Final Fantasy X's Speed Run FAQ/ODINS (One Day In No Saves)
~Created on: March 20, 2005 at 3:30 PM Pacific Time
~Author/Created by: KADFC (aka Fabian Chang)
~Copyright KADFC 2005 2006 2007
~First Version Submitted on: May 29, 2005
~Lastest Version Submitted on: July 28, 2007
~Version 2.00
~Best Viewed with Courier New/10 Font
*Speed Run* = Fastest Time Possible to get to the last Save Point and still be
able to finish BFA. (SR will be marked for direct input)
*ODINS* = Finish the game in less than 24 hours *WITHOUT EVER SAVING*
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Table of Contents
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A. Introduction
B. Tips and Strategy
C. Time for First Run
D. Pre-Walkthrough
E. Walkthrough
F. Final Words
G. Best Record + Videos + New Info (New)
H. Game Challenges Done by Author
I. Credit
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Introduction
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This is my... I don't know... I've written a lot of these. All I can say is
that if I don't type this FAQ or delay it from being started, eventually, I
will forget about this whole challenge. I know I've should've typed this out
the day after I've completed this, but o well. I'm going to type it starting
now. Let me introuduce myself, I'm known as KADFC. Don't ask why I chosed it,
The FC at the end is my initial, the rest can be left for your imagination.
I don't really care if you think my writing sucks or not, english is my
second language and I don't have a first language, the other one is chinese.
Cantonese if you want to get into greater detail. The reason that I've
decided to start this late is because of school reasons, not that I'm even
considered good at college, I suck at it. I've got lower than a 2.o for 2
terms/semester now and I don't think I'm gonna get my Pell Grant soon... I
hate studying for any classes, I use to be good, but now the games have taken
all my time. College is about studying hard and reading your material
neccessary for the next class meeting... I can't follow that life. For some
reason, but I can type a lot though and I can do it fast and without
thinking too much. KADFC99 is my account name on battle.net, you'll get to
know me and the person that I am if you were talking to me. It's not how I
act in real life, but it comes from the heart.
My writing style for this one is... I don't care. I get to say whatever,
whenever, and however I like it. It's my first Speed Run FAQ. I would like
to follow GarlandG's writing format style for his FFVII Speed Run FAQ, but
I've decided to do it my way, like always. I don't like copying other peoples
work. I should be completing my Zelda FAQ soon, but I don't feel like
touching that game. I've already started my FFX-2 Speed Run, but I'm very
unsatisfied about the results. At least for FFX, I've beaten the current
record made by Hyprophant. She, no offfense, is in my opinion one of the
smartest girl I've ever met. It's hard to find a girl that's into games
these days. If I ever get the chance, I really want to meet her. I heard that
she goes to an university in Texas, that's what I remember at least. O, I
forgot, I forgot to mention I beat her current time for the end of the game.
I tried to ask the users on the boards to know the direct amount of time she
used to beat the game. I didn't get all the info that I wanted. All I got was
that her time was in the early 14th hour, like 14:30 or something. If she
like she can email me and force me to change my time. I don't mind if she
decided to challenge me and beated my record, I find no shame in getting beat
by a girl. I lost many times to a girl on Brood War, to a girl.
Some of them were:
Is the final time recorded after beating Yu Yevon or the Final Save Point
time?
When she did this, did she improve her time constantly or was it just a Speed
Run to prove how fast she can beat the game with NSG alone?
What proof did she have that stated that she got her time? I'm not saying
that it was a lie, I just want to know how she proved it?
Has the time been beaten by any japanese guys?
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Tips and Strategy
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1. Don't have too many saves. Having too many saves on one memory card will
increase the amount of time needed to save other games. Try to keep it
under 10 or 15 saves. I made a mistake and it cost me. I had over 40 saves
on my memory card and it could've helped me get a few extra minutes in
the long run. Loading time is extended as well.
2. Keep two saves for each run, certain situations will help you increase the
speed in which you can finish certain parts. So make 2 saves for them. If
you think he can improve it, try, but the so called improvement might not
be better than the previous one. That's why it's best to have 2 saves.
3. Many improvements can be make during the battles, the amount of time
needed to enter commands to take action.
4. It might be better to use a stop watch then the game's timer. It is
something that I've thought about. The game doesn't really offer by the
second. It's only offered by the minutes. Yet you can alway have 2 saves
of the same place and count to see how many times the ' : ' has been
blinking until the next minute pops up.
5. Pausing doesn't stop the timer. So if you decided to pause it for a long
period of time, don't expect to get great results. If this happens, plan
to restart from the previous save. I've paused this for 2 hours and it
shows.
6. For ODINS: Al Bhed Ship Password, Trial Memorization, Boss Strategy,
Steal Items List/Enemy, Shopping List, Chocobo Racing (For 3 Chests)
7. Must have one other save that has all 26 Al Bhed Primers.
8. A max of 4 Save Game Slots were used to make this FAQ, the challenger
should do the same or less.
9. Restart if you think you can improve your time even more.
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Time for First Run
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0:16 Zanardkand Overpass
0:28 Ruins - Hall
0:37 Underwater Ruins
0:50 Unknown Sea
1:06 Besaid - Before Cloister
1:23 Besaid - After Cloister
1:34 Besaid - Beach
1:55 Kilika - Dock
2:13 Kilika - Great Hall
2:26 S.S. Winno - Corridor
2:32 Near Luca
2:36 Luca - Number 2 Dock
2:54 Luca - Number 4 Dock
3:02 Luca - Stadium Lockerroom
3:18 Luca - After the Finals
3:41 Highroad - South End
3:52 Highroad - Agency (Before C.E)
4:07 Highroad - Agency (After C.E)
4:12 Highroad - North End
4:18 Mushroom Rockroad - Valley
4:26 Mushroom Rockroad - Preupice
4:32 Mushroom Rockroad - Ridge
5:03 Mushroom Rockroad - Aftermath
5:13 Djose Temple
5:24 Djose Temple (Next Day)
5:35 Moonflow - South Wharf
5:52 Guadosalam - Inn
6:17 Thunder Plains - South
6:24 Thunder Plains - Agency
6:36 Macalania Woods - South
6:45 Macalania Woods - Lake Road (Spherimorph)
7:00 Macalania Woods - Agency (Crawler)
7:14 Macalania - Halls (Before seeing Jyscal's Sphere)
7:34 Macalania - Antechamber (After Seymour)
7:41 Macalania - Road
7:45 Macalania - Crevasse (Wedigo)
7:50 Lake Bottom
7:57 Oasis
8:03 Sanubia Desert East (Everyone Together)
8:13 Home
8:15 Home - Main Corridor
8:34 Airship - Bridge (Before Auron/Cid Chat)
8:38 Airship - Cabin (Before Prep)
8:41 Airship - Cabin (After Prep)
8:59 Bevelle - Priest's Passage (CotF)
9:10 Bevelle - Imprisoned
9:16 Bevelle - Via Purifico (Yuna's Part)
9:48 Bevelle - Via Purifico (Tidus' Part)
9:56 Highbridge (Far from Natus)
9:58 Highbridge (Close to Natus)
10:02 Macalania Woods - Campsite (Before Kiss)
10:15 Macalania Woods - North (Close to Calm Lands
10:23 Remiem Temple
10:27 Calm Lands - Near Bridge
10:35 Gagazet - Mountain Gate (Before Brian and Yenke)
10:39 Gagazet - Mountain Gate (After Brian and Yenke)
10:48 Gagazet - Trails (Before Flux)
10:57 Gagazet - Prominence (After Flux)
11:04 Gagazet - Mountain Cave
11:13 Gagazet - Mountain Cave (Before Sanctuary Keeper)
11:27 Gagazet - Zanarkand Ruins (Campfire)
11:30 Dome
11:34 Dome - Corridor
11:41 Dome - Trials (Before Spectral Keeper)
11:44 Dome - Cavern of the Stolen Fayth (Before Yunalesca)
12:02 Dome - Corridor (After Yunalesca)
12:13 Airship - Bridge (After Bevelle)
12:18 Ruins - Underwater Hall (After Geo.)
12:20 Airship - Bridge (Overdrive Rikku)
12:25 Airship - Cabin (Full Prep for Sin Complete)
12:39 Airship - Bridge (Before Yuna Talks, After Sin)
12:47 Airship - Bridge (Ready for Omega Ruin etc...)
12:53 Airship - Cabin (Ready for Overdrive Sin)
12:57 Sin - Near Airship (Ready for Omnis)
13:07 Tower of the Deads (Final Save)
Extra -
3-5 minutes needed to get all 10 Crystal. I did 3.
13:10 Time before going towards Jecht
13:12 Time when ready for BFA
Time needed for Storyline ~5 Minutes
Time needed to beat-
BFA 1st Form - 2 Minutes
BFA 2nd Form - 4 Minutes
Storyline + Aeons (Possessed) + Yu Yevon - 13 Minutes
My time to the death of Yu Yevon (estimate) - 13:36
17 Minutes to get to the part to which the credit starts scrolling
6 Minutes until "THE END" appears
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Pre-Walkthrough
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This will be my finally prepared piece of work. On my first run, I had no
idea what I was going to do. After my first run, I had a sense of what I was
doing to slow my time and what made it so that I can pass the game faster.
After my first Speed Run, I did my ODINS (One Day In No Saves), meaning the
challenger has to beat the game in less than 24 hours without ever saving
the game. I had to attempt my Odins 3 Times. First lost was to an accident
that I had during the game. I accidently used my toe to press the restart
button on my PS2 and it restarted my game. I was going to fight Flux, but I
had to change tapes, I was recording this, and then I restarted it. On my
second lost, I lost to Gui because of my over confidence. I thought I didn't
need to use any Phoenix Downs and depended soley upon Kimarhi to finish him
off with Lancet, but I forgot to check to see if he was Power Breaked or not.
