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Megaman Starforce Zerker X Ninja/Saurian — Help Job Side Quest Guide

writ­ten 7/25/26, updat­ed 7⁄22526

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Almost 20 years ago in 2008, I played this game on the Nin­ten­do DS. I did­n’t like it then, and I don’t like it now. Every­thing about this 2nd install­ment of the series seems like a rush job: from the sto­ry (to be fair, the begin­ning and end are good), to the lev­el design, to the side quests. They did improve the abil­i­ty to access the transer/star car­ri­er, but the pre­vail­ing feel­ing of the game is frus­tra­tion. Bat­tle move­ment is lag­gy, the mon­sters too fast, and access to lit­er­al­ly every­where is as dif­fi­cult and incon­ve­nient as pos­si­ble… I sus­pect it’s a cheap way to make the game hard­er because they rushed it. As a mas­sive fan of side quests in gen­er­al, I found this game to have TOO MANY, some­thing I rarely ever com­plain about. Again, this points to devel­op­ers try­ing to add filler to an oth­er­wise weak game. The entire time I played, I can’t under­stand why some­times humans can see EM Beings and some­times they can’t? Mega just says “some­times it’s vis­i­ble!” How con­ve­nient…

Nev­er­the­less, here is a guide for the side quests/jobs in the game, along with name ref­er­ences and CIPHER codes as I encoun­tered them.

Main Game Side Quests

Geo’s home­town is sad­ly lack­ing this time around

Echo Ridge

Don McCardLoca­tion: Town
Reward: Unlock­er sub­card		Give him Fire Ring 1 bat­tle card
Bon­nie Amo­raLoca­tion: Town
Reward: Attack Pan­el bat­tle card“		Go to Wilshire Hills entrance, peek into Styg Dis­mal’s star car­ri­er (he’s dressed in white like a work­er), return to her
Par­cel of Virus­esLoca­tion: Red Mail­box
Reward: Jan. XXth (let­ter from Mega­man Bat­tle Net­work’s own Netto/Lan regard­ing Dex and Yai)		Pulse into red mail­box, defeat virus­es
Chase WindeLoca­tion: Town
Reward: Pro­pel­ic Report and Super RC		Pulse in, go to satel­lite, cross over into Netopia, go all the way to the Loch Mess por­tal, return
Snaila MailLoca­tion: Town
Reward: HP Mem­o­ry 20		Pulse into the red mail­box, give Mr. Hertz a Dlx Ener­gy, return

Name References

  • Don McCard — “McCard” as he wants a bat­tle card
  • Bon­nie Amo­ra — “Bon­nie” means beau­ti­ful; “Amo­ra” refers to love
  • Snaila Mail — “Snail Mail” she’s old and likes let­ters — If you look at Snaila Maila’s pro­file, she likes Blair Loude’s singing
  • Chase Winde — Chas­ing wind because he likes RC heli­copters — was in MMSF1

Wilshire Hills

Hint: if you wait until after the Whaz­zap chap­ter, it’s eas­i­er to trav­el to dif­fer­ent coun­tries

Kate Chiz­er (Quiz Girl)Loca­tion: Hills Blvd
Reward: HP Mem­o­ry 10		Take her quiz! (Answers: Star Car­ri­er, Sonia Strumm, Shop­ping Plaza)
Iver Gat­teLoca­tion: Hills Blvd
Reward: HP Mem­o­ry 10		Answer his ques­tions (Answers: Mat­ter Waves, Singer, Satel­la Police)
Ere MiticLoca­tion: Shop­ping Plaza
Reward: Indie Frag­ment 1		Pulse in, go down a floor, look at the wave­board, delete virus­es, return to him
Par­cel of Virus­esLoca­tion: Old Binoc­u­lars
Reward: Mar. XXth (let­ter from Mega­man Bat­tle Net­work’s own Netto/Lan regard­ing Chaud)		Pulse into old binoc­u­lars, defeat virus­es
Han GardLoca­tion: Muse­um
Reward: Video Game		Answer Secu­ri­ty
Car­ma IffyLoca­tion: Wilshire Hills
Reward: HP Mem­o­ry 10		Pulse in, go up and behind the wall of screens with­out going up the ramp and fol­low the road to the end, return
Styg Dis­malLoca­tion: Hills Blvd
Reward: HP Mem­o­ry 20		Answer Not sure that I do…
Hale Knit­terLoca­tion: Wilshire Hills
Reward: Scarf		Go to Loch Mess, look at a blue sheep behind the wind­mill, return
Van GeauxLoca­tion: Wilshire Hills
Reward: Plas­ma Gun 3 bat­tle card		Go to Peak Hotel, look at paint­ing in bed­room, return
Kaz NovaLoca­tion: Wilshire Hills
Reward: Radar Mis­sile 3 bat­tle card		Go to the top of IFL tow­er, talk to the girl (Answer: That’s not it, mus­cles, not real­ly), return
Ruina Reck­erLoca­tion: Shop­ping Plaza
Reward: HP +300/360 pow­er up		Pulse in, go to 2nd floor of shop­ping plaza where Mr. Bore­al is, delete virus­es in green sign, return
Joe HawntLoca­tion: Movie The­ater
Reward: Charm		Pulse in, talk to the Mr. Hertz’s, return

