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?  
 

Nice... from a strategy guide?

Quote from Emilio Morales on 07/28/08 at 09:53:11:

 
Could you upload the rest of the guide, or at least give the name?  

Thank you!

As I recall, there were a lot of factors that determined Fusion results. I know Full Moons tend to increase the chance significantly. Also, certain family combination will as well. I would also imagine the game assigns each variable a sort of 'rating' rather than simply adding up the factors. I think aside from certain factors it is a flat rate of 1/256.

http://www.popanime.net/megami/wiki/index.php?title=Megami_Ibunroku_Persona#Japa nese_to_U.S._Changes
 
There's a gameshark code that'll allow you to access the SQQ in the US version of the game:
http://www.popanime.net/megami/wiki/index.php?title=Megami_Ibunroku_Persona#Japa nese_to_U.S._Changes
 
 
The actual storyline and dialogue aren't in English (although one of the FMVs of Philemon is), they won't be in Japanese either. They'll just be garbled text.  However, the demon conversations and menus and such will all be the same as the US version.

Quote from Vicious1915 on 01/05/09 at 07:29:57:

 
Most emulators support using the gameshark codes, and if you had an Interact Dexdrive or such, you could transfer the data (from your PS1 memory card to the PC+emu)... now that I think about it, there might be some sort of driver for the PS3 memory card reader.  
 
Anyhow, I haven't yet gotten the code to work, but, I think it's just because I lack much patience.