Ragtime mouse

[DivineAurore]

Can you find it? I crossed every forest and I never met him.

[Phade]

I believe the first appearance is near the chocobo forest area after leaving lindblum for burmecia. he can be found within that forest more often than not.

[DivineAurore]

Originally posted by Phade:

I believe the first appearance is near the chocobo forest area after leaving lindblum for burmecia. he can be found within that forest more often than not.

Thanks for your answer but I crossed all the forests near Lindblum. Usually I meet him here.

[JohnTix]

Have you checked if you have random encounters disabled. It's likely Ragtime mouse would also be disabled by this.

[super780]

Probably will be that, since I could find him before getting into the ice cavern area.

[DivineAurore]

Nup ´cause I met some others ennemies on my way so, even the friendly monsters Mu and Garuda.

[JohnTix]

Originally posted by A.:

Nup ´cause I met some others ennemies on my way so, even the friendly monsters Mu and Garuda.

Try going in to a forest and repeatedly tap any directional button, being careful to not leave the forest. Unless they've changed it in this port, you won't have any random encounters, but can still encounter Ragtime mouse. Let me know if this works so I can add it to my guide for this port.

[DivineAurore]

Oh god it finally works, thank you so much!

[Stationary Traveller]

Originally posted by Game Tix:

Originally posted by A.:

Nup ´cause I met some others ennemies on my way so, even the friendly monsters Mu and Garuda.

Try going in to a forest and repeatedly tap any directional button, being careful to not leave the forest. Unless they've changed it in this port, you won't have any random encounters, but can still encounter Ragtime mouse. Let me know if this works so I can add it to my guide for this port.

I guarantee this works 100% of the time. What I do is go into a forest, call Moogo and save, restart the game in the forest and do slight taps on the directional buttons and the first encounter will always be Ragtime Mouse. You can do all his questions in a row if you wait until the end of the game, otherwise you can do the ones available for the place you're in (4 in Mist continent, 10 outside the Mist continent and 15+1 after you get the flying ship).

[Jorji Costava]

should be mentioned that the chance to meet him is much higher when you haven't had an encounter since the last time you entered the world map (i farmed the last 4 questions by going into the BMV, leaving, walking around in the forest, hoping it's ragtimer, if not, going back into BMV and repeating the process)

[Stationary Traveller]

Originally posted by Jorji Costava:

should be mentioned that the chance to meet him is much higher when you haven't had an encounter since the last time you entered the world map (i farmed the last 4 questions by going into the BMV, leaving, walking around in the forest, hoping it's ragtimer, if not, going back into BMV and repeating the process)

That's why you need to reset the game, when you load the save it counts as if you just entered the world map. I always got him first encounter when I did that.

[Jäveln]

met it in theforrests near treno

[Redshift]

I encountered him the first time you get to the world map. In the forest right from the ice cave entrance

[Gabby]

As a note, his appearance in forests is completely random. If you haven't found him, just keep trying to get encounters in forests. The amount of times you can find him depends on the disk you're on. The chances are also culuminitive in case you go looking late into the game:

Disc 1: 4 Times.
Disc 2-4: 6+ Times each.

Naturally there's no discs in this version, but the counter for finding him probably goes up at the points in the game where you normally would have changed discs.

[robthebob11]

Originally posted by Fwuffy:

I encountered him the first time you get to the world map. In the forest right from the ice cave entrance

Yeah it was nice to get all four Disc 1 encounters out of the way right off the bat. Just had to grind for 20-30 minutes in that very first forest.

[Lanaflux]

The easiest way to encounter ragtime mouse is to, save your game on the world map and try to tap your arrow keys on your keyboard so you do not cause the forest dustup you make while running, and in the forest on disc 1, near Dali after the ice cavern, you can find him 4 times. It will take a lot less than 20-30 minutes if you save after every encounter. He will be forced to spawn each time. On Disc 2 you know the little patch of forest before the Lifa tree, I believe he's there too, and you can encounter him up to 6 times. In that forest is the friendly monster Nymph too! On Disc three, once you have the airship, go to the patch of woods all by itself up top away from gizmalukes grotto, not the wood that you re-enter gizmaluke's grotto, but the other. Beware though there are Garuda (lv30+) and Grand Dragons (LV60+), only fiddle up there if you have Quina's level 5 death to put on the dragons which are totally awesome to level off of! A single Thundaga can ice you... :) OH and Quina can learn White wind on Disc 1 early on if you can get a garuda by itself!