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Copyright Protected.Pls do not use this logo above without the author's permission.All right reserved.No part of the Logo can be modified,copied or re- edited without the prior's author's permission.Thank You.The logo was created using number '9',in chinese means 'everlasting'.Let's hope we will see more and more Final Fantasies besides Final Fantasy 8. ____________________________________________________________________________ Final Fantasy VIII Actual Japanese Version Basics Tutorial Guides Yee Seng Fu(Yu Shenfu) Singapore http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Portal/7933/ Dragonball and Final Fantasy 7 page ICQ:25076522 ysf@pacific.net.sg Version 6.0 Please check for the latest update everytime at www.gameFAQs.com. 10th May'99 ____________________________________________________________________________ Note:This FAQ is best viewed using notepad with text wrapped to window. ____________________________________________________________________________ Hello,welcome to my third FAq.I wrote a FAq on Brave Fencer Musashi and Final Fantasy 8 demo and this time, i am doing a basic guide for the actual FF8,based on the Japanese version.Maybe,check out my other two FAQ. ____________________________________________________________________________ Please bear clearly in mind that this FAQ is written to provide all the basics things like G.F,Special Arts,Draw etc that you should know and not the walkthrough.I don't have time for walkthroughs but there are already some walkthroughs,half-complete at www.gameFAQ.com,so check it out.This FAQ is specially written to help people who has difficulty in understanding the Japanese language.However,I myself don't really know much about Japanese so I won't bear any changes made to the US version,but i hope everyone will give me support.And if you really need help on Japanese language,you are gonna need some of the info here.This FAQ will be a great help to those who are new to Final Fantasys.And even if you are very experienced in FF, you might need some help on the Japanese translation.Though the complicated materia system has been replaced by the Draw system,it does not sound as easy as you think,in fact there are much more complex options available. ____________________________________________________________________________ Updates Version 1.0 -Added characters bestiary -Added Miscellanous Tips -Added control Buttons -Added main menu -Added battle combat -Added miscellanous battle tips Version 2.0 -Added GameShark Codes -Added information on Kiros Seagill,Ward Zabac,Fuujin and Raijin in the character's section. -Added vehicles configuration -Added frequently-asked-questions -Added Balamb Garden -Added some information on Special Arts -Added fighting ability. Version 3.0 -Added information about cards,as well as basic rules of playing. -Change my presentation of content,similar to my Brave Fencer Musashi FAQ. -Added Special Arts for the advanced tutorial guide. -Added some general tip. -Added Acknowledgement section. Version 4.0 -Added information on tune up weapon shop. -Added control configuration for Ragnarok. -Added some more informations on cards. -Added more info on gameshark. -Added more info on characters. -Added 'Eyes On Me' lyrics. Version 5.0 -Added some more info on Special Arts. -Added a list of G.F. -Added secret section. -Added info on Rinoa's Special Arts. -Added G.F Strategy,except Edea and the others like Odin. Version 6.0 -Added more informations on the characters' section,including Raine Loire. -Added in a complete menu diagram,and new junction info.More new diagrams to illustrate understandings. -Corrected the wrong info of Sabotender.The damage caused depends on the LV of the G.F,not the character. -Corrected wrong informations from the tutorial.Thank to Kaze Yagami. -Remove the story section. -Corrected mistakes,plus spellings and grammars. -Change 'desperation move' to 'special arts'. -Added a whole lot of informations for special arts,G.Fs etc. -Added the lyrics + translation of Liberi Fatali,taken from extreme. -Added exclusive specifications of ragnarok,provided by Kaze Yagami. -Added chart list for warship island for those who need help to fight ultimate,provided by Kaze Yagami. -Added new informations on PocketStation,including G.F,provided by Kaze Yagami. -Corrected the place of the name for Balamb Map. Next Update I do know about the UFO incident,Chocobo card,Omega weapon,Timber Magazines, Lionheart,and so on.Due to limited time,i will not add these informations at this moment until the next update since you can already find all this informations at Scott Ong's walkthrough Part 2.It just made no sense of adding now,which i felt it would be more important to add other sections like G.F,Special Arts etc. ____________________________________________________________________________ Wow,version 6.0 is by far the most consuming update,but thanks to kaze Yagami,who have made ver 6.0 possible.I was very busy with my homeworks and exams recently.I just have my chinese Prelim' exam.I need a break.Before you look furthur in this FAQ,read the acknowledgement sections to see how kaze Yagami has contributed to this FAQ.he has helped me with the typings of most of the various new sections,while i am mainly an editor,sort of.A lot of new,exclusive informations have been added that were not found in other FAQs.Thanks to Kaze Yagami,who has taken the informations from a Japanese source called Ultimania.Unfortunately,i have no knowledge of japanese language,and he has provided me a lot of new informations,which i didn't know actually.So,you can consider him part of the author.I have also changed the name of desperation move into special arts,in favour of the translation, but don't you agree that desperation move sounded better?Sort of a desperate act,just like limit.Moves that are used desperately when running low on HP. The word 'Special' doesn't have the meaning of that.Am i right? ____________________________________________________________________________ Content ----------------- -Introduction -Character i)Squall's Party ii)Laguna's Party iii)Other -Basic Tutorial Guide i)Miscellanous Information ii)Main Button Configuration iii)Vehicle Configuration iv)Ragnarok Configuration -Main Menu Presentation i)Junction ii)Item iii)Magic iv)Status v)G.F vi)Ability vii)PHS viii)Card ix)Configuration x)Tutorial xi)Test -Battle Combat i)Active Time Battle ii)Encounter iii)Guardian Force iv)Draw and Magic v)Secret R1 Gunblade Button vi)Illustration on G.F -Advanced Tutorial Guide i)Special Art ii)Weapon Tune Up iii)List of G.F iv)G.F Strategy -General Tips i)Field ii)World Map iii)Item iv)Magic v)Draw vi)Card vii)Additional Additional Guide i)Balamb Garden(Map) ii)Chart of Underground WarShip Island -Secret i)Easy AP ii)Reset iii)Easy Special Art iv)Easy Gil v)250 Ouen vi)Gilgamesh vii)Island Closest to Hell/Heaven viii)GameShark Code -Eyes On Me(Lyrics) -Liberi Fatali(Lyrics + Translation) -Frequently Asked Question -Acknowledgement -Feedback -About the Author -CopyRight Protected ____________________________________________________________________________ Introduction The long,awaited,most anticipated RPGs of 1999 is almost here-the best and latest masterpiece from the most,respected companies in the gaming industry, that is Square.No other companies can ever come as close as Square,it's RPG set track records in the Japanese market,and established Sony as the King of the console market leader,putting all the other consoles to a shame. Dreamcast will never be able to take over Playstation,especially with Final Fantasy 8 coming along this year,and known to be another rumor,FF9 will come next year early in Japan and is somehow to be believed to be related to 8. After releasing so many quality RPG games like Xenogears(a very cool sprite- based anime,cool combats and one of the best storyline that an RPG could have.), Brave Fencer Musashiden(Square's answer to N64's Zelda,though unfair to say this,BFM has got some really cool idea that Zelda don't have.), Parasite Eve (the horror RPG game to show Capcom what Square could do.), Final Fantasy Tactics(the first Square's strategy-RPG game like the Ogre Battle format,yet more impressive and some cool features like Classes.),Saga Frontier(Square's second flapship after Final Fantasy 7).Besides,Square is getting more and more ambitious,creating mega non-RPG hits,specifically 3-D fighting like Tobal No.2, Bushido Blade 2,and the recent fighting game called Ehrgeiz,that even the best 3-D fighting game maker behind the Tekken and Soul Calibur, Namco keeps praising Square.To one's knowledge,Square's only rival for RPG in the Japanese Market was only Enix's DragonQuest series ,but surprisingly,Enix has been keeping quiet for long and Enix hasn't been releasing an US DQ for almost five years.What happened to Enix's DragonQuest 7?Nobody knows much about this game and let's just hope Enix will release more info about DQ7.Enix,take up the challenge and rival Square.Let the Japanese market booms!Square has managed to sell over 2 millions copies of Final Fantasy 8 during the first few days of release in Japan.The question is will Final Fantasy 8 set a new height for all RPGs and will Final Fantasy 8 able to defeat Final Fantasy 7? Recent release of sales target that Final Fantasy 8 has sold over 3.1 millions in Japan,about 0.1 million more than Final Fantasy 7 in Japan.With such overwhelming response in Japan,I am sure Final Fantasy 8 will be another mega-hit game just like Final Fantasy 7.SquareSoft,what happened to Chrono Trigger 2 and a new Seiken Densetsu - Secret of Mana? ____________________________________________________________________________ Character ____________________________________________________________________________ These are the list of the characters that you will encounter during your adventure. Main Party ----------- Name: Squall Leonhart Age: 17 Sex: Male Height: 177cm Blood Type: AB Birth: 23th August Weapon: GunBlade Description:Candidate of the special elite force SeeD, belonging to Balamb Garden.A top student who has overcame all the training and exercises with ease,possessing great battle ability potentials, with a special weapon called the GunBlade.A very unsociable and often depressed student.Still, he possesses a very great charm, and often attracts attention from others though he tries to be alone. Name: Rinoa Heartilly Age: 17 Sex: Female Height: 163cm Blood Type: ? Birth: 3rd March Weapon: Blaster Edge Description:A cheerful energetic girl belonging to a resistance organisation "Forest Owl".A girl that does everything with enthusiasm.She has a straightforward character, and sensitive to others. She is not someone who restricts herself.She's honest about her feelings and speaks up her mind, in contrast to Squall. Name: Quistis Trepe Age: 18 Sex: Female Height: 172cm Blood Type: A Birth: 4th'October Weapon: Chain Whip Description:A SeeD member of Balamb Garden,and an instructor of Squall. Entering Garden at the age of 10 and getting into SeeD at the age of 15,she became the youngest SeeD, and qualified as an instructor at the age of 17. An elite of elites.Having both talent and beauty,she even has a fan club established by her fans,mainly from students.Still, there are also colleagues of instructors who thinks that she lack of experiences because of her age and has not experience many setbacks. Name: Zell Dincht Age: 17 Sex: Male Height: 168cm Blood Type: B Birth: 17th March Weapon: Gloves Description:Another SeeD candidate in Balamb Garden like Squall.Known as 'Wild Zell' in his town Balamb,he is kind and righeous.However, he speaks without thinking,often giving others a bad impression. He knows how to adapt to changes.As a frequent rule-breaker, he is often marked by the discipline committee. Name: Selphie Tilmitt Age: 17 Sex: Female Height: 157cm Blood Type: B Birth: 16th July Weapon: Nunchaku Description:A SeeD canditate transferred from Trabia to Balamb garden. Carefree and energetic,she took over the position of Garden Feast Comittee when she arrived at Balamb. Her mobility often drags others into action,without a chance for them to protest. Her slow talking is actually a cover to many sharp opinions inside, and this can show in urgent situations. Because of her personalities,she may appear to be a natural simpleton, but is a type of girl that does things very carefully. Name: Irvine Kinneas Age: 18 Sex: Male Height: 185cm Blood Type: A Birth: 24th'November Weapon: Gun Description:A sniper belonging to Galbadia Garden,joins the party on a mission order.While he has great markmanship,his self-confidence allows him to flirt with other girls,often dislikes from other guys. But the truth is,this is just his way of overcoming the pressure on his delicate,glass-brittle sense. Totally opposite of what he appears to be, a deep lonely sniper...This is the true man who protects himself with a false loose front.In addition, he hides a big secret in his heart. The key to Squall and gangs'long-forgotten past... Second Party ------------- Name: Laguna Loire Age: 27 Sex: Male Height: 181cm Blood Type: B Birth: 3rd'Jan Weapon: Machine Gun Description:A soldier belonging to Galbadia army. A very careless guy who often lost his way in missions, brings the wrong maps etc... totally not cut out to be a soldier.His dream is to be a journalist,so he travels around the world with his partners.A very determinded character.Connected to Squall in a weird dream, Name: Kiros Seagill Age: 23 Sex: Male Height: 191cm Blood Type: O Birth: 6th'July Weapon: Cutter Description:Laguna's comrade Galbadia soldier.An advisor for Laguna. His slim figure and brown skin gives him exotic atmosphere, but he has a private dress sense that others often cannot understand. Name: Ward Zabac Age: 25 Sex: Male Height: 217cm Blood Type: 25th'Feb Birth: A Weapon: Harpoon Description:He's also one of Laguna's pal and comrade, just like Kiros. Beneath that rough appearance he is a very nice person. Other ------- Name: Seifer Almasy Age: 18 Sex: Male Height: 188cm Blood Type: A Birth: 22nd'December Weapon: GunBlade Description:Another candidate of SeeD in Balamb Garden who is one year older than Squall.Possesses great potentials and high fighting abilities with an automatic GunBlade.Having a personalities with a passion to fight,he sometimes disobeyed his orders. A very self-centred person,and the urge to defeat Squall. Name: Edea Age: ? Sex: Female Height: ? Blood Type: ? Birth: ? Weapon: None Description:In ancient times, witches has been regarded as the object of fear and terror.The world was at peace since the last witch disappeared....But as the next witch,Edea,breaking the silence, appeared in Galbadia,and declared war on the world... Name: Raijin Age: 18 Sex: Male Description:A very faithful loyal follower and friend of Seifer...Often bullied by Seifer and Fuujin. Despite his rough and tough appearance, he is one who is more of a weakling and coward. Name: Fuujin Age: 17 Sex: Female Description:A beautiful silvery-haired girl who is an unbelievable fanatic follower of Seifer.Quiet person.Perhaps she have been serectly in love with Seifer...?Who knows? Name: Cid Kramer Age: 40 Sex: Male Weapon: None Description:Cid,founder of SeeD and Garden,aimed to cultivate the best soldiers in the world.But what is the real intention of establishing SeeD?.... Name: Raine Description:The owner of a pub in winhill village.She takes care of Laguna, who was heavily injure then,for half a year.Laguna,Ellione and her stayed together like a family,but knowing that Laguna is a wanderer,and because of her shyness,she does not express her affections for Laguna. Name: Ellione Description:A girl staying in the village of Winhill and have lost her parents since young when a group of soldiers attacked the village.She was then taken care of by her neighbour,Raine since then. Name: Sant' Angelo de Roma Age: 2 Sex: Female Height: 55cm Birth: 13th'Dec Favourite :White Chocolate, Sushi, Apple, Yogurt, Peanut Butter Dislikes :Dog Food, Spicy Food Description:Rinoa's pet dog.being very protective towards her master. ____________________________________________________________________________ ~~~Basic Tutorial Guide~~~ ____________________________________________________________________________ Miscellanous Information ~~~Playing the Game~~~ Point the cursor at the first Option [NEW GAME] and enter your decision with the Circle button.By clicking on the option below the [New Game],you will be able to reload your save data.Each slot of the game allows you to save up to 15 game saves.Press the directional buttons to view different saves data. ~~~Changing of Disc Warning~~~ Do NOT turn off your Playstation Console. Just open the Playstation cover and pop in the next disc when the screen shows up and the game will automatically resumes itself. Note:Each time before the changing of Disc,you will be prompted to save. Note:If your Playstation is a mod chip, when you change disc, a sign will show up saying that your machine has been modified, and further playing will be stopped. ~~~Saving the game~~~ You can only save the game when you are at the world map, or at a save point or during the changing of discs.To save when you are at the world map or at the save point,just click the last option,which is save.Some savepoints might be hidden, and can only be revealed with the Find Hidden Spot command. ~~~Draw Point~~~ Don't bother looking for treasure chests since you won't be able to find one.But do lookout for magazines lying around the place, for most of them are of importance.You will be able to collect magic along the way in the form of pink colour clouds,known as Draw Points. Like the Save Point, some of these Draw Points might be hidden too.Draw Points can exist in certain parts of the world map also.To draw the magic,the character must have a G.F and the Draw command equipped.Press circle and you will be able to choose the character to draw the magic.The magic picked up will be stocked by the character.Draw Points have fixed positions and turns white when the magic has been picked up.Wait for some time and you will be able to draw up the magic from the same spot again,mainly a few times after fighting some enemies or clearing some events, or simply moving around.Some Draw Points recover faster,whereas some are more slower. Note:If a character is not junctioned with the Draw command, he or she cannot pick up the magic. ~~~Money~~~ Firstly,you won't be able to earn money,even from defeating bosses or enemies.The only ways are to sit for tests,earn your ranks to get your salary.You get your 'salary' after a certain length of walking.The higher your rank is, the more money you will earn each time.You can also earn your ranks through special events, such as performing well in a mission etc. Take note that your rank can drop too. ~~~Exp,AP~~~ The next thing about Exp is that no matter how,you won't be able to earn your exp through fighting bosses,only through enemies.Each time you earned a new Lv,you will need another 1000 exp to advance through the next level. AP is the exp needed for a Guardian Force to learn a new ability.For example,if an ability needs 40AP,then you will need 40AP to complete the ability. Note:If you escape during a battle,you can gain a portion of exp,provided you have done some damage to your enemies.However,no AP will be gain. Note:The character (or G.F.) who delivers the finishing attack will get an exp bonus. Note:For more info,please read the test. Note:For more info,please read the Guardian Force and the Junction. ~~~Boarding a bus,train,or even rent a car!~~~ Riding a car requires 3500Gil.Though expensive and quite worthless as the car might run out of fuel and stop moving,it is sometimes useful for long trips, especially if you want to avoid enemies.If you drive a car into the town,it is considered returning back.And remember,you are renting the car,it may run out of fuel anytime and won't be able to move,end up more slower than walking.Though the renting of cars may be a cool feature,but may end up as a wastage of gils. There are lots of train stations stationed around the world map. Sometimes, you will see trains coming in and out of these railways.To board a train,it will stop at one of these stations.Immediately, press circle and you will be asked if you would like to board the train for 3500gil to these destinations,if yes,you will sit on the train.Cool,isn't it. While in Deling City,Galbadia,you will see buses driving in and out.When the bus stops,simply talk to the guy near the station and you will be able to board the bus for free to tour round the place.And besides,boarding the bus is free,so you don't have to spent a single gil.The buses will stop at different bus stations in the city.Press X if you want to get off the bus. And what's even more cooler is that the buses are two-way. Note:A train can be ride only in the Balamb and the Galbadia continent only. Note:Buses is only availiable in Deling City,Galbadia. Note:Cars can be rented in almost all towns,except for a few. ~~~Dual Shock Support~~~ All Dual shock owners will be very pleased to here that Final Fantasy 8 supports Dual Shock.You will be able to feel every single blow that your inflict on your enemies,even the summoning of Guardian Force. ~~~PocketStation(PDA)~~~ Final Fantasy 8 will be the first game in Japan to support Sony's latest portable PDA,PocketStation. You can play the "Odekake Chocobo RPG" on the PDA, finding items that you cannot find in the game itself. Sorry!I hasn't seen nor played the PDA before,but i have seen an image of this portable system in the internet.Looks cool!. For more infomation on PDA,please read the frequently-asked-question. ~~~Shop~~~ Unlike the tradition FFs,there won't be anymore magic shop.In FF8,you can only find item and weapon shops (known as Junk Shops), a few other shops such as Pet Shop,Gift Shop, Book Shop etc.I don't need to talk more about item shop.Okay, Junk Shop allows you to tune up your weapon.Also note that there aren't any armour shop.Please refer to the advanced tutorial section. ____________________________________________________________________________ Control Configuration ~~~Main Button Configuration~~~ --------------------------------- -Directional Button Field Screen 1)Moves around the Field. World Map Screen 2)Moves around the world map. Menu Screen 3)Moves the cursor and select the options in the menu. Battle Screen 4)Moves the cursor to select the commands during battle. -Start Button Field Screen 1)Pause the game and provides the Help Function to turn on/off the vibration World Map Screen 2)Pause the game and provides the Help Function to turn on/off the vibration Menu Screen 3)No uses Battle Screen 4)Pause the game and provides the Help Function to turn on/off the vibration -Select Button Field Screen 1)No uses World Map Screen 2)No uses Menu Screen 3)No uses Battle Screen 4)when hold,make the window disappear. -Circle Button Field Screen 1)Talk to people. 2)Draw magic from Draw Point. 3)Use to examine items, examine a ladder etc. (When in Shop) 4)Confirm the selected commands. 