UFO Sightings Side Quest: To fight pupu and get his card you must run into 4 diffrent battles in specific locations and then fight a UFO those specific locations are: 1)Winhil Bluffs 2)Mandy Beach(Near Timber) 3)Kashkabald Desert(in centra region) 4)Trabia Heath Peninsula(near Trabia Garden) NOTE:IT HELPS TO PUT ENC-NONE (DIABLOS)ALTHOUGH ITZ TECHNICLY A BATTLE YOU WILL STILL FACE HIM WITH OUT RUNNING INTO OTHER BATTLES. Once you've completed those 4 sightings head to grandidi forest(near chocobo sanctuary)and run around untill you face a UFO he is very easy to beat dont worry(be happy) :) Once you face the UFO (BE SURE TO HAVE 5 ELIXERS AND SOMEONE WITH THE ITEM ABILITY)Now head on over to the balamb region and run around where the garden use to be and you should run into PuPu the alien once you are in a battle he will ask for elixers and it will annoy you. Make sure you don't attack him cuz he only has like 10 hp. So make sure nobody has counter attack. Once you give him five elixers the battle will end and you'll reiceve his card. You can choosed to kill him. your reward will be worse than if you don't kill him. I think you get an accelerator. You can refine his card into a HUNGRYCOOCKPOT. You can refine it even further using Siren's Tool-RF ability. You'll get a shaman stone for the hungrycookpot. shaman stone sucks. It just raises your compatibility with Bahamut by 3. Use Eden's GFAbl-RF to refine the shaman stone into a rosetta stone. Those are way better. it teaches a GF Abiltyx4. And that is all the "goodies" about the UFO side quest. Submission: RobLee HudsBury (surfinmonkeez@webtv.net) Rare Cards: Level 5: PuPu: Complete UFO sightings and give PuPu 5 elixers. Level 8: Chubby Chocobo: Queen of cards quest Angelo: Watts In Timber or on White SeeD ship Gilgamesh: CC group (king) MiniMog: Junior classmen jogging around F1 of Balamb Garden Chicobo: Complete chocobo forests maze and get hidden items Quezaoctl: Mayor Dobe in FH Shiva: Give "The Girl Next Door" magazine to Zone on the White SeeD ship for free. Ifrit: Defeat Ifrit Siren: Dollet Pub owner Sacred: defeat brothers Minoutar: defeat brothers Level 9: Carnbuncle: CC group (Heart) Diablos: defeat diablos Levithian: CC group (Joker) Odin: defeat odin Pandemona: Balamb hotel owner after you do the "Balamb under siege" sequence. Cerberus: defeat cerberus Alexander: piet at lunar base Phoenix: Queen of cards quest Bahamut: defeat bahamut Doomtrain: Queen of cards quest Eden: defeat ULTIMA (not omega) weapon Level 10: Ward: Dr. Odine in Esthar Kiros: Queen of cards quest Laguna: Ellone at lunar base Selphie: Selphie's best friend at Trabia Quistis: Any of "Trepe Groupies" on F2 classroom of B. Garden Irvine: Queen of cards quest Zell: Ma Dincht (note, Zell must be in your party) Edea: Edea at Edea's house Seifer: Heamaster Cid Squall: Laguna in Esthar Rinoa: Rinoa's is tricky. You face general Caraway, loose your Ifrit card On purpose. Then get rinoa's card. You can get Ifrit card back from Martine at FH. Got it? hope so. All cards that say Queen of cards quest next to it can be found in disk 4 south of tears point Submission: Lee Hudson <>kornroach_420@webtv.net Fast Gil: There are two good ways of getting gil. one is good one is not so good. the good way first. Get your seed ranking to A by using the tests. then get a chocobo and ride it for along time. Every few minutes you'll get your salary. (which would be 30,000g if your at level A) keep doing that for a while and youll have a ton of gil. The other way will take a lot longer. you must have he call shop ability(tonberry) and you must have the Edea's letter item. go t edea's house. use the call shop ability. Sell edea's letter for 125g. talk to edea and she'll scold you for selling the letter. she'll give you another. repeat the process over and over and over. It will take you for ever. Submission: Lee Hudson <>kornroach_420@webtv.net Quick and Dirty Beat Omega Weapon: Make sure that Selphie is in the party that will face Omega. When you enter the battle, cast Aura on Selphie and then use Holy War on the entire party, or just Hero on Selphie. Once that's done, get to Selphie's Limit Break. Keep hitting "Do Over" until you get her limit break "The End." With the invincibility in effect, you should have more than enough time to "Do Over" until you get "The End." If you're impatient, or just not getting the limit break in time, then junction a slew of triples or ultimas to Selphie's Luck stat, which seems to help "The End" show up more often. Also, Junction 100 Death spells to everyone's status-def too avoid getting conked by Omega's lvl5-Death attack. Now you've set a land speed record for beating the crudola out of the toughest FF baddie ever. Enjoy. Submission: Primelord2@aol.com New Omega Weapon Stratagy: Dear PSX Codez i've Found out a Way to destroy the weapon. First thing that you must do is is make sure that you have 100xquake magic junctioned to your