Useful tips - Suikoden II

• Double beat rune : On your journey to Kyaro the first time, you will encounter Cut Rabbit, there's a small chance they will drop Double beat rune which remains useful throughout the game.

• Fury rune: The only place to purchase this rune is from Muse rune shop's rare finds, this city will be inaccessible for a long time so better to stock up as many as you can. Once you bought the rune, wait for 30 mins and save your game, check rare finds to buy if it appears, if it doesn't, reload the game and check until the rune shows up. It's quite expensive though, but easy to afford if you do the Matilda glitch below.

• Matilda Glitch: This is a permanent bug of the game which let you push the gate between Muse-Matilda. Once you get over to Matilda territory, do your best to reach Highway Village without fighting (run away/bribe) so Humphrey and Futch will join, you can start grinding a little for level or potches there. easy to reach level 35+ and 50.000 potch in about 15 mins. This was fixed in some later versions of the game.

• Max potch trick with Hans store: A glitch in Hans' equipment shop allows you to bring your potch below zero which tricks the game into thinking you have maximum potch.
  1. Have enough money to buy one piece of armor but not 2 of that armor. Go to Hans (your castle's armor shop) with 1 character wearing this piece of armor, and 1 character with no armor.
  2. Buy the armor. Select the character wearing the armor. When given a choice to put your current armor in the bag or exchange for potch, choose either one. At the confirmation screen, hit cancel twice. You will still be in the buy mode, ready to select who to buy it for.
  3. Now select the character who has no armor. Select "yes' at the confirmation screen. Now, select that character again, and choose either option (put in bag or sell). Now cancel out of all the menus. You should have 999999 potch.

• Early recruitment for several characters: (Hans included) Once you ran away from Muse with Nanami and Pilika, instead of going to Coronet, do the Matilda trick listed above and make a detour through the Muse-Matilda border. You will be able to go to Two River City, Lakewest Town, Kuskus Town, Radat Town and others. On the way you will be able to recruit Oulan, Hans, Templeton, Taki, Tetsu quite much earlier. Important note: if you get Humphey/Futch or remove Nanami, your game may freeze at some points

• Easy leveling to 99: If you can get Fortune Rune as Guardian Deity reward (DRDR, RTRT, URRR), it's easy to level up your characters at level 48 or less equipped with it will instantly jump to level 99 if they are the only survivor in battle. There are two ways to this. One is to fight 5 highland soldiers and 1 commander in L'Renouille. This is also possible if you visit Rakutei Mountain after freeing Rockaxe Town. You will need to fight a group of 6 Pixies.

• Hunter Rune : Normally, you can just get this rune after defeating the beast rune but there's an alternative method as to get the Hunter rune from Guardian Deity reward (UTTU, UUTU) so you can start farming for stuff earlier.

• Rope climbing game: There are many valuables come from this mini game and it's available to access quite early (e.g: Taikyoku Wear, unite assist items, stats stone, Celadon Urns for Lebrante and to make it easier to recruit Gordon)

• North Window Army Battle: Riou (along with Nanami and Tuta (he can be recruited in Muse.)), Viktor (along with Shu and Apple), Flik (along with Tsai and Hanna (she can be recruited in Toto Village.))  and Gilbert (if the player managed to recruit him previously) must battle against Solon Jhee, Seed, Culgan, Freed Yamamoto, Highland and South Window Armies. The goal is that Riou's unit attacks Solon's unit in order to get help from South Window Army. The problem is that Riou doesn't have enough offense and defense to confront to Solon's unit. If the player uses Repair Self (from Tuta) in Riou's unit, the game will recognize this as an attack against Solon's unit.

• Early Killey recruitment: After finishing the first mission from the Toran Republic, go to the war room, Shu will tell to Riou that he needs to get some rest. (Go to Riou's room to trigger a scene in HQ.) When Riou wakes up, Eilie will be there. "Before going to the war room", go to South Window. Killey will be waiting outside the trading post. The castle does have to be at the highest level & once you go to the war room, you're locked out of South Window until Riou fights Luca.

• Viki Radat Failed Teleport: Viki has a slightly chance to fail to correctly teleport the player in Radat, teleporting him instead of the second floor of the Item Shop, which is only accessible that way. In it, the player can find various items such as Mole Suit, Blue Gate Rune, Dragon Armor, Gold Emblem and Mega Medicine.