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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 7.5 Please check for the latest update everytime at www.gameFAQ.com. 5th July'99 ________________________________________________________________________ Note:This FAQ is best viewed using wordpad,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.So,enjoy reading. ________________________________________________________________________ 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.If you want a decent walkthrough,i suggest you refer to Heero Yuy or Scott Ong's FAq.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 Fantasies.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very experienced in FF, you might need some help on the Japanese translation.Though the complicated materia system has been replaced by the Draw system,it does not sound as easy as you think,in fact there are much more complex options available. ________________________________________________________________________ This Faq is best viewed using wordpad and with text wrapped to ruler. ________________________________________________________________________ After recieving several e-mails,Kaze Yagami and I have decided to use Steel Breaker as the attack for Odin,instead of Iron Cutting Sword. ________________________________________________________________________ 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. Version 7.0 -Added information on Omega Weapon,plus STRATEGIES. -Added ways to get LionHeart,Squall's Ultimate Weapon. -Added new secrets like infinite Phoenix Summon,Gisal Greens,Junction Bug cheat,list of timber magazines,finding Ragnarok in disc 4,UFO sighting,Max Gil cheat,and fragments of the pot. -Added ways of getting crusade drink and hero drink. -Added more informations on Zell's special arts and so on. -Added in more diagrams on the basic tutorial guide.Design a table form layout for elemental,status list,abilities,thus making reading more easier. -Added new information on Gilgamesh's attack in the G.F strategy. -Added new information on tutorial in the main menu. -Shifted test answer to the additional guide. -Added more gameshark codes. -Added more informations on Ragnarok Specifications. -Added Balamb Train Specifications. -Added more general tips. -Added a list of positive status change-by Kaze Yagami -Added some informations on Special Arts section. -Added configurations on chocobos,Balamb Garden. -Added new informations,plus diagrams to enhance basic tutorial section. -Redo the G.F and Omega strategy section.(About 70% reedited). -Re-organise my FAQ and present it in a more friendly-user manner.Change the fonts of my entire document and wrapped it to ruler,instead of window,so there should be no more complaints about viewing. Version 7.5 -Reedited the strategy section. -Enhanced Tutorial. -Added informations on the fake water stone. -Added more informations,and a few descriptions on the special arts. [The descriptions are not spoilers!!!] Next Update I finally have some time to update some secrets.Take a look.Also,look at my newly-designed presentation.That should make reading more easier. Comments are welcomed. ________________________________________________________________________ Version 7.5 has updated strategies and several changes has been made and corrected.And special thanks to Kaze Yagami,who all this while has been helping me,providing me with the informations and doing all the translation.Without him,this Faq would still be a mess.I have already changed the fonts and wrapped the entire text by ruler measurement.There shouldn't be no more displaying of text problem. ________________________________________________________________________ ======================================================================== TABLE OF CONTENT ======================================================================== 1)Introduction 2)Character i)Squall's Party ii)Laguna's Party iii)Other Character 3)Basic Tutorial Guide i)Miscellanous Information ii)Main Button Configuration iii)Vehicle Configuration iv)Chocobo Configuration v)Balamb Garden Configuration vi)Ragnarok Configuration 4)Main Menu Presentation i)Junction ii)Item iii)Magic iv)Status v)G.F vi)Ability vii)Switch viii)Card ix)Configuration x)Tutorial xi)Save 5)Battle Combat i)Active Time Battle ii)Encounter iii)Guardian Force iv)Draw and Magic Command v)Battle Help Tip vi)Secret R1 Gunblade Button 6)Advanced Tutorial Guide i)Special Art ii)Weapon Upgrading iii)List of G.F iv)G.F Strategy 7)General Tips i)Field ii)World Map iii)Item iv)Magic v)Draw vi)Battle vii)Junction viii)Guardian Force vix)Card vx)Other 8)Additional Guide i)Balamb Garden(Map) ii)Test Answer iii)Chart of Underground WarShip Island iv)Getting LionHeart v)Toughest Boss:Omega Weapon vi)Way to make Hero/Crusade Drink 9)Secret i)Easy AP ii)Soft Reset iii)Easy Special Art iv)Easy Gil v)250 Ouen vi)Gilgamesh vii)Island Closest to Hell/Heaven viii)Finding Omega Weapon ix)Infinite Phoenix Summon x)Infinite Gisal Green xi)Max Gil xii)Junction Bug-Both magic together xiii)Auto-Pilot Ragnarok xiv)Timber Magazine xv)Finding Ragnarok In Disc 4 xvi)UFO Sighting xvii)Fragments Of the Pot xviii)GameShark Code 10)Song Lyrics i)Eyes On Me(Lyrics) ii)Liberi Fatali(Lyrics + Translation) 11)Frequently Asked Question -Acknowledgement -Feedback -About the Author -CopyRight Protected ======================================================================== 1)INTRODUCTION:FINAL FANTASY VIII ======================================================================== 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 Play- Station,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 Jobs.), 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?And what about sequels to Brave Fencer Musashi and Xenogears?Hope Square will continue producing top-quality games. ======================================================================== 2)CHARACTER:Friend or Foe? ======================================================================== These are the list of the characters that you will encounter during your adventure,plus a general informations about them. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2.I)Squall's 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 very 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 some instructors,also her colleague who thinks that she lacks 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 by other guys,out of jealousy.But the truth is,this is just his way of overcoming 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... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2.II)Laguna 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2.III)Other Character ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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(Astral Punch) 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 Height :??? Blood Type :??? Birth :??? Weapon :??? 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 Height :??? Blood Type :??? Birth :??? Weapon :??? Description:A beautiful silvery-haired girl who is an unbelievable fanatic follower of Seifer.Quiet person.Perhaps she have been secretly in love with Seifer...?Who knows? Name :Cid Kramer Age :40 Sex :Male Height :??? Blood Type :??? Birth :??? 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 Loire Age :??? Sex :Female Height :??? Blood Type :??? Birth :??? Weapon :None 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 Age :??? Sex :Female Height :??? Blood Type :??? Birth :??? Weapon :None 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 Blood Type :???What type of blood type do dogs have? Weapon :None Favourite :White Chocolate, Sushi, Apple, Yogurt, Peanut Butter Dislike :Dog Food, Spicy Food Description:Rinoa's pet dog.being very protective towards her master. Name :Chocobo Age :??? Sex :??? Height :??? Blood Type :???Do chocobos like dogs have blood type? Birth :??? Weapon :None Favourite :Green Dislike :Fighting Description:You should know what a chocobo is... ======================================================================== ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3)BASIC TUTORIAL GUIDE:FINAL FANTASY VIII ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ======================================================================== Welcome to the basic tutorial section.You will find many valuable tips and hints that you are going to need to master Final Fantasy VIII.Enjoy Reading! ======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3.I)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. Note:Saving your game on different memory locations will show different icons in your PlayStation memory card menu. ~~~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 has 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 save points 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.There are only three ways to collect magics,draw from enemies,use G.F abilities to make magics and the last one is of course, collect from draw points.Now,i shall explain what draw point means.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 to another place.Some Draw Points recover faster,whereas some are more slower.On the other hand,there are some draw points that never seems to recover. 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 and how much you get each time depends on your SeeD ranking.The higher the ranking,you get a higher 'salary'.You can also earn your ranks through special events, such as performing well in a mission etc.Taking tests are a quick way to raise your SeeD levels,but note that if you degraded your performance,your SeeD ranking can also drop.Under certain important events,depending on what you do,it can also adjusts your SeeD ranking up or down. ~~~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. Note:Unlike FF7,if your character is not inside the main party,he or she will not be able to earn any experiences. ~~~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,it 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. ~~~Balamb Train Specifications Exclusive Information!!!~~~ ---------------------------------------------------------- Trains are used to move from city to city.It is a gray train with curvaceousness.You can see railways in Balamb and Galbadia Continent One of the trains is double-decked while another one looks very old shaped like a steam locomotive.There is even a special train for SeeD cadet's exclusive use. DATA ----- Name :TEMPEST(TTS-II with turbo shaft engine) Length :144 metres(Estimated the length of 6 cars) Width :4.3 metres Height :6.1 metres Maximum speed:260 kilometers per hour Weight :313 tonnes Capacity :360 passenger ~~~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 or using Squall's R1 add-on extra hit during normal attacks. ~~~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. A bad New! I heard that Sony might release PDA to the states.What does that mean? That means that there must be a possibity that the US version of Final Fantasy VIII might not have "Odekate Chocobo RPG",and that means that compare to the Japanese version,the US version will have one less mini-game.Will Square will do something to replace the PDA?Please pray for the release of PDA in the United States.We want "Odekate Chocobo RPG"! ~~~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. ~~~Parallel Level~~~ -------------------- In FF VIII, like Romancing SaGa and SaGa Frontier, all enemies and bosses rises in levels as your party's average level rises. Higher levels for enemies doesn't just affect their physical fighting abilities, but it also affects the magic you can draw from them, the items you can steal from them, the items they would drop after a battle etc. So, by using the Level Up/Down command from Master Tonberry carefully... Because of this Parallel Level system, it is possible to clear the game even at low levels,if you can effectively make use of your junctioning.In fact, it provides more challenging gameplay in a sense, if you go for low-level clearing. Dengeki PlayStation (a Japanese PlayStation magazine) shows this stats at the end of disc 3:Squall at level 7, Zell level 8, Irvine level 13, Quistis level 8, Rinoa level 11, Selphie level 8. It might look unbelievable, but anyone will be able to do it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3.II)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)Turn ON/OFF and changes the view of the world map. (Globe View,Flat Map,Enlarged Full Screen Map) 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)Lock your screen rotation in the world map. Menu Screen 3)Discard Magic. 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 and Seifer'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) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3.III)Vehicle Configuration ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cars are your basic vehicle in FFVIII and these are the configurations. Square :Moves your vehicle forward. X :Moves your vehicle backward. Circle :Get in/ Get Out of vehicle. R1 :Changes the camera view. Select :Turn ON/OFF and changes the view of the world map. (Globe View,Flat Map,Enlarged Full Screen Map) Note:Rented cars have limited fuel and fuels will run out after travelling for sometime,and your car will be unable to move once fuel is run out. Note:Cars are able to go through forests,deserts,but not rivers or seas. Going through uneven terrain like forests,deserts will cause your car to go more slower than when on usual flat land. Note:You won't encounter any enemies while in a car. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3.IV)Chocobo Configuration ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Finally,our main star is back.In FFVIII,you can also ride on this tiny yellow bird. L-Analog:Moves the chocobo. R-Analog:No uses. D-pad :Moves the chocobo. Circle :Unboard the Chocobo. R1 :Changes the camera view. Select :Turn ON/OFF and changes the view of the world map. (Globe View,Flat Map,Enlarged Full Screen Map) Note:Unlike special chocobos in FFVII,there is no chocobo breeding in FFVIII,and the chocobos you catch on the chocobo forest only allows you to run on land and cross shallow waters.There's no gold chocobos so don't expect a chocobo that can climb hill,cross oceans. Note:Everytime,you ride on the mother chocobo,a small chocobo will be there behind you. Note:Once you unboard your chocobo,your chocobo will run away. Note:You won't encounter any enemies while riding a chocobo. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3.V)Balamb Garden Configuration ------------------------------------------------------------------------ It looks really strange that the whole Balamb Garden could fly,but... never mind.Here's the configuration. L-Analog:Turn the direction(in full 360 degrees). R-Analog:Moves forward/backward on land/sea. Square :Moves forward on land/sea. X :Moves backward on land/sea. Circle :Board/Unboard on land/shore only. Triangle:Go inside Balamb Garden.Talking to the driver in the control room and select the first option to reorganize your party. R1 :Changes camera view. Select :Turn ON/OFF and changes the view of the world map. (Globe View,Flat Map,Enlarged Full Screen Map) Note:As Balamb Garden has very poor mobility,it is impossible to cross high terrains like cliffs,hills.Neither can it cross the oceans, except on shallow water. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3.VI)Ragnarok Configuration ------------------------------------------------------------------------ L-Analog :Raise/Descend(Altitude). R-Analog :Move foward/backward. 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. Auto-Pilot :When you are flying a Ragnarok,press select to go to the full view of the world map,then select any destination,for example,point the cursor over to Galbadia,you will see two options available.Choose the first option by pressing circle and Ragnarok will travel automatically without any manual control. Note:Auto-Pilot only work to areas that are labelled in the world map. Examples of area that does not work are WarShip Island,Centra Ruin ,Cave of Fire,Timber Lake and all Chocobo Forests etc. Note:Ragnarok will stop when it reach the desired destination. Tips:To regain control of Ragnarok,press X. ~~~Ragnarok Specifications Exclusive Information!!!