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Walkthrough - FAQ Part I======================================================================== 88888888888 8888888888 8888 8888 88888888888888 88888 88888 8888 8888 88 88 888 8888888 8888888 88888888 88 88 888 88888 88888 888888 88 88 888 88888 88888 8888 88 88 888 88888 88888 88 88888888888888 ======================================================================== F I N A L F A N T A S Y V I I I ======================================================================== Final Fantasy VIII (Japanese/Import) Version 1.16 Part I For Sony Playstation By Scott Ong E-Mail: kangning@mbox5.singnet.com.sg Webpage: http://members.xoom.com/scottong World Map: http://risland.virtualave.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > - please read this! This FAQ is meant for personal usage only. It cannot be altered and it can only be reproduced in electronic form only. It cannot be published in magazines, articles and any other form of reproduction. The FAQ is not meant for sale. Any offenders will be severly dealt with This FAQ is made by me, Scott Ong (kangning@mbox5.singnet.com.sg) Unpublished work of Scott Ong 1999-2000. If you want to use this FAQ for your website or webpage, please seek the author's permission and link it to my site. You are allowed to print the FAQ out, but make sure that you did not sell it for cash! All my FAQs are not meant for sale! This is Part I of Final Fantasy VIII FAQ for the Japanese version. Final Fantasy VIII Logo, characters are copyright of Squaresoft. If you want to find information regarding item list, weapon list, monster list or any other besitary data, please look up at Final Fantasy VIII FAQ Part II which is available at GameFAQs. This is meant for the Japanese version. > Official Final Fantasy VIII Website - http://www.ff8.com Official Squaresoft Website - http://www.squaresoft.com > If you want to use this FAQ for your site, make sure that you keep on checking GameFAQs for latest revisions. Otherwise, I will have to answer questions that already answered in the latest editions. ___ / I \___________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introduction ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > That's right, the eagerly-awaited FF8 finally hits the stores. The game is much better and more realistic. You will take the role of the super cool Squall whom is led by Seifer, his rival to recapture the city of Dollet. The city has fallen into the hands of the evil President Deling, the dictator of the warlike nation, Galbadia.... > The hero Squall, trained as a mercenary at a military academy, meets a girl named Rinoa at a party. Gradually influenced by her bohemian lifestyle, Squall rejects family and friends for people as yet... strangers. Meanwhile, at that while, the continent of Galbadia suddenly turns against the whole world and declares...war. Standing beside the President as he delivers this speech, is the figure of a witch who disappears from the memories of the people... ____ / II \__________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Revision History ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Version 1.0 Contains the main document. Version 1.1 I have finished Disc 1 Walkthrough. I have make the Disc 1 walkthrough more detailed and correct some errors. Completed the Controls section. Version 1.2 Added a partial Disc 2 walkthrough. Also added the BOSS Diablos' facts. Version 1.3 Completed Disc 2 walkthrough and make some corrections. Start working on Part II. Added information on Chocobo Riding. Make more corrections on Disc 1 walkthrough. Version 1.4 Added Disc 3 walkthrough [partial] and make more corrections. Make some spelling corrections on the Leviathan, Quezacotl and Cerberus. I have added information on getting Phoenix and Odin. Version 1.5 Completed Disc 3 walkthrough including information on GFs Tonberry, Bahamut and Cactuar, plus the last GF Eden, thanks to Steven Bruck! Add more corrections in spelling and errors. Version 1.6 Added and complete Disc 4 walkthrough except for the ending FMV, don't want to spoil the fun ^_^; Added corrections/logo to the FAQ. Complete the list of gameshark codes. Version 1.7 Make mystical corrections. Miscellaneous information on Omega Weapon and the draw list from Tonberry, thanks to Hahaha Hahaha. I have added more information getting fragments of the pot and attaining full marks for the Dollet's SeeD examinations. Thanks to ChaRle5! I have added more information on getting GF Doomtrain. I have added information on Ward and Kiros. Correct most gramatical errors. Version 1.8 Edit some of the data and correct more errors. Added the correct way to get the Phoenix Pinion from Shumi Village's Subquest, thanks to Jerry Ng! Version 1.9 I have correct some of the previous errors. I had added