eraMegaten
Genre: Dungeon Crawler/Trainer
Developer(s): ???
Current Version: 309.138
Translation Status: Active
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Basics

It is recommended to play as Devil Summoner if you haven't played any SMT/Persona game beforehand. It has a tutorial (available only during the 1st day, accessible with "Search") which explains the basis of battles and COMP.
Before proceeding to the second floor, make sure to TALK to any demon you encounter and recruit it, then summon it to your party with COMP > Summon. Repeat until you have a full party (put your character in the back row, instant game over if he/she dies).

Progression

You can progress in eraMegaten by:

Explore: Explore dungeons, recruit demons, and defeat bosses.

Enter Colosseum: Compete in the arena to win money, macca, and new characters.

Request Contract: Do quests, may also unlock events and dungeons.

Events: Unlock more stuff.

Do any of these when you're stuck. Time does not elapse during contracts/events (unless prompted).

Training

Training demons is very important, since it has two benefits:

You can transfer MAG to them, which is spent to make them stronger

Their abilities will increase, which in turn allows you to do more lewd stuff to them (most abilities also influence work performance and sell value)

Do NOT raise their Hate Mark level: it makes training harder. If you really have to, make sure you have enough SURREN orbs to bring it back to zero.

You can also toggle MAG transfer/absorption ON/OFF, allowing you to give/take MAG to/from demons during training. MAG is more suited for demons, since they have more power-up options.

A demon can also work and earn Macca when his/her Sale Conditions are met.

Don't forget to store your unused demons at Party Setup > Store demon. They can be used as fusion fodder, anyway.

Currencies

Yen

Used to buy equipment, training tools/drugs, create demons at Jakyou Manor, build facilities, pay the organization
Acquired by defeating dungeon bosses, fighting at the colosseum, completing contracts, exchange for Macca

Macca

Used at Macca Exchange to buy COMP software and expand your COMP slots, craft random rare items with Item Synthesis
Acquired by selling demons, putting your demons to work, fighting at the colosseum

Gameplay Tips

If you need a good grinding spot, unlock Tartarus by completing Echo Building or Hatsudai Shelter, or level up your protag to 10. It has low and high-level enemies as well, and you can take the elevator every 5 floors. It's accessible only at nighttime though. Alternatively, the colosseum dungeon has a high encounter rate and enemies always appear in groups of 10.

The main objective is to get any ending before day 50. You can still keep playing, but some route/endings are locked out after. You can start a NG+ anytime from day 51, although it is recommended to get at least one ending first, since you gain more NG+ bonuses based on how many non-bad endings you got (Restaurant/Brothel endings are recommended, since you can get those anytime and have no additional requirements, just keep working).

Other commands

Wardrobe:

Changes a character's current outfit.
Most of them are cosmetics, but some make training easier.
List of Clothing - https://ghostbin.com/paste/4n3Ur (Still in Progress, but should cover mostly everything).

Enhance demon:

Increase their stats
Learn new skills from acquired skill cards
Power up their skills, giving them better range or more damage
Increase range of normal attack (up to 1 line/all enemies) and its attribute (SLASH/GUN/STRIKE/SKILL)
Buff an elemental weakness (only one at a time, another can be added if they are Contracted)
Increase stamina/energy for longer training sessions

Payment

Pay money to the organization. Unlocks more stuff in the Junk Shop, sometimes even dungeons.
To get any good end, you need to donate at least 1.000.000 yen. It's way easier than it looks.

Junk Shop

Buy weapons, armors, accessories and combat/healing items.

Cathedral of Shadows

Fuse demons: Create a new type of demon, with some skills (or even abilities) inherited
In-depth fusion guide: https://pastebin.com/8tTXA4JM (old), https://pastebin.com/wzhxAa4K (updated)
Skill card creation: Extract a skill from a demon. You get a skill card in return, that can be used on any demon to make them learn that skill (if element compatibility to said skill is low, more MAG is needed for acquisition/upgrade)
Demon Compendium: Summon any kind of analyzed demon by spending yen, cost is reduced to ~10% if fully analyzed
- If you're unfamiliar with Megaten demons, you can search their names on the wiki: http://megamitensei.wikia.com/wiki/Megami_Tensei_Wiki

Labor/Sale/Manage

Sell demons for Macca
Let your demons sing at concerts (available during the night only)
Let your demons work at a restaurant/brothel
Build your own foodcart/hotel to increase work payoff (can be upgraded later to restaurant/brothel)

Parameters

ST - Increases Physical damage from weapon and skills. It also slightly increases HP.
IN - Affects accuracy of magic attacks, inflicting status effects (includes instant kills), increases resistance to magic attacks, healing effectiveness, and negotiation success. It also slightly increases maximum MP, magic damage, gun accuracy, and gun damage.
MA - Increases magic damage and maximum MP.
EN - Greatly increases maximum HP and defense. It also slightly increases physical damage.
AG - Greatly increases speed, evasion, physical accuracy. It also slightly increases gun damage and gun accuracy.
LU - Increases Drop rate. Greatly increases critical hit rate. It also slightly increases all types of evasion and status effect infliction (includes instant kills).

