by MrStarbird » Sat May 13, 2017 6:53 am
Interesting side note since you mentioned the placeholder items for the vehicles, there is actually a glitch achieved through hacking (found it accidentally during one of my older builds in the randomizer). If there is a different item in the Eclipse Torch chest and your inventory is full, after you fight Lashiec the game will attempt to put the Eclipse Torch into your inventory, but it will add it into Slot 41 (you only have 40 slots to begin with). Slot 41 is basically the first of 3 bytes for Meseta, so this changes how much Meseta you have to the millions. Sell any item and your meseta will be maxed out.
I doubt it's possible to do it any other way (though it would make the game a bit faster to run), but the Eclipse Torch is the ONLY item in the game where the game forces an item into your inventory outside of having you pick it up in a chest. Technically, you get the Eclipse Torch, the game removes that item so you cannot use it in battle, then gives it back to you after you kill Lashiec. In the glitch I found, it couldn't remove the item that was in the chest, but still tried to give you an Eclipse Torch anyway, overflowing the data onto the next byte.