ways to get the Pet Pals and Combat King Issues, with the courtesy of Lynn Tse. More information on the D-District Prison have been added, including a move that could save your life! Thanks to Markweb Jimenez. The list of items that can been obtained in Balamb Garden during Disc 2. The basic controls section have been expanded and ASCII maps have been added on it. More information regarding the Pocketstation have been added, thanks to Zane Merritt. Thanks to Crystal Power for that outstanding strategies to fight against the Ruby Dragons and the Bahamut. Thanks to Ciovo for telling me the usefulness of the Tonberry's Level Down. Draw an ASCII image of the Pocketstation! Thanks to Crystal Power for the correction on the lyrics "Eyes on me". Version 1.10 Some corrections have been made for the Esthar Shopping List. I have made corrections to lyrics "Eyes on Me", thanks to Hahaha Hahaha/Yee Seng Fu/ Franksiskus Febrainto ^0^. More information has been added regarding the Chocobo Mini-Game, thanks to Zane Merritt. I have made some magic spell corrections between Flare and Aero. I have made more corrections at certain areas. I have expanded the methods on getting GFs. I have been trying to correct gramatic errors and sentence structures. I have also find a way to get back lost cards. I have added more battle strategies against BOSS: Brothers, Jumbo Cactuar, Diablos and the final battle. A new strategy against the Omega Weapon have been added. Version 1.11 I have added the lyrics for the opening song. Thanks to Marco "vegeta" Colombo for the lyrics. Changes have been made to most parts of the FAQ. I had also added more information on the Controls section. I had added the list of items which can be won from BOSS fights [partially]. I had also added more miscellaneous information such as getting Occult Fan Part I, Pet Pals Vol. 2nd Issue and much more. Battle Tips are included to most parts of the walkthrough. I have added the type of spells, which you can draw from the Draw Points. [partially complete] Version 1.12 The remaining of Draw Points have been added (until Disc 3). I had also added list of items that you can won from BOSS fights, applies until Disc 3. (partially) I have added more battle tips until Disc 3 (partially). I made some corrections to the Basics section. I had also added informatiom about solving the Clock Puzzle. Thanks to Stephanus Rudiyanto Natari for his solutions. I have also added information about trading the Girl Next Door with Zone in the White SeeD Ship. Thanks to Marbweb Jimenez for the valuable information. I have added more information on hacking gameshark codes. Version 1.13 I have added information about the Chocobuckle. I have also added the remainding Draw Points (excluding those that are found at the World Map) [until fighting the Ultima Weapon.] I have also added more battle tips. [until Disc 3] I have also added the list of items which can be won from BOSS fights. [until Disc 3]. The list of monsters that are found at Deep Sea Research Center have been added, including how to tackle them. I have found another secret FMV, refer to Section 5.10 for more details. It's regarding Adel. Version 1.14 I have added the remainding Draw Points and BOSS stats thanks to Markweb Jimenez. The Japanese FF8 Debug Code has been added, thanks to Alex M. I have also added some strategies about the BOSSES in the final dungeon. I have also make some changes to the Magic translations according to Final Fantasy VII magic. . Heal (restore HP) -> Cure . Cure (fixed status ailments) -> Esuna . Life 2 (restore life and HP to full) -> Raise I have also correct some errors regarding the spelling with Cactuar and Pandemona. I have change all "Magic Stones" to "Draw Points". Version 1.15 I have managed to correct some of faulty errors such as translation problems and game errors. I have also ammend the layout and make it similar to the North American Version. I have also added the Sub-Quests that are excluded previously. A translation list has been added to provide help if you haven't gotten the FAQ. Version 1.16 For this update, I replay the Japanese version of FF8. [well, can't let the game to collect dust ^_^;]. I have made some corrections to the errors and adding stuff, which I have previously left out. Plus a mini- guide on clearing the area before I begin the walkthrough [i.e. which areas need to focus on]. I had also included an exclusive junctioning guide in the FAQ! (refer to Junction section for more information). The Areas-To-Focus-On section has been added to highlight key points for section. [It is been completed!] