Final Fantasy VII Cheats & Tips

At Kalm, there's a dresser at the 2nd floor of the inn (where Cloud told you the story of his past, the first time you enter Kalm after leaving Midgar). There's an item on top of the dresser, but if you check it, Cloud will say "Can't reach it" and you don't get the item. However, you CAN get the item. How? Simply check the dresser 5 times in a row. Till the 4th time, Cloud will still say "Can't reach it", but on the 5th time, he'll get upset, shouting "...damn it!" and KICK the dresser. The 'mysterious' item will drop coz of the impact and you'll get your very first Megalixir.

You must have a Master Summon Materia, Quadra-Magic materia, and W-Summon materia. Have your Quadra-Magic Materia Mastered, put it into either a weapon or armor with at least 1 connecting slots (2 slots) and 1 slot, so that meakes 3 slots. Junction the Master Summon and Quadra-Magic Materias, and put the W-Summon Materia any slot you want. Just summon 2 times, and you'll notice its the same summon who just came out. If you want to summon two different summons at once, just use the w-summon. Note: if you summon two different summons, each summon will have 4 times turns. This trick doesn't work on the Knights of the Round. It is already known that if you summon the Knights, your enemies won't stand a chance! =)

Note: Knights of the Round cannot be used with Quadra Magic.

You will need:
EXP plus Materia
GIL plus Materia
Preferably a double or triple AP gaining weapon or armor, but you don't need it.

Basically all you need to do is equip the Materia you want to master or raise and run around and try to find unknown 1, unknown 2, and unknown 3.

These monsters were hard for me when I first got here but they're fairly easy now that I have all of the characters above 90. The unknown 1 is the easiest, all it does is attack. The unknown 2 is the hardest and it will give you the most AP, EXP and GIL(20,000 with GIL+). It will confuse a character right at the start so be careful. I suggest casting Esuna before the monster confuses so that when he's finished you will heal him right away. The last unknown 3 will attack and use some magic but it will use a toxic attack to poison you.

Go to Bone Village. There is a "X" in the dirt a little before the latter. Search for "Good Treasure" on the "X". Check then box, it should have the W-Item Materia in it.

Ok, this trick will take some time to do. Have a weapon with eight slots. Equip a mastered Added-Cut materia to each of the slots, (that would be 800000 AP - Ouch!).
In battle, that would do 32 cuts which would equal alot of damage! If you had 8 Added-Cuts on each character (if you have the time) you could do a massive amount of damage on enemies!

These two elemental enemy skills can both be permanently lost if you wait too long to get them. Trine can be learned from the Materia Keeper at Mt. Nibel, Stilva at Gaea's Cliff, and Goda at Wutai. Aqualung can be learned from Chimera near the Gold Saucer and from Jenova LIFE at the City of the Ancients.

When you fight ruby weapon, the first thing he will do is a big swing which is quite powerful then he will hit one opponent with an attack which does about the same HP.

Next is the annoying part - he will use an attack that will blow one of your party members away for the rest of the battle. To avoid this, have only one member alive when you go in with a high HP, 9999 works well. D

oing this will make him put his hands into the ground straight away, so the first chance you get summon Pheonix to bring all your party members to life.

Hmm, I just thought I would give some battle tips to increase your performance during battle. Some of these need to be done before you begin battling, however.


1. You never know what kind of negative Status Effect a monster can produce on your characters. In this case it is best that you have at least x3 of most status healing items. (Such as Antidotes, Softs, Eye Drops, etc.)


2. Materia in battle is a good way to damage opponents, but keep the amount you use to a minimum. You never know when an unexpected boss fight will occur, and you'll need a healthy amount of MP.


3. In case you do run out of MP (Or HP for the matter), it's always a good idea to have Ethers and Potions in stock. Or if you are at the World Map, having Tents can be a lifesaver.


4. If you strike a Limit Break during battle, I suggest that you resist the chance to use it right away. Save it when your party is about to be annilated, when you need to finish a battle quickly, or for a tougher battle later on.


5. Some materia does more damage than others. A good way to determine what elemental property your enemy has can most of the time be determined by your surrounding. (For example: if you are in a snowy valley then your enemy will most likely be an Ice element - and Fire materia will be most effective magic to use against it). Using common sense battles can become much easier.

This guy has a high Hp and after the last battle with Bizarro you probably aren't in the best shape so start by reviving any dead chars then use a megalixer to bring them back to full hp. if you have Ultima Weapon use Clouds normal attack only, if you don't then you probably shouldn't be fighting him. Ultima weapon should do around 8700-9999 to Seph so keep doing that while Barret heals and attacks when hes not busy, having Vincent around helps, if he gets his limit break it seems tedious but as long as Seph isn't high up he deals about 800-1200 each attack and attacks about 5 times which usually amounts to more than he normally does. If Sephiroth goes high up take this chance to heal and set up barriers and destroy his, but as soon as he comes back down keep bashing him again. Having Missing Score for barret helps when he attacks while Seph is high up so you can keep hurting him. you don't need knights of the round table to do it the way i have stated so no tedious chocobo races! if you have the 2X attack materia you will have an easy fight, it goes up to 4x and once you master you get a new one same as most other materias. having that helps since 4 X 8000+ really adds up, at least 32000 per attack haha. the biggest threat is Sephiroths supernova attack which will deal around 7000-9200 each time (the wait time between casting and its actual effect takes a long time to watch too) but as long as you have some megalixers you should be alright.

This materia setup is recommended for Cloud, but it can be used with any character, provided that they have the right materia slots.

