Side Quests

One reason why Final Fantasy VII is seen as one of the most re-playable games of all time is because of the huge array of side quests that are avaliable to you. Some of these quests are vital while other will just make your party stronger and better.



Getting Yuffie
When you reach Fort Condor you might encouter and random battle with a "Mystery Ninja". This is an easy battle unless you are at a low level. Once she is defeated. You will find yourself in an open field with a save point near by. Whatever you do DON'T use that save point. Talk to Yuffie, who is laying on the floor anf give the following answers:
1. Not Interested
2. Petrified
3. Wait a second!
4. That's right
5. Let's hurry on

You now have Yuffie as part of your Party.



Getting Vincent
After you arrive in Nibelheim, go to the Shinra Mansion. Once inside go left. You will see some papers on that floor. They speak of a game that someone made. The papers give clues to the code to open the safe upstairs. Go upstairs and to the left into the room with the plants. Open the chest that is in there and you will get an item. Check it again and you will get see writing there : Right 36.
Go downstairs where the grand piano is and check around there. You should find another piece of writing: Left 10.
Now go upstairs onto the balcony and go to your right. You will see two rooms. Go to the upper room first. Open the chest and get the item. Go outside the room and walk down the hallway. When you hear a squeak stop. When you hear that look around that area. The next note says: Right 59.
Now go back to the list of clues and scroll down to the bottom where you will see the last code for the safe: Right 97.
Before you go and open the safe make sure you are at full health, have your best weapons and materia attached because this boss is tough. It is also a good idea to save at this point. Open the safe and the boss will appear, "Lost Number". Defeat him and you will get "basement key". Remember to pick up the "Odin" summon.
Go to the right of the balcony and into the hidden staircase. Down the stairs and through the first door. You will see a coffin, talk to it. Vincent will open the coffin lid, talk to you, then close it again. Keep talking to Vincent until he refuses to come out. Go into the other door. Here you will encounter Septhiroth. Afterwards, head out of the tunnel, Vincent will stop you and will join your party.




Kalm Traveler
While in Kalm look in one of the houses on the upper floor, you encounter an old man. He wants three items, "Guide Book", "Earth Harp", and a "Desert Rose". You can make the guide book by morphing a Ghost Ship in the tunnels that lead to the Junon Underwater Reactor. The "Earth Harp" is attained by defeating the Emerald Weapon, while the "Desert Rose" is obtained after defeating Ruby Weapon. The "Guide Book" will get you "Underwater" materia. This allows you to fight Emerald Weapon. The "Earth Harp" will get you one of each of, "Master Magic", "Master Summon", and "Master Command". The "Desert Rose" gives you a Gold Chocobo.




Sleeping Man
When you have the Car/buggy go back to Costa del Sol and board the ship to Junon. Once there, look for a river between Fort Condor and Junon. Cross the river at the shallow point and you should see a cave. When you enter the cave you will see a man sleeping. Talk to him and he will mutter random stats at you (e.g. how many times you have battled). What you want to do is make the last two digits of the number of battles you've fought the same (e.g. 244 or 577). Once you have done that, talk to him again and he will give you a "bolt ring". Once you have done that go to the weapon seller, who lives east of Gongaga, and talk to him. Now go back to the sleeping man and he will give you some "Mythril". This can be used to get Aries final limit break from the weapon seller.




Weapon Seller
This man, who lives east of Gongaga in a small house, is also the same person who informs you that he sold the "Keystone" to the president of the Gold Saucer. After you have spoken to the sleeping man and acquired the "Mythril" from him go and see the weapon seller. He will give you the choice of either the upstairs or downstairs chest. The downstairs chest contains a "Gold Armlet" while the upstairs chest contains Aeris' final limit break, "Great Gospel".




Turtle Paradise Flyers
Flyer 1: Midgar Sector 5 Slums in the boys room inside the house to the right.
Flyer 2: Shinra HQ on Level 1. Found on the bulletin board on the back.
Flyer 3: Gold Saucer on the wall of the Ghost Hotel's lobby.
Flyer 4: Cosmo Canyon next to the weapon's shop.
Flyer 5: Cosmo Canyon next to the inn's desk.
Flyer 6: Wutai in the basement of Yuffie's house outside of the trap room.
When you get all of the flyers, you get a prize that consists of, "Power Source", "Guard Source", "Magic Source", "Mind Source", "Speed Source", "Luck Source", and a "Megalixer".




Cloud Flashback
Any time after Cloud comes back to reality from his Mako induced coma, go to the basement of the Shinra mansion. Go to the room with all the lab equipment in it. Here Cloud will have a flashback of his travels with "Zack".




Lucky 7's
If anyone of your characters have 7777 as their HP they will go berserk and attack enemies with 7777 amount of damage. After the battle your HP is reduced by one point.




Master Materia
To get "master materia" you have to master every piece of materia. Once you have done this go to Bugenhagen's Laboratory and examine each "Huge" materia. Each "Huge" materia will give you a different master materia.
Here is a list of what you will get:
Master Magic:
Ultima
Full Cure
Shield
Restore
Heal
Revive
Fire
Ice
Lightning
Earth
Poison
Gravity
Mystify
Transform
Time
Barrier
Destruct
Exit
Comet
Contain


Master Command:
Manipulate
Deathblow
Throw
Sense
Steal
Morph


Master Summon:
Knights Of The Round
Bahamut Zero
Neo Bahamut
Bahamut
Typhoon
Hades
Phoenix
Kjata
Leviathan
Odin
Titan
Ramuh
Ifrit
Shiva
Choco/Mog




Vincent's Past
Use a subemarine or Chocobo to get the cave north of Costa Del Sol. Make sure you have Vincent in your party when you enter the cave. You will see Lucrecia. After a flashback go back out and fight 10 battles. Go back inside and at the throne you will get Vincents final limit break and ultimate weapon.




