- First Battle: Achievement.
- After Jessie unlocks the door, check the room in the bottom right for a chest containing a Phoenix Down.
- There's a potion on the ground after the first ladder.
- There's a Restore Materia on the path on the screen after you pass the save point. Note that you can't equip it yet.
Boss: Guard Scorpion
Spend a minute or two gaining Barret and Cloud's limit breaks before the battle if you like. The boss will be summoned after Cloud plants the bomb.
If you do attack while its tail is up, it'll counter-attack both characters with a laser that does 70-80 damage and easily fills their limit gauges halfway. May be worth doing for the extra damage at this point. Use a potion each afterwards to make sure you don't die on the way out.
- Cloud's First Limit: Achievement.
- Barret's First Limit: Achievement.
- Speak to Jessie by the ladders, else the game will make you run back for her.- Pick up a potion while walking through Midgar.
- You'll be fully healed after exiting the reactor so go ahead and fight the soldiers for the bits of gil and exp.
Meeting Aeris
- if you head right from the train, you can fight in the Train Graveyard for a bit. It's a nice place to gain money early on, since the Mono Drives have ethers which they drop, or which you can steal from them later on. They sell for 750 gil, which is a nice chunk of change at this point.
- in the morning, head to the weapon shop, south of the bar. You can buy some new equipment here, and pick up some all materia and an ether on the second floor, in the 'Beginner's Hall'.
- you can find an item shop to the left of the weapon shop. It has Fire materia and medicine.
Train
- Save first, as there are some quick-time events coming up. They begin after you talk to Tifa on the train.
- Run back to the guy right at the back of the first car when the countdown starts; talk to him for a Phoenix Down.
- Speak to the guy right at the lower left of the second cabin, and answer 'yeah...' for a High Potion.
- in the third cabin, you will be pickpocketed. When the words "heehee" show up on the screen, chase the guy down and tell him "that's right" to get your item back.
Tunnels
- there's an ether in the middle of the tunnel.
- there's a potion in the corner opposite Jessie.
- there's a tent near the save point.
- there's a chest containing an ether on the way out, in the room after the elevator.
Boss: Air Buster
Weak against Bolt and being attacked from behind. Time your limits.
- Tifa's First Limit: Achievement.
Church
- Push the barrels in the following order; top left, top right, lower right.
Sector 5
- there's an item shop and a materia shop here.
- go to the house in the lower right and examine the posters on the highest floor. You'll find Turtles Paradise Newsletter #1. Do not take the 5 gil in the drawer - you'll get a better prize later if you don't.
- You can buy more Titan Bangles in the weapon shop at the top of the screen.
- You'll find an ether and a Cover materia in the garden to the right of the save point outside Aeris' house.
- When Cloud wakes up, there's a potion and a phoenix down at the end of the bed.
Sector 6
- win the squat contest in the gym for a blonde wig.
- head to the restaurant near the save point and buy a meal. If you say "it was all right" you'll receive a Pharmacy Coupon in exchange. Swap the coupon for a digestive at the medicine shop (south of restaurant). Finally, give the digestive to the woman in the bar's toilet to obtain Sexy Cologne.
- Go to the shop north of the save point. The owner will ask you to pick up an item from the inn. Stay at the inn, and buy the most expensive item when offered a choice. Take it back to the store to exchange it for a Diamond Tiara.
- Head back down to the Honeybee Inn. The guy you pass on the way will give you his Member's Card.
- Choose the Group Room to obtain the Bikini Briefs or the &$#% Room for Lingerie. Due to a glitch in the game, it doesn't actually matter which underwear you obtain.
- Finally, head to the northernmost room in the Honeybee Inn and ask the girls to put make-up on you. It's random whether they do a good job or not, but with the other items, it shouldn't make a difference.
- there's an ether in the basement where you find Tifa.
- pick up the hyper from behind Don Corneo's bed.
Sewers
- Grab the potion that's near where you land.