Name References

  • Kate Chiz­er — Best I can tell, “Chiz­er” as in “Quizzer”
  • Iver Gat­te — “I for­got” — he was in MMSF1
  • Ere Mitic — I have no idea what this refers to
  • Han Gard — “En Guarde”
  • Car­ma Iffy — “Iffy kar­ma” refer­ring to super­sti­tion and the uncer­tain­ty of fate/future
  • Styg Dis­mal — “Styg” comes from “Sty­gian” mean­ing extreme­ly gloomy, + “dis­mal”

Grizzly Peak Resort

Par­cel of Virus­esLoca­tion: Food­topia Waveroad
Reward: Jul XXth (let­ter from Mega­man Bat­tle Net­work’s own Netto/Lan regard­ing Higs­by)		Pulse in, enter Lost Ice Stat­ue ES, delete virus­es in par­cel
Rol­ly Pol­lynLoca­tion: Suite
Reward: Short­cake		Go to Hills Blvd in the city, look in Kate Chiz­er’s (Quiz Girl) star car­ri­er, return
Noira CrushLoca­tion: Peak Hotel Laun­dry Area
Reward: Sun­glass­es 		Look in Yugo Astray’s (sou­venir clerk) star car­ri­er, return
Yugo AstrayLoca­tion: Peak Hotel Sou­venir Shop
Reward: HP Mem­o­ry 10		Get Floor Guide from front desk, return
Leroy MannLoca­tion: Griz­zly Peak Entrance
Reward: HP Mem­o­ry 10		Answer I need to think…
Ai ScroungeLoca­tion: Griz­zly Peak Entrance
Reward: Whis­tle bat­tle card		Pulse in, talk to Mr. Hertz at the bus stop, return
Niv­el Peaks Loca­tion: Hotel Roof
Reward: HP Mem­o­ry 10		Pulse in, on the roof there are 2 ledges, walk down onto the left ledge then over to the right one, look at the sled, delete 3 rounds of snow­man virus­es, return
Trans­port Pro­gramLoca­tion: Hotel Roof Snow Man ES
Reward: Cobra Fang weapon		Give it a Snow Ball 1 bat­tle card
Amy GelandeLoca­tion: Bun­ny Slopes
Reward: Pow­er Up Abil­i­ty: HP +200/225 and Amy Wall­pa­per		Give her a Snow Ball 1, Jet Ski 1 and Scythe 1 bat­tle cards
Ema NesiaLoca­tion: Black Dia­mond Run
Reward: Fire Search sub­card		Look at the wash­ing machine, return
Blair LoudeLoca­tion: Peak Hotel Lob­by
Reward: 2,000 Zen­ny		Help him choose lyrics (Answer: Griz­zly Peak, Rich Girls, Griz­zly Peak, Resort Hotel)
Hei­dy TidyLoca­tion: Peak Hotel Lob­by
Reward: Elec­tric Search sub­card		Answer C’mon Mega, think!
Meala DeVourLoca­tion: Food­topia
Reward: HP Mem­o­ry 10		Go to Whaz­zap Ruins 2, talk to old lady near the back, return
Chat­ty DitzLoca­tion: Food­topia
Reward: Old Strap		Look at descrip­tion of Trea­sure Map, go to Muse­um and look at fish exhib­it, pulse in, go to Loch Mess wind­mill, pulse in, go to Whaz­zap, look at pen­guin carv­ing, return
–Loca­tion: Black Dia­mond Area
Reward: Indie Frag­ment 6		Ski up to pro slopes, look at bro­ken lift, pulse in, look at dead Mr. Hertz

Name References

  • Rol­ly Pol­lyn — “Rol­ly Pol­ly” because she’s fat
  • Noira Crush — “Noir” = black and “Crush” could be her aggres­sion and/or the fact that she has a crush on Yugo Astray (who, inci­den­tal­ly, real­ly likes the col­or white)
  • Yugo Astray — “You go astray” I guess because he’s so hot he could poten­tial­ly turn some­one like Noira Crush around?
  • Leroy Mann — Man­ly — He is from MMSF1
  • Ai Scrounge — “I scrounge” since she gath­ers junk
  • Niv­el Peaks — Maybe ref­er­ence to Evil Knievel’s dare­dev­il ways and “Peaks” at the moun­tain
  • Amy Gelande — “Gelände” in Ger­man means ter­rain espe­cial­ly in regards to ski­ing
  • Ema Nesia — “Amne­sia” — She was also in MMSF1
  • Blair Loude — “Blare Loud” — He was the orig­i­nal school prin­ci­pal in MMSF1 who was fired. In MMSF1 he was also try­ing to write a song

Loch Mess (Netopia)

Why the devel­op­ers had to make it insane­ly annoy­ing to trav­el any­where in this game is beyond me. Every­thing was cre­at­ed to be as frus­trat­ing as pos­si­ble!