5)Confirm the selected items to buy,sell. World Map Screen 6)No uses. Main Menu Screen 7)confirm selected command. Battle Screen 8)confirm selected command. -X Button Field Screen 1)No uses. World Map 2)No uses. Menu Screen 3)Cancel the commands. Battle Screen 4)Cancel the commands. -Square Button Field Screen 1)Challenge opponents to play the Card Game. Available after receiving the cards from the man near the elevator of 2nd Floor of Garden Accademy. World Map Screen 2)No uses. Menu Screen 3)No uses. Battle Screen 4)To do extra damage for the G.F while holding select and tap Square rapidly.Available once the 'Ouen' ability is learn for that particular G.F. -Triangle Button Field Screen 1)Activates the Menu Screen. World Map Screen 2)Activates the Menu Screen. Menu Screen 3)No uses Battle Screen 4)Switch parties members. -L1 Button Field Screen 1)No uses. World Map Screen 2)Rotates the camera view. Menu Screen 3)Switches target character/G.F. (right direction) 4)Switches language from Katakana, Hiragana, English during input your character's name. (toward left) Battle Screen 5)Uses to turn on/off the help target command. -L2 Button Field Screen 1)No uses. World map Screen 2)Rotates the camera view. Menu Screen 3)No uses. Battle Screen 4)Escape from battles. (hold together with R2 button) -R1 Button Field Screen 1)No uses. World Map Screen 2)Rotates the camera view. Menu Screen 3)Switches target character/G.F. (left direction) 4)Switches language from Katakana, Hiragana, English during input your character's name. (toward right) Battle Screen 5)Triggers Squall's gunblade power. -R2 Button Field Screen 1)No uses. World map Screen 2)Rotates the camera view. Menu Screen 3)No uses. Battle Screen 4)Escape from battles. (hold together with L2 button) ~~~Vehicle Configuration~~~ ---------------------------- Square: Moves your vehicle forward. X: Moves your vehicle backward. Circle: Get in/ Get Out of vehicle. R1: Changes the camera view. Note:This applies to cars,chocobos etc as well.Note that,chocobo can cross shallow water,but not open sea.If you press circle,you will get out of chocobo and the chocobo will be gone.Also,you will see a small chocobo behind the mother chocobo... ~~~Ragnarok Configuration~~~ ------------------------------ Up/Down : Raise/Descend(Altitude). Right/Left : Changes the direction of the Ragnarok is facing. R2 : Changes camera view. Square : Move Forward X : Move Backward Circle : Get In/Out the Ragnarok. Select : Opens World Map (Globe View,Flat View,Full View) Triangle : Enter Ragnarok. ~~~Ragnarok Specifications *Exclusive!!! ^^* ~~~ ------------------------------------------------ ~Super High Mobility Flying Ship "RAGNAROK"~ DATA ---- Highest Output : 3450t Total Length : 108m Total Wingspan : 77m Total Height : 54m (Landing) 65m (Cruising) Main Weapon : 609mm Electron Particle Beam x 1 Sub Weapon : 152mm multi-barrel Laser x 2 Main Engine : Reaction-Type 12-Level Compressor Turbine (power output 22500kg) x 2 Sub Engine : Reaction-Type 6-Level Compressor Turbine (power output 24800kg) x 4 Top Speed : 11.8km/s,708km/min,42480km/h ____________________________________________________________________________ Main Menu These options are arranged according to the main menu. Junction: Allows the junctioning of G.F., magic, commands,and abilities. Magic: Allows the viewing of your stocked magic for your characters. Item: Allows the viewing of your items,plus using and arranging. Status: Allows the viewing of stats,as well as Special Arts. G.F Allows the viewing of G.F status,as well as their abilities. Ability: Allows the using of menu abilities of your G.F. Switch: Allows the changing of party members. Card: Allows the viewing of cards you have. Configuration:Allows the adjusting of game setting. Tutorial: Allows a precise guide on FF8. Save: Allows you to save your game. You can also push your cursor to the left and arrange your characters'order. ____________________________________________________________________________ Menu Presentation Once noticeably look of FF8 is the overall presentations of the main menu. And I have to say it is much more presentable than FF7.Not only are the battle window smaller and the magic trading,more user-friendly,but the main menu has underwent some changes, giving you a new look.I will talk about the main menu.Have you ever getting tired of using the PHS too often in FF7 and switching party all the time, just to give the type of materia you want for your character?Are you fustrated by having to rearrange all the materia again,specifically when Yuffie returns you all your materia? _________________________________________________________________ |HELP | | |Item window | Junction | |__________________________________________________| | ______________________________________________ |>Item | |STATUS | | | | Zell LV 100 HP:9999 / 9999 | | Magic | |----------------------------------------------| | | |STATUS | | Status | Does the | Squall LV 100 HP:9999 / 9999 | | |main menu |----------------------------------------------| | G.F. |look like |STATUS | | | the | Rinoa LV 100 HP:9999 / 9999 | | Ability | previous |----------------------------------------------| | | Final | Irvine Quistis | | PHS |Fantasies | LV 43 HP1863 LV 45 HP 1941 | | | ? | | | Card | Like it? | | | | More | Selphie | | Configuration| Options! | LV 48 HP1954 | | | More | | | Tutorial | easy to | | | | switch | | | Save |equipment |______________________________________________| |______________| with ______________ other _________________________________________________ |PLay71:12 | member! | ||S.LV. 23 | | Island Closest to Hell || 303107 G | |_________________________________________________||______________| ____________________________________________________________________________ ~~~Junction Menu~~~ -------------------- ____________ __________________________________________________| Junction | |Notice >Junction Remove Priority Ability | Window | |__________________________________________________|____________| |Help Junction Option | |_____________________________________________________________| _________ __________ | PHOTO | SQUALL |Command | | OF | |Attack | | SQUALL | Lv 100 |Magic | | | |Draw | |_________| HP 9999/9999 |G.F. | |__________| Total Exp 99000P Next Level 0P __________________________________________________________________ | HP Ultima 9999 S ATK S DEF E ATK E DEF | | Strength Aura 255 Speed Triple 57 | | Stamina Life 2 121 Evasion Water 13% | | Magic Gravity 136 Hit Rate Double 225% | | Spirit Cure 3 92 Luck --------------- 22 | |__________________________________________________________________| List of Abbreviation _______________________ |S ATK:Status Attack | Does the screen 'stun' you? |S DEF:Status Defense | Is it complex? |E ATK:Elemental Attack | Never mind! |E Def:Elemental Defense| I will explain everything very detailed below. |_______________________| _____________________________________________________________________ |Name | What it mean? | |________________|____________________________________________________| |HP |It shows the max HP of your character. | |________________|____________________________________________________| |Strength |It shows the strength of your physical attack. | |________________|____________________________________________________| |Stamina |It shows the defense power against physical attacks.| |________________|____________________________________________________| |Magic |It shows the magic power of the character.The higher| | |it is,you will cause more damage when using a magic,| | |as well as drawing more magic from an enemy at one | | |time. Also determines recovery magic. | |________________|____________________________________________________| |Spirit |It shows the defense power against status attacks | | |and magic attacks. | |________________|____________________________________________________| |Speed |The higher your speed value, the faster the | | |character's ATB charges. | |________________|____________________________________________________| |Evasion |The % chance of dodging physical attacks. | |________________|____________________________________________________| |Hit Rate |The chance of hitting your enemy using physical | | |attacks.The type of weapon you carried also affect | | |the hit rate.Refer to advanced tutorial on weapon | | |upgrading.Also known as accuracy in some guides. | |________________|____________________________________________________| |Luck |The luck of your character. What is it for?... | |________________|____________________________________________________| |Status Attack |Ability to cause status disorder to your enemy, | | |depending on the type of magic junctioned. | |________________|____________________________________________________| |Status Defense |Ability to be protected from a certain status dis- | | |order,depending on the type of magic junctioned. | |________________|____________________________________________________| |Elemental ATK |Add certain elemental,like fire to your attack. | |________________|____________________________________________________| |Elemental DEF |Add certain elemental,like fire to your defence. | | |Recieve as min damage from such elemental attacks | | |from your enemy,regardless it is physical or magics.| | |Able to nulify the elemental attack to gain some HP,| | |if elemental def is very high. | |________________|____________________________________________________| Credit:Refer to junction FAQ.His faq has a table value of all junction magics. ____________________________________________________________________________ Pressing circle will release the following options, at the top window counting from the top left. Note:To select the character you want,press L1 or R1. Note:The three options after G.F won't be accessible unless your character is equipped with at least 1 G.F. By clicking on these options will lead to another sub-menu. ~~Junction~~ ------------- G.F. :Allows junctioning/dejunctioning of your character with G.F.s. Magic:Allows junctioning/dejunctioning of your character magics to boast your character stats. Pressing the Square button while you junction your GF will allow you to view the abilities of what the G.F. has completed. ~~Remove~~ ----------- Magic:Remove all the magics that are junctioned. All :Remove all G.Fs,junctioned abilities, and magics. Note:In both cases,your character stats will decrease and revert back to the characters' current base value. ~~Priority~~ ------------ Note:This option is almost identical to the in the first option, except instead of choosing your own magic,the CPU will arrange for you, according to the three types of priority you want.Use these settings wisely. Attack:Maximises physical attack power. Magic :Maximises magic attack and magic defense. HP :Maximises physical defense and HP count. ____________________________________________________________________________ Junctioning Status or Elemental ATK or DEF When you are in the junction menu,click on magic option. You will see the screen below. ____________ __________________________________________________| Junction | |Notice >Junction| G.F >Magic | Window | |________________|_________________________________|____________| |Help Choose the type of magic you want to junction | |_____________________________________________________________| _________ _______________ __________ | PHOTO ||Magic P1 Num| |Command | | OF ||Cure 100| |Attack | | SQUALL ||Cure 2 100| |Magic | | ||Cure 3 100| |Draw | |_________||Ultima 100| |G.F. | __________|_______________| |__________| |<HP Ultima 9999 S ATK S DEF E ATK E DEF | | Strength Aura 255 Speed Triple 57 | | Stamina Life 2 121 Evasion Water 13% | | Magic Gravity 136 Hit Rate Double 225% | | Spirit Cure 3 92 Luck --------------- 22 | |__________________________________________________________________| By selecting any junction option from the left,eg.HP and all the way down to Spirit,press Left once.To return back,press right.You will see a small portion of the screen like this on the bottom left. ____________________ ___________________________ |By clicking on the | |Value | |second and third | |___________________________|______________________ |option,you will see | | E ATK Earth |ELEMENTAL DEFENSE ||the % defense again-| |>E DEF Fire 3 | Fire *---50 % Poison --- 0 % ||st a particular | | E DEF Ice | Ice ---50 % Wind --- 0 % ||elemental attack. | | | Bolt --- 0 % Water --- 0 % ||if a green star,as | | | Earth --- 0 % Holy --- 0% ||indicated * appears,| |_______________|__________________________________||this means you have | _____________________________________________________|reach the ability to| |Question:What if i want to view my elemental attack? |absorb the elemental| |Click on the first option,E ATK.You will see the same|attack,in this case,| |screen,except the title is now changed to elemental |fire. | |attack.The % tells you the strength of E ATK/DEF | | |_____________________________________________________|____________________| ___________________________ |>E ATK/DEF >>Value | |___________________________|____________________________________ |>S ATK Silence |Status Attack | | S DEF -------- | Instant Death --- 0% Zombie --- 0% | | S DEF -------- | Poison --- 0% Sleep --- 0% | | | Petrify --- 0% Slow --- 0% | | | Blind --- 0% Stop --- 0% | | | Silence 55% Confusion --- 0% | | | Berserk --- 0% Absorption --- 0% | |________________|_______________________________________________| As for status def,the right-hand side screen is a bit different. _______________________________________________ | Zombie --- 0% | | Instant Death --- 0% Sleep --- 0% | | Poison --- 0% Slow --- 0% | | Petrify --- 0% Stop --- 0% | | Blind --- 0% Curse --- 0% | | Silent --- 0% Confusion --- 0% | | Berserk --- 0% Absorption --- 0% | |_______________________________________________| Tip:Notice the small arrow beside the E/S ATK/DEF.By pressing the direction, you will go the screen.Two arrows mean two times. Tip:Some magics give you one elemental attack/def,whereas non-elemental magics like Ultima, Flare give you an all-rounded ATK/DEF to various elemental attacks. Tip:You can unjunction a slot by pressing the Square button. For all elemental/status,pls read below. ____________________________________________________________________________ ~~Ability~~ ------------ Abilities are essential for your battles and it's best to make full use of your abilities.There are various types of abilities: Junction, Command, Character, Party, G.F., Menu.You can junction up to three Command abilities (upper), and 2- 4 Character/Party abilities(lower), depending on your GF. I will explain them one by one here. Junction Abilities appears with a "J" beside the ability name. These abilities allows you to junction magics to the respective attributes. For example, "HP J", "Str J", etc.Junction abilities do not require any ability slots. Command Abilities appears with a "!" beside the ability name. These abilities allows the character to use special commands during battle. For example, "Recover", "Revive", etc.Each command ability requires one command ability slot. Character Abilities appears with a "C" beside the ability name. These abilities can allow your character to perform special commands such as Steal, or aid your character in boosting the stats.For example, "Steal", "HP+20%", "HP Bonus".Each character ability requires one Character/Party ability slot.Note that such abilites are cumalative, i.e. If you junction HP+20% and HP+40% you will get the effect of HP+60%. Party Abilities appears with a "P" beside the ability name. These abilities can allow special conditions to work over the entire party.For example, "Find Hidden Spots", "Encounter Nullify".Each party ability requires one Character/Party ability slot. G.F. Abilities appears with a "GF" beside the ability name. These abilities modifies a G.F.s prowess.For example, "GF HP+20%", "Support". Note that such abilites are cumalative, i.e. if you have GF HP+20% and GF HP+40% you will get the effect of GF HP+60%.G.F. abilities do not require any ability slots. Menu Abilities appears with a "P" beside the ability name. These abilities can allow you to perform various commands from the main menu.For example, "Create Fire Magic", "Call Junk Shop", "Card Change".Menu abilities do not require any ability slots. I will cover the junctioning of abilities below. Command Selection By clicking the cursor on the right window, you will be Attack |Magic able to equip the commands over to the left window. > |Draw > |G.F > |Item > |Recover > | > | Table 1. Now,look at the character(C) ability.You may wonder what are the options below the commands.These are called character(C) abilirty from the G.F.These do not give new commands during the battle,but instead aid you and improve your stats.For example,when your G.F learns abilities like HP+20%,Magic+20%, you will be able to equip it. Commands Choice Attack |Magic+20% >Magic |Status Defense+20% >Draw | >G.F | By clicking on the cursor to the right, you will be >HP+20% | able to equip to the left window. > | Notice that the user equip HP+20%.What do you think > | will happened to his HP? Table 2. For info on these commands,pls refer to magic,draw and G.F,battle sections. ____________________________________________________________________________ ~~~Item Menu~~~ ---------------- Use:Allows the using of items. Customize:Arrange your item yourself. Arrange:Auto arrange of items by your CPU. Command:Allows you to arrange your item inventory of what it is going to appear during battle. The item pages will look similar to your magic pages. ________________________ |ITEM P1 NUM. | To arrange the items,simply point the cursor |Elixir 10 | on the top-left screen to the bottom-right |Phoenix Tail 100 | screen.This will switch the positions of the |Hero's Drink 2 | items. |Potion 100 | Like magic page,there are a total of 8 pages, |________________________| each page containing only four items. ~~~Magic Menu~~~ ------------------ Note:To switch characters,press L1 or R1. Use:Use your stocked magic. ~~Exchange~~ Allows you to exchange and trade magics between your characters. Hand All :Hand all the magics for that particular type from the top row character to the bottom row character. Get All :Receive all the magics for that particular type from the bottom row to the top row. Distribute :Distribute the number of magics you want to give or get for that particular type of magic. Notice any differences between hand and get???Are you able to see the difference? Note:While choosing magic,you can press the directional button left or right to view the next page.Each page can contain only four magics, up to 100 units of each type. ______________ |MAGIC P1 NUM| |Cure 100| P1 indicates the page number,1.There are a total of 8 pages |Cure 2 100| ,each page can contain 4 magics,which means to say each |Ice 50| character can carry only 24 magics. |Lightening 69| |______________| ~~Recieve~~ ------------ Recieve:Allows the above character in the top row to recieve all the magics from the bottom row. Note:If the top row character has a magic of 100,he won't be able to carry any more from the bottom row. ~~Arrange~~ ------------ Arrange:Allows the arranging of the magics for that character and not trade. Tip: You can discard your magic by pressing the Square button. ____________________________________________________________________________ ~~~Status Menu~~~ ------------------- It allows you to view your character stats,as well as different abilities. Note:You can switch your characters with L1 or R1 buttons By pressing circle,you will open sub-menu. This lets you view your character's HP,level,exp etc. This lets you view your character's % elemental defense,as well as status defense.The elemental attack is at the top,and the status defense is at the bottom. This lets you view junctioned G.F.s This lets you view your character's Special Art. ____________________________________________________________________________ Elemental List ____________________________________________________________________________ Fire : Resistance against Fire-type attacks Ice : Resistance against Ice-type attacks Thunder : Resistance against Thunder-type attacks Earth : Resistance against Earth-type attacks Poison : Resistance against Poison-type attacks Wind : Resistance against Wind-type attacks Water : Resistance against Water-type attacks Holy : Resistance against Holy-type attacks Note:Flying enemies are usually weak against Air and strong against Earth, while Undeads are weak against Fire/Holy/Cure/Revive and strong against Poison/Death. ____________________________________________________________________________ Status Disorder List ____________________________________________________________________________ Instant Death :Your character will be killed instantly, HP drops to zero. Poison :A green cloud appears above your head.HP drops each turn. Petrify :Turns into a statue,and ATB stops moving.No difference from death.It is a permanent disorder,unless you use a remedy or heal. Blind :A black cloud surrounds the forehead of your character. Hit rate drop signifiantly,often misses the attack.Another permanent disorder. Silence :A tiny bubble speech that says "..." Your character cannot use the Magic, GF, or Draw commands. Another permanment disorder. Berserk :Steam rushes out from the fury-hot character. You will lost the control of the effected character as the character just performed the attack command randomly on any enemy.Attack strength is increased. Zombie :Character turns green in colour. Attacking power is slightly increased, but attempts to recover HP on the character would cause damage instead. Sleep :The character's ATB will stop and "zzzz" appears from the character. The character will only awake when under a attack or a Remedy/Heal is used on him/her.It is a temporary status disorder,which means the character will still wake up after some time. Slow :The Active Time Bar moves slower,turning purple in color. Stop :The ATB guage freezes as the effected character stopped moving. Curse :The character will not be able to activate his/her Special Art. Confuse :Your character turns around in circles and will attack enemies, or your party or himself/herself!A huge chocobo appears above the character,confusing the character.It is again a temporary disorder,and can be recover either by recieving an attack or using heal/remedy. Absorbtion :Affect how much HP you will absorb using the HP absorb and also reduce your HP absorb by the enemies on you to the min. Note that trying to absorb/drain from a undead will result in HP lost instead. ___________________________________________________________________________ The elemental and status list is taken from Scott Ong's FAQ walkthrough Part 1.Sorry,Scott Ong,i cut some portions just to save space,and add a few info.Hope you don't blame me.Anyway,the original meaning is remained intact. ____________________________________________________________________________ Look at all the G.F that the character currently junctioned. Look at all the Special Arts,which is equivalent to the Limit Breaks in FF7. Note:Please read the Special Arts section. ____________________________________________________________________________ Guardian Force -------------- Guardian Force (G.F. in short) are like your character's second persona. You get all your abilities, stats boost etc from the GFs.GFs themselves also works like summons in the past FF series.There are a total of 16 G.F.s that you need to find.However,finding G.F is not as easy as you will have think. Some of the G.F. requires you to fight with them,whereas some requires you to draw them out from bosses.Be careful when you are fighting bosses. Always start the combat by drawing.Once you draw the G.F and defeat the boss,you will be able to enter name for your G.F.However, if you forget to draw the G.F and defeat the boss,then say goodbye to them.You won't be able to get them anymore through other ways,besides using a cheat hacker like gameshark. There are another group of special G.F.s which you cannot junction, and you can summon them under special conditions such as the use of an item. Note:For more informations,please read Guardian Force FAQ that can be found at www.gameFAQ.com By clicking on the G.F. you want, you will see a whole list of abilities that your G.F can learn.Just like your characters,your G.F can earn LVs,have HP and even AP for learning new abilities.The first menu gives you your G.F experience and other stats.The left lower corner shows the current ability under training.When you press circle,another new sub-menu will appear,giving you a whole chunk of abilities that you can learn or have learnt. From there, you can choose the next ability you wish to train.New abilites that can be learnt sometimes appears upon completing of certain abilities. Note that each G.F. can only complete up to 22 abilities, so sometimes you need to "forget" certain abilities which you don't need, with the help of Amnesia Grass, so as to make space for other abilities. For example: Sub-menu on the right window ________ ______________________________ | | |HP+10% Complete P1| Notice the P1,similar to the |Shiva's| |HP+20% 5/60AP | Magic,you can have pages. | Photo | |Magic+10% Complete | |_______| |Magic+20% 0/60AP | |Draw Complete | HP 1500/1500 |Item Complete | |Death Sentence 0/60AP | Stats_______ |Status Def+10% 0/50AP | ____________ |Status Def+20% 0/70AP | Skill Training |Elemental Def+10% 0/100AP | -------------------------------- Note:The above is just an illustration and does not actually represent the list of abilities for shiva. Things to take note of: 1)Stats change will automatically take effect like the adjustment of HP etc. 2)When command abilities like Death Sentence above is learned,you can junction it in the first option of the menu. 3)If your G.F learns elemental def,let's say Ifrit,when you junction fire to your elemental defense,you will be more protected from fire attacks. 4)Different G.F have different abilities.Some arise to new abilities like cure,status recovery, barrier and so on. For more information,please read the G.F on the battle section. ____________________________________________________________________________ ~~~Ability~~~ --------------- Some Menu Abilities are of very much use, like converting items to certain magics,items to bullets,and cards to rare items etc.Each G.F has different set of new ability and will help you a lot during the game.More information will be provided in the next update. ____________________________________________________________________________ ~~~Switch~~~ ------------ This option allows you to change your active party members. Note that member switching can only be done only on the world map or at a save point,or special occasions. ___________________________________________________________________________ ~~~Card~~~ --------------- It allows you to view the cards that you have in your hand.Cards can be won by defeating GFs, changing monsters or by defeating other card players in towns across the world, or after winning a battle.Try to hang onto these cards, as they are difficult to win back if you should lose some of your powerful cards. Each card has four numbers representing four directions: up, down, left and right.The game is played on a board of nine squares or 3 X 3 square.Though the game may seem simple to you,it is a very addictive,yet involving a lot of strategy thinking. So,what's the advantage of collecting cards? By using Quetzalcoatl ability (Card change),you can change your cards into items,including rare items that are hard to get from certain enemies. Basic Rule:First,Each card has four numbers,let's say Up,Down,Left,Right. By putting on a grid,you can actually gain one point if your number facing to his card number is greater than his.He,in turn will lose one point.However,the same can applies to the CPU. He can also gain one point too, and makes you lose a point. If you PUT a card next to it,with your card number face-to-face, lesser than him,you nor CPU will neither gain nor lose a point. The same is true for the CPU as well. The battle will first began by throwing a dice.Depending on the dice,the player or you may start first or randomly.Players will be able to put his card one at a turn.The (left) shows the CPU card and the(Right)shows your card.You will first began with five points.Your cards will be blue while your opponent's colour cards will be pink By winning,you will be able to choose a card you like from the deck of card he has.Similarly,if you lose,the CPU will be able to choose a card from you,and you in turn will lose the card.If it's a draw,neither of you will lose a card. Eg1. You His Eg2. You His 5 4 3 6 3 4> <5 3 2 7> <9 5 1 1 5 3 You Lose! You Win! Notice the pattern for both examples! Eg3. 