Dark Cloud - Broken Dagger Glitch (PS4 1080p)

1. Have Gaffer's Buggy in Norune Village, and complete it after placing Pike and his wheel in Paige's house, giving you a full inventory. Equip Toan's Dagger (If you already have it equipped, you must "Equip" it again).
2. Enter the shop.
3. Move your inventory screen to the very bottom of the Attachments tab, so that there are several empty rows at the bottom.
4. Go to Gaffer's inventory.
5. Move your cursor over the Ice Attachment (do not buy this item at this time).
6. Hit right on the directional pad and X at the same time.

[@Kahler.parrett]

The number of times I have had to come back to this video every time I want to replay this game is insane

[@Zeral__]

REALLY glad I looked this up before doing it. I remembered how to do it but forgot it maxed out stats. That would've ruined my let's play for sure. Assuming anyone were to get into it anyway XD. Dark Cloud is such an underrated series in my opinion.

[@SaleenSundria]

if you do the same thing on the bomb in Gaffer's buggy (Right above the ice attachment) You'll get a better broken dagger that has things like big bucks, quench, heal, and abs up instead of poor, poison, etc.

[@godonlyknows13]

How do you do this? Is there some kind of trick? Cuz I cant get it to work lol. The ice one works fine (now in 2021) but your bomb method doesnt seem to work for me

[@SaleenSundria]

@@godonlyknows13 aah, it's been so long since I lost my copy of Dark Cloud and it's been a while since I've played it, so unfortunately I can't give any pointers other than sometimes it just doesn't want to work, try restarting your PS2 or leave the area and come back. I'd have to find my copy to remember what exactly to do lol

[@jpscloud]

@@godonlyknows13 if you bring the bomb down to the bottom right slot (of the shop side) and then make space on the item side (like above video) you can do what they said with the bomb and it does work. Sometimes you have to back out because it will get glitched very easily. Just keep trying, it will work eventually.

[@jpscloud]

@@godonlyknows13 also, if you sell a weapon with the broken dagger from this video, you get just over 4,000 for it, but if you sell it with the one from the bomb, you get just over 16,000

[@jpscloud]

New development! Be careful while doing this, because you can accidentally create and invisible item. Which cannot be deleted. So it takes up space in your inventory. From screwing around I had filled like 10 spaces in my inventory. Edit the glitched invisible item happens when you don’t back out between trying the broken dagger glitch. To be safe, when successful, back out of the store, save and then try again if you require another one. Edit 2: though can get rid of the item RIGHT when it happens by throwing it in the trash. But after it is in your inventory you cannot

[@Rob-qe3cg]

Worth noting: between the glitches, you do NOT have to go to the dagger screen and reequip the dagger. You can just press triangle to open the menu and immediately close and talk to gaffer again. I'm playing on original PS2.

[@eternalredxd]

I remember having a save that I dedicated ONLY for a broken dagger run. Every weapon had multiple daggers injected into them. It got to the point my game literally couldn’t handle my glitched weapons pumped with so many daggers that by the time I reached the Moon Sea, the game was so slow and crashed every time I entered a dungeon. It was a fun experiment but yeah.. go easy on them xD

[@Deadmare]

thank you this will save me a lot of time cause i only have 8 days to beat it before a game i want comes out

[@Supsherry]

Thank you guys bless y'all I did this glitch but what I didn't know is that you upgrade weapons with the broken dagger 🗡️

[@itzmarieee1309]

Alright, I got super mad cause it didn't work, I was pressing left. I pressed right and I was like, Oh my god...

[@BenjaTheOne]

If you are on the PAL aka European version of the game this will likely produce a bit broken dagger for you that decreases and glitches out the stats. Instead what you should do is scroll your inventory, not attachments page all the way to the bottom Then scroll the store inventory all the way down and grab the empty spot right below the gold bar performing the glitch. The rest is the same. This should give you a dagger that maxes all stats without glitching them

[@NationOfMasturbation]

Still glitched, tried it

[@mishalmewalall9789]

IT WORKS THANK YOUUU😊

[@SkyExplosion]

I know this quite old, but you may (if you care) to add a note for people to use triangle to up their inventory and then exit it. To get it to work perfectly.

[@notroxas-l4q]

This can actually be done at any shop, (so far) and it seems the perks or whatever, differ depending on the shop, I did it at the owl shop by overing over the bait.

