Amazing times for me with the Final Fantasy games, Silent Hill and Evangelion - my mind got scrambled so many times. I had noone to comunicate about these emotions. Nobody I knew was into games or anime.
I personally like getting auto reflect as soon as i can so that i can have vivi bounce a spell off of my entire party for 4 times the dmg. i like to call it the mage cannon
TheLionheart198 funny to see I wasn’t the only person who came up with this trick. I think it’s just 3 or 3.2 times the damage or something though, multicast deals less damage to each target than using singlecast
Forget Auto-Reflect, I always did this as soon as Eiko gets Carbuncle. Instant 9999 damage even with an -ara level spell. It made short work of the Desert Palace boss I can say that much.
@@leargamma4912 You get the gem (Ruby) that is used in teaching Carbuncle summon to Eiko just by playing the story onwards. It's the eidolon that guards Iifa Tree and when you go there first time after visiting Madain Sari (Eiko's home village) and recruiting Eiko to party, she'll extract Carbuncle out of the stone altar near Iifa Tree enterance and you get an accessory item Ruby
For another secret, if you find yourself too low a level for the final boss, the path immediately before it has an invisible save point tucked in the top right corner, and one of the enemies (the one that is not a behemoth) drops tents so you can infinitely train and heal for free! Decent exp as well.
I found this game in a bargain bin having never played a Final Fantasy before. Think it was 3 games for £10 or something stupid like that. Safe to say it's the best money I've ever spent
A lot of folk don’t seem to know how powerful Amarant’s Curse skill is. It sets a random elemental affinity from “normal”, “strong”, “immune” or “absorb” directly down to “weak”, and it works on everyone INCLUDING bosses and super bosses., it also never repeats elements, so doing it 8 times on one entry reliably make them “weak” to all 8 affinities. You can use it e.g. to make Hades weak to dark damage thus deal 9999 damage to himself every time he uses Doomsday. Or just to make any boss with high HP suffer doubles/triple their usual damage from most of the game’s summons, black magic and elemental skills. The only instance in which Curse does not work as intended is in making Ozma weak to dark. This is because Ozma’s affinity to darkness is linked to the friendly monsters side quest and not his “in fight” elemental stat. Curse still works for the other elements as usual though, so you can still do it to improve damage.
I remember saving up for this game and as soon as it was released I bought and brought home just to find out I was in trouble and was grounded. I spent an entire week just staring at the case, booklet, and CD's.
@@americanpatriot9393 I fucking took that shit and swapped with a different cable. Hid the real one under my mattress. I thought I was sp clever. Got my ass beat lol
I've played the game so many times and I still find new stuff to this day. Don't feel bad I didn't know you got a bunch of good items just by guiding the Cleyrans to safety which was the whole point of the tour when you arrive at Cleyra. Also totally missed the scene where Master Quale and Quan meet at Quans Dwelling. Not to mention it took 13 years for someone to discover the benero bros or whatever they're called sidequest in Lindblum. That to me is exactly why I love this game so much :') We always learn something new
I have Crystal Chronicles on GameCube but haven't ever got that far into it... But if we're talking worst FF games (out of the ones I've played)... I'd rather play Tennis with my own excrement than play 13 again. and I hate Tennis. I know, I know, _hot takes_ , but it really is that bad.
Another tip: High damage when you have Eiko, if you don't grind out like every mad rpg gamer, run Eiko and Vivi and have Eiko cast Carbuncle on your team (Ruby Light). Then cast any damage spell with Vivi on your whole party. Be careful though, Ruby Light runs out quickly, once it times out on 1 character, the full bounce just targets 1 ally who reflect ran out on. Another tip: Eiko Carbuncle effect changes depending on the offset item equipped: Ruby Light: Reflect; any item Emerald Light: Haste; Emerald Diamond Light: Vanish; Diamond Pearl Light: Shell; Moonstone I'm an Eiko user if you couldn't tell 😂
Number six: Gaining levels with stat boosting equipment gives you small (like a tenth of a point) but permanent stat boost for that stat. When your characters get close to a level, load them up with all the stat boosters you have.
Yeah I always leveling starting disc 4..all best equipment stat boosting available..keep low level,just farm Marcus for eiko boost is really pain in the a55. Excalibur 2 is not worth for me.
That's why I don't recommend getting more than lvl 20 when you can first meet grand dragons. And to level Marcus, just give him the blood sword and spam the Alexandrian guards and some crawlers. Let Steiner die and the blood sword will infinitely keep Marcus alive. Unless you're still talking about MAX Stat Boosting.... That's a pain for sure.
FF9 was the best FF compare to 7 and 8 on PS1 era because the game mechanics was back to its roots the only disappointment in the game was the final boss.
Ozma was a disappointment to me after beating Omega in 8 then fighting Ozma with his pathetically low hp just wasnt satisfying. Great game, poor end-game content, but the music alone makes 9 top tier
i like the secrecy surrounding ozma he was quite out of the way, but again it was just too easy doesnt require any amount of grinding all u need is the correct gear and good abilities and it should be pretty free. Definitely a let down after things like Emerald and Ruby, Omega, and honestly some final bosses are harder too like Zeromus from 4 comes to mind, big bang just party kills you provided you have not grinded levels
Seph 4096 the problem with 7 was once you maxed your characters even emerald and ruby were a joke. Once u beat them u could finish the game blind folded
Hey, if u get the auto reflect ring as early as possible from the auction house, and also prison resist. Then use Vivi's x2 reflect u can cast ice on the grand dragon that spawns above that area that rains when u first get frea. Then all u need to do is pack a bunch of phoenix downs because at low Lil's the dragon will kill your characters in one hit. If u kill the grand dragon and have at least one character survive they will jump to lvl 40 after the first fight . I used this trick to jump to lvl 80 early on.
I know a really neat method to get at level 40 (or more if you want to grind) at the end of CD1. I don't know if it's still work on this version, but there's no reason it won't. It involves Quina and the Grand Dragon. And no, you don't need the Death Lv5 blue magic, as the popular method says. If you don't know what the Grand Dragon is, it's one of the "toughest" monster of the game, who grants you a lot of EXP, and can be found on the top of Gazamaluke's Grotto, after climbing the vine near the moogles. The only thing you need to do is to learn the Limit Glove blue magic for Qweena, wich can be obtained from Mandragora in the forest in the Qu Marsh area. Just kill Kweena, save the game, and resurect her with a phoenix down until she has 1HP. When she has, save the game again at the moogle place in the grotto and climb the vine to fight the dragon. You just have to use Limit Glove wich deals 9999, and then eat the dragon at the next turn. Enjoy your level scolling screen.
That's a very good method but the only thing is how quick the dragon is. U might not even get one turn in that early in the game because it usually casts magic on your whole party frequently or could kill one person who could happen to be her. So I'd say if u got time and u are willing to gamble go ahead. But the quickest way to level would be to fight the mandragoras near the city of the night with one person at a time. But if u level up early like that your stats wont be good at all because your stats go up based on what items u have.
If you're grindy as hell and you don't want that booster bullsh- , Have Zidane use Steal on every battle (including emptying the bosses' pockets) from beginning until you get back to Alexandria later on. Once you get the Angel Bless your Thievery will do massive fixed damage Also, kill dragons for Freya's Dragon Crest Catch frogs for Quina's Frog Drop Team 9999 all the way!
I focused on Frogs and Stealing. Stealing has obvious side benefits (you get items) and the Frogs aren't too hard to do and have good rewards themselves. Plus the formula is based on level so you actually get the best bang for your buck by simultaneously stealing/catching while leveling up. Killing dragons is a pain and most of Freya's other abilities don't make her more desirable than Eiko, who can buff with the best white magic, or Steiner/Vivi who can pretty easily do max damage with a little creative ability setup. The only character I thought was Crap was Dagger since her Summons don't do crap unless you like collecting crap-loads of stones and her white magic sucks too. I never use Amarant either but his Trance is great when it comes up.
@@stevenleonmusic It doesn't have to be Grand Dragons, you can farm little Serpions and it has the same effect, making Freya's the easiest of the 3 to max.
@@jeread5193 It's easier than Quina's since frog catching is actually pretty involved but has many good rewards. Zidane's is the easiest since you can steal from any enemy throughout the game instead of having to farm specific enemies so it doesn't necessarily hinder your progress. Either way, Freya has way less value than Quina and you can't switch out Zidane so Zidane and Quina still win.
@@stevenleonmusic The dragons are easily the easiest and fastest of the three (sometimes you just can't be bothered to steal from every enemy), I had probably powered it up to 9999 before I even beat Gizmaluke. Each to their own
2:39 I just let Vivi win, because damit, that Kid deserves that fucking card! (I gotta imagine it as some sort of lucky charm for him from that point on)
Auto-potion + regen works well too. Especially on attacks that hit your whole party, the potion animations take so long and you will be gaining health via regen the whole time.