That brought my down fall. On my third try, I finish my ODINS.
During my ODINS, I actually found a certain part in which I beat my Speed
Run's time. I figured out that I improved it during Bevelle, by 20 minutes.
So right now, as I'm writing this FAQ, I'll attempt to beat my first run.
I'll examine every part and tell you what should be expected to achieve the
best time possible. BlitzAce actually did challenge me and wanted to beat my
record, when he can find sometime though. As of right now, the NSGNONCNS
challenge still hasn't been completed yet. I've tested the stated equipment
and theory myself, and I haven't been able to complete it.
Mash X = Keep on tapping X repeatly.
You can save your game whenever you want, I just do it to show you what my
current time is.
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Walkthrough
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Zanarkand
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Walk down and talk to the kids on the lower left. Press X followed with an
up or down selection, and then another X to confirm Tidus' name.
Talk to the girl on the right. Then go the middle of those two groups.
After that, run down the bridge. The last line you should hear is. Zanar...
As Tidus passes through the crowd, keep on pressing X to make it go faster.
Watch CG. When you get control of Tidus, go talk to Auron and keep tapping
X. Walk to the next screen. Storyline, can't skip anything. Just keep
tapping X. This will get you by the first around of enemies easily and
quickly. For the seond round, quickly use Auron's Overdrive and don't use
Tidus' Overdrive, save it up. After Auron's Overdrive, you need to deliver
11 more regular hits to finish this guy off. The enemy only uses Demi, so
don't bother healing.
After the second round, go around from the left and save your game.
(Author's Time: 0:15)
Go onto the next screen. For this one, you might say you need a little
bit of luck. For you want full speed you need luck, if you want to do
it ok, it doesn't matter how much time the enemy uses during the battle.
For this round, all you got to do is keep on tapping X.
Watch storyline and CG. Descend to the left and more storyline
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Ruins
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Mash X. After the bird flies away, you get to control Tidus again. Go
forward then then to the left to get the Al Bhed Compile. Then head for the
temple. Ignore the Save Point and enter into the water.
In this battle, just Mash X. It takes 4 hits on Geo to force him to end this
battle. His hits are gravity based, so he can't kill you, unless you don't
keep on attacking him. After that head for the fireplace and save.
(Author's Time: 0:27)
Go to the lower left door and get the Flint. Head to the north doors and
get the Ether followed by the Withered Flowers. Head back to the fireplace
and quickly light it up.
Klikk (Round 1): Open with Tidus' Overdrive. Then 3 regular attacks. In my
my battle, Klikk had one hit on me and one that missed.
Klikk (Round 2): Have Rikku throw a Grenade. Have Tidus keep on attacking
when it's his turn. Use only 2 Grenades on him and the other attacks are
just regular attacks. If you're lucky enough, you can steal 2 Grenades from
him. It doesn't matter if you get one or two.
Storyline, mashing X doesn't help.
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Al Bhed Ship
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Storyline, Mash X doesn't help
Talk to Rikku, Sphere Grid Tutorial (Mash X)
Then talk to Rikku again, Mash X
When you're in the ocean, open the Menu. Go down to Config. Go to Cursor
and select Memory, goto Aeons and select Short. Get out of the menu.
Swin down to the Underwater Ruins. It is possible to go there without
encountering any random battles. If you do, have Rikku steal a Grenade
from each enemy, have Tidus do anything, even flee.
Note: You need 6 Grenades for the next boss.
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Underwater Ruins
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After you're inside, go backwards and Save.
(Author's Time: 0:36)
Swim forward and get into a random battle. You can't escape from this
battle. Steal up to 6 or use phyical attacks to kill them all.
Head to where Rikku is near by and press X. Go back and face the boss.
Tros: If you don't have 6 Grenades, steal from him. Sometimes you can steal
3, it's a rare thing. It is possilbe to beat him with just 5 Grenades, but
it'll cost you some time. At that point the Pincer would be forced to use
so that you can still attack him. If possible just throw all 6 Grenades and
have Tidus attack/Standby when it's his turn.
Swim back to the ship. Mash X when Tidus gets on the ship. Tidus and Rikku
has their conversation, Mash X doesn't help. Later it will ask to save your
game, so save.
(Author's Time: 0:49)
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Besaid
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Watch the CG. Swim to shore and talk with Wakka, Mash X. Move to Wakka
again, Mash X. Follow him back to Besaid. Mash X during every storyline
part.
:Random Encounters: 4:
Besaid Village: After talking to Wakka, go the temple. After Tidus is
finishing talking to himself, move towards the priest, Mash X doesn't help.
After that go to Wakka's Home and talk to him, Mash X. Go to the temple,
Mash X.
Besaid Temple: Do this as fast as possilbe. Don't get the tressure here
since we won't be needing it. Touch both walls, grab the Sphere, use it
on the door. Walk all the way and touch the wall. Grab the sphere and
place on the opposite wall, push the pillar.
More Storyline, Mash X. Get out of the temple, Mash X. Go talk to Yuna,
Mash X, talk to Wakka and Mash X. During the dream, have Tidus walk to
Yuna and Mash X. Don't mash X during Lulu and Wakka conversation. On
the next next day, go save.
(Author's Time: 1:20)
Head outside. Mash X, storyline. Go back into Besaid. Open the tressure
in front of the shop, go into the shop. Talk to the clerk and say 'Leave.'
Go to the upper right house and talk to the dog to get Energy Blast.
Exit Kilika.
Battle #1: Mash X all the way.
Battle #2: Mash X until Lulu says "This is a water fiend." Select Thunder
and cast it.
Storyline, just Mash X. When you get control of Tidus, go north. If you
walk to Wakka, restart because you'll be wasting time with the praying.
Battle #3: I haven't lost to Kimhari once, so far and I did this 4 times.
All you have to do is keep on attacking him. Even though Tidus' life is
almost gone. In simple terms, Mash X. Storyline, Mash X.
Battle #4: Swap Tidus for Yuna and Mash X during the dialouges. Summon
Valefor and cast Fire twice, then have the rest of the attacks be Sonic
Wing. Casting Fire twice will guarantee that Valefor will get a full
overdrive bar. You need the overdrive for Valefor.
Battle #5: Have Wakka use Dark Attack, after that have everyone flee the
battle.
Battle #6: This is up to your choice. You can swap Yuna for Tidus, Tidus
attack Dingo, Wakka attack the Bird, and Lulu cast Thunder on the Flan, or
have everyone flee the battle.
(Note: If more than 4 Escape attempts fail, just restart, you got unlucky
and wasted some time. This is applied to battle 5 and 6)
In front of the Besaid Beach, save your game.
(Author's Time: 1:31)
Head to the ship, don't talk to anyone to get any items. Storyline.
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S.S. Liki
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When you get control of Tidus, run to Yuna, Mash X. Run to Wakka, Mash X.
Go to chat with Yuna, Mash X.
Sin's Fin: Swap Yuna for Lulu, have her use Fire to get an instant kill on
one of the criters. Have Tidus and Kimarhi team up to take care of the
second one. Then swap Tidus out for Wakka and have him attack the fin.
Lulu use Fire on the Fin, Kimarhi use Lancet on the Fin. Since it's on
memory, just keep on pressing X. Don't kill the last critter.
Echuilles: Dark Attack with Wakka for the first hit. When darkness is gone,
have him use it again. Tidus should use his Overdrive whenever possible.
Heal when you have less than 200. Only 2 Potions should be used in this
battle. You're wasting time if you decided to use more.
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Kilika
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Follow Wakka and then take the left path. Move up, storyline, Mash X. On the
next day, head out, go to the far right to meet up with Wakka, Mash X. Head
left and into Kilika Forest. Save your game.
(Author's Time: 1:57)
Go into your menu, go into Tidus' Sphere Grid, teach him Flee. From now on
flee from all random battles, unless I state that you can not.
Go toward the rest of the part, Mash X. Go left and on the first path, go
into that path, which is north. Keep going north, when you can't anymore,
head east, and then north.
:Random Encounters: 3:
Note: In the first battle, Kimarhi will need to learn Seed Cannon. Mash X
to speed through the dialouge, then have Kimarhi use Lancet. After that,
quickly have Tidus use Flee.
More storyline, Mash X. Go talk to the Sphere Grid to heal up and then go
up the stairs the face the next boss.
Geneaux: Swap Tidus for Yuna, Grand Summon Valefor, use Energy Blast.
Venom, Water, and Stacatto will be used from the boss. Have Valefor use
Fire 3 times, then Dismiss him. Then have Kimarhi use Lancet. Swap Lulu
for Tidus, have him Defend, Swap him for Wakka, have him defend as well.
Swap Kimarhi for Lulu, have her use Fire and the battle should end.
(Note: Having any character defend in battle will give them EXP as well.
Storyline, Mash X. Go up the stair, Mash X. Head toward the temple, Mash X.
Inside the temple, save your game.
(Author's Time: 2:07)
Go over and talk to Wakka, just Mash X. Go into the next door, Mash X. When
the elevator is about to come up, keep running towards it. Dona will come
in, Mash X. Head to the Trials, select the first option.
You'll need to find the fastest route, restart and attempt again if you need
to improve your time. You do need the Destruction Sphere tressure though,
which is the Red Armlet. I could describe the process, but words will
confuse you even more, so I won't try. One of the parts that may cost you
some time is in the last room, pushing the pillar onto the uppper right
part, it might be tricky. It is best to set the Fire Orb on the last door,
continue with getting the Red Armlet, and then go back to get the Fire Orb
and then leave then Trial with it.
