Dragon Force can be a very addictive game. One must have all the secrets and hints that they can have to truly achieve a complete game. Here is our codes, hints, and faqs page. Read them and weep.

Faqs

Dragon Force Faqs by Manny Trinidad (04/07/97 V3)

Codes & Hints

(courtesy of GameSages.com)

Avoid Desertions

If you are tired of listening to your generals to see if they may desert in the next round, try this. Leave yourself some awards, save the game, select DONE in the Domestic Mode. Your chancellor will tell you who left your troops. Now simply remember these names and restart the game by pressing A + B + C + Start.
Start the saved game, promote the 'disloyal' characters and they won't desert. If you have no awards left, you can donate a Faith Coin to them. This is also useful if you need to save your awards (and soldiers) for your main fighting characters.
Mercenaries and thiefs normally get unhappy if they were used in combat and get no awards afterwards. To prevent them from desertion, deploy them to far-away castles for potato planting, but don't let them fight. They will not make trouble any more.

Bloopers

For an audio treat, listen to the bloopers that occured while recording the voices in Dragon Force. To do this, beat the game, then watch the credits. Then at the "Fin" screen, wait about 5 minutes. After that the bloopers will start automatically.

Control the Zombie

To make the Zombie fight for you, send some of your intelligent fighters (INT => 70) to the towns Magicka or Stalwart. Here you will find more than enough Spirit Crests to recruit the Zombie.

Debug Mode

To activate the debug menu, hold L + R + X + Z at the title screen and press: Down (2), Up, Left (3), Up, Down, Right (3). (An error tone confirms correct entry.) "Debug Mode" appears under Options at the main menu. (Note: To get all items, hold X prior to a domestic affair.)

Don't Let the Bosses Escape

If you fight one of the main generals (LEON, JUNON, REINHART, TEIRIS, WEIN, GONGOS, or MIKHAL) make sure that they have no castles left. Even when being captured during a struggle, they normally escape to a castle which belongs to their kingdom. With no hideout left they are forced to stay.

Easy Capture

After a castle of yours has been attacked, and if the castle was above level 1, get ready to pause the game after it says "******* castles level has decreased." Now recruit your generals to full and then deploy them, and send them to the same destination at the enemy. You should catch them and beat them easily. Note this should only work if you are in a castle and the enemy is severely damaged.

End Skull Children Attacks Permanently

Annoyed by those annoying immortal soldiers? Defeat the first general completely than kill all of the second general's army but let him escape. He will proceed to the nearest village. As long as no one attacks him the skull children will never attack again!

Getting Vlad

Go to the Fiend Tower with your monarch as quickly as possible. Vlads troops are zombies, so Harpies will be very useful! If you were quick enough it should be an easy battle.

Getting Zanon with Gongos

First use the debug code and select Gongos as your ruler. After the opening introduction when the first domestic affair appears go down to events. Select the last event and Zanon will be one of your generals. The cool thing is that Zanon will be equiped with the Eclisis and will be very powerfull only taking 1 hp damage per hit. You might want to save it right away and reset the game so you can play the game without debug mode on.

Hidden Character

In addition to the known fighters, there's a hidden dragon-man by the name of Vangal. His location varies depending upon your chosen character. Here's how to find him:

Wein: Second village to the WEST of GALFIEL
Mikhal: First town SOUTH of DANYAN.
Teiris: Second village to the WEST of GALFIEL
Leon: Village EAST of Fiend Tower
Gongos: Village EAST of Fiend Tower
Junon: Village EAST of Fiend Tower
Reinhart: Village NORTH to ESTONIA

How to Get Hayate and Shirox

North of Bozack castle there are two towns next to each other. Send your monarch to the left town and you will encounter Shirox, a somewhat powerful ninja. After defeating him, the ninja Hayate will talk to you. At your military conference, they'll talk about the incident. If your monarch knows he's part of the Dragon Force, then send him to that same town where you will duel Hayate. Whether you win or lose, both Hayate and Shirox will join you.
Note:This will not work if you're Goldark.

Observe Thy Neighbor

Watch the neighbouring kingdoms for action to make conquering castles easy!
Deploy some of your armies in villages which are located near an enemy castle. If two enemy troops battle to conquer/defend this castle, just wait until the struggle has ended.
Now deploy your army to the castle immediately. If you're quick enough, the armies inside the castle will not have had time to reinforce their troops.

Weak Soldiers

After entering the debug code, when in force battle, choose the floating demon (not the big snake) version of Madruk, the big demon and version of Gaul, or the devil version of Scythe. If you fought these before, you'll notice that they are sprits and wicked things. But instead, when you fight with these guys, there soldiers will attack, but NEVER do any damage.
NOTE: this doesn't work against the last boss or any other boss. It only works in Force Battle mode.