No Sphere Grid Initial Equipment FAQ/Walkthrough
For Final Fantasy X
Started Challenge on: 07/21/04
End Challenge on: 07/30/04
This FAQ was Started on: 07/23/04
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Table of Contents
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I. Intro
II. Initial Equipment
III. Customization and Recommendations of Initial Equipments
IV. Tips
V. No Sphere Grid Initial Equipment Guide
VI. Game Challenges Done by Author
VII. CREDITS
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Intro
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As of right now, I'm currently on Mi'hien Road when I just started writing
this guide. I know Gamefaqs has a lot of combinations of NSG Challenges. The
first one is written by Dustman and Xharas. Then there were two alternative
ones: NSNC by Gestahl and NSNO by Thundaka. Before I've started this
challenge, I've read some of these guides to get my feeling of what the hell
I'm suppose to do. I haven't played a regular NSG before. But since TrueDFX
said that this challenge should be possible, I decided to take it. In hopes
of sharing my knowledge, I've started writing this FAQ. I hope this file
won't have more MB than the others, but I do talk a lot in my other FAQ.
Added Later, this FAQ have been resumed after I have defeated BFA. Even
though during that whole time I didn't write down any notes or strategies,
I did a lot of saves while I was doing this challenge. Meaning that I
could easily resume during any part of the game and pick out stuff that
I need clearing out
NOTE: This is my 6th FAQ
This challenge is going to be a little bit different from the other ones
that I've listed. Like all NSG Challenges, you can't use the Sphere Grid, or
rather you're not suppose to have anyone using their S.Levels at all. I will
allow Flee to be learned, if the player himself allows it. The Initial
Equipment part will make it more interesting.
For one, you can only stick with the equipments you got from the beginning
or rather you can't change any of the equipments already setted by the game
itself. So just don't equip any other equipments and your fine.
You won't be able to capture any Monster Arena Monsters. You are not allowed
to equip any other equipment manually, this includes the Legendary Weapons
as well. You can't hope that a monster drop a weapon/armor that gives you
an advantage in battle.
However, since others take such so much out of Overdrives, Summons, and
Customization, we will use them to our advantage.
Stats of Characters in NSG -
HP MP STR DEF MAG MDE AGL LUCK EVA ACC
Tidus 520 12 15 5 5 5 10 18 10 10
Wakka 618 10 14 10 10 5 7 19 5 25
Yuna 475 84 5 5 20 20 10 17 30 3
Lulu 380 92 5 8 20 30 5 17 40 3
Kimahri 644 78 16 15 17 5 6 18 5 5
Auron 1030 33 20 15 5 5 5 17 5 3
Rikku 360 85 10 8 10 8 16 18 5 5
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Initial Equipment
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(Note*) = Tidus Stats with Long Sword (No Ablities) at beginning, but due to
Storyline, he gets the Brotherhood from Wakka. This is still
considered Initial Equipment because I didn't change it myself.
(Note2) = Brotherhood can't (can not) be customized.
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Tidus Brotherhood Strength +5%
(Empty Slot)
(Empty Slot)
(Empty Slot)
Buckler (Empty Slot)
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Wakka Offical Ball (Empty Slot)
No Armor
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Yuna Staff (Empty Slot)
Ring (Empty Slot)
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Lulu Moogle (Empty Slot)
Bangle (Empty Slot)
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Kimahri Hunter's Spear Sensor
Piercing
No Armor
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Auron Katana Piercing
Bracer (Empty Slot)
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Rikku Claw (Empty Slot)
Targe (Empty Slot)
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Customization and Recommendations of Initial Equipments
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To be honest, if you're taking this challenge, you should be lucky
because I included this section. I, on the other hand, had to compermise
and think if it was really worth it, the power to give those abilites to
those one timers (weapon and armors). Hoping that you won't regret that
action for the rest of the challenge.
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Tidus Brotherhood Can't Customize
White Shield Ice Proof*
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Wakka Breakaway First Strike
No Armor
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Yuna Wind Rod First Strike
Haste Ring SOS Haste***
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Lulu Moogle ( Read Below )**
Bangle ( Read Below )**
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Kimahri Hunter's Spear Can't Customize
No Armor
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Auron Katana Can't Customize
Bracer ( Read Below )**
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Rikku Vanguard First Strike
Haste Targe SOS Haste ***
Iceproof = 8 Arctic Winds
First Strike = 1 Return Sphere
SOS Haste = 10 Chocobo Feathers
* - The Ice Proof can be given to either Tidus or Yuna, but since this is a
one time thing against a boss. I choose Tidus because of Brotherhood. It's
not helpful, but Tidus' Overdrives are helpful. You decide.
** - Since I did beat this challenge without putting any abilites in these
slots, you can put whatever. Some Recommendations that I would like to
give are the abilities Evade and Counter/First Strike and SOS Haste/
Auto Phoenix/Master Thief. I just gave them First Strike and SOS Haste
near the end of the game, and yet they weren't of any good use.
*** -I don't quite remember these SOS Hastes being useful or not, but at one
time I did remember them to be useful. A good reason why Rikku should have
it is to steal more than without this ability equipped
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Tips
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1. Like in all NSG Challenges, Run Away from all unnessecary battles. Like
the ones that have a louzy items to steal and even if you did kill them,
they give louzy gils.
2. To activate SOS Haste, have that person be KOed in the previous battle.
After that battle, don't heal them, they'll have 1 HP, making them have
Haste when they first enter the game.
3. Since Rikku was the first person that I gave First Strike to you should
do this. This is for fleeing purposes that I find useful. Have her be
in slot 3 and Tidus in Slot 4. Since Rikku has First Strike, she'll get
the first turn, so get the list out and press confirm to change to
Tidus and then use flee. After Battle, swap the slots Tidus with Rikku
4. I like to offer you to try out cursor memory instead of cursor initial.
It goes great with using Steal and Use. Plus summoning the same Aeons
over again. For Flee, it's the best thing ever.
