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Final Fantasy 8

Combat King Locations
Combat King 001-1st floor of D District Prison
Combat King 002-Defeat Fujin and Rajin
Combat King 003-Girl who has a crush on Zell in Balamb hotel
Combat King 004-2nd visit ot Esthar, from Esthar soldier Combat King 005-Lunatic Pandora as Squall

NOTE: All of the Combat Kings can be bought at the Esthar book shop with Tonberry's Farmiliar ability.

Debug room
Note: This code requires a Game Shark or Pro Action Replay cartridge. Enable the following code in the North American version of the game:
D00705E8 010F
800704A8 0001
D00705E8 010F
800704AA 0049

Enable the following code in the Japanese version of the game:
D006F308 000F
8006F1C8 0001
D006F308 000F
8006F1CA 0049

Load any saved game, enter a town, press L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 to activate debug mode.

Secrets of Diablos
1) Change the name of Diablos to Lucifer. Even if it does nothing, you'll feel more powerful.
2) The best time to use the lamp is just after you get it, while your level is still low. With a little effort, you will be able to win.
3) Be sure to have Double stocked when you fight Diablos. During the battle, casting a Double Demi on Diablos provokes the most useful counterattack in the game...Diablos will cast Cureaga on the character who just attacked him.
4) At a high enough level, Diablos can deal max damage to certain enemies with his Dark Messenger attack, and does this without boost. This is especially useful for beating Tonberry's. If you have a high enough compatibility, it is possible to beat them before they can use their Kitchen Knife.
5) You can use Diablos' ability to stop random encounters in Ultimecia's palace, without breaking any seals. Submitted by Edward Harington

Beating Norg Easy and Others
Norg's magic is quite strong and can cause some OK damage. This can be quickly remedied through the use of items or magic. But why waste them? Just summon Carbuncle (Obtained from Iguoin- the creatures attacking Rinoa in the presidential palace on Disc One) And any attacks Norg cast on you, will be repelled straight back at him.
Although Phoenix Pinions appear to be rare, they really aren't. They are easily obtained if you have the following abilities. Call Shop, Familiar*, access to Johnny's Shop in Easthar, and Tool-RF. Buy as many Mega-Phoenix's as you can, and refine 3 of them into 1 Phoenix Pinion.

If you want you can also refine 20 Phoenix Pinions into 1 Phoenix Spirit using GF-Ability Med Refine (Eden), which teaches the Revive ability. Submitted by Mitchell
*Not sure if you actually need familiar, I just put it in there just in case.

Easy money making.
Is your SeeD paycheck not going as far as it used to? All those people asking you for loads of money for useless pieces of information? Never fear, Tonberry and Alexander are here! Cobining Tonberry's Call Shop, Sell High and Haggle with Alexander's Med LVL up, you can make all the money you need from anywhere you want. Submitted by Mitchell

Help for Guy with Problems
To use Irvine's Limit- It does tell you how when you first get him. When the target appears, hit R1 Repetitively, that's how you fire his gun. Submitted by Mitchell Here's how using Call Shop, buy 100 Tents, refine those tents using med lvl up to make 25 Mega Potions. Repeat the process until you have 100 Mega-Potion's. Then sell all the Mega-Potions, for 750,000. There is a profit there... Not sure how high

GF Boost
If you have a GF who has learned "Boost," this trick will work. While your GF is about to appear on the screen, hold down "Select" and you should see a hand pointing a finger on the "Square" button and a number next to it. Keep holding "Select" and rapidly hit "Square" This will raise that number which means more damage to the enemy. But make sure you stop when an X appears over the hand. If you don't, the number will start back at the beginning. Wait for the X to go away and repeat the process. The higher the number reached, the more damage caused

Easy Monsters
As most people know, in FF8 monsters level up with your characters. So,the simple way to have an easy time fighting them is to stay on a low level while junctioning powerful magic to your characters and getting lots of AP.
To do this, make sure the first ability you get from Quezacotl is Card. Get this assoon as you get to the world map - fight Fastiticalon-Fs on the beach to get 6APeach time. When you get card, continue fighting them to get other abilities, but don't kill them - card them when their HP drops below half. You cannot find out their HP by Scan, but you will have a feel for their general HP from fighting them beforehand. 
Do this for ALL enemies other than soldiers and bosses, and you will stay on verylow levels throughout the game, rendering otherwise powerful enemies almost harmless. Later on, Cactuars are great low-exp sources of AP. And the Tonberry GF has Level Upand Down for if you need higher level magic and items. 
I have used this method, and managed to beat the game with Squall at level 35. Ibeat Ultima Weapon with no sweat - two Renzokukens at level 27 brought him down. Submitted by OWL 1-30-06

Diablo the easy way
First have Selphie, Irvine and obviously Squall in your party and use the lamp. Do not do anything but have Irvine draw and cast Demi on Diablo. Then when he uses Gravija have Selphie use her limit but before she does, have Squall unleash his limit he will pound the crap out of Diablo and use Selphie's full cure ability and repeat this process and you have a time based GF in less than twenty minutes. Submitted by Anthony Tarbell 7-15-05

Eyes On Me - Listen to it any time!
If you want to listen to the piano version of Eyes on Me at any time, you can do so, as long as you have the Ragnorok. Fly to Shumi Village and go into the Inn. The song will be playing inside there. Submitted by Jeserella:  8/29/05

Battle
Some of you may know that it may take as long as 5 minuets to defeat a tonberry well I found an easier way to defeat them have Quistis in your party and have her know missles then use it about3-4 times and he should be dead. Submitted by Efren Juarez: 0/20/05

Quicker Attack Bar
Go to the screen with Junctions, Items, and save, But those you don't want, you want to go to the configuration screen Down at bottom of Icon screen. When you get to this screen you will see some blue lines make all of them read fast. After doing so go fight a battle and the little line for your attacks will be super fast and so will your GFs lines.

Quicker Limit Breaks
When your health is low you will not always get a limit break. To ensure that you do wait for the target character's turn and hit O repeatedly. This should ensure the Limit Break activation

The Balamb Card Club Group
The card Club group is a group of people from balamb garden who play cards. you can get rare cards from some of them. This is the order you must beat them in and their location. They appear later in the game.

1)Jack-Hanging around the location board in the main hall. (he'll tell you who he is).
2)Crab-He walks out of the car park area
3)Diamond-2 girls walking toward the location board in the main hall. (wait for them to stop)
4)Spade-the guy next to the 2nd floor elevator. (gives you cards in the beginning of the game if you asked him).
5)Heart-Shuu in Garden control room (get carbuncle card from her).
6)King-Talk to doctor Kadowaki in the infirmary and then go to your room and sleep. He will appear and challenge you.
7)Joker- he is in the training center near the draw point & the bridges. appears randomly. (get levitan from him)

Weapons Monthly Locations
Weapons Monthly 1st-Lunatic Pandora lab in the past as Laguna
Weapons Monthly Mar.-After defeating Elvoret
Weapons Monthly Apr.-Squall's room after graduation
Weapons Monthly May-Sewers in Deling City
Weapons Monthly Jun.-After Defeating BGH251F2
Weapons Monthly Jul.-Training center after Galbadia Garden Battle
Weapons Monthly Aug.-Infront of gargoyle statue in Traberia garden

No random battles
Use the following methods to never have any random battle outside of towns: rent a car for 3,500 gil, walk on train tracks, walk on paved roads, or get Diablos' No Encounter ability.

Free Potions
You can get free Potions in Timber Town. Get Rinoa in the party, then go to the bridge where you saw the guards. Keep returning until a man appears. T alk to him, then talk to him a second time to receive a Potion. Leave the screen and return until he appears again and repeat.

Easy Ability Points
Go to Cactaur Island and earn 20 AP for each Cactaur that is defeated in battle. Cactaur Island is the small island covered by a desert.

Easy Experience Points
Display the world map and travel to the left-most island. It contains powerful monsters that can easily level up your characters after battles.

Beating Adel EASILY
Here is how to beat Adel easily. Right when the battle begins, caste HASTE on everyone. (Don't worry about attacking!) Adel will first cast Meteor, but just take it in it isn't that strong! Now with a guy who can use items, use Mega Potion. get Mega Potion by refining 4 tents into one Mega Potion. It recovers 1000hp to everyone. Use Recovery med from item ability.) On your next turn, cast SHELL on everyone. Once again, don't worry about using attacks. When HASTE and SHELL are on, get one guy to use Mega Potion constantly. Use your other two guys to kick the crap out of Adel with the DARKSIDE ability. If you do not have DARKSIDE, it is still pretty good to use regular attacks. Do this and everything should go real smooth and easy!

Beating some Bosses Easily
Cerberus
Junction 100 tornado and and thundaga to your defense and alakazam - beating Cerberus is as easy as flicking you fingers. Diablos Get a few doubles (draw at least 3 from elvoret) and cures. The best time to defeat him is as soon as you get the lamp he's in. At the battle, instantly cast double on yourselves and cure yourselves constantly. Draw demi from him until he's low on HP and use all your Gf's. Bahamut Junction 100 thundaga and tornado to your defense. Cast shell on yourselves when the battle begins, and use tripled magic's, limit breaks, etc... The only hindrance he should give to you is the mega flare - about 200-300 Hp of damage, if you casted shell on yourselves already.