Minor AnglerLoca­tion: Vil­lage
Reward: HP Mem­o­ry 10		Go back to Echo Ridge, look inside the crab kid’s Star Car­ri­er in The Big Wave, return
Alec Tribec (Quiz Knight)Loca­tion: Messie’s Cove
Reward: Puz­zle Book		Take the quiz! (Answers: Loch Mess, Messie, Stream Can­cro, Bub­ble, 430)
D’n­wan DraunLoca­tion: Messie’s Cove
Reward: Charge Sever/150 pow­er up		Answer I can’t… swim.
Mr. Hertz Loca­tion: Binoc­u­lars ES Low­er Obser­va­tion Deck
Reward: Unlocks a new path next to the binoc­u­lars		Give it an HP +50/80, pulse out and look at the binoc­u­lars as Geo
Luz Stu­falotLoca­tion: Obser­va­tion Deck
Reward: HP Mem­o­ry 10 and Blank Card bat­tle card		Pulse in, go down the green ramp, use the Dive Machine, find the mate­r­i­al wave scoot­er near the mer­maid, return
—-Loca­tion: Loch Mess 2
Reward: Indie Frag­ment 5		Go down to Loch Mess’s throne and look at the dead Mr. Hertz
Par­cel of Virus­es Loca­tion: Sunken Ship ES
Reward: Sep. XXth (let­ter from Mega­man Bat­tle Net­work’s own Netto/Lan regard­ing Mayl, Patch, and Mega­man Jr.		Pulse in, use the dive machine, delete virus­es

Name References

  • Minor Angler — He’s just an ama­teur fish­er­man
  • Alec Tribec — “Alex Tre­bek” late host for Jeop­ardy, relat­ed to him being the Quiz Knight — Also Snaila Mail’s long-dis­tance boyfriend
  • D’n­wan Draun — “Don’t want to drown”
  • Luz Stu­falot — “Loves stuff a lot”

Whazzap

Every­thing about this chapter/area is stu­pid and gives me a headache

Y’Gat Rid­demLoca­tion: Whaz­zap Vil­lage
Reward: Sil­ver Mete­or bat­tle card		Repeat the beats back (Answer: 1, 2, 3, 2)
Wazafowon­won (Quiz Queen)Loca­tion: Whaz­zap Vil­lage
Reward: HP Mem­o­ry 20		Take the quiz! (Answers: Budi­cus, Eggs, Fire Ring, Dance Fire, 5, Vend­ing Machine, 7, Mack­relfil­lety­chius, Christ­mas Tree, defeat the virus­es then choose Rolling Out Car­pet)
WherzatLoca­tion: Whaz­zap Vil­lage
Reward: HP Mem­o­ry 20		Go to Loch Mess, talk to the fish ven­dor boy across the north bridge, pulse in, fol­low the wave road near the bal­loon ven­dor, talk to the Miss Hertz, pulse out, get Mess Fish from ven­dor kid, return
Kyanaig­o­tuLoca­tion: Whaz­zap Lines
Reward: Run-Away		Answer his ques­tions (Answer: 2, 3, 2, 3 — IFL Tow­er, Amy Gelande, Sheep, World Mys­ter­ies)
Lenny­ciaLoca­tion: Whaz­zap Lines
Reward: 3,000 Zen­ny		Answer his ques­tions (Answer: 3 — Don’t real­ly know…)
Whaz­zatLoca­tion: Whaz­zap Lines
Reward: HP Mem­o­ry 10		Go to Griz­zly Peak Resort, head to the far west of the roof area, go towards Food­topia, look at the snow bun­nies, return
Par­cel of Virus­esLoca­tion: Whaz­zap Lines
Reward: Nov. XXth (let­ter from Mega­man Bat­tle Net­work’s own Netto/Lan regard­ing ori­gins of Link Pow­er)		Pulse in, go into Ammonite ES, defeat virus­es

Name References

  • Y’Gat Rid­dem — “You got rhythm”
  • Wazafowon­won — I don’t know…
  • Wherzat — “Where’s that”
  • Kyanaig­o­tu — “Can I go too/to”
  • Lenny­cia — Beats me…
  • Whaz­zat — “What’s that”

