Final Fantasy 8 cheats: Items

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Items in the Desert Prison Tower in Disc 2:
Floor 1: Fighter Comic 001 in room to the right, and a save point in the room to left.
Floor 2: Items in both rooms.
Floor 3. Item in the left room.
Floor 4: An item in the left room.
Floor 5: Card player in the room to the right. Defeat him for an item.
Floor 6: Save point.
Floor 7: Nothing
Floor 8: A man selling items in the room to the right.
Floor 9: A Berserk draw point in the room to the right.
Floor 10: A save point in the room to the right, a card player in the room to the right.
Floor 11: A hidden draw point (use "Move-Find ability") in the room to the right, and a card player in the room to the right.
Floor 12: Nothing
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Finding the hidden Occult Fan Magazines:
Issue 1: Balamb garden Library first bookcase on the left.
Issue 2: Can be bought using GF Tonberry Ability "Familiar" ability in Esthar Book shop. Also can be obtained by challenging the Pub manager in Dollet to a card game.
Issue 3: Can be bought using GF Tonberry Ability "Familiar" ability in Esthar Book shop. Also can be obtained when you first arrive at FH -- find the master fisherman.
Issue 4: Presidential Aide in Esthar's Presidential Palace.
Information in this section was contributed by Jordan Craw, Bob Cote, and Aaron Bluhm.

Finding the hidden Combat King Magazines:
Combat King 001: First floor of D District Prison
Combat King 002: Defeat Fujin and Rajin
Combat King 003: Girl who has a crush on Zell in Balamb hotel
Combat King 004: Second visit to Esthar, from Esthar soldier Combat King
Combat King 005: Lunatic Pandora as Squall
Note: All of the Combat Kings can be bought at the Esthar book shop with Tonberry's Familiar ability.
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Items from D Prison:
When you are in the D Prison, challenge the man at cards who charges 200 gil. When playing him, only use level 5 cards or lower and a maximum of two level 6 to 10 cards or all level 5 cards to get a better prize. Using lower level cards will give you better prizes. The best prize are Rosetta Stones. This item helps your GF learn Abilityx4. You can also get some rare magic stones like Holy and Flare. If you are patient enough you can receive these items. Once he starts giving out prizes such as Potions or Eye Drops, quit.
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Adamantine:
Find Adamantoise on the beach west of Dollet.
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Auto-Potion:
This Auto-potion is very useful. It will help during battles, but not in Disc 1. The GFs you want are Leviathan, Cactuar, and Tonberry. They all hold Auto-Potion. It will work on some Bosses but not on Ultima and Omega Weapon. This move will work and help you beat Ultimicia, Griver, Ultimicia-Griver, and True Ultimicia. The party that will defeat those Bosses include Squall and Zell. The Juntion will be in this order. For Squall; Attack, Revive, Magic, Item. For Zell; Attack, Recover, Magic, Item. This will not fail if you are a strong player.
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Battle Meter:
Talk to Cid as soon as you get your rank reports from you SeeD field test to get the Battle Meter.
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Black Hole:
Mug a Gesper in the second Laguna/Ward/Kiros dream sequence. Black Holes teach Degenerator to Quistis, which is one of her most useful Limit Breaks. Alternately, you can get Black Holes by refining Gesper's card as well as Diablos' card.
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Cottages:
On Disc 1, walk around Timber after you defeat the fake president. Battle some Galbadian Soldiers. Win some battles and they will start to drop Cottages. Repeat this process to get as many Cottages as desired.
Information in this section was contributed by Rem.

Curse Spikes:
On the second floor of the Deep Research Center are creatures called Trifaces. One appears every fourth or fifth battle. Mug Triface to receive six to eight Curse Spikes every time. After one hour of battling, it is possible to get 100 Curse Spikes.
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Dragon Fangs:
Go to Island Closest To Hell and fight Greendels (yellow and green things with a tail blade).
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Heroes:
Card Mod a Laguna Card to get 100 Heroes. These are especially helpful against Omega Weapon and Ultimecia.