Bone Village
You can dig up some very useful items here. Search for "Good Treasure" and you will find either the "Buntline" or the "Mop". Search for "Normal Treasure", and you might find a "Key to Sector 5". This now means you can go back into Midgar to buy some special new items.




Another Visit to Cosmo Canyon
After the Incident with the Sister Ray is complete, go back to the item shop in Cosmo Canyon. There is a door at the side that is now unlocked. Go in there and you can get "Full Cure" materia, "Magic Source", and an "Elixir".




Ancient Forest
Located near to Cosmo Canyon you'll find Ultima Weapon. Defeating it will create a crater. Only after this can we get some items. If you don't want to fight Ultima Weapon yet you can breed a Black/Gold/Green chocobo.
Equip yourself well and enter the forest. You will see a green frogs and flying insects first. Go over and press the action button and a dialog will come up telling you what to do. It only comes up once so take note of what it says. Run up and grab the first small thing and put it at the bottom of the slope leading to the three sacks. Repeat this with the other two insects. The three sacks should now be closed. Go over the sacks and keep heading right untill you see a green plant-like object. Jump up that and exit the screen.
On the next screen you will have to pick up one of the insects and then jump up the hanging plant. Walk to the right until you hear a croaking noise and drop the insect. It should then be replaced by a frog. Grab the frog and go back down the plant. Get the other insect, go up the plant again and put that into the sack. Run back to the frog, pick it up and now go over the sack. Next you'll see a some materia. Don't go and grab it or you will be eaten by a venus flytrap. Run up the slope and put the frog into the sack on the left. Jump on it and wait untill you are catapulted onto a ledge with a bee's nest. Take the nest, go back down and put it into the venus flytrap. You will now have slash-all materia. Get the frog and put it in the sack on the right. Wait untill you are catapulted over the flytrap and into the next stage.
First, grab the two insects and put them in the two sacks. Jump on them and then use the hanging plant to climb up. Now you may have noticed the item in the previous screen. Run to the left and down a tree. You will have to do the last few steps again to get back to the next page. Once there run up to the higher branches and head right. Run across the branch that sticks out and then use the hanging planets to get across the screen. Get the items from there and then jump back. Now take the path which goes behind the path you have just taken. You can use the select button if you can't see it straight away.
On this screen, grab the insect, put it into the sack, jump on it and take the nest above it. Throw that into the flytrap and go and get the other insect. Put this into the sack on the left and then jump to the other side. Now, find another insect and then go over to the hole in the tree and replace the insect with a frog. Quickly run over back to the other side before the sack opens and out the frog into the sack on the right. Jump on it and you will be catapulted into a cave. Inside you'll find Cloud's Apocalypse sword, this have triple materia growth. At the back of the cave is an exit.




Don Corneo
On disk 2 you should have the Tiny Bronco. With it go to the long strip of land at the far left of the map. There is a city there called "Wutai". Once inside a scene will appear with Yuffie and some Soldiers, she will then steal all of your materia.
Look around Wutai, go over the bridges, and from a hiding place, Yuffie will see you and run. Exit via the top left of the screen. You will now be in a large court-yard. Go inside the right building and look for a man on the floor that is sleeping. Talk to him untill he stands up. Yuffie will appear and will then be chased out by her father.
Go back to the town and go into the building at the bottom left. There you will see the Turks. Talk to them and then leave. After a cut scene go to the item shop in town. Open the chest which has some materia inside it. Yuffie will then steal that from you as well. Now go the the building at the south east of the city. Once inside poke around moving room dividers untill you see Yuffie. She will run again. Go back to the building where the Turks were. Before you go inside you should notice that a pot is moving slightly. Cloud will smash it open, inside is Yuffie. She will now lead you back to her house.
A cut scene occurs in which Elena, from the Turks runs off somewhere. When you get control again you'll be asked to pick a switch. A big cage will drop on your party with whichever switch you pick. Free them and look for Yuffie again. Go to the building left of the courtyard. Ring the doorbell and go inside. You will see Don Corneo kidnapping Yuffie and Elena.
Chase Corneo outside where you will run into Reno and Rude. They will team up with you to get Elena back. Go back to the city again and use the northen exit to the Da Chao Mountains. Go up the path and take the northern path when it splits. Talk to Rude who will go into a cave. Go into the cave yourself. There you will find a weapon for Cid. Exit the cave and talk to Rude again. He should run off. Head south and you will encounter the Don again. He has a fairly tough monster with him. Defeat it and a cut scene will happen. You should now have all of your materia back.




Wutai Pagoda
Yuffie needs to be in your party for this to work. Put all of your best materia and equipment on her as well.
Go inside the Pagoda and there you will have some dialogue which results in Yuffie fighting an opponent one on one. Once defeated go to the next level where you will have to do the same again. Do this untill you reach the top and final battle. Defeat him, some dialogue will occur and you will get "All Creation" and the Leviathan summon.