Get Solomons ring
Get Solomons ring then get 3 marlbo tentacles then get the ragnarok do not draw the following gfs siren carbuncle brothers carbuncle leavathin alexander. Pretty much every gf. you should only have only quesactol shiva and ifrit. then rinoa will do squall in the ragnarok. Submitted by Franky

Best way to beat omega
BEFORE BATTLE
Make sure that you get Laguna card and then modify into 100 hero's and try to have lion heart for squall, and have your characters at full health.

BATTLE
Keep healing your characters with curaga to make sure that they stay at 9999 hit points. When omega uses his burning move it will take off 9998 damage. Now have each character use one hero on themselves and omega will not be able to hurt you leaving you to keep pounding him with your limits as you are only on 1 point. After about 3-4 limits with each character have them use another hero and no-one will even die once.

All Vase Pieces in Laguna's Town
To find al the blue vase pieces in Laguna's town, go thru the chocobo crossing and press the button against the chocobo to kick him in the air...he'll drop items.......pick them up then go to the flower shop in the middle of town next to the nearest flower stand....then go back to the pub by the mansion and talk to the cat on the bar....take all pieces back to the man in the mansion and you'll receive a Holy Stone.

Raise Your Salary:
Here are the answers to all 30 SeeD Tests to raise your salary. You can access the Tests by going into the classroom on the second floor of Balamb Garden, or by simply accessing your menu page and finding TEST under the Tutorial option.

Level	Answers			Salary

01 	Y N Y Y Y N N Y N N	500

02 	Y N Y Y Y N Y Y N N	1000

03 	N N Y N Y Y Y N Y N	1500

04 	N Y Y Y N N Y Y N N	2000

05 	N N N Y Y N N Y Y Y	3000

06 	Y N Y Y N N Y Y N Y	4000

07 	Y Y Y Y Y Y N Y Y N	5000

08 	N Y N N Y Y N N Y N	6000

09 	N Y N N N N N N Y Y	7000

10 	Y N N N N N N N Y N	8000

11 	Y Y N Y Y N Y N N Y	9000

12 	N Y N N Y N Y N Y N	10000

13 	Y N N N Y N N N N N	11000

14 	Y Y Y Y N Y Y N Y N	12000

15 	Y Y N N N N N Y N Y	12500

16 	Y N N Y N Y N N Y N	13000

17 	Y N N N Y N N Y N N	13500

18 	Y N N N Y N N N N N	14000

19 	Y N N Y N N N N N Y	14500

20 	Y Y N Y N Y Y Y N N	15000

21 	Y Y Y Y N N Y Y Y N	15500

22 	N N N Y N N N Y Y N	16000

23 	Y N N N N Y Y Y Y Y	16500

24 	Y Y N N Y Y N N N Y	17000

25 	Y N Y Y Y N N Y N N	17500

26 	Y Y N Y N Y N Y N N	18000

27 	N Y N N N N Y N Y N	18500

28 	Y N N Y Y Y N Y N N	19000

29 	N N N Y Y N N N Y N	19500

30 	N Y N N N N Y N N N	20000

A 	(NO TEST)		30000

Find Out More About Laguna Loire:
There are 10 "Timber Magazines" in FF8. Collect all of them, and you can find out more about Laguna in your computer in the classroom. Here are the locations of each magazine:

1. Dollet Bar
2. Dollet Inn
3. Timber Maniacs
4. Timber Inn
5. Fisherman's Horizon
6. Shumi Village Inn
7. Trabia Garden (Graveyard)
8. Edea's Home (Orphanage)
9. White SeeD Vessel (Left side of control room)
10.Balamb Inn

Quicker Limit Breaks
When your health is low you will not always get a limit break. To ensure that you do wait for the target character's turn and hit O repeatedly. This should ensure the Limit Break activation.

GF Locations
In FF8 there are 22 Guardian Forces (and quasi-GFs) you should get.They are:

QUETZALCOTL: From Squalls computer in the classroom at the beginning of the game.
SHIVA: From Squalls computer in the classroom at the beginning of the game
IFRIT: Defeat him in the Fire Cavern outside Balamb Garden as part of the test
SIREN: Draw from the boss at the top of Dollet Satellite during the Exam
BROTHERS: Defeat them in The "Tomb of the Unknown King" outside Deling.
DIABLOS: Summon him using the Magic Lamp given to you by Cid after completing your Exam. After Summoning him you must defeat him. He is VERY difficult. Save before you fight him.
CARBUNCLE: Draw from Gargoyle/Lizard bosses in Deling during Parade.
LEVIATHAN: Draw from NORG in Balamb Garden. Make sure you draw from NORG and not the pods.
PANDEMONA: Draw from Fuujiin in Balamb Town.
CERBERUS: Fight and Defeat him in Galbadia Garden.
ALEXANDER: Draw from Edea at the end of Disc 2.
DOOMTRAIN: Get Item "Solomons Ring" from Tears Point before Lunatic Pandora is summoned. (A good time to get this Item is right before when you are supposed to meet Dr. Odine at the Launch Pad). Once getting this item "Mug" Marlboros outside the Sorceress Shrine until you have 6 Marlboro Tentacles (Marlboros are also at the Island Closest to Heaven) Then buy 60 Remedies and use Alexanders "Med Lev Up" Skill to make 6 Remedy+'s. Next you need 6 Iron Pipes. These can be "Mug"ed from the Yellow/Green Monkey enemy outside Deling. If you don't have these and you can't get back to Deling you may have to wait until after you have the Ragnarok to get them. After getting all the Items (6x Remedy+'s, 6x Iron Pipes, 6x Marlboro Tentacles and 1x Solomon Ring) use the Solomon Ring from the Item Menu and you will receive DOOMTRAIN.
BAHAMUT: Defeat him at the Galbadia Underground Research Facility. It is located in the South-West corner of the map. It is in the middle of the Ocean. To fight him you must talk to machine (Walk when the light is off) then pick the first answer for the first question, second answer for the second and the third answer (It's hidden) for the third question. You will then fight Bahamut.
CACTUAR: Fly to Cactuar Island in the South-East section of the world and run into the giant Cactus that you see going up and down. You must then defeat Giant Cactuar.
TONBERRY: Go to the Centra Ruins (After receiving Odin, see below) and fight 20 Tonberries. After defeating the 20th (or so) the King Tonberry will come. Defeat him and Tonberry will join your team.
EDEN: Draw from Ultima Weapon in Galbadia Underground research Facility. To get to Ultima you must defeat Bahamut first (see above)

GF Compatibility items
The following is a list of GF compatibility items, which raise the speed of your GF's summon time:

GF	Item	Dropped by
Quezacotl	Dynamo Stone	Cockatrice, Blitz
Shiva	Northern wind	Thrustaevis
Jumbo Cactuar	Cactus Thorn	Cactuar
Pandemona	Windmill,Shear Feather	Thrustaevis, Death Claw
Cerberus	None (not elemental)	(none)
Brothers	Dino Bone	T-Rexaur, Sacredcard
Diablos	None (not elemental)	(None)
Alexander	Moon Stone	Elnoyle, Torama, Imp
Leviathan	Fish Fin	Fastitocalon-F, Fastitocalon
Bahamut	Dragon Skin	Anacondaur, Red Dragon, Blue Dragon, Hexadragon
Tonberry	Chefs Knife	Tonberry

 

Rare card locations

PuPu

Look for UFOs to pass by during a battle in the following places (you must have Diablos' "Enc-None"):

1. Outside Winhill Town

2. Mandy Beach, northeast of Timber

3. Heath Peninsula, east of Trabia Garden

4. Kashkabald Desert

After sighting all four, fly the Ragnarok to the rocky cliffs above the Chocobo Shrine. Encounter a UFO and defeat it. Then, head to the crater where Balamb Garden used to be. You will encounter a PuPu. Feed him five elixirs and you will be rewarded. Its only a level 5 card, but is definitely the hardest card to find.

Fat Chocobo

Man in front of Balamb Library (Queen of Cards Quest).

Angelo

Watts, on Forest Owl's train.

Gilgamesh

CC King.

MiniMog

Boy running laps around Balamb Garden.

Chicobo

Summon four Large Chocobo at all six Forests, then proceed to the Chocobo Shrine.

Quezacotl

F.H. Mayor Dobe.

Shiva

Trade "Girl Next Door" to Zone.

Ifrit

Defeat Ifrit.

Siren

Card Master on second floor of the Dollet Pub.

Secret and Minotaur

Defeat Brothers.

Carbuncle

CC Heart.

Diablos

Defeat Diablos (Use the Magical Lamp obtained from Cid to find it).

Leviathan

CC Joker.

Odin

Defeat Odin.

Pandemona

Zell's neighbors.

Cerebrus

Defeat Cerebrus.

Alexander

Piet in Lunarside Base.

Phoenix

Esthar presidential assistant (Queen of Cards quest).

Bahamut

Defeat Bahamut.

Doomtrain

Timber Pub bartender (Queen of Cards quest).

Eden

Defeat Ultima Weapon.

Ward

Dr. Odine in Esthar.

Kiros

Man in black suit in Deling shopping area (Queen of Cards quest).

Laguna

Ellone in Lunarside Base.

Selphie

Selphie's best friend in Trabia Garden.

Quistis

"Trepe Fan Club" in Balamb Garden.