5. Since we aren't equipping any other equipments, do pick them and sell
them for a lot of gils. Use them to buy stuff and also for hiring people
to play Blitzball. Don't try to get any Dark Matters, it's not needed
for this challenge, trust me. I thought I needed as well, but I never
did use it. Instead try to get a Return Sphere (First Strike). It's
rather common for it so show up, really.
6. If you get stuck in this challenge and find that this FAQ doesn't
really give any good tactics against a particular boss, please refer
to the original NSG FAQ. None of the NSG can really help you since
there main tactice got to do with changing the initial equipment. No
offense to those authors or anything.
7. Do try to pickup all avaliable chests along the way. Even if it's
very crappy, do remember you can sell them off.
8. Getting into battles and escaping them are good for your aeons, until
a certain point. After 600 battles, there is no need to into random
battles for this purpose anymore.
9. Blitz Ace isn't needed in this challenge. It's possible to beat this
challenge without it.
10.I advise you to read further on because I might not have mention
something that I wanted you to do, so read further on to figure out
how I'll win certain battles. I don't want to responsible if you
need start over because I didn't tell you to pick up a certain item.
Even though, I've done my best to limit these factors.
11.You must've collected all the Al Bhed Primers from a previous save.
If you don't, you'll miss out on all the cheap parts of this game.
Not really fully cheap because you have to use strategy to use
them. The 99x Underdog's Secret I mean, from Rin on the Airship.
In that case, you'll have to fine an alternative for what I use.
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No Sphere Grid Initial Equipment Guide
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The Challenge starts at Zanarkand, but this really isn't a lot to
do here. Just get pass everyone. The bosses are really not that hard at
all. Heal yourself when necessary. Now I'm gonna skip all the way to
Besaid.
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Besaid -
Still not a lot you can do right now. Open Chests. Head for the temple,
take a nap at Wakka's Place. Visit the temple again. Do the Trial and use
the destruction sphere to open the chest, this is for Anima BTW. More
Storyline. After that you'll get the Brotherhood. What I thought was going
to make this challenge easy was indeed false, read initial equipment to
know why. Go talk to the Shop Owner to know about her dog. Then head for
a house nearby Wakka's Place. Go talk to the dog to get Valefor's Second
Overdrive, Energy Bomb. Don't buy anything. Now head for the docks.
(You'll meet up with Kimahri in the process, but don't worry. Attack and
Heal with Potions. This should be easy enough.)
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S.S. Liki -
Go to the bottom floor and kick a bag to get 20 Free Potions. Give Oaka
some fund if you want, I did. I had plenty of money so I gave like 1000.
Just for the heck of it.
*Boss Battle* Sin
You don't really need Aeon's Overdrive to beat this guy. Just take your
time to kill the little minions. They indeed give you more Gils afterwards.
I advise you to kill as much those guys as possible. Sin is no threat and
he will never be one in this battle. Kimihri seems to be the best person
his this battle, he heals himself when using his Lancet. Heal with Yuna
only, she has too many MP and why not waste them. Build up Wakka and Tidus'
Overdrive and don't use them. Save them up for the next boss.
(After you beat Sin, Sinspawn Echenilles is next)
*Boss Battle* Sinspawn Echenilles
Open the battle with your overdrives. Then on Wakka's turn, use Dark Attack
and have Tidus attack or heal. Keep attacking him and healing when needed.
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Kilika
Collect Chests like always. Don't fight Ochu, or until you get Ifrit that
is. Head for the next Boss Battle
*Boss Battle* Geneaux
Use Valefor's Energy Bomb Twice and that should end it instantly.
Enter the Temple and get the Chest needed for Anima. Even after you get
Ifrit, I still wouldn't face Lord Ochu if I were you. IMO, not really worth
it.
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Luca
This is where this challenge really gets different from the ress. Search
every where and open all the Chests. You'll get some really good Spheres
needed to mix in the future. When Yunas being captured, you'll encounter
a Save Sphere, Save. Now you'll need up get Hi-Potions, about 50 of them
to be safe. Hi-Potions are dropped by the only robots running around and
attacking you, so they are common and the only ones you can encounter. You
should use only Lulu Thunder attack. Its the fastest way to beat them.
If you use Tidus and Wakka, you'll only be wasting your time. One Thunder
to kill each robot, easy enough. For me, the author, I got 80 Hi-Potions
just in case I did needed it for the future. Trust me, 50 is good enough.
More if you like. Hi-Potions will be buyable and a common drop later on,
but not before the battle you'll need it. So stock up on it, or you'll
regret it later on, like I did.
*Boss Battle* Oblitzerator
Use Lulu's Fury Thunder to quickly activate the crane, if you don't have
it, then just cast Thunder on the crane. Have Tidus and Kimahri use defend
before that, just don't attack the boss yet. After Tidus has operated the
crane sucessfully, then you can do whatever you want to it.
After the battle, you can win the Blitzball Tournament or not. Doesn't
matter. You your Overdrives for the upcoming battles. Use Wakka's Overdrive
when you face against the pack of 4s, my advise.
Auron will join your party shortly, a battle in the process as well. Have
Wakka use Dark Attack, Auron use Power Break, and keep on attacking after
that. More Storyline. Go back into Luca and sign up Wedge and Jumal into
your blitzball team. Sign them up for 10 Games, no more no less. You can
add more if you want, but that isn't needed. You can fire Keepa, since
you do have Jamal now, fire Botta as well when you get the chance.
