[armakh]

Also remember...chest drops are determined the first time that you enter an area, so for things like the Nessie chest and the rapax queen chest, you need to make sure that you save before you enter the area and if it doesn't pop the things you want, reload before you entered the area for the first time. Doesn't matter if you leave the area and come back...everything is determined the first time you enter the area.

BUT...for item drops on monsters, it is a random each time you kill the monsters. So if Don Barlone doesn't have the Cane the first time you kill him...just save before you kill him and do it again...he can drop the cane the second time. Same with the buccaneer ghosts and the light sword (which means that theoretically, you could pop 7 light swords if you are that bored.....)

So save before you enter the shallows so that you can reload the Nessie chest if it doesn't have Excalibur. Save before you enter Bayjin for the chest in the hut. Save before you go into upper Rapax castle for your Muramasa. But for Don, Bucc ghosts, and other monster drops....just save before you whack them-no need to go through the whole area.