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 Monochrome Route Menu Notes Version 1.9 - BranToast75

Prologue
This guide is specific to only the Menu's in the Kingdom Hearts II Beginner Any% Speed Run. This will be updated when new strats are discovered.

IMPORTANT! These are ONLY menu notes. If you are unfamiliar with the strategies in the game, please uses this guide instead. It goes fully in depth for all bosses, movement, and chests. Click Here to view the notes.

This guide will tell you when to use the menus and what to do within those menus. They have been optimized to reduce the amounts of inputs needed to complete menus. If you spot any errors; tweet me @BranToast75

Roxas Section
(Before Struggle FIghts/After Twilight Thorn)

(MENU)

Abilities: (Roxas) +Guard

(Before Shadow Roxas/After Vivi Clones)

(MENU)

Items: (Roxas) +Medal

Config: (Summons) None

Twilight Town I
(As soon as you get Sora)

(MENU/Auto)

Items: (Donald) -Ether

Land of Dragons I
(MENU/Auto)

Items: (Ping) -Ethers

Abilities: (Sora) -Guard/+Aerial Recovery/+Combo Boost

Customize: (Mulan) Party Attack

Olympus Coliseum
(Before Hades Escape/After getting Auron in the party)

(MENU/Auto)

Items: (Sora) ALL Ethers -> Set to AT

Customize:  - Ether

(Before entering pete/After getting ap boost from chest)

(MENU)

Items: (Stock) Power Boost x1 AP Boost x3

Abilities: (Sora) -Guard/+Aerial Spiral

(Before Hydra/After Pete)

(MENU)

Abilities: (Sora) +Trinity

Hollow Bastion II
(Before entering Pooh Book)

(MENU)

Items: (Sora) +Heroes Crest

Beast Castle
Beast Castle Moogle Shop: (Buy) Sardonyx Ring

(After Fighting Beast)

(MENU/Auto)

Party: Beast/Goofy

Disney Castle
(After Minnie Escort Mission)

(MENU/Auto)

Items: (Sora) +Sardonyx Ring

Port Royal I
(Immediately after entering)

(MENU)

Abilities: (Donald) -Thunder/+Fantasia

(When you get Jack)

(MENU/Auto)

Party: Goofy/Donald

Agrabah I
(After getting Aladdin)

(MENU/Auto)

Party: Goofy/Donald

Items: (Aladdin) -Ethers

Abilities: (Sora) +Item Boost

(Goofy) +Goofy Tornado/-Goofy Bash/+Teamwork

Customize: Thunder = Reflect

Halloween Town I
(Before Town Square suicide)

(MENU/Auto)

Party: Jack/Goofy

Items: (Jack) -Ethers/ -Potions

(Stock) AP Boost x7

Abilities: (Sora) +Guard/ +Explosion/ +Aerial Finish/ +Reaction Boost

Customize: (Jack) Sora Attack

Hollow Bastion III
(Immediately after entering)

(MENU)

Items: (Sora) +Follow The Wind

(Valor) +Oathkeeper

Space Paranoids
(After getting Tron)

(MENU/Auto)

Party: Donald/Goofy

Items: (Tron) -Ether

Customize: (Sora) Blizzard = Magnet

(After Light Cycle)

(MENU/Auto)

Party: Donald/Goofy

(Before Hostile Program)

(MENU)

Items: (Sora) +Heroes Crest

Hollow Bastion IV
(After going through Final Fantasy fights)

(MENU/Auto)

Abilities: (Goofy) +Teamwork/ +Jackpot

Beast Castle II
(After talking to Beast)

(MENU/Auto)

Party: Donald/Goofy

(After obtaining Rumbling Rose)

(MENU/Auto)

Party: Donald/Goofy

Customize: (Sora) Magnet = Blizzard

                                  Fire = Thunder

Abilities: (Sora) +Horizontal Slash/ -Aerial Finish

Items: (Sora) +Rumbling Rose

(Master) +Heroes Crest

Port Royal II
(After getting Jack)

