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Disclaimer
This is a walkthrough of Final Fantasy IX (FF9). As with any walkthrough, this document contains spoilers! It was developed for FFIX English
Language Version for Playstation. Some things may not work on other platforms or alternate language versions. The items in the navigation bar
on the left are the sections that are complete. I intend to add some tools to help you learn the game system more easily. I wrote this
walkthrough when the game came out in 2000. At that point, it was one of the most complete walkthrough of FFIX on the Internet.
I welcome your email; you can find my email address under the About Us tab above.
Walkthrough Notes
As I said above, all walkthroughs contain spoilers. What I've tried to do here is set this site up so that you can get the information you
need without having to read the whole document. Please see the points below for things you'll want to know about that DON'T involve spoilers.
I recommend reading them before even starting the game. Then play each section first, saving at every possible point. When you finish a
section, go back to the walkthrough and see if there is anything you missed. I'll include various hints, tips, tricks and cheats I may have
noticed along the way.
Strategy
Points to Remember: (IE: Things I wish someone had told me starting out!)
- You can steal from almost anyone. Make sure to at least TRY to steal if you can. Use Zidane's "Detect" to see what enemis have (if you
don't use my explination, anyway).
- Leveling-Up. I'll let you know what times you should level up a little, and what you should be trying to accomplish. Don't bother
REALLY leveling up until you get a Reflect Ring and all your characters have the reflect skill and anti-venom skills. Just trust me on this
one. This game has the COOLEST level treadmill if all yourcharacters have reflect learned.
- While some people swear by it, I find frog catching to be annoying and pointless. YMMV.
- If you wanna be a major treasure hunter, you'll need to find more than just the treasure chests. You'll also want to collect all the
Figurines.
- Read through the side quests area first. You won't find any game spoilers, but you may miss out if you don't do it FIRST.
- Eiko's Summons may be influenced by which accessories she has equiped. Notice the difference in Carbuncle when you Summon him with
Moonstone , Emerald and/or Diamond equiped.
- Card battles explained: All cards have 4 characters that represent their power. "1P24" for instance. The first digit is attack power, and it can be any
number 0 to 9 and then the letters A - E. 0 is low, E is high. If you know hexidecimal, think like that. The second character is either M, P, X or A and
represents attack type. M is magic, P is physical, X will attack the lowest of the defences and A will attack the lowest number on the card with the highest on
itself. The last two characters are 0-E and stand for physical defense and magic defense, respectively. A magic card will attack the last number, for
example.
- Don't sell your week weapons. You'll be able to synth them into better ones, and there is a spot in the game where you'll need a weapon with the lowest
possible damage. If you don't want to think about things too much, try to keep two of every weapon.
- There' an enemy called a "Gimme Cat" that wants you to give it a Diamond . If you do, you'll never see it again. I hate spoilers, but I
hate losing powerful items even more. ;)
- Don't forget that you can walk through most people. Unless someone is baring your path for game purposes, just try to walk through them for a few seconds and
you probably will.
- You can throw a Tent at an enemy and it'll get bit by a snake. Yes, that's right. It doesn't make any sense. ;)
- Any time you see an item in a dashed box, you can hover the mouse over it for more information about that item. Hover the mouse over the box in this line for
for a second or two to see an example of how it works. If that doesn't work on mobil, please let me know!
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