Here's a basic one that most people don't know: Your draw rate is affected by your Magic stat. Junction Cure to Magic, and you'll be drawing 8-9 magic each turn instead of 2-3.
Well yea rico draw is affected by your magic stat and the enemy's magic defense stat. In other words even if you junction a good spell to magic if the monster you want to draw from has stupidly high magic defense you're still going to be drawing 1-3 at a time.
I don't remember that part being in the tutorial, actually. And I always read it! And not just the explanations that pop-up mid-game, all the tutorials from the menu! But I don't mention the fact that Draw is linked to the magic stat to ever be mentioned. Nevertheless, it's an easy one to figure out! Early in the game, you have Quetzacotl, Shiva, Ifrit and Siren as your GFs, only 2 of which have the Mag-Junction ability. Yet there are 3 characters. So at this point, only 2 out of 3 characters will have good Drawing ability, and it'll be easy to figure out why!
Its sad that more people don't like it. I blame its bad US reception on FF7. Since 7 was the first game in the series a lot of people played, they didn't quite understand that new final fantasy games were not sequels and were always very different from previous games. Long time fans knew this of course, but not new fans.
I really like how FF8 is so unorthodox with its leveling system, items, and combat. Sure, things end up being really unbalanced but it really makes you think outside the box which many modern games lack with their safe design and mircotransaction model.
You mean from the fact thst grinding can actually screw you over in boss fights? That magic needs to be attached to stats and never used? Oh items you mean the same ones that appear in nearly every other FF game aside from ethers which are not used in 8 and that stupid card game? Or much like FF6 where you can just repeatedly use the chars special skilla over and over again yet in 8 you can just keep using limit breaks over and over again? Then the story......starting with the mercenary rip off from FF7 to this school where they teach kids how to be hired killers for money inwhich it is all so some dude can fight his exwife....with chars that are mostly so bland and 1 dimensional it's hard to forget they are all teenagers sent on a bunch if mission that lead them to saving the world from and unknown enemy? Oh and the gil system is also stupid getting paid based on a time limit versus paid by the fight......yeah because cheating your way through every test to get maxed Seed rank at the very start of the game. Getting weapons not from purchase but by building them. And flying gardens because who needs airships? Oh wait you do still need airships?
@Manek Iridius you did not need to be so rude. From what I understood, he meant that FF8 unorthodox system is better than nowaday's safer systems which may as well account for microtransactions alongside those.
I could have swore you can only go so far in the SEED exams for a while and if you JUST walk, you'll lose SEED rank - you need to fight things or else your seed rank will slowly go down. I don't know if you can run away if that counts but I know fighting things regularly will keep the SEED rank up.
The World That a horrible strategy. The best way is to fight to get it to go up and keep it up. If you don’t your Seedrank will start plummeting fast. You need to grind your ass off you can’t use GF I believe if your GF gets the final blow can you won’t get any seedpoints. If you completed all of the exam and your Seed rank is going down faster then the Titanic you’re fucked it’s not like you can retake the exam to get your Seed rank back up.
Nar my strategy is to keep the players low level until disc 3 when you get jumbo cactuar. Draw 100 of each magic from island closet to heaven and hell.. then junction jumbo with the stat bonuses on plus your strongest magic and raise each player to 100 one at a time... you have base level stats of like 180... then on disc 4 play cards against the card queen and the cc group and card mod the stat increases. Or you can just junction magic to raise to max. But it allows you to ability junction the good abilities instead of wasting them on stat increases
Put 100 ultima and 100 Life on your elemental defence and you start healing from all elemental attacks. Also I like to junction drain to status attack and simply leech the life out of enemies
zell's limit break finale. u can use it even without reading the manual. u just have to know the correct pattern for his finales. it works even in the steam and remastered version, try it!
There are two areas in the game where you can level your GF without getting any EXP for your party. The first is before the tower in Dollet. You have to equip all your GF to Seifer and kill Squal and zell. You can safely grind there for hours getting the GFs you've gotten so far to max level. The second area is when you get Edea in your party on the way to Esthar. Same thing here. Except now you have a ton of GFs to level. There's more preparations to this one. You need to be immune to several debuffs or it's a game over. If you want to focus on leveling one GF at a time, you'll have to put that GF solo on the person that's killing. Since EXP is shared between all GFs equip to a person.
GF's don't need to level. Its the junction abilities that make you a boss. Between them and carding/ modding for high end magic its best to keep your characters low level till you get Catuar and all of his +1 at level traits. I kept my whole team at level 10 till After I got the Ragnarok. I was literally God by the end of that run.
Back when it came out I found by accident there's these card guys in the moomba prison that gives you items for playing them and I got Rosetta Stones from them that give 4 equips which let's you equip strength, vitality ,etc ups .good times 🙂
yea its a really good game, the junction system is one of the best in idea but poorly implemented sadley. The story is also quite good but again slightly poorly explained and relies to much on sidequests for important information.
Feel free to check what I added in a post yesterday on how refine system was made in junction to that system! (You will see that everything junction! Even my 2 posts! Maybe you will find a new love in Junction after this!. If you are afraid to use a spell because it is junctioned! Just look at the actual bonus you get from spells for 99% of the game. It change absolutely nothing to cast them. Maybe 2 dmg or something if it even does a change.(Most spells dont even change stats outside of a 5 increment+ of the spell) Really, take the hints! Dont be the person that see numbers without understanding what they do! Will help you a lot! Once you do, you will see that unlike the poor experience most get, FFVIII has less grinding for learning everything then any other FF. System was abandoned for 1 reason. People did not try to understand a simple crafting system that was made to prevent what ppl hated. FFVIII was made to avoid grinding(repetitive action of fighting 1 monster) which is totally annoying! It come in the form of farming monsters for Items, Magic, Money, Gears, XP, AP With downside of resting. Once you read the following, you will know freedom like never before! Farming xp resolved! Because monster adjust to your level, you can fight the monsters outside Balamb to reach lvl 100 if you want (They give more xp each time you level!). You do not need to go to A location, B spot or C. Yes, they even added 2 islands with high level static monster if you want to level even faster! Farming Items resolved! Because many monsters drop X items! ---> Refine into Y Because many card players have X card! ---> Refine into Y Because many monsters can be mugged for Y items Because they have Y in a form or another right away Rare are the things you can get in only 1 place. Hell, you can have lionheart disk 1 (Trust me though, if you look at numbers you will realize it's only impressive because of the limit break! The damage isn't that much more then all the other swords...) Farming AP resolved! Plenty of monsters give good AP. Beach monsters tend to give a lot of AP and often very good items. There also a few other places including Cactuar island you can reach as soon as Garden is mobile. Farming Magic Resolved >Rarely draw!< (I draw about 20 life and 50 full-life total and I have tons of leftover items that can create those 2 spells while still capped.) Monsters often drop items that refine into magic. Even Bite Bug with the worst drop of the game have Magic stone(5xlvl1 magic) to Wizards Stone(5xlvl3) Many monsters give items that refine into 20 spells and if not, they give many items which refine up to 20 spells! Shop items refine into magic in 95% cases Spells refine into stronger spells! There is 236 draw points in the game with about 1/3 being on world map! Cards refined from DROPS! (without carding), carded monsters, from games.(Kept it last to show it was NOT that big of a way) There is draw... Which I dont really use... What's the point of sit and draw ? Too many other options that are much faster. Farming Items Resolved They are everywhere and refine allow you to go back and forth with so many items... Farming Gears Resolved From monsters, to card, to boss.. So many options I can name 3 other ways not mentioned to get lionheart and other last weapons in cd 1 aside Irvine Farming money resolved (Gil) It's gone! No more issue! They even added intended money maker by buying/selling by making sure the profit stay less profitable/take more time then most things that can be done within the game! In the end, when you learn those mechanics you realize how FF8 had one of the best system implementation. But what can I say, it was tested by people who had to learn the system. Not people who find the easiest way(Draw) and end there finding it very boring(Agreed!) Draw was meant for 1 simple thing! The first time you see the spell shell, protect, etc... It can be useful to have 6-20 in stock until you can start crafting them.. At which point you can get 600 easy and draw become useless! Most of us who know the mechanics will play FF8 and the only spell they really draw more is Full-Life or a few early protect to fight Sacred and Minotaur. All the good guides will say to STAY AWAY FROM DRAW and if you cant help yourself, just use the highest magic character to draw and fight with others... (Oh shit! Sqall and Zell used draw and collected 1 spell each!) Yeah... Even if they get more.. Stay away from that... If you use Squalls offensive magic or to cure, you have it wrong.. GF dont care about stats. So even if you have 255 MAG it wont do more dmg then if you had 1 MAG. So play like it's meant to be. They can all cap everything later anyway if you must see the numbers by end game... Im always amazed at how ppl trash cans on the ground worth 5c because they dont care or dont pick it up knowing its only 5c while not caring about environment but do such inefficient behavior in games where it does not help anyone! Not even themselves! It's much faster my way. Yes, using Draw in FFVIII is like picking consigned cans in a virtual world where there will never be pollution regardless of your actions. Sure, it bring in reward. Just the worse one.
Most of the story can be found out by sitting down and learning to put the pieces together like any good old FF games. Just a few hint for Squall parents: Ellone: "I wanted Laguna to go back to Raine." Ellone: "She was calling his name and wanted to show her new born son" Now, who was that son ? Hum, as always... Squaresoft love name origins! Laguna(Lagoon) Raine (Rain) Tell me something! How do you call a strong rain on a lagoon ? I believe it's a Squall right ? :p Final Fantasy games do not only make you play the game! They make you research it, understand it and take PART of the RPG! They dont call their hero "Superman" or "Spiderman". They call them: Cid : Cubic Inches Displaced! CID is a term for people who work on engines! What is Cid in every version of the game ? :p A few of the heroes: Cecil : Means "blind" and "dim-sighted". That is really what Cecil is in the game. Blind to everything but his purpose. Cloud : Cloud judgement IS clouded and cloud do not move by themselves. They are moved by the other elements surrounding them. Thats our Cloud! Squall: Not only refer to his parents(or his parents name were based on his name), but also refer to his temper! In FF, EVERYTHING has a reason to be and they even take political stance! Did you know that Squaresoft was sued quite a lot ? They had to slightly change the name of a monster! Malboro is actually from the cigarettes Marlboro and it is why it use BAD BREATH attack which cause plenty of BAD AFFLICTION! (Often being the most annoying monster!) They had to remove an ability in the japan version of FFVII after making an ability because they wanted to make a msg against suing them. Coin Toss was originally called "LAW" in FFVII because the message was "Giving your money to lawyer is like throwing money away". Of course, Japanese law firm wasted money and sued Squaresoft! The ability was removed from the gameplay, but left in the code! With cheating, it could be used! :p Now, if you ever wonder why old school gamers known that today gaming sux... You just have 1/10 of the picture of how deep gaming was before and how empty it is today! (Even Ether is a drug that was used by people who would end up believing they could do magic :p) Hope it was a good read :p
good stuff, thx for the video my man. Also !@#$ the Random Rule. First played FF8 on PC version (Not on Steam) it came with Chocobo world, I remember getting the Solomon's Ring and all the other awesome stuff.
Great video even though I known all these tricks but I did play the game 100% like 20x this is my favorite FF title it's not the best one but it holds a place in my heart because I got this game for my birthday in '98 and it was all I played from that October through the whole holiday. Also I love the characters, story and gameplay.
I actually ordered a PocketStation from Japan when it came out. It was a clear shell one. I had it for two weeks when my dog decided to rip The PocketStation out of the Playstation and destroyed the hinged part. Oh well.
Ever stop to think that cards aren't "broken" and are rather an alternative strategy that's merely part of what makes the Junction System uniquely interesting?
@@Apfelx How does one refine to that 5K damage mage before the 2nd boss? To what spells are you referring and what refinement skills are needed to refine them on what GFs?
No magic can deal 5k before Elvoret... And only people who already know the game know how to do the better junctions, first time players end up killing Rinoa in Adel's battle because they only used their GFs.
@@canalultimateattack3169 That's not true about killing Rinoa - The first time I played and got to that point (I say got to that point because I played it a few times before then and stopped playing at various points earlier) but when I first got to that point, I was going to use GFs but realized that it would do damage to Rinoa too when it targeted her too - the only GFs I may have used (It's been a long time so I don't remember anymore per se) were Carbuncle or Cerberus - more likely Cerberus as Carbuncle may have hurt Rinoa. Chances are the first time playing I didn't even use GFs at all but just wailed on Adel w/ my weapons and limit breaks. Maybe 'some' use GFs and kill Rinoa but not all new players are so naive and bad at that.
I never used the card command, so I didn't know about that you can get boss cards form the normal enemies, hopefully that won't be nerfed come the release of the remaster. I never did the card queen side quest, but in one of my many playthroughs, I did take on and beat the CC group.
