red Zan w/Chitin: Millenium Love Songs (BldOmen - cs - com) Locomotive Henger: Train: Drops of Jupiter (Thanks Joy!) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- (Section below contributed by Dr. Snotspill) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- TV Shaped Plant (? attrib): Parlophone Golden Golem: Robbie Robertson Unidentified Zan: Crash Test Dummies: God shuffled his feet Assassin Henger: Natalie Imbruglia: Left of the middle Pharoah Dakkung: Ginger Baker Trio: Going back home Very powerful Ice Naga: Run Lola Run Soundtrack ----------------------------------------------------------------------- (Section below contributed by Nathan Storberg and Jordan) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ice Golem: Prince the hits 1 Orange Pancho: Go Fish: Part of the Proof Pineapple Mocchi: Go Fish: More than a story Mogi: Worship: Green Disc 1 Ice Golem: Worship: Green Disc 2 Beaklon: Worship: Offerings Tiger (wolf): Green Day: Insomniac Jell: Mortal Kombat soundrack Bell Girl: StaticX: Wisconsin Death Trip Wolf King: StaticX: Machine Girl Dolphin: Ozzy Ozbourne: The Ozzman Cometh Brown Colorpandora: Black Sabbath: We sold our soul for Rock and Roll Pixie: ICP: Great Milenko Durahan: Alien Ant Farm (?) Brown Jell: Limp Bizket: Nookie Morx Suezo: Rob Zombie: Hellbilly Deluxe ======================================================================= Monsters found on DVDs ======================================================================= Special Red Henger: Galaxy Quest Hotrod Zoom (Black & Red): Heavy Metal 2000 (Thanks Aarong!) Special Pixie: Priss from- Blade Runner (Widescreen side) Shark Dragon: KISS The Second Coming Dragon: Godzilla Tiger Dragon: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Thanks BldOmen - cs - com!) Snow Patrol Henger: Pink Panther Strikes Again (Widescreen) Snow Plesiosaur: Young Lesbians (please don't ask) Bell Girl w/ Bat symbol: Batman (Standard Side)(Thanks Jacjr476) Robo(?) Golem: Robotech The Macross Saga Disc 4 Zan: Matrix Resident Evil Code Veronica X Preview DVD Red Zan: Drunken Master (Hong Kong) Red Zan with Cast on arm: Fight Club (Both Discs) Unidentified Zan: Dungeons and Dragons (Thanks mr_socko) Unidentified Joker: Batman (Widescreen Side) (Thanks Jacjr476) Prankster Joker: Scary Movie (thanks Schombaliah, thanks mr_socko_316_69 - hotmail - com, thanks paranoid_supersaiyan - att.net) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- (Section below contributed by Dr. Snotspill) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Joker: Fantasia 2000 Bird Durahan: Gladiator Block Golem: Ghost in the Shell Angel Pixie: Baraka ----------------------------------------------------------------------- (Section below contributed by Nathan Storberg and Jordan) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Cat in Giraffe suit: Lethal Weapon 4 Lesione: Happy Gilmore Tiger (wolf): Lost in Space Plant: Nightmare on Elm Street Ocean Bellgirl: Stargate Mogi (Snoopy?) Step Mom Joe Cool! (Mogi): Lady and the Tramp 2 Dakkung: Toy Story Totem Pole Dakkung: Toy Story 2 Desert Hare: Waterboy Turtle Kitty: Mummy Returns Ice Beaklon: Boogie Nights ======================================================================= Monsters found on Game CDs ======================================================================= Zan Ninja: Tenchu 2 Henger: Armored Core 2 Durahan: Armored Core Master of Arena (both discs) White Mocchi: Monster Rancher (Thanks Dr Snotspill) Teranadon man: Monster Rancher 2 Sailor Moon Dolphin (sorta) Tecmo's Deception Egyptian Naga: Tecmo Superbowl Cold Pill Trio: Tech Romancer Gitan (See list): Wipeout 3 Playstation Underground 3.1 Disc 1 Golem: Warpath Jurassic Park Green Henger Red Kanji: Official PS Mag #16 Playstation Underground 4 Disc 2 Black and Red Zoom: Supercross Circuit Demo Dragon: Space Bunnies Must Die Demo Ocean Gitan: Panzer Dragoon (Saturn) Phoenix Raiden: Playstation Underground 1 Disc 1 Palm Tree Sapling (plant): Playstation Underground 1 Disc 2 Wolf with HUMONGOUS horns: Playstation Underground 2 Disc 1 Tiger Striped Mogi: Playstation Underground 3 Disc 1 Rhino w/ Wheel: Playstation Underground 3 Disc 2 Totem Pole Dakkung: Playstation Underground 2.2 Disc 2 Dakkung Playstation Underground 2.3 Disc 1 Arctic Plesiosaur (Barney?): Playstation Underground 2.3 Disc 2 Pixie: Playstation Underground 3.1 Disc 2 Shark Suezo: Playstation Underground 3.3 Disc 2 Cold Pill Colorpandoras: Marvel v Capcom2(DC)(Thanks Dr. Snotspill) Bird Durahan: Lunar SSS: Disc 2 (Thanks Dr. Snotspill) Jester Momo: Gauntlet Dark Legacy (Thanks Aarong!) Red Zan: Code Veronica X Demo (Thanks Schombalia!) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- (Section Below contributed by ShadowZX99) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Tree Golem: The Bouncer Sumo Mocchi: Tekken Tag Tournement Henger w/Giant Cannons: Zone of Enders Ninja Zan: Dead or Alive 2 Samurai Armor: Onimusha Zoom Jogger Girl: Gran Tourismo 3 Kabuki Suezo: Tenchu (Not the Greatest Hits version) Black Wolf: Chrono Cross (Both Discs) Nymph: Final Fantasy 8 (Disc not specified) Fantuger: Final Fantasy 8 (Disc not specified) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- (Section below contributed by BldOmen - cs - com) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Pancho inside an afro: Unison Ninja Zan: Dead or Alive: Hardcore Honeybee Hare: Tomba 2 Psiroller in racing suit: CD included with PS2 DVD remote Zan: Jade Coccoon Demo ----------------------------------------------------------------------- (Section below contributed by Nathan Storberg and Jordan) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Arctic Hare: Sonic Adventure 2 Lesione: Crazy Taxi Legend of Legaia Legend of Dragoon Disc 1 Black and Red Zoom: Sonic Adventure Mew: NFL Gameday 2001 Um Jammer Lammy Legend of Dragoon Disc 3 Hare: FF7 Disc 1 Resident Evil 3 Tony Hawk 2 Lunar: Eternal Blue Complete Disc 1 Xenogears Disc 1 Ogyo: Warcraft 2: The Dark Saga FF7 Disc 2 Zoom: FF7 Disc 3 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee Parasite Eve Disc 2 Wild Arms 2 Disc 2 Colorpandora: FF9 Disc 1 Baku: Parasite Eve Disc 1 Parasite Eve 2 Disc 1 FF9 Disc 2 Tiger (wolf): FF9 Disc 3 Final Fantasy Tactics Parasite Eve 2 Disc 2 Raiden: FF9 Disc 4 Lunar: Eternal Blue Complete Disc 2 Legend of Mana Rival Schools Disc 1 Rival Schools Disc 2 Plant: Resident Evil 2 Claire Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver Legend of Dragoon Disc 2 Momo: Top Gun Tenchu (Greatest Hits) Jell: NFL Blitz 2k Need For Speed 3: Hot pursuit WWF War Zone Henger: Jade Cocoon Final Fantasy 5 Road Rash 3D Wild Arms 2 Disc 1 Naga: Mega Man X5 Mega Man X4 Snow Mocchi: Alien Trilogy Desert Plesiosaur: Tekken Egyptian Naga: NHL 2k Bird Colored Beaklon: NFL 2k Snow Plesiosaur: Nascar 98 Turtle Mew: Rugrats in Paris Ocean Mogi: Summoner Joker: Monster Rancher Battle Cards: Episode 2 Mocchi: Mega Man 8 Durahan: Lunar: Eternal Blue Complete Disc 3 Colorpandora: Need For Speed Psiroller: Need For Speed High Stakes Evil Zone Mexican Bell-Monster: Nightmare Creatures Octopee: Front Mission 3 Wild Arms Evil Dead: Hail to the King Disc 1 Suzurin: Evil Dead: Hail to the King Disc 2 Final Fantasy 6 Farn (Morx Pixie): Final Fantasy 8 Disc 1 Mer-Pixie: Final Fantasy 8 Disc 2 Fantuger (??? Pixie): Final Fantasy 8 Disc 3 Nymph (??? Pixie): Final Fantasy 8 Disc 4 Dakkung: Legend of Dragoon Disc 4 Xenogears Disc 2 King Tiger: Rampage World Tour Pancho: Road Rash (Greatest Hits) Viking Durahan: Tail of the Sun Unknown: Tetris Plus Eggukung (??? Dakkung): Tobal #1 Takrama Mocchi: WWF Attitude Ice Mocchi: WWF In Your House Golem: WWF Smackdown! Wrestler Golem: WWF Smackdown! 2: Know Your Role ======================================================================= Frequently Asked Questions (sort of) ======================================================================= Nathan asks: I just got monster rancer 3, 2 days ago and I cant figure out how to get more training lands I have 2 the one you start out with and a sand one but I cant get any more. And I need to know how to get differnt trainging land it weird though I have 2 monsters of the fame of super hero and I still not get differnt training spots. ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` Now, I can only speak for myself and two others here, but the areas seemed to open up as our fame as breeders went up. Not only did they open up, but they opened fairly quickly. I had them all open by my third monster, my friend by his fourth. Though, conversely, it may not have anything to do with fame at all, but how long you train in one spot. My apologies for not having more detailed info on this, but I had already opened up all of the areas before I even considered posting an FAQ about the game. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Xboxattic asks: Ok, I have gotten 3 accessories from battles, yet they are just ??? I don't know what to do to be able to use them. I might have just missed something in the game, or it just might be explained later on, but for the sake of my sanity, do you know how to get the accessories usable? ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` This actually had my friends and me perplexed for a while until I was entering a tournament and wondered why there was a picture of a specific monster. It took a moment for me to realize that the pictures on the tournament entry screen were telling me what kind of an accessory it was and what monster it was for. Opening up more monster genotypes proved my theory correct, so there you go. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jmdefense11 - aol - com has a quesion I can't answer properly as I never took this storyline: In the kalagari region gadamon kidnaps jimsey, and gadamon wants a fruit called the dodorino friut. gadamon says she will return jimsey if you give her the fruit. later on sanasha comes by and shows were the fruit is located, and once the seasons change i go to the spot sanasha was talking about and fleria tells me that it is not the place the fruit is located. so if you would please tell me how to get the fruit to move the story line along. because since i cant move the storyline along i cant get a zan. respond a.s.a.p. thanks. Retaya wrote in to let us know that she is stuck in the same spot. ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` From what I have read about this sub-plot, and from a few e-mails I received that made vague or half references to it, there is a glitch in the game that makes the only dodorin fruit available from Jimsey Himself. Supposedly, if you don't beat Gadamon, there is no way to get a Dodorin Fruit and rescue Jimsey. The only thing I feel comfortable in suggesting is to re-load from before you were confronted, change training areas and work on your monster's stats there until you feel your monster is strong enough to beat Gadamon's. Another thing: If you have a very powerful monster, but are afraid that he is going to die soon so put him into hibernation and begin raising a new monster, the monsters owned by the NPCs like Gadamon will be somewhere nearly as powerful (if not as powerful) as the monster you have in hibernation. In short: If you have a S ranked monster in hibernation, and are raising an E rank, Gadamon will attack you with an S rank and wipe the walls with your monster. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kooster asks: During training, do you use the directional pad and buttons? I found the games documentation to be very lacking in this area and not much help. ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` Really the only thing you can do is tell the monster to train. You just select the type of training and either watch the monster train or skip the little training movie. There have been some to say that if you rapidly press circle or square you will get a better result, but it does not matter at all. If your monster is going to fail, it will fail no matter what you do. Re-load all you want, short of using a different training in a different land, and that is not gaurantee either. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DMX1467 - aol - com asks: How long does it take for a monster to adapt and change in a certain Region? ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` Pretty much, you feed the region specific foods to your monster fairly constantly. If your monster likes the food, great! If not, it's going to get pretty darn stressed out, even if you alternate the region specific food with a food the monster likes. Stress shortens life spans, so I saved onto a different memory card and began the unfriendly process of changing my monsters. Then when they were unlocked in the encyclopedia, I could transfer them to my original save at my liesure. ======================================================================= Miscellaneous Info ======================================================================= Additional Training Areas: These become available as you gain fame as a **breeder** in those lands. Winning tournaments in a region gives you fame for that land. Additional Training Exercises: Monsters will occasionally open these up as you search for items and such during season changes. Elemental Orbs and Bits: Available only through the Ran Ran ventures. You will find the bits when you find the light of the earth. You will find the Orbs when you fight and defeat the rare monsters that will ambush you while you search (random encounters while making individual searches). Pachos, Dragons, and Durahans: Available after you have raised a monster above B and A ranks respectively. Zan: I'm sure you would like this kept as a surprise, so I will reveal to you the location of the plot development. While you are training in Brillia (The snowfields) you will need to make your monster as powerful as you can for the rank that it is in, or if you want a challenge, dont. In any case, once you and your monster's fame has risen high enough The encounters (plural) will begin. Stay there and it will come to pass. Though if you want to know details, there are other FAQs out there with them, sorry. Joker: Like above, you will need to be famous, but your monster will not need to be high ranked. You will need to be training in Goat (The Ocean) and you will need to cheese off a certain person (not hard, just kick their monster's