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This FAQ can be found at the following addresses: GameFAQs http://www.gamefaqs.com/ Scott's FAQ Page http://members.xoom.com/scottong/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Check the above sites for latest revisions of this FAQ. * My website is still unavailable for the time being _____ / III \_________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Author's Note ------------------------------------------------------------------------ After receiving a lot of e-mails regarding translation errors.. Hey! I thought I have also added another walkthrough! It is labelled with a NA [North Amercian Version] and that's meant for the English version. Err.. Japanese users stick to this one as it has provided descriptions about the places compared to NA version. If you want to use this walkthrough for the NA version, make sure you refer to the "Changes" Section found at the bottom of the FAQ. I have added the list of translations. BTW, please note that both FAQs can be found at GameFAQs. Version 1.16 For this update, I had made an attempt from a point of view for someone who completely do not know Japanese. I have make some errors to the gramatical corrections [of course, spelling errors]. I have added a new section to the walkthrough called ATFO [it means "Areas to Focus On"], which will highlight some of key events. Hopefully, this could really help those who trouble in playing the Japanese version of FF8. Check out the Junction guide found in the Junction Section. I have also expanded the characters bestiary portion. Plus, a lot of corrections have been made. [well, it was like a moment of hell for me ^_^;] ____ / IV \__________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Table of Contents ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Characters Bestiary 2. Controls and Basic Tutorial 3. Walkthrough for Disc 1 4. Walkthrough for Disc 2 5. Walkthrough for Disc 3 6. Walkthrough for Disc 4 7. Gameshark codes 8. Translations Differences 9. Credits ________________________________________________________________________ Begin with the show! _____ / 1.0 \_________________________________________________________________ ======================================================================== Characters Bestiary ======================================================================== In this section, I would give you a brief preview of the game's crew, including the limit breaks they own and the general method in gaining them. For certain characters, I had even briefly describes what the Limit Break does. If you want to know more about weapon upgrading and limit breaks, please refer to Part II, which is a separate FAQ from this FAQ. * those marked with asterik are initially gain limit breaks. These are the characters who will depart on your strange adventure... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Main Crew ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In FF8, you will get the chance to use this crew of people and of course, you are entitled to play as the bonus characters. These characters will join Squall [the main character], through the course of this epic RPG. >>>>> Name: Squall Leonhart Age: 17 Sex: Male Height: 5'10" [177 cm] Birthdate: August 23 Blood Type: AB Weapon: Gunblade Description: The story's hero unsociable and expressionless. The hero of the game, a cadet in the SeeD special forces attached to Balamb Garden. Antisocial and stone-faced. Besides his aloof personality, he is very self centered and a person who hates influenced deeply by strangers. List of Limit Breaks: Name Type Rough Divide* Single Fated Circle Area Blasting Zone Area Lion Heart Single Note: Typically, Squall's Limit Breaks are attacking Limit Breaks and carries no elemental. How to gain Limit Breaks/ Notes: You need to upgrade Squall's gunblade through gaining items requirements for his gunblade. The better the gunblade, more of the new limit breaks will be gained. To tune up his gunblade, refer to weapon upgrading guide in my Part II FAQ. In FF7, you can control the type of Limit Breaks that you want by selecting the Limit level. But for Squall, his limit breaks occur randomnly based on his statistics opposed his enemy. The more HP of enemy to his HP ratio is the higher chances that he will execute the advanced Limit Breaks. It may not worked as it is based on my assumption. In other words, you can execute the Lion Heart Limit Break with his Lion Heart gunblade every time. For more details regarding Limit Break execution, please refer to Part II for more details. ATFO: . Tune up his gunblade to the Lion Heart. . How to execute his Limit Breaks >>>>> Name: Rinoa Heartilly Age: 17 Sex: Female Height: 5'4" [163 cm] Birthdate: March 3rd [thanks to Rinoa Heartilly's Shrine] Weapon: Blaster Edge Description: A beautiful and enigmatic woman, kind-hearted and driven to succeed. A cheerful girl who possesses a "mood-making" liveliness and gentleness that touches people without discrimination. She's honest about her feelings and