That's what I love about FF8 - we're over here talking about Disk 1 Lionheart, Card Mod, etc, and it's the little things like the hidden draw points that people don't realize they overlooked. Also, yes, there's an Esuna point at the end of the train tracks. There are a couple other hidden draws around Balamb too, if memory serves.
@NotJo that's why i used Diablos's enc-none ability - no random encounters, and i stocked up on that magic. junctioning ultima and full life to elemental defense makes u immune to elemental magic
I kind of expected to learn something new here, but it seems I had all this figured out anyway (except the chocoboworld thing) from my childhood. Still a good video with a lot of nostalgia for me. Guess i know now why it has 'remasterd' in the title: back in the days you really had to think for your self and find your own solutions and tricks, no internet to run to 😅 "No handholding in the games stoneage"
begging of the game, you can draw water from fish on the beach. junction it to be op af . with cards you can turn the belehim saw creature into death stones. and junction it to a sta attack to Insta kill 99% of enemies. get the seifer card to refine 100 aura stones! basicly makes you a boss killing machine!
heres my tip and still using it till this day! *Try NOT to level up UNTILL u get the "+1 bonus" things from gf's* abit annoying because you need to card every encounter or run from every battle untill then.
@@hatsuneelissu5924 and after we feel much stronger than normal boss, we will quit soon. That is the reason i never go till disc 4 after many tries. Lol
One of the things I do to prevent other characters leveling up is I knock them out and then focus on one character at a time. Since you really can’t take Squall out of the party, I start with him. Once he’s level 100, I keep him alive while leveling up another character.
I think I'm mistaken. I was thinking of some other item summons. I know Gysahl Greens summons the chicobo or fat chocobo, and the Phoenix Pinion summons the Phoenix.
The problem is that from the first boss, you don't have draw - so you have to pick and choose who you want to fight first and then get draw so you can draw the rest. I usually do the one right at the top of the stairs as you first come in the mansion/castle first then go to the one in the wine cellar 2nd but I don't unlock Draw until the 3rd or 4th one, usually it's GF, then Magic, then maybe Draw or it might be Item, then Draw, then I go from there but Save is always the last one and Revive (or whatever it's called to allow you to bring back a KOed character) is 2nd to last. Usually right after getting Save I can save at that one save point right around the armory with Catoblas(sp?).
Years ago, if I’d known to get Odin after Lunatic Pandora I wouldn’t have lost him and ending up getting that asshole Gilgamesh. He nearly ruined the second time I fought that reawakened ruler who used Rinoa as a battery.
Several things that changed my experience of the game 1) Card ability, cards have critically important items 2) Using 6 AP per attack on the beach near Balamb 3) Use Seifer to level up GFs 4) Not killing strong enemies/bosses straight away but drawing powerful magic first
I rather get it with Grendels bellow level 30. Just keep your general party level down turning everything possible into cards and exploit both getting the stats up abilities. You can also save a LOT of time with rune armlet and force armlets, as well as with turtle shells and the other one I just forgot to give Vit 20 and 40 and Spt 20 and 40 to get the Spirit Up and Vitality Up a bit faster. You also forgot to mention that using Direct with Card Queen anbd losing to her a rare card while getting one at the SAME game, you can actually manage to keep her on spot, speeding up her Quest A WHOLE LOT. Cheers man, nice video :)
The Chocobo World was originally released on PC in 1999 when it was first released on 5 discs instead of the 4 CD of the PS1. Also, usually with the Chocobo World, once you've collected the items, it's gone. Wrong! Make a copy of your chocobo file on your desktop, make plenty of other copies. Then once you've ported the items in your FF8 games, copy and paste one you didn't use and start over again grinding endless Godly Items.
Disc 4. Go to Deep Sea Research center and get Bahamut. You get the Bahamut card as well. Then refine the Bahamut card into 100 Megaelixirs and you are set. When you get to Ulimecias castle you can unlock items and be set for healing. It always made the game a breeze.
The game is actually a breeze. I only died eight times I think in my first playthrough and mostly because I didn't knew what I was doing (in battle) or I was hunting for GFs. It's the encounter rate that makes this game a little painful. Love Chrono Cross and Digimon like where you can see the enemies and dodge if you feel like it. At least LoD let's you know when a fight it's coming.
FF8 has been my fav Final Fantasy since I was a kid! Never knew there were these tricks. I guess I have to boot it back up and try it again! Thank you :)
Another way to get dragon fangs is from Grendels after the Laguna dream. Run along the left wall of the canyon and pretty much all you fight are Grendels. They drop/rare drop them when you're roughly around lvl 17. I always choose to card them so I don't go over and mess it up. Adimantoise drop adimantite after lvl 33 by the beach outside Dollet city. Another way to get what you need. And you can also get Rinoa's cardinal weapon as soon as you get off the train in Timber. Triple Triad makes it all easy lol
You're correct with both Grendels and Adamantoises. I do want to add however that easy(ish) way to get Pulse Ammo is to fight Belhelmels on the brown non-grassy part next to Galbadia Garden. As long as they're lvl 30+ (contain Thundaga instead of Thundara) they have a chance of dropping a Laser Cannon which you can Ammo-RF into what you need. Easy way to farm them is keeping Rinoa on low hp with high str-junctioned magic (like Tornado) and just spam her combine limit break for Angelo cannon which usually one-shots them. Sorry for replying to a year old post, just thought I'd leave this extra for people who randomly browse info. :)
@@johnhansen3587 It's on the boot up screen for the game... which I didn't originally notice, so yes, on purchasing the Steam version, I also foolishly went searching the game folders for it.
Hahha, i remember when i played this for the first time. I was wondering why some monsters always 1 shot spell/hit me at level 100. Years later i found out that FF 8 has unique gameplay. It's not about grinding level. It's all about junction.
Yeah ...how about the time you get "rewarded" for reaching all our 6 chars to lv 100 to face Omega weapon lv? dead spell....(got phoenix prop so i killed it., i always thinks it as mirracle)
Hey Everyone... Does anyone know if they really actually ARE gonna remake this for the PlayStation 4? I really want to know? Please let me know whatever you all know. Thank you all so much! AND HAVE A GREAT DAY!
This is 1 of my all time favorite RPG favorites of all time especially for the Final fantasy series!!! I appreciate the remastered edition of this game and I am really enjoying the nostalgia factor of this game. If they did a remake version of this game, I would happily pay $60.00 if they put in the same effort and work into it as final fantasy 7 remake!!!
Yeah, Chcobo world was a pretty cool concept. I'm actually a bit of a purest, I absolutely have to play games on their original consoles. So I actually imported a Pocket Station many years ago so I could get the legit experience. Plus it's just a cool peripheral to actually own. I seriously lucked out too, since mine has an I.D. number of 222, not the best, but it is the second best and actually gives me a decent shot at the column A items in Chcobo world. Most Pocket Stations, seriously over 90%, are completely unable of receiving column A items without trading I.D.s with another player. So I'll take my 1% since it's at least possible. There are a ton of Chcobo World exclusives though, like the Mog Armlet. With is the only way to heal your GFs in battle and it's power is tied directly to your Mogs level in Chcobo World. This goes for your Chicobo as well, which you can summon in FFVIII with Gysahl Greens.
Yup, it works completely fine on non-Japanese hardware with the english game, it's not region locked at all. And since Sony was planning to release it globally, but just never did and never told developers, just about all of the games with Pocket Station functionally had it localized, like Legend of Mana, Saga Frontier 2, and the Misadventures of Tron Bonne. In fact, the Final Fantasy 8 manual has a whole section on the Pocket Station, complete with pictures of the device. I remember looking for one in stores as a kid and never finding it. Another reason I had to grab one.
I sadly lost my pocketstation, which made my save file useless as it was active at the time so my save file couldn't be retrieved. Even worse was I had the ribbon items as well
I imported a PocketStation too, back in the day. I still have it. It works perfectly with my PAL UK Final Fantasy VIII, and like you said, even the instruction manual talks about it. For all intents and purposes Square was expecting it to be available worldwide, or at least built in the functionality to make it work. Sony must have cancelled the worldwide release pretty late into the PocketStation development
I did remember, one nice tip if you missed some of the drawable GFs, is on disc 4 once you can use draw inside the castle, you can get some of the GFs you missed if your draw early enough and know what boss has the GF you need, like you can draw eden from tiamat.
I used to be a perfectionist for these Final Fantasy games back in the day. Actually I still am lol like I've gotten every single card in this game, killed omega weapon, got everyone to lv 99 etc etc. In FF 9 i got the Excalibur II, did the HORRENDOUS 1000 jump rope jumps in a row etc. In FF 10 did the stupid 200 lightning strike dodges, maxed out my perfect blitzball team (got them all to lv 99 with pretty much every ability, a few of them like stupid drain tackles were extremly hard to get and pointless anyways) maxed out every characters stays by erasing every sphere grid stat that wasnt the highest it could be with every character and got everyones ultimate weapons in all games. Yuna and Lulu would do physical attacks on strong enemies and it would do 99,999 damage lol. Same deal with FF Tactics, FF 6, FF7, FF 10-2 and FF 12. Did absolutely EVERYTHING you could POSSIBLY do in all of these games. And for most of these games I've done it all multiple times lol. Btw I knew about all of these lol but nice video nonetheless. Btw again, we NEED to get a FF Tactics and FF8 port to the PS4 with trophies just like they did with 7, 9, 10, 10-2, and 12. Especially FF Tactics, which just might be my favorite game of all time. Definitely in my top 3.
I remember as a teenager I was playing ff7. Me and my mate used to play it a lot. A few years later I started playing it again. I was fighting Emeraled Weapon and was spamming NOTR at him. I was pretty sure my party was dead when I cast mimic (or whatever) one last time. Looked away from my screen knowing that I was doomed, until I heard that enemy death sound and looked over to see the faint red glow where the Weapon used to be. I called my old freind in excitement to tell him what had happened. He called me a fucking geek and then I heard the dial tone. You're right, nobody gives a shit XD
Sorry, I think I'm the only one crazy enough to have maxed every Aeon's HP/MP and stats by killing the arena foe getting 40 spheres per battle thanks to overkill. I didn't really count the spheres I need, but they may be hundreds of thousands. I could just stand not seeing them 99999 / 255...ahh, I also completed everything else, even maxing the Yojimbo hype to the max. But for the characters, I was really picky about letting them all stats 255 + MP 999. Then the rest of the free sphere grid was dedicated to HP, reaching the 60-70k. I was tempted to leave them at 3k MP and lower the HP, but I thought it is prettier to see 999MP, anyways with three stars MP is almost infinite. FFX is BY FAR the FF I played most, but my second one is FFT. I still consider it the best tactical rpg game of all times due to its versatility in battles. The most amazing tactics I've ever played :)
@bd3n21 jaja, I never cared about the order in the sphere grid because I forced myself to put a sphere +4 of the same type where the sphere +1,+2 or +3 was. I only played random with the empty places. I also don't care what party I use for main, I always have on the front Auron, Yuna and Tidus, and rarely swap them because: 1- Wakka is ugly, 2 - Lulu is my favourite but her limit break burns up my dual shock, 3 - Khimari is ugly and 4 - Rikku is very flat chested and I either like blondies. The stats paranoia can't be helped, 255 must be placed everywhere even being worthless. The worst part to complete was Blitzball, because I don't like sports at all. I had very hard time raising all the players to level 99 and getting all skills, even the infamous antidrain on Tidus and Wakka. I dunno why but many people complains about those being bugged in US version of the game, I played the PAL international and I had no issues getting them with the correct steps. It remembers me a little the keep trying over and over with zodiac spear in FFXII, not difficult but time consuming. I don't really know how many hours I spent exactly in the gameplay, since the clock stopped at 999:59 :( The one I really want to be continued or expanded is Type-0. I admit I had no hopes in any modern FF till I saw Type-0, a truly amazing game. Enjoy life :)
FF8s refining is so vast I remember finding an ability that no GF could learn automatically (it gave the equipper the ability to reflect 1/4 of all damage dealt. It wasn’t a great ability, but the fact that all the items you find easily only teach abilities other GFs know or will know eventually I was shocked.
Wait, don't you need the Magazines in order to "unlock" the weapons? like, even if you have the materials, you shouldn't be able to "select" Lionheart since Squall has no idea what it is yet.
Weird, I'm just playing the game and I'm past the point of having all the magazines so I can't check, but I could have sworn the names of the weapons didn't show up at the weapon shops without the magazines. But if it's here I must be wrong.
Knew all these and I have another one for ya. Unlimited items from chocobo world: once you have a nice stockpile of items in CW, open FF8 and CW at the same time. Go to a save point. Bring Boko home, collect items, send Boko back. Switch to CW, open and close the menu. Switch to FF8 bring Boko home. Boom, you get the items again. You can do this indefinitely.