Other Quests

Hikari Diary Quest

Quest: Find 5 Parcels

Reward: BN Blaster mega weapon

Note: This was real­ly neato and I was hap­py to find them all

  • Jan. XXth (Echo Ridge: Red Mail­box) — Today was ACDC Ele­men­tary School’s class reunion It’s been quite a while since I grad­u­at­ed… Time real­ly goes by so fast. Dex, who I haven’t seen in a while, has been elect­ed may­or. He was real­ly grown into a fine young man. And I hear Yai is the pres­i­dent of her father’s com­pa­ny: trav­el­ing around the world. They both have made their own marks and now it’s my turn. I’m gonna become a great sci­en­tist and help all of human­i­ty!
  • Mar. XXth (Wilshire Hills: Old Binoc­u­lars near IFL Tow­er)- I went to the air­port to meet Chaud, who’s back from a while over­seas. Appar­ent­ly, he’s back because the gov­ern­ment wants to rec­og­nize his ser­vice as an Inter­na­tion­al Offi­cial Net Bat­tler by pre­sent­ing him with an award. But even so, he did­n’t show any sign of joy, say­ing, “…Hmph, I did­n’t do it for the glo­ry. So, I’m not par­tic­u­lar­ly thrilled to be receiv­ing this.” It seems like that detached side of him has­n’t changed a bit.
  • Jul. XXth (Griz­zly Peaks: Lost Ice Stat­ue in Food­topia)- ACDC Ele­men­tary is about to be ren­o­vat­ed. They’re going to make it a lot more high-tech. I am a lit­tle sad to see the old build­ings go. Oh, that reminds me. Higs­by’s is anoth­er place I’m gonna miss. It’s not that they’re clos­ing, it just looks like they’re mov­ing to a new loca­tion. They say that the new place’ll be 10 sto­ries tall, and they’re gonna call it “Higs­by’s Chip Empo­ri­um.” I def­i­nite­ly have to attend the open­ing cer­e­mo­ny!
  • Sep. XXth (Loch Mess: Sunken Ship ES)- My son Patch nagged me into final­ly get­ting him a PET. I was plan­ning to wait until he was a lit­tle old­er, but my wife Mayl said he was ready for it, so I bought him one. He named the Net Navi he installed, “Mega Man Junior.” Its pro­gram­ming is tak­en from the best parts of my Navi, Mega Man and Mayl’s Navi, Roll. Patch was ecsta­t­ic. He’s deter­mined to be “the great­est Net Bat­tler in the world.” I won­der what he’ll grow up to be…? That’s the great­est thing I have to look for­ward to as a father.
  • Nov. XXth (Whaz­zap: Ammonite ES on rock wall) — At the Sci Lab meet­ing I put forth my “Link Hypoth­e­sis” that I’ve been pon­der­ing for some time now. Mega Man and I used to gith togeth­er, risk­ing our lives. Each time, there was this almost mirac­u­lous pow­er between us that helped pull us through. I start­ed think­ing about that pow­er, and that’s what start­ed me on my hypoth­e­sis. I believe that despite their invis­i­bil­i­ty, bonds con­tain an incred­i­ble pow­er. I think that by research­ing this hypoth­e­sis, the results will some­how ben­e­fit the world. Maybe not in my life­time, but… I’d like to think that future gen­er­a­tions will be able to use it as a spring­board to cre­ate a bright future for all!

Upon com­ple­tion of all Par­cel Virus quests and read­ing all notes, you receive an email from Lan Hikari (Hikari Net­to) say­ing: “Thank you for find­ing my diary. I wrote this because I want­ed to leave some kind of mes­sage to the peo­ple of the future. Well how is it in the future? I won­der if it’s the kind of future we envi­sioned. We will work hard­er to make a hap­py future! Please take this as sign of my appre­ci­a­tion for you read­ing my diary.”

Post-Game Quests

Note: Once you fin­ish every side quest in the game, you’ll receive a Mail from The Leg­endary Shin telling you that your reward awaits in a place called Trans Dimen­sion 2 (more on that below)