ULTIMA WEAPON: (WS)=(MP) (KoR)=(MPA) (MS)=(HPA) (MM)=(ALL)
MYSTILE: (DC)=(COUNTER)(WI)=() (FA)=(REVIVE)

Key:

WS= W. Summon
MP= Magic Plus
KoR=Knights of Round (level doesn't matter this time)
MPA=MP Absorb
MS= Master Summon
HPA=HP Absorb
MM= Master Magic
ALL=All (mastered for full effect)
DC= Double Cut (4xCut or mastered)
COUNTER= Counter (NOT Counter Attack. Should be mastered)
WI= W. Item
FA= Final Attack (mastered)
REVIVE= Revive (mastered)

Each character has an ultimate weapon that can be found using the following instructions:

CLOUD - Ultima Weapon:
Recieved after killing Ultimate WEAPON.
(note: Make sure Ultimate Weapon is completely dead. He will often just run away from battle).


BARRET - Missing Score:
Found on the steps leading to the Sister Ray canon.
(note: Barret must be in your party for it to appear).

AERITH - Princess Guard:
Found behind door IV of the clock room at the Temple of the Ancients.

TIFA - Premium Heart:
Use the key to reach Sector 5 of Midgar. Go to Wall Market and check the broken vending machine.

YUFFIE - Conformer:
Found in the Generator Room of the drowned Sunken Gelnika airplane in the ocean.

RED XIII - Limited Moon:
Go to Cosmo Canyon on Disc 3 with Red XIII in your party. He will receive the weapon from Bugenhagen.

CID - Venus Gospel:
After the rocket has been launched in Rocket Town, talk to the man outside the item shop three times.

CAIT SITH - HP Shout:
When in Midgar for the second time, go to the Shinra Headquarters. Go to floor 64 and enter the locker room. Search one of the lockers in the third row on the left side and you will find Cait Sith's final weapon.

VINCENT - Death Penalty:
After getting a Gold Chocobo or the Submarine, find the cave behind the waterfall in the middle of a continent. Talk to Lucrecia and she will give Vincent the Death Penalty.
(note: Vincent must be in your party).

After Cloud re-discovers himself, visit the basement of the Shinra Mansion again in Nibelheim. When you enter the library a cut-scene will ensue which goes into more detail about Cloud's history where he ends back up in Midgar with Zack's sword and decides to become a mercenary.

In Costa Del Sol there is a real-estate agent offering President Shinra's vacation home for 300,000 Gil. There's nothing special about owning it except to rest up your party. There are also items in the basement, but you can grab those without actually buying the house.

This really isn't a cheat, but when you're in Wall Market, go to the HoneyBee Inn and peek through one of the door's peepholes. Press and hold "right" until the camera stops moving. If you can't see mini-Cath, press up and Down over and over again while holding right. You will eventually see Caith Sith sitting in a hot-tub, with his parents having a rather ... 'odd' conversaion.

Chocobo quality ...
Different Chocobo ranks can be found in various areas of the game:

Chocobo Ranch area: Poor/Weak
Junon area: Fair/Poor
Gold Saucer area: Good/Average
Rocket Town area: Mediocre
Wutai area: Average/Fair
Icicle Inn area: Wonderful/Weak
Mideel area: Great/Fair

Fight in the battle arena at gold saucer until u get at least 32,000 b.p(battle point).the points can then be exchanged at the battle Arena for the cloud's level 4 limit break,Omnislash.

Have no idea what I am talking about? Go to the Materia Store in Mideel - You will see a baby Chocobo running around. Talk to the Chocobo, and give him some Mimett greens, (the dialog refers to them as Samolen greens), and scratch it behind the ears. Then you will get an interesting materia called 'Contain'. This materia allows you to use powerful elemental magic like: Freeze, Break, Tornado, Flare.

BTW- It has numerous effects, like:
Strength - 4,
Vitality - 2,
Magic + 4,
Magic def + 2,
MaxHP - 10%,
MaxMP + 10%

The general store at Cosmo Canyon will have a room in the back that's roped off when you first arrive. However, if you return to the store much later in the game, the area will be open and you can grab yourself an Elixir, a Magic Source and a Full Cure Materia!

The curse ring is an exceptionally useful accessory that raises all of your character's stats, but also autmoatically places them in the Death Sentence status at the beginning of every battle. To counter this, simply equip a linked Added Effect Materia to a Mastered Destruct Materia on your character's armor. Doing so will make your character incredibly powerful and immune to death at the same time.

This trick can be used for both WEAPONS and is the easiest way to defeat them. First, make sure you kill all your party members except for Cloud. Equipe him with any weapon and armor you prefer (Ultima Weapon and Ziedrich are my preferences), and equip him with the accessory "Ribbon". Now comes the fun part--equiping the best materia combinations. Have KotR linked with HP Absorb and Counter linked with Mime. Also equip W-Summon, but do not link it to anything. It is also recommended Cloud have 9999 HP and over 500 MP. Note: All materia must be mastered. Now all you have to do is W-Summon KotR once and you are done. With this combination, you can cast an infinate amount of KotR for the price of 2. Each time you are hit you will counter by mimicing your last attack (being the W-Summon--KotR). And let it be known that mimicing will NOT drain your MP gauge. So in a sense, you can W-Summon once and just watch as you continuously mime KotR until the WEAPONS are destroyed.