Note: firearms damage (GUN attack, BULLETS, DOUBLE・TAP) is based on IN/AG, while GUN skills (Sharpnel, 99 Needles, and so on) are based on ST.
The GUN damage formulas for Humans are:

With Gunslinger Talent
Gun Damage: LV + Ag/2 + In/2
Gun Accuracy: LV + Ag + In + Lu
Without Gunslinger
Gun Damage: LV/2 + Ag/4 + In/4
Gun Accuracy: LV + Ag/2 + In/2 + Lu/2

MAG: Earned by defeating demons. Used to Enhance Demons in various ways. Also needed to keep your demons alive, since they consume it during exploration and they'll start losing HP/MP for every step taken when their MAG is 0. By default, this won't happen since the protag spends his own MAG to upkeep the demons.

Loyalty: Earned by winning battles/recruiting demons, or more slowly by training. Can be spent to inherit sexual abilities after fusion, or to make skill cards from demons without sacrificing them.

Elements

Physical (Dealt mainly by weapons, until getting skills to do so)

Slash - It's decent against almost everything, but it's strong against undead(zombies).
Pierce/Gun - Good against flying/winged demons, but many enemies reflect or nullify it.
Strike/Impact - Good against small and fragile enemies.
Skill/Havoc - "Bodypart" attacks. Its damage output isn't too high, but late skills can inflict status reliably.
None of above handle non-material(Spirit) enemies very well.

Magical (Dealt mainly by skills, but some are used by specific weapons and items)

Fire - Good against Ice/Water demons and all undead.
Ice - Good against Water demons. Can inflict freeze.
Electricity - Similar to ice, but decent against some fliers as well. Can inflict shock.
Force - Good against enemies weak to magic.
Nerve - Doesn't work on undead. Emphasis on inflicting status effects.
Mind - Doesn't work on mindless and undead. Emphasis on inflicting status effects.
Both Nerve and Mind are kind of useless at endgame enemies. As both focus on inflicting aliments.
Light - Doesn't work on humans, light gods and angels.
Dark - Doesn't work on undead, dark gods and fallen angels.
Earth - Doesn't work on flying demons and Water gods.
Water - Strong against living fires/plasma and Fire gods.
Wind - Good against light enemies and Earth gods.
Gravity - Good against flying/levitating, but anything with big muscles won't be fazed too much.
Nuclear - Similar to fire, but stronger. If something is immune to fire, then nuclear probably wouldn't work either.
Almighty - Good against everything, almost nothing resists it. All spells have high MP cost though.

Ailments

Poison — Loses 1/16 Max HP per battle turn.
Paralyze — Loses 1/16 Max MP per battle turn and can't act
Bind — Can't act
Bomb — If attacked bomb will explode. Heavy damage.
Panic — Attacks/Uses skills/items like complete retard and drops money.
Charm — Attack allies
Stone — Can't act, will shatter if hit by force, wind or physical.
Shocked — Target lose one turn by electricity attack.
Frozen — Target lose one turn by ice attack.
Dying — KO or instant kill {Hama, Mudo and few others.}
Close — Can't use spells.
Happy — All actions have 50% fail rate.
Brand — HP healing from all sources is reduced to 1.
Flame - Loses 1/10 Max HP per battle turn. Wind and nuclear element attacks make double damage.
Slip - Can't act. Gravity and physical attacks make double damage. Recovery takes 1-2 turns.
Curse - Returns half of damage dealt to cursed character. Instant kill moves are more effective. Doesn't recover naturally.
Fly - Turned into fly. Damage dealt is reduced to 0.2 of normal and damage taken is amplified to 2.5 of normal.

Classes

These are the classes you're able to choose from when you create your character.

Devil Summoner

Pros: Can use COMP in battle (summon demons in battle, very good at analyzing enemies and their weaknesses). Can load ranged weapons with special ammo. Can use items in battle. Can get auto-skills after getting sale conditions on a certain amount of demons belonging to the same race. (Like Foul and Fairy.) The tutorial is accessible only with this class. Player Character is capable of reforming the Party from the Dungeon Terminal when using this class. Cons: Can't use skills/magic. Their damage output never gets high.