Everything about the HD release is great, except the only thing I don't like is the UI and text font. Something about that pixelated text looked so good. I can't say the same for the character models, but the text should've stayed the same, imo. Edit: so I wrote that before I got the game, and I have many more complaints with it. The serious worst thing about it for me is the lack of analog controls. It only has 8 way directional control. It’s super awkward to use especially when you’re so used to the analog on the original. Another problem is the backgrounds are just so blurry. I wish they’d update it with the background mod that was made for the steam version. There’s also a mod that fixes the analog controls, but I’m never gonna play it on PC, so I’ll never get to experience it like that. And the last thing that really bugs me is not being able to turn the grey sidebars black. I don’t like it.
The only thing I didn't do was the Excalibur 2 challenge, hard to pull off on the PAL version. There are certain equipments that permanently stat boost on level up, check out the GameFAQs guide
FF IX is my first FF in my life, best graphic (for psx), best music (i still remember many soundtracks and downloaded all the soundtracks in my pc), best gameplay, great story. ahhhh, childhood memories is the best.
if you want amazing graphics for ps1 games you should take a look at parasite eve 2. Hell some of those cutscenes are so good they look better than alot of games on the ps3, well ahead of its time.
One quick tip for you as well, the regen spell is short for 'regeneration', and the word is pronounced as such. Re-jen. But anyway. :) That time speed up looks handy. I remember Chrono Cross had a similar mechanic after you beat the game the first time so you didn't have to waste time trying to get different endings/recruiting different characters. It was so handy.
Didn't know bout the Hot'n'cold trick. Everything else though I knew about. Still helpful to know that trick though. Love 9, it's my favorite of the mainline series
actually there are people currently working on scripts for it so pretty soon you should be able to remote play the game on your PC and use a script to get the 1000 jumps.
When you do I'll actually get it >.> I get pretty obsessive with achievement hunting, and after I saw that I was like NOPE. I had a hard time getting over 50 jump ropes, no thanks~
For the Regen trick I used to also use auto-potion in conjunction with auto-regen. If the boss uses an AOE attack, it takes forever for the whole party to use up their potions. When I first figured this out as a kid Ozma became a joke. As long as you don't get 1 shot your party will never die.
yea its amazing plus if its just points you want, then once you get the mountain chocobo the point boost in forest go's up meaning you can get 600-800 points almost every time. Or once you get to chocobo sky garden the point is so big there that you get 1000+ points pretty much every time at the very least and if you finish with 40+ seconds then you can get over 3000 points in 1 game.
KJYKJY1985 a cheat code that doesn't involve a code and is not considered a cheat is generally considered an exploit. And yeah, I was going to exploit the speed option to give me Excalibur II (which I've never gotten before), but the speed trick with the Chocobo? I'm excited as well. As in sexually. Rock hard.
Regarding the FotH, you can save before, let Vivi win for the achievement, restart and have Freya win for the Coral Ring. Just a thought. As for the sword fight at the start, not only do you need to impress 100 nobles by getting all 50 combinations right, but you need to input them all fast enough for Queen Brahne to be impressed. If you hit 100 nobles, but don't do it fast enough to impress the queen, you won't get the Moonstone.
i dont think its even possible to impress all 100 and not impress the queen. Also you DONT need to get all inputs ive missed inputs before and still got 100 nobles.
Oh, but it is haha. I speak from experience. ;) Really bad controller reaction with an injured hand. Try hitting all the options, except wait for a second or more to hit at least one of them. I've hit 100 nobles but failed to impress the queen 2-3 times in a row. This was the PS edition though. Don't see why they'd change it for PC or PS4, but worth testing.
Google the 'Queen Brahne was not impressed' meme and look through some of the GameFAQ forums. There are mentions of the system working differently for the nobles and the queen. You apparently need to both hit the timing, and get all the combinations correct.
The Summon+Regen trick is well known by everyone, even if they didn't realize it. That's what made FF9 so easy. Once everyone has learned Auto-Regen, you don't even need to use a single healing spell anymore. Combine that with Auto-Haste and your party will be constantly topped up at all times. Even against those special attacks that bring you down to 1 HP.
I do love auto haste and auto Regen. Gotta beat the book early game with Steiner or get the running shoes later from quans dwelling if you don't want it earlier in the game. Good combo though, never heal again
I think he was just calling regen, regain not trying to pronounce regen. When you play various RPG's you sometimes habitually call certain spells, stats etc by one name even if they change from game to game. I sometimes find myself calling Blizzard, Ice due to the first RPGs I played calling Ice spells Ice. Though he did pronounce "ether" as "eth-er" when it's more closer to "ee-thur".
Yeah, I pointed it out because I used to do similar things, like I would say "chick-a-boo" and "guy-gas" for gigas. People saying "man-nah" instead of "mah-nah" still bothers me, but it's a lost cause trying to get them to stop referring to the food Yahweh gave the Jews instead of the Pacific Island term for the universal spirit.
There's also the trick of equipping Marcus with the blood sword, auto-battling the soldiers who run at you until he's lv100, then when you get Eiko she inherits his stats but is still at a low level, enabling you to get her stats even higher than usual.
yea but thats only really worth going out of your way for in a low level playthrough, plus the time it takes to get marcus to 99 (you cant get level 100 in FF9) means your gonna have to leave your console on for 2-3 days straight because you cant save there.
It's probably self-evident, but I feel like stressing it nonetheless: It might be best to not use the Cotton Robe trick or the early Robe of Lords trick on your first playthrough, as it may trivialise the game somewhat.
Just promise me that u wont use the in build cheats... You can easily beat the game and sidemissions without them and its way more fun. Well you wont be able to get excalibur II that way but to be honest thats a speedrun only for idiots like me who have no life.
you can exploit auto-regen more easily without using summons (or any active command) by equipping auto-potion on every character...the actual healing from each potion is negligible in the mid-to-late game, but the time it takes each character to use a potion allows ALL the characters to get in 1-2 ticks of regen. by the last boss, when my entire party is hit with an attack at once, it's not uncommon for them EACH to heal by 1500-2000 points immediately afterwards, simply by sitting through the animation of using a potion one by one
I remember when I was little I saw my big brother playing FF9. I remember playing with the air ship and battles but I was never allowed to do the whole game. When I got older I played FF7 until it end ( Yeah I know FF7 is old but I wanted to play it). I was not very happy how it end so I beg my big brother to get me ff9. He said I can have it when it was my birthday which was few days away. so then I got it and became addcited to it. Played for 6 hours and 41 minutes when I first got it until my dad told me to turn it off.
That sounds like a good memory. My big bro also got me into the game but he was more mean with me 🤣 I begged to play it and then he finally let me play it, I got to disc 3 and then we got in a fight about something so he took it back. Then he gave it back to me but broke the 4th disc so I couldn't finish it, until I bought it for myself after highschool.
Nattums Mcgee lol yeah my brother was mean to me too. When ever I miss something like an ability or something he would yell at me saying that I was skipping everything or why don’t you have this character in your team. When this game ended I was crying so badly. Showing vivi’s son and Zidane just taking off his cloth and saying “my love for garnet” made me gasp. My other brother started laughing at me when he saw me cried. Man the good times I am so glad I got into final fantasy.
I never heard of final fantasy until ff9 when my grandmom got it for me for my birthday, was a junior in high school. I was hooked. I didn't know Vivi was one of the characters in the game (even though you played as him going to see the play) and let him die during the prison cage boss fight........for 6 months (I'm laughing now at how insanely noobish I was). I just bought the digital release last night and still have the original (booklet included). I didn't know about none of these tips then and now, it was in my feed and caught my interest. After 9, I was told by college friend about 7 and 8 (still own the originals, all intact). I plan on buying the remake of both in a few weeks.
The best trick: Eiko with the pasive called "support/favour"? (in spanish is called "Apoyo") + 99 Phoenix wings = 57% chance to revive entire team if killed. And more "phoenix tails" -> more HP when they revive
You can level up ridiculously early in the game by playing the chocobo forest get all chocographs there. Then pass into burmicia territory don't go to burmicia instead head towards clara which just looks like a tornado at this point . There is a treasure near here that changes your chocobo you now can enter lagoons. Go back through the grotto towards lindblum you can now access 2 lagoon treasures around here . 1 has oak staff for vivi which has stop and bio ( bio being the most important) now you can go back to the grotto but instead of passing through it go to the room with the moogles and climb up the vine in the back ( you will be warned that the monsters ahead are powerful) you get to a small cliff area that has a ton of garudas . They show up in groups of 1 or 2 . When you first come up here 2 is a problem run. 1 though you can now kill fairly easy. Vivi's bio hits for about 1000 to 1200 points of damage and may poison it takes 3 hits to kill the garuda . The garuda pretty much kills your characters in 1 to 2 hits so heal alot. But killing one gives 1700 exp which gains 2 levels till 20 then 1 level till 30 at level 30 vivi can kill a garuda in 1 hit then you can fight the 2 garudas gaining 3400 exp after battle you can easily make level 50 before disc 1 ends.
the old way to do this was with a turbo controller , hold down the button x (stick it down), give marcus the blood sword and leave him in Alexandria just after you escape and you have soldiers continually running into you. Leave for a few hours and he will level, without you having to do anything. I left it on before work and was level 95 after work.
