checked-part =>Note: This game is Final Fantasy VI in Japan. =>Important Tip: Before you enter the World of Ruin (after the floating island sequence), you should do the following: * Get the Atma Weapon from the cave that leads to the sealed gate. * Have Mog (go to Narshe, check the houses to find the thief, follow him to the northern cliffs, and choose to save Mog rather than get the Gold Pin). * Have Mog learn the Water Rondo dance. ->Items: Why are these so hard to find? * The Chainsaw: In Zozo, set the clock to 6:10:50 to get the chainsaw. . Economizers: These lovely devices make all spells consume just 1 MP. Go to the Dinosaur Forest (east of Gau's father's house) and wander around it until you find a Brachiosaur. Have Relm cast CONTROL on the dino (she must be wearing the fake Mustache). Have your party attack the Brachiosaur using -only- magic. Repeat as you like. Or, enter the Phoenix Cave and have Locke steal from the Apuila bird that appears. This will sometimes give you economizers. Or, bet a Gem Box at the Coliseum and win the battle. . Paladin Shield: Wear a cursed item for 255 battles to remove the curse and receive something fantastic. Equip the cursed shield from Narshe and win 255 battles with it to get the Paladin Shield. . Genji Glove: When you are at the Returners' base for the first time, keep telling Banon "no" when he asks you questions. When he sends you inside, go back to him and say no again. Repeat until a wounded soldier appears. You should get a Genji Glove instead of a Gauntlet. . Experience Egg: This relic will double the amount of experience you earn in each battle. In Darill's Tomb (in the World of Ruin), find a chamber containing four tombstones and read each stone. When you find a blank tombstone later in the Tomb, you will be asked to carve an inscription. Carve THE WORLD IS SQUARE and the game will tell you where to find the egg. . Rename Card: Would you like to rename your party members? You can earn Rename cards by betting Elixirs at the Colosseum. . Moogle Charm: When you first get Mog to join your team, search the wall that was behind him using A. When this charm is equipped you will never enter a random battle. . Memento Ring 2: On the second floor of Strago and Relm's house, search the tables and chairs in the left corner. =>Extra Characters: * Mog: Before you get to the World of Ruin (second half of the game), you will return to Narshe. The elder will tell you that she'll talk to the Espers. Exit the house and find the house filled with treasure boxes near the upper east side of town. A thief named Lone Wolf will be stealing something. Follow him and when you are given the choice of saving either Mog the Moogle or Lone Wolf, save Mog. * Gogo: Do you want to find Gogo, the mimic? If so, once you are in the World of Ruin, go to Triangle Island (in the northeastern part of the world map). Fight a Zone Eater and let it swallow your party. Explore the inside of the Zone Eater to find Gogo. * Umaro: In the World of Ruins, return to Narshe. Make your way to the northern part of the town where the frozen Esper Tritoch is located. After you fight Tritoch, a large piece of the cliff will collapse. Enter the new hole in the mountain and walk through the maze to find Umaro, who will only join you if you have Mog in your party. Search for a cave with a skull, inspect the skull, and Umaro will appear. * Shadow: To find Shadow in the World of Ruin, you need to wait for him on the floating island which occurs at the end of the first half of the game. When on the exit edge of the floating island, choose to wait twice, and Shadow will appear at 5 seconds until doomsday. You will later find Shadow in the world of ruin in Relm's cave and at the Coliseum (if you bet the weapon from the Veldt cave). If you don't wait for Shadow on the floating island, you will never meet him later. =>Strago's Lores: To learn many of Strago's Lores, enter Kefka's Tower and battle Dark Force. Dark Force will use most of the lores that Strago can learn. =>Water Rondo Dance: In the World of Balance (where you begin the game), have a group with Mog in it go to the Serpent Trench (from Gau's cave in the Veldt) and hop in. While underwater, fight, but don't use Mog's Dance command. After the battle, Mog will learn the Water Rondo dance. =>Vargus/Blitz Tip: Are you playing the game without a manual and you are completely lost when you get to Vargus? Once you beat him normally, Sabin goes up to fight. You must use Sabin's pummel Blitz attack to finish Vargus. To do the pummel (or any) blitz, 1) Highlight BLITZ on the battle menu and press A. The small white arrow will now point at Sabin. 