As you should all know by know, Mime copies the last move used by the party and I mean ANY move, even Limits! Start the battle with Cloud on Omnislash. Of course you must have Counter and Mime linked on your Materia ^.^Also have another character in your party, preferably Red XIII or Barret as they have loads of hp, equipped with Full Cure and a lot of Maxed out Hp Plus' this goes the same for Cloud. As soon as the battle begins immediately let Omnislash rip through Emerald hitting around 4000 an attack. This should do around 100k damage. He should reply with Revenge Stamp which does 2000 ish or a Laser which does 7000 damage(notice the need of Hp Plus). Cloud will use Omnislash because of the Counter. Skip your characters go by pressing Triangle then use Mime again with Cloud. There's another 100k. If Emerald lasered Cloud then he should be on yellow hp which is a warning and this boosts his attack power. So this should do 150k damage. Emerald will now open up his side lasers and kick your ass by using Blue Lasers which inflict 3000-4000 damage and yellow lasers which inflict 400-700mp on your ass. Cloud will mime again and when it is his go, Mime again. If it is not dead then Cloud should have his Limit again. Have Red use Full Cure on Cloud and then let him use Omnislash again. Then Mime. This should finish Emerald off and you will get Earth Harp. Return to the Kalm Traveller to obtain Master Magic, Master Summon and Master Command ^.^. Hehehehe.

Ruby Weapon? One of the toughest boss? My foot!
There's actually a weakness to it. Major weakness.

Have many Dazers (stolen from the Battery Cap enemies around Rocket Town) using the W-item cheat and use it on Ruby WEAPON after it's tentacles are out. The Ruby WEAPON will then be PARALYZED with the tentacles and you can whoop it's butt with the Knights of the Round summon materia.
But be sure to, after you use the Knights of th eRound, immediately use a normal attack on Ruby to prevent it's Ultima counter-attack which it does after it recover from paralysis.
Use a Dazer again after it recovers and repeat the whole process and YES!!! The Ruby WEAPON is defeated without sacrificing any teammates!

In order for anyone to get their stats maxed(other then Hp&MP) is to use sources.To do this you must find enemies to to morph into sources. Here is what i suggest you do:
-have yuffie in your party from the moment you get her(i found her in the tree area before Junon town)she can be found in almost every tree area on the map
-Next get her conformer weapon from the sunken gelaknea(you will get this on disc 2)
-Next search that same place for unknown 1s 2s 3s and three other monsters (cant remember the names)
-have yuffie use morph( should do more damage then it normally does for other characters) and after a while you will get all your characters to their max stats(except HP&MP)
*once you are done stat maxing you will be able to use a lvl like 20 to kill everything like the weapons sephiroth!!!!!

GO TO THE ISLAND SOUTHEAST OF THE MAP AND MORPH A MONSTER CALLED "CACTUAR"

Get Cloud to equip his Apocalypse sword - (it gives him 3x AP) - then go to the Northern Cave and fight the random-encounter enemy called "Magic Pots" .... (as you enter the cave, keep following the path util you get to a cross-section. Come towards to screen to get to place you will be in a green-ish cave area... now go to closest entrance)... This is where Magic Pots live.
Fight "Magic Pots" and you will get 1000ap and 8000 exp for each one you defeat.

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Also fight random-encounter enemies called Movers (they look like little orange balls)> In each battle you fight 3 and get 2400ap with each one that is defeated. (But with the Apocalypse sword it's 3x so Cloud will recieve 2400x3 = 7200AP ! But there is a downside - you will get zero EXP)

First, go to Junon. Then go to the Junon path. Next to the first row of ShinRa soldiers is a red line. Go up to it and press circle. An alarm
will go off and a flashing red light will appear. Now you can get into a never-ending barrage of fights that will give you as much experience as you need!

ok what you want to do is make sure you get the comet materia and steal aswell materia and link them and whenever you use comet 2 you hit like 5-7 times (i avnt counted) and you have more chance of stealing and causing loads of damage. it should work

If you have high levelled characters, you will be asked to pick 2 groups at the start of the Bizzaro Sephiroth battle.
Put your strongest characters in the first group (which should include Cloud). Then give your strongest character the 2-Cut (or 4-Cut) materia.
Give your 2nd strongest character the Slash-all materia.
And the third character can be your healer (give them materia such as cure, barrier, and all defensive materia).

Now enter the battle. Get your healer to cast "barrier" on all characters.
Make your other characters use 2-Cut (or 4-Cut)And Slash-all, and continue to do this procedure until Bizzaro Sephiroth finally goes down.

If any of your characters loses HP, immediately heal them with one of your healer's abilities/materia.

If you are stuck on the ruby and emerald weapons then you should:

1) Have a character with w-summon and use knights of the round on him. This will use it twice.

2) Have all characters with Mimic Materia, which will mimic the last attack so knights of the round will be summoned 8 times all together.

3) He will now counter attack with Ultima so have a charscter with final attack/phoenix. This will revive all your characters
4) Repeat the process until he dies

First you need this materia set up:

Knights of the Round (level 3 at least) linked with MP turbo (mastered for full impact).

Final Attack linked with Phoenix (mastered) on the strongest character because he is most likely to die last.

Buhamut Zero (mastered) linked with Quadra Magic(mastered). (you might have heard this is a waste of space but it really works!)

Mime (to mime Knights of the Round)

W-summon (to summon Knnghts of the Round twice). When KOTR is mimed, Emerald doesn't stand a chance!

Make sure you have plenty of HP-pluses and MP-pluses for a nice supply of awesomeness.

