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GBA Hints and Tips

Golden Sun for GBA Hints and Tips

This page contains ALL the hints and tips we know of for Golden Sun for GBA. Please DO NOT contact us asking for additional Golden Sun hints. As soon as we discover any new hint, we publish it here immediately. If you have a Golden Sun for Game Boy Advance hint that is not listed here, please submit it.

How To Make The Goddess Proud In The Mercury Lighthouse
When you land on the little X in front of the goddess just jump over to her and use Mia's Psyphenergy Ply, and shell grant you a move to step in three times in the water before you sink, but only while steping on the X square.
Submitted by: Luigi13p Added: 12 Jan 2002	Report this Hint as: An Unlockable \| Broken

Name All Party Members
To name Garat, Mia and Ivan when you name Isaac, press select 3 times.
Submitted by: Stephens Dad Added: 13 Jan 2002	Report this Hint as: An Unlockable \| Broken

Tips On Finding Secret Items
If you have Ivan's Psyphenergy Reveal. Every time you see rocks in a circle formation use reveal, and you might find an item, or maybe even a secret door, which will lead to something even better. Also if you use Reveal when your near barrels and boxes, if you see a little shining light you might find something good.
Submitted by: Luigi13p Added: 13 Jan 2002	Report this Hint as: An Unlockable \| Broken

Dijiin
Make sure you set your Dijiin the way you want before a battle. If you know you are going to fight a lot of enemies, it would be a good idea to have your Dijiin ready to summon. If you are going to fight a small number of enemies you should not have it ready to summon. Use your Dijiin according to the element the person using the Dijiin excels at. Give Earth to Issac, Fire to Garet, Wind to Ivan, and Water to Mia.
Submitted by: Chinbalba Added: 16 Jan 2002	Report this Hint as: An Unlockable \| Broken

Psyenergy
Use your Psyenergy wisely. You should not just use your Psyenergy at any time, because you will quickly run out. You should only use it when needed or when it will stop you from receiving considerable damage.
Submitted by: Chinbalba Added: 16 Jan 2002	Report this Hint as: An Unlockable \| Broken

Herbs
Carry plenty of herbs in dungeons. Even a small task in a dungeon can wipe you out. You will save more money by doing this than by having to revive one of your team members. You will also always have all your team members ready to fight.
Submitted by: Chinbalba Added: 16 Jan 2002	Report this Hint as: An Unlockable \| Broken

Inns
Use the inns whenever needed. Inns are your best and cheapest source to get healed quickly. Use them even for minor damage, or just to recover lost Psyenergy. Inns are inexpensive and efficient.
Submitted by: Chinbalba Added: 16 Jan 2002	Report this Hint as: An Unlockable \| Broken

Psynergy Stones
When you see a little psynergy stone when you get farther in the game and you learn one of the many healing psynergy techniques you should use the healing techniques to heal your party then grab the psynergy stone. You will have full hp and pp plus you wont have to pay for an inn. However the psynergy stones get fewer and fewer the farther you go so dont always count on them bieng were you need them.
Submitted by: Darkcarnival0147 Added: 08 Feb 2002	Report this Hint as: An Unlockable \| Broken

Lots-a-Dijjinis
When you battle the final boss [The 2 guys and then the big guy.] Make sure you have EVERY dijjni. If you dont he could be extremly hard.
Submitted by: coolboy50 Added: 24 Mar 2002	Report this Hint as: An Unlockable \| Broken

Classes
Classes affect your Psyenergy. Djinn change your class. Some psyenergy is tougher than the psyenergy you have from equiping Djinn of the same element to the same kind of adept eg. If you equip 4 earth and three wind Djinn to Garet, he will be stronger than himself with 7 fire Djinn. Classes also effect things like attack, defense, agility and luck. The only thing you have to be careful of is losing psyenergy that you need for absoloute junk. For example, if you equip Issac with 4 earth Djinn, he will learn Revive. VERY handy indeed. The only problem is that if you equip a certain combination of other-type Djinn he forgets it for a useless pile of weak and unwanted psyenergy. Experiment with Djinn as much as possible. Remember also, that if a Djinni is on standby or recovery, it will not effect your class and psyenergy, aswell as your status.
Submitted by: Brownbearbomb Added: 29 Mar 2002	Report this Hint as: An Unlockable \| Broken

