Items
Every item shop sells the same four items. Everything else comes from
chests, listed in the order you reach them.
Shop items
Item
Price
Effect
Where
Medical Herb
10
Restores 10 HP.
Every shop
Healing Seed
200
Restores 20 HP.
Every shop
Angel Wing
40
Leaves the battle and returns to the last town, like Egress.
Every shop
Antidote
20
Cures poison.
Every shop from Rindo on
Chest-only items
The stat items are permanent boosts. Give them to units you'll keep using. One guide suggests waiting until after promotion. Check in game: guides say +1 to 2 or a flat +2.
Item
Price
Effect
Where
Power Potion
—
Attack +1 to 2.
Guardiana Castle; Alterone (push the cart); Mishaela's Lair
Defense Potion
—
Defense +1 to 2.
Guardiana Castle; Alterone Castle; Rindo Circus; Waral Castle
Bread of Life
—
Max HP +1 to 2.
Alterone Castle; Pao; Waral Castle
Legs of Haste
—
Agility +1 to 2.
Pao, the big wagon
Shower of Cure
—
Restores about 40 HP to the whole force. Check in game: only one guide gives a number.
Waral Castle; Dragonia; Mishaela's Lair
Turbo Pepper
—
Movement +1 to 2. The only one in the game.
Tower of the Ancients, upstairs
Key items
Item
Price
Effect
Where
Orb of Light
—
Opens the eye doors.
Cavern of Darkness, after Battle 6
Domingo Egg
—
Hatches into Domingo at Pao's second camp.
Manarina, the lab machine
Moon Stone
—
The Bustoke alchemist turns it into Lunar Dew.
Bustoke Quarry cave, after Battle 9
Lunar Dew
—
Cures Zylo in the Bustoke prison.
Bustoke alchemist
Hidden costumes and joke items
Hidden chests found by searching. The names were never translated. The two costumes change a character's battle sprite; the rest do nothing.
Item
Price
Effect
Where
Sugoi Mizugi
—
Swimsuit. Tao wears it in battle.
Bustoke Quarry cave after Battle 9: search south from the southwest corner
Kitui Huku
—
Dress. Anri wears it in battle.
Battle 11: square left of the leftmost Dark Elf's start
Kenji
—
No use.
Battle 13: bottom of three lone bushes between the fortress walls
Teppou
—
No use.
Battle 17: ship railing, three squares right of the bottom center
Youji
—
No use.
Battle 19: right rock of the pair left of the flowers, top of the map
Kaku-chan
—
No use.
Battle 28: right corner of the gold eye wall, top left
Sources
Shining Force