Hope Ste­larLoca­tion: Home — Echo Ridge
Reward: Holy Pan­el bat­tle card		Pulse in, go into your house, talk to Mr. Hertz in front of mom, return
Sonia StrummLoca­tion: Luna’s House — Echo Ridge
Reward: Recov­er 300 bat­tle card, Soni­a’s Wall­pa­per, Link Pow­er +20		Help her with lyrics (Answer: 1, 3, 2, 3, 1,1/2/3 — Run, Hips, Glad, Shout, Run, Any)
Luna PlatzLoca­tion: Luna’s House — Echo Ridge
Reward: Cook­ie, Link Pow­er +20		Pulse in, go to Whaz­zap vil­lage, look at the bananas, go to Griz­zly Peak, look at palm tree, return, go home, talk to mom, return
Bud BisonLoca­tion: Luna’s House — Echo Ridge
Reward: HP +500/500 pow­er up abil­i­ty, Link Pow­er +20		Pulse in, go to bud’s house, fight Tau­rus Fire SP, return
Zack Tem­ple Loca­tion: Luna’s House — Echo Ridge
Reward: Giga Class +1/500 pow­er up abil­i­ty. Link Pow­er +50		Pulse in, go to Lock Mess, dive under­wa­ter, pulse into Sunken Ship ES, fight the extreme­ly dif­fi­cult marathon 10-virus chal­lenge, return
Aaron Bore­alLoca­tion: Shop­ping Plaza — Wilshire Hills
Reward: HP Mem­o­ry 20, Blank Card		Answer his ques­tions (Answers: 1, 3, 2 — Six, Eight, Whyz­za Whaz­zap), then give him a Recov­er 150 bat­tle card
Bob Cop­perLoca­tion: IFL Tow­er 1 — Wilshire Hills
Reward: Aqua Search sub­card		Pulse in, go into the pink por­tal, fol­low the wave road to the ghost, delete the virus­es, return
Gredy MiserLoca­tion: Muse­um — Wilshire Hills
Reward: Wood Search sub­card		Pulse in, talk to the Hertzes near the dinosaur, return
Rich Dot­comLoca­tion: Entrance — Griz­zle Peaks Resort
Reward: 6,000 Zen­ny		Choose: #3 — Suit, go to IFL tow­er, talk to Cop­per, leave the screen then talk to Rich Dot­com (I don’t know if you need to leave the whole area or not)
GelandeLoca­tion: Food­topia — Griz­zle Peaks Resort
Reward: Search Eye sub­card		Pulse in, snoop in Meala DeVour’s star car­ri­er (she’s right in front of Gelande), return
Ger­ry RomeroLoca­tion: Vil­lage — Loch Mess
Reward: Trad­er Tick­et		Go to Whaz­zap, talk to Wazafowon­won (Quiz Queen), return
Tayle SpinnLoca­tion: Messie’s Cove — Loch Mess
Reward: Trad­er Tick­et		Go back to Echo Ridge, Don’t pulse out, look at Chase Winde’s star car­ri­er, return (now pulse out)
Shud­der BugzLoca­tion: Obser­va­tion Deck — Loch Mess
Reward: Search Eye sub­card		Go all the way to Griz­zly Peak Resort (always with the super incon­ve­nient back and forth…), go to the suite, look out a win­dow, return
ShamanLoca­tion: Vil­lage ‑Whaz­zap
Reward: Atom Mine 3 *1 bat­tle card		Go to Echo Ridge, go to Zack­’s house, look at book­shelf with rock­et on top, return
Pat SprigsLoca­tion: Ruins 1 — Whaz­zap
Reward: Indie Frag­ment 2		Talk to Pat north­east part of the ruins (even though his star car­ri­er isn’t red), pulse in, go to Ruins 2, fol­low the wave road in the east right before the ramp, defeat Gem­i­ni Spark, return

Other Post-Game Things

Indie Fragments

  • Indie Frag­ment 1 - Ere Mitic Side Quest (Wilshire Hills — Shop­ping Plaza)
  • Indie Frag­ment 2 — Pat Sprigs Side Quest (Whaz­zap — Ruins 1 — Post-game)
  • Indie Frag­ment 3 — Dog House (Alter­nate Future Echo Ridge — Dog house — Post-game)
  • Indie Frag­ment 4 — Mon­i­tor (Bermu­da Maze — Veg­a’s Hide­out in deep­est area — post-game)
  • Indie Frag­ment 5 - Dead Mr. Hertz (Loch Mess — Under­wa­ter near throne chair)
  • Indie Frag­ment 6 — Dead Mr. Hertz (Griz­zly Peaks Resort — Bro­ken Ski Lift ES)

Once you get all 6 frag­ments, you’ll get Mail from ??? giv­ing you a reward: If you equip all 6 frag­ments on your Broth­er tab, you’ll become Mega­man Rogue giv­ing you +50 for every sword card, lock-on null, EM bar­ri­er every turn, but you can’t use Mega cards.

???‘s “Present”