6 It may not neccessary be side-side.It can also be His 2 4 top-to- bottom.Can you tell who is the winner? 9 You 5 Answer:You because 9 is greater than 5. 5 3 2 Creating chain Assume that you start off first. Let Y be your card and C be the CPU C-Y shows the score. Yn or Cn shows which card is placed first. _______________________ Procedure: | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1)6-4,when C1 put beside Y1. |2 Y1 5 |7 C1 8|9 Y2 3 | 2)5-5,when Y2 put beside C1. | 6 | 8 | 3 | 3)6-4,when C2 put below Y2. |_______|_______|_______| 4)5-5,when Y3 put below C2. | 3 | | 4 | 5)6-4,when C3 put beside Y3. |8 C4 5 | |8 C2 1 | 6)5-5,when Y4 put beside C3. | 2 | | 3 | 7)6-4,when C4 put above Y4. |_______|_______|_______| | 1 | 8 | 5 | Guess what will the result be if i place... |8 Y4 4 |2 C3 4 |5 Y3 2 | in the middle? | 1 | 5 | 3 | a) 7 b) 9 C) 9 |_______|______ |______ | 8 Y5 5 5 Y5 9 7 Y5 9 9 5 9 Can you figure it out? Ans:a)6-4,lose Part C is a good example of chains.This is the type b)5-5,Draw of strategy that will turn the situation over. c)2-8,Win Notice that you increase by four points.This is because all your numbers is greater than the numbers facing you.Of course, it may not neccessary be the centre.It's up to you.But beware that,such situations happen all the time,may win or lose 2-4 points at one go.If both numbers are equal,then no change in score. More Information: 1)There are rare cards that only have 1 existing in the world, such as Boss cards, GF Cards, and Character Cards. 2)Card strength ranges from 1,being the weakest and A,being the strongest. 3)It's possible to earn four points at one go,only if you put your card properly in the middle.The above is an example. 4)If you have less than 5 cards,you will not be able to play cards anymore. You have to find more cards. 5)Different areas have different rules, so be sure to check out what rules before you play. ___________________________________________________________________________ ~~~Configuration~~~ Here is the section down the list: 1. Sound : Switch between Stereo or Monaural. 2. Controller: Set the settings on Normal (default) or Customize (assign the buttons by yourself) 3. Cursor: Cursor,automatically place at the last command. 4. ATB: Switch between (ACTIVE),when ATB flows normally or (WAIT),when the time stops automatically while selecting a command. 5. Labeller: Choose the second option, the labeller will appear for those monsters/enemies that have been labelled once. 6. Camera: Allow you to set from 0 % to 100 %. 7. Battle Speed: Adjust the speed during the battle. 8. Battle Message: Adjust the speed of messages during battle. 9. Field Message: Adjust the speed of messages during the field. 10. Analog Input: Asjust the reaction speed of the stick input. 11. Vibration: Turn vibration ON/OFF(for only Dual Shock controller). You can now change your settings during the game, but NOT during battles, except for ON/OFF the vibration if you have a Dual Shock controller. ___________________________________________________________________________ ~~~Tutorial~~~ ---------------- The basics things that you need to know,whether it is G.F,draw etc.Besides, there is a test.Please try and figure out something,though you may not understand the Japanese words. Note:Please refer to TUTORIAL section.A very highly recommended option you should go whenever you are stuck with the game's new features.Please read the test section below. ___________________________________________________________________________ ~~~Test~~~ ----------- In SeeD,students,not only have to went through physical training,but also written works.Tests are needed to test your knowledge of understanding like the use of draw,G.F and so on.As you sit for test,you gains rank,as well as higher salary.Of course,you can choose not to sit for the tests but your salary will be paid lesser.Do not fear.there are a total of 30 tests but they are not as difficult as you think,except that you do not know how to read Japanese.The test is much more easy than the multiple choice questions that you get in school. Also, they provide you with certain clues in gameplay in the game.You just need to answer YES or NO.Simple,isn't it? Note:It's a spoiler imaging knowing all the answers,since it really spoil the whole intention of Square adding these test in.It's actually quite fun,answering these questions on your own.Treat it as a test of your Japanese knowledge,as well as how much you know about Final Fantasy 8. Question/Lv 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Level 1: Y, N, Y, Y, Y, N, N, Y, N, N Level 2: Y, N, Y, Y, Y, N, Y, Y, N, N Level 3: N, N, Y, N, Y, Y, Y, N, Y, N Level 4: N, Y, Y, Y, N, N, Y, Y, N, N Level 5: N, N, N, Y, Y, N, N, Y, Y, Y Level 6: Y, N, Y, Y, N, N, Y, Y, N, Y Level 7: Y, Y, Y, Y, Y, Y, N, Y, Y, N Level 8: N, Y, N, N, Y, Y, N, N, Y, N Level 9: N, Y, N, N, N, N, N, N, Y, Y Level 10: Y, N, N, N, N, N, N, N, Y, N Level 11: Y, Y, N, Y, Y, N, Y, N, N, Y Level 12: N, Y, N, N, Y, N, Y, N, Y, N Level 13: Y, N, N, N, Y, N, N, N, N, N Level 14: Y, Y, Y, Y, N, Y, Y, N, Y, N Level 15: Y, Y, N, N, N, N, N, Y, N, Y Level 16: Y, N, N, Y, N, Y, N, N, Y, N Level 17: Y, N, N, N, Y, N, N, Y, N, N Level 18: Y, N, N, N, Y, N, N, Y, Y, N Level 19: Y, N, N, Y, N, N, N, N, N, Y Level 20: Y, Y, N, Y, N, Y, Y, Y, N, N Y=Yes Level 21: Y, Y, Y, Y, N, N, Y, Y, Y, N N=No Level 22: N, N, N, Y, N, N, N, Y, Y, N Level 23: Y, N, N, N, N, Y, Y, Y, Y, Y Level 24: Y, Y, N, N, Y, Y, N, N, N, Y Level 25: Y, N, Y, Y, Y, N, N, Y, N, N Level 26: Y, Y, N, Y, N, Y, N, Y, N, N Level 27: N, Y, N, N, N, N, Y, N, Y, N Level 28: Y, N, N, Y, Y, Y, N, Y, N, N Level 29: N, N, N, Y, Y, N, N, N, Y, N Level 30: N, Y, N, N, N, N, Y, N, N, N Sitting for test is a good way of getting more money.Instead of getting 1000Gil each time,the max Gil you can get is 30 000Gils,which is 30 times more,which you need to obtain an rank of S-A rank.You will first begin with Lv 1,and as you answer a test 100% correctly,you will gain an rank above you,and your paid will naturally be higher.You may be promoted to S-A rank after answering all the questions,(30 000Gils).Sometimes,you may also get demoted to S-lv 30(20 000).Whether you get promoted or demoted,it depends a lot on how you play like battling,choosing options.Though,you may feel that it looks like cheating but actually not,right? Hint:Sit the test immediately as you can.Don't hesitate!Once you have the answers for every test,it's like money rolling into your pockets every minute!!!Only 100% correct,will you be able to promote. ____________________________________________________________________________ ~~~Battle Combat~~~ ---------------------- The main basic commands are attack,magic,draw,G.F and item that every character will have in the beginning.But what makes Final Fantasies combats different from other RPGs?It is the Active Time Battle,which makes combat far more interesting and exciting than other RPGs.Coming out with innovative, authentic ideas,we have been seeing new combats coming out from Square.Innovative team-up techniques,agruably the next best RPG besides FF3 in SNES,Xenogears's gear and party combat,along with sophisticated buttons,Final Fantasy 7's Materia and Limit Break are some of the best examples;though there are more to list like Secret of Mana and even more.The active time bar is so highly successful that this feature appeared in all Final Fantasies after it makes its debut in FF IV.Now,immediately after the most grand release of FF7 for the Playstation and amazed by the Materia and Limit systems,gamers have been wondering along-what new things can Square offer the next time in FF8?And Square has indeed has proven not to let everyone down,introducing the new Draw and Junction system but it is better than 7? What do you think? ___________________________________________________________________________ Encounter Encounters in FF VIII is variable in different areas. For example, The encounter rate on plains and grassslands are much lower than that of forests and deserts. ___________________________________________________________________________ Active Time Battle Like the past Final Fantasy series,who goes first to attack depends on this ATB.The faster the character,the faster the ATB move.People who has played Final Fantasy IV and above before will be familiar with this.Battles are still fought in real-time like the past.It seems the concept of ATB will always remain in every Final Fantasy for now. Note:Don't alway leave the game when you are in battle because the ATB will continue to move. Note:If you want a more challenging gameplay, you can change the ATB from "WAIT" to "ACTIVE" in the Configurations. Tip:You might not want the fastest character to move.Simply press triangle to switch over to the next character with the ATB full. Tip:If your battle is put on "Wait", you can select the Magic command, and then try to escape, without the monsters bothering you. ____________________________________________________________________________ Guardian Force In the past,you simply summon a creature and shortly after,it would appear on the battlefield.Now there's actually a chance that the creature might not appear.Each Guardian Force now has HP and G.F in Final Fantasy 8 is actually the summoned monsters in other previous Final Fantasies.The difference is that in the past,the summoned creature would come out immediately,however as in this 8 series,each time,the summoner summons a G.F,the summoner's HP will be replaced with the Guardian Force's HP. All attacks on the character will go onto the GF. Note that the damage amount will be as if it is on the summoner.Also, status attacks goes on the summoner,not the GF. So, if the character is silenced during the course of summoning, the summoning would be cancelled. The ATB of the summoner will also be replaced by the G.F ATB. You will have to wait for the G.F ATB to finish counting down,then the G.F will appear.However,during this period of time before the countdown is over,any attacks on the summoner will go on the G.F. When the G.F's HP reaches zero,you cannot summon the G.F. again until the next battle. This is critical especially in long bosses fights where you may need to summon a Guardian Force several times. There are items that can heal G.F or revive G.F. outside battle. Note:You can't heal G.F in a battle.If you cast a cure magic on the summoner while waiting for the G.F ATB to full,the magic will heal the summoner and not the G.F even though the summoner's HP bar has been replaced by G.F's HP bar.However..... How fast the G.F's ATB countdown will be depending on the affection the character has with the G.F.For example,if your character have a strong affection for the particular G.F.,when equipped,will have faster G.F's ATB. You can increase the affection by summoning the GF more often, casting magic of the same nature as the G.F., or using special items on the character. Likewise, the affection can also be decreased when you cast magics of an opposite nature. Difference in affection/summoning Affection 0 = About 16.8 sec Affection 500 = About 10.2 sec Affection 1000 = About 2.8 sec Raising affection and demerits Way Affection Up Amt Demerit Summoning Summoned GF 20 Other GF aff drop by 1-2, GF of opposing nature drop 10(*2) GF (*1) Using Respective GF 1-3 Opposing GF drop 1-2 Specific Magic Using Respective GF 1-3 Other GFs drop 1-2 Specific Items Using Love- All GF up 20 Nil Love G *1 - If battle ends before GF is summoned then there is no change. *2 - When Eden is summoned, Eden will increase by 2 and the rest will increase by 1. All GF takes 500exp to level up, except for Siren/Carbunkle/Cerberos, which takes 400,and Eden, which requires 1000. Changes that occur when GF level up a) Max HP up b) Summoning attack up c) New abilities (some GF) d) Item Makeable increases (Some GF) ____________________________________________________________________________ Illustrations on G.F ____________________________________________________________________________ When summoning a G.F,Select G.F and then, Attack ________ Magic Rinoa |______|_| Directions of ATB Draw Squall |____|___| -------> >G.F Zell |___|____| Yellow After clicking on the G.F,you will see... Attack ________ Magic Ifrit 1400|______|_| Directions of ATB Draw Shiva 2000|____|___| <------- >G.F Diablos 800|___|____| Blue The number,next to the G.F's name shows the amount of HP the G.F has got. During any time,any damage on the character will goes to the G.F.When the blue bar finishes countdown,the G.F will then appear. Doing extra damage for the G.F(Ouen) ------------------------------- Your G.F must learn this ability in oder to raise its abilities. It's called the 'Ouen' ability but when translate,is called assitance/support/help/aid.I will call it the Support ability. When the G.F. animation begins,hold select,and you will see... Step 1: Step 2: __ __ |__| 75 F |__| 100 F Where F represents cursor By pressing square,the number will goes up Sometimes, By pressing square rapidly, the number will rise. __ The higher the number, the more the damage it will |__| X F cause on your enemy.If a cross sign appears,over- A cross appears riding the cursor,this means you cannot press anymore Square button anymore. If you tap the button at this time,the figure will drop back to the initial value,75%. The figures actually shows a percentage of what your G.F. can normally deal. Tips:Note that after the cross appears, hold on to the Select button until the cross disappears, and you can start tapping away again. Info:It varies with the type of G.F you use.For some G.F, there are more time for you to increase the numbers,while some are shorter. Info:When set to turbo,if you tap rapidly,the numbers will go up several times per press.If you hold Square when in turbo,the numbers will go up continously without stopping until you release the button. A true example:My friend uses Ifrit on an enemy,which costs about 2000HP, with numbers of up to 140,but when he uses a turbo feature,he raises it to 210 and guess what the damage is to the same enemy.It's 4500+,more than half the original value.Great! Credit:Thanks to Jimmy Khoo for telling me the turbo controller for Ouen. Note:The max numbers you can tap is only up to 250.75 is the min strength and 250 is the max strength of the G.F. Credit:Thanks to kanketsu@usa.net and Stevenbruck@bigfoot.com for telling me about the Japanese name of 'Ouen'. Challenge the max without turbo-From Kaze Yagami The table shows the max %,as well as max time given. Approximate Time available for Ouen 0--------------------------------0 Name Time Target Quetzacoatl 13.3 180% Shiva 12.9 180% Ifrit 13.0 180% Siren 17.6 200% Brothers 19.3 220% Leviathan 21.4 230% Pandemonium 22.8 240% Alexander 22.1 230% Grasharaboras 22.9 240% Bahamut 22.1 230% Tonberi 14.0 190% Eden 72.6 250% ____________________________________________________________________________ Draw and Magic Command Any one who has played Final Fantasy 7 will remember the innovative,but somehow complex Materia combination. Now,SquareSoft has come out with an yet more innovative way but much more easy and simple compared to the materia combinations.Instead of buying materia and put it into your weapon/armor slot,you will be able to 'steal' magic from your enemy.In Final Fantasy 8,there is no MP. Each magic is stocked in units. The Draw command is used for casting or stocking up on magics that an enemy uses.Select Draw and the then select an enemy,choose the magic you want to draw,select whether you want to cast or stock.Different enemies in different levels will have different targeted magics in their list.If you choose cast earlier,you will immediately cast the magic straight away. but if you choose stock, you will stock up the magic and this magic will be return to the magic command. The magic command is used for casting stocked up magic.When you select magic command,you will be shown with a list of selection magic magics that you have and besides each magic,there is a number to indicate how many magics of this type you have.For example the number 5 besides the cure magic will indicate that you can cast only 5 cure magic.Look below for an idea of how the Draw magic work. Command Choice Choice Command Choice Note:This indicates P1 MAGIC P1 NUM that you have Attack Attack Thunder 1 25 100 cure magics Magic >Stock Magic----->Cure 1 100 etc. Draw-----Fire------Cast Draw Double 50 Item >Cure Item -Indicates the next sub-menu and >indicates the choice you choose. In this case,it indicates that you draw the Cure magic and stock it.It's always better to stock up as many cure magic as possible.Having seen a simple illustration of the Draw command,what do you think?Is it better, simple than the materia combinations or more difficult?In Final Fantasy 7, you spent time arranging all your materia whereas in 8,you will have to spend time drawing out the magic, or by making them. Note:Not all the time you will be able to draw out your enemy's magic successfully.The number of magics you can draw at once depends on you and the enemy's Magic Stats.Refer to the junction section. ____________________________________________________________________________ The Secret R1 Gunblade Button Squall's weapon,the Gunblade is unlike any other weapon in any Final Fantasy series.It looks like a half sword,half gun weapon.The trick about this gunblade is that it takes time to master the gunblade.With proper timing, you can get easy criticals that would not just deliver more damage, but reels your opponent back so that it takes more time to recover. Hit on R1 as Squall is about to strike the enemy. If the critical was successful you can see an explosion from the firing of the GunBlade. Normal critical hits for about double the normal damage, while Squall and Seifer's hits for 1.5 times the normal damage.In addition,if,in the status menu, "Blade Combo Auto-Handling" is set to "on", this R1 trigger will be activated automatically (but still with a chance of unsuccessful of 25%). Credit:Thanks to Seong Whang for telling me the Seifer's gunblade. ___________________________________________________________________________ Advanced Tutorial Guide ____________________________________________________________________________ Special Art ------------ Special Arts are special moves that characters can perform when they get weakened. Some can give big damage while some can boost the party's power etc. Basic Requirements:Remaining HP below 32% (84% for Seifer)OR Aura condition When the condition is satified, a > mark will appear randomly on the right side of the"Attack" command. Hold right on the "Attack" command at this time and you can use the Special Art of the character.Note that under the Curse condition, the > mark will never appear. Crisis Level ------------ Different characters has a internal parameter known as Crisis Level, which affects their Special Arts in different ways. The below shows the conditions where the Crisis Level increases. As the Crisis Level increases, the chance of the > mark appearing is also increased. a) HP is lessen b) Negative status conditions c) Party members dead Negative Status Bonus: Slow : +6% Stone/Dark/Poison/Silence: +12% each Death Sentence : +18% 1 Party Member down : +8% 2 Party Members down : +16% So, in the example of character with Poison and Death Sentence, one party member down, and HP at 32%, the value is (32 (basic value) + 12 + 18 + 8 )= 70% chance of > appearing. Acquiring New Special Arts -------------------------- Different characters has different ways of acquiring special arts. This would be covered under the character individually. Easy Special Arts ----------------- 1) Reduce your HP in the menu 2) Tapping the Triangle button. When the > mark appears, there will be a clink sound and a brief moment of window switching inactivity. So if your reflex is fast enough you can tap until you hear the clink. ____________________________________________________________________________ Squall Leonhart Squall's Special Art is by far an add-on to the R1 feature.Just like the normal attacks,R1 button can be pressed to do extra criticals in his Special Arts. Firstly,go to the main menu.Search for the status and press Circle and go to the last sub-menu to view your Special Arts for Squall.You will see something like this: If you choose meter auto-on,the meter bar will not appear during your Special Art. All attacks will be randomized on whether they get criticals or not. In the sub menu,you will see something like this: ______________________ | P | P stands for Squall's portrait |______________________| |Auto On Yes No | |Meter On Yes No | |______________________| |Fated Circle | |______________________| Now,during battle,you will see something like this: R1 _____/_______________________ | | | | Direction of the meter flowing |3 |X 2 | 1 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<| |__|_____|____________________| <----------- \ \ Miss Number of hits The meter will flow to the left.Press R1 button when the flash reaches the second section and you will get a critical. Note:If you managed to press all R1 at the second section of the bar, you will see the word 'perfect'. If you are confident of turning off the meter, go ahead --- it is actually more fun this way. How to get? Squall's finishing moves will vary differently also,depending on the weapon he carry. You can upgrade his weapon at the Junk Shop. Statistics Name:Blade Combo Crisis Up :(A) No. of slashes increase (4-8). (B) Finishing Blow activation increase. (C) Increase chances of having more powerful finishing blow. Acquired by:(A) Upgrade GunBlade. (B) Learn new finishing blow. Listing: Rough Divide - GunBlade Fated Circle - Castrate Blasting Zone - Flame Tongue End of Heart - LionHeart ____________________________________________________________________________ Rinoa Heartilly Rinoa's Special Art might be nothing comparable to Squall or Zell's but does has it own uniqueness.Part of her Special Arts are actually activated under special random conditions during a battle.She combines with either her dog Angelo or Varly (which becomes available after the moon event in disc 3) to perform special attacks.Also under circumstances such as being hit, Angelo will retaliate automatically too, or recover Rinoa's HP or revive her life. Manually activating Combine with Angelo results in a random Angelo attack. To learn new Special Arts You need to look for the magazine "Pet Communications". By reading the magazines,Rinoa will be able to learn new moves. In the main menu,you will see something like: ____________ _________________ | | Angelo Rush |_________________| | Angelo's | _________________ | | Angelo Recover > |_________________| | Portrait | _________________ |____________| Angelo Rebirth |_________________| (Left) (Right) You choose the move that you wish to train by clicking on it. As you move around the bar will gradually increase, and when it gets full, you hear a clink, and the move is learnt.Theory behind this is...dogs loves strolls with their masters. Tips:To increase the chance of more powerful moves such as Invisible Moon or Wish Star appearing, you can choose not to train her lesser moves such as Angelo Strike, but you will not get to see the move, of course. Statistics Name:Combine Feature:Two form of different moves How to get:Reading "Pet Communications" magazine Listing: Angelo Rush - Beginning Angelo Recover - PC issue 1 Angelo Rebirth - PC issue 3 Angelo Search - PC issue 4 Angelo Cannon - Beginning Angelo Strike - PC issue 2 Invisible Moon - PC issue 5 Wish Star - PC issue 6 Crisis Up:(A)Random type attacks are easier activated (B)More powerful attacks chosen Varly When Rinoa combines to become Varly, the following will be in effect: a) Until dead or petrified, you cannot control her until end of battle b) Magic carried (Attacking magic, Neg Status, De-Spell) casted randomly c) Magic attacking increase about 5 times d) Magic will not decrease e) Immune against Silence, Berserk and Confuse ____________________________________________________________________________ Zell Dincht Zell's Special Art is by far the most unique, yet most difficult to pull off.Zell's Special Art is very strong if you are able to master fully, however weaken if you fail to master it.Well,Zell is well-skilled in martial arts,so i suggest you take some time to master the moves. Just like Squall's, Zell's Special Arts has a list of chains of combos that Zell can turn on/off,not meter.So,i suggest if your reflexes are not good,i suggest you turn the list off but do give you sometime to get familiar with the chain combos.Disadvantages of turning it off is that the computer does not perform the moves as fast as you can. In the main menu,you will see something like: ___________________ | P | |___________________| P:Protrait for Zell |Auto On Yes No| |___________________| | <-------- | -------------- | Combo List | -------------- | |___________________| During battle,you will see something like this: _____________ | L,R | L-Left Sorry,i couldn't display the | L,R,O | R-Right exact list.In actual game, | U,U,U,U,O | U:Up you will see the buttons itself. | | O:Circle |_____________|11'43 Notice the time on the right.You need to pull off as many combos within the given time.The amount of time given is random.Like Squall's Special Art,Zell has finishing moves also. When you have pulled off the chains in a certain sequence, certain Finishing Blows (flashing) will be available.Executing the finishing blow will end the Special Art sequence too. Do you see the advantages and the disadvantages? If you are good,you can actually inflict huge damages on your enemies,and remmember practice makes perfect,maybe even more damages than Squall's. Statistics Name:Duel Feature:Move Combination Crisis Up: Time Limit increases Time Limit: 4'66, 6'66, 9'33, 12'00 How to get new moves:Reading new "Gakutou-Oh" (Fighting King) Magazines Listing: Rush Punch - Beginning Head Shock - Beginning Mach Kick - Beginning Heel Drop - Beginning Dolphin Blow - Gakutou-Oh Issue 1 Meteor Strike - Gakutou-Oh Issue 2 *Burning Rave - Beginning *Meteor Barret - Gakutou-Oh Issue 3 *Tifa Rampede - Gakutou-Oh Issue 4 *My Style . Final Heaven - Gakutou-Oh Issue 5 * are finishing blows. 