Final Fantasy 8 - Cheats - http://maxpages.com/megacheats/Final_Fantasy

This is a few STRATEGY pieces of advice. Followed by a detailed WALKTHROUGH! Then a "Complete" section of how to get EVERY CARD possible! Hope you enjoy. And some of these cards are hard. I've tryed!!!

Draw early on in the game

Speed is everything

Be careful, save every 20 minutes

Keep Squall in Yellow, it's fun

Keep your G.F.'s happy, but don't use them too often, you'll See the
rankings go down... just like running away a lot.

This is a really awesome game, try finding
the enemy's weakness and exploit, exploit, exploit!

If at first you don't succeed, try again!

Draw from all bosses, never know what you can get!

Have lots of fun!

Play cards alot, and morph almost every new monster you come across,
sometimes more than once. It helps later in the game.

Spend you time drawing Melt from an enemy with Laguna in the 3rd disk,
don't be afraid to stop the enemys to do so.

Too weak to kill an enemy? Use Melt to do maximum damage!

To use limit, use Aura or be at low health. If it doesn't appear right away,
don't fret! Just keep hitting Triangle.

To get Squall’s 2nd best weapon in the 1st disk:
In Galbadia Garden go play everyone cards there, collect as many cards
as you can. Then use Quazlcoat's Ability 'Change cards to Items' and
change Toonberry to Cutting Knife, fight the guys around Gulbadia
Garden to get a lot of Bolts, get 2 of the cards on the 5thpage-1st card and turn 3 Adamantian turtles into Shell. You don't need to buy the Weapon, you just need all the materials, and it will show up in shop, the magazines are for you to know what items you need.

Keep your levels low in the first disk, try changing everyone you
encounter into cards. In the second disk, get your level up high, enemies are easy when you are at lvl 100.

For lots of AP, in the 2nd-4th disk, fight the Sabotendar (Cactus men) in the Desert by/on Cactus Island.

The only cheat I found (Cheat as in W-Item type) was being able to
junction one magic to 5 different slots, on the same character. First you need the magic, say Ultima. Have 100 of them on Squall or whoever.
Now you need to have Ultima junctioned on let's say, HP. Your other 3
Junctions are (For only using on 4), Attack, Elemental Defence, and
Speed, put any type of magic on those, just remember what you put (ie.
fire on Attack, shell on Elemental Defence, and Haste on Speed). Make
sure you have no other Ultima, fire, shell, or haste on anyone else! Now go to the Magic screen, put 1 Ultima on Zell, Selphie, and Rinoa. Then trade fire for your 1 ultima on Selphie, shell for the 1 ultima on Zell, and haste for the 1 ultima on Rinoa. Go back to the Junction screen and admire! Don't take off Ultima or they all will go. If you messed up on any of these processes, start over, or you will be missing Ultimas on a few slots. You can give back haste and junk to Squall afterwards too. The maximum slots is 5, but you can do 2 or 3. ****This only works on the Japanese****

Ultima Weapon is at the bottom of the Underwater Reaserch Facility, the
place where you got Bahamut. There are pretty nasty enemies down
there, so be careful, like it matters if you have everyone at level 100,
which you should. Also, have Squall's Best Weapon equiped. First, you
climb down the vine, then go hit the control panel, it will take off 4 points.
In order to succed, you need 10 points left over. Go down stairs, now go
to the other control panel and take off 2 points. Go down and hit the
control panel nearest to where you came down, take off 1. Now there is
another control panel there, hit it and take 4 off, go through the door that
opens and add 7 points back on. Go out and go down, take off 1 point
from the control panel and go on the elevator. Take off 4 points to get
past this door, then it's a matter of fighting/walking down to the bottom.
When you get down there, kill off Squall then finish the battle/run away.
Use raise to bring him back alive, and keep him in the yellow. Hit the
control panel and after a long sceen, you fight Ultima Weapon. The key to
this battle is having Squall's Speed and Attack up. Use his D-Move on
Ultima. It took me 4 limits to kill him.

To beat Omega, you should have Squall, Rinoa, and Quistis in your party.
Have everyone at max HP, highest evasion, highest speed, luck, and
highest power. Have Death junctioned to status defence and for status
attack, I heard don't put holy, but I put nothing just incase. Have Eden at
level 50 or higher and life at 9,999. Try to have Squall's Lionheart, and
have Squall enter the battle with Automatic Haste (Cerebus' Ability). Give
Rinoa the ability to cast Melt and Leviathan's Fullcure. Give Quistis Eden,
try to have him very happy so he goes fast. Before you enter the fight,
enter a battle and kill off Squall. Leave the battle and cast Life1 on him or
use a pheonix down, slow down the batlle speed to it's slowest. In the
battle, have Squall use his Limit and Quistis use Eden, have Rinoa cast
Melt on Ultima, any order, just do it. If you can't get Squall's limit, keep
hitting triangle until you do. Just keep pounding Omega until he dies.
Have Rinoa absorb Ultima's or use Omega's Ultima's against him. Have
Quistis keep casting Eden, and Squall keep using his limits.