This bundle of materia does cause one liiiitle problem; Emerald has an attack which kills you if you have more than one meteria. But if you have the Final Attack/Phoenix combo, then it's no problem.

When you get into battle cast W-Summon on Knights of the Round, then Mime it.
Then cast W-Summon on Bahamut Zero and Quadra Magic. Mime it, and it will cast Bahamut Zero 16 times! (16 TIMES, OH MY GOD!)
When that's over, cast W-Summon on Knights of the Round again and Mime it, which should kill Emerald ... but if it dosn't die, give it another dose of Bahamut Zero 16 times (OH MY GOD!).

AND if that doesn't work, man you're weak! Start levelling!

Make sure you have the following materia and stats:

- KOTR (Lvl.2 or higher)
- Hp Absorb
- Counter (Mastered,preferred)
- Mime
- Underwater
- Hp Plus (mastered)
- W-Summon
- Level 50+

Now before you start, if you have "Sprint Shoes", equip it. It doesn't really matter if you don't. have them, though they give the wearer automatic Haste upon entering battle.

Equip Cloud with the Ragnarok (or any other sword).
Okay now link KOTR materia with Hp Absorb materia(Healing Purpose). And link Counter materia with Mime materia.
Now just equip the rest of the materia on any slot.

(Note: Hp Plus should have made your Hp at 9999. If not, then level up some more).

Start the battle... Emerald should have attacked you first, which is okay. Quickly W-Summon 2 KOTR and you should be done. Why? Well, when you summon 2 KOTR'S, Hp Absorb will give you back full health. Since Counter is linked with Mime, every time you get attacked you'll Counter with Mime...which will call KOTR using no MP at all. The worst thing Emerald will do is Counter you with Revenge Stamp (2000 damage) then attack you with his materia attack (7777 damage) which is a grand total of 9777 damage (not enough to kill your characters).

(Note: Don't just leave your system! Even though you counter all the time, Emerald still might Revenge Stamp you 4 times for destroying his eyes. This will kill you! When you get the chance to Mime DO IT!

E-Mail me if you're still stuck.

Get Cait Sith's slot limit break.
Save the game, then go fight Emerald WEAPON. Use Caith's Slots limit right away. If you're quick enough, get three cat faces in a row. This will kill ANY enemy with one hit, I mean ANY enemy! Including Emerald WEAPON!

If you dont get it, just reset and try agin.

If you want to get a Limit Break faster, but the bar is taking too long to fill up, then just use a "Hyper" item on yourself.

However, there is one downside to this: If a character is inflicted with "Hyper" they will also take more damage in battle (hence the reason their limit bar fills quicker).

Equip a mastered Final Attack with Life Materia and any time you die you'll bring yourself back to life!

First you cast Regen on all, then all your enemy dies quickly open the lid to the Playstation. it will be unable to load the victory dance and will glitch a bit while you HP fills up. When at full health, close the lid, your party will celebrate and the game will continue.

When at the Gold Saucer Prison, go out in the desert and fight a enemy called Cactuar.
Defeat him to get 10,000 Gil. They can also be found at Cactuar Island on the south-east area of the World Map, or south of Cosmo Canyon.

When you go back and forth Gold Saucer entrance and the Ropeway entrance, there is a chance that a man is standing in the back corner of the Gold Saucer entrance. Talk to him, and he'll sell you one GP for 100 Gil. (100 GP is the maximum) The chance is low, so keep trying. Until you grow your own chocobos, this is the fastest and the most accurate way to earn GP.

Required items-
Cat's bell
Gravity materia (Level 2 AT LEAST)

First make sure all your characters have a max of 7777 or higher. Equip one of your characters with Gravity materia paired with all. You at least need to be able to do Demi2. Go into a battle with easy enemies, (I like to do it right outside of Kalm) and use Demi3 on yourself (or Demi2 if you can't use Demi3) until your hp is below 154. Go into Kalm and equip Cat's bell on one character and walk around until his hp is exactly 154. Do that with the rest of the characters so they all have 154 hp. Now go back outside and get into another battle and use Demi2 on all your characters, it will make your hp 77, then run away or kill the enemies with something that will kill them in 1 hit. If one player gets attacked, keep him in your party. Now PHS all the characters out of your party that have 77 hp, unless they all have it. Keep doing this until you have Cloud to 77 hp and 2 other characters 77 hp, whether they're in your party or not. Then use potions on them until they all have 7777 hp.

NOTE: No matter how many characters you have at 7777 hp, the "All lucky 7's" will only attack 64 times for a total of 497,000 damage.

Tip-You can use this to fight emerald weapon easily by having Cid, Cloud and Barret's level 4 Limit breaks. Get all their limits up, then get 7777 hp with all of them. When you go into battle it will do 7777 damage 64 times. While it's doing all lucky 7's use all 3 limits, since limits attack first, you will use all three limits immediately after without allowing emerald to attack. Which is 7777 damage another 43 times... So thats 7777 damage 107 times, adding up to 832,139 damage. Leaving Emerald with less than 200,000 hp without even attacking you once.

During the Kalm flashback, you will be able to control the 'younger' Cloud on the mission with Sephiroth.

When you have the chance, go to Tifa's house and go into her bedroom (where there is a piano). Go to her cabinet, opposite her table, and press circle.

You will receive Tifa's Orthopedic Underwear!

First of all, you need Choco-Lure materia and the Enemy Skill: LV4 Suicide.