After the trials, approach the rest of the party, Mash X. Go talk to Wakka,
Mash X. Try to exit this room, storyline, Mash X. Leave the temple, Mash X.
Go into Kilika Forest.
:Random Encounter: 3:
Note: You'll need to be lucky enough to get into a battle with at least one
Ragnora, the thing that gave Kimarhi his Seed Cannon. You'll just need one
encounter with them. When you get one, get Yuna in and summon Ifrit. Have
Ifrit use Boost and have Ragnora charge his overdrive up. When he's full,
Dismiss him. Then use Flee.
Get on SS Kiki. Exit the cabin, Oaka will introduce himself, Mash X. Head
up to the dock, go to the top to hear Wakka and Lulu's first conversation.
Go back down and talk to the blitzball. Mash X during the part in which
you need to get Jecht Shot. You don't need to get Jecht Shot. Go talk
to Yuna, Mash X. You'll be given the option to save later on. Save your
game.
(Author's Time: 2:27)
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Luca
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Storyline, Mash X. Go to Mika's intro, Mash X. Ask to save, don't save. More
storyline, Mash X. At tutorial, press O and then X to exit it quickly.
stryline, Mash X. Talk to Al Bheds, Mash X. Head South, Mash X. Go East,
Mash X. Go from the right and enter the pub, Mash X. Head back to the docks
and save your game.
(Author's Time: 2:43)
For this part, you'll have to test on your own. You'll need 3151 gils total.
There is a 600 gil chest and a Tidal Spear (sell for 281). 3050 is for
buying Tidus' Stunning Steel and the 101 is used to donate to Oaka. I sold
Yuna's Rod of Darkness (768) and Wakka's Yellow Armguard (387), and got the
600 gil chest to get where I need. Then buy Stunning Steel, equip it, and
give 101 gils to Oaka.
Now head off to save Yuna. You'll be facing machina, two at a time. The
trick is to only let Lulu use her Thunder on the enemy. Have the other two
use defend. This will save time since Thunder will be a one hit wonder.
Having Tidus and Kimarhi attack will slow down the rate to get through
all the battles fast, they do horrible damages, that's why. Even though
this plan seems easy enough, there could be a chance in which case every
attack goes to Lulu, if she is KOed, restart. After all the battles, go to
Dock 4 and save your game.
(Author's Time: 2:48)
Oblizerator: Have Tidus and Kimarhi defend, and have Lulu use Thunder on the
crane. After 3 shocks, have Tidus use it. You'll have to do these commands
quick. If done right, the enemy will only use one attack.
Storyline, Mash X. Go back to the Stadium and save your game.
(Author's Time: 2:56)
Go into Wakka's Sphere Grid and give him the Hp and Mp Nods that are to the
right of where Wakka is at. Go talk to Wakka.
Storyline, Mash X doesn't help here for the beginning, it helps after Lulu
Wakka's part, after Wakka faints on Lulu.
Blitzball Strategy: You'll need some luck here. Best opener you can get is
by getting the ball in the first round. Press Triangle, set it on Manual A,
Right Side, and then get Letty near Keepa. Stay there and the Goer's right
forward (Abus) will go after Letty. It doesn't matter, have Letty Break
and then Dribble. Stay close to Keepa until Halftime. On the EXP screen,
just Mash X. Storyline, Mash X. On the next blue screen, hit cancel and
then X, for both screens.
The second half will be harder than the first one. You'll need to do the
same thing as the first, but the Goers will be on your ass. You'll just
need to stall them until timer hits 3:02, so that Wakka can come in. Wakka
will do great when everyone else isn't leveled up. If they score, you might
as well don't score, overtime will kill you. If you want to win, you should
definetly try using Wakka. Venom Shot can shoot 16. Just make sure the
score isn't 1-1. You can attract Abus to attack Letty, but not their
Center (Bickson). Wakka can shoot from Center to half opposing team's
center and still score. He can Break one defender and then shoot. Goodluck.
Remember, speed matters, winning the blitzball game doesn't. Balgera might
not knock Wakka out. Use "Right Side" to defend. For me, I won the game.
After that, Mash X and then save your game.
(Author's Time: 3:11)
For these battles, if you get an Overdrive, save it for the last wave.
Wakka's Overdrive can kill all 4 enemies if you got 3 Lightning Slots. If
you don't, o well. You're only allowed to use 2 Hi-Potions for healing,
best used when Tidus/Wakka's HP goes lower than 150. When Auron joins, have
him keep on using Power Break until he runs out of MP. Have Wakka use Dark
Attack for the first turn. Have Tidus heal with Potions and Auron keep
Powerbreaking. Then, have Wakka attack as well. When the darkness leaves
the enemy, use Dark Attack again.
Storyline, Mash X doesn't help at all. After the conversation with Auron, go
behind the crates and get the tressure chest, HP and MP Sphere. Head
towards Yuna's party. Storyline, Mash X doesn't help, until the last part,
don't know why. Yuna will want to talk to you, but before that, go right
and get the 1000 gil tressure, then go back and talk to her, Mash X doesn't
help here as well.
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Mi'ihen Road
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Go to the Save Point and save your game.
(Author's Time: 3:34)
Get your main party to be: Tidus, Auron, and Wakka. Because they currently
have the highest HP.
Mash X on Conversations: Maechen, Lucil/Elema/Clasko, Calli, and Shelinda
Your goal is to travel all the way to the agency without talking to anyone
that you need to press X.
:Random Encounter: 10:
Note: Do Not have Kimarhi learn Self Destruct from the bombs. Fire breath
is ok, but really isn't needed.
Once you get to the agency, Mash X. Head out of the agency and more
storyline, Mash X doesn't help. After taking a nap, attempt to exit the
agency and Rin will appear. When the conversation ends, save your game.
(Author's Time: 3:51)
Go into Sphere Grid section. For Tidus, go to the bottom right of his circle
and activate the nods (Mp+20) and (Haste). For Kimarhi, go right one nod
and activate the nod (HP+200). Equip Stunning Steel, any armor possible,
any sensor weapons possilbe, and Kimarhi's Red Armlet. Go talk to the save
sphere to heal up. Then go talk to the clerk and buy 4 Maps and 4 Grenades.
Chocobo Eater: Have the party be Tidus, Auron, and Wakka. Have Tidus use
Haste on himself, Wakka use Dark Attack, and Auron use Power Break. Hope
the Dark and Power connect, next have the Slow connect as well. When it
does, have Yuna summon Ifrit have him use his overdrive. Before summoning
Ifrit though, have Tidus/Auron/Kimarhi use a constant group attack for
2 rounds, then have Wakka use Darkness follow by Yuna's summon. After
Ifrit uses his overdrive, charge his overdrive bar again, you can use it or
save it up, if you plan to save it up, dismiss him then. When he saids,
"You're going to be next!" be sure before his next attack that you have
used Shield, if you have 2 turns, let one of them be an attack or heal
yourself with Fire. You can let 2 Hell Fire and charge it backup, even
though it's a big risk. Before the boss dies, have everyone at least do
something in the battle so that everyone gains EXP.
After the battle, Mash X. Go back to the agency and save your game.
(Author's Time: 3:59)
Head out of the agency and talk to the lady by the door, get on a chocobo.
Head South one screen and open a chest that's on the right 2nd buldge area,
it's worth 2000 gils. Head North until you reach the entrance to Mushroom
Rock Road, from there head to the right and down that path. Activate the
Chocobo Feather to get Thunder Blade (Auron) and Scout (Wakka). Then head
to the gates of Mushroom Rock Road. Storyline, Mash X. Go into MRR.
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Mushroom Rock Road
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Storyline, Mash X. Head to the bottom right of the screen and talk to the
soldier to get Tough Bangle (Lulu). Head to Operation Mi'hien. Clasko will
come, Mash X. Save your game.
(Author's Time: 4:07)
There is only one guy that you have to talk to, the rest you can just skip.
The guy that you have to talk to will give you 10 Potions and next to him
will be a chest that contain 1000 gils. This guy is located on the right
side and very near the first screen. Now just do your best and run to the
end. Best party to pick can be Tidus, Auron, Kimarhi/Wakka, just make sure
to flee all the battles, and try not to get into too many ambushed battles.
I prefer Kimarhi instead of Wakka.
:Random Encounter: 10:
Take the elevator up. Storyline, Mash X. Head northeast, storyline, Mash X.
Keep going. Conversation with Kinoc, Mash X. After he's done talking. Save
your game.
(Author's Time: 4:18)
Go into the Sphere Grid, give Auron the 200 HP Node to the right, give Lulu
20 MP Node to the bottom left of where is currently at. Equip the Tough
Bangle on Lulu. Talk to the save point to heal up. Then talk to Oaka, buy
11 Phoenix Downs. Head to the right and open the 2 tressure chests. Serene
Bracer (Auron) and a Megapotion. Talk to the guy on the bottom right and
say 'Yes.'
Gui: First mission is to get rid of the head. Main party will be Tiduss,
Kimarhi, and Auron. Have Tidus cast haste on Kimahri. Have Auron use Power
Break on the body. When Power Break connects, swap Auron/Tidus for Yuna and
have her start overdriving the Aeon. After that is done. Bring in Lulu and
haste her. Now have Kimarhi Lancet and Lulu use Fire on the head until it
dies out.
Next Mission: Kimarhi will stay alive no matter what, but it's the speed
that counts, so Lulu will do more damage then him. So try to have Lulu
alive until her MP runs and keep casting Fire. Kimarhi will keep on using
Lancet, and since he's in haste, he won't ever run out of life. The third
person doesn't matter, but make sure every member gets at least one action
in the battle. Replace the third member in and have them defend, rotate
them if you want to. If Lulu is Koed, revive her, but never use heal her.
