10 Phoenix Downs and a Secret Cave
On the way to Coral, go by the swich that you push to let the others go through. If you explore
around that area, you should hear birds chirping. Go up the hill where you hear it (you might have
to search to find the right spot) and pick the first choice you are given.
After collecting the 10 Phoenix Downs, go back down to the lower tracks and follow your
partners. As they turn to the right, you need to take the left split because buried in the hill under
the tracks is a cave with an out-of-work miner. A Power Source, Mind Source, and Tent may be
acquired within this hidden area.
Note: Your score will be lowered if you do this. It's not nice to disturb baby birds.
Alternate Save Pictures
The saved-game picture changes depending on what slot your game is saved in. Here's the
complete list:
FILE 1 : CLOUD
FILE 2 : BARRET
FILE 3 : AERIS
FILE 4 : CAIR SITH
FILE 5 : RED XIII
FILE 6 : CID
FILE 7 : TIFA
FILE 8 : VINCENT
FILE 9 : YUFFIE
FILE 10 : RUFUS
FILE 11 : TSENG
FILE 12 : PRISICILLA
FILE 13 : RUDE
FILE 14 : DAIN
FILE 15 : SEPHIROTH
Ancient Forest
To get to the Ancient Forest before disc 3, simply ride up the hill with a black, gold or green
chocobo.
Beat the Cosmo Canyon Boss Easily
When you get to the Boss inside the caves at Cosmo Canyon to beat him all you do is use a
Phoenix Down on him to kill him instantly. Sometimes that misses so you might want to use other
healing items like X-Potion, High Potion or Potion.
Beta Materia
When you first go to the Chocobo ranch you have to catch a chocobo to avoid the Midgarsorm.
Well, I figured out a way to get the powerful Beta spell before the second disc. You need the
Enemy skill materia, a Fire materia, and any elemental materia equipped on one person. MAKE
SURE THE LAST TWO ARE ON YOUR ARMOR!
If you keep this character healed until Midgarsorm casts Beta you SHOULD be able to survive
the spell. Then just finish him off. This is tricky to pull off but if done correctly you will be set for a
LONG time.
Cait Sidhe's Level 3 Limit Break - Japanese
Cait Sith has a level 3 limit break which will kill all enemies in one hit. This is tested and proven in
the Japanese FFVII. To get it, you must use Cait Sith to kill 954 enemies. The Level 3 limit
should be highlighted, but there will be no name. For activation, it will take about 36 times your
HP damage.
It will look like an error, because it is, but when activated, an error message will appear and the
battle will continue as if the enemy was killed in one hit.
Cast Any Spell Three Times
To cast three magic spells in one round, first equip someone with a Magic Materia + "All"
Support Materia. You'll also need Barrier Materia with the Reflect spell learned. When you enter
battle, cast Reflect on the entire party, (your party). Then cast the magic spell that was connected
to the "All" Materia on YOUR party. Even though you casted the spell once, it will be reflected
and returned to the enemy hitting for three times! And for the same price of the usual MP's.
What's even better is that if you have W-Magic, you can cast that spell twice, or two different
spells (both need to be connected to "All" Materia) hitting for six times!!!
Chocobo Tricks
While racing the chocobos, hold L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 to increase your speed. To increase their
stamina, hold R1 + R2.
While choosing a chocobo to race, press L1, L2, R1, R2 or any direction to pan, zoom and
rotate the chocobo you're viewing.
Defeating Savior Sephiroth
For this fight you will need: Knights of the Round, Zero Bahumut, and any other summons. Cure
3, Wall, "Mime", DeBarrier, Remedies and at least three Megaexlir's.Start out by casting Wall on
your party, then cast DeBarrier to take away Sephiroth's wall. After this has been done throw
everything you've got at him, use Mime to cause major damage. During the fight Sephiroth will
levitate higher, signaling he's preparing to cast Super Nova.
If you are above 1500 energy you should be alright, watch out for his Heartless Angel that will
not kill you, but bring your health down to 1. Then use Megaexlirs. Keep up the endurance and
Sephiroth shouldn't be to hard to beat.