Start a battle with a Chocobo and give him some Mimett Greens. While he is eating the Greens, cast LV4 Suicide and the Chocobo will go crazy and cast Chocobuckle on you. The character equipped with the "Enemy Skill" materia should learn the Chocobuckle ability.
It's a very handy ability to have.

Vince can be obtained on any disk. However, you can only do it in one place - the Shinra Mansion in Nibelheim. First, you need to open the safe on the top floor. The dials can be found around the Mansion, but it takes to long, so just use these. Remember, you can't go past any numbers. Going to say Right 37, then going back one space to 36, would be Left 36, not Right 36, so the safe won't open:
Right 36
Left 10
Right 59
Right 97

You will now fight a boss. When you have fought the monster, you will recive Odin materia and a key. With this key you haft to head for the library/Lab at the bottum floor in the Shinra mansion. But right before you enter the library you will see a door north on the screen. Go in there and there you will see Vincent in a coffin. After a short chat, go back and talk to him. After that leave and head twords the stairs. Vincent will then come after you and join your team.

To acquire a golden chocobo u need 2 be on disc 2 and have the highwind available. Firstly you need 2 go to the chocobo farm and rent out all the stables. You will then have to go to the area of grass land and find a red, dragon like creature who has a ridiculous amount of HP. ( don't worry though hes a wetty). You will either have to steal a carob nut off of him or kill him and get it. You will need 3 of them. go to the chocobo tracks around the golden saucer and catch a great/good chocobo. You will know this because when you return to the stables bill will say "Mmm, this one's not bad" or "This is a pretty average Chocobo.". You could if you can be assed go to the chocobo sages house, green them up and go and race them up to a high class at the Golden Saucer. Save your game and then breed the male and female good and great together. Keep repeating this process so u have green and blue chocobos of different gender. Nows the time to save your game again. Again, you can green them up and race them to a higher class. Now you need to race green and race the knew black chocobo up. Then proceed to the chocobo tracks on the northern island and find a chocobo with two 'jumpers' with it. This will be a wonderful chocobo. Green and race your wonderful chocobo up to a high rank. Obviously make sure that its of a different gender to your black(ocean) chocobo. no fly to goblin island on the west of your world map and steal a Zeio nut from them, or again you can kill them for it. Now go back to the farm and save your game. Breed your two chocobos together and, if you have followed my guide properly, you should have a Golden Chocobo.

P.S. All greening and racing your chocobo does is improve the racing quality of the next bred chocobo.

If you follow this, you WON'T go more than one time for each area (except for one special area) before you reach Gaea Cliffs, so hopefully you won't fainted and taken directly to the last area, which is bottom of Gaea Cliffs. If you did fainted, if you follow this, you will most likely have been to at least 12-13 area from a total of 15.
(1) Snowboard Track. Go right on each junction you find to get to area (2).
(2) The area's almost fully enclosed by mountains. There is a cave on your right. If you enter, you can go back to World Map just behind Icicle Inn by 'riding' the slippery ice on the upper area of the cave. But to continue with your mission (Gaea Cliffs, you didn't forget that's where you're going, did you?), don't go right. Go left and you'll be at area (3).
(3) There is a frozen lake on the north side of the place. Go up Northeast a bit, crossing the ice on the lake to pick up the Potion, then go North crossing the frozen lake completely and enter a sub-area. Let's call it area 3A. There is a puzzle of 'Jumping Mini-Icebergs' which you hafta solve before you can go to the next sub-area which we will call 3B. At 3B, just enter the cave, pick up the Safety Bit accessory and backtrack to area (3). Exit via Southwest to (4).
(4) Fully covered with trees, I think it's a winter forest of some sort. Go to the left side of the area (don't exit it yet) and then up to pick up the almost-unseen-under-a-tree Mind Source. After, go straight down to exit and move on to (5).
(5) It's actually the bottom of Great Glacier. You can tell by the BIG signboard. If you need the World Map behind the Icicle Inn again, go South. To continue your journey, go left to area (6).
(6) Here, just go on to area (7) thru North exit.
(7) There are 2 caves here. One is on your right, and one just north. Enter the north one, pick up the Elixir, exit the cave via its north, and forward North to (8).
(8) Simply go down to next area.
(9) A bridge made out of log is here. Go to right exit.
(10)Its single tree standing in the middle of the area is your clue. Just go on right.
(11)Move Northeast to next area. Along the way to area (11), you could find the Added Cut Materia, which is quite hard to spot if you're not careful enough.
(12)Altho there are Hot Springs all over the place, somehow Square didn't allow Cloud to heat up there. Weird, I know. Anyway, TOUCH the spring on the left side before going up to continue.
(13)MOST CONFUSING are of all!! Just be careful to put your 3 red stick marker on a straight line of direction you're going so you know where to go when the place do its annoying random rotation. Go where Cloud's facing when he first enter this area all the way till you find a tent. Inside, pick up the All Materia. From this tent, if you go straight up, you'll arrive at the last area, but to get a VERY cool summon, go right till you enter area (14).
(14)Enter the cave at the Southeast side and talk to the 'person' inside. You'll engage a battle with Snow enemy, but she'll leave Alexander summon materia after the fight. After you get it, you can either wonder around and fight more enemies and faint yourself out, or you can go back to area (13) and try to find your way up area (15). It's harder to find it than to faint, in my opinion.
(15)My fellow journeymen, congrats. This area is called Bottom of Gaea Cliffs. At the lodge (if you fainted, you'll automatically be inside the lodge and healed) you can save at the savepoint, rest by talking to the owner, or whatever. This is the last, final, and end of Great Glacier.

