The armory at Headquarters in Suikoden II is a specialized copy of armor shops found elsewhere in the game. Unlike other shops, it lets you equip purchases to any member of your army who can participate in battles, instead of just the current six-person party. It also has different levels of inventory that are activated by visiting other armor shops in the world.

Technical Information


The armor shop module is /CDROM/140_HONP/HDOUGUYA.BIN. It shares this module with the castle's item shop, since they have overlapping functions. This module controls everything, from building the shop's current inventory to displaying the menus and messages.

Important Addresses


Inventories

There are twelve shop inventories stored in the module. These have not yet been related to their respective stores in the world. There are 23 "towns", including Headquarters, in the game, but many of them don't have an armory, e.g., Kuskus and Lakewest. It's also possible that the inventories are not perfect matches, since Konami could have added to one file without adding to another.

Armory 0   Armory 1   Armory 2   Armory 3
Bandana   Bandana   Bandana   Pointed Hat
Leather Hat   Feathered Hat   Leather Hat   Circuret (Circlet)
Robe   Tunic   Feathered Hat   Brass Armor
Tunic   Leather Coat   Pointed Hat   Karate Uniform
Leggings   Brass Armor   Tunic   Leather Armor
  Wooden Shield   Leather Coat   Guard Robe
  Boots   Brass Armor   Wooden Shield
    Wooden Shield   Boots
    Boots   Leather Cape
    Gauntlet   Belt of Strength
 
Armory 4   Armory 5   Armory 6   Armory 7
Circuret (Circlet)   Chain Mail   Half Helmet   Head Gear
Half Helmet   Half Plate   Head Gear   Half Helmet
Karate Uniform   Steel Shield   Half Plate   Magic Robe
Leather Armor     Scale Mail   Scale Mail
Chain Mail     Kite Shield   Dragon Armor
    Gauntlet   Guard Ring
    Guard Ring   Thunder Amulet
 
Armory 8   Armory 9   Armory 10   Armory 11
Pointed Hat   Half Helmet   Bandana   Pointed Hat
Half Helmet   Head Gear   Pointed Hat   Circuret (Circlet)
Silver Hat   Full Helmet   Brass Armor   Brass Armor
Chain Mail   Half Plate   Cape of Darkness   Karate Uniform
Half Plate   Scale Mail     Leather Armor
Scale Mail   Knight Armor     Guard Robe
Dragon Armor   Kite Shield     Magic Robe
Full Plate   Gauntlet     Wooden Shield
Steel Shield   Silverlet     Steel Shield
Kite Shield   Guard Ring     Boots
Chaos Shield       Leather Cape
Thunder Amulet       Fur Cape
Gauntlet       Belt of Strength
Silverlet      


There are 95 entries total. The distinct items from all the sets will be the shop's final stock once all the inventories are activated.

Miscellanea


The Castle Armory allows you to equip purchases to all eligible Stars of Destiny, but only purchases. Other shops, like the Rune Mistress allow you to attach items already in your inventory or to strip items from characters not in your party. I see this as a huge oversight in the Armory. The limited inventory in the game forces you to use your characters to hold special and potentially useful items, especially if you're holding a dozen recipes, seeds, plans, and other collectibles, waiting for your chance to pass them to the character who collects them.

Castle Armory Sells All Armor
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This is a half-measure sort of code. If you're trying to play the game "legit", this has the potential to ruin it for you, unless you set arbitrary rules for using it. This will force the HDOUGUYA module to build a list of all 87 pieces of equipment in the game, allocate space for them, and copy them to the shop inventory. Using this, the Castle Item Shop will share its inventory list with the Armory. You'll have to turn the code off, and possibly reload your game, if you want to buy medicines and jizos from it.

It may be possible to force the shop to sell all equipment in a more natural way, or to hack the menu to allow equipping armor already in your possession. An optional patch may contain these features at some point in the future.