If Tidus has any MP to spare, haste her back, if not, tough luck. If
Kimarhi or Lulu gets a full overdrive, quickly use it. After Gui's HP drop,
his phyical attacks will occur less frequently, which is a good thing,
since demi won't be killing anyone.
Second Gui: Hopefully Auron can do one more Power Break, leave the rest to
Seymour's second powered magic attacks (~ara). Have Yuna heal herself and
Auron if their HP becomes critical. For this battle, I just forgot about
the head and just went directly for the body.
After the battle, a lot of storyline. I'm not gonna say which part you'll be
needing to Mash X, so I'm just gonna say Mash X for the whole Part. When
you get control of Tidus, head to the center top and talk with Gatta. More
storyline, Mash X. After that, head west and save your game.
(Author's Time: 4:44)
Move to the left, storyline, Mash X. Approach Auron, Mash X. Head for Djose
Highroad, more storyline, Mash X.
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Road to Djose Temple
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Talk to the first guy infront you to recieve and you'll recieve a Soft Ring.
Ignore everyone on the road and run to Djose Temple. Storyline, Mash X. When
the map is showing, move Tidus toward the entrance, Auron will talk, Mash X
:Random Encounter: 5:
Note: When you see a Kulukan, have Kimarhi use Lancet on it to learn
Stonebreath. Within the 5 random encounters, if you still haven't learned
it, restart and try again. This must be obtained.
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Djose Temple
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Go save your game.
(Author's Time: 4:52)
Head into the temple. Follow the crowd, chat with Issaru, Mash X. Approach
the stairs, Mash X. Go into the Trial now. Remember that you don't need to
get the destruction sphere tressure in this place. When Yuna is about to
go into the Chamber of the Fayth, keep running at the door of where Auron
is standing by. Dona will show up, Mash X. After she's done, run back to
the same door, more storyline, Mash X.
On the next day, save your game.
(Author's Time: 5:01)
Head to the upper right of this place and get a chest of 4 Ability Spheres.
Go into the temple and go into the left chamber. Get the Remedy, and talk
to the lady standing near Yuna, Mash X. After that, keep walking away from
the temple, Mash X. Now go the left and get a tressure that's worth about
4000 gils. Now go to Moonflow.
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Moonflow
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Ignore everyone and speed through this place. Do get the tressure chests
that contains Level 1 Keys (Right Side) and Magic Sphere (Left Side).
:Random Encounter: 10:
Note: In one of these battles, you'll need to find an Ochu by itself. Get
Yuna out and some all 3 Aeons to charge up their overdrive bar. The first
move of each Aeon is Boost, followed with an attack or heal with their
own magic.
**There is a good reason why I am 4 minute behind compared to my first run.
I decided to overdrive all 3 of my aeons against a Ochu, it did go fast
though. Even though I don't know if I'm gonna use all 3 of them against
Spherimorph, it's still good early preparation.
Once at Moonflow, Mash X. Go to the left, open the tressure next to Oaka.
Continue left and meet up with Lucil/Elena/Clasko, Mash X. Go save your
game.
(Author's Time: 5:16)
Open the chest next to Lulu to get 5000 gils. Make sure that Tidus has the
Stunning Steel and Wakka has the Scout that you got from Mi'Hien Highroad.
For Tidus' SG, go back to where he started from, use a Level 1 Key, go down
take the HP+200 and Str+2 nodes. For Wakka's SG, in the direction of to
the center of his circle, take the Str+2, HP+200, and Str+2 nodes.
Now go back and talk to the Hypello and tell him that you want to ride the
shoopuf. Storyline, Mash X.
Extractor: Have Tidus cast Haste on himself and then on Wakka. Have Wakka
attack in the meantime. After both of them are hasted. Keep attacking it.
When Tidus is attacking, just Mash X to win the battle.
Storyline, Mash X.
Once you get control of Tidus, run to the left and keep going until you
meet up with Rikku. Mash X through everything. Now run to Guadosalem.
Get the Mega-Potion that's near the entrance.
:Random Encounter: 3:
Note: In the first random battle, you'll need to steal 2 Bomb Core from a
chest, but when you mix, use 2 Power Spheres instead.
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Guadosalam
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After Tromell and Rikku's Customize Tutorial, Mash X for both btw, save your
game in the Inn.
(Author's Time: 5:30)
Now head for Seymour's Chambers. Head to the door and Tromell will come out,
Mash X. Walk into the door, Mash X. When in control of Tidus, talk to
everyone inside the room, Mash X after each conversation has started.
Storyline, Mash. Walk out of the chambers and meet up with the party, Mash
X. Head directly for the Farplane.
Once you entered, get the 8 Lightning Marble hidden on the left side. Go to
the farplane after that. Mash X. Walk up the stairs even more. Talk to
Wakka, Mash X, talk to Lulu, Mash X, talk to Yuna, Mash X doesn't help
until the serious part is over, which is when the others starts talking.
Head back down and get to the room on the left. Inside, get the hidden
chest that's worth 3000 gils.
Go back to the party, Mash X. Head for the entrance of the Thunder Plains.
Shelinda will come out, Mash X. Head to the party again, Mash X. Now goto
the Thunder Plains.
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Thunder Plains
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Storyline, Mash X, Tutorial, Mash X. Head for the Save Point and save your
game. Apparently, I always get into one battle before I make it, o well.
(Author's Time: 5:53)
Note: You'll need 8 Electro Marble, 1/2 Chocobofeather, 1 Lunar Curtain,
and 1/2 Light Curtain before you leave the Thunder Plains. At the end I
got 8 Electro Marbles, 1 Lightning Marble, 1 Chocobofeather, 2 Light
Curtain, and 2 Lunar Curtain.
Electro = Imp/Element
Lunar = Larvae
Light = Iron Giant
Chocobo = Quactar
You need to touch one of the Quactar Stones, I touched the one near the
very beginning. You need to activate them so that the Quactar will be
monster in random battles. For this place, have your party be: Tidus,
Auron, and Rikku. Rikku will have the first move most of the time, so
have her steal, followed by Tidus. It depends on the move list, if Rikku
has another attempt to steal, have Tidus use Escape, if she doesn't, have
Tidus use Flee. If Tidus is KOed, have Auron Escape. After battle, use
Yuna to heal everyone up. All I got during the first half was 5 Electros.
:First Half Random Encounter: 5:
My list of Encounters:
Gecko/Eye/Element
Element/Eye/Imp
Larvae/2Imps
Imp/Dragon/Gecko
Imp/Dragon/Gecko
When you are near the agency, Mash X. When everyone is walking away and
Rikku is complaining, head for the doors to the agency. More talking, Mash
X. Save your game.
(Author's Time: 5:59)
Go talk to Yuna, Mash X won't help. Next Day, go talk to Rikku, Mash X.
After you're outside, pickup the Yellow Shield and equip it on Tidus.
Head for the second half of the Thunder Plains. All you need to do is get
into the random battles that you need. Soon you'll get into storyline,
Mash X doesn't help at all. Continue into Macalania Forest.
:Second Half Random Encounters: 7:
My list of Encounters:
Quactar
Iron Giant
2Larvae
Element/Eye/Dragon
Giant/2Eyes
2Larvae
Element/Eye/Dragon
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Macalania Forest
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After talking with Auron, Mash X btw, save your game.
(Author's Time: 6:12)
There isn't really anything to steal in this place. You can steal some Fish
Fins or anything that's from Chimera. I just find it convient that I can
get some good water items without doing too much. Keep the same party as
before. Rikku will keep stealing, having Tidus flee the very next second.
Mash X through Barthello's bitching and the musician's butter intro
:Random Encounters: 8:
I got 1 Lightning Marble, 3 Arctic Winds, and 5 Fish Scales.
Before Spherimorph, save your game.
(Author's Time: 6:17)
Go talk to Oaka, exit the screen, tell him 'Too Pricey' (First option).
Talk to him again. Buy Sonic Steel (Tidus) which is about 9075. I don't
know about you, but I have 23701 gils. If you do have this kind of cash,
buy 11 Hi-Potions (8250) and 11 Phoenix Downs (1650), which is 9900.
Set your main party into Tidus, Auron, and Kimarhi. Make sure that no one
has any weapon that deals elemental attacks, replace it with anything else.
Go ahead and Auron starts talking, Mash X. Go to where they are, Mash X.
Spherimorph: Remember that everyone can and should do something in the
battle, so that they will gain EXP. Have Tidus, Wakka, Auron, and Kimarhi
be the ones that deal the phyical damage to find out what the boss is in.
After that, swap the next person for one of the ladies and have them use
the opposite element to deal damage. Quickly use Rikku's Mix and some of
Yuna's Aeon Overdrive to deal massive damage, so that they can power up
again.
2 Grenade = Flash Flood = Water
2 Electro = Rolling Thunder = Thunder
2 Arctic = Ice
Ifrit = Fire, Ixion = Thunder
For everything else, have Lulu cast her magic or have Rikku use items
Storyline, Mash X. Talk to Auron, Mash X. Head for the Travel Agency. Get
into no battles, save your game.
(Author's Time: 6:28)
Go into Auron's SG and fill in all of his HP Nodes in his current circle,
which should give him a total of 1830. In Kimarhi's SG, move him to the far
bottom left of his circle, make it so that he'll have the power to remove a
Level 1 Lock. Open that Unlock it and move over to the left, unlock that
Level 1 as well. Now move Kimarhi into Steal, and let him learn Steal and
Use. After that, give him the 4 (200 HP) Nodes that is below Rikku, not
counting the one that needs a Lvl.3 Key. Kimarhi's HP total should be 1644.
