Final Fantasy X Secrets FAQ 1.7



Okay, This faq is little more than a collection of posts from the Gamefaqs FFX message board, edited and cleaned up a bit by me. Without the collective efforts from all the different people on the message board I would never have found most of this stuff (or it would have taken me a lot longer (^_^) I decided to write this FAQ to help out other people, and to curb repeat questions on the message board.



Because some people worry about this sort of thing… Most of this FAQ contains SPOILERS. Personally I think there is a lot in the game better left figuring out on your own, like all the shrine puzzles. None were so bad that a few hours of banging your head into the wall wouldn’t help you solve them.



All of these mini quests are easily done once you have access to your airship to freely select locations, although some may require that you have started the battle with sin and then returned to your ship before the fight against Jeckt. I could be wrong there, but some areas were off limits for me and then open again later.



Airship Passwords and Coordinates

In your airship menu you have 3 options

List

Password

Coordinates

We are concerned with the latter 2.



First we have some passwords. Here are a few passwords to enter. They must be entered in hiragana. If you don’t know hiragana, go find a cheapo book at B&N or the like. Even the $10 travel size books usually have the 2 Japanese alphabets listed. 



GO tsu DO HA N DO = Kinokoiwa Valley Bottom (the lowercase tsu means use the smaller tsu from the middle of the character list)

BI KU TO RI A SU = Bisaido Ruins 1

MU RA SA ME = Bisado Ruins 2

Once you enter these, you can select the new area from the list (it will even show up with a little box that says NEW.

Then there are the coordinates. You can freely move the cursor around the map. On the left X,Y,Z coordinates are shown. Z is just elevation and is unimportant. So here are some X,Y locations to get. (just press the O button once you move to these spots.



X-74 Y-36 = Omega Ruins

X-15 Y41 = Sanubia Sand Dune

X-16 Y-57 = Ebon Temple

X-31 Y-73 = Bisaido Rainbow Waterfall

X-34 Y-58 = Mihem Abovewater Ruins

X-42 Y-57 = Kinokoiwa Battle Ruins



Now that you have all these new locations you may notice there are a few boxes that you cannot open. These are magically sealed and required a charged magic mirror. So let’s go through what we need to do to get one….



Start off in the Nagi Plains (the huge open grassy field area with a small shop area in the center) Depending on what entrance you came from there should be a chocobo rider who will give you a chocobo to ride nearby. Once you have a chocobo, head to the southeast corner of the map. You will see a small yellow feather near what looks like a broken bridge. Press the O button and you will jump down to a small ledge. Continue down the path to the very purdy Remaria Shrine.



Inside the shrine you can face challenges against the summon spells you have earned thus far. You will need to beat all 8 summons here eventually. After toying with this for a bit, head outside the temple to the right side. Talk to the chocobo and you can race in a mini game against another chocobo. If you make it to the center before the other chocobo you are rewarded with a mirror… but it isn’t magically charged yet. Note that you can continue to race and gain other items, but it requires get
ting the flags and chests in certain amounts. I don’t know what else you get here.



Now take your mirror to the forest town of Makarania south of Nagi Plains. There is a mother and son standing together near the beginning of this town. Talk to each of them a few times. Then go right and then north. There will be a small area with a few people standing around. Talk to each of them. One of them (the boy’s father) will run off. Go back to the first area and talk to the mother and father a few times each. Now run up the glowy sparkly path to the left. Talk to the son and head up t
he north path. You can now charge your mirror (only need to do this once). Your mirror will now open special chests and activate a few other small things. Also note that once you have a powerup item for your ultimate weapon, you need to return here to have it imbued with the special powers.



Ultimate Weapons

Keep in mind that the weapons stink at first (they keep you from gaining AP!!!) but after you power them up, they rock.



Tidus

Ultima Weapon

Location:North of Nagi Hill

-Win chocobo race at Nagi Hill and the guard will go away, use mirror on symbol. To enter race, talk to guy who give you a chocobo to ride and choose the third option I believe.

