GF 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 caused.
Submitted by Russell Lee

GF Locations
In FF8 there are 22 Guardian Forces (and quasi-GFs) you should get.They are:

• QUETZALCOTL: From Squalls computer in the classroom at the beginning of the game.

• SHIVA: From Squalls computer in the classroom at the beginning of the game

• IFRIT: Defeat him in the Fire Cavern outside Balamb Garden as part of the test

• SIREN: Draw from the boss at the top of Dollet Satelite during the Exam

• BROTHERS: Defeat them in The "Tomb of the Unkown King" outside Deling.

• DIABLOS: Summon him using the Magic Lamp given to you by Cid after completing your Exam. After Summoning him you must defeat him. He is VERY difficult. Save before you fight him.

• CARBUNCLE: Draw from Gargoyle/Lizard bosses in Deling during Parade.

• LEVIATHAN: Draw from NORG in Balamb Garden. Make sure you draw from NORG and not the pods.

• PANDEMONA: Draw from Fuujiin in Balamb Town.

• CERBERUS: Fight and Defeat him in Galbadia Garden.

• ALEXANDER: Draw from Edea at the end of Disc 2.

• DOOMTRAIN: Get Item "Solomons Ring" from Tears Point before Lunatic Pandora is summoned. (A good time to get this Item is right before when you are supposed to meet Dr. Odine at the Launch Pad). Once getting this item "Mug" Marlboros outside the Sorceress Shrine until you have 6 Marlboro Tentacles (Marlboros are also at the Island Closest to Heaven) Then buy 60 Remedies and use Alexanders "Med Lev Up" Skill to make 6 Remedy+'s. Next you need 6 Iron Pipes. These can be "Mug"ed from the Yellow/Green Monkey enemy outside Deling. If you don't have these and you can't get back to Deling you may have to wait until after you have the Ragnarok to get them. After getting all the Items (6x Remedy+'s, 6x Iron Pipes, 6x Marlboro Tentacles and 1x Solomon Ring) use the Solomon Ring from the Item Menu and you will receive DOOMTRAIN.

• BAHAMUT: Defeat him at the Galbadia Underground Research Facility. It is located in the South-West corner of the map. It is in the middle of the Ocean. To fight him you must talk to machine (Walk when the light is off) then pick the first answer for the first question, second answer for the second and the third answer (It's hidden) for the third question. You will then fight Bahamut.

• CACTUAR: Fly to Cactuar Island in the South-East section of the world and run into the giant Cactus that you see going up and down. You must then defeat Giant Cactuar.

• TONBERRY: Go to the Centra Ruins (After recieving Odin, see below) and fight 20 Tonberries. After defeating the 20th (or so) the King Tonberry will come. Defeat him and Tonberry will join your team.

• EDEN: Draw from Ultima Weapon in Galbadia Underground research Facility. To get to Ultima you must defeat Bahamut first (see above)

• CHOCOBO: Catch and name a Chocobo then use Item Gysahl Greens during Battle

• PHOENIX: Use Item Phoenix Pinion during battle.

• ODIN: Defeat him in Centra Ruins. Appears randomly at the beginning of battles.

• GILGAMESH: Receive Odin before the end of Disc 3 and Seifer will kill him. Gilgamesh then show up to replace him.

• MINIMOG: (POCKETSTATION NEEDED) Receive Minimog during "Chocobo Adventure" PocketStation Minigame.

• MUMBA: (POCKETSTATION NEEDED) Defeat "Chocobo Adventure" PocketStation Minigame

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 Memorycard into your Playstation, go to the internal memory card manager and save Chocobo World into the Sony Memorycard (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.

Quicker Attack Bar
Go to the screen with Junctions, Items, and save, But those you don't want, you want to go to the cofiguation screen(Down at bottom of Icon screen). When you get to this screen you will see some blue lines make all of them read fast. After doing so go fight a battle and the little line for your attacks will be super fast and so will your GFs lines.

Quicker Limit Breaks
When your health is low you will not always get a limit break. To ensure that you do wait for the target character's turn and hit O repeativly. This should ensure the Limit Break activation.

