Items apparently are one of the most important factors in FF8. They will help you to restore HP, cure status disorder and helps in battles, allow GFs to learn new abilities, get GFs etc. I have classified them into six major groups
Medicine: Healing items such as Potions, Phoenix Downs and Elixirs.
Junk: Items such as M-Stone Piece, Magic Stone and Screws. These items can not be use through the item command, however some of them provides some Limit Breaks for Quistis. These items are also important for Weapon Upgrading. They can also refine into magic through Magic Refinement Menu Abilities like T-Mag RF.
GF: Item used in restoring GF's lost HP or Life and allows GFs to learn new abilities. Provide that you have enough space.
Battle: Items that are only useable through the item command. One good example is the Gyshal Green.
Field: Items that are group-based type, and only useable at Save Points, examples are Tents, Pet Houses and Cottages.
Books: Useful booklets which tells you requirements on Weapon Upgrading, new moves for Rinoa and new moves for Zell.
Ammo: These items are only use battles through Irvine's Limit Break, Shot. Most of them can be gotten through Ammo-RF.
Drawing a full ASCII Art of the Item menu requires time, so I have only drawn out the Tool Bar.
Diagram 2.2F: Item Menu __________________________________________________________________ | Use Rearrange Sort Command | Item | |_______________________________________________________|__________| |
Use
This will enable you to use the items directly from the item
menu. Only healing items such as Potions can be used from here.
You can also view books, activate the item, Magical Lamp to fight
the Diablos from here! To summon GF Ghoulish, use the Solmon's
Ring through this command. [make sure you have met the requirements.
You can also use items to let Quistis to learn special moves,
improve GF compatibility by using GF compatbility items, upgrade
character's stats with Str Ups and allows you to view booklets
like Occult Fan I ~ III
Rearrange
Allows you to arrange the items in your preferred way. Doing
this will be much easier while in searching for the items that
you wished to use. You can arranged the items by switching places
and placing them in a blank space. There are about 25 item pages.
Sort
This will cause the computer to arrange the items. Useable
and important ones will be the top at the menu, while those unusable
ones will be arranged at the lower section. Practically it is
arranged in this order:
[MEDICINE]-[GF]-[BATTLE]-[FIELD]-[AMMO]-[JUNK]-[MAGAZINES]
Command
This section allows you to arrange what you want to appear
at the item pages [through item commands] Allows you to arrange
the items in your own preference. It will look something like
this:
________________________ |ITEM P1 NUM. | To change it's position, just simply |Potion 100 | the item on the top left screen and select |Phoenix Down 20 | another item [the spot where you want to |Remedy 6 | place the first item] There are about 10 |Gyshal Greens 1 | pages for items. You can use stones such |________________________| as Holy Stone as you are casting Holy! |
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