Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters 6: Expert 2

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters 6: Expert 2

Names
English	Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters 6: Expert 2
Japanese Japanese 遊（ゆう）☆戯（ぎ）☆王（おう）デュエルモンスターズ６（シックス） エキスパート２（ツー） Base 遊☆戯☆王デュエルモンスターズ６ エキスパート２ Furigana ゆう☆ぎ☆おうデュエルモンスターズシックス エキスパートツー Rōmaji Yugiō Dyueru Monsutāzu Shikkusu Ekisupāto Tsū
Development
Platform	Game Boy Advance
Languages	Japanese
Developer	Konami
Publisher	Konami
Release dates
Japanese	December 20, 2001
Series
Series	Duel Monsters
Previous	Duel Monsters 5: Expert 1
Next	The Sacred Cards
Remake	Worldwide Edition: Stairway to the Destined Duel
Links
Promotional cards Guide books: book 1 · book 2 List of cards

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters 6: Expert 2 is a video game for the Game Boy Advance, released in Japan on December 20, 2001. A modified version was later released internationally under the title Yu-Gi-Oh! Worldwide Edition: Stairway to the Destined Duel.

Duel Monsters 6: Expert 2 is set during the Battle City arc. The player Duels characters from the anime and manga. The player can participate in a few tournaments and Duel single opponents they come across on the map screen. Cards are awarded for various reasons including defeating opponents, winning tournaments and free cards with the Duelist Weekly magazine.

Changes from Duel Monsters 5

Main screen

General

• D-Tactics have been removed.
• The player cannot be named.
• A 500 Duel Points cost has been added to passwords.
• The calendar has been removed. (The concept of in-game weekdays still exists. Precise dates and the ability to view a list of dates and their corresponding events has been removed.)
• Achievement icons have been added.

Rules

• Limitation Status can be turned off, after certain conditions have been met.

Campaign

• Opponents are sought out my moving around a map screen, rather than choosing them from a map.
• The opponents Duel Computer and Simon have been removed. Mokuba Kaiba, Odion, Bandit Keith and Duke Devlin have been added.
• The Duel Tournament is held on Saturdays instead of Sundays and happens every week. Players must find and select the tournament, rather than being forced to take part.
• The game features a plot, involving Tea Gardner being captured by the Ghouls.
• Grandpa Cup and the National Championship have been removed.
• KC Cup, Challenge Cup and Limitation Tournaments have been added.
• Target Week is introduced.
• If the player challenges certain characters, while certain other characters are in the same area, the other character will insist on Dueling the player instead.
• Some opponents have two versions of themselves, e.g. Yami Yugi and Yugi Muto, who will alternate as opponents for the player. For the purposes of win and loss totals, they count as the same character.

Cards

• Card names can contain kanji. Each card also has a furigana name.
• Card texts can contain more kanji. (Duel Monsters 5 only featured a limited amount of kanji, which could be used in card texts.)
• The ATK and DEF of "The Winged Dragon of Ra" are changed from 4000 to ????.

Deck Edit

• Cards can be filtered by frame color.
• Statistics showing the breakdown of cards per category can be viewed for the Bag, Main Deck and Side Deck.

Map screen

The Battle City map

Navigation

The Battle City map is divided into 14 areas. Each in-game day, the player can stay in their existing area or move to a neighboring one. When an area is highlighted, preview boxes showing the Duelists, tournaments and passengers in the area will appear. However Duelists' names and faces will not be displayed if the player has not faced them yet. When the icon for an individual Duelist is highlighted the players' win and loss counts against that opponent are displayed.

• When a passenger icon is selected, an unseen character will speak to the player.
• When a Duelist icon is selected, the player will Duel that character, unless an interruption occurs. If the player wins the Duel, they are awarded a Booster Pack.
• When a tournament icon is selected, the player takes part in that tournament.

Characters

Initial

• Tea Gardner
• Joey Wheeler
• Yami Yugi
  • Yugi Muto, sometimes Duels in Yami Yugi's stead
• Seto Kaiba
• Mai Valentine
• Mako Tsunami
• Espa Roba
• Weevil Underwood
• Rex Raptor
• Trusdale
• Yami Bakura
  • Ryou Bakura, sometimes Duels in Yami Bakura's stead
• Ishizu Ishtar

Unlockable

• Mokuba Kaiba, unlocked by losing ten Duels
• Maximillion Pegasus, unlocked by possessing a copy of "Toon World"
• Marik Ishtar, unlocked by completing the Phantom Pyramid event
  • Yami Marik, sometimes Duels in Marik's stead
• Rare Hunter, unlocked by completing the Phantom Pyramid event
• Strings, unlocked by completing the Phantom Pyramid event
• Umbra & Lumis, unlocked by completing the Phantom Pyramid event
  • Umbra, sometimes Duels by himself
• Arkana, unlocked by completing the Phantom Pyramid event
• Odion, unlocked by completing the Phantom Pyramid event
• Shadi
• Bandit Keith, unlocked by having five more wins than losses against Yugi, Téa, Joey, Bakura, Kaiba, Ishizu, Rex, Weevil, Trusdale, Mai, Espa, Mako, Mokuba, Pegasus, Rare Hunter, Strings, Rishid, Umbra & Lumis, Arkana, Marik and Shadi
• Duke Devlin, unlocked by having unlocked and won a game against each of the following characters; Yugi, Joey, Bakura, Kaiba, Ishizu, Rex, Weevil, Trusdale, Mai, Espa, Mako, Mokuba, Keith, Pegasus, Rare Hunter, Strings, Odion, Umbra & Lumis, Arkana, Marik and Shadi.