Rare Card Locations

• Debuchocobo = The guy sitting on the bench in front of the Balamb Garden Libary.
• Angelo = From Watts of the Forest Owls.
• Gilgamesh = From Card Club's King.
• Komoguri = From the little boy in a blue shirt running around Balamb
• Garden's hall.
• Quetzocohuatl = Fisherman Horizon's male station master (2nd floor in the station house).
• Shiva = Obtained from Zoon after giving him 'Tonari no Kanojo".
• Ifrit = After defeating Ifrit.
• Siren = 2nd floor of Dollet's pub Walk east to battle card master
• Minotaur = After defeating Brothers.
• Pandemonium = From the man standing in front of Balamb hotel.
• Alexander = From Piet at Luna Base
• Ward = From Doctor Odain in Esthar.
• Kiros = From the man in black in Derring city.
• Laguna = From Elone in the Lunaside Base.
• Selphie = From Selphie's friend in Travia garden.
• Quistis = From FC member #2 in the lecture room you first start out in.
• Irvine = From the female station master of F.H.
• Zell = From Zell's mother in Balamb.
• Rinoa = From Rinoa's father in Derring City.You must lose Ifrit card to him
• to win the Rinoa card.
• Ifrit = When you beat him in the fire cave then after you lose him to Rinio's Father you will get him from Dodona in F.H.(the guy sitting near the station house)
• Edea = From Edea at Edea's house.
• Seifer = From Cid at Edea's house or during MD system event.
• Squall = From Laguna in the Esthar Presidential Building.

SeeD Test Answers
After you become a SeeD you can take the SeeD test to raise your SeeD level. The test can either be taken on the computer in the classroom in Balamb Garden or in the HELP menu.

Test   Answers
1      Y, N, Y, Y, Y, N, N, Y, N, N  
2      Y, N, Y, Y, Y, N, Y, Y, N, N  
3      N, N, Y, N, Y, Y, Y, N, Y, N  
4      N, Y, Y, Y, N, N, Y, Y, N, N  
5      N, N, N, Y, Y, N, N, Y, Y, Y  
6      Y, N, Y, Y, N, N, Y, Y, N, Y  
7      Y, Y, Y, Y, Y, Y, N, Y, Y, N  
8      N, Y, N, N, Y, Y, N, N, Y, N  
9      N, Y, N, N, N, N, N, N, Y, Y  
10     Y, N, N, N, N, N, N, N, Y, N  
11     Y, Y, N, Y, Y, N, Y, N, N, Y  
12     N, Y, N, N, Y, N, Y, N, Y, N  
13     Y, N, N, N, Y, N, N, N, N, N  
14     Y, Y, Y, Y, N, Y, Y, N, Y, N  
15     Y, Y, N, N, N, N, N, Y, N, Y  
16     Y, N, N, Y, N, Y, N, N, Y, N  
17     Y, N, N, N, Y, N, N, Y, N, N  
18     Y, N, N, N, Y, N, N, N, N, N  
19     Y, N, N, Y, N, N, N, N, N, Y  
20     Y, Y, N, Y, N, Y, Y, Y, N, N  
21     Y, Y, Y, Y, N, N, Y, Y, Y, N  
22     N, N, N, Y, N, N, N, Y, Y, N  
23     Y, N, N, N, N, Y, Y, Y, Y, Y  
24     Y, Y, N, N, Y, Y, N, N, N, Y  
25     Y, N, Y, Y, Y, N, N, Y, N, N  
26     Y, Y, N, Y, N, Y, N, Y, N, N  
27     N, Y, N, N, N, N, Y, N, Y, N  
28     Y, N, N, Y, Y, Y, N, Y, N, N  
29     N, N, N, Y, Y, N, N, N, Y, N  
30     N, Y, N, N, N, N, Y, N, N, N  

The Balamb Card Club Group
The card Club group is a group of people from balamb garden who play cards. you can get rare cards from some of them. This is the order you must beat them in and their location. They appear later in the game.

1)Jack-Hanging around the location board in the main hall. (he'll tell you
who he is).

2)Crab-He walks out of the car park area

3)Diamond-2 girls walking toward the location board in the main hall. (wait
for them to stop)

4)Spade-the guy next to the 2nd floor elevator.(gives you cards in the
begining of the game if you asked him).

5)Heart-Shuu in Garden control room (get carbuncle card from her).

6)King-Talk to doctor Kadowaki in the infirmary and then go to your room
and sleep.he will appear and challange you.

7)Joker- he is in the training center near the draw point & the bridges.
appears randomly. (get levitan from him)