4'66, 6'66 will start from Rush Punch, 9'33 and 12'00 will start from Head Shock Note that Rush Punch and Head Shock are interchangeable, i.e. Perform Rush Punch and next you can perform Head Shock, vice versa. Fast Finish: Burning Rave : Rush Punch, Mach Kick, Rush Punch, Heel Drop/Meteor Strike, B.Rave Head Shock, Heel Drop, Meteor Strike, Head Shock, B. Rave Meteor Barret: Rush Punch, Dolphin Blow, Meteor Barret Head Shock, Meteor Strike, Dolphin Blow, Mach Kick, M.B. HS, HD, MK, HD, HS, RP, MK, M.B. Tifa Rampede : HS, MS, HS, TR HS, HD, MK, HD, HS, TR Final Heaven : HS, HD, MS, FH HS, HD, MK, RP, FH ___________________________________________________________________________ Quistis Trepe Known as Blue Magic (since FF V), Quistis's Special Art isn't as devastating as Squall or Zell but can be very cool as well. It actually are moves that enemies can use.In addition to that, she have more than just attacking, but defensive specials as well. The higher the crisis level of Quistis is, the more powerful will her Blue Magic be (in 1-4 ranks). How to get? You need to find specific items and use it on her to gain the new Blue Magic. Statistics Name:Blue Magic Feature:Enemy Skills Crisis Up: Rank Up How to get:Specific items used on Quistis Listing: Meza Eye - Beginning Vibration - Cloud String Electrify - Coral Fragments Micro Missle - Missile Acidic Liquid - Mysterious Liquid Gattling Cannon - Gear-type Auto-Gun Desionator - Black Hole Level ? Death - Claws of Curse Aqua Breath - Water Essence Fire Breath - Flame Dragon's Fang Bad Breath - Molbor's Tentacles White Wind - Whisper of Winds Mighty Guard - Barrier System Homing Lazer - Lazer Cannon Ray Bomb - High-Energy Generator Shockwave Pulser - Dark Matter *1 - Level ? Death will be Level 4 at rank 1, 3 at rank 2, 2 at rank 3 and 1 at rank 4. *2 - M. Missile will be 50% at rank 1, 75% at rank 3, 87.5% at rank 3 and 93.75% at rank 4. *3 - Effects of Acidic Liquid, Bad Breath and Mighty Guard increases as rank increases. ___________________________________________________________________________ Selphie Tilmitt Selphie's special, by far, is the most difficult and easy to get at the same time.When you activate her Special, the box in the lower left appears. A magic, with number of times, appears beside it, indicating the number of times casting that magic. From here,two options are given: Rotate, or release. Rotating will pick you another magic, while Release would activate the magic.Occasionally unique magic that Selphie can use will appear. Some can be deadly, even at low- levels. Appearance is totally random. When you have used a unique magic, it will be recorded in your Special Arts list, and the appearance will become more frequent.That's why I was saying it can be difficult and easy----totally random.Note that time doesn't stop while you choose your magic. Statistics Name:Slot Feature:Casting of unique magics Crisis Up: 1) More powerful spells appear 2) Amount cast increases * - More powerful magics appear as Selphie's level increases How to get: Random Listing: Full Cure - Fully recover all allies HP Wall - Casts Protect and Shell over all allies Levitate Ex - Removes all enemies from battle The End - Kills all enemies Note:She have another two powerful moves that were in the data, but was not included in the game due to production time contraint. A real pity to Selphie fans. Note:The End is regardless of resistance to Death, but doesn't work on Undeads. And yes,it works even on Omega Weapon and the Last Boss...but I think you would enjoy a good fight with them instead. Tips:Make use of the time during the GF summoning graphics to rotate to get the desired magic. ____________________________________________________________________________ Irvine Kinneas So,Irvine's Special Arts is one of the most original and unique from Square.i think this idea originates from Square's Xenogears.Remember Billy? Obtaining Irvine's new moves are easy---just get the respective ammo. When Irvine's Special Art is ready,simply choose a target.You will also see a time bar(blue in colour) on the screen.If it runs out,you won't be able to shoot anymore.So,press R1 rapidly.Each time you press R1, a shot will be fired.However,if you press X,it will cancel the Special Art,and you won't be able to shoot anymore,so don't press X unless you don't want to shoot anymore. Each shot takes up one ammo.You will know that your target is dead when the damage you deal is 0. How to get? Using Ifrit's Create Ammo ability,you will be able to convert certain items into bullets.Once converted to bullets,you will be able to use it. It is the same way as replenish your ammunition. Statistics Name:Shot Feature:Firing as many shots using R1 within the time limit Crisis Up: Time increases How to get:Find new ammunition Listing: Normal Shot - Normal Ammo Grap Shot - Shotgun Ammo Quick Shot - Fast Ammo Dark Shot - Dark Ammo Flame Shot - Flame Ammo Cannister Shot - Destruction Ammo Armor Shot - Armor-Piercing Ammo Hyper Shot - Energy Ammo Note:Different shots recovers in different speed. Tips:At maximum strength, Quick Shot is actually most powerful and effective against single targets (3000-4000 x 20-30) compared to even Hyper Shot (9999 x 4-5 ____________________________________________________________________________ Other Characters ---------------- Edea Name:Sorcery (Chill Strike) Edea creates an icicle and throws it at the target (the FMV in end of disc 1) Seifer Name:Ending Blade (Weenie Scatter) Seifer conjures a fireball, blasts at enemies and then does a blade swing at the enemies. Laguna Name:Limit (Death Parade) Laguna tosses out a grenade, goes onto a swinging rope and sweeping the enemies with his machine gun, and lands, and the grenade explodes. Kiros Name:Limit (Blood Pain) Kiros dashes up to the target and does six consecutive slashes. Ward Name:Limit (Massive Anchor) Ward jumps high up into the air and dives down, creating a massive explosion with his harpoon. ____________________________________________________________________________ Weapon As of any RPG,weapon shops made up a very important element to the game. However,this time,Square has changed it slighly.Instead of buying new weapons,characters will have the chance to upgrade their existing weapons to a yet,higher element.And to make matters more complicated,money is not a factor,but you have to find certain materials in order to upgrade your weapons.so,if you are short of any items,you can't upgrade.The ability of tuning your weapon has added a new in-depth element to the game,however,at times,add a lot of confusions to a lot of gamers.I will now explain everything. ___________________________________________________ |Squall Leonhart | |___________________________________________________| | | | | Iron Pipe | Revolver 100 | | 2 (1) | > Castrate 200 | | Screw | Cutting Trigger 400 | | 2 (4) | Flame Tongue 600 | | | Lance Obsolete 800 | | | Crime & Penality 1000 | | | LionHeart 2000 | | |___________________________________| | | Strength 45 --> 244 Gil | | | Hit rate 56% --> 255% 110347G | |_______________|___________________________________| The numbers in the brackets represents the quantity of that item that you have in your inventory.From the list,you have 3 Iron Pipes and 2 Screws. Notice the numbers on the left(without the brackets) and the gil,right to the type of the weapon.These indicates that for Squall's Gunblade to upgrade to Castrate,you need to have 1 Iron Pipe and 4 Screws and 200Gil. However,in the table shown above,you can't upgrade,because you are short of two Screws. Got it? Additional: 1)Once you tune up,your used materials like Screws, Iron Pipes will be gone.This is logical since you need materials to tune up weapons too. 2)Look at the bottom table.If the numbers,50 and 60 are in yellow,that means your new weapon is better than the existing weapon.For example,Castrate is stronger than Gunblade and Cutting Trigger is stronger than Castrate.In general,the weapons that are more expensive are better and are found at the bottom.To simply say,LionHeart is by far the best weapon Squall can have. 3)It's possible to downgrade to your older weapon,let's say, Castrate to Gunblade.The colour of the numbers will be in red,instead of yellow.Again, you need the materials to downgrade and you won't get back any material after downgrading too. 4)Choose the first option to tune up and second option to cancel,provided you meet the requirements. 5)Take note that certain items are very rare and may require Diablos' Bundoru(Steal) to get. Q: How do I know what are the materials needed for tuning up? A: You can find out what you need by reading the magazine "Weapons Monthly". Or, when you already have the right items, it will also show in the Junk Shop. ____________________________________________________________________________ List of G.F Here is a list of G.F.Please take note of the special conditions.If it says draw,remember to draw,because once you miss,you will lose the G.F for the rest of the game. Other condition is fight, which tell you that you need to fight the G.F to get it.Examples are Brothers and Ifrit.Also note that there is a special group of G.F,without abilities.More will be explained later on. ____________________________________________________________________________ Name :Quetzalcoatl Attack :ThunderStorm Elemental :Lightning-based attack (All) (Enemy) Disc :1 Condition :Nil Obtaining :In the lecture room.Examine the laptop in Squall's seat and read the G.F tutorial with the beside it. Description:Quetzalcoatl create a thunderstorm,and sent lightning bolts to the enemies. Graphics :8.0/10.0 Opinion :It is an average G.F.Being the first G.F,it works well against weak enemies,especially to mechanical enemies. Usefulness :7.0/10.0 Strategy :1 Name :Shiva Attack :Diamond Dust Elemental :Ice-based attack (All) (Enemy) Disc :1 Condition :Nil Obtaining :Same way as Quetzalcoatl.Refer to above. Description:Similar to the summoning of shiva in FF7,shiva appears and form icicles on the enemies. Graphics :7.8/10.0 Opinion :Just like Quetzalcoatl,Shiva works best against weak enemies, especially to fire-based enemies,dinosaurs,and beast. Usefulness :7.0/10.0 Strategy :1 Name :Ifrit Attack :Hellfire Elemental :Fire-based attack (All) (Enemy) Disc :1 Condition :Fight Obtaining :In the fire cave Description:Ifrit appears with rage,hitting a fire meteo at the enemies Graphics :7.8/10.0 Opinion :Just like the three G.F,Ifrit works best against weak enemies, especially to those with ice,and water-based enemies. Usefulness :7.0/10.0 Strategy :2 Name :Siren Attack :Silent Voice Elemental :Non-elemental attack (All) (Enemy) (Silence) Disc :1 Condition :Draw Obtaining :Fight with Elvoret in the Dollet commmunication tower Description:Siren plays her musical instrument,creating a havoc. Graphics :6.0/10.0 Opinion :Though i get quite sick and tired of looking at Siren after some time,i must say her attack is still quite good.Not only does it cause some damages to the enemies,it may sometimes silence the enemies,however silence works pretty useless to monsters,more useful to humans like soldier. Usefulness :7.0/10.0 Strategy :3 Name :Brothers Attack :Brotherhood Loyalty Elemental :Earth-based attack (All) (Enemy) Disc :1 Condition :Fight Obtaining :In the ancient Tomb of the nameless King(near to Galbadia). Description:The two brothers will play a sissors-paper-stone game. Unfortunately,it's always the younger brother who win.Crusts of Earth then falls to the ground,giving earth damage. Graphics :8.0/10.0 Opinion :Brothers work best against all weak enemies,regardless they have any elemental attacks,however it won't do any damage to flying creature. Usefulness :7.2/10.0 Strategy :4 Name :Diablo Attack :Messenger of Darkness Elemental :Non-elemental-based (All) (Enemy) (Demi) Disc :1 and above Condition :Get the magic lantern from Principal Cid before the departure of Balamb Garden. Obtaining :Fight and win him by clicking the item in the menu Description:Diablo's physical appearance resembles that of Bahamut.He will chant some words and use demi against all enemies. Graphics :7.2/10.0 Opinion :His demi attack is powerful,depending on the enemies' HP.It works simiarly to a demi magic. Usefulness :6.8/10.0 Strategy :5 Name :Carbunkle Attack :Ruby Light Elemental :Holy-based (All) (Ally) Disc :1 Condition :Draw Obtaining :From the two giant lizards(Shumeruke) to save Rinoa. Description:Carbunkle comes out deep inside the ground,and cast reflect on your ally. Graphics :7.4/10.0 Opinion :Both the reflect magic can be help,as well as a obstruction. With the reflect being cast,all the magics from the enemies are reflect back to them,giving them damage,while at the same time, you cannot use magics to cure yourself.Don't forget that enemies need not just use magics,they have physical strength too. Usefulness :5.5/10.0 Strategy :6 Name :Leviathan Attack :Tidal Wave (All) (Enemy) Elemental :Water-based Disc :2 Condition :Draw Obtaining :From Nogue,the first boss fight in disc 2.It's the center boss. Description:Leviathan comes out from a dimension,creating a huge waterfall. Graphics :8.5/10.0 Opinion :Leviathan works best against most creatures,especially to fire- based creatures. Usefulness :7.3/10.0 Strategy :7 Name :Pandemonium Attack :Hurricane Penetration (All) (Enemy) Elemental :Wind-based Disc :2 Condition :Draw Obtaining :From the battle with Fuujin in Balamb Town Description:Very violent whirlwind blows the enemies away. Graphics :7.4/10.0 Opinion :Pandamonium is just an average G.F.It does a fairly average damage to the enemies,and a lot to flying creatures. Usefulness :6.8/10.0 Strategy :8 Name :Cerberos Attack :Retaliation Signal Elemental :Non-elemental (All) (Ally) Disc :2 Condition :Fight Obtaining :In the main hall of Galbadia Garden(Three-headed Monster) Description:The gate is opened,and Cerebus comes out of it,casting both double and triple to all the allies. Graphics :6.4/10.0 Opinion :Cerebus may seem to be useless,especially when fighting weak enemies.However,during long boss fight,it is a MUST-SUMMON. It gives you the ability to cast three times magic in a row. A very useful advantage over,especially to regain your HP immediately after an 'all' attack by the boss. Usefulness :8.2/10.0(A very critical MUST when fighting against bosses) Strategy :9 Name :Alexander Attack :Holy Judgement Elemental :Holy-based (All) (Enemy) Disc :2 Condition :Draw Obtaining :From Edea at the last battle of disc 2 Description:It shows a scene from the shore.Alexander,the gigantic,machine, opens up its cannon and fires holy beams up the sky,creating an explosion. Graphics :8.7/10.0 Opinion :Alexander is by far the best elemental attack you will get in disc 2.Not only the summoning of the G.F is beautiful,holy attacks do quite a severe damage to all enemies,regarding what your elemental attack. Usefulness :8.2/10.0 Strategy :10 Name :Grasharaboras Attack :Yieldless Rampage Elemental :Non-elemental(All) (Enemy) (Negative Status) Disc :3 Condition :Meet the item requirements;Get Soloman's Ring before going to Lunatic Pandora in disc 3. Obtaining :Have 1x Soloman's Ring,6x Iron pipe,6x Molbor's tentacles, 6x Remedy Plus,then use Soloman's Ring. Description:A soul in a train.Scene changes to a new dimension.A fast-moving train came speeding.Negative status includes poison,petrify, berserk,sleep,slow,stop,confusion,Defence 0,Death Sentence. The four issues of Occult fan provides the information of this G.F. Graphics :7.0/10.0 Opinion :Though Grasharaboras doesn't dish out very powerful attack,its greatest strength lies in the ability to deliver negative status to the enemies like confusion,silence,stop,slow etc.A very good G.F,in the sense that it is very useful,especially when fighting very tough enemies;however useless to most bosses and some enemies like Molbor. Usefulness :8.4/10.0 Strategy :11 Name :Bahamut Attack :Mega Flare Elemental :Non-elemental Attack(All) (Enemy) Disc :Disc 3 and above Condition :Fight Obtaining :In Warship Island.Fight two RubulmDragon,then choose the third option to fight Bahamut(hidden).In general,for the first question,choose the first option(the only choice),then for the second question,choose the second option to fight RubulmDragon, not the first.After you win the second battle,choose the third option,which is hidden.Do not choose the first and second option as the first one means that you do not want to fight and the second one means that you fight RubulmDragon.The hidden third option,well,you can't see in the screen unless you point the cursor down at it.You will then fight Bahamut. Description:Under the clear moonlight,amist the clouds,came a shadow of a Bahamut.Bahamut then shoots several mega flare at the enemies, followed by a super flare,and then a huge explosion. Graphics :9.8/10.0 Opinion :Wow,this is by far the best G.F that you will get besides Eden. In the sense that,no matter what elemental attack your enemies have, it is possible to inflict 9999HP to every enemies,which is unlike other elemental G.F like Infrit or Shiva.Besides,it is the most graphically impressive G.Fs,and it has very high HP. Usefulness :9.5/10.0 Strategy :12 Name :Sabotender Attack :Thousand Needles Elemental :Non-elemental(All) (Enemy) Disc :3 and above Condition :Fight Obtaining :In Sabotender Island(SouthEast of Sentora Ruin) Description:Sabotender actually is the catuar you fought in the desert.It will jump high up into the air,throwing needles at the enemies. Graphics :7.8/10.0 Opinion :The amount of damage varies differently on the G.F L.V. There's no ouen,just like Diablo.If Sabotender's LV is between Lv 50 to 59, it will cost 5000 damage,if between 90 to 99,it will cost 9000HP damage.Understand!in general,if the G.F Lv is between X1 to X9, it will cost X000 damage.Max damage occur when the character is lv 100.I suggest you set aside some time and train Sabotender,if not,it will be wasteful.This is sure- cause damage,even without ouen.A very good G.F. Usefulness :8.2/10.0 Strategy :13 Name :Master Tonberry Attack :Kitchen knife Elemental :Non-elemental(All) (Enemy) Disc :2 and above;Only after you get Odin. Condition :You need to get Odin first.It's impossible to defeat 20 Tonberry and master Tonberry within the time limit.Fight 20 Tonberries, and then Master Tonberry will appear after the 20th Tonberry is killed.Note that the fight is continous after the 20th Tonberry and you need not have to fight the Tonberries continously.You can easily distinguish Master Tonberry by his size,larger than the usual Tonberry,just like Sabotender is larger than Cactuar. Obtaining :Sentora Ruin Description:Master Tonberry comes out from underground,and performs kitchen knife. Graphics :8.0/10.0 Opinion :Wow,the detail to these G.F is truly amazing.I won't tell you. You just watch it yourself.kitchen Knife actually does quite a severe damage to your enemies,regarding it is of any elemental attack. Usefulness :7.8/10.0 Strategy :14 Name :Eden Attack :Eternal Breath Elemental :Non-elemental(All) (Enemy) Disc :3 and above Condition :Available after you get Bahamut in warship Island;Return to cockpit of the ragnarok;Talk to zell and Rinoa;input the password 2-2-1-1 and then choose the second option to have Zell examines the machine.Then fight and draw Eden from Ultimate Weapon. Obtaining :Warship Island(Underground water facility) Description:A super beam hits the enemies.Wow,i won't spoil it. Graphics :9.5/10.0 Opinion :Eden is by far the most powerful G.F,in the sense that it can cost damages that exceeds 9999,maybe 20,000 to to 40,000 or above.This is the most lethal G.F,though it isn't as powerful as Squall's End of the Heart,after you acquired Squall's most powerful weapon,Lion Heart.A pity that Final Fantasy 8 doesn't has any Knight of the Round,if not knight of the Round will be the most powerful G.F. Usefulness :10.0/10.0 Strategy :15 ____________________________________________________________________________ Here is a list of G.F animated that doesn't has any abilities.That means that it isn't one of the 16 G.F listed above and it appears randomly like Odin or Gilgamesh or you have to use items to summon the G.F like Chocobo or Phooenix.And take note that these G.F doesn't has any G.F bar,which is an advantage over the 16 G.F and you will be able to cast it immeditately,and neither do they have any HP nor abilities and stats that you can build up on. Name :Phoenix Attack :Phoenix Flame and Life Elemental :Fire-based(All) (Fire-enemy) (Life-Ally) (Item) Disc :2 and above Condition :Collect the 5 stones.Refer to G.F strategy.Once phoenix wing is used,it will appear randomly during battle,provided you have Phoenix feather in your stock,which will also decrease by 1 each time is used.Life will revive all your members to 12.5% of the total HP. Obtaining :Shumi Tribe (North-east continent.Spider-shaped architecture in the snow) Description:Looks quite similar to the one you see in FF7.Phoenix casts fire on the enemies and then life on all the allies. Graphics :7.0/10.0 Opinion :It's not useful at all,in the sense that,you need only the item command and not the G.F command.And remember you are only restrained to choosing four commands only.Besides,in terms of fire attack,it isn't as strong as Infrit.And the only advantage is that it can cast life on your allies at the same time,but if your allies is alive,it will have any effect on your allies. Usefulness :3.2/10.0 Strategy :16 Name :Ko-chocobo Attack :ChocoFire/ChocoFlare/ChocoMeteo/ChocoBuckle Elemental :Fire-based(For chocoFire only)/Non-elemental(All) (Enemy) (Item) Disc :2 and above + PocketStation Condition :First,catch a chocobo,then use Gisal Greens to summon the chocobos.More information will be provided in the next update. More ways of obtaining Gisal Greens will be provided in the next update too. Obtaining :Chocobo Forest Description:A very small,baby chocobo comes out.Varies depending on attack. Graphics :7.4/10.0(Overall) Opinion :Kochocobo uses more powerful attack when levels increases but that is only possible if you have PocketStation,if not,you are being restricted to ChocoFire,which i think is much useless than Ifrit or Phoenix.By playing 'Odekake chocobo',train your chocobo and you can use ChocoFlare at level 50, ChocoMeteo at level 63, and ChocoBuckle at level 76. ChocoBuckle can break the 9999 damage limit.Note that you can't get Ko-Chocobo if you used the "Help Me" option to get the Chocobo in the Chocobo Forest. Another good thing about it is that it's good to see such a very "cute chocobo".Isn't the chocobos more cute than the ones in FF7.I wouldn't mind summoning the chocobos a few times,just to see this 'cute little bird'. Usefulness :6.8/10.0 Strategy :17 Name :Odin Attack :Iron Cutting Sword Elemental :Non-elemental(All) (Enemy) (Instant Kill) (Randomly) Disc :2 and above Condition :Fight Obtaining :Centra Ruin Description:On a cloudy,rainy day,Odin rode his white horse and chopped everyone to pieces. Graphics :8.5/10.0 Opinion :Actually,i prefer the old Odin in FF7 with the background of a ruin and a moon.Anyway,the odin in FF8 is cool also,in the sense that there is actually a lot more detail than in FF7. Odin is by far the most useful G.F in the sense that if it appears,it will kill every single enemies and he nevers lost, except during the fight with Seifer at the end of disc 3,in Lunatic Pandora.Though sometimes,it can be annoying when you doesn't want him to appear,especially you want to draw a certain spell,he has actually helped me more than enough,in terms of time and resources.During the fight in warship Island,he actually appears twice consecutively and killed RubulmDragon, and i was able to get Bahamut very easily,without using too much time and waste my magics.Also,at the time,i was very fustrated of stealing tentacles from Molbors,in the sense that the chances of Molbor appearing in Esthar Continent is less than 10%.Fortuately,Odin appears at this critical time,and saves me a lot of time. Usefulness :10.0/10.0 Strategy :18 Name :Gilagmesh Attack :Iron Cutting Sword,Excalibur,Excalipur,Masamune Elemental :Non-elemental(All) (Enemy) (Random Attack) (Random appearance) Disc :3 Condition :Have Odin first before you fight Seifer at the end of disc 3 Obtaining :Lunatic Pandora Description:This guy has four different attacks. Graphics :9.0/10.0 Opinion :Remember Gilagmesh in FFV!He was banished to 'Cleft of Dimension'.I still need to test up more on his attack. Usefulness :??