readily speaks what she thinks. However, in time, she ends up becoming warped... By the way, Rinoa has a pet dog called Angelo. Limit Breaks: Name Type What it does? Angelo Rush* Single Min. Damage Angelo Search n/a Search for items Angelo Recover* n/a Restore lost HP Angelo Reverse n/a Revives one dead ally Invisible Moon Allies Cast "Invinsible" on all allies Angelo Cannon* Area Max. Damage against all enemies Angelo Strike Single Max. Damage against one enemy Wishing Star Area Max. Damage against all enemies Angel Wing 'depends' Cast a random spell** ** This Limit Break is special. But there are several tradeoffs. Rinoa can cast a spell once when she get to her turn. The spell is not necessary from her inventory. She can even cast Apocalypse except for the remaining six hidden spells: The End, Catastrophe, Prasento, Wall, Rapture and Full-Cure. But you will lose control of Rinoa, until she was killed/ KO'd in the battle. How to gain her Limit Breaks/ Notes: To gain her Limit Breaks, you need to obtain a book item called "Pet Pals" series. Upgrading her weapon does not give her the chance to learn new Limit Breaks, instead it increase her hit rate and attack power [but in FF8, you depends on Junctioning for those two factors]. These item can be gotten via your quests while playing FF8 or you can buy them from Shops. But that's not all! You can only officially use them if the guage is full. Rinoa needs to take Angelo for a walk. I.e. walking on the field. To do this on the world, equipped Enc-None [an ability from GF Diablos]. Once the gauge is full, Angelo learnt the Limit Breaks. A special Limit Break called Angel Wing, can only be obtained in Disc 3. [You don't need to do any extra stuff to get that.] Once again, her Limit Breaks execution is based on luck and chance. Her Limit Breaks occur very randomnly. It is more hard to predict compared to Squall's Limit Breaks. ATFO: . Getting her Pet Pals Volume to learn Limit Breaks. . How to build up Angelo's learning gauge? >>>>> Name: Zell Dincht Age: 17 Sex: Male Height: 5'6" [167cm] Birthdate: March 17th Blood Type: B Weapon: Glove Description: A master of comprehensive wrestling skills whom was admitted to the Garden. He has entered the Garden when he was only 13 years old out of admiration of his grandfather, who was an excellent soldier. He is the type who does everything with enthusiasm, but the reason is his weak point. However, at heart he is gentle and has a serious personality. Limit Breaks: Name Type What it does? Punch Rush* Single Minimum damage Booya* Single Minimum damage Heel Drop* Single Minimum damage Mach Kick* Single Medium damage Dolphin Blow Single Medium damage Meteor Strike Single Medium damage, gravity effect Deathblows Burning Rave* Area Medium damage Meteor Barret Single Maximum damage Different Beat Single Maximum damage My Final Heaven Area Maximum damage How to gain Limit Breaks? The method of gaining Zell's Limit Breaks is similar to Rinoa's except you need to get Combat King instead of Pet Pals. Combat King will only make its first appearance in Disc 2. You can execute them by keying in the button configurations while executing his Limit Breaks. They can chain during the given time [the length of time depends on Zell's crisis level, the more HP that enemy against Zell's HP.]. For more about his Limit Breaks, please refer to Part II. Armageddon Fist is not a Limit Break, in fact it is named by someone, who has start off with this combo. [heck, it is just a switch between Rush Punch and Booya.]. This move is invented by Kaze Yagami. ATFO: . Getting his Limit Breaks, i.e. location of Combat Kings . Executing his Deathblow Limit Breaks . What's Armageddon Fist? >>>>> Name: Selphie Tilmitt Age: 17 Sex: Female Height: 5'1" [157cm] Birthdate: July 16 Blood Type: B Weapon: Nunchaku Description: A naive girl with flightily nature and capable character. A girl with skilled personality to the extent that you can't believe that she's a student at the military academy. Usually she has a carefree way of speaking and is frequently disturbed by the pace of her surroundings. Limit Breaks Name Effect What it does? Full-cure All Fully restores all HP for all allies Wall All Cast Protect and Shell on all allies Rapture Single Cast Float on one foe and remove it from battlefield [may not work all times] The End Single Instantly kill the enemy. Works on any enemies, BOSSES [even Omega Weapon] except for undeads. How to gain her Limit Breaks/Notes Selphie has typically the ability to cast any spells that the game has, except for those two spells that are locked [Prasento and Catastrophe, only available if you unlock using gameshark.] The four spells are the spells that only she can use it. To gain them, you need to get into her Slots Limit Break. Keep on chosing the top option [Do over] until you had find the spell. Next choose Use [2nd option] and Selphie will automatically learn the spell! But remember that these spells occur randomnly and it is based on luck and critical status [the more endanger Selphie is, the higher the rate of getting these spells.]