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Copyright Protected. Please 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 author's permission. Thank You for your Cooperation. 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 VIII. _______________________________________________________________________ Final Fantasy VIII Actual Japanese Version Basics Tutorial Guides Yee Seng Fu(Yu Shenfu) Singapore http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Portal/7933/ ICQ:25076522 ysf@pacific.net.sg Version 10.0 Please check for the latest update everytime at www.gameFAQ.com. 30th June 2000 _______________________________________________________________________ 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 VIII demo and this time, i am doing a basic guide for the actual Final Fantasy VIII, 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 Though the complicated materia system has been replaced by the Draw system, it does not sound as easy as you think, in fact there are much more complex options available.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 window. _______________________________________________________________________ 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. The US version uses Zantetsuken for Odin's attack. _______________________________________________________________________ Updates Version 1.0 -Added new information on characters bestiary -Added new information on Miscellanous Tips -Added new information on control buttons. -Added new information on main menu -Added new information on battle combat -Added new information on miscellanous battle tips -Based on the Japanese version. Version 2.0 -Added in GameShark Codes section. -Added information on Kiros Seagill, Ward Zabac, Fuujin and Raijin in the character's section. -Added information on vehicles configuration, based on the Japanese version. -Added in a frequently-asked-question section. -Added new information on Balamb Garden -Added some information on Special Arts -Added new information on fighting ability. -Based on the Japanese version. 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 information on general tip. -Added in an Acknowledgement section. -Based on the Japanese version. Version 4.0 -Added information on tune up weapon shop or junk shop. -Added information on control configuration for Ragnarok for the Japanese version. -Added some more informations on cards. -Added more info on gameshark. -Added more info on characters. -Added 'Eyes On Me' lyrics. -Based on the Japanese version. Version 5.0 -Added some more information on Special Arts. -Added a list of G.F. -Added in a secret section. -Added info on Rinoa's Special Arts. -Added G.F Strategy, except Edea and the others like Odin. -Based on the Japanese version. Version 6.0 -Added more information 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 information from the tutorial. Thank to Kaze Yagami. -Remove the story section. -Corrected mistakes, plus spellings and grammars. -Changes '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 information on PocketStation, including G.F, provided by Kaze Yagami. -Corrected the place of the name for Balamb Map. -Based on the Japanese version. Version 7.0 -Added new 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 information 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 information on Ragnarok Specifications. -Added information on Balamb Train Specifications. -Added more general tips. -Added a list of positive status change-by Kaze Yagami -Added some information on Special Arts section. -Added information on configurations on chocobos, Balamb Garden, based on the Japanese version. -Added new information, 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. -Based on the Japanese version. Version 8.0 -Reedited the strategy section. -Enhanced Tutorial. -Added information on the fake water stone. -Added more information, and a few descriptions on the special arts. [The descriptions are not spoilers!!!] -Updated and change some of the translation and use the US names. -Based on the Japanese version plus some US version. Version 9.0 -Added a card list. -Updated the frequently-asked-question section. -Updated information on the Timber Maniacs in the secret section. -Corrected some spelling mistakes. -Corrected the test answer on question #18. -Corrected and sorted out most of the alignment problems. -Added history/overview for Ultima Weapon. -Added history/overview for Omega Weapon. -Added history/overview for Gilgamesh. -Added information on the locations of four Occult Fan Magazines. -Added Final Fantasy VIII OST List. -Added a little bit of informations on the characters' special arts or limit breaks. -Added information about the CC members. -Added information about the Card Queen in disc 4. -Added information on a whole list of compatibility items. -Added a quick listing of Guardian Force based on the US version. -Added information on a Junction magics chart. -Changes some translations and use the US version names [About 60% of the entire faq already!] -Based on the Japanese version plus some US version. Version 10.0 -Updated the card list section in the advanced tutorial. -Added information on card command. -Added information on getting Chicobo card quest in the secret section. -Added information on the hidden save point located just before fighting Ultima weapon in the secret section. -Added information on redrawing of Guardian Force in Ultimecia Castle in disc four in the additional guide. -Added information on organ found in Ultimecia Castle in the secret section. -Added information on solving Obel Lake mystery in the secret section. -Added information on how to defeat Gerogero more easily in the secret section. -Added information about Report Cards. -Added some new information in the limit break section. -Added information about entering the underground basement, without having Zell as a compulsory character and that the plus point of this method is that you need not fight any enemies on your way back. -Added information about how to boost G.Fs to 250, without using a Turbo controller. -Corrected the names of Gilgamesh's attacks. -Changes some translation and use the US version names. -Corrected some spelling mistakes. -Updated the frequently-asked-question section. -Based on the Japanese version plus some US version. 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. Also, i have solved some of the alignment problems. If you still have any problems of viewing this faq, please view it by changing the font size to 9 instead. _______________________________________________________________________ Version 9.0 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. The translation is based on the Japanese version as this faq is specially written for the Japanese version. Expect to see the difference in control, names and so on. On the other hand, i have started to change some of the names for the US version. Hopefully, this will not confuse some US gamers. Also, the frequently-asked- question section has just been updated! Feel free to comment! _______________________________________________________________________ ======================================================================= 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 v)Card List vi)Card Command vii)Report Cards 7)General Tips i)Field ii)World Map iii)Item iv)Magic v)Draw vi)Battle vii)Junction viii)Guardian Force ix)Card x)Other 8)Additional Guide i)Balamb Garden(Map) ii)Test Answer iii)Chart of Underground WarShip Island iv)Getting Lion Heart v)Toughest Boss:Omega Weapon vi)Way to make Hero/Holy Wars Drink vii)Redrawing of Guardian Force 9)Secret i)Easy AP ii)Soft Reset iii)Easy Special Art iv)Easy Gil v)250 Ouen/Boost vi)Gilgamesh vii)Island Closest to Hell/Heaven viii)Finding Omega Weapon ix)Infinite Phoenix Summon x)Infinite Gysahl Greens 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)Occult Fan Magazines xix)Location of CC members xx)Card Queen in Disc 4 xxi)Getting Chicobo Card xxii)Hidden Save Point xxiii)Organ xxiv)Easy Gergero. xxv)Obel Lake Mystery xxvi)GameShark Codes 10)Song Lyrics i)Eyes On Me [Lyric] ii)Liberi Fatali [Lyrics + Translation] 11)Final Fantasy OST List 12)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 PlayStation, especially with Final Fantasy 8 coming along this year, and known to be another rumor, FF9 will come next year early in Japan and is somehow to be believed to be related to 8.After releasing so many quality RPG games like Xenogears(a very cool sprite-based anime, cool combats and one of the best storyline that an RPG could have.), Brave Fencer Musashiden(Square's answer to N64's Zelda, though unfair to say this, BFM has got some really cool idea that Zelda don't have.), Parasite Eve (the horror RPG game to show Capcom what Square could do.) ,Final Fantasy Tactics(the first Square's strategy-RPG game like the Ogre Battle format, yet more impressive and some cool features like 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 3.6 millions in Japan, about 0.6 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 righteous. 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 dis- obeyed 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 :Fujin 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 :Ellone Age :??? Sex :Female Height :??? Blood Type :??? Birth :??? Weapon :None Description:A girl who stays 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 this faq!!! ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 resume 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. Note:The mod chip protection is only for the Japanese version, not the US version. ~~~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 Move/Find 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 he 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 information, please read the test. Note:For more information, 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 kilometres per hour (km/h) Weight :313 tonnes Capacity :360 passenger ~~~Dual Shock Support~~~ ------------------------ All Dual shock owners will be very pleased to here that Final Fantasy VIII 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 rare 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 information on PDA, please read the frequently-asked-question. A bad New! I heard that Sony might not 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"! But, luckily, the US version has PocketStation compatibility but the problem is when will the PocketStation reach the States. ~~~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 Tonberry King 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The configurations shown below applies to the Japanese version only! The US version has a different default controller 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 in 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. It was 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 (1/3 Propellant, Full Charge and Occupant) 3,450 ton (Full Propellant, Full Charge and Occupant) 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. | |________________|_____________________________________________________| Junction Magics Chart-Contributed By Scott Ong ==================== The chart is taken from Scott Ong's faq. The statistics below are based on 100x magic. For example, 100x Aero will increase a character's HP by 300 if you junction Aero to his or her HP. Now, everything is Mathematics again! So, what if you junction 50x Aero to HP? Simple enough, HP will rise by 150 instead. And, if you just junction 1x Aero to HP, HP will rise by only 3. Get the idea? ______________________________________________________________________ | Name | HP | Str | Vit | Mag | Spr | Spd | Eva | Hit | Luck | |____________|_____|_____|______|______|_____|_____|_____|______|______| | Aero | 300 | 17 | 10 | 16 | 10 | 20 | 8 | 22 | 15 | | Apocalypse |4200 | 80 | 80 | 80 | 90 | 30 | 12 | 30 | 30 | | Aura |3400 | 70 | 22 | 24 | 24 | 10 | 2 | 50 | 40 | | Berserk | 300 | 13 | 8 | 14 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 3 | | Bio | 700 | 24 | 15 | 24 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 4 | | Blind | 100 | 6 | 5 | 12 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 30 | 2 | | Blizzard | 100 | 10 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 10 | 8 | | Blizzara | 200 | 15 | 8 | 15 | 8 | 12 | 4 | 16 | 12 | | Blizzaga |1400 | 30 | 16 | 30 | 16 | 14 | 4 | 20 | 14 | | Break |1000 | 20 | 20 | 34 | 35 | 10 | 4 | 10 | 12 | | Cure | 200 | 4 | 15 | 4 | 15 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | | Cura | 500 | 8 | 28 | 8 | 28 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | | Curaga |2200 | 20 | 65 | 20 | 65 | 10 | 4 | 10 | 10 | | Confuse | 700 | 22 | 18 | 28 | 18 | 18 | 4 | 8 | 8 | | Death |1800 | 22 | 22 | 38 | 58 | 10 | 4 | 10 | 38 | | Demi |1600 | 34 | 18 | 36 | 18 | 12 | 4 | 14 | 10 | | Dispel |1000 | 12 | 36 | 16 | 60 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 14 | | Double | 200 | 15 | 6 | 18 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 40 | 2 | | Drain | 400 | 13 | 30 | 20 | 24 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 4 | | Esuna | 500 | 6 | 36 | 12 | 36 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 10 | | Fire | 100 | 10 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 10 | 8 | | Fira | 200 | 15 | 8 | 15 | 8 | 12 | 4 | 16 | 12 | | Firaga |1400 | 30 | 16 | 30 | 16 | 14 | 4 | 20 | 14 | | Flare |3200 | 56 | 26 | 44 | 26 | 12 | 4 | 26 | 12 | | Float | 200 | 8 | 15 | 8 | 15 | 16 | 4 | 12 | 20 | | Full-Life |4800 | 20 | 80 | 20 | 85 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 20 | | Haste | 500 | 12 | 16 | 20 | 20 | 50 | 8 | 10 | 10 | | Holy |3800 | 55 | 28 | 45 | 48 | 10 | 8 | 24 | 14 | | Life |1200 | 8 | 50 | 10 | 50 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 4 | | Meltdown |1500 | 24 | 80 | 20 | 20 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 8 | | Meteor |4600 | 75 | 34 | 52 | 34 | 30 | 12 | 40 | 22 | | Pain |2800 | 42 | 36 | 60 | 45 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 40 | | Protect | 400 | 6 | 40 | 10 | 18 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 14 | | Quake |2600 | 40 | 20 | 40 | 20 | 7 | 3 | 30 | 12 | | Reflect |2000 | 14 | 46 | 20 | 72 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 16 | | Regen |2600 | 18 | 70 | 18 | 60 | 8 | 4 | 12 | 8 | | Scan | 100 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | | Shell | 400 | 6 | 18 | 10 | 40 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 14 | | Sleep | 100 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | | Slow | 500 | 12 | 16 | 20 | 20 | 40 | 8 | 10 | 10 | | Stop | 800 | 18 | 20 | 30 | 24 | 48 | 10 | 20 | 10 | | Thunder | 100 | 10 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 10 | 8 | | Thundara | 200 | 15 | 8 | 15 | 8 | 12 | 4 | 16 | 12 | | Thundaga |1400 | 30 | 16 | 30 | 16 | 14 | 4 | 20 | 14 | | Triple |2400 | 70 | 10 | 70 | 10 | 70 | 16 | 150 | 30 | | Tornado |3000 | 48 | 24 | 42 | 24 | 33 | 13 | 38 | 14 | | Ultima |6000 | 100 | 82 | 100 | 95 | 60 | 24 | 60 | 64 | | Water | 300 | 20 | 14 | 18 | 14 | 12 | 4 | 18 | 13 | | Zombie | 800 | 15 | 24 | 15 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |____________|_____|_____|______|______|_____|_____|_____|______|______| Credit:Refer to junction FAQ also. His faq has a table value of all junction magics and he has made a very clear and detailed explanation on junctioning. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 boost 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 should 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 should see the % | | |defense against a particular elemental attack. If a green star, | | |as indicated by * appears, this means that you have reached the | | |ability to absorb the elemental 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 of E/S ATK/DEF you can 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 learned, it 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, please 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 power. 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, "Mug" | | | |, "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, "Move/Find"| | | |, "Encounter Nothing" etc. 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, please 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 then switch | Hero's Drink 2 | position with item B. In this case, | Elixir 10 | hero's drink will switch 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 |Hero's Drink 2 | the positions of the items. Like magic |Potion 100 | page, there are a total of 8 pages, each |________________________| page can contain 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 out some portions just to save space, and add a few information. 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 |Active Time Battle moves faster, which means speed | | |increases as well. | |_____________|________________________________________________________| |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. Allows you to float. | |_____________|________________________________________________________| |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.Fs 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 information, 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 information, please 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Guardian Force Menu =================== 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 | 01. Quezacotl |___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___| 02. Shiva | | | | | | | | | 03. Ifrit | 9 |10 |11 |12 |13 |14 |15 |16 | 04. Siren |___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___| 05. Brothers 06. Diablos By clicking Circle, you will be able to 07. Carbuncle view the G.F's ability list, as well as 08. Leviathan the G.F's experience, compatibility and 09. Pandemona HP. Pressing X will return you back to 10. Cerberus the previous screen. When viewing the 11. Alexander Guardian Force status screen, press 12. Doomtrain L1 and R1, to switch to other G.Fs. 13. Cactuar Also, the ability list allows you to 14. Bahamut select the ability you want to learn,as 15. Tonberry well showing you the AP needed. 16. Eden Note:The controls are for the Japanese version only. For US version, press X to confirm instead of Circle and Triangle to cancel instead of X. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. Note:You can equip encounter none to avoid any random enemies. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5.III.I)Guardian Force ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In the past, you simply summon a creature and shortly after, it would appear on the battlefield and create a havoc. Now, there's a chance that the creature might not appear. In Final Fantasy VIII, guardian force are actually the creatures that you summoned to aid you in battlefield. If you have played the previous Final Fantasties before, you should remember of the Esper systems in Final Fantasy VI, the summon materia in Final Fantasy VII. However, there are obviously some noticeable differences. Guardian force are now more involved in battlefield than before. Each Guardian Force has HP and can gain experience to increase their levels. The noticeable changes are the Guardian Force's Active Time Bar and the newly-innovative feature call Boost. I will explain the two in great in-depth in the later sections. Also, unlike Espers in Final Fantasy VI, Guardian Forces in Final Fantasy VIII let the characters gain AP, known as Ability Point, but they do not let characters learn magics, instead characters can learn new commands like Revive, or new abilities that can strengthen a Guardian Force or characters like sumMag + 20%, Str + 20% and so on Unlike the past, when a summoner summons a creature, his or her HP and active time bar are being replaced by that of the summoned creature. Only when the Guardian Force's Active Time Bar ends, the Guardian Force will then appear and create havoc. Before i go into the details, there are some points that i think you should take note of: a)While summoning a Guardian Force, the summoners' HP and ATB are being replaced by that of the creature's. The creature will only appear until the Guardian Force's Active Time Bar countdown ends. b)While summoning a Guardian Force, the summoners' HP and ATB are being replaced by that of the creature's. Any attack on the summoner will go to the summoned creature, meaning that the summoned creature will recieve the damage, not the summoner. In simply, during the course of summoning, the summoned creature acts as a shield for the summoner. c)Status attacks go to the summoner, not the Guardian Force during the course of summoning. For example, while summoning, when the summoner is being attacked by a silence spell or being silenced, the cancelling of summon will automatically be in effect. d)During the time while summoning, when the Guardian Force's HP reaches zero, the cancelling of summon will automatically be in effect as your Guardian Force is now dead. e)During the course of summoning, if you use a cure spell on the summoner, the cure spell will heal only the summoner, not the Guardian Force. f)There are certain items that heal a Guardian Force outside battle. Examples are Pet House, G-Potion, G-Hi-Potion, G-Mega-Potion, G-Returner and so on. Items like Pet-House, G-Potion can be easily bought from most shops. g)If you have a PocketStation, you can play the mini-game and use Mog's Amulet to learn Mini-Mog command. It is a Guardian Force command, meaning you need to use Amnesia Greens to make a Guardian Force forget an ability. Just equip Mini-Mog command and use it during battle to summon Mini-Mog, which will fully recover all of your Guardian Forces' HP. Note that Mog's Amulet can only be obtained from the PocketStation and thus Mini-Mog summon is exclusive to only those who has PocketStation. However, the draw back is that it will take you (100 x Party's Average level)gils per summon. h)The maximum amount of HP damage all Guardian Force can cause is up to 9999HP, with the exception of Guardian Force, Eden, which can exceed the 9999HP limit and up to 20,000 to 50,000HP damage. i)The damage caused by Cactuar depends on the Guardian Force, Cactuar's level. The higher the level Guardian Force, Cactuar is, the more damage it will cause. For example, if Guardian Force, Cactuar is at level between 50 to 59, it will cost 5000 HP of damage. If between 90 to 99, it will cost 9000 HP of damage. Max damage occurs at level 100. This is a sure-cause damage, regardless of how good your enemies' defense may be. You must train your Cactuar well to take advantage of it, if not it will be wasteful. Note that Cactuar doesn't have any Boost. j)Doomtrain attacks enemies with status ailments like poison, berserk and so on. If you have played Final Fantasy VI before, you may realise that Doomtrain is indeed a resemblance to a boss in FFVI and that boss is of course, the Phantom Train. k)There are certain special Guardian Forces which do not have HP, levels and experiences. Examples are Odin, Gilgamesh, Phoenix, Chocobo, Mini-Mog, and Moomba. l)There are certain Guardian Forces which appear randomly. Examples are Odin, Gilgamesh and Phoenix. [Only when you have used Phoenix Pinion at least once] m)There are certain Guardian Forces which you need items to summon. Examples are Chicobo [Gysahl Greens], Phoenix [Phoenix Pinion] and Moomba [Proof Of Friendship]. n)Moomba, Mini-Mog and chicobo's new attacks can only be obtained if you have PocketStation and you must play the chocobo world mini-game. o)Mini-Mog summon can be learned if you have the Mini-Mog command by using Mog's Amulet. p)It's better to equip a Guardian Force with a higher compatibility than one with a lower compatibility. You wouldn't want to take your time to summon a Guardian Force. q)One way to let your Guardian Forces recover your HP outside battle is to walk around. It works like Regen and as you walk, the Guardian Forces' HP starts to recover. However, this doesn't apply to characters. r)My advice to you is learn 'boost' ability first if that Guardian Force has it. It takes only 10AP and can be learned very fast. Once learned, you can do more damage with the 'boost' ability for every time you summon that creature. [Refer to the 'boost' section for more information.] Basically, these are the main pointers that you should take note of. Compatibility ============= How fast or slow Guardian Force's Active Time Bar countdown ends depends on the compatibility. Compatibility is known as affection rating for the Japanese version. Honestly speaking, i prefer the name, 'affection rating' more than the name, 'compatibility.' 'Affection rating' has the effect of how the Guardian Force feels and reacts to a particular character. Anyway, the name, 'Compatibility' works pretty well as well. Q1)What is Compatibility? Compatibility ranges from 0 to 1000. The higher the number, the fastest the Guardian Force's Active Time Bar countdown will be. 1000, being the fastest and 0, being the slowest. It is meaningless to summon a Guardian Force with very low compatibility and you have to wait for a long time for it to appear. By the time, it appears, it may have been dead or recieved any damage. Who knows? Q2)How do i know the characters' compatibility with other Guardian Force? You can view it in your status screen. You should see something like this below: Red |---------------| The bar gauge ________________________ when completely =>|_______________|________| red, shows the 658<=The compatibility maximum compatibility. number. Q3)How do i raise compatibility? You can either use compatibility items or keep on summoning the Guardian Forces you want. Note that there are side effects too sometimes. Refer to the tables below for a clearer picture. Difference in Compatibility-Contributed By Kaze Yagami =========================== Below shows a table for the approximate values of time taken for different compatibility. __________________________________________ |Compatibility (0 to 1000) |Time (Seconds) | |__________________________|_______________| |Compatibility 0 |About 16.8s | |__________________________|_______________| |Compatibility 500 |About 10.2s | |__________________________|_______________| |Compatibility 1000 |About 2.8s | |__________________________|_______________| Raising Compatibility and Demerits-Contributed By Kaze Yagami ================================== Below shows the table of how to increase and decrease your compatibility. ___________________________________________________________________ |Method |Compatibility Up |Amount|Demerit | |____________|__________________|______|____________________________| |Summoning |The Guardian | |Other Guardian Forces' | |a Guardian |Force that is | |compatibility drop by 1~2. | |Force |summoned raises | |____________________________| |____________|compatibility | |Guardian Force of opposing | |Refer to |with the summoner.