Irvine

Flo (QoC quest).

Zell

Zell's mom in Balamb town.

Rinoa

Lose the Ifrit card to Gen. Caraway in Deling City. Win it back from Marlene in F.H.

Edea

Edea at her house.

Seifer

Cid at Edea's house.

Squall

Laguna at Esthar.

Guardian Force Quizit
Okay at the beginning of the game grab the 7 cards from the man by the elevator and then start heading to the main gate. There will be a man standing in a corner with his arms crossed play him in cards and beat him (you must beat him for the cheat to work) After beating him go to the fire Cavern and beat it too. After you come out of the fire cavern successfully beating it, look at the first forest you see and run around in it and fight 5 caterpillars. After you have beaten 5 run around some more and get in another fight in the same forest. This time you will be fighting a level 250 GF named Quizit. Draw from him and you receive him as a GF, and then he will simply disappear.  Quizit is at level 250 and will get you through this game in no time.

All Vase Pieces in Laguna's Town
To find al the blue vase pieces in Laguna's town, go thru the chocobo crossing and press the button against the chocobo to kick him in the air...he'll drop items.......pick them up then go to the flower shop in the middle of town next to the nearest flower stand....then go back to the pub by the mansion and talk to the cat on the bar....take all pieces back to the man in the mansion and you'll receive a Holy Stone.

Tips

Infinite Items with a Pocketstation
If you have Final Fantasy 8(US), a Pocketstation and a Memory card, you can use the Pocketstation game Chocobo World to get Infinite Items. Just do the following:

1. Download the Chocobo World game from Final Fantasy 8 onto your Pocketstation, (Downloaded after you have caught a Chocobo.)

2. Start playing through Chocobo World, collecting as many items as you can.

3. Once you have the items you want plug the Pocketstation and the Sony Memory card into your Playstation, go to the internal memory card manager and save Chocobo World into the Sony Memory card (Warning: it takes 7 blocks of memory to store)

4. Start playing your Final Fantasy 8 game with the file that you have caught a chocobo with, go to the game menu and choose , get to the menu. You can then transfer the items into your FF8 game, choose the option to take Boco (the character you play Chocobo World with) home, which also lets you transfer all the items you have collected in the Pocketstation game into the Final Fantasy 8 game, and then choose the option to send Boco into the Pocketstation game again. NOW, get to the option on the Final Fantasy 8 game to see all the item you got from the Pocketstation.

5. Now comes the Infinite Item part of this cheat. Get to the Memory card Menu again, but this time copy the Chocobo World files that are inside the Sony Memory card back into your Pocketstation, and then do step 4 (transferring items into FF8) over and over again to, finally, get Infinite Items.

Note : you can do this to get 16 or more MiniMog abilities for all your G.F.s to use, just find MiniMog inside the Pocketstation game and then just do the transferring cheat mentioned again to do it over and over.

Quicker Attack Bar
Go to the screen with Junctions, Items, and save, But those you don't want, you want to go to the configuration screen (Down at bottom of Icon screen). When you get to this screen you will see some blue lines make all of them read fast. After doing so go fight a battle and the little line for your attacks will be super fast and so will your GFs lines.

Quicker Limit Breaks
When your health is low you will not always get a limit break. To ensure that you do wait for the target character's turn and hit O repeatedly. This should ensure the Limit Break activation

How to get the Lion Heart in the disk 2
The items needed for the Lion Heart (Squalls best weapon)
1-Admantine
4-Dragon Fangs
12-Pulse Ammo
Admantine can be acquired by stealing it from BGH251F2 with mug ability or by using card mod on the minotaur's card
Dragon Fangs are dropped by Blue Dragons, T-rexaur's. Blue Dragons can be found in the bika forests right outside of the trabia garden.
Pulse Ammo can be acquired by muging Blitzes for a power generator. Power generator's are rare to mug from a blitz so getting it may take a while.  Blitzez can be found in the sarenghetti forest by the central ruins.
Quezecolt-card mod
Diablos-mug

Draw early on in the game
Speed is everything
Be careful, save every 20 minutes
Keep Squall in Yellow, it's fun
Keep your G.F.'s happy, but don't use them too often, your See D rankings go down... just like running away a lot.
If at first you don't succeed, throw your controller at the screen screaming how bad of a game this is. j/k, this is a really awesome game, try finding the enemy's weakness and exploit, exploit, exploit!
If at first you don't succeed, try again!
Draw from all bosses, never know what you can get!
Have lots of fun!

Play cards a lot, and morph almost every new monster you come across, sometimes more than once. It helps later in the game.
Spend you time drawing Melt from an enemy with Laguna in the 3rd disk, don't be afraid to stop the enemies to do so.
Too weak to kill an enemy? Use Melt to do maximum damage!
To use limit, use Aura or be at low health. If it doesn't appear right away, don't fret! Just keep hitting Triangle.

To get Squall’s 2nd best weapon in the 1st disk:
In Galbadia Garden go play everyone cards there, collect as many cards as you can. Then use Quazlcoat's Ability 'Change cards to Items' and change Toonberry to Cutting Knife, fight the guys around Gulbadia Garden to get a lot of Bolts, get 2 of the card on the 5th page-1st card, and turn 3 Adamantian turtles into Shell. You don't need the magazine to buy the Weapon, you just need all the materials, and it will show up in the shop, the magazines are for you to know what items you need. Details by Sniper Wolf

Keep your levels low in the first disk, try changing everyone you encounter into cards.
In the second disk, get your level up high, enemies are easy when you are at level 100.
For lots of AP, in the 2nd-4th disk, fight the Sabotendar (Cactus men) in the Desert by/on Cactus Island. For lots of Exp, go to the island nearest to Hell.
In the 3rd/4th disk, put on encounter nothing (Diablo Party Ability) and run around Island nearest to Hell and Heaven hitting [Okay] button for the best spells.

The only cheat I found (Cheat as in W-Item type) was being able to junction one magic to 5 different slots, on the same character. First you need the magic, say Ultima. Have 100 of them on Squall or whoever. Now you need to have Ultima junctioned on let's say, HP. Your other 3 Junctions are (For only using on 4), Attack, Elemental Defense, and Speed, put any type of magic on those, just remember what you put (ie. fire on Attack, shell on Elemental Defense, and Haste on Speed). Make sure you have no other Ultima, fire, shell, or haste on anyone else! Now go to the Magic screen, put 1 Ultima on Zell, Selphie, and Rinoa. Then trade fire for your 1 ultima on Selphie, shell for the 1 ultima on Zell, and haste for the 1 ultima on Rinoa. Go back to the Junction screen and admire! Don't take off Ultima or they all will go. If you messed up on any of these processes, start over, or you will be missing Ultimas on a few slots. You can give back haste and junk to Squall afterwards too. The maximum slots is 5, but you can do 2 or 3. ****This only works on the Japanese****

Ultima Weapon is at the bottom of the Underwater Research Facility, the place where you got Bahamut. There are pretty nasty enemies down there, so be careful, like it matters if you have everyone at level 100, which you should. Also, have Squall's Best Weapon equipped. First, you climb down the vine, then go hit the control panel, it will take off 4 points. In order to succeed, you need 10 points left over. Go down stairs, now go to the other control panel and take off 2 points. Go down and hit the control panel nearest to where you came down, take off 1. Now there is another control panel there, hit it and take 4 off, go through the door that opens and add 7 points back on. Go out and go down, take off 1 point from the control panel and go on the elevator. Take off 4 points to get past this door, then it's a matter of fighting/walking down to the bottom. When you get down there, kill off Squall then finish the battle/run away. Use raise to bring him back alive, and keep him in the yellow. Hit the control panel and after a long scene, you fight Ultima Weapon. The key to this battle is having Squall's Speed and Attack up. Use his D-Move on Ultima. It took me 4 limits to kill him.

To beat Omega, you should have Squall, Rinoa, and Quistis in your party. Have everyone at max HP, highest evasion, highest speed, luck, and highest power. Have Death junctioned to status defense and for status attack, I heard don't put holy, but I put nothing just incase. Have Eden at level 50 or higher and life at 9,999. Try to have Squall's Lionheart, and have Squall enter the battle with Automatic Haste (Cerebus' Ability). Give Rinoa the ability to cast Melt and Leviathan's Fullcure. Give Quistis Eden, try to have him very happy so he goes fast. Before you enter the fight, enter a battle and kill off Squall. Leave the battle and cast Life1 on him or use a phoenix down, slow down the battle speed to it's slowest. In the battle, have Squall use his Limit and Quistis use Eden, have Rinoa cast Melt on Ultima, any order, just do it. If you can't get Squall's limit, keep hitting triangle until you do. Just keep pounding Omega until he dies. Have Rinoa absorb Ultima's or use Omega's Ultima's against him. Have Quistis keep casting Eden, and Squall keep using his limits.

To meet Omega, you first need to get your main party to the switching point near the fountain. Have your other party, from the entrance go up the stairs, to the right and in the door, go down stairs, then pull the rope for the bell... you should have 60 seconds to switch party members and all, but 10 seconds is used up by Zell looking up at the bell. Switch the party and go in the room straight ahead. Omega Weapon is hard to miss, so just talk to him.

