Easy Chocobo races

Hold [Page Down] + [Target] while racing a Chocobo to slowly restore energy.

Unlimited items

This trick requires the W-Item materia. The materia is obtained after your party parachutes back into Midgar in Disc 3. After entering the subway tunnels in Sector 8, your party may walk away from the screen and encounter the Turks, or walk towards the screen to reach another subway section. Select the second choice and follow the subway tunnel until it ends at a dead end with the W-Item materia. Equip the materia on the character with the item to be duplicated. When a battle begins, select the W-Item entry on the battle menu and pick the item to be duplicated. Answer "OK" to confirm the selection and choose the person to receive the item. When selecting the second item, choose the item to be duplicated. Answer "OK" to confirm the selection, but cancel before choosing a person to receive the item. The amount of that item should have increased by one. This may be repeated to increase the total number of that item to 99.

Cast magic three times at an opponent

Have all characters have Reflect status. Cast any attack spell on all three of your characters. The spell will bounce three times into the enemy, each with the attack power of a full spell.

Extra money

Sell a Master level all materia to get 1.4 million Gil. Since another all materia will appear when the original reaches master level, there will be no loss in usefulness.

Nibelheim safe combination

The combination to the safe in the old mansion in Nibelheim that contains the key to enter the basement (and get Vincent) is Right 36, Left 10, Right 59, Right 97. Note: Push the button used to talk to people to select each number. After opening the safe and fighting the monster inside, a key to the other part of the mansion and Odin summon materia will be found.

Materia to beat Weapons

Use the following steps to make the battle with the Emerald and Ruby Weapons easier.

Note: This must be done after Meteor is summoned and the Highwind is in your possession.

1. Before fighting either Weapons, find and equip the Morph Matera before returning to the Undersea Reactor in Junon. Go through the sight-seeing tunnel (where the ocean can be viewed) and enter battles until the Ghost Ship appears. Use Morph when the enemy is low on HP to change them into an item called "Guide Book".

2. Leave Junon and return to Kalm. Go to the last house on the right next to the bar. Go upstairs, where an old man will be encountered. He will explain how he wants to understand the afterlife, and ask you to find three items: Guide Book, Earth Harp, and Desert Rose. He will notice that you already have Guide Book and give you the Underwater Materia.

3. Equip the Underwater Materia. It does not gain AP and will not duplicate. This Materia removes the time limit when Emerald Weapon is encountered.

4. Defeat Emerald Weapon (a few mastered Mime and Knights of the Round will be helpful) to receive Earth Harp. Take it back to Kalm and give it to the old man to receive Master Summon (Red), Master Magic (Green), and Master Command (Yellow) Materia. These Materia can not level up or duplicate, but have all the abilities of their single counterparts. Master Summon grants all Summons for as long as MP are available. A similar effect is also used by Master Magic. Master Command is a little difficult to work with, but is still worth it.

5. Equip the new Materia and ram into Ruby, who is minding its own business in Gold Saucer. With luck, the single character Ruby allows to stay and fight will be ready to deal with this massacre.

6. Defeat Ruby and take Desert Rose to the man in Kalm to receive a Gold Chocobo. You probably will already have one, as Knights Of The Round is required for the Weapons battles. A good combo to use against the Weapons is HP Absorb + Knights (mega damage and mega boost in HP).

Easier Ruby Weapon battle

Kill two members of your party before fighting Ruby Weapon. Have the summon Phoenix materia equipped on the remaining character, then run into Ruby Weapon. When fighting, Ruby will only attack the live character, and therefore not use the Quicksand attack. Wait until the Weapon sticks his claws in the ground. Then, use Summon Phoenix to attack it and revive the dead party members. All three party members are now available for the battle.

How to win at Chocobo racing

During a race hold down [Page Down] + [Target] to restore energy (takes a while). After your party parachutes back into Midgar, you can get the W-Item materia. Enter the subway tunnels in Sector 8. You can encounter the Turks, away from the screen, or go to another subway section towards the screen. Go towards the screen and the new subway tunnel. Follow the subway tunnel until it ends at a dead end; here you will find the W-Item materia.Now, equip the materia on a character who has an item you want duplicated. When a battle begins, select the W-Item entry on the battle menu and pick the item to be duplicated. Answer "OK" to confirm your choice and choose who will get the new item. When selecting the second item, choose the item to be duplicated. Answer "OK" to confirm the selection, but cancel before choosing a person to receive the item. You can do this repeatedly, to increase the number of an item up to 99.