Equip Cloud with the Ultima Weapon, Ziedrich (stolen from Rude
in Midgar and in the Gelnika), and Sprint Shoes (You get this accessory from
the person at the entrance to Battle Square after the first time you win eight
consecutive battles, and randomly as a prize from the S class Chocobo races.
Note that you can also get it automatically by winning ten consecutive S class
races with the same chocobo). Yuffie should have the Conformer, Ziedrich,
and Sprint Shoes. Cid needs to have the Venus Gospel (Bother the old man in
Rocket Town that gave you the Yoshiyuki in disc 1 after the huge materia quest
until he gives it to you), Mystile, and Touph Ring (Stolen from Reno during the
Midgar Raid). Your materia setup should be as I've outlined below.

CLOUD
(WS)=(MP) (DC)=(COUNTER) (KoR)=(MPA) (HP)=()

Key:

WS= W. Summon (Battle Square prize, 64,000 BP required)
MP= Magic Plus (Needs to be mastered, obtained in the cave behind the Forgotten
City at the beginning of disc 2)
DC= Double Cut (Located in Gelnika, should be at level 2 [4xCut] or mastered)
COUNTER= Counter (NOT Counter Attack. Counter is BLUE. You obtain it in the
Northern Cave, after the second screen where you found the Magic Pots and
Movers)
KoR= Knights of Round (Needs to be at level four or mastered)
MPA= MP Absorb (When combined with KoR, you'll recover about 1,000 MP, which
is more than you need)
HP= HP Plus (Costs 8,000 gil in Cosmo Canyon. Needs to be mastered)

() denotes materia slots, ()=() denotes linked slots. Note that the Ziedrich
does not have any materia slots, so only the slots for the Ultima Weapon are
shown.

CID
(FA)=(P) (R)=(ALL) (MEGA)=(D.BLOW) ()=()

Key:

FA= Final Attack (Obtained after winning the special battle in Battle Square.
Needs to be mastered)
P= Phoenix (Obtained in Fort Condor during Huge Materia quest. Needs to be
mastered)
R= Restore (Needs to be level 3, 4, or mastered)
ALL= All (Needs to be mastered)
MEGA= Mega All (Obtained in Northern Cave. Have Vincent go left, but do not put
him in your party. When you meet up with the rest of the group at the bottom,
he will give it to you. Needs to be mastered)
D.BLOW= Deathblow (Fine at level 1)

() denotes materia slots, ()=() denotes linked slots. Since there is a limit
on materia in this fight, there does not need to be anything in the Mystile,
unless your materia is not mastered.

YUFFIE
(WI)=(UW) (ALL)=(R/T/BAR) (MIME)=() (GRAVITY)=(QM)

Key:

WI= W. Item (Obtained in Midgar raid)
UW= Underwater (Removes time limit from Emerald Weapon, obtained from Kalm
Traveler [see previous section])
ALL= All (Needs to be mastered)
R= Restore (Needs to be level 3, 4, or mastered. Can be replaced by Barrier or
Time materia)
T= Time (Needs to be mastered. Can be replaced by Restore or Barrier)
BAR= Barrier (Needs to be mastered. Can be replaced by Restore or Time)
MIME=Mime (Fine at level 1)
GRAVITY= Gravity (Obtained in Gi cave after defeating Gi Nattak. Needs to be
at least level 3)
QM= Quadra Magic (Obtained in materia cave. Must be mastered for full effect)

() denotes materia slots, ()=() denotes linked slots. Since the Ziedrich does
not have any materia slots, only the setup for the Conformer is shown. Note
that you have an option of using Restore (Regen), Time (Haste), or Barrier
(Wall) in this fight. I recommend Barrier, since Yuffie and Cloud already have
the Sprint Shoes, and Cid can cast Regen on the entire party ten times.

first get one caracter whit one linked materia space on a weapon or armor , in one of them equip all materia and in the oter a heal/restore materia , then when you are in battle use the heal magic (that are linked with an all materia)
then al your allies whill be healed

after you go to don corneo mansion the first time go talk to a fat man near the honee club he will give you the member card when you enter you will see a woman dressed like a bee she will talk to you and you will choose a room to receive the bikini briefs or something else (but all depends in the room you choosed) you may peek in the other doors or listen to what the people inside says. just one more thing. if you want don corneo to chose cloud to a hot night you have to do some things like do a favor to the pharmacian and go to the inn at night(buy the expansive drink and he will give you the ruby tiara) give the digestive to the man in the bath room,(to do this you have to eat in the restaurant and win a pharmacy coupon.)win the bikini breafs in the honnee inn, do more squads in the gym to win the blonde wig, and when you choose the dress choose something clean and soft.then you go to don corneo mansion.good luck

1. Get Knights of the Round materia
2. Get Hades materia
3. Get Mime materia
4. Equip Sprint Shoes (that will automatically put you in Haste!)
5. Get W-Summon materia

Now equip everything to your strongest character, and enter the battle against Ruby WEAPON. Make sure everyone else in your party is dead (So your strong character doesn't sink in the sand!)
Enter the battle and wait for those stupid tentacles to come out (I suggest you use an Elixer after each hit from WEAPON). Immediantly hit the tentacles with Hades and Knights of the Round (in that order!) using W-Summon. They'll soon die and disappear into the ground.
Then start hitting WEAPON with your Mime command! Even though Weapon is one of the strongest enemies in the game, he will recieve the status 'Stop' from the Hades attack and get pimp-slapped by Knights of the Round.
Just keep using Mime and don't freak out when those tentacles come out again. Just use Mime and you'll automaticly attack them and they'll die and disappear back into the sand!
After a while, WEAPON will die and you'll get a Desert Rose (which can be given to the old weapon seller, in exchange for a Gold Chocobo ... ooooh yay! ... a bit of sarcasm there, because the Chocobo will only reach a max speed of 98km/h in the Chocobo Races)