Boss: Aps
Weak again Fire. I had all of my characters with the Fury status, so they were using their limits every other turn.
- Aeris's First Limit: Achievement.
- Pick up the Steal materia on the way out.
Train Graveyard
- There's also a Hi-Potion on top of this train.
- Run over the trains right to the top left of the screen to find an
Echo Screen hidden in another barrel.
- There's another potion in the train on the right of the screen.
- You can pick up one final potion just before you leave the area.
- You may fight Eligors in this new area. Try to steal a Striking Staff for Aeris. Also try to steal Ethers from Deenglows, or try to win Graviballs from them (if you steal an item they won't drop another, so it is a choice). Graviballs cast demi, and will be useful against the Midgar Zolom. Ethers just sell for a lot.- There's another potion on the left of the screen here.
- Check the leftmost barrel for an ether.
- Finally, there's a Hi-Potion on top of one of the trains here.
Boss: Reno
If Reno puts a pyramid on one of your characters, use a physical attack to remove it. You can build up Tifa and Cloud's limit breaks on the way up, and I had all of my characters in the fury state so they could keep pummelling Reno with them.
Playground and Sector 5
- There's a Sense Materia near the playground's exit.
- The kid in Sector 5 will give you a Turbo-Ether if you didn't steal his 5gil earlier.
- You can pick up a Phoenix Down in the room at Don Corneo's that you couldn't enter earlier.
- You can buy three batteries from the guy in the Weapon Shop.
- Finally, you can pick up an ether by using the third battery.
Shinra Headquarters
- Keycard 60 is received automatically following a battle.
- Pick up Keycard 62 from an NPC on floor 61.
- You can get Keycard 65 from Mayor Domino on the 62nd floor. You'll need to guess his
- the 63rd floor is optional, but you can gain three items here. First, head to the machine to the right; it will tell you how the floor works. In short, you can open three doors. The pictures show you which doors to open. You can pick up the first coupon after opening your second door. Once you have it, climb into the air duct and head over to the second coupon. Finally, head out of the room and open your last door to pick up the final coupon. Get back into the air duct and head to the first room to trade your coupons for a Star Pemdant, a Four Star, and an All Materia.
- on the 64th floor you'll find a save point and a place to take a nap. There are a few things to do up here. Buy the Shinra Gym Special Drink from the vending machine in the top left of the gym area and then bang on it; you'll get something from it later. Also check the lockers for an Ether, a Phoenix Down and Cait Sith's ultimate weapon, which Cloud will refuse to take at this point.
- on the 65th floor, you'll need to get the Shinra model pieces from the chests and put them into the model. Eventually, the chest containing the keycard will unlock.
- on the 66th floor, climb into the airvents (you'll find an entrance in the toilets) and watch the meeting. Then follow Hojo to the 67th floor.
- You'll find more random encounters on the 67th floor. Try to steal Carbon Bangles from the Moth Slashers and a Hardedge from a Soldier:3rd. After the scene, pick up a Poison Materia from the chest.
Boss: H0512
This boss absorbs poison and gravity, halves lightening, and comes with mooks. It also frequently casts poison on your party. You can protect from this with the star amulet and with the poison + elemental materia in someone's armour. Casting Fire and Ice over all the enemies will help you take them out faster. Note that you will have to choose between sending Barret or Tifa away, so only prepare one of them to help.
- Red XIII's First Limit: Achievement.
- Pick up the Enemy Skill Materia after the battle.
- You can pick up the 68th floor Keycard from an employee on the upper level of this room. There are two potions in plain sight near him.
- You'll pick up another two potions on your way to the elevator.
Boss: Hundred Gunner & Heil Gunner
These are both long-range enemies, so only Barret can attack physically. It's weak against lightening, so have one of your other characters use that, and the third character use any other kind of magic skill to get in a few blows.
You'll battle these enemies one after the other, with Barret, Aeris and Red XIII.