deffence wicth will give you life when he uses quake in the battle draw EDEN fom him then make sure that squall stays alive and that the other 2 characters die this will give you a very high chance of hitting lion heart witch can kill the weapon this stratagy took me 5-10 mins to destroy him.after the battle you recive 100xUltima stones, edens card and 100AP Submission: Jordan Rogers-Smith (sas.darlo@btinternet.com) Squall Fire GameTip: For this cheat you must have the fire sword. With squall use his attack and right before he hits the enemy hold R1 and Square. There will be a funny noise and the eneny will be engulfed in fire. Submission: Jordan Rogers-Smith (sas.darlo@btinternet.com) Quezacot Card Modification: In the strategy guide for ff8, they do not tell you how to get the card modification from Quezacotl to upgrade your weapons. After you have acquired both GF's at the beginning of the game put Quezacotl in your party by selecting junction and GF. Next, select Quezacotl from from the GF menu screen. When you do this you are going to see some elements that are learned and some that are not. At this point select "card". It will take 40 AP to fill it up so be patient. Once Quezacotl has learned this element, go back into the GF category and pick him, then go to the next page. At the bottom of the page you will see "card modification". Select card modification for Quezacotl to learn. Once the 80 AP has been complete, you will now be able to use the enemy cards to upgrade your weapons. However, there is one major draw back, if you decide to upgrade another element other than card first, your hopes for getting the card modification will be gone!!! I know because it happened to me. To upgrade your weapons using the card modification you "must" learn the card element first. Submission: Don Fegan [>dfegan@brookdale.cc.nj.us] Acquiring Diablos and Odin: I have some more tidbits for all your gamers' out there. As I was playing FF8 this past weekend, I found a much easier way to acquire both Diablos and Odin. Here is how. In the game there are certain monsters that give off certain stones. In most cases, these stones can be used to upgrade Quistis's limit break. When you come across the stone that says Quistis can learn "acid" equip her with it for this will come in very handy later on. Next, if you are confident about your HP status you might want to try this out. If not, wait awhile. Next, awaken Diablos by selecting the magical lamp in your item box. Next, pay attention to Quistis's HP. When her HP is low enough it will be time for you to use her limit breaks. When this happens, cast "acid" on him. By doing this, you will "blind" him forbidding him to use his one charge kill on you. Next, make sure you keep your HP's up, use Carbuncle, then draw and cast Demi on him. If you do this, he will be yours in no time. Acquiring Odin. Acquiring Odin can be difficult especially if you have to face all those "tone berries"; and battling one of these can take up to as much as 5 minutes. However, if you want to eliminate the hassle of fighting these guys you can do the following. After acquiring Diablos, go to junction on the sub screen and then activate him by putting him with one of your party members. Next, pick GF from the sub screen. Now select Diablos and page right. On the next page you will see a command called "enc none". Select this so he can learn it. I believe it will take 80AP. Once he has learned this you can now equip that party member with it. Go back to Odin's realm and walla no more encounters. Next, proceed up the stairs and take the elevator up to the top; then bare left and climb the ladder; go inside and activate the switch. Next, go back out and down the ladder, then run to the right and up the stairs. Once you reach the next area, make a left and climb another ladder. Next, remove the right eye and proceed down the ladder. Next, go to the right and climb the stairs to the top. Go through the opening and to the left; now climb another ladder. Next, put the right eye into the statue; when this is done a code will appear either write it down or memorize it. Next, remove both eyes from the statue, climb down the ladder and proceed downstairs. Next, go back to the figure where you removed the right eye. Now put both eyes in. When this happens, a flame will appear on the right. Next, starting from the top put in the code and then press "X" to confirm. If this is done correctly, the door on the bottom will open. Next, climb down the ladder and through the door. Now blast away. For those of you who are having a hard time acquiring these two GF's I hope this helps. Submission: Don Fegan [>dfegan@brookdale.cc.nj.us] Diablos Problem: After many times of dying, I finally got diablos to join my party (level 65). However, in the process something very weird happened. Upon receiving diablos I saved my game and then added him to Squall's artillery. In the very next fight I