Final Fantasy VII
This page is for tips on how to get past spefic parts in the game, from my own experience. If you would like me to include a mini-walkthrough for a particular part of the game, E-mail me. I will try to put the walkthroughs in some kind of order, and soon i will have bookmarks, so you can jump to different parts of the page. Here is the order i will try to use: Mini-Quests; Story-Line-driven quests; Materia Info. All Parts will be in chronilogical order as of the earliest time you can accomplish it....I hope. Dont' email me telling me i got the order off, or one part of my page should be somewhere else, because i just don't care.^_^ I will do the best i can.
[Getting Vincent][Getting Yuffie][Yuffie's Side Quest][Ultimate Weapons][Level 4 Limit Break Manuals][Man In Kalm Quest][Beating the Emrald Weapon][Beating the Ruby Weapon][Getting a Gold Chocobo][Getting A Ribbon After Disk 1][Gold Saucer][Getting out of the Crater][Hard-to-Find Materia]
Mini-Quests
Getting Vincent
Go to the Shinra Mansion in Nebelhim(i know i spelled it wrong). From the entrence, go up the stairs to the top, and to the left. At the end of the hallway, there are three doors. Go through the doorway on the North side of the screen. Examine the Safe, and you will have to enter the combonation. Right now i don't have it, as i did this part at school and i dont' have that good a memory, but if i remember, i will add this when i get home. Enter the code(without going past the target number) and you will fight a boss. I recommend using choco-mog materia(obtained by talking to a chocobo in the chocobo farm), as this will often stop the boss. Then hit him with magic attacks, so you will kill the Physical Half of him, leaving the Magic attacks. I think that the Physical half is more deadly, so kill him first. Anyway, kill the other half with physical attacks, and win the fight. After the fight, you will recieve Odin Materia(on the ground) and the key to the basement. Go down to the place where cloud found sephiroth(in the flashback sequence), but instead of going through the door, head up, instead of right. There should be a coffin surrounded by three others. Examine the foot of the coffin and Vincent will pop out. Say the 1st option the first time, the 2nd option the second time, and the third time you will get new choices. I'm pretty sure you need to make him feel guilty, but no promisses. Leave the room, and before you get to the stair case, vincent will talk to you. If nothing happens, talk to him again and leave again.
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Getting Yuffie
Get into a fight in the forests around Junon and Fort Condor, or the forests by Cosmo Canyon. Eventually you will fight Yuffie. Just use regular attacks, as she isn't that tough. After the fight, dont use the save point, don't go into the item screen, don't walk off the screen. Basically, walk straight to Yuffie without doing anything else before hand. If you do, she will steal some of your money. anyway, once you talk to her, you will be presented with a series of questions. I believe the choices you make are 1,2,1,2, untill the conversation ends. I'm not sure about the numbers, but i know you need to say that your scared, you want her help, and the last choice is something like "Let's get going." Hopefully you understand that. I will confirm this later and update this. Once you get Yuffie, you can then do her sub-quest.
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Yuffie's Sub-Quest
You can do this quest on disk two or three. I recommend doing this as soon as you get the "Tiny Bronco." Head to the far west continent, and make a landing on the southern tip of it. Head North and you will fight shinra soldiers and Yuffie will steal your materia. If you have a ton of materia, she will leave some, but not much. Head north and you will eventually come to her hometown of.....um.....some japanease style town. Can't remember the name. Anyway, first go to the bar and talk to the Turks. Then, you need to find Yuffie in all of the following places: In the Item shop(by opening the chest), in the house of the old man on the bottom right of the town(by examining the curtain thing in the front left corner), in her fathers house(in front of the pagoda by talking to her dad about four or five times), and infront of the bar, inside the vase that is wiggling. Examine the vase, and Yuffie will pop out. Next time you can control yourself, go to the bell in front of the pagoda and across from Yuffie's dads house. Examine the log and ring the bell, revealing a secret passage. Go through, and find out what's going on. You will fight some more shinra soldiers, and then you need to talk to reno and rude. They'll give you a hint on where to find Yuffie. Go to the mountans. Wander around and you will eventually find Yuffie. You will fight a boss that is rather hard if you did this mini-quest as soon as you got the tiny bronco. I recommend having barret in your party and having him use Mind Blow, as this will make the fight a ton easier. After the fight, you get back your materia, and yuffie back in your party. If you want, you can go to the pagoda(only if Yuffie is with you) and challenge five people, one at a time. At the end is a special treasure...If you are strong enough to try.
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Ultimate Weapons
Cloud: Beat the Ultimate Weapon(see below).
Barret: When you go into Midger in Disk two, before you fight Hojo, have barret in your party. Open a chest on the stairs and his ultimate weapon will be in it.