Boss: Rufus
You'll face Rufus with only Cloud. Take the dog out first because it will cast protective magic on Rufus. Both are weak to Poison.
Boss: Motor Ball
You'll face this boss after the motorcycle minigame. It's strong against fire, weak against lightening. You'll probably have a couple of limit breaks to play with, too. You'll set up your party for this before the motorcycle bit.
Kalm to Junon
- You can learn the Enemy Skill: Matra Magic from the custom sweepers in the area around Midgar. The character holding the materia needs to be hit by the skill, survive, and then you must win the battle in order to actually learn it. You can also steal Atomic Scissors from them, which is a bit of an upgrade for Barret.
Kalm
- During the flashback in Kalm, explore Tifa's house, play on the piano and tell Tifa you jammed on it. You'll receive an elemental materia later in the game if you do.
- After the flashback, head back upstairs and examine the cabinet behind the stairs. Check five times and you'll get a megalixer.
- Check the house to the right of the inn. You'll find an ether.
- You'll find another ether in the house to the right of that, in the middle of the row of three.
- In the final house in the row you'll find a Peacemaker and a Guard Source.
- You'll find another ether in the house on the other side of the square.
- The materia store has some new spells for you; they have the Earth and the Heal Materia.
Chocobo Ranch and Marshes
- Speak to the Chocobo at the fence and choose the first option to get the Choco/Mog Materia.
- Buy the Chocobo Lure Materia from Choco-Billy.
- You can learn Level 4 Suicide from Mus near the chocobo ranch.
- Once you have Level 4 Suicide, find a level 16 Chocobo, feed it some Mimett greens and then cast the skill. It'll respond with Chocobuckle. Level 16 Chocobos are accompanied by two Elfadunks.
- After earning Chocobuckle, catch a Chocobo and head across the marsh to the Mythril Mines.
Boss: Midgar Zolom
This fight is totally optional. You can dodge with a Chocobo if you'd prefer.
I had Cloud at level 16 with elemental + fire in his armour, a talisman accessory and a carbon bangle in his armour. My other two characters were as follows; Tifa with sense and Bio, and Red XIII with recover + all. All characters had full limit breaks, were in the back row and had the sadness status.
Have Tifa use Sense while Cloud and Red XIII toss Graviballs at the Zolom. This will bring it down to 2250 HP. Have Tifa cast bio. Whoever takes the Zolom below 2000 hp, or whoever attacks it first when it gets there will be wiped out; have that be Tifa, with either Choco/Mog or her limit. When it gets to below 1000hp from poison damage have Cloud defend while Red XIII uses his limit. The Zolom will attack with Beta and then follow it up with a physical attack on Cloud, the only character left standing. Cast Beta right back at it to win. Or, for that last bit, heal and defend until it gets to 400hp or so, then attack to provoke it to cast Beta. The poison damage should kill it before it can follow up with another attack.
Mythril Mines
- You can learn Flame Thrower from the Ark Dragons in here, and steal Grand Gloves from Madouges.
- Go right from the entrance. You can pick up an Ether on the steps and a Tent in the chest at the top.
- Climb the vines in the left corner of this room, at the bottom of the stairs, to find a Long Range materia.
- Head left from the entrance then down to the bottom right corner to find a chest containing a mind source.
- In the room north of the exit you can find an Elixir and a Hi-Potion.
- This area is great for building limits; you can take out groups or 4-5 enemies with Choco-Mog and quickly rack up kills. I recommend taking the time to do this for Aeris early on if you intend to get her final limit break.
Junon and Fort Condor
- You can meet Yuffie in any forest on the world map, and you only have a 12.5% chance of encountering her near Junon. If you want to, just run around until you battle a Mystery Ninja. After you do, there'll be an event. Make sure you don't choose any option that would require you to take your eyes off Yuffie (open a menu, including the naming menu, use the save point, etc) and she'll join you. You can also steal a Boomerang from the Formula enemies in the forest for her.