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Mi'ihen Road
Open all the chests here. Run away from most battles, but there is two
enemies I want you to use Lancet on. Dual Horn and Bomb, for Fire Breath
and Self Destruct. Very important to get. Talk to people as well to get
some common items. Start powering up your overdrives and don't use them.
Proceed to the inn and save. Buy at least 10 Grenades and Maps. Also make
sure that you have a good handful of phoenix downs, 30 should be good
enough, you have the money right? Of course you do. Talk to Rin to get
good items and then it's time to face the Chocobo Eater, Save before going.
*Boss Battle* Chocobo Eater
First, use your Aeon's Overdrives. I beated this guy with 3 Aeon Overdrives
1 from Ifrit and 2 from Valefor. Valefor got two because it evaded two of
the Boss' Punches. Finish it off with the rest of the party's overdrives.
Save Self-Destruct for last and use phoenix downs whenever an ally is down.
If that still doesn't work, use Sonic Wings and use Fire on Ifrit to get
some more power out of the aeons.
Now go back into the Inn and sign up Ropp as part of your blitzball team.
Rent a chocobo and ride it to Mushroom Road Rock. Storyline...
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Mushroom Rock Road
As you run to the command center, talk to peps to get some items. Open
some Chests as well.
*Boss Battle* Sinspawn Gui
I took a different approach for this boss. Use the Aeon's Overdrive to take
down the head. Auron uses Power Break. After that have Lulu and Kimahri use
Fire and Lancet. You can use Auron to take down the arms and then attack,
but I prepare just attacking the body head on.
After this battle, there will be one of the same thing. Don't sweat it.
Seymour can handle this one by himself anyways, just let him cast *aga
spells on the body only. You don't worry have to worry too much about the
head. Just use phoenix downs on fallen allies. Keep on using Lancet and
sooner or later, you'll win. Long battle though. Storyline.
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Road to Djose Temple
Talk to everyone thats in the path. Encounter a fiend called Basilisk and
have Kimahri learn Stone Breath from it.
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Djose Temple
Open all the chests nearby and get the chest from the temple as well. A
whole bunch of storyline.
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Moonflow
On the way there, make sure to get all the chests and no need to fight the
summoners battle. You won't need it. Save before riding the Shoopuff, then
ride the shoopuff.
*Boss Battle* Extractor
This is the first real challenge in this game. He opens up with Aqua Shoot,
which deals damage to one person. Use a potion to recover that guy and have
the other one attack. He would start going up and charging for his next
attack, so in the mean time attack twice. He uses his attack now and you're
close to being dead if he uses that attack again. So for this turn, just
have everyone recover with Hi-Potions, to get their full HP back.
You have to keep on recovering yourself until a certain situation happens.
You have to get 3 consecutive turns, plus one of your characters must get
an overdrive. Use two of the turns to heal and the third one to use the
overdrive. You need about 11 or 12 Overdrives to beat this guy. If you used
a Overdrive, put on your next turn you didn't get two consecutive ones,
then just use a mega-potion. For my battle against him, I used two of them.
Both Tidus and Wakka's Overdrive do the same ammount of damage, relativly.
Slice and Dice should be gotten in this battle. If not, make sure to get it
after the battle by fighting fiends. About it doesn't make a lot difference
if you get 2 or 3 Lighting Symbols in Wakka's Element Slots.
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Moonflow to Guadosalam
Now go get Rikku. Mix 2 Power Spheres instead of the Bomb Core. There will
be a couple of random battles here that have chests, steal from them to get
Mega Potions. This will get you back the used Mega Potions in the Extractor
battle, if you used any that is.
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Guadosalam
Do the whole storyline first. Get the Lighting Marbels near the path to the
Farplane. Now to replace any Nul Shock Armor needed in any other games, we
must get First Strike on someone's weapon. I pick Rikku because I want some
quick mixes before any boss does anything nasty. You could pick Yuna, but
I decided to pick Rikku instead. For us to get First Strike on a weapon, we
must get a Return Sphere. So Save your current game, go to the Save Sphere
and go into Blitzball. In the League, try to get the Return Sphere as
the 1st Prize or the Top Scorer's Prize. If you are lucky, you can maybe be
able to get the Return Sphere as part of the tournment, so you won't need
to play this many games. If that happens, just stick with which tourny
requires less matches to get the prizes. Shoot with Tidus a lot, Jecht Shot
it, and soon you'll win that Return Sphere. Give Rikku the Vanguard and
proceed to the Thunder Plains.
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Thunder Plains
Take advantage of Rikku's First Strike weapon and flee all the battles,
Swap her for Tidus and Flee if needed. Race yourself to the Thunder Plains
Inn and Save
Now we must do some stealing for the upcoming battles.
Item Ammount Stolen From
Electro Marbles 25+ Aerouge and Gold Element
Chocobo Feathers 10+ Cactuars
(To let the Cactuars out, you must pray at least once to a cactuar stone)
Silver Hourglass 10+ Rare Steal from the Dragons
Light Curtains 5+ Iron Giant
Lunar Curtains 5+ Larvae
Try to open most of the chests as well in this area, I know it's gonna be a
toughy. Oh well, none of the chests are really needed anyways.
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Macalania Forest
Learn Aqua Breath from the Chimera. Sell off any equipments if you think
you're short in cash. You don't really need neither actually. Get everyone
into overdrive mode though, this is needed against the upcoming boss.
Steal Ar
*Boss Battle* Spherimorph
For one, you don't need to heal, if you do you'll only have wasted a turn.
Start with Rikku in your party to get 2 turns in the beginning. Make good
use of her Mix. Attack once to find out the element than use her mix to
opposite of that element. Use other elemental items as well, also use other
elemental attacks as well, like Lulu's Magic, Aeons, and Kimarhi's Ronso
Rage attacks.