Persona User

Pros: Can P-CHANGE into multiple personas and use their skills. Can have up to 24 skill slots.
Cons: It takes a bit to unlock the Velvet room (necessary for Persona users), also demons must be sacrificed if you want new personas. Persona-Users can only change one elemental weakness at a time, and under special circumstances, change their resistance to status effects.

Initial Starting Personas:

Avatar Tuner

Pros: Can learn Mantra (skills) on their own (and set/store any skill previously learned), can TRANCE into a demon-form for stat changes/boosts and skill usage. They can also use a COMP in battle and load ranged weapons with special ammo. Player Character is capable of reforming the Party from the Dungeon Terminal when using this class. Mantra Grid progress for each character carries over to NG+ (unless they are not taken).
Cons: Slow learning of higher-level mantras, half MAG earned, TRANCE is available only with one demon chosen at the start and can be lacking in skills without Mantra assistance. Characters do not learn a Mantra's skills until mastered. Switching Mantras cost MAG if not mastered.

Avatar tuner forms:
Baal (male only): https://pastebin.com/GUbSQ1y8
Sraosha (male only): https://pastebin.com/cmNaZWJw
Amon (male only): https://pastebin.com/F23F6xpR
Ishtar (female only): https://pastebin.com/nxVfurzD
Valkyrie (female only): https://pastebin.com/D76SRkca
Siren (female only): https://pastebin.com/JWBCBheD
Mara (both genders!): https://pastebin.com/Hf7gqqw7

Refer to this Grid for the complete collection of all skills Avatar Tuners can learn from Mantras: Mantra Grid

Devil Shifter

Pros: Can change into demon form for higher stats and skill usage, Can change transformation without sacrificing demon. Human Equipment-skills also apply to Transformation. (Ex. A sword that gives Advice for example will give Advice when the user uses TRANCE and fights). Cons: Only into one at a time, skills are set. Can change only 1 weakness. You don't receive starting transformation to your team. Transformation stats can only be increased manually with MAG Enhancement.

What is Stat Proportion? -Stat Proportion is how a Transformation form's stats are distributed from the user's stat total. All Transformation forms have it, even Companions! This separates a human's stats from their transformation. For example, if you were to build a physical-focused Human, dumping stats into Ag and St, the transformation will still inevitably end up with points in In and Ma! How much is dependant on the Linked-Demon's Stat Proportion. A low Ma score such as 10 would mean that your Ma would increase when transforming, but not by a lot while a score of 30 would mean that the form has a preference and will distribute points towards it! Only the Initial Starting Linked-Demons for the Player will have their Stat Proportion revealed while other Devil Shifters require some guessing and training to see what they become.

Adept

Pros: Pick 2 out of 20 job classes, they have unique skills and can also learn more from skill cards. Cons: Can only have 1 talent.

Adept jobs and their skills:
Every adept has Sabbatma but can learn only 1 talent between:
Summoner: use COMP in battle
Item Knowhow: use items in battle
Gunslinger: can load ranged weapons with special bullets and use Gun Linkage skills.
Successor: can equip demon-fused weapons from the Cathedral of Shadows

Expert

More powerful versions of 10 first adept jobs.
Pros: Higher stats at level 1 and access to powerful skills that are typically found on end-game bosses or are exclusive to them. Cons: Unable to use MAG to enhance their skills or learn new ones. All need a certain amount of good endings seen to be unlocked.

Devil Hybrid

Pros: Can equip demon weapons and are stronger than normal humans from start.
Cons: Everything else they have or will gain is completely random. It includes resistances, weaknesses and skills. It also needs 4 good endings to be unlocked.

Devil Hunter

Pros: One of the most powerful combat classes available to PC. A unique set of skills that can be learned that no other class can access. Potent early-game resistances.
Cons: Needs 5 good endings and the player needs to defeat Dante in the Colosseum(He is around level 80) to be unlocked. The Player is a Half-Demon, meaning they are required to have at least three weaknesses that cannot be changed with equipment.

Dante ver. - https://ghostbin.com/paste/30qRH
Vergil ver. (EN-MOD only & Named as Dark Slayer) - https://ghostbin.com/paste/JSdA9

Tourist

Pros: They start with some sexual ability and [Submitted].
Cons: Start with all stats at 1, has no extra features since it's meant to be a challenge class.

Fool

Pros: If tourist isn't hardcore enough for you...
Cons: Start with all stats at 1, receive 5x damage from all sources, cannot wear equipment.