Power up Items: The Sunday regular and Holy scrolls

LV1.Nichirin no In => Ebon Dome

LV2.Nichiyou no Seiin => win chocobo race by 0:0:0 (picking up some balloons lowers your time)  Intentionally lose to a time out of 2 minutes, the birds will be easier to dodge then.



Yuna

Nivarna

Location:Nagi Hill

-Collect all monsters from Nagi Hill, use mirror to open box. (More on this below)

Power up Items: The Monday regular and Holy scrolls

LV1.Geturin no In => Beside Island Beach

LV2.Getuyou no Seiin => Defeat all summons at Remaria Shrine and release summoner’s spirit.



Lulu

Knight of Tamanegi (Onion)

Location:Barji=Ebon Shrine, under lake where monster breaks through the wall (after 2nd fight with him)

Power up Items: The Tuesday Regular and Holy scrolls

LV1.Kasei no In => Guatosalam, space for the deaths

LV2.Kayou no Seiin => evade thunder 200 times continuously at Thunder Hill. Must be 200 in a row without being struck by lightning. To evade, wait for a bright white flash and press the O button at the same moment. You will jump back instead of getting hit and falling back. This will take quite some time.)



Wakka

World Champion

Location:Get it from Bartender at Luka Cafe after you win a few Blitzball Tournaments.

Powerup Items: The Wednesday Regular and Holy scrolls

LV1.Suirin no In =>Locker inside Blitzball Locker room in Luca.

LV2.Suiyou no Seiin => Blitzball prize…looks like you have to play for a horribly long time for it to show up as a prize.



Kimahri

Longinus

Location: Thunder Hill

-Activate 3 stones at Thunder Hill by pressing square. Find the Sabotender ghost and follow him to a small ruin. Press square.

Powerup Items: The Thursday Regular and Holy Scrolls

LV1.Mokurin no In => Box at Gagazetto Mountain

LV2.Mokuyou no Seiin => Butterfly Mini-game in Makarania Forest. You must collect all the blue butterflies without touching ANY of the purple ones and get them all before the timer runs out. There are 2 of these challenges. The Holy scroll is won from the second challenge. Try not to pop a blood vessel on these as they can get on your nerves.



Rikku

God Hand

Location:Bottom of Kinoko Canyon (use airship coordinates from above)

Powerup Items: The Friday Regular and Holy scrolls

LV1.Kinsei no In => West of Sanubia Desert in a whirlpool of sand, just before Home.

LV2.Kinyou no Seiin => Clear the Sabotender Event at Bikaneru Desert (more on this below)



Auron

Masamune

Location: Kinoko Canyon Street

-Get rusted sword from Nagi Hill (actually a bit past Nagi hill… Go to north east exit, then go under the bridge instead of over it then go to the right. There are a few people here, near them is a sword stuck in the ground. Press O to grab it.

-Go to Kinoko Canyon Street, Find a elevator stone and go up and use the sword on the statue of a man standing over a dead behemoth. Then use your powered mirror on the symbol on the wall.

Powerup Items: The Saturday Regular and Holy scrolls

LV1.Dosei no In =>South of old Mihen Street

LV2.Doyou no Seiin =>collect all monsters of all locations and give to monster trainer. (Yikes. That could take a while eh? More below) 



Secret Final Weapons and Armor:

Customize any of each characters weapons with the ability of "Exceed Max Attack Damage" (eg.Tidus=EXCALIBUR etc.) by using a dark matter gotten by defeating those Secret bosses battles from Monster Trainer, before that must get all monsters..

You can also earn the ability of “Exceed Max HP” in this same manner” I haven’t done this quite yet. There is also a way to add AP X3 to a weapon, but no news on HOW yet.



Capturing Monsters

So, how to capture monsters? Well it’s pretty simple actually and is required for gaining the last summon in the game so here you go: Go to the Nagi Plains. On the far east side is a path that leads to a shop with a dragon on it. Buy and equip the weapons he sells here. Now when you kill an enemy you capture their essence. It doesn’t show up in any of the regular menus as far as I can tell. You need to return here and talk to the man to bring up a menu of creatures you have captured. Pressing t
he O button and then saying yes will let you refight and gain AP from any creature you have earned.