FF VIII will always be one of my favorites because it was the first of the ff games i played, I wish they went back to making them more like these, the new ones dont seem as good as 7-8-9- and even 10 with its cringe was good
I discovered all of these way back in the early 2000's ~ mostly by dumb luck. *Side note, by carding all monsters and playing the card game ~ you can get almost all of Squall Leonheart weapons before you ever meet rinoa or take the Seed exam. *Love grinding on the robot spider, My best game ever ~ beat it on level 29. Carded everything. Did not gain experience unless it was forced. Beat all Final bosses in 2 hits XD
Charles 2 hits? No..cuz even a lv. 10 ultimecia (lowest lv shes capable of having...) she still has over 15,000 hp. And she posses a flat 180 def score so unless it was renzokukun..highly unlikely 2 hits😊
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@@tasselhoff1293 AFAIK if you use fusion on an enemy you can do 9999 damage per hit
Also, did you know Fury Fragments refine into Auras? Yes, so going into the Deep Sea Rresearch Center is quite handy in farming the item. Also, speaking of Auras, the third and final Seifer fight is the only battle where u can draw Aura from an enemy.
I have one tip, get the GF Siren in the first mission, make it learn "L Mag-RF", buy 10 tents, turn them into 100 Curagas, junction them to HP stat. And now you have one character with over 3500HP in the first hour of gameplay. Junction the Curagas to Magic stat instead, and you can draw 9 magics from any enemy (Tornado/Demi from Diablos for example, just with 2 hours of gameplay)
aside from no.1, never knew the rest back then games hardly took you by the hand and moslty the only way to learn these kinds of things was through the chit chats at school :D Very nice, FFVIII is quite a complex game from the story to these little hidden tricks, but at the same time is why is so unique and likeable! Thanks for taking me back! :)
There's a dropout by the docks who plays Triple Triad by the basic rules. If you've been to a region with new rules, play against him to prevent rules from spreading. Makes getting rare cards much easier.
I had the pocket station for this back in the day, they were all over the computer fairs. If you wanted one, they were £40 in 1999. Got so many good items while on a bus listening to minidisc 🤣
Here's some useful tips: you can fight Ruby dragons in the forests around Edea's orphanage to get meteor, you can fight grendels in the forest by galbadia garden by hugging the cavern walls. Reflect magic plus excellent items Cc side quest fast tracks end game stat maxing via modding and re-winning certain cards.
Play Chocobo World and get as many items as you wish. 2. Close Chocobo World. 3. Run FFVIII and load your save file. 4. Go to the save menu and bring Boko "Home". 5. The items you collected will appear. Press the confirm key to obtain them. 6. Send Boko back to "World"--this is important! 7. Save your FFVIII game. Stressing again, send Boko back to "World" before saving!!! 8. Exit FFVIII and close the launcher so it cloud syncs. Repeat from step 3 as you see fit.
This guy put way too much effort into that X-ATM AP bonanza. Get Shiva and Quaz to SumMag +20% before Dollet, Cast Shiva to knock him down, cast Quaz to pick him back up again, then Shiva to knock him down again. Run away. Easy peazy. My max is 9 times, or 450 AP.
Doel Johon they would have to make a menu like X/X-2 HD and put FF8 & Chocobo World both out in there. I think the major issue is that 7 and 9 already had texture upgrades on PC while 8 got shafted, and SE is a lazy company. That or there is some sort of licence issues, which could really only be with Sakaguchi or Faye Wong, and I really doubt either. They just don't want to take the time for 8 since its kind of a cult classic more or less, and they are struggling with nursing their lovechild the dumb 7 remake.
the dumb 7 remake... which will fail miserably, knowing the incompetent Nomura golden boy is appointed as director... This good-for-nothing kid might be good as an art director but not as a real director >_< look what he's done on XIII versus (which, thanks to Tabata who cleaned up the mess, despite of mountains of flaw- at least XV comes into fruition instead of staying in hiatus for another 10 years or more under his lead). Sorry I strayed away from the main topic. Well, fingers crossed... hopefully they will port VIII to PS4. My only wish is that *at least* SE lets us have a complete FF main series in a same platform; which actually can be done for last year's 30th Anniversary Event (instead of lazily porting an arcade game into PS4 - I mean, come on, wouldn't be more memorable for the fans to have the entire main entry -sans XI since it only exists on PC today- in a somekind of "Ultimate Anniversary Collection"? Yeah, I'm asking too much.
I love how broke FF VIII was , and yet, on my first playthrough I got stuck at lunatic pandora because I did not know how to junction and I could not beat the boss to get to disc 4, and crashing into lunatic pandora is also a point of no return so there is no returning to the overworld to draw magic. I had to restart my save game >
and ecactly 4 those moments u should have at least 3 diffrent save games..so you haven't 2 start a new game.but i know what you mean.that happens 2 a lot of gamers worldwide.and the 1st step 2 become a master is that u have 2 learn a lot
I have to confess: I have played the first eight FF games but never finished any of them. I've only finished two Square games in my life: Brave Fencer Musashi and Chrono Cross. I played the NES FFs through emulators because I didn't have a NES at the time. I first came to the series through FF4, playing it at my cousins' house and later got it along with the PS1 re-releases of FF5-6. I found FF8 on eBay six years ago and have barely touched it. As for FF7, I just recently got that off Steam and am currently stuck on the part where you have to go through the train tunnel to AVALANCHE's HQ (after rescuing Tifa). Been switching between that, Fallout: New Vegas, and Sonic Mania quite a bit lately.
I have another basic one. Use the amnesia greens and remove draw,magic and item from characters that use multiple gfs. I removed them and added in stats junction, elemental junction, luck and hit 4x ability. Pretty much my main 3 can use all stats and junctions plus 4x ability
I will have to start this whole game over again... I rushed myself to the final boss and it's stages like the her GF damn deals 7000-9000 damage... I will see if have time in summer maybe to play the game by thinking more and also taking the "optional" tasks. These old games can be very unforgiving but in the end it feels great to complete something that has been worked on hard.
I did too. Everyone was hating on it when it came out but I loved it. The guy at FuncoLand (RIP) wouldn't let me buy it because he said I would hate Final Fantasy forever if I played it. I had to get my dad to go in the store with me and he told the dude I can decide what I like on my own. I went home with one of my favorite FF games of all time.
yep.ff8 is my favourite.9 was ok and i hated ffX for being forced to play that shitty underwater-ball game to get an important item what u can't obtain another way.in ff12 was it the same with the Fishing mini-game this,forced levelgrindinc and farming rare items with subterraneous drop-rate is so f.....h annoying and lowers the gambling fun pretty much
FF8 steam has chocobo world yes, but the remaster does not. you now have to get those items via angelo and it's so time consuming that there's little to no point
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I don't know if you knew this but a long time ago I discovered a glitch (sort of) with Chocobo World. If you send your items Home from the menu (like you did in your video of preview) and send him again WITH THE CHOCOBO GAME PLAYING the items don't vanish. And as grade A, B, C and D are randomized you get infinite items in seconds. This means that once you stock up a few As and Bs you can just send him home and back to the world (WITHOUT CLOSING THE PROGRAM OF CHOCOBO WORLD) and after Boko gets an event it resets and can send him home again and get all the items you had. Rinse and repeat and that's it.
Careful with that! If choco get 1 item before you send him back you will have this message "There is already a chocobo in the world". Which mean you wont be able to send him back and you will have to restart.
Trance is right. You actually don't even have to encounter an event. If you send Boko back to the world and leave both games up (I used to do this by just hitting ctrl+alt). hit the key to make Boko walk and you only have to go one second, pause it, open ff8 screen again and bring Boko home again. Best stuff in the game without the grind. Especially when you play chocoworld a bit and you have like 8 A's and 20 B's banked. HFGL
You can also just find the save file for Chocobo World copy it, import it, leave, past the copied version, and repeat. The items you get aren't generated until import so you can get different items every time.
1st try not to level up your characters till you unlock hp bonus str bonus mag bonus spr bonus vit bonus from gfs. Junction all the GFs in to one character till level 100. Repeat process till everybody has reached max level. This is very time consuming because you only have to use one character at a time. 2nd Once your powerful enoough try to draw ultimas from ultima Weapon. Junction Ultima to Elemental def. Once you’ve done this, You pretty much can kick Ultimecia’s ass.
I did all of this except the chocobo world who wasn't available when I first started playing.... I was literally 10 or 11 , I feel proud of finding all of the shit alone by myself... I guess I just end game and next step was.... ok let s start again and kill this fucking machine who ruined my seed exam, just to came back walking xD I think I was like lvl 30 when I decided Squall was ready I remember having multiple save spots in case I mess it up
I got the pre-steam PC version for christmas and I tried to explain what Chocobo World was to my friends. They all called me a liar since they had the PSX version of the game. I made enough money on bets that I bought a used PSX and a copy of Final Fantasy VII (I played VIII before VII, sue me) from a pawn shop.
If you play on PC. Run Chocobo World for hours and hours until you have a whole lot of items. Find the save file for it and copy and paste it somewhere else on your computer. Then, you can retrieve the items, save, copy the backup Chocobo World save back to the save folder, and repeat. Unlimited rare items. You'll have everyone with Ribbon in no time.
Nice tips! Some are pointed in game tutorial but people dont read what is explained, it might open them to look further in the refine system! WP. Still, cards are not broken. They were made to be used that way. FF games are not hard*. They all have ways to play without items and so on which make it harder! Yet, people end up playing the hard way because they simply do not care to learn mechanics. Hopefully your video will OPEN a few EYES! :) The rare card is indeed very rare. You can card up to 50 monsters and never get a rare card. In a play, I often only card and barely ever get any of the rare one outside of playing the card game. The game was designed that way so people would not sit and Draw for 3 hours like they do. Let me add a little for whoever might need a little more tips :p Make sure you are lvl 20+ when fighting adamantoise. Else, they wont drop. Im usually level 9-10 at that point. The reason for my level is that monster level = yours. It get much easier to fight low level with high end magic junctioned. To give as little spoiler as possible, if you reach last dungeon under 14. You can easily beat the strongest monster in game with 1 Zell limit break! The low profit method can be used early mostly. By the time you have sell high, buy low. There are quicker method to do about 99% of what you would with that money . To give an exemple of where people usually do this, it's for stats. Doing this trick, stats like STR+ will require over 1 hour+ of profit making per characters stats if you are consistent! Better beat the CClub and refine card/win again on Ragnarok from CClub members if you did their quest. It's close to when you get sell high/buy low anyway and hours shorter with much more fun! :) Btw, Chocobo world was on the 1999 PC release.(Let's face it! Console gamers dont know that games exist on PC unless it's a flash game, Starcraft, Diablo or a MMO Giving it a go again and figured I would check if someone had some new ideas for me. *Most FF can be played with 1 or more of the following challenge: No leveling, 1 character, no items, no equip, no spells, no summon, attack only, etc. Just 2 exemples to not make it an exhausting list: Ever used a tent on an enemy in FFIX ? Here is the clue on what it does: Yes, it heal but inflict all of the status one would get just waking up! :) FFVI x-zone or death + vanish is intended.(x-zone does make you miss on some items! :p)
1. You cannot max stats in the early game 2. Many of the "exploitations" are explained in the game tutorials and in the game story script as well. People simply do not read. 3. You realize that 95% monsters drop several items that can only be used to transform them into magic ? What have you been doing with them ? A Jenga stack ? The fishes just outside balamb drop stones and fins. The stones have plenty of spells possibility and the fins give 20 water each. 4. Junctioned stats have no effect on the power of GF and summoning a GF give a extra layer of protection that while lengthy, deal more dmg with the proper abilities then a magic junctioned character auto attacks. 5. Final Fantasy always have a fun and easier way for a second play. It was meant that way. 6. The craft system is not random... It was made and intended the way it is. The fact that you realize things now show how little you read in this game and how arrogant people feel toward tutorial that explain exactly how to "abuse" such so called "game breaking"/"unintended" functions. As my first post directed to Primalliquid "Nice tips! Some are pointed in game tutorial but people dont read what is explained, it might open them to look further in the refine system!" You did not read my post anymore then you read in the game. From sleeping T-rex, to carding, to refining cards or items into strong magic. It was all explained by Trepe from the game start to the graduation night while you were busy pressing X as fast as possible. Tutorials Trepe Many npc All talking about how to card monster or use items for magic
Final Fantasy are easy games that tell you and sometime even show you in a battle the abuses they have. They made story like manga that are interactive. They even made it simpler then typical rpgs by removing most effects of spells other rpg had to make things simpler and less confusing. Everything is made easy and they created many tools to make the gameplay simpler. Just to name a few things. Can you believe: In FFVI most spellcasters start to cap damage near lvl 30-40 ? Relm does 9999 easily even with the lowly fire 3 on a non fire weak enemy nearing 35 and can easily 9999 Ultima at 25. This mean that with a Gem Box. Relm can take out 1/3 of Kefka hp in 1 turn at 25. While most people call "vanish/doom" a bug. It is not even working on all monsters and most people still do not realize today that 95% of those imune to vanish/doom are not immune to Ragnarok summon.(You can even kill all 8 legendary dragons with Ragnarok summon!) Hell, people still claim Stam is a useless stats and it's the best way to resist death spells and the only way to resist physical death attack. In FFVII, you can finish the game using starting equipment and no materias. The strong consumables are IN the game. They are not game genie code. In FFVIII, one of the first thing that happen is you get a GF that can Card and Card mod and 2 room later you receive a deck of card. It could not be more intended than this In FFIX you can finish the game gaining 0 exp, tents have effects of "waking up" on enemy. (confuse, darkness, full cure, etc..) Can you be overpowered in FF games ? Sure, they are easy to begin with if you use any sort of strategy. But hey, people do not scan monsters and go for the strongest spell they have which rarely is the best strategy. Truth is, some people do not have a clue how to play a game and the same people always lose at chess because all they do is move the Queen around the board.