Tifa: Quite complicated. Go to bone village(entrence to forest of the ancients). Talk to that one guy and search for good treasure. Somewhere on the bottom right(as far as you can go anyway) you will find the key to midger. Go to Midger. Make your way to wall market, in the building with the broken maching(the one that shoots at you). Examine the machine and you will get Tifa's ultimate weapon(it really sucks though, so i wouldn't go to the trouble).
Cid: In Rocket town, after the rocket is gone, there is a man looking at the rocket. Talk to him three or four times, and he'll give it to you.
Vincent: I'm sure you've noticed that there is a waterfall thing near the gold saucer and Nebilhim(sp?). Take a green, black, gold chocobo, or use the sub. to get there. Go behind the waterfall in disk 2 AND 3. You MUST go here during both disks.
Red XIII: Talk to his "Grandfather"(cant' remmeber real name right now) during disk 3.
Yuffie:I'm pretty sure you get it after you have yuffie beat all the bosses in the pagota in her home town(see "Yuffie's side quest" above)
Cait Sith: Um, not sure. I'll get back to you.
*Note:* I'm aware i left out Aries.
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Level 4 Limit Break Manuals
Cloud: In Battle square in the Gold Saucer. Win it in disk three for 32000 battle points. Don't bother getting it in disk one or two.
Barret: After the train incident in North Corel, (if you save the town) the person in the house on the second level, far right will give it too you. If you don't save the town, she will sell it to you for...um....like 10000 gil.
Tifa: In tifa's house in Nebelhiem(sp?), there is a piano in the second story in her room. Play the song from the highwind and she'll get her Manual. I'll check back when i find what keys you have to press.
Aries: I'm sure you've noticed that there is a river seperating you and a cave. Come here with the buggy thing and cross the river and walk into the cave. The man will tell you how many battles you've been in. if the last two numbers are odd(157, 97, etc.) he'll give you her manual.
Vincent: Same place as ultimate weapon.
Cid: In the sunken shinra plane. Use your submarine to get to the plane. once inside, go through the door to the left of the save point. Fight rude and reno, then go through the door. Go down the stairs, and his manual will be on the bottom left of the area down there.
Yuffie: Same place as Ultimate weapon(i think. i'll confirm this and check back later. If any of you know if i'm wrong, email me)
Cait Sith: Doesn't have one. I don't think. I've never seen one at least.
Red XIII: In the shinra mansion. By the safe i believe.
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The Man in Kalm Quest
On the lower part of Kalm, in the house on the far right(I think) there is a man that will give you very valuable items in return for equally valuable items. You need to give him the following: A guidebook, Desert Rose, and a harp of some kind. The guide book can be found in the Under-water reactor in Junon. Just morph one of the ghost ship things. You can still get there in the third disk, so don't think you can't do it. The desert rose can be obtained after beating the Ruby Weapon, which is in a later walkthrough. The harp thing can be obtained after beating the Emrald Weapon, which I also included later.
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Beating the Emrald Weapon
Finding the Emrald Weapon
Get in your submarine and go to the main ocean thing. You should see a big monster swimming around down there. That is him.
Things you need
1. W-Summon materia(Battle Square in the gold saucer).
2. Knights of the Round materia(lvl. 2 at least)(Island in the North-East corner of the map)
3. Mimic materia(x2)(cave somewhere i will tell later)
4. HP really high(8000+)(using hp-plus materia if needed)
5. 1 person's HP at 7777
6. Underwater materia(from man in kalm)
Preparation
Give person 1. W-summon materia, and Knights of the Round(lvl. 2 at least). Give people 2&3 mimic materia. To get someone's HP at 7777, you need to go to the World map by Junon. Then control one of those lizard monster things, and have it attack one of your party members untill that person's health ends in 77.(ex. 1577, 5377, etc.) Then use Potiens and Hi-Potiens to get your characters health to 7777. Go to the submarine WITHOUT GETTING IN A FIGHT. If you do, all your work will be for nothing. Then go to the Weapon and fight him.
The Fight....
At the beginning of the fight, the person with 7777 hp will hit the weapon 64x for 7777 points of damage. This will take away 1/2 of the Weapons hit points. Now, make your character with the w-summon materia use Knights of the Round twice. Have the other two mime it, and boom, he's dead. Now wasn't that easy.
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Beating the Ruby Weapon
Finding the Weapon
Fly your air ship or ride your chocobo near the gold saucer. See that red thing squirming around in the desert? Run into him and he will pop up and fight you.
Things you need
1. W-Summon
2. Master Summon Materia(Obtained from the man in Kalm after giving him that harp thing you get after beating the Emrald Weapon)
3. Mimic Materia x2(same place as before)
4. HP at least at 8000(using hp-plus if needed)
Prepairation
Give one person W-Summon and Master Summon Materia. Give the other two people mimic materia. Now kill off everyone but the person with W-Summon and Master Summon. There is a reason for this, but i don't feel like taking the time to explain it.