Storyline and Auron learns Shooting Stars. Head to the Macalania Inn and
Save. Buy until you have 40+ Phoenix Downs. Go outside and steal at least
8 Arctic Winds from the Ice Flans and at least 5 Sleeping Powder from the
Snow Wolves. Get everyone's Overdrive full. Go back inside and save if
you want.
(NOTE) Due to the fact that the encounters of enemies increases Aeons'
status. Here are my stats for the Aeons that I have so far. If you have
anything less than these HP, I advise you to get into more random battles
before you move on with the rest of this FAQ.
Valefor - 1169
Ifrit - 1547
Ixion - 1545
*Boss Battle* Crawler
This battle is tough if you don't know what you're doing. Setup your
party so that it is Rikku, Wakka, and Tidus. Have Rikku use a Chocobo
Feather on herself. Then use Electro Marbles Negator on the Negator until
it comes down. Swap Yuna in and summon Ixion, quickly use the Overdrive.
After Ixion dies, have Rikku use her Mix Lighting Bolt. Then do the same
thing for Ifrit. If ever an Aeon uses a Overdrive, but is not killed.
Quickly heal them up because it takes a while for the Mana Beam to
recharge. If you're truly skilled, you would use Shield more often and not
attack it directly. If you did attack it directly, he would counter and
your aeon would lose more than half it's full HP. Use your shield to charge
up your Overdrive bar instead. I can actually beat this boss with
2 Aeons and you could to, it doesn't take luck, it takes skills.
If this boss is stupid enough to send out his Negator before he shoots
with Mana Beam, then your in luck. Because you might get a shot at a
second Aeon's Overdrive, like I did. If you find it hard to kill the
Negator. Keep having Rikku throw Electro Marbles at Crawler, not Negator,
to charge her Overdrive bar up, revive her and use Lighting Bolt again.
Lightning Marble and Level 2 Key.
*(NOTE: No Matter What! Don't use Yuna's Grand Summon)*
( Don't use Kimarhi's Overdrive)
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Macalania Temple
Storyline... and after that Save before entering in. This could be tricky,
but I've done this a few times, to know the routes of this battle.
*Boss Battle* Seymour and 2 Guado Guards
You'll enter the battle with Yuna, Tidus, and Kimarhi, just perfect isn't
it. First, have Tidus use Talk on Seymour to raise his attack. Then Swap
Yuna for Rikku, she should get 2 turns now, throw a Silver Hourglass at
them and then use a Chocobo Wing on Tidus to speed up the process.
Hopefully Tidus won't be the next one killed after you've used this. On
Kimarhi's turn, have him use Stone Breath to take the Guado Guards away.
Next Seymour should cast a magic and kill one ally, hope it better not be
Tidus. If it hit's Rikku, then good, he might as well fill her Overdrive
Bar for this battle or the next battle. Have Tidus attacking Seymour and
revive all fallen allies. Soon he'll summon Anima.
*Boss Battle* Anima
I'm not gonna give you the full details, but here is the full background
of what I want you to do. Whoevers turn it is, Swap Yuna in and Grand
Summon Shiva. Then her instantly unleash her Overdrive. It doesn't matter
if Anima uses 1 or 2 Pains on her, she won't die. Just to let you know,
her Blizzard heals ~500 and her Blizzara heals ~1000, keep this in mind.
Now I want you to build up a second, healing in the process. If Anima's
Overdrive bar is full, be smart and use shield, you better have at least
400 though when she does this. When the coast is clear, meaning she has
full HP and a full overdrive bar, unleash it again.
Now heal up again. Use Shield when needed. One thing though, his Pain
should be dealing ~500 so, you better know when to use shield and when to
heal because you don't have enough MP to last this long in the battle, so
use your MP wisely. Now for the last thing I want you do to with her. Have
her refill her Overdrive one more time. As long as you get it, quickly
dismiss her. Then have Yuna summon Ifrit and have him attack until all of
Anima's HP is gone. Once Anima dies, Seymour will kill Ifrit. Hope when the
party back and fight, that Yuna's turn will come up before Seymour's. If
her turn doesn't, try to have Rikku use a Chocobo Feather on her. If this
doesn't work, you can use Rikku's Mix Sleeping Powder + MP Sphere. If
Yuna's turn does come before, have her summon Shiva agains and use the
Overdrive to get an instant win. This is what I did BTW. She did like ~6100
After the battle, it's time for you to do the Trials, make sure to get the
chest though before you leave. After this, head outside and Save nearby
Oaka. Flee from all encounters with the Guados and anyone else.
Save at the next Save Point. If you don't have a Sleeping Powder, steal
some from the wolves. Get Rikku and Shiva's Overdrive bar up
*Boss Battle* Wendigo
This battle should be easy enough. Have Rikku use Chaos Grende (MP Sphere
and Sleeping Powder). Then Summon Shiva onto the field. Keep on using
Heavenly Strike. Even when it wakes up, keep using it. Soon he'll throw a
punch at Shiva. Since he's Blined during that punch it'll miss, but it'll
refill Shiva's Overdrive the process. Use a 2nd Diamond Dust to end it.
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Bikanel Island
The storyline will take place here later on. Gather everyone up in the
process and head for Home.
*Force Battle* Zu
Just defend, until Auron and Lulu appears, than flee from battle
Then everything after that, just flee all of them. Get Overdrive for Rikku,
Kimarhi, and Auron.
Also, I almost forgot, steal at least 25+ Smoke Bombs from the Birds
around here. I used a lot in the future, but since I used up my batch, I
hope you won't. There will be a Sandagora in your way, just use Auron's
Shooting Star to Eject that bastard out of battle.
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Home
Since I have not made up any strategy for this place, I will stick with
the NSG's strat and summarize it here.
Get Rikku's and Kimahri's Overdrive ready.
Put Rikku in the party.
