Okay I'll warn you now this isn't exatly getting him "early" as apposed to getting him earlyer then normal (When you first get the lamp I mean). Now when Cid gives you the lamp use it when you get out of garden. (I know this works I've done it by the way) assuming you didn't use gamshark or somthing to mess with your party you have Squall, Selphie, and Zell in your party; this is all you need. Have someone (anyone) with the "draw" command (you might want to think about giving it to Selphie because she's the best magic user you have right now) Diablos has two spells you can use, the one you care about is called "Demi" now the reason you want to care about this is because no matter how much HP Diablos has if you can cast it you can take out one-fourth of his remaining HP (if he has 1000 HP Demi knocks out 250, 8000 HP and you take out 2000 and so on, if you have a calculator you can do the math there.) now most of the time you'll get "Draw failed!" on the top of your screen... It means that you need to try drawing from Diablos again. This fight could take a little while so be patent. When your party's HP starts to die out use Selphie's "Slot" limit and keep hitting "do over" untill you get "Full-cure" this will heal your party back to full helth. Mash Diablos with Squall and Zell's limit until Diablos says somthing again. Now if Diablos takes out a party member use a "Phenox down" on the party member. (In case you don't know a "Phenox down" is an item, so you'll need to give somone the "Item" command.) Now whatever fighting style you want to use is fine, I encourage you to call out your GFs and cast whatever magic isn't Junctioned. If you're new I also want to tell you that if you can't figure out how to use "boost" for your GFs press "select" on your pong and the screens will go away, with one exeption, a little thing at the bottom right hand side of your screen. Hit the square button as much as you can while the hand thing is clear and stop when a red "X" shows up over it and Zell is best used with pshyical might not magics.

Here are some Gf and level 10 Cards:
Rhinoa- her father callaway has it

Squall- Laguana has it on the air ship

Quistis- It's in Balamb Garden in the cafeteria.(try the guy in the back)

Selphie- Her friend has it in trabia Garden

Eada- Eada has it go to Eada's house

Seifer- Headmaster Cid has it Also at Eadas house

Irvine- Do the Card Qeen quest twice and Flow will have it in FH.

Zell-Balamb his mom has it.(or so I've heard)

Kiros- Do the Card Qeen quest once and a guy in Deling will have it.(Shopping arcade)

MiniMog- The kid running around in Balamb Garden has it.( it's a GF Card!)

Pandamona- In Balamb the owner of the hotel.(He might not play you till later.

Siren- in Dollet the guy across the bridge upstairs in the Pub.

Oden-Beat Oden

Irfit- Beat Ifrit

Sacred- Beat sacred

Minatou- Beat brothers

Shiva- Give Zone A Girl Next Door Magazine on the white seed ship

These are all the GF's there are. There are no others.

Queltezol-get when you go to your first mission
Shiva- get when you leave for your first mission
Ifrit- get when you defeat him
Siren- draw from your first major boss on your first seeD mission
Brothers- get from the Tomb of the Unknown King
Diablos- get from the lamp that Cid gives to you
Pandemonia- draw from a boss
DoomTrain- get solomons ring then use it(you have to have remedy+ marboro tentacles and steel pipes)
Eden- draw from Ultima Weapon
Cactuar- defeat Jumbo Cactuar at Cactuar Island
Tonberry- defeat Tonberry King at Odins ruins
Bahumut- defeat him at the secret islan at the southwest corner of the world
Alexander- draw from a boss
Cerebrus- defeat him at galbadian airship in the middle a room
Carbuncle- draw from a boss
Leviathan- draw from a boss
*all the GF's that are drawn can be drawn from defferent bosses too
There is 3 more bonus GF's that I have too
Chicobo- get from RPG Chocobo World
Moomba- get from RPG Chocobo World
Odin-get from Odins Ruins
(When Odin is killed by Seifer he turns into Gilgamesh)
Gilgamesh- get when Odin dies

I need help geting through the great salt lake.

I tried every thing but It just does not go any where else.

so if any one knows please post it on this site.