First you need to have gotten BOTH w-summon and omnislash for the battle square (omnislash is 32,000 battle points and w-summon is 64,000 and the moment you leave battle square you lose all yes all of your battle points) once you've done this the lady will say something along the lines of "wow your pretty strong, would you care to try our special battle only your strongest may enter" so in other words she complements you then she asks you if cloud would like to participate in a special battle, say yes. if you beat all 8 oppents you get the final attack materia.

After you defeat Yuffie a new screen appears. You can see a Save Point, but do not save or go to the menu ... Yuffie will escape if you do that, and steal money from you!

Say these things to her and she will join your team:
"Not interested."
"Petrified."
"Wait a Second."
"...That's right."
"...Let's hurry on."

Don't ask her for her name because she'll just leave.

You need but 2 materia an to conected slots. Just atach a master final atack with a master pheonix (summon). Now when that character dies he/she will use pheonix, thus bringing them back to life. If both are master then this will happen unlimited times. I\'m not sure if mp matters though. This is better than final atack and revive as it can bring an entire party back to life, not just 1 person and damages your enemy.

To get infinite ribbon go to gold saucer and enter in the battle arena (you have to get the Morph materia before this).When your facing an ochu monster,attack him and do morph on him.If it's not working repeat the action until it work.Do this often you want............Enjoy

This has probably been mentioned once or twice,but if not here's how to do it.First you must have the W-Item command materia:while in battle go to W-Item and select an item,when you select a second item,back out of it and select the second item again.Do this as many times as you want until you have the desired quantity of items.

After Meteor has been summoned and the WEAPONs begin attacking, head to the top floor of the building on the far right side of Kalm.
There is a man there who is looking for three items; the Guide Book, the Earth Harp and the Desert Rose. Bringing each of these items to him and he will reward you. The following is a list of how to get these items:

GUIDE BOOK: Morph a creature called the Ghost Ship in the Underwater Reactor to get this item.

EARTH HARP: Defeat Emerald Weapon.

DESERT ROSE: Defeat Ruby Weapon.

I Was Just Trying To Distract The Kids From Kicking The Ball At Costa Del Sol But I Press Circle And I Kick The Ball At Nanaki(Red XIII)And He Barks At Me.

Also If You Stand A Lil In Front Of Where The Girl Stands To Kick the Ball The Ball Will Stop Moving But Keep Rolling.Try Not To Get Bitten!

Now then this boss can be a little difficult at times but this is the easiest way to kill him.No you dont need your materia and such.You just need 1 item:A X-Potion.When you enter the battle against it, use the xpotion on the boss and it should die in 1 hit.The reason why It kill it is because the boss is a undead monster so instead of the potion healing it, it kills it instead.

If there are any undead enemies/bosses (like Gi Nattak) use a Phoenix Down and it will kill the enemy/boss instantly!

(Note: You can determine whether an enemy/boss is undead by using the Sense ability on them).

All you have to do is have omnislash and be about level 70+ and of course I only recommend having the ultima weapon (if you don't have the ultima weapon before fighting sepherouth i dont know what you are but its not smart) have clouds limit ready to use aganst either jenova or bizzaro sepherouth (if you used your limit on the final form of jenova then i suggest that you use a "hyper" to put cloud in furry) and if you manage to use omnislash before sepherouth manages to use wall (barrier and mbarrier) you should beat him. however if you don't manage to do this before he uses wall it will only take Catastophe and Cosmo Memory to finish him so now you've beaten safer sepherouth without him using either supernova (big pain in the butt) or his shadow flare

If you need a little help with gaining new limits for characters that you may have neglected throughout the game, this trick will definitely help you.

Once you've got the mime materia, all you have to do is get your limit full for whatever character you want do to this trick with. Go into a battle and use your limit on one enemy, then mime it on another. It should only take 6-12 times using your limit to gain your level 2 limit. Please note that when you have your second limit per each level thing, you have to kill 80-140 enemies.

If you're not in need of any new limits, you can also use this trick in the battle square in the Golden Saucer.

To get a lot of money level up an "ALL" Materia until it hits "Master" and produces a new one. Sell off the Mastered "ALL" Materia and level up the new one.

Each of them are worth a lot of Gil, so keep repeating the process to have basically unlimited money.

If you face Lost Number (the optional boss in the Shinra Mansion safe) early in the game, use magical attacks at the beginning of the battle until Lost Number turns red. Then go all-out with physical attacks. This will make the battle easier.

Because if Lost Number turns purple, he can take away about 3500 HP damage to one character, (which could be instant death!)

Get the Ultima Weapon from the Ultimate WEAPON and let Cloud equip it (duh!).
Then equip a Double-Cut Materia and as many Counter-Attack and Counter materias as possible.
Keep your health up for maximum damage (since Ultima Weapon's attack is based on your percent of HP). Any time your enemy moves you may pound on them multiple times!)

To make fighting status inflicting enemies easier equip Hades and Status Effect materia in a joined slot, this will null most effects.
Do this at the arena in the golden saucer to make the effects of the spiining wheel before each battle useless.