Battle 1: Use Potatoe Masher (Map+Map)
Have Rikku in the party, but not Kimarhi
Battle 2: Swap Rikku for Kimarhi and use Stone Breath
Save on the Save Point, Powerup Kimarhi's Overdrive by having both Rikku
and Kimarhi in party. Have Rikku Escape and let Kimarhi powerup. Take
Kimarhi out, Rikku in.
Battle 3: Swap Kimarhi in and use Stone Breath.
Pick up the Level 4 Key after battle and open all the chests, more storyline
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Airship
-Go talk to Rin and get those 99 Underdog Secrets
-After the scence that talks about the fiends are on board, Save and
encounter some bombs. Steal from them and get Bomb Core. They aren't really
needed, but why not steal something new. Who might know, you may find it
useful later on, I didn't though. Added Later: I did find some use for them
Steal at least 8, more or less if you will.
-If you are thinking about playing some blitzball anytime soon, for Dark
Matters maybe, if you feel a little bit not too confident about this
challenge. If so, you should add Nimrook onto your team. He is by far the
greatest Goalie ever.
-Overdrive Kimarhi, Auron, and Rikku. Then pick two out of Lulu, Wakka, and
Tidus and Overdrive them as well; Needed for the boss fight.
*Boss Battle* Ervae
Well, for this battle, I decided to take a chance. I had Tidus and Lulu,
and Rikku was using the Quartet of 9999, I didn't have the items needed for
the Trio, so I used Underdog Secrets with a Level 3 Key instead. Start the
battle with Smoke Bomb. Then use QO9999 and hope that it hits the person
you want. For right now it doesn't really matter, just make sure that
person isn't Rikku. No ways you could've obtain any elemental gems.
(Added Later: Nevermind, I do have the items needed for TO9999, use a
Underdog Secret with the Level 4 Key you got from Home)
*Force Battles*
#1 - With First Strike Rikku, throw 2 Smoke Bombs
#2 - Have Rikku use a Chocobo Feather on her self.
Use a Silver Hourglass on the Enemy
Swap Rikku for Auron, use Shooting Star on the Robot
Swap Tidus (aka Next Ally) for Rikku, use Sleeping Powder
Than use a Sleepin Powder or Smoke Bomb
#3 - Like before, two Smoke Bombs
$4 - You could use the #2 Strats again, or something else like this.
Chocobo Feather on Rikku, SIlver Hourglass on enemy
Sleeping Powder on enemy, Bomb Core on Robot,
Hopes Robot doesn't kill Rikku, Revive fallen ally if needed
Keep on using Bomb Core on enemy, just 2 needed
#5 - Chocobo Feather on Rikku, Throw Bomb Core at Robot,
Get Kimarhi out and use Stone Breath, Use one more Bomb Core to end it
Go to the Bevelle Temple and get the chest from there as well. More Storyline
Make sure that you get the tressure chest on the left side of where you exit
this place. You can use the Destruction Sphere and still not get the chest
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Via Purifco
Walk forward and Save. Then keep on walking forward. You can escape from
most battles here, except for the one called Maze Larvae. Don't touch any
pads and keep on walking straight. Soon you'll meet up with Auron. Save.
*Force Battles* Maze Larvae
There are two ways to end this battle, I prefer you use 1. If not possible
than use 2.
1. If Yuna is alive, summon Bahamut and use Thunderaga for a instant win.
Larvae might just kill Yuna if you don't get first attack. Use 2 then.
2. Have Auron keep on using Hi-Potions on himself until he gets a full
Overdrive. Then use a Shooting Star and eject it.
And before facing Issaru, It will be best if you overdrive Valefor, Ifrit,
and Shiva. At least that's what I did.
*Summoners Battle* Issaru
#1 Ifrit - Summon Valefor and Overdrive
#2 Valefor - Summon Ifrit and Overdrive, unleash a second one as well. Use
Shield in the process as well and remember to heal.
#3 Bahamut - Summon Shiva and Overdrive. Keep on using regular attacks when
he's counting down, Shield when his Overdrive is full, Heal
when Shiva has HP around 500. Two Overdrive should do it
Now it's back to Tidus and Company. Save if you want and keep swimming
foward. You'll face a boss that is extremly easy.
*Boss Battle* Evrae Atlana
In the first two battles scence, have everyone just use 'Open Lock.' Don't
worry about who he kills or not, they'll be back from the next round
anyways. On the third battle scence just have Rikku use 2 Phoenix Downs,
and from what I see, this is a Overkill as well.
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Upper Bevelle aka High Bridge
Walk to where Seymour is at. Save there as well. If you don't have enough
Phoenix Downs, this is the time to stock up on some. Now you must decide
before fighting Seymour. You must give either Tidus or Yuna the Iceproof.
Like I said before, I choosed Tidus because he has a crappy weapon.
(Added Later, I'm not sure if this helps or not, but if you are getting
really pissed on this boss, I like to suggest giving Yuna's Weapon First
Strike. Sooner or later, she'll get it anyways. So as a First Attack, you
should use Bahamuts Overdrive to take away a total of 10000 away from Natae)
*Boss Battle* Seymour Natux
Well I'm just going to describe what you need to do beat this guy without
First Strike. In the beginning, both bosses will attack everyone. Just hope
that either Yuna or Kimarhi is alive when it's your turn, meanig you've two
people to use. For my battle, Yuna and Tidus was alive. When you get your
turn again, Tidus should be first. Swap him for Rikku, use a Chocobo Feather
on herself. Swap Yuna for Tidus and change weapons, making his turns under
Rikku's. Have Rikku use TO9999 or QO9999, I kinda chanced it and used QO
instead. When it's Tidus' Turn, hoping that he got the QO, use Slice and
Dice. Hope that 4 out of the 6 hits Seymour, if so this battles end. If
not, read below to get some inspiration.