/10.0(Depends on the type of attack choosen.) Strategy :19 Name :Grieva Attack :Apocolypse, Great Attraction, Shockwave Pulser Elemental :??? Disc :4 Condition :??? Obtaining :??? Description:A very powerful G.F used by the final boss,and not you. ____________________________________________________________________________ PocketStation G.F ____________________________________________________________________________ This is a list of G.F that you can get ONLY through PocketStation. Name :Ko-Mogri Attack :Mogri Dance (All) (G.F) (Life) (Cure) Obtaining :Get Mogri Charm with Odekako Chocobo RPG. Description:Mogri Dance is actually a Command Ability you can junction. It can revive and recover all your G.F.s HP. Each usage will cost your party average level multiplied by 100 gils. Name :Moomba Attack :Moomba Moomba Moomba Obtaining :Get Proof of Friendship in Odekake Chocobo RPG and use it during battle. Description:Moomba appears and attacks the target, dealing damage equal to [target current HP - 1] (limited to 9999) Credit:A very special thanks to Heero Yuy.Without him,i wouldn't have got the last G.F,as well as the Squall's Lionheart.I have to really thanks him as he have helped me a lot.Besides,he was the one who provided me the name of the attacks of Gilgamesh.If you need any help,refer to his walkthrough. Thanks to for some of the information,who told me how to get Grasharaboras,as well as some of the helpful tips he gave me. ____________________________________________________________________________ G.F. Strategy Okay,if you really want to know the draw list,name of attacks,and AP gained, i suggest you look at Scott Ong's FAQ.I think he did a very great job.As for me,i don't have the intention to add these things in.But should you stuck in finding a G.F,above is one of the most comprehensive guide,since above contains some very valuable strategies and ideas.Note that above are some spoilers.Avoid reading too much unless you are stuck!!! ____________________________________________________________________________ Guardian Force Strategy ____________________________________________________________________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Strategy #1:Quetzalcoatl and Shiva ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________________________________________________ |Info|This's simple.The labtop is found in Squall's SEAT in the lecture | | |room of Balamb Garden on the second floor.Refer to the second floor | | |of the map below.just go near to Squall's seat,and press circle.You | | |will be able to see access to a laptop and find a tutorial guide,as | | |well as two G.Fs.Just for your info,Squall's seat is somewhere on the| | |top-left corner. | |____|_____________________________________________________________________| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Strategy #2:Ifrit ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________________________________________________ | Info:Fight Ifrit in the Cave of Fire. | |__________________________________________________________________________| | How to beat??? | |__________________________________________________________________________| |Ifrit is not that difficult at all.just make sure you don't use any fire | |attack against him since he will nulifies fire magic.Simply use your two | |newly-G.F,Quetzalcoatl and Shiva on him.He si extremely weak to ice attack| |so use Shiva frequently.If you are running low on HP,simply draw cure from| |him or use item.If someone is down,then use Phoenix Down to revive your | |ally.Even without any use of G.F,it is possible to defeat Ifrit by making | |use of Squall's R1 gunblade.You may want to take the opportunity and draw | |up spells like fire and cure. | |__________________________________________________________________________| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Strategy #3:Siren ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________________________________________________ |Info:Draw Siren from Elvoret in Dollet Tower. | |__________________________________________________________________________| |How to beat??? | |__________________________________________________________________________| |You will first fight with Biggs first,follow by the combined team of Biggs| |and Wedge.Once Biggs and Wedge are dead,Elvoret will appear. | |__________________________________________________________________________| |Biggs|Use your normal way fighting way like summon G.F,special arts or | | |Squall's R1 gunblade.Biggs does have some strong attacks that do a | | |great deal of HP to you if your level is very low.Make use of this | | |chances to use special arts.If you are running low on HP,simply use | | |an item like potion or Phoenix Down to revive your ally.Biggs will | | |occasionally cast cure spell to recover his or Wedge's HP. | |_____|____________________________________________________________________| |Wedge|Wedge is not that hard.His attack isn't that strong.Wedge has a cure| | |spell,so draw it to recover HP. | |_____|____________________________________________________________________| |Elvoret|This is much tougher than the combined team of Biggs and Wedge.Use| | |cure to recover HP.Use same strategy like special arts,G.F,R1 | | |gunblade etc.Elvoret has very strong attacks.His storm breath does| | |about 50HP damage to everyone and his dark mist does about 70HP to| | |a character.Try using double spell on your character,so that you | | |can cast two magics in a row at one turn to have a quick win. | |_______|__________________________________________________________________| |Tip|Try drawing spells like Fire,Bolt,Ice,Double etc.These spells come in | | |very handy later on during the game. | |___|______________________________________________________________________| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Strategy #4:Brothers ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________________________________________________ |Info|Fight Sacred first,then he will escape.Next,you will have to fight | | | the combined team of Sacred and Minotaur. | |____|_____________________________________________________________________| |How to beat??? | |__________________________________________________________________________| |Sacred |This is easy.Simply fight the battle in the usual way. | |________|_________________________________________________________________| |Minotaur|This is much tougher than Sacred. | |________|_________________________________________________________________| |Combined Team of Sacred and Minotaur | |__________________________________________________________________________| |Focus all your attacks on Minotaur.Minotaur will regenerate their HP.Start| |the fight by using Siren to silence them so that Minotaur cannot use any | |magic like regen.Minotaur has a very strong physical attack that does more| |than 100HP damage.Simply use special arts,G.F and it should not be a | |problem if your level is high.Draw some shield,barrier for protection.Also| |,take note that there is no cure spell for you to draw.So you will have to| |rely on your magic to restore HP or using potions in your item inventory. | |Once both brothers are defeated,you will gain a new G.F. | |__________________________________________________________________________| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Strategy #5:Diablo ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________________________________________________ |Info|Diablo is actually trapped inside the "Magic Lantern",given to you by| | |Principal Cid before you left Balamb Garden to sit for the train.To | | |use the G.F,you must unlock the 'seal' inside the "lantern".To unlock| | |the G.F trapped inside,you need to fight Diablo.Once you click on the| | |"magic lantern",you will be transported to the "World of Darkness" to| | |fight Diablo. | |____|_____________________________________________________________________| |How to beat??? | |__________________________________________________________________________| |Diablo tends to cast demi very frequently,often reduces your party's HP to| |1/2 or 3/4 to a single ally or even to all.As a result,this puts you in a | |very difficult situation where you are unable to cure yourself very fast. | |Besides,he has a physical attack that does a very severely damage.How do | |you defeat Diablo.It's best to have your HP above 1500.Next,try to have as| |many cure 2,as possible,so you can actually recover almost all of your HP | |after Diablo casts demi.Try drawing the cure spell from diablo.It may be | |cure or cure 2,depending variably on how many spells you have.Simply draw | |demi and cast it on diablo.It should do a heavy damage to him at first. | |However,note that it is not always easy to draw demi.I discovered that | |characters like Squall and Rinoa have better drawing spells and tends to | |draw demi successfully sometimes,whereas characters like Zell or Quistis | |often fails in drawing demi.Anyway,you can let Zell or Quistis be your | |party curer,have the other two concentrating on drawing demi.Eventually, | |you will reach a point where demi does very little damage,about 100.That | |means that Diablo has very few HP left.I find it more profitable to let | |Squall use his R1 gunblade at this moment,since it can easily does more | |damage than that.It will be better to use some desperation move. | |__________________________________________________________________________| |Other|You can try using Laguna's party since Laguna and Kiros do a slighly| | |heavy damage,and is more easy to reach their special arts. | |_____|____________________________________________________________________| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Strategy #6:Carbunkle ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________________________________________________ |Info|Draw Carbunkle from anyone of Shumerukes.Shumerukes are actually the | | |two reptiles summoned by Edea. | |____|_____________________________________________________________________| |How to beat??? | |__________________________________________________________________________| |This is a very easy fight.Simply use normal attacks like special arts,G.F | |etc.It is weak against Earth or Holy attacks.One thing you have to take | |note is his acid breath,which can cause petrify to your ally.You will see | |a countdown and if the numbers reach zero,you will be completely turn into| |stone.However,the Shumerukes are very easy to defeat,so defeat them before| |the time reaches zero,if not,you can actually draw heal and remove status | |ailements. | |__________________________________________________________________________| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Strategy #7:Leviathan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________________________________________________ |Info|You need to first crushed the middle orb,which acts as a shield to | | |Nogue.Once the middle core is destroyed,Nogue will then appear.Note | | |that the two supporting orb will be there to help at all times.Draw | | |Leviathan from Nogue. | |____|_____________________________________________________________________| |Supporting Orb: | |__________________________________________________________________________| |The supporting orb has really very strong elemental defense,in such that | |fire/ice/bolt/poison/wind/holy has no effect.So,don't waste your time. | |__________________________________________________________________________| |Middle Core: | |__________________________________________________________________________| |This is more easy to defeat than the two supporting orb.It is weak against| |poison,and don't use bolt.Anyway,use G.F to cause damage to all the orbs | |and core. | |__________________________________________________________________________| |Nogue: | |__________________________________________________________________________| |Nogue is weak against wind,but does not have effects on poison.Summon G.F | |all the time and you should be able to defeat it. | |__________________________________________________________________________| |Tip|Draw barrier and shield from Nogue as a form protection.Use carbunkle | | |to reflect magics.This will reflect magic like fire,bolt,back to the | | |enemies.One thing you have to take note is if you cast carbunkle,be | | |sure to use item to recover your HP.Do not use cure spell when you | | |have cast carbunkle because it will reflect back to the enemies and | | |recover their HP.So,use item to cure. | |___|______________________________________________________________________| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Strategy #8:Pandemonium ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________________________________________________ |Info:You will first fight Raijin in the Balamb Town,follow by a combined | | team of Fuujin and Raijin.You need to draw Pandemonium from Fujjin. | |__________________________________________________________________________| |How to beat??? | |__________________________________________________________________________| |Raijin|Do not use lightning attack on him since he will nulifies lighning.| | |Draw barrier from him.He will use lightning attacks on you very | | |frequently.Junction lightning so that you can have a good defense | | |against it,or even nulifies his attack.Don't use Quetzalcoatl. | | |Anyway,he is very easy to defeat.Simply use your normal attack like| | |G.F,special arts etc. | |______|___________________________________________________________________| |Com- |This is the combine team of Raijin and Fujjin.Again,Raijin will | |bine |nulifies lighning and so use the same strategy that you use against| | |him in the previous fight.As for Fujjin,she will nulifies wind | | |attack,so i guess you know what to do.Don't use wind or lighning | | |magics.I suggest you draw barrier from Rajjin,then kill Rajjin | | |first.Kill Fujjin later since she has a cure spell for you to draw.| | |If you are running low on HP,just draw cure.A easy battle. | |______|___________________________________________________________________| |Tip |Both are weak against poison. | |______|___________________________________________________________________| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Strategy #9:Cerberos ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________________________________________________ |Info|You need to fight and win Cerberos.He is the three-headed beast in | | |the main hall of Galbadia Garden. | |____|_____________________________________________________________________| |How to beat??? | |__________________________________________________________________________| |He is by far one of the toughest boss so far.Of course,there are ways to | |defeat it.Firstly,wind has no effect on him and he absorbs lighning magic.| |And don't use Quetzalcoatl and Pandemonium.He has an earthquake magics, | |which does over 550+ or more damages to your entire party.This boss is | |tricky,in the way that he always cast triple or double on himself.Imagine | |him using earthquake 3 times,and that will be 1500+ damages to everyone. | |Firstly,you need to make sure that you have 2000HP and above,best to have | |over 5000HP to fight him at first.Start the fight first by drawing triple | |on all your party member.Don't do anything else first.Once all characters | |have triple spells,use other magics like Fire 3,or Ice 3.Best to use the | |magics in a row three times.in this way,you will be able to cost three | |times more damage in a single turn.If he uses earthquake,use three times | |cure 2 or cure 3 in a row to recover HP,and have the other two party to | |concentrate on attacking.You can also use G.F to cause damages like Ifrit | |and Shiva,which do quite a reasonable amount of damage.Don't carry out the| |fight for too long,since it is to your disadvantage.End the fight as soon | |as possible.If Squall's weapon is strong,try using Squall's special arts | |since it will do a great damage.Don't use carbunkle since earthquake can- | |not be reflected. | |__________________________________________________________________________| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Strategy #10:Alexander ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________________________________________________ |Info|Draw Alexander from Edea at the last fight of disc 2.You will first | | |fight with Seifer,followed by Edea.This fight is by far the toughest | | |of all in disc 2,if you are weak. | |____|_____________________________________________________________________| |How to beat??? | |__________________________________________________________________________| |Seifer|His HP is low due to the previous fight but he still does a great | | |deal of damage.If he is low on HP,he will use his special arts,the | | |one you saw during the Dollet City.His special art consists of | | |casting fire magics on your character,follows by a finishing move | | |,which is very devastating.He will cure himself when running low on| | |HP.Simply,use the same strategy as the previous fight.Cast haste on| | |all your party first,so you have an advantage over speed.I will | | |explain why. It is good for your next fight.Use Squall special art | | |If your weapon is strong enough,you should be able to kill seifer. | | |Also,try casting Cerberos first. | |______|___________________________________________________________________| |Edea |Edea is by far one of the toughest boss.If you have cast Cerberos, | | |haste first,during the fight with Seifer,you have already gained | | |upperhand.Edea is very nasty,compared to the first time you fought | | |her.Her flare attack does over 500+ damage and she can also cause | | |status disorder to your character,including silence,or blind.Use | | |remedy to cure status disorder,or draw heal from Edea to recover | | |status disorder.Besides,she has a dead-all,which will cause instant| | |death on your character.This attack either miss or instant death on| | |your character.It will be better to junction death to your status | | |defense,so that you won't get hit.Use life to revive character,if | | |not,best to have life 2.To make thing worse,she will use reflect on| | |herself,so you can't use any magics attack on her,except for some | | |magics like earthquake.If you cast barrier,she will use despell to | | |remove your barrier.So,how do you defeat her.Simply use demi on her| | |This will cause great deal of damage on her at first,since demi can| | |-not be reflected.If she is running low on HP,use G.F to finish her| | |off.Also,if your Squall has a strong weapon and attack(junctioned | | |ultima to your strength),you should be able to defeat her easily, | | |using desperation move. | |______|___________________________________________________________________| |Important Reminder!!! | |Remember to draw Alexander from Edea,if not you will lose two valuable | |G.F,Alexander and Grasharaborus.You will know why later on.I have a friend| |who keeps on training squall to over Lv 50,junctioned ultima to attack.His| |special arts was so powerful that he forgot to draw Alexander and killed | |Edea shortly.[Can't tell you who he is] | |__________________________________________________________________________| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Strategy #11:Grasharaboras ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________________________________________________ |Info|This is by far the toughest to get and time consuming.I spent over | | |three days just to find this G.F.Grasharaboras is trapped inside the | | |Soloman's Ring.You need to find certain items in order to release the| | |seal.The list of items is below. | |____|_____________________________________________________________________| |Item Requirements|1x Soloman's Ring | | |6x Molbor's Tentacle | | |6x Iron Pipe | | |6x Modified Remedy | |_________________|________________________________________________________| |How to get: | | |_________________|________________________________________________________| |Soloman's Ring |It is found in the north of tear point,near the statue. | | |Tear Point is located on the south-east of Esthar. | |_________________|________________________________________________________| |Molbor's Tentacle|This is by far the hardest to get.Steal or Kill Molbor. | | |Refer to the strategies below. | |_________________|________________________________________________________| |Iron Pipe |Has the effect of summon G.F + 10%.Refer to the strategy| | |below. | |_________________|________________________________________________________| |Modified Remedy |Remedy has the effect of removing any status effect,and | | |can be bought at most item shops.You need Alexander's | | |medicine Lv up to modifiy the remedy.10x remedy will | | |give you 1x modified remedy,so you need 60x remedy.In | | |order to learn medicine Lv up(120AP),you need to learn | | |medicical knowledge(200AP),which is a total of 320AP. | |_________________|________________________________________________________| |Note |If you didn't get Soloman's Ring before Lunatic Pandora | | |at the end of disc 3,you won't be able to get | | |Grasharaboras forever. | | |If you forget to draw Alexander from Edea at the end of | | |disc 2,you won't be able to get modified remedy,which | | |means you will lose Grasharaboras forever. | |_________________|________________________________________________________| |Once you have meet all the requirements,just click on the Soloman's Ring | |ANYTIME,(Like Diablo like that,but this time not fighting),you will be | |able to get Grasharaboras.If you didn't collect the items,a message will | |pop out saying that you cannot release the G.F. | |__________________________________________________________________________| |Getting Molbor's Tentacles | |__________________________________________________________________________| |Place|Found near outside tear point and on the west of Esthar Capital. | | |Chances of appearing is 1/10.You won't be able to find Molbor after | | |the spacestation adventure.Found in two Islands only-the island that| | |is closest to hell an the island that is close to heaven.Just in | | |case,you have visit the spacetrip,these are the two Islands you | | |should go.Note in these two islands,there are many tough enemies | | |like the RubulmDragon.The Island of Hell can be found in the most | | |western part of Galbadia in the north,which is that long stretch of | | |coast.The Island of Heaven can be found in the northern east of the | | |world map,one of the four small islands in the north of the chocobo | | |shrine(That huge Sketch of Forest).You can reach these two islands | | |only by Ragnarok. | |_____|____________________________________________________________________| |Info |Molbor is a huge,green creature that does a lot of status disorder. | | |if you are in the Island of Heaven,there is a creature that looks | | |and attacks similarly to Molbors,however,it is different in the way | | |that it does not cause any berserk.That creature is called Ochuu and| | |you will get Ochuu's Tentacle after defeating it,however,you must | | |remember that they are both different creatures. | |_____|____________________________________________________________________| |Strategy: | |__________________________________________________________________________| |To get Molbor's Tentacle,you need to kill it or steal from it.You will get| |8 tentacles by killing it and about 2 by stealing from it.This creature | |will start by using bad breath,which casts berserk,silence,poison on all | |your party.When this happen,i suggest you start running away,since you | |won't have a chance of defeating it.You need to steal Molbor's tentacles | |before it casts bad breath.So,how do you make stealing more easy.Let the | |character who have the steal command(from Diablo,200AP),to equip with | |Pandamonium and junction haste so that you have a speed advantage.keep on | |attacking and stealing.Once you have succeeded stealing,i suggest you run | |away to prevent futhur damage. | |__________________________________________________________________________| |Tip|Junction berserk to your status defense,best to have 100,when Molbor | | |uses bad breath,you still regain consious and have the ability to | | |steal.This is an even more reliable way than having speed advantage. | |___|______________________________________________________________________| |This tip was given by Heero Yuy.I have to thanks him for| |all his help. | |__________________________________________________________________________| |Do you know? | |It is possible to defeat Molbor.Of course,have Squall equip with steal, | |Pandamonium,and junction haste and basically everything which can increase| |your speed.Let Squall have a very powerful weapon,best to have Lionheart | |and a very high HP,so that Squall have a very powerful attack that cost | |9999HP.Start the fight by using Squall's desperation.Best to have low | |HP(Yellow) before the fight so that you don't need Aura.Molbor will be | |killed.Another way depend on luck.I was very lucky.Odin appear during the | |fight with Molbor and kill Molbor immediately. | |__________________________________________________________________________| |Getting Iron Pipe | |__________________________________________________________________________| |Place|Go to the forest near the Dollet station.It's the only forest there,| | |so you should have no problem finding the forest.Just roam around | | |the forest. | |_____|____________________________________________________________________| |Info |You will find this yellow-green slimy gorilla,along with other two | | |enemies.Just steal Iron Pipe from him.The rest of the two enemies | | |are very easy to defeat,so don't worry.This gorilla has quite a | | |strong attack.He will often 'roll' your character into a ball, | | |'bouncing',which do over 1000HP damage to one or all your party.You | | |will know what i mean when you see him. | |_____|____________________________________________________________________| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Strategy #12:Bahamut ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________________________________________________ |Place|Warship Island is located on the very bottom left of the map.I guess| | |i don't need to explain the exact location in detail,do i?Just land | | |Ragnarok on the island by pressing circle. | |_____|____________________________________________________________________| |Info |You will see a cylinder in the centre.Bahamut is trapped inside the | | |cylinder,however,it's not that easy,one of the best G.Fs.Okay,the | | |cylinder will emit beams of light out,if you noticed it careful.A | | |single movement will cause you to be detected with the beam,forcing | | |you into a fight.The cylinder will stop emitting light after some | | |time.This is your chance now.Slowly made your way to the centre of | | |the cylinder when the cylinder is not emitting a beam.When it is | | |emitting a beam,you should not move at all.You will see the option | | |when you come into contact with the cylinder. | |_____|____________________________________________________________________| | | First Choice Second Choice Third Choice | | | >Fight Escape