Tips and Tricks

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Tips and Tricks

SeeD Test Answers

At any time after the field exam you can take SeeD Written Tests from either your desk in the classroom, or from the Tutorial Menu. You can take tests up to the Level you are on, you can take it as many times as you want, if you miss any. I wouldn't take any tests once you reach rank A because if your rank goes down, you will have a couple tests left to make it up.

	Question
Test	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
1	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No
2	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No
3	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
4	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No
5	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
6	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
7	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
8	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
9	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
10	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No
11	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Yes
12	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No
13	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
14	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
15	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes
16	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
17	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No
18	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
19	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	Yes
20	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
21	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
22	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
23	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
24	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes
25	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No
26	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
27	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No
28	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
29	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No
30	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No

Finding the Ragnarok on disc 4

When you first arrive at Edea's House during Disc 4, go towards the lighthouse/beach area and watch a FMV of Ultimecia's Castle. Head north; you will be walking on a large metal chain. There will be three portals on the west side of the screen; each takes you to a different location on the world map. Take the middle one (face it and press X to jump over to it). Enter the portal; it will take you to Centra's Serengetti Plains just a bit north of the Centra Ruins. Check the World Map; you will see two red dots--the red dot which is not at Fisherman's Horizon is the Ragnarok (the red dot at Fisherman's Horizon is Balamb Garden). There is a bay of water to the north. Go to the west and swing around the bay; then continue east (and slightly north) until you reach The Tricky Chocobo Forest, which is nestled in a semi-circle of mountains on the Nectar Peninsula, almost due south of Fisherman's Horizon. Ride a Chocobo out of the Forest (if you haven't completed the Forest before this point, you can either complete it now or "buy" a Chocobo from the ChocoKid), and go to the beach south and slightly west of the Centra Ruins. Cross the shallow water, going generally to the west, till you reach a beach north of Edea's House. Proceed to the east, then north (you can stay on the Chocobo the whole way--there's a small gap in the mountains to go through), until you reach the Ragnarok, which is in the Kashkabald Desert. Near the Ragnarok is another portal. If you enter it, a fourth portal will appear by the chain at Ultimecia's Castle (go back through to get back to the Ragnarok). You can now fly the Ragnarok around wherever you like, although there are certain places you cannot enter because of time compression--most towns are non-enterable, most dungeons are enterable. Enter any of the four portals on the world map to return to Ultimecia's Castle.

Initial SeeD rank

Here is how to get full marks during your SeeD test to get a high SeeD level upon graduation. You will be marked on Conduct, Judgment, Attack, Spirit and Attitude. The maximum rank you can graduate with is 10. How you get this depends on how you fare in the Fire Cavern and on the Dollet Mission.

Conduct-You are judged here by the remainder of time on your escape from the Dollet mission. If you return to the beach with 25mins left you get 100 points, 20mins left, 70 points, 15mins left, 40 points, 3mins left, 10 points, less than that, 0 points.

Judgement-This is done in the Fire Cavern. It depends on how close to your chosen time limit you defeat Ifrit. If you win the battle with Ifrit with only 7secs left you get 100 points, 1min left, 70 points, 10mins left, 40 points, 15+mins left, 0 points.

Attack-This is based on how many enemies you defeat on the Dollet Mission without GFs. 75+ enemies = 100 points, 20-24 enemies = 50 points, 10-14 enemies = 20 points, below 10 = 0 points.

Spirit-This is worked out from the amount of times you run away from fights on the Dollet mission. 1- escapes =100 points, 2 escapes = 70 points, 5-9 escapes = 30 points, 10+ escapes = 0 points.

Attitude-This is worked out on the Dollet Mission. It starts on 100 points and the number of points you have will decrease according to the following:
Don't talk to anybody outside of your party (except for Selphie)
Don't go to the Communications tower from the Town Square with Seifer's HP at 0.
Walk round to the communications tower. Do not jump off of the ledge after Selphie does.
Get rid of the dog during the chase with X-ATM092.
Don't hide in the pub during the chase with X-ATM092.
You can also get a 100 point bonus if you manage to defeat X-ATM092.

Seifer' Gunblade-Seifer, like Squall has a gunblade. You will know that pressing R1 at the right time gives Squall a critical hit, but when you are controlling Seifer on the Dollet mission, pressing R1 at the right time also maximises his hits. It is harder to do though as Seifer's slashes are faster than Squall's.

Quick AP and EXP

After getting the Ragnarok in Disc 3, have Quistis in your party and make sure she has the Blue Magic: Degenerator. Keep her HP low and, if you want, equip her with the Initiative ability so she has the first turn in battle. Take the Ragnarok and land it at the Esthar Air Station (which is a round landing pad near the middle of Esthar City). Once you exit the Ragnarok, walk along the path towards the city. At this point you should be able able to go north or south, go south (bottom of the screen). Follow this path through the next screen (there's a save point in the middle of this one). Once you are at the next screen, take the path leading towards the center of the city (there are yellow arrows on the ground pointing the way). OK, we're finally here. Go down the stairs to the right and speak to the man dressed in dark clothing who appears to be sitting on the side of the walkway. He will say, "hahahhaaehehe" or something to that effect. Then, you will enter into a battle with an Elnoyle, which are somewhat hard to find. Right away, use Quistis' Degenerator attack. By defeating the Elnoyle, all of your characters will gain more than a level and 18 AP (almost as much as Cactuars give, but they don't give you any EXP). The man in dark will disappear after you defeat the Elnoyle, but all you have to do is walk off to the next screen and come back and he's there again. Another plus to defeating the Elynoyle is that it will drop, most of the time, 2 or 3 Energy Crystals, which are really hard to get anywhere else. You'll need these for getting Squall's ultimate weapon, the Lionheart (refine them into Pulse Ammo) and Quistis' ultimate weapon, Save the Queen.

