Disc 1

You begin the game with a stunning FMV.  After it, you'll be controlling Zidane in a dark room.  Walk to the back of the room, and when you see a "!" on his head, press X to receive a potion.  Proceed to light up the candle in the room.  Your teammates, Blank, Marcus, and Cinna, will greet Zidane, and you will be asked to name him.  I'll refer to him by his default name in this walkthrough.  Once you name him, a strange looking dragon smashes into the room and challenges you to a very easy fight.

Gotta love that battle music!  For this fight, keep having everyone steal until you get a Wrist and the Mage Masher.  Proceed to attack it.  Once you do enough damage, the dragon's head will split and it'll turn out to be your boss, Baku!

Baku will invite everyone to the conference room and he'll go over the plans for your mission.  You need to find and rescue Princess Garnet.  When he asks you a question, you can choose wrong "That's when I kidnap Queen Brahme, right?" for a very hilarious answer.  If you do this 64 times, Ruby comes into the room and calls Zidane a "stubborn mule".  Anyway, choose the right answer, "That's when I kidnap Princess Garnet, right?"

Alexandria

Enjoy the FMV.  You should now be controlling a black mage in Alexandria.  Try not to touch the running kids.  If you walk into the store on your right, you can receive a Fang Card and a Potion.  For now, keep running up until you see the ticket booth.

Show the man your ticket.  He'll see that it's a fake!  For your misery, though, you'll receive a few cards.  You may go back to the booth and ask him a few more questions if you want.

If you want to get some extra items, keep walking all over town, and press X whenever you see a "!" over your character's head.  After you do that, head left.

A man will mess up on posting up a sign.  A rat kid will come and ask you to be his slave.  Be sure to accept.  When he asks you if the coast is clear, answer yes and follow him.  The rat kid will lead you into a church.

On the church, press X when you see the "!" over the ladder, and you'll be smashed by a Moogle.  You may talk to the Moogle to save your game and use the Mognet.  After you're done, climb up the ladder.

Keep following Puck, the rat kid, and eventually you'll be asked to name yourself.  The default name is Vivi.

Now watch even more FMV's.  The large quantity of FMV's make FFIX considerably shorter than other games, by the way.  You'll see Puck and Vivi sneaking into the play.  Watch the knight's strange reaction when he sees Garnet begin to bow low and look sleepy.  You'll also be introduced to Queen Brahme.

Anyway, Baku will introduce everyone to the play you'll be performing, "I Want To Be Your Canary".  Zidane, Cinna(maybe Marcus, I forgot), and Blank will go off to fight the King, who is played by Baku.  For this battle, you may wish to use the SFX(special effects) commands, but be aware that they'll do no damage.  You should take out the King's guards first before squaring off with him.  Once he's defeated, he'll run off, but Zidane will be blocked by Blank.  Pay close attention to what Blank says, "If all were so easy, none would suffer in this world!".  It is repeated a few times throughout the entire game.  Eventually, Blank and Zidane will duel each other in a fun mini game.

In this mini game, you will have to follow Blank's lead in the swordfight.  He'll yell out commands in the form of buttons you need to press.  For some strange reason, speed seems to count more than accuracy.  Even if you follow his directions exactly, if you were slow, then you would get low points.  If you get a few wrong, but were hyper fast, then you would get high points.  The highest score I got was 68 on this.  Expect to get around 40 on your first try.

Once you're done with the mini game, watch the events that transpire.  When you control Zidane and Blank, have them run up the stairs.  You'll meet a cloaked girl on the way.  Choose "Examine Her" for Zidane to extend the conservation.  When she runs off, you'll find out that she is indeed Princess Garnet, and Zidane and Blank will chase after her.

Again, watch the events.  You'll eventually be controlling Steiner.  In this segment, just have him move to the room with the identical staircases and walk downstairs, and down.  Talk to any pluto knight you see.  Once you go outside, head for the left path and keep climbing up the tower until you see Zidane and Garnet.

In this FMV, Garnet will throw herself off the tower, clinging on to a clothesline.  Zidane will follow, and Steiner does too, but will crash along the way.

