Baten Kaitos Origins - Battle Results Transfer

First and foremost: No, this trick won't be used in regular any% speedruns because it requires progress from a pre-made save file.
Where to obtain magnus shown in the video:
Warrior's Scarf: in a chest in front of the Celestial Tree
Fire-Brewed Tea: from the cloudmaster at the Celestial River, or from a coupon
Balmsand: in the Sandfeeder's Nest
Cross Pendant: give the kid at the Celestial Tree a Mountain Apple
Mountain Apple: in some houses in Cebalrai
Fire Moss (+3 fire offense): in the caves in Nekkar
To turn on wireframe in Dolphin, go to Graphics, Advanced and check "Enable Wireframe". "Free Look" might also be helpful.
I didn't show it in the video, but you can use an aura for the Balmsand strategy. It disappears when Sagi dies but comes back when you retry the fight. Light aura helps prevent sleep from Baelheit's attack Seraphim Soul.
If you have enough HP (either by being a high enough level, or by having enough HP-boosting quest magnus), you won't need Balmsand or Cross Pendant.
There are quest magnus that increase the amount of EXP earned, such as Adventure Novel (+5%) and Fluffy Greythorne (+8%). The bonus will be applied at the end of the second battle. docs.google.co...
It takes 39 Baelheit fights to get Sagi from level 1 to level 99. docs.google.co...
If EXP, TP, or gold earned exceeds 2,147,483,647, it will overflow into a negative value.
Using this trick on the Sandfeeder fight makes Sedna permanently inaccessible. Baelheit drops 2 magnus, and the Sandfeeder drops Icebloom and Sedna Bridge. Since only 3 magnus drops can be actually obtained at once, and the fourth one is Sedna Bridge, you skip getting that magnus. I think having Sedna Bridge is the only way to ever gain access to Sedna (it forces you into Sedna the next time you step into a blue flower). Sedna House 1, which you get from Lord of the Lava Caves, doesn't unlock Sedna.
Story-wise, the game doesn't acknowledge the player beating Baelheit in round 1. The scene after the battle will still play out like normal. You will get more EXP, TP, and gold, though. Magnus drops from bosses are one-time per file, so you won't get any from the second fight.
The detailed combo results were generated using this tool: github.com/Exc...
For BKO speedruns, check out this page: www.speedrun.c...
If you want to do speedruns, find glitches, or just learn more about the game, feel free to check out the BKO Discord: / discord

[@HiddenPower13]

Who would've thought this quirk could actually be useful for something? Also, it's very fortunate that you can even solo Baelheit to begin with.
Love the editing too!

[@zyxyz2056]

3:56
"Not a bad workout", indeed XD

[@gustavochavarria8161]

Whoa after that Krusha video, you haven't done anything until now.

[@davidweyer4150]

Nice Video and Explanation!
Now I am even more hyped for the hd remaster :D
I dont think they are gonna fix this, but I hope they fix the Arena Bug that screws your Gamefile, do you know of any "harmful" bugs in baten kaitos 1&2 that SHOULD be fixed?
Do you have any concerns regarding the switch port?

[@Exchord]

There are a few things you can miss in BK2, and a lot of things you can miss in BK1. Most of them are missable by design, such as boss photos and the Warrior's Mementos sidequest in BK1, but here are a few bugs that prevent 100% completion:
In BK1, giving the kids in Azha 21 magnus at once skips the reward for giving them 13 magnus. There might be other bugs, but I can't think of any right now (unless the auras skipping evolution stages counts as a bug).
In BK2, you can apparently miss out on a Sedna magnus drop in the Lava Caves, which sounds like a bug to me. Also, I heard that if you join the Lefties for the Anuenue election and don't find the candidate until later in the story, the quest becomes incompletable. And finally, I'm not sure if one could call this a bug, but the Ballet Dancer only appears in the Vega building site, so if you miss that enemy or its Rabbit Dash drop, you can't complete the field guide.
Here's some more stuff that can be missed:
gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/917921-baten-kaitos-eternal-wings-and-the-lost-ocean/53576467
gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/929928-baten-kaitos-origins/51569491
Ideally, the developers should make it impossible for players to get locked out of 100% completion (and get rid of the New Game + requirement in BK2), but I'm not expecting that to happen. Also, travel log storage in BK2 is a potentially harmful bug, but it's not like it happens on accident, and it's rather fun to mess around with so I hope they don't fix it.
Right now I'm not super worried about flaws in the remaster. It's still in development, so anything could happen until release. And even if it ends up being a bit of a flop like so many other re-releases did, I think it will still introduce many people to the series and generate interest in Baten Kaitos 3. Also, they're adding cutscene skips to both games, so speedruns will probably be a lot more fun in the new version.

[@davidweyer4150]

@@Exchord The missable Magnus in bk2 in the Lava Cave is a random drop from a enemy that doesn't spawn again after beating the boss and you can also miss a magnus by not helping an npc in the desert after some story-trigger(either solving the conflict in azha or beating the lava caves, i dont remember exactly)
in bk1 you can also miss multiple magnus in the airship-section when you enter mira for the first time.
i cant think of a way to collectively fix all those occurrences.
paper mario 2 had professor franklys trashcan which stored the items you missed, but thats far from optimal.
i guess everything will stay the same, hopefully we get some quality of life changes and the ui plays as well as before