Go buy Seeker's Armlet (Kimarhi) and Seeker's Bracer (Auron) and equip it
to them, this will cost 3150 total. Give Tidus the Sonic Steel. Equip
Auron with the Thunder Blade. Set your main party into Tidus, Auron, and
Kimarhi. Buy 10 Grenades, just in case. Head outside, storyline, Mash X.
Walk to the boss.
Crawler: Have Tidus take out Stunning Steel and attack him. Have Kimarhi
use a Light Curtain on himself, followed with a Chocobofeather and a Light
Curtain on Auron. Hope that the few attacks of Tidus inflicts slow on the
the boss. When slow is inflicted, take him out for Rikku and keep using
Electro Marble and Lightning Marble. Use it until there is 3 Lightning
Marble left. Throw Grenades if you are about out of items to use. Have
Auron keep attacking him. You seriously don't need to heal, unless you
didn't inflict slow on him, if you do need to heal, use Hi-Potions. Only
revive the 3rd person if Crawler is about to die, so that they can
recieve EXP as well. The only person that needs to recieve EXP is Tidus,
Auron, and Yuna.
Note: Make sure you don't use Kimarhi's Overdrive. Rikku and Yuna's will
be needed, but there are other ways to charge them up easily
Before you go into doors, get into a random encounter. Get Tidus with Sonic
Steel, with Auron and Kimarhi. Hope that a Wolf shows up. I got it on my
first try many times. Swap Tidus for Rikku and steal from the wolf. After
that just flee the battle. At least one sleeping powder is needed, that's
all for right now. Head to the temple.
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Macalania Temple
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Storyline, Mash X. Walk inside. Do the Jyscal Sphere thing and Mash X while
at it. Open the 5000 gil chest near the save point. Go save your game.
(Author's Time: 6:43)
Give Tidus the Sonic Steel and Kimarhi the Red Armlet. Now walk into the
trials. Mash X through all the storyline. Time to face Seymour.
Seymour: Have Tidus take out Stunning Steel. Swap Tidus for Rikku, have her
use a Lunar Curtain on Kimarhi. If you haven't charged up Yuna and Rikku's
overdrive bar, this is the best time to do that. If they are charged up,
swap them for Tidus, and have Tidus try to inflict Slow on Seymour. Before
that though, have Kimarhi use Stone Breath to eliminate the Guado Guards.
After Slow connects, have Tidus use Talk on Seymour to increase his
strenght. Then cast Haste on Kimarhi so that you'll have a fast tank to
heal and revive, you don't need to heal that much anyways. Before taking
out this form, make sure that Rikku and Yuna's overdrive is full. Then
finish him off.
Anima: There are many ways to take out this boss fast. Most of them require
Anima to be in her 'Boost Mode,' so that she can recieve more damage then
intended. Use Aeon's overdrive is one of them, any of them will do, best
done when Anima is full or almost full. When Anima is in boost, Tidus'
regular attacks can do 1000~, Lightning Marble can do 1500~, and Auron's
attacks 400~. Shiva's Overdrive do about 5000~6000. After she uses Pain
on a character, more than likely, that character will be KOed, just revive
them. Before you kill her, make sure Rikku is not in the main party.
Seymour(Final): Swap whoever is avaliable for Rikku. Have Rikku mix a Magic
or Magic Defense Sphere with a Sleeping Powder (Chaos Grenade) to quickly
end the battle.
Storyline, Mash X. After that, save your game.
(Author's Time: 6:59)
Do the trial, but don't get the Destruction Sphere tressure. Head out of
the trials and save your game if you feel like it, I did.
(Author's Time: 7:03)
Equip Tidus with Sonic Steel and start running. There will be 2 forced
battles with the Guado Guards. If you don't see a wolf in the battle, just
use flee. If you do see a wolf, steal from it. Main party should be Tidus,
Rikku, and Kimarhi.
After that Guado chase is done, keep running south.
:Random Encounter: 2:
Note: In the 4 battles that you encounter, you must steal at least 2
sleeping powders. And have Tidus use escape so that Rikku can power up
her overdrive.
Save your game just before going against Wendigo.
(Author's Time: 7:06)
Set your main party into Tidus, Kimarhi, and Lulu. Make sure Tidus still
has the Sonic Steel.
Wendigo: Swap Tidus for Rikku and Mix Strengh/Magic Sphere with a Sleeping
Powder. Next throw elemental items at him till it's lower than 7300~. Use
a regular attack to wake him up. Next, have everyone use phyiscal attacks
to force him to put his dukes up. Once his dukes are up, have Rikku attack
him again. Do this twice to have Rikku's have a fully charged up overdrive
again. Use another mix of Chaos Grenade, that's the end of that. If you're
unlucky, he might start attacking other's instead of the ones that you
wanted to get hurt. You need to use a few phoenix downs during this battle.
Probably 3 or 4 is needed, or none.
After the boss is dead, Mash X. Once at the Lake Bottom, save your game.
(Author's Time: 7:10)
Walk over and talk to Rikku, Mash X. Walk over to Yuna, Mash X. Force your
way to get out of Yuna's way and talk to Auron, Mash X. Walk back,
storyline, Mash X.
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Bikanel Island
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Go to the Save Point and save your game. Tidus' weapon for the rest of the
game will be Sonic Steel, don't replace it.
(Author's Time: 7:16)
Go into Tidus' SG. Have him move all the way to Steal Nod, and teach him
Steal and Use. Walk north, Mash X. Walk north again.
Zu: Have Tidus steal twice. Zu will KO Tidus now, and this will bring Auron
and Lulu into the battle. Have Auron use a phoenix down on Tidus or have
him defend, have Lulu escape. Once you have stolen a total of 6 Smoke Bombs
from the enemy, just get out of the battle. For my run, I got 7 Smoke Bombs
from him, a 3 and then a 4, and it was done in 2 consecutive steals.
Storyline, Mash X. Move north, get Wakka, Mash X. Open the chest to get some
Al Bhed Potions. Head west. Get Kimarhi, Mash X. Set the main party into
Tidus, Auron, and Kimarhi. Now, whenever you see a Alcoyne, steal from
them.
:Random Encounter (Before getting Rikku): 3:
Note: You need 12 Smoke Bombs before leaving the Bikanel. I got a total of
9 before getting Rikku. Also, fill up Rikku, Kimarhi, and Auron's
overdrive bar.
Meet up with Rikku, Mash X. Get the 2 tressure chests and save your game.
(Author's Time: 7:22)
Move forward and Rikku will do a small intro. You can steal from both
machina, but since I'm in a rush, I used Flee instead. Once that battle
is done, change your main party into Tidus, Rikku, and Kimarhi. Try to
get those Smoke Bombs now. You have 12/13 chances, and if you get
ambushed, use Flee. Best to get into a battle with another Zuu or a wolf
and 2 Alcoynes. Flee all battles once you hit 12. Also make sure that
Rikku, Kimarhi, and Auron's overdrive are fully powered before facing
the next battle. Form a party with Tidus and without Auron, then go face
the mini-boss.
:Random Encounter (After getting Rikku): 12)
Sandaroga: Swap Tidus for Auron, use Shooting Star. When using it, you
must perform the whole combination correctly.
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Home
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Storyline, Mash X, save your game.
(Author's Time: 7:30)
Make a party including Tidus and without Rikku. Go inside of home, Mash X,
move forward and get into a battle.
Guado and 3 Bombs: Swap Tidus for Rikku and Mix 2 Maps (Potato Masher)
Follow the party and Mash X during the storyline. Make a party including
Tidus and without Kimarhi, and go into another battle.
Guado and 2 Dual Horns: Swap Tidus for Kimarhi, use Stonebreath.
Now quickly go save your game.
(Author's Time: 7:33)
You must know get into a random battle with 3 Bombs and a Guado. Make sure
your party is Tidus, Kimarhi, and Rikku. Still from all 3 Bombs, then Flee
the battle, that's your main objective. Besides that, there is one more
task you must do, and that is to use Lancet on one of the bombs as well as
refill have Rikku take enough damage to full have her OD bar filled up.
Best one's the fill her up is the Guado's magic attack. If Rikku goes down
in the battle, have Kimarhi use a phoenix down on her, do this until she
has a full OD bar.
Then go to the next screen, make a party that includes Tidus and without
Kimarhi.
Guado and 2 Chimera: Swap Tidus for Kimarhi and use Stonebreath.
Move down the stairs. Storyline, Mash X. Grab the Level 4 Key on the left
and the Level 2 Key on the right, both are in a chest. Move onto the next
door. Storyline, Mash X. When you get control of Tidus again, move to the
left and get the chest worth 10,000 gils. Now head to the right and into
the Airship. Storyline, Mash X.
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Airship
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After all the talking, exit the room until you see Kimarhi, then head back
inside where Auron was standing. Auron and Cid will be talking, Mash X.
Then run and talk to brother, Mash X. Then try to head back out, the ship
will shake, Mash X. Now go talk to Rin, hopefully you won't get into a
random encounter. Don't buy anything from Rin and then Mash X. You'll
recieve the 99 Underdog Secrets. Now keep walking and pass Issaru, now
save your game. It should be "Airship - Cabin."
(Author's Time: 7:55)
Get you party into Tidus, Kimarhi, and Rikku again. Head up and get an intro
to the next boss, Mash X. Head up, all the way up until the boss battle.
Evrae: Have Tidus use a Smoke Bomb. Then have Rikku use a Quartet of 9,
which is a mix of Level 1/2 Key and an Underdog Secret. Next, try to steal
1/2 Water Gem from him and have the guy/gal that recieve the QO9 use it
back on him. If the person that recieved QO9 is KOed, restart.
Storyline, Mash X
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Bevelle
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Just follow this combination and you'll be done.