When you gain control of Zidane, keep pursuing Garnet until you get to talk to her.  Eventually, Cinna will interrupt the two and take you to the conference room.  Have Zidane follow the path until you bump into Steiner.  Steiner will challenge you.  Just keep attacking him.

The rest of the events in Alexandria are pretty easy.  You just need to read the text and fight.  You will fight Steiner twice.  Employ the same strategies and just keep physically attacking him.  Eventually, Zidane, Steiner, and Garnet interrupt the play, but decide to improvise to wrap it all up.  Watch Garnet and Marcus fake their own death at the play.  When Vivi and Puck interrupt, Garnet will take off her cloak, and you'll be under siege by Queen Brahme's cannons.  She'll launch a classic FFIX enemy, the Bomb, at you.

In the last battle against Steiner, you can't even attack the bomb, so just aiming for Steiner.  Eventually, Steiner will notice the bomb, and in yet another series of FMV's, it explodes, causing the ship to crash land in the Evil Forest.

Evil Forest

Watch the events, and a moogle will come and introduce you to Active Time Events.  This is a feature that allows you to see what other characters are doing.  When you see the gauge flash on the lower left portion of the screen, press Select to activate it.  You'll see Vivi and Garnet in a forest.

Anyway, use the Moogle to save, and lead Zidane into the log.  When you catch up with Vivi, you'll see Garnet trapped in a plant monster.  The plant monsters will fight you.

In this battle, you want to kill off the plant, not the princess, as fast as you can.  Use physical attacks on the plant only, and if Garnet's about to die, use a potion on her.

In the next battle, Vivi will be inside the plant.  Employ the same strategies.

The prison cage will self-destruct, causing your whole party to be poisoned, and Garnet is taken away with a plant.  The Prima Vista ship will remedy everyone.  When you regain control of Zidane, talk to Baku, and head down the stairs, viewing every single ATE on the way.  Walk into Vivi's room and speak to him.  Now keep walking around the ship, opening every treasure chest that you can.  When you are presented with a choice, choose "Save Garnet!" or something like that.  Once you walk into the conference room, Baku will challenge you for breaking the rules.  You have to battle him in another mini boss fight.

Be careful during this battle.  You have to keep your HP high, or else you might die.  Be sure to steal the Iron Sword from him.  Use potions, and keep attacking.  When he's defeated, walk into Vivi's and Steiner's room to recruit them, and walk outside to save with the Moogle.

Time to save the Princess!  Remember to equip the best items for all your characters, namely the Mage Masher for Zidane and the Iron Sword for Steiner.  Set your abilities as well.  The forest is very straightforward, and when you come to a healing well, heal yourself, and talk to the Moogle to save.  Use the Mognet feature, by the way.

Eventually, you'll see Garnet on a wall with a huge plant guarding it.  This initiates your first real boss battle...

BOSS FIGHT-Plant Brain
For this battle, have Steiner use his new Swd Mag ability, and use him to cast Fire Sword.  This is a massively damaging attack, and will help you tremendously here.  Use Vivi to heal your party with Potions.  Just have Zidane steal until you get the Iron Helm.  Eventually, Blank will come.  You can have him steal if you like.  Otherwise, just keep attacking, and you'll win.

It's not over yet!  The whole forest comes to attack you in the form of plant spiders, so you need to escape.  In the next FMV, Blank will be caught by the plant spiders and will become petrified, but not before throwing a scroll(the medicine) to Zidane.  Zidane, luckily, will escape.

Watch the next few scenes, and eventually, you'll be on the world map.  Save by pressing Square.  Head South until you see a white cave.

Ice Cavern

First grab the tent in the treasure chest right next to you.  Since this is an ice cavern, Vivi can use his Fire magic to melt away some of the walls.  Whenever you walk next to a wall or something and you see a "!", then press X to see what happens.  There is one treasure I couldn't seem to get here, though.  I think it was on the second screen.

