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if you use Dusters Hypno-pendulum you sometimes get the enemy to fall asleep- when that happens the music in the game gets really quiet and the “beat” is exposed. its then just an issue of matching your button mashing to that beat.

if you get the battle memory you can practice on enemy’s you have already encountered.

personally i’m not so hot at doing combos, only once have i ever gotten 16 and that was with using Duster- i find him and Boney are the better characters for getting bigger combo hits.

what set-up are you using to play the game? if your using an emulator you might want to lower the frame-skip to 1 (don’t go to 0 cause for me i get a strange echo at that setting).

hope that works and keep your stick on the ice!

I’m lucky if I can get 3. I have no sense of what to listen for or how to time it. >_<

What is wrong with most of you probably is that you’re using emulation. There is input lag between your key/button press and what actually happens on the screen, which is not there if it was on the actual hardware. It isn’t all that noticeable in most situations, but it is a big enough gap to screw up precise presses in stuff like combos in Mother 3.

That being said, I’ve found a weird enough way to sort of accommodate for this delay. It’s worked for me at least.

You can get a general idea of your input lag by selecting random things on the battle screen, like “bash” and such, and comparing the sound effects you hear when you do that to your actual button presses. There are two button presses necessary to select an enemy to attack with a regular bash, so in those two button presses, try to make it so you’re hearing the select sound effects on beat with the song in the background. Luckily, as you get more party members, you have to select “bash” and select the enemy that many more times, giving you more reference. When you actually start to attack the enemy, keep in mind the delay and how early you were pressing the button in comparison to the background music, and hopefully you’ll still be on beat.

This gets a little difficult if your character is too slow and your enemy attacks first. But still, apart from that, this is the best way I’ve found to get around that input lag.

I find it easier on the GameCube GameBoyAdvance Player.

Big screen+real controller=easier combos.

I use an emulator and I pull off 16-hit combos all the time. I get little to no lag, for some reason.

It’s a matter of knowing the song’s beat, which you can do by way of PK Hypnosis or Duster’s Hypno-Pendulum.

Also, practice is key. I spent quite some time on the Battle Memory practicing.

I use an emulator and I have to go in between the beats to make it work, but when i concentrate I can get 10+ combos quite a bit.

I’ve only ever gotten two 16 hit combos ever, and I’ve played through this game countless times. Having a really fast computer works, i never get any lag what so ever (and i have tons of programs running at once). I can normally get an 8 or 9 combo going, and I’ve even gotten a 13 combo on a boss before ^.

Basically, I can only give two tips to comboing on an emulator:
1. Set Frame Skip to 0.
2. Use a controller. I find the keyboard has a slight input lag when it comes to this kind of stuff.

Kirby Chimera:

When I play on the Wii, I can pull of 16-hit combos on tons of enemies.

Good to know someone else out there uses the Wii ;D. My boyfriend claims that the wii-mote is better for comboing and suggests using it instead of the wavebird.

I’ve noticed the first time around, I was managing more 16-hit combos and this time there seems to be more lag which I’ve found the easiest way for me to combo when it’s like this is to look away from the screen and just listen to what’s going on.

Using my Wii seems to work for me.
The only songs I have trouble on (whenever I want to combo) are “Fate” and “Serious”

Taptap, ta ta, tap, ta ta tap tap, tap tap

And easy as it sounds, its hard as hell to do.