Various Hints

How to get cloud (I haven't tried this one yet)
When you are in the missile base [note you must have Irvine and Zell on your team. Once you are in the missile base and you get all the way to the computer room know matter how well you done you will fight these soldiers. Draw off the red soldier not the blue ones it will be a question mark. once you get up to the top, and you fight that blue MRV you will have to use the drawn magic on it, once you beaten it you will get a buster sword. Later on go to Odin's place and use the buster sword on him when you use it, it will help at the end in disc three when Seifer chops Odin in half instead of getting Gilgamesh you will get Cloud.

The ex Balamb Pupil:
The Ex-Balamb Pupil can help to eradicate rules as he only uses the one rule. He can be found at the docks at Balamb Town fishing after the occupation.

How to attack every time with a limit attack:
First thing, during a battle, keep a character in "yellow", then when it's time to attack press the circle button till you get the "special attack option".

How to kill the T-rex with just one shot:
Make junction with "death" magic to the status attack.

Hint:
Haste isn't the best spell for speed. 100 Triples will boost it quite a lot more than Haste. In my game Squall kills something and his turn comes up again before it hits the ground.

Solomon Ring:
In order to use the "Solomon Ring" you must have these items: x6 Steel Pipes, x6 Remedy+`s, & x6 Marlboro Tentacles....this item releases GF Doomtrain.

If your forgot to Draw the GF`s from the earlier battles in the game you can get another chance, if you want to complete your guardians like I did:

Locations: Ultimecia Castle-Bosses
1.Siren=Tri Point
2.Leviathan=Trauma
3.Pandemona=Red Giant
4.Carbuncle=Krysta
5.Cerberus=Gargantua
6.Alexander=Catoblepas
7.Eden=Tiamat

Other GF's:
1. Odin: Disc 3 & 4,in 20:00mins;Randomly appears-Non-Boss
2. Phoenix: Phoenix Pinion-Use item wisely; appears to auto Revive all characters
3. Boko the Chocobo: Solve at least on of the Chocobo puzzles,& use GysahiGreen
4. Minimog: GF Ability; Minimog Amulet....each time you use Minimog it uses gil;20 2000gil,and the price rises with your level
5. Moomba: You can call upon moomba using the Friendship Item
6. Gilgamesh: Near End of Disc 3;will appear once Odin Dies ;Gilgamesh is a Boss Battle GF; you just can't control him. Random Attacks

Gilgamesh's Attacks:
1. Zantetsuken - Cuts all enemies in half; resulting in Death
2. Excaliber - Strong attack against all enemies
3. Excalipoor - Causes 1 point of damage to each enemy
4. Masamune - Extremely Strong attack against All Enemies

Cactuar Island hint:
You know that little sand island, out to the Southeast, called Cactuar Island? Make sure that when you go to him, all your characters are junctioned with water to give you an added advantage. Also make sure Leviathan is level 50+ his water attack will cause 9,999HP damage. Plus put the ability RECOVER & REVIVE on the character not using Leviathan. Also make sure at the beginning of the battle to cast haste on all your characters, you must finish this GF off quickly or else he runs away and you must start over. One other thing this is also a good place to build up your GF's the Cactuar, on this Island give you 20AP so after 10 battles you make up to 200AP.

Hint:
When you beat Omega Weapon, don't go to the Last Boss with Ultimecia. Instead go to you character options and select "Proof that Omega Weapon Exists". When you click on it, it will give you a recent background info on the creature that tells you how to beat it easier next time.

No Death at end:
Equip auto-potion to Irvine and make sure you have enough final limit break Aim, have plenty of x-potions (no other potions). At the end when fighting Ultimecia, her final form you will be reduced to 1 but you will use auto-potion immediatly, but right before you use auto potion keep hitting Circle repeatedly and you will get your limit break up and then get 100 % health. Keep shooting her until it reaches zero then repeat on next turn, you are bound to win.

No Random Encounters:
There is a way to not fight any monsters on the world map besides using Diablos' encounter-none ability. If you walk on a road or train tracks, you won't have to fight any enemies. This is handy early on in the game when your HP is low and need to get to Balamb Garden or Balamb.

Kill the zombie with one hit:
When you go to negotiate with the president (disc 1) use a GF on him in human form and when he changes use Phoenix down (by clicking on phonix down and when the people screen comes up press left) Then he should automatically be dead.

Fast Magic:
To use triple very early on in a fight , junction Cerberus to someone with the initiative ability, use Cerberus right away. now you can use magic x3 the whole fight!

Secret G.F:
After receiving Ragnarok go to the bottom left of the screen. There should be a base there if you defeat the boss (Bahamut) you will get him he will come on your side. After Bahamut go father into the base and you will fight Ultima Weapon draw "Eden" from him.

G.F. Boost:
If you have a GF who has learned "Boost", this trick will work. While your GF is about to appear on the screen, hold down "Select" and you should see a hand pointing a finger on the "Square" button and a number next to it. Keep holding "Select" and rapidly hit "Square" This will raise that number which means more damage to the enemy. But make sure you stop when an X appears over the hand. If you don't, the number will start back at the beginning. Wait for the X to go away and repeat the process. The higher the number reached, the more damage will be caused.

Dancing soldiers:
At the missile base near the beginning of Disc 2 there is a way to mess around with the missile control. At the missile control panel, after setting up the error ratio, go to equipment. Press and hold Square and Triangle then press up or down to get a dancing elite guard or a normal one.