| 20 |nature drops by 10. | |a) for a | | |____________________________| |special | | |Refer to b) for a special | |condition. | | |condition. | |____________|__________________|______|____________________________| |Using |The respective | |Guardian Force of opposing | |specific |Guardian Force's | |nature drops by 1~2. | |magic. |compatibility | 1~3 |____________________________| |Mainly |raises with the | |Refer to c) for more details| |elemental. |spell caster. | |about it. | |____________|__________________|______|____________________________| |Using |The respective | |Other Guardian Forces' | |specific |Guardian Force's | |compatibility drop by 1~2. | |items. |compatibility | 1~3 |____________________________| |Mainly com- |raises. | |Refer to the list of | |patibility | | |compatibility items for more| |items. | | |details. | |____________|__________________|______|____________________________| |Using |All Guardian | | | |LuvLuvG |Force's | | | | |compatibility | 20 |------------NIL-------------| | |raises. | | | |____________|__________________|______|____________________________| a)If battle ends before Guardian Force is summoned or when a character is silenced while summoning, resulting the cancelling of summon to automatically be in effect, there will be no change in the compatibility for all Guardian Force. b)Eden is a special case because when Guardian Force, Eden is summoned, compatibility with Eden raises by 2, while the remaining Guardian Force will be raise by 1. This is the only special case when there is no side effects, other than using LuvLuvG items. c)If you use a fire spell, Ifrit, being a fire elemental Guardian Force will increase its compatibility, while on the other hand, Guardian Force are opposing nature like Shiva will decrease its compatibility. Note that the same concept applies to summoning Guardian Force as well. For example, if you summoned Ifrit, then Shiva's compatibility will drop by 10. The same concept is reverse if you summon Guardian Force, Shiva instead of Ifrit. Compatibility List-Contributed by Dan Orner ================== Please refer to Dan Orner's item list faq for more information on other items. The list is obtained from him, and organised by me. The original content is not altered. Without Dan Orner's permission, the list will probably be incomplete. ____________________________________________________________________ |Guardian Force |Name of Item |Effect |Source | |_______________|_____________|_______|______________________________| |Quezacotl |Dynamo Stone | + 3 |Mug/Defeat Blitz/Elastoid. | | | | |______________________________| | | | |Defeat Creeps/Cockatrice. | | | | |______________________________| | | | |1x Blitz (L4 card) is | | | | |converted into 1x Dynamo | | | | |Stone. | | | | |______________________________| | | | |1x Quezacotl (L8 card) is | | | | |converted to 100x Dynamo | | | | |Stones. | |_______________|_____________|_______|______________________________| |Shiva |Arctic Wind | + 1 |1x Glacial Eye (L2 card) is | | | | |converted into 1x Arctic Wind.| | |_____________|_______|______________________________| | |North Wind | + 3 |1x Snow Lion (L3 card) is con-| | | | |verted into 1x North Wind. | | | | |______________________________| | | | |1x Shiva (L8 card) is convert-| | | | |into 100x North Winds. | |_______________|_____________|_______|______________________________| |Ifrit |Bomb Fragment| + 1 |Mug/Defeat Bomb. | | | | |______________________________| | | | |1x Bomb (L4 card) is converted| | | | |into 1x Bomb Fragment. | | |_____________|_______|______________________________| | |Red Fang | + 3 |Defeat Hexadragon. | | | | |______________________________| | | | |Defeat Chimera (rare) | |_______________|_____________|_______|______________________________| |Siren |Silence | + 3 |Defeat/Steal Grat/Funguar. | | |Powder | | | |_______________|_____________|_______|______________________________| |Brothers |Dino Bone | + 3 |Mug/Defeat T-Rexaur. | | | | |______________________________| | | | |Defeat Armadodo. | | | | |______________________________| | | | |1x Armadodo (L3 card) is con- | | | | |verted into 1x Dino Bone. | | | | |______________________________| | | | |2x T-Rexaurs (L4 card) is con-| | | | |verted into 1x Dino Bone. | | | | |______________________________| | | | |1x Sacred (L8 card) is convert| | | | |-verted into 100x Dino Bone. | |_______________|_____________|_______|______________________________| |Diablos |Steel Orb | + 3 |Defeat Wendigo. | | | | |______________________________| | | | |Mug GIM47N. | | | | |______________________________| | | | |1x Wendigo (L4 card) is con- | | | | |verted into 1x Steel Orb. | |_______________|_____________|_______|______________________________| |Carbuncle |Dragon Skin | + 3 |Defeat Anacondaur. | | | | |______________________________| | | | |Mug Anacondaur. (Rare) | | | | |______________________________| | | | |Defeat Blue Dragon at Island | | | | |of Hell. | |_______________|_____________|_______|______________________________| |Leviathan |Fish Fin | + 2 |Defeat/Mug Fastitocalon-F. | |_______________|_____________|_______|______________________________| |Pandemona |Shear Feather| + 1 |Mug/Defeat Thrustaevus. | | | | |______________________________| | | | |1x Thrustaevus (L2 card) is | | | | |converted into 1x Shear | | | | |Feather. | | |_____________|_______|______________________________| | |Windmill | + 3 |Defeat Abyss Worm. | | | | |______________________________| | | | |Mug/Defeat Thrustaevus at a | | | | |higher level. | | | | |______________________________| | | | |1x Abyss Worm (L3 card) is con| | | | |-verted into 1x Windmill. | | | | |______________________________| | | | |1x Pandemona card (L9 card) is| | | | |converted into 100x Windmill. | |_______________|_____________|_______|______________________________| |Cerberus |Dragon Fin | + 3 |Defeat Grendel. | | | | |______________________________| | | | |1x Grendel (L2 card) is con- | | | | |verted into 1x Dragon Fin. | |_______________|_____________|_______|______________________________| |Alexander |Moon Stone | + 3 |Defeat Imp. | | | | |______________________________| | | | |Mug/Defeat Elnoyle. | |_______________|_____________|_______|______________________________| |Doomtrain |Poison Powder| + 1 |Defeat Grat. | | | | |______________________________| | | | |Mug/Defeat Imp. | | |_____________|_______|______________________________| | |Venom Fang | + 3 |Mug/Defeat Anacondaur. | | | | |______________________________| | | | |1x Anacondaur (L2 card) is con| | | | |-verted into 1x Venom Fang. | |_______________|_____________|_______|______________________________| |Bahamut |Shaman Stone | + 3 |Refine 1x Dark Matter/Hungry | | | | |Cookpot/Rosetta Stone/Mog | | | | |Amulet into 1x Shaman Stone | | | | |each using Siren's Tool-RF. | |_______________|_____________|_______|______________________________| |Cactuar |Cactus Thorn | + 3 |Mug/Defeat Cactuar. | | | | |______________________________| | | | |1x Cactuar (L3 card) is con- | | | | |verted into 1x Cactus Thorn. | | | | |______________________________| | | | |1x Jumbo Cactuar (L7 card) is | | | | |converted into 1x Cactus | | | | |Thorn. | |_______________|_____________|_______|______________________________| |Tonberry |Chef's Knife | + 3 |Mug/Defeat Tonberry. | | | | |______________________________| | | | |1x Tonberry (L3 card) is con- | | | | |verted into 1x Chef's Knife. | | | | |______________________________| | | | |1x Tonberry King (L5 card) is | | | | |converted into 1x Chef's | | | | |Knife. | |_______________|_____________|_______|______________________________| |Eden |----NIL------|--NIL--|-------------NIL--------------| |_______________|_____________|_______|______________________________| |ALL Guardian |LuvLuvG | |1x Chubby Chocobo (L8 card) is| | Force | | +20 |converted into 100x LuvLuvGs. | | | | |______________________________| | | | |Refine 1x Shaman Stone into 1x| | | | |LuvLuvG. | |_______________|_____________|_______|______________________________| ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5.III.II)Illustration on GF ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Boost is actually a Guardian Force's ability to increase its destructive effect. It was known as "Ouen" in the japanese version, which meant either "assistance, support, help or aid" but was changed to "boost" in the US version. As the name implies, boost can be used to increase your Guardian Force's power. But before you can do that, you need to learn the ability first, which cost 10AP. However, note that not all Guardian Force has this ability. I will now explain everything more detail with the help of some diagrams. When the Guardian Force animation begins, hold select and you should notice this: Legend ====== __ |__| Represents the Square button 75-255 Represents the number. F Represents the pointer/cursor. X F Represents when the cross appears and overlaps the cursor. Step 1: Step 2: In step two, tap Square as fast as __ __ you can go, and the number will rise |__| 75 F |__| 100 F by 1 for every Square button you press. Note that you have to hold Select all the time. Step 3: In step three, a cross will appear and __ overlap the cursor sometimes. When this |__| 200 X F happens, you must stop tapping Square button because should you do so, the number will revert to 75 again and you will have to start all over again. Step 4: In step four, you have reach the maximum __ number. No matter how you tap Square, it |__| 250 F will not exceed 250. This indicates the strongest strength. The number actually represents the percentage of the power of the G.F. You begin as 75% of the power. 75 is at the minimum strength and 250 is at the maximum strength. Some pointers you should take note of: ====================================== a)Note that when the cross appears, keep on holding Select and when the cross disappears again, this is the time to tap Square again. b)The time taken for you tap Square button varies differently with other Guardian Force. For example, G.F Eden gives you a lot of time (since the G.F animation is incredible long), and you can easily tap up to 250 while some probably allows you to tap up to 180 to 220. c)Not all Guardian Forces have the boost ability. Examples are Carbunle, Cactuar, Diablos, Cerberus and all non-junctionable Guardian Forces like Odin, Gilgamesh, Chicobo, Phoenix, Moomba and Mini-Mog. Turbo Cheat-Contributed By Jimmy Khoo, FreedSoul =========== As you know, it's impossible for you to reach 250 when summoning G.Fs ike Brothers, Shiva, Siren and so on. There's actually a very easy way for you to reach 250 in less than 10 seconds. The only way is to use a turbo controller, with the Square button set to turbo. In this way, all you need is to hold Square and the number will rise rapidly. Each Square button you press when set to turbo, will probably rise about 4 to 9. so, can you imagine how fast it is when you hold Square? Also, be sure to know when the cross will appear. Even if you have a turbo controller, if you press Square when the cross appears, the number will revert to 75. Ifrit may cause up to 5000HP when you tap up to 140, for example. But, with a Turbo Controller, you can tap up to 255, and can easily cause up to 9999HP. Comment ======= Of course, you may think that using a Turbo Controller to boost your Guardian Force is considered cheating. At first, i thought the 'boost' or 'Ouen' concept is pretty cool! But, that's only for the beginning. The super-long Guardian Forces sequence [Especially Eden] make the combat more boring as you keep on summoning the same old Guardian Forces. The Guardian Force sequence is impressive to say the least but i will rather endure looking at my party casting 50x Ultimas than watching one super long Guardian Force cinematic scene. Of course, it's just my personal opinion. You can agree or disagree with me and agrue that the animation is long to give you time to tap. Occasionally, i will summon Guardian Forces. Tired of tapping the Square button, come on, just use a Turbo controller! Without Turbo Cheat-Contributed By Brid Barnes =================== Your boosting piece caught my eye, especially you say that you can't boost GF's like Siren up to 250. I found that I could boost all GF's up to 250 except Quezacotl, Ifrit and Shiva without using a "turbo controller". How you say that?. Well, you get a pen with a round lid and simply rub it accross the boosting button as fast as you possibly can. If you do it properly it works very well. Comment ======= Note that i haven't tried the above tips submitted by Brid Barnes , so try it at your own risk. Well, the data below shows how fast that a normal person can tap without using any turbo controller, any cheating methods or whatever. Just press using your own fingers, not with a pen with a round lid and then rub it across the boosting button. Anyway, your idea is pretty interesting. When i have the time, i will try it. Challenge the Max without Turbo-Contributed By Kaze Yagami =============================== The table below shows the max % and max time given that you have for every Guardian Force. The list also shows the name of Guardian Force who has this ability and for those which do not have are ignored in the list. Note that these are only approximate values and subjected to some variations. __________________________________________________________ |Name of Guardian Force |Time (Seconds) |Boost (%) | |__________________________|_______________|_______________| |Quezacotl |13.3s |180% | |__________________________|_______________|_______________| |Shiva |12.9s |180% | |__________________________|_______________|_______________| |Ifrit |13.0s |180% | |__________________________|_______________|_______________| |Siren |17.6s |200% | |__________________________|_______________|_______________| |Brothers |19.3s |220% | |__________________________|_______________|_______________| |Leviathan |21.4s |230% | |__________________________|_______________|_______________| |Pandemona |22.8s |240% | |__________________________|_______________|_______________| |Alexander |22.1s |230% | |__________________________|_______________|_______________| |Doomtrain |22.9s |240% | |__________________________|_______________|_______________| |Bahamut |22.1s |230% | |__________________________|_______________|_______________| |Tonberry |14.0s |190% | |__________________________|_______________|_______________| |Eden |72.6s |250% | |__________________________|_______________|_______________| __________________________ |Name of Guardian Force | The table on the left shows the |__________________________| list of Guardian Force who do |Diablo | not have any boost ability, |__________________________| meaning you cannnot tap Square |Carbuncle | when summoning them to increase |__________________________| their strength. |Cerberus | |__________________________| |Cactuar | |__________________________| ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 Thunder 25 Magic Soldier2 Life Cast | >Magic >Cure 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 Thunder 25 >3 ZELL >Magic Double Cure 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. | Cura 100| screen that looks G.F. | Curaga 95| like this below. |>Full-Life 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%). Note :The name of limit break for Squall is called Renzokuken in the US version. 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-Contributed By Kaze Yagami ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Limit breaks are special moves that characters can perform under special situation, for example when they are low on HP. Some causes massive damage while some can boast the party's power. For the japanese version, limit break is known as special or special arts in Final Fantasy VIII. Basic Requirement: 1)Present HP is at or below 32% of max HP. =>Applies to ALL CHARACTER, except SEIFER. =>Seifer's HP must be at or below 84% of max HP. 2)Aura Condition. 3)Special Condition (Refer to b and c) When either one or both conditions are satisfied, a > mark will appear randomly on the right side of the "Attack" command. Hold right while pointing the cursor at the "Attack" command. Then choose the limit break(s) you want to use. Note:When in curse condition, the > mark will never appear, meaning you won't get a chance to use any limit break(s). Aura ==== Aura is a magical spell when cast on a character allows him to use limit breaks even though his HP is not very low. When in Aura condition, you will notice your characters turn golden yellow colour. Aura allows your character to use limit breaks temporarily and how long Aura condition last, depends on your Crisis level. The higher your Crisis level is , the longer the time your character will be in Aura condition. You can also use item, Aura Stone during battle. How to get Aura spells? ======================= You can get it by drawing Aura spells when fighting with Seifer in disc 3 at Lunatic Pandora. You can also draw Aura spells from draw points found in Island Of Hell or Island Of Heaven. Simply equip Siren's Move/Find and Encounter None and walk in the island(s). Island of Hell is found in the western part of Galbadia, which is that long stretch of coast in the most northwest part of the world map. You can find Island of Heaven in the northeast part of the world map, just north of the Grandidi forest where chocobo Holy is. Crisis Level ============ Each character has an internal perimeter known as the crisis level, which works like a gauge bar in Final Fantasy VII. It affects the chances of using a limit break. As crisis level increases, chances of using limit break increases. Below shows the various ways of increasing your crisis level: a)HP is decreased. b)Negative Status Condition. c)Party member(S) is dead. ________________________________ |Negative Status Bonus|Crisis(Up)| |_____________________|__________| |Slow | + 6% | |_____________________|__________| |Petrify | + 12% | The table on the left |_____________________|__________| shows how much your |Blind | + 12% | Crisis level will |_____________________|__________| increase if your |Poison | + 12% | characters are in any |_____________________|__________| of the negative status. |Silence | + 12% | |_____________________|__________| |Death Sentence | + 18% | Refer to below for |_____________________|__________| more explanation on |1 Party Member down | + 8% | how this negative status |_____________________|__________| bonus works. |2 Party Member 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 Limit Breaks ========================== Different characters have different ways of acquiring limit breaks. It can be through reading magazines; upgrading to a more powerful weapon, or even finding certain items. The details of how each character acquire his limit breaks will be covered individually at each character's section. Easy Limit Break ================= 1)Tap the switching member button until the > mark appear during battle. [The default button should be circle for the US version if i am not wrong, but i prefer it to be Triangle.] When the > mark appears, you should hear a clink sound. If your reflex is fast, you should immediately stop tapping the switching member button once you hear the clink sound. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6.I.I)Special Arts: Squall Leonhart ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Squall's limit break is an add-on to the R1 feature. Just like his normal attacks, R1 can be pressed to do extra criticals during his limit breaks. First, go to the main menu, then search for Squall's status screen and press circle until you see a screen like this for Squall: _______________________________ |Gunblade Auto |ON | OFF| If you set Gunblade Auto ON, the |_____________________|____|____| CPU will control Squall's limit |Renzokuken Indicator |ON | OFF| break and you do not need to |_____________________|____|____| press R1 since the CPU will do |Rough Divide Fated Circle| everything for you. |Blasting Zone Lion Heart | |_______________________________| Press R1 when light hits here. If Renzokuken Indicator is switched _______/_______________________ ON, you should see the meter as | | | | | | | | | | | | shown in the left like this. (1), | | |<| | |<| |<| |<| | (2) and (3) indicates the various |_\_|__|_|__|___|_|___|_|___|_|_| sections. And, |<| indicates the \Miss the direction flow from right to |<1>|<--2-->|<--------3-------->| left. If the light lands on section 1, this means that you will miss the attack. Press R1 on the second section to do a critical hit. The number of such slashes vary from 4 to 8, depending on your crisis level. Follow that, Squall may or may not execute a finishing blow. The chances of him using a finishing blow depends on the crisis level and the finishing blow is selected randomly. Statistics: Name :Renzokuken. Crisis Up :(A)No of slashes increase. (4 to 8) (B)Chances of using finishing blow increases. (C)Chances of using a more powerful finishing blow increases. Acquired By:(A)Upgrade Gunblade (B)Learn new finishing blow. Listing: Below shows the name of the limit breaks, the weapons that are needed, and a brief description of the limit breaks. _____________________________________________________________________ |Limit Break |Weapon |Effect of the Limit Break | |______________|__________________________|___________________________| |Rough Divide |Revolver [Initial] |Single attack on an enemy. | |______________|__________________________|___________________________| |Fated Circle |Shear Trigger |Single attack on all enemy.| |______________|__________________________|___________________________| |Blasting Zone |Flame Saber to Punishment |Single attack on all enemy.| |______________|__________________________|___________________________| |Lion Heart |Lion Heart |Multiple attacks on an | | | |enemy. | |______________|__________________________|___________________________| Note:You already have Revolver weapon at the beginning. Below shows the list of the items needed to tune up the weapon, as well as the attack and the Hit %. __________________________________________________________________ |Name Of Weapon|Cost (Gil)|Item(s) Needed |Attack | Hit % | |______________|__________|________________________|_______|_______| |Revolver | 100 | 6x M-Stone, | - | 255% | | | | 2x Screw. | | | |______________|__________|________________________|_______|_______| |Shear Trigger | 200 | 1x Steel Pipe, | + 4 | 255% | | | | 4x Screw. | | | |______________|__________|________________________|_______|_______| |Cutting Sword | 400 | 1x Mesmerize Blade, | + 10 | 255% | | | | 8x Screw. | | | |______________|__________|________________________|_______|_______| |Flame Saber | 600 | 1x Friend Killer Blade,| + 12 | 255% | | | | 4x Screw, | | | | | | 1x Turtle Shell. | | | |______________|__________|________________________|_______|_______| |Twin Lance | 800 | 1x Dino Bone, | + 15 | 255% | | | |12x Screw, | | | | | | 2x Red Fang. | | | |______________|__________|________________________|_______|_______| |Punishment |1000 | 1x Chef's Knife, | + 18 | 255% | | | | 1x Turtle Shell, | | | | | | 2x Star Fragment, | | | | | | 8x Screw. | | | |______________|__________|________________________|_______|_______| |Lion Heart |2000 | 1x Adamantine, | + 26 | 255% | | | |12x Pulse Ammo, | | | | | | 4x Dragon Fang. | | | |______________|__________|________________________|_______|_______| Rough Divide to Lion Heart are Squall's finishing move. To learn these moves, you have to upgrade Squall's gunblade. For example, if you upgrade to Shear Trigger, Squall will then Fated Circle. The same applies to Lion Heart. For blasting zone, all you need is to upgrade to any of Flame Saber/Twin Lance/Punishment weapon, you will learn Blasting Zone. Note that once you learn it, the limit break will not disappear if you upgrade to a better weapon. For example, your weapon is Shear Trigger and you just upgrade to Flame Saber, you will still acquire the limit break, Fated Circle. However, i heard that if you downgrade your weapon, example from Lion Heart to Punishment, you will lose the Lion Heart finishing blow. Well, i haven't tried it, so i am not pretty sure. Tips:If you have fewer finishing blows, Squall's chances of executing that limit break will be higher. For example, if you have only acquired the limit breaks, Rough Divide, Blasting Zone and Lion Heart, then probability of executing Lion Heart will be now higher. Note:For more information on how to recieve Squall's Lion Heart, please refer to Lion Heart section in the Additional Guide. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6.I.II)Special Arts: Rinoa Heartilly ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rinoa's limit break and her dog, Angelo may remind you of Shadow and his dog, Interceptor in Final Fantasy VI. (Final Fantasy III in the US). The attacks are quite similar. Basically, Rinoa has two limit breaks. One is Combine and another one is Angel Wing. I will first discuss about Combine. Combine ======= Combine limit break involves Rinoa and Angelo together. To learn new combine limit break moves, you need to find Pet Pal magazines. Just like Zell's Duel limit break, to learn new moves, you have to read the magazines. This can be done by going to the item inventory and click on the respective magazines to learn the various respective moves. All you need is to click on the magazine once and Rinoa will learn the respective skills automatically. What if i have forgotten to take a magazine? You can use Tonberry's call shop ability and buy the respective Pet Pal magazines at various respective shops. You can buy Pet Pal magazines in Rinrin's Pet Shop in Esthar City. _________________________________________________________ | _______ ______________ | | | PHOTO | Angelo Rush |______________| | | | OF | Angelo Strike |______________| | | |ANGELO | |> Angelo Recover |______________| | | |_______| Angelo Cannon |______________| | | Invincible Moon |______________| | | Angelo Reverse |______________| | | Angelo Search |______________| | | Wishing Star |______________| | | | |_________________________________________________________| By clicking at one of the move, you will be able to learn the skill. Notice that there is a red colour gauge bar. Once it is full, you will learn the skill. In order to fill up the gauge bar, all you need is to "walk". As you move around in the field or world map, the bar will gradually fill up. Theory behind this is "dogs love to scroll." Tips:To increase the chance of more powerful moves like Wish Star and and Invisible Moon to appear, you can don't train Rinoa with the less powerful move, but you will never get a chance to see the move of course. Reason why? Because these moves appear randomly so probability of a certain move increases if your have learnt fewer moves. Statistics: Name :Combine. Crisis :Chances of using more powerful limit break increases as crisis level increases. Feature :Combinations of attack between Rinoa and Angelo. Acquired By:Reading Pet Pal Magazines. Listing: _________________________________________________________________ |Limit Break |Magazine |Location | |_______________|_______________|_________________________________| |Angelo Rush |Beginning |Nil | |_______________|_______________|_________________________________| |Angelo Cannon |Beginning |Nil | |_______________|_______________|_________________________________| |Angelo Strike |Pet Pal Vo1 1 |On the Train going to Timber. | |_______________|_______________|_________________________________| |Angelo Recover |Pet Pal Vol 2 |On Rinoa's bed inside the Train. | |_______________|_______________|_________________________________| |Invincible Moon|Pet Pal Vol 3 |Timber Shop [Purchase] | |_______________|_______________|_________________________________| |Angelo Reverse |Pet Pal Vol 4 |Timber Shop [Purchase] | |_______________|_______________|_________________________________| |Angelo Search |Pet Pal Vol 5 |Esthar Shop [Purchase] [Rinrin] | |_______________|_______________|_________________________________| |Wishing Star |Pet Pal Vol 6 |Esthar Shop [Purchase] [Rinrin] | |_______________|_______________|_________________________________| Rinoa's combine can be divided into two main areas. I classify them into mid-battle and command. What do i mean? I'll explain it more detail below. Mid Battle ========== You do not need to select these limit breaks through commands, meaning you do not need to go through the > mark. Chances of using these moves increase as crisis levels increase, especially when Rinoa recieves a huge damage. When it meets the requirement, Rinoa will counterattack the enemy with one of these randomly selected moves as listed below. If you have played Final Fantasy VI before, then this concept will be quite similar to it. ____________________________________________________________________ |Limit Break |Description of the Limit Break(s) | |________________|___________________________________________________| |Angelo Rush |Angelo charges and counterattack at an enemy. | | |[Have you forgotten Shadow and Interceptor?] | | |This attack may be helpful at early stage, but will| | |end up useless towards the end since it cannot do | | |massive damage. | |________________|___________________________________________________| |Angelo Recover |Angelo will recover one of your members' HP. | |________________|___________________________________________________| |Angelo Reverse |Angelo will use Phoenix Down and revive a dead | | |ally. | |________________|___________________________________________________| |Angelo Search |Angelo will steal an item. | |________________|___________________________________________________| Command ======= It is the same way as you use limit breaks for other characters. When you hear a click sound, select Attack and press right to select combine. One of these moves, as listed below will be executed randomly. ____________________________________________________________________ |Limit Break |Description of the Limit Break(s) | |________________|___________________________________________________| |Angelo Cannon |Angelo is being blasted off, attacking one enemy, | | |creating a large explosion. This attack is helpful | | |at early stage, but will end up useless towards the| | |end since it cannot do massive damage. | |________________|___________________________________________________| |Angelo Strike |Angelo grabs an enemy and performs a 360 degrees | | |turn in mid-air. It is slighly more powerful than | | |Angelo Cannon or Angelo Rush. | |________________|___________________________________________________| |Invincible Moon |Has the effect of Holy War Drink. It casts the | | |effect of invincibility on all of your characters, | | |making them immune to all physical and magic | | |attacks. It is very useful but hard to get. | |________________|___________________________________________________| |Wishing Star |Rinoa rides onto Angelo, performing multiple | | |attacks on random enemies. It is by far the most | | |powerful limit break but it is very hard to get. | |________________|___________________________________________________| Angel Wing ========== You can only learn this attack in disc 3 when you are inside the Ragnarok and onwards when you have saved her from the sorceress's museum. To select this limit break, when you hear a click sound, select attack command and hold right and you should see Angel Wing attack below Combine. COMMAND SPECIAL P1 You will see a screen like Attack> Combine this during battle. Magic Angel Wing Draw G.F When Rinoa uses the limit break, Angel Wing, these are the following symptoms: a)Until dead or petrified, you cannot control her until the end of the battle. b)Magic will be casted randomly, including spells belonging to various groups like attacking magic, negative status, Despel etc. c)Magic power will be five times the normal power. d)Casted magic do not affect your magic inventory, meaning you won't waste a single drawn spell. e)Immune against negative status like Silence, Berserk, Confuse, Sleep, Poison etc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6.I.III)Special Arts: Zell Dincht ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Zell's limit break is by far the most unqiueness. I believe the concept of Zell's limit break come from Final Fantasy VI(Final Fantasy III in the US). Remember Sabin's Blitz command. Zell's limit break is quite similar to Sabin's Blitz but this time, there is a time limit and you can chain combos. In another way, his moves are quite similar to Final Fantasy VII Tifa's limit breaks. Even some of the names of the limit breaks are the same like Final Heaven. Just like Squall's limit break, you can let the CPU control Zell's limit break or execute it manually. if your reflex is slow, i suggest you let the CPU control. The disadvantage of letting CPU controlling is that you may not get the combination of combos that you want or the CPU may not perform the moves as fast as you do. Statistics Name :Duel. Crisis :Time Limit increases as crisis level increases. Time :4'66, 6'66, 9'33 ,12'00 Feature :Inputting buttons to perform moves and chain up combos. Acquired By:Reading Combat king Magazines. Limit Break List: _______________________________________________________________ |Limit Break |Button |Magazine | |_________________|__________________________________|__________| |Punch Rush |Circle, X. |Beginning | |_________________|__________________________________|__________| |Booya |Right, Left. |Beginning | |_________________|__________________________________|__________| |Heel Drop |Up, Down. |Beginning | |_________________|__________________________________|__________| |Mach Kick |Left, Left, Circle. |Beginning | |_________________|__________________________________|__________| |Dolphin Blow |L1, R1, L1, R1. |Combat 01 | |_________________|__________________________________|__________| |Meteor Strike |Down, Circle, Up, Circle. |Combat 02 | |_________________|__________________________________|__________| |Burning Rave * |Down, Down, Down, Down, Circle. |Beginning | |_________________|__________________________________|__________| |Meteor Barret * |Up, X, Down, Triangle, Circle |Combat 03 | |_________________|__________________________________|__________| |Different Beat * |Triangle, Square, X, Circle, X |Combat 04 | |_________________|__________________________________|__________| |My Final Heaven* |Up, Right, Down, Left, Triangle. |Combat 05 | |_________________|__________________________________|__________| * are finishing blow. 4'66 and 6'66 will begin the fight with Punch Rush. 9'33 and 12'00 will begin the fight with Booya. Finishing Blow are the most devastating moves, and once executed cannot be chained by another combo anymore. Fast Finish: Below shows the list of combo chain-ups you need to input in order to use any of the finishing blow. _____________________________________________________________________ |Burning Rave |Punch Rush, Mach Kick, Punch Rush, Heel Drop/Meteor | | |Strike, Burning Rave. | | |____________________________________________________| | |Booya, Heel Drop, Meteor Strike, Booya, Burning | | |Rave. | |________________|____________________________________________________| _____________________________________________________________________ |Meteor Barret |Punch Rush, Dolphin Blow, Meteor Barret. | | |____________________________________________________| | |Booya, Meteor Strike, Dolphin Blow, Mach kick, | | |Meteor Barret. | |________________|____________________________________________________| _____________________________________________________________________ |Different Beat |Booya, Meteor Strike, Booya, Different Beat. | | |____________________________________________________| | |Booya, Heel Drop, Mach Kick, Heel Drop, Booya, | | |Different Beat. | |________________|____________________________________________________| _____________________________________________________________________ |My Final Heaven |Booya, Heel Drop, Meteor Strike, My Final Heaven. | | |____________________________________________________| | |Booya, Heel Drop, Mach Kick, Rush Punch, My Final | | |Heaven. | |________________|____________________________________________________| Note:As seen from the list above, you can only use finishing blow, Different Beat and My Final Heaven if you begin with Booya. Getting the Combat Magazines: ============================ Below shows the location of the combat king magazine. _____________________________________________________________________ |Magazine Name |Location of the Magazine(s) | |_________________|___________________________________________________| |Combat King 001 |In the first floor of Desert Prison Tower. | |_________________|___________________________________________________| |Combat King 002 |Defeat both Fujin and Raijin inside Balamb Hotel. | |_________________|___________________________________________________| |Combat King 003 |After saving Balamb Town, you will occasionally | | |find a girl at the entrance of the town or at the | | |train there. Talk to her and she will mention | | |something like, "Hey, zell, do you know a girl at | | |the Garden with a pigtail?" Note that Zell must be | | |in your party. Next, go to Zell's house, and talk | | |to his mom, and then check in at the Balamb Hotel. | | |The next morning, simply search the counter in the | | |hotel to recieve it. | |_________________|___________________________________________________| |Combat king 004 |Get it from Esthar soldier during the attack of | | |Lunatic Pandora. | |_________________|___________________________________________________| |Combat King 005 |Inside Lunatic Pandora by using elevator 03 and | | |you should come to a ladder. From the ladder, go | | |left and to the three open doors against the north | | |wall. Go down the hallway and to the left to take | | |the magazine. | |_________________|___________________________________________________| To learn Zell's moves, simply go to item inventory and click on the respective combat king magazine to learn the respective skills. All you need is to click on the magazine once and Zell will automatically learn the skill. What if i have forgotten to take a magazine? You can use Tonberry's call shop ability and buy the respective combat king magazines at various respective shops. You can also buy Combat King magazines in Karen's Book Store found in Esthar City. ARMAGEDDON FIST -Contributed By Kaze Yagami =============== It is actually a chain of near-infinite combo and can be pull off very easily. How to do is very simple: Simply keep on repeating Punch Rush and Booya. Reason, because when a chain starts, it will begin with either one of the both, and then it will loop back to the first one. Punch Rush and Booya are easy to execute and since they remain in a loop, you can perform the move in 0.1 seconds or even less. If you are fast, you can execute about 3 to 9 combos in a second. Each combo can take about 1000 to 4000 damage. Think about it, how long do you need to input the buttons for complex moves like My Final Heaven. Let's do a simple calculation: =>At max str of 255, and max time, 12,00, =>you can do about 36 to 108 combos. =>Each combo does about 1000 to 4000 damage At max, it could mean: 4000 x 108 = 432,000 damage. Note:Armageddon Fist is a name came out by Kaze Yagami. The name the Japanese came up, was Choukyu Bushin Hakken. (Lit, Super Ultimate War God Breaking Punch). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6.I.IV)Special Arts: Quistis Trepe ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Blue Magic was first incoporated in Final Fantasy V as one of the jobs, Blue Mage and ever since then, it came into various forms like Final Fantasy VI, Strago's Lore command, Final Fantasy VII's Enemy Skill materia. Quistis is the only character in Final Fantasy VIII that can use blue magic. The wide variety of attacking and defensive blue magics make her a very balanced character. Instead of being hit by enemies to learn blue magics, Square twisted the concept a bit. Instead, you will have to find certain blue magic items and use it on Quistis for her to learn blue magics. Statistics Name :Blue Magic. Crisis :Rank Up. Feature :Enemy Skill. Avquired By:Using blue magic items on her. As Crisis level increases, rank increases from 1 to 4, with 4 being the highest. The higher the ranking, the more powerful her Blue Magic will be. To learn new blue magic, just go to the item inventory and click on these specific items as listed below and use the items on Quistis. ____________________________________________________________________ |Blue Magic |Item Needed |Acquired By |Description | |________________|________________|________________|_________________| |Laser Eye |Initial |Nil |Laser Attack on | | | | |an enemy. | |________________|________________|________________|_________________| |Ultra Wave |Spider Web |Mug/Defeat |Tremors of the | | | |Caterchipillars.|Earth on an | | | | |enemy. | |________________|________________|________________|_________________| |Electrocute |Coral Fragment |Mug/Defeat |Electrocute all | | | |Cockatrice/ |enemies. It is | | | |Creeps. |thunder | | | | |elemental. | |________________|________________|________________|_________________| |Lv? Death |Curse Spike |Mug/Defeat |Cast Death at all| | | |Tri-face/Imp. |enemies. Depends | | | | |on the level | | | | |multipler. | |________________|________________|________________|_________________| |Degenerator |Black Hole |Mug/Defeat |Instantly kill | | | |Gesper. |an enemy by | | | | |sending them to | | | | |a new dimension. | |________________|________________|________________|_________________| |Aqua Breath |Water Crystal |Mug/Defeat |Water beam at all| | | |Chimera. |enemies. It is | | | | |water elemental. | |________________|________________|________________|_________________| |Micro Missile |Missile |Mug/Defeat |Firing missile at| | | |GIM52A/BGH251F2.|an enemy. Took | | | | |away half of | | | | |enemy's HP. Like | | | | |demi attack. | |________________|________________|________________|_________________| |Acid |Mystery Fluid |Mug/Defeat |Acidic attack at | | | |Gayla. |an enemy. | |________________|________________|________________|_________________| |Gatling Gun |Running Fire |Mug/Defeat |Rapid firing at | | | |SAMO8G. |an enemy. | |________________|________________|________________|_________________| |Fire Breath |Inferno Fang |Mug/Defeat |Fire beam at all | | | |Ruby Dragon/ |enemies. It is | | | |Hexadragon. |fire elemental. | |________________|________________|________________|_________________| |Bad Breath |Malboro |Mug/Defeat |Negative status | | |Tentacle |Malboro. |at all enemies. | | | | |It includes Sleep| | | | |, Berserk etc. | |________________|________________|________________|_________________| |White Wind |Whisper |Mug |Restoring all | | | |Adamantoise. |allies' HP but | | | | |do not cure | | | | |status ailments. | |________________|________________|________________|_________________| |Homing Laser |Laser Cannon |Mug/Defeat |Laser Beam at an | | | |Elastoid/Mobile |enemy. | | | |Type 8/ | | | | |Belhelmel. | | |________________|________________|________________|_________________| |Mighty Guard |Barrier |Mug/Defeat |Positive | | | |Behemoth. |condition on all | | | | |allies. This | | | | |includes Shell | | | | |and Protect also.| |________________|________________|________________|_________________| |Shockwave |Dark Matter |Convert 100x |Attack all | |Pulsar | |Curse Spike/ |enemies. [Same | | | |Black Hole to |as G.F Grievel] | | | |1x Dark Matter. |Able to exceed | | | | |9999HP damage. | |________________|________________|________________|_________________| |Raybomb |Power Generator |Mug Blitz. |Beam attack on | | | | |all enemies. | |________________|________________|________________|_________________| Note:You may want to consider using Guardian Force, Tonberry's Lv Up or Down command ability on your enemies so that to adjust your enemies' levels to get certain items, either by defeating or mugging. You may also need to equip Rare command for help. *1 - Lv ? Death will be level 4 at rank 1, 3 at rank 2, 2 at rank 3 and 1 at rank 4. Any monsters with multiple of that level will die instantly. *2 - Micro Missile will have 50% of the effect at rank 1, 75% at rank 2, 87.5% at rank 3 and 93.75% at rank 4. *3 - Effects of Acid, Bad Breath and Mighty Guard increases as rank increases. *4 - Shockwave Pulser is the only attack that can cause over 9999HP. *5 - Mighty Guard casts Shell, Protect, and sometimes, Haste, Float, Regen, Aura and even Invincibility on all enemies. *6 - Bad Breath casts Berserk, Poison, Sleep, Blind, Confusion etc on all enemies. *7 - White Wind does not heal any status ailments, only recover HP. Using Quezacotl's Card Mod Ability ================================== _____________________________________________________________________ |Blue Magic | Item Needed |Card Mod Conversion | |_______________|________________|____________________________________| |Laser Eye | - | - | |_______________|________________|____________________________________| |Ultra Wave | Spider Web |1x Caterchipillar card (Level 1 | | | |card) will refine into 1x Spider | | | |web. | |_______________|________________|____________________________________| |Electrocute | Coral Fragment |1x Creeps (Level 2 card) will | | | |refine into 1x Coral Fragment. | |_______________|________________|____________________________________| |LV? Death | Curse Spike |1x Tri-face (Level 3 card) will | | | |refine into 1x Curse Spike. | |_______________|________________|____________________________________| |Degenerator | Black Hole |1x Gesper (Level 1 card) will | | | |refine into 1x Black Hole. | | | |____________________________________| | | |1x Diablos (Level 9 card) will | | | |refine into 100x Black Hole. | |_______________|________________|____________________________________| |Aqua Breath | Water Crystal |5x Fastitocalon-F (Level 1 card) | | | |will refine into 1x Water Crystal. | | | |____________________________________| | | |1x Fastitocalon (Level 3 card) will | | | |refine into 1x Water Crystal. | |_______________|________________|____________________________________| |Micro Missile | Missile | - | |_______________|________________|____________________________________| |Acid | Mystery Fluid |1x Galya (Level 1 card) will refine | | | |into 1x Mystery Fluid. | |_______________|________________|____________________________________| |Gatling Gun | Running Fire |1x SAMO8G (Level 3 card) will refine| | | |into 1x Running Fire. | |_______________|________________|____________________________________| |Fire Breath | Inferno Fang |10x Ruby Dragon (Level 5 card) will | | | |refine into 1x Inferno Fang. | |_______________|________________|____________________________________| |Bad Breath | Malboro |4x Malboro (Level 5 card) will | | | Tentacle |refine into 1x Malboro Tentacle. | |_______________|________________|____________________________________| |White Wind | Whisper | - | |_______________|________________|____________________________________| |Homing Laser |Laser Cannon | - | |_______________|________________|____________________________________| | Mighty | Barrier |10x Behemoth (Level 5 card) will | | Guard | |refine into 1x Barrier. | |_______________|________________|____________________________________| | Shockwave | Dark Matter | | | Pulsar | | - | |_______________|________________|____________________________________| |Power Generator| Ray Bomb | - | |_______________|________________|____________________________________| _______________ _________________ |Laser Eye P1 | |Degenerator P2 | To select limit breaks, choose |Ultra Wave | |Aqua Breath | attack and click right and you |Electrecute | |Micro Missile | will be shown a series of |Lv1?Death | |Acid | limit breaks group into four |_______________| |_________________| pages. _______________ _________________ |Gatling Gun P3 | |Homing Laser P4 | The diagrams on the left show |Fire Breath | |Mighty Guard | how the limit breaks are |Bad Breath | |Shockwave Pulsar | grouped into various pages. |White Wind | |Ray Bomb | Click on the respective limit |_______________| |_________________| break to use it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6.I.V)Special Arts: Selphie Tilmitt ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Selphie uses the slot ability and it can be quite useful at times. When you first activate Selphie's limit break, you will be prompted to a screen like this: /Indicate the name of the spell. ___/________ |The End 1 |<--No indicates the number of this type of | | spell you can use. For example, 1 means use |>Do Over | The End one time. | Use |<--Do Over means keep on selecting magics. |____________|<--Use means cast the particular spell. For example, keep on selecting Do Over and you will be shown a list of randomly-selected spell. When you want that particular spell, choose use to cast, in this case the spell cast is The End and you will cast The End one time. Sometimes, you can cast a spells many times. For example, if the word "The End" and "1" are changed to "Curaga" and "3", you will cast 3 times Curaga spell on any random ally. Plus ==== a)Selphie can sometimes many spells at a time. She even can use rare spells like full cure, wall etc. b)Magic cast do not affect your magic inventory, meaning you won't waste a single drawn spell. Minus ===== a)You have to choose your spell fast because the Active Time Bar does not stop when you are choosing, meaning enemies will attack you. Statistics ========== Name :Slot. Crisis Up :a)Chances of more powerful spells appearing is higher. b)Ability to cast more magics increase. =>Note that more powerful spells will appear more often when Selphie's level increases. Feature :Casting of unique spells. Acquired By:Random There are four main rare spells for her limit break, which you can't find it from any draw point or draw from any enemies. The four spells are Full Cure, wall, Rapture and The End. The first time, you use any of these four spells, you will find them recorded in the status screen. I will now list the effects of the four spells. ____________________________________________________________________ |Limit Break |Description of Limit Break(s) | |____________|_______________________________________________________| |Full Cure |Fully recover all allies' HP and status ailments. | | |It does not work on undead characters as it will | | |instantly kill them. | |____________|_______________________________________________________| |Wall |Cast Protect and Shell on all allies, thus raises their| | |physical and magical defense. | |____________|_______________________________________________________| |Rapture |Removes all enemies from battle, causing instant | | |victory. It does not work against bosses and certain | | |specific enemies only. | |____________|_______________________________________________________| |The End |Kills all enemies, causing instant victory. It works | | |for all the enemies, including Omega Weapon, except | | |for undead enemies and final boss, Sorceress Ultimecia.| |____________|_______________________________________________________| _______________________________________________________ |Special | | Full Cure Wall | | Rapture 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. I heard that it was possible to use the two limit breaks that were not included in the game by using a gameshark. I am not pretty sure since it can be a rumor. If anyone has any information about these two limit breaks, feel free to mail me at . 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 up your PlayStation cover and thus freeze your game. This gives you time to choose and select your desired spells. Note that i won't bear any responsibility to any damages done on your PlayStation. Try it at your own risk!!! Limit Break Codes-Contributed By Sam klempner ================= These codes are Selphie's limit breaks sent in by sam Klempner. These codes do not work with the UK version and you need a game enhancer to activate the codes. The format of the codes are still unknown. TRY IT AT YOUR OWN RISK!!! I will not bear any RESPONSIBILITY if these codes do not work or do any damages to your PlayStation. The codes are: ________________________________________________________ |Description |Code | |_________________________________________|______________| |Selphie have infinite Apocalypse magic. |80077FE6 6314 | |_________________________________________|______________| |Selphie Have infinite Full-cure magic. |80077EB4 6333 | |_________________________________________|______________| |Selphie Have infinite Wall magic. |80077EB6 6334 | |_________________________________________|______________| |Selphie Have infinite Rapture magic |80077EB8 6335 | |_________________________________________|______________| |Selphie Have infinite Percent magic. |80077EBA 6336 | |_________________________________________|______________| |Selphie Have infinite Catastrophe magic. |80077EBC 6337 | |_________________________________________|______________| |Selphie Have infinite The End magic. |80077EBE 6338 | |_________________________________________|______________| Special Thanks to Sam Klempner for providing the cheat codes. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.I.VI)Special Arts: Irvine Kinneas ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Irvine's limit break can be considered one of the most originals. I believe the concept came from Xenogears. Remember Billy from Xenogears? Okay, back to the main point. To get Irvine's new limit break, all you need is to find the respective ammos. When using Irvine's limit break, select the ammos you want, you will notice a time bar which is blue in colour. If it runs out, you won't be able to shoot anymore. To shoot, press R1. If you press X, you will not be able to shoot anymore and this will end Irvine's turn. So, don't press X unneccessary unless you don't want to shoot anymore. Please take note that each shot takes up one ammo. You will know that your target is dead when the damage is 0. How to get? Use Ifrit's make bullet ability to convert items into ammos. Once converted into ammos, you will be able to use it and it works the same way as replenishing your ammunition. Statistics Name :Shot. Crisis :More time to shoot as crisis increases. Feature :Firing within the time limit. Acquired By:Find new ammunition. Below shows the type of ammo needed for each shot. _____________________________________________________________ |Ammo |Shot |Effect | |_________________|__________________________|________________| |Normal Ammo |Normal Shot |Single Opponent | |_________________|__________________________|________________| |Shotgun Ammo |Scattered Shot |All Opponents | |_________________|__________________________|________________| |Dark Ammo |Dark Shot |Single Opponents| | | |[Blinds Enemy] | |_________________|__________________________|________________| |Fire Ammo |Fire Shot |All Opponents | | | |[Fire Elemental]| |_________________|__________________________|________________| |Demolition Ammo |Canister Shot |Single Opponent | | | |[Three times the| | | |damage of Normal| | | |ammo] | |_________________|__________________________|________________| |Fast Ammo |Quick Shot |Single Opponent | | | |[Semi-automatic]| |_________________|__________________________|________________| |AP Ammo |Armor Shot (Armour Shot) |Single Opponent | | | |[Ignores Enemy's| | | |defense] | |_________________|__________________________|________________| |Pulse Ammo |Hyper Shot |Single Opponent | | | |[Most powerful | | | |ammo] | |_________________|__________________________|________________| Note:Different shots recovers in different speed. It means that the time taken for reloading is different for different ammos used. Quick Shot recovers the fastest. 