2 Smoke Bombs
2 Smoke Bombs and 2 Bomb Cores
2 Smoke Bombs
2 Smoke Bombs and 2 Bomb Cores
2 Smoke Bombs and a Bomb Core
Note: Throughout the whole process, I had to Mash X most of the time,
until I needed to change it. Remember what each character was using last,
so that the next move can be used quickly. Also, it doesn't matter who
gets kicked out by the robot, speed is everything, EXP doesn't matter
for right now.
More storyline, Mash X helps some, but not all. Just enjoy it.
After all of the talking, you'll be entrance to the temple. When you get
control of Tidus, have him talk to the activation panel to make the stairs
move, it's faster than walking down. On the next screen just Mash X until
you get of Tidus and move to the next screen. Then just walk up to where
everyone else is at and save your game.
(Author's Time: 8:12)
Just walk into the trials and do it fast. You'll probably need a lot of
attempts like I do. The only thing that you can mess up on is on the 2nd
level, just trying to get from base one all the way to the 3rd one is
hard enough. So I will allow 2 failures. The speed of your platform
movement will force you to keep restarting. An alternative way is to get
on the second path and then head back out and take a slow platform into
the 3rd row. Remember that the special tressure chest on the left side
isn't needed. Finish the temple and then more storyline, Mash X. You'll
be given the option to save, save your game.
(Author's Time: 8:21)
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Via Purifco
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A great deal of storyline stuff, Mash X. Later on you'll get Yuna, save your
game again.
(Author's Time: 8:28)
Note: For both Save Point Times, I got the same time. Plus, get into no
random battles from where Yuna started to the second save point.
Move north to the next screen. Wait it to blink north and step on it. Auron
will join up with Yuna, now save your game, again.
Now for some preparation. This all depends on what kind of a spheres you
got in your inventory. Hopefully you have a lot of Power Spheres, and some
Magic and Speed Spheres. Now from the order from Yuna's initial starting
place, go around the whole circle and head towards the bottom right of that
cirlce. Then use the Lvl. 1 Key and get those nods.
The nodes that you'll activate from Yuna's initial position: Mag+3, Agi+2,
Mag+3, Def+1, HP+200, HP+200, Mag+3, (Use Lvl.1 Key), HP+200, Agi+2, Str+4,
HP+200, HP+200, and Agi+3.
This will make it so that your Shiva and Ixion will have more turns, so that
Bahamut won't use more than 4 Megaflare. If you have any Magic or Speed
sphere, you can always use them as well. I didn't have enough Magic or
Speed spheres. Ixion isn't really needed unless you screw up with Shiva.
My Yuna's stats are: HP - 1475, MP - 84, Str - 9, Def - 7, Magic - 29,
Magic Def - 20, Agi - 18, Luck -17, Evasion - 36, Acc - 3
You can go and save again if you want, I choose not to. Now walk north,
more than likely, you'll encounter 2 battles with Maze Larvae, but it's
also possible to get into just one battle because I did ^_^ Lucky me!
Maze Larvae: Summon Bahamut, use a phyiscal attack followed with a Thundaga.
If you get into battle with the second one, do the same thing. If you want
full speed, keep restarting until you get one battle with them.
Also, before the fight against Issaru's Aeons, Yuna will be fully healed.
Grothia: Summon Shiva, have her cast NulBlaze followed with a phyiscal
attack. After Ifrit's Hellfire, Shiva will be fully filled up, cast
NulBlaze again. If he doesn't use Fira on you, release your Diamond Dust.
After that, always make sure your NulBlaze is up, heal when Shiva's HP
falls lower than 600. Keep with the phyiscal attacks and release another
Diamond Dust to end it.
Pterya: Summon Bahamut and then use up your MP on ~aga magic attacks. After
that just keep using regular attacks. For some reason, 2 regular attacks
is very close to a Megaflare. When your Bahamut has 350 HP or less left,
quickly use Megaflare to end it. I had 78 HP left and I didn't use
Megaflare when I won this battle.
Spathi: Grand Summon Shiva and use Diamond Dust. After that keep using
regular attacks and pay attention to Spathi's counter. When it reads one,
have Shiva use Shield, and on the next turn cast Blizzard on Shiva.
Spathi only used 3 Megaflare, a big difference compared to my first run,
which was 6 Megaflares and I had to bring out Ixion to end it.
After that, storyline, Mash X. You'll be given Tidus now, go save your game.
(Author's Time: 8:43)
Go directly for the boss now, no second save.
:Random Encounter: 1:
Note: If you don't have at least one Bomb Core, Dragon Scale, Electro
Marble, or any elemental items in your stock, steal some from Magora. You
just need one.
Evrae Altana: Throw 2 Phoenix Downs on him, easy and simple enough. It is
possible to have his counter miss and have Tidus use it again on him.
Now swim to the other end of this place. Don't open any of the chests.
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High Bridge
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Storyline, Mash X. Save your game.
(Author's Time: 8:51)
If you don't have at least 2 Soft, go buy them from Oaka. Now head for
Natus and save your game on the second save point.
(Author's Time: 8:53)
:Random Encounter: 3:
Note: Make sure that Rikku's overdrive is powered up. You can power up
Lulu's as well, but it can be done later.
Now for some prep before Natus. Make sure that Sonic Steel is still on and
give Yuna the Soft Ring, and you're ready to go.
Natus: Swap Tidus for Rikku and mix 2 Underdog Secrets (Supernova). He'll
use Protect and 4000 will be sucked away from him by his partner. If break
is used on anyone, have the next person use a Soft on them. Next have
Rikku or Kimarhi use a elemental item on Natus. This will force Natus
to use 5 Flare attacks. Hope that the first one is given to Rikku, revive
her and quickly mix another Supernova to end the battle quickly. That's
what I got in my run.
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Macalania
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Storyline, Mash X. Save your game.
(Author's Time: 8:56)
Head for the lake and watch the storyline. Mash X doesn't help at all.
Have Tidus walk away from Yuna, more storyline. On the next day, head for
the path for the Calm Lands. Save your game.
(Author's Time: 9:09)
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Calm Lands
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Storyline, Mash X. Head for the uppper left of the mini map and talk to
the chocobo trainer. Take the first trainer and pass on the first try.
Say no to her other trainer tests. Talk to her again and say that you want
to ride a chocobo. Ride the chocobo to the upper right of the mini map.
Save your game.
:Random Encounters: 6:
Note: You must steal at least 2 Fire Gems from the Fire Flans. At the same
time charge up Rikku's overdrive.
(Author's Time: 9:17)
Defender X: Set your party into Tidus, Rikku, and Kimarhi. Have Tidus use
a Smoke Bomb. Mix Quartet of 9 with Rikku. Once you found out who the
taker is, have Tidus use haste on that person and have that person use
the 2 Fire Gems.
Walk forward, storyline, Mash X. Walk over bridge, Mash X. Head toward
Mt. Gagazet.
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Mt. Gagazet
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Storyline, Mash X. Go Save your game.
(Author's Time: 9:24)
No prep, just face them.
Yenke and Biran Ronso: Use 2 Lancet on Biran to get Doom. Steal a total of
2, or more, Lvl. 3 Keys from both of the Ronsos (Only steal twice, once
from each Ronso). After that keep throwing Grenades to win the battle.
Don't go too fast on the menu screen. You must see that you got 2 Return
Spheres. If you don't restart the game and try again. A drop of 2 Return
Spheres are suppose to be common.
Head back and save your game.
(Author's Time: 9:28)
Customize First Strike onto one of Rikku and Lulu's weapons, equip them.
Go talk to the Ronso merchent and sell 50 Underdog Secrets. Go into Lulu's
SG and head to the lower right of her cirlce and keep going. Use the Lvl.
3 Key and use it. Then have Lulu learn Bribe. Now head north. Storyline,
Mash X. Now quickly run to the next save point. Don't talk to Wantz and
don't try to get any tressure chest.
:Random Battle: 15:
Note: Must make sure that Lulu and Rikku's overdrive is charged up before
the save before facing Flux. You must steal at least 13 Fire Gems. Along
the way, you have to bribe a Grenade for 75,000 gils. As long as you get
5 Shining Gems from them, it's fine. In the battle, swap Rikku for Lulu,
Bribe the Grenade, use Tidus and Flee. It's that simple.
Save your game.
(Author's Time: 9:36)
Set party into Tidus, Rikku, and Lulu. Also make sure that their First
Strike weapons are equipped. Head north, storyline, Mash X. Time for Flux.
Flux: Mix Trio of 9999 (Underdog Secret + Lvl. 3/4 Key). Now you only got
2 attacks to end this battle, if it doesn't fully kill Flux, restart.
Have Tidus use a Fire Gem and Lulu use Fury (6-8 times). Hope that it's
good enough to kill him.
Storyline, Mash X. Then run north and save your game.
(Author's Time: 9:43)
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Cave of Mt. Gagazet
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Head forward, Storyline, Mash X. Walk to Tidus' home, Mash X. Follow the
kid, Mash X. Keep going north. Save your game.
(Author's Time: 9:50)
Do both trials now. Get Wakka's blitzball thing done in 3 tries. Get the
swimmer's color thing done in one try. Head for the next save and save
your game.
:Random Encounter: 16:
Note: Charge up Lulu and Rikku's overdrive with a Behemoth. Also it's best
that you steal 7 or more Water Gems from the Maelspikes.
(Author's Time: 9:59)
Sanctuary Keeper: Set party into Tidus, Rikku, and Kimarhi. It's basically
the same thing as what we did for Defender X. Quartet of 9, haste it, and
use a Fire Gem.
Head forward, Storyline, Mash X. Get Yuna's Sphere, Mash X. Keep walking
that trail.