TBH I can barely understand what this guy is saying. I’m pretty new to Final Fantasy and RPGs as a whole, so a lot of it still confuses me. But I picked up FF9 for Switch recently and I’m really loving it. I’m a bit intimidated by how long it is though, I though I was almost done with the game and then I found out I’m still on disk 1.
older games in general are FAR longer than newer games. games these days your lucky to get 6 hours of story (20-40 for RPGs) older games, especially RPGs have a solid 40-60 hours for a first playthrough
in the gizamaluke grotto there is a ladder on the room with the moogles that goes outside. in the forested areas you can encounter 1 or 2 garudas that can lvl you up well until lv 30 in disc 1. Ice staff needed and some stop protection.
one thing that I found that a lot of people didn't know, was that if you press R1 while choosing a spell to cast, you can hit all enemies, IIRC it works with heals too
I do the same thing with the sped up Chocobo Hot & Cold minigame, but I use the directional pad instead of the joystick. I find that it allows me to make more pinpointed movements.
It's the only reward worth getting. Order of importance Freya > Zidane >>>>>>>Vivi. Regardless of what was said in this video you get can get the Theater Ship card via chocobo treasure hunting and locations of even the most hidden treasures are easy to find now with things like RUclips.
Don't use any of the cheat buttons except speed up, but only for leveling up and nothing else. The game is better the way they meant it to be played in 1999/2000.
As i mentioned to somebody else, i agree. They were used in the making of this because i needed a 100% file with saves at every moogle to make my life easier in recording clips. The boosters let me turn 40ish hours of work into 10.
I have only ever played the original PS1 version..... too tight to buy the PS4 or Xbox1 😆😆😆. The ×3 speed is definitely a bonus for the "Chocobo hot/cold" game. In all fairness, already knew about the other points mentioned but respect given for the upload. Thanks 👍.
Doesn't mean you've played too much. The game has been out for years and the internet/GameFAQs has been around for nearly as long. I'm more surprised people DON'T know this stuff.
I struggled for HOURS te get Robe of Lords in disc one in a Low Level Game on my PS1. But I did it, at the end, my time counter was at 97 hours on disc 1.
Seeing as all these tricks except the last one are linked to some achievements, it pays to know about them. Just getting the first moonstone will unlocked and put you on path for 2 of them. You get one for getting the nobles to ask for an encore, which you eventually get in the process of trying to impress all 100 of them and getting the moonstone will put you on path for another that requires you to collect all 4 moonstones scattered in the game.
He does get the date with garnet at the end kind of. Also the fake marriage thing kind of having time together even though it's on a mission still time together as a couple
Aside from the boost related one and the impressing of all the nobles and the queen , I knew all of these. I will point out though, I make it a point to run through this game at least once a year. You Are Not Alone, A Place to Call Home, and Melodies of Life are my favorite tracks from the soundtrack.
due to this coming out on PS4 i now own 6 copies of it. and i love that you used the roses of may - loss of me version for your background music. best piece in the series (in my opinion) i knew 3 of these. but didnt know about the chocobo speed boost thing. or the easy way of getting vivi to win. did it a much harder way back in ps1 days
When I was a kid I got this game from a friend, played it till the end of disc one and didn't have the rest of the discs to finish it Years later got it from a different friend and his first disc was too damaged so the ps wouldn't read it I am afraid of getting it now because I feel there might be a piano on a rope somewhere that will fall on my head on my way back from the store Or a bolt of lightning from a clear sky after I download it online
One thing i noticed is that final fantasy discs tended to "break" far more easy compared to other ps1 discs. idk if its because of the sheer amount of data on them (Doubtful because of other multi disc games) or just the way they were produced, however let me just say being able to experience FF9 is worth the risk of a piano falling on you. I highly suggest picking it up.
Funny. The guy that made this video does a full run of this game on his channel, I've been playing along, it's been fun. I hope you get to play soon. It's available on steam for 20 bucks and my crappy laptop plays it just fine.
@@kkeithf I am a doctor so I have very limited free time now Once this is all over I have a whole list of things I want to do (no for real I have a list on my phone; what I will do once we beat this thing) I'm adding ff9, I was 8 when I first played it at 28 I plan to finish it
Here's a challenge for you: Can you beat Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster 1-6 just by beating the bosses and treasure traps? The rules are as follows: Rule 1: You can fight normal battles, but only for X4 money. Rule 2: When you fight the bosses, you have to have X4 experience and money. Rule 3: You can't gain experience from random encounters, only X4 money. That also includes the summons as well. For sidequest bosses.
It’s cool, but most FF games never rely on Gil, for me it just ticks up as I’ll steal or find the better percentage of equipment.. especially with 9 as like every boss or mini boss has a weapon or apparel to steal 👍🏻
"Probably not gonna use it with Ark" Are you kidding? My first playthrough, I abused auto-regen and Ark vs Kuja (I wasn't maxed out, probably only doing 3k a hit. Now I won't face Kuja if I'm not doing 9999 to Ozma. Kuja deserves that level of pain.)
Correction - impressing all 100 nobles isn't enough to get the moonstone in the opening. You have to also impress queen Branhe (sp?), Which is even harder 🤣
I feel sorry for anyone who might still be new to the game. This isn't like an Aeris dies thing. This is a genuine spoiler of a secret not everyone is likely to have found.
Fav thing to do was place reflect on everyone and group target high level magic at myself and watch everything drop like flys, bonus points for casting reflect on any self healing boss to have cure spells pushed back onto you!
You forgot the 6th secret, the power leveling: get Night and Limit Glove skills with Quina, them go to Gizamaluke's Grotto to where the Moogle couple are, climb up and you'll reach the Popos Heights, start a battle with the Dragon, make sure you have Quina and 1 character equiped with thunder absorb equips before hand, put the dragon to sleep with Night, use the skill that reduces HP to 1 on Quina itself, and use Limit Glove on the Dragon to deal 9999 DMG and with 2 Limit Glove you will kill it dead, earning easily more tham 6 lvls at that point.
@Jeremy, you cant use the lvl 5 death method untill disc 3, RougleEagles method is for disc 1 grinding with quina,vivi,freya and zidane. It also doesnt require as much effort as you think. Hardest part is actually learning limit glove. (Although using night is really pointless, its much easier to just let a character die and revive them after the fight)
dont get me wrong i can understand why you would use it, but to me its not efficient and if im grinding then im going to be doing it as quickly as possible at that given point in time.
damn i dit the complete hidden chocobo thing all the way up to the last hidden air place on the PS1 as a kid and was the most fun minigame togheter with owning npcs in card games XD that was pretty much my end game daily xD
IX is most definitely the pinnacle. It was the best it ever got. Only went downhill from there. My favourite constantly drifts between the Playstation "holy trinity".
Well, what can they do, before ps2 they had to rely on telling a story that compensates the lack of graphical detail on the game itself. Like reading a book, we are not seeing any image, but it's the reading that makes it so fun. When graphics became a thing and the company started to change their teams, it seems they forgot about the appeal the writing of the story had on previous games and focused mainly on making "pretty" games. It got flashy and shiny, but lost the depth that the world and character development had on previous games. Final Fantasy 6, 7, 8 and 9 (which are the older ones I played) not only had a world, a villain and characters that are relatable, but they also taught really interesting ideas and showed really fun and compelling experiences. I'm sorry if I was a bit confusing here. But what I mean is: when I think about previous final fantasy games, I don't think about the flashy combat and big explosions. When I think about ff6, I remember Cyan's past, remember about Shadow's dreams, Terra struggle to find her place on that world, Celes singing on the opera. FF7, I remember about RED XIII's old man teaching the characters about the life essence of the world, Aerith and the gold saucer date (lol), Vincent badass scenes and cool relatable story, how Sephiroth's reaction about his past makes sense, and a lot of people would go down the same road he did, with that past. FFIX had a hardcore attention to the scene and characters, so It's hard to pick specific parts lol, specially on the first disk. So square should remember to build their games the same way as they did on the first games, to tell a story that is worth listening. Not just showing flashy combat with "perfect" looking characters that have no flaws and try to look cool all the time. But I think their management core will be too much afraid to risk doing it, since this practice doesn't have clear economical value to be acquired from it. The suits will say no.