Infinite Items with a Pocketstation:
If you have Final Fantasy 8(US), a Pocketstation and a Memorycard, you can use the Pocketstation game Chocobo World to get Infinite Items. Just do the following:

1. Download the Chocobo World game from Final Fantasy 8 onto your Pocketstation, (Downloaded after you have caught a Chocobo.)

2. Start playing through Chocobo World, collecting as many items as you can.

3. Once you have the items you want plug the Pocketstation and the Sony Memory card into your Playstation, go to the internal memory card manager and save Chocobo World into the Sony Memory card (Warning: it takes 7 blocks of memory to store)

4. Start playing your Final Fantasy 8 game with the file that you have caught a chocobo with, go to the game menu and choose , get to the menu. You can then transfer the items into your FF8 game, choose the option to take Boco(the character you play Chocobo World with) home, which also lets you transfer all the items you have collected in the Pocketstation game into the Final Fantasy 8 game, and then choose the option to send Boco into the Pocketstation game again. NOW, get to the option on the Final Fantasy 8 game to see all the item you got from the Pocketstation.

5. Now comes the Infinite Item part of this cheat. Get to the Memorycard Menu again, but this time copy the Chocobo World files that are inside the Sony Memorycard back into your Pocketstation, and then do step 4 (transferring items into FF8) over and over again to, finally, get Infinite Items.

Note : you can do this to get 16 or more MiniMog abilities for all your G.F.s to use, just find MiniMog inside the Pocketstation game and then just do the transferring cheat mentioned again to do it over and over.

Easy Card Games:
Want to play any card game without those ugly rules you hate so much? Then don't spread them! By playing a card game with somebody that says they want to play with combined rules, and you accept, the rules will spread. To avoid this, when they ask you to play with combined rules, say NO. Keep saying no until they agree to play with just the regular rules by just saying "wanna play" or whatever they say.

Easy Life Restoration:
As soon as you have Status-Attack-Junction, get 100 Drains and junction them to whoever has the ability. Depending on how much damage you do, you will be healed if you hit the opponent!

Limit Breaks

Squall Leonhart= Renzokuken
Rinoa Heartilly= Combine
Quistis Trepe= Blue Magic
Zell Dincht= Duel
Selphie Tilmitt= Slot
Irvine Kinneas= Shot
Laguna Loire= Desperado
Kiros Seagill= Blood Pain
Ward Zabac= Heavy Anchor
Seifer Almasy= Fire Cross
Edea= Ice Strike

Ultimate Weapons:
These weapons are the characters strongest.

Squall Leonhart=Lion Heart
Rinoa Heartilly=Shooting Star
Zell Dincht=Ehrgeiz
Selphie Tilmitt=Strange Vision
Irvine Kinneas=Exeter

Some Rare Cards

G.F. Locations

1st Disk:
Quezacotl:
SeeD CPU, Squalls personal CPU at the beginning, select Tutorial

Shiva:
SeeD CPU, Squalls personal CPU at the beginning, select Tutorial

Ifrit:
Fire Cave, you have to fight him.

Siren:
Draw from Elvoret after you fight Biggs and Wedge

Brothers:
From Labyrinth, defeat both Brothers.

Diablo:
From magic lamp Cid gives you, don't forget this! Get it before you leave the Balamb!

Carbunkle:
Draw from one of the Schumerkes (Iguions) while protecting Rinoa

2nd Disk:
Leviathan:
Draw from controller (NORG) of Balamb Garden

Pandemona:
Draw from Fujin, that magic using sidekick for Seifer

Cerberus:
Defeat him in the other Garden

Alexander:
Draw from Edea at the end of disk 2 after you defeat Seifer.

3rd disk:
Grashaboras (DoomTrain):
Obtain 6 Remedies, 6 Marlboro Tentacles, 6 Iron Pipes and Solomon's Ring, then use Solomon's Ring.

Bahamut:
Defeat Bahamut in the Underwater Research Facility (Southwest part of map, not on it)

Sabotendar (Cactuar):
Sabotendar can be found on Cactuar Island. You can find this island southeast the Setora Ruins. Once you arrive you'll notice a small cactaur running around. Make contact to initiate the battle

Tonberry:
After obtaining Odin, go to the main square and fight 20 tonberrys and the Tonberry King.

Eden:
Deeper in the Underwater Research Facility

Odin:
fight Odin in the Centra Ruins. He comes randomly to attack enemies. Chances of him coming out is determined by your Luck.

Kochocobo:
In any Chocobo Forest, catch or pay for a chocobo and name him. You need to use greens during a battle. You can level him up with a Pocket Playstation.

Phoenix:
Shumi Village. Get item, use in battle. Warning! You can only use it once! He comes back in same battle once and a while.

Moogle:
Use Item Moogle Bell

PC Downloads

Note: These files were borrowed from the Adrenaline Vault. I'd upload the files myself, but I don't have that much space and The Adrenaline Vault is a great source for codes.

Final Fantasy VIII Save Utility - This utility lets you save anywhere in FF8 for the PC.

Final Fantasy 8 Character Editor - The same character editor from FF7, but it now edits FF8 characters.

Final Fantasy 8 Money Trainer - This trainer speaks for itself, it gives you money.

Another FF8 Trainer - Yet another FF8 trainer.

Final Fantasy VIII Patch - This patch fixes various problems, check the page out for more info.