After the Hero has lunch with her parents, the game formally begins at Chapter 1. The prologue more or less sets up the Hero's friend Cynthia being able to cast the moshasu (aka Transform) spell, which plays an important role at the beginning of Chapter 5. Right off the bat, the game begins with an added prologue before going to Chapter 1.
I'd like to thank DJGrenola for taking the time to sync the audio to all of these, Nate Jahnke for putting these up on, and SaberinBlue for letting me use up all his bandwidth constantly. I am somewhat rusty at the game, since it has been awhile since I last played it on a new file, and I had just spent the summer playing all of the (offline) Final Fantasy games. Also in a regular playthrough for me, I take 0 game overs, 0 party escapes, and complete the 'Monster Picture Book'. This was so I could hopefully save some playtime and avoid some levelling-up. I am playing it how I regularly do, except I did use a few stat bonus seeds that I would normally save for later on in the game. Maybe you'll see something you did not know about, or perhaps you will see something I did not do/know and can help myself and others play better. Also I will try to discuss things that were changed in this version of the game. The video and my comments pretty much assume that you have played the NES version of the game story-wise, but I will try my best to explain what is going on and why I am doing whatever.
There were also some requests for the PS2 remake of Dragon Quest 5, which I may do the same thing for later on for that game (which was also never released outside of Japan/Asia). I only finished the FF games over the summer, but I felt that due to the requests about this game, I may as well fulfill those requests.
I figured that doing it all would allow whoever to watch whatever they wanted from the game. There were also some requests at the Dragon Warrior 4 NES board at for some parts of the game. The game never was released outside of Japan/Asia, and a number of people were pretty dismayed about that. When I first requested suggestions for my summer project of playing through Final Fantasy 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, X-2, 12 and then the Dragon Quest games over the summer at a forum I go to ( ), there were a couple of video requests for particular parts of the game this group of videos is for, the remake of Dragon Quest 4 for the PS1.