MOST RARE CARDS
Sqalls Card-Play Languana (you get a chance)
Irvine Card-Part of Card Queen Quest (not CC)
Kiros Card-Part of Card Queen Quest (not CC)
Languana Card-Play Ellon in Space (last chance)
Ward Card-Play Doc.Odin (wile you are Languana)
Qotzicotle Card-Play mayor Dob (at FH)
Siron Card-Play owner of pub. (in dollet)
Shiva Card-Give nude mag. for free (white SeeD)
Laviathan Card-Play Jocker (CC)
Pandimonea Card-Play hotel owner (Balem)
Silphy Card-Play her friend (in Triberea)
Zell Card-With zell play his mom (in Balem)
Quistes Card-Play groopy2(in her classroom)
Carbuncull Card-Play heart (CC)

21 Guardian Forces: (16 regular, 5 items)

1st Disk
Quetzalcoat - SeeD CPU, Squalls personal CPU at the beginning, select Tutorial
Shiva - SeeD CPU, Squalls personal CPU at the beginning, select Tutorial
Ifrit - You have to fight him to go on
Siren - Draw from Eviole after you fight Biggs and Wedge
Brothers - From Labrinth, defeat both Brothers
Diablo - From magic lamp Cid gives you, don't forget this! Get it before you leave the Balamb!
Carbunkle - Draw from one of the Schumerkes while protecting Rinoa

2nd Disk
Leviathan - Draw from controller of Balamb Garden
Pandemonium - Draw from Fuujin, that magic using sidekick for Seifer
Cerebus - Defeat him in the other Garden
Alexander - Draw from Edea at the end of disk 2 after you defeat Seifer

3rd disk
Grashaboras (Goulish) - Obtain 6 Remedies, 6 Molbor Tenticles, 6 Iron Pipes and Solomon's Ring, then use Solomon's Ring.
Bahamut - Defet Bahamut in the Underwater Research Facility (Southwest part of map, not on it)
Sabotendar (Cactor) - Sabotendar can be found on Cactuar Island. You can find this island southeast the Setora Ruins. Once you arrive you'll notice a small cactaur running around. Make contact to initiate the battle
Tonberry - After obtaining Odin, go to the main square and fight 20 tonberrys and the Tonberry King.
Eden - Deeper in the Underwater Research Facility

Other GF
Odin - fight Odin in the Sentora Ruins. He comes randomly to attack enemies.
Kochocobo - In any Chocobo Forest, catch or pay for a chocobo and name him. You need to use greens during a battle. You can level him up with a Pocket Playstation.
Phoenix - Shumi Village. Get item, use in battle. Warning! You can only use it once! He comes back in same battle once and a while.
Moogle - Use Item Moolge Bell

Quistis' Character card, Angelo GF Card
You can find Quistis' character card in the Balamb cafeteria. Walk to the table at the right and challenge the guy in the back to a game of cards. He has quistis' character card and you can obtain it if you beat him. Angelo's GF card is on the train where squall meets rinoa for the second time. challenge the guy in the yellow jackets that calls you "sir" and you can steal his Angelo GF card.

Limit Breaks
This code shows every characters Limit Break.
Squall Leonhart=Renzokuken
Rinoa Heartilly=Combine
Quistis Trepe=Blue Magic
Zell Dincht=Duel
Selphie Tilmitt=Slot
Irvine Kinneas=Shot
Laguna Loire=Desperado
Kiros Seagill=Blood Pain
Ward Zabac=Heavy Anchor
Seifer Almasy=Fire Cross
Edea=Ice Strike

Ultimate Weapons
These weapons are the characters strongest.
Squall Leonhart=Lion Heart
Rinoa Heartilly=Shooting Star
Zell Dincht=Ehrgeiz
Selphie Tilmitt=Strange Vision
Irvine Kinneas=Exeter

No Random Encounters
There is a way to not fight any monsters on  the world map besides using Diablos' encounter-none ability.  If you walk on a road or train tracks, you won't have to fight any enemies.  This is handy early on in the game when your HP is low and need to get to Balamb Garden or Balamb.
(Note: This works in the American version.  It might work in the Japanese version, but I don't know because I only have the American version.)

Kill the zombie with one hit
When you go to negotiate with the president (disc 1) use a GF on him in human form and when he changes use Phoenix down (by clicking on phoenix down and when the people screen comes up press left) Then he should automatically be dead.

Fast Magic
To use triple very early on in a fight , junction Cerberus to someone with the initiative ability, use Cerberus right away. now you can use magic x3 the whole fight.

Get back rare cards you lose.
Sometimes you want to get cards such as Zell card or Laguna card, but you are afraid you will lose some players card or GF card to the person, and if you did not save, the card may be gone forever.

Random rules are always (mostly) in those people which have good cards. But what if the card came out all lousy except for a good card, you definitely lose the good card. And if the good card is VERY RARE then you may think you card is gone forever.

Example: I played cards with Zell's mother. The random rule is in there. I got 4 lousy cards and a Seifer card. Zell's mother have all good cards, I of course lose the Seifer card. But no sweat! Just keep playing with her and keep winning her and soon she will have no choice but to use Seifer card. AND if you can win her, then you got back your Seifer card.
And one more thing, around disk 2 or 3,try to change ALL your ENEMIES CARD, do not change the bosses or GFs or player card. This is a very good thing to do, because if you want to have easy wining in cards you MUST do this!
Random may be a killer but you can make it look like a small fly. You see, when there are random rules, you don't have to be afraid. The cards will ether be boss card or Gf card or player card.

Another Shumi village side quest and other stuff
After talking to the elder and getting the phoenix pinion you will see that scene where the attendant is ordered to work on Laguna's statue.
 
  Go to the shop and go to the statue if you see the attendant sulking in the corner your next side quest has begun. Talk to him , then the elder who will instruct you to take the moomba guarding his house to talk to attendant. Follow the moomba and watch it talk to attendant. Attendant will help now. Talk to him and he will say that the work will be faster if they had artisan helping them. Go to artisan and talk to him (The house nearest to the shop). He will refuse so go to Fisherman's horizon to meet the Artisans friend , the grease monkey found near where you fought the Galbadian soldiers. He will give you his moomba toy. Go back to Shumi village and see artisan again. This time he will agree after much convincing from the toy. Follow him to the shop and watch them work. Go see the elder and he will give you a Status Guard X 4. Its very important since Grashaboras card is so hard to obtain. Believe me it will help you later on.   

Want to be an efficient killer   in disc one. Play cards. Win as many tonberry cards as you can and convert them into chefs knives. Convert these chefs knives into death by Sirens Life recovery magic. Junction it on anyone who has Status attack and see T-rexaurs disappear before your very eyes with one blow. Its really cool.
 
Want to find the Occult Magazine issues?
Issue#1-In library shelf to the left. Don't change scenes where you see draw point for Esuna. Just go there and press on the shelf you can't miss it.
Issue#2-Can be bought at Esthar bookshop or if Angelo search is performed on Bahamut.
Issue#3-from master fisherman on FH. Before reaching the lift that carries you down to FH town proper you will see a ladder . Go down and look for master fisherman there sitting , still fishing. Talk to him and he will give you the issue. These magazines will be helpful if you run out of money and you need to buy something , They can be worth as much as 25750g
in any shop

How to beat Diablos
 Diablos was a very hard Boss. It took  at least 20 tries to beat him because my levels were so high and so were his. But you can beat him very easily. All you have to do is blind him because he has a physical attack that will kill you instantly). If you cant find any blind magic than you'll have to wait to fight him until you do get blind. It is hard to blind him so my suggestion is to junction blind to your (hit) slot because it is easier to blind him that way.

Tips and Defeat also Cards
1. If your having difficulty beating odin just go to the options and turn the battle speed up, the battles should be faster but the timer will be the same.
You can land ragnarok at FH so you can go to the garden and continue the CC contest.