Escape | | | >Fight Fight | | | >Bahamut(Hidden) | | | Fig 1 Fig 2 Fig 3 | |_____|____________________________________________________________________| |The first time,you have no choice but to fight Rubulmdragon.After you win | |Rubulmdragon for the first time,you will be given two choices,shown in fig| |2.Choose the second option.When you have win Rubulmdragon for the second | |time,you will be given the third choice,shown in Fig 3.The trick is you | |can't see the text of the third option,unless you point down the cursor at| |the choice. | |__________________________________________________________________________| |How to beat??? | |__________________________________________________________________________| |Rubulmdragon|This is by far the toughest enemies,especially to fight him | | |continously for two times.He has some really very damaging | | |spells like Aero and Meteo.Aero does over 4000HP damage to | | |everyone,and meteo does a total of 5000 damage,about 1500 to | | |2000HP damage to each member.To make thing worse,it can cast | | |reflect on himself,making using magics useless.The only type | | |of magics you can use are those that are non-reflectable like| | |meteo,eathquake,ultima,Aero etc.In this fight,don't bother to| | |use fire or wind attacks,including Ifrit and Pandemonium. | | |Don't bother to use Aero since it won't do much damage.The | | |only two good spells i suggest are ultima and meteo,since | | |both does about quite a reasonably high amount of damage.I | | |have a strategy to beat him.First,use merton on him.It will | | |reduce his defense to 0,both in physical and magic defense. | | |Of course,you can don't use merton but it allows you to cause| | |more damage than usual since his defense has been weakened. | | |It's best to junction as many ultima as possible to your | | |magic,so you can have the greatest magic attack.It will be | | |better if your Squall has a powerful weapon,then junctioned | | |ultima to his strength,and use special arts on him,best to | | |have Lionheart, then everything will be very easy.It will be | | |better if you have Aura but maybe save it for later bosses. | | |Repeat the same strategy for the next Rubulmdragon.For your | | |info,merton can be draw from the red fire demon in warship | | |island.Use triple magic of ultima or meteo to cause massive | | |damage. | |____________|_____________________________________________________________| |Bahamut |Bahamut is even more easier than fighting two Rubulmdragon.He| | |does have some powerful attack like Aero,Terra Flame.Wind | | |and Bolt magics have no effect on him,don't use Pandemonium | | |and Quetzalcoatl.He is immune to poison.Simply use Squall's | | |special arts,ultimas,and meteo,G.Fs,you should be able to | | |defeat Bahamut soon.As i say before,poison has no effect on | | |him,don't use Grasharaboras as it does very little damage. | | |If you have very high lv,preferably 90 and above,you will | | |cause 9000 damage.If Lv 80+,you will cause 8000 damage.If | | |you are running low on HP,simply draw cure 3 to recover HP | | |or use life 2 to revive ally. | |____________|_____________________________________________________________| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Strategy #13:Sabotender ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________________________________________________ |Info|Sabotender Island is located in the southern part of the desert, | | |somewhere in the bottom centre of the world map.The desert is where | | |you fought those Cactuar(20AP,remember now!)Or you can simply say | | |it's near Edea's house.It's a very small Island,from far,you will see| | |a green Cactaur(Something like ruby weapon,sticking out its claws, | | |except that it is green now instead of red.)I guess you know what i | | |mean.You need the Ragnarok to get you there.In order to fight | | |Sabotender,you need to get down the ragnarok and walk over there,not | | |using the airship like you are fighting ruby in the desert of FF7. | |____|_____________________________________________________________________| |How to beat??? | |__________________________________________________________________________| |First of all,this boss isn't hard at all.The only advantage he has is that| |he has very high HP,but is nowhere as difficult as Omega or Ultimate wea- | |pon.Firstly,take note that demi doesn't work with that boss.Don't draw | |Aero or Tornado from him since both magic spell doesn't cause many damage.| |Okay,he has two basic attacks,earthquake,Ten Thousand Needles and normal | |attack.His earthquake damage does around 2000 damage to everyone.At this | |point,such damage is nothing to you.The second attack,Ten Thousand Needle | |is deadly.It will cause instant dead,10,000 damage to a single enemy,but | |not to all,so you have nothing to fear.His normal attack is quite strong, | |about 3000 or more to a single ally.Firstly,you can start the battle by | |summoning Cerberos,so that you can cast double or triple spell.Note that | |the fight is rather long if you do not have very high attack as he has | |more than 150,000+ damage.Therefore,you need to have several cure magics | |in your stock in your magic inventory.When he casts earthquake on your | |party,simply use cure spell triple and regain all your HP for everyone. | |Here's what i obeserved.He only uses his Ten Thousand Needles,when one of | |our party inflict a very heavy damage on him,but not all the time.When one| |of your character is dead by this powerful needles,use Life or Life 2 to | |revive him.If you don't have life 2,use life so that when you revive,you | |can use your desperation move,if you don't have Aura.Squall's special arts| |(when you get Lionheart) can actually finish off him very quickly.Another | |point to note is that Sabotender is very weak against water.If you use | |ouen,and try to reach about 130 using Leviathan,you can actually cost as | |much as 9000HP and over to 9999HP.If you have a turbo controller,that will| |be much better.Almost all G.Fs can cost as much as 7000HP over if you can | |have 250 for ouen,which is the max power.Another point to note is do you | |cast barrier or regen?You can but it's actually a waste of time since the | |earthquake doesn't do much damage,or even if he casts the Ten Thousand | |Needle,you are already dead.In my opinion,it's a waste of time.Of course | |,if you level is low,i suggest you cast barrier,so that you can reduce | |some damage on earthquake.Ultima and meteo work quite well,but on consider| |,it's quite costly,since you have some good G.Fs like Leviathan,especially| |Ultima magic. | |__________________________________________________________________________| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Strategy #14:Master Tonberry ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________________________________________________ |Info |You need to fight 20 Tonberries,and you will fight Master Tonberry, | | |continued from the 20th fight. | |_____|____________________________________________________________________| |Place|Tonberry can be found in Centra ruin,just before you go out the | | |stair,the place where there is a hidden draw point on the right | | |corner of the screen.Remember,do not go up the stair.Just roam the | | |area around. | |_____|____________________________________________________________________| |Info |Tonberries have appeared in many past FFs and are one of the most | | |sure-have enemies in Final Fantasies.You will find Tonberry in the | | |final dungeon of FF7,as well as in other past FFs like FF6.I am | | |quite surprised he made it as one of the G.Fs.The most noticeable | | |thing about this enemy is that he carries a lantern with him and | | |usually,he will not attack you,and continue to work forward,in front| | |towards your member.When he walks near you already,he will cast | | |death,so when you fight with him,keep on attacking,don't let him | | |have the chance to walk forward.Master Tonberry will fight him | | |immediately when you have defeated the 20th Tonberry.Note that you | | |don't need to fight the Tonberries in continous sequence,which means| | |even if you go out,you won't need to fight all over again from 1. | | |Master Tonberry is about thrice times the size of a normal Tonberry.| |_____|____________________________________________________________________| |How to beat??? | |__________________________________________________________________________| |Tonberry|He is not that hard,but he has a very high HP,above 20,000HP.Just| | |use G.F with very high affection(GF ATB will be faster if the G.F| | |has very high affection for the character).It will be even more | | |preferred if you have a turbo controller to reach 250 ouen so | | |you can cause as much damage before he walks near you and cast | | |death,so by the time before he can casts death,he should already | | |die.Sometimes,he will counter you back by using Kitchen Knife, | | |which is quite deadly.He has another attack called the Lantern | | |shot.Repeat the same strategy for other Tonberries till you meet | | |Master Tonberries.Another interesting quick win is that G.Fs may | | |not do quite a lot of damage,so i suggest have Squall's HP reduce| | |to yellow or use Aura,so that you can use Squall's special arts. | | |If Squall has a very good weapon,you should be able to kill in | | |less than 4 special arts.Count the number of fights,and before | | |the 20th fight,recover all your characters' HP.Should one of your| | |character dies,use Phoenix Down or life. | |________|_________________________________________________________________| |Master |Master Tonberry isn't that tough,when compared to Sabotender.He | |Tonberry|does have quite high HP,bave 75,000HP.His earthquake stomp does | | |about 2000+ damage to all character,and a normal physical attack | | |does 1000+ to a single character.Of course,like the fight with | | |Sabotender,you can first cast Cerberos.I don't think there is a | | |need to repeat the whole strategy again,do I?This fight,i suggest| | |you use Squall's special arts or ultima,when cast 3x times in a | | |row,should end the fight very fast.If you are low on HP due to | | |the previous fight,draw cure,as well as Life 2 to revive any dead| | |member.Other than that,i don't think you should have any problem.| |________|_________________________________________________________________| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Strategy #15:Eden ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________________________________________________ |Info|After you have win Bahamut,go to Ragnarok by pressing Triangle and | | |talk to everyone onbaord the airship,including Zell.Then,go back to | | |the cylinder where Bahamut is now.You will be able to go down now to | | |the underground water facitity to fight Ultimate Weapon. | |____|_____________________________________________________________________| |Note|Make sure you talk to everyone onboard,or you won't be able to climb | | |down.Make sure you draw Eden from Ultimate Weapon.Note that you need | | |to have Zell in your party.This is very important. | |____|_____________________________________________________________________| |In the Underground Water Facility | |__________________________________________________________________________| |Tip |First,equip your character with Encounter Nothing. | |____|_____________________________________________________________________| |In order to fight Ultimate Weapon,you need to adjust the steam block to | |No.10.You will first began with Steam Block No.20.This is what you should | |do now.Once you climb down,you will see a steam block machine.Activate the| |machine,and you will see some options of numbers for you to choose from. | |__________________________________________________________________________| |Firstly,when you climb down,you will be asked to input two times,Square. | |If you look at the screen at the top,it becomes 20-4=16.A hidden door to | |the bottom will then be revealed.Go down the stairs,and then examine the | |machine on the top-right corner.Now,here's what i mean about some options | |of numbers to choose from.If you choose 2,you will see that it becomes | |16-2=14.Okay,as usual,the underground door will open.Input the password. | |__________________________________________________________________________| |The password is 2-2-1-1.So,how do i input?Just input the password in order| |for each level.Here's a simple explanation.Look at the number of the door | |on the top-right hand corner as you come down the stairs. | |__________________________________________________________________________| |Door Number | 1 | 2 | 5 | 9 |Understand!By the time you input the last | |Input Password| 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |password,the steam block should be 10 now. | |______________|___|___|___|___|___________________________________________| |I don't think there's a need for diagram here since it's so easy.If you | |want,you can refer to Scott Ong's FAq walkthrough Part 1 for the map. | |__________________________________________________________________________| |When you come down of the elevator,you will see a huge steam machine.Have | |the party examine the steam machine,you will have to choose two option. | |__________________________________________________________________________| |Ist Option|Allows you to activate the steam machine,pressing Square two | | |times,thus the steam block becomes 10-4=6.Each Square press | | |minus two steam block.(Just as the first one.) | |__________|_______________________________________________________________| |2nd Option|This will have Zell examine the Steam Machine on his own,with- | | |out affecting the Steam Block,still remains as 10. | |__________|_______________________________________________________________| |Choosing both options will lead to the opening of the underground basement| |of Warship Island.Since you want 10,if you choose the option,it becomes 6,| |that means you won't be able to fight Ultimate Weapon.If you reach the | |very bottom,you can't fight Ultimate Weapon,so choose the 2nd option. | |__________________________________________________________________________| |Note|You may not want to fight Ultimate Weapon,so by choosing the 1st way,| | |you can explore the basement,as well as a good chance of training | | |your LV. and draw up some good spells like meteor.And you have to | | |note that the underground basement enemy is very tough. | |____|_____________________________________________________________________| |Note|If you choose the second option,when you enter the door,you will see | | |a save point.MAKE SURE YOU SAVE.The enemies here are very tough and | | |it takes quite a long time to reach the bottom to fight Ultimate | | |Weapon.Should you lose during any fights,you will have to start the | | |long,tedious process all over again.And note that there won't be any | | |more save point below.So,make sure your LV is high. | |____|_____________________________________________________________________| |Note|Make sure you equip encounter nothing.There are a total of 15 fights | | |you need to undergo,before you can claim the "most powerful G.F.Come | | |on,no pay,no gain!The fights are a must,even if you equip encounter | | |nothing,and you won't be able to escape.This is only for those who | | |choose the second option,and not the first option. | |____|_____________________________________________________________________| |There are a total of 5 areas,before you enter the last(6th) area to fight | |ultimate weapon.In each area,you will fight 3 same type/number of enemy, | |therefore 3 x 5=15 fights. | |__________________________________________________________________________| |First Area | |__________________________________________________________________________| |Torai Feisu |A three-headed beast who will sometimes cast poison on you. | | |You can kill him quite easily by using Squall's Lionheart. | |____________|_____________________________________________________________| |Second Area | |__________________________________________________________________________| |Gerenderu |He uses bolt attack but he shouldn't be hard to defeat.A | | |lizard and looks quite strong.Again,not that difficult. | |____________|_____________________________________________________________| |Garukimasera|He's not that hard to defeat.He also appears in Esthar after | | |the luna side based event.Occasionally,when he dies,he will | | |use final attack-holy on you.He shouldn't be hard. | |____________|_____________________________________________________________| |Third Area | |__________________________________________________________________________| |Behemoth |This is one of the toughest enemies.He can cast meteor on | | |quite frequently.I have come up a way to defeat him.Have one | | |of your character have status attack,Silence.When you attack | | |him,all his magic attack like meteo are sealed.Make full use | | |of this chance,draw regen from him,so that you can recover | | |your HP,while also attacking him.When he's running low on HP,| | |he will cast barrier on himself.Use despell to take away his | | |barrier or you can choose not to. | |____________|_____________________________________________________________| |Fourth Area | |__________________________________________________________________________| |RubulmDragon|Refer to the strategic #12.It should be more easier now than | | |last time.Bahamut works very well against him,but to save up | | |to fight Ultimate Weapon,use back the same way. | |____________|_____________________________________________________________| |Iron Giant |You will fight two Iron Giants.Firstly,they are quite tough. | | |Each physical attack can cost 3000HP and above to a single | | |member or over 2000HP to every character.So,how do you fight | | |him?He has a very high HP and very strong attack.Ending the | | |fight too long won't do you any advantage.I suggest you have | | |sleep junction to your status attack,so that while attacking,| | |iron giant may fall asleep.He sleeps for quite long so make | | |use of this chance to attack.Don't use any physical attack on| | |him since this will wake him up.I suggest you draw and use | | |earthquake so that you can cause damage to two of them or use| | |Bahamut when he's asleep.If you have Squall's LionHeart,it | | |should kill him within three to five times.Also,Iron Giant | | |will cast barrier on him sometimes. | |____________|_____________________________________________________________| |Make sure you collect Ultima from the magic point before you leave the 5th| |area.Now,you are on your way to fight Ultimate. | |__________________________________________________________________________| |Here are some of the requirements that you might need to fight Ultimate. | |1)Squall's LionHeart 5)Cure 3(Must) | |2)Aura Spell(Recommended) 6)Double/Triple magic(Recommended) | |3)Life 1 or Life 2(Recommended) 7)Haste(Recommended) | |4)Ultima/Meteo Magic 8)Merton | |If you don't have many ultima,use meteo but Ultima will be preferred. | |__________________________________________________________________________| |Firstly,in my own opinion,Ultimate Weapon isn't that hard.He doesn't have | |500,000HP that much in Scott Ong's FAQ.I don't know how he came up with | |that value.To me,Ultimate weapon has an estimation of less than 80,000 but| |he has very high defense,even without LionHeart,you do about 2500 to 5000 | |or even lesser.The hardest part is his 9999HP damage.Other than that,he | |has some other attacks shadow flare(3000+Single),Earthquake(1500+) and | |meteo(an average of above 2000HP per member). | |__________________________________________________________________________| |You should have.... | |1)Squall having LionHeart and Ultima/Meteo/is junctioned to his strength. | |2)Junction Haste to your character's speed,especially Squall. | |3)Have plenty supply of Aura. | |4)You must have an abundant supply for both double and triple spells. | |5)Have over 9000HP for all character. | |__________________________________________________________________________| |Start the fight by having Aura cast on Squall.With haste equip and Lion- | |Heart equipped,keep on doing special arts on ultimate weapon.Don't bother | |to cast Cerberos,unless the G.F have a very strong affection as his 9999HP| |will kill your G.F instantly,instead use double or triple spells to re- | |place for it.When he uses spells like shadow flare,earthquake,meteo,use | |triple cure magic to recover your HP,maybe sometimes cast ultima or meteo | |triple on him.Demi doesn't work on him,so take note of that.The only thing| |that you must remember is that Ultimate Weapon casts 9999HP damage very | |often,therefore,make sure you have more than two members alive.If not,no | |matter how strong you are,one person will still be killed.When he use it, | |use life or life 2 to quickly revive,don't hesitate anymore,and you should| |be fast.It will be a really good advantage this time if you have haste | |junctioned to speed.When you use life,your HP should be yellow.Then,have | |Squall use his desperation move.If you use life 2,use Aura on Squall now. | |[If Squall dies only,have other characters concentrate on healing.]It will| |be a good idea if you have someone with very strong magic,by junctioning | |Ultima,to act as a healer,as well as magic caster(Ultima).You may also | |want to use merton on him.If i am not wrong,about five to eight Squall's | |desperation move should kill Ultimate Weapon.Remember to draw Eden. | |__________________________________________________________________________| ____________________________________________________________________________ Non ability G.F-animated Strategy ____________________________________________________________________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Strategy #16:Phoenix ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________________________________________________ |Info|Head to the Shumi Tribe in the most northern east area,the building | | |that look like a spider-shaped.The elevator is in the north.Note at | | |the entrance of the elevator is a magic point of ultima but you need | | |to pay 5000Gil for it.The elevator will take you down.Then just go to| | |the house on the furthest left.Just carry on going left,you will pass| | |a pond along the way.The first building you encountered after the | | |elevator is the Shumi Hotel.You can stay there for free.Enter the | | |furthest left house,talk to the chef leader,standing next to the | | |statue(Some called it Laguna statue,but to me,it doesn't look like). | | |Go out,enter the house to meet the head of the village,outside the | | |dog.(that resembles redxiii tribe)After talking to the head of the | | |village,return back to the house that has the statue.Speak to the | | |village chef again and he will ask you to find five stones. | |____|_____________________________________________________________________| |Each time,you find a new stone,return the stone back to the man standing | |next to the statue,then get the next stone.The stone must be taken in this| |order below.As you approach a new stone,a new dialogue will appear. | |__________________________________________________________________________| |Stone |Location of the Stone | |________|_________________________________________________________________| |Blue |It is in the room where the statue is.Search the big rock on the | | |left-hand corner. | |________|_________________________________________________________________| |Wind |The big rock on the first screen after the elevator;furthur left | | |to the Shumi Hotel. | |________|_________________________________________________________________| |Life |In the middle of the truck of a huge tree,just before the Head of| | |the Shumi house on the same screen. | |________|_________________________________________________________________| |Shadow |Go back down the elevator again.Search the container on the upper| | |right side of the screen,which casts a shadow over. | |________|_________________________________________________________________| |Water |Head to the Tsukurit's House,right side next to the house with | | |the Laguna statue.Head to the sink to find the stone on the left.| |________|_________________________________________________________________| |Once you have collected all the stones,talk to the chef near the Laguna | |statue,then head for the village head house.After a conversation,you will | |get a Phoenix Wing.Use it to summon Phoenix during battle using item.Once | |summoned,Phoenix will appear randomly,if you have Phoenix Feather in your | |stock.Each time,Phoenix is summoned,your Phoenix Feather in stock will | |reduce by 1. |__________________________________________________________________________| |Tip |By using item creation to change Phoenix down to Phoenix Feather,| | |you can now summon Phoenix. | |________|_________________________________________________________________| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Strategy #17:Ko-chocobo ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________________________________________________ |Info|In order to summon a chocobo,you need to use Gisal Greens(Item) | | |summon it.Think of the Gisal Vegetables as a lure to attract chocobo,| | |before that,you need to catch a chocobo.Come on,Chocobos love Greens!