Whenever you see mist blowing around, don't run into it, unless you want to fight a battle with an ice elephant thingy.  Once you get to a fork in the path, take the left path first.  When you emerge, you will see a moogle completely frozen in ice.  Vivi will melt it for you.  In one of the funniest scenes ever, the Moogle says, "You bastards!", but thanks you later.  Use the Moogle to save, mognet, and heal Zidane up to full, because there's a boss battle coming up.

Now take the right path.  When you emerge, there will be a huge blizzard blowing, and everyone will end up falling asleep.  Zidane wakes up first.  Have him walk right until you see what is causing the blizzard.  It turns out to be a winged black mage(much like Vivi) that calls himself Black Waltz No. 1...

BOSS FIGHT-Black Waltz No. 1 and Sealion
You have to be extremely careful in this battle.  Keep your HP above 120 at all times.  Right when you start the battle, keep stealing from Sealion until you get the Mythril Dagger.  When Zidane trances(and it is guaranteed that he will), make sure his HP is above 120 and blast them with a Tidal Flame.  This should take out the Black Waltz immediately.  However, the Sealion will blast you twice in a row with a Tsunami and a Blizzard, which can easily kill you if you didn't keep your health up.  Another Tidal Flame from Zidane should definitely end this battle.

Once they're defeated, return to your comrades, and exit the cavern.

Your party will be on a hill overlooking a small town.  Before you go, though, Garnet decides to change her name to hide her identity.  Her default pseudoname is Dagger.

Once you're on the world map, save first, and head to the town of Dali.

Dali

Everyone will head into the inn right when you enter the town.  Steiner will be angry that Dagger and him have to sleep in the same room as everyone else.  When you take control of Zidane, grab the antidote in the room, and exit out.  Talk to the moogle, and use Mognet to deliver the letter that was given to you in Ice Cavern.

Watch every single ATE that you are presented with.  You may buy a few things from the Item Shop if you want, preferably the Bronze Gloves and Armor for Steiner and a few Feather Hats.  Look for Vivi in the upper part of town and talk with him.  Once you leave, he will end up getting kidnapped, but Zidane will not notice.  You may also go to the Windmill, to get the Aries behind the engine.  Once you see the "Dagger Tries Harder" ATE, walk into the item shop and talk to Dagger to have her return to the hotel.  Now return and speak to Dagger.  After this, you will have to see another ATE with Steiner in the pub.

Eventually, Zidane and Dagger will group, and you'll have to find Vivi.  To find him, go to the place where he was before, and you'll hear his voice underground!  Now go to the windmill and lift the pad that the man was sitting on before.  Climb down.

This place is pretty easy.  Watch all the strange events that transpire, and grab all the treasure chests.  Eventually, you'll find Vivi trapped in a box.  When you free him, move to the door with mist coming out of it.  You'll automatically be forced into a battle with some easy enemies.  Slay them all, and walk through the door.  Grab all the chests here, and head back out.  Walk back to the room before this one and talk to the Moogle in a barrel to save your game and deliver a letter.  Return to the next room and head right.

If you keep continuing, you will eventually see a strange sight.  An assembly line filled with black mage dolls is being built here.  Once you discover this, Zidane will hear footsteps, and will end up dragging Vivi and carrying Dagger inside the machine.  They all end up getting boxed in.

When you gain control of Steiner, run down the hill and walk into Mr. Morrid's house.  Talk to Morrid, and then Steiner should leave the mountain.  He will return to the fields of Dali, and will notice the cargo ship.  When he runs towards it, he ends up getting your party out of the box.  However, you're not safe yet, as Black Waltz No. 2 greets you in yet another boss battle.

BOSS FIGHT-Black Waltz No. 2
This Black Waltz will never aim a spell at Dagger, so you don't need to heal her.  If you want to make things difficult for you, then have Vivi cast his magic.  This always provokes the Black Waltz to cast another one in return.  Instead, just have Zidane steal until you get the Steepled Hat and Leather Plate, and have Steiner use Sword Magic.

