Final Fantasy 8

Deep Sea Research Center

Items:
2x Inferno Fangs or 2x Energy Crystal, 1x Hyper Wrist, 1x Bahamut's Card

Magic:
n/a

Save Pt
After defeat Bahamut.

GF:
Bahamut

Anacondour: Fire*, Cure*, [Bio]
Bomb: Fire, [Fira], {Firaga}, {Meltdown}
Buel: Fire*, Thunder*, Blizzard*, [Death]
Blood Soul: Zombie, Sleep, Silence, Blind
Ruby Dragon: Fire*, {Aero --> Flare}, {Meteor}, {Reflect}

Essential Requirements
100x Blind spell to ST-Atk-J for at least one character
100x Sleep spell to ST-Atk-J for the other members
100x Death spells to all members
100x Aura - refine 1x Fury Fragment to 6x Aura spells. [Supt Mag-RF]
100x Ultima - to boost up Str stats.
Recover - Leviathan [200 AP]
Revive - Alexander [200 AP]
100x Meltdown -junctioned to Vit stats.
100x Firaga - to Elem-Def-J for every character
100x Blizzarga - to Elem-Atk-J for every character

GFs: all from Disc 1 and Disc 2, including Doomtrain

Party Optimizer:
Items:
Phoenix Downs, Aura Stone

Recommend HP:
Above 6000 HP [must be higher than 8000 if one character's Vit is lower than 100]

Commands:
Attack, Magic, GF, Draw [Doomtrain]
Attack, Magic, Recover, Draw
Attack, Magic, Revive, Draw

Abilities:
Str +40%, Vit +40%, Auto-Haste, Spd-J

Preferred:
Squall (better have Lion Heart)
Quistis (for her Degenerator and Mighty Guard)
Zell (accquired My Final Heaven)

Where to find this research center?

 ___________________
|                   | E stands for Edea's House and * stands for the
|                   | Deep Sea Research Facility. Just simply get 
|                   | Ragnarok and pilot towards the star and under low
|                   | attitude [you will see water splashing on the 
|*   E              | seas] Upon reaching the center, just pilot 
|___________________| Ragnarok directly above. Press X to land.

If Zell's in the party, he will say that he know this place... and you will be given the following options:

Forget it
Let's hear it... [that island is also called Battle Ship Island..]

Now enter the area... You will find a light column. When the light column lightens, it gives a sound... so don't move. Once the light is off, just walk.[if you move during the light, you will encounter battles randomly..]. You need to approach the column... And you will find a prompt:

"So you wish to challenge me..."
It's not our will to fight <--

This will led to a fight against a Ruby Dragon. The battle can be a mean one if your characters are at very high levels with low defense [Vit stats are critical. The Breath can does a mean damage of 9999 HP to one character with less than 100 Vit stats.] The higher Vit, the low the damage that the Ruby Dragon will do. In order to minimize the damage, the best option is summon Doomtrain [make full use of Poison Powders and Venom Fangs to boost up compatibility.] As the Ruby Dragon are extremely to this deadly combo... 100x Sleep to ST-Atk-J. Doomtrain does not only cast Meltdown [lowers the Ruby Dragon's defense] and also Sleep. The character with 100x Blind ST-Atk-J combo must not attack or the Ruby Dragon will awake. While the Dragon is asleep, cast Aura on Quistis and have her using Degenerator to eliminate it or have the characters with 100x Sleep to ST-Atk-J to have the battle in sleep.

"Begging me for mercy?"
Yeah... there is nothing I can do [you will exit the screen]
Never <-- Second battle.

It's getting tougher... You will face another Ruby Dragon and in addition, you will face a Back Attack Status. [To counter this, make use of Cerberus' Awarness]. Just the previous method and you will be able to finish it. Initative [160 AP, Pandemona, Tonberry and Cactaur] will be extremely useful... Try to keep your character's HP maxed out with Recover.

"Dammed Imbeciles. Why do you wished to fight?"
For the sake of the protecting something
None of the business (leads to another Ruby Dragon fight)
(It's our nature) <-- [this is hidden]

Boss 25 Bahamut
Description: Called the King of GF. It's Mega Flare call ignores all defense. Gives assistance freely to those who show their power
Attacks: (Claw swipe), Mega Flame, Flare.
Facts: Strong vs. Poison. Wind/Thunder has no effect on the Boss.
Draw: Flare, Curaga, Full-life
AP gained: 40
Win: 1x Hyper Wrist, 1x Bahamut's Card
Mug: 1x Hyper Wrist
Squall's Level: 100
Bahamut's Data Information

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  |||||||||||||||||| STR  DEF ||||||||||||||||||
    |||||||||||||||| INT  SPI ||||||||||
                |||| DEX  EVA |||||

Strategy
The Bahamut will generally gives some introduction speech like other GFs:

Bahamut: "I'm .... Bahamut"
Squall: "The Great GF... Bahamut"
Bahamut: "... GF? I...?"
"Using my powers...."
"It's you humans... I fear..."

Unexpectedly, I did not expect to finish the Bahamut so easily... All I have an character with 100x Blind to ST-Atk-J and it will miss its powerful claw swipe (err... correction it should be powderful ^_^;). That's a method. If it hit your characters, it can does a heavy amount of damage to your character, about 3000+ HP... It's Mega Flare does approximately the same as the Ruby Dragon... [it's makes it a killer weapon]. But with the Doomtrain-Cerberus-Aura combo, I have managed to use numerous Limit Breaks for all characters. Mighty Guard will be quite useful as it could have all sorts of protection such as Protect, Shell, Regen and Haste. Next have the two offensive characters, Squall and Zell. Lion Heart has a high tendency of being used when you are at extremely critical status. Zell's Armageddon Fist can kill the Bahamut within a minute. After the battle finishes..

"Have you seen the light?"

So you have gotten one of best cards, Bahamut's Card [which could allow you to get 100x Megalixirs!]. Now the Bahamut was indeed a great GF [as it's name described, fancy giving you Ability x4, Str +60%, Mag +60% which make it an ideal GF.] You can have better GFs if you have use Amnesia Greens and GF items such as Magic Armlet [Spr +60%], Adamantine[Vit +60%], Hyper Wrist [Str +60%], Royal Crown [Mag +60%] and you can get them easily from these major battles. Well, I just copied the speech down for your hard work:

Another path to your destiny awaits...
You are indeed an interesting one brimming with passion.

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