If you must know, the correct answers are "not interested", "petrified", "wait a second", "that's right" and "let's hurry on".
- Get Yuffie: Achievement.
- You can take part in the first Fort Condor battle now, FC Battle 1. The reward will be a Magic Comb for Red XIII, which has three slots with double materia growth.
Junon
Boss: Bottomswell
Prepare Cloud with the long-range materia and elemental + Choco/Mog in his weapon. It'll allow him to deal double damage to the boss. Beta does a great deal of damage. If he traps you in a bubble, attack the bubble with magic to disperse it.
- After the scene with Tifa, before going back to Priscilla, head back to Fort Condor for FC Battle 2. You'll get the best prize if you don't miss any, and if you never have to battle the enemy yourself. This one earns you a Peace Ring.
- Head back to Junon to get the whistle and the Shiva Materia from Priscilla.
- Immediately after getting the whistle head back to Fort Condor for FC Battle 3.
This one will get you three Ethers.
- To get Mr Dolphin to lift you up in the right place, don't move at all and blow the whistle twice. The second time will get you where you need to be.
- For the parade, watch this video. You have to be very close to the soldier next to you to trigger the shouts for the rifles.
- The Materia store has Seal and Revive, both of which are new to you.
- You can find another Enemy Skill Materia in the Beginner's Hall.
- On the second floor of this building, you'll find a 1/35th Soldier, a Mind Source and a Luck Source.
- On the third floor you'll find a Guard Source and a Power Source.
- In the next to furthest house in the second major area of Junon you can find another 1/35th Soldier on the second floor, and a Speed Source on the first floor. It's the hotel where a Shinra Manager is staying if you want more direction.
- Finally, you can earn a Force Stealer if you achieve 100 or more points during the Rufus send off.
Cargo Ship
- Yuffie is blocking an All Materia. Give her a Tranquillizer if you want. She'll move eventually, with or without it.
- After exploring the ship and speaking to everyone, Aeris will ask if you've seen Barret. After she says that, you'll be able to access more of the ship.
- After forming a party, you'll find random enemies in the cargo room. Steal some Shinra Betas from Marines. Use Headbands to protect whoever has steal from sleep. Remember to grab the All Materia in here.
- In the now-unguarded room north of the cargo room, you'll find a chest containing a Wind Slash. Use the ladder on the left to reach the upper level.
Boss: Jenova*BIRTH
Jenova can't be poisoned and graviballs won't help you here. You can slow her if you want. A few castings of Beta should take her out fairly quickly.
- Yuffie's First Limit: Achievement.
- Pick up the Ifrit Materia from the floor.
Costa Del Sol
- Go into the first house across the bridge. There's a Fire Ring, Power Source and a Motor Drive for Tifa in here. You can also buy the house for 30,000gil.
Mt Corel
- While running around, try to steal a few Right Arms from Bombs.
- On the lower tracks, there'll be another weak point. Hold right this time and grab the Star Pendant.
- There's a Turbo Ether and a Transform Materia a little further on. They're glowing bright pink and green respectively; you can't miss them.
- Walk past the hut and climb the mountain to find a nest. If you choose to take the treasure (10 Phoenix Downs) you'll need to fight the mother Cockatalis.
- After crossing the bridge, follow the tracks down to find a hidden hut. There's a Tent, a Mind Source and a Power Source in here.
North Corel
- you can learn Aqualung at this point; head out of North Corel and to the chocobo tracks on the eastern side of the desert. You'll sometimes run into harpies. You can max out four enemy skill materias all together, so you might want to wait for this one until you can learn it for three or four at once.
Gold Saucer
- You can view Turtles Paradise Newsletter #3 in the hotel at the Ghost Square. It's in the lobby, near the sign that says 'shop'.
- You'll meet Cait Sith at Wonder Square. He has the Manipulate Materia, which will be very useful when learning limit breaks and enemy skills.