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) Below are a list of Ifrit's Make Bullet-RF/Quezacotl's Card Mod ability for conversion of items for Irvine's Bullet. Make full use of the list to replenish your stocks. Ammos like Pulse ammos are very hard to find, and mostly obtained through refining. Note:Ammunitions like Normal Ammo and Fast Ammo can be easily bought in most shops. Using Ifrit's Make Bullet-RF ============================ ______________________________________________ |Item | | Conversion | |___________________|____|_____________________| |1x Screw | => | 8x Normal Ammo | |1x Normal Ammo | => | 1x Fast Ammo | |1x Shotgun Ammo | => | 2x Fast Ammo | |1x Fuel | => | 10x Fire Ammo | |1x Steel Orb | => | 10x Fire Ammo | |1x Inferno Fang | => | 40x Fire Ammo | |1x Venom Fang | => | 20x Dark Ammo | |1x Missile | => | 20x Demolition Ammo | |1x Running Fire | => | 20x Demolition Ammo | |1x Cactus Thorn | => | 40x Demolition Ammo | |1x Sharp Spike | => | 10x AP Ammo | |1x Chef's Knife | => | 20x AP ammo | |1x Laser Cannon | => | 5x Pulse Ammo | |1x Energy Crystal | => | 10x Pulse Ammo | |1x Power Generator | => | 20x Pulse Ammo | |___________________|____|_____________________| Using Quezacotl's Card Mod =========================== __________________________________________________ |Card | | Conversion | |_______________________|____|_____________________| |1x Abadon (Lv6 Card) | => | 30x Dark Ammo | |1x Oilboyle (Lv6 Card) | => | 30x Fire Ammo | |1x Trauma (Lv6 Card) | => | 30x Demolition Ammo | |1x GIM47N (Lv5 Card) | => | 1x Fast Ammo | |_______________________|____|_____________________| ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.I.VII)Special Arts: Other Characters ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Below shows a list of limit breaks for all temporary characters, specifically Laguna, Kiros, Ward, Edea and Seifer. I have described a bit about their limit breaks, hopefully it is not much of a spoiler to you!!! _______________________________________________________________________ Name :Laguna Limit Break:Desperado Description:Laguna tosses out a grenade, goes onto a swinging rope [Like a Tarzan?] and sweeping the enemies with his machine gun, performing rapid firing. When he lands, the grenade explodes. Effect :All Opponents. _______________________________________________________________________ Name :Kiros Limit Break:Blood Pain Description:Holding daggars, Kiros rushes forward to a target, doing six consecutive slashes. [It does shows a reminiscent to Yuffie's limit break, Bloodfest from Final Fantasy VII. Does anyone mention Cloud's Omnislash? But, Cloud is more cooler, especially the final hit.] Effect :Single Opponent. _______________________________________________________________________ Name :Ward Limit Break:Massive Anchor Description:His limit break, Massive Anchor, catapults him into the air and splashes him down with an explosion similar to that of an atomic bomb. [Ward's limit break does show a reminiscent to Cid's limit break from Final Fantasy VII.] Effect :All Opponents. _______________________________________________________________________ Name :Seifer Limit Break:No Mercy [Fire Cross] Description:Seifer charges all his energy to his gunblade, conjuring a fireball and then blasts it at all enemies, follow by a blade swing at all enemies. Effect :All Opponents. _______________________________________________________________________ Name :Edea Limit Break:Ice Strike [Sorcery] Description:As a mighty sorceress, she creates an icicle and throws it at the target. [It does shows a reminiscent of what Edea does to Squall in the FMV at the end of disc 1.] Effect :Single Opponent. _______________________________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 or remodel their existing weapons to a yet, higher weapon. And to make matters more complicated, money is not just 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 | |___________________________________________________| | | | | Steel Pipe | Revolver 100 | | 3 (1) | > Shear Trigger 200 | | Screw | Cutting Sword 400 | | 2 (4) | Flame Saber 600 | | | Twin Lance 800 | | | Punishment 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 3x Steel Pipes and 2x 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 Shear Trigger, you need to have 1x Steel Pipe and 4x 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, Steel 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, Shear Trigger is stronger than Gunblade and Cutting Sword is stronger than Shear Trigger. 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, Shear Trigger 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 confirmation button to tune up if you meet the requirements. If you are playing the Japanese version, the confirmation button is Circle. If you play the US version, the confirmation button is X instead. 5)Take note that certain items are very rare and may require Diablos' Bundoru (Mug) 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 Phoenix.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 :Griever 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) ------------------------------------------------------------------------6.III.IV)Quick Listing of all Guardian Forces (US) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In case, if you are playing the US version, read below instead! Guardian Force (Junctionable) ============== _____________________________________________________________________ |Name Of Guardian Force |Location of Guardian Force |Disc| |_______________________|________________________________________|____| |Quezacotl |In the lecture room. Examine the laptop | | | |in Squall's seat and read the Guardian |1~3 | | |Force tutorial with the beside it.| | |_______________________|________________________________________|____| |Shiva |In the lecture room. Examine the laptop | | | |in Squall's seat and read the Guardian |1~3 | | |Force tutorial with the beside it.| | |_______________________|________________________________________|____| |Ifrit |Defeat Guardian Force, Ifrit at the Fire| | | |Cavern. | 1 | |_______________________|________________________________________|____| |Siren |Draw from Elvoret during the Dollet | | | |Mission. Elvoret will appear and fight | 1 | | |you after defeating Biggs and Wedge. | | |_______________________|________________________________________|____| |Brothers |Defeat Guardian Force, Brothers at Tomb | | | |Unknown King. The two brothers are | 1 | | |Sacred and Minotaur. | | |_______________________|________________________________________|____| |Diablos |Use the magical lamp given by Headmaster| | | |Cid and click on it at the item | | | |inventory to have a fight with Diablos. |1~4 | | |Defeat Guardian Force, Diablos. | | |_______________________|________________________________________|____| |Carbuncle |Draw from Iguion, one of the two lizards| | | |summoned by Sorceress Edea in Deling | | | |City, Presidential Residence. Deling | 1 | | |City is the capital of Galbadia. | | |_______________________|________________________________________|____| |Leviathan |Draw from Norg in the basement of | | | |Balamb Garden. | 2 | |_______________________|________________________________________|____| |Pandemona |Draw from Fujin at Balamb Hotel. You | | | |will first fight Rajin outside the | | | |Balamb Hotel, followed by a combined | 2 | | |team of Rajin and Fujin inside the | | | |Balamb Hotel. | | |_______________________|________________________________________|____| |Cerberus |Defeat Guardian Force, Cerberus at the | | | |main hall of Galbadia Garden. Cerberus | 2 | | |is the monster whom has triple heads. | | |_______________________|________________________________________|____| |Alexander |Draw from Sorceress Edea at Galbadia | | | |Garden, immediately after you fought | 2 | | |with Seifer the second time. | | |_______________________|________________________________________|____| |Doomtrain |Have 1x Solomon's Ring, 6x Steel Pipe, | | | |6x Remedy +, 6x Malboro Tentacles, then | | | |in the item inventory, click on the | | | |Solomon's Ring. Note that you must get |2~4 | | |solomon's Ring at Tear Point before | | | |going to the Lunar Base. | | |_______________________|________________________________________|____| |Bahamut |Defeat Guardian Force, Bahamut in Deep | | | |Sea Research Center. [Deep Sea Research | | | |Centre] It can be found in the southwest| | | |of the World Map and can only be access | | | |by Ragnarok. Choose the first option, |3~4 | | |the second option to fight Ruby Dragons | | | |respectively. Next, choose the third | | | |option, which is hidden to fight | | | |Bahamut. | | |_______________________|________________________________________|____| |Cactuar |Defeat Guardian Force, Cactuar at | | | |Cactuar Island near Centra Region. You | | | |should notice a tiny cactus sticking | | | |out of a small island. It can only be |3~4 | | |access by the Ragnarok. Go near it to | | | |enter a fight. | | |_______________________|________________________________________|____| |Tonberry |Defeat 20 Tonberries inside Centra Ruin.| | | |Once you have defeated the 20th Tonberry| | | |, Tonberry King will appear and fight |2~4 | | |you. Note that the fight is continuous. | | | |Defeat Guardian Force, Tonberry King. | | |_______________________|________________________________________|____| |Eden |Draw from Ultima Weapon at Deep Sea | | | |Deposit, which is the underground base- | | | |ment of Deep Sea Research Center. [Deep | | | |Sea Research Centre] You must first | | | |obtain Guardian Force, Bahamut before |3~4 | | |you can enter the basement to fight | | | |Ultima weapon to draw Eden. [Refer to my| | | |weapon guide faq for ways to beat Ultima| | | |weapon.] | | |_______________________|________________________________________|____| Note:Should you miss any Guardian Force, especially those which need to be draw, the only way is to get them by redrawing them in disc four at the final castle. Refer to the [Redrawing of Guardian Force] section for more details. Note that this is only applicable to the US version. Guardian Force (Non-Junctionable) ============== Below shows the list of guardian force which cannot be junction and has no ability for you to learn. Note that these Guardian Forces, as listed below do not have any compatibility or Guardian Force's Active Time Bar and will appear immediately once summon. _____________________________________________________________________ |Name of Guardian Force |Location |Miscellaneous Info | |_______________________|____________________|________________________| |Phoenix |Collect all 5 stones|Use the item, Phoenix | |[Disc Two to Three] |, naming Blue, Wind,|Pinion once during a | | |Life, Shadow, Water |battle, and Guardian | | |in Shumi Tribe. You |Force, Phoenix will | | |will get Phoenix |appear when your party | | |Pinion. [Refer to |gets wiped out randomly.| | |other faqs for more |________________________| | |information.] |Phoenix will cast life | | | |on your party, reviving | | | |all dead allies to 12.5%| | | |of their total HP. | |_______________________|____________________|________________________| |Chicobo |Catch a chocobo in |Use Gysahl Greens to | |[Disc Two to Four] |any chocobo forest, |summon Boko, the chocobo| | |and you will get to |to battle. | | |choose a name for |________________________| | |the chocobo. From |Play chocobo mini-game | | |then on, you will |on PocketStation to | | |get to play the |learn new attacks for | | |chocobo minigame in |Boko, the chocobo. | | |PocketStation. |________________________| | | |The initial attack is | | | |ChocoFire. These three | | | |attacks can only be | | | |learnt, if you play the | | | |'Odekake chocobo' in the| | | |PocketStation. The three| | | |attacks are ChocoFlare, | | | |ChocoMeteor and Choco- | | | |Buckle. | |_______________________|____________________|________________________| |Odin |In Centra Ruin and |Odin will appear random-| |[Disc Two to Four] |you have to solve |at the beginning of the | | |the puzzle under 20 |battle and using Zante- | | |minutes. [Refer to |suken, slicing all | | |other faqs for more |enemies apart, causing | | |information.] |instant victory. | | | |________________________| | | |If he does not appear at| | | |the beginning of the | | | |battle, it means that he| | | |will not appear for the | | | |remaining half of the | | | |battle. | |_______________________|____________________|________________________| |Gilgamesh |Appears only if you |Gilgamesh will appear | |[Disc Three] |have Odin already |randomly anytime, even | |[Must have Odin first] |when fighting |at the beginning or | | |against Seifer at |middle of the fight. He | | |end of disc three at|will choose one sword | | |Lunatic Pandora. |out of four and uses an | | | |attack randomly. His | | | |four attacks are Zantet-| | | |suken, Excalibur, Exca- | | | |lipoor and Masamune. | |_______________________|____________________|________________________| |Mini-Mog |Can be obtained from|Use Mog's Amulet to | |[PocketStation |PocketStation only. |learn Mini-Mog ability. | | Exclusive] | |You must use Amnesia | | | |Grass on a Guardian | | | |Force to make it forget | | | |one ability. Then, use | | | |Mog's Amulet on that | | | |Guardian Force and equip| | | |the Mini-Mog command. | | | |When using Mini-Mog | | | |command, it summons a | | | |Mini-Mog to battle, and | | | |it will fully recover | | | |all of your Guardian | | | |Forces' HP. However, the| | | |drawback is that it cost| | | |you (100 x Party's | | | |average level)gils per | | | |summon. [It reminds me | | | |of Setzer's GP Toss | | | |command from Final | | | |Fantasy VI as well as | | | |Sumurai job system in | | | |Final Fantasy V.] | |_______________________|____________________|________________________| |Moomba |Can be obtained from|Use Proof of Friendship | |[PocketStation |PocketStation only. |to summon Moomba during | | Exclusive] | |battle. | |_______________________|____________________|________________________| Note:Special thanks to for telling me the translaton of Gilgamesh's attacks. There's only one attack which needs to be changed. The US version uses 'Excalipoor' instead of 'Excalipur, which the japanese uses. Note:For all PocketStation Guardian Forces like Mini-Mog, Moomba etc, i strongly recommend that you read other PocketStation faq. Till today, i still don't have a PocketStation. So, if you have any questions regarding PocketStation, i may not be able to answer and i may not reply your questions. ________________________________________________________________________ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _____________________________________________________________________ |History/Overview | |_____________________________________________________________________| |Remember Ultimate Weapon from Final Fantasy VII? Anyway, never mind! | |In my personal opinion, Ultima weapon is a weaker version of Omega | |Weapon. Ultima Weapon looks quite identical to Omega Weapon, other | |than its skin colour, and for the fact that he carries a sword, which| |Omega does not. Ultima Weapon isn't as tough as you think. The only | |thing you need to worry about is his attack, Light Pillar, which | |costs 9999HP to a single character. When he uses that, be sure to | |quickly revive your character. He tends to use Light Pillar very | |often and he's pretty fast. Other than that, you really shouldn't | |have any difficulty with the correct strategy used. It's advisable | |that you beat Ultima Weapon first before you challenge Omega Weapon. | |I strongly recommend that you use the same party that you are going | |to fight Omega Weapon later on. My recommended characters are Squall,| |Quistis, and Zell. | |_____________________________________________________________________| |Info|After you have gotten G.F Bahamut, exit the island, and then | | |enter the cockpit of the Ragnarok by pressing Circle. Then, go | | |back to the research island with Zell in your party. On the spot| | |where you have just fought Bahamut, you should see a save point | | |and an underground tunnel. The path below will lead you to fight| | |Ultima Weapon and obtain the last G.F, Eden. | |____|________________________________________________________________| |Note|Press Triangle to enter the cockpit instead of Circle if you are| | |playing the Japanese version. | |____|________________________________________________________________| |Note|Zell is a compulsory character and you will know why later on. | | |Be sure to enter the cockpit of the Ragnarok if you have not | | |done so. | |____|________________________________________________________________| |In the Underground Water Facility | |_____________________________________________________________________| |Tips|Equip your character with Encounter-None first. You will know | | |why later on. | |____|________________________________________________________________| |To enter the underground basement, you need to adjust the steam block| |to 10. Examine the steam block on the bottom left corner of the | |screen. You can choose to read the tutorial or not. Choose not. Now, | |initially, you will begin with 20 steam block. | |_____________________________________________________________________| |You will be asked to input Square button two times. Each Square | |button took away two steam block, which means after pressing twice, | |Steam Block No will become 20-2-2=16. A hidden door to the bottom | |will be revealed. Proceed down the stair. Just near the stairs, you | |will find a steam block machine. Examine it, and you will be asked to| |input the password. Let's say, if you choose 2, it will now become | |16-2=14. As usual, the door to the underground will open up. The | |process will be the same for the rest of the door. Repeat it. | |_____________________________________________________________________| |Just in case, i keep you suspended about. The password is 2-2-1-1. | |In case, you are confused, see the number of the door on the top- | |right hand corner of the screen and input the password that match the| |ones below. | |_____________________________________________________________________| |Door Number | 1 | 2 | 5 | 9 |Understand! Your Steam Block number | |Input Password| 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |should be 10 now. | |______________|___|___|___|___|______________________________________| |When you come down the elevator, you should see a huge steam machine.| |You are given two options. | |_____________________________________________________________________| |1st Option|Allows you to activate the steam block machine, pressing | | |Square two times. The Steam Block will become 10-2-2=6. | | |Each Square button took up two steam block, just as the | | |first one. | |__________|__________________________________________________________| |2nd Option|This will let Zell to examine the steam block. | |__________|__________________________________________________________| |In order not to make it too direct, i will give you hints as to which| |option you should choose. | |_____________________________________________________________________| |-How do you make the Steam Block still remains as 10? | |-Have you been trusting your friends? | |-Ask yourself why Zell is a compulsory character? | |_____________________________________________________________________| |Well, you should more or less get the hint already. Choosing both | |options will open up the door to the underground basement, but only | |one options allows you to fight Ultima Weapon and that option is the | |hint as given above. If you choose the alternative option, you will | |not fight Ultima weapon, but you can take this chance to explore the | |basement, and train your levels, since the monsters inside here are | |very strong. | |_____________________________________________________________________| |Note|Assuming you have choosen the correct option, let me warn you | | |route to the basement is very tedious and long. Make sure you | | |are well-equipped. There are only two save points, one at the | | |entrance and one hidden near where you fought Ultima weapon. The| | |hidden draw points require you to equip Siren's Move/Find item | | |before you can use it. Make sure you equip it and save it just | | |before fighting Ultima weapon because should you lose, you have | | |to start the whole long, tedious process all over again. The | | |hidden save point is a shiny object at the bottom level to the | | |left of the machine that summons Ultima weapon. | |____|________________________________________________________________| |Credit|Thanks to for telling me about the hidden | | |save point. | | |______________________________________________________________| | |Thanks to X. Calibur for telling me | | |about the hidden save point. | |______|______________________________________________________________| |Here is another way of entering the basement and this time now, Zell | |needs not be a compulsory character. | |_____________________________________________________________________| |First, at the second level of the Undersea Research Center, use 2 | |steam RSP. Then, on the third level, you will see a little machine. | |Press X on it and spend 3 steam RSP. It will then open up the door | |too the steam room. [You will see the door open] Go inside. In the | |back, there is another machine. Press X on it and it will give you | |seven more steam RSP! Then, just keep spending 1 steam RSP 'till you | |get to level 6. DO NOT LET ZELL TRY TO FIX IT! The door will open | |and you will have exactly 10 steam RSP left! Plus, the best part is | |that you will fight no monsters on the way down to the bottom of the | |basement. | |_____________________________________________________________________| |Credit|Thanks to for telling me the above method | | |that you need not have Zell as a compulsory character in your | | |party and that you need not fight anymore enemies on your way | | |back after defeating Ultima Weapon. [Please refer to Kaze | | |Yagami for the chart in the Additional| | |guide ssection for more details.] | |______|______________________________________________________________| |Even with Encounter-None, it can only minimise your chances of enter-| |ing into a battle. There are five areas which you need to go, before | |reaching Ultima Weapon at the very bottom. With Encounter-None, you | |will encounter three battles for each area, which mean to say you | |will have to fight 15 rounds of battle continously. Note that you | |will fight the same enemy for three times in an area. | |_____________________________________________________________________| |Before that, look at some of the requirements: | |1)Squall's LionHeart (Must) | |2)Junction 100x Ultima to Squall and Zell's strength. (Must) | |3)Junction 100x Silence to Status Attack to at least one character. | |4)Junction 100x Poison and Blind to Status Defense to all characters.| |5)Junction 100x Sleep, Berserk etc to Status Attack. (Recommended) | |6)Junction 100x Haste or Triple to all your characters' speed. | |7)Have Aura, Full Life, Meltdown. (Recommended) | |8)Have plenty of Phoenix Pinions. (Recommended) | | =>Refer to Miscellanous on how to get more Phoenix Pinions. | |9)Equip any character abilities like HP + 80%, Spd + 40%, Vit + 40%, | | most importantly, increase your characters' HP, Speed, Vitality to | | the maximum as much as possible. Consider equipping Auto-Haste and | | revive command also. | |_____________________________________________________________________| |1st Area|Tri-Face | |________|____________________________________________________________| |It is a three-headed beast, and will sometimes cast poison on you. If| |have already junction poison to status defense, you do not need to | |afraid of him, if not, you can use items/magics to remove poison. If | |100x Ultima is junctioned to Squall's strength, you should be able to| |kill it within a few attacks. | |_____________________________________________________________________| |2nd Area|Grendel and Imp | |________|____________________________________________________________| |Grendel |He uses lightning attacks and looks more of a lizard. But, | | |again, he is not that difficult to defeat, if you have met | | |the requirements as above. | |________|____________________________________________________________| |Imp |He can also be found in Esthar area after the lunar base | | |incident. He is not hard to defeat, and will use blind magic| | |on you. If you have junctioned blind to status defense, this| | |shouldn't be a problem, if not, use items/magics to remove | | |it. For the last fight(Third fight), Imp will cast his final| | |attack, Holy on a character who kills him. | |________|____________________________________________________________| |3rd Area|Behemoth | |________|____________________________________________________________| |He uses magics like Meteor very frequently, causing some massive | |damage on you. To stop him from using any magic, meteor, junction | |Silence to Status attack. After some time, he may or may not use | |barrier on himself, thus reducing any physical or magic damage on | |him. Nevertheless, he is helpless when he is silenced. Also, you can | |get Barrier from him, which is one of the essential item for Quistis | |to learn Blue Magic, Mighty Guard. | |_____________________________________________________________________| |4th Area|Ruby Dragon | |________|____________________________________________________________| |You should be very familiarised with Ruby Dragon since you fought him| |before fighting Bahamut and during one of the Laguna Scenerios. His | |deadly attack, possibly Breath, does the most damage, along with | |other attacks like flare, meteor. My strategy is use one Aura or keep| |Squall and Zell at low HP, and finish him as soon as possible before | |he casts Flare on you using Limit Breaks. If not, keep on drawing and| |cast Meteor on him. To ensure that Meteor reach the max effectiveness| |, consider switching 100x Ultima from Strength to magic first, then | |switch back after that. To end the fight more quickly, consider using| |meltdown on him. | |_____________________________________________________________________| |5th Area|Iron Giant | |________|____________________________________________________________| |You will encounter two Iron Giants in each battle, making it a total | |of 6. Basically, Iron Giant does a great deal of physical damage, and| |it is advisable if you have high Vitality. With Sleep junction to | |status attack, you can make Iron Giant fall asleep, while focusing | |your concentrations on the other one. To make things simpler, you may| |consider using some aura spells and finish them off quickly. Also, | |Iron Giant will cast Barrier on himself too. | |_____________________________________________________________________| |Make sure you take Ultima magic from the draw point just before you | |leave the 5th Area. Now, you are on your way to fight. Examine the | |machine on the top-right corner. Ultima Weapon will arrive shortly. | |_____________________________________________________________________| |Note|Remember to draw G.F Eden. | |____|________________________________________________________________| |Ultima Weapon is very easy, and can be defeated by executing a few | |of Squall's limit break. Basically, his most fearsome attack is quite| |possibly the Light Pillar, which will kill your party member at | |instant, regardless of your defense, but rest assure, it only attacks| |one party member, not all. Start off by using Aura straight away on | |Squall and Zell, and let them use their limit breaks. Use Zell's | |Limit Break, Armageddon Fist (duel). Refer to Limit Break section. | |Have Squall keep on using Renzokuken. You should finish Ultima weapon| |very easily. If Ultima Weapon uses Light Pillar, quickly use Revive | |command or Life/Full Life to revive the dead ally. Don't hesitate! | |Ultima Weapon uses Light Pillar very frequently, sometimes giving you| |little time to revive your dead ally. Good