Dude, this game is the only game where most of the bosses died to one combo (Lionheart + Meltdown) all if you count Selphie with the only balancing factor is how random they are. This is also the game where the enemy didn't give much challenge despite items like hero existed, heck Ultimecia final form didn't even have strong AoE attack that inflict all status effect. Basically hero potions are used only against the bonus boss (Omega weapon), also don't get me started on Aura. FF VIII, while fun and enticing, is pretty short-thought because they were dealing with deadlines and pressure to make game as good as FF VII, they kinda did but they realized how bad this junction system and unlimited Limit Break is that make the game "unchallenging". That's why they went back to traditional MP system, making magic worth using again, also removing multi-hit attacks, essentially hardcapping the damage limit. They kinda bring back multi hit attack and damage limit break attack later but it's fine because the enemies have humongous amount of HP that those attacks is quite needed. All this doesn't change the fact that FF VIII has the best soundtrack and the most fun mini-game (Triple Triad), fuck Tetra Master and all other card games after that
Lol, I will start by saying that this is true for every FF and overpowered happen in every FF games... You waste your time farming too much and making your focus on easier "FFVIII" highly inaccurate. 1. Meltdown is a monster level 30+ magic aside for Jumbo Cactuar and Trauma(Ultimecia Castle). I finish my runs between lvl 16-30. Omfg, you are that early 30 ? How ?? By simply overfarming!(How boring...) Something that can easily make all FF easy and quite boring. If you wanna waste time farming and being overpowered to think the game is easy, feel free to see the irony of your statement.. As for the fact, unless you farm to be overpowered, use meltdown and lionheart to a point that any game would be easy. You do not even take down a Tonberry with Meltdown + Lionheart in 1 limit unless you roll the right Limit... I wont even get into the whole Aura limitation and how to have limit break most of the time you need to waste time getting overpowered. By the time you are done getting overpowered Im already midway CD 3. Talk about ruining your own game fun by doing what would make any FF super easy and blame a specific game for it... 2. Getting Lionheart on disc 1 require a sacrifices of card utility or be way overleveled for the rest of the game. Im usually not even 30 when I finish the game. It's normal that if you farm xp to a point that of nonsense you find the game easy, it's normal... You just gained 15-20 level over what you were supposed to be just to make the darn sword that does not give a lot of damage aside more Limits and dont trust me on it! Go check out the barely more extra STR it give compared to even the starting sword! If you wanna call wasting time leveling and leveling making it easy. Be my guest and granted! That's true for every god damn FF games... They pretty much all have low level challenge and solo char. So if you are 20+ level ahead. Please dont tell me any of the the FF are hard... FFVII can be finished using bare equip and no materia.. Come on... If you wanna talk about stupid overpowered... Go play again FFVII, its retarded easy. Maybe you were simply not familiar with RPG or some other reason.. I wont presume to know your state. Only claim to know requirements of what you talk about needing to achieve your "easy" game. 3. Limit break kill faster in most case and yet many games like FFVII can be done with starting equip and no materia. The boss are all easy, same can be said with FFVI where you are overpowered at 30 as Relm can already do 9999 wit many spells and Kefka only got 63k hp. With a Gem box Relm alone tick 1/3 Kefka hp in 1 round(Poor Kefka). FFIX can be finished gaining 0 xp during the whole game. Dont tell me boss are ever hard or long. They all have tricks and if you cannot find them... Dont say a singular game is easy while they all are. 4. Junction system was removed because people were stupid. They did not realize that using magic barely affected your stats and the stats loss was marginal. If you cast a status spell with Squall instead of putting it on his weapon, you know that it's not how to play. They brought mp back simply because people were afraid to use magic's even with spellcaster because they never counted the changes it make.(Which are irrelevant once you look at numbers) I would not be surprised to see tons of items that can create magic in your inventory sitting because you did like most people and drawn over and over while I barely ever draw in a game and got the same repertoire of magic by simply transforming the many items monsters drops and monster cards that turns out to have no other uses into magic! Every good guide will say that using the draw command is rarely needed and is a waste of time/turn. 5. Your arguments are only true if you spend tremendous time overleveling and spent getting overpowered. Please, take a step back! Look at how you play the game and the needs for what you claim to use. They dont have normal requirements.. They require you to be over leveled and if you did the same with any
nice clickbait, those tips knows EVERYONE years ago.. only kids are born after 2005 dont know these cuz they dont play these kind of games anymore. even with the junction system, with draw depends on magic and other things..
Already did that on original FF8 pc version when it just came out.. .. you done playing save the config file from chocobo world somewhere on your pc.. if you start a new game .. once you got the chocobo world game.. copy past the old config file in choco game folder and you already have every item maxed .. also you can loot/transfer the items from chocobo world every like 1 minute or so to your inventory.. your items be maxed out.. if your talking about max money.. just sell it all and you never run out of money Also do the magic lamp the minute you get it (after saving).. the longer you wait.. the more difficult the GF becomes ... the boss/gf scales to your level.. so if you level up he will use more difficult tricks to beat you
And you don't need any more Rosetta Stones than what you get normally in the game. 1) Bahamut learns Ability X4 normally 2) Cheryls store in Esthat 3) Ultimecia Castle treasure
1. Gameshark completely defeats the purpose and only works on ps1/ps2. 2. yes you can get ability x4 easy in late game, however this is getting them easy way earlier on (At a much faster rate than the card guy in prison)
True. But since I play the original PS1 version exclusively, and I don't live in Japan, I have absolutely no moral qualms about hacking a single Ribbon and a single Dark Matter into my inventory. And I only use them at the near end of the game.
There are a number of Chocobo World exclusive items that need Chocobo World data to function though, even if you cheat them in. Ever use the Mog Armlet and all that ever happens is it shows "Miss" on your party, or wondered why Boko is so damn weak but the item that summons him is kind of expensive, or what the hell the Friendship item does? That's why.
Chocobo world was on the PC version of VIII back in 2000 when it first came out. Way before Steam got FF VIII! I told people about Chocobo world and they thought I was insane.
Hi guys. Id just like to add 1 more fact that i thought would be intresting for you all if you didnt own a pocket station. You could actually get 2 extra summons(thats what i called them anyways) that will appear at random. The first is when your ff8 and pocket station are synced the chocobo you control in chocobo world becomes like a mini random GF who drops into a battle at random and runs into the enemy. Secondly, after you play chocobo world for a while you meet another character called momba. After this and your FF8 and Pocketstation are synced mombo also acts as a mini GF and appears at random and attacks enemies.
late to the party here, but you didn't mention this when you were elaborating about the card ability and it sometimes giving an alternative card. you can force this to happen by having 100 of the monsters card already. it will fail if you are full 100 stocked. so you just keep spamming and it will fail until it rolls for the higher level card. the fire bombs in the fire cave can give the rare card that can be broken down into holy magic. and the trex's in the training center will spit out the shumi tribe card like you mentioned in the video. you can refine into gambler spirits that will teach card to other gfs, but you can also break that down futher to get 10 wizard stones which you can use to refine all kinds of high level magics. you can do all this card collecting before dollet and be stupid powerful.
Here's a basic one that most people don't know: Your draw rate is affected by your Magic stat. Junction Cure to Magic, and you'll be drawing 8-9 magic each turn instead of 2-3.
thats actually explained i believe in the tutorial
Yet no one knew it cause no one read it or understood the Tutorial back in the 90s lol
BleuVII I didnt know that. That tutorial was long and boring.
Well yea rico draw is affected by your magic stat and the enemy's magic defense stat. In other words even if you junction a good spell to magic if the monster you want to draw from has stupidly high magic defense you're still going to be drawing 1-3 at a time.
I don't remember that part being in the tutorial, actually. And I always read it! And not just the explanations that pop-up mid-game, all the tutorials from the menu! But I don't mention the fact that Draw is linked to the magic stat to ever be mentioned.
Nevertheless, it's an easy one to figure out! Early in the game, you have Quetzacotl, Shiva, Ifrit and Siren as your GFs, only 2 of which have the Mag-Junction ability. Yet there are 3 characters. So at this point, only 2 out of 3 characters will have good Drawing ability, and it'll be easy to figure out why!
Someone in the Garden tells you to not deviate from the road
Ah man...I'm getting the itch to play FF8 again :P
British Metal TV same. Been having the itch for about 2 or three months now. I want to get a psvita though.
Playing right now!!! hahaha after 8 years OMG!!! I love this game!!!
I'm currently downloading epsxe and the ff8 ROM :P
There's a cream for that
I play it every summer 🌞
Such a beautiful game. Especially the sound track. Im glad it still is being played even after 1999
Its sad that more people don't like it. I blame its bad US reception on FF7. Since 7 was the first game in the series a lot of people played, they didn't quite understand that new final fantasy games were not sequels and were always very different from previous games. Long time fans knew this of course, but not new fans.
Just played it last year and still loved it
rejvaik its a weird game but i love it
i bought it from steam 3 months ago,love this game. :)
i'm glad it was remastered, because god forbid Square-Enix put out content of the same quality ever again
I really like how FF8 is so unorthodox with its leveling system, items, and combat. Sure, things end up being really unbalanced but it really makes you think outside the box which many modern games lack with their safe design and mircotransaction model.
You mean from the fact thst grinding can actually screw you over in boss fights? That magic needs to be attached to stats and never used? Oh items you mean the same ones that appear in nearly every other FF game aside from ethers which are not used in 8 and that stupid card game? Or much like FF6 where you can just repeatedly use the chars special skilla over and over again yet in 8 you can just keep using limit breaks over and over again? Then the story......starting with the mercenary rip off from FF7 to this school where they teach kids how to be hired killers for money inwhich it is all so some dude can fight his exwife....with chars that are mostly so bland and 1 dimensional it's hard to forget they are all teenagers sent on a bunch if mission that lead them to saving the world from and unknown enemy?
Oh and the gil system is also stupid getting paid based on a time limit versus paid by the fight......yeah because cheating your way through every test to get maxed Seed rank at the very start of the game. Getting weapons not from purchase but by building them. And flying gardens because who needs airships? Oh wait you do still need airships?
@@danielessex2162 😂
@@danielessex2162 nah, final fantasy 8 is MUCH better then 7
@Manek Iridius you did not need to be so rude. From what I understood, he meant that FF8 unorthodox system is better than nowaday's safer systems which may as well account for microtransactions alongside those.
@@PisaroOne . Lol, of course not. Don't exaggerate either.
Thank you so much. I wish Square would port this game to PS4 like FF 7 and 9.
i imagine they will sooner or later
With actual HD textures maybe
no asad i doubt we would get HD textures, at best we would just get the steam version ported over.
:(.... Well there's always mods
Asad Mannan like how they did with IX?
Complete all the SeeD quizzes at the beginning of the game, you'll be rolling in Gil just for walking.
I could have swore you can only go so far in the SEED exams for a while and if you JUST walk, you'll lose SEED rank - you need to fight things or else your seed rank will slowly go down. I don't know if you can run away if that counts but I know fighting things regularly will keep the SEED rank up.
The World That a horrible strategy. The best way is to fight to get it to go up and keep it up. If you don’t your Seedrank will start plummeting fast. You need to grind your ass off you can’t use GF I believe if your GF gets the final blow can you won’t get any seedpoints. If you completed all of the exam and your Seed rank is going down faster then the Titanic you’re fucked it’s not like you can retake the exam to get your Seed rank back up.
Just use the infinite gil trick...
Except that you cant do that. The game literslly wont let you
Nar my strategy is to keep the players low level until disc 3 when you get jumbo cactuar. Draw 100 of each magic from island closet to heaven and hell.. then junction jumbo with the stat bonuses on plus your strongest magic and raise each player to 100 one at a time... you have base level stats of like 180... then on disc 4 play cards against the card queen and the cc group and card mod the stat increases. Or you can just junction magic to raise to max. But it allows you to ability junction the good abilities instead of wasting them on stat increases
Junctioning Ultima to your elemental defense gets you immunity to all elemental attacks as long as you have enough Ultima.
@Jonny Croxville how do you junction a spell to more than 1 stat?
Jonny Croxville oh. Really not interested in a glitch.
