Walk-thru - Tricks
This is an unofficial walk-thru of the game. Here you will find a way to defeat the game as well as some tips, cheats and other helpful matters that will help you as you play Final Fantasy VII.

Key To the City
Do you want to go back into Midgar so you can visit the Wall Market and get Tifa’s Ultimate Weapon and talk to some old friends? Well all you have to do is go talk to the site foreman at Bone Village and tell him you want normal treasure. When you set up your hired hands they should point at the key to enter Midgar. If you get another item instead, then try again. Wait until you get the Highwind to try this. Now you can get Tifa’s Ultimate Weapon in that little item shack in the Wall Market.

The Backroom
In the general store at Cosmo Canyon, there is a path that is roped off when the team first arrives. Go back there on the second or third disk of the game and you will be able to go into the back room. There you can collect an Elixir, Magic Source, and the amazing "Full Cure" materia!

Lucrecia’s Cave
After acquiring the submarine or a gold chocobo (refer to the chocobo section) you can reach Lucrecia’s Cave. It is located In the Nibel area in a lagoon. You must walk behind the waterfall. The lagoon is surrounded by mountains so you can run over them with a gold, black, or green chocobo. To use the submarine you must find an underwater passage slightly north of the Gold Saucer. Then surface at the other end and get off the submarine at the rocky ledge and walk under the waterfall. Then you can visit Lucrecia (if Vincent is in your party). Later, revisit and you will collect Vincent’s Ultimate Weapon and Level 4 Limit Break. Also, you will find out find out how Vincent fits into the story, since you don’t know anything about him

Sleeping Old Man
Directly East of Junon is a cave only accessible by using a buggy, the Highwind, or a gold, black, or blue chocobo. Inside, a sleeping man tells you your statistics. They are how many times you’ve battled, How many times you’ve escaped and also hints about the concept of master materia. You must find out how many times you’ve battled. If he says a different statistic then leave and come back in. You must make it so that the last two digits of the amount of times you’ve battled is the same number. For example: 588 battles, 1244 battles, If you only need a couple more battles leave and fight right outside his cave. When you have the right amount of battles talk to him and he will wake up. He might give you a bolt ring, but if you are lucky he will give you Mythri l. Bring this to the Weapon Seller East of Gongaga Village. When you give the Mythril to him he will let you choose a large or a small box. For Aeris’s Ultimate Limit Break go upstairs and open the small box. For a Gold Armlet choose the big box at the bottom right of his house.

Crashed Gelnika
If you use your submarine and follow the West Shore underwater, then you will find the Crashed Gelnika. When you enter you can collect many GREAT items. If you have not re-entered Midgar via parachuting, you will run into Reno and Rude. Also there are many tough, bizarre creatures so save frequently. Be careful when entering and exiting this place because Emerald Weapon might be hanging out near by.

Tropical Getaway
At Costa del Sol there is a real estate agent selling President Shinra’s old vacation home for the low price of 300,000 gil. You don’t need to buy it, but if you do you can rest there

Turtles Paradise Flyers
In Wutai, the building at the bottom left corner of the screen is having a contest. You must find the posters they spread around the world. You just have to read them. Their locations are:
Flyer #1- In sector 5 of Midgar, in the house up in the boy’s room there is a poster on the far wall from his bed.
Flyer #2- In Shinra Headquarters, on the bulletin board in the back of the first floor lobby. You must get this on one of your two trips to Shinra H.Q.
Flyer #3- In the Ghost Hotel at the Gold Saucer, near the lobby entrance.
Flyer #4- Next to the Weapons Shop in Cosmo Canyon.
Flyer #5- Next to the Cosmo Canyon Innkeepers desk.
Flyer #6- In Yuffie’s basement near the staircase.
You must then go to the Turtles Paradise and read the sign outside the shop. Talk to the man behind the bar inside and he will give you 1 of every source (power source, etc.) and a megalixir.

All Lucky 7’s
Any character who’s hit points are reduced to 7777 after an attack goes mad and starts consistently attacking with 7777 points of damage! At the end of the battle the characters hit points is reduced to 1 hit point so it does not carry over to the next battle. Althouh it is possible to start a battle with lucky 7's you start with 7777 hit points.

Ancient Forest
This is just east of Cosmo Canyon on a mountain. The only way to access it is if you defeat Ultimate Weapon or use a Green, Black, or Gold chocobo. You must place bugs, frogs, beehives, etc. in different places to access different areas. Figure out different ways to use the insects and other objects.

Ultimate Weapon
Near the end of disk two and on disk three you can chase down Ultimate Weapon and battle him. He will be hovering over the lake near Junon when you first confront him. It will be an easy battle if you equip yourself. After he takes some damage he will run away. As soon as you are done fighting, quickly look around to see which way Weapon goes and follow him (with the Highwind). If you bump into him, you will take no damage, and Weapon will find a new place to go. Bump him five or six times and then just follow him to a new place and ram him once he stops. His last place to fight will be over Cosmo Canyon. Here he will fight to the death, and when you beat him, you can access the Ancient Forest.

Kalm Traveler
In the rightmost building in Kalm there is a man upstairs who is willing to give a prize to whoever can get him a guidebook, the Desert Rose, or an Earth Harp. To get a guidebook go to the underwater reactor in Junon and find a Ghost ship enemy in the underwater aquarium type passage. Morph him with the Morph materia you get in the temple of the Ancients and he will turn into a guidebook. Bring it to the Kalm Traveler and he will give you underwater materia. Now equip the underwater materia and fight Emerald Weapon. He will give you an Earth Harp when you defeat him. Trade it with the Kalm traveler for master summon, master magic, and master command materia! Then defeat Ruby Weapon and you will receive the Desert Rose. Bring this to the Kalm Traveler and he will give you a Gold Chocobo.

Da-Chao Fire Cave
In Wutai at Da-Chao, there is a cave with some items, except it’s a raging inferno. If you got the Leviathan Scales at the Underwater Reactor then you can put out these flames and get all the cool stuff.

Gil Exchange
At the gate of the Gold Saucer (where you pay admission) there is sometimes a man in the back who is selling GP. It is 100 gil for 1 GP, and the most GP you can by is 100 GP. This will cost 10,000 gil, so it is your decision how much you buy.

SECRET CINEMA
This explains how Cloud showed up in Midgar with Zack's sword. Visit the Shinra Mansion after Cloud finds himself.

Fort Condor Battles
Except for the one Fort Condor Battle you must fight in the game, the rest are totally optional. The best way to do it is to let your attackers and fighters move down to the bottom of the screen as the battle begins, and overwhelm your enemy. Their commander may not even come out. Each time you win a battle the guy upstairs will give you an item that he found. Don’t worry though, if the bad guys overwhelm your good guys, then you just have to fight their commander using your characters, which is very easy; you just won’t get the item.

Save Icons
PlayStation owners will notice whenever they view their saved games on the console's memory card manager, they'll see the faces of certain FFVII characters.

How are the faces determined? They correspond to the slot location of each particular saved game. Listed below are the slot locations and their corresponding face icon.

1. Slot 1: Cloud Strife
2. Slot 2: Barret Wallace
3. Slot 3: Aeris Gainsborough
4. Slot 4: Cait Sith
5. Slot 5: Red XIII
6. Slot 6: Cid Highwind
7. Slot 7: Tifa Lockheart
8. Slot 8: Vincent Valentine
9. Slot 9: Yuffie Kisaragi
10. Slot 10: Rufus
11. Slot 11: Tseng
12. Slot 12: Priscilla
13. Slot 13: Rude
14. Slot 14: Dyne
15. Slot 15: Sephiroth