2.When you want to level up quick just go to the island closest to heaven/hell and keep quistis in your party. Make sure Quistis' HP is low so she can use Blue Magic then when you get into a fight use DeGenerator and your opponent is dead in one shot.
3.First put the enemy in zombie than have someone use recover on that enemy, the enemy should die instantly.
4.Use element defense junction x4...... Junction 100 ultima, 100 full life, and 100 life and you will absorb EVERY element.
5.Go to the Cactus Island and attack those little cactus. They don't have much Experience to offer but the AP is great. 20AP per one cactus. The only catch is that they tend to run away, so junction yourself some speedy stuff.
6. Did you know that you can land your ragnarok at esthar airport, its the big cylindrical building and when you stop above it the text esthar air station appears and pressing X makes you land.
7.Draw, draw, draw magics until your stock of magic is 100 for each magic. The more magic you have the more powerful the junction will be.
8.You can discard magic you don't want by going to the Magic Menu and selecting the magic you don't want and pressing the square button to discard that magic.
9.The Ragnarok has an autopilot. Open the large World Map and select your destination and press the X button. Press the X button again to confirm your destination
10.Consider keeping multiple saved games. There maybe a time when you want to return to a part in the game to get something you missed.
11.Some Save Points and Draw Points are hidden. You can see these hidden points by junctioning an active character with the Move-Find ability
12.Enemies level up as your characters level up. Their spell inventory will change as well
13.Talk to everyone and then talk to them again. Most people will have more than one thing to say. Never assume that someone has told you everything they have to tell.
14.With the Familiar Ability from GF Tonberry. You can buy all the Weapons Monthly Magazine, all the Combat King Magazine, and all the Pet Pals Magazine in Esthar shops
15.A character can carry 100 of a single spell and 32 different spells.
16.Limit Breaks: Make one of your characters HP brought to a critical level. During a battle keep skipping turns between your characters using the circle button until your critical character activates his limit break. After the limit break is done, do the same process of skipping turns to activate the limit break again.
17.Easy Victory: Junction 100 Death Spells to your Status-Attack and kill most enemies instantly.
18.Use Amnesia Greens to make a GF forget an ability if the GF ability Menu is full or a certain ability has lost its effect. For example: If the GF has ST-Def-Jx2 and ST-Def-J, there's no need to keep ST-Def-J. Be careful, some special abilities cant be brought back if you remove them.
19.Always double-check the game's decision when using the Auto Junction command. The game doesn't make any decision based on your surroundings.
20.First teach your GF the boost ability. When summoned, hold down the select button and press the square button repeatedly. Do not press the square button when the pointer shows X or you'll have to start from 75 again. The maximum is 250.
21.Since the enemies stay the same level as you do, you can prevent them from getting strong by using the CARD command on the enemy during battle and change them into a card. That way you don't gain a lot of experience and your characters wont level up too soon, and with a bonus of getting a card
22.Squall, Irvine, and Quistis have the best limit breaks. Make good use of Quistis Mighty Barrier, a very great advantage you cant find anywhere in the game. Irvines Armor Shot is the second best in the game next to Squalls Lionheart.

 Defeat
Malboro
If your lucky, Odin will kill this monster for you, but then most of us are not.
First make sure Squall's Strength is high so you can kill the Malboro a lot faster.
Make sure you have the ability Sts Def-Jx4 on Squall.
Junction the following magic spells to your Status Defense.
1 Pain
2 Sleep
3 Confuse
4 Break
Make sure you have 100 each of these magic spells or it wont work all the time.
When the Malboro hits you with the Bad Breath attack, Squall will only be inflicted with the Berserk status. You wont be able to control Squall but he will keep pounding the Malboro with his gunblade. Make sure you hit R1 when Squall hits the Malboro. You should come out victorious.

Malboro Tip from Kriss
Junction 100 x Berserk, 100 x Sleep and 100 x Confuse spells to Quistis' status defense. Before this, have Quistis on her Limit Break. When he casts Bad Breath on y'all, Quistis will be silenced and poisoned (and God knows else what!) but will still be eligible for attacking. You should now have the opportunity to cast Degenerator on Malboro and claim your Tentacles or crappy HypnoCrowns. Having Iniative and Alert also help.

Marlboro Tip from Micro
I have thought up a lot easier way to get Marlboro tentacles, all you need to do is have which ever character of yours usually strikes first have the mug ability, and there's a good chance that you will steal from it before the breath attack, then as soon as you steal, run.....and even if you cant run, but you manage to steal tentacles, wait for him to attack you once after the breath attack, then run and use remedy to heal yourself....i only had to fight 2 Marlboros to get doomtrain

Malboro Tip from Viva Yo
Just junction initiative to the character that has Card Mod and use it with him. If it works you'll win the tentacles plus the card, (and when you have enough you change them into another tentacle) but if it doesn't use any other strategy, try again or pray and die.

Ruby Dragon
Some people have a hard time defeating the Ruby Dragon but they are actually fairly easy.
For this tip you must have Doomtrain.
Just cast Doomtrain and the Ruby Dragon will be inflicted with the Slow Death status. Cast Protect on you party to lessen the Fire Breath damage from the Ruby Dragon. Don't attack the Ruby Dragon, just wait till the timer goes down to zero. Make sure you keep yourself healed after taking some hits. Just sit and wait till the dragon dies.

Ruby Dragon Tip from (no name given)
Have someone cast cerebus, then cast protect on your whole party to resist his breath attack then cast meltdown on ruby dragon, then aura on squall, then renozuken ruby dragons butt off. (it takes about 2-4 renozukens to kill it).

Adel Tip from Peter
My way is simple, cast Regen on Rinoa (draw it), then just keep attacking Adel consistently, if too little damage is done try spd +20 or 40%, or even DARKSIDE with Regen. Holy heals him.

Ultima Weapon
Make sure your characters have Full-Life in their magic inventory cause Ultima Weapon has one hit kills and you want to revive your characters to full health. Make sure you have plenty of Aura spells so you can activate your characters limit break. The good characters you can use are Squall, Irvine, and Quistis. Junction Auto-Haste, Auto-Shell, Initiative to your characters.
When you go into battle the first thing you need to do is cast Cerberus to get the triple status on your party. Make sure your compatibility to Cerberus is high so he will come out right away. Next have one of you characters cast Meltdown on Ultima Weapon to lower its vitality so that your hits will take out more. Once Cerberus has been summoned, have one of your characters cast Aura on everyone and another character should cast Haste on everyone and another character should cast Shell on everyone. When you have the Aura status start using your limit breaks. Use Irvines Armor Shot and use Quistis Mighty Barrier to give you a great advantage. When you are low on HP, triple cast Curuga. When a character dies use Full-Life then use Cerberus or Triple to gain back the triple status. If you think you are about to loose and Ultima Weapon only has a few thousand HP use the Kamakazi for a last "desperation attack", it will take out about 30,000 to 60,000 HP. Also you might have at least one Hero item in your item inventory, if you do then use it. Hero makes a character invincible for a short period of time, but make sure you cast Aura first before you do the Hero item cause no magic will have effect on a Hero status. Good luck.

Omega Weapon
Preparations:
Omega Weapon is probably the hardest enemy ever in the whole FF series.
In order to beat him you need Hero items or Holy War items, its best if you have the Holy War instead.
Hero makes one character invincible for a short period of time.
Holy War makes the entire party invincible for a short period of time.
To get Hero items you need to modify the Laguna card for 100 Hero.
To get Holy War items you need to modify the Gilgamesh card for 10 Holy War.
You need GF Bahamut, Cactuar, Eden, Cerberus. Junction each one of them to each one of your characters.
Junction Auto-Haste, Auto-Shell, Auto-Protect, and Initiative to your characters.
Set your battle speed to slow so you can buy yourself some time.
Junction 100 Death Spells to your characters Sts Def-J.
Make sure your compatibility with your GF is high.
Use Squall, Irvine, and Zell.

Battle
When you go into battle the first thing Omega Weapon will do is cast LV? Death on you so you better have junctioned those Death spells or you're dead the first second of the battle. First cast Cerberus to gain the triple status, the character who has Initiative should do this, and another character cast Meltdown or Doomtrain to lower Omega Weapons vitality so that your hits take out more. Then have one of you characters cast Aura on everyone and another character cast Haste on everyone, and the last character should cast the Holy War. Make sure you don't cast Holy War first or the Aura and Haste wont work on your party. Then start using your Limit Breaks. For Irvine use his Armor Shot Limit Break. Keep using your limit break until the Aura status wears off then start using your GF, Cactuar, Eden, and Bahamut, these 3 are the only effective GF against Omega Weapon. When the Holr War wears off have one of your characters cast Aura on everyone then use the Holy War again. If you are in need of some healing, triple cast Curuga. If one of your party dies use Full-Life to revive that character to full health then use Cerberus again or Triple to gain the triple status then cast Haste. Good Luck !!!

CARDS
A great card game tip: Make sure you DO NOT spread the RANDOM RULE or will you have the hardest times winning a card game. When you talk to a person and challenge them , they will say something about combining rules, just keep saying NO until the person suggest a game without rule combinations.

Level 5 card
Name: PuPu
Location: Balamb Area
Condition: Must complete the Alien Encounter Sidequest.

Level 8 cards
Name: Chubby Chocobo
Location: Balamb Garden
Condition: Must take part in the Queen of Card's Quest.
See Secrets ( click here )
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Name: Angelo
Location: Forest Owl's Train or White Seed Ship
Condition: Must win from Watt's of the Forest Owl's resistance group.
In the train during Disc 1 or in the White Seed Ship during Disc 3.
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Name: Gilgamesh
Location: Balamb Garden
Condition: Must take part in the CC Group side quest.
See Secrets ( click here )
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Name: MiniMog
Location: Balamb Garden
Condition: Challenge a young kid jogging around the Hall.
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Name: Chicobo
Location: Chicobo Sanctuary
Condition: Must solve the Chicobo forest puzzles and visit
the Chicobo Sanctuary. See Secrets ( click here )
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Name: Quezacotl
Location: Fisherman's Horizon
Condition: Challenge Mayor Dobe in Fisherman's Horizon. Try
to get this card when you first arrive at Fisherman's Horizon.
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Name: Shiva
Location: White Seed Ship
Condition: Must have the "Girl Next Door Magazine" (found at
Timber Maniacs building in Timber). Talk to Zone in the White Seed
Ship during Disc 3. He will trade you the card for the magazine.
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Name: Ifrit
Location: Fire Cavern
Condition: Defeat Ifrit in the Fire Cavern
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Name: Siren
Location: Dollet
Condition: Visi the Pub in Dollet and challenge the Pub's manager
on the second floor. If you win, he will take you to a back room where
you can challenge him again and win the Siren card.
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Name: Sacred
Location: Tomb of the Unknown King
Condition: Defeat the Brothers in the Tomb of the Unknown King
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Name: Minotaur
Location: Tomb of the Unknown King
Condition: Defeat the Brothers in the Tomb of the Unknown King

