ano0maly wrote: ↑4 years ago
And the discussion regarding how Piranha Bean drops only one of two items reminded me of something I was wondering about:
Superstar Saga is a bit of an oddball in comparison to how most games, and even future games in this series handle enemy drops.
Basically, enemies have a normal item drop, and a rare item drop.
However, the catch here is that enemies can't actually drop their rare item under normal circumstance.
Instead, in order to get their rare drop, you either have to use
Advance Swing Bros. or the Gameboy Horror SP Accessory.
When the
Gameboy Horror SP
is equipped, all enemies are guaranteed to drop their rare item.
The only time when the normal drop and the rare drop both have a chance to drop is when you use
Advance Swing Bros.
which then does a check/rolls to see which item you'll get.
Also note that you can't steal Woo Beans from enemies, so if you "successfully" steal one, you'll just get nothing.
And no, enemies can't drop multiple items, so you can't steal both drops,
and the
Gameboy Horror SP
thusly prevents you from getting the normal drop.
The last thing to note here is that several enemies have a 0% chance to drop their rare item,
and absolutely require the
Gameboy Horror SP
in order to get it.