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Mega Phoenix:
To get a Mega Phoenix, you must have GF Alexander and the ability Level Medicine-RF. Refine 50 Phoenix into one Mega Phoenix.
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Moon Stone:
To get Irvine's best weapon, go to Esther. If you already have the Raganork, land on the tall building that says "Airstation". Then, take a right. Go to where you find the first seat thing. Go down that little walkway behind the seat thing that is messed up. Once you have gone down that walkway (not all the way; just until you see a stairway on your right), go down what stairs there and talk to the person. If you are in the correct place, when you talk to him, he should laugh. You will enter a fight with Enoyle. If you want two or three Moon Stones, Mug him. To get two to four Energy Crystals, wait until the fight is over and do not Mug him.
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Old Key:
After getting and dropping the key for the first time, continue going to the left. There will three hatches in the ground. Go to the top (bottom) of the left hatch and press Action. You will receive the Old Key but Laguna will lose it again. It can be found at least one more time.
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Pulse Ammo:
To get Pulse Ammo for Squall's best weapon, The Lionheart, and Irvine's best Limit Break bullets, go to the forest outside of Edea's orphanage and battle a Blitz. Mug him and you will receive a Power Generator. Use Ifrit's Ammo RF and change the Power Generator into 20 Pulse Ammo.
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Quakes:
Once you pass Timber and are in the next city, you will need to go to the Tomb Of The Unknown King. Once there, you will get the Brothers GF and their cards. Turn one into 100 Dino Bones. Use Diablos' Time Magic refine to transform them each into 10 Quakes. Give the people in your party the Quakes and junction the magic to their HP. This should greatly improve your HP. This trick results in more HP than Curaga (which junctions better to VIT). You can now save the Curagas for healing your party.
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Rosetta Stones:
To get 100 Rosetta Stones, collect 100 Curse Spikes and refine them into 100 Dark Matter. Then refine 100 Dark Matter into 100 Shaman Stones. Finally, refine the 100 Shaman Stones into 100 Rosetta Stones.
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Star Fragment:
Battle T-Rexaur and after awhile you should obtain enough Star Fragments to remodel all the weapons that require it.
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Phoenix Pinion:
Go to the Shumi Village on the northern island and talk to the elder. He wants to give you a gift, but since they all work for what they get, he sends you away to help the sculptor. The sculptor then sends you to find five various stones: the blue stone, wind stone, life stone, shadow stone, and water stone. The blue stone in the sculptor's room underneath the window, the wind stone is next to the locked house in the big pile of rocks, the life stone is under a tree to the right of the elder's house, the shadow stone is on the first level where the shadows intersect to the right of the elevator, and the water stone is next to the sink in artisan's house. After collecting all of these, you are sent to see the elder. He lets you look at his hand, and you go to leave feeling shamed. The assistant will call you back in and gives you the Phoenix Pinion and explains the entire ordeal.
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To catch a Phoenix Pinion (not the Phoenix Pinion from the Shumi Village ) you need have the GF Siren and the ability Tool-RF. Refine three Mega Phoenix into one Phoenix Pinion.
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Old key:
When controlling Laguna in Esthar and he gets the wrong map, go over to the big items. After Laguna's legs cramps, go straight and take a left. Go over to the items and press X to get the old key.
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Easy Vit-Up:
Defeat Sacred and Minotaur to get their card. They can be found at the Tomb of the Unknown King. Defeat all the Card Club members (Jack, Joker, Club, Diamond, Spade, Heart and King) before the end of Disc 3 so that they will accompany Squall when he returns to the Ragnarok after Time Compression has begun. Using Quezacotl's Card Mod ability, refine 10 Adamantines from Minotaur's card. Five Adamantines can be refined into one Vit-Up. Challenge Xu to a card game, and win from her the Minotaur card, repeat as desired. You can also refine other kinds to rare items, then win the card back from Xu.