@Jonny Croxvilletriple is the best for speed and hit % stats and i think full-life is the best hp stat but i could be wrong about the last one
Put 100 ultima and 100 Life on your elemental defence and you start healing from all elemental attacks. Also I like to junction drain to status attack and simply leech the life out of enemies
@@allgoodnamesaregone0 does that also work with full-life?
Ff8’s card game was soooo much better than ff9’s trash.
That card game was and still is a retarded waste of time. Do not know why they added it in FF ARR......
The card game is good. IS very good (For a minigame is very good).
wait... did i just play ff9 while missing out on the card game or is it just that forgettable?
IX GAME BAD!
When the tutorial in IX said "card battle" I had visions of an actual fight between monsters... got my hopes up only to be let down so, so bad.
zell's limit break finale. u can use it even without reading the manual. u just have to know the correct pattern for his finales. it works even in the steam and remastered version, try it!
Card all enemies to avoid EXP and you still get AP. Level up your GFs to become super strong whilst enemies stay low level.
your GFs wont level up without EXP. The only thing AP does is lets them learn there abilities.
There are two areas in the game where you can level your GF without getting any EXP for your party.
The first is before the tower in Dollet. You have to equip all your GF to Seifer and kill Squal and zell. You can safely grind there for hours getting the GFs you've gotten so far to max level.
The second area is when you get Edea in your party on the way to Esthar. Same thing here. Except now you have a ton of GFs to level. There's more preparations to this one. You need to be immune to several debuffs or it's a game over.
If you want to focus on leveling one GF at a time, you'll have to put that GF solo on the person that's killing. Since EXP is shared between all GFs equip to a person.
Urasims You don't need to junction them all to seifer, even if a character is dead the gf that is junctioned to that character still gets the exp
oh, right. It's been over 15 years since I played. Lapse in memory I suppose.
GF's don't need to level. Its the junction abilities that make you a boss. Between them and carding/ modding for high end magic its best to keep your characters low level till you get Catuar and all of his +1 at level traits. I kept my whole team at level 10 till After I got the Ragnarok. I was literally God by the end of that run.
Back when it came out I found by accident there's these card guys in the moomba prison that gives you items for playing them and I got Rosetta Stones from them that give 4 equips which let's you equip strength, vitality ,etc ups .good times 🙂
FF 8 is my favorite FF and I never knew about any of these tricks. Lol. I'm ashamed, I think I'll do a playthrough using all these exploits.
He's called Boko.
Indeed it is! Boko's the name for all the birds~
For number 5, Quistis actually tells you this before you go to the Fire cave with her. She also advises you against going to the forests.
wow man i really didnt know some of these! FF8 is super underrated. thank you so much for making these awesome videos!
im waiting for the ps4 version to playthrough again. its going to hit me in the feels ;(
yea its a really good game, the junction system is one of the best in idea but poorly implemented sadley. The story is also quite good but again slightly poorly explained and relies to much on sidequests for important information.
i agree. for me, i love sidequests so it fits like a glove :D
Feel free to check what I added in a post yesterday on how refine system was made in junction to that system!
(You will see that everything junction! Even my 2 posts!
Maybe you will find a new love in Junction after this!.
If you are afraid to use a spell because it is junctioned!
Just look at the actual bonus you get from spells for 99% of the game. It change absolutely nothing to cast them. Maybe 2 dmg or something if it even does a change.(Most spells dont even change stats outside of a 5 increment+ of the spell)
Really, take the hints! Dont be the person that see numbers without understanding what they do! Will help you a lot! Once you do, you will see that unlike the poor experience most get, FFVIII has less grinding for learning everything then any other FF.
System was abandoned for 1 reason. People did not try to understand a simple crafting system that was made to prevent what ppl hated.
FFVIII was made to avoid grinding(repetitive action of fighting 1 monster) which is totally annoying!
It come in the form of farming monsters for Items, Magic, Money, Gears, XP, AP
With downside of resting.
Once you read the following, you will know freedom like never before!
Farming xp resolved!
Because monster adjust to your level, you can fight the monsters outside Balamb to reach lvl 100 if you want (They give more xp each time you level!). You do not need to go to A location, B spot or C. Yes, they even added 2 islands with high level static monster if you want to level even faster!
Farming Items resolved!
Because many monsters drop X items! ---> Refine into Y
Because many card players have X card! ---> Refine into Y
Because many monsters can be mugged for Y items
Because they have Y in a form or another right away
Rare are the things you can get in only 1 place.
Hell, you can have lionheart disk 1 (Trust me though, if you look at numbers you will realize it's only impressive because of the limit break! The damage isn't that much more then all the other swords...)
Farming AP resolved!
Plenty of monsters give good AP.
Beach monsters tend to give a lot of AP and often very good items.
There also a few other places including Cactuar island you can reach as soon as Garden is mobile.
Farming Magic Resolved
>Rarely draw!< (I draw about 20 life and 50 full-life total and I have tons of leftover items that can create those 2 spells while still capped.)
Monsters often drop items that refine into magic.
Even Bite Bug with the worst drop of the game have Magic stone(5xlvl1 magic) to Wizards Stone(5xlvl3)
Many monsters give items that refine into 20 spells and if not, they give many items which refine up to 20 spells!
Shop items refine into magic in 95% cases
Spells refine into stronger spells!
There is 236 draw points in the game with about 1/3 being on world map!
Cards refined from DROPS! (without carding), carded monsters, from games.(Kept it last to show it was NOT that big of a way)
There is draw... Which I dont really use... What's the point of sit and draw ? Too many other options that are much faster.
Farming Items Resolved
They are everywhere and refine allow you to go back and forth with so many items...
Farming Gears Resolved
From monsters, to card, to boss.. So many options
I can name 3 other ways not mentioned to get lionheart and other last weapons in cd 1 aside Irvine
Farming money resolved (Gil)
It's gone! No more issue! They even added intended money maker by buying/selling by making sure the profit stay less profitable/take more time then most things that can be done within the game!
In the end, when you learn those mechanics you realize how FF8 had one of the best system implementation. But what can I say, it was tested by people who had to learn the system. Not people who find the easiest way(Draw) and end there finding it very boring(Agreed!)
Draw was meant for 1 simple thing! The first time you see the spell shell, protect, etc... It can be useful to have 6-20 in stock until you can start crafting them.. At which point you can get 600 easy and draw become useless!
Most of us who know the mechanics will play FF8 and the only spell they really draw more is Full-Life or a few early protect to fight Sacred and Minotaur. All the good guides will say to STAY AWAY FROM DRAW and if you cant help yourself, just use the highest magic character to draw and fight with others... (Oh shit! Sqall and Zell used draw and collected 1 spell each!) Yeah... Even if they get more.. Stay away from that...
If you use Squalls offensive magic or to cure, you have it wrong..
GF dont care about stats. So even if you have 255 MAG it wont do more dmg then if you had 1 MAG. So play like it's meant to be. They can all cap everything later anyway if you must see the numbers by end game...
Im always amazed at how ppl trash cans on the ground worth 5c because they dont care or dont pick it up knowing its only 5c while not caring about environment but do such inefficient behavior in games where it does not help anyone! Not even themselves! It's much faster my way.
Yes, using Draw in FFVIII is like picking consigned cans in a virtual world where there will never be pollution regardless of your actions. Sure, it bring in reward. Just the worse one.
Most of the story can be found out by sitting down and learning to put the pieces together like any good old FF games.
Just a few hint for Squall parents:
Ellone: "I wanted Laguna to go back to Raine."
Ellone: "She was calling his name and wanted to show her new born son"
Now, who was that son ?
Hum, as always... Squaresoft love name origins!
Laguna(Lagoon)
Raine (Rain)
Tell me something!
How do you call a strong rain on a lagoon ?
I believe it's a Squall right ? :p
Final Fantasy games do not only make you play the game! They make you research it, understand it and take PART of the RPG! They dont call their hero "Superman" or "Spiderman".
They call them:
Cid : Cubic Inches Displaced! CID is a term for people who work on engines! What is Cid in every version of the game ? :p
A few of the heroes:
Cecil : Means "blind" and "dim-sighted". That is really what Cecil is in the game. Blind to everything but his purpose.
Cloud : Cloud judgement IS clouded and cloud do not move by themselves. They are moved by the other elements surrounding them. Thats our Cloud!
Squall: Not only refer to his parents(or his parents name were based on his name), but also refer to his temper!
In FF, EVERYTHING has a reason to be and they even take political stance!
Did you know that Squaresoft was sued quite a lot ?
They had to slightly change the name of a monster!
Malboro is actually from the cigarettes Marlboro and it is why it use BAD BREATH attack which cause plenty of BAD AFFLICTION! (Often being the most annoying monster!)
They had to remove an ability in the japan version of FFVII after making an ability because they wanted to make a msg against suing them.
Coin Toss was originally called "LAW" in FFVII because the message was "Giving your money to lawyer is like throwing money away".
Of course, Japanese law firm wasted money and sued Squaresoft!
The ability was removed from the gameplay, but left in the code! With cheating, it could be used! :p
Now, if you ever wonder why old school gamers known that today gaming sux... You just have 1/10 of the picture of how deep gaming was before and how empty it is today! (Even Ether is a drug that was used by people who would end up believing they could do magic :p)
Hope it was a good read :p
I'm proud of myself I figured out almost all of this myself with no guidebook or online tips and I was 12. Good o days.
Pro tip: ONLY USING ANGELO SEARCH, Cast Confusion on a tortapod when it closes up, and watch your inventory screen fill up for an eternity.
Yep. Easily the best ability in the game
Do you find ribbons this way?
How to use angelo search?
@@walfreysimporios it happens randomly.
Card abilities!? Wow. I completely skip every card thing when I play. I had no idea.
good stuff, thx for the video my man. Also !@#$ the Random Rule. First played FF8 on PC version (Not on Steam) it came with Chocobo world, I remember getting the Solomon's Ring and all the other awesome stuff.
Great video even though I known all these tricks but I did play the game 100% like 20x this is my favorite FF title it's not the best one but it holds a place in my heart because I got this game for my birthday in '98 and it was all I played from that October through the whole holiday. Also I love the characters, story and gameplay.
can we be friends
seems unlikely since it came out in 99' but as squall would say "whatever..."
It IS the best one.
@@randomplayer1250 . It ISN'T.
@@wardensurana8336 X best VIII second. 3rd is shared by the rest ;)
Probably one of my fave FF games. Cant wait for the remaster on the switch.
saaame😭♥️
Same. Tuesday can't come fast enough!!
Too bad it's a completely shit remaster.
@Senior Partner just wait 50 years more and MAYBE it will happen.
I actually ordered a PocketStation from Japan when it came out. It was a clear shell one. I had it for two weeks when my dog decided to rip The PocketStation out of the Playstation and destroyed the hinged part. Oh well.
Would've been a deceased mutt too...
Ever stop to think that cards aren't "broken" and are rather an alternative strategy that's merely part of what makes the Junction System uniquely interesting?
Ehm, making op magic to deal 5k on the second Boss isnt broken?
@@Apfelx How does one refine to that 5K damage mage before the 2nd boss? To what spells are you referring and what refinement skills are needed to refine them on what GFs?
No magic can deal 5k before Elvoret... And only people who already know the game know how to do the better junctions, first time players end up killing Rinoa in Adel's battle because they only used their GFs.
@@canalultimateattack3169 That's not true about killing Rinoa - The first time I played and got to that point (I say got to that point because I played it a few times before then and stopped playing at various points earlier) but when I first got to that point, I was going to use GFs but realized that it would do damage to Rinoa too when it targeted her too - the only GFs I may have used (It's been a long time so I don't remember anymore per se) were Carbuncle or Cerberus - more likely Cerberus as Carbuncle may have hurt Rinoa. Chances are the first time playing I didn't even use GFs at all but just wailed on Adel w/ my weapons and limit breaks. Maybe 'some' use GFs and kill Rinoa but not all new players are so naive and bad at that.
@@Apfelx No, its still better than STEAM cheat 9999 damage per atack on FFVII and FFIX. :-)
I never used the card command, so I didn't know about that you can get boss cards form the normal enemies, hopefully that won't be nerfed come the release of the remaster. I never did the card queen side quest, but in one of my many playthroughs, I did take on and beat the CC group.
Soon as I hear the music get all fuzzy.
I think il start a play.
Did you finish it? Be honest!
@@Jimknopf-1960 I've finished it twice since then.
@@noelienoelie8425 Legend haha 😂
Rly did it 2times and answered 2years later
Thank you dude made me smile
Have a beatiful day
THERES AN ESUNA DRAW POINT IN THE TRAIN TRACKS??!?! WTF
That's what I love about FF8 - we're over here talking about Disk 1 Lionheart, Card Mod, etc, and it's the little things like the hidden draw points that people don't realize they overlooked. Also, yes, there's an Esuna point at the end of the train tracks. There are a couple other hidden draws around Balamb too, if memory serves.
the Treatment ability pretty much makes it moot
@NotJo that's why i used Diablos's enc-none ability - no random encounters, and i stocked up on that magic. junctioning ultima and full life to elemental defense makes u immune to elemental magic
I kind of expected to learn something new here, but it seems I had all this figured out anyway (except the chocoboworld thing) from my childhood.