@@glidingfalcon4370 100% agree mate. Not only that but I feel FFX reached the definition of the turn based combat system, having easily the best combat in the series. The sphere grid was also a great addition in place of standard leveling that gave you a massive amount of freedom and character customization. The world itself is quite possibly the most unqiue and beloved out of any in the series.
6:22 tips: the game doenst check where the beak hits the ground, but where the chocobo is standing; also, the spots are always the same, if you can memorize where they are then you can do quick sweeps to know where is the new spot.
its not impossible at all, its just stupidly hard. Plus people are working on PC scripts so that you can just remote play the game on pc and use a script for the 1000 jumps.
I did it during PS1 era, and I was like 10 around that time. Though it's true I pulled an all nighter for a few days trying to get it done. I had this FF9 guidebook back then, and the book says I'd get "cat hand racket". What a bummer, it's just the card.
The Jump Rope the only thing I'd actually consider using cheats/scripts/boosts (if they actually helped on) as far as Final Fantasy IX goes unless I was maybe going for the Excalibur II speedrun, and even then, I've done that without the boosts in the original PS1 version of the game. That being said, it makes me happy that more people are getting to experience my favorite game of all time ever on the PS4 :) I had knowledge of all of these things already, but I'm sure it'll help people who didn't ^^
The input delay on the PS4 definitely makes it seem almost impossible. Obviously not the case since I can see an extremely small percentage of players have that trophy. It was hard enough on the original but I could only just manage 100 on the PS4
GKP Trashcorner Use the enemies in the forest when you're running away SPOILERS right when Blank is going to turn to stone, there is a part where the green enemy bugs keep respawning you can farm 10k enemies easy and don't even really need to move.
Lmao this is my all time favorite game but I remember my mom got so upset she made me return the game because there was a “devil” in the back of it (that devil was Ifrit !) she freaked out! Lol I had to return it and then a weeks later I rebought again. Haha 😂.
that's the way it's meant to be played. You can do pretty much everything of the chocobo hunt in a few hours, you can also get the robe of the lords easily near the end of the game. In the video you dealt 9999 damage on disc one, I can't see how that's possible (even with trance). If you prove me wrong about that I stand corrected (about the 9999 damage).
if you mean the Festival of the hunt clip then yes 9999 damage was turned on so i could speedrun the game and create save points at every moogle to make my life easier in recording specific clips. not like its needed in a normal playthrough i just wanted to save some time for myself. Plus its actually quite easy to do 9999 damage on disc 1. You can grand dragon farm, power up frog drop, quina has a 9999 attack when hes at 1 hp,
that's what I meant. To me all those little things square enix added (super speed, 9999 damage) were meant to get more people to play the game (casual players, for example, not saying you are one tho) and like the game, plus removing pretty much all the challenge of the game. Unfortunately turn based RPGs are not popular as they used to be. Anyways, maybe I was a little harsh in my first comment, sorry about that.
7:33 -- yeah about that... That's really due to an oversight on the developer's part... The ATB system doesn't have a wait clause programmed into it, hence why auto Regen is pretty much broken and therefore is best to have on at all times
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this game blew me away when i first played it in 2009. still one of my favorite ff games
Firefly the style of ffix still impresses me far more than the boring look of ffxv
Amazing times for me with the Final Fantasy games, Silent Hill and Evangelion - my mind got scrambled so many times. I had noone to comunicate about these emotions. Nobody I knew was into games or anime.
Same, I'm playing it again now lol
*2009* ???? Holy shit...
Better late than never I suppose lol. It’s definitely the best of the series imo
I personally like getting auto reflect as soon as i can so that i can have vivi bounce a spell off of my entire party for 4 times the dmg. i like to call it the mage cannon
TheLionheart198 funny to see I wasn’t the only person who came up with this trick. I think it’s just 3 or 3.2 times the damage or something though, multicast deals less damage to each target than using singlecast
Forget Auto-Reflect, I always did this as soon as Eiko gets Carbuncle. Instant 9999 damage even with an -ara level spell. It made short work of the Desert Palace boss I can say that much.
@@Harkz0r I could not get carbuncle. Had no clue how to get the later summons, or even Curaga on Garnet
this strat was actually so popular that they made it a complete gimmick for the Final Fantasy Brave Exvius Units of Vivi and Steiner
@@leargamma4912
You get the gem (Ruby) that is used in teaching Carbuncle summon to Eiko just by playing the story onwards.
It's the eidolon that guards Iifa Tree and when you go there first time after visiting Madain Sari (Eiko's home village) and recruiting Eiko to party, she'll extract Carbuncle out of the stone altar near Iifa Tree enterance and you get an accessory item Ruby
For another secret, if you find yourself too low a level for the final boss, the path immediately before it has an invisible save point tucked in the top right corner, and one of the enemies (the one that is not a behemoth) drops tents so you can infinitely train and heal for free! Decent exp as well.
Well this is gonna pay off
I could not beat the final boss back when it came out
All because I could not beat the final boss
Now I am playing again
I found this game in a bargain bin having never played a Final Fantasy before. Think it was 3 games for £10 or something stupid like that. Safe to say it's the best money I've ever spent
I found my copy at a garage sale for $5, it was my first FF and also best money I've spent.
love this game, top notch
A lot of folk don’t seem to know how powerful Amarant’s Curse skill is. It sets a random elemental affinity from “normal”, “strong”, “immune” or “absorb” directly down to “weak”, and it works on everyone INCLUDING bosses and super bosses., it also never repeats elements, so doing it 8 times on one entry reliably make them “weak” to all 8 affinities.
You can use it e.g. to make Hades weak to dark damage thus deal 9999 damage to himself every time he uses Doomsday. Or just to make any boss with high HP suffer doubles/triple their usual damage from most of the game’s summons, black magic and elemental skills.
The only instance in which Curse does not work as intended is in making Ozma weak to dark. This is because Ozma’s affinity to darkness is linked to the friendly monsters side quest and not his “in fight” elemental stat. Curse still works for the other elements as usual though, so you can still do it to improve damage.
Going through my 3rd playthrough, I like to revisit this game as my mind matures to see the differences in how I process it
I remember saving up for this game and as soon as it was released I bought and brought home just to find out I was in trouble and was grounded. I spent an entire week just staring at the case, booklet, and CD's.
I spent many many moons wishing I could sneak in my moms room to get my power chord back xd
What did you do to get in trouble and grounded?
@@americanpatriot9393 I fucking took that shit and swapped with a different cable. Hid the real one under my mattress. I thought I was sp clever. Got my ass beat lol
@@ChunkyWaterisReal good times
haha i had a similiar experience with the game "syphon filter", the day i got it was the day i got grounded for cussing at school
i feel stupid i didnt even know you got items with rusty after the sword fight.........😭
Same
I've played the game so many times and I still find new stuff to this day. Don't feel bad I didn't know you got a bunch of good items just by guiding the Cleyrans to safety which was the whole point of the tour when you arrive at Cleyra. Also totally missed the scene where Master Quale and Quan meet at Quans Dwelling. Not to mention it took 13 years for someone to discover the benero bros or whatever they're called sidequest in Lindblum. That to me is exactly why I love this game so much :') We always learn something new
Same and i still always went for a 100 *facepalm*
Best final Fantasy EVER made!! EVER!
eh 2nd best for me, Right behind 10
Best JRPG ever made!! EVER!
Okay, I'm fickle... Sometimes I'll say FF6.
Also I haven't played every JRPG... or FF.
Really? Worst FF for me, and I muscled through crystal chronicles........then again, 2nd worst. Chronicles really was terrible.
I have Crystal Chronicles on GameCube but haven't ever got that far into it...
But if we're talking worst FF games (out of the ones I've played)... I'd rather play Tennis with my own excrement than play 13 again. and I hate Tennis.
I know, I know, _hot takes_ , but it really is that bad.
Never played 13. Or 10. or 8. 12 was pretty good, though.
I hear bad things about 13 and stayed away.
Another tip: High damage when you have Eiko, if you don't grind out like every mad rpg gamer, run Eiko and Vivi and have Eiko cast Carbuncle on your team (Ruby Light). Then cast any damage spell with Vivi on your whole party. Be careful though, Ruby Light runs out quickly, once it times out on 1 character, the full bounce just targets 1 ally who reflect ran out on.
Another tip: Eiko Carbuncle effect changes depending on the offset item equipped:
Ruby Light: Reflect; any item
Emerald Light: Haste; Emerald
Diamond Light: Vanish; Diamond
Pearl Light: Shell; Moonstone
I'm an Eiko user if you couldn't tell 😂
OR then you are just google user.
An Eiko user you say...
FBI OPEN UP
@@mikaeljalamo4834 mkay. Dick
Wish there was a way to use those other lights without equipping worthless accessories.
i always use this trick, eiko carbuncle and vivi waterga, total 9999 damage
Damnit I got all 100 nobles on my first try with the new release and I had no idea Branhe gives you anything
haha dont worry you're not the only one, i think it took me 15+ playthroughs as a kid before i found out about it.