- You can also earn GP at Wonder Square. You'll get an easy 30 for the Mog's House Game (5 Kupo nuts, then 3), 10GP for the G-Bike (plus a Speed Source the first time), and as many as you like for the basketball game (up to 300 for 44 shots in a row). Throw as soon as the ball touches Cloud's hair.
- At the Speed Square you can earn Aeris' ultimate weapon, the Umbrella, if you earn more than 5000 points. It costs 10GP per play. Personally, I'd wait until later; that way you can earn 50-60gp can save outside, run in, have 5-6 goes, then rinse and repeat until you win it. If you try now you won't be able to leave, and you'll need to pay 5gp to save.
- The game will continue from Battle Square.
Corel Prison
- Once you have Barret in your team, head up to the desert then right. You'll find a junkyard which has both Bullmotor and Death Claw enemies. The Bullmotor enemies can use Matra Magic while the Death Claw enemies use Laser. Remember you have a new enemy skill materia which doesn't yet have the former! Use manipulate to make sure they hit the right target.
- From the junkyard, had north to fight Dyne.
Boss: Dyne
Give Barret a restore materia and a long range weapon and stick in him the back row. Try using Beta on Dyne. Two castings should take him out.
Chocobo Races
- You'll get as many chances as you like to win the race. On the psx, holding R1 and R2 will cause your chocobo to gain stamina, slowly. On my settings on Steam, it was R1 and L1.
Optional Extras with the Buggy
- You can pick up Aqualung from Harpys in the desert around Corel Prison at this point.
- Drive south past Gongaga and find a Beachplug on the beach. Manipulate them to learn Big Guard.
- You can learn Frog Song from the Touch Me's near Gongaga.
- Head back to Costa del Sol - drive northeast past Gold Saucer - and ride the buggy into town. A guy near the boat will take you over the sea.- Complete FC Battle 4 at this point. You'll get a megalixer for it.
- Look for Zemzeletts near Fort Condor. Manipulate them to learn White Wind.
- Head to the cave northeast of the Mythril Mines (see picture). If you've fought a number of battles ending with two even numbers (ie, 22, 44, 66) you'll get a Bolt Ring. If the numbers are odd, you'll get Mythril. You'll need the Mythril to get Aeris' final limit break.
- At this point, you can head back to Gold Saucer and gain Aeris' ultimate weapon, the Umbrella. You'll need to earn over 5000 points.
- You can also participate in the Battle Square battle now. You won't miss out on much if you wait; the Champion Belt is nice to have, but you can win it for less later once the better prizes start showing up.
- At this point, I took Aeris back to the Mythril Cave and had her defeat crowds of enemies with Choco-Mog until she had all her first limit breaks for each level.
Gongaga
- This area is optional.
Boss: Reno & Rude
Not difficult. Try to defeat them together, else one of them will run off and you won't get their dropped Fairytale and X-potion.
- You'll find the Titan Materia in the reactor Scarlet examines.
- In Gonagaga town, you'll find an X-potion in a chest in the inn.
- You'll find a White M-Phone for Cait Sith in the house near the inn.
- Take the northern route out of town, and pick up the Deathblow Materia on the way.
Cosmo Canyon
- Cosmo Canyon is west of Gongaga. Park the buggy as far away from Cosmo Canyon as possible, else it will breakdown and you won't be able to get back to Fort Condor for the next battle.
- Head to the inn first; the door is right behind the raised bit with the fire. You'll find Turtles Paradise Newsletter #5 on the wall, and an elixir hidden in the bedroom.
- Follow Red XIII upstairs to the weapon shop. Turtles Paradise Newsletter #4 is posted near the counter.
- The materia shop has Transform, Mystify, HP Plus and MP Plus (you can also pick up those first two in Gongaga).
- Before going through the steel door, head back to Fort Condor for FC Battle 5. You'll get five Hi-Potions for this.
- You can learn Death Sentence from the GI Spectors.