Still a good video with a lot of nostalgia for me. Guess i know now why it has 'remasterd' in the title: back in the days you really had to think for your self and find your own solutions and tricks, no internet to run to 😅
"No handholding in the games stoneage"
begging of the game, you can draw water from fish on the beach. junction it to be op af .
with cards you can turn the belehim saw creature into death stones. and junction it to a sta attack to Insta kill 99% of enemies.
get the seifer card to refine 100 aura stones! basicly makes you a boss killing machine!
heres my tip and still using it till this day!
*Try NOT to level up UNTILL u get the "+1 bonus" things from gf's*
abit annoying because you need to card every encounter or run from every battle untill then.
The worst part of this is when you did it right, the game become much more easier than we thought!. Lol
@@nguyenhuyduc9151 yea, but once u do u wil have around 200+ strenght at lvl60-70!
@@hatsuneelissu5924 and after we feel much stronger than normal boss, we will quit soon.
That is the reason i never go till disc 4 after many tries. Lol
One of the things I do to prevent other characters leveling up is I knock them out and then focus on one character at a time. Since you really can’t take Squall out of the party, I start with him. Once he’s level 100, I keep him alive while leveling up another character.
carding every enemy early on is what you would want to do anyways, build up a stock for card mod
And you didn't mention how Boko is the only way to get the Mog and Moomba summons. :/
You can actually have them as summons? I thought you just use the items to summon them.
@@TheReaverOfDarkness That's what he meant. MiniMog and Moomba are only summoned via a command and an item respectively.
No, you can use both without Boko. Both can be summoned with an item that you simply collect in normal gameplay.
@@TheReaverOfDarkness Really? Where and how?
I think I'm mistaken. I was thinking of some other item summons. I know Gysahl Greens summons the chicobo or fat chocobo, and the Phoenix Pinion summons the Phoenix.
Came out way later than intended?
No kidding, the game came out in 1999. (I hope I'm the first person to make this joke.)
Yes you are, you win the grand prize of having your comment loved. :)
It had to wait for the awesomeness of FF7
I dont understand
You can also obtain all missable GFs from every Ultimecia castle boss. Forgot who carries who though.
The problem is that from the first boss, you don't have draw - so you have to pick and choose who you want to fight first and then get draw so you can draw the rest. I usually do the one right at the top of the stairs as you first come in the mansion/castle first then go to the one in the wine cellar 2nd but I don't unlock Draw until the 3rd or 4th one, usually it's GF, then Magic, then maybe Draw or it might be Item, then Draw, then I go from there but Save is always the last one and Revive (or whatever it's called to allow you to bring back a KOed character) is 2nd to last. Usually right after getting Save I can save at that one save point right around the armory with Catoblas(sp?).
Years ago, if I’d known to get Odin after Lunatic Pandora I wouldn’t have lost him and ending up getting that asshole Gilgamesh. He nearly ruined the second time I fought that reawakened ruler who used Rinoa as a battery.
Several things that changed my experience of the game 1) Card ability, cards have critically important items 2) Using 6 AP per attack on the beach near Balamb 3) Use Seifer to level up GFs 4) Not killing strong enemies/bosses straight away but drawing powerful magic first
I knew about chocobo world. It was on the PRE-STEAM PC version back in like 2000. It was amazing.
And delightfully exploitable once you knew how to copy and paste the save file. But who would do that? ;)
I rather get it with Grendels bellow level 30. Just keep your general party level down turning everything possible into cards and exploit both getting the stats up abilities. You can also save a LOT of time with rune armlet and force armlets, as well as with turtle shells and the other one I just forgot to give Vit 20 and 40 and Spt 20 and 40 to get the Spirit Up and Vitality Up a bit faster.
You also forgot to mention that using Direct with Card Queen anbd losing to her a rare card while getting one at the SAME game, you can actually manage to keep her on spot, speeding up her Quest A WHOLE LOT.
Cheers man, nice video :)
If you rename Squall to "like" and Rinoa to "mon" you unlock Geordie and Jamaican accents for characters talking to them.
Go home, EGM. You've been out too long with Bo Rai Cho again.
The Chocobo World was originally released on PC in 1999 when it was first released on 5 discs instead of the 4 CD of the PS1.
Also, usually with the Chocobo World, once you've collected the items, it's gone.
Wrong! Make a copy of your chocobo file on your desktop, make plenty of other copies.
Then once you've ported the items in your FF8 games, copy and paste one you didn't use and start over again grinding endless Godly Items.
Disc 4. Go to Deep Sea Research center and get Bahamut. You get the Bahamut card as well. Then refine the Bahamut card into 100 Megaelixirs and you are set. When you get to Ulimecias castle you can unlock items and be set for healing. It always made the game a breeze.
The game is actually a breeze. I only died eight times I think in my first playthrough and mostly because I didn't knew what I was doing (in battle) or I was hunting for GFs.
It's the encounter rate that makes this game a little painful.
Love Chrono Cross and Digimon like where you can see the enemies and dodge if you feel like it. At least LoD let's you know when a fight it's coming.
FF8 has been my fav Final Fantasy since I was a kid! Never knew there were these tricks. I guess I have to boot it back up and try it again! Thank you :)
Another way to get dragon fangs is from Grendels after the Laguna dream. Run along the left wall of the canyon and pretty much all you fight are Grendels. They drop/rare drop them when you're roughly around lvl 17. I always choose to card them so I don't go over and mess it up. Adimantoise drop adimantite after lvl 33 by the beach outside Dollet city. Another way to get what you need.
And you can also get Rinoa's cardinal weapon as soon as you get off the train in Timber. Triple Triad makes it all easy lol
The Artistic Frenzy they dont drop dragon fangs..your thinking dragon skin..dragon fangs are prominently held by blue dragons outside trabia garden
You're correct with both Grendels and Adamantoises. I do want to add however that easy(ish) way to get Pulse Ammo is to fight Belhelmels on the brown non-grassy part next to Galbadia Garden. As long as they're lvl 30+ (contain Thundaga instead of Thundara) they have a chance of dropping a Laser Cannon which you can Ammo-RF into what you need.
Easy way to farm them is keeping Rinoa on low hp with high str-junctioned magic (like Tornado) and just spam her combine limit break for Angelo cannon which usually one-shots them.
Sorry for replying to a year old post, just thought I'd leave this extra for people who randomly browse info. :)
It's been a while, but I'm pretty sure chocobo world was playable in the original PC release.
Sean Garrett correct, the pc release and steam version come with it packaged, its usually hidden(meaning they don't tell ya) in the download location
It was, I used to have it on the original pc version.
@@johnhansen3587 It's on the boot up screen for the game... which I didn't originally notice, so yes, on purchasing the Steam version, I also foolishly went searching the game folders for it.
@@reloadpsi it happens I found mine by accident, then had to figure out what the hell it was lol
@@johnhansen3587 Yep only Japan got the release for the console.
Hahha, i remember when i played this for the first time. I was wondering why some monsters always 1 shot spell/hit me at level 100. Years later i found out that FF 8 has unique gameplay. It's not about grinding level. It's all about junction.
Yeah ...how about the time you get "rewarded" for reaching all our 6 chars to lv 100 to face Omega weapon lv? dead spell....(got phoenix prop so i killed it., i always thinks it as mirracle)
Not forgetting that Mog and Mumbaa summons are only available through Chocobo World
BYERE yup!
Wow dat NL accent is echt heel duidelijk haha 😄
Can't wait to start to play it again, but on ps4!!! So looking forward for it. 💕
Hey Everyone...
Does anyone know if they really actually ARE gonna remake this for the PlayStation 4? I really want to know? Please let me know whatever you all know. Thank you all so much! AND HAVE A GREAT DAY!
Square Enix has said themselves that they have lost the source code so they can't port ff8 on any more consoles its really sad.
This is 1 of my all time favorite RPG favorites of all time especially for the Final fantasy series!!! I appreciate the remastered edition of this game and I am really enjoying the nostalgia factor of this game. If they did a remake version of this game, I would happily pay $60.00 if they put in the same effort and work into it as final fantasy 7 remake!!!
Yeah, I wish they had chocobo world though
Yeah, Chcobo world was a pretty cool concept. I'm actually a bit of a purest, I absolutely have to play games on their original consoles. So I actually imported a Pocket Station many years ago so I could get the legit experience. Plus it's just a cool peripheral to actually own. I seriously lucked out too, since mine has an I.D. number of 222, not the best, but it is the second best and actually gives me a decent shot at the column A items in Chcobo world. Most Pocket Stations, seriously over 90%, are completely unable of receiving column A items without trading I.D.s with another player. So I'll take my 1% since it's at least possible. There are a ton of Chcobo World exclusives though, like the Mog Armlet. With is the only way to heal your GFs in battle and it's power is tied directly to your Mogs level in Chcobo World. This goes for your Chicobo as well, which you can summon in FFVIII with Gysahl Greens.
oh you imported? does it actually run on EU/NA discs or did you need to import FF8 aswell?
Yup, it works completely fine on non-Japanese hardware with the english game, it's not region locked at all. And since Sony was planning to release it globally, but just never did and never told developers, just about all of the games with Pocket Station functionally had it localized, like Legend of Mana, Saga Frontier 2, and the Misadventures of Tron Bonne. In fact, the Final Fantasy 8 manual has a whole section on the Pocket Station, complete with pictures of the device. I remember looking for one in stores as a kid and never finding it. Another reason I had to grab one.
oh wow i never actually knew it had uses for other games, i always thought it was only an FF8 add on.
I sadly lost my pocketstation, which made my save file useless as it was active at the time so my save file couldn't be retrieved. Even worse was I had the ribbon items as well
I imported a PocketStation too, back in the day. I still have it. It works perfectly with my PAL UK Final Fantasy VIII, and like you said, even the instruction manual talks about it. For all intents and purposes Square was expecting it to be available worldwide, or at least built in the functionality to make it work. Sony must have cancelled the worldwide release pretty late into the PocketStation development
I discovered the non encounter on road/track when I was 12 and that was back in 1999 XD
Actually the in-game npc also tell you to stay on the road to avoid monsters
@@Bersilus beat me to it
I’m like 99% sure I got encounters on roads and rails..... Just not as often as anywhere else
I did remember, one nice tip if you missed some of the drawable GFs, is on disc 4 once you can use draw inside the castle, you can get some of the GFs you missed if your draw early enough and know what boss has the GF you need, like you can draw eden from tiamat.
Wow didn't know that or forgot.
Just in time for them to die right at the final two bosses. Lolz. Great tip 😃👍
I used to be a perfectionist for these Final Fantasy games back in the day. Actually I still am lol like I've gotten every single card in this game, killed omega weapon, got everyone to lv 99 etc etc. In FF 9 i got the Excalibur II, did the HORRENDOUS 1000 jump rope jumps in a row etc. In FF 10 did the stupid 200 lightning strike dodges, maxed out my perfect blitzball team (got them all to lv 99 with pretty much every ability, a few of them like stupid drain tackles were extremly hard to get and pointless anyways) maxed out every characters stays by erasing every sphere grid stat that wasnt the highest it could be with every character and got everyones ultimate weapons in all games. Yuna and Lulu would do physical attacks on strong enemies and it would do 99,999 damage lol. Same deal with FF Tactics, FF 6, FF7, FF 10-2 and FF 12. Did absolutely EVERYTHING you could POSSIBLY do in all of these games. And for most of these games I've done it all multiple times lol.
Btw I knew about all of these lol but nice video nonetheless.
Btw again, we NEED to get a FF Tactics and FF8 port to the PS4 with trophies just like they did with 7, 9, 10, 10-2, and 12. Especially FF Tactics, which just might be my favorite game of all time. Definitely in my top 3.
