Side Quests
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Shumi Village
Available on Disc 2 When Garden Is Mobile
Easy difficulty, Fair Rewards
Unavailable on Disc 4
- Visit the Sculptors Workshop at the end of the village
- Speak with the Vilage Elder
- Assit the Scultor in the Workshop
- Revisit the Village Elder to get your reward
- Exit the village, and then go to the Workshop and talk to the Elder's Attendant
- Go to the Elder's house and talk to the Elder
- Talk to the Moomba outside of the Elder's house
- Follow the Moomba back to the Workshop and speak with the Elder's Assistant
- Go to the Elder's house and speak with the Elder
- Return to the Workshop and speak with the Attendant
- Step next door to the Artisan's house and speak with the Artisan
- Go to the Elder's house and talk to the Elder
- Travel to Fisherman's Horizon and speak to the Grease Monkey
- Return to Shumi Village and give the Moomba Doll to the Artisan
- Speak with the Eder to receive the Status Guard
Here are the locations of the stones you will need to find:
Blue Stone- To the left of the statue
Wind Stone- Head back towards the elevator and its to the left of the Hotel. Look at the large boulder and Squall will notice a breeze coming from the stone
Life Stone- In the tree roots to the right of the Elder's house
Shadow Stone- Return to the surface with the elevator and go down the steps. Search to the right in a large shadow that overlaps the shadows cast by the dome overhead
Water Stone- In the Artisan's house
YOUR REWARD- A Phoenix Pinion which once you use a Phoenix will come to your rescue. Once it is used, it will randomly appear for the rest of the game when all of your party members are dead. Status Guard allows you to teach a GF ST-Def-J x4, which is awesome and can help protect you from status effects.
Winhill(Vase Quest)
Available on Disc 2 When Garden Is Mobile
Easy difficulty, Fair rewards
Unavailable on Disc 4
Visit the large mansion at the end of Winhill. The man inside will ask you to locate the vase pieces. Here are their locations:
- The suit of armor in the mansion
- The old lady's house in the middle of town, check the withe flowers on the bottom of the screen
- Chocobo crossing, pop up a chicobo into the air (you can also get a Phoenix Pinion and a Gysahl Green from the chicobos)
- Speak with the lady in Raine's house until she mentions the aroma of the flowers, go downstairs and look at the table in the bottom-right corner of the screen and look at the flowers, a ghost will appear behind the bar, talk with the ghost and then inspect the cat
YOUR REWARD- Holy Stone that casts holy, and Phonenix Pinion and Gysahl Greens from Crossing (see above)
Timber(Save The Girl)
Available on Disc 2 When Garden Is Mobile
Easy difficulty, Weak rewards
Unavailable on Disc 4
Go to Timber and save the girl from the oncoming train near the Dollet station.
YOUR REWARD- Free night stay at hotel that allows you to pick up a compy of Timber Maniacs in your room.
Dollet
Available on Disc 2 When Garden Is Mobile
Easy difficulty, Fair rewards
Unavailable on Disc 4
Cool things to do in Dollet:
- Visit the local pub and head upstaris to the blackjack tables. There is a copy of Timber Maniacs on one of the tables.
- If you beat the manager in the pub in a card game he will allow you into the private room and give you 5 Geezard Cards, 4 Red Bat Cards, 3 Buel Cards, 2 Anacondaur Cards, and 1 Cactaur Card. You can alsoo find a copy of Occult Fan II hidden in the magazine stacks along with some other stuff. If you play the manager enough times you can win the Siren Card.
- Down the street from the pub you can find a home of an artisit with a messed up chiuld. Listen in on their conversation and check out the painting. Follow the artist to the beach and speak with him and the girl with him. Then go and examine the painting again. Go to the section of Dollet it shows on the bone. Examine the dogs collar you will find a Potion, a Phoenix Down, and a Soft. If this is done on Disc 3 you can find a Potion, a Mega-Potion, and an Elixir
YOUR REWARD- see above
Deling City(Cards)
Available on Disc 2 When Garden Is Mobile
Easy difficulty, Fair rewards
Unavailable on Disc 4
Go to Rinoa's fathers house and play cards with General Calaway. You have to lose your Ifrit card to him, so when that is one of your random cards, lose intentionally. This may take a while, depending on your cards. When I did this I already had 5 hero cards, so it was hard to lose. Once you lose it to him, you can play him and he will use Rinoa's Card. Win it from him. If you want to get your Ifrit back, go to Fisherman's Horizon and play against Martine. He has lots of good cards, so be careful.
