I've done both the hades and Phil cup on both the patches and unpatched iso, the only thing about the hades one is I quit after I do that fight, maybe I have to go until I win or lose, which would be tedious. Guess I'll try it out. Basically, I booted up the original Japanese iso with a pnach file that included a cheat code to warp to the Kurt zisa boss fight. This let me re-enter the fight after I had done it, and being on the original unpatched iso the game awarded me the report and ability afterwards. After I saved and continued playing the game with the patched iso, I had made a third save in case that cheat broke my save but it didn't seem to affect anything afterwards aside from Aladdin being in his house again. Only reason I did that is I saw rkimbal45 in this thread and the cheat code thread talking about doing it after having already completed that fight just like I had.
I'll ask though I'm going to guess this will garner the same response as trying to use a code to get an ansem report - - Are there codes for journal entries? My game refuses to give me the red armor entry regardless of if I play the English patched game or not.
I've recently played through entirely and can say for sure it is that complete. The only issue I've had so far was the ansem report from Kurt Zisa, which thanks to this thread and another I was able to boss warp and nab it. Aside from that the only other notable thing is I can't seem to get the red armor in my journal entry no matter what I do, which would be okay if it weren't for the fact I'm on normal mode and trying to get both secret movies, and that is the only thing stopping me from the journal completion I need for that. I'm hoping if I complete the Phil cup enough times it'll spare me and give me the entry...