- One of the breakable rocks will open the door to the next section. In this new section, walk left over the goo - walk, I said - and take the exit back down into the previous screen to get the Added Effect Materia.
- Go back into the second area, back over the oil slick, and down the stairs. There's a Black M-Phone and an ether down here.
- In the next area, take the path one from the end on the right. There's an X-potion hidden at the end.
- Take the path one from the end on the left. There's a fairy ring hidden down on the left side.
- When you head north, you'll see a treasure chest containing a Turbo Ether on the left. You can walk through the wall after the web to reach it.
Boss: Gi Nattak
Protect yourself against fire. This boss is undead, so try using White Wind on it. You can kill it instantly with an x-potion or a phoenix down, but there's a chance to miss.
- Pick up the Gravity Materia after the boss fight.
- Head back to Fort Condor for FC Battle 6. Again, the prize is five Hi-Potions.
Nibelheim
- the man in black in the inn will give you a Luck Source.
- there's another man in black in the house to the left of the inn who will give you an elixir.
- in Tifa's house, you can pick up a Platinum Fist and a Turbo Ether from men in black capes. You can also get Tifa's savings of 1g if you play the piano now, and if you played it in the flashback earlier.
- the men in black in the last house will give you another Luck Source.
Shinra Mansion
- You can learn the enemy skill ???? from the Jersey enemies. They won't use it after being attacked, so don't do anything until after you've learned it. You'll find them near the safe which we'll come back to later.
- there's a Silver M-Phone in the room off the stairs to the right. If you go under the stairs and into the room on the right there, you'll find a Twin Viper.
- Upstairs on the left you'll find an Enemy Launcher. On the right, you'll find a Magic Source. Head down into the library basement, where you'll find a Destruct Materia.
- Finally, you can pick up Red XIII's final Limit Break manual by opening the safe and facing an enemy. The combination is right 36, left 10, right 59, right 97. Press confirm when you hit those numbers, and don't turn the dial any other way; if you overshoot, you'll just have to try again.
Boss: Lost Number
This boss can be paralysed by either the Choco/Mog summon or through Aeris' Seal Evil limit break.
- Pick up the Odin Materia and the Key to the Basement after the battle. Head down to the basement, open the previously locked door and have a chat with Vincent. He'll join you when you leave.
- Get Vincent: Achievement.
At this point, I headed back to the Mythril Mines and got the following;
- Red XIII's Final Limit: Achievement.
- Vincent's First Limit: Achievement.
- Cait Sith's First Limit: Achievement.
- Cait Sith's Final Limit: Achievement.
Then to Battle Square at the Gold Saucer to win 8 Battles and gain a pair of Sprint Shoes. I didn't earn enough battle points for a good prize at this point, since the Champion Belt will be cheaper later.
- Battle Square: Achievement.
Mt Nibel
- Walk past the five pipes in the next area, and climb down the ladder so it unfolds; this will let you backtrack later.
- Slide down pipe #2 for a Powersoul and pipe #3 to pick up an All Materia in the chest. Ignore the scorpion at the bottom and head south, jumping off the ledge and into the cave.
- If you run into a Dragon, try to steal Gold Armlets, they're rather better than silver. The Dragons also use Flamethrower, so you can pick that up if you don't have it already.
- In the cave, run to the back and back down the left side to open the chest containing an Elixir.
- There's an Elemental Materia near the mako fountain on the next screen.
- The chest in the cave contains a Sniper CR weapon.
- Climb the path up and walk past the reactor to get back to the previous area. Finally, you can climb down and fight the scorpion.
Boss: Materia Keeper
Uses Trine. Since you have your enemy skill materia on you anyway, ???? works quite well. This is one of only two opportunities to learn Trine. If you miss it here, you can learn it for all four enemy skills materia later, with Godo at the Pagoda.
- Pick up the Counter Materia after the battle.
Rocket Town
- Speak to the man outside the item shop several times to get a Yoshiyuki for Cloud.
