FINAL FANTASY VIII
Books: Playstation Secret Codes - Secret Codes 2003
GF Boost
If you have a GF who has learned "Boost," this trick will work. While
your GF is about to appear on the screen, hold down "Select" and you
should see a hand pointing a finger on the "Square" button and a number
next to it. Keep holding "Select" and rapidly hit "Square" This will raise
that number which means more damage to the enemy. But make
sure you stop when an X appears over the hand. If you don't, the
number will start back at the beginning. Wait for the X to go away
and repeat the process. The higher the number reached, the
more damage caused.
GF Locations
In FF8 there are 22 Guardian Forces (and quasi-GFs)
you should get. They are:
QUETZALCOTL: From Squalls computer in the classroom at the
beginning of the game.
SHIVA: From Squalls computer in the classroom at the
beginning of the game
IFRIT: Defeat him in the Fire Cavern outside Balamb Garden
as part of the test
SIREN: Draw from the boss at the top of Dollet Satelite
during the Exam
BROTHERS: Defeat them in The "Tomb of the Unkown King"
outside Deling.
DIABLOS: Summon him using the Magic Lamp given to you
by Cid after completing your Exam. After Summoning him
you must defeat him. He is VERY difficult. Save before you fight him.
CARBUNCLE: Draw from Gargoyle/Lizard bosses in Deling
during Parade.
LEVIATHAN: Draw from NORG in Balamb Garden. Make sure
you draw from NORG and not the pods.
PANDEMONA: Draw from Fuujiin in Balamb Town.
CERBERUS: Fight and Defeat him in Galbadia Garden.
ALEXANDER: Draw from Edea at the end of Disc 2.
DOOMTRAIN: Get Item "Solomons Ring" from Tears Point before
Lunatic Pandora is summoned. (A good time to get this Item is
right before when you are supposed to meet Dr. Odine at the
Launch Pad). Once getting this item "Mug" Marlboros outside the
Sorceress Shrine until you have 6 Marlboro Tentacles (Marlboros
are also at the Island Closest to Heaven) Then buy 60 Remedies
and use Alexanders "Med Lev Up" Skill to make 6 Remedy+'s. Next
you need 6 Iron Pipes. These can be "Mug"ed from the Yellow/Green
Monkey enemy outside Deling. If you don't have these and you can't
get back to Deling you may have to wait until after you have the
Ragnarok to get them. After getting all the Items (6x Remedy+'s,
6x Iron Pipes, 6x Marlboro Tentacles and 1x Solomon Ring) use the
Solomon Ring from the Item Menu and you will receive DOOMTRAIN.
BAHAMUT: Defeat him at the Galbadia Underground Research Facility.
It is located in the South-West corner of the map. It is in the middle
of the Ocean. To fight him you must talk to machine (Walk when the
light is off) then pick the first answer for the first question, second
answer for the second and the third answer (It's hidden) for the
third question. You will then fight Bahamut.
CACTUAR: Fly to Cactuar Island in the South-East section of the world
and run into the giant Cactus that you see going up and down. You
must then defeat Giant Cactuar.
TONBERRY: Go to the Centra Ruins (After recieving Odin, see below)
and fight 20 Tonberries. After defeating the 20th (or so) the King
Tonberry will come. Defeat him and Tonberry will join your team.
EDEN: Draw from Ultima Weapon in Galbadia Underground research
Facility. To get to Ultima you must defeat Bahamut first (see above).
The following GFs are non-drawable. You must either use Items to
call them (Pheonix and Chochobo) Or they appear randomly (Odin
and Gilgamesh). I'm not sure how Mumba and MiniMog are used
since I don't have a pocketstation. But I believe that you use
items to call them as well
CHOCOBO: Catch and name a Chocobo then use Item Gysahl
Greens during Battle
PHOENIX: Use Item Phoenix Pinion during battle.
ODIN: Defeat him in Centra Ruins. Appears randomly at the
beginning of battles.
GILGAMESH: Receive Odin before the end of Disc 3 and Seifer
will kill him. Gilgamesh then show up to replace him.
MINIMOG: (POCKETSTATION NEEDED) Receive Minimog during
"Chocobo Adventure" PocketStation Minigame.
MUMBA: (POCKETSTATION NEEDED) Defeat "Chocobo Adventure"
PocketStation Minigame
Infinite Items with a Pocketstation
If you have Final Fantasy 8(US), a Pocketstation and a
Memorycard, you can use the Pocketstation game Chocobo
World to get Infinite Items. Just do the following:
1. Download the Chocobo World game from Final Fantasy 8 onto
your Pocketstation, (Downloaded after you have caught a Chocobo.)
2. Start playing through Chocobo World, collecting as many
items as you can.
3. Once you have the items you want plug the Pocketstation
and the Sony Memorycard into your Playstation, go to the
internal memory card manager and save Chocobo World into
the Sony Memorycard (Warning: it takes 7 blocks of memory to store)
4. Start playing your Final Fantasy 8 game with the file that you
have caught a chocobo with, go to the game menu and choose,
get to the menu. You can then transfer the items into your FF8
game, choose the option to take Boco(the character you play
Chocobo World with) home, which also lets you transfer all the
items you have collected in the Pocketstation game into the
Final Fantasy 8 game, and then choose the option to send Boco
into the Pocketstation game again. NOW, get to the option on
the Final Fantasy 8 game to see all the item you got from
the Pocketstation.