. The End is the most damaging spell that you can find in the game. AFTO: Getting her Limit Breaks. >>>>> Name: Irvine Kinneas Age: 18 Sex: Male Height: 6'0" [185cm] Birthdate: November 24th Blood Type: O Weapon: Shotgun Description: A young man, well-liked by women whose strongest point is his marksmanship. A cadet at the Galbadia Garden, he self- styles himself as the "No. 1 gunslinger in the Garden" His shooting arm seems sure and he is the girls' favorite because he is full of confidence. He seems callous to simple men, but in truth, he is unexpectedly sensitive and seems to have a serious personality. Limit Breaks Name Effect Normal Shot Single, requires Normal Ammo Scattered Shot All, requires Shotgun Ammo Dark Shot Single, requires Dark Ammo, causes Blind/Sleep/Poison Fire Shot All, requires Fire Ammo, causes Fire elemental damage Canister Shot Single, requires Demolition Ammo Quick Shot Single, requires Fast Ammo Armor Shot Single, requires AP Ammo Hyper Shot Single, requires Pulse Ammo How to get his Limit Breaks/ Notes Irvine's Limit Breaks is relatively easy to get. To get them, you need to get the Ammo. [refer to the list above]. Different Ammo gives Irvine different types of attacks. Ammo is relatively easy to get as you can buy most of them from item shops. But please remember that you need to get Ammo-RF before you can refine items into ammo. That ability is a menu ability. To get it, refer to the GF section in Part II. ATFO: How to use the Ammo-RF to refine into Ammo Getting Pulse Ammo >>>>> Name: Quistis Trepe Age: 18 Sex: Female Height: 5'6" [172cm] Birthdate: October 4 Blood Type: A Weapon: Chain Whip Description: An Elite who serves as Squall's advisor. She has joined SeeD at the age of 15 and is now the guidance instructor of Squall and his friends. In opposition to her cool spirit and strong facade, she gets depressed easily about trivial matters since she is unused to setbacks. Limit Breaks Name Effect What it does? Item Laser Eye* Single Minimum damage n/a Ultra Waves All Minimum damage, causes Slow Spider Web Electrocoute All Average electric damage Corel Fragment LV? Death All Causes instant Death Curse Spike Degenerator Single Removes foe from battlefield Black Hole Aqua Breath All Average water damage Water Crystal Micro Missile All Average damage + gravity Missile Acid Single Average damage + Meltdown Mystery Liquid Gatling Gun Single Strong damage Running Fire Fire Breath All Strong Fire damage Inferno Fang Bad Breath All Causes status ailments Malboro Tentacle Mighty Guard All Support magic on allies Barrier White Wind All Restores HP based Quistis' HP Whisper Homing Laser Single Strong damage Laser Cannon Shockwave Pulsar All Devastating damage Dark Matter Ray-Bomb All Strong damage Power Generator How to gain her Limit Breaks/ Notes As you observed from the above list, most of Quistis' Limit Breaks are locked. You can unlocked them by using the items [they are known as Blue Magic items] through the item menu. But remember that these items are pretty hard to get [most of them can be obtained through your course of playing the game, but some of them requires a harder process.] Her Limit Breaks works actually like the Enemy Skills system in FF7. But the method of gaining is different. To gain them, refer to Limit Breaks section in Part II for more information. ATFO: Getting Dark Matter Getting Power Generator Getting Malboro Tentacle Getting Laser Cannon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LAGUNA'S PARTY ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In this game, you will get a switch sequence between the past and present. In the past, you will get to control of an ex-Galbadia Soldier called Laguna Loire and his friends [Kiros and Ward.] They appears only in certain parts of game. They have only one Limit Breaks each. BTW, they are pretty strong as they have same statistics as the current party. >>>>> Name: Laguna Loire Age: 27 Sex: Male Height: 5'11" [181 cm] Birthdate: January 3rd Blood Type: B Weapon: Machine Gun Description: A hot-blooded man who fights with a pen instead a sword. Kind out of compassion for humanity, he's a man full of courage who helps the faint-hearted and crushes the arrogant. A journalist of military origins, he swapped his sword for a pen and fights boldly against the evils of the world. Laguna has rather a sad story, as he lost his wife in saving the world and has become the President of Esthar. By the way the mystery has been solved, it was actually Ellone whom causes Squall to meet Laguna in his dream. His intelligence and leadership were