~~~ ------------------------------------------------------ ~Super High Mobility Flying Ship "RAGNAROK"~ Made of red body,with the word 'ESTHAR' visible on the body,Ragnarok was made more than twenty years ago.Highly regarded as one of the strongest flying ships.It was reportedly made secretly in an unknown country. There are at least 2 or more such flying ships of the same kind,with different markings. DATA ---- Highest Output:3450t Lowest Output:2850t Total Length:108m Total Height:54m(Landing) 65m(Cruising) Total Weight:2,850 ton(Without propellant,charge and occupants) 3,134 ton(With 1/3 propellant,full charge and occupants) 3,450 ton(With full propellant,full charge and occupants) Total Wingspan:77m 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 Occupant :4 crews(navigator,wireless operator,cannoneer,and a cox) =>Able to carry more than 10 occupants. Top Speed :11.8km/s,708km/min,42480km/h =>Second cosmic velocity;can launch a rocket into space. ======================================================================== 4)MAIN MENU PRESENTATION:FINAL FANTASY VIII ======================================================================== These options are arranged according to the main menu. ______________________________________________________________________ |Junction: |Allows you to junction G.Fs.,magics,commands,and | | |abilities. | |_____________|________________________________________________________| |Magic |Allows you to view your stocked magics,arranged magics | | |for your characters. | |_____________|________________________________________________________| |Item |Allows you to view,use,arrange items. | |_____________|________________________________________________________| |Status |Allows you to view your characters' statistics,Special | | |arts,affection rating etc. | |_____________|________________________________________________________| |G.F. |Allows you to view your G.F statistics,choose and learn | | |new abilities,affection rating etc. | |_____________|________________________________________________________| |Ability |Allows you to use G.F menu abilities like make magics, | | |change card etc. | |_____________|________________________________________________________| |Switch |Allows you to change your party members. | |_____________|________________________________________________________| |Card |Allows you to view the statistics of your card library. | |_____________|________________________________________________________| |Configuration|Allows you to adjust the game setting. | |_____________|________________________________________________________| |Tutorial |Allows you to sit for tests and has a very precise guide| | |that talks about the basic rules of FFVIII. | |_____________|________________________________________________________| |Save |Allows you to save your game. | |_____________|________________________________________________________| Once noticeably look of FF8 is the overall presentation 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 undergone 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 | | Squall LV 100 HP:9999 / 9999 | | | |----------------------------------------------| | G.F. | |STATUS | | | | Rinoa LV 100 HP:9999 / 9999 | | Ability | |----------------------------------------------| | | | Irvine Quistis | | Switch | | LV 43 HP1863 LV 45 HP 1941 | | | | | | Card | | | | | | Selphie | | Configuration| | LV 48 HP1954 | | | | | | Tutorial | | | | | | | | Save | |______________________________________________| |______________| ______________ _________________________________________________ |PLay71:12 | | ||S.LV. 23 | | Island Closest to Hell || 303107 G | |_________________________________________________||______________| You have seen the main menu.So,what do you think?Is it more easier or complex than the other Final Fantasies?Now,you can arrange your equipments,without using the switch menu,even if the other three members are not in the main party.Confused??? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4.I)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 Dexterity 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. | |________________|_____________________________________________________| |Dexterity |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.Affect the chances of | | |enemies dropping an item,as well as the chances of | | |stealing an item. | |________________|_____________________________________________________| |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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4.I.I)Junction Menu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. Here is what you will see when you are selecting G.Fs. ______________________________ |G.F Page 1 |G.F Page 2 | Here's the layout of the G.Fs.Press |______________|_______________| Circle to select the G.Fs and X to |Queztalcoatl |Brothers | return.If the character has been |Shiva |Diablo | equipped,you will see a symbol next |Ifrit |Carbunkle | to the name of the G.F,indicating |Siren |Leviathan | that you cannot equip the G.F another |______________|_______________| time.Each G.F can only be equipped to |G.F Page 3 |G.F Page 4 | a single person only,not more than one. |______________|_______________| Make full use of the direction pad, |Pandamonium |Bahamut | left and right to switch pages.Once |Cerberos |Sabotender | a G.F is being equipped,you can now |Alexander |Master Tonberry| junction magics,equipped commands.For |Grasharboras |Eden | more informations,please read below. |______________|_______________| ~~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 Strength,Dexterity,and Evasion. Magic :Maximises Magic,Dexterity,and HP. HP :Maximises HP,Stamina,and Spirit. 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4.I.II)Junction Menu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ~~~Junctioning Status or Elemental ATK/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. ___________________________ |Value | |___________________________|______________________ | E ATK Earth |ELEMENTAL DEFENSE | |>E DEF Fire 3 | Fire *---50 % Poison --- 0 % | | E DEF Ice | Ice ---50 % Wind --- 0 % | | | Bolt --- 0 % Water --- 0 % | | | Earth --- 0 % Holy --- 0% | |_______________|__________________________________| ______________________________________________________________________ |Question|What if i want to view my elemental attack? | |________|_____________________________________________________________| |Answer |Click on the first option,E ATK.You will see the same screen,| | |except the title is now changed to elemental attack.The % | | |tells you the strength of E ATK/DEF. | |________|_____________________________________________________________| ______________________________________________________________________ |Note|By clicking on the second and third option,you will see the % | | |defense against a particular elemental attack.If a green star,as | | |indicated * appears,this means you have the reach the ability to | | |absorb the elemenatl attack,in this case,fire. | |____|_________________________________________________________________| ___________________________ |>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% | |_______________________________________________| Tips:Notice the small arrow beside the E/S ATK/DEF.By pressing the direction,you will go the screen.Two arrows mean two times. Tips: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. Tips:You can unjunction a slot by pressing the Square button. Note:How many slots yof E/S ATK/DEF have,depends on what type of G.F you equip,to be specific,your G.F ability.For example,if you equip a G.F with the ability,elemental defense Jx4 will give you four slots to junction any more magics to your elemental defense.The same rule applies to status ATK/DEF as well. For all elemental/status,pls read below. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4.I.III)Junction Menu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ~~~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. ______________________________________________________________________ |Name Of Abilities| Symbol | Description | |_________________|_________|__________________________________________| |Command | (!) |It allows the character to use special | | | |commands during battle.For example, | | | |"Recover", "Revive", etc.Each command | | | |ability requires one command ability slot.| |_________________|_________|__________________________________________| |Junction | (J) |It allows you to junction magics to the | | | |respective attributes.For example,"HPJ", | | | |"Str J", etc.Junction abilities do not | | | |require any ability slots. | |_________________|_________|__________________________________________| |Guardian Force | (G.F) |It enhances a G.F.s prower.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. | |_________________|_________|__________________________________________| |Character | (C) |It allows your character to use special | | | |commands such as Steal, or boast your | | | |characters statistics.For example, "Steal"| | | |, "HP+20%", "HP Bonus".Each character | | | |ability requires one Character/Party | | | |ability slot.Note that such abilites are | | | |cumalative,eg.If you junction HP+20% and | | | |HP+40% you will get the effect of HP+60%. | |_________________|_________|__________________________________________| |Menu | (M) |It appears with a "P" beside the ability | | | |name.It can allow you to perform various | | | |commands from the main menu,just below the| | | |G.F menu in the main menu.For example, | | | |"Create Fire Magic", "Call Junk Shop", | | | |"Card Change".Menu Abilities does not need| | | |any ability slots. | |_________________|_________|__________________________________________| |Party | (P) |It allows special conditions to work for | | | |the entire party.For example, "Find Hidden| | | |Spots", "Encounter Nothing".Each party | | | |ability requires one Character/Party | | | |ability slot. | |_________________|_________|__________________________________________| I will cover the junctioning of abilities below. Command Selection Attack |Magic By clicking the cursor on the right window,you > |Draw able to equip the commands over to the left window. > |G.F For your informations,all G.Fs will always have > |Item these four basic commands,magic,draw,item,and G.Fs > |Recover when you first get them. > | > | Table 1. Here's a brief description for the basic commands: Attack:Do physical attacks.This is a compulsory command. Magic :Allows you to use your stocked magics. Draw :Allows you to draw magics from enemies,draw points. G.Fs :Allows you to summon Guardian Force to battle. Item :Allows you to use items. Now,look at the character(C) ability.You may wonder what are the options below the commands.These are called character(C) ability 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 >HP+20% | be 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. Note:The number of character(C) abilities depend on your G.F.Most G.Fs can only offer two character(C) ability,while some has Ability x3 or Ability x4.For example,Bahamut has 4x ability. Hint:You can actually use Amnesia Grass,and then use 4x ability on your G.F. Tips:Use your creativity to make ability combos, such as Drain at ST Attack with Dark Attack, or Cover with Parry,for example,Zombie to ST Attack and Recover/Revive is a deadly combo,too. For more info,pls read battle,draw,G.Fs section etc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4.II.I)Item Menu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ______ ___________________________________________________________ | | |Notice Use Arrange Auto-Arrange Battle Arrangement ||Item | |___________________________________________________________||______| Use :Allows the using of items. Arrange :Arrange your item yourself. Auto-Arrange :Auto arrange of items by your CPU. Battle Arrangement:Allows you to arrange your item inventory of what it is going to appear during battle. If you click on auto-arrange,the items will be arranged as follows: (Medicine)-(G.F)-(Battle)-(Field)-(Bullet)-(Junk)-(Magazine) For more info on the various groups of items,pls read below. Here is what is going to be like if you click on Battle Arrangement. ______ ___________________________________________________________| | |Notice Use Arrange Auto-Arrange >Battle Arrangement |Item | |___________________________________________________________|______| |Help HP recover by 200 | |______________________________________________________________| ____________________ Show |ITEM P1 Num | the | Potion 61 | selected=>|>Hero's Drink 2 | item, | Elixir 10 | Eg item A ||<=Press Left or Right to view pages. |____________________| ____________________ |ITEM P1 Num | By clicking on Potion,Eg call it =>|>Potion 61 | item B.Item A will the switched | Hero's Drink 2 | position with item B.In this case, | Elixir 10 | hero's drink will switched position || with Potion. |____________________| This arrangement shows what the item menu will be liked during battle. The item pages will look similar to your magic pages. ________________________ |ITEM P1 NUM. | To arrange the items,simply point the |Elixir 10 | cursor on the top-left screen to the |Phoenix Down 100 | bottom-right screen.This will switch the |Hero's Drink 2 | positions of the items. |Potion 100 | Like magic page,there are a total of 8 |________________________| pages,each page containing only four items. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4.II.II)Classification Of Item ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In Final Fantasy VIII,there are a whole,wide range of items for you to buy,find etc and all these items can be classified into six different groups,depending on their uses.Here are the six groups. ______________________________________________________________________ |Medicine|Recovery items like Phoenix Downs,Potions,Elixirs etc. | |________|_____________________________________________________________| |G.F |G.F recovery items and items that allows G.Fs to learn new | | |abilities. | |________|_____________________________________________________________| |Battle |Items that are used in the battlefield.Example,Phoenix Tail. | |________|_____________________________________________________________| |Field |Items that are used in the field,and can only be used at a | | |save point like tents. | |________|_____________________________________________________________| |Bullet |Bullets are only used by Irvine's special arts. | |________|_____________________________________________________________| |Junk |These items cannot be used during battles,but they are a | | |good source of raw materials for weapon tuning up,source of | | |using G.Fs ability to make magics,or some even provides a | | |source of blue magics for Quistis to learn special arts. | | |Examples of such items are magic stones like Sage's stone,or | | |items like screws. | |________|_____________________________________________________________| |Magazine|Useful martial arts guides for Zell,teaching Rinoa and Angelo| | |new special arts moves,and a guidebook for the list of items | | |needed for tuning up weapons. | |________|_____________________________________________________________| ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4.III)Magic Menu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ______ ______________________________________________| | |Notice Use Exchange Get Arrange |Magic | |______________________________________________|______| Note:To switch characters,press L1 or R1. :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. Below is a diagram to help you out. ______ ______________________________________________| | |Notice Use >Exchange Get Arrange |Magic | |______________________________________________|______| |Help Use Magic | |__________________________________________________| _______ _______________ | Photo | SQUALL |MAGIC P1 NUM| | of | Lv. 100 | Cure 100| |Squall | HP 9999/9999 | Cure 2 100| |_______| ___________ | Ice 55| | Hand All | |>Fire 89| | Get All | |_______________| _______ |>Distribute| _______________ >| Photo | Rinoa |___________| | MAGIC P1 NUM| | of | Lv. 100 | Cure 2 50| |Rinoa | HP 9999/9999 | Cure 3 100| |_______| |>Fire 70| | Ice 2 80| |_______________| If you choose Distribute,another sub-menu will appear.Sorry,i couldn't display too many things at one go together. This is the sub-menu. Pressing these directions will do the following distributions: _____________ |CHOICE | |Fire | UP :Upper Row Character gets 10 magic. | Squall 89 | Down :Bottom Row Character gets 10 magic. | Rinoa 70 | Left :Upper Row Character gets 1 magic. |_____________| Right:Bottom Row Character gets 1 magic. Notice any differences between hand and get???Are you able to see? 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 |Cure 2 100| pages,each page can contain 4 magics,which means to say |Ice 50| each character can carry only 24 magics. |Lightning 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. Tips:You can discard your magic by pressing the Square button. Hint:The arranging of magic works similarly to battle arrangement of items.So,if you know that,i guess you don't know a diagram for this. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4.IV)Status Menu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ It allows you to view your character stats. Note:You can switch your characters with L1 or R1 buttons By pressing circle,you will open sub-menu. View your character's name,level,HP,experience etc. 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. View junctioned G.Fs,as well as the affection rating. View your character's Special Art. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4.IV.I)Status Menu:Elemental List ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Here is a table of a list of description of different elemental attacks. __________________________________________________ |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 Wind attacks and strong against Earth attacks(usually unable to harm them),while Undeads are weak against Fire/Holy/Cure/Revive and strong against Poison/Death. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4.IV.II)Status Menu:Status Disorder List ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Here is a brief descriptions for each status disorder.You might want to read it as a reference. ______________________________________________________________________ |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.A | | |permanent disorder. | |_____________|________________________________________________________| |Silence |A tiny bubble speech that says "..." Your character | | |cannot use the Magic, GF, or Draw commands.A permanment | | |status disorder. | |_____________|________________________________________________________| |Berserk |Steam rushes out from the fury-hot character. You will | | |lose control of the affected 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 | | |slighly increased,but attempts to recover HP would cause| | |damage instead on the character itself. | |_____________|________________________________________________________| |Sleep |The character's ATB will stop and "zzzz" appears from | | |the character.The character will only awake when under | | |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 | | |colour. | |_____________|________________________________________________________| |Stop |The ATB guage freezes as the effected character stopped | | |moving. | |_____________|________________________________________________________| |Curse |The character will not be able to activate his/her | | |Special Art. | |_____________|________________________________________________________| |Confusion |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. | |_____________|________________________________________________________| |Absorption |Affect how much HP you will absorb using the HP absorb | | |and also reduce your HP absorb by the enemies on you to | | |the minimum.Note that trying to absorb/drain from a | | |undead will result in HP lost instead. | |_____________|________________________________________________________| |Defense 0 |It is not shown on the Junction menu,but defense 0 is | | |extremely lethal,in a way such that it reduces your | | |characters' defense against both physical and magics | | |attack.Melten is the only spell that has this effect. | | |It is best that you immediately use heal/remedy. | |_____________|________________________________________________________| Note:In Zombie state,the character/enemy will be immune to death,but will be weak against any holy attacks. ________________________________________________________________________ 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4.IV.III)Status Menu:Positive Status Condition List-By Kaze Yagami ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Besides the negative status conditions above,there are other positive status conditions that you might encounter in a battle. ______________________________________________________________________ |Haste |ATB moves faster. | |_____________|________________________________________________________| |Protection |Physical damage reduced by half. | |_____________|________________________________________________________| |Shell |Magical damage reduced by half. | |_____________|________________________________________________________| |Reflect |Turns magic casted onto subject onto another target on | | |the other side. | |_____________|________________________________________________________| |Levitate |Nullify earth-based attacks. | |_____________|________________________________________________________| |Regen |Regenerates HP every turn. | |_____________|________________________________________________________| |Double |Cast two magics in one turn. | |_____________|________________________________________________________| |Triple |Cast three magics in one turn. | |_____________|________________________________________________________| |Aura |Affects your crisis levels and increases your chance of | | |activating special arts. | |_____________|________________________________________________________| |Defend |Reduces magical damage by half and physical damage to 0.| |_____________|________________________________________________________| |Invincible |Making you temporary invulnerable to all attacks,magics,| | |status changes etc.To get this status,use Hero/Crusade | | |drink or when Rinoa performs her special art,Angelo | | |Invisible Moon. | |_____________|________________________________________________________| ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4.V.I)Guardian Force Menu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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.And to the right shows your affection rating for every character. Here is a diagram to show you. _________ _______________________________________________________| | |NOTICE >Ability List |G.F. | |_______________________________________________________|_________| |HELP View your G.F ability list | |_______________________________________________________________| _______ | Photo | BAHAMUT Affection Rating ________ | For | Lv. 64 SQUALL |________| | G.F | HP 9999/9999 ZELL |________| |_______| IRVINE |________| QUISTIS |________| Total EXP: 31770p RINOA |________| Next Level: 230p SELPHIE |________| Present Training Skill (C)Steal 150/250AP Sorry,i couldn't mapped out the whole affection rating bar as it looked very small.You will notice a red bar a number below.If the bar is filled with red,that means the affection rating has reached the maximum, and the numbers below indicate the affection rating,with 1000,as the maximum rating.The higher the rating,it takes shorter time for the G.Fs to summon.Well,this is the a small diagram to illustrate affection rating.Also,this is what the bar will look like in one of the sub-menu of status screen too.If there is a symbol on the left of the name,that means the G.F is equipped to the character in the G.F menu,or vice versa in on of the sub-menu for the status screen. __________________ The bar gauge when =>|___________|______| completely red,shows the 658<=the affection max affection rating. rating number. For more info,pls read the Guardian Force section on affection rating. 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. Here is a diagram to show you. _________ _______________________________________________________| | |NOTICE >Ability List |G.F. | |_______________________________________________________|_________| |HELP Enables you to use Draw command | |_______________________________________________________________| _______ ________________________________________ | Photo | BAHAMUT |ABILITY P1 | | for | Lv. 64 | (J)Ability x4 Complete! | | G.F | HP 9999/9999 | (!)Magic Command Complete! | |_______| | (!)G.F. Complete! | | >(!)Draw Command Complete! | Total EXP: 31770p | (!)Item Command Complete! | Next Level: 230p | (C)Strength + 60% Complete! | | (C)Magic Strength +60% Complete! | ||>(C)Steal 150/200AP | | (C)Walk and Recover 0/250AP | Present Training Skill | (C)Auto Protection 0/250AP | (C)Steal Command | (C)Double Consumption 0/250AP > | 150/250 AP |________________________________________| The arrow on the bottom right,indicate the next page.Like the magic,item page,G.F. ability is divided into two pages,each page containing 11 abilities ,making a total of 22 abilities that you can learn.The middle-left arrow points to the ability that you are learning now,for example,in the picture shown above,it is steal.In this case,steal has only gained 150AP,and you need to earn an additional 100AP to fully master Steal.The bottom-right hand side also tells you the skill and AP. For skills that you have learnt,you will see a complete! there.to gain AP,you need to battle monsters/bosses.Any AP you gained will only go to the selected ability,in this case,only steal.The smaller arrow,that is pointing to the draw command,enables you to view other abilities,and an explanation is shown above at the HELP.The smaller arrow also allows you to choose other selected ability that you want to learn.For example,you are now learning steal ability,if you point the smaller arrow to,let say,auto protection,and press circle,the bigger arrow,that is point to the steal right now,will then switch over to auto protection. 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4.V.II)Guardian Force Diagram ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Here's a diagram of what your the menu will be like. _______________________________ | | | | | | | | | No. Name of G.F | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 1. Queztalcoatl |___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___| 2. Shiva | | | | | | | | | 3. Ifrit | 9 |10 |11 |12 |13 |14 |15 |16 | 4. Siren |___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___| 5. Brothers 6. Diablo By clicking circle,you will be able to 7. Carbunkle view the G.F's ability list,as well as the 8. Leviathan G.F's experience,HP and affection rating. 9. Pandamonium Pressing X will return you back to the 10. Cerberos initial screen as shown in the above.While 11. Alexander viewing the G.F status screen,press 12. Grasharaboras L1 and R1,to switch to other G.Fs. 13. Sabotender Also,the ability list also allows you to 14. Bahamut select the ability you want to learn,as 15. Master Tonberry well showing you the AP needed. 16. Eden ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4.VI)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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4.VII.I)Switch Menu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This option allows you to change your active party members.Please remember that member switching can only be done only on the world map or at a save point,or special occasions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4.VII.II)Switch Menu:Laguna ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Laguna Scenarios ---------------- In Final Fantasy VIII,there are two main characters,Squall and Laguna. Occasionally,the scene will switch to Laguna's party.You will see an arrow.For example,an arrow is point from Laguna to squall.That means Laguna will take all the magics from Squall,and follow Squall's levels, equipments.Once the scene ends,everything will return back to Squall. For example,if Laguna earns a level,Squall will also earn a level. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4.VIII)Card Menu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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.Also,to play with other players,remember to talk to them by pressing Square,and not circle. 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4.IX)Configuration Menu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 :Adjust 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4.X)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. Note:For test answers,please refer to the additional guide. Here is a brief description of each and every option in the tutorial: ______________________________________________________________________ |Function |Description | |______________|_______________________________________________________| |Configuration |It refers to the configuration for your controller. | |______________|_______________________________________________________| |Battle |A tutorial guide with 8 pages that teaches you basic | | |battling like the draw,magic,and active time battle, | | |Guardian Force etc. | |______________|_______________________________________________________| |Junction |A mini-tutorial to illustrate what is junctioning and | | |how to junction. | |______________|_______________________________________________________| |Guardian Force|A mini-tutorial that explains about AP,ability in the | | |G.F menu. | |______________|_______________________________________________________| |Card |A 14 pages tutorial that explains the basic rules of | | |playing a card game. | |______________|_______________________________________________________| |Test |Sit for 30 tests to advance your ranks. | |______________|_______________________________________________________| |Revision |Do all the previous tests that you have done before; | | |available only when the 1st test has been all correctly| | |answered. | |______________|_______________________________________________________| |Information |A brief summary of magics,places,battle combat,G.Fs, | | |ability,affection rating,elementals,special arts etc. | |______________|_______________________________________________________| ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4.XI)Save ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To save,make sure you are at the world map,or using the save point,if not,this option will be unuseable.The PocketStation save option will only be available if you have caught a chocobo at the chocobo forest from disc 2 onwards.When you have successfully catch a chocobo and have entered a name for your new chocobo,the choco boy will prompt you to play the 'Odekake Chocobo' or Chocobo RPG in PocketStation.From here onward,you can play the PDA. ======================================================================== 5)BATTLE COMBAT:FINAL FANTASY VIII ======================================================================== 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? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5.I)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. Tips:You might not want the fastest character to move.Simply press triangle to switch over to the next character with the ATB full. Tips:If your battle is put on "Wait", you can select the Magic command, and then try to escape, without the monsters bothering you. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5.II)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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5.III.I)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 Amount 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 availiable to train(some GF) d) Item Fabrication ability increases(Some GF) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5.III.II)Illustration on GF ------------------------------------------------------------------------ When summoning a G.F,Select G.F and then, COMMAND G.F P1 HP Attack IFRIT 5678 ________ Magic SHIVA 4567 RINOA 8327 |________|Direction of ATB Draw DIABLO 7896 SQUALL 7913 |____|___|--------> >G.F CARBUNKLE 8923 ZELL 5789 |___|____| Yellow When it's Rinoa's turn,click on the G.F,you will see... COMMAND Attack ________ Magic IFRIT 5678|______|_| Directions of ATB Draw SQUALL 7913|____|___| <------- >G.F ZELL 5789|___|____| Blue(For Rinoa Only) 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. Tips:You can press start for an explanation while choosing your G.F for their elemental attacks etc.Refer to the draw and magic section below. ~~~Doing extra damage for the G.F(Ouen)~~~ ------------------------------------------ Your G.F must learn this ability in order to do extra damage.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 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 Square button anymore. If you tap the button at 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% Master Tonberry 14.0 190% Eden 72.6 250% ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5.IV)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. Example 1 | Example 2 | COMMAND TARGET CHOICE CHOICE | COMMAND MAGIC P1 NUM Attack Soldier1 Fire >Stock | Attack Lightning 1 25 Magic Soldier2 Life Cast | >Magic >Cure 1 100 >Draw >Soldier3 >Cure | Draw Double 50 Item | Item Aura 20 >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 Summary of Draw Command ----------------------- 1)First select Draw command. 2)Select your enemy. 3)Then,select the spells that you can draw. 4)Choose cast or stock. 5)If you choose cast,select your enemy/ally. Note:If stock cannot be choosen,this means that your magic inventory for this particular spell is full.For example,if you already have 100 cure spell in your inventory and tried to draw cure again,the only option available will be to cast. Difference Between MAGIC and DRAW->CAST ------------------------------------------ Using the Magic command to cast a magic will give you a stable result, where as Draw->Cast will give you a result that be very much higher or lower (usually lower).If you keep on drawing and casting the same spell, you may notice that the results fluctuate from time.Take the below comparison for example in the case of Cure 3 for a clearer picture: Cast Magic Max : 8118 5081 Min : 321 4500 Average: 4063 4813 =>The value marks how much HP is healed. Casting Double/Triple Spell --------------------------- If you cast double or triple spell,a new battle sub-menu will appear.It will look something like this. COMMAND MAGIC TRIPLE P1 NUM NAME If L1 extra text is on. Attack Single Lightning 1 25 >3 ZELL >Magic Double Cure 1 100 SQUALL Draw >Triple Double 50 Rinoa Item >Aura 20 The number 3 indicates that you can use the spells three times on any characters.The advantage over Final Fantasy VII's All materia system is that,instead of equipping all to cure,and recover the entire party,with the double and triple magics,you can give the same character more than one time the same spell in a turn,or even three. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5.V)Battle Help Tips ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tip No.1 -------- Well,what happened during battle,if there is some commands/items/magics that you are not sure of the uses. Well,do not fear.while selecting a command,item or a magic,press start to view the explanation.Here's the diagram. COMMAND ________________ Attack Upon selecting magic, |MAGIC P1 NUM| When you hold start, >Magic you will be able to | Aura 65| you will see a Draw select your magics. | Cure2 100| screen that looks G.F. | Cure3 95| like this below. |>Life2 98| |________________| __________________________________ |HELP |The trick works also for any | Revive dead ally in your party |commands/items/magics etc and |__________________________________|should come in handy anytime _____________________ ___ during battle. |Vibrational Function | |ON | If you have a dual shock controller, |_____________________| |___| you can turn on/off vibration by pressing left/right. Tip No.2 -------- Press L1 for extra text.By default,the L1 extra text is already on if you didn't notice it.By pressing L1,you can switch the text off.But my advice is please use the extra text.It makes your selection more easier with the text on and can be a life saver. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5.VI)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. ======================================================================== ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 6)ADVANCED TUTORIAL GUIDE:FINAL FANTASY VIII ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ======================================================================== Now,you have have gone through the basic drills.It's time to move into something more advanced and difficult.Everything listed below may be a spoiler for you,especially the G.F strategy,weapons and should not be read until you are very near to it.It's recommended that you read the special arts section and weapons upgrading sections to get a main idea what they are like but for the G.F strategy,descriptions,opinions,please don't read too much.Don't say i didn't warn you.Read it at your own risk. ======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6.I)Special Arts ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6.I.I)Special Arts:Squall LeonHeart ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: Weapon Special Art Effect GunBlade - Rough Divide Attack a single enemy. Castrate - Fated Circle Attack all enemy. Flame Tongue - Blasting Zone Attack all enemy. LionHeart - End of Heart Multiple attacks on a single enemy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6.I.II)Special Arts: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: _________________________________________________________ | _______ ______________ | | | PHOTO | Angelo Rush |______________| | | | OF | Angelo Strike |______________| | | |ANGELO | |> Angelo Recover |______________| | | |_______| Angelo Cannon |______________| | | Invisible Moon |______________| | | Angelo Rebirth |______________| | | Angelo Search |______________| | | Wish Star |______________| | | | |_________________________________________________________| 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 Cannon - Beginning Angelo Recover - PC issue 1 Angelo Strike - PC issue 2 Angelo Rebirth - PC issue 3 Angelo Search - PC issue 4 Invisible Moon - PC issue 5 Wish Star - PC issue 6 Crisis Up:(A)Random type attacks are easier activated (B)More powerful attacks chosen Rinoa's Angelo special arts can be divided into two sections,mid-battle attack and using the special arts command.Let me explain in detail. Mid-battle attack These attacks do not need special arts command,meaning you do not need to press Attack > Angelo.Chances of using such moves increase when crisis level increases,normally when Rinoa recieves a certain huge amount of attack from an enemy.One of these random moves,as listed below will be executed. Move Description Angelo Rush - Angelo charges and attacks one enemy. Angelo Recover - Recovers one of your members' HP. Angelo Rebirth - Using a Phoenix Down and revive a dead ally. Angelo Search - Steal an item. Special Arts Command It is the same way you use special arts for other characters.Press right of the attack command to use Angelo.One of these random moves,as listed below will be executed.Refer to the diagram below. Move Description Angelo Cannon - Angelo being blasted off,attacking one enemy,creating a large explosion. Angelo Strike - Angelo grabs an enemy,doing a full 360 degrees turn in mid air. Invisible Moon - Has the effect of a Crusade Drink. Wishing Star - Rinoa rides onto Angelo,performing multiple attacks on all enemy. Varly You can only get Rinoa's Varly special arts only after Squall has rescued her from the museum(You will see a FMVs where Squall and Rinoa hug each other)in disc 3. COMMAND If you click on Angelo,a random special art will be Attack> Angelo used.(Angelo Cannon,Angelo Strike,Invisible Moon, Magic >Varly Wishing Star) Draw G.F 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 etc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6.I.III)Special Arts: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:Portrait for Zell |Auto CPU Yes No| |_______________________| | <-------- | -------------- | Combo List | -------------- | |_______________________| During battle,you will see something like this: _____________ | O,X | L:Left Sorry,i couldn't display the | B,B,O | R:Right exact list.In actual game, | D,D,D,D,O | U:Up you will see the buttons | | D:Down itself.See below.Note that |_____________|11'43 O:Circle this is just an illustration X:X and doesn't represent the actual combo you will see in the game. 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 Heel Drop - Beginning Mach Kick - 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 *Final Heaven - Gakutou-Oh Issue 5 These are the buttons that you need to input for various moves. ______________________________________________________ |Auto CPU | ON | OFF | |_______________________________|___________|__________| | | | Rush Punch Circle, X | | Head Shock Forward, Back | | Heel Drop Up, Down | | Mach Kick Back, Back, Circle | | Dolphin Blow L1, R1, L1, R1 | | Meteor Strike Down, Circle, Up, Circle | | *Burning Rave Down, Down, Down, Down, Circle | | *Meteor Barret Up, X, Down, Triangle, Circle | | *Tifa Rampede Triangle, Square, X, Circle, Up | | *Final Heaven Up, Forward, Down, Back, Triangle | |______________________________________________________| * 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. Finishing blows are by far the most devastating moves,and once executed, cannot be chained by another combo anymore.So,how to perform finishing blows.You will either start your combo with rush punch or head shock. Simply follow the combos listed below,and at the end of the last combos,you will be able to perform the respective finishing blow. Fast Finish: Burning Rave :-Rush Punch, Mach Kick, Rush Punch, Heel Drop/Meteor Strike, Burning Rave. -Head Shock, Heel Drop, Meteor Strike, Head Shock, Burning Rave. Meteor Barret:-Rush Punch, Dolphin Blow, Meteor Barret. -Head Shock, Meteor Strike, Dolphin Blow, Mach Kick, Meteor Barret. -Head Shock, Heel Drop, Mach Kick, Heel Drop, Head Shock, -Rush Punch, Mach Kick, Meteor Barret. Tifa Rampede :-Head Shock, Meteor Strike, Head Shock, Tifa Rampede. -Head Shock, Heel Drop, Mach Kick, Heel Drop, Head Shock, Tifa Rampede. Final Heaven :-Head Shock, Heel Drop, Meteor Strike, Final Heaven. -Head Shock, Heel Drop, Mach Kick, Rush Punch, Final Heaven. As you can see from the list,you get to perform burning rave and meteor barret even if you start with rush punch or head shock.But to get the last two deadly finishing blow,Tifa Rampede and Final Heaven,you need to start with head shock. The ARMAGEDDON FIST -By Kaze Yagami ------------------- The Armageddon Fist is actually a chain of near-infinite combo you can pull off to achieve the biggest damage. How to do it is very simple: Just keep repeating Rush Punch and Head Shock. Reason behind is, whenever a chain starts, it would always start with either one of the above. Then, using the other skill, it will loop back the first. Since Rush Punch and Head Shock are easy to execute and they remain in a loop, you can perform moves in as fast as 0.1 seconds. With this, even in a time of 4'66, you can achieve, at even low level, a damage of about 40 x 100 = 4000 points of damage. Note:ARMAGEDDON FIST is just a name I came up with on my own, the name the Japanese came up with was Choukyu Bushin Hakken (lit, Super Ultimate War God Breaking Punch). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6.I.IV)Special Arts: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. They are actually moves used by the enemies.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: Item Needed Blue Magic Effect Beginning -Meza Eye Attack on one foe. Cloud String -Vibration Tremors of the earth on one foe. Coral Fragment -Electrify Electrical energy on all foes. Claws of Curse -Level ?? Death Death on all foe. Black Hole -Detonator Into a new dimension. Water Essence -Aqua Breath Water Beam on all foe. Missile -Micro Missile Attack one foe. Mysterious Liquid -Acidic Liquid Attack on one foe. Gear-type Auto-Gun -Gattling Cannon Rapid firing on one foe. Flame Dragon's Fang -Fire Breath Fire Beam on all foe. Molbor's Tentacles -Bad Breath Negative status on all foes. Laser Cannon -Homing Laser Laser Beam on one foe. Whisper of Winds -White Wind Restoring all allies' HP. Barrier System -Mighty Guard Positive condition on all allies. High-Energy Generator-Ray Bomb Attack on all foes. Dark Matter -Shockwave Pulser Attack on all foes. *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. *4 - Shockwave Pulser can deal damage past the 9999 limit. *5 - Mighty Guard casts Haste,Regen,Levitate etc and sometimes Aura on all allies. *6 - Bad Breath casts berserk,poison,sleep,blind,confu etc on all foes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6.I.V)Special Arts: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: Choose, or Cast. Choosing will pick you another magic, while casting 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,so you need to choose your magics very fast. 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 and status ailments. Wall - Casts Protect and Shield over all allies. Levitate Ex - Removes all enemies from battle,causing instant victory. The End - Kills all enemies,causing instant victory. _______________________________________________________ |Special | | Full Cure Wall | | Levitate Ex The End | |_______________________________________________________| Note:She had 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 the Last Boss. And yes,it works even on Omega Weapon and ultimate weapon ...but I think you would enjoy a good fight with them instead.No point resorting to such despicable moves... Selphie..did i say anything wrong? Tips:Make use of the time during the GF summoning graphics to choose the desired magic. Tips:While choosing your spells,you can actually open your PlayStation cover,thus freezing your the game,so you can take your own time to choose your desired spells.Note that i won't bear any responiblity to any damages on your PlayStation.Try it at your own risk! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6.I.VI)Special Arts: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: Shot Bullet Effect Normal Shot - Normal Bullet Single Opponent Grap Shot - Shotgun Bullet All Opponents Dark Shot - Dark Bullet Single Opponent Flame Shot - Flame Bullet All Opponent Cannister Shot - Destruction Bullet Single Opponent Quick Shot - Fast Bullet Single Opponent Armor Shot - Armor-Piercing Bullet Single Opponent Hyper Shot - Energy Bullet Single Opponent 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 = 40000-50000) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6.I.VII)Special Arts:Other Character ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Edea Name:Sorcery (Chill Strike) Edea creates an icicle and throws it at the target.This is the move of the FMV at the 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6.II)Weapon Upgrading ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6.III)Listing Of Guardian Force ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. ________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6.III.I)Guardian Force List(With Ability) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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.The loser will jump up the sky and smash the earth that is thrown up into pieces,doing earth damage to all enemy. 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) (Gravity) (Gravity Damage=Enemy's max HP x Diablo's L.v in %) 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:A flock of ravens flies together and forms a black hole. Diablos appears from the black hole, and then throw it onto the enemies. Graphics :7.2/10.0 Opinion :His Gravity attack is powerful,depending on the enemies' HP.It works simiarly to a Gravity magic. Usefulness :6.8/10.0 Strategy :5 Name :Carbunkle Attack :Ruby Light Elemental :Non-elemental-based (All) (Ally) Disc :1 Condition :Draw Obtaining :From the two giant lizards(Shumeruke) to save Rinoa. Description:Carbunkle comes out from deep underground,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 reflected 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 :3.5/10.0 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 centre boss. Description:Leviathan comes out from a dimension,creating a huge waterfall,pouring down a flood of rivers,washing the enemies away. 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 :Pandemonium 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 and colliding with enemies. 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 :Grasharaboras's 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. 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 four blue flames at the enemies,and then a white flare to trigger off an 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 Ifrit 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 Centra Ruin) Description:Sabotender is actually the cactuar you normally see 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 (Random One Target) (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,slowly approaching a random target,and then stab the target using 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 enemy,regarding it is of any elemental attack.The only drawback is that it attacks randomly on one target whereas most G.Fs attack all enemies. Usefulness :7.0/10.0 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 solid-bodied magical symbol appears in the galaxy, and with its power fires onto the enemies from another universe and creates a tremendously explosion. 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. Usefulness :10.0/10.0 Strategy :15 ________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6.III.II)Guardian Force List(Non-Ability) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 :Flame of Resurrection 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 feather is used,it will appear randomly during future battle,when your party gets wiped out,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 :Instead of putting Phoenix into one of the G.Fs with abilities,what Square is trying to do to replace Phoenix with Final attack,is to make it summonable using items. A useful G.Fs,of course when you are fighting tough bosses like Omega or Ultimate weapon. Usefulness :10.0/10.0 Strategy :16 Name :Ko-chocobo Attack :ChocoFire/ChocoFlare/ChocoMeteo/ChocoBuckle Elemental :Fire-based(For chocoFire only)/Non-elemental(All) (Enemy) (Item) for the rest + PocketStation Disc :2 and above + PocketStation Condition :First,catch a chocobo,then use Gisal Greens to summon the chocobos.To get the other three attacks,you need to have a PDA,PocketStation to play chocobo RPG. Obtaining :Chocobo Forest Description:A very small,baby chocobo comes out.Varies depending on attack. Graphics :7.4/10.0(Overall) Opinion :Ko-chocobo 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 more 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. Note that you have to clear the kiss events before you can do the next attack level.ChocoBuckle can break the 9999 damage limit. Usefulness :??/10(Depends on what attack you use.) Strategy :17 Name :Odin Attack :Steel Breaker 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 every enemy into halves. 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 wasting 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 :Gilgamesh 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.If you notice carefully, you will see four swords.He will pick up a sword randomly, each belonging to one of the attacks above. Graphics :9.0/10.0 Opinion :Remember Gilgamesh in FFV!He was banished to 'Cleft of Dimension'. 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.Can't reveal anything yet!!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6.III.III)PocketStation Guardian Force ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Here is a list of G.F that you can get ONLY through PocketStation.For more attacks on ko-chocobo,please refer to section above. ________________________________________________________________________ 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.Thanks to Kaze Yagami for the informations on G.F,including PDA's G.F, translations name and so on. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6.IV)Guardian Force 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,below 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!!