(Copy and Paste, from the Message Boards)
For my battle today, I only got 3 hits instead, but I can't believe that I
could still win. After the Slice and Dice, Netus used Protect on himself
and then the Crab like thingy killed Tidus, which meant Rikku was the only
one left. Then I looked at the Turns Column and Rikku had two turns. OMFG!
So I went to my laptop and read all the FAQ about what I should do, but
sadly I didn't find any. But in your FAQ, Thundaka, he said that you used
Dragon Scales and I wanted to revive Yuna and use her Bahamut Summon to
finish him off. He only had 3200+ left. Then I sent like 20 minutes thinking
what I should do.
#1: Revive Yuna and use Chocobo Feather on Yuna hoping that his turns will come
out before the bosses
#2: Well, there isn't a second option, but the Dragon Scales.
So I sticked with #1 and revive Yuna and then tried the Feather out, no
use. So I then decided to use the Scales on him instead, I had no choice. It
dealed like 1000+. Then the miralce happened. His partner used Cura on Netus
and Netus used Break on Rikku and Yuna was left standing. I had Yuna summon
Bahamut the battle was over. What a great Battle, ey?
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Calm Lands
Not much to do here. Storyline/Talking. Don't do the summoner's battle yet.
For one thing, you have a very low chance of beating them and the second
thing is, it will hardly improve your future battles, for this time. But you
should really try to get 3 or more chests in the Chocobo Race, they'll give
you 30 Wings to Discovery. Use two of them in a mix to get TO9999. But I
think'll be better if you mix Wings of Discovery with something else to get
TO, it'll save you time to get more mixes, but you don't really need it.
Overdrive Tidus, Lulu/Wakka, and Rikku. Have the Overdrive party up.
*Boss Battle* Defender X
Use a Chocobo Feather on Rikku, then use a Smoke Bomb on X. Then Mix a
TO or QO of 9999. Doesn't matter who it lands on. Tidus can use Slice and
Dice, Lulu can use Fury, and Rikku can keep on using Grenades or use a
Elemental Gem.
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Mt. Gagazet
*Boss Battle* Biran and Yenke
This battle is very simple. Have cursor on memory, set Lancet on Birna.
After that, keep on pressing X. Doesn't matter if you learn White Wind or
not, it's not used in this battle anyways. Use Aqua Breath to damage them,
but when Biran uses Mighty Guard, start using Jump after that.
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Mt. Gagazet Trails
Well, it's that time again. Another hard boss up ahead. This is strategy,
but most of it base on luck. This, IMO, is one of the hardest battle in
this challenge, not strategy wise, but time wise. If you lose once you
have to watch all that talking over again. Nevermind, I just tested this
battle out. It's not hard at all. Apparently Lulu's Fury attack didn't
reflect back. So Overdrive Lulu, Tidus, and Rikku. Give First Strike to
Yuna and Wakka's Weapon as well. Have Rikku, Yuna, and Wakka in your first
slots. I know for a fact that the last battle with Biran made them drop
Return Spheres, 2 of them.
*Boss Battle* Seymour Flux
Have Rikku change weapons to get her to the bottom of the turns. Swap
Wakka and Yuna for Lulu and Tidus, and have them change their weapons as
well to lower their turns under Rikku. Now have Rikku use TO9999. Now the
rest of this is based on luck, and when I tested this out, I was rather
lucky. Remember the whole battle rests on the next two moves that you do.
Have Tidus use Slice and Dice. On my test, 5 of the 6 hits made it to
Seymour. Seymour would then cast Protect and Reflect on himself, but that
doesn't matter. Now have Lulu cast Fury and hope you get 8 like I did.
With luck, Seymour would be dead and it's time to move on even further.
Do the whole thing with Tidus, Rikku, and Wakka. After that it's about time
to face the next boss. Need to Save, just in case anything happens.
*Boss Battle* Sanctuary Keeper
Easy. Rikkus Change weapons, Swap one of the First Strike people for Tidus,
have him change weapon as well. Rikku uses QO or TO of 9999 and Tidus uses
Slice and Dice, end of that battle.
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Yevon Dome
Charge up Tidus, Lulu, and Rikku's Overdrive. After that, flee from all
battles. Complete the Trial and you can't get the tressure from this place
until after you get the Airship. Save before approaching Yunalesca
*Boss Battle*
Easy as well, with strategy though.
Form #1 - Have Rikku use TO 9999, Tidus and Lulu Cures. Use Grenades or
Elemental Gems on him. Heal everyone up with Hi-Potions or Mega-
Potions, before killing this form. Try to give Tidus a Chocobo
Feather as well. So he can have the first attack against the
next form.
Form #2 - Boss attacks party, not killing them, but turning them into
Zombies. Have Tidus use Slice and Dice.
Form #3 - Boss casts Mega Death, it doesn't effect your party. Have Lulu
use Fury, aim for 7. Having 6 won't kill her, meaning Slice
and Dice won't kill her.
Exit this place and the Airship will come
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Airship
Storyline and a lot of talking. When you get the chance, go back to the
Zanardkin/Yevon Dome and get that last tressure chest, so that you can get
Anima now. Go to the Baaj Temple, find it yourself
*Optional Boss* Geosgaeno
Have Rikku use TO or QO of 9999. Rikku use Gems, Tidus use Slice and Dice,
and Wakka use Attack Reels. I didn't have Attack Reels, so just have him
attack. I had to restart over.
Go inside and get Anima from the Fayth.