Same xc
Nemo Alice you can get a moonstone later on in the game so its no big deal.
@Alexander it is if you want the trophy for owning 4 moonstones at once.
Primalliquid oh, i didnt know that was a trophy.
This game got me to the Final Fantasy fandom, and motivated me to learn English too.
Number six: Gaining levels with stat boosting equipment gives you small (like a tenth of a point) but permanent stat boost for that stat. When your characters get close to a level, load them up with all the stat boosters you have.
Yeah I always leveling starting disc 4..all best equipment stat boosting available..keep low level,just farm Marcus for eiko boost is really pain in the a55.
Excalibur 2 is not worth for me.
That's why I don't recommend getting more than lvl 20 when you can first meet grand dragons. And to level Marcus, just give him the blood sword and spam the Alexandrian guards and some crawlers. Let Steiner die and the blood sword will infinitely keep Marcus alive. Unless you're still talking about MAX Stat Boosting.... That's a pain for sure.
don't forget to boost zidanes will that way bc will determines the stealing rate
This is my favorite Final Fantasy and I didn't know a lot of these. Cheers!
Schematist its a shame we'll likely never see another ff like it. the ps1 era was by far the best for ff imo
I love IX it constantly fluctuates between a warm hug and a tight squeeze
I think the most useful trick here is the Chocobo hot and cold and not for the robe of lords but for the chocographs quest itself. Its a time saver!
FF7 is great. An absolute classic. But FF9. This shit here is the BEST! Such a classic awesome game. If you haven't played it, your asleep. Get on it!
FF9 was the best FF compare to 7 and 8 on PS1 era because the game mechanics was back to its roots the only disappointment in the game was the final boss.
Ozma was a disappointment to me after beating Omega in 8 then fighting Ozma with his pathetically low hp just wasnt satisfying. Great game, poor end-game content, but the music alone makes 9 top tier
Seph 4096 Ozma was kinda lame. But finding him was fun. And having a OP ass team to take hin is pretty satisfying though
i like the secrecy surrounding ozma he was quite out of the way, but again it was just too easy doesnt require any amount of grinding all u need is the correct gear and good abilities and it should be pretty free. Definitely a let down after things like Emerald and Ruby, Omega, and honestly some final bosses are harder too like Zeromus from 4 comes to mind, big bang just party kills you provided you have not grinded levels
Seph 4096 the problem with 7 was once you maxed your characters even emerald and ruby were a joke. Once u beat them u could finish the game blind folded
Hey, if u get the auto reflect ring as early as possible from the auction house, and also prison resist. Then use Vivi's x2 reflect u can cast ice on the grand dragon that spawns above that area that rains when u first get frea. Then all u need to do is pack a bunch of phoenix downs because at low Lil's the dragon will kill your characters in one hit. If u kill the grand dragon and have at least one character survive they will jump to lvl 40 after the first fight . I used this trick to jump to lvl 80 early on.
I know a really neat method to get at level 40 (or more if you want to grind) at the end of CD1. I don't know if it's still work on this version, but there's no reason it won't.
It involves Quina and the Grand Dragon. And no, you don't need the Death Lv5 blue magic, as the popular method says.
If you don't know what the Grand Dragon is, it's one of the "toughest" monster of the game, who grants you a lot of EXP, and can be found on the top of Gazamaluke's Grotto, after climbing the vine near the moogles.
The only thing you need to do is to learn the Limit Glove blue magic for Qweena, wich can be obtained from Mandragora in the forest in the Qu Marsh area.
Just kill Kweena, save the game, and resurect her with a phoenix down until she has 1HP. When she has, save the game again at the moogle place in the grotto and climb the vine to fight the dragon.
You just have to use Limit Glove wich deals 9999, and then eat the dragon at the next turn.
Enjoy your level scolling screen.
Hello Vegh. How have you been?
I never thought to EAT the dragon. Genius!
Hello vegh LUL
Wow i never tried it that way thanks
That's a very good method but the only thing is how quick the dragon is. U might not even get one turn in that early in the game because it usually casts magic on your whole party frequently or could kill one person who could happen to be her. So I'd say if u got time and u are willing to gamble go ahead. But the quickest way to level would be to fight the mandragoras near the city of the night with one person at a time. But if u level up early like that your stats wont be good at all because your stats go up based on what items u have.
The best story, best introduction to new mechanics and familiar ones. Best ever for me.
If you're grindy as hell and you don't want that booster bullsh- ,
Have Zidane use Steal on every battle (including emptying the bosses' pockets) from beginning until you get back to Alexandria later on. Once you get the Angel Bless your Thievery will do massive fixed damage
Also, kill dragons for Freya's Dragon Crest
Catch frogs for Quina's Frog Drop
Team 9999 all the way!
I focused on Frogs and Stealing. Stealing has obvious side benefits (you get items) and the Frogs aren't too hard to do and have good rewards themselves. Plus the formula is based on level so you actually get the best bang for your buck by simultaneously stealing/catching while leveling up. Killing dragons is a pain and most of Freya's other abilities don't make her more desirable than Eiko, who can buff with the best white magic, or Steiner/Vivi who can pretty easily do max damage with a little creative ability setup. The only character I thought was Crap was Dagger since her Summons don't do crap unless you like collecting crap-loads of stones and her white magic sucks too. I never use Amarant either but his Trance is great when it comes up.
@@stevenleonmusic It doesn't have to be Grand Dragons, you can farm little Serpions and it has the same effect, making Freya's the easiest of the 3 to max.
@@jeread5193 It's easier than Quina's since frog catching is actually pretty involved but has many good rewards. Zidane's is the easiest since you can steal from any enemy throughout the game instead of having to farm specific enemies so it doesn't necessarily hinder your progress. Either way, Freya has way less value than Quina and you can't switch out Zidane so Zidane and Quina still win.
@@stevenleonmusic The dragons are easily the easiest and fastest of the three (sometimes you just can't be bothered to steal from every enemy), I had probably powered it up to 9999 before I even beat Gizmaluke. Each to their own
Kill dragons?
I’m so glad to see the immense Final Fantasy IX love. It is such an amazing game. Switch physical release is coming at the end of this month!!
Thanks. I'm so happy this game came to PS4. :D
Ami Mizuno this game any good
yes :)
Ami Mizuno is it fun if u don’t fast time I hate using cheats
Nobody cares since it's already on PC.
Ami Mizuno I have a ps1 still. I have final fantasy Iv to Ix on it.
Auto-regen and auto-haste were always my favorite combo. Even without a cutscene on summons. I was pretty unstoppable
WHY DIDN'T I KNOW IT WAS RELEASED ON PS4 STORE.
that's my favourite tip in this whole video.
Best JRPG ever.
I never thought about saying the sword fighting buttons out loud, that sounds like it would actually help
2:39 I just let Vivi win, because damit, that Kid deserves that fucking card! (I gotta imagine it as some sort of lucky charm for him from that point on)
Auto-potion + regen works well too. Especially on attacks that hit your whole party, the potion animations take so long and you will be gaining health via regen the whole time.
yep, thats the combo i always have for ozma.
Everything about the HD release is great, except the only thing I don't like is the UI and text font. Something about that pixelated text looked so good. I can't say the same for the character models, but the text should've stayed the same, imo.
Edit: so I wrote that before I got the game, and I have many more complaints with it. The serious worst thing about it for me is the lack of analog controls. It only has 8 way directional control. It’s super awkward to use especially when you’re so used to the analog on the original.
Another problem is the backgrounds are just so blurry. I wish they’d update it with the background mod that was made for the steam version. There’s also a mod that fixes the analog controls, but I’m never gonna play it on PC, so I’ll never get to experience it like that.
And the last thing that really bugs me is not being able to turn the grey sidebars black. I don’t like it.
PC > ps4 and other new consoles
The only thing I didn't do was the Excalibur 2 challenge, hard to pull off on the PAL version. There are certain equipments that permanently stat boost on level up, check out the GameFAQs guide
I was a huge Dragonball Z fan when this game came out, so I use to pretend Zidane was a lost Super Saiyan from a different time/world/reality.
Apple Bee actually yes. zidane is based on goku. while kuja is vegita
They're both inspired by "a journey to the west" but not by each other
Same
How dare u call him rusty, hes captain adelbert Steiner
Cringeworthy.
FF IX is my first FF in my life, best graphic (for psx), best music (i still remember many soundtracks and downloaded all the soundtracks in my pc), best gameplay, great story. ahhhh, childhood memories is the best.
if you want amazing graphics for ps1 games you should take a look at parasite eve 2. Hell some of those cutscenes are so good they look better than alot of games on the ps3, well ahead of its time.
hmm, i'm not playing parasite eve 2, thanks for your respond. btw, tales of destiny 2 is great too (graphic,story,gameplay, etc)
Playing this again with the Moguri mod and it’s magical. FF9 is just so damn good.
the what?