Level 9 cards
Name: Carbuncle
Location: Balamb Garden
Condition: Must take part in CC Group side quest.
See Secrets ( click here )
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Name: Diablos
Location: Balamb Garden
Condition: Cid will give you a Magical Lamp on your first mission.
Use the lamp to challenge Diablos and win the card from him.
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Name: Leviathan
Location: Balamb Garden
Condition: Must take part in CC Group side quest.
See Secrets ( click here )
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Name: Odin
Location: Centra Ruins
Condition: Defeat GF Odin. See Secrets ( click here )
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Name: Pandemona
Location: Balamb
Condition: Challenge the Hotel's Owner outside the hotel. Must wait
until Galbadia's invasion of Balamb has ended.
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Name: Cerberus
Location: Galbadia Garden
Condition: Challenge Cerberus at Galbadia Garden in the central hall.
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Name: Alexander
Location: Lunar Base
Condition: Challenge Piet, the head technician at Lunar Base during
Disc 3.
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Name: Phoenix
Location: Esthar
Condition: Must take part in Queen of Cards Quest.
See Secrets ( click here )
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Name: Bahamut
Location: Deep Sea Research Center
Condition: Challenge the GF Bahamut. See Secrets ( click here )
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Name: Doomtrain
Location: Timber
Condition: Must take part in the Queen of Cards Quest.
See Secrets ( click here )
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Name: Eden
Location: Deep Sea Deposit
Condition: Must defeat Ultima Weapon who carries the GF Siren

Name: Ward
Location: Esthar
Condition: Challenge Dr. Odine during Disc 3
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Name: Kiros
Location: Deling City
Condition: Must take part in the Queen of Cards Quest.
See Secrets ( click here )
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Name: Laguna
Location: Lunar Base
Condition: Must challenge Ellone while your in Lunar Base.
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Name: Selphie
Location: Trabia Garden
Condition: Challenge the girl near the gargoyle statue after your
first visit to Trabia Garden.
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Name: Quistis
Location: Balamb Garden
Condition: Can win from the "Trepies". (the two girls in the second
floor classroom or the day dreaming guy in the cafeteria).
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Name: Irvine
Location: Fisherman's Horizon
Condition: Must take part in the Queen of Cards Quest.
See Secrets ( click here )
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Name: Zell
Location: Balamb Town
Condition: Visit Zell's mother with Zell in your party and challenge
her to get the card.
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Name: Rinoa
Location: Deling City
Condition: Challenge Rinoa's Father, Genral Caraway. Intentionally loose
your Ifrit card to him then challenge him again to win the Rinoa card.
You can get the Ifrit card back from Martine in Fisherma's Horizon.
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Name: Edea
Location: Edea's House
Condition: Challenge Edea at her home during Disc 3.
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Name: Seifer
Location: Balamb Garden or Edea's House
Condition: Challenge Cid during Disc 1 before your first mission,
or challenge him during Disc 3 at Edeas House.
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Name: Squall
Location: Esthar or Ragnarok
Condition: Challenge Laguna at the end of Disc 3 at Esthar or once
everyone is on board the Ragnarok.
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END of Tips and Defeat also Cards

Card mods
Abbys Worm: 1 for 1 Windmill Adamatoise: 3 for 1 Turtle Shell Anacondour: 1 for 1 Venom Fang Angelo: 1 for 100 Elixers Bahamut: 1 for 100 Megalixers Belhelmel: 1 for 1 Saw Blade Bite Bug: 1 for 1 M: Stone Piece Blitz: 1 for 1 Dynamo Stone Bomb: 1 for 1 Bomb Fragment Cactuar: 1 for 1 Cactus Thorn Cocatrice: 1 for 1 Cocatrice Pinion Creeps: 1 for 1 Coral Fragment 

Tips and Hints on how to start that card empire.
Even though you have the card ability, and you change everything on earth into cards, you still cant win because the cards around balamb suck? Dont start playing cards until you have Ifrit, Sacred, and Minotar. You should have those cards cause with only Ifrit you are going to lose him and whine to your mommy. Then proceed with your mad card skills and play and play and play and play and play and play and play until you have a lot of cards. then use CARD MOD and change everything into items. (especially the gespers because they are bad cards but refine into a black hole.)

Guide to Defeat Omega Weapon
This is a guide to beat that oh so hard, monster from heak, Omega Weapon. In this guide I will give, requirements,  suggested party, and order of Omega's moves. I will also tell where to get the required items.

Omega's Death
This is the strategy I used to send Omega to heak.

Here are suggestions and requirements:

LionHeart (weapon and limit break, suggested)
At least 50 pulse ammo (Required)
Recover Command (Required)
Revive Command (Required)
Defend Command (Essential)
Exeter (Irvine's Ultimate Weapon, Required
Entire party at 9999 HP (required)
Str at 255 everyone (suggested, makes the battle a lot easier)
All seals released (required)
100 death on everyone's status defense (required)

Ok are you ready? Omega will use these attacks in this order: 1.LV.5 Death 2. Meteor 3.Megido Flame(9998 damage to all) 4. Gravija(3/4 damage to all. 5. Terra Break ( Omega Weapon's deadly limit break) 6. Ultima 7. Meteor 8. Light Pillar (9999 damage to one) 9. Omega repeats all above steps.

Suggested Party
Squall Leonhart: Chosen because of Lion Heart (a.k.a. End of Heart) limit break. Equip with magic, auto-protect, auto-haste, Defend and GF abilites.

Irvine Kinneas: Chosen because of Fast and Pulse Ammos used in limit break. Equip with auto-protect, magic, Recover, and GF abilites.

Quistis Trepe: Chosen because of Mighty Guard limit break. Equip with Revive, auto-haste, magic, and GF commands.

When the battle starts Omega will use Lv. 5 Death. cast Aura on everyone. Have Quistis use Mighty Guard, have Irvine use Fast Bullets until they finish, and Squall use Renzokoken. After Lv. 5 death Omega will cast Meteor. Have Quistis cast Mighty Guard again, Irvine pound him with Pulse Ammo, and Squall hit him with a few Renzokoken (hope for a Lion Heart finishing blow, 200,000 damage plus 50,000 from Renzokoken!) You might want to cast Meltdown on Omega, it will make Irvine and Squall much more lethal. After Meteor, Omega will cast Megido Flame (9998 damage to all) so make sure you are at full health. Don't bother to heal every one since his next attack, Gravija, will do nothing to you because you are already at 1 HP. Continue pounding Omega with limit breaks, have Quistis use Mighty Guard around twice. After hitting him with a few limit breaks heal everyone. Have Squall use the Defend command, And Irvine and Quistis summon GFs with high HP. Omega will now use Terra Break, this deadly move is about 5-8 physical hits, which do 2000-4000 damage per hit. You survive this because if you used Defend Squall will take no damage. Quistis and Irvine should have protect on them from Mighty Guard, the GFs will take the punishment for them. After this attack Aura is probably worn off so cast it again on everyone. Then pound him with the same limit breaks. Omega decides to hit you with the 2nd strongest spell in the game. Ultima. You should survive since you should be still at around full health. After Ultima, pummel him with limit breaks as usual, but beware he will now cast Meteor. Following this, he will cast Light Pillar, so revive who ever gets hit it by it quickly. After Light Pillar, he will repeat all his attacks over. After the second Terra Break in the battle, you should be able to finish him. And remember, always use your limit breaks between Omega's attacks!

Where to find Requirements and suggestions

Lion Heart
Adamantine - Change Minotaur card into item
Dragon Fang - From Blue Dragon w/RARE ITEM ability receive as a battle
prize or w/LVL DOWN ability from Tonberry Level him down between 1-10 and receive it as a battle prize
Pulse Ammo - w/RARE ITEM ability receive Energy Crystal and then change it to a 12 Pulse Ammo,

Exeter
Dino Bone - From T-Rexaur/ Change card into an item, Mug or receive as a battle prize
Moon Stone - w/Rare Item ability From Imp receive as a battle prize or mug
Star Fragment - w/Rare Item ability From Hexadragon receive as battle
prize or MUG Iron Giant
Screw - From Geezard receive as a battle prize change card into an item

Recover Command
Draw GF Leviathan from Norg in second disc. Learn Recover from him.

Revive Command
Draw Alexander from Edea at the end of Disc 2. Learn Revive from him.

Defend Command
Defeat GF Cactuar, or Brothers. Learn Defend from them.

Easy Ultimitia Battle
You need the Gilgamesh card. Card Mod it for 10 Holy Wars. I prefer to have Squall LV 100 Zell LV100 and Selphia LV 100 on my team. Make sure each member has 100 Auras and 10 Triples. Have all the limits and Ultimate Weapons. Now fight her and use the basic strategy for her first form. For Griver and her other forms, use this strategy. 1. Use Squall and cast Triple on Selphia. 2. With Selphia cast Aura on all your of gays. 3. With Zell use a Holy War. Do it in the order I told you or it won't work. Every time your Aura and Holy War fade away, do steps 2 and 3

Hints

Quick and Dirty Beat Omega Weapon
Make sure that Selphie is in the party that will face Omega. When you enter  the battle, cast Aura on Selphie and then use Holy War on the entire party,  or just Hero on Selphie. Once that's done, get to Selphie's Limit Break. Keep  hitting "Do Over" until you get her limit break "The End."