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6.IV.I)Guardian Force Strategy(With Ability) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 2nd floor | | |of the map in the additional guide section.Just go near to Squall| | |'s seat,and press circle.You will be able to see access to a lap-| | |top 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 of the | | |screen. | |____|_________________________________________________________________| ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 chance 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. | |_______|______________________________________________________________| |Tips |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 | |______________________________________________________________________| |The Brothers can regenerate while they are in contact with the floor, | |as they gain power from the Earth.So to prevent them from regenerating| |you can cast Levitate on them.Try to finish off Minotaur first as he | |has some very powerful attacks.Watch your HP and you should be able to| |get an easy win. | |______________________________________________________________________| ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Strategy #5:Diablo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ______________________________________________________________________ |Info|Diablo is actually trapped inside the "Magic Lamp",given to 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 lamp.To un- | | |lock the G.F trapped inside,you need to defeat Diablos.Once you | | |click on the "magic lamp",you will be teleported to fight Diablo.| |____|_________________________________________________________________| |How to beat??? | |______________________________________________________________________| |Diablo has two strong attacks,Gravissure and Gravity 1/4 of total HP. | |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 spell as possible,so you can actually recover almost| |all of your HP after Diablo casts Gravity.Try drawing the cure spell | |from diablo.Simply draw Gravity and cast it on diablo.It should do a | |heavy damage to him at first.When Diablo is running low HP,use other | |attack to finish him off like special's arts etc. | |______________________________________________________________________| |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 magma breath,which can cause petrify to your ally.You| |will see a countdown and if the numbers reach zero,you will be turned | |completely into stone.However,the Shumerukes are very easy to defeat, | |so defeat them before the time reaches zero,if not,you can actually | |use Esuna to remove petrify. | |______________________________________________________________________| ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Strategy #7:Leviathan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ______________________________________________________________________ |Info|You need to first crushed the middle orb,which acts as a shield | | |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. | |______________________________________________________________________| |Tips|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 Balamb Town,follow by the combined| | |team of Fuujin and Raijin.You need to draw G.F Pandemonium from | | |Fujjin. | |______________________________________________________________________| |How to beat??? | |______________________________________________________________________| |Raijin|Do not use bolt magic on him since he will nulifies lighning. | | |Draw barrier from him.He will use lightning attacks on you very| | |frequently.Junction lightning to elemental defense so that you | | |can have a good defense against it,or even nulifies his attack.| | |Don't use Quetzalcoatl.Blind and poison are also effective.Note| | |that if you are only left with female characters alive before | | |you get into the first fight,Raijin will not fight you.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.Blind and poison still works | | |effectively for both.As for Fujjin,she will nulifies wind | | |attack,so i guess you know what to do.Don't use wind or bolt | | |magics.Fuujin will use Wind magic against you before you draw | | |Pandemonium from her, and after you draw it she will start | | |using "Zan" and "Sai". "Zan" is a normal physical attack while | | |"Sai" will reduce HP to 1.If on your side is left with only | | |female characters, Raijin will only heal Fuujin with Hi-Potions| | |and will not attack them but if Fuujin is defeated,he would | | |then start attack. | |______|_______________________________________________________________| |Tips |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??? | |______________________________________________________________________| |Strategy No 1: | |______________________________________________________________________| |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.Earthquake cannot be reflected but you| |can use levitate to counter it.Melten and regen also helps during the | |fight. | |______________________________________________________________________| |Strategy No 2:Contributed by Kaze Yagami | |______________________________________________________________________| |Here's a quick way to win the fight.As Cerberos uses Earthquake,use | |Levitate to counter it,so that you won't recieved any damage when he | |uses earthquake.Next,cast reflect magics on all your party or G.F | |carbunkle.He will spent time dispelling your reflect,while your other | |two members can concentrate on attacking him,while the other one,keeps| |on casting reflect. | |______________________________________________________________________| |Note|When you are in the reflect state,do not cast any positive status| | |spells like haste etc,as it will reflect back to Cerberos,instead| | |cast a reflect magic on yourself,to reflect it to cerberos,and | | |then if you need any healing/cure/regen spells,cast it onto | | |Cerberos to reflect it back to you again. | |____|_________________________________________________________________| ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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,considering the damage | | |accumulated from the previous fights with Seifer and Cerberos. | | |Remember to heal yourself completely before entering the fight. | |____|_________________________________________________________________| |How to beat??? | |______________________________________________________________________| |Seifer|Seifer is not a very strong opponent.The same strategy apply to| | |the previous fight.He does have some strong attacks.When being | | |recieved a severe damage,there is a high chance of him using | | |his special art,Ending Blade(Weenie Scatter).Don't worry!This | | |attack isn't new,but is simply the strongest attack you will | | |get from Seifer in this fight and it is the same special arts, | | |which Seifer used during the Dollet mission.You can also steal | | |a hero's drink from him,but there is not a need to,since you | | |will also get the hero's drink whn the fight ends.Seifer will | | |also use cure spell to heal himself when his HP is running low.| | |Since he's an easy opponent,i strongly suggest that you set up | | |you set up the neccessary defensive or offensive strategies | | |like casting haste,use double,triple spells or summoning G.F | | |Cerberos,so you can began your attack straight away,in the next| | |continous fight. | |______|_______________________________________________________________| |Edea |If you have cast Cerberos,haste first,during the fight with | | |Seifer,you have already gained the upperhand.Edea is very nasty| | |,compared to the first time you fought her in disc 1.She can | | |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.She has a dead-all,which will cause | | |instant death.This attack either miss or cause death.It will be| | |better to junction death to your status defense,so that you | | |won't get hit.Use life to revive character.To make thing worse,| | |she will cast reflect on herself,so you can't use any magics | | |attack on her,except for some magics like earthquake.If you | | |cast G.F Carbunkle or reflect magic,she will use DeSpell to | | |remove it and will not use other magics until your reflect is | | |removed.Try having a character to keep on using reflect,while | | |other two concentrate on attacking her.Sleep,Slow,and Drain are| | |effective too,so you should consider junction at least one to | | |ST attack.Special arts,especially Squall and Zell can also do | | |very severe damage. | |______|_______________________________________________________________| |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 it killed Edea shortly | |after a few hits,and he forgot to draw G.F Alexander.[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 modify 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 medicine Creation(200AP),which is | | |a total of 320AP. | |_________________|____________________________________________________| |Note |If you did not collect 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,they are | | |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 No 1:Try the 2nd strategy if this doesn't work. | |______________________________________________________________________| |To get Molbor's Tentacle,you need to kill it or steal 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 furthur damage. | |______________________________________________________________________| |Strategy No 2: | |______________________________________________________________________| |Junctioning haste and so on,may not be a good idea.Chances are very | |low to make stealing succeed,but still,it does work.Try this strategy | |As Molbor can cause various nasty status disorder,rendering all your | |character to helpless,try junctioning break(Stone),Blind,Berserk to | |your ST Defense and Drain to ST attack to make your battle more easy. | |Don't bother to heal your characters,since it will still drain away | |your HP. | |______________________________________________________________________| |This tip was given by Heero Yuy.I have to thanks him| |for all his help.And thanks to Kaze Yagami for furthur providing extra| |information.Really have to thanks everyone! | |______________________________________________________________________| |Tips|Try combining both strategies 1 and 2 together.Junction Haste, | | |drain,berserk etc. | |____|_________________________________________________________________| |Do you know? | |______________________________________________________________________| |I managed to kill Molbor without even recieving a single damage.How? | |Because Odin appeared at that right moment,killing Molbor.I was lucky.| |______________________________________________________________________| |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 fig2.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|RubulmDragons are stong against Fire and Wind while weak | | |against Ice and Holy attacks.At higher levels,determine | | |by your characters' levels(remember parallel level,its | | |special attack,Breath,is a dangerous attack.Junctioned | | |brain to your ST Attacks,using Gravity or summoning | | |Diablos also helps.Protect and Shell helps to reduce the | | |damages.Quistis' Desionator also has a high chance of | | |banishing the beast.If it casts Reflect on itself,you can| | |use Despell to remove it,or cast reflect on yourself to | | |reflect back the magic.The best strategy,in my opinion,is| | |to use Melten,with the effect of defense 0 on him.This | | |will greatly reduce his physical/magic defense,thus | | |enabling you to do more damage.I suggest you draw meteo | | |from him and cast the magic on him.If one melten is not | | |enough,try using about two or three on him,and then dish | | |him out with meteo. | |____________|_________________________________________________________| |Bahamut |Bahamut is even more easier than two Rubulmdragon.He does| | |have some powerful attacks.Wind and Bolt magics have no | | |effect on him,don't use Pandemonium and Quetzalcoatl. | | |Simply use Squall's special arts,ultimas,and meteo,G.Fs, | | |you should be able to defeat Bahamut soon.Don't use G.F | | |Grasharaboras as it does very little damage,perhaps only | | |for the purpose of defense 0 only.You can use melten to | | |replace it.Mega Flare's damage can also be reduced by | | |using shell. | |____________|_________________________________________________________| ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 weapon 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 weapon.Firstly,take note that Gravity 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 noth- | |ing 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 special arts,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 Sometimes,he | | |will counter you back by using Kitchen Knife, which is quite | | |deadly.Repeat the same strategy for other Tonberries till you| | |meet Master Tonberries.Another quick win method is to keep | | |Squall and Zell at low HP,so they can perform their special | | |arts,which should end the fight very quickly after a few | | |rounds.The drawback is that sometimes Tonberry's Kitchen | | |Knife might finish your character off,so have the third | | |person concentrate on reviving.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.| | |Tonberry does have high HP,above 75,000HP.His earthquake | | |stomp does about 2000+ damage to all character,and a normal | | |physical attack does 1000+ to a single character. | |________|_____________________________________________________________| |Strategy No 1: | |______________________________________________________________________| |First cast G.F Cereberos on your party to have the double and triple | |positive status on your character.Then,keep on using triple ultimas on| |Master Tonberry and the fight should end very soon. | |______________________________________________________________________| |Strategy No 2: | |______________________________________________________________________| |You may say that it is such a waste to use ultimas on Master Tonberry.| |When you are fighting against normal Tonberry,keep Squall(and Zell if | |he is in your party.)at low HPs so that they can perform their special| |arts.As the fight is continous after defeating the 20th Tonberry,have | |Squall(and zell) to perform their special arts.The fight will end very| |soon after a few special arts.It will be better if Squall has Lion- | |Heart.But do note to keep the third person in very high HP,and keep on| |using cure or life,just in case one of them die.If you have aura,it | |will be even more better. | |______________________________________________________________________| |Tips|Try using melten first. | |____|_________________________________________________________________| ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Strategy #15:Eden ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ______________________________________________________________________ |Info|After you have win Bahamut,go to the cockpit of Ragnarok by | | |pressing Triangle.Then,go back to the cylinder where Bahamut is | | |now.You will be able to go down now to the underground water | | |facility to fight Ultimate Weapon.Zell is a compulsory character | | |and must be inside your party. | |____|_________________________________________________________________| |Note|You must enter the cockpit of the Ragnarok after defeating G.F | | |Bahamut and Zell has to be in your party. | |____|_________________________________________________________________| |In the Underground Water Facility | |______________________________________________________________________| |Tips|First,equip your character with Encounter Nothing. | |____|_________________________________________________________________| |To enter the underground basement,you need to adjust it to at least 10| |blocks,but 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 | |Input Password| 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |last password,the steam block should be| | | | | | |10 now. | |______________|___|___|___|___|_______________________________________| |Refer to Kaze Yagami chart on the additional guide or Scott Ong's | |walkthrough Part I for extra information. | |______________________________________________________________________| |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|Allow 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, | | |without affecting the Steam Block,still remains as 10. | |__________|___________________________________________________________| |Choosing both options will lead to the opening of the underground | |basement of Warship Island.If you choose the second option,it becomes | |6,that means you won't be able to fight Ultimate Weapon when you reach| |the very bottom part of basement.Choose the second option if you think| |you are ready to fight |______________________________________________________________________| |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 meteo.