@@ablationera mod that improves the background art and updates the music and models
@@Kev-O33 Oh that sounds neat
I'm currently playing final fantasy 9 and this my first final fantasy game and really liking it
One quick tip for you as well, the regen spell is short for 'regeneration', and the word is pronounced as such. Re-jen.
But anyway. :) That time speed up looks handy. I remember Chrono Cross had a similar mechanic after you beat the game the first time so you didn't have to waste time trying to get different endings/recruiting different characters. It was so handy.
Yes, and the recently released Chrono cross now gives you the timer on the First playthrough. I got it on PS4 platform 😁 happy playing
I know what it stands for but I will still say reggen til I die
@@callmeshaggy5166 No lie, my friends and I said it like Reagan. And we topped it off with a healthy dose of eh-ther.
Didn't know bout the Hot'n'cold trick. Everything else though I knew about. Still helpful to know that trick though. Love 9, it's my favorite of the mainline series
Here is another tip...avoid trophy hunting like a plague. Srsly getting Excalibur II is piece of cake compared to 1000 rope jumps.
actually there are people currently working on scripts for it so pretty soon you should be able to remote play the game on your PC and use a script to get the 1000 jumps.
Realy ? Is there a good source to get this script when it is done ?
likely Gamefaqs but when a good working one finally appears ill be making a video on it anyway.
When you do I'll actually get it >.> I get pretty obsessive with achievement hunting, and after I saw that I was like NOPE. I had a hard time getting over 50 jump ropes, no thanks~
there is actually a trophy for 1000 rope jumps...? thats evil
For the Regen trick I used to also use auto-potion in conjunction with auto-regen. If the boss uses an AOE attack, it takes forever for the whole party to use up their potions. When I first figured this out as a kid Ozma became a joke. As long as you don't get 1 shot your party will never die.
how do you speed up your characters like that
Wow that chocobo time trick is awesome! Can't wait to get back into this game
yea its amazing plus if its just points you want, then once you get the mountain chocobo the point boost in forest go's up meaning you can get 600-800 points almost every time. Or once you get to chocobo sky garden the point is so big there that you get 1000+ points pretty much every time at the very least and if you finish with 40+ seconds then you can get over 3000 points in 1 game.
This doesn't seem so much like a trick as it does a cheat code that they, for some reason, didn't classify as a cheat code.
KJYKJY1985 a cheat code that doesn't involve a code and is not considered a cheat is generally considered an exploit. And yeah, I was going to exploit the speed option to give me Excalibur II (which I've never gotten before), but the speed trick with the Chocobo? I'm excited as well. As in sexually. Rock hard.
I've used speed boost to make grinding less of a chore but never thought about it for hot and cold now I'm definitely going to
It's a cool trick, sure. But IMO, it feels like cheating to me. I didn't use Game Shark on PS1, so I probably won't use the Speed Booster either.
Regarding the FotH, you can save before, let Vivi win for the achievement, restart and have Freya win for the Coral Ring. Just a thought. As for the sword fight at the start, not only do you need to impress 100 nobles by getting all 50 combinations right, but you need to input them all fast enough for Queen Brahne to be impressed. If you hit 100 nobles, but don't do it fast enough to impress the queen, you won't get the Moonstone.
i dont think its even possible to impress all 100 and not impress the queen. Also you DONT need to get all inputs ive missed inputs before and still got 100 nobles.
Oh, but it is haha. I speak from experience. ;) Really bad controller reaction with an injured hand. Try hitting all the options, except wait for a second or more to hit at least one of them. I've hit 100 nobles but failed to impress the queen 2-3 times in a row. This was the PS edition though. Don't see why they'd change it for PC or PS4, but worth testing.
hm this is actually the first time ive ever seen anybody mention that its possible.
Google the 'Queen Brahne was not impressed' meme and look through some of the GameFAQ forums. There are mentions of the system working differently for the nobles and the queen. You apparently need to both hit the timing, and get all the combinations correct.
The Summon+Regen trick is well known by everyone, even if they didn't realize it. That's what made FF9 so easy. Once everyone has learned Auto-Regen, you don't even need to use a single healing spell anymore. Combine that with Auto-Haste and your party will be constantly topped up at all times. Even against those special attacks that bring you down to 1 HP.
I do love auto haste and auto Regen. Gotta beat the book early game with Steiner or get the running shoes later from quans dwelling if you don't want it earlier in the game. Good combo though, never heal again
“Well known by everyone even if they don’t know it.” Is a wild statement
@@xzed6394 sorry that you never paid attention 🤷♂️
@@Sogreth89 Read it back to yourself buddy. It doesn’t make sense haha
Ive just started playing the game again on the original PS1. Its just as great as i remember. No cheats for me.
Regen isn't pronounced like "regain". The g is soft, like a j because it comes from "regenerate". Didn't know the Chocobo hot and cold tip. Thank you.
I think he was just calling regen, regain not trying to pronounce regen. When you play various RPG's you sometimes habitually call certain spells, stats etc by one name even if they change from game to game. I sometimes find myself calling Blizzard, Ice due to the first RPGs I played calling Ice spells Ice. Though he did pronounce "ether" as "eth-er" when it's more closer to "ee-thur".
Yeah, I pointed it out because I used to do similar things, like I would say "chick-a-boo" and "guy-gas" for gigas. People saying "man-nah" instead of "mah-nah" still bothers me, but it's a lost cause trying to get them to stop referring to the food Yahweh gave the Jews instead of the Pacific Island term for the universal spirit.
Justin Betts Sorry man, right or wrong, I will always pronounce mana the way you hate.
Yeah that did my head in
He also mispronounced Zidane and Ether. I think hes doing it on purpose to get comments. And it worked.
There's also the trick of equipping Marcus with the blood sword, auto-battling the soldiers who run at you until he's lv100, then when you get Eiko she inherits his stats but is still at a low level, enabling you to get her stats even higher than usual.
yea but thats only really worth going out of your way for in a low level playthrough, plus the time it takes to get marcus to 99 (you cant get level 100 in FF9) means your gonna have to leave your console on for 2-3 days straight because you cant save there.
I never had the chance to play FF 9 so I'm super excited to try all 5 of these tricks! Thank you so much!
its an awesome game, enjoy.
It's probably self-evident, but I feel like stressing it nonetheless:
It might be best to not use the Cotton Robe trick or the early Robe of Lords trick on your first playthrough, as it may trivialise the game somewhat.
Just promise me that u wont use the in build cheats... You can easily beat the game and sidemissions without them and its way more fun. Well you wont be able to get excalibur II that way but to be honest thats a speedrun only for idiots like me who have no life.
I traded in FF8 to buy this game on release day.
Smart man I hope u got into stocks and trading lol
I remember getting this the day it released and finished it over Christmas break. One of my best FF experiences.
you can exploit auto-regen more easily without using summons (or any active command) by equipping auto-potion on every character...the actual healing from each potion is negligible in the mid-to-late game, but the time it takes each character to use a potion allows ALL the characters to get in 1-2 ticks of regen. by the last boss, when my entire party is hit with an attack at once, it's not uncommon for them EACH to heal by 1500-2000 points immediately afterwards, simply by sitting through the animation of using a potion one by one
I remember when I was little I saw my big brother playing FF9. I remember playing with the air ship and battles but I was never allowed to do the whole game. When I got older I played FF7 until it end ( Yeah I know FF7 is old but I wanted to play it). I was not very happy how it end so I beg my big brother to get me ff9. He said I can have it when it was my birthday which was few days away. so then I got it and became addcited to it. Played for 6 hours and 41 minutes when I first got it until my dad told me to turn it off.
That sounds like a good memory. My big bro also got me into the game but he was more mean with me 🤣 I begged to play it and then he finally let me play it, I got to disc 3 and then we got in a fight about something so he took it back. Then he gave it back to me but broke the 4th disc so I couldn't finish it, until I bought it for myself after highschool.
But I do have good memories of playing it in my room right after school, mainly playing chocobo hot and cold
Nattums Mcgee lol yeah my brother was mean to me too. When ever I miss something like an ability or something he would yell at me saying that I was skipping everything or why don’t you have this character in your team. When this game ended I was crying so badly. Showing vivi’s son and Zidane just taking off his cloth and saying “my love for garnet” made me gasp. My other brother started laughing at me when he saw me cried. Man the good times I am so glad I got into final fantasy.
I never heard of final fantasy until ff9 when my grandmom got it for me for my birthday, was a junior in high school. I was hooked. I didn't know Vivi was one of the characters in the game (even though you played as him going to see the play) and let him die during the prison cage boss fight........for 6 months (I'm laughing now at how insanely noobish I was). I just bought the digital release last night and still have the original (booklet included). I didn't know about none of these tips then and now, it was in my feed and caught my interest. After 9, I was told by college friend about 7 and 8 (still own the originals, all intact). I plan on buying the remake of both in a few weeks.