Easy AP
Go to the forest outside of Meedeel. Walk around until you fight Head Hunters or Caterpillers.
Equip Cloud with an Apocalipse sword and everyone with a Rune Armlet. If you fight a group of
4 Head Hunters you get 340 AP. Caterpillers and a group of 3 Head Hunters give you 240 AP.
Equip as many 'ALL' and 'MAGIC PLUS' materia a possible in the sword and Rune Armlet.
When mastered they are worth 1.4 million gil each.
Easy Money
If you want virtually unlimited money, here is a wonderful trick. As soon as you have mastered an
"All" mateira, remove it and replace it with the new born one and sell the old one. This may seem
like kind of a harsh comprimise, but each mastered "All" is 1.4 million gils! and scince they are so
easy to master you will keep geting more and will never miss them. Sell one or two and you will
never run out of money ever again!
Easy Money, AP and Experience
Go to the desert outside of the golden saucer and walk around for a while. Sooner or later a little
cactus man will appear. You can't beat him with magic or weapons, but he can be defeated by
summoning Chocobos/Mogs. If you manage to kill him he's worth 10,000 gil!
For better results, head for the Mideel Area (an island in the south) and look for Sea Worms.
Each one you defeat is worth 1300 EXP, 200 AP and 5000 gil!
Effortless GP Gain
To do this trick, you need a joystick controller with rapid-fire settings and access to the Gold
Saucer.
Go to Wonder Square, and up to the arm-wrestling game. Wrap a rubberband around your
joystick so that it's pulled to the upper left diagonal, so that Cloud continuously walks into the
arm-wrestling machine but not into the GP-trading girl. Now, turn on the rapid-fire for the 'O'
button. Cloud will now repeatedly challenge and beat the wrestling game. Slowly but surely, your
GP will increase. It takes a while, so it's probably best to set this up just before you go to bed at
night, and leave it on while you sleep. By morning, you should have plenty of GP to buy your
Gold Pass and the two secret Materia: XP-Plus and Gil-Plus. Cheater!
Emerald Weapon
Having trouble beating Emerald Weapon? Just equip at least two of your party members with the
mime command and have the other member equipped with the Knights of the Round summon as
well as the W-Summon materia. Cast Knights of the Round twice and have the other two
members of your party mime the attack.
When the rotation comes back around to the person without the mime command, DON'T
ATTACK! Wait for one of the members with the mime command to come up again and have
them use mime again. You can keep alternating back and forth between the two until Emerald
Weapon is dead.
Also be sure to have one of your members equipped with the Final Attack + Revive materia
combination. Emerald Weapon has 1,000,000 hit points and when it begins to run low it uses it
special attack which takes off 9,999 from your entire party.
Note: if all three of your members have the mime command the fight is much easier.
Free Chocobo Lure
At the Chocobo Ranch go talk to Chocobos. Then come towards the screen but dont get out.
Then go to your right and there will be a Chocobo Lure.
Huge Materia
To obtain the Huge Materia in Rocket Town, press Circle, Square, X, X as the passcode.
There are four huge Materia that can reproduce other materias if you can pass the requirements.
Blue - You must have Buhamut and Buhamut Neo. Take these to Cosmo Canyon and talk to the
Blue Huge Materia and you will recieve Bahamut Eishiki.
Yellow - Have all 13 commond materia at master level and then talk to the yellow huge Materia
to recieve the Master Command materia.
Red- Must have all 16 summoning materia at master level then talk to the red huge materia to
recieve the Master Summoning materia.
Green - Have all 21 magic materia at master level then talk to the green huge huge materia and
you will recieve the Master Magic materia.
Item Duplication
If you have the W-Item Materia, equip it and enter battle. Use the W-Item command and select
your first item you want to use with the Circle button. Then choose your second item but do not
use it. Select it so that cursors appear on the screen (either on you allies or your enemies) then
cancel with the X button. Select again and make the cursor appear then cancel. Repeat the
selecting and canceling of the second item over and over. Each time you do this the quantity of
the first item will increase by 1.