[@ThatRandomLinuxUser]

Fun fact you can also do this with holy powder incase you just got the odd gaffer and he dosent have attachments yet. First, scroll to bottom of items. Then with shop put holy powder at the bottom and then perform the glitch. It is a bit harder to do but is worth it for if you wanna be op in the start of the game.

[@darrenthompson7995]

I think they patched it not working for me on ps5

[@mrmogensen]

Dude what.. they don't make patches for 20 year old ps2 games

[@darrenthompson7995]

@@mrmogensen ur right this was a while back I was doing it wrong

[@chasehicks7465]

Awe, when game cheats were simple and effective... gosh I do miss the good ole days

[@pussywran]

Ok so I tried this out. Very first time I tried boom worked perfectly. Thought ok let's try again. Boom right on the second try another broken sword. So I went to make room to do it a few More times went to to hags place to free up my inventory. Game glitches out hard. So I restart and not sure if i was in the weapons screen or what but instead I got a suns drop. So I restarted cause I dont want that. And now no matter how much I restart or how much I choose a different file I can never get it to work anymore... wtf

[@doki1063]

Its not working.. i get a bugged square.. and i cant nothing do with it

[@BShandyman]

Man that music hits hard

[@amandawoodward5596]

every one saying they can't get it to work because of completion order, I got it to work fine with no specific order. completed machos house first, then the fat kid, then gaffer. just press triangle then back out and go to gaffers store. go to attachments then scroll to row 7, after that hover over the gold bars and press X+R (dpad) it's simple.

[@ThaetusZain]

I wouldn't do it for any weapons I intend to really use but it beats grinding out weak weapons to status break into Xiao's slingshot when you first get her

[@LN-Lifer]

does this thing work when you're playing the game on ps5

[@Beetlejuice699]

I was able to get the dagger from the Ice attachment, The gold bars, and the two empty slots directly beneath them, could get 4-5 at a time. Just did it last night. Highest rate of success was achieved by always scrolling your items page to the bottom.

[@Beetlejuice699]

If you stop getting them, exit the shop, then reenter, I also went to other areas and came back to Norune, only did it at the Odd Gaffers shop.

[@mrkarate8134]

Do you know as if they patched this glitch because it's not working for me. I'm on the PS4 version

[@Beetlejuice699]

@@mrkarate8134, make sure you have Toan's dagger equipped while doing it, it still works, but won't if you have any other weapon equipped. Last played 3-4 months ago. Can double check in a few hours. Just at work

[@mrkarate8134]

@@Beetlejuice699 Thanks I finally got a few broken daggers but I've noticed that even if I'm pressing right on the D pad and X at the same time it doesn't work.

[@Beetlejuice699]

@@mrkarate8134, it's timing is a bit of a pain, but at least it works still

[@Joey-xg5hx]

I did this by accident when I was 13. It makes the game a fuck ton easier and much more enjoyable

[@tearlach47]

It's not so much a glitch as it is a developer's tool that they left in to be left unnoticed. You can perform this at more than just the Ol' Gaffer's place.

[@ImForeverJake]

For some reason when I use the broken sword on my weapons it glitches the stats out? I'm doing everything the same? Any ideas? I do have a fully built village of that has something to do with it?

[@sari6686]

+Jake Shore same here :(

[@GamingTamers]

+Jake Shore What do you mean by it glitches the stats out? Could you explain? We will try to help as best as possible.

[@darc22005]

+Jake Shore mine was fully built and i had beaten Dran.

[@MahdiOssaily]

Same here

[@MiyakoTatsushima32]

Back in the old days of the original PS2 version of Dark Cloud, there were 2 broken daggers. One that gives your weapon max stats, and one that actually decreases the stats of the weapon it's slotted on. If you get the one that decreases stats, just re-run the game.

[@TheDerpyMuffin]

Guys if you're playing this on the PAL Version follow these steps. 1: Go to Gaffer's shop (Not sure if any other shop will do the same, I did on Wise owl's shop but it was giving me some minus stats) 2: Go to the weapon section in your inventory 3: Scroll all the way down till you reach the 5th section (Basically Ungaga weapons) 4: Put your cursor in the shop box and put it in the empty space and do the same thing to get the broken dagger. If I didn't explain it well I make a video of this for the PAL Version.

[@joaquinfraustoalfarorocco8177]

DUDE THX I LOVE YA!!!