encountered a huge dragon like creature which was almost impossible to beat. Next I used diablos to see what kind of damage he would inflict. It didn't even put a dent in him. But when the creature cast petrify and acid breath on my party, it wiped me out. And when I died and started the game over again, diablos was gone. This is very strange because even though I saved my game before the fight he should have been there when the game restarted. I think that there is a major flaw in this game. It should be quite interesting to see if any one else has this problem. Submission: dfegan@brookdale.cc.nj.usdfegan@brookdale.cc.nj.us Easy Elemental Defense: The first thing I should say here is that this tip requires the Gameshark or some trashy facsimile there of. If you use the code that gives Squall 99 of the spell "Apocalypse" in his first spell slot (best used during a new game so that it won't write over any existing spells) and junction it to your elemental defense, you will get over 100% protection (which means absorbtion) for ALL of the elements. Imagine junctioning it with other spells, 100% absorbtion for every element... Submission: Carlos Miranda (Video_gamer900@hotmail.com) Beating the Omega Weapon: In order to beat Omega Weapon you must first card mod Laguna's card and Gilgamesh's card. Do so before Disc4 and you can re-win these card from the ccgroup in the Ragnarok. Turn the 100 Heros into 10 Holy War(trial) and then 1 Holy War with your GF menu abilities. Then card mod the second Laguna and Gilgamesh cards. You should now have 100 Heros and 21 Holy Wars. (Trust me, one more Holy War can help a bunch) Have Squall, Irvine, and Quistis all on high levels. They should all have lots of strength and speed. It is imperative that you have all three characters with lots of Full-lifes, Auras, Hastes, Triples, and/or Doubles. Squall MUST have Lionheart. If not this battle could take you up to an hour to get through. Have everyone with magic, item, and GF. Equip all of your characters with 100 Death to their status defense. Take off all elements equiped to their elem attack. Have Squall with Str +60%, Spd +40%, Auto-Haste, and HP +(whatever gives him 9999). Irvine with Str +60%, Spd +20% or +40%, Expend3x1, and HP +(). Quistis with the same as Irvine. Start the battle by having Squall give Quistis a hero. Have her cast Double or Triple on Irvine. Have Irvine cast Aura on Squall and himself. Then give Squall and Irvine a Holy War. Spells DO NOT take effect while the character is invincible. Have Squall continually do Renzokuken and have Irvine pound on him with AP or Pulse Ammo. Keep everyone with Aura and invincibility. Haste doesn't hurt either. Remember that NO SPELL takes effect on a character while invincible. i.e. you can cast aura on Squall and then give him a Hero or Holy War and he'll still have Aura, but not the other way around. You have a long and tedious battle ahead of you. P.S. Alternate with making people invincible. Omega has a tendancy to do Terra Break right when everyone's invincibility runs out. Submission: The RPG God How to get the G.F. known as Eden: Everyone knows that in Final Fantasy VIII to get the G.F. known as Eden one has to combat the formidable and difficult Ultima Weapon on the floating research facility. But what some might not know is that there is another way to get her. I played through the game taking my time to get each character to level 100 and carefully junctioned each character's abilities to be close to 150 as a minimum requirement, several of them having 255 ratings. Even with characters such as this I was not willing to attempt to fight the Ultima Weapon. So I simply progressed with the game. I reached Ultimecia's palace and unlocked every one of the sealed powers. I left the G.F. ability for last simply because my personal playing style doesn't involve using it. The final monster I encountered for unlocking seals was the dragon-type creature that goes by the name Tiamat. To find Tiamat from the entrance to the castle go through the door on the left, pass through the hallway into the room with the falling chandelier, go through the door on the lower level, pass the fountain and enter the tower. Climb the tower until you see a moving pendulum that is polygon based as opposed to animated pre-rendered background. Move to the top of the spiral until it forks and the rightward path is destroyed. (It actually looks more like a board is placed to lead you to the upper level instead of continuing with the spiral) Jump onto the pendulum and rid it to the other side where there is a door. Tiamat is on the other side. He looks almost exactly like Bahamut, except with a different color scheme. If you unlocked the "draw" command before meeting Tiamat you will find that he has two drawable items. The first is the spell "Flair." The second is the elusive G.F. named Eden. ;) Good bye and good luck. Submission: Carlos Miranda (Spiderkane1@hotmail.com)