Final Fantasy 8

Magic

Magic apparently is an important factor in battles. Magic does decent amount of damage and some does massive amount of damage to a group of enemies, e.g. the Ultima Magic. Well, here is the ASCII Toolbar of the Magic Menu.

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|    Use         Exchg             All         Rearrange    | Magic    |
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Use
Allows you to use magic from the menu directly. NOTE: You can't use attacking magic such as Thunder, Fira, Blizzaga, Aero, Ultima, Protect, etc. You can only use all healing magic except for Regen. Usable magic will have white-color fonts.

Exchg
Allows you to trade magic even a particular member is not currently in your present party. There are a total of 3 commands from this section

Give All
Gives all the amount of a particular magic from an existing character |to the selected character in the lower row. Firstly select your character and then select the magic spell you want to trade and then select the character you want to give to and select the space where you want to put the magic [All the amount of the current magic will be given to the other character, e.g. If Squall has 3 Cure magic and you trade Cure with Quistis, Quistis will have all the 3 Cure magic]
REMOVE MAGIC!!! by Mark Andrews. Press Square to move the whole stack.
Take All
Gives the top character to receive the amount of a particular spell from the character at the bottom row. E.g. Squall is the top character, and Quistis is the lower character. Select Quistis and the spell you want to trade to Squall. Squall will have all the selected spell that Quistis originally has.
Split
A better command. This option allows you to specify the number of magic that each of the character will recieve. It is NOT necessary for that character to have that spell in his/her own magic inventory. Press Up to increase and Down to decrease.

All
Allows the above character to receive all the magic from the bottom character. Very useful if you want to transfer all the spells from a character whom isn't in your party to the other character. Well, I simply love this as it save you the trouble for getting magic for ALL characters and you need to get magic for ONLY three characters. Save 50% of your time.

Rearrange
A very common command used in arranging placing your magic in order for easy access during combat. Each character has 8 magic pages for Magic. To remove magic, press Square to discard it! [you will remove the entire lot..]

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|MAGIC P1      NUM  | Manual
|Ultima        45   | Attack   . Restore  . Indirect
|Thundaga      100  | Restore  . Attack   . Indirect
|Firaga        100  | Restore  . Indirect . Attack 
|Triple        100  | Indirect . Attack   . Restore
|___________________| Indirect . Restore  . Attack

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