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Zanarkand Ruins/Yevon Dome
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See the intro of this game. Go save your game.
(Author's Time: 10:12)
:Random Encounter (Ruins): 6:
Charge up Rikku's Overdrive and Flee from all other battles. You can
charge it up later on.
Storyline, Mash. Head for the Domes. Storyline, Mash X. Keep going. When
you see Seymours' flashback, go to the right path and get the Friend Sphere
from that chest. During the part in which you see Jecht/Braska/Auron
running across a bridge, take the hidden slope and get a Lvl. 3 Key from
that chest.
:Random Encounter (Dome): 5:
Must make sure that Rikku's overdrive is charged full. The best monster to
do this is Defender Z's Haymaker attack. One shot and you're done.
After another storyline, save your game. The one before the trials.
(Author's Time: 10:20)
You now after to do this trial very fast. If you take more than 6-7 minutes,
restart and try again. I was doing it fast, but not that fast. Yet I do
have it memorized though. If your memory isn't good enough, you can always
draw it out or use something else as a reference when you're doing each
puzzle. After you've complete all 5 trials, put the spheres to where they
need, and then save your game.
(Author's Time: 10:26)
Form the party into Tidus, Lulu, and Rikku. Lulu has to be in the middle.
Even though I'm superstious, I believe it increase the chances of success.
Make sure that they have their First Strike weapon equipped.
Spectral Keeper: This might take 8 tries. Mix Trio of 9999 with Rikku
(Underdog Secret + Lvl 3/4 Key). Next, have Tidus use a Fire Gem. Now here
comes the luck party. You need to have Lulu survive this attack, meaning
Spectral's counter would miss. After it misses, have Lulu finish it off
with any her magic attack. The reason why I used this strategy is because
I didn't have Tidus' Slice and Dice. Secondly, it doesn't require me to
go to the dome and refill Rikku's overdrive, which takes time. And Lulu
does have a high evasion to do this.
Storyline, Mash X. Save your game
(Author's Time: 10:29)
Set party into Tidus, Rikku, and Kimarhi. Remember the 4 HP Nodes that you
had Kimarhi use, the one in Rikku's circle, have Tidus fill those 4 nodes
as well. Keep walking forward and Mash X during each storyline part.
Yunalesca (Form 1): Mix Trio of 9999 (Underdog Secret + Lvl 3/4 Key). Next
have everyone defend or use a Al Bhed Potion. Only use a Al Bhed Potion
when some one was damaged, if no one is damaged, use Al Bhed Potion. When
turns appear in the order Rikku, (Kimarhi/Tidus), (Kimarhi/Tidus), have
Rikku use a Fire Gem.
Yunalesca (Form 2): Hellbiter will attack everyone, but not killing Rikku.
Have (Kimarhi/Tidus) use a Fire Gem.
Yunalesca (Form 3): Mega Death will be activated. Have (Kimarhi/Tidus) use
a Fire Gem. Boss will counter, it doesn't kill you. Have the next person
use another Fire Gem to end battle.
Storyline, Mash X. Run back, talk with Auron, Mash X. Head for Save before
the trials, save your game.
(Author's Time: 10:45)
Head outside and meet Sin.
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Airship
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More storyline, Mash X. Head for the spot in which you first saw Evrae.
Talk to Yuna/Kimarhi, Mash X. Go back to the bridge, Mash X. Talk to Cid
and go to Bevelle. Storyline, Mash X. Once back on the ship, Save your
game.
(Author's Time: 10:57)
From this point on, I've decided to pick a certain place to get my fast
overdrive refills for Rikku in Zararkand. The enemy that I've choose to do
this job is Defender Z. You may pick any other enemy to do this job. After
getting Rikku's Overdrive, search the World Map and get Baaj Temple (
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Baaj Temple
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Save your game.
(Author's Time: 10:59)
Jump down into the water, Mash X. Head towards the Temple's Entrance and
dive into it. Time for battle.
Geogersano: Have Rikku Mix Trio of 9999 (Underdog Secret + Lvl 3/4 Key) or
a Quartet of 9 and then throw a Water/Fire Gem at him.
After you kill him, pay attention to the menu's item drops. If you see a
weapon on the right side, save your game. If not, restart until you get
a weapon from this boss.
Save your game
(Author's Time: 11:01)
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Sin
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Overdrive Rikku again. Go talk to Cid and select "Sin." Mash X. Head for
Cabins and Save your game.
(Author's Time: 11:06)
(Sidenote: This part is added to show that if I missed something or not,
all relevant to everyone's Hp and Mp. You should just take the time
to check these. After you have check them, restart and ignore these.
These are mine Hp/Mp:
HP - MP
Tidus: 1520 - 32
Kimarhi: 1644 - 78
Rikku: 360 - 85
Yuna: 1475 - 84
Auron: 2013 - 33 (1830 without +10 Hp Armor)
Lulu: 456 - 112
Wakka: 1018 - 30
Go into Auron's Sphere Grid if your Auron doesn't have Steal and Use.
Use the Friend Sphere that you got from one of the chests from
Zanarkand and transfer his position to where Rikku is, she shouldn't
have far or at all from the nods that have Steal and Use. If you want,
you can just give him Use, I gave both.
Also read futher on, from this point forward, understand every aspect
before you keep going on, before facing OD SIN at least.
*End Sidenote* )
Set your party into Tidus, Rikku, and Auron. Head to the dock, storyline.
Mash X during most of it.
Sin's Left Fin: Mix Trio of 9999. Have Tidus talk to Cid to move the ship.
Have Auron constantly using defend. Have Rikku and/or Tidus attack him
2 times, and he should counter back with a body slam. If he doesn't,
attack him again every other turn until he slam the party. When he slams
the party, most likely Rikku and Tidus will be KOed, filling up Rikku's
OD bar. After he body slams the party, have Auron use a Fire/Water Gem on
the boss. If the body slam isn't used and instead the core charges up,
heal up Auron fully and have him keep defending until the body slam.
Sin's Right Fin: It's the same thing as the Right Fin except make sure
to heal up Auron before the body slam starts coming.
(Note: You'll just have to be lucky so that the body slams comes when they
are needed. If Sin decided to use a few body slams, hope that Auron isn't
KOed.)
Sin's Core/Genasis: Mix Trio of 9999 and throw 2 Fire/Water Gems.
Save your game.
(Author's Time: 11:20)
Get Rikku's OD again. Talk to Cid and set in the Code "VICTORIOUS." Head to
Besaid Ruins 1 and get Rikku's Victorious. Save your game. *Note: Before
so, look at *BON24 )
(Author's Time: 11:22)
Go to Bikanel Island and head toward the activation tomb near the sandstorm.
Talk to it once. Head the nearest Save Sphere and head back to the ship.
Set your party to Tidus, Kimarhi, and Rikku. Then go back to Bikanel Island
and save your game.
(Author's Time: 11:25)
Go the the right of the save point and talk to the Cactuar. Play it's little
game and get into a battle with it. Now, most of this part is based on
luck. You have to steal a Chocobo Wing from it and then flee the battle
safely. It took me about... a very long time to do this part. Hope you get
better luck with this one. After getting a Chocobo Wing, save your game.
(Author's Time: 11:27)
**Author's Own Note**
This is very vital to see if you're going to beat my time or not. I kinda
screwed myself by not getting this early on, no wonder I beat most of my
times constantly. When I got to the very last save, before facing BFA, the
time that I had was 11:42. Yet after countless attempts to finish him, I
couldn't do it and so I had to go back to get this certain Overdrive.
Tidus' Slice and Dice. So, in my flaw, I got to with draw 10-11 minutes of
my time to get his Slice and Dice.
To those that followed this path a little bit too close, you'll have to do
the same. I got my Slice and Dice from Zanarkand Ruins. The trick is to
have a lot of Hi-Potions. And Heal only Tidus to full health and get into
another fight and charge up again. Tidus and Rikku should use their First
Strike weapons so that Rikku can escape and Tidus can use his OD if he has
it full. While you're here, mind as well get Yuna's OD charged as well.
I saved my game, you should probably too.
(Author's Time: 11:37)
Head back to the airship and go to the screen in which you faced Evrae.
Storyline. Mash X for the last part. Save Game.
(Author's Time: 11:42)
Make sure your party is Rikku, Tidus, and Kimarhi/Auron. You might need to
stock up on some items, like Phoenix Downs, your call.
Overdrive Sin: Simple battle, but need quick fingers. Have Rikku mix Trio
of 9999. Defend quick so that Sin can make 2 moves towards you. Then
quickly throw 3 Fire Gems at him. Storyline.
Mash X and Save Game.
(Author's Time: 11:46)
Take a few practice runs with No Encounter on, reset and you'll have to do
again swiftly. But on your real run, you'll need to charge up Rikku's OD
and then run for that Save Point with No Encounter. Save Game.
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Inside Sin
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(Author's Time: 11:48)
To make the next battle go a lot faster, you'll need to check to see if you
have at least 3 Teleport Spheres. If you do, cutomize First Strike into
one of Kimarhi's Weapon and use it and have Rikku and Tidus with First
Strike. ( *BON24 )If not, equip Rikku with Victorious, both Tidus and
Rikku with First Strikes. Go talk to Seymour and Mash X.
Seymour Omnis: For first strategy. Have Rikku use Trio of 9999 and then have
the other's use Water Gem on him, just two is needed.
For the second one, same thing, except this time, everyone will die,
except Rikku, and Rikku will need to throw the second Water Gem.
Storyline. Mash X. Take No Encounter off and get into a random battle.
Hoefully it's a monster that can hit quick and fast. Charge up Rikku's OD.
You probably want a test run through this place as well, do one if you
screwed up on the random battle and then reset. Get to the next Save Point
and Save Game.