To meet Omega, you first need to get your main party to the switching
point near the fountain. Have your other party, from the entrance go up
the stairs, to the right and in the door, go down stairs, then pull the rope
for the bell... you should have 60 seconds to switch party members and
all, but 10 seconds is used up by Zell looking up at the bell. Switch
the party and going straight ahead. Omega Weapon is hard to
miss, so just talk to his mother.

AND NOW FOR THE RARE CARDS AND ALL............

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CONTENTS
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1. Version

2. Introduction

3. What you should do before you finish a disc

4. Koyokoyo card

5. Card Club group

6. Kochocobo card

7. Other rare card locations

8. Card Queen

9. Card Queen and Card Club group in DISC 4

10. Gameshark codes

11. Miscellanous stuff

12. Cerdits

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Versions
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Version 1.0 (6th April 1999) - First posting

Version 1.1 (25th April 1999) - Added additional info. regarding obtaining Seifer's
card and the exact name of Quistis's card holder.
Corrected some Japanese text errors and more Card
Queen information.

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Introduction
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The card game is essentially a mini game in the world
of Final Fantasy 8. Basically, the player goes around
the world collecting cards which can be turned into items
via Quetzocohuatl's menu ability 'card convert' (¥«¡¼¥ÉÊÑ²½)

Cards can be obtained via 3 ways. Either by challenging
other players to a game and winning from them, defeating
major bosses in battle or turning monsters into cards.
I won't waste time explaining how the card battle system works.
To get information about this, please refer to GameFaqs.

The purpose of this FAQ is to assist players into getting rare
cards; Usually level 8 and above. Any cards below 8 can be gotten
by challenging other characters or turning monsters into cards.

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What you should do before you finish a disc
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The thing with rare cards is that most of them can ONLY be gotten
at a certain location and usually during a certain period of time. Some
require you to go through tedious tasks to obtain. Below, I have what
I think are the most important tasks to perform for cards before going
on to another disc.

DISC 1: 1) Forest Owls: Battle with Watts (¥ï¡¼¥Ä) to obtain the Angelo card

2) Timber newspaper agency (ƒeƒBƒ“ƒo?[ƒ}ƒjƒAƒbƒNƒX?Ð): Do not forget to
obtain 'Tonari no Kanojo' (¤È¤Ê¤ê¤Î¥«¥Î¥¸¥ç)

DISC 2: 1) Galbadia Garden: Defeat Kelberos to obtain the Kelberos card

DISC 3: 1) White SeeD ship: If you have 'Tonari no Kanojo' (¤È¤Ê¤ê¤Î¥«¥Î¥¸¥ç),
you can get the Shiva card from Zoon (¥¾¡¼¥ó)

2) White SeeD ship: If you missed the Angelo card in DISC 1, you can
get it from Watts (¥ï¡¼¥Ä) here again

3) Lunatic Base: Challenge Piet (¥Ô¥¨¥Ã¥È)to obtain the Alexander card

4) Lunatic Base: Challenge Elone (¥¨¥ë¥ª¡¼¥Í) to obtain the Laguna card

5) GET THE KOYOKOYO CARD!!! *VERY IMPORTANT* details below

I read that Piet can be found at Esthar's Abanda Fields after the Lunaside Base has
crash.Maybe the Alexander card can be obtained there after?

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Koyokoyo card (¥³¥è¥³¥è¤Î¥«¡¼¥É)
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A rare card yet not really a rare card in it's own. It is a level 5 card that you
cannot find anywhere except from Koyokoyo itself. Koyokoyo is an alien which travels
around in a UFO. You have to view 4 sightings of the UFO in different parts of the
world to meet the UFO. After destroying the UFO, you can meet Koyokoyo. Before that
however, please equip yourself with 5 Elixirs (¥¨¥ê¥¯¥µ¡¼) to heal Koyokoyo.