Kalm Traveller
There is a man in Kalm who will ask you to find three items for him. To find the item he asks for,
go to the Cannon town aquarium and walk around in it until you fight a ghost ship. Morph it a few
times to get one of the items. Return it to Kalm and you will recieve the Underwater materia.
Equip that then go cruise around in your sub until you find the Emerald wepeon. Kill it and return
to Kalm for three master magic materias. Then take the air ship over to the Golden saucer desert
and fly into the little red man walking in the desert. You will fight Ruby, kill it and return the item
to Kalm for a golden chocobo.
Knights of the Round Table
Ride the Golden Chocobo to the North-Eastern part of the map. There you'll find a hidden island
with a cave. Enter the cave and talk to the red light to receive the "Nights of the Round Table"
spell.
Limit Break Manuals
To learn Level 4 limit breaks you'll need to find the manuals. Here's how to find them.
Cloud: Trade 32,000 battle points at the Golden Saucer.
Tifa: Go to Nibel area (Tifa's house) and play these piano notes: X, Square, Triangle, L1/R1 +
Triangle, L1/R1 + Square, X, Square, Triangle, L1/R1 + X, O, X, Square, X. Then press
START and search the music sheet to find Tifa's Limit break.
Barret: A lady will give it to you in North Coral.
Aeris: Southeast of Midgar there is a small cave with a man living there. Talk to him when you
have battled a certain number of battles that end in the same number, such as 122, 133, 144. He
will then give you a Mithril orb. Take the Mithril to the Blacksmith's house on the south peninsula
near Cosmo Canyon. He will trade you for the limit break manual for the Mithril, or you can
choose to have a gold bracelet.
Red XIII: In the Nibel area there is a mansion and on the second floor of this mansion there is a
safe. To crack this code turn right 36, left 10, right 59, and right 97. Then the safe will open to
reveal a miniboss.Kill the miniboss and you will recieve Red VIII's Manual.
Vincent: Land near the waterfall and use the green, black, gold chocobo or the submarine to pass
the mountain. Then enter the waterfall. (You must have Vincent in your group and must be done
first in disc 2) go forward and it will show Vincent's past. Then leave. Return if you are already in
disc three and you'll get not only the manual but a weapon of Vincent.
Cid: Cid's manual is in one of the chests in the sunken plane.
Yuffie: Go to Wutai and enter the tower with yuffie and let yuffie beat all the bosses including her
father and you'll get a manual and Leviathan materia.
Morph Enemies Easily
For an easy way to morph enemies, have W-Magic Materia, Gravity Materia + "All" Materia,
and Morph Materia. Have someone else cast Reflect on the party, then have the person with
W-Magic use Demi 3 on your party twice. It will reflect and hit the enemy six times without killing
it, but will greatly reduce it's HP's. At this point, you can easily morph it.
Prevent Back Attacks
If your battle starts with a "Back Attack" hold L1 and R1 for a moment then release them. This
will turn you around before your opponents get a shot.
Quad Magic Without a Chocobo
Use High Wind to go to Mideel. Go north, and you should find a little cliff (looks more like a
staircase). On the edge, get on the higher side of the cliff and press X to go down, also pressing
the square button and left. After a few tries, the high wind will stay on the cliff but the character
will be on the lower side. Now you can walk to the materia cave on land, without a special
chocobo.
Racing Trophy
When racing S-class in the Gold Saucer, You will notice many keen items you can't ever seem to
get. Well you can get them all at once! Just win 15-20 races in a row! Ester will say "I've never
seen anyone win so much in S-class before!" She will then give you one of each item, including
the coveted Cat's Bell! this trick only works once, though.
Re-enter Midgar
It is possible to get back into Midgar after you have left (not including by parachute.) On disc 3,
go back to Midgar and talk to the man standing outside the fence. He says he has misplaced his
key and that it is probably back at the dig site he just left.
To find the key, go to Bone Village and tell the foreman you want to look for Normal Treasure.