2) Enter the blitz code... for Pummel, press L R L. 3) Press A to confirm. Now, when Sabin goes up to attack, he will perform the Blitz. Other attacks are listed in the game menu under Sabin's skills. =>Automatic Experience: You will need a controller with a turbo function to do this trick. Once you reach the Lete River raft at the Returner's hideout, bring up the game menu, enter CONFIG and set the cursor to MEMORY. Board the raft and float until you reach the first save point; save, then return to the raft. When you are asked if you want to go Up or Left, choose Up - this will start you on a small loop that returns to this point. During the battles, have Banon always use HEALTH and set the other three to FIGHT (Edgar can use the Auto Crossbow). Now, turn TURBO on, keep the A button held down somehow (try a rubber band), and leave the game alone for a while. The raft will endlessly circle this path, and your party will win every battle while being recharged by Banon. It may take a day or so, but they should reach level 99 eventually. =>Life to Undead: Whenever fighting an undead creature, just try using a little Fenix Down or a Life spell; this will often destroy them in a single 'attack'. This works on the Ghost Train. =>Multi-Players: Did you know that the configuration screen lets you set FF3 to a sort of a multi player game? Change the setting from single to multi, then press A and assign the controllers. This lets multiple players control the characters during the battle scenes, but nowhere else. * Multi-Player Vs: Ok, this really isn't a trick, but... if you set each controller to two characters, then find & enter into battle with a REALLY pathetic enemy that has no chance of ever killing you, then the two players can fight each other. =>Easy Kill: First, use Vanish on your enemy to make them invisible. While they are, cast Doom or X-Zone on them and you will have a MUCH better chance of killing them with the spell. This works on most of characters, including bosses, in the game, with a few exceptions. ->Glitching: As you may have heard, FF3 tends to be a bit glitchy, especially when Relm is sketching. Glitches can erase your game, give you weird items, and do all sorts of odd things. The following method may or may not work on your FF3 cartridge... Equip a party of four, containing Relm and Gau, and travel to the Veldt. Make Gau leap, then wait for him to return. When he returns after the last monster is destroyed, he will spin and say something. Before he says anything, have Relm sketch Gau. When the message appears, have Relm sketch him again. Her second sketch will cause the game to glitch up and will give you tons of stuff. Gau will be equipped with Fenix Down. ->Glitch 2: Go to the Ruin World Narshe, and search until you battle a Test- Rider. Cast Vanish (which should miss), then have Relm sketch him, then have everyone run away before anyone can attack him. If successful, you should have a ton of stuff. ->Chocobo Ride: When the party splits into three groups early on in the game, take the one with Edgar, Terra, and Banon and go down the Lete river as usual. After the trip, you will be near Narshe; go southwest into the Figaro desert until you reach the forest with a Chocobo stable. With Banon as the lead character in the party, rent a Chocobo. As Banon was never programmed to ride the birds, the game will glitch, resulting in a small dance and a character riding the Chocobo that resembles the morphed Terra. ->Magic Tips: Equip a magic user with both the Gem Box and Economizer, then cast X-Spell and select Ultima and Quick. Quick gives you two more turns; each time, select X-Spell and two Ultimas. Would you like to quickly earn Magic Points? In the World of Balance, fly to the small island in the north-east corner of the map. This is where Zone-Eaters and Gogo are in the World of Ruin. Battle until you encounter an invisible enemy. Kill it with Doom and you will get 10 MP. ->Dragon Locations: Having trouble finding all 8 dragons in the world of ruin? You will find them at the opera house, Mt. Zozo, Kefka's Cult Tower, two in Kefka's domain, the Fenix cave where Locke was found, the mountain in Narshe where you fought Kefka for the esper, and Odin's castle. ->Imp Info: Ever wonder if the imp status was good for anything? Imp players have great ratings if you have the proper equipment. Search the forest to the east of Gau's dad's house and fight Tryanosaurs until you have two Imp Halberds, then bet one of them at the Coliseum to earn the Turtle Shell. Equip an imp with both.