Luck! | |_____________________________________________________________________| ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 open 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I notice that other faqs do not have much details about Gilgamesh's attacks so this will be an exclusive section dedicated to Gilgamesh. _______________________________________________________________ |History/Overview | |_______________________________________________________________| |Gilgamesh made his first appearance in Final Fantasy V. For | |those who has played and familiar with Final Fantasy V, you | |should know that Gilgamesh was banished to the 'Cleft of | |Dimension.' Gilgamesh was the righthand man of Exdeath, an evil| |black mage in Final Fantasy V. How or why he appears again in | |Final Fantasy VIII remains a mystery to me. Can anyone explain | |why to me? Anyway, it's great to see Gilgamesh making a | |comeback in Final Fantasy VIII, don't you think so? Anyway, | |Omega weapon is back now, so why not Gilgamesh too as well? | |_______________________________________________________________| |Location |You must have gotten Odin first before fighting | | |against Seifer at the end of disc 3 in Lunatic | | |Pandora. Now, wait for a while, and enjoy the event! | |_________|_____________________________________________________| |Tips |Don't attack Seifer as Gilgamesh will appear soon. | | |Instead, keep drawing Aura spells from Seifer. | |_________|_____________________________________________________| |Attack |Zantetsuken, Excalibur, Excalipoor and Masamune | |_________|_____________________________________________________| |General Information about Gilgamesh | |_______________________________________________________________| |Like Odin, Gilgamesh cannot be junction to a character, neither| |does he have any ability for you to learn. However, like Odin, | |he will appear randomly during battle. Unlike Odin, it can | |appear in the beginning, middle of the fight, whereas Odin can | |only appear in the beginning of the fight, if not, Odin will | |not appear for the remaining half of the battle. As Gilgamesh | |is summoned, you will notice that there are four swords descend| |-ing down together with Gilgamesh. Each of these four swords | |represents an attack- Zantetsuken, Excalibur, Excalipoor and | |Masamune. He will choose any of the four swords randomly and | |that sword choosen will use that particular attack. | |_______________________________________________________________| |Do you know? | |_______________________________________________________________| |According to , he says that after all the | |four swords had descended and stopped rotating, Gilgamesh will | |pick the sword that is at the back of him. Good observation | |from !!! While so, you still cannot | |determine the attack that Gilgamesh will use because you don't | |know which sword will land at the back of him. In general, | |Gilgamesh's attacks are still random. Does that make sense to | |you??? I hope so!!! | |_______________________________________________________________| |Credit |The information listed above is contributed by | | |. | |_______________|_______________________________________________| |Name Of Attack |Effect and Special Note | |_______________|_______________________________________________| |Zantetsuken |This attack is inherited from Guardian Force, | | |Odin. It will slice all enemies apart, causing | | |instant victory. However, Zantetsuken does not | | |work against bosses. | |_______________|_______________________________________________| |Excalibur |Strong damage against all enemies. [Refer to | | |the table below for more details.] | |_______________|_______________________________________________| |Excalipoor |It is a fake version of the sword, Excalibur as| | |it does only 1 HP damage to all enemies. | |_______________|_______________________________________________| |Masamune |Strong damage against all enemies and is more | | |stronger than Excalibur. [Refer to the table | | |below for more details.] | |_______________|_______________________________________________| |Credit |Special thanks to for | | |the names of Gilgamesh's attacks as used in | | |English version. | |_______________|_______________________________________________| |Below shows a table, listing out the attacks, damage, levels | |of the swords, Excalibur and Masamune. | |_______________________________________________________________| |Listing-Contributed By Kaze Yagami | |_______________________________________________________________| |The attack level of Guardian Force, Gilgamesh depends on the | |average level of the party member, similarly to Guardian Force,| |Phoenix. The higher your luck is, the chances of Odin/Gilgamesh| |appearing will be higher. | |_______________________________________________________________| | 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|The values are subjected to variables as different enemies| | |have different defenses. However, the variations are very | | |neligible. | |____|__________________________________________________________| ======================================================================= 6.V)Card List ======================================================================= One difference between Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy VIII is the disparity in mini-games. Whereas Final Fantasy VII had mini-games aplenty, Final Fantasy VIII has only two. One is of course the Card game and another one is the Choco World mini-game, provided that you have PocketStation. Card games, known as Triple Triad are popular throughout the world of Final Fantasy VIII. As years passed, different regions have come up with their own rules. If there is a Pokémon craze worldwide in 1999, then there is a Triple Triad craze in Final Fantasy VIII world. I have to admit that whoever comes up with the idea of this card game is a genius. It's asolutely addictive once you starts to play it. In my opinion, Card game serves as a form of distraction during the game. Because it's so addicting, you may forget about proceeding on. The Card game is much better than those lame mini-games found in Final Fantasy VII. [Except Chocobo Breeding and Racing] Don't be fooled by this deceptively simple offering as a waste of time! At first, i thought the Card game was designed for three-years old kid as it looked very simple to me. Man, i was terribly wrong for thinking it this way! The Card game can get really very complex at times. Talk about the complex card rules like Same, Plus, Random, Elemental and so on! Then, there's trade rules. How are you going to control trade rules in a region? How are you going to spread or demolish rules in a region? If these aren't enough, there's the Card Queen, Card Club Members and so on, enough to keep you busy. Unfortuately, i won't go into the Card rules. If you want, refer to Scott Ong's faq. Below is a whole list of cards from level 01 to 10. You can use G.F Quezacotl's card mod ability to convert card(s) into item(s). There are many rare and good items which are very hard to obtain. So, make full use of the cards. Now, let's move on to the list. Note that once you have completed your card collection, you should see a star next to the card option in the main menu. Also, any lost cards will also be considered completed, as long as you have gotten that card at least once. Note that you can also use Quezacotl's Card Command to turn certain monsters into cards. [Refer to the Card Command Section.] ======================================================================= CARD PAGE 01: Level 1 Monster Card ======================================================================= Name :Geezard Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 5x screws. Usage :Use as Junk Material for upgrading of weapons. Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 1 5 4 1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Funguar Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 1x M-Stone Piece. Usage :Use as Junk Material for upgrading of weapons. Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 5 3 1 1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Bite Bug Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 1x M-Stone Piece. Usage :Use as Junk Material for upgrading of weapons. Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 1 5 3 3 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Red Bat Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 1x Vampire Fang. Usage :Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 6 2 1 1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Blora Elemental :N/A Card Mod :4x will refine into 1x Rune Armlet. Usage :Has the effect of Spr + 20%. [Character Ability] Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 2 5 3 1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Gayla Elemental :Thunder Card Mod :1x will refine into 1x Mystery Fluid. Usage :Learns Blue Magic. [Acid] [Quistis's Limit Breath] Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 2 4 1 4 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Gesper Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 1x Black Hole Usage :Learns Blue Magic. [Degenerator] [Quistis's Limit Breath] Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 1 1 5 4 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Fastitocalon-F Elemental :Earth Card Mod :5x will refine into 1x Water Crystal. Usage :Learns Blue Magic. [Aqua Breath] Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 3 1 5 2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Blood Soul Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 1x Zombie Powder. Usage :Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 2 1 1 6 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Caterchipillar Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 1x Spider Web. Usage :Learns Blue Magic. [Ultra Wave] [Quistis's Limit Break] Use as Junk Material for upgrading of weapons. Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 4 3 2 4 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Cockatrice Elemental :Thunder Card Mod :1x will refine into 1x Cockatrice Pinion. Usage :Use as Junk Material for upgrading of weapons. Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 2 6 1 2 ======================================================================= CARD PAGE 02: Level 2 Monster Card ======================================================================= Name :Grat Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 1x Magic Stone. Usage :Use as Junk Material for upgrading of weapons. Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 7 1 1 3 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Buel Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 1x Magic Stone. Usage :Use as Junk Material for upgrading of weapons. Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 6 3 2 2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Mermerize Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 1x Mesmerize Blade. Usage :Use as Junk Material for upgrading of weapons. Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 5 4 3 3 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Glacial Eye Elemental :Ice Card Mod :1x will refine into 1x Arctic Wind. Usage :Improves Compatibility. [Shiva + 1] Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 6 3 1 4 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Belhelmel Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 1x Saw Blade. Usage :Use as Junk Material for upgrading of weapons. Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 3 3 4 5 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Thrustaevis Elemental :Wind Card Mod :1x will refine into 1x Shear Feather. Usage :Use as Junk Material for upgrading of weapons. Improves Compatibility. [Pandemona + 1] Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 5 5 3 2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Anacondaur Elemental :Poison Card Mod :1x will refine into 1x Venom Fang. Usage :Use as Junk Material for upgrading of weapons. Improves Compatibility. [DoomTrain + 3] Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 5 5 1 3 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Creeps Elemental :Thunder Card Mod :1x will refine into 1x Coral Fragment. Usage :Learns Blue Magic. [Electrocute] [Quistis's Limit Break] Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 5 2 2 5 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Grendel Elemental :Thunder Card Mod :1x will refine into 1x Dragon Fin. Usage :Use as Junk Material for upgrading of weapons. Improves Compatibility. [Cerberus + 3] Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 4 2 4 5 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Jelleye Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 1x Magic Stone. Usage :Use as Junk Material for upgrading of weapons. Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 3 7 2 1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Grand Mantis Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 1x Sharp Spike. Usage :Use as Junk Material for upgrading of weapons. Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 5 3 2 5 ======================================================================= CARD PAGE 03: Level 3 Monster Card ======================================================================= Name :Forbidden Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 1x Betrayal Sword. Usage :Use as Junk Material for upgrading of weapons. Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 6 2 6 3 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Armadodo Elemental :Earth Card Mod :1x will refine into 1x Dino Bono. Usage :Use as Junk Material for upgrading of weapons. Improves Compatibility. [Brothers + 3] Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 6 6 3 1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Tri-Face Elemental :Poison Card Mod :1x will refine into 1x Curse Spike. Usage :Learns Blue Magic. [LV ? Death] [Quistis's Limit Break] Use as Junk Materials for upgrading of weapons. Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 3 5 5 5 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Fastitocalon Elemental :Earth Card Mod :1x will refine into 1x Water Crystal. Usage :Learns Blue Magic. [Aqua Breath] [Quistis's Limit Break] Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 7 3 5 1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Snow Lion Elemental :Ice Card Mod :1x will refine into 1x North Wind. Usage :Improves Compatibility. [Shiva + 3] Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 7 3 1 5 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Ochu Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 1x Ochu Tentacle. Usage :Use as Junk Material for upgrading of weapons. Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 5 3 6 3 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :SAMo8G Elemental :Fire Card Mod :1x will refine into 1x Running Fire. Usage :Learns Blue Magic. [Gatling Gun] [Quistis's Limit Break] Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 5 4 6 2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Death Claw Elemental :Fire Card Mod :1x will refine into 1x Sharp Spike. Usage :Use as Junk Material for upgrading of weapons. Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 4 2 4 7 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Cactuar Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 1x Cactus Thorn. Usage :Improves Compatibility. [Cactuar + 3] Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 6 3 2 6 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Tonberry Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 1x Chef's Knife. Usage :Use as Junk Material for upgrading of weapons. Improves Compatibility. [Tonberry King + 3] Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 3 4 6 4 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Abyss Worm Elemental :Earth Card Mod :1x will refine into 1x Windmill. Usage :Use as Junk Material for upgrading of weapons. Improves Compatibility. [Pandemona + 3] Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 7 5 2 3 ======================================================================= CARD PAGE 04: Level 4 Monster Card ======================================================================= Name :Turtapod Elemental :N/A Card Mod :5x will refine into 1x Healing Mail. Usage :Has the effect of GFHP + 10%. [G.F Ability] Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 2 7 3 6 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Vysage Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 1x Wizard Stone. Usage :Use for Refining purposes. Statistics : 6 5 5 4 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :T-Rexaur Elemental :N/A Card Mod :2x will refine into 1x Dino Bone. Usage :Use as Junk Material for upgrading of weapons. Improves Compatibility. [Brothers + 3] Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 4 7 6 2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Bomb Elemental :Fire Card Mod :1x will refine into 1x Bomb Fragment. Usage :Use as Junk Material for upgrading of weapons. Improves Compatibility. [Ifrit + 1] Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 2 3 7 6 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Blitz Elemental :Thunder Card Mod :1x will refine into 1x Dynamo Stone. Usage :Use as Junk Material for upgrading of weapons. Improves Compatibility. [Quezacotl + 3] Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 1 7 6 4 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Wendigo Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 1x Steel Orb. Usage :Use as Junk Material for upgrading of weapons. Improves Compatibility. [Diablos + 3] Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 7 6 3 1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Torama Elemental :N/A Card Mod :5x will refine into 1x Life Ring. Usage :Use as Junk Material for upgrading of weapons. Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 7 4 4 4 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Imp Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 1x Wizard Stone. Usage :Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 3 6 7 3 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Blue Dragon Elemental :Poison Card Mod :1x will refine into 1x Fury Fragment. Usage :Use as Junk Material for upgrading of weapons. Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 6 3 2 7 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Adamantoise Elemental :Earth Card Mod :3x will refine into 1x Turtle Shell. Usage :Has the effect of Vit + 20%. [Character Ability] Use as Junk Material for upgrading of weapons. Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 4 6 5 5 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Hexadragon Elemental :Fire Card Mod :3x will refine into 1x Sharp Spike. Usage :Use as Junk Material for upgrading of weapons. Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 7 3 5 4 ======================================================================= CARD PAGE 05: Level 5 Monster Card ======================================================================= Name :Iron Giant Elemental :N/A Card Mod :3x will refine into 1x Star Fragment. Usage :Has the effect of SumMag +20%. [G.F Ability] Use as Junk Material for upgrading of weapons. Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 6 5 5 6 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Behemoth Elemental :N/A Card Mod :10x will refine into 1x Barrier. Usage :Learns Blue Magic. [Mighty Guard] [Quistis's Limit Break] Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 3 7 6 5 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Chimera Elemental :Water Card Mod :10x will refine into 1x Regen Ring. Usage :Has the effect of HP + 20%. [Character Ability] Use as Junk Material for upgrading of weapons. Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 7 3 6 5 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :PuPu Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 1x Hungry Cookpot. Usage :Destroys weak enemies for exchange of permanent statistics raises. [Allows G.F to learn Devour Command] Use for refining purposes. Location :Must locate the UFO chase and take the Ragnarok to the chocobo holy and you will encounter a fight with PuPu. PuPu will then escape after the fight. Next, visit Balamb area, the location where Balamb Garden formerly used to be located and you will encounter a fight with PuPu again. Give him 5 elixirs and he will give you the card. [Refer to sidequest:UFO chasing for more information.] Statistics : 3 1 A 2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Elastoid Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 1x Steel Pipe. Usage :Has the effect of SumMag + 10%. [G.F Ability] Used as Junk Material for upgrading of weapons. 6x Steel Pipe are needed to get G.F Doom Train. Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 6 7 2 6 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :GIM47N Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 10x Fast Ammo. Usage :Ammos for Quick Shot. [Irvine's Limit Break] Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 5 4 5 7 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Malboro Elemental :Poison Card Mod :4x will refine into 1x Malboro Tentacle. Usage :Learn Blue Magic. [Bad Breath] [Quistis's Limit Break] Use as Junk Material for upgrading of weapons. Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 7 2 7 4 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Ruby Dragon Elemental :Fire Card Mod :10x will refine into 1x Inferno Fang. Usage :Learn Blue Magic. [Fire Breath] [Quistis's Limit Break] Use as Junk Material for the upgrading of weapons. Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 7 4 2 7 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Elnoyle Elemental :N/A Card Mod :10x will refine into 1x Energy Crystal. Usage :Has the effect of SumMag + 30%. [G.F Ability] Used as Junk Material upgrading of weapons. Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 5 6 3 7 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Tonberry King Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 1x Chef's Knife. Usage :Use as Junk Material for upgrading of weapons. Improves Compatibility. [Tonberry King + 3] Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 4 4 6 7 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Wedge, Biggs Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 1x X-Potion. Usage :Restores HP to one ally. Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 6 7 6 2 ======================================================================= CARD PAGE 06: Level 6 Boss Card ======================================================================= Name :Fujin, Raijin Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 1x X-Potion. Usage :Restores HP to one ally. Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 2 4 8 8 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Elvoret Elemental :Wind Card Mod :1x will refine into 10x Death Stones. Usage :When used in battles, it allows you to kill an enemy instantly. Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 7 4 8 3 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :X-ATM092 Elemental :N/A Card Mod :2x will refine into 1x Turtle Shell. Usage :Has the effect of Vit + 20%. [Character Ability] Use as Junk Material for upgrading of weapons. Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 4 3 8 7 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Granaldo Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 1x G-Returner. Usage :Revives one dead G.F. Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 7 5 2 8 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Gerogero Elemental :Poison Card Mod :10x will refine into 1x Circlet. Usage :Has the effect of SumMag + 10%. [G.F Ability] Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 1 3 8 8 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Iguion Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 1x Cockatrice Pinion. Usage :Use as Junk Material for upgrading of weapons. Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 8 2 2 8 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Abadon Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 30x Dark Ammo. Usage :Ammos for Dark Shot. [Irvine's Limit Break] Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 6 5 8 4 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Trauma Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 30x Demolition Ammo. Usage :Ammos for Canister Shot. [Irvine's Limit Break] Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 4 6 8 5 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Oilboyle Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 30x Fire Ammos. Usage :Ammos for Fire Shot. [Irvine's Limit Break] Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 1 8 8 4 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Shumi Tribe Elemental :N/A Card Mod :5x will refine into 1x Gambler Spirit. Usage :When used in battles, it allows you to turn an enemy into a card. [Chances of turning the enemy into a card is higher if the enemy is weak, especially when at low HP.] [Allows G.F to learn Card Command] Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 6 4 5 8 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Krysta Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 10x Holy Stone. Usage :When used in battles, it allows you to cast powerful Holy elemental attack on one enemy. Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 7 1 5 8 ======================================================================= CARD PAGE 07: Level 7 Boss Card ======================================================================= Name :Propagator Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 1x G-Mega-Potion. Usage :Recovers 1000HP to all G.Fs. Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 8 8 4 4 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Jumbo Cactuar Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 1x Cactus Thorn. Usage :Improves Compatibility. [Cactuar + 3] Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 8 4 8 4 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Tri-Point Elemental :Thunder Card Mod :40x will refine into 1x Jet Engine. Usage :Has the effect of Spd + 20%. [Character Ability] Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 8 8 5 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Name :Gargantua Elemental :N/A Card Mod :10x will refine into 1x Strength Love. Usage :Has the effect of Str + 20%. [Character Ability] Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 5 8 6 6 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Mobile Type 8 Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 10x Shell Stones. Usage :When used in battles, it raises one ally's magic defense by 50%. Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 8 3 6 7 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Sphinxara Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 1x G-Mega-Potion. Usage :Recovers 1000HP to all G.Fs. Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 8 8 3 5 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Tiamat Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 10x Flare Stone. Usage :When used in battles, it allows you to cast Flare, which is a non-elemental magic on one enemy. Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 8 4 8 5 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :BGH251F2 Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 10x Protect Stone. Usage :When used in battles, it raises one ally's physical defense by 50%. Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 5 5 7 8 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Red Giant Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 5x Meteor Stone. Usage :When used in battles, it allows you to cast Meteor, a non-elemental magic on all enemies. Multiple hits on random enemies. Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 6 7 8 4 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Catoblepas Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 5x Rename Card. Usage :Changes the name of one G.F. Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 1 7 8 7 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Ultima Weapon Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 1x Ultima Stone. Usage :When used in battles, it allows you to cast Ultima, a non-elemental magic on all enemies. Use for refining purposes. Statistics : 7 8 7 2 ======================================================================= CARD PAGE 08:Level 8 GF Card ======================================================================= Name :Chubby Chocobo Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 100x LuvLuvGs. Usage :Improves Compatibility. [All G.F + 20] Use for refining purposes. Location :The guy sitting on the bench in Balamb Garden, just outside the library. [Must take part in Card Queen Quest.] Statistics : 4 9 4 8 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Angelo Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 100x Elixirs. Usage :Restores all HP and cures all status ailments to an ally. Use for refining purposes. Location :Defeat Watts in disc one during Forest Owls event, that is when you are in Timber Train and about to kidnap the President of Deling, or in white SeeD ship during disc three. Statistics : 9 3 6 7 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Gilgamesh Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 10x Holy Wars. Usage :Makes all invincible for a short duration and makes all allies immune to all physical and magic attacks when used during battles. Use for refining purposes. Location :Must beat the CC Group Quest. Defeat all five CC members in Balamb Garden, then talk to Doctor Kadowaki in the infirmary. Finally, go to your room and take a rest. The CC King will appear randomly during your sleep. Defeat her to get Gilgamesh's card. Statistics : 3 6 7 9 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :MiniMog Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 100x Pet Houses. Usage :Recovers all HP for all G.F. [Can be used only at save points or at world map.] Use for refining purposes. Location :Look for a small little kid wearing a blue shirt running laps around the main lobby of Balamb Garden. Challenge him to play cards and win a rare Mini-Mog's card. Statistics : 9 2 3 9 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Chicobo Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 100x Gysahl Greens. Usage :When used in battles, it allows you to summon G.F Boko, a chocobo G.F. If you have a PocketStation, you can make Boko learn new attacks. Use for refining purposes. Location :Visit all chocobo forest and solve the riddles. Next, go to Chocobo Holy in the northeast part of the world map to recieve the card. Note that Chocobo Holy is that Chocobo Forest being surrounded by Grandidi Forest. [Refer to Sidequest:Chicobo for more information.] Statistics : 9 4 4 8 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Quezacotl Elemental :Thunder Card Mod :1x will refine into 100x Dynamo Stones. Usage :Use as Junk Material for upgrading of weapons. Improves Compatibility. [Quezacotl + 3] Use for refining purposes. Location :Win from Mayor Dobe when you first arrive in Fisherman's Horizon. [FH Area] Statistics : 2 4 9 9 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Shiva Elemental :Ice Card Mod :1x will refine into 100x North Winds. Usage :Improves Compatibility. [Shiva + 3] Use for refining purposes. Location :Go into Timber Maniacs office and pick up the 'Girl Next Door'. When you are in disc three, talk to Zone, then the White SeeD, and finally to Zone again. He will request you to give him the 'Girl Next Door' magazine. Give it to him and he will give you Shiva's card in return for that. Statistics : 6 9 7 4 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Ifrit Elemental :Fire Card Mod :1x will refine into 3x Elem Atks. Usage :Allows you to junction elemental magic to elemental attack. [G.F Junction Ability] Use for refining purposes. Location :Defeat Guardian Force, G.F Ifrit in Fire Cavern in disc one. Statistics : 9 8 6 2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Siren Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 3x Status Atks. Usage :Allows you to junction status magic to status attack. [G.F Junction Ability] Use for refining purposes. Location :Visit the pub in Dollet City. Challenge against Master of Card in the upper right of the screen. He will take you to his private room via the bridge. Defeat him to get Siren card. Tips :Check the stack of magazines in his private room for magazine, Occult Fan II. Statistics : 8 2 9 6 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Sacred Elemental :Earth Card Mod :1x will refine into 100x Dino Bones. Usage :Use as Junk Material for upgrading of weapons. Improves Compatibility. [Brothers + 3] Use for refining purposes. Location :Defeat Guardian Force, G.F Brothers in the Tomb of Unknown king to get Sacred and Minotaurs' cards. Statistics : 5 9 1 9 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Minotaur Elemental :Earth Card Mod :1x will refine into 10x Adamantines. Usage :Has the effect of Vit + 60%. [Character Ability] Use as Junk Material for upgrading of weapons. Use for refining purposes. Location :Defeat Guardian Force, G.F Brothers in the Tomb of Unknown king to get Sacred and Minotaurs' cards. Statistics : 9 9 5 2 ======================================================================= CARD PAGE 09: Level 9 GF Card ======================================================================= Name :Carbuncle Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 3x Glow Curtains. Usage :Automatically casts reflect on the character during battles. [Character Ability] [Auto-Reflect] Use for refining purposes. Location :Take part in Card Club Quest and defeat CC Heart. CC Heart is Xu, and is in the cockpit. Defeat her to get Carbuncle's card. Statistics : 8 4 4 A ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Diablos Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 100x Black Holes. Usage :Learns Blue Magic. [Degenerator] [Quistis's Limit Break] Use for refining purposes. Location :Use Magical Lamp given by Principal Cid and you will encounter a fight with Guardian Force, G.F Diablos. Defeat Guardian Force, G.F Diablos to get Diablos card. Statistics : 5 3 A 8 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Leviathan Elemental :Water Card Mod :1x will refine into 3x Doc's Codes. Usage :Double the effect of medicine when used during battles. [Character Ability] [Med Data] Use for refining purposes. Location :Take part in Card Club Quest. Defeat CC Joker in the Training Center [Training Centre] to get Leviathan's card. Statistics : 7 7 A 1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Odin Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 100x Dead Spirits. Usage :Use for refining purposes. Location :Defeat Guardian Force, G.F Odin in Centra Ruin from disc two onwards to get Odin's card. Statistics : 8 5 A 3 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Pandemona Elemental :Wind Card Mod :1x will refine into 100x Windmills. Usage :Use as Junk Material for upgrading of weapons. Improves Compatibility. [Pandemona + 3] Use for refining purposes. Location :Challenge the hotel owner after saving Balamb Town, that is after the invasion of Galbadia Army from disc 2 onwards. The hotel owner is standing outside Balamb Hotel. Defeat him to get Pandemona's card. Statistics : A 7 1 7 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Cerberus Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 100x Lightweights. Usage :Use for refining purposes. Location :Defeat Guardian Force, G.F Cerberus in Galbadia Garden during disc two to get Cerberus card. Statistics : 7 A 4 6 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Alexander Elemental :Holy Card Mod :1x will refine into 3x Moon Curtains. Usage :Automatically increase character's magic defense by 50% during battles. [Character Ability] [Auto-Shell] Use for refining purposes. Location :Challenge Piet at Lunar Base in disc three. You can also challenge Piet after the Lunar Base incident in disc three only by going to the Escape Retrieval Pod, in Abandon Plains at the southern tip of Esthar Continent. Defeat Piet to get Alexander's card. Statistics : 9 2 A 4 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Phoenix Elemental :Fire Card Mod :1x will refine into 3x Phoenix Spirits. Usage :Revive dead ally. [Allows G.F to learn Revive Command.] Use for refining purposes. Location :From the guy wearing blue in colour at Esthar President's building. [Must take part in Card Queen Quest.] Statistics : 7 A 2 7 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Bahamut Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 100x Megalixirs. Usage :Restores all HP and cure all status ailments to all allies. Use for refining purposes. Location :Defeat Guardian Force, G.F Bahamut in Deep Sea Research Center [Deep Sea Research Centre] to get Bahamut's card. It is found in the most Southwest part of the World Map and can only be accessed by the Ragnarok. Choose 'It's not our will to fight' to encounter a fight with Ruby Dragon, then choose 'Never' to fight with Ruby Dragon again. Finally, choose the third option, which is invisible under the second option and the third option says 'It's our nature', to fight with Guardian Force, Bahamut. Statistics : A 6 8 2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Doomtrain Elemental :Poison Card Mod :1x will refine into 3x Status Guards. Usage :Allows you to junction status magic to status defense. [G.F Junction Ability] Use for refining purposes. Location :From the Pub Owner, who has it in his desk in Timber. [Must take part in Card Queen Quest.] Statistics : 3 A 1 A ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Eden Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 3x Monk's Codes. Usage :Allows character to counter when being physically attacked during battles. [Character Ability] [Counter] Use for refining purposes. Location :Defeat Ultima Weapon in Deep Sea Deposit, which is the basement at Deep Sea Research Center. [Deep Sea Research Centre.] It is found in the most Southwest part of the World Map and can only be accessed by the Ragnarok. Statistics : 4 A 4 A ======================================================================= CARD PAGE 10: Level 10 Player Card ======================================================================= Name :Ward Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 3x Gaea's Ring. Usage :Has the effect of HP + 80%. [Character Ability] Use for refining purposes. Location :Win against Doctor Odine at Esthar Palace/Laboratory in disc three. Statistics : A 8 7 2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Kiros Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 3x Accelerators. Usage :Automatically cast haste on the character during battle. [Character Ability] [Auto-Haste] Use for refining purposes. Location :From the man wearing black in colour in Deling City, which is Galbadia Capital. [Must take part in Card Queen Quest.] Statistics : 6 A 7 6 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Laguna Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 100x Heroes. Usage :Makes one invincible for a short duration and makes the ally immune to all physical and magic attacks when used during battles. Use for refining purposes. Location :Defeat Ellone at Lunar Base in disc three to get Laguna's card. Statistics : 5 9 A 3 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Selphie Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 3x Elem Guards. Usage :Allows you to junction elemental magic to elemental defense. [G.F Junction Ability] Use for refining purposes. Location :Go to Trabia Garden, Selphie's former military school. Challenge Selphie's friend, who is sitting in front of the fountain to get Selphie's card from disc two to disc three. Statistics : A 4 8 6 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Quistis Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 3x Samantha Souls. Usage :Has the effect of SumMag + 40% [G.F Ability] Use for refining purposes. Location :Defeat the student, Trepe Groupie #2 in the Cafeteria who is sitting down on a chair. Select the one in the back. You can do this from disc one to disc three. You can also find Trepe Groupie #2 occasionally in the second-floor of the classroom. Statistics : 9 2 6 A ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Irvine Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 3x Rocket Engines. Usage :Has the effect of Spd + 40%. [Character Ability] Use for refining purposes. Location :From the woman who is the station master of Fisherman's Horizon. [FH Area] [Must take part in Card Queen Quest.] Statistics : 2 A 6 9 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Zell Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 3x Hyper Wrists. Usage :Has the effect of Str + 60%. [Character Ability] Use for refining purposes. Locaton :Defeat Zell's mother in Balamb Town from disc one to disc three. Zell's mother is inside her house at the kitchen. Defeat Zell's mother to get Zell's card. Statistics : 8 6 5 A ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Rinoa Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 3x Magic Armlets. Usage :Has the effect of Spr + 60%. [Character Ability] Use for refining purposes. Location :Go to Deling City, capital of Galbadia. Talk to General Caraway, Rinoa's father in the huge mansion. Ask him some questions regarding cards and then challenge him to a game. Deliberately lose the Ifrit's card to him and you will get Rinoa's card. To get back your Ifrit's card, simply head to Fisherman's Horizon, [FH Area] and challenge Martine, who is sitting outside Mayor Dobe's house. Win Ifrit's card from Martine. Statistics : 4 A A 2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Edea Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 3x Royal Crowns. Usage :Has the effect of Mag + 60%. [Character Ability] Use for refining purposes. Location :Defeat Edea at Edea's house in disc 3. Statistics : A 3 A 3 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Seifer Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 3x Diamond Armors. Usage :Has the effect of GFHP + 40%. [G.F Ability] Use for refining purposes. Location :Defeat Headmaster Cid in Edea's house from disc two to disc three to get Seifer's card. Also, right after defeating Norg in disc two, you can find Headmaster, Cid in the bridge or cockpit of Balamb Garden. Statistics : 6 4 9 A ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name :Squall Elemental :N/A Card Mod :1x will refine into 3x Three Stars. Use for refining purposes. Usage :After casting Triple, one spell is being used up instead of three during battles. [Character Ability] [Expendx3-1] Location :Defeat Laguna at Esthar or on the Ragnarok before going to Lunatic Pandora at disc 3. Statistics : A 9 6 4 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================================= 6.VI)Card Command ======================================================================= Do you know? You do not really need to play cards to gain new ones. Another alternative way of getting new cards is to equip Quezacotl's Card Command ability. So, what does this command do? Simple enough! In my opinion, it works quite similar to Morph Materia in Final Fantasy VII or Ragnarok Esper in Final Fantasy VI, except that you turn enemies into cards now instead of items. Card command is the most effective when against weak monsters with low HP. At high HP, it is unlikely that it will be a successful. It does not work against bosses like Ultimecia, Omega Weapon and so on. Tips:You might want to consider using magic spells like Demi to weaken the monster. ======================================================================= 6.VII)Report Cards ======================================================================= So, what's a report card? Well, it just a summary of your current progress in the game. There are a total of 3 battle reports, naming Battle, Character and Guardian Force reports. You can view these reports via the tutorial menu. So, how do you get it? Battle Report ===================== When Squall has promoted to a SeeD in disc 1, talk to Cid Krammer in the Headmaster Office in 3F of Balamb Garden to receive Battle Report. Note that this can be done only in disc one. Character Report ===================== When you are in Desert Prison in disc 2, head to floor 10, enter the door and you should see a card player and a save point. [And a hidden draw point as well.] Challenge the player there and when you win, he will give you the Character Report. This can be done only in disc two. Note that each card game you play with him costs 300 Gil. Guardian Force Report ===================== After returning back to Balamb Garden from Desert Prison and has beaten Master Norg, go to the Training Center [Training Centre] and CC Joker will occasionally appear there. Note that chances of CC Joker appearing there are random. He appears as a merchant, selling items. Talk to CC Joker and play cards with him. Once you defeat him, you will get the Guardian Force Report. Qns:So, what is the use of these Report cards? Ans:Well, nothing much actually! Remember the "The Man Who Knows ALL" in Final Fantasy V? Oh, never mind, if you can't remember or don't know. Each report card summarises different things. [Refer below for more details.] Battle Report ===================== It tells you the number of times you have: a)Walked b)Battles c)Won d)Escape Character Report ===================== It tells you the number of times each character has: a)Killed [No of monster killed under your hand!] b)KO'd [No of times your character has died!] Guardian Force Report ===================== It tells you the number of times each Guardian Force has: a)Killed [No of monster killed under your hand!] b)KO'd [No of times your Guardian Force has died!] It also lists down: c)Abilities d)Menu Refinements That's all that these report cards will tell you! ======================================================================= 7)GENERAL TIP:FINAL FANTASY VIII ======================================================================= Here are a list of general tips and hints that may help you in your game. Hopefully, It will 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. Sometimes, major events will change, only when a person is being talked 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 junk, 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 move/find ability 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 points in the world map. Equip Siren's Move/Find ability to find hidden draw points. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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, Amnesia Grass effectively. Love Love G.F helps to increase compatibility and Amnesia Grass helps to make a Guardian Force forget one ability so that your Guardian Force can learn a new ability. 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 etc. 3)Make full use of the trade menu of magic with other characters. 4)Some valuable spells are easily overlooked. Haste, Sleep, Silence, Berserk, Despel, Death etc, 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, Meteor, Aura, Haste, Triple etc as this helps in increasing your characters' HP and characters' 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 magics 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 slightly. 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 in the earlier part of the game. 20)Take note of G.Fs affection rating, and it's best to equip G.Fs with higher affection rating or compatibility 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 or Malboro. 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. Ultima and Meteor etc are 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 or mug 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.IX)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.X)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 serve you well in finding your way through Balamb Garden. Wow, this place is majestic and huge... a military training school? Amazing! Right? I suppose too! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 [Training park',especially with that dinosaur.It's a man-made Centre] 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 are 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 here. 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 examinations. 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 and score all correctly, you gain rank, as well as increase your salary. Of course, you can choose not to sit for the tests but your salary will be lesser. Do not fear! There are a total of 30 tests but they are not as difficult as you think. Of course, if you don't know Japanese, i'll suggest you use the answers. If you are playing the English version, try to attempt the questions yourself and treat it as a form of challenge. The test is as easy as answering multiple choice questions that you get in school. Also, it tests you on your knowledge of Final Fantasy VIII. And all you just need is to answer YES or NO. Simple, isn't it? Note:Below is a spoiler as it reveals all the answers to the 30 test levels. Using these test answers really spoil the purpose and usefulness of this test feature and spoil Square's intention. Avoid using the answers. You might want to attempt the questions yourself and treat it as a form of challenge to how much you know about Final Fantasy VIII. Only refer to these answers when it is neccessary! 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, N, N, 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 one more rank, and your salary will naturally be higher. The highest ranking is, of course S-A Rank, which will let you earn 30,000 Gils each time. Sometimes, you may also get demoted and your rank will drop by one. Whether you get promoted or demoted, it depends a lot on how you play like battling, choosing options. If you think that using the answers above are like cheating yourself, then don't use it and try to attempt the questions yourself and refer to these answers only when neccessary. Hint:Sit the test immediately as soon as you can. [Once Squall is promoted to a SeeD cadet, which is 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 when everything is 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. Note:When you will recieve your salary is determined by the length of the distance you have walked or to be more specifically, the number of steps you have taken. Once you have taken a specific number of steps, then you can get your salary. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.III)Chart of Underground WarShip Island-By Kaze Yagami ----------------------------------------------------------------------- In case, you need extra help, the chart below deplicts the route to get to Ultima Weapon, kindly of Kaze Yagami. 0 means you can fight Ultima and X means you cannot and Z means you can force open the door 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)Lion Heart:The Most Powerful Weapon ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Getting Squall's Lion Heart =========================== Basically, i don't intend to add in this section. But, i am SICK of recieving tons of similar mails again asking me how to get Squall's Lion Heart. I am going to do it once and for all. If you have any questions regarding Squall's Lion Heart, refer to the tables below. __________________________________________________________________ |Name of Junk Material |Effect |Source | |_________________________|__________|_____________________________| |Adamantine |Vit + 60% |Defeat Adamantoise at higher | | | |levels. [Rare] | | | |_____________________________| | | |10x Orihalcons are converted | | | |to 1x Adamantine using Eden's| | | |GFAbil Med-RF. | | | |_____________________________| | | |1x Minotaur (L8 card) is con-| | | |verted to 10x Adamantine | | | |using Quezacotl's card mod. | | | |_____________________________| | | |Adamantoise can be found in | | | |Long Horn Island, northwest | | | |of Dollet City. | |_________________________|__________|_____________________________| |Pulse Ammo |Irvine's |1x Laser Cannon is converted | |[Hyper Shot] | Limit |to 5x Pulse Ammo using | | | Break |Ifrit's Make Bullet ability. | | | Bullet |_____________________________| | | |1x Energy Crystal is convert-| | | |to 10x Pulse Ammo using | | | |Ifrit's Make Bullet ability. | | | |_____________________________| | | |1x Power Generator is convert| | | |-ed to 20x Pulse Ammo using | | | |Ifrit's Make Bullet ability. | |_________________________|__________|_____________________________| |Dragon Fang | --NIL-- |Defeat Blue Dragon/Grendal/ | | | |HexaDragon. | | | |_____________________________| | | |Blue Dragon is found at Deep | | | |Sea Research Center [Deep Sea| | | |Research Centre], Trabia | | | |forest [Rare] and Island | | | |closest to Hell. | | | |_____________________________| | | |Grendal is found at Deep Sea | | | |Research Center [Deep Sea Re-| | | |search Centre] and Island | | | |closest to Heaven. | | | |_____________________________| | | |HexaDragon is at Grandidi | | | |forest and Island closest to | | | |Hell. | |_________________________|__________|_____________________________| __________________________________________________________________ |Name of Junk Material |Effect |Source | |_________________________|__________|_____________________________| |Orihalcon |Vit + 40% |Mug/Defeat Adamantoise. | | | |_____________________________| | | |Defeat Oilboyle [Boss] during| | | |Balamb MD level time. | | | |_____________________________| | | |10x Vit-J Scrolls are convert| | | |-ed into 1x Orihalcon using | | | |Eden's GFAbil Med-RF. Vit-J | | | |Scrolls can be bought in | | | |shops like in Esthar Capital.| |_________________________|__________|_____________________________| |Laser Cannon |Quistis's |Defeat Belhemel/Elastoid. | |[Homing Laser] | Blue |[Rare] | | | Magic |_____________________________| | | |Defeat Mobile Type 8 just | | | |before the fight with Seifer | | | |at the end of disc 3 at | | | |Lunatic Pandora. | |_________________________|__________|_____________________________| |Energy Crystal | SumMag |Defeat Ruby Dragon/Behemoth. | | | + 30% |[Rare] | | | |_____________________________| | | |Defeat Elnoyle at Esthar | | | |continent after lunar base | | | |event. [After getting Ragnar-| | | |ok also] | | | |_____________________________| | | |10x Elnoyle (L5 card) are con| | | |-verted to 1x Energy Crystal | | | |using Quezacotl's card mod. | |_________________________|__________|_____________________________| |Power Generator |Quistis's |Defeat Blitz. [Rare] | |[Ray Bomb] | Blue | | | | Magic | | |_________________________|__________|_____________________________| Note:You may want to consider using Guardian Force, Tonberry's Lv Up or Down command ability on your enemies so that to adjust your enemies' levels to get certain items, either by defeating or mugging. You may also need to equip Rare command for help. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.V)The Toughest Boss:Omega Weapon ----------------------------------------------------------------------- _____________________________________________________________________ |History/Overview | |_____________________________________________________________________| |Do you remember all the long hours and time you have spent training, | |just to defeat that Omega weapon from Final Fantasy V? He's tough. | |and he's back to be your greatest nightmare in Final Fantasy VIII. | |Just like Final Fantasy V, Omega Weapon proves to be the greatest | |challenge in Final Fantasy VIII. Of course, this is optional but for | |the sake of 'Proof of Omega' to indicate that you have just beaten | |the strongest boss in the World of Final Fantasy VIII, every effort | |you put in is worthwhile. The good new is that you do not really have| |to train so hard like Final Fantasy V to beat Omega Weapon. Why? | |Final Fantasy VIII incoporates a 'parallel level' system that is | |found in the Romancing Saga and Saga Frontier series. The higher your| |average party member is, the stronger Omega will be. In the Japanese | |version, i beat Omega Weapon with all characters at level 100 and i | |beat Omega weapon in the US version, with an average of level 50. | |What's most important is how you choose your party members and how | |you take full advantage of the Junction system to customise your | |characters. Of course, you need to be well-prepared too and have | |stocked in all the good spells like Ultimas, Meteor, Haste and so on.| |_____________________________________________________________________| |Omega Weapon can be found in Ultimecia Castle. First, have the main | |party gather at the fountain, that is the party that is going to face| |Omega Weapon later on. For your second party, at the main entrance of| |the castle at the hallway, head upstairs and enter the door on the | |right. As you go down the spiral staircase, you will notice a party | |changing spot and a handle at the southwest of the screen. If every- | |thing is ready, examine the handle, and the bell will ring. You will | |notice a timer at the top-left corner, giving you less than 50 secs. | |Quickly, use the party changing spot, and switch to the main party. | |Now, head north and enter the room where the organ is supposed to be.| |As you enter, an enemy who resembles Ultima Weapon appears before you| |and he is Omega Weapon. (The differences are only the colour and that| |Omega Weapon doesn't have a sword like Ultima Weapon.) Go near him | |to fight Omega. Good Luck! | |_____________________________________________________________________| |Additional Info: | |_____________________________________________________________________| |-Every time, you enter the room, did you notice a purple colour form | | of cloud. That's actually Omega. (Sort of) He will appear only if | | the bell is rang. (Don't know how i should describe that 'Cloud'!) | |-Notice the timer in the top-left hand corner? You will need to REACH| | Omega weapon before the time runs out, after which he will disappear| | into the 'purple' cloud again. | |-Note that the timer will still go on, if you happen to encounter a | | battle. | |-Once you have defeated Omega, you will get the 'Proof Of Omega'. | | Just go to the menu, select tutorial, then information and you | | should see it. | |_____________________________________________________________________| |Here are the requirements: | |_____________________________________________________________________| |Party Requirement|9999 HP for All. | |_________________|___________________________________________________| |Party Formation |Preferably Squall, Zell and Quistis. | |_________________|___________________________________________________| |Note|The higher your level is, the stronger Omega Weapon will be. | | |When all characters are at Level 100, Omega Weapon can mean a HP| | |of 1,161,000, Str of 255 and Mag of 255. This system is known as| | |'Parallel Level' and is incorporated in Square's Romancing Saga | | |Saga Frontier series. The level of the monsters depend on your | | |average level of the party that is on the battlefield. | |____|________________________________________________________________| |Here are some Party Formation: | |_____________________________________________________________________| |Name |Reason Why It Is Being Choosen. | |________|____________________________________________________________| |Squall |With best gunblade, LionHeart equipped, Squall's limit break| | |is extremely lethal especially if he uses LionHeart as | | |finishing blow. The drawback is that LionHeart, appears | | |randomly. | |________|____________________________________________________________| |Zell |Zell's Armageddon Fist, when mastered can do more damage | | |than Squall and is far more reliable. The drawback is that | | |you have to race against time. Refer to miscellaneous for | | |more information on it. | |________|____________________________________________________________| |Quistis |Quistis has a wide variety of Blue Magics attack. These | | |three blue magics are a must-have. They are White Wind, | | |Mighty Guard, and Shockwave Pulsar. White Wind fully regain | | |all characters' HP and cure any status aliments. Mighty | | |Guard cast positive status magics like shell, protect on all| | |characters, which is an essential need if you want to | | |survive Omega's Terra Break. Sometimes, mighty guard also | | |cast invincibility, float, Regen etc on your characters. | | |Shockwave Pulsar is the strongest attack of Quistis, and the| | |only one that can exceeds 9999HP damage. | |________|____________________________________________________________| |Optional Party Members: | |_____________________________________________________________________| |Name |Reason Why Choosen. |Reason why not Choosen. | |________|____________________|_______________________________________| |Irvine |His Limit Break is |Bullets run out very easily. Different | | |lethal. |bullets have different 'recovery' rate.| | |____________________|_______________________________________| |Suitable|Quick Shot |Not powerful than Hyper Shot per bullet| |Bullet |(Fast Ammo) |but allows rapid shooting. It can shoot| | | |more than 10 bullets within 3 secs. | | | |Easily run out of ammos. | | |____________________|_______________________________________| | |Hyper Shot |Most powerful bullet, causing most | | |(Pulse Ammo) |damage per shot. Recovers very slow, | | | |meaning does not allow rapid firing. | | |____________________|_______________________________________| |Stats |Different shots recover at different speed. At maximum | | |strength, Quick Shot is the most powerful and effective shot| | |against single targets (3000 to 4000 x 20 to 30 shots) than | | |Hyper Shot. (9999 x 4 to 5 shots= 40,000 to 50,000.) | |________|____________________________________________________________| |Selphie |Use Limit Break, The|I am sure you want to have a good fight| | |End to finish the |with Omega than using The End to finish| | |battle at instantly.|the fight quickly. And, you don't get | | | |The End so easily all the time. | |________|____________________|_______________________________________| |Rinoa |Wishing Star causes |Unreliable Limit Breaks. You may not | | |a lot of damage. In-|get the desire limit break you want. | | |vincible moon has |Angel Wing does not let you control | | |the effect of 1 Holy|Rinoa, making it very risky. | | |War Drink. | | |________|____________________|_______________________________________| |Things you should have | |_____________________________________________________________________| |Party Requirement|All at 9999HP | |_________________|___________________________________________________| |Magic |Death, Aura, Full Life, Meltdown, Protect, Shell, | | |Haste, Triple, Ultima. | |_________________|___________________________________________________| |Item |MegaElixir, Holy Wars Drink, Hero Drink, Phoenix | | |Pinion. | |_________________|___________________________________________________| |Note|Phoenix Pinion must be used at least once time, so that G.F | | |Phoenix will appear randomly. Don't bother equipping G.F command| | |since it will be of little use. Try equipping Item command. | |____|________________________________________________________________| |Note|For more info of getting Phoenix Pinion, and Hero/Holy War | | |Drink, refer to the miscellaneous section. | |____|________________________________________________________________| |Junctioning Priority | |_____________________________________________________________________| |Have Maximum 9999HP, strength, vitality, speed, and death to your | |status defense. Equip abilities like Auto-Haste, Auto-Shell, Auto- | |Protect, Auto Potion, Revive, Recover, Defend, Speed + X%, Strength +| |X%, HP + X% etc, where X represents a number. | |_____________________________________________________________________| |Summary of Omega Attack (In Chronological Order) | |_____________________________________________________________________| |1)L5 Level Death (All) (Instantly kill when level is multiple of 5) | |2)Meteor/Gravija/Ultima (Any one randomly) | |3)Megido Flame (All) (9998 Damage) | |4)Meteor/Gravija/Ultima (Any one randomly) | |5)Terra Break (Random;Multiple Hit) | |6)Meteor/Gravija/Ultima (Any one randomly) | |7)Light Pillar (One) (9999HP Damage) | |8)Any Attack Randomly | |_____________________________________________________________________| |Note|Gravija works like Demi and it attacks all party members. | |____|________________________________________________________________| |Basic Requirement | |_____________________________________________________________________| |1)Junction 100x Ultima to Squall and Zell's strength. | |2)Junction 100x Death to any characters that have levels multiple of | | 5, if not, save the trouble. | |3)Junction 100x Haste or Triple to all characters' speed. | |4)Squall's LionHeart. (Must) | |5)Quistis's White Wind, Mighty Guard, Shockwave Pulsar. (Must) | |6)Take priority in Str, Vit, Spd and HP. | |_____________________________________________________________________| |Tips|As Omega has very fast speed, try configure the battle speed to | | |the minimum in the configuration option in the menu. | |____|________________________________________________________________| |Note|When fighting Omega Weapon, having a good speed is a must. The | | |best three spells in my opinion to junction to Speed are either | | |Haste, Ultima and Triple. As for Ultima magics, i suppose you | | |would want to junction it to other attributes like strength, so | | |that leaves only Haste and Triple. | |____|________________________________________________________________| |Credit|Special thanks to Matthew Montgomery | | |For telling me that Triple is a better spell to junction to | | |Speed than Haste. Sorry for losing your e-mail the last time | | |and thanks for e-mailing me and clarifying your identity with | | |me. I am terribly sorry for the inconviences caused to you. | |______|______________________________________________________________| |How to Defeat Omega Weapon | |_____________________________________________________________________| |Omega will initiate the fight by casting L5 level Death on all your | |members. If you have junctioned 100x Death to status defense, or your| |characters' levels are not multiple of 5, you do not need to worry. | |Start out the fight by using Aura on all your characters. Have Squall| |keep on using limit break, Renzokuken and Zell on using Armageddon | |Fist, his duel limit break. Refer to Limit Break section on Zell | |for more detail. When Quistis has cast Aura, use her blue magic, | |mighty guard. This will cast protect and shell on all your party. Let| |Quistis concentrate on healing by using Blue Magic, White Wind, and | |occasionally use Shockwave Pulsar to attack. Keep your characters' HP| |at 9999 as much as possible, and use Full Life to revive any dead | |ally. Make sure that all your characters are in protect and shell | |condition all the times, if not cast Mighty guard again. Terra Break | |will do very lethal damage, doing multiple physical hits and if you | |have cast Mighty Guard, or equip abilities like defend, auto-shell, | |auto-protect, it will reduce the impact of the attack, giving you a | |higher chance of survival. Should your party gets wiped out, fear not| |since if you have Phoenix Pinion, you should be able to summon G.F | |Phoenix, and revive all your party members. However, since Omega | |weapon can absorb any fire magics, G.F Phoenix will heal Omega, re- | |gaining a small amount of his HP. Repeat the same strategy using | |Squall and Zells' Limit Break, and if you find it hard, you may | |consider using Hero or Holy War Drink. As for Guardian Forces, there | |aren't any creature worth summoning other than Eden as Eden is the | |only Guardian Force that can exceeds 9999HP. Even if you want to | |summon Eden, i suggest that the character needs to have a very high | |compatibility with Eden. It's no point and meaningless if Eden dies | |before the Guardian Force's Active Time Bar ends, right? You might | |also want to consider using Meltdown on Omega Weapon so that Omega | |Weapon is in Vit 0 condition. Good luck!!! | |_____________________________________________________________________| |Note|If you want to use Hero Drink or Holy Wars Drink, make sure you | | |cast Aura on your characters first. Why? At invincibility | | |condition, it is immune to all physical attacks, magic attacks, | | |status attacks and that includes Aura as well. | |____|________________________________________________________________| ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.VI)Way to make Hero's/Holy Wars Drink ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Hero Drink ================ -You will get 1 hero drink when you defeat both Seifer and Edea at the end of disc 1 and Seifer at the end of disc 3 in Lunatic Pandora. That's makes 2 Hero Drink already. -To get Hero Drink, win Laguna Card from Ellone in Disc 3 at the moonbase. Useing Quezacotl's Card Mod ability, convert Laguna card to 100x Hero Drink. Holy War Drink ================ -Obtain Gilgamesh card from CC Card Master, and convert Gilgamesh card into 10x Holy War Drink using Quezatcotl's Card Mod ability. Refining Process ================ Just in case, you don't have neither of these two cards. You may try this tedious, long process. Using Siren's Make Tool ability, __________________________________________________________________ |Material | |Product |Effect of the Material| |__________________|____|___________________|______________________| |1x Rosetta Stone | => |1x Shaman Stone |Junction Ability x 4 | |1x Hungry Cookpot | => |1x Shaman Stone |Devour Command | |1x Mog Amulet | => |1x Shaman Stone |MiniMog Command | |1x Dark Matter | => |1x Shaman Stone |Quistis's Blue Magic, | | | | |Shockwave Pulsar. | |__________________|____|___________________|______________________| Using DoomTrain's Forbidden Medicine, _____________________________________________ |Material | |Product | |_________________|____|______________________| |10x Shaman Stone | => |1x Trial Hero's Drink | |_________________|____|______________________| Using Alexander's Med LV UP ability, _______________________________________________________ |Material | |Product | |________________________|____|_________________________| |10x Trial Hero Drink | => |1x Hero's Drink | |10x Hero Drink | => |1x Trial Holy War Drink | |10x Trial Holy War Drink| => |1x Holy War Drink | |________________________|____|_________________________| Note:I have changed the names to the US version. So, there shouldn't be a problem for reading it. Info ==== Actually, Holy War Drink works exactly like Rinoa's Invisible moon. Hero Drink has the effect of invincibility on a character, and Holy War has the effect of invincibility on all characters. When in invincibility state, characters are immune to all kinds of attack, even Omega's attacks like Light Pillar, Terra Break, Megido Flame etc. "Trial" version works exactly the same, but works only 50% of the time. Also, using the above method, DoomTrain must be at Lv 100. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.VII)Redrawing Of Guardian Force ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This method does not apply to the japanese version. Square knew that there will definitely be some who has forgotten to draw the Guardian Force. Now, luckily to US gamers, for those who has forgotten, you can redraw the Guardian Force that you miss at the final castle in Ultimesia Castle. You can draw the missing Guardian Force from the enemies inside Ultimecia Castle, especially those mini sub-bosses. However, i am not pretty sure and i have not tried it before as by the time i have reached disc 4, i have already gotten all the Guardian Forces. This method has been confirmed by many people. Try it at your own risk!!! Of course, it is more preferred if you can get all the Guardian Force, without going through this redrawing. This is because when you redraw, you will have to retrain your new Guardian Force's level, abilities from the start, which is simply a waste of time since you can get it and train it earlier. It will be even nicer if more people can tell me about this redrawing of Guardian Force. Proper credits will be given to the contributors. Note :If you want more information about this redrawing of Guardian Force, i suggest you refer to Scott Ong's faq. It's highly impossible that i will replay Final Fantasy VIII just to test if this redrawing of Guardian Force is true or not. Note :The redrawing of Guardian Force only applies to Guardian Forces like Siren, Carbuncle, Leviathan, Pandemona, Cerberus, Alexander and Eden only. Credit:??? for telling me about the redrawing of Guardian Force. Sorry, i have lost your e-mail. I got a shock when he told me about this redrawing. Later on, i confirmed it with Kaze Yagami and he told me that this is just a newly-added feature to the US version. Credit:Thanks to Kaze Yagami for confirming this information. Okay, just in case you still have any questions regarding this redrawing of Guardian Force in Ultimecia Castle in disc four, i have listed down the names of sub-bosses which you can draw from. The lists below are taken from Scott Ong's faq/walkthrough. I have not tried it yet. For more details about the locations of these sub-bosses, please refer to any other walkthrough/faq. ___________________________________________________________________ |Guardian Force(s) |Name of the Sub-Boss |Location | |____________________|______________________|_______________________| |Siren |Tri-Point |Found hovering over- | | | |head in the Wine | | | |Cellar. | |____________________|______________________|_______________________| |Carbuncle |Krysta |Found in the Terrace. | |____________________|______________________|_______________________| |Leviathan |Trauma |Solve the puzzle in | | | |the art gallery room | | | |to encounter a fight | | | |with Trauma. | |____________________|______________________|_______________________| |Pandemona |Red Giant |Take the Prison Key | | | |in the statue in the | | | |Prison Cell to fight | | | |Red Giant. | |____________________|______________________|_______________________| |Cerberus |Gargantua |Get the armoury key, | | | |then open the armoury | | | |room to encounter a | | | |fight with Gargantua. | |____________________|______________________|_______________________| |Alexander |Catoblepas |Use the Treasure Vault | | | |Key to enter the Trea- | | | |sure Vault room and | | | |examine all the four | | | |coffins until all are | | | |opened to have a fight | | | |with Catoblepas. | |____________________|______________________|_______________________| |Eden |Tiamat |Head up the spiral | | | |staircase to the Clock | | | |Tower. Continue heading| | | |to the top, while ig- | | | |noring the bell. Enter | | | |the door at the top to | | | |find Tiamat. | |____________________|______________________|_______________________| ======================================================================= 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 will 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 fast before he escapes. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.II)Soft Reset ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Are you fustrated of having to restart your PlayStation over and over again? Here is a trick that allows you to restart very quickly. The cheat also works for other Final Fantasties as well, such as Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy Anthology, and so on. Simply hold the four buttons at the top, Select and 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. In replace of Aura spell, you can use item, Aura Stone also. Note:If you are playing the US version, press Circle instead of Triangle. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.IV)Easy Gil ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Below shows two methods of how to obtain gils easily. ======================================================================= Ist Method ----------- -Simply sit through the test and earn your levels to 30 or A Level 30 will let you earn 20,000 Gils after walking a certain distance and a A level will let you earn 30,000 Gils after walking a certain distance. 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) ======================================================================= Hopefully, these two methods will more or less help you. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.V)250 Ouen/Boost ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 maximum damage possible, maybe 9999. For more information, please refer to the tutorial 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 three. Odin will be killed by Seifer, and revealed his true self form- Gilgamesh. Refer to the G.F section. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.VII)Island Closest to Hell/Heaven ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Island Closest to Hell can be found in the western part of Galbadia, that long stretch of coast and in the northern west of the world map. Island Closest to 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 Holy in Grandidi Forest. You will find many tough enemies there like Malboro, Ruby Dragon, Hexadragon, Tri-face and other tough enemies. So, what's the use of coming here? You can junction Encounter Nothing and Move/Find ability and then move around to draw powerful magics from hidden draw points like Meteor, Aura, Ultima or Holy. Also, the monsters here are quite powerful and they offer a lot of EXP, AP too. So, if you want an area to train your characters' or Guardian Forces' levels, these two areas are very well recommended. Take note that both places can only be accessed through the airship, Ragnarok. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.VIII)Finding Omega Weapon ----------------------------------------------------------------------- He is inside Ultimecia Castle. From the main hallway, head upstairs and go to the right. As you go down the spiral staircase, you will notice the a green party change spot, and a handle at the southwest. Once you have examined the handle, the bell will start to ring and you will be given less than 1 minute to REACH Omega Weapon, not 1 minute 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 notice 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 rung. Only then you can fight him. If you go furthur north, you will notice 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 Ultima 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 Ultima Weapon, except for the differences in the colour and that he doesn't have a sword in his hand, which Ultima weapon has. Make contact with it and be ready to fight the toughest boss of Final Fantasy VIII. When you defeat Omega Weapon, a section, called 'Proof of Omega' will appear in the tutorial section, which can be accessed in the main menu. 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 again! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.IX)Infinite Phoenix Summon ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Firstly, you must collect the five stones in Shumi Tribe and use Phoenix Pinion. Then, G.F Phoenix will appear randomly. You can also collect Phoenix Pinion in winhill village where you often see Chocobos roaming about. Using Alexander's Med LV UP, ___________________________________________ |50x Phoenix Down | => |1x Mega Phoenix | |___________________|____|__________________| Using Siren's Make Tool Ability, ___________________________________________ | 3x Mega Phoenix | => |1x Phoenix Pinion | |___________________|____|__________________| Tips:Phoenix Down can be easily bought in shops. Use it to convert. Using GF Abl Med-RF, ___________________________________________ |20x Phoenix Pinion | => |1x Phoenix Spirit | |___________________|____|__________________| Note:Phoenix Spirit allows your G.F to learn Revive Command. Take note that in order to let a G.F learn new ability, you must first use Amnesia Greens to make the G.F forget one ability so he can learn another new ability. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.X)Infinite Gysahl Greens ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -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. Examine these tiny chocobos and you will receive Gysahl 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 Gysahl 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 500gils 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 1x of Squall's Ultima to Zell. 4) Using Exchange in the Magic menu, exchange Zell's 1x 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. Note:This is a bug found in the Japanese version. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. Don't you think so? Note:Auto-Pilot only work to areas that are labelled in the world map. Examples of areas that do not work with auto-pilotling are Deep Sea Research Center [Deep Sea Research Centre], Centra Ruin, Fire Cavern, Obel Lake and all Chocobo Forests etc. Note:Ragnarok will stop when it reach the desired destination. Tips:To regain control of Ragnarok,press X. Note:The control is only for the Japanese version. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. Note that you can still enter Balamb Garden after disc 3 by landing Ragnarok in Fisherman's Horizon [FH] and from there, walk to Balamb Garden. ======================================================================= 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. [Choose one] [Refer to below for more details.] 3. Head to the train station in Balamb Town. [Choose one] [Refer to below for more details.] 4. On the 2nd floor of Dollet Casino. On the left-hand side table. 5. On the table of the room of Dollet Hotel. Pay 100Gil to enter the room. 6. Head to Timber Maniacs and enter the northern-most room. Examine the pile of documents on the right side of the room. 7. 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. 8. At Deling City, the Capital of Galbadia. Go to the hotel and search under the bed, [You can't get it during Laguna scenarios.] 9. Head to Artisan's House in the Shumi Tribe and search the bed. 10. Head to Edea's house. It is located on the floor before you meet Edea and Headmaster Cid. 11. Inside the White SeeD ship. It is on the left side of the control room, where the sailor is standing. You can find the white SeeD ship in Centra region as long as Squall has not carried Rinoa to Fisherman's Horizon. [FH] 12. At Fisherman's Horizon [FH] where the house of Grease Monkey is. 13. At Fisherman's Horizon [FH] Hotel. Initially, there's a drunkard blocking your way to the Hotel. Pay either 100 gils to him or get free of charge if you complete the Master Fisherman's Quest. 