  • Go to Bermu­da Maze, use the short­cut phan­tom to get to the deep­est part
  • Go Left, Left, Up, Right, Up
  • Go through por­tal into Veg­a’s Hide­out
  • Look at the orb to get Alter­nate Future
  • Go back to Echo Ridge (Clear­ly, it’s Hyde…)
  • Pre­pare your­self and go through the new por­tal
  • Fight Tau­rus Fire IF (No bat­tle card to get, so do poor­ly if you wish)
  • Fight through the high-pow­ered virus­es to fill your library, then go to the oth­er por­tal near the pool
  • Go straight and fight Dark Phan­tom IF (still no bat­tle card)
  • Pow­er up with new bat­tle cards. There’s a Phan­tom Hertz mer­chant
  • When you’re ready, take out the 7 guardians (The game boss­es in IF form: Ter­ra Con­dor, Ple­sio Surf, Queen Ophi­u­ca, Yeti Bliz­zard, Gem­i­ni Spark, Can­cer Bub­ble, and Harp Note)
  • Go through the warp, and face Gen­er­al Auri­ga (Pushover in com­par­i­son to the oth­ers)
  • Head over to Trans Dimen­sion 2
  • If you have com­plet­ed all the achieve­ments, you can bypass the doors for rewards
  • Next Boss: Kung Fu Kid IF
  • You’ll need 100 Stan­dard Cards to go any fur­ther
  • Mov­ing along, your next fight is with Hol­low IF
  • … whoops… all that work and he still awak­ens!
  • To pro­ceed, you need to have col­lect­ed all 150 Stan­dard Cards
  • Once, you do, open the door, save, then chal­lenge Apol­lo Flame!
  • If you go back­wards, you can chal­lenge Hol­low and Kung Fu Kid again, and also open one of the doors for a Giga card
  • From here on out, gath­er all 6 badges (achieve­ments)

Note: As of 8⁄26, I have not both­ered to try and col­lect the rest of the mega chips. Not sure if I will attempt in the future

All Badges

Use this LINK to cheat help you fin­ish your library

  1. Defeat the main sto­ry
  2. Col­lect all 150 Stan­dard class cards
  3. Col­lect all Mega class cards
  4. Col­lect all 5 Giga class cards
  5. Defeat Apol­lo Flame
  6. Defeat Le Mu Xa

Cipher Codes

Orange Dis­play (Muse­um)KREREDZREBNUREHT Plas­ma Gun 2 bat­tle card
Sun­glass­esAXIMSOEG Image Eye weapon
Short­cakeSTERLDGNEEMAYAR Fire Search sub­card
Fay Phamish (star car­ri­er — Food­topia)LYGEENRAD Recov­er 50 bat­tle card
Video GameKYWSAVE HP +100/135 pow­er up abil­i­ty
Angel Hertz (fur­thest south­west Echo Ridge Sky Wave)IARENFINURA Unlock­er
Pro­pel­ic ReportANMMEFC2GTESRAAOR Sil­ver Mete­or bat­tle card
Puz­zle BookRIETCARRSAR Plas­ma Gun 2 *1 bat­tle card
Mr. Hertz (Water­fall in Messie’s Cove)INWOJAODNWhite Mete­or bat­tle card
ScarfBEMOCOBST Recov­er 150 bat­tle card
Green Hertz (Whaz­zap wave road)BRITEINKG Recov­er 200 bat­tle card
CharmNDETORHBRBA HP +50/50 pow­er up abil­i­ty
Run-AwayNKWPEORLI Radar Mis­sile 3 bat­tle card
Old StrapWVETMAERAT Sync Hook 3 *1 bat­tle card
Cook­ieOLSISKEYHIUMCMega Class +1/340 pow­er up abil­i­ty

DIY: Cutting My Own Hair Super Short with Updates

writ­ten 12/29/25, updat­ed 6/8/26

What

DIY hair­cut. I like super short hair

Why

Sav­ing mon­ey and time, get­ting the cut I want not what the hair per­son thinks

Time & Effort

Time: 1–1.5 hours

Effort: Easy-Mod­er­ate

Direc­to­ry

Click to Nav­i­gate!

Materials & Cost

Bought Supplies

Wahl Prof Mag­ic Clip V9000 Cord­ed

The 360 Mir­ror

Alli­ga­tor Hair Clips

Hair Styling Scis­sors

Total

$82.99

$39.99

$5.99

$11.99

$140.96

Owned Supplies

Hair Cut­ting Cape

Comb (clip­pers come with one)

Water Spray Bot­tle

Broom and/or Vac­u­um Clean­er

Process

What fol­lows is the orig­i­nal, very first hair­cut I did myself Decem­ber 2025 where I was real­ly ner­vous. Skip to the bot­tom for Notes and details on my sub­se­quent cuts

Prepping

  • Gath­er sup­plies and clear any rugs or any­thing else in the cut­ting area. Lit­tle hairs will fly! Keep every­thing with­in easy reach
  • Secure the cape
  • Fol­low man­u­fac­tur­er’s instruc­tions on oil­ing the clip­per. The thing I read before­hand said to put one drop on either side of the blades and then back
  • Grab the spray bot­tle and comb, then mist the hair so that it’s mild­ly damp but not sop­ping wet

I could­n’t find a spray bot­tle, so I used a wet comb and that does not work very well

  • Then comb straight so that all the hair lays flat
My hair is at least 2 inch­es too long
  • Know the game­plan. Appar­ent­ly, the rule of thumb for close cuts is to do the sides then the back first. Because I want­ed to keep the top a bit longer, I need­ed to alli­ga­tor clip the hair there out of the way so I could deal with it lat­er

The prob­lem with such large clips is that they get in the way of the clip­per

Cutting!!

