Final Fantasy VIII (8) Guide

Date: 04/13/11 Subject: Final Fantasy 8 -~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ Adamantoise -~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ Adamantoise will prove to be the most frustrating enemy in your quest for Ultimate Weapons. Adamantoise are found on the beaches of Dollet (Hasberry Plains) and tend to be quite rare. You can go 10 encounters of Fastficalon-Fs Without seeing them. Do not Mug the Adamantoise, unless you want the Whisper For Quistis. You want to fight these monsters level 30-100, as they have a higher drop rate Then if you fight them any lower level. Adamantoise drop the Adamantine item, which is used for Squall's, Zell's, and Selphie's Ultimate Weapons. You want at least 3 Adamantine's. -~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ Adamantine x1 -~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ The easiest of Squall's ingredients, you need to fight Adamantoise (level 30- 100) for this item. The Adamantoise drop this item. Adamantoise are found on Dollet's Hasberry Plains, on the beach. This is a rare encounter, so expect to be fighting for a while. To get to Dollet on Disk one, follow the train tracks past East Academy station. -~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ Dragon Fang x4 -~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ There are really two places to get this, but I prefer the former to the latter. T-Rexaurs level 20-29 drop these with a decent drop rate, and thats how I usually get mine. Grendels in Timber's Roshall Forest also drop these, when they are very low levelled (1-19). Either way, this is a hit or miss item, with either really good or really bad drop rates. -~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ Pulse Ammo x12 -~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ Of Squalls Ingredients, the hardest to get is the Pulse Ammo. You get the Pulse Ammo on Disk 1 by using the "Ammo-RF" ability on Laser Cannons. You get Laser Cannons from Elastoids in Laguna's second "Dream World". The Elastoids are most easily found in the room after the Detonator switch, that has stairs, and a lot of pink and yellow in the background. You need to Mug Laser Cannon's from these monsters. You need at least 3 of them for the weapon. Each Laser Cannon makes 5 Pulse Ammo. If for some reason you miss the Elastoids, you need Energy Crystals to make the weapon on Disk one. And thats a pain in the ass. You get Energy Crystals by Card Modding Enoyle cards. 10 Enoyle's is one Energy Crystal. and one Energy Crystal=10 Pulse Ammo. This is much slower then fighting the Elastoids. Esthar City - Seeking Treatment at Lunar Base Items: 1x Pet Pals Vol. 5, 1x Pet Pals Vol. 6, 1x Occult Fan IV, 1x Ward's Card, 1x Solmon's Ring Magic: Blizzard - Esthar's main compound. Curaga - within Esthar, refer to walkthrough Quake - outside Dr. Odine's Lab. Tornado - hidden, at shopping compound. Life - at the walkway (Tear's Point) Reflect - at the statue at Tear's Point Save Pts: Shopping Compound (hidden) Inside Presidential Palace. Right Side of Esthar from Odine's Lab. GFs: Doomtrain Notes: Malboro's Tentacles allows Quistis to learn Bad Breath. ________________________________________ Esthar City Bite Bug - Fire*, Scan Gayla - Thunder*, Sleep, [Meltdown] Mesmerize - Cure*, Esuna, Life, {Dispel} Great Plains of Esthar Malboro - Bio, Demi, {Quake} Mesmerize - Cure*, Esuna, Life, {Dispel} Caterchipillar - Thunder*, Cure*, [Slow], {Stop} (near mountains) Hexdragon - Fire*, Protect, Shell, {Reflect --> Flare} (near mountains) ________________________________________ Next you will meet up with someone familiar.. Dr Odine and his assistant, Aide and he will invited Squall and his party into a flying car. They will be heading for Esthar's Presidential Palace. At the high-polished building, you will have a sequence. Odine will tell Squall that necessary arrangements have been made at Lunar Gate which will take Squall to Lunar Base. Meanwhile, they will asked Squall to leave Rinoa at the Presidential Palace. Have a card game with Odine [don't vomit over the rules!] and get Ward's Card. __________________ _______________________ President's Room ____ Presidential Palace --> Elevator ____ OIV __________________ _______________________ OIV stands for Occult Fan IV. You need to wander around all parts of Esthar and return back here.. you will find Odine's assistant regarding the misplacement of magazines. After he leave, you will find the Occult Fan IV. Now in this huge city, you surely need a map for entering. How should we begin?. Elevators are very important, as walking for such long distances can be tiring [our hands are already quite sore on the Boost section..]