Endings and NG+

Carry over in NG+:

Contracted demons (complete the Solomon Wedding Ring event, then spend 1 million Yen for each demon you want to Contract)
Retain every power-up made with Enhance Demon (excluding stat enchantment)
Sexual/work abilities of protag and contracted demons
Skill cards, some equipment (but have only one quantity for each item)
Most COMP software (everything costing 1000 Macca and less, excluding GulliverMagic)
Special items (Forbidden knowledge, Third eye)
Demon Compendium information
Special class feat (example: Avatar Tuners keep their mastered mantras)
You gain initial stat points allocation and extra COMP slots depending on the number of non-bad endings you got

Does NOT carry over in NG+:

Non-contracted demons
Protag and contracted demons start at lv5 and default stats
Yen and Macca (only a portion are carried over)
Training tools
Bought COMP expansions and most expensive COMP software
Contracted demons gain way less macca when working

Complete List of Endings: Megaten Ending List

Frequently Asked Questions

What's Macca and how do I get it?

Macca is a recurring currency across mainline Megami Tensei games. In EraMegaten, it's used in Macca Exchange to upgrade your COMP, buy items or buy software for your COMP. Macca can be gained from workers in your Restaurant/Hotel, selling slaves, Deleting Characters in the Dark way, or through a Yen to Macca exchanger in the Red Light District at night. For first COMP capacity upgrades you can make enough macca in "In search of Unknown" event after 10 days which gives you 300 macca. Also you can get 200 macca in chests from the Colosseum dungeon.

How do I get more demons?

Simple. Convince them. Some demons can't talk but can be gotten through scanning them to 10% and summoning them at the Cathedral of Shadows. Higher % means less money spent to summon them.

The demon names and resistances are still ??? even after fighting them a bunch of times.

Your party must have someone with the talent of at least [SummonerLv], otherwise, no one can use the COMP to look at demons. If you do not have a Devil Summoner-class character, [61] Harajuku offers one between two characters. The request Karukozaka High School Gym (2) offers another Devil Summoner. It will usually take about 10% analysis to see their resistances or if you already landed a Devil CO-OP on them.

Is there a faster way to increase analysis?

With a Devil Summoner in the party: You can head into [114] - Macca Exchange , go to [3] Software Exchange . The Hi-DAS Software is available for 150 Macca. Once you do so, make sure to equip it from [106] - Party Setup and [5] Setup Software . Once you do and in battle, your Devil Summoner can use [3] COMP and Hi-DAS to scan a demon. The success rate scales off the user's In stat, and the analysis rate rises depending on the Summoner's level and whether it was Partial, Normal, or Critical on their analysis.

How to get into battle, where can I raise my level faster?

First go into [106] - Party Setup and put your companions in party. Pixie is fragile and it's better to put her in the backrow. Then go into [1] Echo Building and get Hua Po and few other companions. When you feel yourself strong enough (15 level and higher depends on difficulty) you can go into [72] Yukiko's Castle . "Agi" spell are great to make a lot of damage there and "Fire wall" make protect all party from ice creatures. Both of those spells Hua Po demon have.

Is there a way to give the MC any of the Devil Summoner Talents?

Item Knowledge Lv3 can be obtained from Dungeon [42] Shinjuku regardless of who you side with. If Item Knowledge Lv3 has already been acquired, the Item Mastery Talent may be obtained instead. Summoner LV1 can ONLY be obtained by siding with Naoya in Dungeon [42] Shinjuku. The only way for the MC to obtain the [Gunslinger] Talent is to either start as a Devil Summoner, Avatar Tuner, or choose the Talent/Class when creating an Adept and Expert. [Gunslinger], alongside SummonerLv5 are typically balance options that allow Human characters to perform a role that other characters will have a hard time replicating with their skills and magic.

How about giving Talents to another character?

Typically this is only reserved for [Non-Combatant] characters, and they must have reached a Fall State. You must [100] Train them, and under Special, do [600] Basic Training until they have 100 Basic Training EXP from it. After that, here are the options, as you will only have 1 chance to choose their class and role.

From Home: Devil Summoner (Try Summoning Demons)
Mechanical Maiden (Reconstructive Surgery)

Outside Options (To access, buy a collar from [113] Training Items and under Special Commands, select [141] Outdoors Play)

Adept (Awaken)
Devil Shifter (Spirit Medium Experiment)
Pull Out Shadow (Persona User, can only be done by Persona Users/Persona User Assistants. They MUST have Persona Potential)
Inject Atma Virus (Avatar Tuner and for DDS characters)

I unlocked Tartarus, but I can't go there?