I remember as a teenager I was playing ff7. Me and my mate used to play it a lot. A few years later I started playing it again. I was fighting Emeraled Weapon and was spamming NOTR at him. I was pretty sure my party was dead when I cast mimic (or whatever) one last time. Looked away from my screen knowing that I was doomed, until I heard that enemy death sound and looked over to see the faint red glow where the Weapon used to be. I called my old freind in excitement to tell him what had happened. He called me a fucking geek and then I heard the dial tone. You're right, nobody gives a shit XD
lol you just rerun it dude
Is that why you're still a virgin
Sorry, I think I'm the only one crazy enough to have maxed every Aeon's HP/MP and stats by killing the arena foe getting 40 spheres per battle thanks to overkill. I didn't really count the spheres I need, but they may be hundreds of thousands. I could just stand not seeing them 99999 / 255...ahh, I also completed everything else, even maxing the Yojimbo hype to the max. But for the characters, I was really picky about letting them all stats 255 + MP 999. Then the rest of the free sphere grid was dedicated to HP, reaching the 60-70k. I was tempted to leave them at 3k MP and lower the HP, but I thought it is prettier to see 999MP, anyways with three stars MP is almost infinite. FFX is BY FAR the FF I played most, but my second one is FFT. I still consider it the best tactical rpg game of all times due to its versatility in battles. The most amazing tactics I've ever played :)
@bd3n21 jaja, I never cared about the order in the sphere grid because I forced myself to put a sphere +4 of the same type where the sphere +1,+2 or +3 was. I only played random with the empty places. I also don't care what party I use for main, I always have on the front Auron, Yuna and Tidus, and rarely swap them because: 1- Wakka is ugly, 2 - Lulu is my favourite but her limit break burns up my dual shock, 3 - Khimari is ugly and 4 - Rikku is very flat chested and I either like blondies. The stats paranoia can't be helped, 255 must be placed everywhere even being worthless. The worst part to complete was Blitzball, because I don't like sports at all. I had very hard time raising all the players to level 99 and getting all skills, even the infamous antidrain on Tidus and Wakka. I dunno why but many people complains about those being bugged in US version of the game, I played the PAL international and I had no issues getting them with the correct steps. It remembers me a little the keep trying over and over with zodiac spear in FFXII, not difficult but time consuming. I don't really know how many hours I spent exactly in the gameplay, since the clock stopped at 999:59 :(
The one I really want to be continued or expanded is Type-0. I admit I had no hopes in any modern FF till I saw Type-0, a truly amazing game.
Enjoy life :)
FF8s refining is so vast I remember finding an ability that no GF could learn automatically (it gave the equipper the ability to reflect 1/4 of all damage dealt. It wasn’t a great ability, but the fact that all the items you find easily only teach abilities other GFs know or will know eventually I was shocked.
My favourite practical trick was to get Punishment before the SEED exam by farming Zell's mom for cards.
Hey Zell, i've been playing with your mom a bit ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
aha but the animation for blasting zone takes forever compared to the other 2 and i find blasting zone happens more often with that sword lol
Wait, don't you need the Magazines in order to "unlock" the weapons? like, even if you have the materials, you shouldn't be able to "select" Lionheart since Squall has no idea what it is yet.
No, the magazines just tell you what items you need, not how to make them. so if you have all the items already you can still make them just fine.
Weird, I'm just playing the game and I'm past the point of having all the magazines so I can't check, but I could have sworn the names of the weapons didn't show up at the weapon shops without the magazines.
But if it's here I must be wrong.
they show up just fine if you have all the items needed to make said weapon.
Knew all these and I have another one for ya. Unlimited items from chocobo world: once you have a nice stockpile of items in CW, open FF8 and CW at the same time. Go to a save point. Bring Boko home, collect items, send Boko back. Switch to CW, open and close the menu. Switch to FF8 bring Boko home. Boom, you get the items again. You can do this indefinitely.
Having the no encounter buttons undermine the whole point of getting it through the junction system..
FF VIII will always be one of my favorites because it was the first of the ff games i played, I wish they went back to making them more like these, the new ones dont seem as good as 7-8-9- and even 10 with its cringe was good
I discovered all of these way back in the early 2000's ~ mostly by dumb luck.
*Side note, by carding all monsters and playing the card game ~ you can get almost all of Squall Leonheart weapons before you ever meet rinoa or take the Seed exam.
*Love grinding on the robot spider,
My best game ever ~ beat it on level 29. Carded everything. Did not gain experience unless it was forced. Beat all Final bosses in 2 hits XD
Charles 2 hits? No..cuz even a lv. 10 ultimecia (lowest lv shes capable of having...) she still has over 15,000 hp. And she posses a flat 180 def score so unless it was renzokukun..highly unlikely 2 hits😊
@@tasselhoff1293 AFAIK if you use fusion on an enemy you can do 9999 damage per hit
@ huh? What fusion..who?
Also, did you know Fury Fragments refine into Auras? Yes, so going into the Deep Sea Rresearch Center is quite handy in farming the item.
Also, speaking of Auras, the third and final Seifer fight is the only battle where u can draw Aura from an enemy.
I have one tip, get the GF Siren in the first mission, make it learn "L Mag-RF", buy 10 tents, turn them into 100 Curagas, junction them to HP stat. And now you have one character with over 3500HP in the first hour of gameplay. Junction the Curagas to Magic stat instead, and you can draw 9 magics from any enemy (Tornado/Demi from Diablos for example, just with 2 hours of gameplay)
The junction system is a nightmare for me. I ended up not using any magic at all because I dont want the value to go below 100.
I literally just recently bought ff8 for psp and didn't know about the extra early lion heart! will try that one
Lol if you want Gil just pass the Seed exams
aside from no.1, never knew the rest
back then games hardly took you by the hand and moslty the only way to learn these kinds of things was through the chit chats at school :D
Very nice, FFVIII is quite a complex game from the story to these little hidden tricks, but at the same time is why is so unique and likeable!
Thanks for taking me back! :)
There's a dropout by the docks who plays Triple Triad by the basic rules. If you've been to a region with new rules, play against him to prevent rules from spreading. Makes getting rare cards much easier.
I had the pocket station for this back in the day, they were all over the computer fairs. If you wanted one, they were £40 in 1999. Got so many good items while on a bus listening to minidisc 🤣
Here's some useful tips: you can fight Ruby dragons in the forests around Edea's orphanage to get meteor,
you can fight grendels in the forest by galbadia garden by hugging the cavern walls. Reflect magic plus excellent items
Cc side quest fast tracks end game stat maxing via modding and re-winning certain cards.
Play Chocobo World and get as many items as you wish.
2. Close Chocobo World.
3. Run FFVIII and load your save file.
4. Go to the save menu and bring Boko "Home".
5. The items you collected will appear. Press the confirm key to obtain them.
6. Send Boko back to "World"--this is important!
7. Save your FFVIII game. Stressing again, send Boko back to "World" before saving!!!
8. Exit FFVIII and close the launcher so it cloud syncs. Repeat from step 3 as you see fit.
FF8 was released in 1999 - on PC, With Chocobo-World included.
This guy put way too much effort into that X-ATM AP bonanza. Get Shiva and Quaz to SumMag +20% before Dollet, Cast Shiva to knock him down, cast Quaz to pick him back up again, then Shiva to knock him down again. Run away. Easy peazy. My max is 9 times, or 450 AP.
I learn more about business than an econ class. Good job video maker.
I will use these... once SE pulls their head from their crack and puts it on PS4... with the actual OST...
yea im waiting on the ps4 release myself :(
They put VII than IX on the playstation store but no VIII. Isn't there somewhere we can petition to get it released on PS4.
maybe they still figuring out how to port the Chocobo World into PS4. Outside the game? Seems not a chance they can pull that off :((
Doel Johon they would have to make a menu like X/X-2 HD and put FF8 & Chocobo World both out in there. I think the major issue is that 7 and 9 already had texture upgrades on PC while 8 got shafted, and SE is a lazy company. That or there is some sort of licence issues, which could really only be with Sakaguchi or Faye Wong, and I really doubt either. They just don't want to take the time for 8 since its kind of a cult classic more or less, and they are struggling with nursing their lovechild the dumb 7 remake.
the dumb 7 remake... which will fail miserably, knowing the incompetent Nomura golden boy is appointed as director... This good-for-nothing kid might be good as an art director but not as a real director >_< look what he's done on XIII versus (which, thanks to Tabata who cleaned up the mess, despite of mountains of flaw- at least XV comes into fruition instead of staying in hiatus for another 10 years or more under his lead). Sorry I strayed away from the main topic.
Well, fingers crossed... hopefully they will port VIII to PS4. My only wish is that *at least* SE lets us have a complete FF main series in a same platform; which actually can be done for last year's 30th Anniversary Event (instead of lazily porting an arcade game into PS4 - I mean, come on, wouldn't be more memorable for the fans to have the entire main entry -sans XI since it only exists on PC today- in a somekind of "Ultimate Anniversary Collection"? Yeah, I'm asking too much.
Most people don't know because they haven't played the game.
Lies
I knew about everything in this video!!!
I love how broke FF VIII was , and yet, on my first playthrough I got stuck at lunatic pandora because I did not know how to junction and I could not beat the boss to get to disc 4, and crashing into lunatic pandora is also a point of no return so there is no returning to the overworld to draw magic.
I had to restart my save game >
and ecactly 4 those moments u should have at least 3 diffrent save games..so you haven't 2 start a new game.but i know what you mean.that happens 2 a lot of gamers worldwide.and the 1st step 2 become a master is that u have 2 learn a lot
Actually, you can leave Lunatic Pandora provided it’s before the Seifer battle
@@duczman76 having a bunch of save files is what saved me from missing a GF you draw from NORG
FF8 is the best of the old FFs.
Highly debatable when all factors are considered, but it's my favorite as well.
I have to confess: I have played the first eight FF games but never finished any of them. I've only finished two Square games in my life: Brave Fencer Musashi and Chrono Cross. I played the NES FFs through emulators because I didn't have a NES at the time. I first came to the series through FF4, playing it at my cousins' house and later got it along with the PS1 re-releases of FF5-6. I found FF8 on eBay six years ago and have barely touched it. As for FF7, I just recently got that off Steam and am currently stuck on the part where you have to go through the train tunnel to AVALANCHE's HQ (after rescuing Tifa). Been switching between that, Fallout: New Vegas, and Sonic Mania quite a bit lately.
Yep. Is the best.
nope FF9
I have another basic one. Use the amnesia greens and remove draw,magic and item from characters that use multiple gfs. I removed them and added in stats junction, elemental junction, luck and hit 4x ability.
Pretty much my main 3 can use all stats and junctions plus 4x ability
Most of these aren't so much 'tips and tricks' so much as "how to break your game and ruin your playthrough"
I will have to start this whole game over again...
I rushed myself to the final boss and it's stages like the her GF damn deals 7000-9000 damage...
I will see if have time in summer maybe to play the game by thinking more and also taking the "optional" tasks.
These old games can be very unforgiving but in the end it feels great to complete something that has been worked on hard.
I enjoyed this game so much more than 7.
I did too. Everyone was hating on it when it came out but I loved it. The guy at FuncoLand (RIP) wouldn't let me buy it because he said I would hate Final Fantasy forever if I played it. I had to get my dad to go in the store with me and he told the dude I can decide what I like on my own. I went home with one of my favorite FF games of all time.
yep.ff8 is my favourite.9 was ok and i hated ffX for being forced to play that shitty underwater-ball game to get an important item what u can't obtain another way.in ff12 was it the same with the Fishing mini-game this,forced levelgrindinc and farming rare items with subterraneous drop-rate is so f.....h annoying and lowers the gambling fun pretty much
most did
FF8 steam has chocobo world yes, but the remaster does not. you now have to get those items via angelo and it's so time consuming that there's little to no point
I don't know if you knew this but a long time ago I discovered a glitch (sort of) with Chocobo World. If you send your items Home from the menu (like you did in your video of preview) and send him again WITH THE CHOCOBO GAME PLAYING the items don't vanish. And as grade A, B, C and D are randomized you get infinite items in seconds.
This means that once you stock up a few As and Bs you can just send him home and back to the world (WITHOUT CLOSING THE PROGRAM OF CHOCOBO WORLD) and after Boko gets an event it resets and can send him home again and get all the items you had. Rinse and repeat and that's it.
Careful with that! If choco get 1 item before you send him back you will have this message "There is already a chocobo in the world". Which mean you wont be able to send him back and you will have to restart.
Trance is right. You actually don't even have to encounter an event. If you send Boko back to the world and leave both games up (I used to do this by just hitting ctrl+alt). hit the key to make Boko walk and you only have to go one second, pause it, open ff8 screen again and bring Boko home again. Best stuff in the game without the grind. Especially when you play chocoworld a bit and you have like 8 A's and 20 B's banked. HFGL
You can also just find the save file for Chocobo World copy it, import it, leave, past the copied version, and repeat. The items you get aren't generated until import so you can get different items every time.
1st try not to level up your characters till you unlock hp bonus str bonus mag bonus spr bonus vit bonus from gfs. Junction all the GFs in to one character till level 100. Repeat process till everybody has reached max level. This is very time consuming because you only have to use one character at a time.
2nd Once your powerful enoough try to draw ultimas from ultima Weapon. Junction Ultima to Elemental def.
Once you’ve done this, You pretty much can kick Ultimecia’s ass.
Glad to say that after hours of gameplay and late nights, I was able to finish this game when I was 6. A bliss moment in my life
I did all of this except the chocobo world who wasn't available when I first started playing.... I was literally 10 or 11 , I feel proud of finding all of the shit alone by myself... I guess I just end game and next step was.... ok let s start again and kill this fucking machine who ruined my seed exam, just to came back walking xD I think I was like lvl 30 when I decided Squall was ready I remember having multiple save spots in case I mess it up
Dude, this is way too many steps
Just make a chart
I got the pre-steam PC version for christmas and I tried to explain what Chocobo World was to my friends. They all called me a liar since they had the PSX version of the game. I made enough money on bets that I bought a used PSX and a copy of Final Fantasy VII (I played VIII before VII, sue me) from a pawn shop.