With the invincibility in effect, you should have more than enough time to  "Do Over" until you get "The End." If you're impatient, or just not getting  the limit break in time, then junction a slew of triples or Ultimas to  Selphie's Luck stat, which seems to help "The End" show up more often. Also,  Junction 100 Death spells to everyone's status-def too avoid getting conked  by Omega's lvl5-Death attack.

Now you've set a land speed record for beating the crudola out of the  toughest FF baddie ever. Enjoy.

New Omega Weapon Strategy:
Found out a Way to destroy the weapon. First thing that you must do is is make sure that you have 100xquake magic junctioned to your defense witch will give you life when he uses quake in the battle draw EDEN form him then make sure that squall stays alive and that the other 2 characters die this will give you a very high chance of hitting lion heart witch can kill
the weapon this strategy took me 5-10 mins to destroy him. After the battle you receive 100xUltima stones, Eden's card and 100AP

Squall Fire Game Tip
For this cheat you must have the fire sword. With squall use his attack and right before he hits the enemy hold R1 and Square. There will be a funny noise and the enemy will be engulfed in fire.

Get Squall's Ultimate Weapon
You must get dragon fangs. The best place to get these is from the island to the far east. It is an island called `the island closes to hell` and the fights are really hard. While on this island you will fight Grendel, Hexadragon, Blue dragon and Marlboro's.

Quezacot Card Modification
In the strategy guide for ff8, they do not tell you how to get the card modification from Quezacotl to upgrade your weapons. After you have acquired both GF's at the beginning of the game put Quezacotl in your party by selecting junction and GF. Next, select Quezacotl from from the GF menu screen. When you do this you are going to see some elements that are learned and some that are not. At this point select "card". It will take 40 AP to fill it up so be patient. Once Quezacotl has learned this element, go back into the GF category and pick him, then go to the next page. At the
bottom of the page you will see "card modification". Select card modification for Quezacotl to learn. Once the 80 AP has been complete, you will now be able to use the enemy cards to upgrade your weapons. However, there is one major draw back, if you decide to upgrade another element other than card first, your hopes for getting the card modification will be gone!!! I know because it happened to me. To upgrade your weapons using the card modification you "must" learn the card element first.

Acquiring Diablos and Odin
I have some more tidbits for all your gamers' out there. As I was playing FF8 this past weekend, I found a much easier way to acquire both Diablos and Odin. Here is how. In the game there are certain monsters that give off certain stones. In most cases, these stones can be used to upgrade Quistis's limit break. When you come across the stone that says Quistis can learn "acid" equip her with it for this will come in very handy later on. Next, if you are confident about your HP status you might want to try this out. If not, wait awhile. Next, awaken Diablos by selecting the magical lamp in your item box. Next, pay attention to Quistis's HP. When her HP is low enough it will be time for you to use her limit breaks. When this happens, cast "acid" on him. By doing this, you will "blind" him forbidding him to use his one charge kill on you. Next, make sure you keep
your HP's up, use Carbuncle, then draw and cast Demi on him. If you do this, he will be yours in no time. Acquiring Odin. Acquiring Odin can be difficult especially if you have to face all those "tone berries"; and battling one of these can take up to as much as 5 minutes. However, if you want to eliminate the hassle of fighting these guys you can do the following. After acquiring Diablos, go to junction on the sub screen and then activate him by putting him with one of your party members. Next, pick GF from the sub screen. Now select Diablos and page right. On the next page you will see a command called
"enc none". Select this so he can learn it. I believe it will take 80AP. Once he has learned this you can now equip that party member with it. Go back to Odin's realm and Walla no more encounters. Next, proceed up the stairs and take the elevator up to the top; then bare left and climb the ladder; go inside and activate the switch. Next, go back out and down the ladder, then run to the right and up the stairs. Once you reach the next area, make a left and climb another ladder. Next, remove the right eye and proceed down the ladder. Next, go to the right and climb the stairs to the top. Go through the opening and to the left; now climb another ladder. Next, put the right eye into the statue; when this is done a code will appear either write it down or memorize it. Next, remove both eyes from the statue, climb down the ladder and proceed downstairs. Next, go back to the figure where you removed the right eye. Now put both eyes in. When this happens, a flame will appear on the right. Next, starting from the top put in the code and then press "X" to confirm. If this is done correctly, the door on the bottom will open. Next, climb down the ladder and through the door. Now blast away. For those of you who are having a hard time acquiring these two GF's I hope this helps. 

Irvine's limit break
I found another problem in FF8, please put this message in along with my e-mail so that I can see whether or not other gamers' had the same problem. As you know, each member of FF8, has their own limit breaks; and they vary per character. Last night when I was playing this game, and when Irvine's hp's were low, his limit break came on. When I went to use it, all I get was a target and no action. I ask you, what good is a characters limit break if you can't use it? 

Diablos Problem
After many times of dying, I finally got diablos to join my party (level 65). However, in the process something very weird happened. Upon receiving diablos I saved my game and then added him to Squall's artillery. In the very next fight I encountered a huge dragon like creature which was almost impossible to beat. Next I used diablos to see what kind of damage he would inflict. It didn't even put a dent in him. But when the creature cast petrify and acid breath on my party, it wiped me out. And when I died and started the game over again, diablos was gone. This is very strange because even though I saved my game before the fight he should have been there when the game restarted. I think that there is a major flaw in this game. It should be quite interesting to see if any one else has this problem.

Easy Elemental Defense
The first thing I should say here is that this tip requires the GameShark or some trashy facsimile there of. If you use the code that gives Squall 99 of the spell "Apocalypse" in his first spell slot (best used during a new game so that it won't write over any existing spells) and junction it to your elemental defense, you will get over 100% protection (which means absorption) for ALL of the elements. Imagine junctioning it with other spells, 100% absorption for every element...

Beating the Omega Weapon
In order to beat Omega Weapon you must first card mod Laguna's card and Gilgamesh's card. Do so before Disc4 and you can re-win these card from the cc group in the Ragnarok. Turn the 100 Heros into 10 Holy War (trial) and then 1 Holy War with your GF menu abilities. Then card mod the second Laguna and Gilgamesh cards. You should now have 100 Heros and 21 Holy Wars. (Trust me, one more Holy War can help a bunch) Have Squall, Irvine, and Quistis all on high levels. They should all have lots of strength and speed. It is imperative that you have all three characters with lots of Full-life's, Auras, Hastes, Triples, and/or Doubles. Squall MUST have Lionheart. If not this battle could take you up to an hour to get through. Have everyone with magic, item, and GF. Equip all of your characters with 100 Death to their status defense. Take off all elements equipped to their elem attack. Have Squall with Str +60%, Spd +40%, Auto-Haste, and HP +(whatever gives him 9999). Irvine with Str +60%, Spd +20% or +40%, Expend3x1, and HP +(). Quistis with the same as Irvine. Start the battle by having Squall give Quistis a hero. Have her cast Double or Triple on Irvine. Have Irvine cast Aura on Squall and himself. Then give Squall and Irvine a Holy War. Spells DO NOT take effect while the character is invincible. Have Squall continually do Renzokuken and have Irvine pound on him with AP or Pulse Ammo. Keep everyone with Aura and invincibility. Haste doesn't hurt either. Remember that NO SPELL takes effect on a character while invincible. i.e. you can cast aura on Squall and then give him a Hero or Holy War and he'll still have Aura, but not the other way around. You have a long and tedious battle ahead of you. P.S. Alternate with making people invincible. Omega has a tendency to do Terra Break right when everyone's invincibility runs

How to get the G.F. known as Eden:
Everyone knows that in Final Fantasy VIII to get the G.F. known as Eden one has to combat the formidable and difficult Ultima Weapon on the floating research facility. But what some might not know is that there is another 
way to get her.
I played through the game taking my time to get each character to level 100 and carefully junctioned each character's abilities to be close to 150 as a minimum requirement, several of them having 255 ratings. Even with 
characters such as this I was not willing to attempt to fight the Ultima Weapon. So I simply progressed with the game.
I reached Ultimecia's palace and unlocked every one of the sealed powers. I left the G.F. ability for last simply because my personal playing style doesn't involve using it. The final monster I encountered for unlocking seals was the dragon-type creature that goes by the name Tiamat.
To find Tiamat from the entrance to the castle go through the door on the left, pass through the hallway into the room with the falling chandelier, go through the door on the lower level, pass the fountain and enter the tower. Climb the tower until you see a moving pendulum that is polygon based as 
opposed to animated pre-rendered background. Move to the top of the spiral until it forks and the rightward path is destroyed. (It actually looks more like a board is placed to lead you to the upper level instead of continuing with the spiral) Jump onto the pendulum and rid it to the other side where there is a door. Tiamat is on the other side. He looks almost exactly like Bahamut, except with a different color scheme. If you unlocked the "draw" command before meeting Tiamat you will find that he has two draw able items. The first is the spell "Flair." The second is the elusive G.F. named Eden.