| |____|_____________________________________________________________________| |How to catch? | |To catch a chocobo,go to any of the chocobo forest.There are a total of 6 | |chocobo forest and one chocobo shrine that are scattered throughout the | |world.You can only access to these forests only from disc 2 onward when | |you can control your Balamb Garden on the sea,or having the ragnarok,air- | |ship in disc 3.When you reach there,you will see a man.He will brief you | |on the basic tutorials of catching a chocobo.The radar on the bottom-right| |detect the presence of chocobo.More will be explained in the next update. | |Okay,after going through the tutorial,press Square,and you will be given | |4 choices.I will explain the choices later on.Meanwhile,choose the third | |option,and the man will approach you.Pay 1200Gil to him and he will offer | |to catch a chocobo for you.Pay him the money and a big,fat chocobo will | |fall down.You will then be able to write a name for your chocobo.Once you | |have wrote a name for your new chocobo,you will be able to ride it,as well| |as summoning Ko-chocobo and playing the chocobo RPG in the PocketStation. | |__________________________________________________________________________| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Strategy #18:Odin ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________________________________________________ |Place|Centra Ruin is located to the north of Edea's house in the bottom | | |right-hand corner of the world map. | |_____|____________________________________________________________________| |You need to get Odin within the time limit,20 minute. | |__________________________________________________________________________| |Procedure:=>Tip:Equip Diablo's encounter nothing to avoid any fights. | |__________________________________________________________________________| |Go up the stair first.There is a magic point next to pillar,just before | |the stair.once you go up the stair,stand on the wooden platform and it | |works like an elevator,transporting you up.you will see two ladders.Climb | |the left ladder first.The right one leads to a magic point,but you can get| |it later after getting Odin.After climbing the right ladder,go inside the | |door,and examine the blue orb on the blue panel to reveal a hiddem stair- | |way on the ground.Go down the ladder,examine the panel in the ground floor| |,then go up the stairs that is revealed,until you reach a chamber.Climb | |the ladder,examine the statue and take the red ruby away from the statue | |by choosing the first option.After that,go down the ladder,take the stair.| |There is a magic point on the right path.Climb the ladder on the right(It | |may not look like one,but is actually it.Look carefully!).You will see | |another statue.Put the red ruby you have got previously by choosing the | |second option.You will then be given a password.Take back both red ruby by| |choosing the first option,go back to where the first statue is,put the two| |two red ruby inside and you will be given an option to key in your pass- | |word.After keying in the password,the door below will opened and will lead| |to where odin is. | |__________________________________________________________________________| |Odin|Odin doesn't attack,so take your time to draw some good spells like | | |double,triple,or death.Once he's defeated,he will appear randomly. | |____|_____________________________________________________________________| |Info|The password is randomly.Possiblities are 7-4-4-4-2,0-4-8-5-6 etc. | |____|_____________________________________________________________________| |General Information about Odin | |__________________________________________________________________________| |-Odin appears randomly during battle,only at the beginning. | |-Odin will use Iron Cutting Sword and killed every enemies instantly,so | | when Odin appears,you will know that the fight will end soon. | |-Odin does not appear during boss fight. | |__________________________________________________________________________| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Strategy #19:Gilagmesh ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________________________________________________ |Info|Odin will be first killed by Seifer at the beginning of fight at | | |Lunatic Pandora at the end of disc 3.You will see that this is the | | |Odin misses his attack.Seifer fires his gunblade,cutting Odin into | | |halves.You will then continued the fight.After some time,Gilagmesh | | |will appear from heaven,saying that this is his true form of Odin.He | | |then sent Seifer flying away,thus ending the fight. | |____|_____________________________________________________________________| |Tip |Don't attack Seifer because Gilagmesh will soon appear.Instead,take | | |this opportunity and draw up as many Aura spell from Seifer. | |____|_____________________________________________________________________| |Attack:Iron Cutting Sword,Excalibur,Excalipur,Masamune | |__________________________________________________________________________| |Like Odin,Gilagmesh will appear randomly.You will see four swords flying | |down from heaven.Each of these four swords represents an attack,as shown | |above,and Gilagmesh will pick one sword randomly,performing random attack.| |I still need more informations about his attack.He still retains the Iron | |Cutting Sword,inherited from Odin. | |__________________________________________________________________________| |General Information about Gilagmesh | |__________________________________________________________________________| |-Appears randomly,just like Odin,but have the chance of appearing in the | | middle of a fight,or even during a boss fight.Gilagmesh appears when i am| | fighting Altemisia. | |-Iron Cutting Sword does not work against bosses. | |-His attack varied on the type of sword he has choosen. | |__________________________________________________________________________| ____________________________________________________________________________ General Tip That Will Help You: ____________________________________________________________________________ Field: 1)When exploring,be sure to pick up magics. 2)When stuck,be sure to talk to the people for a few more times.Sometimes, major events will change,only when a person is being talking to. 3)Be sure to explore the area in sequence order and try to remember the path where you came from,so that you won't be lost. 4)Look out for weapon,item shops in a town to tune up your weapon,or stock up your item supplies. World Map: 1)Be sure to leave your vehicles in a safe place,so that you can easily retrieve it anytime. 2)Also,take into the consideration whether your vehicle is being rented or not.Rented vehicles have limited fuel and will not be able to move after some time. 3)Be sure to have adequate supplies of magics,items etc so that you are able to cope with the enemies that you might encounter in the world map. Item: 1)Be sure to carry inadequate supplies of Phoenix Down,Cure, both for the party,as well as the G.F. 2)Remember to have some status healing,just in case your character gets a status attack. 3)Be sure to give your special item like Magic source etc to increase your character/G.F stats. 4)Be sure to organise your item inventory well.No point,having a lot of items,where you need to search high-and-low for it. Magic 1)Be sure to organise your party's magic. 2)Be sure to have as many cure,status,revive magic. 3)Make full use of the trade menu of magic with other characters. Draw 1)Be sure to draw as many magics as possible,especially for cure,revive. 2)Start the battle by drawing the unknown magics. 3)Be smart,draw wisely.Don't draw magic that are useless to your party. Remember each character is only limit to 24 different types of magic in his/her inventory.Test it out sometime if you are not sure what it is. Battle 1)Be sure when fighting a boss,start the battle by drawing magics. There are quite a number of G.F that needs to be draw. 2)Make sure you have the best item/magic supplies. 3)Do not stay distracted because the bttle is fought in real-time. 4)Be sure to use Squall's R1 button. 5)Make full use of G.F's Ouen ability. 6)Be sure to choose the four commands wisely that you can take with you. 7)Never use same elemental attacks/magics against the same elemental enemies.It will not do any damage to them,instead recover their HP sometimes.For example,fire-based enemies are not afraid of fire-based attack or magics.Sometimes,it do only a little bit of damage to them. 8)Use elemental attacks/magics that the enemies are afraid of.For example, fire-based enemies are afraid of water attack/magic. 9)Note that there are some magics like the Ultima,which has non-elemental attack,or to simply say they are neutral.Such a magic will not have any effect on enemy. 10)Humans are naturally weak against poison,status disorder,and instant death.On the other hand,mechanical enemies are less prone to these attacks. 11)Lightning/Water/Ice works best against mechanical enemies whereas humans are less prone to it. 12)Fire attacks work generally quite well to Poison-based enemies. 13)Wind works well for flying creature,however,Earth magic does not. 14)In the beginning,all your character's weapon attack is st to neutral or non-elemental and your attack element will only change if a certain G.F is equipped. 15)It is possible to cast two or three magics in a row in just one turn by using the double/triple magic or G.F Cerberus.Make full use of that, in long boss fight to have a quick advantage. 16)Take note of Pre-Emptive strike and back attack.Often,back attack costs more attack slighlty.Pre-Emptive strike allows you to attack first than your enemies,whereas it can also be the reversed. 17)Use the extra text boxes by pressing L1.This is important as it saves you a lot of time. Card 1)If you have lost your best card,it's best to retreat and stop playing. 2)Remmember to save beforehand,just in case,you lost a very good card. 3)Take note of the elements in the board.It can either increase or decrease your card's strength. Additional 1)Take the test first.Once you reached the higher ranking,this means more money will come to you. 2)Be sure to go to the tutorial if you have something in doubt with. ____________________________________________________________________________ Balamb Garden ____________________________________________________________________________ Here's the plan layout of first floor.(1F) E:Elevator ___[1]___ L:Lobby / \ /:Path [8] [2] / E \ [7] [3] \ L / [6] | [4] \ | / \__[5}__/ | | Outside (1)Dormitory :In here,you can sleep,change your clothes and even save. (2)Parking Lot :Park your car here. (3)Training Center:The sight of this place remains me of 'Jurassic park', especially with that dinosaur.It's a man-made artificial jungles.You can't call it a jungle because it isn't as huge as you think but is very dangerous as there are lots of powerful enemies.It is one of the test that a SeeD member have to go through before they are qualified. (4)Library :A place for the collection of books. (5)Central Gate :It leads to the entrance of SeeD.Go furthur to exit the school to the world map. (6)Infirmary :The place where all wounded soldiers goes to.This is where Dr. Kadowaki works in. (7)Quad :It leads to the stage. (8)Cafeteria :Garden's eating place. (E)Elevator :Takes you up to the second and third floor,as well as coming down.It also takes you to the underground. (L)Lobby :This is where the elevator is. ____________________________________________________________________________ Second Floor Layout(2F) D T:Tutorial Room ---------S D:Emergency Door / S:Leads to the roof at the third floor T- E:Elevator | | *Note:D and S is inaccessible at the beginning until \ your second return to Balamb Garden. -----------E ____________________________________________________________________________ Third Floor Layout(3F) This is simple.The third floor is also inaccessible until your second return to Balamb Garden.You can take the elevator to the third floor.After rescuing the underground tunnel,a new elevator will takes you to the fourth floor in the thrid floor.There isn't anything new,except that this is where your pilot control room is.if you take the second floor,you will go up to the roof in the third floor.There isn't anything new. ____________________________________________________________________________ Underground Floor There isn't anything new to add yet.This is where you fought Noogu,a boss sent by Edea to destroy Garden. ____________________________________________________________________________ Scaling Underground Water Facility-The Search for Ultimate Weapon ____________________________________________________________________________ The chart below depicts the route to get to Ultimate Weapon.X means you cannot fight Ultimate weapon when you get there, O means you can, while Z means you can force the door open if Zell is in your party. ___________________________________________________________________________ |B1 | B2 |B3 |B4 |B5 |B6 | |_____|_____|______________|______________|______________|__________________| | Usg | Usg |Flr No. | Usg |Flr No. | Usg |Flr No. | Usg |Remain | U.Weapon | |_____|_____|________|_____|________|_____|________|_____|_______|__________| | | | | | | 4 | No. 7 | 4 | 0 | X | | | | | | |_____|________|_____|_______|__________| | | | | 4 | No. 4 | 2 | No. 8 | 2 | 4 | X | | | | | | |_____|________|_____|_______|__________| | | | | | | 1 | No. 9 | 1 | 6 | X | | | 4 | No 1 |_____|________|_____|________|_____|_______|__________| | | | | | | 2 | No. 8 | 2 | 6 | X | | | | | 2 | No. 5 |_____|________|_____|_______|__________| | | | | | | 1 | No. 9 | 1 | 8 | X | | | | |_____|________|_____|________|_____|_______|__________| | | | | 1 | No. 6 | 1 | No. 9 | 1 | 9 | X | | |_____|________|_____|________|_____|________|_____|_______|__________| | | | | | | | 2 | No. 8 | 2 | 11 | Z | | | | | | 2 | No. 5 |_____|________|_____|_______|__________| | | | |*A | | | 1 | No. 9 | 1 | 13 | Z | | | | | |_____|________|_____|________|_____|_______|__________| | | | | | 1 | No. 6 | 1 | No. 9 | 1 | 14 | O | | | | |___|_____|________|_____|________|_____|_______|__________| | | 2 |No.2| | | | 2 | No. 8 | 2 | 8 | X | | | | | | 2 | No. 5 |_____|________|_____|_______|__________| | | | |*B | | | 1 | No. 9 | 1 | 10 | Z | | | | | |_____|________|_____|________|_____|_______|__________| | | | | | 1 | No. 6 | 1 | No. 9 | 1 | 11 | Z | | |_____|____|___|_____|________|_____|________|_____|_______|__________| | | 1 | No.3 | 1 | No. 6 | 1 | No. 9 | 1 | 12 | Z | |_____|_____|________|_____|________|_____|________|_____|_______|__________| *A - Enter Steam Chamber (replenish 7 units) *B - Did not enter Steam Chamber ___________________________________________________________________________ Secret ____________________________________________________________________________ Easy AP To get AP,simply go to the desert in the southern,right continent when you have the airship,Ragnarok.You will fight with Cactuar.Though you won't earn many exp,you can actually earn a lot of AP,each for 20AP.Besides,these creatures have very low HP and easily be defeated.In no time,you wil be able to master all the ablities of your G.F.The only thing you must take note is that Cactuar are very timid creature and often tries to escape away.So,you have to kill him before he escapes. ____________________________________________________________________________ Reset Having fustrated of restarting your PlayStation.Here is a trick that works for you.The trick also works for Final Fantasy 7 too.Just hold the four buttons at the top and Select,Start.In short,it is to hold L1,L2,R1,R2, Select and Start.It applies only to battle.So take note. ____________________________________________________________________________ Easy Special Art Simply when your HP is yellow or red,keep on pressing triangle to switch members until it comes back to you.You should see the triangle next to the attack.Repeat the procedure until you can use the special art. ____________________________________________________________________________ Easy Gil Simply sit through the test and earn your levels to 30 or A.Lv 30 will let you earn 20,000 Gils after certain time,and A will let you earn 30,000Gils. For more information on answers of test,please refer to the section above. ____________________________________________________________________________ 250 Ouen Simply use a controller with turbo feature and hold Square.The numbers will go up rapidly.Remember to watch up for the cross.Once you reach 250,you will be able to cost more damage than usual,that is the max,maybe 9999. For more information,please refer to the section above. ____________________________________________________________________________ Gilgamesh Odin will change to Gilgamesh if you have Odin with you during the fight with Seifer at Lunatic Pandora at the end of disc 3.Odin will be killed by Seifer,and revealed his true self form-Gilgamesh.Refer to the G.F section. ____________________________________________________________________________ Island Of Hell and Heaven Island of Hell can be found in the western part of Galbadia,the long stretch of coast and in the northern west of the world map.Island of Heaven can be found in the northern east part of the world map.It is one of the four small islands located north of the chocobo shrine(that large stretch of forest). You will find many tough enemies there like Rubulmdragon,Molbor and other tough enemies.So,what's the use of coming here?You can junction Encounter Nothing and then move around to draw powerful magics from hidden draw points like Meteor,Aura or Holy.Also, the monsters here are so powerful,they offers a lot of EXP too, and you can find your party at full level fast. ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ~~~GameShark Code~~~ --------------------- Secial thanks to the Gameshark Code Creator's Club for their gameshark codes for FF8. Here is the HTML address of the Gameshark Code Creator's Club:http://www.cmgsccc.com/psximport/ffviii.shtml ____________________________________________________________________________ General Code ------------- Allows FF8 to Play in a Mod-Chipped System D009B2B0 FFF3 8009B2E0 0046 D009B2B0 FFF3 8009B2E2 1000 Infinite Money 80076BA4 0FFF 80066BA6 5F5E Infinite Save 8006F372 0100 Play Time 80076D68 FFFF Limit Time Play Fast 80076D6C FFFF Super Chocobo 8009D4B4 0000 8009D4B6 0401 ____________________________________________________________________________ Main Character ____________________________________________________________________________ Max HP 80076528 270F Infinite HP 8007652A 270F Max EXP 8007652C FFFF EXP For Next Level Up 8007652E ???? Change Character (Replace ? For 0-A) 80076530 000? Max Strength 80076532 FFFF Max Knowledge 80076534 FFFF Max Lucky 80076536 FFFF ____________________________________________________________________________ Second Character ____________________________________________________________________________ Max HP 800766F0 270F Infinite HP 800766F2 270F Max EXP 800766F4 FFFF EXP For Next Level Up 800766F6 ???? Change Character (Replace ? For 0-A) 800766F8 000? Max Strength 800766FA FFFF Max Knowledge 800766FC FFFF Max Lucky 800766FE FFFF ____________________________________________________________________________ Third Character ____________________________________________________________________________ Max HP 800768B8 270F Infinite HP 800768BA 270F Max EXP 800768BC FFFF EXP For Next Level Up 800768BE ???? Change Character (Replace ? For 0-A) 800768C0 000? Max Strength 800768C2 FFFF Max knowledge 800768C4 FFFF Max Lucky 800768C6 00FF ____________________________________________________________________________ Fourth Character ____________________________________________________________________________ Max HP 80076A80 270F Infinite HP 80076A82 270F Max EXP 80076A84 FFFF EXP For Next Level Up 80076A86 ???? Change Character (Replace ? For 0-A) 80076A88 000? Max Strength 80076A8A FFFF Max Knowledge 80076A8C FFFF Max Lucky 80076A8E FFFF ____________________________________________________________________________ Fifth Character ____________________________________________________________________________ Max HP 80076788 270F Infinite HP 8007678A 270F Max EXP 8007678C FFFF EXP For Next Level Up 8007678E ???? Change Character (Replace ? For 0-A) 80076790 000? Max Strength 80076792 FFFF Max Knowledge 80076794 FFFF Max Lucky 80076796 FFFF ____________________________________________________________________________ Sixth Character ____________________________________________________________________________ Max HP 80076820 270F Infinite HP 80076822 270F Max EXP 80076824 82B8 EXP For Next Level Up 80076826 ???? Change Character (Replace ? For 0-A) 80076828 000? Max Strength 8007682A FFFF Max Knowledge 8007682C FFFF Max Lucky 8007682E FFFF ____________________________________________________________________________ 7th Character ____________________________________________________________________________ Max HP 800768B8 270F Infinite HP 800768BA 270F Max EXP 800768BC 82B8 EXP For Next Level Up 800768BE ???? Change Character (Replace ? For 0-A) 800768C0 000? Max Strength 800768C2 FFFF Max Knowledge 800768C4 FFFF Max Lucky 800768C6 00FF ____________________________________________________________________________ 8th Character ____________________________________________________________________________ Max HP 80076950 270F Infinite HP 80076952 270F Max EXP 80076954 82B8 EXP For Next Level Up 80076956 ???? Change Character (Replace ? For 0-A) 80076958 000? Max Strength 8007695A FFFF Max Knowledge 8007695C FFFF Max Lucky 8007695E FFFF ____________________________________________________________________________ Main Character ____________________________________________________________________________ (All Magic) 80076538 6301 8007653A 6302 8007653C 6303 8007653E 6304 80076540 6305 80076542 6306 80076544 6307 80076548 6308 8007654A 6309 8007654C 630A 8007654E 630B 80076550 630C 80076552 630D 80076554 630E 80076556 630F 80076558 6310 8007655A 6311 8007655C 6312 8007655E 6313 80076560 6314 80076562 6315 80076564 6316 80076566 6317 80076568 6318 8007656A 6319 8007656C 631A 8007656E 631B 80076570 631C 80076572 631D 80076574 631E 80076576 631F ____________________________________________________________________________ Second Character ____________________________________________________________________________ (All Magic) 80076700 6311 80076702 6312 80076704 6313 80076706 6314 80076708 6315 8007670A 6316 8007670C 6317 8007670E 6318 80076710 6319 80076712 631A 80076714 631B 80076716 631C 80076718 631D 8007671A 631E 8007671C 631F 8007671E 6320 80076720 6321 80076722 6322 80076724 6323 80076726 6324 80076728 6325 8007672A 6326 8007672C 6327 8007672E 6328 80076730 6329 80076732 632A 80076734 632B 80076736 632C 80076738 632D 8007673A 632E 8007673C 632F 8007673E 6330 ____________________________________________________________________________ Third Character ____________________________________________________________________________ (All Magic) 800768C8 6321 800768CA 6322 800768CC 6323 800768CE 6324 800768D0 6325 800768D2 6326 800768D4 6327 800768D6 6328 800768D8 6329 800768DA 632A 800768DC 632B 800768DE 632C 800768E0 632D 800768E2 632E 800768E4 632F 800768E6 6330 800768E8 6331 800768EA 6332 800768EC 6333 800768EE 6334 800768F0 6335 800768F2 6336 800768F4 6337 800768F6 6338 800768F8 6339 800768FA 633A 800768FC 633B 800768FE 633C 80076900 633D 80076902 633E 80076904 633F 80076906 6340 ____________________________________________________________________________ Fourth Character ____________________________________________________________________________ (All Magic) 80076A90 6331 80076A92 6332 80076A94 6333 80076A96 6334 80076A98 6335 80076A9A 6336 80076A9C 6337 80076A9E 6338 80076AA0 6339 80076AA2 633A 80076AA4 633B 80076AA6 633C 80076AA8 633D 80076AAA 633E 80076AAC 633F 80076AAE 6340 80076AB0 6341 80076AB2 6342 80076AB4 6343 80076AB6 6344 80076AB8 6345 80076ABA 6346 80076ABC 6347 80076ABE 6348 80076AC0 6349 80076AC2 634A 80076AC4 634B 80076AC6 634C 80076AC8 634D 80076ACA 634E 80076ACC 634F 80076ACE 6350 ____________________________________________________________________________ Fifth Character ____________________________________________________________________________ (All Magic) 80076798 6301 8007679A 6302 8007679C 6303 8007679E 6304 800767A0 6305 800767A2 6306 800767A4 6307 800767A6 6308 800767A8 6309 800767AA 630A 800767AC 630B 800767AE 630C 800767B0 630D 800767B2 630E 800767B4 630F 800767B6 6310 800767B8 6311 800767BA 6312 800767BC 6313 800767BE 6314 800767C0 6315 800767C2 6316 800767C4 6317 800767C6 6318 800767C8 6319 800767CA 631A 800767CC 631B 800767CE 631C 800767D0 631D 800767D2 631E 800767D4 631F 800767D6 6320 ____________________________________________________________________________ Sixth Character ____________________________________________________________________________ (All Magic) 80076830 6301 80076832 6302 80076834 6303 80076836 6304 80076838 6305 8007683A 6306 8007683C 6307 8007683E 6308 80076840 6309 80076842 630A 80076844 630B 80076846 630C 80076848 630D 8007684A 630E 8007684C 630F 8007684E 6310 80076850 6311 80076852 6312 80076854 6313 80076856 6314 80076858 6315 8007685A 6316 8007685C 6317 8007685E 6318 80076860 6319 80076862 631A 80076864 631B 80076866 631C 80076868 631D 8007686A 631E 8007686C 631F 8007686E 6320 ____________________________________________________________________________ G.F. Acquisition & Change Shiva (Main Character) 800760FC FFFF 800760FE FFFF 80076100 FFFF 80076102 FFFF 80076104 FFFF 80076106 FFFF 80076108 FFFF 8007610A 00FF 80076140 FFFF 80076142 FFFF 80076144 FFFF 80076146 FFFF 80076148 FFFF 8007614A FFFF 8007614C FFFF 8007614E 00FF ____________________________________________________________________________ All Acquisition 800760F8 0100 8007613C 0100 80076180 0100 800761C4 0100 80076208 0100 8007624C 0100 80076290 0100 800762D4 0100 80076318 0100 8007635C 0100 800763A0 0100 800763E4 0100 80076428 0100 8007646C 0100 800764B0 0100 800764F4 0100 ____________________________________________________________________________ Pocket Muumuu Unlock 8001F7B4 576D 8001F7B6 106F Acquisition LV100 After 1 Battle 80022752 34A2 ____________________________________________________________________________ In-Battle Code ____________________________________________________________________________ After One Battle, GF Max D002276C 000C 8002276E AE30 After One Battle, Memorize All Enemy Skill 