. The left path leads to the President's room, where you find soldiers guarding it. Head right and board the elevator and followed by CGI of the elevator moving into the city. Here is the map of city. Esthar City Map ______________________________________________________________________ LEGEND _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ------------- \ / E Elevator [2]--- [ 1 ]--- [10] [] Area E E -- Path [3]-- [4] -- [5] [9]-- [11] [6]__ [12] [20]--[17]E________/ \_[7]_____ _ ______/ / \_ [16]-- [15]-- [14] --[8]----[13] [18] [19] WORLD MAP ____________________________________________________________________ [1] It is the main compound of the city, there is a Draw Point here. [Blizzard] Most of them are card players. [2] Left Elevator Junction. Just go to the elevator and pick your destination. To Odine's Laboratory Via Airstation Via Inner Skyway [3] The area with the red pipe of the left. [4] A busy street and you will be able to view the picture of the main city. [5] A path with a yellow travelling duct on the left with the elevator. [6] A busy street with the town folks being dressed in green. [7] A street with yellow duct on the right. You will find a draw point [Curaga] [8] The Front Gate of Esthar City, exit to the Rent-A-Car station. Head here after done with your shopping. Right of it is the Esthar Shopping Mall. Here are the prompts: To Presidential Palace To Shopping Mall To Odine's Laboratory Cancel [9] The path heading upwards with intersecting the path below. On the sides were the green pipe and the yellow pipe. [10] Right Wing Elevator Junction. Just go to the elevator and pick your choice. To City Entrance via Shopping Mall via Inner Skyway [11] Screen with the red pipe on the right of the street. [12] Red pipe on the right and a trace of the green pipe. There is a construction works. [13] The Shopping Mall. Refer below for more details. [14] The horizontal street with the "LEFT SIDE" and "RIGHT SIDE" letterings on the pipe. [15] Odine's Labortary Elevator Junction To Presidential Palace To City Entrance To Airstation Cancel [16] Here you will find a stop for the elevator and the Save Point. [17] The red pipe on the right with the elevator. The left path leads to the Airstation. To Presidential Palace To Odine's Labortary Cancel [18] Entrance of Odine's Labortory. Can't enter it yet. A guard prevent you from doing so. There is a Draw Point here. [Quake] [19] The Rent-A-Car Platform. To rent a car, examine the panel and pay 3,500 gil to rent a car. If you want to walk. Stand on the platform, and choose first option to exit the town. There will be an CGI of the elevator platform moving. [20] Esthar Airstation. You will know the usage of it later. E stands for the elevator. Well hopefully you should have no problem, by using my map. Now I suggested that you do some shopping, so head for the Shopping Mall! ________________________________________ Shopping Mall Just simply approach any of the shops and you will be asked to do shopping or not [left: YES, right: NO] Next you will be shown this screen. _________________________________________________________ S H O P P I N G D I R E C T O R Y _________________ ___________________ Rinnin's Store Cloud's Store _________________ ___________________ _________________ ___________________ Johnny's Shop Don Juan's Shop _________________ ___________________ _________________ ___________________ Karen's Shop Cheryl's Store _________________ ___________________ ____________ EXIT ____________ _________________________________________________________ Just simply choose the shop and pick them to shop by pressing the X button. Here is the shopping list. Visit all shops and you will get a bonus item if you are lucky. Well, you will be quite surprised to find the name, Cloud in the Shopping Directory. Anyway Cloud is not a usable character in FF8 as we know..... ________________________________________ The Shopping Mall's Shopping List For the complete shopping list, refer to Part II for more details. * NOTE: Without GF Tonberry's Familiar Faces ________________ / Rinnin's Store \_____________________________________________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Name of Item Functions Cost/Sell -------------------------------------------------------------------- G-Potion Restores 200 HP for GF 200 / 100 G-Hi-Potion Restores 1,000 HP for GF 600 / 300 G-Returner Remove K.O status for GF 500 / 250 Pet House Restores all GFs' HP. Use at a Save 1000/ 500 Point. Ammonisa Grass Makes GF forget an ability 1000/ 500 HP-J Scroll Allows GF to learn HP-J 5000/ 2500 Str-J Scroll Allows GF to learn Str-J 5000/ 2500 Vit-J Scroll Allows GF to learn Vit-J 5000/ 2500 Mag-J Scroll Allows GF to learn Mag-J 5000/ 2500 Spr-J Scroll Allows GF to learn Spr-J 5000/ 2500 Pet Pals Vol.5 Rinoa's Limit Breaks manual 1000/ 500 Pet Pals Vol.6 Rinoa's Limit Breaks manual 1000/ 500 -------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________ / Cloud's Store \______________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name of Item Functions Cost/Sell ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Potion Restores HP by 200 100 / 50 Phoenix Down Removes K.O status 500 / 250 Eyedrop Cure Darkness 100 / 50 Soft Cure Petrify 100 / 50 Remedy Cure all status aliments 1000/ 500 Tent Restores All HP. Use at Save Point 1000/ 500 Fuel Restore lost fuel for rented vehicles 3000/1500 General Ammo Use in Irvine's Limit Breaks 20/10 Shotgun Ammo Use in Irvine's Limit Breaks 40/20 Darkness Ammo Use in Irvine's Limit Breaks 300/150 Flame Ammo Use in Irvine's Limit Breaks 500/250 G-Potion Restores GF's HP by 200 200/100 G Hi-Potion Restores GF's HP by 1000 600/300 G-Returner Removes K.0 status for GF 500/250 ------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________ / Johnny's Shop \______________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name of Item Functions Cost/Sell ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Potion Restores HP by 200 100 / 50 Hi-Potion Restores HP by 1000 500 / 250 Phoenix Down Removes K.0 status 500 / 250 Antidote Cures Poison 100 / 50 Soft Cures Petrify 100 / 50 Holy Water Cures Curse/Zombie 100 / 50 Remedy Cures all status aliments 1000/ 500 Tent Restores all HP. Use at a Save Point 1000/ 500 Pet House Restores all GFs' HP. Use at a Save Pt 1000/ 500 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Don Juan's Shop PS: This is a weapon upgrading shop. For more information on weapon upgrading refer to Part II. ______________ / Karen's Shop \_______________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name of Item Functions Cost/Sell ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Weapon Mon Mar Guide in upgrading your weapons 1000/ 500 Weapon Mon Apr Guide in upgrading your weapons 1000/ 500 Weapon Mon May Guide in upgrading your weapons 1000/ 500 Weapon Mon Jun Guide in upgrading your weapons 1000/ 500 Weapon Mon Jul Guide in upgrading your weapons 1000/ 500 Weapon Mon Aug Guide in upgrading your weapons 1000/ 500 Combat King 001 Zell's Limit Breaks manual 1000/ 500 Combat King 002 Zell's Limit Breaks manual 1000/ 500 Combat King 003 Zell's Limit Breaks manual 1000/ 500 Pet Pals Vol. 1 Rinoa's Limit Breaks manual 1000/ 500 Pet Pals Vol. 2 Rinoa's Limit Breaks manual 1000/ 500 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Cheryl's Shop: CLOSED for the Time Being. I guess it could be the my mistake for reading the shop title carefully. In fact one of the shop has the Centra Shop logo, which means adding this shop, there are 5 Item Shops! ________________________________________ Now head for the Tears' Point, which is located at the south-east of the World Map from the city. Make sure you have accquired the Mug ability from the Diablos. If not try to gain some levels. SAVE your game. BTW, it is safer to drive a car! [Note that you can't get into any random battles through driving a car.] (make sure you have enough Fuel, which will automatically be used..) Now exit the city and head to the outskirts of the city. Next head south-east of the continent of the World Map. It's called the Tears' Point. Next examine the Draw Point [Life] along the path and head up. Now in front of the statue, examine the