Sent in from Jesse Brockwell

Quick AP

To get easy AP fight cacti on "cactuar island". You get 20 AP for each cactus you kill. They do tend to run away so be quick. This is a good way to get those all important GF abilities.

Sent in from Frank Van Meensel.

Quick AP

The easiest way i have found to gain levels and ap is on disk 2 when you enter seifers garden. Go to the hockey rink and keep fighting the hockey players. You gain 9-12 ap per fight and gain a level every 2 fights. It helps to have someon junctioned with stat-a- with death, counter and cover.

Sent in from Mike

Quick EXP

You can level up and get tonnes of EXP on the Island closest to Heaven, the furthest Island on the east of the map, or the Island closest to Hell, the furthest Island to the West of the map. Use Quisits as part of your team and junction the initiative ability to her making sure her HP is very low. On either of these Islands are probaly the hardest monsters in the game, but Quisits limit breaker degenerator kills any of them in just one shot. Just use it straight away in every battle and be careful to save every now and again in case the monsters come in pairs and you lose all your hard work.

Sent in from Siobhán Doyle

Resetting card rules

You can get rid of the random rule in a card game - when you have just gained a rare card go straight to Balamb harbour and challenge the man to cards. He is wearing brown and knealing next to the water. He will automatically get rid of all your current card rules including the annoying random rule.

Sent in from Elona Cloraise.

Easy gil trick

Go to a store and buy as many Tents as possible, at the cost of 1000 gil a piece. Then, use the Recover Med-RF ability to refine four Tents into one Mega-Potion, which can be sold for 7,500. This gives you a profit of 3,500 gil!

Also, this can be done with Cottages, at a cost of 1250 each. Cottages refine at 2 to one Mega-Potion, which then provides a profit of 5,000 gil!

Each time you go into a shop, for 225,000 gil, you can buy 100 Tents and 100 Cottages, which then refine into 75 Mega-Potions. After selling these, you make a whopping profit of 337,500 gil, without having to search for any rare materials!!!

Sent in from Jragon

Easy Megalixirs

You can get a 100 Megalixers if you use the card mod ability on Bahamut's Card.

Sent in from Jacob Green

The Organ in the Chapel (disc 4)

First you need to find the Floodgate Key. If you follow the top-left hall from the Front Foyer, you'll eventually run into the two elevators. Place two male members and a female member on the top elevator and the bottom elevator. The lighter party will get lifted up from the heavier elevator(top) and you'll reach the door that leads you to the Floodgate Key.

After getting the Floodgate Key, take it to the Dungeon area where you find Iron Giant and Gargantua. You'll see a lever in the middle of the dungeon area where it should let you use the Floodgate Key. (This will stop the water keeping from flowing.)

As soon as you finish, head to the organ in the Chapel. The organ is used for getting the door of spears in the dark room where is found at the right of the fountain in front of the Chapel. To get rid of all of the spears, you need to hit all eight keys(buttons) on the organ. This will retract the spears and lets you be able to walk through the door.

Once the gate is completely lowered, walk down to the far end of the canal and you'll discover a box. Open the box of course, and you'll find the Rosetta Stone. Also, there will be a door that lead to the cell where you fought the Iron Giant.

Sent in from Adam Duerksen

Easy way to get adamantine

you must be on disc three only to use this

when you are laguna kiros and ward on disc three while shooting the movie a ruby dragon will appear trying to attack laguna. after the mini game you will go down into the canyon with kiros and ward and fight in a real battle scene. mug this creature (providing mug is one of your abilitys) to recieve adamantine which is very rare and is used to upgrade some of your partys weapons to there top form.plus you dont have too lose the minatour card by refining it.

Sent in from Lewim

Easy Megapotions

When the garden is mobile and you wanna stock up on Mega-Potions, go to the areas near Trabia Garden ( it's like grass with patches of snow ) there you will battle with Mesmerize.Sometimes ( this is not always ), you will receive Mesmerize blade. Use Recov Med-RF to refine them into Mega-Potions.

Sent in from Wong Ting Ya

Easy pulse ammo

Go to Esthar after the lunar cry, and find the save point (there's only one in Esthar). Then, go right where you will see a woman who will say,"Millions of mansters fallling from the sky..."(Or something like that) Go north of her and go east and talk to the person who will say,"Heehahaheehee." Then, you will fight Enloyle.Use Quistis's Degenerator to defeat the monster.After the battle, you will receive 2 to 4 energy crystals. Use ammo-RF to change them into pulse ammo.

Sent in from Wong Ting Ya

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