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 you are | | |well prepare. | |____|_________________________________________________________________| |Note|Make sure you equip encounter nothing.There are a total of 15 | | |fights you need to undergo,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 | |______________________________________________________________________| |Tri-Face |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 meteo | | |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. | |____________|_________________________________________________________| |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?His HP is relatively high and has strong | | |attack.Delaying the fight for too long won't do you any | | |advantage.I suggest you have sleep magic junction to your| | |status attack,so that while attacking,iron giant may fall| | |asleep.He fall asleeps 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 Lion- | | |Heart,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 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)Melten | |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.The hardest | |part is his 9999HP damage.Other than that,he has some other attacks | |like 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 | |LionHeart 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 replace for it.When he uses spells like shadow flare,earth- | |quake,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 uses it,use life or life 2 to | |quickly revive your dead ally,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 special arts.If you use life 2,use Aura on Squall| |now.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. | |You may also want to use melten on him.If i am not wrong,about four to| |eight Squall's special arts should kill Ultimate Weapon.Remember to | |draw Eden. | |______________________________________________________________________| ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6.IV.II)Guardian Force Strategy(Non-Ability) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Strategy #16:Phoenix ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ______________________________________________________________________ |Info|Head to the Shumi Tribe in the most northern east area,the build-| | |ing 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 | | |that 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 | | |chief 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.After talking to the| | |head of the village chief,return back to the house that has the | | |statue.Speak to the village chief 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,head for the village chief house.After a conversation, | |you will get a Phoenix Feather.Use it to summon Phoenix during battle | |by using the item.Once summoned,Phoenix will appear randomly,in future| |battle when your party gets wiped out,provided if you have Phoenix | |feather in your stock.Each time,Phoenix is summoned,your Phoenix | |feather in stock will reduce by 1.Your characters need not have to | |equip the item command to summon Phoenix. | |______________________________________________________________________| |Tips |By using Alexander's Medicine level Up to change Phoenix down| | |to Phoenix Feather,you can now summon Phoenix.For more info, | | |please refer to the secret section. | |________|_____________________________________________________________| |Note |Chances of Phoenix appearing are higher if your average luck | | |for your party is higher or one of your party member is dead.| |________|_____________________________________________________________| |Do you know? | |______________________________________________________________________| |As the man near the statue tells you to get the Water Stone,go to the | |pond,search for the frog nearby and the frog will give you a fake | |water stone. | |______________________________________________________________________| |Credit|The above cheat is being contributed by Jerry Ng and Scott Ong.| |______|_______________________________________________________________| ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 through-| |out 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,airship in disc 3.Upon entering,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.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 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 stairway 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| |password.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 7-4-4-4-2,0-4-8-5-6etc.| |____|_________________________________________________________________| |General Information about Odin | |______________________________________________________________________| |-Odin appears randomly during battle,only at the beginning. | |-Odin will use Steel Breaker 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:Gilgamesh ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ______________________________________________________________________ |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, | | |Gilgamesh will appear from heaven,saying that this is his true | | |form of Odin.He then sent Seifer flying away,thus ending the | | |fight. | |____|_________________________________________________________________| |Tips|Don't attack Seifer because Gilgamesh will soon appear.Instead, | | |take this opportunity and draw up as many Aura spell from Seifer.| |____|_________________________________________________________________| |Attack:Steel Breaker,Excalibur,Excalipur,Masamune | |______________________________________________________________________| |Like Odin,Gilgamesh will appear randomly.You will see four swords fly-| |ing down from heaven.Each of these four swords represents an attack,as| |shown above,and Gilagmesh will pick one sword randomly,performing | |random attack.He still retains the Steel Breaker,inherited from Odin. | |______________________________________________________________________| |General Information about Gilgamesh | |______________________________________________________________________| |-Appears randomly,just like Odin,but have the chance of appearing in | | the middle of a fight,or even during a boss fight.Gilgamesh appears | | even if i am fighting Altemisia. | |-Steel Breaker does not work against bosses. | |-His attack varied on the type of sword he has choosen. | |______________________________________________________________________| |More Information On Gilgamesh's Attack-By Kaze Yagami | |______________________________________________________________________| |Steel Breaker |Inherited from Odin.Instant kill.Same attack as | | |Odin. | |__________________|___________________________________________________| |Excaliper |Fake version of the Holy Sword Excalibur.Does 1 HP | | |to your enemy only. | |__________________|___________________________________________________| |Here is a list of damage,attack level for Masamune and Excalibur sent | |by Kaze Yagami.The attack level of G.F Gilgamesh depends on the | |average party member,just the same as G.F Phoenix.The higher your luck| |is,there will be a higher chance for Gilgamesh/Odin to appear. | |______________________________________________________________________| | Attack Level | Masamune | Excalibur | |_______________________|______________________|_______________________| | 1 | 2625 | 1000 | | 10 | 3750 | 1562 | | 20 | 5000 | 2187 | | 30 | 6250 | 2812 | | 40 | 7500 | 3437 | | 50 | 8750 | 4062 | | 60 | 9999 | 4687 | | 70 | 9999 | 5312 | | 80 | 9999 | 5937 | | 90 | 9999 | 6562 | | 100 | 9999 | 7187 | |_______________________|______________________|_______________________| |Note|Subjected to variables such as slightly variation and enemy | | |defence. | |____|_________________________________________________________________| ======================================================================== 7)GENERAL TIP:FINAL FANTASY VIII ======================================================================== Here are a list of general tips and hints that may help you in your game.It may be of some help to you. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7.I)Field: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1)When exploring,be sure to draw magics from magic points. 2)When stuck,be sure to talk to the people for a few more times.Some times,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. 5)Note that some magic points and save points are hidden.Equip Siren's discover hidden point to uncover all these hidden points. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7.II)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. 4)Note that you can also find draw point in the world map. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7.III)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 use items like love love G.F,Forget Grass effectively. 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7.IV)Magic: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1)Be sure to organise your party's magic.Like item,there is no point having a lot,if you have to search high-and-low for it. 2)Be sure to have as many cure,status,revive magic. 3)Make full use of the trade menu of magic with other characters. 4)Some valuable spells are easily overlooked.Haste,sleep,silence, berserk,despell,death,can be very useful,especially for junctioning and you should learn how to use them effectively. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7.V)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.Or,you can discard unwanted magics using the Square button in the main menu. 4)Try to draw useful spells to 100x like ultima,meteo,as this helps in increasing your HP and stats. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7.VI)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 battle 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 does 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 are very strong to all enemies,regardless of their elemental. 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 set to neutral or non-elemental and your attack element will only change if a elemental magic is junctioned to an elemental attack. 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 Cerberos.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 slighly.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. 18)When fighting tough bosses,or enemies,be sure to look out for weaknesses like the elementals,status etc. 19)Aura is a very useful spell,especially when use on Squall as Squall's special arts can be very lethal,however save Aura for tougher bosses,as it is not that easy to find Aura. 20)Take note of G.Fs affection rating,and it's best to equip G.Fs with higher affection rating to your character. 21)While during battle,if there are any commands/items/magics etc, you are not sure of,press start to view an explanation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7.VII)Junction: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1)Have 100x status spells like death,berserk,confusion etc,and junction these to your status defense.It can be extremely useful, especially when dealing with creatures like Molbors. 2)After becoming familiar with the enemies in an area,take sometime to understand the weakness of the enemies.For example,if you are dealing with ice elemental monsters,junction fire to your elemental attack,so that you can infict huge damage to them. 3)In Final Fantasy VIII,there are no armour shops,so it's best that you junction a good spell to your defense. 4)Be sure to know what type of spells will boast your stats to the maximum.For example,junction haste to your dexerity is always the best choice.Ultimas and meteo are a good spells for junctioning. Know what you want your character to be strong at,and junction a good spell to it.For example,if your character wants to be strong in attack,junction 100x ultimas to your strengths. 5)The more number of spells you have,the better it is.For example, 100x Cure spell is better than 50x Cure spell. 6)Stronger spells also make a better choice of junctioning.For example,100x Cure 3 is better than 50x Cure 2 spells. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7.VIII)Guardian Force ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1)When equipping G.Fs,take note of the affection rating that the G.Fs have.The higher the affection rating is,the shorter the time,it takes to summon the G.Fs.There is no point to give the strongest G.Fs to your best character,when the affection rating is low,instead use items to improve your affection rating with the G.Fs or give the G.Fs to other characters who have a higher affection rating. 2)Besides affection rating,take note of the commands the G.Fs have. For example,Shiva is the only G.Fs with death sentence,whereas only Diablo and Bahamut have steal command. 3)Also,consider the (C)Character like HP+40%,Dexerity+40%,which can boast your stats. 4)When learning G.Fs ability,it's best to choose the most useful ability.For example,Ouen or support is a very useful ability,and should be learnt first,then follow by summon+10% to improve your G.Fs attack. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7.VIX)Card Game: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. 4)Press Square to talk and then play with players in the card game. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7.VX)Other: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. ======================================================================== 8)ADDITIONAL GUIDE:FINAL FANTASY VIII ======================================================================== Welcome to the additional guide section.It provides you with additional informations,that may be of a sidequest or some basic strategies. Hopefully,this section will be of some help to you. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8.I)Balamb Garden:School Layout ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Now,here's the layout and plan for the entire school.For beginners who have just play Final Fantasy VIII recently,this map will serves you well in finding your way through Garden. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8.I.I)Balamb Garden:First Floor Layout ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8.I.II)Balamb Garden:Second Floor Layout ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8.I.III)Balamb Garden:Third Floor Layout ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8.I.IV)Balamb Garden:Underground Floor Layout ------------------------------------------------------------------------ There isn't anything new to add yet.This is where you fought Noogu,a boss sent by Edea to destroy Garden. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8.II)Test Answer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In SeeD,students,not only have to went through physical training,but also written works.This is to test your knowledge of understanding,and how well you know every battle technqiues 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 soon as you can.(Once Squall is promoted to a SeeD cadet,immediately after the Dollet mission.) 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. Note:Once you input an answer wrongly,you won't be able to return to the previous question to correct it,thus you need to restart all over again once more. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8.III)Chart of Underground WarShip Island-By Kaze Yagami ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8.IV)LionHeart:The Most Powerful Weapon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ______________________________________________________________________ |Basic Materials Needed For Upgrading | |______________________________________________________________________| |Material |QA |Effect |How to get??? | |___________|___|_____________|________________________________________| |Adamantium |x1 |Body Strength|Convert Minotaur card using Quetzalcoatl| | | | +60% |'s card change ability to Adamantium. | | | | | 1x Minotaur=6x Adamantium | | | | |________________________________________| | | | |Kill Adamandanti,turtles with black | | | | |shells,also appeared in other FF7 at the| | | | |shores of Long Horn Island at Galbadia | | | | |continent that is placed horizontally. | | | | |Note,you don't steal,or you will get | | | | |Turtle Shell. | |___________|___|_____________|________________________________________| |Dragon Fang|x4 | None |Kill a green-purplish Dragon at the | | | | |Island of hell or at the mountains near | | | | |Galbadia.Do not steal,but kill.Note that| | | | |this Green has a draw magic,Petrify.If | | | | |you petrify him,the battle will end,but | | | | |you will not get Dragon Fang. | |___________|___|_____________|________________________________________| |Energy Ammo|x12| Bullet |By using Ifrit's make bullet ability, | | | | for |convert | | | | Irvine | 1x Sparkling Energy=10x Energy Ammo | | | | | 1x Gattling Cannon = 5x Energy Ammo | |___________|___|_____________|________________________________________| ______________________________________________________________________ |Additional|Effect |How to get??? | |__________|________|__________________________________________________| |Sparkling | Summon |Kill Erunooiru,dull green Elviole-like structure | | Energy | Magic |found at Esthar Continent after the moonbase event| | | +30% |.Kill it,and not steal.Very low encounter rate. | |__________|________|__________________________________________________| | | |On your way down to fight Ultimate Weapon,when | | | |steam block is 10 at the basement,the first | | | |Behemoth and third Rubulmdragon you kill will give| | | |you sparkling Energy. | |__________|________|__________________________________________________| |Gattling | Blue |Fight Assault Gun on your way in Lunatic Pandora | | Cannon | Magic |(If I remember correctly) | |__________|________|__________________________________________________| ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8.V)The Toughest Boss:Omega Weapon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Okay,i won't talk about where Omega Weapon is.It can be found at the secret section.Have the strongest party fight Omega weapon. ______________________________________________________________________ |Here are the requirements: | |______________________________________________________________________| |Party Requirement|9999HP for all(MUST) | |_________________|____________________________________________________| |Party Formation |Preferably Zell,Squall and Quistis | |_________________|____________________________________________________| |Note|The higher your Lv is,the stronger Omega Weapon is.At Lv 100,it | | |can mean a HP of 1161000, Str of 255, Magic of 255. | |____|_________________________________________________________________| |Here are some party formation: | |______________________________________________________________________| |Name |Reason why this member is choosen | |_________________|____________________________________________________| |Squall |With best weapon,LionHeart equipped,Squall's special| | |art is extremely lethal,especially when he uses End | | |of the Heart as the finishing blow. | |_________________|____________________________________________________| |Zell |Zell's Armageddon Fist,if you mastered it,can cause | | |as much as Squall's special arts,or even more.Refer | | |to the Zell's special arts section in the advanced | | |tutorial section. | |_________________|____________________________________________________| |Quistis |Use Quistis's Blue magic,White Wind and Mighty Guard| | |White Wind helps to restore all allies's lost HP and| | |mighty guard casts positive status conditions like | | |haste,regen,barrier etc to all your allies. | |_________________|____________________________________________________| |Optional Party Member:You may want to consider using them. | |______________________________________________________________________| |Name |Reason for choosing |Reason why optional member | |_________________|_______________________|____________________________| |Irvine |His special arts,shot, |Causing a lot of wastage of | | |can does quite a severe|bullets,and powerful bullets| | |damage if the correct |may run out. | | |bullet is being used. | | | |_______________________|____________________________| |Recommended: |Hyper Shot |Most lethal damage per shot;| |(Bullet) |(Energy Bullet) |recovers very slow,meaning | | | |does not allow rapid firing.| | |_______________________|____________________________| | |Quick Shot |Not powerful than hyper shot| | |(Fast Bulley) |per bullet,but allows rapid | | | |shooting.Can easily shoot | | | |more than 10 bullets within | | | |3 seconds.Easily run out of | | | |ammo. | |_________________|_______________________|____________________________| |Selphie |Use Special Art,The End|I am sure you will want a | | |and finish the fight |good fight with Omega,than | | |in an instant. |to resort to use The End. | |_________________|_______________________|____________________________| |Rinoa |Special arts,Wish Star |Both Wish Star and Invisible| | |causes huge damage and |moon occur randomly.Unsecure| | |Invisible moon has the |this way.Wish Star is strong| | |effect of 1x crusade |,but still inferior to End | | |drink. |of Heart or Armageddon Fist.| |_________________|_______________________|____________________________| |Things You should Have | |______________________________________________________________________| |Magic |Death,Aura,Life 2,Triple,Melten,Protect,Haste. | |_________________|____________________________________________________| |Item |Last Elixir,Crusade Drink,Hero Drink,Phoenix Feather| |_________________|____________________________________________________| |Note|Phoenix Feather should have been used at least one,so that should| | |your party gets wiped out during battle,G.F Phoenix can be summon| | |-ed to revive your party. | |____|_________________________________________________________________| |Junction-What should i Junction? | |______________________________________________________________________| |Priority |Have 9999HP,max strength,defense,speed,and death to | | |ST Defense. | |_________________|____________________________________________________| |Ability |Equip things like Auto-Haste,Auto-Shell,Auto-Protect| | |,Auto Potion,Speed + X%,Strength + X%,Revive,Recover| | |,Defend. | |_________________|____________________________________________________| |How to Beat? | |______________________________________________________________________| |Omega will start the battle casting Level 5 Death.The L5 Death will | |kill anyone with levels that are of multiple of 5.This would not be a | |problem if you have Death junctioned to your ST Def.Try to get the | |following out as early as possible in the following order:Aura,Mighty | |Guard,Triple,Haste,Protect,Melten.Let Squall and Zell concentrate on | |attacking while Quistis concentrate on defense and healing.Keep your | |HP at max all times.Omega uses the following special attacks:Meteo, | |Ultima,Gravissure.After a while,it will use devastating attacks--- | |LICHT SAULE ("Round Pillar of Light"; German) which causes 9999 damage| |regardless of defense and magical support,on one ally;MEGID FLAMME | |("Gigantic Flame",Latin),which does 9998 damage to all allies, regard-| |less of defence and magical support;and then TERRA BRAKE ("Earth | |Shatterer",Latin),which does very high multiple physical hit damages, | |attacking random targets.Terra Brake will usually come right after | |Megid Flamme.By equipping the Defend command,you are being protected | |from the attack as it is considered a physical attack.Another option | |is to use the Hero's Drink/Crusade Drink right after Omega uses Megid | |Flamme,and repeatedly activate Special Arts. | |______________________________________________________________________| |Summary Of Omega Attack(In Chronological Order) | |______________________________________________________________________| |1)L5-Death(Anyone with levels,multiple of 5 will be killed. | |2)Meteo,Ultima,Gravissure | |3)Licht Saule(9999HP to one ally) | |4)Megid Flamme(9998HP to all ally) | |5)Terra Brake(Randomly,multiple hit) | |______________________________________________________________________| |Credit|Thanks to Kaze Yagami for the translations of Omega attack and | | |the valuable strategies he has provided. | |______|_______________________________________________________________| ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8.VI)Way to make Hero/Crusade Drink ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ______________________________________________________________________ |Getting Hero Drink | |______________________________________________________________________| |You will get a hero drink when you defeat Seifer and Edea at the end | |of disc 1 and Seifer at the end of disc 3.That makes 2.I managed to | |defeat Omega Weapon using 2 Hero Drink.To get Hero Drink,you need to | |win Ellone in a card game at the moonbase to get Laguna card,which can| |be converted into 100x Hero drink.But what happens if you miss it? | |Here's the conversion which i got it from StevenBruck's Guardian Force| |FAQ.If you have any questions,feel free to ask him.Okay,here you go. | |______________________________________________________________________| |Using Alexander's Medicine Level Up | |______________________________________________________________________| |10x Experimental Hero Drink =1x Hero Drink | |10x Hero Drink =1x Experimental Crusade Drink | |10x Experimental Crusade Drink =1x Crusade Drink | |______________________________________________________________________| |Here's the steps to get Experimental Hero Drink: | |______________________________________________________________________| |By using Siren's Make Tool ability: | | Material Product Effect of Material | |1st Step: 1x Rozetta Stone =1x Sage's Stone Junction ability x4 | | 1x HungerDemon'sPot=1x Sage's Stone Eat Command | | 1x Mog Charm =1x Sage's Stone Komogri Command | | 1x Dark Matter =1x Sage's Stone Quistis' Shockwave | | Pulser | |______________________________________________________________________| |By using Grasharaboras's Forbidden Medicine: | | Material Product | |2nd Step: 10x Sage's Stone =1x Experimental Hero Drink | |And now,all you go,convert experimental to hero drink,then to Crusade.| |______________________________________________________________________| |To say honestly,the required materials to get 1x Crusade Drink is a | |very tedious,long process.Actually,Crusade Drink works like Hero drink| |,except that it makes three party members invincible at once,instead | |of one at a time.As for the word 'experimental',i am not pretty sure. | |As the word imply,'experimental' items may be unsuccessful at times.If| |you have any doubts,i suggest you ask StevenBruck.The items needed | |like Rozetta Stone,Mog Charm,Dark Matter,HungerDemon'sPot are very | |rare,unless you have a PDA. | |______________________________________________________________________| |After you defeat Omega, a new section, "Proof of Omega", will appear | |under your Tutorial->Help->Information section. | |______________________________________________________________________| |Additional Note from Kaze Yagami | |______________________________________________________________________| |The "experimental" version actually works only 50% of the time.Also, | |using the above method,Grasharaboras need to be at lvl 100.Making | |Crusade Drink is actually very tedious and time consuming. If you have| |a PDA,then of course the above will be easier.A much easier way will | |be to defeat the King of the CC Group in Balamb Garden and win the | |Gilgamesh card from King. One Gilgamesh card will give you 10 Crusade | |Drinks.So,happy making! | |______________________________________________________________________| ======================================================================== 9)SECRET:FINAL FANTASY VIII ======================================================================== This section contains a list of hidden secrets and some valuable cheats to help you in your game.While reading this,you must be aware that these secrets more or less are spoilers and shall be avoided for reading too much of them. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9.I)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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9.II)Soft 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9.III)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. Another way is to use an aura spell on your character,and keep on pressing triangle back and forth until there's a triangle beside the attack.By casting Aura,you will notice that your characters turn golden in colour. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9.IV)Easy Gil ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ist Method ----------- -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. 2nd Method -By Stephanus Rudiyanto Natari ----------- - Buy tents (or better cottages) as much as you can. Use G.F. Tonberry price discount to lower prices. Use Familiar Faces ability to buy Cottages (from Johnny's Shop) - Use G.F. Make recovery medicine ability, Convert all tents and cottages you have to Mega Potions. You can convert 4 tents (or 2 cottages) to 1 Mega Potions. - Sell all Mega Potions. Use Tonberry's Higher Price ability for better prices. - Your Gils are multiplied!! Look on Table below: Buy Discount -------------------------------------------- 4 Tents 4000 (4x1000) 3000 (750x4) 2 Cottages 3600 (2x1800) 2700 (1350x2) 1 Mega Potions can be selled each 5000 gil. (7500 with Tonberry's ability) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9.V)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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9.VI)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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9.VII)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 Molbor, Rubulmdragon,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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9.VIII)Finding Omega Weapon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ He is inside Altemisia Castle.From the main hallway,head upstairs and go to the right.As you go down the spiral staircase,you will noticed the a green party change spot,and a handle at the southwest.Once you examine the handle,you will ring the bell and you will be given 1 minute to REACH Omega Weapon,and not 1 min to FIGHT Omega weapon.But before that,have the main party-the strongest party that is going to fight Omega weapon at the fountain.From the fountain,if you go straight into the door,you should noticed a purple colour cloud,and that purple colour cloud is actually Omega Weapon.Unfortuately,you can't fight him when he appears in the form of purple cloud.He will only show his true form when the bell is rang.Only then you can fight him.If you go furthur north,you will noticed the organ.Firstly,have the main party gather at the fountain,and make sure your party is very well-equipped because Omega weapon is even more tougher than Ultimate Weapon.Once everything is done,use the green party change spot to switch back to the second party.Now,have the second party examined the handle and rang the bell.Once that is done,quickly use the green party change spot near the bell to switch to the main party at the fountain.Enter the door,and you should see Omega Weapon.He looks exactly the same structural shape as Ultimate Weapon,except for the differences in the colour and that he doesn't have a sword in his hand,which Ultimate weapon has.Make contact with it and be ready to fight the toughest boss of FFVIII.When you defeat Omega Weapon,a section,called 'Proof of Omega' will appear in the tutorial section. Note:Time will continue even if you are in battle.Once time runs up,you will see Omega Weapon disappear and transform into a purple cloud. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9.IX)Infinite Phoenix Summon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Firstly,you must collect the five stones in Shumi Tribe and use Phoenix Feather.Then,G.F Phoenix will appear randomly.But before G.F Phoenix can appear,you need to have Phoenix Feather.Each time Phoenix is summoned, Phoenix Feather will decrease by 1 in your item inventory.Here's the way to get Phoenix Feather.Use Alexander's medicine level up: 50x Phoenix Down=1x modified Phoenix Down 3x modified Phoenix Down=1x Pheonix Feather Tips:Phoenix Feather can be brought from most item shops. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9.X)Infinite Gisal Green ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -Head to winhill village and as you head for the street with the CAUTION sign,you will see small,cute chocobos running around,and you will hear the familiar chocobo theme.Exaamine these tiny chocobos and you will receive Gisal Greens.Note that these chocobos run very fast,so you need to catch them very fast. -Go to chocobo forest.Talk to choco boy.Choose the third option to buy Gisal Greens.Each Green costs 600Gil. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9.XI)Max Gil-By Kaze Yagami ------------------------------------------------------------------------ When your first encounter with Choco Boy, make sure your money is above 500 but below 1000gils.After going through the first tutorial,he will collect 1000gils from you,and your gil will rise to the maximum. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9.XII)Junction Bug(Junction more than one attributes)-By Kaze Yagami ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Below is an example of how to junction Ultima to both Str and HP.Take Squall as an example. 1) Junction Ultima to Squall's HP. 2) Junction Silence to Squall's Str. (Or whichever attribute you wish to multi-junction) 3) Using Exchange in the Magic menu, pass 1 of Squall's Ultima to Zell. 4) Using Exchange in the Magic menu, exchange Zell's 1 Ultima with all of Squall's Silence. You will find that Squall has Ultima junctioned to both HP and STR. Repeating the process to junction other attributes desired. Note that after reloading of game all the multiple junctions will be removed and only one attribute will be junctioned with that magic. Note:If you reset the game or rearranged the magic again,Ultima will not be junctioned to both Str and HP. Tips:Make full use of this Junction Bug.Imagine junctioning both 100x Ultima to Squall's strength and magic. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9.XIII)Auto Pilot-By Kaze Yagami ------------------------------------------------------------------------ When you are flying a Ragnarok,press select to go to the full view of the world map,then select any destination,for example point the cursor over to Galbadia,you will see two options available.Choose the first option by pressing circle and Ragnarok will travel automatically without any manual control.Quite interesting actually,especially if you are feeling tired of contolling Ragnarok. Note:Auto-Pilot only work to areas that are labelled in the world map. Examples of area that does not work are WarShip Island,Centra Ruin,Cave of Fire,Timber Lake and all Chocobo Forests etc. Note:Ragnarok will stop when it reach the desired destination. Tips:To regain control of Ragnarok,press X. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9.XIV)Location Of Timber Magazine-By ChaRle5 and Scott Ong ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Here is the list of locations to get all Timber Magazines to uncover more of Laguna's past.All these locations are arranged in chronological order. 1. In the room of Zell's house.You can't take this magazine away. 2. Head to the Hotel of Balamb.Up the stairs and search the table for the magazine 3. On the 2nd floor of Dollet Casino.On the left-hand side table. 4. On the table of the room of Dollet Hotel.Pay 100Gil to enter the room. 5. Head to Timber Maniacs and enter the northern-most room.Examine the pile of documents on the right side of the room. 6. Head to Timber Hotel. Talk to the attendant at the counter, pay 100 gil and you will be allowed to enter it. Search one near the table at the room. 7. Hotel of the Shumi Village. 8. Head to Edea's house, find it located on the floor before you meet Edea. 9. Inside the White SeeD ship. It is on the left side of the control room,where the sailor is standing. 10. Head to F.H city.Enter the house where a moomba is.The maagzine is near the chair. 11. Head for Trabia Garden.Head for the area where you find the graveyard. It's northwest from a magic point. There are a total of 10 magazines scattered throughout the world, excluding the first one in Zell's house.Each magazine contains a piece of information about Laguna.Simply go to the tutorial room in Balamb Garden to view the network.It records informations about Laguna's past, plus some pictures to show you.Of course,you need to know Japanese to understand or it's just useless viewing the pictures. Note from Kaze Yagami: ---------------------- There are two TimberManiacs you can find in Balamb but you can only pick one up (the other one will disappear).One is as above in the hotel, and the other is in the train station. Reading the one at the hotel will cause Laguna to get drunk in the later event,while choosing the one at the station will not. Dialogues between Laguna and his friends will also be slightly changed.If you read the TimberManiac in Shumi Village before you cleared the Laguna Trabia Valley event, Ward will not be in the party in the Trabia Valley event.You can view his saga at the Balamb Garden Network homepage hosted by Selphie. Spoiler Information!!! ---------------------- Remember,Laguna's occupation is a journalist.So,you guessed it.All these timber magazines were a record of his personal diary,of all the places he had been to. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9.XV)Finding Ragnarok In Disc 4-By ChaRle5 and Scott Ong ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the top-left door in Altemisia Castle,that will lead you to the north of Esthar Continent.Just head for the Chocobo Shrine in the northwest and get that free Chocobo.Now return back to the starting door,but don't enter.Now walk down the shallow waters of Esthar and head for the Sabotender Island.There you will find a huge desert on the left of it. Well, the red dot is the Ragnarok. There you will also find a door which leads to the right side of that huge chain. Tips:You will find a man(CC Joker) as you go down the elevator.You can buy items or upgrade your weapons by talking to him. Info:As you might have noticed it,due to time compression,you cannot enter any towns,cities,as they are being surrounded by a barrier. However,you can still enter caves,chocobo forests and so on. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9.XVI)UFO Sighting Incident-Edwin "Shinji Chow and Scott Ong ------------------------------------------------------------------------ You can view these UFO at disc 2 onwards at these places: 1. The seashore located east of Timber. 2. Outside Winhill Town, Galbadia Area. Just walk around there. 3. Desert in the northeast from Edea's House. It is somewhere in Centra Ruin areas. 4. The isolated island east from Trabia Garden. The UFO can be viewed in any order you like.Simply Just equipped Diablo's "Encounter Nothing" and you will get into empty battles! [the UFO just fly away from the battle screen, thus giving you 0 EXP, 0 AP and no items.]After you have seen the UFO at the four spots. Now head north from the Chocobo Shrine at the cliff [You needs Ragnarok for this!] There you will have to fight the UFO [about 15,000 at Level 100] It is an easy battle for the UFO is just can't ATTACK your characters. Now head for the area where you will find Balamb Garden used to be. Now walk around that area and you will eventually meet the ailen,called CoyoCoyo.It has only an 810HP at Level 100!You can either to choose to kill it or give it 5 Elixirs.Killing it will give you a jet engine or giving it 5 Elixirs will get you the UFO card.Don't forget that the card belongs to a rare group. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9.XVII)Fragments Of the Pot-By ChaRle5 and Scott Ong ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This code is directly taken from Scott Ong's FAq Part I.I have rephrased the sentences to make it more precise. In the big,mansion of Winhill village,you must talk to the man in grey suit,who will ask you to find four fragments of his pot. Here they are: 1st Piece:Enter the grand mansion,near where the pub and Laguna's house are.Examine the bronze statue on the left and the statue will start moving.Actually,there's a tiny chocobo hiding behind,and the statue,and it is messing up the statue.The tiny chocobo will then leave,and you can pick up the 1st fragment,which is green in colour. 2nd Piece:Head for the Pub on the left and go up the stair.And an event will occur.(I won't tell you what's about)Simply talk to the lady twice,then head downstairs and examine the table.The lady will then appear again,and the screen will fade to white.Upon returning to normal,you will find a cat.Talk to the cat to recieve the 2nd fragment. 3rd Piece:On your way down,as you pass the florist's house,you will notice an old,fragile lady standing outside the house,then you will see her entering her house again.Go in to her house,talk to her and examine the southeast of the flowerbed.Next you will be given two options, pick the 1st option and talk to the old lady again. Next examine the flowerbed [same spot] and you will find the 3rd piece. 4th Piece:Head for the street with the "CAUTION" sign.You will hear the familar chocobo theme.You will see tiny,baby chocobos walking around.Examine the chocobo and it will pop out the last fragment.Examine the chocobo a second time will give you Gisal Greens(for summoning of Ko-chocobo using item command). Once you have collected all four fragments,head to the mansion,and talk to the man in grey suit twice,and he will give you Holy Stone in exchange of those fragments. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9.XVIII)GameShark Code:Do not OVERUSE it!!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------Special 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 An additional advice: ----------------------- Do not try and use gameshark codes too often unless you have skipped a G.F.It really ruin the fun of the game.In fact,the only ones who can complete the game without referring to any strategy guides,or using any gameshark codes are the 'master of the game.'If you think you are the 'master of the game',then prove it yourself.Do you dare to take up the challenge? ________________________________________________________________________ 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 ________________________________________________________________________ Other Codes ________________________________________________________________________ No Random Battles 80077B18 000C SeeD Ranking Level A 80076E08 0C1C All Items (Caetla Only) B0C60002 00000001 80076BDC 6401 No Enemy:Encounter Nothing D00A7E30 0003 800A7E30 0000 One Fight For One Level 800779B4 03E8 800779B6 03E8 800779B8 03E8 800779BA 0000 800779BC 0000 800779BE 0000 One Fight For Max AP 80077A00 00FF 80077A02 00FF 80077A04 00FF Speed Upon Battle 800775C0 0FA0 800775C4 0FA0 80077790 0FA0 80077794 0FA0 80077960 0FA0 80077964 0FA0 Time In Fire Cave D0076D6C 0256 80076D6C 0258 After One Battle, Money Max D00BF524 0004 800BF524 0001 After One Battle, Level Max 8002183C 0001 After One Battle, GF Point Max 800216D4 0001 View Boss, Turbo Attack (Press R2) D00A74FC 1823 800EEF58 0000 D00A74FC 0002 800EF0F8 0000 Slot Control (Limit Selphie) D00EFFE0 0001 (Press L1+O,L2+O,R1+O,R2+O,L1+R1+O or L2+R2+O) 800EFFE0 0003 D00EFFE0 0002 800EFFE0 0003 D00EFFE0 0003 30104B55 0003 D0081B22 0021 30104B54 0033 D0081B22 0021 800EFFDE 3300 D0081B22 0022 30104B54 0034 D0081B22 0022 800EFFDE 3400 D0081B22 0024 30104B54 0035 D0081B22 0024 800EFFDE 3500 D0081B22 0028 30104B54 0036 D0081B22 0028 800EFFDE 3600 D0081B22 0025 30104B54 0037 D0081B22 0025 800EFFDE 3700 D0081B22 002A 30104B54 0038 D0081B22 002A 800EFFDE 3800 Main Character Has All Magic 50000702 0001 (GS 2.2 or Higher Needed!) 80076538 6301 50002402 0001 80076548 6308 Main Character G.F./Acqu & Change Shiva 50001502 0000 (GS 2.2 or Higher Needed!) 800760FC FFFF 8007614E 00FF 2nd Character Has All Magic 50003202 0001 (GS 2.2 or Higher Needed!) 80076700 6311 3rd Character Has All Magic 50003202 0001 (GS 2.2 or Higher Needed!) 800768C8 6321 4th Character Has All Magic 50003202 0001 (GS 2.2 or Higher Needed!) 80076A90 6331 ________________________________________________________________________ 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. ======================================================================== 10)SONG THEME:FINAL FANTASY VIII ======================================================================== Like Faye Wong's voice or the introduction FMV theme,Liberi Fiberi,but you don't know the English translation?Nopw,here are the English lyrics for Eyes On Me,plus a translated lyrics for Liberi Fatali.I have obtained permission from the various site and now here are the lyrics. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10.I)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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10.I)Liberi Fatali ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Here is the English translation taken from extreme at http://www.ff8.org/extreme35.html Liberi Fatali Excitate vos e somno, liberi mei. Cunae non sunt. Excitate vos e somno, liberi fatali. Somnus non eat. Surgite. Invenite hortum veritatis. Ardente veritate Urite mala mundi. Ardente veritate Incendite tenebras mundi. Valete, liberi, Diebus fatalibus. Children of Fate ---------------- Wake up, my children, The cradles are gone. Wake up, Children of Fate, The peaceful sleep is over. Rise up Search for the Garden of Truth With fiery truth Burn off all the deceit of the world With fiery truth Light up the dark world. Goodbye, children, The next moment of meeting is the moment of fate. Credit:Thanks to Kaze Yagami for correcting the mistakes in the lyrics for Liberi Fatali,as well as doing the translation. ======================================================================== 11)FREQUENTLY-ASKED-QUESTION:FINAL FANTASY VIII ======================================================================== 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,and well-known as the Heavenly Queen in Asia.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 does have 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.Also,recent new slated that Square has announced the early release of FFVIII on 31st August.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.SquareSoft has also confirmed that they are indeed working on a new Final Fantasy,but the name is not yet confirmed yet. But whether it is IX or Graiden,it will still be made for PS,and not be PS2. 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 or Personal Data Assistant. 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.Also,don't forget that PSX version can use the new PDA,PocketStation feature,but can the PC do that? Maybe,Square has to add an additional program to make up for that. 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 possiblity 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.Information Release said that PS2 will utilise a 128-bit chipset called the Emotion Engine. 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.Also,don't forget that PS2 is a very advanced machine and that to have an emotion engine is not that cheap at all.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 has now been released into the Japanese market,however,the date of release for the US version is still unconfirmed yet but is likely to be released at the 4th' quarter,somewhere in November to December,a few months just after FFVIII(US) is released.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!The latest news revealed that there's a possibility that FFIV may not make it into the collection pack for the US version due to the long lengthy translation process.What a sad new!However,the good new is for those who have not played FFV before,this is your chance now to play the English version. 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 list 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. Well,do not fear,SquareSoft has also announced a new action-RPG for PS,and the name is called Dew Prism.Many thought it could be a new sequel to the highly-successful Brave Fencer Musashi in Japan but Dew Prism is an entirely new game and has no connection with BFM. 26)Do you know there is a comic based on Final Fantasy VIII? Indeed,this is true.The comic is being released in Hong kong,and will follow every plot in Final Fantasy VIII.Thanks to Kaze Yagami who told me about the existence of the comics.If anyone wants to know more about FFVIII's story(in japanese,how do you know much?),this is a good chance now,provided you know how to read chinese word characters.Also,the comic can also be found in Singapore.However,you must be warned that the comic can be misleading in certain plots. 27)Will PocketStation ever reach the states? Recent new has it that the PocketStation,PDA might not have a chance to make it to the US due to not able to meet the manufacture target. There are only a few games release that are intended for the use of PocketStation.Final Fantasy VIII is an example,so if PocketStation is not able to meet its day in US,does that mean that we will not be able to play Odekate Chocobo for the English version.Let's just pray that Sony will bring PocketStation over.....we want odekate chocobo. ________________________________________________________________________ Acknowledgement Myself, -For the typing,and almost everything here. Kaze Yagami . -Type and done most of the update for version 6.0. -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. -For the max gil and junction bug cheat. -For doing the translation for Liberi Fatali. -For providng a lot of informations for Omega Strategy + the attacks. -For providing informations on crusade war,as well as experimenting. -For telling me auto pilot. -For the list of attack information on Gilgamesh. -For editing the strategies section on G.Fs,Omega and providing me with the translation of various Omega attack. 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. -Thanks for explaining to me about the difference between experimental and Crusade between Hero Drink 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. -For the list of conversion to get Holy War Drink. -Thanks for explaining to me about the difference between experimental and Holy War between Hero Drink. 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. -For the list of Timber Magazines. -For Finding Ragnarok in Disc 4. -For UFO sighting. -For fragments of pot code. -For the fake water stone. ChaRle5! (nghouse@geocites.com /nghouse@hkstar.com) -For the list of Timber Magazines. -For Finding Ragnarok In Disc 4. -For fragments of pot code. Edwin "Shinji" Chow (ikarishinji5@hotmail.com) -For UFO Sighting. Stephanus Rudiyanto Natari -For the second method on easy gil. -For suggesting me informations about chances of Phoenix appearing. -For giving me suggestion that iron cutting sword is a better name over Steel Breaker. Jerry Ng (jyg@olemiss.edu) -For the fake water stone. GameShark Code Creator -For the list of gameshark code. 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. If you have any questions to ask about other games,besides FFs,feel free to ask the author,regarding the list below. Beyond the Beyond Brave Fencer Musashi Breath Of Fire 3 Final Fantasy VII Metal Gear Solid Parasite Eve Suikoden Tactics Orge Vandal Hearts Wild Arms Xenogears About Kaze Yagami Kaze has been clearing RPGs over RPGs recently. If there's any questions pertaining to the following,feel free to drop him a mail. Chocobo's Fushigi na Dungeon Chocobo's Fushigi na Dungeon II Final Fantasy VII Final Fantasy VIII Langrisser V - End of Legend Legend of Legaia Parasite Eve Tales of Destiny Tales of Phantasia 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. 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