- The item shop has two new materia; Barrier and Exit.
- You'll find a Power Source in a chest in the house to the right and a Drill Arm in the northernmost house. In the backyard, you'll find the Tiny Bronco.
- Immediately after examining the Tiny Bronco head back to Fort Condor for FC Battle 7.
The prize is a Superball. - Finally, come back to Rocket Town and you'll be able to fight Palmer for the airplane.
Boss: Palmer
He has 6000hp; just hit him a few times.
Optional Quests with the Tiny Bronco
- You can pick up Aeris' Great Gospel limit by heading to the house near Gongaga and trading a piece of Mythril to open the small chest. You can get more Mythril from the cave near Fort Condor as long as you've fought a number of battles which ends with identical, even, digits. You can swap the second piece of Mythril to open the other chest, which contains a Gold Armlet.
- Aeris's Final Limit: Achievement.
- You can take FC Battle 8 now. The prize is 3 turbo-ethers.
- You can get to Bone Village at this point. It's on the southern end of the Northern continent. You can buy Rune Armlets there (4 slots, double AP), as well as Diamond Bangles, which have the best defence so far and have 5 slots.
- Head through Bone Village to the sleeping forest; you can go to the second screen and pick up the Kujata Materia. It'll flash every so often and you'll have to run and grab it.
- You can head to Wutai at this point. It's on the western continent.
Wutai
- Yuffie will steal your materia on the way to town.
- In Wutai, you'll find an MP-Absorb Materia in the item shop, near the save point. Yuffie will steal that, too.
- Head northwest, to the second part of town. In the large house on the right there's a free sleeping area with a secret tunnel in the lower left corner of the room. That leads to a chest containing a Hairpin. There's a similar secret tunnel on the other side of the house which leads to a Magic Shuriken. Speak to Godo a couple of times and Yuffie will show up again.
- Head back to the house near the entrance, talk to the occupants and examine the screen on the left to find her again.
- Examine the wiggly pot near Turtle's Paradise.
- Finally, follow Yuki downstairs. Before you enter the room, examine the Turtles Paradise Newsletter #6 outside before following Yuffie inside.
- Head back up to the section with Godo's house and ring the bell on the left. That'll open up a door in the base of that area. On the way out, grab the Elixir and Swift Bolt from the chests.
- Head north from the save point, up to Wa Chao. You'll find a Dragoon Lance in the cave Rude is standing in front of. Head back outside and south.
Boss: Rapps
Use Barrett's 1/2 Limitbreak, Mindblow, to suck away Rapp's MP and prevent it from using its Aero 3 attack.
- After the battle you'll get your materia back!
- Search the house on the bank opposite the save point - the one full of cats - to find a HP-Absorb Materia upstairs.
- You can pick up your prize from Turtle's Paradise now, if you read the poster outside by the door. You'll receive a Guard Source, Luck Source, Mind Source, Power Source, Speed Source, Magic Source and Megalixer. You'll also be able to buy weapons at the Weapon Shop.
- Outside Wutai you can learn Magic Hammer from the Razor Weed on the green plains and Death Force from the Adamantaimai on the beach. Try manipulate to make this faster. You can also steal Adaman Bangles, which have a high physical defence, but no magic defence and only two slots.
- You can also the Wutai Pagoda subquest to earn Yuffie's final limit break now, but if you do, you won't be able to complete your fourth Enemy Skill materia. You can only learn Trine in three places, and Godo is the only one you can put off until after you get the last materia.
Gold Saucer and the Keystone
- Enter Gold Saucer via North Corel and go to Battle Square. The Keystone is in Dio's museum, and he'll let you have it if Cloud competes in the arena. Win all eight matches to obtain a Protect Vest and a Choco Feather.
Boss: Battle Square
If you didn't get it earlier, you should get the achievement now.