(MENU/Auto)

Party: Donald/Goofy

(MENU/Optional)

(Only if you failied to kill Grim Reaper I in Master Form)

Items: (Stock) Drive Recovery x2

(Before Grim Reaper II)

(MENU)

Items: (Sora) +Monochrome

Halloween Town II
(Automatically after getting Jack)

(MENU/Auto)

Items: (Sora) +Rumbling Rose

Abilities: (Sora) +Draw

(Donald) +Flare Force

Customize: (Sora) Blizzard = Magnet

Agrabah II
(After Magic Carpet Ride/Outside Palace Walls)

(MENU)

Items: (Sora) +Decisive Pumpkin

Abilities: (Sora) +Slapshot

Xaldin
(Before the Dragoons fight)

(MENU)

Items: (Sora) +Rumbling Rose

(Valor) +Decisive Pumpkin

Land of Dragons II
(Automatically after entering world)

(MENU/Auto)

Abilities: (Sora) -Reaction Boost/ +Combination Boost

(Donald) -Fantasia/ +Jackpot

(After Riku fight)

(MENU/Auto)

Party: Donald/Goofy

Twilight Town III
(Before Mickey fight)

(MENU)

Items: (Stock) Drive Recovery x1 / AP Boost x1

The World That Never Was
(As soon as you get into TWTNW)

(MENU)

Items: (Sora) Elixer -> AT

Abilities: (Sora) -Draw/ +Magic Lock-On/ +Aerial Finish

(Before Xigbar)

Moogle Shop: (Sell) Potions

(Buy) Ethers

(Synthesize) Mash  for Elixer

(Before Luxord)

(MENU)

Items: (Sora) +Monochrome

(After getting Riku)

(MENU)

Party: Riku/Donald

Items: (Riku) -Ethers

Abilities: (Riku) -Dark Aura/ -Dark Shield/ -Eternal Session

Change Log
 V1.1

 - First Release



 V1.2

 - Fixed Error in Halloween Town I Menu (Ap boost x5)

 - Fixed Error in TWTNW (Telling you to remove Fantasia when it was already removed)



 V1.3

 - Fixed Some Typos

 - No longer give Donald Blizzard Back

 - Removed Unimportant information

 - Removed AP boost pickup in Poohs Story Book



 V1.4

 - Changed the location of guard removal in Olympus

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> - Removed Beast customization in Beast’s Castle I

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> - Added in monochrome strats for Grim Reaper 2

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> - AP Boost Equipped in Twilight Town 3 for Magic Lock-On added

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> - Removed Elixer pick up in Twilight Town 3

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> - Slapshot is no longer removed in TWTNW menu

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> - Magic lock-on equip added in TWTNW

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> - Monochrome is now equipped before Grim Reaper 2

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> - Rumbling Rose is Re-Equipped in Halloween Town 2 menu

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> - Fixed spelling error for “Colliseum”

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> - Fixed order of Agrabah 1 menu

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> - Fixed order of Riku menu

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> - Made Overall Changes to Basic Layout for Ease of Use

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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> V1.5

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> - Fixed some small errors in colorization and bold faces

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> - In LoD 1, made the Tent menu easier to tell that it as an OPTIONAL menu

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> - Added World Record Video Link

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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> V1.6

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> -Mixed 2 menus before and after Summit fight to be done at the same time.

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> -Updated World Record and video.

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> -Removed switching in Aladdin after Treasure Room fight

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> -Kept Donald in party for Riku menu

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> -Removed the High Drive Recovery equip in TT3 after Mickey fight

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> -Removed Auto Menu after barrel mini-game because its default option

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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> V1.7

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> - Land of Dragons 2; Changed text; “Comet” to “Fantasia”.

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> - Updated World Record and video.

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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> V1.8

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> - Moved PR2 menu to Beast’s Castle 2

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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> V1.9

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> - Integrated to KHSpeedruns.wikia.com

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> - Will work on improving the visuals in the future