The best trick: Eiko with the pasive called "support/favour"? (in spanish is called "Apoyo") + 99 Phoenix wings = 57% chance to revive entire team if killed. And more "phoenix tails" -> more HP when they revive
You can level up ridiculously early in the game by playing the chocobo forest get all chocographs there. Then pass into burmicia territory don't go to burmicia instead head towards clara which just looks like a tornado at this point . There is a treasure near here that changes your chocobo you now can enter lagoons. Go back through the grotto towards lindblum you can now access 2 lagoon treasures around here . 1 has oak staff for vivi which has stop and bio ( bio being the most important) now you can go back to the grotto but instead of passing through it go to the room with the moogles and climb up the vine in the back ( you will be warned that the monsters ahead are powerful) you get to a small cliff area that has a ton of garudas . They show up in groups of 1 or 2 . When you first come up here 2 is a problem run. 1 though you can now kill fairly easy. Vivi's bio hits for about 1000 to 1200 points of damage and may poison it takes 3 hits to kill the garuda . The garuda pretty much kills your characters in 1 to 2 hits so heal alot. But killing one gives 1700 exp which gains 2 levels till 20 then 1 level till 30 at level 30 vivi can kill a garuda in 1 hit then you can fight the 2 garudas gaining 3400 exp after battle you can easily make level 50 before disc 1 ends.
or an even faster way of leveling on disc 1 is getting limit break blue magic for quina and then 2 shotting grand dragons.
Levelwise, I'm only interested in getting Marcus to 99, that way Eiko reaps the benefits of that gain when she appears.
the old way to do this was with a turbo controller , hold down the button x (stick it down), give marcus the blood sword and leave him in Alexandria just after you escape and you have soldiers continually running into you. Leave for a few hours and he will level, without you having to do anything. I left it on before work and was level 95 after work.
TBH I can barely understand what this guy is saying. I’m pretty new to Final Fantasy and RPGs as a whole, so a lot of it still confuses me. But I picked up FF9 for Switch recently and I’m really loving it. I’m a bit intimidated by how long it is though, I though I was almost done with the game and then I found out I’m still on disk 1.
older games in general are FAR longer than newer games. games these days your lucky to get 6 hours of story (20-40 for RPGs) older games, especially RPGs have a solid 40-60 hours for a first playthrough
in the gizamaluke grotto there is a ladder on the room with the moogles that goes outside. in the forested areas you can encounter 1 or 2 garudas that can lvl you up well until lv 30 in disc 1. Ice staff needed and some stop protection.
one thing that I found that a lot of people didn't know, was that if you press R1 while choosing a spell to cast, you can hit all enemies, IIRC it works with heals too
it does work with heals yes
Marry me garnet
I do the same thing with the sped up Chocobo Hot & Cold minigame, but I use the directional pad instead of the joystick. I find that it allows me to make more pinpointed movements.
I let Freya win so that I can get Coral Ring for Grand Dragon leveling up later at Gizamaluke's Grotto.
Same
It's the only reward worth getting. Order of importance Freya > Zidane >>>>>>>Vivi. Regardless of what was said in this video you get can get the Theater Ship card via chocobo treasure hunting and locations of even the most hidden treasures are easy to find now with things like RUclips.
even without Coral Ring, Grand Dragon at Gizamaluke Grotto is easy with Quina's Limit Globe
Or level 5 death as grand dragon's and garuda's level are multiples of 5.
Limit glove blue magic if quina has 1 HP will do 9999 to dragon, and next turn just eat him with quina... So basicy you dont need coral ring.. :)
If you use white magic to revive a zombie, it dies. For example, all monsters who attack alexandria are zombies and beatrix has white magic.
Sad part is...I already know these. But good to know you are into FF9 as well.
Only one I didn't was the speed up one, cos ive never played the version with cheats
Used the speed boost to get Excalibur II.
Regen - as in Regeneration
NOT Re-gain
I honestly don't understand how for native English speakers that is an issue to pronounce.
¬_¬
Came for the tips, stayed for the accent. Haven’t heard the voice of my hometown for a long time!
Don't use any of the cheat buttons except speed up, but only for leveling up and nothing else. The game is better the way they meant it to be played in 1999/2000.
As i mentioned to somebody else, i agree. They were used in the making of this because i needed a 100% file with saves at every moogle to make my life easier in recording clips. The boosters let me turn 40ish hours of work into 10.
If you played FFIX in 1999, you're really good.
I used the gil max. It won't break the game will it?
No encounters helps for perfect game runs.
Sanoj Shrestha It disables trophy achievements for that save file.
I have only ever played the original PS1 version..... too tight to buy the PS4 or Xbox1 😆😆😆.
The ×3 speed is definitely a bonus for the "Chocobo hot/cold" game. In all fairness, already knew about the other points mentioned but respect given for the upload. Thanks 👍.
I've played this game way too much, I knew about all of these without a guide or anything.
Doesn't mean you've played too much. The game has been out for years and the internet/GameFAQs has been around for nearly as long. I'm more surprised people DON'T know this stuff.
@@j800r he said without any guide. lol
Great channel subbed
I struggled for HOURS te get Robe of Lords in disc one in a Low Level Game on my PS1.
But I did it, at the end, my time counter was at 97 hours on disc 1.
Why would you do that to yourself 😂 cheers bud
lmao wtf you coulda beaten the game by like 50 hours hahaha
It was a fun challenge! I've beaten the game so many times now.
But nothing compares to a lvl 1 playthrough
Seeing as all these tricks except the last one are linked to some achievements, it pays to know about them. Just getting the first moonstone will unlocked and put you on path for 2 of them. You get one for getting the nobles to ask for an encore, which you eventually get in the process of trying to impress all 100 of them and getting the moonstone will put you on path for another that requires you to collect all 4 moonstones scattered in the game.
yep, theres pretty much a trophy for evertying here.
This game remains one of my most favorite of all time ❤️😥 It influenced my life more than most movies I've watched. The nostalgia is insane 😢
I knew of the regen trick. Iiked summoning Bahamut in the fight vs Ozma to let my health regen. The others I did not know. Thanks for the info!
and then right after ozma hits you for a 9999 meteor... Not that im salty about the times thats happened though...
Primalliquid Yup...think the fight is going my way and Ozma just says "DENIED!".
that music at the end got me.. why until now this game reminds me so much memory..
He does get the date with garnet at the end kind of. Also the fake marriage thing kind of having time together even though it's on a mission still time together as a couple
Aside from the boost related one and the impressing of all the nobles and the queen , I knew all of these. I will point out though, I make it a point to run through this game at least once a year.
You Are Not Alone, A Place to Call Home, and Melodies of Life are my favorite tracks from the soundtrack.
Melodies of life
due to this coming out on PS4 i now own 6 copies of it. and i love that you used the roses of may - loss of me version for your background music. best piece in the series (in my opinion) i knew 3 of these. but didnt know about the chocobo speed boost thing. or the easy way of getting vivi to win. did it a much harder way back in ps1 days
When I was a kid I got this game from a friend, played it till the end of disc one and didn't have the rest of the discs to finish it
Years later got it from a different friend and his first disc was too damaged so the ps wouldn't read it
I am afraid of getting it now because I feel there might be a piano on a rope somewhere that will fall on my head on my way back from the store
Or a bolt of lightning from a clear sky after I download it online
One thing i noticed is that final fantasy discs tended to "break" far more easy compared to other ps1 discs. idk if its because of the sheer amount of data on them (Doubtful because of other multi disc games) or just the way they were produced, however let me just say being able to experience FF9 is worth the risk of a piano falling on you. I highly suggest picking it up.
Did you end up getting it?
@@kkeithf Bought it from china in january still heaven t gotten it yet, weird
Funny. The guy that made this video does a full run of this game on his channel, I've been playing along, it's been fun. I hope you get to play soon. It's available on steam for 20 bucks and my crappy laptop plays it just fine.
@@kkeithf I am a doctor so I have very limited free time now
Once this is all over I have a whole list of things I want to do (no for real I have a list on my phone; what I will do once we beat this thing)
I'm adding ff9, I was 8 when I first played it at 28 I plan to finish it
Here's a challenge for you: Can you beat Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster 1-6 just by beating the bosses and treasure traps? The rules are as follows: Rule 1: You can fight normal battles, but only for X4 money. Rule 2: When you fight the bosses, you have to have X4 experience and money. Rule 3: You can't gain experience from random encounters, only X4 money. That also includes the summons as well. For sidequest bosses.