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Energy crystals:
Once obtaining the Ragnarok, fly to Esthar Air Station. Go out to the main road, where the guard is sitting down. Run up, then once the scene changes, run up again to change the scene again. Run down and once the scene changes, come down and follow the road to the right. There should be a small black man at that location. Talk to fight an Elnoyle, which will result in two Energy Crystals. This may be repeated as many times as needed as long as you run off the screen and return.
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Energy crystals can be obtained by going to the woods located by Edea's house. Find Ruby Dragon and mug him to obtain four Energy Crystals. You can use these to get Pulse Ammo to update Squall's weapon.
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Save fuel:
If you are low on fuel for a vehicle, drive it backwards. It will still move at regular speed with or without fuel.
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Free Potions:
You can get free Potions in Timber Town in Disc 2. Get Rinoa in the party, then go to the bridge (over the railroad tracks) where you saw the guards. Keep returning until a man appears. Talk to him, then talk to him a second time to receive a Potion. Leave the screen and return until he appears again and repeat.
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Stock up on items:
Spend as little Gil as possible up to Disc 2 (preferably until Fisherman's Horizon). Make your characters battle as much as possible to reach levels 30-40. You should have now enough Gil to stock 100 of all items.
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Dark Matter:
Collect 100 Curse Spikes and use Siren's Tool-RF Ability to refine all 100 into a Dark Matter. Dark Matter can be used in one of two ways: You can use Bahamut's Forbid Mag-RF Ability (not Forbid Med-RF) to refine 1 Dark Matter into 100 Ultimas. Dark Matter can also be used to teach Griever's Limit Break, Shockwave Pulsar, to Quistis.
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Holy Wars:
A Holy War is an item that will temporarily make your entire party invincible, and makes it much easier to defeat Ultimecia. You must defeat the entire CC group in Disc 3 in Balamb Garden to be able to do the following trick. In Disc 4, when you get the Ragnarok back, Xu will be there, along will all the other CC group members. Make sure that you have already turned the Gilgamesh Card you got from Quistis in Disc 3 into 10 Holy Wars. Xu will have multiple copies of this card, which you can turn into Holy Wars. Each time you get the Gilgamesh Card from Xu, turn it into 10 Holy Wars before challenging her again. Repeat this eight more times and you will have 100 Holy Wars.
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Friendship item and Mog Amulet:
The Friendship item and the Mog Amulet for summoning Moomba and Moogle cannot be found unless you have a PocketStation (PlayStation version). You can find the items there on your Chocobo Quest.
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Unlimited items:
Note: This trick requires a PocketStation, the North American version of the game, and a memory card. Download the Chocobo World game from Final Fantasy 8 onto your Pocketstation. This can be done after you have caught a Chocobo. Start playing through Chocobo World on the PocketStation, and collect as many items as possible. After obtaining the desired items, plug the Pocketstation and the memory card into the PlayStation. Enter the memory card manager and save Chocobo World to the memory card, which will occupy 7 blocks. Start playing your Final Fantasy 8 game with the file that you have caught a Chocobo with. Choose the option to take Boco (the character you play Chocobo World with) home. This also lets you transfer all the items you have collected in the Pocketstation game into the Final Fantasy 8 game. Then choose the option to send Boco into the Pocketstation game again. Go to the option on the Final Fantasy 8 game to see all the items that were transferred from the Pocketstation. Go to the memory card manager, and copy the Chocobo World files from the memory card back to into the Pocketstation. Repeat the steps that transfer the items to Final Fantasy 8. Note: You can do this to get 16 or more MiniMog abilities for all your G.F.s to use. Just find MiniMog inside the Pocketstation game and then just repeat the transferring cheat.
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Go to the Card Master's room in Dollet. Check the stacks of magazines for information and items. Once you have got the items (there are about four per stack) exit the room and go back in. There will be more items back in the stacks.
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Upgrading weapons:
You do not need to have read the "Weapon Monthly" magazines in order to upgrade weapons. You only need to have the correct items in your inventory. For example, if you are on Disc 1 and have 12 Pulse Ammo items, 1 Dragon Fang item, and 1 Adamantine piece, you can go to a Junk Shop and get the Lionheart blade.