Once he dies, prepare to see one of the most hilarious scenes in this entire game.  First, return to the inn and heal up, for you got another boss battle coming up.  Then, return to the cargo ship.  Watch the scenes as Zidane takes a grab at Dagger, literally.  Eventually, your party will see that the entire ship is controlled by black mages.  Have Zidane climb up the top, and speak to Steiner.  Walk into the control room, and Zidane will end up piloting the ship.  However, the Black Waltz No. 3 has arrived, and notices.

When he lands on the ship, the black mages will end up protecting your party.  Watch the nice FMV that follows.  When you regain control of Zidane, equip everyone properly and prepare to fight.

BOSS FIGHT-Black Waltz No. 3
Vivi will trance immediately when you start this battle.  Take advantage of his Dbl Blk ability, which allows him to cast magic twice in a row in one turn.  Have Zidane steal until you get the Linen Cuirass and Silver Gloves.  Steiner should use Swd Mag.  This battle is very easy, so you may want to have Steiner hold off on attacks and let Zidane steal all the items first.

Instead of dying, though, the Black Waltz flies off and hijacks Zorn and Thorn's ship, flying off toward you.  Enjoy the cool FMV's that follow, involving Vivi squaring off against the Black Waltz while in their respective ships.  Eventually, your ship will make it to Lindblum Grand Castle.

Lindblum

Your party will land in the castle.  Dagger will run off and greet Minister Artania, who will lead her to the interior of the castle.  When you regain control of Zidane, head to the right and up the door into the hotel room.  Open all the treasure chests, and use the Moogle to save and remember to use Mognet.  When you are done, return to the main hall with the fountain and exit down.  Artania will use an elevator to take you up to see Regent Cid.  When you go see him, you'll find that he has been turned into an oglop!  Dagger will explain her situation.  Cid eventually reveals that it was him that masterminded Dagger's kidnapping!  When all this is done, Cid will invite everyone over to dinner, but Zidane can't stand royal food, so he goes out to a low-class pub.

Just watch all the events that happen, including Zidane's reunion with his friend, Freya.  Also watch him flirt with the barmaid at the pub.  Eventually, the game will cut to the morning after.  Watch the conversations between Dagger and Cid and between Zidane and Vivi.

Eventually, you'll be presented with another "Teach Me, Mogster" ATE.  When that's done, have Zidane speak to the Moogle in the inn to save and use Mognet.  Remember to always use Mognet more than once, clicking on several letters, because this will usually always initiate the moogle to ask you to deliver a letter.  Anyway, once you are done, leave the inn.  You are now in the Business District.  Keep going up, and remember to do the usual things when you are in a town, watching ATEs and visiting shops and the such.  In the business district, be sure to go to the weapons shop and buy some needed weapons.  Make sure you have at least 2 Mage Mashers with you right now, unequipped, as it is essential for synthesizing.

The next shop you need to go to is the Synthesis shop.  Get the Silver Gloves from the left, and speak to the synthesizer.  You can forge some seriously good items here, but the one you really need is The Ogre, a mega-powerful weapon for Zidane that you will use for the rest of Disc 1 and a large portion of Disc 2.  It is essential that you get this weapon.

Now go back to the inn and head right this time.  You can now enter an air cab that will transport you around Lindblum.  Be sure to visit both the Theater and Industrial district.    In the Theater district, make sure to go the Tantalus playhouse, where you will be greeted by two kids.  Make sure to grab the Mini-Burmecia from the top left bed.

When you're done with all this, return to the castle.  Return to the place where the Moogle was, and speak to Steiner and save.  With this done, try to get to the elevator again.  You will hear Dagger singing, but she is upstairs, and a guard blocks the path.  Return back to the moogle, and exit the room, heading down the stairs.  Talk to the sleeping guard on the left, and steal his clothes.  Now you can safely get past the guard.  Head up the elevator to the top level.  When you are there, run up the stairs on the left and continue climbing until you see Dagger in an ATE on top of the castle.

They will converse, and eventually, Zidane will go over to the telescope.  Keep moving the telescope around, pressing X whenever you see a "?".  Eventually, Dagger will stop you and try it out for herself.  At this time, Zidane will make a pretty stupid mistake and ask her to go with him on an airship cruise.  But he asked that question to the barmaid at the pub, so...  Dagger is angered by Zidane's flirting with other women, and you'll have to leave.