  • Start­ing time!! The rec­om­men­da­tion is to use the clip­per guards and to go more con­ser­v­a­tive first. You can take away hair but not put it back.

To start, I used a #4 guard to address the sides. The tech­nique is cut straight into the air and to NOT fol­low the curve of the head just yet.

Deep Breath! LET’S DO THIS!

Right Side

Before
After

Hmm… Did­n’t wet the hair enough, so it was real­ly dif­fi­cult to cut the strands

Left Side

Before
After

Wet it more this time and it was eas­i­er. The only hard part was using my left hand instead of my right

  • Now for the trim­mer! Using the trim­mer and/or the cor­ner edge of the clip­per (no guard), fold the ear and trim around the con­tour

This trim­mer was TERRIBLE. The on/off switch was lit­er­al­ly impos­si­ble to flip and for the num­ber of times you need to do that, it was super obnox­ious and hurt my fin­gers. That’s what hap­pens when I decide to go cheap

left
right

Inter­est­ing­ly, my hair is dif­fer­ent on both sides. In the end, I knew I’d need the help of scis­sors to pol­ish it off

  • Now for the back. I stuck with the #4 guard to take the bulk off. Uti­liz­ing the side mir­rors by turn­ing either left or right to see more (you have to use the mir­ror in the mir­ror effect), I was able to take off the bulk of the length. The straight back, I used a two-hand­ed motion sim­i­lar to that dumb­bell exer­cise
Before
After
  • Now there are those lit­tle strands in the back. I decid­ed to use the trim­mer again. This part was super hard because I could­n’t see any­thing and no amount of phone or mir­ror could help me. In the end, I just used the comb as a straight edge. I knew I’d want anoth­er per­son to help me out lat­er.

They sell these back of head guides that you can secure around your fore­head

  • And for the riski­est part: Fine tun­ing. With the bulk gone, it was time to do detail work. If the length was good for a trim, I would’ve been fine, but I did­n’t want that. I want short­er!

Stu­pid­ly, I went straight from the #4 to a #1 for what­ev­er dumb rea­son. If I was sea­soned, it’d be fine, but I was brand new to this!! So, of course, I made a mis­take.

Whoops. Too much, too fast

  • After laugh­ing ner­vous­ly, I decid­ed to fix it. Slow­ly this time. I went from a #3, to a #2, then a #1. Each guard num­ber I went all over with until I got used to wield­ing the clip­per.

I actu­al­ly was­n’t intend­ing to ever go back to the #1, but I did in the end because it was the only way to get the bot­tom of the back to hug the skin and look more nat­ur­al.

Help­ful: Just because you use a guard does­n’t mean you’re lim­it­ed to it. On the side of the clip­per is a lever that fur­ther con­trols the length. So, using a #3 plus the lever effec­tive­ly gives you #3.1 — 3.9. This allows more con­trol to fine tune and is how I end­ed up fix­ing the hair and feel­ing com­fort­able with the rest of the fine-tun­ing process. It ends up being a tri­al-and-error/prac­tice thing.

  • After fix­ing every­thing, I felt much bet­ter and things were look­ing good as a whole. Now for the mid-tier! I swapped to the #6 to do the curve of my head, then the #4, and even­tu­al­ly #3 (only a lit­tle)
  • For the oth­er side of my head, I removed the clips, combed, then added the clips the oth­er way this time. Time to cut!
Before
After
  • More fine tun­ing all the way around. This is where I final­ly fig­ured out how to prop­er­ly use the tri-fold mir­ror.

The female head has a much more pro­nounced dip/roundness in the back than a typ­i­cal male head, so I had to take that into account

Hmm. I missed some on the right side
  • Hap­py with the sides and back, nor­mal­ly, this is where Hair Scis­sors come into play. Alas, I did NOT have any. I also knew bet­ter than to use reg­u­lar scis­sors or the clip­pers. I would have thinned and lay­ered the top using a 2‑finger hold and cut method, then fine-tuned the con­tours of the ears.

And DONE!

Go clean up and take a show­er!

Before and After Pictures

Notes:

1st Cut — 12/27/25

Very free­ing and so much eas­i­er than I thought it would be! A few hic­cups in the learn­ing process, but over­all, I can see myself doing this for years to come. The tri-fold mir­ror was instru­men­tal in all of this! I would high­ly rec­om­mend it! I’m already imag­in­ing oth­er styles I can try in the future! It’s nice to not only save mon­ey, but do this at my own leisure, in my own house!