5. Now comes the Infinite Item part of this cheat. Get to the
Memorycard Menu again, but this time copy the Chocobo World
files that are inside the Sony Memorycard back into your
Pocketstation, and then do step 4 (transferring items into FF8)
over and over again to, finally, get Infinite Items.
Note : you can do this to get 16 or more MiniMog abilities for
all your G.F.s to use, just find MiniMog inside the Pocketstation
game and then just do the transferring cheat mentioned again
to do it over and over.
Quicker Attack Bar
Go to the screen with Junctions, Items, and save, But those you
don't want, you want to go to the cofiguation screen (Down at
bottom of Icon screen). When you get to this screen you will see
some blue lines make all of them read fast. After doing so go
fight a battle and the little line for your attacks will be super
fast and so will your GFs lines.
Quicker Limit Breaks
When your health is low you will not always get a limit break.
To ensure that you do wait for the target character's turn and
hit O repeativly. This should ensure the Limit Break activation.
Rare Card Locations
Debuchocobo = The guy sitting on the bench in front of the
Balamb Garden Libary.
Angelo = From Watts of the Forest Owls.
Gilgamesh = From Card Club's King.
Komoguri = From the little boy in a blue shirt running around Balamb
Garden's hall.
Quetzocohuatl = Fisherman Horizon's male station master
(2nd floor in the station house).
Shiva = Obtained from Zoon after giving him 'Tonari no Kanojo".
Ifrit = After defeating Ifrit.
Siren = 2nd floor of Dollet's pub Walk east to battle card master
Minotaur = After defeating Brothers.
Pandemonium = From the man standing in front of Balamb hotel.
Alexander = From Piet at Luna Base
Ward = From Doctor Odain in Esthar.
Kiros = From the man in black in Derring city.
Laguna = From Elone in the Lunaside Base.
Selphie = From Selphie's friend in Travia garden.
Quistis = From FC member #2 in the lecture room you first start out in.
Irvine = From the female station master of F.H.
Zell = From Zell's mother in Balamb.
Rinoa = From Rinoa's father in Derring City. You must lose Ifrit card to him
to win the Rinoa card.
Ifrit = When you beat him in the fire cave then after
you lose him to Rinio's Father you will get him from Dodona in F.H.
(the guy sitting near the station house)
Edea = From Edea at Edea's house.
Seifer = From Cid at Edea's house or during MD system event.
Squall = From Laguna in the Esthar Presidential Building.
Seed test answers
After you become a SeeD you can take the SeeD test to raise your
SeeD level. The test can either be taken on the computer in the
classroom in Balamb Garden or in the HELP menu.
Test Answers
1 Y, N, Y, Y, Y, N, N, Y, N, N
2 Y, N, Y, Y, Y, N, Y, Y, N, N
3 N, N, Y, N, Y, Y, Y, N, Y, N
4 N, Y, Y, Y, N, N, Y, Y, N, N
5 N, N, N, Y, Y, N, N, Y, Y, Y
6 Y, N, Y, Y, N, N, Y, Y, N, Y
7 Y, Y, Y, Y, Y, Y, N, Y, Y, N
8 N, Y, N, N, Y, Y, N, N, Y, N
9 N, Y, N, N, N, N, N, N, Y, Y
10 Y, N, N, N, N, N, N, N, Y, N
11 Y, Y, N, Y, Y, N, Y, N, N, Y
12 N, Y, N, N, Y, N, Y, N, Y, N
13 Y, N, N, N, Y, N, N, N, N, N
14 Y, Y, Y, Y, N, Y, Y, N, Y, N
15 Y, Y, N, N, N, N, N, Y, N, Y
16 Y, N, N, Y, N, Y, N, N, Y, N
17 Y, N, N, N, Y, N, N, Y, N, N
18 Y, N, N, N, Y, N, N, N, N, N
19 Y, N, N, Y, N, N, N, N, N, Y
20 Y, Y, N, Y, N, Y, Y, Y, N, N
21 Y, Y, Y, Y, N, N, Y, Y, Y, N
22 N, N, N, Y, N, N, N, Y, Y, N
23 Y, N, N, N, N, Y, Y, Y, Y, Y
24 Y, Y, N, N, Y, Y, N, N, N, Y
25 Y, N, Y, Y, Y, N, N, Y, N, N
26 Y, Y, N, Y, N, Y, N, Y, N, N
27 N, Y, N, N, N, N, Y, N, Y, N
28 Y, N, N, Y, Y, Y, N, Y, N, N
29 N, N, N, Y, Y, N, N, N, Y, N
30 N, Y, N, N, N, N, Y, N, N, N
The Balamb Card Club Group
The card Club group is a group of people from balamb garden who
play cards. you can get rare cards from some of them. This is the
order you must beat them in and their location. They appear later
in the game.
1)Jack-Hanging around the location board in the main hall. (he'll
tell you who he is).
2)Crab-He walks out of the car park area
3)Diamond-2 girls walking toward the location board in the main
hall. (wait for them to stop)
4)Spade-the guy next to the 2nd floor elevator. (gives you cards
in the begining of the game if you asked him).
5)Heart-Shuu in Garden control room (get carbuncle card from her).
6)King-Talk to doctor Kadowaki in the infirmary and then go to your
room and sleep.he will appear and challange you.
7)Joker- he is in the training center near the draw point & the bridges.
Appears randomly. (get levitan from him)