Next goto the Remiem Temple in the Calm Lands. Now battle Belgemine's Aeons
Fight all of them, but you won't fight Anima because you didn't get
Yojimbo, not needed anyways. You only need to fight up to Shiva. You may
fight Bahamut as well, but it isn't needed. The Aeons that give the best
items are, 1st time only:
Ifrit = 30x X-Potions = Aeon Learns Cura
Ixion = 10x Chocobo Feathers = Aeon Learns Haste
Shiva = 60x Mega-Potions = Aeon Learns Curaga
Let Anima Learn all of these spells. As you probably know know, Anima will
now play a great part against BFA. Cura is optinal, since you have Curaga.
Now do a little checkup on Anima. If Anima have a HP Max of 5090, then
perfect. If not, that means you gotten into less than 600 Battles. Worry
not, there are some battles that I want you do to, it's for stealing items.
Even if you reach 5090, I would like you to increase that even more. I
made her HP to be about 6090, just so that I can have more free room to
deal damage with Pain. If you want to go to the same direction like I went
Then keep on fighting Ixion to get 8 Power Spheres. IMO, this is the best
way to get Power Spheres fast. It only took me half a hour to reach my
goal. Oh, just keep on casting Pain on Ixion, you won't die.
PS. You could also increase Anima's Defense, Agility, and MP as well.
Go to the Thunder Plains and Steal up to 6 Light Curtains for Protect
Steal up to 4 Silver Hourglasses for Slow.
Go to the Calm Lands and Steal up to 10 Mana Springs from the Coerl for
Osmose.
Teach these to Anima as well and now we are almost done with teaching Anima
Also for consideration: Focus, Luck, Cheer, Reflex
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Sin
Now it's time that we face sin. Set all the First Strikers in the front
line. Overdrive for Tidus, Rikku, and Lulu.
*Boss Battle* Sin's Left and Right Fin
There both the same, so we use the same strategy. Summon Anima and keep on
using Pain. After 10 shots at each arm, the battle is over. Heal with Cura
or Curaga if you get anywhere around 1000 HP.
*Boss Battle* Sinspawn Genais
Have Rikku change weapons. Swap the next person for Tidus, change weapons.
Swap the next person for Lulu, change weapons. Rikku now uses TO9999. Tidus
uses Slice and Dice, enemy dead. Now for the Core. Have Lulu use Fury up
to a minimum 4 Times.
Now lets prepare for the last battle. Overdrive Rikku, Wakka and Lulu.
Make sure you have a few Elemental Gems. Fire Gems are easy to find in
Mt. Gagazet Trails, steal from the bombs. A Chocobo Feather or Wing is
would be nice, but isn't necessary. First Striker in the front as always
*Boss Battle* Sin
Have Rikku change weapons. Swap Yuna for Lulu, change weapons. Wakka change
weapons. Then have Rikku use TO9999. Wakka use Attack Reels or just do a
regular attack and have Lulu use Fury. If still not finished, have Rikku
use the Elemetal Gems. Easy battle, ain't it?
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Inside Sin
Flee from all battles until you reach the next boss, aka Last Seymour. Do
try to Save before fighting him though. Overdrive for Rikku, Lulu, and
maybe Wakka if needed. First Strikers in the front again.
*Boss Battle* Seymour Omnis
Have Rikku change weapons. Swap Yuna for Lulu, change weapons and have
Wakka change weapons as well. Have Rikku use TO9999. Wakka use Attack Reels
and Lulu use Fury, but remember not to select Fire, as that would only heal
him, rather than kill him.
Now it's about time to face BFA. If you haven't taught Anima the mentioned
spells/abilities listed above, do now. If you already did proceed on. Do
Save before fighting BFA.
My Anima's Stats, I may have added a lot to his stats, I'm not sure.
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HP 6090 MP 130
Strength 65 Defense 75
Magic 67 Magic Defense 69
Agility 30 Luck 17
Evasion 44 Accuracy 20
Specials
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Pray (Not needed)
Focus
Luck
Cheer
Reflex
Doublecast (Not needed)
White Magic
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Cura
Haste
Protect
Curaga
Slow
Black Magic (Added Only)
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Osmose
*Last Boss* Braska's Final Aeon 1st Form
Since, Yuna's the only one with a First Strike weapon on her, we will
indeed make good use of it. Your opening party will be Tidus, Yuna, and
Auron; You can't change this fact. So I'll just make this as simple as
possible, later I'll explain what I've tried before or attempted to do so.
Just Summon Anima and you'll win this battle easily, but this won't be
short battle.
Once Anima is out, have it cast Protect on himself first. Then cast Haste,
followed by Cura/Curaga, if you think your HP is low.
Now, there is one thing you have to do first. You have to slow down each
the stupid Pagodas . You'll have to cast it on them. It might say miss
though, but after a few tries it'll work.
Curaga will fill up your Anima's HP all the way, even at 6090 HP.
BFA's Jecht Bomber will do about 2300 when you don't shield, so do try to
try to remember to shield if you think he'll unleash it during his turn.
But Since I have 6090 HP, I can take like 2 of these and I'm still ok.
The Pagados can't really do anything to you, but the problems is that they
keep on healing BFA, that's the reason why we must slow them down. If not,
Anima's Pain won't be effective in this battle.
BFA's hand/wind pushing attack really works against Anima, it will delay
his turns, but it helps you rather than hurt you. This will give you the
advantage or chance of using Pain on him. Using Pain does take a long time
to recover you know.
Before kiling off the 1st form, I advise you do use Cheer, Luck, Focus, and
Reflex a total of 5 times each. This will make his attacks do less damage
and you'll increase your dealing damage by 3000, which totals 14000~ from
my battle. By doing this, this will also increase the numbers of turns you
can get in a row.
If your low on MP, use Osmose on the Pagodas. They have unlimited ammounts
of MP for your convience. And when you're using Osmose, you can get a turn
very quickly.