Just like Persona 3, Tartarus can only be entered at night-time. If you want to recruit the Persona 3 party members, either attack them when meeting them or talk to build up trust and they'll join willingly. There's a limit to how many P3 characters can be recruited per run, as well as Mitsuru and Fuuka being mutually exclusive per run.

Why is my Alignment changing to Law or Chaos without using the accessories after battle?

It's likely you have a demon in your COMP and/or party that's the same as the enemy you're fighting. You'll know when the enemy's name turns pink. If you attack and kill the pink-named demon, you gain Chaos Alignment points. Talking to them raises Law Alignment points.

How do I change companion alignments? The equipment items aren't working for them.

To change companion alignments, you can sexually train them or find rare items such as a Law Stone or Chaos Stone. Training them is a slow process, but it can be sped up by buying a Living Souls Ring Accessory from Macca Exchange and equipping it to the main character. Another method is buying the Alignment's respective church (Gaia for Chaos, Messian for Law) and having the character Pray/Whore there.

My main character keeps dying every time from instakill spells. It's so annoying. What can I do?

You can find and equip Tetrajammer Armor, which negates instant death.

What is CP Correction?

Basically the higher it is, the more MAG the demon consumes per step.

How to unlock new dungeons?

Most content can be discovered with [104] - Requests and [103] - Event . Also dont forget to [555] - Pay Target money which being displayed in action select menu.

I'm lost in Shinjuku! What do I do?

This link, Shinjuku, should explain the necessities towards completing the essential story parts of the dungeon.

Refer to this page if you are lost.

Is there a way to get [Affection] without sexual training?

Go to [400] Options and [992] Explore . In [37] Untrained Fall State you can choose to have it for only noncombatant humans or have it enabled for all characters. If you don't want same-sex characters to have [Affection], make sure to change [38] Trust Fall Setting . Afterwards, it's a matter of gaining enough loyalty from combat until at the end of the day, you're notified about the change in status. The loyalty number required depends on whether the main character and person you want affection from share the same alignment, the number of loyalty rising based on how different your alignment is. [Love] can ONLY be required by sexually training a character and meeting the requirements. For example, if both characters are N/N, it will usually take 15,000 Loyalty Points, increasing by 5000 for every difference in alignment. It will take a very long time for example for a L/L and a D/C character to get [Affection].

I want to have sex, but it's too annoying to get the orbs up! I even lose some orbs after training. What do I do?

If you need a refresher course on sexual training, create a new save file with a male character with 0 Sexual Experience and choose the Experienced Pixie offered by Mayone. Change your Partner with [108] and set it to the Pixie you just received, and then select [100] Train . The general rule is that you want to get the person you're training to get slowly acclimated to pleasure , so don't start off too rough and just do light caressing, kissing, etc. Even blowjobs and handjobs might be too much for them on the first session. Don't push it too hard or you'll increase their stress, and eventually they'll become broken, meaning they'll be useless at sex AND combat. The only way to reduce stress is to not train, so just alternate between slaves or don't Train them for awhile. Practice makes perfect, and eventually, your MC's technique and skills make will make it easier for a slave to submit faster.

Is there any route on a questline that's better than the alternative?

Not really, although there are some special exceptions. Unless you are only planning to play this game once, there is a high chance of you replaying and getting multiple endings to see what it all has to offer. eraMegaten is built around the idea that 95% of the demons and characters obtained, with enough investment and favoritism, can be used for gameplay. Some characters were even buffed compared to their original incarnations!

Mods

Unzip and overwrite.

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Enemy Pics

https://www.mediafire.com/file/ttbm9ytyimzxpq3/EraMegaten_Enemy_Pics.7z/file

Shows pics for enemy formation too if battle pics are on.
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Software Setup Reorder V2

https://www.mediafire.com/file/59dwkuu5jxhippz/EraMegaten_Software_Setup_Reorder.7z/file

Rework of the Software Setup Screen to now show them by type: Exploration, Combat, Negotiation, Fusion, Converter and Unsorted.
V2 Edit: Now going into the software setup from the fusion screen only opens relevant pages.
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FORCEWAIT at end of combat

https://www.mediafire.com/file/qqj8lj79fv5ikvf/EraMegaten_FORCEWAIT_at_end_of_combat.7z/file

Right clicking doesn't skip past end of battle results screen, avoiding acidental skipping of conversations.
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Level Cap option

https://www.mediafire.com/file/agc4kc3i0dffrko/EraMegaten_Level_Cap_Option.7z/file

Option to set a level cap over which the characters don't get more exp.
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