Hi everyone! Long time no see! =)
I'm sitting here with my good ol' Ps2, currently playing Final Fantasy VIII. That good and everything, BUT one thing has changed over the years. I hate leveling up. I hate "game over - continue". I hate DRAWING. Anyway...
I just want the dialogue, the story and the cheesy, yet very cool music (植松さん<3).
Are there any cheat options for the PS2 (playing PSX games)? I can't use an emulator, since I'm on a Mac, so I need options for the actual console. Anyone?

Thanks a bunch!
Zorlee..

I don't know if there's a gameshark for PS2.

You could try getting something that reads memory cards for the PC, and then download hacked saves?

Or you can run Boot Camp on your Mac, boot to XP, and get ePSXe? Or use Parallels Desktop, boot to Ubuntu, and run pSX?

If you like Triple Triad, you could painstakingly play that game and use the GF ability to convert cards to magic.

Don't level up though (at least not until you get the GF that gives you stat bonues.) It just makes the game harder. Run from all the random battles, abuse the limit break trick, etc. etc.

There's also a way to get Lionheart on Disc 1...

Go onto ニコニコ動画 and you can find people's recorded playthroughs of the game.

Oh this reminded me about ps1 emulators. Want to get some Japanese games on there.

Get heal-magic-refine, buy some of tents or cottages and refine them into curagas, junction them to your HP and now have more HP than many bosses.

Zorlee Wrote:Hi everyone! Long time no see! =)
I'm sitting here with my good ol' Ps2, currently playing Final Fantasy VIII. That good and everything, BUT one thing has changed over the years. I hate leveling up. I hate "game over - continue". I hate DRAWING. Anyway...
I just want the dialogue, the story and the cheesy, yet very cool music (植松さん<3).
Are there any cheat options for the PS2 (playing PSX games)? I can't use an emulator, since I'm on a Mac, so I need options for the actual console. Anyone?

Thanks a bunch!
Zorlee..

You can always just go on youtube and look through the walkthroughs or something. Or download videos off youtube and watch them all on your computer

Something like this? Seeing the scenes and hearing the good music in the background.

In FF8 things stay the same relative difficulty as you so it's not 100% necessary to level grind but what I did to pass time was multi-task by watching videos or doing reviews whilst I was aimlessly running along the beach to get 6ap per battle. Anyways I know what you mean these days I get the same way when playing, I just wanna play for the story.

You could always download a hacked save file that gives you lvl99 from the beginning of the game.

Thank you guys!
About hacked game files - that works on emulators only, if I'm not mistaken. (Ok, there was this "psx-memorycard-stick-thing" that let you exchange save-files, but that's vintage ebaymaterial by now...
I'll probably just multi-task for now, since I really don't want to install Windows on this baby.

Zorlee Wrote:(Ok, there was this "psx-memorycard-stick-thing" that let you exchange save-files, but that's vintage ebaymaterial by now...

I'm not sure if this really works, but...
I looked up PS2 memory card adapters, there's a USB one for the PS3 for pennies on eBay.
You could use that, plug the USB one into your hard drive, download the PSX save, and then transfer it from your PS2 to PSX memory card using the utility on the PS2.

But that sounds too complicated and I'm not even sure if it works.
You can also get a hard drive mod for your PS2.

I know none of this sounds like something you'd do, but I just thought I'd bring it up. =)

kainzero Wrote:....abuse the limit break trick, etc. etc.

What is this limit break trick you speak of?

I was under the impression that there was a decent psx emulator for OSX...

Or you could try running one under crossover or parallels. The ability to freeze or take screenshots is really useful if you're mining a game.

KREVA Wrote:

kainzero Wrote:....abuse the limit break trick, etc. etc.

What is this limit break trick you speak of?

If you have someone in yellow health and you keep pressing the button to switch characters(either triangle or circle, I forget), eventually their limit break will show up.

If you junction something that gives you high HP, you'll have an enormous safety buffer when you're in yellow health. And if you don't level up, the game is a breeze.

kainzero Wrote:

KREVA Wrote:

kainzero Wrote:....abuse the limit break trick, etc. etc.

What is this limit break trick you speak of?

If you have someone in yellow health and you keep pressing the button to switch characters(either triangle or circle, I forget), eventually their limit break will show up.

If you junction something that gives you high HP, you'll have an enormous safety buffer when you're in yellow health. And if you don't level up, the game is a breeze.

Interesting. One thing I can't figure out about junctions is that I never seem to know what magic goes best with anything. lol I figured if it was Ifrit, junctioning fire magic would be best, but not sure. And I also missed the opportunity to grab the "Siren" GF, so I don't have the ability to refine healing magic for, let's say, curagas for high HP. I've been leveling up a lot though (I have a level 29 Squall and I'm about to start the mission that requires getting on a train on disc 1). Have I just totally screwed up how easy the game will be for me? Should I start over?

Another thought, if I ignore leveling up, how can I ever get enough AP for my GFs to learn their junction abilities?

KREVA Wrote:Interesting. One thing I can't figure out about junctions is that I never seem to know what magic goes best with anything. lol I figured if it was Ifrit, junctioning fire magic would be best, but not sure. And I also missed the opportunity to grab the "Siren" GF, so I don't have the ability to refine healing magic for, let's say, curagas for high HP. I've been leveling up a lot though (I have a level 29 Squall and I'm about to start the mission that requires getting on a train on disc 1). Have I just totally screwed up how easy the game will be for me? Should I start over?

Another thought, if I ignore leveling up, how can I ever get enough AP for my GFs to learn their junction abilities?

For junctioning, I always used the auto one. I think each spell has different effects on each stat, so maybe Curaga is good for HP but not so good for Strength. I don't remember, it's been too long since I played.

IIRC, most of the abilities on the GFs come with junctioning, you only have to level for the bonuses like HP+20% or something. You can get really good spells just by refining cards from Triple Triad, and you can get a lot of them too. Just make sure you don't save the game when you have a stupid rule like Random in effect. =) If you still wanna draw magic, make sure your magic stat is high. It's the stat that controls how much you draw and if you junction something strong to it then you'll always draw 9 spells from an enemy.

Last time I replayed the game, I was at the middle of Disc 3 with a level 20-ish Squall but that was going a little extreme... I think some people can get there as soon as level 11, but that's only for people who really want to be overpowered in the game.

The game won't be mega easy at your level, but it's not that bad. Once you hit the 40s-50s without getting the Cactuar GF, then I'd start to worry.

Yup. That's how junctioning works. Whatever spell is good for a stat is usually intuitive (healing spells for HP, protect for vitality, shell for spirit, time based spells for speed, etc.) and the stronger the spell and the more you have in stock, the more it affects the stat, so 50 Curagas is better than 50 Cures, but 100 Curagas is better than 50 Curagas.

All of that is independent of what GF you have on.

Also, your enemies' level is affected by your whole team, not just your current party, so even if you use three high-level party members, if the other characters are low you may still have the advantage.