Draw Point [Reflect] and pick up the Solomon's Ring. Next you need to steal Malboro Tentacles with the Diablos' Mug ability. After you reach the requirements shown in the table below, you will be able to summon the Doomtrain by using the Solomon's Ring. ________________________________________ Getting Doomtrain Requirements for GF Doomtrain Quantity Name of Item 1x Solomon's Ring 6x Remedy + 6x Steel Pipe 6x Malboro Tentacles Before you can get Doomtrain, make sure you have the following abilities: GF Alexander • ST-Def-J x4 [you can refine Quistis' Card to get this] • Med Data (you must get this in order to have Med LV Up) • Med LV Up. (you must get this in order to convert 60x Remedy to 6x Remedy + GF Siren • Treatement (no prequiste.. so you can easily find it.) Better to have this. GF Diablos • Mug (no prequiste, but 200 AP will be taking quite a long time..) Magic • 100x Confuse -> Draw from high-levels Behelmel [Galbadia-Montersou Plateau) • 100x Sleep -> Draw from Fungaur [Dollet- Hasberry Plains (forest)], Gayla [Trabia - Bika Snowfields, Trabia Crater] • 100x Berserk -> Draw from Wendigo [Great Plains of Galbadia, deserts outside Deling City] • 100x Silence -> for those whom does not have the Treatment Command and must have a lot of Remedy and Esuna [draw from Grand Mantis at the forest of Lenown Plains outside Edea's House] Silence can stored from Grat at Balamb Garden Training Center * Don't include any ST-Def-J for the remaining characters, especially Sleep! Junction the above all to one member. Have the spells mentioned above to one character. Sleep, Berserk, Confuse and Silence (if necessary) To Defeat Malboro • Including all above. • 300x Blizzaga -> you can get this from Snow Lions [Trabia - Bika Snowfields], Jelleye [Centra - Lenown Plains] • Elem-Atk-J [Ifrit has already had it.. But it will be advisable to get two more. Quezacotl and Shiva has also have it.] • 100x Curaga [draw from Mesmerize] • Degenerator [Quistis Blue Magic from Black Hole] • Recover [GF Leviathan] At the battle: Once you encounter a Malboro, you will find yourself in deep shit. The Malboro will cast Bad Breath on all members. All members except for the member whom was protect with all the protection will be under a haywire series of pain (which includes all status ailments, except for Petrify and Doom). Now have that character use the Treatment [Esuna/Remedy for those without Treatment] command on himself/herself Next cast Treatment on other members. Next mug the Malboros. If the Malboro use the Eerie Sound Wave or Dissolving Acid, cast Curaga on that character [BTW, summon Cerberus beforehand, to make life easier.] or if you have Recover, will be much better. Selphie can do her part as the best support character. Just Mug and hold L2 and R2 to escape. For those whom want to defeat the Malboro, just attack and draw-cast Demi from the Malboro [summon GF Diablos could be a waste of time..]. After sometime, the Malboro will start to use Bad Breath once again. For how to junction, refer to Basic Tutorial at Section 1.0 1x Solomon's Ring: It is stated above in the walkthrough. 6x Steel Pipe: You can get it by using Mug Command on Wendigo [green gorillias with yellow spots, found at the deserts of the Great Plains of Galbadia]. You can also refine Elastoid's Card for a 1:1 ratio. 6x Malboro Tentacles: For those whom have problems in getting this, you can refer to my Monsters FAQ. Refer to the paragraph under "At the battle" 6x Remedy +: For this case, you need to get at least 60 Remedy [which can be brought from the shop.] Next use Alexander's Med LV Up to convert them to Remedy+ in a 6:1 ratio manner. So you have all the requirements huh? Just use that item from the Item Menu just like for Diablos and you will summon the Doomtrain! The Doomtrain can be gotten in Disc 4 even if you haven't gotten the Solomon's Ring during this visit. But if you do not have Alexander, I suggest you have get it at Disc 4 [but it will be difficult.]. One more reminder, Malboros have very low encounter rate and they will not appear here anymore after your space visit. Head for Lunar Gate. Credit goes to the people that wrote this information as a Guide I am not taking credit for other people’s work so that is why I am giving credit to the people that made these guide that I combined together!