Status
Your status is PRECIOUS. Don't waste it by equiping worthless items and Djinn. Also, remember to use stat-boosting attacks and Djinn during tougher battles. My personal favourites are Flash (fire) and Granite (Earth). These surround you with a protective aura and it's almost like Defense +80! Attack is vital against bosses and tougher monsters like Mimics and Living statues. Have Ivan know High Impact and boost your party's attack. When it comes to Agility: ALWAYS BOOST IT DURING BOSS BATTLES. It will allow you to heal wounds and status changes during battles, before your opponent can move a muscle. Zephyr (Wind) helps A LOT. Boost defense on characters that you need a lot, like Issac, when he learns revive, or Mia when she learns Wish/Wish Well. This helps a lot during battles with Saturos/Saturos + Menardi, Hydros Statue and Deadbeard. Curses and Evil spirits lower your stats. Get rid of them whenever you can. They can be only pure annoyance. Never equip cursed items to your character. NEVER! It really can mess you up.
Submitted by: Brownbearbomb Added: 29 Mar 2002	Report this Hint as: An Unlockable \| Broken

Name All Your Charaters
To name all your characters: press select 3 times and start a new game and name Robin(original name for the main character Isaac) and then Garet's name will come up and then Ivan's, and Mia's.
Submitted by: XyCo Added: 16 Apr 2002	Report this Hint as: An Unlockable \| Broken

What To Do When Your Out Of Psy Crystals
Oh no your out of psyenergy and psycrystals and you need to heal your entire party just use the mercury djinn spritz and just set the djinn to us it again and again
Submitted by: Dr. Cheats Added: 24 Jun 2002	Report this Hint as: An Unlockable \| Broken

How To Get Granite The Venus Djinn
In kolima village, you'll see him behind a fence. Walk directly into the back of the house the fence is connected to [you can't see the door, camera angle]. Follow that secret passage and you'll come out of him.
Submitted by: Willykiller88neo Added: 01 Jul 2002	Report this Hint as: An Unlockable \| Broken

Get Into Lunpa
Get frost with Mia, and use it on that water puddle under the gate and you can enter.
Submitted by: vicioustiger Added: 12 Aug 2002	Report this Hint as: An Unlockable \| Broken

Get Into Lunpa Fortress
Go next to the left wooden wall of the fortress. If you have gotten the cloak ball from Babi use cloak in the shadows. You'll be able to enter the fortress unnoticed. Be careful if you don't use cloak inside the fortress you'll get caught, thrown out and end up doing it again!!!
Submitted by: 13467913579 Added: 22 Aug 2002	Report this Hint as: An Unlockable \| Broken

Clan Of The North
When you fight Starus and mermraid together, beware because you will fight them again when they will merge into a dragon.
Submitted by: mr-thursday Added: 28 Aug 2002	Report this Hint as: An Unlockable \| Broken

Sol Santum Puzzle #1
To complete Sol Santum Puzzle #1, it's really not that tough. Go to the block at the far right. You'll find your way from there. You'll have to go down a few times, though. Don't get tricked by that! I know this wasn't the best cheat code or hint, but if they're called a hint, it's not supposed to be told unless you're just dying to prove you got through alright.
Submitted by: ExterminatorTodd Added: 10 Sep 2002	Report this Hint as: An Unlockable \| Broken

X Squares
When you're trpped in between an X Square and the goddess in the Mercury Lighthouse, use the Ply Psynergy that comes with Mia. It'll let you progress, and be totally rad! But do not, I repeat DO NOT use the Retreat Psynergy that comes with Isaac! It'll send you to the beginning of the Mercury Lighthouse, which will force you to do you the whole puzzle over again, unless you saved before you used Retreat, which then you can turn the Game Boy Advance off, then turn it back on, and finally, load your data. Then you can use Ply and then you can progress, or you can use Retreat again, and have to repeat the whole turning off the Game Boy Advance or you could do the stuff in the Mercury Lighthouse you have already accomplished.
Submitted by: ExterminatorTodd Added: 10 Sep 2002	Report this Hint as: An Unlockable \| Broken