(Author's Time: 11:53)
So you have it, I lost 11 minutes, from my 11:42 last save. O well, at
least I beat my first run by 1 hour and 14 minutes. Time for me to explain
the rest of this. Or you can try it by yourself, it's up to you.
Do a few runs of this first, try to find a weapon empty slot weapon for
Yuna and Auron, equip them and give them First Strike. Go do the whole
crystal thingy and touch no crystal and do it as fast as possible. If you
screw up, you may restart and try again. Make sure Yuna, Auron, and Tidus
have First Strike on them.
Braska's Final Aeon (First Form):
Due to my Yuna's high agility, she has the first move.
Yuna - Swap for Rikku
Rikku - Chocobo Wings
Tidus - Talk
Auron - Swap for Lulu
Lulu - Switch Weapon
Rikku - Trio of 9999
Lulu - Switch Weapon
Tidus - Slice and Dice
BFA - Nothing
Lulu - Swap for Yuna
Yuna - Grand Summon Bahamut
Braska's Final Aeon (Second Form):
BFA - Kills Bahamut
Rikku - Grenade
Tidus - Talk
Rikku - Water Gem
Rikku - Water Gem
BFA - Jecht Beam on anyone
Two Stones come back to life
Swap Anyone for Lulu and have her use her Overdrive, Good Luck
Final Aeons
Very simple as well, just need quick fingers. Most likely Rikku will be
in the party, if not, get her in there. Have her use Shining Gems and if
you're still in memory mode, all you have to do is keep pressing X.
Yu Yevon
Quickly get Kimarhi to use Doom on Yu Yevon and then haste Yu. Keep
defending with the rest of your turns so that Yu can die faster
(Author's Final Time: 12:24)
This time was calculated from the last saw time before facing BFA and it
ended when Yu Yevon died.
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Final Words
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This FAQ was delayed due to my laziness and I'm sorry. The end of this FAQ
was typed out very quickly and I didn't get to do too much for it. I hope
to give more details later, if they are needed, I guess. I was planning to
add an ODINS section to this part, but I don't know if I will have the time
for that... so the answer is 'maybe.'
A good question that you may have is: Do you think I can beat your time?
My answer is: Maybe (^__^)
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Best Record + Videos + New Info
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Okay, I have no idea how long this will be or do I plan to create it great
details. This part is just added because I want to update this FAQ, but I
don't want to add to the original walkthrough thus I would need to update
all the times. Let's begin. I'll try to make it as organize as I can.
I've beat the record stated in the FAQ... again, but the rules were placed.
Therefor, even though I had obtained a faster time, can it be done faster?
YES.
I was planning to submit this to SDA (Speeddemosarchive.org)
But they couldn't accept it because it was over 10 hours long. No matter
what I did, they weren't going to take it. No matter how many people
wanted to see it, they weren't hosting it.
My new record for FFX is 11:49 - NTSC Version (One without Dark Aeons)
Faster, but no fastest.
Why I say that? Because I couldn't use the Al Bhed Primers acquired in a
previous game, thus no quick Trio at Evrae or Natus. I had to change the
strategy for both of those battles. Which added 10 minutes. Then I needed
to get the ingredients for Trio (Remiem Temple), which adds another 10
minutes.
I'll try to recall from memory all the things that I did differently:
1. Used King Ochu to powerup OD (Not a good thing)
2. Lulu becomes one of the main damage deals in the battle against Gui
3. Thunder Plains. Items stealed must be done in one runthrough with no
timewasting. Petrify Grenade is stolen, as well as 1 Chocobo Feather.
Light Curtain is lowered to 1. Only 2 Lunar Curtain. I forgot how
many Electro Marbles.
4. Poison Fang is stolen in Macalania Temple on the first time through.
5. New strategy for Spherimorph. Poison Fang to inflict Poison. Have
everyone keep defending. Wait til it has around 5000 left and throw
a Mix at it based on it's weakness.
6. Strategy for Evrae (Credit to Kotetsu534)
a. Get Tidus and Kimarhi's HP to 1000 or above.
b. Use Lunar Curtain on both Kimarhi and Tidus, Rikku as third
Use Smoke Bomb to inflict Darkness
c. Keep defending until Poison Breath. It shall kill Rikku and charge
her OD all the way up. Use Al Bhed Potion to heal, revive Rikku.
Mix Chaos Grenade.
d. After a few Chaos Grenades, right before he hits Haste mode, charge
Rikku one more time and get far away. Replace Rikku with Auron, and
have Cid release the Salvos until it's gone.
e. When's it's completely gone, Evrae will Scythe you. Send Rikku back
in and Mix Tallboy. With luck, it will deal enough damage for the win.
7. New strategy for Natus. Have Tidus learn Reflect before battle. Do the
following in this order:
a. Haste Tidus
b. Reflect Tidus
c. Chaos Grenade (Rikku's Mix)
d. Haste Natus
e. Elixir on Tidus (For MP)
f. Reflect Natus
After that, hopes that it kills off the two other members. Talk with
Tidus to increase attack. For the rest of the battle, only attack with
Tidus. Brotherhood for it's attack increasement. I needed to have Lulu
get some more AP for Bribe, so she was sent in for one turn.
8. Remiem Temple, the added part about getting 30 Wings of Discovery.
3 Chests, No Poles
9. I somewhat changed the sequence of things needed to be done for Tidus'
Slice and Dice, as well as Chocobo Wing.
10. Replace Auron with Kimarhi as the guy to face Sin's Fins. Therefor, the
team consist of Kimarhi, Tidus, and Rikku.
11. Ominis. First Strike on all 3 members. Rikku mix Trio, use 2 Water Gems.
Things that I wish I had known or done differently:
1. Didn't use the spheres on Lulu during Gui. Cost me 3/4 minutes on Yuna's
battle against Issaru. Spheres concerning Speed and Magic is very rare.
2. I grabbed a Luck Sphere in Kilika Forest. So not needed and a waste of
time.
3. The perfect Blitzball match. However, I figured that you don't need that
Strength sphere anymore. With or without Al Bhed Primers. So let them
win with one and hold the ball until it ends.
4. The mindset to learn Slice and Dice as soon as possible.
5. Light Curtains and Lunar Curtain, I got too much and didn't use it.
6. No Encounter Armor at Sunken Cavern (Cavern of the Stolen Fayth).
Would've proven useful, except that the chances to get 1 is very slim.
7. Faster solving at Bevelle Cloiser of Trials
8. Issaru Aeon Battle. Didn't have enough spheres to give me the advantage
of beating them with ease.
9. International Version will change most of the strategy and will have
a faster time due to the ease of the expert sphere grid.
I've uploaded the entire 11 hours and 49 minutes of my third Speed Run of
FFX on youtube and googlevideo. I know googlevideo has the complete thing.
I'm still working at it on youtube.
Youtube's playlist of my FFX Speed Run:
http://youtube.com/view_play_list?p=957C86AF01DD6909
I would place a link for each video, but that would take forever. Besides,
that's what the playlist is for anyways. As of now, it's up to 47, which
is the part about Inside Sin. I'll get the rest of it uploaded ASAP.
About the ODINS. I've completed that a long time ago. But I'm thinking about
uploading it. One, I took the safe route, so it's like 18 hours+. I took
it rather slowly because I lost 3 times before due to unawareness. Lastly,
I spent an extra 6 minutes on BFA because I completly forgot my strategy
on him and had to come up with a new one. That was my greatest
accomplishment. Lol. Just think. I'm tired as hell, semi-starving, and
I thought that I was going to need to start over again. If you just watched
that battle, you would probably think it's funny too. I'm thinking of
uploading that battle now...
NOW, for some arguement. UltimaniaGarden has the record of 3 runs getting
under 10 hours. However, there's a lot of flaws into that.
1. Their final time is recorded as their Last Save's Time. Not the final
time that they defeated Yu Yevon.
2. It was never indicated that they even beat Yu Yevon. If they did, what's'
their time? Don't know.
3. I've searched their message board and one of the posted indicates that
two things they used. One was some kind of device that increased the
speed in which the game should run at. The second thing is that they
figured out how to skip that long scenese (movies, CGs, if you will)
4. Al Bhed Primers could've been used. Did say so? Don't know.
5. No indepth strategy is given on any boss. Especially on BFA. It's
impossible to speed run him without Slice and Dice.
You can praise them as much as you want, but I find it hard to praise
something that can't be questioned using English, only japanese.
Simply by giving me the time doesn't help me. I'm trying to beat it,
by the way.
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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. For best up to date
completes, refer to the newest (by date) FAQ.
Final Fantasy IX: Level One Game
No Equipment Game
Excalibur II
Perfect Save Without Maxing Stats
ODINS Challenge (One Day In No Saves, 18:59:58)
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)
ODINS Challenge (One Day In No Saves)
Final Fantasy X: Perfect Game
NSGIE (My Challenge :D)
ODINS Challenge (One Day In No Saves)
Speed Run (12:24)
Final Fantasy X-2: Level One, One, Two Game
Speed Run (Need Improvement)
ODINS Challenge
Final Fantasy XII: Solo Fran (Cheap)
NLB, aka No License Board (I should really type the FAQ)
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
Final Fantasy X-2: Six Iron Dukes (I got 5 so far, working on 6)
Final Fantasy IX: Attack and Item Only Game
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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Gamefaqs: For not making me lose my insanity
Terence and Split Infinity: For being the Pros
Thudaka: For all the comments and opinions related to every single thing :D
Blitz Ace: For supporting me and having guts to challenge my time
GarlandG: Another great Game Challenger and also a Vet of FFVII
SoftReset and RebirthFlame: Vets of FFIX
Kotetsu534: Evrae Strategy
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