UFO sightings:

1) Timber: Mandy Beach (¥Þ¥ó¥Ç¡¼¥Ó¡¼¥Á)

2) Galbadia: Near the town of Winhill (¥¦¥£¥ó¥Ò¥ëµÖÎÍ)

3) Travia: Hiadesu island (ƒqƒAƒfƒX”¼“‡)

4) Esthar: Kashukubaaha Desert (ƒJƒVƒ…ƒNƒo?[ƒn?»”™)

Please equip 'No Encounter' (¥¨¥ó¥«¥¦¥ó¥¿¤Ê¤·) for the duration of this quest so
that you can walk around in peace. Note that you will still encounter the UFO and
Koyokoyo with the ability on so do not worry. After these sightings, travel to the
Chocobo Holy forest (at the northeastern part of the world, there is a densely
forested area. Locate a Chocobo forest there. That's the Chocobo Holy forest) and
land your ship above the rocky land next to it. Walk around and you should encounter
the UFO. Destroy it and proceed to Balamb but before you do, make sure you have 5
Elixirs (¥¨¥ê¥¯¥µ¡¼) and the 'Item' (¥¢¥¤¥Æ¥à) ability equipped on one of your
characters. Land around where Balamb garden used to be and encounter Koyokoyo.
*DO NOT* attack it. Just feed it 5 Elixirs and get the Koyokoyo (¥³¥è¥³¥è) card.
(IMHO, the rarest card of all)

You can also check your location with the Japanese characters in the locations aboved
by going into menu (press TRIANGLE). It is on the lower left corner of the screen.

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Card Club group (£Ã£ÃÃÄ)
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The Card Club group (hereon known as CC) is a group of people in Balamb Garden who
enjoy card playing. Certain rare cards can only be obtained from some of them. They
are divided into ranks and you must beat them in the order that follows:

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| Jack | The guy hanging around the location board in the main hall. |
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| Crab | He walks along the path infront of the carpark. |
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| Diamond | The 2 girls walking towards the location board in the main hall. |
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Spade | The guy sitting next to the 2nd floor elevator. |
| | He is next to another guy also sitting around. |
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| Heart | Shuu in Garden control room. You get Carbunkle card from her. |
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| King | Talk to Doctor Kadouki in the infirmitry and go back to your room |
| | to rest alone. Someone will appear to challenge you. Obtain |
| | Gilgamesh card from him/her. |
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Joker | He randomly appears in the training center on the bridge next to a |
| | draw point. Obtain Leviathan card from him. |
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I don't know if this works in DISC 1 or 2 because I only tried it on DISC 3. If the
characters aren't there when you reach the location, try going back to the previous
screen and back again. Do so until you see them there.

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Kochocobo card (¥Á¥ç¥³¥Ü¤Î¥«¡¼¥É)
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To obtain the Kochocobo card, you first need to visit all the 6 Chocobo forests in
the world. At each of them, you need to play the mini game to get the big chocobo to
come out. Basically, your goal is to use the Chocobo Sonar to detect the chocobos at
various location and summon them down. There is a pattern to each forest and your goal
is to have 1 single chocobo left standing. That chocobo would summon a big chocobo when
you talk to it. Before riding off on it, you need to search around with your Chocobo Sonar.
Find a location with the higest rating and summon the big chocobo to it. It will dig
and you will usually recieve stones. (Aura stone, Ultima stone, Holy stone, etc..)
Do this at all 6 forests and proceed to the Chocobo Holy forest.

You can only get there by Chocobo so proceed to the Chocobo forest near Travia Garden
and grab yourself one. Navigate yourself toward the eastern beach in relation to the
forest and walk across the waters to the next continent. Walk around until you get
to the forest. Once there, watch a chocobo dance (cute! ^_^) and then talk to the small
chocobo to obtain the Kochocobo card.

Chocobo forest locations:
1) Near Edea's house
2) North of the Sentora Ruin
3) South West of Sabotender Island
4) Northern end of the map next to the Shumi village
5) South of the chocobo forest near the Shumi village
6) North of Travia Garden behind the mountain

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Other rare cards locations
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-Level 8-
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| Debuchocobo | The guy sitting on the bench in front of the Balamb Garden |
| | library (*card queen quest) |
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| Angelo | From Watts of the forest owls |
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| Gilgamesh | From Card Club's King |
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| Komoguri | From the little boy in a blue shirt running around Balamb |
| | Garden's hall |
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| Kochocobo | Read Kochocobo section |
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| Quetzocohuatl | Fisherman Horizon's male station master (2nd floor in the station |
| | house) |
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| Shiva | Obtained from Zoon after giving him 'Tonari no Kanojo' |
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| Ifrit | After defeating Ifrit |
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| Siren | 2nd floor of Dollet's pub. Walk east to battle card master |
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| Select | After defeating Brothers |
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| Minotaur | After defeating Brothers |
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-Level 9-
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| Kabunkle | From Card Club's Heart |
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| Diablos | After defeating Diablos |
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| Leviathan | From Card Club's Joker |
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| Odin | After defeating Odin |
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| Pandaemonium | From the man standing in front of Balamb hotel |
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| Kelberos | After defeating Kelberos |
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| Alexander | From Piet at Luna Base |
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| Phoenix | From the guy

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