10 Phoenix Downs and a Secret Cave

On the way to Coral, go to the switch that you push to let the others go through. If you explore around that area, you should hear birds chirping. Go up the hill where you hear it (you might have to search to find the right spot) and pick the first choice you are given. After collecting the 10 Phoenix Downs, go back down to the lower tracks and follow your partners. As they turn to the right, you need to take the left split because buried in the hill under the tracks is a cave with an out-of-work miner. A Power Source, Mind Source, and Tent may be acquired within this hidden area.

Note: Your score will be lowered if you do this. It's not nice to disturb baby birds.

Ancient Forest

To get to the Ancient Forest before disc 3, simply ride up the hill with a black, gold or green chocobo.

Beat the Cosmo Canyon Boss

When you get to the Boss inside the caves at Cosmo Canyon to beat him all you do is use a Phoenix Down on him to kill him instantly. Sometimes that misses so you might want to use other healing items like X-Potion, High Potion or Potion.

Beat the Emerald Weapon

If your having difficulty beating Emerald Weapon and you can't get the Knights of the Round consider using this method.First equip three gravity materia, one to each character, second if possible equip a mime materia to each character.

Next to one character, equip both the W-Magic materia and quadra magic materia joined to the characters gravity materia. Join an all materia to the other characters materia. Okay. Now when you go into battle all you do is use any level of demi on the Emerald weapon and it automatically does 9999 HP of damage to with every hit but at the end his HP will lower and a couple of hits with a moderately powerful summon spell and he's done for. Voila!

Beat the Ruby Weapon

For this you will need Nights Of The Round with at least 3 levels. Phoenix summon with at least 3 levels. Shield with at least 2 levels. Final Attack with any level. About 3 mastered HP and MP pluses (you might need more). 3 Enemy Skills with White Wind learned (to learn White Wind, go to the grassy area of Junon untill you fight a big green creature with wings. Manipulate it and have it use White Wind on your party).

You also need MP and HP absorb and the MIME command. Make sure you do NOT have the w-item, w-magic, and w-summon materias. Give everyone HP pluses untill it reaches 9,999 HP. Then do the same with the MP pluses until it reaches 999. Equip Cloud with the Ultima Weapon and give him the following materia. Combine the Nights Of The Round with the MP absorb. Give him Phoenix with Final Attack. Give him mime with HP absorb. Make sure that you only equip these matiera on the Ultima Weapon if their mastered. Give him shield and enemy skill. Give your other party members the other enemy skills. Make sure Cloud has an accesory that will protect him from Frog and Small.

Before you fight Ruby, get into a battle and have Cloud kill your other party members. Now go after Ruby. Start off by using shield on Cloud. Do NOT have Cloud bring the rest back to life. Now have Cloud use Knights of the Round and just keep miming it until the Ruby Weapon kills you. When you come back to life, repeat the process until you've won.

NOTE: No matter what, do not use any limit breaks or regular attacks on Ruby. If Cloud becomes a toad, use white wind to heal him.

Cast Any Spell Three Times

To cast three magic spells in one round, first equip someone with a Magic Materia + "All" Support Materia. You'll also need Barrier Materia with the Reflect spell learned. When you enter battle, cast Reflect on the entire party, (your party). Then cast the magic spell that was connected to the "All" Materia on YOUR party.

Even though you cast the spell once, it will be reflected and returned to the enemy hitting for three times! And for the same price of the usual MP's. What's even better is that if you have W-Magic, you can cast that spell twice, or two different spells (both need to be connected to "All" Materia) hitting for six times!!!

Duplicate Items

For this to work you need the W-Item Materia. This Materia is available at the excavation site. Search the bottom layer at a place that looks a little like someone scuffed an "x" in the dirt. Equip the Materia, and in battle use it. Select the Item that you want to duplicate first, then select any other item. After you select the second item hit cancel, and notice that the first item has increased by one. Just keep selecting the item, and canceling till you have all you need. The only downfall to this is that you can only duplicate items that you can use during battle