Hay Yukio. glad you're feeling better.
The flu is not something you want, and shouldn't be taken lightly if you should get it.
Did you see my last post?
If I somehow broke your game, I'm sorry, but I noticed that the chain sword stopped an enemy in its tracks forever, and thought I'd try it on the magical ball.
It worked, and I wouldn't mind making a recording of it if people want it.
Later!

threeblacknoises, just so you know, bugs can be fixed without releasing a new build of the translation.. those two things aren't related. lol Glad that bug will be fixed soon.

assault_freak, they kind of are, seeing as one can't take advantage of the newly translated stuff without applying the update.
The not being able to change weapons thing does work properly with the snake chain, but; with the chain sword; the bug is most likely that the enemy is just in an infinite stun.
When dealing with other enimies, your weapon can't be changed until you release the sword, but if an enimy can't be harmed by the sword; for some reason; you're then free to move about the field and fight whatever else you want.
You do; however; have to use another weapon to kill anything that was stunned by the sword.
This could be a useful strategy for dealing with sirtain bosses that contain multiple threats, as you could just stop one from moving while you deal with the other threats.
Those were my thoughts until now, and their was never a chain object on the field when an enemy was stunned in this way, so that's why I did what I did.
I figured it was just one of bk3's little secrets.
Someone hinted that an item exists that does 20 percent damage to the ball, but their isn't anything in any of the shops or in the first playthrough that has magical properties; as far as I know.
I figured, with the effort it takes to make the chain sword, combined with the fact that you have to first get to the ball without dying, and it takes about 25 minutes; give or take depending on attack stat, that this was a viable strategy for obtaining the magical ball weapon.
So, can anyone tell me how you're supposed to defeat the magical ball, or what difficulty level I should start on now that I have something like 10,000 attack and defence?
Does anyone also know if it matters what difficulty level you start on; as in; do I still get the bonuses from the earlier difficulty levels if I start on; say; vary hard?
Later!

yukio, it's not so much the switching enemies while chaining that's bugged, it's just in the case of something like the ball, it will chain it but won't do damage and won't lock you in place, so you have the chain effect on the ball but not on yourself
I sent you an email about this too a few days ago

yeah, the magical pieces are used to build the miracle edge and I didn't even know you could use them to do damage to anything.

Well, I guess I'll have fun with stunning the magical ball and owning it after school tomorrow! That's if I have the time to make the chain sword and find the magical edge before I get stuck in whatever's happening this weekend. Or, maybe I'll just defeat in the normal way if I can wait and level up that much. I'm only at level 125.

So how do you get the peaces of magic?
Also, I do remember seeing something about the paper dolls on the old topic, but seeing as I was trying to remain unspoiled, I didn't commit it to memory.
Also, it seems that the difficulty setting causes everything to reset each time you change the level, but does that mean that if I complete the game on dxciting, that I can go back to that or normal and not lose my progress?
Also, I notice the wolf level starts at lv 2, so is it better to start on exciting or one of the wolf levels first?
Later!

It's better to start on exciting if you beat the game on normal for the first time. When it says enemy lv 50, it means the current level of the enemy plus 50 levels. So, the first enemies would be level 51. With the wolf levels, it's multiplication. If your using an english voice, it will probably say something like enemy lv 2? If your using pro talker, it will say enemy lv 2 y or something like that, can't understand exactly what it's saying. Anyway, that means enemy level times 2. So on exciting, the bio control system would be level 150, and the other part of the boss meaning 25-5 the enemies would be level 160. On wolf, the bio control system would be level 200, and the 25-5 boss would be level 220. On the last difficulty level, (legend of I Een), I think all the enemies will be level 100000.

threeblacknoises, it's supposed to reset. The game warns you every time that no matter what level, if you change your difficulty, your stages will reset. Your stats stay, but you lose all the keys and items required to pass a stage so you're basically beating the game from the start, just with fresh stats and weapons.

I was wondering how you made that thing? I'm still missing lots of cpu and computer stuff. Where do you get those? More grinding on the ufo catcher?

assault_freak, if that's the case, then I found another bug.
Once I choose a higher difficulty level, it does ask me a question, and it makes a cool sound when I choose the bottom option before it does in fact send me back to the stage select with only stage 1 sellectible.
The bug happens when I go back to normal.
The game does go back to the older mode, but I still have my progress from the harder mode; EG, all stages aren't complete anymore.
Later!

you're not supposed to. Any difficulty level  you choose, even going back to one you've completed, resets the stages so you can't change back in the middle of a playthrough if you're finding it too difficult. So whether you go up or down in difficulty, any time you switch, stages will lock again.