UFO Sightings Side Quest
To fight pupu and get his card you must run into 4 different battles in specific locations and then fight a UFO those specific locations are: 
1)Winhil Bluffs
2)Mandy Beach(Near Timber)
3)Kashkabald Desert (in centra region)
4)Trabia Heath 
Peninsula  (near Trabia Garden) NOTE: IT HELPS TO PUT ENC-NONE (DIABLOS) ALTHOUGH ITS TECHNICALLY A BATTLE YOU WILL STILL FACE HIM WITH OUT RUNNING INTO OTHER BATTLES. Once you've completed those 4 sightings head to grandidi forest (near chocobo sanctuary) and run around until you face a UFO he is very easy to beat dont worry(be happy) :) Once you face the UFO (BE SURE TO HAVE 5 ELIXIRS AND SOMEONE WITH THE ITEM ABILITY) Now head on over to the balamb region and run around where the garden use to be and you should run into PuPu the alien once you are in a battle he will ask for elixirs and it will annoy you. Make sure you don't attack him cuz he only has like 10 hp. So make sure nobody has counter attack. Once you give him five elixirs the battle will end and you'll receive his card. You can choose to kill him. your reward will be worse than if you don't kill him. I think you get an accelerator. You can refine his card into a HUNGRY COOCKPOT. You can refine it even further using Siren's Tool-RF ability. You'll get a shaman stone for the hungry cookpot. shaman stone sucks. It just raises your compatibility with Bahamut by 3. Use Eden's GFAbl-RF to refine the shaman stone into a Rosetta stone. Those are way better. it teaches a GF Abiltyx4. And that is all the "goodies" about the UFO side quest.

Hint
This is how to use your most powerful characters while in ultimecia's castle instead of having to use the wimpy trio. when u want to use your strong guys/gals all u need to do is leave the weak party at the door and when you have to do something else all you have to do is to switch party's and go outside then all your people will be there to.

Hint
When Battling Diablo Use Demi and in reward Diablo will use Curaga on you

Hint
If you want to know how truly good you are the hardest fight in the game takes place un Ultecemias castle. To summon the Omega weapon you must have one of your parties wait in the courtyard while the other party pull the bell chain in the room before the gallery. Once the chain is pulled a timer will start in this minute switch back to the first party and have them into the chapel. A great beast will know be waiting for you run into him to start the match and good luck

Shortcut on one of the Laguna Experiences
Before you reach the Galbadia Garden, you have to go through a forest. Squall, Zell, and Selphie will go through a Laguna Experience. First go to the part where you go right or left (where you have to beat some Esthar soldiers). Take the right route. There will be a ladder. Climb down it. Run down the walkway to the next screen. Go forward and go left. You should be in a crystal room. Keep on going straight after you go through the door. Then go to the right. After that, go up the set of stairs. You will be in a crystal room again. Go straight to where the ladder is. This will put you outside on a cliff. Then you will be attacked by about 15-20 Esthar soldiers

How to Fight Trauma
In Ultimecia's castle, after defeating Sphinxa head right on the stairs and head to the Gallery. In there look at all the paintings and then look at the big one opposite the stairs. Press x on it and it will tell you to name it. Select VIVIDARIUM, INTERYIGILIUM, VIATOR. Now turn around and trauma will be there!

To Get a free locator for the Tomb of the Unknown King
First You must have Rinoa in your party of three. Next talk to the Guard at Carway's Mansion and you will get a free locator. Finally, go to the Tomb of the Unknown King to get the GF, Brothers.

Beat Adel
To Beat Adel is easy. Just Get the Cactaur GF and get him to learn Kamikaze and use it on her or you just use full life

Heal All Parties Members & GF's With No Items
In disc 3 (before going to Lunatic Pandora),if your party members and/or GFs have low HP, and you don't want to use any items, land at the Esthar Air station. Take the lower pathway from the Air station and go to the save point where there is a symbol on the path. If your people and/or GFs are hurt at all, when your at the save point, a green light will surround you for about 5-10 seconds. This green light has the same effect as a COTTAGE! All of your party members and GFs will be healed and you didn't even have to use any items out of your inventory.

To Aquire The GF Diablo:
The get the GF known as Diablo use the item Magical Lamp after you save Dollet from the Galbadian Solders. Save before you face him because he is very strong with hp around 8,000. He is weak against ice techniques so make sure you have Shiva, blizzards, blizzaras, and blizzaga.

Very Easy Experience:
This is a way to level up your guy 5-15 levels at a time; First you must have Odin. Second go to the island closest to hell. Then run from all the battles you encounter. Odin should appear and kill off the level 100 monsters. The more you run the more he will appear but watch out because if you run too much your seed level goes down.

Easy Final Boss:
First of all, you need every GF. This might be hard if you didn't use draw on the people ( or things ) from the past. If you've already done that (all of this would be done by finding the ragnarok. It is somewhere in the southwest or southeast. It will show up on your full screen map. Use the chocobo to cross the water). Afterwards, train your main party ( I use Zell, Squall, and Irvine ) up to level 100 and try to get their best weapons. Before going, get as much Aura and cure as possible. Once you get to the sorceress, just let all of your secondary party die. Do this by just healing your primary party. Once you get to your full party, battle like you would against a normal boss, considering she has a fairly low amount of HP. After she does her business, she sends out an awesome looking GF that fights you. If you have it, use meltdown. Demi works pretty good too. Use one of your party members to supply HP and give Aura. Go all out until he changes. He should make little ! things. If he doesn't by the time you kill him, then don't worry ( it takes a long time to kill him, but you might still not see any ). If it does happen, use one person to focus on them. On the true form, every time an Aura runs out, use another. Keep using limit breaks until it goes into the long dream sequence. The end is kind of entertaining though.

Hint
When reading your cheats noticed you said that Volt has a cactuar with a red line through it and above it reads 'No Escape' The reason for this is not because Volt has a low tolerance for Cactuars it is because in Final Fantasy 8 Cactuars run away on their first turn in battle so Volt's jacket says 'No Escape'. Submitted by Mutoko Rapture limit break and they die instantly--always works.
Submitted by llie

Hint
When you guys say that to get Pupu card, you have to see the four aliens, that's right. But you haven't got all the places to find them, right? If you go to Balamb and go to the beach bit (Down from Balamb town where there are loads of Fastitocalon) and muck about there for years on end you will come across an alien ship. Submitted by James aka Zell!!!<

How to beat the Omega Weapon without Squall's Lionheart
Your party has to be Squall, Irvine and Zell. Make sure you have 100x Death junctioned to Status Defense, 9999 HP, 255 Strength, 255 Vitality, 255 Spirit, Zell's And Irvine's Ultimate Weapons, the recover command, revive command, 100 Megalixers, 100 Pulse Ammo, at least 20 AP ammo, at least 50 Meltdown spells, Zell's My Final Heaven, 100 Aura and at least 25 Holy Wars (extra holy wars can be earned by refining 10 Holy-War Trials into 1 Holy War.)

Start the battle with Squall using the Holy War, then have Squall quickly use Meltdown on the Omega Weapon. Next have Squall cast Aura on Irvine. Have Irvine hit the Omega Weapon with his Pulse Ammo. Then, have Squuall use aura on Zell. Be sure to have Zell use My Final Heaven on the Omega Weapon. Then, repeat the process until Omega Weapon is dead. If you run out of Pulse Ammo, finish him off with AP Ammo. Alternatively, you can replace Zell with Selphie if you are feeling lucky with her Limit Break and you end up getting The End. If you are lucky enough to get Selphie's limit Break to come up The End, use it immediately and you'll win instantly!
Submitted by Michael Maguire

Spiderman
To get all items ,you need to activate the 'Debug Room' and click the 'Give me series' and click 'items and you now have all items.
Submitted by Jerome

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Comments

Desertborn
24 Jul 2009, 17:37

NOTICE - There is a correction needed on something. First T-Rexaur.
There was the statement somewhere to NOT level past 20 or t-rex would not drop anymore dragon fangs. That is certainly incorrect! I am lvl 31 and JUST had him drop 6 at one shot. And no this is not a rare chance. I have not even gained the GF Iffrit as of yet. I so far have 12 Dragon fangs in my inv. for Squalls weapon Lion heart. Btw, it been a while and I seem to not be able to find blind for anything so t-rex has been a real pain so this is what I have done. A few times I left the city with quistis and at lvl 30 I am able to get cura's from the caterpillar guys in the woods. They also have slow. Stock up on both. Stock up on "Sleep" from the grats in the Training center. (doesn't have to be in that order either of course) Once you have all that. Return to training center and dump quistis at the front gate. Get Iffrit later I suppose. It's nip and tuck at lvl 30 but assuming you dont go to that little center island in the training center you have a chance. (I notice the t-rex that spawns on the little island will most of the time be at the level of having quakes and thudagas and such. Avoid him. Without blind he hits way to hard and fast. Anyware else you have a much better chance. Here's what I do once he appears.
1. Cast sleep till it takes hold
2. Heal every chance you need to
3. Once he's asleep spam cast
"slow" till it takes hold.
4. Cast doom (an ability of shiva)
5. Grit your teeth and bare the
pain till doom kicks in.
= Instant kill to T-rex
I don't know but maybe "Doom" gives a greater chance for dragon fangs to drop. I hope that help.
BTW, if anyone finds blind then T-rex blows and you can bend him over your knee, end of story.

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