It’s cool, but most FF games never rely on Gil, for me it just ticks up as I’ll steal or find the better percentage of equipment.. especially with 9 as like every boss or mini boss has a weapon or apparel to steal 👍🏻
"Probably not gonna use it with Ark"
Are you kidding? My first playthrough, I abused auto-regen and Ark vs Kuja (I wasn't maxed out, probably only doing 3k a hit. Now I won't face Kuja if I'm not doing 9999 to Ozma. Kuja deserves that level of pain.)
RE-JEN
NOT RE-GAIN
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
imagine if he used the full word regenerate would be re gain erate
Correction - impressing all 100 nobles isn't enough to get the moonstone in the opening. You have to also impress queen Branhe (sp?), Which is even harder 🤣
Her name is Garnet Til Alexandros
Dave Marx her name is Sarah
her name is McFly
I feel sorry for anyone who might still be new to the game. This isn't like an Aeris dies thing. This is a genuine spoiler of a secret not everyone is likely to have found.
J Ryan You mean her real name?
Wow, Nice tips, congrats.
Great content you have here!
I will tell you one! Remove Sword from Blank, keep it, after he is frozen, you will have better Sword to start with.
you can steal and iron sword before evil forest.
Point is to have it after you exit the forest to the world map.
Again, you can steal one before evil forest meaning you will have it after exiting aswell
it's more de-equipping any temp character of all their gear before they leave to sell for more gil or synth items really
Lol, you should have already stolen an Iron sword from Baku before then! It's still worth stripping his gear to sell/synth perhaps.
Fav thing to do was place reflect on everyone and group target high level magic at myself and watch everything drop like flys, bonus points for casting reflect on any self healing boss to have cure spells pushed back onto you!
You forgot the 6th secret, the power leveling: get Night and Limit Glove skills with Quina, them go to Gizamaluke's Grotto to where the Moogle couple are, climb up and you'll reach the Popos Heights, start a battle with the Dragon, make sure you have Quina and 1 character equiped with thunder absorb equips before hand, put the dragon to sleep with Night, use the skill that reduces HP to 1 on Quina itself, and use Limit Glove on the Dragon to deal 9999 DMG and with 2 Limit Glove you will kill it dead, earning easily more tham 6 lvls at that point.
i didnt forget, thats going to be in a different video im planning on making and didnt want to include it in both.
Yes Level 5 death was the most easy way to kill it.
@Jeremy, you cant use the lvl 5 death method untill disc 3, RougleEagles method is for disc 1 grinding with quina,vivi,freya and zidane. It also doesnt require as much effort as you think. Hardest part is actually learning limit glove. (Although using night is really pointless, its much easier to just let a character die and revive them after the fight)
Night is only so that Quina can have time to do some of his preparations, could call that a luxury
dont get me wrong i can understand why you would use it, but to me its not efficient and if im grinding then im going to be doing it as quickly as possible at that given point in time.
damn i dit the complete hidden chocobo thing all the way up to the last hidden air place on the PS1 as a kid and was the most fun minigame togheter with owning npcs in card games XD that was pretty much my end game daily xD
9 is the best Final Fantasy
8 is my favourite Final Fantasy
R1CH1E4SS My favorite is FF10. Second fave is FF8. And yes, FF13 is my 3rd. Including the sequels.
IX is most definitely the pinnacle. It was the best it ever got. Only went downhill from there. My favourite constantly drifts between the Playstation "holy trinity".
Well, what can they do, before ps2 they had to rely on telling a story that compensates the lack of graphical detail on the game itself. Like reading a book, we are not seeing any image, but it's the reading that makes it so fun. When graphics became a thing and the company started to change their teams, it seems they forgot about the appeal the writing of the story had on previous games and focused mainly on making "pretty" games. It got flashy and shiny, but lost the depth that the world and character development had on previous games. Final Fantasy 6, 7, 8 and 9 (which are the older ones I played) not only had a world, a villain and characters that are relatable, but they also taught really interesting ideas and showed really fun and compelling experiences.
I'm sorry if I was a bit confusing here. But what I mean is: when I think about previous final fantasy games, I don't think about the flashy combat and big explosions. When I think about ff6, I remember Cyan's past, remember about Shadow's dreams, Terra struggle to find her place on that world, Celes singing on the opera. FF7, I remember about RED XIII's old man teaching the characters about the life essence of the world, Aerith and the gold saucer date (lol), Vincent badass scenes and cool relatable story, how Sephiroth's reaction about his past makes sense, and a lot of people would go down the same road he did, with that past. FFIX had a hardcore attention to the scene and characters, so It's hard to pick specific parts lol, specially on the first disk.
So square should remember to build their games the same way as they did on the first games, to tell a story that is worth listening. Not just showing flashy combat with "perfect" looking characters that have no flaws and try to look cool all the time. But I think their management core will be too much afraid to risk doing it, since this practice doesn't have clear economical value to be acquired from it. The suits will say no.
@@j800r agreed it was definitely the pinnacle
@@glidingfalcon4370 100% agree mate. Not only that but I feel FFX reached the definition of the turn based combat system, having easily the best combat in the series. The sphere grid was also a great addition in place of standard leveling that gave you a massive amount of freedom and character customization.
The world itself is quite possibly the most unqiue and beloved out of any in the series.
6:22 tips: the game doenst check where the beak hits the ground, but where the chocobo is standing; also, the spots are always the same, if you can memorize where they are then you can do quick sweeps to know where is the new spot.
Its ree-gen, like regenerate.
100 nobles aren't a prerequisite for the moonstone, if you miss 1 command you can still impress 100 nobles without brahne being impressed.
#1 its impossible to plat the 1000 jump rope trophy is impossible.
its not impossible at all, its just stupidly hard. Plus people are working on PC scripts so that you can just remote play the game on pc and use a script for the 1000 jumps.
I did it during PS1 era, and I was like 10 around that time.
Though it's true I pulled an all nighter for a few days trying to get it done. I had this FF9 guidebook back then, and the book says I'd get "cat hand racket". What a bummer, it's just the card.
The Jump Rope the only thing I'd actually consider using cheats/scripts/boosts (if they actually helped on) as far as Final Fantasy IX goes unless I was maybe going for the Excalibur II speedrun, and even then, I've done that without the boosts in the original PS1 version of the game.
That being said, it makes me happy that more people are getting to experience my favorite game of all time ever on the PS4 :) I had knowledge of all of these things already, but I'm sure it'll help people who didn't ^^
The input delay on the PS4 definitely makes it seem almost impossible. Obviously not the case since I can see an extremely small percentage of players have that trophy. It was hard enough on the original but I could only just manage 100 on the PS4
GKP Trashcorner
Use the enemies in the forest when you're running away SPOILERS
right when Blank is going to turn to stone, there is a part where the green enemy bugs keep respawning you can farm 10k enemies easy and don't even really need to move.
Lmao this is my all time favorite game but I remember my mom got so upset she made me return the game because there was a “devil” in the back of it (that devil was Ifrit !) she freaked out! Lol I had to return it and then a weeks later I rebought again. Haha 😂.
lol nice
Most people know those things.. and also you're using features such as super Speed and 9999 damage that completely kills the Fun.
What? on how does super speed kill the fun? also at what point do i say to use 9999 damage?
and how the hell is playing that Chocobo hunt on normal speed for hours fun? dolt
that's the way it's meant to be played. You can do pretty much everything of the chocobo hunt in a few hours, you can also get the robe of the lords easily near the end of the game. In the video you dealt 9999 damage on disc one, I can't see how that's possible (even with trance). If you prove me wrong about that I stand corrected (about the 9999 damage).
if you mean the Festival of the hunt clip then yes 9999 damage was turned on so i could speedrun the game and create save points at every moogle to make my life easier in recording specific clips. not like its needed in a normal playthrough i just wanted to save some time for myself. Plus its actually quite easy to do 9999 damage on disc 1. You can grand dragon farm, power up frog drop, quina has a 9999 attack when hes at 1 hp,
that's what I meant. To me all those little things square enix added (super speed, 9999 damage) were meant to get more people to play the game (casual players, for example, not saying you are one tho) and like the game, plus removing pretty much all the challenge of the game. Unfortunately turn based RPGs are not popular as they used to be. Anyways, maybe I was a little harsh in my first comment, sorry about that.
Had to pick this up with the updated graphics, I remember the original looking like a mash potato
Freja is the best character in the game. Can't have a playthrough without her in my final party
Freya*
7:33 -- yeah about that... That's really due to an oversight on the developer's part... The ATB system doesn't have a wait clause programmed into it, hence why auto Regen is pretty much broken and therefore is best to have on at all times
Still playing in 2021 sadly haven't beaten but got fairly close
Only get one robe of lord's in the chocobo forest. It's much faster to farm in chocobos lagoon
Ark is like 2minute summon scene lol. Regen would give you 9999 health in that amount of time for sure
thx never new about these