I had 170 and it opened for me, Are you counting your megaclass chips?
I better put this up too to tell you what to do after you open the door. WARNING! DO NOT READ THE SPOILER UNLESS YOU\'RE STUCK!I will not be held responsible if I spoil anything for you!
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Japan man is kinda easy if you have chips with long range.He has 1600HP.His attacks are
Trident=Spear covers 3 horizontal panels
Trident Jab=Covers 3 vertical panels
Arrow=Spins his trident and causes an arrow to shoot out
Backup=This ones kinda cheat,small soldriers will run at you and every time they poke their spear they will take a panel from you, they\'ll keep coming until either you or japan man is dead.
Use mostly long range attacks,like bowlman, mistman, protoman, Bigwave, antidamage.The best stlye to use is either a shadow or guts style.After you beat him you\'ll gain accsess to the final secret area.(NOTE:Raise every single virus before coming here for some extra stuff.)When you first enter there will be a door to your right you need to raise all virus\' before you can enter.Install Press program and you can find the Bugfrag trader(its not a netdealer, its like a chiptrader but accepts bugfrag instead)
Spend 300 bugfrag there and you\'ll hear the machine roar to indicat that you spent that much, you can\'t fight ForteGS unless you spend that much, the bugfrag trader gives you some really rare chips so its worth the time, go to the upper left and get Sanctuary A.In order to proceed any further you need the Hammer read my first post on how to get it.Break the monolith and battle 20 virus\'.Then you will encounter 3 M-1\'s.I used this stategy, Toss a prism in the center, and use Life sword, Thew combination is Sword Widesword, and Long sword. Continue down the path and there will be a huge stairway You must have all of the STANDARD chips to continue.Go up the stairway, save open the door and fight.......Serenade!!
I will skip the story line so I won\'t spoil anything for you.Serenade\'s tough so I advise that you have the following to have an easy time against her.Serenade has 2000 HP
Folderbck * X 1
Metagell 3 X 4
Areagrab * X 3 or 2
Strong chips like Protoman 3, Hero sword,
Anidamage, or any thing thats 130 damage and up.
Shadow stlye you will really need the invis ability in this fight
Okay, here\'s the stategy,
Whenever you shoot Serenade with an attack you\'ll notice she needs to move Up or Down to reflect it, thats where the Metagells and Areagrabs come in Try to trap her all the way in the back and since she can\'t move up or down she won\'t be able to counter anything you use agianst her!Now pummel her with your strongest battlechips or P.A.\'s Occasionally she\'ll attack with a moving circle thing easy to dodge.But when she uses her special attack thats when you have to worry Serenade will Go to the closest middle panel and raise her arm up and a green energy wave\'ll come up, and numerous lightning bolts will strike you panels causing them to crack In order to stop this hit her witha battlechip or if you have Shadow stlye turn invisible. Folderbck * is really helpful in this fight since if you run out of chips you can get \'em all back again!After you win Serenade will warn you of an evil that Howls and Roars(I\'ll give ya 3 guess to figure out who it is.)
She\'ll then hand over Ura Rank 1, and now you can go open the curtains in Undernet area 7!After you spent 300 bugfrag on the trader go back to where it was and battle Forte GS!
ForteGS has 2000 HP.It is imperative that you have Shadow style to even stand a chance against him, or have lots of HP preferably over a 1000. Forte with a life aura 200 is pretty hard to beat Shadow stlye makes MUCH easier to beat him though since you can turn invisible if he use Fire gospel on you.Forte will begin the fight by shooting those energy balls at you, after about 2 or 3 he\'ll start rapid firing them at you theres always or almost always one row that won\'t get hit so go ther or use Shadow style\'s power to dodge it then forte will send two of Gospel\'s claws which will hit the last panel you were standing on and crack them then he will use Fire Gospel on you
It looks like this
F=Forte
D=Panels hit
N=Panels not hit
DDN
DDDF
DDN
After that he\'ll start shooting energy balls again.
First in order to do any damge you need to break his aura change the field to either Grass or Ice then use an attack that will do double damage, then go crazy on him with super strong attacks.After you take his HP down to about 700 or so Forte\'ll get serious and use Gospel Beam!
It does around 500-600 or some thing around there and it\'ll break all the panels except the foremost top and bottom.
Shadow stlye and Folderbck* work best agianst him too, I don\'t know how people with white version can beat him since it doesn\'t have shadow or Folderbck, but I\'ll find out soon cause I\'m getting white next week.After you beat him You will get Bass+ in blue or if you have white you\'ll get Bass.After all this you can compete in the Serenade Time Trials!Its pretty hrad since you are timed and you must beat all the bosses in 45-40 seconds or less with a Pre-made Folder!Certain folders will work better against certain Navis, so find the best Folder that suits you!Beat all of them and recieve the Serenade Chip in White and recive the Darkness aura in blue.To use Serenade, Bass, Bass+, or Darkness Aura you must have a dark hole on the field
[Edited on 8-7-2003 by metool]