14. Head for Trabia Garden and go northwest of a magic point. You should enter a Tomb or graveyard now. Search within the Tomb. ======================================================================= There are a total of 13 magazines scattered throughout the world, excluding the first one in Zell's house but you can get only 12 because you need to choose one at Balamb Town. 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 Timber Maniacs 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 Canyon event, Ward will not be in the party in the Trabia Canyon 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. So, each Timber Maniacs is actually an account of his personal life, as well as some pictures he had taken during his journey. And, in Timber, you can find a building called Timber Maniacs. They will tell you that Laguna works here in the past and what's all Timber Maniacs about? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.XV)Finding Ragnarok In Disc 4-By ChaRle5 and Scott Ong ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Enter the top-left door in Ultimecia Castle, that will lead you to the north of Esthar Continent. Just head for the Chocobo Holy in the northwest of the world map which is in Grandidi Forest 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 Cactuar 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. Enter this door to return back to Ultimecia Castle. 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 the UFOs from disc two onwards at these locations: 1. The seashore located east of Timber. [Mandy Beach] 2. Outside winhill village in Galbadia continent. [Winhill Bluffs] 3. Desert in Centra ruins, northeast of Edea's house. [Kashkabald Desert] 4. The isolated island east of Trabia Garden. [The small island by Health Peninsula.] Equip Diablo or Bahamut's encounter none and roam around these areas. You will encounter empty battles and see the UFO flying, giving you empty gil, exp and AP. Once you have viewed all four UFOs, go to cliff north of Chocobo Holy. Land the ragnarok, walk along the cliff and you will fight PuPu. Defeat PuPu and then head to Balamb area, the area where Balamb Garden used to be located. Give him 5 elixirs and you will get the PuPu card. If you didn't give elixirs to PuPu, and defeat PuPu, you will get an accelerator, but you will lose the PuPu card. My advise is take the PuPu card because this is the only card which you can't win from any card game. If you didn't take the card, it will mean that you cannot complete your card collection. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.XVII)Fragments Of the Pot-By ChaRle5 and Scott Ong ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The sidequest is taken directly 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 to move. Actually, there's a tiny chocobo hiding behind 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 to prevent spoilers!] Simply talk to the lady there twice, then head downstairs and examine the table. The lady will then appear again, and the screen will start to 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 into her house, talk to her and examine the southeast corner 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 Gysahl Greens [for summoning of Guardian Force, chicobo 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)Occult Fan Magazines ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wonder what Occult Fans are for? Well, doesn't much! You can skip getting it if you don't wish to. The four Occult Fans provide you hints and informations about some Guardian Forces, to be specific, mainly Guardian Force, Doomtrain. If you have missed the first two Occult Fan, you can still buy it from one of the Esthar shops. However, Occult Fan III and IV cannot be bought and once you miss it, you will lose it forever. Again, i will stress that these four Occult Fans magazines are totally OPTIONAL! So, don't panic if you have missed one. _____________________________________________________________________ |Name Of Magazine |Location |Information |Disc | |_________________|_____________________________|______________|______| |Occult Fan I |It is found in a bookshelf |You can get it| | | |inside the library in Balamb |once you have | | | |Garden. Simply search there |defeated | | | |and you will find it. |Guardian Force| 1~3 | | | |, Ifrit in | | | | |Fire Cavern. | | |_________________|_____________________________|______________|______| |Occult Fan II |Search the documents in Card |You need to | | | |Master's room in Dollet City.|defeat Card | | | |Go to pub in 2F and take the |Master once to| | | |upper right door to cross a |enter the | | | |bridge to enter the room. |room. [Note | 1~3 | | | |that you can | | | | |also get G.F | | | | |Siren Card | | | | |from him.] | | |_________________|_____________________________|______________|______| |Occult Fan III |After Balamb Garden has |You can only | | | |collided with Fisherman |get Occult | | | |Horizon, FH. Apologise to |Fan III in | | | |Master Fisherman and he will |disc 2 and | 2 | | |give you the magazine. |there is no | | | | |other alter- | | | | |native ways. | | |_________________|_____________________________|______________|______| |Occult Fan IV |Talk to the President Aide |You can get | | | |near Air-Station. Then talk |Occult Fan IV | | | |to the Secretary at the |only in disc 3| | | |entrance of the Presidential |, either | 3 | | |Palace who is complaining |before or | | | |about Professor Odine to get |after going to| | | |it. |Lunar Gate. | | |_________________|_____________________________|______________|______| ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9.XIX)Card Club Members ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The card club is an organisation formed by a group of Triple Triad franchise. It's not easy to be a member of card club as you must be very good with playing cards. The card club is composed of the CC Jack, Club, Diamond, Spade, Heart, Joker and finally the leader, king. You can find the CC at these locations. Note that they will appear randomly. If they do not appear at these locations, try going in and out of the screen until they appear. You can play with them in Balamb Garden from disc one to disc three. Note:You must defeat every CC member in this order from Jack to Heart, then King. However, you can challenge Joker any time when you have defeated two or more CC members. Note:Each CC member get more and more tougher each time, meaning the chances of them using a better card is higher. Tips:Save before you play, just in case you lose any card(s). ___________________________________________________________ |CC Member Name |Location |Special Note | |_______________|_____________________________|_____________| |CC Jack |He is found in the main hall,|Defeat him to| | |where the direction board is |challenge CC | | |located. |Club; has no | | | |rare card. | |_______________|_____________________________|_____________| |CC Club |He walks along the main hall |Defeat him to| | |and often seen appearing near|challenge CC | | |the Dormitory, Parking Lot |CC Diamond; | | |Cafeteria. |has no rare | | | |card. | |_______________|_____________________________|_____________| |CC Diamond |CC Diamond are actually made |Defeat the | | |up of two girls. They are |two girls to | | |found in the main hall where |challenge CC | | |they are often seen walking |Spade; has | | |to the direction board. You |no rare card.| | |must wait for them to stop | | | |before you can challenge with| | | |them. | | |_______________|_____________________________|_____________| |CC Spade |The man on the 2F near the |Defeat him to| | |elevator. He's the one who |challenge CC | | |gives you the cards in disc |Heart; has no| | |one when you talk to him. |rare card. | |_______________|_____________________________|_____________| |CC Heart |If i tell you she's a woman |Defeat her to| | |and locate in the cockpit of |challenge CC | | |balamb garden in 3F, do you |King. Refer | | |have any idea of who's she? |below for | | |Have you guessed it? She's |more details.| | |the one standing on the |Has the | | |bridge. |Carbuncle | | | |rare card. | |_______________|_____________________________|_____________| |CC Joker |He's found randomly in the |Has the rare | | |training center. [Training |card, | | |centre] He will be selling |Leviathan. | | |items there. | | |_______________|_____________________________|_____________| |CC King |Defeat all five CC members, |Has the rare | | |then talk to Doctor Kadowaki |card, | | |in the infirmary and she will|Gilgamesh. | | |reveal that she is the former|Once you have| | |CC member. Now, go to the |defeated her,| | |Dormitory to have a good |you have | | |sleep and CC card king will |completed the| | |appear randomly. Don't be |CC quest. | | |suprised when you found out | | | |her identity. | | |_______________|_____________________________|_____________| |Former CC King |She is in the infirmary and |Tells you | | |will reveal to you her |informations | | |identity once you have beaten|about the CC | | |CC Jack, Club, Diamond, Spade|King. | | |and Heart. She will tell you | | | |that the present CC King will| | | |come and look for you. I | | | |guess even if i don't tell | | | |who she is, you would have | | | |guessed it correctly! | | |_______________|_____________________________|_____________| Note:The CC members will use the cards that you do not have, however, as for the PuPu card, you need to complete the UFO chasing quest. In order to play with the CC members in disc 4, you must first complete the CC quest from disc one to three, meaning you have to defeat CC Jack, Club, Diamond, Spade, Heart and King. For exact way of getting Ragnarok in disc 4, i won't go into too much details. I will just briefly describe it. Notice that there are many chains and doors just before the entrance to Ultimecia Castle? Have you ever wondered how to enter the chocobo forest in Grandidi Forest? Simply enter the door nearest to the you, which is on your left side. You should find yourself on a beach and inland is a huge patch of forest, that is Grandidi Forest, of course. Simply walk to the chocobo forest and you will get a free chocobo ride. Ride the chocobo along the western continent of Esthar and down to Centra region. Refer to the red dot in the world map. This indicates your airship, Ragnarok. When you get your airship, this is what you should do. For default Controller: 1.Hold Triangle and X if you are playing the Japanese version. 2.Hold Circle and X if you are playing the American version. Wonder why the Controls are different? A group of people [I don't know why?] e-mail to Square requesting Square to change the button configurations. For me, the new controls doesn't suit me at all. So, i customise my controls to that of the Japanese version. [I wonder who did that?] [What a lousy suggestion!] And do you know? As you know, the controls have been changed. It affects Final Fantasy Anthology as well. I don't know about Final Fantasy Collection, which is the Japanese version of Final Fantasy Anthology. X button became the confirm button and the Circle button became the cancel button. Luckily, Square only swops these two buttons. The menu button and the switch member button during battle are still Triangle for Final Fantasy Anthology. If Square swops the buttons again, i'll probably have problems adjusting to new controls. Luckily, for Final Fantasy VIII, you can customise your controls. If done correctly: CC Heart will meet you at the entrance of the Ragnarok. She says that you can play with all the CC members anytime you want inside Ragnarok. Wow! Time for a break, right! After all the fighting, it's time to relax a bit and play some cards, right? Back to the main topic: The locations of the CC members are: ___________________________________________________________ |CC Member Name |Location |Special Note | |_______________|_____________________________|_____________| |Jack |Enter the door right of the |Found at the | | |Ragnarok entrance. The |Ragnarok | | |entrance is where CC Heart |Aisle. | | |is located or enter the upper| | | |left door from where CC | | | |Diamond is. | | |_______________|_____________________________|_____________| |Club |From where CC Diamond are, |Found at the | | |just go up the stairs to 2F |Ragnarok | | |or you can enter the door |Aisle in 2F. | | |near CC Joker. | | |_______________|_____________________________|_____________| |Diamond |In the main Ragnarok Hangar |Found at the | | |where you can find a |Ragnarok | | |staircase which leads to CC |Hangar. | | |Club, and two doors; one | | | |leads to CC Jack in the left | | | |and another one leads to a | | | |save point where CC Spade is.| | |_______________|_____________________________|_____________| |Spade |From where CC Diamond are, |Found at the | | |take the upper right door. |Ragnarok | | | |Hangar where | | | |the save | | | |point is. | |_______________|_____________________________|_____________| |Joker |He's the man who sells you |Found at the | | |items, as well as remodel |Ragnarok | | |your weapons. When you first |Aisle. | | |take the elevator down, you | | | |will see him. You can find | | | |him by entering the door | | | |right of CC Club. | | |_______________|_____________________________|_____________| |King |Have her in your party, then |Found at the | | |take her to the Ragnarok |Ragnarok | | |Air Room. The Air Room is |Air Room. | | |located in the 2F. From where|Remember the | | |CC Club is, just go down the |location when| | |hallway, not the stairs. |you first | | |Then, talk to her and she |enter the | | |will play with you. |Ragnarok in | | | |disc 3? | |_______________|_____________________________|_____________| About the CC Members' comeback ============================== The CC members are making a comeback. Of course, they still can't admit that they have lost to you previously. [The CC quest] The CC members will pick any rule RANDOMLY from any region, whether it is Balamb region, Centra region, Dollet region, Fisherman Horizon [FH] region and so on and combine or mix with their initial rules. In my own opinion, the WORST rule is probably RANDOM. [I am not sure about you. It's just personal opinion.] The CC members will begin with all the rules belonging to these regions: __________________________________________________ |Name Of CC Members |Initial Rules[Region] | |___________________|______________________________| |Jack |Balamb Rules. | |Club |Dollet Rules. | |Diamond |Trabia Rules. | |Spade |Esthar Rules. | |Heart |Fisherman Horizon [FH] Rules. | |Joker |Centra Rules. | |King |Lunar Base Rules. | |___________________|______________________________| Note:If you find that you are missing a few more rare cards and the CC members do not show these new cards anymore, try beating the Card Queen in disc 4 at the Esthar Continent. Refer to below for more details. Why? After beating all the CC members, including CC King again in Ragnarok in disc 4, my card collection is still incomplete as i do not have the Kiros and Irvine card. Then, i play with Card Queen. Indeed, the two missing cards are with her! That's how i complete my card collection! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9.XX)Card Queen in Disc 4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I won't talk about the card queen quest as chasing the card queen can be very tedious. If you need any help, you can refer to other faqs, specifically Scott Ong's faq Part II, Eugene See's rare card faq and so on. As for the game rules, i won't go into details yet. When you reach disc 4, you may be think that it is impossible to collect all the cards. However, you can challenge Card Queen in disc 4 to get all the rare cards. Card Queen will use rare cards that are level 9 to 10. The card queen will use all the rules to play with you. The Queen is found in the escape retrieval pod in Abandon Plains just at the southern most tip of Esthar Continent. It's invisible in the world map. Simply land your Ragnarok nearby and make your way to the southern tip. The world map screen will change to the field screen and you should see card queen. I got several mails, asking me about the exact location of Card Queen. The location is rather tricky. Notice that the major region of Esthar Continent is being surrounded by huge wire frames or walls. It's located just outside this major region in the south. Try going into the main menu and check if you are in Abandon Plains. [Assuming if you are outside this 'major region'!] Then, just land your Ragnarok and walk south. I have to admit i do have problems finding the Card Queen at first. Just be patient! If you simply just walk along the southern tips, you will definitely encounter Card Queen. Note:The location is the same as where you discover Piet in in disc three. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9.XXI)Getting Chicobo Card ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Visit all chocobo forest, solve all the puzzles. You need to use the chocobo sonar and detector and leave one chocobo. The chocobo will summon a mother chocobo. Get some holy, meteor, ultima stones. If you want more informations on how to solve the riddles, refer to Scott Ong's walkthrough part II for more information. The location of the forest are: 1)Near Edea's house. 2)North of the Centra Ruin. 3)Southwest of Cactuar Island 4)North of Shumi Village. 5)South of Shumi Village. 6)North of Trabia Garden near the mountains. 7)Chocobo Holy is located in the large patch of forest in the northeast part of the world map, north of Esthar continent. When you have solved all the riddles from 1 to 6 in these chocobo forest, go to Roaming Forest, which is a Bika Snowfield in Trabia area and ride the chocobos all the way down south, crossing shallow waters to the Chocobo Holy forest in Grandidi Forest. For your information, Chocobo Holy is located in the midst of Grandidi Forest in the northeast of the world. Chocobo Holy is so highly remote that even Ragnarok cannot be accessed to it. The other way of reaching Chocobo Holy is during disc four, when you are on your way to get back your Ragnarok. Once you reach Chocobo Holy, enter and you will find a chocobo there. It will perform a dance for you and following that, talk to it to get your Chicobo card. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9.XXII)Hidden Save Point ------------------------------------------------------------------------ After minutes of hard work, you have finally reached the bottom of Deep Sea Research Center [Deep Sea Research Centre] to beat Ultima Weapon to draw your final Guardian Force, Eden but because of certain ^ unknown circumstances, you have to restart again. [Whether it is because your party is being K.O by Ultima weapon or whatever.] Fustrated and angry, right! Okay, enough of my craps! Luckily, there's a save point just before you fight with Ultima Weapon. You probably haven't noticed it as the save point is invisible. There's a machine there at the bottom which you need to operate to fight with Ultima weapon. Just before there, there is a hidden save point and in order to use the hidden save point, you need to equip Siren's Move/Find ability. Save it before you fight Ultima weapon and you may consider using items like tent or cottage there to regain your party's HP before continuing. Special thanks to MoogleKng and X. Calibur for telling me about the hidden save point just before fighting Ultima Weapon. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9.XXIII)Organ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ever wonder what the organ in Ultimecia Castle is used for? Well, nothing much but it can lead you to a rare item, Rosetta Stone. This is what you should do: Go to the organ and choose to play the organ. Press L1, R1, L2, R2, Circle, Square, X, Triangle simulaneously. Now, exit to return back to the courtyard and take the passage to the right. You will notice that the hole in the wall to the right is now opened. Enter and it will lead you to another new area. Walk through the passage and at the next screen, search the top-right corner of the screen for a Rosetta Stone. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9.XXIV)Easy Gergero ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On your attempt to capture the President of Deling, you discover that the President in the train is fake. Someone must have disguised as him. True enough, the fake President must be some kind of monster or any undead. You will first have a fight with the fake President and after defeating him, the fake President will then morph into a monster, called Gergero. To make the fight easier, simply use Phoenix Down or cast any life magic on him. Observe what will happen later on. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9.XXV)Obel Lake Mystery ------------------------------------------------------------------------ At first, i didn't really want to add in this section because Scott Ong has already covered it in his faq. Secondly, i was quite lazy. Well, i got several mails, asking me about Obel Lake mystery. I have solved the mystery quite long ago but...... judging from the amount of mails i got, perhaps i should..... You might also want to refer to Scott Ong's faq/walkthrough Part II for Obel Lake mystery. Note that the mystery to Obel Lake can only be solved in disc three. The most important thing to do now is to locate where the Obel Lake is. You are now in disc three and have the Ragnarok airship. Take the Ragnarok and fly to Galbadia continent near Timber. You should notice a very small spit that curves into a lake. Land your Ragnarok somewhere nearby and walk to the edge. Press X for the American version and Circle for the Japanese version to search and you should notice a message that pops up something like this: This must be Obel Lake. Throw a rock. >Try humming. Choose the second option and hum. A message pops up again like this: A black shadow rose to the surface. Throw a rock. >Try humming again. When the Black Shadow appears, keep talking to him until he asks you to find his friend, Mr. Monkey. He hints that his friend, Mr. Monkey is somewhere in the forest. So, search the forest just to the west of Dollet near the train station on the Hasberry Plains. But before that, choose to throw a rock until it says 'The rock skipped many many times.' "It's my friend, Mr. Monkey... Can you find him for me?" Walk around the forest and a message will pop out, giving you two choices to choose. Choose the first option to throw a rock. If you get a message saying, 'The rock skipped many many times,' you should see this message: "...OUCH! ...D-Darn it! ...You're gonna pay for that!" Enraged, Mr. Monkey will throw a stone carved with some writing on it at you. The letters on the carving are "URHAEO." If you throw a stone and the message says that it skip between 1 to 5 times, you will always get a message like this: "Ahh Darn it!" Y-You're just a big loser. I can make the rock skip as many times as I want! So there! Ha-ha! Loser! Dork! Idiot! Your mom wears combat boots." There's the monkey! >Throw a rock. Sing. Return to Obel Lake and talk to the Black Shadow. Keep on talking to him until he gives you four useful hints. Each hints tell you where the location of a special stone with words carved on it is. Here's the hints: ======================================================================= First Rock ========== Hint:"At the beach in Balamb, something special washes a shore all times." Go to Rinaul Coast located east of Balamb Town. Walk around there and you will find a message pops up: It looks man-made, and has some carving on it... You have found the first stone already, now search for the other stones now. The letters on the carving are "STSLRM." ======================================================================= Second Rock =========== Hint:"Mr. Monkey had a rock like this i think..." Yes...The rock which Mr. Monkey throws it to you is the second stone. However, if you didn't manage to get the stone just now, Shadow will tell that, "If he's not around, perhaps he took a train towards Dollet." =>Only when Mr. Monkey escapes. =>You can find Mr. Monkey again in Hasberry Plains located near Dollet. The letters on the carving are "URHAEO." ======================================================================= Third Rock =========== Hint:"This long narrow stretch of island is located east of Timber and next to the railroad bridge that leads to Fisherman's Horizon and Esthar. Go to Mandy Beach east of Timber. It's an isolated island and it is rather hard to find. Search along the island and a message will pop out somethibng like this: You found a piece of rock by your foot... Now, only left with one more stone. The letters on the carving are "REAIDR." ======================================================================= Fourth Rock =========== Hint:"There's also something on top of a mountain with a lake and cavern." Your next destination is Monterosa Plateau. Follow where the river flows and it will lead to a waterfall. Land your Ragnarok on top of the mountain and search the edge of the waterfall and a message will pop out something like: A bird is warming an egg. >Check it out. Leave it alone. Choose the first option, 'Check it out.' You will encounter a fight against 2x Thrustaevis. They are quite easy to defeat. Once they are defeated, you will find the last rock. The letters on the carving are "EASNPD." ======================================================================= Now, return back to Obel Lake. _________________________________________ |No. |Location of the Rock |Letters | |____|_______________________|____________| | 1. |Rinaul Coast |S T S L R M | | 2. |From Mr Monkey |U R H A E O | | 3. |Mandy Beach |R E A I D R | | 4. |Monterosa Plateau |E A S N P D | |____|_______________________|____________| Now, can you begin out the mystery? Okay, If you read from right to left starting from top to bottom, the hint is, "MORDRED PLAINS HAS TREASURE." Okay, time to head to Modred Plains. Modred Plain is located north from the Great Plains of Esthar. The treasure is rather hard to find. So, if you want an ASCII diagram of the exact location of where the treasure is, refer to Scott Ong's walkthrough/faq Part II. Ignore what the other coloured rock says. Search for a red-faced rock and the rock will tell you to move in opposite direction. Follow what the red-faced rock tells you and the location of the treasure, Three Star is located in the centre of the star [From Scott Ong's ASCII art.] There's another item which you can also get from the clues that the other coloured rock gives you. But, i am not going to list out every single clues. Simply go to Minde Island at the lower left part of the Esthar Continent. Search around and you will find another item, Luck-J Scroll. So far, these are the only treasures that i know. You can only solve Obel Lake's mystery in disc three. Don't worry if you can't solve the mystery or you are already in disc 4 and have not solved it yet. The treasures, in my opinion, aren't quite worthwhile. Firstly, solving this Obel Lake takes quite a long time. Secondly, though i agree with everyone that Three Stars is a valuable item, but don't forget that you can convert Squall's card to 3x Three Stars. This is just my personal opinion and you can choose to accept it or not! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.XXVI)GameShark Codes: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? Note:The gameshark codes below is for the Japanese version only! _______________________________________________________________________ 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