unmatched. ATFO: n/a >>>>> Name: Ward Zaback Age: 25 Sex: Male Height: 217 cm Birthdate: February 25th Blood Type: A Weapon: Harpoon Description: Ex-Galbadian 08 soldier. He is one of Laguna's best pals. You can only use him in battles during Laguna's Scenario. Don't look down on him, as he looks huge and scary. Ward is actually one of the most strongest guys in FF8, have high strength stats. Now Ward has become a minister for the President of Esthar. >>>>> Name: Kiros Seagul Age: 23 Sex: Male Height: 191 cm Birthdate: July 6th Blood Type: O Weapons: Daggers Description: Ex-Galbadian 08 soldier. He is one of Laguna's best pals. You can only use him in battles during Laguna's Scenario. He is rather a helpful lad in Laguna's friend. He is rather agile and swift in his movement. He has very cool weapons. Kiros had also became one of Laguna's right hand man. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Other Characters ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Here, you will find the list of other characters that are in the game and possess great importance to the game. Name: Seifer Almasy Age: 18 Sex: Male Height: 6'1" (188 cm) Birthdate: December 22nd Blood Type: A Weapon: Gunblade Description: A troublemaker who views Squall as his rival. A SeeD cadet who is treated as a problem child because he lacks composure and the ability to follow orders, even though he has the disposition to excel. On the other hand, he appreciates Squall's abilities highly and adamantly considers him a rival. Notes Seifer is only usable for a short period of them and you can only use the first edition of his Cross Sword Limit Breaks: No Mercy. This Limit Break does damage to all enemies and can be executed once Seifer's HP is low or received consecutive hits. He has only one limit break. ATFO: . The secret R1 Trigger ------------------------------------------------------------------------ There are a lot more characters in the game, but I decided not to add them as it may lead to serious spoilers. _____ / 2.0 \_________________________________________________________________ ======================================================================== Controls and Basic Tutorial ======================================================================== This section is created for begineers for FF8 and those who have experienced problems with the Junction System. The game system is pretty hard to understand and it may takes a while before you fully understand the meaning of it. Therefore, please: *Read this section before you proceed to the main walkthrough.* _____ / 2.1 \_________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stuff That You Should Know.... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This is the stuff that you should know when playing FF8. These can also be found in your manual. * Playing the Game from the Beginning Point the cursor at the first Option [NEW GAME] and enter your decision with the Circle button. * Continue from Save Data When you want to play using SAVE DATA to continue from the previous point, select the 2nd option and press Circle and you can now select the slot with the Circle Button. BTW, you can save up to the maximum data of 15 game saves. * Changing Disc Warnings As you proceed through the adventure. Do NOT turn off your Playstation Console. Just open the Playstation Lid and pop in the next disc and the game will automatically resumes itself. _____ / 2.2 \_________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Main Menu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Main Menu is a very important section as it allows you to use items, view stats of your characters and GFs, thus saving your game, adjust game settings, etc. Remember to read this if you have any enquires/doubts about the gameplay. ======================================================================== NOTE: All the settings are use in default settings. ======================================================================== MAIN MENU ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Junction: Allows you to set up your Guardian Forces and abilities Item: Allows you to use items or rearranged your items Magic: Allows you to use and trade magic with other characters Status: Allows you to view the stats of your characters. GF: Allows you to view the Guardian Force levels, and to develop your GFs' abilities. Ability: Allows you to use the abilities learned by the GF Switch: Allows you to change your party at the World Map or at the Save Point. Cards: Allows you to view the cards that you have. Config: Allows you to adjust your game settings. Tutorial: A very precise learning guide on how to play FF8. However, it is in Japanese ^_^; Save: Allows you to save your game. This option will only be selectable if you have approached a Save Point and at the World Map. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Here is an ASCII art of the Main Menu [for those whom does not know Japanese]. A brief Diagram of Menu Screen ____________________________________________________________________ |Help | | |__________________________________________________| Junction | |STATUS | | | Zell LV 22 HP: 2411 / 1922 | Item | |--------------------------------------------------| | |STATUS | Magic | | Squall LV 31 HP: 2415 / 2551 | | |--------------------------------------------------| Status | |STATUS | | | Rinoa LV 20 HP: 1100 / 1930 | GF | |--------------------------------------------------| | | Irvine Quistis | Ability | | LV 20 HP 977 LV 22 HP 1059 | | | --------- --------- | Switch | | | | | Selphie | Cards | | LV 17 HP 824 | | | --------- | Config | | | | | | Tutorial | | | | | | Save | |__________________________________________________|_________________| _________________________________________________ | PLAY 24:15 | | || S.LV 30 | | B-Garden - Training Center || 446470 G | |_________________________________________________||_________________| _______ / 2.2.1 \_______________________________________________________________ ======================================================================== Junction Menu ======================================================================== Therefore, after you had activated the menu, select [Junction] sub- heading and you will see the following menu. ** JUNCTION MENU ** _______________________________________________________________ | [Junction] [Remove] [Auto] [Ability] | Junction | |__________________________________________________|____________| _________ __________ | Photo | Squall | COMMAND | | OF | | Attack | | SQUALL | Lv 31 |^| | Magic | | | | GF | |_________| HP 2415 / 2551 | Item | _______________________________________________________|__________| | [ HP ] Blizzaga 2551 [ST ATK] [ST DEF] [E ATK] [E DEF] | | [ STR ] ------------- 78 [ SPD ] --------------- 25 | | [ VIT ] ------------- 20 [ EVA ] --------------- 2 % | | [ MAG ] ------------- 45 [ HIT ] --------------- 225 | | [ SPR ] ------------- 35 [ LUCK ] --------------- 17 | |__________________________________________________________________| LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS Squaresoft has used a lot of abbreviations in the game and below is the list of abbreviations. [BTW, these are the abbreviations used for the English version of FF8] _________________________________________________________________ | | | | | | STR | Strength | Hit | Hit % | | VIT | Vitality | LUCK | Luck | | MAG | Magic | ST ATK | Status Attack | | SPR | Spirit | ST DEF | Status Defense | | SPD | Speed | E ATK | Elemental Attack | | EVA | Evade | E DEF | Elemental Defense | |________|_____________________|________|_________________________| What is their purpose? ** Strength ** This factor affects the attacking power of your character. The higher the stats, the more damage your character will inflict with the Attack Command. ** Vitality ** This factor effects the defensive power of your character. The higher the defensive stats, the lesser the amount of damage inflicted by your opponent. ** Magic ** This factor effects the magic attacking power of your character. The higher the stats, the more damage your character will inflict when using magic. ** Spirit ** This factor effects the magic defensive power of your character. The higher the stats, the lesser the amount of damage inflicted by your opponent when it uses magic. ** Speed ** This factor effect the speed of your time bar or ATB (also known Active Time Bar]. The higher the stats, the faster the ATB is. ** Evade ** This factor effect the rate whether your character will escape from an enemy's attack [causing a MISS in the opponent's attack]. The higher the stats, the more chance your character will dodge from an attack. ** Hit ** This factor effect the rate whether your character will hit your opponent with the Attack Command. The higher the stats, the lesser chance that your character will miss an attack [great against Cactuars] ** Luck ** For this one, I'm not quite sure. But I think that it will effect the rate whether the Odin will appear. It also effect the rate whether your character could escape from status ailments such as Death. If you have the luck stats of 100+, you will be able to see the Gilgamesh in between battles! It also affects the rate of criticals while using the Attack Command. [Critcials are high damaging normal attacks.] ** Status Attack ** This is similar to FF7's Elemental combo on your character's weapon Your character will inflict damage and also causes status ailments on your opponent. For example if you want to cause sleep with your character by attacking, junctioned Sleep to your Status Attack. ** Status Defense ** I myself prefered this than