There are a few FFVII characters that most people probably leave behind because they think they are useless in a fight - well, here's how to make them useful:

*Cait Sith (first and foremost): This guy is best suited to the back of the line with "cover" materia equipped. Because of his high base defense stats, he'll act like stuffed body armor and take plenty of hits for the team (equip powerful armor to boost effect). This also helps to boost his limit gauge, because his limit breaks are the only powerful attacks that he has. Also, don't bother with magic materia because he doesn't have much magic power and it'll reduce this HP

*Aeris: Because of her crappy attack power, it's best to make her more of a healer. equip her with "HP plus" materia, as well as "restore" and "life" materia to keep the party going if the others are killed. Her limit breaks are almost never offensive, but keep using them as much as you can before the 1st disc ends and you'll end up with "Great Gospel", which heals the party completely, fills their limit breaks, and even makes them invincible

*Red XIII: His attack power isn't that great, but he has lots of skill with black magic, so equip him with "fire", "ice", "lightning", "demi", and anything else you can think of.

You may notice that sometime during the game, you'll eventually come across a couple weapons for your Party Members that when you equip them, have the words "Double" or "Triple" underneath.
This means that when you equip Materia to the Weapon, the Materia will grow 2/3x's it's normal rate when you win in any battle. This is great for wanting to aquire higher level Magic Spells through the course of the game.

Incase you forgot, Mt. Corel is the place behind Corel Village. If you go thru the first time you're here, before the LONG bridge that will lead to Corel Village, there's an intersection on the track where Cloud lower the bridge for the rest of the party. Below the place where you hear the birds, there are a fork. One is Southeast which lead to Corel Village, and the other is on the Southwest that LOOKS LIKE a dead end. Notice my capitalized words? That's rite, it's NOT a DEAD END. Go there, around the destroyed track, up the rock formation, hit the right side, and you'll get a screen fade. This is Miner's Hideout. You can get a Guard Source, a Mind Source and a Tent to pick up here. You may also talk to the miner, but other than to hear his story, there's notn else here.

- Fight #1 is the Earth Worm.
- Fight #2 is the Ghost Ship.
- Fight #3 is an Unknown 3.
- Fight #4 is this the Vlakorados (the dinosaur enemy that is located around Bone Village)
- Fight #5 is a Blue Dragon.
- Fight #6 is Hippogriff (?)
- Fight #7 is a Master Tonberry.
- The final fight is none other than the Proud Clod. (but this thing is beefed up like there's no tomorrow!).

By holding the R1 and R2 buttons simultaneously while racing a chocobo, you can gradually refill its stamina. This is especially during your first race since you can't use your own chocobo.

This trick works for both of the WEAPONS:

All you need is Knights of the Round summon materia (with at least two stars to master). Link that with HP Absorb materia - so everytime you attack them with KOTR you will regain health.
You will also need Final Attack materia linked with Phoenix materia (both must have at least two stars) so every time you get killed you come back to life.
Also link Mime materia and Counter materia together (they can have any amount of stars, but it would be better if they were mastered) so every time they attack you, you will counter with Mime.

In the battle, make sure you only cast Knights of the Round all the time --nothing else!-- so when you Counter with Mime you will automatically cast Knights of the Round again, without using any MP!

Throughout the whole battle cast Knights of the Round at the start and keep on miming it.

Each saved game has a different picture, according to which slot you save to. The UK version apparantly differs from the US version slightly.

1: CLOUD
2: BARRET
3: AERIS
4: CAIT SITH
5: RED XIII
6: CID
7: TIFA
8: VINCENT
9: YUFFIE
10: RUFUS
11: TSENG
12: ELENA
13: RUDE
14: SCARLETT
15: SEPHIROTH

The Shinra Beta is a good armor that will last you for a good while. You can only get them by stealing from Marines on the Shinra Boat; therefore, you only have one chance to get them, so be sure not to miss them.

If you have done the optional quest in Wutai, you have the option to skip the Midgar battle with Elena, Rude, and Reno. This can be helpful if you are at a lower level.

CHOCO MOG
Talk to the chocobo at the front of the chocobo farm and answer "waaark"

SHIVA
At the Junon coast after saving Pricilla from the flying fish thing

IFRIT
On the big boat after beating JENOVA-BIRTH

RAMUH
in one of the change stalls on the floor in the chocobo riders waiting room

TITAN
In the wrecked reactor at gongag look where scarlet say "nope just useless materia"

ODIN
Defeat the last number in the safe in shinra manssion ( right36,left10,right59,right97) do not go over that number and press (o) at each number

LEVIATHAN
Defeat every one in the padoga in wutai

KJATA
Wal into the second area of the sleeping forest. and you will notice a red object floating around wait at the spot where firts seen then tap the action buttona and take it dont use against fire enemies

ALEXANDER
Aftersnow boarding part find the hot spring and touch it then find the area where you have to leave makers go straight find the hut and enter leave through the door facing downwardsgo right find the cave talk to the person inside and fight it and the materia will fall from the sky

BAHAMUT deafeat the red dragon in the CETRA shrine

TYPHOON
DEFEAT the ultimate weapon a few times until he dies. a crate will remain go to the jelly object on top of the mountain and its end
(not the best describer)

NEO BAHAMUT
over to the side after geas cliff;just pick it up

PHOENIX
found while collecting huge materai at fort condor after defeating all of the a man sends you out to check the condor egg it can be found there

HADES
On the wreakage in the Gelinka

BAHAMUT ZERO
Collect the four huge materia store them at