800229A0 0001 When Make Magic, Magic Stone Will Not Reduced D01E6986 0066 801E6986 0060 Fast Store Energy to Attack 800775C4 2EE0 80077794 2EE0 80077964 2EE0 Infinite HP 800775B2 270F 80077782 270F 80077952 270F 1st Character (Down+L2 to Use Special Attack) D0081B0E 8001 80077460 0400 2nd Character (Down+R2 to Use Special AttacK) D0081B0E 8002 80077630 0400 3rd Character (Down+L1 to Use Special Attack) D0081B0E 8004 80077800 0400 1st Character (Up+L2 to Use Acquisition Attack) D0081B0E 1001 80077454 0000 2nd Character (Up+R2 to Use Acquisition Attack) D0081B0E 1002 80077624 0000 3rd Character (Up+L1 to Use Acquisition Attack) D0081B0E 1004 800777F4 0000 ____________________________________________________________________________ Caetla Only Codes ____________________________________________________________________________ Main Character (All Magic) B0310002 00000001 80076538 6301 Second Character (All Magic) B0310002 00000001 80076700 6311 Third Character (All Magic) B0310002 00000001 800768C8 6321 Fourth Character (All Magic) B0310002 00000001 80076A90 6331 Fifth Character (All Magic) B0200002 00000001 80076798 6301 Sixth Character (All Magic) B0200002 00000001 80076830 6301 All GF Card And Player B04B0002 00000000 80077378 E4E4 300773C4 00E4 B01F0002 00000000 800773C6 F0F0 300773C5 00F0 800773E6 FFFF 800773E8 FFFF 300773EA 00FF ____________________________________________________________________________ Guardian Force Codes ____________________________________________________________________________ GF 1 ____________________________________________________________________________ Max HP 80077A58 270F 80077A5A 270F Max exp 80077A5C 967F 80077A5E 0098 Level 99 30077A60 0063 ____________________________________________________________________________ GF 2 ____________________________________________________________________________ Max HP 80077A64 270F 80077A66 270F Max exp 80077A68 967F 80077A6A 0098 Level 99 30077A6C 0063 ____________________________________________________________________________ GF 3 ____________________________________________________________________________ Max HP 80077A70 270F 80077A72 270F Max exp 80077A74 967F 80077A76 0098 Level 99 30077A78 0063 ____________________________________________________________________________ GF 4 ____________________________________________________________________________ Max HP 80077A7C 270F 80077A7E 270F Max exp 80077A80 967F 80077A82 0098 Level 99 30077A84 0063 ____________________________________________________________________________ GF 5 ____________________________________________________________________________ Max HP 80077A88 270F 80077A8A 270F Max exp 80077A8C 967F 80077A8E 0098 Level 99 30077A90 0063 ____________________________________________________________________________ GF 6 ____________________________________________________________________________ Max HP 80077A94 270F 80077A96 270F Max exp 80077A98 967F 80077A9A 0098 Level 99 30077A9C 0063 ____________________________________________________________________________ GF 7 ____________________________________________________________________________ Max HP 80077AA0 270F 80077AA2 270F Max exp 80077AA4 967F 80077AA6 0098 Level 99 30077AA8 0063 ____________________________________________________________________________ GF 8 ____________________________________________________________________________ Max HP 80077AAC 270F 80077AAE 270F Max exp 80077AB0 967F 80077AB2 0098 Level 99 30077AB4 0063 ____________________________________________________________________________ GF 9 ____________________________________________________________________________ Max HP 80077AB8 270F 80077ABA 270F Max exp 80077ABC 967F 80077ABE 0098 Level 99 30077AC0 0063 ____________________________________________________________________________ GF 10 ____________________________________________________________________________ Max HP 80077AC4 270F 80077AC6 270F Max exp 80077AC8 967F 80077ACA 0098 Level 99 30077ACC 0063 ____________________________________________________________________________ GF 11 ____________________________________________________________________________ Max HP 80077AD0 270F 80077AD2 270F Max exp 80077AD4 967F 80077AD6 0098 Level 99 30077AD8 0063 ____________________________________________________________________________ GF 12 ____________________________________________________________________________ Max HP 80077ADC 270F 80077ADE 270F Max exp 80077AE0 967F 80077AE2 0098 Level 99 30077AE4 0063 ____________________________________________________________________________ GF 13 ____________________________________________________________________________ Max HP 80077AE8 270F 80077AEA 270F Max exp 80077AEC 967F 80077AEE 0098 Level 99 30077AF0 0063 ____________________________________________________________________________ GF 14 ____________________________________________________________________________ Max HP 80077AF4 270F 80077AF6 270F Max exp 80077AF8 967F 80077AFA 0098 Level 99 30077AFC 0063 ____________________________________________________________________________ GF 15 ____________________________________________________________________________ Max HP 80077B00 270F 80077B02 270F Max exp 80077B04 967F 80077B06 0098 Level 99 30077B08 0063 ____________________________________________________________________________ GF 16 ____________________________________________________________________________ Max HP 80077B0C 270F 80077B0E 270F Max exp 80077B10 967F 80077B12 0098 Level 99 30077B14 0063 ____________________________________________________________________________ Enable GF Codes ____________________________________________________________________________ GF1 800760F8 0100 GF2 8007613C 0100 GF3 80076180 0100 GF4 800761C4 0100 GF5 80076208 0100 GF6 8007624C 0100 GF7 80076290 0100 GF8 800762D4 0100 GF9 80076318 0100 GF10 8007635C 0100 GF11 800763A0 0100 GF12 800763E4 0100 GF13 80076428 0100 GF14 8007646C 0100 GF15 800764B0 0100 GF16 800764F4 0100 ____________________________________________________________________________ No Random Battle 80077B18 000C ____________________________________________________________________________ Note:The mod chip gameshark code is only used for gameshark ver 2.3 or higher.It is only for PS owners who have the mod chip in their PS and wants to play FF8.No responsible will be made to any damage caused for your PlayStation. Note:All the above cheats only work for the Japanese Final Fantasy 8. ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ Eyes On Me ____________________________________________________________________________ Eyes on me Whenever sang my songs On the stage, on my own Whenever said my words Wishing they would be heard I saw you smiling at me Was it real or just my fantasy You'd always be there in the corner Of this tiny little bar My last night here for you Same old songs,just once more My last night here with you? Maybe yes,maybe no I kind of liked it your way How you shyly placed your eyes on me Oh, did you ever know? That I had mine on you *Darling, so there you are With that look on your face As if you're never hurt As if you're never down Shall I be the one for you Who pinches you softly but sure If frown is shown then I will know that you're no dreamer So let me come to you Close as I wanted be Close enough for me To feel your heart beating fast And stay there as I whisper How I loved your peaceful eyes on me Did you ever know That I had mine on you Darling, so share with me Your love if you have enough Your tears if you're holding back Or pain if that's what it is How can I let you know I'm more than the dress and the voice Just reach me out then You will know that you're no dreamer *Repeat Credit:Thanks to Heero Yuy for allowing me to publish the lyrics above. I ask for his permission because i really like the song very much. Wow,Faye Wong's voice is so sweet.I hope more people will like the song. ____________________________________________________________________________ Liberi Fatali ____________________________________________________________________________ Here is the English translation taken from extreme at http://www.ff8.org/extreme35.html Liberi Fatali Fithos lusec wecos vinosec Excitate vos e somno, liberi mei Cunae sunt non. Excitate vos e somno, liberi fatali Somnus(*a) est non. Surgite! Invenite! Veni hortus veritatis, Ardente veritate Urite mala mundi. Ardente veritate Incendite tenebras mundi. Valete, liberi, Diebus fatalibus. Translation Wake from your sleep, my children, The childhood years (cradles) are gone. Wake from your sleep, fated children, The peace(rest) is gone. Rise! Search! Go to the true garden, The garden of vernal truth. Fiery truth Burn the evil world. Fiery truth Light the dark world. Goodbye, children, The day has died. ____________________________________________________________________________ Frequently Asked Question If you have any question that you would like to ask me,please read below. You may find your answer to your problem here.More questions will be updated each update. 1)What is an anti-mod PS chip protection? Square and Sony has come out with the anti-mod PS chip protection, that even the newest mod-chips on the market. The game is made such automatically look for a mod chip, and, if one is found, to shut down. A mod chip breaks the country code and allows you to play games from both countries,Japan and US.However,Square has introduced this new technology that even a mod chip is unable to play FF8. 2)Why is there an anti-mod PS chip protection? It is believed that Square and Sony wants to prevent other countries in Europe,America etc to play FF8,until the English version is released. 3)How do i overcome an anti-mod PS chip protection? The only solution for a mod chip PS to play FF8 is to have a gameshark. Please refer to the gameshark section above.However,little is known about other devices like Pro Action Replay is able to overcome this problem. However,i do really feel sorry for Sony and SquareSoft.They spent millions of dollars in researching to come out with an anti-mod chip technology,yet to their dismay,their technology is easily beaten,just because of a gameshark. 4)How many discs does FF8 has? Four discs. 5)What is the technological advancement FF8 has over FF7? FF7 runs in 15 frames per second but FF8 runs in 30 frames per second. 6)Who is Faye Wong? This is a silly question.She's the most popular singing in Hong Kong and is agruably the best Asia Singer.If you don't know her,then you are... 7)What song did Faye Wong sing? Faye Wong sang one of the theme of FF8 entitled "Eyes on me".Square paid a very large sum of money to her.Information has it that FF8 soundtrack , together with Faye Wong's "Eyes on me" will be released together with the game.And everyone will be queuing up and waiting to buy FF8's soundtrack. 8)What is the PocketStation? The Pocketstation is a memory card with a screen, control pad, 2 buttons, and battery powered. It allows you to save your game, as well as play mini games (outside of PS). There is apparently a chocobo game and a card game (among inside of FF8 which employ the use of the PocketStation. They are supposedly linkable to other Pocketstations,allowing you to duel chocobos/play cards, etc,sort of like Bandai's DigiMon style.FF8 is said to be one of the very first game in Japan that is compatible with the PocketStation.The Chocobo mini game for the Pocketstation is called "Odetake Chocobo" or Go Chocobo.Some called it chocobo RPG.Anyway,this is a very good business tactics,killing two bird with one stone,which means all PlayStation owners with Final Fantasy 8 will have to buy the PocketStation to enjoy the whole game.Is this a good or bad news? 9)When is FFIX being released? It is thought that FFIX is a direct sequel to FFVIII and will be released late in 1999 in Japan.However,little information is known about FFIX, except it is believed that FFIX will be another story that talks more about Laguna. 10)Is Final Fantasy VIII a continuation of FFVII? No,but FF8's storyline will be sort of something similar to 7, except with some themes on love.However,Final Fantasy 8 has some similarities to Final Fantasy 7,that is both stories are placed on an furturistic era. This time,the whole story about witches.Final Fantasy IX will be a continuation to Final Fantasy VIII,featuring Laguna. 11)When is Final Fantasy VIII released in the US?And what about FFIX? Meanwhile,a release date on 9-9-99 is set and coincides with the release of FFIX in Japan but it may not be confirmed yet as changes might be made to the game anytime.And it's unlikly as far as i think FFIX will be release late this year in Japan since not a single information has been released.I expect FFIX to have similar gameplay like the Draw,G.F in FFVIII.The problem is how much better FFIX will be over FFVIII since both games are a continuation and expected to have similar gameplay.Anyway, let's enjoy FFVIII first. 12)Is Edea the final boss?I heard you can use her in the party. No,she is not the final boss.Indeed,you can use her in the party in disc 3.I won't reveal anything.You wait and see. 13)What is PocketStation? It is the latest Sony's own portable console to rival Nintendo's gameboy. It's a handheld.Sorry,i don't know much about PocketStation.It's known as PDA for short. 14)Is there a way to make Seifer into your party again after the Dollet? Sorry,no yet. 15)When is PC version of FFVIII released? It's thought that the PC version will be released later this year in December,after two to three months of PS release in September.However, the sehedule is unconfirmed and is very unlikly for the PC version to appear late this year.Firstly,Square hasn't announced anythinhg about PC version,and it looks like you have to wait after the PS English version is released.Secondly,the 2000 Bug is coming soon.I think you know about that.It's unsure if the computers will be able to function after 2000. Square will have to wait and see as if the 2000 Bug remains unsolved, then nobody will be able to buy any PC game.But i expect that people will be able to overcome this bug.And if nothing goes wrong,i expect FFVIII for the PC version to be somewhere early next year in March. 16)How do i tune up weapon? Please refer to the advanced tutorial. 17)Is there a way to overcome the mod chip protection besides the gameshark. Yes.There's a way but should be discouraged.Besides using the gameshark, you can only use pirated copies.Why?If i am wrong,they changed some of the data.Instead of the back of the disc to be black,they changed it to white.Also,the intro screen that asks you to change disc has also been changed.When changing of discs,the mod chip sign still appears,but before that,you will get a save first.Therefore,all you need is to save first, and when the sign appears,restart the next disc.Still,pirated games are illegal and should be discouraged.In Asia,this mod chip protection has already been overcame. 18)I heard there is a bug in FF8.Is it true? Yes.In disc 3,if you don't get Odin within the given time,the disc will freeze.However,this is not a crucial bug since you can collect the Odin at disc 2,or just make a save before entering.Also,there are some rumors that the game will also get jammed if you enter Shumi Tribe in disc 2. 19)I saw a demo version in the internet of FF8(Ball Dance) for the PS2. Is Square going to re-developed Final Fantasy 8 for PS2? Well,that's a very tough question.At this press release,no word of information is that Square will be developing FF8 or FF9 for the PS2. However,there's still a possiblities as you should know that the PS2 will be a backwardly-compatible,which means that not only does it allowed you to play PS2 games,it will also allow you to play PS games.Maybe,you can play FF8 on the PS,as well as PS2.However,informations has it that the PS2 does have 'territory code',which means that the Japanese PS2 will only let you play only the Japanese games of the PS and PS2 games,not the US version.The same is likely to be for the US machine.It's likely that the PS2 will also have a mod system that allows you to play both Japanese and US games of both the PS and PS2,however,you won't see the mod system that fast,at least after 2002. 20)Is the backwardly compatible true?Will all PS games be enhanced in PS2? No.To maintain the ultimate gameplay set by the PS,Sony decided not to make any changes to the PS games when they are being played over in the PS2,so as to maintain loyal to the system.However,this is uncertain as i think there may be some 'optional' for some games.It's thought that if FF8 s being ported over to PS2,the characters can actually have a very realistic facial expressions like what you saw in the FMVs.Sorry,i don't know much. 21)When is PS2 going to be released? According to some reliable sources,PS2 will be released at the end of this year in Japan,however,in my opinion,it is unlikely,as there are many important factors that will determined the release of PS2.The first factor is to be able to produce large quantities of systems to meet the demands in the Japanese market.Secondly,a new system will not be able to sell well unless it has some killer launch like N64 has Mario64,Dreamcast has Sonic Adventure.Surely enough,Sony has to come up with a new wave of killer launch.The only advantage is that if PS2 is backwardly compatible, it will have already got all the top-quality games from the PS like FF8, Metal Gear,so that at the time,Sony will not face a software shortage. Other factors that affect the release date are the cost,timing,marketing etc.I guess the most immediate thing that Sony should look at is whether PS2 should have a modem-capablities to rival Dreamcast or to be a DVD- based.Anyway,the process is long and tedious.Don't worry about these. 22)I heard about the Final Fantasies Collection.Is it true? Indeed,all the classic Final Fantasies games like Final Fantasy VI will be part of the collection.It is scheduled to be release in Japan,however, the date of release is still unconfirmed yet.There is no word on the release of the collection on the US yet.However,all these classics collection will have FMVs addition that cannot be done on the SNES,which is one of the reasons why we should replay the games again.I heard the graphics will be slighly enhanced on this remake,as well the sound and music.I saw some FMVs screenshots of FF6.Imagine Terra(FF6)on the FMVs. That will be hot.The CG looks very good and may blow away FF8's CG.Come on,these games are classic.Final Fantasy 6 still looks very cool even though it has been over four years.Besides,Final Fantasy 6 has been regarded by most gamers as the best RPG ever,better than Final Fantasy 7 and Final Fantasy 8.I can't wait to play this new remake.If you have not played the previous 16-bit classic Final Fantasies,you should not wait anymore and grab your only chance now! 23)Someone told me about Seifer's R1 gunblade that worked like Squall.Is it true? Yes it is,but timing is a little bit faster,and more difficult. 24)I have problem finding Grasharaboras.Can you help me? Refer to the G.F lit and strategy. 25)Is Square going to make a new classic game like secret of mana,secret of evermore,and Chrono Trigger.Those are some of the great Square RPG titles during the days of SNES.If Square will do something about it,these new sequel will end up just as great as Final Fantasy 7 and Final Fantasy 8. I do agree with you.I really miss the old days of SNES.No other console can ever come as close as the SNES.Nes have Final Fantasies 1 to 3.SNES have Final Fantasies 4 to 6.Final Fantasies 5 and 6 are even more cooler. And here comes along some of the non-Final Fantasies mega-hit titles by Square like Chrono Trigger,Secret of mana and evermore.Chrono Trigger's team up technique and new realtime combat sent amazement to all gamers what this SNES can do,agruably the second best RPG,below Final Fantasy 6 for the SNES.Secret of mana and evermore,expanded the gameplay of an action-RPG and introduces several new element like able to increase lv, magics,train your weapons etc,which makes it even far more better than Zelda:A link to the Past.I didn't say Zelda:A link to the Past is no better than mana or evermore,but in fact,both three games have it own unique gameplay,which makes it a must-have classic games.A new Secret of mana is believed to be in the works and is likely to be one of the launch titles for the PS2.No official announcement has been made on a new update of evermore.Another game,which most people have been eagerly waiting for is Chrono Trigger 2.I wonder how the team-up technqiues of Chrono Trigger will be like in 3-D rendered polygons battle.A sad new is that i heard some rumors that Square is planning to choose between Parasite Eve 2 and Chrono Trigger 2.I hope this is not true.The only good thing about PE is its awesome CG,and a few Lv up,tune up features.How can these be compared to the so-called second best RPG,Chrono Trigger in the SNES?Okay,it makes some sense that Parasite Eve is going to be a "more easy" game to make than Chrono trigger in terms of the resources and manpower.The drawback for Chrono is that if Square wants to display high-tech 3-D graphics,as well as continuing the team-up technqiue,the system will have to need a lot of ram memory,most likely is possible for the PS2.All these info are just rumors and are still unconfirmed yet at the moment. ____________________________________________________________________________ Acknowledgement Myself, -For the typing,and almost everything here. Heero Yuy -For discussing special art with me. -For "Eye On Me" lyrics. -For providing me with valuable tips,if not i would not have gotten all the G.f,LionHeart as well as beaten Omega Weapon. -For telling me about Island of Heavens and Hell. -For advice on how to beat Ultimate,as well as Omega Weapon. -Tell me to junction Berserk before fighting with Molbors. Stevenbruck for G.F. -For informations on G.F like Eden,Grasharaboras,plus lots. -Valuable Informations from his Guardian Force FAQ. -For giving me some strategies,as well as advice. Darryll Lim -Info about Selphie's special arts. -Corrected my misconception of Selphie's special arts. Jimmy Khoo -Telling me about the turbo controller for ouen. Seong Whang -For realising Seifer's R1 gunblade. . -For his valuable junction FAQ. Scott Ong -For the elemental and status list. -Great FAq guide,plus giving me some valuable cheats. Kaze Yagami . -Type and done most of the update for version 6.0. -Taken informations from Ultimania,a japanese guide. -For informations on special arts. -For the chart list of warship island. -Telling me a lot of valuable informations. -For most of the translation names. -Listing down spelling mistakes in the previous FAQ. -Providing me with PocketStation G.F. GameShark Code Creator -For the list of gameshark code. FFExtreme -For the lyrics of Liberi Fatali Everyone -For reading this FAQ,as well as giving me some feedback and suggestions. ____________________________________________________________________________ Feedback Did I missed out any points,errors,magicings mistake or wrong info? Or is there anything you feel that you should add? Feel free to contact me through ysf@pacifc.net.sg or ICQ:25076522 Any corrections are welcomed. ___________________________________________________________________________ About The Author Mail me at ysf@pacific.net.sg Visit me at ICQ:25076522 Feel Free to give me your comment Visit my site http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Portal/7933/ The site for only Final Fantasy 7 and Dragonball My site also has some cool FF8 info,rumors and screenshots.Pls visit it. All comment and contributions is welcomed. Credits will be given for any info or contribution. Visit my Brave Fencer Musashiden at GameFAQ,the ultimate FAQ for this latest thrillingly action-RPG masterpiece from the best RPG developer that is Square,of course.Also,read my Final Fantasy 8 Demo Tutorial.It includes a comparison of FFVIII demo with FFVII. About Kaze Yagami kaze Yagami is a migrant from japan who have come to live in Singapore. Singapore is where i live.He has a vast knowledge of japanese and has been helping me with most of the translation.He owns a PocketStation,which i don't have.If you have questions to ask about PocketStation,feel free to ask him at yagami@pacific.net.sg.His ICQ is 2000670. You can find Kaze's upon mail request. If you have other questions about RPGs,feel free to mail him. Meanwhile,i am now busy with my studies.There's a chance that i may or may not reply your mail.Sorry for that.You may wish to ask him anything about FF8. or any other games if he knows. ___________________________________________________________________________ Copyright Copyright Protected 1998.All right reserved.This FAQs is written by the Yee Seng Fu(Yu Shenfu).Thank you for your cooperation.No part of this could be reproduced without the prior writer's permission.This Faq is allowed for individual use but not for commercial use or publishing.No part of this FAQ can be re-edited without the writer's permission.Any enquires or additional info about the game may contact the author through email ysf@pacific.net.sg or ICQ:25076522 Visit http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Portal/7933/ Dragonball and Final Fantasy 7.No part of this FAq is allowed to be borrow for another Faq writing or publication for other magazines without the writer's permission.Any link to this FAqs in a site must seek the Author's permission first.This FAQ is original and based on the author's own experiences and strategies.Any ideas and strategies are welcomed to submit. All right reserved.Square Soft is a registered trademark of Square Co.ltd Final Fantasy and Square Soft are registered trademarks of Square Co.,Ltd Licensed by Sony Computer Entertainment.PlayStation and PlayStation Logo are registered trademarks of Sony Computer entertainment Inc. Check out:http://www.squaresoft.com and http://www.videogames.com ____________________________________________________________________________