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Easy Adamanite for remodeling all the best weapons:
Simply have the Card-Item ability and change one of the Brothers into 10 Adamanite.
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Win one from a Atomstise.
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Megalixers:
When fighting Sorceress Adel in Disc 4, cast Protect on Rinoa, then Mug her. There is a good chance you will get 8 Megalixers.
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Get the Lionheart in Disc 1:
The items needed for the Lion Heart (Squalls best weapon) are 1 Adamantine, 4 Dragon Fangs, and 12 Pulse Ammo.. Get Quezecoatl's card mod and Ammo refine from Ifrit. Since most of the items you need to be powerful is in the cards, it is recommended that you keep playing it in Balamb. You need 20 Elnoyle cards for the 2 Energy Crystals (converted with Card mod). Then Ammo refine them to Pulse ammo. The Minotaur card for the Adamantine, and since you cannot get Dragon Fangs from cards, fight a T-Rexaur until you get at least four of them. Go to the nearest junkshop and you will be able to get the Lionheart in Disc 1.
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Before the Dollet field exam, level up your party to be between 20 and 30. When returning to Garden, keep fighting T-Rex until you get the 4 Dragon Fangs. The T-Rexes must be in level 30 (with Fira and Thundara). After leaving Timber, follow the railroad to get to Dollet. Go onto the beach and defeat some Adamantoises to get the Adamantine. Next, enter the forest and go into the "dream world". If your team is at level 30, you will fight the enemy Elastoise. You can Mug Laser Canons from him. He will also very rarely drop them. Use Ammo-RF on three Laser canons to get the Pulse Ammos. Be sure to learn "Mug" and "Ammo-RF" before you get here. Then, go to Timber's junk shop and buy the Lionheart.
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Play cards to obtain ten Enoyle cards. These cards are extremely rare and are usually used by difficult players in the game. Defeat the Brothers GF in the Tomb of the Unknown King to obtain the Sacred and Minotaur cards. Use the Card Mod ability to turn the Sacred card into ten Adamantines. Mug the Laser Cannon item from the Belhelmels. This is extremely difficult to get, and will require multiple attempts. Mug six Dragon fangs from the Grendels or from the T-Rexaur (recommended when at about level 20). They also drop them after battle. Use the Card Mod ability to turn the ten Enoyle cards into an Energy crystal. Use the Ammo-RF ability to turn the Energy Crystal into ten Pulse Ammo, and the Laser Cannon into five Pulse Ammo. Level up to at least level 40 or higher. Go to the nearest city and remodel your weapon. You should now have the Lionheart weapon while still on Disc 1.
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Get the Lionheart in Disc 2:
Adamantine can be acuired by stealing it from BGH251F2 with Mug ability or by using Card mod on the Minotaur's card. Dragon Fangs are dropped by Blue Dragons, and T-Rexaurs. Blue Dragons can be found in the Bika forests just outside of Trabia Garden. Pulse Ammo can be acquired by Mugging Blitzes for a Power Generator. Power Generators are rare to Mug from a Blitz, so this may take some time. Blitzs can be found in the Sarenghetti forest by the Centra Ruins. Quezecoatl has the Card mod and Diablos has Mug.
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Access Ragnarok in Disc 4:
To do this trick you must be able to access a Chocobo from the hidden Chocobo forest in the Grandidi Forest. Take the portal to the Grandidi Forest and make your way through it to the hidden Chocobo Forest there. Obtain a Chocobo there and ride it south to the Kashkabalt Desert. You will find the Ragnarok near the location of the red dot on the map. [Screenshot]
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Proof Of Omega:
After you defeat Omega Weapon, you usually get two items (Three-Stars and Proof Of Omega). To see the Proof Of Omega, go into the information section from the Tutorial menu. It should be at the very bottom.
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Free map to the Tomb Of The Unknown King:
Have Rinoa in your party and the guard at General Caraway's mansion will give it for free.
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