[@TheDerpyMuffin]

Did it work for you?

[@joaquinfraustoalfarorocco8177]

indeed!, the only thing is that i had to take one by one, but the process is the thing u said and put the dagger inside a weapon then repeat cause idk why you cant get more than one at the same time, so in the end you put all your bugged daggers out of your weapons back to your bag and thats it.

[@DedBruzon]

Only this method is works for me!

[@aidatashift1227]

TheDerpyMuffin i didnt make pages house first so the ice and other elements arnt their for me... help?

[@ImoogiNevermore]

So I will say after I had done this a few times; it may have also gave me the moon key for the boss in "Sun and Moon Temple" and now I'm fighting the boss again haha

[@TheGamingAnimator]

Dang, breaks my heart knowing I wasted so much of my life playing this game with a bugged out glitch available all that time, well at least I enjoyed my challenge playthrough

[@dean9288]

I've got lines across my screen so can't see stats?

[@kanetidus]

any "this kind" of glitch in Dark Chronicles ? i'm planing to buy that game these days.

[@DerMotze]

if i do that it always grabs a not specified item. It's not the dagger unfortunate.

[@furkanelitas1200]

Try english language when you start the game. It worked for me.

[@NOBODYLIKEHENRY]

I don't like using this cheat but I visited about 50 places on the web about what is needed to get the weapon to the next stage and found nothing.

[@michaelkinloch8934]

I played the original on the PS2 and never knew about this glitch

[@LocFilesMedia]

This just ended up giving me a glitched item in my ‘items’ section that I can’t sell use or destroy..

[@Asancu]

Play the game in English

[@Bladebreak3r]

What I've realised is, even if I maxed out my weapon using the broken dagger glitch, it's still not as strong as if I had built up my weapon to that point normally, without the glitch. I tried it and the one I maxed out with the broken dagger was weaker for some reason.

[@justinfrost523]

One thing is you have to be careful and only and I mean only put one broken dagger when you level up your weapon. If you put more than one, I found while I was experimenting it will actually start to reverse your damage and even sometimes make your weapon so weak it will do 1 hit point only lol. So basically only put one broken bigger per weapon each time you level up the weapon. Then after you level up the weapon with the broken dagger absorbed, next is build up to the weapon of your choice then.

[@itzmarieee1309]

Wait, I figured out something. o.o Right after you do the broken dagger glitch, do the same thing again. But don't leave the Shop. Press right/x at the same time again. An item from your inventory will pop up.

[@DefinitiveDubs]

You don't actually need to equip the dagger to pull this off. At least, you don't on original PS2. I don't know about PS4.

[@tjafloyd]

Hey I did this and all it gives me is a glitch item when I go into a dungeon it changes into a broken dagger and when I attach it to a weapon nothing happens

[@alexellis7265]

Still use in 2021

[@vonnumbafive2745]

Confirmed for ps5 as well thanks

[@joshuahauser5994]

I can't get this to work because gaffers shop doesn't have all the items. and I have 100% completion on the village. I'm on ps4 any ideas?

[@lesterabel97]

same to me lol, know why?

[@darc22005]

+Lester Mercado 1. Have Gaffer's Buggy in Norune Village, and complete it after placing Pike and his wheel in Paige's house, giving you a full inventory. Equip Toan's Dagger (If you already have it equipped, you must "Equip" it again). Did you guys follow that first

[@Kurokurorinable]

+Joshua Hauser The problem is that you completed the village in the wrong "order." The proper order isn't advertised, but you should have completed one of the villager's houses completely and seen his event before you helped Gaffer. I don't remember the name of the villager, maybe it was Paige's dad? Anyway, you know the event you got when Gaffer hangs up his shop sign himself and falls off, thus hurting his back? If you did the village in the proper order, someone else is hanging up the sign for him, so he doesn't hurt his back in the event. This allows him to run his shop more efficiently, thus providing more items for sale. If you didn't do this, there's no fix for it. You'll just have to start the game over, unfortunately. :(

[@darc22005]

Step 3 is what i forgot trying to do this again later on

[@wavymurk]

Broken Dagger attachment on my Chronicle II... literally broke the game lol

[@darc22005]

+OVO Murk probably cause theres another glitch to get the chronicle 2 early

[@Mavm0]

It worked but when i attack enemies i get 0 damage against them, why?