Zidane will now participate in the Festival of the Hunt to win a date with Dagger.  Absolutely make sure that he has the Ogre equipped.  Freya, Vivi, and Zidane will declare their prizes, and the hunt will begin.  Make sure to save at the Moogle.  To begin the hunt, take the aircab to the Theater district.

You have only 12 minutes, so make haste.  Leave the aircab, and you will see a mu chasing an old man.  Slay it, and wait for the little blue-bird to appear.  Slay that.  Now head down the stairs.  On the next screen, ignore the bird and head down the other stairs.  Wait for the fang to leap over the barrels, and attack it.  When all this is done, return to the air cab and ride to the Industrial District.  Kill the fang there, and rush up the stairs to fight a mu.  On the next screen, kill the mu you see next to the door.  After this is done, return to the air cab and ride to the Business District.  When you arrive, keep heading up.  You should be attacked twice by a blue bird and a mu.  Slay them, and head up to the next screen.  Take out the Fang on the left side, and take the left path.  Take out the enemies here, and head back and to the right path of the screen.  You should have less than 4 minutes left now.  Zidane will see the most difficult enemy here, the Zaghnol.  Luckily, Freya will assist you with this enemy.  Remember, if you want Zidane to win, have Zidane finish off the Zaghnol.  The Zaghnol has a little more than 1000 HP, so plan your attacks carefully.  After killing the Zaghnol, you should just stay still and let the time run out.  Zidane should have won if you followed all these directions.  You should have more than 200 points.

After this, Zidane will be rewarded the Master Hunter and a huge amount of gil.  A Burmecian soldier will interrupt your awards and tell you that Burmecia is under attack by black mages.  Cid will offer everyone dinner, however, because of tradition, but Dagger will end up poisoning everyone with sleeping weed(you got to find out why yourself).  She will escape with Steiner.  So now your party is Zidane, Freya, and Vivi.  Head out of Lindblum, but remember to buy items and save and use Mognet at the moogle at the exit.

When you're on the overworld, look for a strangely shaped forest and enter it.  It is Qu's Marsh, and you'll be able to recruit another character here.  Find a break in the praire and head into the hole.  You should arrive at a frog pond, with a strange creature trying to catch the frogs.  Catch a frog yourself, and give it to the creature.  The creature will introduce itself as Quina, and after some conversing, Quina will join you.  Equip Quina accordingly.

Now leave the marsh.  You shouldn't go to Gizamaluke's Grotto yet.  Instead, head for Chocobo's Forest, which should be beyond a bridge.  Go in there, and play the Chocobo Hot and Cold game.  You should be able to get some good items, and eventually, you'll get a stone with patterns, which initiates the lengthy Chocograph quest.  You won't be able to finish the Chocograph quest until probably Disc 4.  Anyway, get a few Gysahl Greens from the moogle, and when you're ready, exit the forest.

Now, you have a choice.  There is going to be a very difficult boss battle coming up.  To make things much easier, you have to keep leveling up your characters until Quina has more than 64 MP.  This will take quite a while to do, but it's well worth it.  Remember to have Quina eat every enemy you see, and if you do this, eventually, she will learn Mighty Guard(I believe a sort of skeleton monster yields that).  Mighty Guard requires 64 MP to cast, and it will be helpful in the upcoming section.

Now, head for Gizamaluke's Grotto.

Gizamaluke's Grotto

When you enter, talk to the dead soldier on the right to get a Gizamaluke Bell.  Use it to open the door.  On the next screen, Zorn and Thorn will send black mages to attack you.  Slay them all, and speak to the black mage walking around the room.  Once you kill it, you will receive another Gizamaluke Bell.  Use it on the middle door.  On the next screen, there will be a Moogle trapped under a bell.  Have Vivi give the wife moogle a Kupo Nut, and they will both run off.  Follow them, and use the Moogle to save and use Mognet.  When you leave, one of them should give you the Holy Bell.  Now exit the room, and head for the door left of the bell.  Use the Holy Bell, and prepare for a heckuva battle...