Get Tonic, The Mercury Dininji
Get into the Lunpa Fortress and go through it until you get into Master Hammet's cell. Dodonpa will appear and you will have to fight a monster. When you get out and start leaving Lunpa. A guy will appear and stay where you are instead of heading back to Kalay. Go back into the fortress and go find Donpa. He will have the lady blocking the entrance to the room move. Go in there and Tonic will be there. You don't have to fight it.
Submitted by: Plasma man Added: 23 Sep 2002	Report this Hint as: An Unlockable \| Broken

Level Up!!!!
Be sure to always level up because it will make the game a lot easier for you because you can beat bosses easier and you won't half to keep on rushing back for healing Items.
Submitted by: Cyber914 Added: 05 Nov 2002	Report this Hint as: An Unlockable \| Broken

Treasure In Lunpa
When you get into Lunpa and go up but stop at the rock. Use reveal and it will become a puddle of water. Use frost and climb up the ladder to the west,( DO NOT LEAVE THE REVEAL SCREEN, a way to do that is to go to the edge and do reveal again). Jump unto the ice pillar and travel along th east side of the town. Keep going until you come to a wall. Use reveal, you should see a spot of light that wasn't there. Press A and a secret door will open and inside there will be about five treasure chests. Enjoy!
Submitted by: :----) Added: 20 Dec 2002	Report this Hint as: An Unlockable \| Broken

Return To Sanctum
After selecting "Continue" get the file you want to resume hilighted and then press and hold start, select, R, and L. Instead of where you saved, you should be in the sanctum of the last or farthest place you have visited, wether you have used it or not. NOTE: Some locations a file was saved at are impossible to use this cheat with. If you saved at one of these locations the screen will say "Unfortunatley, your data could not be recovered" Which just means that the sanctum trick won't work, nothing to panic over.
Submitted by: youngcain Added: 26 Jan 2003	Report this Hint as: An Unlockable \| Broken

Secret "Send" Option
If you have beaten the game and saved information it says you cannot continue play with, you can get a password that will pass on your saved information to Golden Sun 2. When prompted to press start right after you turn the GBA on press and hold left and R, while holding these press A. You should then come to the basic menu but it has an extra option square on the right that looks like an envelope, this is the "Send" option. NOTE:The way to know for sure if you can do this is that you have a save file marked as "Clear Data".
Submitted by: youngcain Added: 26 Jan 2003	Report this Hint as: An Unlockable \| Broken

Ivan's Ultimate Weapon
The kikuchimonji (I don' know how to spell it) is dropped by fenrirs in venus lighthouse. But the chances 10%.
Submitted by: Fusion Dragon Added: 19 Feb 2003	Report this Hint as: An Unlockable \| Broken

Summon Stronger Djinn
To summon stronger djinn, you need more than 1 of the same type djinn. Put them all on standby, and you can summon stronger ones. To get Judgement, you need 4 earth Djinn. This is one of the strongest Djinn in the game (Useful when fighting Saturos and Menardi).
Submitted by: deeeeez Added: 13 Mar 2003	Report this Hint as: An Unlockable \| Broken

Fusion Dragon
Fusion Dragon will Probably one of the hardest fights you will have, except for the deadbeard one. at the begining of the battle, usegranite to put a barrier. DO NOT USE ANY OF GARETS DIJINN OR PSYNERGY( Except for the Dijinn Flash). Fusion dragon's Resistance to fire is incredible, so dont use Him. Instead, use the Psynergy Garet has " Protect " to raise the Party's Defense, and the Dijin Falsh, then Set it to him when You have the Chance. With ivan, use the dijinn You don't really need for him in the battle so You can then Summon. With Mia, use all the Dijinn she has Except for the Healing ones, or You'll lose Wish and Wish Well, and Heal at Least Once every Two Turns. With Issac, Use all His Dijinn and then Summon Judgment. in about 5 Minutes, You should beat him. I Beat him in 4 Minutes, so He can't be that hard with this Strategy. Good Luck!!!!
Submitted by: DarkSearchMan Added: 30 Jun 2006	Report this Hint as: An Unlockable \| Broken

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