This is a spoiler-free full walkthrough for Robotics;Notes DaSH, designed to allow readers to play through in the optimal route order while unlocking every scene, CG, music track, and tip along the way. (Twipo messages and GeoTags are not covered, you are expected to be checking for those routinely as you see fit.)
Table of Contents
The Map Trigger
The Map Trigger is a route-defining trigger, unique to Robotics;Notes DaSH. At certain points in the story, you are to go around various Tanegashima locations. Using the Map Trigger, you can select on the map what locations to visit. At those locations, you will interact with various characters. A pre-determined location for each Map Trigger sequence will be the “correct” one and will progress the story.
As a general rule for how character-route branching works, you need to visit all locations with the character in them during the trigger sequences, and then also visit the locations that progress the story. Sometimes, those two overlap.
After that sequence, you will be asked to look around a specific location and locate a GeoTag, much like in the original Robotics;Notes Visual Novel. I do not count those as “Map Trigger” segments, since they’re merely a minigame. You can complete this yourself, but if you can’t spot the GeoTag, look over at the GeoTag Spotting Help segment.
Common route
Choices within Common Route determine what character route you branch into after the common route concludes, so be careful. However, they only start to appear later on, so don’t worry too much about them in the beginning and just focus on enjoying the Twipo conversations and finding GeoTags.
Character Routes
Recommended route order is Mesopause Converter → Plasmapause Resistor → Exopause Thyristor → Thermopause Emulator → Ionopause Thermistor → Magnetopause Attenuator → Heliopause Processor.
Detailed Walkthrough
- Start the game and progress until the Map Trigger Sequence 1. Make a save during the trigger. (Save 1)
- Select [Front of Man from the Sea Statue].
- Progress until Map Trigger Sequence 2. Make a save during this trigger as well. (Save 2)
- Select [Food Court].
- Progress until Map Trigger Sequence 3.
- Select [Battle Robots Venue], then [Main Stage].
- Mesopause Converter End
- Load Save 2.
- Select [Front of Man from the Sea Statue], then [Food Court].
- Progress until Map Trigger Sequence 3.
- Select [Main Stage].
- Plasmapause Resistor End
- Load Save 2.
- Select [Robot Lecture Classroom], then [Food Court].
- Progress until Map Trigger Sequence 3.
- Select [Main Stage].
- Exopause Thyristor End
- Load Save 1.
- Select [Main Stage], then [Front of Man from the Sea Statue].
- Progress until Map Trigger Sequence 2.
- Select [Food Court].
- Progress until Map Trigger Sequence 3.
- Select [Main Stage].
- Thermopause Emulator End
- Load Save 1.
- Select [Arbor Facing the Lighthouse], then [Front of Man from the Sea Statue].
- Progress until Map Trigger Sequence 2.
- Select [Food Court].
- Progress until Map Trigger Sequence 3.
- Select [Main Stage].
- Ionopause Thermistor End
- Select the new button on the game’s Main Menu.
- Magnetopause Attenuator End
- Select the “Final Phase” button on the game’s Main Menu.
- Heliopause Processor End
Misc Map Trigger scene missed:
- Progress to Map Trigger Sequence 3 from any save.
Select [Food Court], before selecting [Main Stage] to branch into a route.
Geotag Spotting Help
The GeoTag for Map Trigger Sequence 1 is at the base of the H-II Rocket Monument
The GeoTag for Map Trigger Sequence 2 is at School Entrance, on top of the blue circular sign to the right
The GeoTag for Map Trigger Sequence 3 is at Hangar, all the way on the top right corner of the explorable area, atop the lights.