Place some of the workers up top in front of the tent and set off the blast. They will point to a
spot on the ground, so have them dig there overnight.
In the morning open the treasure chest and you should have the Key to the Sector 5 Slums. Now
go back to Midgar and go through the gate. Go back to Wall Market and go to the shop where
the item machine was broken before (the one that shot at you), and try to use it now. You will
recieve Tifa's ultimate weapon.
Recover Missing Items
Did you miss something important? Fear not. Once you get to disc 3 you can recover anything by
excavating for it in the Bone Village.
Recruit Vincent
In the Shinra mansion at Nibbhiem, there is a safe on the top floor. The combination is: Right to
36, Left to 10, Right to 59 then Right to 97. Make sure you don't go to far left or to far right
when turning. When it opens kill the monster, then get the stuff in the safe. Descent the spiral
staircase and into the coffin room. Vincent is in one of the coffins. Talk to him and leave then
come back and talk to him and he will join you.
Recruit Yufie
Near the exploded Mako site there is a small forest. Wonder around in it until you fight a ninja
woman. After you defeat her there will be a save point. DO NOT USE THIS or she will run
away. Talk to her and tell her you don't want to fight her again. Then tell her your terrified of her.
When she asks if you need her help, say "Yes" then tell her that you're leaving and don't ask for
her name.
Alternatively, try this. Equip the Enemy Away Materia which can be won in the Gold Saucer
Chocobo Racing and a Luck Plus Materia. Go into any forests and wait for a while. Note that the
Enemy Away Materia must be at Master Level for a higher percentage of chances to encounter
Yuffie.
Red Submarine
The first time you pilot a submarine, lose the battle and you will wind up on the shore neer
Cannon town. Head back into Cannon town and ride the elevator back inside the main complex.
Make a left turn and go back to the sub docking area where you were before the sub battle. Two
gaurds and a dog are blocking the pathway, kill the gaurds and talk to the dog. Follow it and you
will find the Red Submarine.
Reset
Hold L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 + Select + Start to reset the game.
Slow Down the Slot Machines
In the battle arena, after you kill a monster, press the SQUARE button repeatedly to slow down
the slot machine. This also works with Cait Sith's Limit Breaker!!!
Special Battle
To get to the URA battle (special battle) in the Battle Arena, first gain 64000 battle points and
buy the W-Summon materia. Next get 32,000 battle points and buy Cloud's level 4 limit,
Omnislash. Equip Omnislash and talk to the lady at the counter in the battle arena, and she will
ask you if you want to participate in a special battle. Beat all 8 enemies and get the Final attack
materia.
Note: You must have your Ultimate Weapon equiped to fight in the special battle.
Turtle Paridise Flyers
There are several flyers for Turtle Paradise hidden in this game. #1 is in Midgar by Aeris's house,
#2 is in the Shinra building, #3 Ghost Square, #4 Cosmo Canyon, #5 Cosmo Canyon Hotel, #6
Yuffie's house. When you have all those fliers go to the southwest corner of Utai. Enter the
restaurant and you will receive several orbs and elixirs.
Underwater Plane Crash
If you wander around in the submarine you'll eventually find a downed plane. Ram it with your
sub to board it. Inside you'll find powerful Materia, items, weapons, and a lot of Turks and
monsters.
Unlimited Sources
To get unlimited Sources (luck source, magic source, etc.) perform the following actions. Get in
the submarine and go to the downed plane. Wander around until you get into a battle and use the
morph command on the enemies. The best way to do this is attack the enemies until they are
almost dead and then use morph. In this area there are six different enemies and each one morphs
into one of the six sources.
Virtual Immortality
Connect the Phoenix Summon and Final Attack materia in any linked slot. When your party dies,
there Hitpoints will be completely restored. This makes killing Ruby, Emerald, and Sephiroth
simple, just make sure you have enough Mindpoints to use the Phoenix Summon.
For more punch, add a Final Attack/Knight oo the Round Table to the same weapon. Then when
you die you'll resurrect and hit back HARD.
