1) When you obtain the W-Item materia, you can gain more items simply by equipping it and using it in any fight this way:
Select an item (O button) and use it on a character (good or evil), then select the same item again and cancel it this time.
The number of that item should go up by one. Now just keep selecting and cancelling the second request and your items will
go up and up. 2) In the chocobo races, you can keep your chocobo's stamina up by holding down R1, and R2, at the same time.
3) If you want Cloud to date Aeris in the gold saucer, all you have to do is be nice to her and only her. To do that, just agree with
her when you are given the option and make it sound like you really like her. If you want Tifa to date Cloud, just be nice to Tifa,
and no one else. (Disagree with Aeris in other words.) And finally to go out with Yuffie, Be mean to everyone but her. Don't agree with anyone
at all. And to help you get a date with Yuffie, you can put her in your group BESIDE Cloud at all times, and equip him with Cover materia.
(This should work, but I don't really like Yuffie, so i never really tried it)
4) To get Carob nuts for free, go to the Bone Village area and fight the red dragon called Vlakarados outside the town. You can steal carob nuts from
it. To get Zeio nuts, go to the island North of the Chocobo ranch and fight in the forest. There you can steal Zeio nuts from the little goblin guys as
well as learn the Enemy Skill 'Goblin Punch'.
5) Breeding special chocobos:
6) In the battle arena, you can somewhat slow down the slots by pressing the Square button continuously.
7) To quickly master materia and gain levels, go to Sephiroth's final dungeon, anf fight the magic pots on the left path (when youre given the choice). Give them elixirs (which you can
double with W-Item materia) and then kill them. They will give you 8000 EXP, and 1000 AP points per pot, and a heap of money on top. The little red ball guys give you alot of AP as well for finishing
them off. If you equip Cloud's Apocolypse sword or any other weapon that'll triple or double materia growth (provided you can get by with weaker weapons) then you can gain a whole lot faster. Materia
such as Exp. Plus and Gil Plus can also speed up the process.
8) In the Gold Saucer, you can gain fast GP by entering and re-entering until a man appears by the house in the tram area. You can buy GP from him at a rate of 100 gil to 1 GP. It may
sound like a lot, but for those who can afford it it's well worth it.
9) After Cloud discovers who he is, take him to the Shinra Mansion in Nibelheim, down to the library area. There you will see a special cinema which explains how Cloud wound up in
Midgar with Zack's sword and why he decided to become a mercenary.
10) You can gain Sources by morphing the monsters in the Crashed Gelnika. You can also morph the little dude with the star over his head (Master Tonberry) to get ribbons in Sephiroth's dungeon, and
the little cactus dudes on Cactuar Island (South of Cosmo Canyon) to get Tetra Elementals.
Okay, for those of you who think Cloud is really a 1st Class SOLDIER, you're wrong! Cloud never made it into SOLDIER,
ZACK DID! Him and Cloud were close buddies. Okay from very the beginning, here's how it happened:
To be continued... =p
*This works with any item that can be used in battle, and you must have at least 2 for it to work.
*One thing I have yet to try is being nice to no one but Barret's daughter. If anyone out there knows what would happen if you gave Marlene
the flower or agreed with her about Tifa let me know. But I'm kinda sceptical about it's effectiveness..
*For best results with chocobo breeding, feed your chocobos Sylkis greens and race them in the Gold Saucer until they reach A or S class.
Cloud and Tifa grew up together in Nibelheim. They weren't very close at all. Tifa had her own
group of friends, but never really noticed Cloud. Cloud was always trying to fit in to her group but was never allowed, so he began to feel different from everyone else.
Some time after, Tifa's mother disappeared and went looking for her on Mount Nibel, where her friends
and Cloud followed her. Her friends all chickened out, but Cloud still followed.
Tifa missed her step and Cloud tried to save her, but they both fell off the cliff. Cloud only "got by with scraped knees", but Tifa fell in a coma for
7 days. Cloud was blamed for the incident, and he blamed his weakness for it and went berserk. He got in fights with everyone in town, and that's how
Tifa came to remember him. Shortly after Tifa recovered, Cloud arranged the meeting at the well, where he told Tifa that he wanted to go to
Midgar to join SOLDIER and become strong like Sephiroth. (Secretly, he wanted to join so that Tifa would notice him). She made him promise that when he was a famous hero, and she was ever
in trouble, he would come save her.
5 years later, during the mission to Nibelheim, Cloud didn't return to Nibelheim. Not to Tifa's recollection anyway. The SOLDIERS who did
arrive were Sephiroth, and another man, Zack -- the ones who were in the picture with Tifa in front of the Shinra Mansion.
Tifa guided them up the mountain to the reactor. A guard kept her from going in since it held so many Shinra secrets. That guard was Cloud. He had been watching her the whole time,
embarrassed to tell her that he failed in his dream. In the reactor, Sephiroth and Zack found out about Shinra's expiriments and Sephiroth began to believe that he was one of them.
He went crazy...