Here are some numbers:
At 5 Cheers and Shield
Jecht Bombs does about ~400 - ~500
Other attacks ranges from 100 - 300
*Last Boss* Braska's Final Aeon 2nd Form
His Sword Swipe acts like a delay attack, so does his hand slam/push.
His Sword Swipe can miss a lot, if you have used Relex in this battle or
last form. It does about 700 with Shield and many Cheers, same with other
attacks as well.
When you have used Reflex many times, still use Pain even if it saids BFA
has two attacks after you've used Pain. His attacks will miss or be very
weak. But still try to use Shield right before Jecht Bomb though. Sometimes
it's best to chance it, espically when you have full HP.
When BFA has 20,000 Hp or less, use Oblivion to end this battle.
Congratz! You've just completed one of the funniest Challenges for FFX!
Ever! Ever!
With this strategy, I've beaten BFA twice. Once for the record books, the
second time to write this FAQ. I'm playing this guy as I'm writing this
part write now.
The rest of the game, like some other NSG author said before, I won't go
into details. You know why? I figured out why, while I'm typing this.
You Can't Die! Ever! You always have Auto-Life on your peoples. Even if
they do die, the Auto-Life will still be there.
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Now listen to this, I'm going to describe it the best I can. With a lot of
luck, you can get BFA 2nd Form's HP down to 50,000 left. I did this before
and believe that someone can actually beat him. I, on the other hand, have
decided not to test this out. This is meaning, beat him without depending
so much on aeons, like Anima. Read more for the facts and figured.
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*NSGIE on BFA without Depending on Aeons*
With Yuna's First Strike Weapon, I can make the first 10 moves without
making anything different. The rest will be determines by your luck.
First Swap Rikku for Yuna, and Use Chocobo Wing
Then Swap back Yuna and Summon Anima. Let him be killed by Jecht Bomber
Then it should be Tidus' Turn now. Use Talk
Auron's Turn, Swap for Lulu. Have Lulu change weapons
Swap Yuna for Rikku. Use TO9999
Have Lulu use Fury, if your lucky, BFA should have 7,000~ left
Swap Tidus for Yuna, and summon Bahamut and Overdrive it.
Again on luck, Bahamut will evade most attacks, until the Jecht Bomber
After Bahamut is killed, Jecht will use Jecht Beam on one person.
If he doesn't use Jecht Beam, and decided to use Sword Swipe, then
your dead.
The rest of this is determines by luck. If 2 of the guys are still alive,
this is what you must do. Swap this one for Tidus and Use Blitz Ace. This
will knock BFA's HP to 30,000~ left. Then BFA kills Tidus leaving Rikku left.
This is where I was at. Rikku was still alive and since she had the 9999 on
her, and if she used an Elemental Gem, I would be really close of beating
him. But even if I did, he would have a couple of HPs left and another thing,
when Rikku was the only one left, antoher Pagoda was back up. Dare to try
this out?
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Game Challenges Done by Author
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Not to brag about my accomplishments or anything. These are the challenges
I've done when I've started to become a true gamer. And I've also listed some
of the challenges that I'm wanted to do and complete.
Final Fantasy IX: Level One Game
No Equipment Game
Excalibur II
Perfect Save Without Maxing Stats
Final Fantasy VIII: No Junction Game
ODINS Challenge (One Day In No Saves)
Perfect Game (Maxing out every stats, except for Speed
and Luck)
Final Fantasy VII: Initial Equipment with No Materia Challenge
Perfect Game (With Best Materia Combo for everyone,
missing one KOTR though, until I have 8 KOTR)
Lowest Average Level Game (LAL)
Lowest Level Party Game (LLP)
Speed Run (Bottom of Crater at 9:47)
Final Fantasy X: Perfect Game
NSGIE
Super Marino RPG: ODINS (One Days In No Saves)
Perfect Game
Zelda OOT: Perfect Game
Other Challenge I hope I can complete in the future:
Final Fantasy X: NSGNCNONS
ODINS (One Days In No Saves)
Final Fantasy X-2: Six Iron Dukes (I got 5 so far, working on 6)
Level One, One, Two Game
ODINS
Final Fantasy IX: Attack and Item Only Game
ODINS (One Day In No Saves)
Zelda OOT: Three Hearts, No Death, Minimum Requirements Game
ODINS (One Days In No Saves)
Zeld MM: Three Days Game (Even better than ODINS)
Super Mario RPG: Level Three Game
Starcraft: Get over 1000 wins (Currently have 700s)
*Note*
If you don't know what ODINS is, it stands for 'One days in No Saves.' Also
known as a No Save Game, except that you have to beat it within 24 hours. The
concept of a No Save game doesn't really explain it's true meaning. You can
just leave the system on and go to sleep and by tomorrow you can play it some
more. That isn't a real challenge. ODINS give you the full name that you
should do it. It's a very enduranced base challenge. You must know the game
very well and you must not sleep throughout the whole process, even if you're
using a automatic turbofire controller.
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CREDITS
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This section if for all the credits I want to give out. They've said or have
given me knowledge about this game, but for this FAQ. I won't say what they
have been advice on. Only their names are listed. I'm doing this because
I've never been good at crediting people in my FAQ anyways. I always make
people flame on me. Like for the one I did on FFVII, O well. I hope they
understand.
This will now be listed accordingly to whoever posted on my topic first
and the rest will be credited to inspiration alone, nevermind I'll just mix
it for god sakes.
TrueDFX
Thundaka
zzanmato
juarezmj (aka Ultra Spark)
Dark Locke
rake handle weilder
Ah The 2nd
Merlock
Others:
Hyprophant
CB!
Dustman
Xharas
Gestahl
CJayC of Gamefaqs
Last, but not least, KADFC the author of this FAQ. Well that raps it up!
Hope no one is dissapointed on this FAQ. I did type it up in 3 days BTW.