Events

Duel field

• Duel Tournament: Held every Saturday. At the beginning of the game, it takes place in the subway zone. Its location changes each week, following a clockwise spiral pattern around the map. The player faces an opponent in a Match and is awarded a special pack for winning.
• KC Cup: Starts on a Friday every 24 weeks. The location of the tournament is random, but will always take place in the same area of a neighboring one for the duration of the game. The tournament consists of three Matches spread over three days. On winning the third Match, the player is awarded a special pack.
• Challenge Cup: Starts on a Friday every 13 weeks. The location of the tournament is random, but will always take place in the same area of a neighboring one for the duration of the game. The tournament consists of three Matches spread over three days. On winning the third Match, the player is awarded a special pack.
• Target Week: Once a week, the player is given two random opponents. If they manage to find and defeat the opponents, they are awarded 200 Duelist Points. The Ultimate Random Pack is available for selection after winning the second Duel and disappears afterwards.
• Interruptions: If the player challenges certain characters, while certain other characters are in the same area, the other character will insist on Dueling the player instead. The combinations of characters this works for is as follows. Each character is capable of interrupting their corresponding character. e.g. Joey can interrupt Mai and Mai can also interrupt Joey.
  • Joey Wheeler and Mai Valentine
  • Mai Valentine and Tea Gardner
  • Seto Kaiba and Mokuba Kaiba
  • Yami Bakura and Marik Ishtar
  • Marik Ishtar and Odion
• Ghoul encounters: Rare Hunters will randomly interrupt the player when they try to talk to a passenger or challenge an opponent. The player must then Duel the Ghoul instead. Ghouls which can be faced this way include Rare Hunter, Arkana, Strings, Umbra & Lumis and Odion. The player is awarded a Rare Selection pack after defeating a Ghoul. If they lose, the Ghoul takes a rare card from them. After defeating each Ghoul this way, the Phantom Pyramid event is unlocked.
• Phantom Pyramid: The player takes part in this event immediately after defeating each of the Ghouls. They are taken to Marik Ishtar's lair, where they must Duel, Mind-Controlled Tea, two random Ghouls, Mind-Controlled Joey and Yami Marik. Winning all five unlocks the Ghouls and Marik as regular opponents, the Limitation Tournaments and the achievement icons in the sub-menu screen. Losing causes the player to need to start again by defeating each Ghoul once each.
• Limitation Tournament: Available after completing the Phantom Pyramid. The player's Deck must meet a certain condition to be allowed to participate. Each tournament is a single Duel against an unseen opponent. By winning each tournament, the player unlocks the next one.
  1. Monsters can only be Beast or Beast-Warrior-Type
  2. Monsters can only be Spellcaster-Type
  3. Monsters can only be Dragon-Type
  4. Monsters can only be Insect-Type
  5. Monsters can only be Level 4 or lower
  6. Monsters can only have 1000 or less ATK
  7. Monsters can only have 1000 or less DEF
  8. Monsters cannot have effects
  9. Magic Cards are not allowed
  10. Trap Cards are not allowed
  11. Magic and Trap Cards are not allowed

Sub-menu screen

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Sub menu

The sub-menu screen gives the player the following options

• Deck & Bag: View cards in their possession and edit the contents of their Deck.
• Duel Assist: Trade with other games or enter passwords.
• Cable Duel: Duel with other copies of the game
• Option: Toggle Limitation Status "on" or "off". Only available after the player has won all of the Limitation Tournaments.

After completing the Phantom Pyramid, a list of icons representing achievements appear across the top.

Deck & Bag

Deck Edit

The player can view their cards and edit their Deck from the Deck & Bag menu. The menu has three different screens, which can be toggled between using the L and R keys.

• Bag: All cards in the player's possession, not currently in the Deck or Side Deck.
• Deck: 40 to 60 cards used in Duels.
• Side Deck: 0 to 15 cards, which can be used to modify the Deck between Duels, during Matches.

Each screen shows a list of cards with four visible at a time. The up and down arrows can be used to move through the cards one at a time or the left and right arrows to move four a time. When highlighted, a card's illustration, kana name, stats and the number of copies of it in the Bag, Deck and Side Deck are displayed. When selected, the player can view its details or move a copy to the Bag, Deck or Side Deck.

Cards can be filtered and re-ordered on each screen.

• The options to filter by are; all cards, Normal Monsters, Effect Monsters, Fusion Monsters, Magic Cards, Trap Cards and Ritual Monsters.
• Magic and Trap Cards can only be sorted by name. The options to sort monsters are; name (which is also numeric order), ATK, DEF, Level and Type. In the event of a tie, e.g. two cards having the same Level, when order by Level, they are ordered per the previously applied filter.