BOSS FIGHT-Gizamaluke
Gizamaluke is one tough cookie.  Right when the battle starts, have Quina cast Mighty Guard on everyone.  Have Freya keep jumping throughout the battle, and make sure Zidane uses Soul Blade to blind Gizamaluke.  Once he's done this, keep having him steal until you get the Magus Hat and Ice Staff.  Have Vivi unleash Thunder magic on Gizamaluke.  Eventually, Gizamaluke will fall.

The scene will now shift to Steiner and Dagger.

Grand Citadel South Gate

For this section, keep having Steiner talk to everyone.  Your main goal is to get the two people next to the exit out of the fray so Dagger can be out of the bag.  Once you get them out, attempt to leave and a guard will give you the Gate Pass.  Now exit the place.  When Steiner tells Dagger to come out of the bag, he will run around, checking if anyone is around.  Choose accordingly, and head up to the next screen.  Make sure to get the treasure chest for a Potion and save and use mognet with the moogle.  Now head into the train.

Now the scene shifts to Zidane and his party.

On the world map, head to the North gate, and your party will begin to smell blood.  This is a foreshadowing of the battles to come.  Plunder the two treasure chests at the top there, and head for Burmecia.  It should be very rainy.

Burmecia

Right when you enter, have Zidane grab the Cancer from the left of the screen(it might take a while to find) and head up.  Zorn and Thorn will unleash another set of black mages at you.  Kill them, and head for the right staircase.  Grab the treasure chests here, but beware, because some of the treasure chests are actually enemies that will attack you when you approach them.  They are easy to kill, though.  Anyway, head up the stairs, and head left.  DO NOT RUN and walk across the balcony, grabbing the treasure chest on the other side.  NOW, you can run.  The balcony will fall.  Now leave the place, and head for the left door outside the building.

The falling balcony should have created a bridge, so head across it.  Zidane will jump to another room.  Speak to the Burmecian soldier, and head to the upper part of the bed and grab the Protection Bell.  Now leave the place and head back outside, taking the right staircase again.  Eventually, you will see the door that you could not open before.  This time, you can open it with the bell, so open the door and head up.  Freya will meet some old friends.  Once this is done, head up to the next screen.  Head through the door in the center, and you will see Zidane save some Burmecians from a falling statue.  Now exit and head to the right staircase and take the door on the left.  Grab the chests here, and head through the door.  Now you should be outside again, in a new place.  Head for the left door to get Freya a Mythril Spear.  Remember to equip it on her right now, as you have a boss battle coming up.

Now head for the right door outside.  Remember to grab the Lightning Staff at the top of the room.  Once you do this, Stiltskin the Moogle will arrive.  Talk to him, and buy all his items.  Now speak to the other moogle to use Mognet and to save.  Equip everyone with your best weapons, and leave the room and head to the next screen.

Freya and Zidane will jump across the debris, leaving Vivi and Quina behind.  Eventually, they will see Queen Brahme and her minions talking.  After some dialogue, Freya and Zidane will interrupt.  Luckily, Vivi and Quina join you at this point as well.  The Queen's guard, Beatrix, will challenge you...

BOSS FIGHT-Beatrix
This is one tough chick.  For this battle, you are meant to lose, so don't bring out your offensives.  Instead, be a defensive player.  Have Quina cast Mighty Guard right away, and have Freya cast Reis's Wind.  Beatrix has monstrous attack power, and her Shock ability is guaranteed to one-hit kill any of your characters if they don't have Mighty Guard on them.  Keep having Zidane steal until you get the Mythril Sword and Chain Plate.  Keep having Freya jump, and have Vivi unleash Ice magic at her.  Eventually, Beatrix will end the battle by bringing everyone's HP down to 1 with her Stock Break attack.

After you lose the battle, Brahme will leave, but you will be visited by a mysterious man(yes, I know he looks like a girl).  The man is Kuja, and he will leave on his Silver Dragon.  Watch all this on the FMV.

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