ugly butt) They will make several more appearances, and let you in on a little secret. This secret you can spread or keep, it doesn't matter. Just make sure your monster is extremely powerful for the rank that it is in (like A ranked stats for a C ranked monster, which is easy if you have a monster heart) Both Zan and Joker I unlocked with Drydon (nordic armor) before I defeated the Big 5. Jokers on CD: I currently don't own any CDs or DVDs with Jokers on them. Getcheffy contributes: Not sure, but I think Monster Rancher Battle Card is a Joker Zero Contributes: I think I know how you get additional training lands. You need to get fame in the lands, which you do by winning tournaments in those lands. It seems like 3-grade tournaments or higher are good for this. Also, I don't think free-for-all tournaments count. The Great Milenko wrote in with: from wat ive found the way to unlock certain training areas is not to have high fame it is to make ur self famous in that region. example- the more tournaments u enter in te desert region the higher ur fame in that region. when u get high fame in that region u unlock that region. i unlocked all regions by my second monster who also won 4 of the big 5 tournaments. well i hope i helped -the_great_milenko15 Holier than you think?;) I saw your excellent FAQ on Monster Rancher 3, which I intend to buy soon. I noticed that on Monster Rancher 2, MANY "holy" CDs, or christian music or bible study CDs... had LOTSA Jokers on them, which I found Hilarious, thankfully, the programmers weren't without humor in MR 2, perhaps the same for MR3. Hope ye find ye Jokers... -Mike Zan Abilities: as for the bits and stones, i know that the jade stone contains one of the best skills for the zan race, being the rear raid, it has a very high hit ratio, and the damage is pretty decent too.... my fav move for the zan... -Schombaliah Hey me too, that attack alone (even untrained with noisy halls) can get you all the way to the top of the monster food chain. Give your Zan a high speed and strength and you will be unstoppable (Just don't forget your HP and endurance) Monster Farming: If you have a very powerful monster, but are afraid that he is going to die soon so put him into hibernation and begin raising a new monster, the monsters owned by the NPCs like Gadamon will be somewhere nearly as powerful (if not as powerful) as the monster you have in hibernation. In short: If you have a S ranked monster in hibernation, and are raising an E rank, Gadamon will attack you with an S rank and wipe the walls with your monster. ======================================================================= Version History ======================================================================= 10.08.01: Original posted October 8th, 2001 10.11.01: Contributions and questions from Schombaliah, Getcheffy - home - com, mr_socko_316_69 - hotmail - com, Jacjr476, xboxattic, and thanks for a sizable monster list update from Nathan Storberg: golden_slayer - hotmail - com Added some monsters found on the Underground subscription discs; others from Fight Club and Godzilla. Keep 'em coming, folks! 10.13.01: Joker Disc updates from Jacjr476 and DrSnotspill more contributions from Nathan Storberg and his friend Jordan, new contributors: Zero and DrSnotspill - aol - com Questions from: Jmdefense11 - aol - com and Kooster 10.15.01 Contributions from ShadowZX99, The_great_milenko15 More monsters from Nathan Storberg and more from my meager CD/DVD/Game collection, and finally Thanks to DrSnotspill - aol - com for his additions of monsters with ? attributes. 10.19.01 Contributions from BldOmn - cs - com who added more (?) monsters to the list as well as a couple of Zan updates. Mike for some info that should be very helpful. Aarong for the Jester Momo and Hotrod. and DMX1467 - aol - com for a question that is surely on everyone's mind. 11.08.01 Sorry it took me so long to get this out, but I got a little disheartened at some sites for not posting my updates, that and I've only had 6 contribution e-mails since the 19th. More contributions from Dr. Snotspill, Nathan S, Joy, and Schombaliah, and Reteya brought us back to an old unanswered question about the Dodorin Fruit. Added more to the monster lists, the question section, and a fine contribution to the Misc info section. 10.09.03 Recieved a request from a website that wanted to publish my FAQ. Edited the FAQ a little. Seperated a single long paragraph in the beginning into two. Removed the @ symbols and .dots from email addresses to keep people from being spammed. (I was completely unaware of this when I first published this FAQ) ======================================================================= megatron - cybertron - com =======================================================================