Statistics showing the total number of cards in each of the filter categories can be viewed for each screen.

Achievement icons

After completing the Phantom Pyramid, a list of icons representing achievements appear across the top. The icons are initially green and turn yellow after they have been awarded.

From left to right, the achievements are:

• Have at least ten wins against each opponent.
• Open at least one every Booster Pack.
• Reach 50,000 Duel Points
• Win the Duel Tournament at least once in all fourteen areas on the map.
• Win the Challenge Cup
• Win the KC Cup
• Initiate each of the character interruption sequences.
• Have at least one of every card.
• Win all the Limitation Tournaments.
• Complete the Phantom Pyramid event.

Obtaining cards

Initial Deck

At the start of the game, the player is given a choice of three Decks.

Packs

Booster Packs

Packs

After defeating an opponent on the map screen and in certain events, the player is awarded a choice of Booster Pack.

All packs in the game contain five random cards, from a set. A number of packs are based real world OCG Booster Packs, while some are video-game exclusive.

Most packs remain permanently available after their unlock condition has been fulfilled once. Ones whose condition is marked with an * are only available while the condition is true and can be made unavailable, if the condition is not maintained.

Set	Unlocked by
Vol.1	Available from the start
Vol.2	Available from the start
Vol.3	Available from the start
Vol.4	Available from the start
Vol.5	Available from the start
Vol.6	Available from the start
Vol.7	Available from the start
Dark Celemony Edition	Available from the start
Legend of Blue Eyes White Dragon	Obtaining a copy of "Blue-Eyes White Dragon"
Phantom God	Obtaining a copy of "Exodia the Forbidden One"
Revival of Black Demons Dragon	Obtaining a copy of "Red-Eyes B. Dragon"
Metal Raiders	Obtaining a copy of "Barrel Dragon"
Magic Ruler	Keeping Duel Points at 5,000 or more*
Pharaoh's Servant	Keeping Duel Points at 8,000 or more*
Curse of Anubis	Keeping Duel Points at 8,000 or more*
Thousand Eyes Bible	Keeping Duel Points at 10,000 or more*
Spell of Mask	Winning the KC Cup, Challenge Cup and Duel Tournament
Labyrinth of Nightmare	Having ten wins against all start-of-game opponents
Premium Pack 3	Winning the Duel Tournament
Premium Pack 4	Winning the Duel Tournament ten times
Premium Pack 5	Having all previously listed packs available*
Booster Chronicle	Having a streak of three wins*
Konami Selection	Available on the fifth Sunday after beginning the game and every fourth Sunday thereafter*
Trap Selection	Obtaining 500 cards
Magic Selection	Obtaining 1,000 cards
Rare Selection	Obtaining 70% of the different cards
Ultimate Random Pack	Defeating both opponents during Target Week*

Special packs

Special packs are awarded at certain events.

Set	Event
Weekly Jump special pack 1	Each week, one of these two packs is included with the Weekly Jump magazine
Weekly Jump special pack 2
Challeng Cup special pack	Prize for winning the Challenge Cup
KC Cup special pack	Prize for winning the KC Cup tournament
Duel Tournament special pack	Prize for winning the Duel Tournament held on Saturdays
Rare Selection	Award for defeating a Ghoul in a random encounter. This is also available as a regular Booster Pack.

Passwords

Password

In the password menu, the player can get cards by entering the eight digit Password found in the bottom corner of real cards.

Miscellaneous information

After dueling an opponent 99 times, the counter resets to 00 and then back to 01. No record is kept on the total amount of duels with that opponent.

In the Deck & Trunk main menu, there is a bar for achievements such as beating certain Cups, or getting a certain number of cards unlocked. There is no award for unlocking everything on this golden bar. Another gem on the bar is unlocked after defeating an opponent 80 times.

There is a subroutine that allows Yami Yugi to cheat and start specifically with the following hand: "Valkyrion the Magna Warrior", "Alpha The Magnet Warrior", "Beta The Magnet Warrior", "Gamma The Magnet Warrior", and "Premature Burial". This subroutine also puts "Raigeki" as the top card of his Deck. Similarly, Mai Valentine can start with "Elegant Egotist", "Cyber Harpie Lady", "Rising Air Current", a second "Elegant Egotist", and "Cyber Shield", with "Premature Burial" on top of her Deck, Mokuba Kaiba can start with "Heavy Storm", "Dark Hole", "Cyber-Stein", and "Megamorph", and his brother Seto Kaiba with the same hand plus "Harpie's Feather Duster" and "Raigeki".

Game guides

Main articles: Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters 6: Expert 2 First Volume and Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters 6: Expert 2 Second Volume

Trivia

• Yami Marik's appearance on the box cover of this video game is taken from Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 222 (Duelist Duel 163): "The Rise of Ra!", specifically from the panel where he laughs at Mai Kujaku, asking how she plans on using "The Winged Dragon of Ra", after he prompts her to continue her turn.
  • Yami Yugi's appearance here is taken from the title page for Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 207 (Duelist Duel 148): "One-Turn Kill", although he is shown without his jacket, the cards in his left hand, and his Duel Disk.