By Lisa Shock on Monday, October 1, 2001 - 04:32 pm:
Ok, we all know everyone gets excited about opening up new areas in the game. Well, unfortunately, there's a bug in the storyline in the Kalaragi area -the big waterfall with lilypads. Overall, our advice is to avoid the area until you have some experience ranching in several areas.
Essentially, as part of the story there, you will fight a series of battles, and eventually you will fight against Gadamon again. If you win against her, everything will be fine, and you will later receive a gift of fruit.
However, if you lose, you will be sent on a mission to find fruit on expeditions. This is where the bug comes in, not only can't you find fruit on expeditions, you can't find things in one spot per expedition, either. You just get dialog at that location.
Our advice: Save your game often. Save before ever going into the Kalaragi area, and save every week you are there. To defeat Gadamon, have a monster that can easily beat a B level official tourney, and make sure it has not gotten a new rank recently; that it's got high stats for its supposed rank. If you lose against Gadamon, you can go back to an earlier save and move to another area for a while to improve your monster's stats before trying again. Remember to save before returning to Kalaragi as well.
Another point: once a storyline starts in an area, even if you move to a new area, no new storylines, will start til it is finished. This means that if you start this storyline, you will be stuck making sure you complete it correctly before you can move onto storylines in new areas. So, be prepared to follow through on this. (and save,save,save)
There is no way around the bug.
There are no gameshark codes, nor anything else that can fix it.
If you got stuck in it, you have to return to your last save before the battle with Gadamon. Hopefully, to go to another locale and make your monster stronger before returning.