status attack. This works like FF7's Elemental combo on your character's armor. Your character will receive protection against the elemental that you have junctioned. For example if you want your character to be protected against Confusion, junction Confuse to your status defense. It would be better if you have acquired the Ribbon [prevents any status disorder, it's a secret GF ability which only available through the Pocketstation.] ** Elemental Attack ** This will cause more harm if you misuse it.. If you want to do more damage against Fire-based monsters such as the Bomb, junction Blizzard to your junction as Blizzard works well against Fire. However, ice-based monsters will absorbs the attack, thus you are helping them to restore lost HP! ** Elemental Defense ** This is much preferred against Elemental Attack. As you can recieved no damage from elementals or absorbs it and hence restores HP. This ability could make your life easier. If you junction Ultima to your Elemental defense, you will be able to nullify any kind of magic. For example, if you want your character to protect well against Fire, junction Fire to the character's Elemental defense. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JUNCTION ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Once you have chosen Junction, you will have this menu. Press Circle and choose the "JUNCTION" tap. The top tool bar will have the following options: ___________________________________________________ | | | JUNCTION | < GF > < Magic > |_____________|_____________________________________ < GF > This allows you to set the GF monsters that you would like the character to use and this will lead to the Optimize and Ability Menu. After selecting this command you will have the following screen: I think perhaps due to space constraint, the name for the following GFs were shortened for the English version: Quezacotl - Quezalcoatl Pandemona - Pandemonium ______________________________________________ | Well, let's get started. G.F Page No. 1 G.F Page No. 2 | Here is the layout of _________________ __________________ | all the GFs. [] |Quezacotl [] | |Brothers | | represents a character |Shiva | |Diablos | | has already picked the |Ifrit [] | |Carbuncle | | GF. If you point the |Siren | |Leviathan | | cursor next to it, you |_________________| |__________________| | will see the name of | the character that the G.F Page No. 3 G.F Page No. 4 | GF is currently _________________ __________________ | equipped with. Press |Pandemona | |Bahamut | | D-Pad right or left |Cerberus | |Cactuar | | to change pages. |Alexander | |Tonberry | | Press Circle to select |Doomtrain | |Eden | | the GF. Press X after |_________________| |__________________| | you have finished | equipping your GFs. ______________________________________________| --> Optimize Menu. < Magic > If you have acquired junction abilities [icons with "J"], you will find out that you can junction magic to bolster your character's stats. This is rather difficult and here is a part of it. Press Circle and you will see the Magic Page on the right of character's photo ________ __________________ | | |MAGIC P1 NUM | I have "cut" the screen to a small | PHOTO | |Fire 100 | part as what I am saying will be | OF | |Blizzard 100 | focusing on within this area. For | SQUALL | |Thunder 100 | example if you want to junction 100x |________| |Blizzaga 100 | Fire to your Strength [provided that ________|__________________| you have acquired Str-J]. Select | < CUSTOMIZE> | ITEM | |_______________________________________________________|__________| This will enable you to use the items directly from the item menu. Only healing items such as Potions can be used from here. You can also view books, activate the item to fight the Diablos from here! To summon GF Doomtrain, use the Solomon's Ring through this command. [make sure you have met the requirements. You can also use items to let Quistis to learn special moves, improve GF affection by using GF affections items, upgrade character's stats with sources and allows you to read magazines. Allows you to arrange the items in your preferred way. Doing this will be much easier while in searching for the items that you wished to use. You can arranged the items by switching places and placing them in a blank space. There are about 25 item pages. This will cause the computer to arrange the items. Useable and important ones will be the top at the menu, while those unusable ones will be arranged at the lower section. Practically it is arranged in this order: [MEDICINE]-[GF]-[BATTLE]-[FIELD]-[AMMO]-[JUNK]-[MAGAZINES] < Command > This section allows you to arrange what you want to appear at the item pages [through item commands] Allows you to arrange the items in your own peference. Well |
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