The Fight
Only one person will be able to fight. When he does have him use w-summon, then Pheniox(which will revive the other two party members) and Bahamut-Zero or another high power summon except Knights of the Round(becuase Ruby will counter with Ultima). Press Square to get back to the person with w-summon, then have him use Hades and Knights of the Round. Hades will temporarly freeze the Weapon, making him unable to counter Knights of the Round. Have the other two mimic and repeat. After about three or four times of this, he will be dead.
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Getting a gold chocobo(Disk 2&3)
This can only be done after get the airship highwind. First, rent all six chocobo stables. then go to the tracks near Midel(where cloud was when he turned into a vegatable) and catch a Great Male(now called GreatM) and Great Female(now called GreatF) Chocobo. Now go to the traks by the Gold saucer and catch a good male(now called goodM) and a good female(now called goodF)chocobo. Fly the airship to the northern continent, and land on the grassy area surrounded by ice. Get into a fight on the grass, and you'll fight a dinosour thing. Steal a Carob nut from it Three times(in three seperate fights). Now go to the chocobo stables and breed the GreatM with GoodF; and breed the GreatF with GoodM. If you dont' get a blue and green chocobo, load and try again.(save your game before you try this and breed them one at a time. If you get one, save, and try for the other one).*quick tip* The higher class your chocobo is, the better chance that you will get a new kind of chocobo. Raise your chocobo's rank by racing them in chocobo square in the Gold Saucer.
You can raise your chocobo's stats by feeding them greens(the best ones can be purchased from the chocobo sage on the Northern continent). Raise your chocobo's rank, and breed them with a carob nut, and you should get a black chocobo. If not, load and try again. Now, go to the traks in the northern continent and catch a Wonderful Chocobo that is the opposite gender of your black chocobo. Raise your new chocobo's rank and breed them with a Zeo nut(obtained by stealing from a goblin, on the island on the far north-east of the map). Now you should have a gold chocobo! (this usually takes a long time. I had a S class Black and a S class wonderful, and it still took a long time. although a few ppl get luckey and get it their first try). Now, ride your gold chocobo to the far north east of the map to find a island that doesn't show up on the map. It is surrounded by mountains, and there is a cave in it. Go in the cave and you will find the strongest materia in the game, "Knights of the Round!" Congrats, you now can beat almost any boss in the game in one attack(with the exeption of the disk three bosses).
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Getting A Ribbon After Disk 1
Yes, it is possible. In disk 3, when you go in to the crater, you will eventually fight a Tonberry. They look like humanoid-lizard type things with a cloak on and a star above their heads. If you can get his HP down enough to morph him, he will morph into a ribbon.
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Gold Saucer
First i'll cover the Battle Arena. First of all, wait 'till disk 3 to get any of the big prizes, as they're cheeper(and w-summon isn't available untill disk 3). Once you are ready, you need some things. First, a ribbon(found in the temple of the ancients). That will be invaluable for this. Secondly, you need Clouds ultimate weapon(See Above). You should also give him a HP-up materia and the 2x slash materia(found in sunken gelenka plane). The rest is luck.
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Story-Line-Driven Quests
Getting Out of the Crater(Disk 3)
At the very top of the path, there is a cave that takes you out to the part of the crater you came down on. To the left, there is a rock wall you can climb to get out of the crater.
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Difficult Bosses
Deamon Wall
This boss is quite hard. A good Strategy is to equip everyone with cure materia, one or two ppl with Life materia, and have the ppl without life materia attack with either strong summons, or level 2 magic. Bahamut works really well, and i havn't fought him enough to know what else works well. Vincent's limit breaks work well against him, as long as you keep his health up. Cloud should be on his highest limit break level, Berret should be on either level 1 or 3(if you have it yet). Tifa is obvious, Aries should have level 1 limit break, i've never had yuffie on my team so i don't know her limit breaks, Cid should be on his highest level. At least one person should have a cure=all link, and only use it when neccessary(press one of the L or R buttons to get rid of the all link temperarly). If two ppl heal while one attacks, you'll have a long, but winable fight.
Materia Info.
Hard-to-Find-Materia
Alexander
You know that ice area right after you finish the snowboarding mini-game? That is where you find alexander. There are two ways to do this. You can either go to the far right of the map and touch the hot spring. Then go to the far left of the map(i think. i went back there and now i cant' find her. if you know where she is, Email me), and go inside the cave. There, you will find one of those things in a bathing suit. Talk to her and she will give it to you. Or you can just go straight to the far left of the map and talk to her, and she will fight you because your not clean enough. After the fight(which is really easy), the materia will be bouncing on the ground where she was standing.
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