[@LittleVboh]

Please... more interesting is the fact that you will most likely generate a broken dagger which gives you negative stats of some sort or not max. stats at all.

[@Snedz496]

I got it to work (kinda) it maxed out my weapons but it beta glitched the elemental attributes and the breaker attributes. After doing everything correctly

[@miketheknife813]

I thought I didn't work for the first couple of tries, but then I had three broken daggers in my main inventory, not the attachments inventory, so I tried selling them and gaffer told me that I needed it, like it was the actual dagger, but after I tried selling it it went to my attachments inventory, so I put it on a weapon and it did nothing, couldn't trash it so I leveled up the weapon with them to get rid of them, after that one of them worked, then I did the glitch again the it worked, after a couple of tries. Weird that I had to go through a couple of loopholes, but worth it

[@kylan456]

Same thing just happened to me. Didnt work like it did in the video and i was super disappointed, read your comment then looked in my inventory and a bunch were there from all my tries lmao

[@kylan456]

Just went back and its working now, the original daggers dont work unless i upgrade with them but since it is working now they work just by putting them on the slot

[@nicky23anims68]

i have a question, does this work on the playstation 2?

[@S.G.21355]

All i get is a black square that does norhing but take up space in my bag

[@TheWatcher-zf2nd]

TY SO MUCH I liked/hated this game loo

[@justthor5970]

Doesn’t work on the ps5 😭

[@KazumiRyu]

This still work?

[@jussikorhonen7611]

i have the same issue, the stats are like -100 or over 100 and that glitches the weapon

[@carypoitra6567]

Make sure you only have one broken dagger and nothing else if that doesn't work I don't know what else to do

[@darrenthompson7995]

It work but won’t lemme built up my weapons maybe they patched that

[@Frellyouall]

Is this Matt and Ryan from Super Mega?

[@mrkarate8134]

For some reason he's not selling the ice attachment when I'm trying this glitch.

[@ThaetusZain]

Get pike and the wheel before you activate old gaffer's buggy

[@mrkarate8134]

@@ThaetusZain Ah ok thanks.

[@vaegta]

hey my store in Norune Village doesn't have the ice attachment yet how do you get the store to start selling it?

[@GamingTamers]

+TerryRayJr. Before you build Odd Gaffer's shop, make sure to have built Pike's house with Pike in it. He helps Gaffer set up the shop and in doing so you'll have more items available for sale. You might have to redo it.

[@vaegta]

damn that sucks oh well just got to remember that when i do a 2nd play through since its my first time ever playing this game. even tho i have brief played it before on the ps2 but not for very long since i had to sell it so ya i never got passed the first floor lol. thanks for your help and taking the time to help me :D

[@GamingTamers]

+TerryRayJr. No problem! :) It's pretty hard to figure out things playing through this game for the first time. Hope you enjoyed our video!

[@vaegta]

yea i can tell lol i'm still having a hard time trying to keep money lol. yes i enjoy you're guys videos. you guys are helpful :D

[@alarivideod]

I thought my game was broken untill this haha . Kind of first time for me aswell even though i played it like 15 years ago when I didn't even understand english :D

[@blade8800]

2:54 how on earth did you do that where you can switch allies instantly without having to goto the menu?

[@joshroussel4834]

select

[@terrylemmond7164]

Apparently this no longer works kinda glad lmao

[@crystalblister1]

@@terrylemmond7164 it still works

[@MultiByaku]

thisd glitch cant be done in ps2 right?

[@Meyfil86]

Do it and i get it, but when i apply on a weapon, stats are glitched

[@mercenariofula2882]

Note to all if u try it right away without exiting the store after getting it the game will stop

[@juliandelgadorodriguez7435]

Como le habéis hecho para tener 3 dagas,Porfavor decidme

[@RaidenKaiser]

Tried this now I have some sort of missing no item xD

[@furkanelitas1200]

Try english language when you start the game. It worked for me.

[@natethegreat3226]

So I did this 3 times and couldn't do it anymore 😢 funny not is one of the times I was hitting right and X, I think I accidentally hit R1 and ended up getting the moon signet 🤣 I've already passed that part like 3 dungeons ago!

[@bigdaddyzthadoughboy7573]

thanks bros

[@TheTenor5]

does this work for the PlayStation 2 version?

[@TheDerpyMuffin]

Yes.

[@Bladebreak3r]

Yes this was actually discovered on the PS2 version. I'm surprised they kept it in for the PS4 version.