YOUR REWARD- Rinoa Card
Alien Encounter
Available on Disc 3 With Ragnarok
Medium difficulty, Good rewards
Never Unavailable
You must find the aliens at four places:
- Winhill Bluffs
- Mandy Beach, south of Timber
- Kashkabald Desert, located on an island of the east side of the Centra Ruins
- Trabia Health Penninsula, easy of Trabia garden
When you go to these places, turn on Enc-None. Then when you get into battle the alien will flash by and then you go to the next stop. After seeing all four, go to the plateau just norht of Grandidi Fores'ts Chocobo Forest. You will encounter the alien, but you will fight it this time. Its easy.
Next go to the area where Balamb Garden used to be. You will encounter the alein PuPu. Feed it five elixirs and it will give you a card of itself. Then fight PuPu and win the Accelerator.
YOUR REWARD- Aegis Armlet which you can teach Eva-J ability to one of your GFs, PuPu Card, Accelerator which you can teach one of your GFs Auto-Haste with
Challenge CC Group Members
Available on Disc 3
Medium difficulty, Good rewards
Unavailable on Disc 4
First, you must make sure you have played a olot of cards at Balamb Garden. You can only challenge them if you are well know. You need to win about 15 games first. Here is each of the members and their locations (you must defeat them in this order, they get harder as you go on):
- Jack- Located in the hallway near the directory. Tends to enter from botton of the screen on either side of the divider. Has no rare cards.
- Club- Located in the hallway near the entrance to the Cafeteria. Appears randomly and is often hard to find. Has no rare cards.
- Diamond- Located in front of the directory. Have no rare cards (Diamond is actually two female students)
- Spade- Located on the second floor near the elevator. Is one of the two people who normally hang out there. Has no rare cards.
- Heart- Located on the bridge. It is Xu and she has the rare Carbuncle Card.
- Joker- Located inside the training center. Appears randomly. Has the rare Leviathan Card and will upgrade your Battle Meter to include GF info as well if you beat him. You can actually play him anytime after you beat Jack.
- King- Speak with Nida on the bridge and then go to the infirmary and challenge Dr. Kadowaki to a game. She suggests you go find King. Go take a nap in your room and King will appear while you are resting. King has the rare Gilgamesh Card.
YOUR REWARD- The rare Carbuncle, Leviathan, and Gilgamesh Cards.
Queen Of Cards
Available on Disc 3 (with Ragnarok)
Hard difficulty, Great rewards
Unavailable on Disc 4
At the beginning of the game, you can find the Queen Of Cards (QoC) in Balamb near Balamb Station. Once you either win/lose a rare card from/to her, she will give you a hint as to her next destination. She is in the following 8 places: Balamb, Shumi Village, Dollet, Deling City, Winhill, Esthar, Fisherman's Horizon, and Lunar Gate.
The quest begins in Dollet. When speaking normailly with her, you will notice a 4th option here "About your artist father," that you can select. When you chose this, she will ask you for the MiniMog Card. You must lose this card to her in a game. Then her father will create a new card that you can find elsewhere. After giving her that card she moves to another region. If you chase her around the world again until she gets back to Dollet, you can lose to her the next card she wants and so on until you get all of the rare cards. You can retreive any of these cards you lost fom her little brother in Dollet. He is the child living with the artist one screen down from the pub. As soon as you give any of the cards the QoC wants, they will be placed in the boy's inventory. Any other cards lost to her will be have to won back from her normally. Here are some things to help you out.
Queen Card Says | She's Going To
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Galbadia | The Galbadia Hotel in Deling City
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Fisherman's Horizon | On train tracks in Fisherman's Horizon
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Esthar | Presidential Palace in Esthar
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Trabia | Hotel in Shumi Village
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Centra | Hotel in Winhill
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Dollet | Pub in Dollet
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Balamb | Balamb Station in Balamb
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Far Away | Lunar Gate's Concourse Area
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Card Given | Card Created | Where to find New Card
MiniMog | Kiros | Deling City (Man in black across from Junk Shop)
| Sacred | Irvine | Fisherman's Horizon (Flo, wife of Mayor Dobe)
| Alexander | Doomtrain | Timber (Pub's owner behind right counter)
| Doomtrain | Phoenix | Esthar (Presidential Assitant in blue in Palace)
| Chicobo | Chubby Chicobo | Balamb Garden (Student sitting on bench outside Library)
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YOUR REWARD- The rare Kiros, Irvine, Phoenix, Chubby Chicobo, and Doomtrain Cards
Note: On Disc 4 you can play her and win all the cards you can win from doing this quest. But on Disc 4 it really serves no purpose except for card mod. It also takes all the fun and challenge out of it.