I equipped Cloud with the Murasame and an Adaman Bangle. Enemy Skill Materia, Counter Attack, Long Range, Fire linked to Elemental (just in case the last battle was a dragon) and Choco-Mog linked to MP Absorb. Have him healed, with a limit break ready to go, and in sadness state (use a tranquilizer).
Use Choco/Mog, Beta, Aqualung and Matra Magic against groups, Fire against single enemies. Use Magic Hammer if your MP gets too low. The HP Absorb should keep your HP up, especially with the Adaman Bangle on and your defence up in the 90s. You can heal with White Wind. You'll need a bit of luck - it took me five attempts - but you should be able to do it.
- After the date event, check the cabinet in the hotel room for an Elixir.
- FC Battle 9 is available now. The prize is 3 turbo-ethers again.
Temple of the Ancients
- After getting the keystone from Tseng put it on the alter, and you'll find yourself in a labyrinth. Take the stairs and then the vines down. Run under the steps to the visible chest, which contains a trident.
- From the chest, go down the steps to the right, then climb the vines up. Try to walk through the doorway. It's blocked so go left up the stairs and then up the vines. You'll be following the little wizard, and you'll pick up a mind source at the top of the vines.
- Follow the wizard into the room down the steps from the mind source. You can pick up a Silver Rifle in the chest, as well as buy items, heal yourself, and save your game with the little wizard.
- Head back outside and down the vines you just climbed up. Go through the doorway at the bottom to grab a Turbo Ether.
- Head down all the stairs to the bottom left of the screen. Climb down the short vines to open a chest containing a rocket punch.
- From here, climb the vines up. Ignore the ancient wizard and go the other way, under the doorway to the north. Go right down the stairs, then climb the vines up the Luck Plus Materia.
- Now follow the other Ancient. Dodge the boulders in the room you end up in - you'll need to be in a position where Cloud ends up in the 'u' shaped gap - and grab the Morph Materia along the way.
- In the clock room, you can pick up the following items; 4 Princess Guard, 5 Ribbon, 7 Trumpet Shell, 8 Megalixer. If you let the second hand knock you off the clockface, you'll fall down to a fight and a chest containing a nail bat.
- To continue, go through door 6.
- The little wizard will go through the door at the top left first. To catch him, jump down one level and head through the second door from the right. Otherwise, watch the doors he goes through and where he comes out and try to run into the door he'll be coming out of.
- Jump down and open the chest in the lower left to find a Work Glove. Finally, go through the bottom right door to come out at the top. The door in the centre will be open as soon as you've caught the little wizard guy.
- You'll have time to equip your party between little talky scenes.
Boss: Red Dragon
Strong against fire, weak against water. Try Aqualung.
- Unequip Aeris at this point. You'll have any materia or accessories returned to you, so it's really just the armlet and weapon you need to consider.
- After waking up in Gongaga, you can head to Fort Condor for FC Battle10. The prize is 5 x-potions.
Boss: Demon Gate
Try using Right Hands, Deathblow - use Vincent and the Sniper CR to avoid missing - and the ???? Enemy Skill once the boss has done enough damage.
- Head back to Bone Village.
Bone Village
- Once you've unlocked the Ancient Forest with the harp, you can go to Fort Condor for FC Battle 11 and five x-potions.
- Continue through the forest. On the screen with the tree trunk, you can reach the chest containing a water ring by going under it.
- At the threeway split in the road, go left first. You'll find a save point and a magic source in the house on the left and an Aurora Armlet in the arena to the right.
- Go back to the spit and take the right turn. You'll find a Guard Source, an Elixir and an Enemy Skills Materia in this section.
- After reading, you can head back for FC Battle 12. You'll get another five x-potions.
- Head back to the intersection and go north. You'll find a Comet Materia in the building, at the top of the stairs. After fetching it, head all the way down. Save your game and equip someone with the Water Ring.
Boss: Jenova * Life
Mainly uses water attacks. You can learn Aqualung on your new Enemy Skill Materia.
- End of Part 1: Achievement.