[@rabbit0664]

Funny I was wondering that too

[@dakotahostermeyer505]

Im glad someone found an exploit. But i hate cheating

[@MaikeruX88]

it maxed everything but durability goes to - wich breaks with one hit.. why?

[@carypoitra6567]

Did you have anything else in the attachment slots

[@MaikeruX88]

+Cary Poitra yes. I did. removed it and worked fine after that :)

[@kylejones1532]

I unfortunately have the version where it glitches out the stats ahhwell

[@pussywran]

Does this work for ps2?

[@kaigenbessette5652]

Does this still work. Downloading it now

[@road2dawn26]

yes, just did it twice on the ps4 version

[@Incognitominds7]

@@road2dawn26 can it be done via ps5

[@road2dawn26]

@@Incognitominds7 Can't answer that, I don't have a ps5

[@darrenthompson7995]

@@Incognitominds7 I’m gonna try here in a minute I just started playing this game lol

[@christianeydner7726]

I think its fixed, I just get a bugged out item.. :(

[@Kodorou]

MMOGrind Reviews same here

[@thelazyhuntress]

Lol nah, it still works

[@sladewilson5600]

Definitely still works.

[@MilestheDirtyMindedGoblin2099]

MMOGrind Reviews nope, still works

[@furkanelitas1200]

Try english language when you start the game. It worked for me.

[@marcu6751]

Dude!!! are you kidding me>? thanks a lot !

[@costlertrack4816]

Is this patched on the PS4?

[@Ataristinks]

My guy doesn’t sell any attachments

[@nazrightnow]

Does this work on the ps5 version?

[@michaelkinloch8934]

Yes

[@cljoe35]

Does this work on ps2

[@exstreamgamer]

I got it to work then accidentally discarded the broken dagger lol but I got another I have all six characters ultimate weapons I just really really don’t want to have to build up and status break fifty different weapons to get all the abilities on the weapons lol

[@slyfoxfan0799]

It doesn't seem to work :v

[@rossgamel537]

You guys seem hella stoned

[@axeltheroyalnine4780]

I would use it on the characters I'm not using

[@ulriko0279]

THANK YOU

[@acal7873]

yeah buddy give it to him

[@KeepingSA]

Doesn't work

[@psykownz540]

Same for me...

[@israeldamian7383]

This only worked like 4 times

[@zuhlera]

Wow

[@petrsauer8240]

I will use this to make money for thophy thanks

[@emilycrowe848]

PS4 I thought the game was for ps2!!!

[@GamingTamers]

it was originally on the ps2, but they re-released it for the ps4 with 1080p resolution. that's the version we're using haha. can't beat that classic ps2 feeling tho!

[@Chaoitcme]

Cool cheat. I won't use it because it takes out the fun of the game.

[@king20091985]

same problem as these guys

[@balkthor]

Gaffer doesn't offer ice.... In fact he only offers powders, bullion, bread, water, and an antidote.

[@skyguy713]

balkthor You have to have Pike and his wheel place before you complete Gaffers shop to get him to sell the good stuff.

[@balkthor]

Much appreciated! I eventually discovered that even though I did it in the wrong order, I could manually move Gaffer's items to the right slot, and the trick still works. So good news there!

[@calluk]

wrong.

[@fluffy6286]

It doesn't work anymore

[@EisteeMango]

Just 1 thing: DO NOT use this glitch in your first playthrough. Why? Cause it will destroy the game for you bcs it gets way too easy.

[@phatman9762]

no longer works on ps4

[@jussikorhonen7611]

i have the same issue, the stats are like -100 or over 100 and that glitches the weapon

[@MrShadowStalker]

+Jussi Korhonen That is because the re-release of Dark Cloud has come out with different versions depending on which region you are in (PAL, NTSC). So what might work for people living in NTSC regions, might not work for people in PAL regions. So you might have to look around to find the correct method for your region. I know this is stupid, trust me I know. It's 2015 and ports have region locking for emulated games.

[@jussikorhonen7611]

I got it working when i was in Inventory, not attachment tab

[@carypoitra6567]

I did this glitch so many times on my ps2 but be sure you only have one broken dagger and nothing else on the in the attachment slot

[@NickMartinez-bw1hv]

Doesn't work

[@goodiesnacks]

He made it look easy. Should take you a few tries normally from my experience.