FFVIII, the most underrated FF of all times
If you play on PC. Run Chocobo World for hours and hours until you have a whole lot of items. Find the save file for it and copy and paste it somewhere else on your computer. Then, you can retrieve the items, save, copy the backup Chocobo World save back to the save folder, and repeat. Unlimited rare items. You'll have everyone with Ribbon in no time.
Nice tips! Some are pointed in game tutorial but people dont read what is explained, it might open them to look further in the refine system! WP.
Still, cards are not broken. They were made to be used that way. FF games are not hard*. They all have ways to play without items and so on which make it harder! Yet, people end up playing the hard way because they simply do not care to learn mechanics. Hopefully your video will OPEN a few EYES! :)
The rare card is indeed very rare. You can card up to 50 monsters and never get a rare card. In a play, I often only card and barely ever get any of the rare one outside of playing the card game. The game was designed that way so people would not sit and Draw for 3 hours like they do.
Let me add a little for whoever might need a little more tips :p
Make sure you are lvl 20+ when fighting adamantoise. Else, they wont drop. Im usually level 9-10 at that point.
The reason for my level is that monster level = yours. It get much easier to fight low level with high end magic junctioned. To give as little spoiler as possible, if you reach last dungeon under 14. You can easily beat the strongest monster in game with 1 Zell limit break!
The low profit method can be used early mostly.
By the time you have sell high, buy low. There are quicker method to do about 99% of what you would with that money .
To give an exemple of where people usually do this, it's for stats. Doing this trick, stats like STR+ will require over 1 hour+ of profit making per characters stats if you are consistent! Better beat the CClub and refine card/win again on Ragnarok from CClub members if you did their quest. It's close to when you get sell high/buy low anyway and hours shorter with much more fun! :)
Btw, Chocobo world was on the 1999 PC release.(Let's face it! Console gamers dont know that games exist on PC unless it's a flash game, Starcraft, Diablo or a MMO
Giving it a go again and figured I would check if someone had some new ideas for me.
*Most FF can be played with 1 or more of the following challenge: No leveling, 1 character, no items, no equip, no spells, no summon, attack only, etc.
Just 2 exemples to not make it an exhausting list:
Ever used a tent on an enemy in FFIX ? Here is the clue on what it does: Yes, it heal but inflict all of the status one would get just waking up! :)
FFVI x-zone or death + vanish is intended.(x-zone does make you miss on some items! :p)
1. You cannot max stats in the early game
2. Many of the "exploitations" are explained in the game tutorials and in the game story script as well. People simply do not read.
3. You realize that 95% monsters drop several items that can only be used to transform them into magic ? What have you been doing with them ? A Jenga stack ? The fishes just outside balamb drop stones and fins. The stones have plenty of spells possibility and the fins give 20 water each.
4. Junctioned stats have no effect on the power of GF and summoning a GF give a extra layer of protection that while lengthy, deal more dmg with the proper abilities then a magic junctioned character auto attacks.
5. Final Fantasy always have a fun and easier way for a second play. It was meant that way.
6. The craft system is not random... It was made and intended the way it is. The fact that you realize things now show how little you read in this game and how arrogant people feel toward tutorial that explain exactly how to "abuse" such so called "game breaking"/"unintended" functions.
As my first post directed to Primalliquid "Nice tips! Some are pointed in game tutorial but people dont read what is explained, it might open them to look further in the refine system!"
You did not read my post anymore then you read in the game.
From sleeping T-rex, to carding, to refining cards or items into strong magic. It was all explained by Trepe from the game start to the graduation night while you were busy pressing X as fast as possible.
Tutorials
Trepe
Many npc
All talking about how to card monster or use items for magic
Final Fantasy are easy games that tell you and sometime even show you in a battle the abuses they have. They made story like manga that are interactive. They even made it simpler then typical rpgs by removing most effects of spells other rpg had to make things simpler and less confusing. Everything is made easy and they created many tools to make the gameplay simpler.
Just to name a few things.
Can you believe:
In FFVI most spellcasters start to cap damage near lvl 30-40 ?
Relm does 9999 easily even with the lowly fire 3 on a non fire weak enemy nearing 35 and can easily 9999 Ultima at 25. This mean that with a Gem Box. Relm can take out 1/3 of Kefka hp in 1 turn at 25. While most people call "vanish/doom" a bug. It is not even working on all monsters and most people still do not realize today that 95% of those imune to vanish/doom are not immune to Ragnarok summon.(You can even kill all 8 legendary dragons with Ragnarok summon!) Hell, people still claim Stam is a useless stats and it's the best way to resist death spells and the only way to resist physical death attack.
In FFVII, you can finish the game using starting equipment and no materias. The strong consumables are IN the game. They are not game genie code.
In FFVIII, one of the first thing that happen is you get a GF that can Card and Card mod and 2 room later you receive a deck of card. It could not be more intended than this
In FFIX you can finish the game gaining 0 exp, tents have effects of "waking up" on enemy. (confuse, darkness, full cure, etc..)
Can you be overpowered in FF games ? Sure, they are easy to begin with if you use any sort of strategy. But hey, people do not scan monsters and go for the strongest spell they have which rarely is the best strategy.
Truth is, some people do not have a clue how to play a game and the same people always lose at chess because all they do is move the Queen around the board.
Dude, this game is the only game where most of the bosses died to one combo (Lionheart + Meltdown) all if you count Selphie with the only balancing factor is how random they are. This is also the game where the enemy didn't give much challenge despite items like hero existed, heck Ultimecia final form didn't even have strong AoE attack that inflict all status effect. Basically hero potions are used only against the bonus boss (Omega weapon), also don't get me started on Aura.
FF VIII, while fun and enticing, is pretty short-thought because they were dealing with deadlines and pressure to make game as good as FF VII, they kinda did but they realized how bad this junction system and unlimited Limit Break is that make the game "unchallenging". That's why they went back to traditional MP system, making magic worth using again, also removing multi-hit attacks, essentially hardcapping the damage limit. They kinda bring back multi hit attack and damage limit break attack later but it's fine because the enemies have humongous amount of HP that those attacks is quite needed.
All this doesn't change the fact that FF VIII has the best soundtrack and the most fun mini-game (Triple Triad), fuck Tetra Master and all other card games after that
Lol, I will start by saying that this is true for every FF and overpowered happen in every FF games... You waste your time farming too much and making your focus on easier "FFVIII" highly inaccurate.
1. Meltdown is a monster level 30+ magic aside for Jumbo Cactuar and Trauma(Ultimecia Castle). I finish my runs between lvl 16-30. Omfg, you are that early 30 ? How ?? By simply overfarming!(How boring...) Something that can easily make all FF easy and quite boring. If you wanna waste time farming and being overpowered to think the game is easy, feel free to see the irony of your statement.. As for the fact, unless you farm to be overpowered, use meltdown and lionheart to a point that any game would be easy. You do not even take down a Tonberry with Meltdown + Lionheart in 1 limit unless you roll the right Limit... I wont even get into the whole Aura limitation and how to have limit break most of the time you need to waste time getting overpowered. By the time you are done getting overpowered Im already midway CD 3. Talk about ruining your own game fun by doing what would make any FF super easy and blame a specific game for it...
2. Getting Lionheart on disc 1 require a sacrifices of card utility or be way overleveled for the rest of the game. Im usually not even 30 when I finish the game. It's normal that if you farm xp to a point that of nonsense you find the game easy, it's normal... You just gained 15-20 level over what you were supposed to be just to make the darn sword that does not give a lot of damage aside more Limits and dont trust me on it! Go check out the barely more extra STR it give compared to even the starting sword! If you wanna call wasting time leveling and leveling making it easy. Be my guest and granted! That's true for every god damn FF games... They pretty much all have low level challenge and solo char. So if you are 20+ level ahead. Please dont tell me any of the the FF are hard... FFVII can be finished using bare equip and no materia.. Come on... If you wanna talk about stupid overpowered... Go play again FFVII, its retarded easy. Maybe you were simply not familiar with RPG or some other reason.. I wont presume to know your state. Only claim to know requirements of what you talk about needing to achieve your "easy" game.
3. Limit break kill faster in most case and yet many games like FFVII can be done with starting equip and no materia. The boss are all easy, same can be said with FFVI where you are overpowered at 30 as Relm can already do 9999 wit many spells and Kefka only got 63k hp. With a Gem box Relm alone tick 1/3 Kefka hp in 1 round(Poor Kefka). FFIX can be finished gaining 0 xp during the whole game. Dont tell me boss are ever hard or long. They all have tricks and if you cannot find them... Dont say a singular game is easy while they all are.
4. Junction system was removed because people were stupid. They did not realize that using magic barely affected your stats and the stats loss was marginal. If you cast a status spell with Squall instead of putting it on his weapon, you know that it's not how to play. They brought mp back simply because people were afraid to use magic's even with spellcaster because they never counted the changes it make.(Which are irrelevant once you look at numbers) I would not be surprised to see tons of items that can create magic in your inventory sitting because you did like most people and drawn over and over while I barely ever draw in a game and got the same repertoire of magic by simply transforming the many items monsters drops and monster cards that turns out to have no other uses into magic! Every good guide will say that using the draw command is rarely needed and is a waste of time/turn.
5. Your arguments are only true if you spend tremendous time overleveling and spent getting overpowered. Please, take a step back! Look at how you play the game and the needs for what you claim to use. They dont have normal requirements.. They require you to be over leveled and if you did the same with any
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nice clickbait, those tips knows EVERYONE years ago.. only kids are born after 2005 dont know these cuz they dont play these kind of games anymore. even with the junction system, with draw depends on magic and other things..
Ugh, I already know all of these
Already did that on original FF8 pc version when it just came out.. .. you done playing save the config file from chocobo world somewhere on your pc.. if you start a new game .. once you got the chocobo world game.. copy past the old config file in choco game folder and you already have every item maxed .. also you can loot/transfer the items from chocobo world every like 1 minute or so to your inventory.. your items be maxed out.. if your talking about max money.. just sell it all and you never run out of money
Also do the magic lamp the minute you get it (after saving).. the longer you wait.. the more difficult the GF becomes ... the boss/gf scales to your level.. so if you level up he will use more difficult tricks to beat you
I'm playing the original PS1 version, and I have a much better way than Chocobo World to get a Ribbon and a Dark Matter: Gameshark. ;)
And you don't need any more Rosetta Stones than what you get normally in the game. 1) Bahamut learns Ability X4 normally 2) Cheryls store in Esthat 3) Ultimecia Castle treasure
1. Gameshark completely defeats the purpose and only works on ps1/ps2.
2. yes you can get ability x4 easy in late game, however this is getting them easy way earlier on (At a much faster rate than the card guy in prison)
True. But since I play the original PS1 version exclusively, and I don't live in Japan, I have absolutely no moral qualms about hacking a single Ribbon and a single Dark Matter into my inventory. And I only use them at the near end of the game.
There are a number of Chocobo World exclusive items that need Chocobo World data to function though, even if you cheat them in. Ever use the Mog Armlet and all that ever happens is it shows "Miss" on your party, or wondered why Boko is so damn weak but the item that summons him is kind of expensive, or what the hell the Friendship item does? That's why.
Yep. Good thing I also use Vilurum's gameshark Boko power up codes. My Mog Amulet works just fine, thank you.
Chocobo world was on the PC version of VIII back in 2000 when it first came out. Way before Steam got FF VIII! I told people about Chocobo world and they thought I was insane.
Hi guys. Id just like to add 1 more fact that i thought would be intresting for you all if you didnt own a pocket station. You could actually get 2 extra summons(thats what i called them anyways) that will appear at random. The first is when your ff8 and pocket station are synced the chocobo you control in chocobo world becomes like a mini random GF who drops into a battle at random and runs into the enemy. Secondly, after you play chocobo world for a while you meet another character called momba. After this and your FF8 and Pocketstation are synced mombo also acts as a mini GF and appears at random and attacks enemies.
It's funny how I start to get so many FF 8 suggestions right now when tomorrow it's the release
late to the party here, but you didn't mention this when you were elaborating about the card ability and it sometimes giving an alternative card.
you can force this to happen by having 100 of the monsters card already. it will fail if you are full 100 stocked. so you just keep spamming and it will fail until it rolls for the higher level card.
the fire bombs in the fire cave can give the rare card that can be broken down into holy magic. and the trex's in the training center will spit out the shumi tribe card like you mentioned in the video. you can refine into gambler spirits that will teach card to other gfs, but you can also break that down futher to get 10 wizard stones which you can use to refine all kinds of high level magics.
you can do all this card collecting before dollet and be stupid powerful.