I have owned this title since it came out in the U.S., and every once and a while I still pop it in my PSX and play a little. I had a couple of questions and figured I would make a general thread.
 
I have never been able to get Lips' card. Have any of you?  
 
 
I have never witnessed a mutation during fusion. Anybody?

Lips tends to haunt Castle Mana a lot, and kill my party with Extinct... so I don't think I really tried to negotiate much with it, just find out what it was weak against and kill on sight. I'll try negotiating nex ttime I play, I still have save data nearby.
 
I've seen mutations but don't remember the details. Very rare. I've also seen something where Mary's persona spontaneously did some sort of healing spell when she was  low on sp + hp and the rest of the party was unconscious... it seems the game has a lot of nice design features, they're just hidden behind the rough and incompletish presentation.  
 
Do you hae the Japanese version as well? It only occured to me recently that I have Soul Hackers and Innocent Sin but not the JPN release of MIP/R : P/P1.  
 
Have you ever seen a sponeouts persona-demon interaction? Those can be funny... I think they're more common in P2:EP but they're in P1 as well.  

I must be lucky tonight (it is a Full Moon... );
I got EG Lips on the first try!
 
The contact/negotiation went like this:
 
Main - Recruit ( Lips got Angry)
Mark - Stare (Lips got Angry)
Lips - Ask for Magic Stone,
I granted the request, (Lips got a bit Joy and Interest)
Nate - Speech, I think (Lips Maxxed out Anger)
 
But! Lips apparently also maxed out interest, saying
"just take my spell card!"  
 
So I got EG Lips.  
 
I didn't expect it to happen so soon, I tried to vid cap. it but on my old computer with the flakey capture card setup, so the video didn't come out too well. I can try again later but [update] Here's the youtube vid:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wW2LpsjrAs
 

It seems the key is maxing out Anger and giving the MagicStone. She seems to be a "material girl" and care more about that bribe than you, and perhaps is never very happy or interested in people... or it could just be a bug in the game. I've found a lot of small ones.
 
It surprised me too, I didn't expect to even meet Lips until I got to Castle Mana, but this occured just a few dozen steps north of Black Market...

Is it just me or do other people get lost in Lunarvale as well?
 
One hour into the game, I haven't gotten past the prologue. All the houses, trees, and whatsoever look exactly the same. However, this is a little better than Shin Megami Tensei II. In that game, I got stuck on one these places for such a long time just looking for the exit. LOL!
 
So, does anybody have a link to a full or semi-full map of Lunarvale?

But that map only shows the areas you've already visited, doesn't it?

Gah, you're right, I mistook it for the dungeon map.  
 
Never mind me.

What about this?