  • I need­ed some­one else’s help for the scis­sor-work and con­tour­ing of the back and ears, so I have yet to try that myself. Should­n’t be too hard. I’ll update when­ev­er I do that in the future.
  • While the longer top style-wise was­n’t too bad look­ing, I can’t staaaaand hair in my face, so it just got annoy­ing
  • If using the large hair clips, make sure to push them way up high or they’ll get in the way of the clip­per
  • Def­i­nite­ly use a spray bot­tle
  • I did­n’t real­ize the back of my head is so bumpy. If the pic­tures look like I chopped to much in some places, it’s actu­al­ly because of my head struc­ture

2nd Cut — 2/21/2026

Dura­tion: 10:30am — 11:14am (45 min­utes)

Cut in the kitchen this time which was much bet­ter and brighter than the bath­room. Messed up AGAIN in the same spot because I for­got to return the clip­per lever to the low­est lev­el which means that, yet again, I need­ed to use the #1 guard to smooth it out. It went much faster than the first time because I not only felt more com­fort­able as a whole, but I prop­er­ly uti­lized the 360 Mir­ror. Vac­u­um clean­er is much eas­i­er than broom and dust­pan. Short­er to start this time around and short­er to end with. Also did not have scis­sors and had help for the final touch­es yet again.

LEFT: Pre-cut; CENTER: Messed up in the low­er cor­ner, so had to cut on guard #1 to smooth it out; RIGHT: Post-cut (you can see how the top is very long)

3rd Cut — 4/12/2026

Dura­tion: 11:21am — 12:26pm (1 hour 5 min­utes)

Hair was short­er to start with, but longer to end with than pre­vi­ous iter­a­tions (most­ly because I did­n’t mess up as bad­ly). This time employed scis­sors to help, so it took a bit longer to com­plete, but the detail work is bet­ter. Still messed up when try­ing to use the comb + clip­per method to detail towards the top. Looks bad, but not as bad as the bot­tom of the hair­line. It’s real­ly nice to be able to cut when­ev­er I feel like on my own. This time, I’m going to add some more notes to the process now that it’s more stream­lined.

  • Wet and comb through­out the process
  • Pin hair as desired
  • Choose a Guard - Used #3 with the clip­per lev­el on the short­est set­ting
  • Clip the sides and the back using the 360 mir­ror — Use the mid­dle to start, then the mir­ror-in-the-mir­ror images (i.e. When cut­ting the right side, look to the left; When cut­ting the left side, look to the right). Use an under­hand hold and cut upwards.
Under­hand hold for the back
Mir­ror-in-mir­ror image with scis­sors
  • Ear and Back Detail — Wet, comb, then use scis­sors and/or mini clip­pers. BE CAREFUL!! This is the eas­i­est place to mess up!
  • Short­en and Fade as desired. Used #2 guard ON THE LONGEST CLIPPER LENGTH first, then at half lever for the mid­dle, and then the short­est on the low­est por­tion of the head. Use a scoop­ing motion with the clip­per to pre­vent sharp edges
  • Detail Time — I removed 2 hair clips and then went in small incre­ments with the clip­per lev­el. Be care­ful if you’re try­ing to use the comb as a guard to help. That’s where I messed up this time… heh… heh… Sigh.
  • Scis­sor Work — First time using scis­sors. I read some­where that the best way to cut bangs is to use the comb as a guide and do ver­ti­cal snips to make it look more nat­ur­al. I’m not going for bangs here, but I fig­ured it worked sim­i­lar­ly?
  • Final Touch­es — Look all around for even­ness. I ran the guard­ed clip­per around again to make sure all the areas were cut and found that I’d missed the upper back cor­ners near the top of my head

Com­plete!

Pre-cut
Post-cut

4th Cut — 6/7/2026

Dura­tion: 12:05 — 12:52pm (47 min­utes total)

I was amazed at how long my hair got in such a short time, but look­ing back, this is actu­al­ly a longer inter­val than usu­al. Appar­ent­ly, with hair this short, I need to cut it every 1.5 months. This was clos­er to 2 months. Used the notes from the last appt to help and, over­all, I felt extreme­ly con­fi­dent now that I’ve done it sev­er­al times. I think next time I’ll just start with the #2 guard… Using #3 first helps cut down on bulk so it does­n’t over­whelm the clip­per, but I’ll try to start with it next time. This ses­sion, I did­n’t even both­er using the mini clip­per at all and just used the scis­sors. It is high­ly rec­om­mend­ed and I took it away from the orig­i­nal post. It’s safer, more detailed, and I even test­ed out lay­er­ing a lit­tle. Most­ly hap­py. Still need­ed help to touch up lat­er because the hairs around the ears are too hard to get, that back and top of my head are hard to reach, and espe­cial­ly because I’m right-hand­ed. A lit­tle ner­vous about lay­er­ing. Will do more of it next time. Much short­er time dura­tion than last time! Because the detail work is much bet­ter, I was very hap­py with the out­come and with­out major mis­takes, I don’t have to wear a hat when I go out!

Left: Before; Right: After (I can see lit­tle fly aways in the very top back, but the top has much less bulk than pri­or ses­sions)