Now for a little side quest here. After getting these capture weapons, get each of the enemies from the Nagi Plains area. The Plant enemy that casts bad breath seems to bo the only rare here so you shouldn’t have too much trouble finding all the enemies. Once you have one of each return to the creature trainer guy that you bought the capture weapons from. After talking to him a chest will fall from the sky (a weapon for Yuna) and he will ask if you want to fight a special battle. If you die not
hing bad happens so give it a go.



Now new areas are opened up for you to capture creatures from. While you may want to do all the areas make sure you at least get all enemies grom the Gagazeto Mountains. This area is the snowy mountain area to the north of the Nagi Plains. There are 14 creatures here. The area for the Gagazeto Mountains creatures includes several maps, the mountain area, a cave and the swimming parts of that cave. The more rare enemies this time around are the behemoth, the huge blue slime, and the other big pl
ant enemy with the long thin tentacles.



Once you have all of these, return to the Monster trainer once more. He will give you a special item required for getting the last summon spell later. I assume you will be able to get the regular storyline summons so now I will cover the optional (yeah, right) summon spells.



Getting Second Overdrive for Valfor

Go back to the first town and talk to the woman and dog by front left of temple. If they aren’t there wait a bit and they will show up. Or walk around and talk to everyone. You’ll know you have it when some yellow text pops up. Apparently you can do this fairly early in the game, but I got it rather late (^_^;;



Getting Summon Youjimbo. 

Go to the northeast exit of Nagi Plains (popular area ain’t it???) Now go under the bridge instead of over it. Take a left on the next area into a cave area. Follow the path onward and you will fight against Youjimbo and then continue on. You will reach the summon chamber. Youjimbo tells you he don’t work for free. Offer him some cash for him to join. He asks for 300,000 but apparently some people have offered him less and gained him anyway. Personally I gave him 310,000. I figure there has to 
be a difference. Some have said you gain some extra items this way. I am not sure. Now when you cast him, he has 2 commands. Pay him to attack, and return. Paying him 1 coin will get his 3 regular attacks. Paying him 0 coin will make him leave. If the enemy can be killed with an instant death spell and you pay him over 100,000 coin, he hill do a special attack and chop off their head. I guess they count this as his overdrive since when his meter fills nothing happens.



Getting Summon Anima.

To get Anima you must first get each of the six special spheres by completing the optional puzzles at each shrine. You may have a hard time getting back into these shrines until the end of the game, so I suggest getting them on your first visit. I will not list the way to get these other than to say, after you open the way in r out of the shrine, keep messing with things and you will be rewarded. Some of them are pretty tricky and require reseting the pushable pillars a few times, or pushing a 
pillar of a cliff with different stones in them (hint) One of the stones is in the Ebon Dome area after the fight with the 3 formed medusa chick battle (awesome boss BTW)

Once you have these stones use the airship to go to X-16 Y-57 = Ebon Temple. This is the first area of the game. You need to jump in the water. Dive down and explore with the X button (to leave this area again use the Square button) Be warned! You must fight the boss from the beginning of the game as well and he isn’t playing this time. After the fight enter the door and swim up. Enter this door and you will be in a room with a magical seal and 6 statues. As you walk in from of each statue it w
ill light up if you have the stone. Here is the order they are arranged by (you can touch them in any order, but this may help if you are missing one)

Upper Left=Besido

Middle left=Makaranya

Bottom left=Ebon Dome (Zanarugando)

Upper right= Beberu

middle right=Jyoze

bottom right=Kirika

Once all 6 are little the way is cleared and you get Anima. Boy he’s strong, isn’t he?



Getting the Last Summon, The Magu 3 Sisters

Note that getting this one takes some effort, and also note that you will never lose once you have them. You need to have the other summons first. Go get them all. You need to capture the creatures from Nagi Valley and then Gagazeto Mountain. Then go to the Remaria Shrine and battle each of your summons. Once you beat them all, the woman will give you an item. You use the 2 items to break the 2 seals blocking the door. Once the seals are gone, Yuan walks in then walks out and you have the overp
owered & goofy looking Magu 3 Sisters summon spell. The Magu 3 sisters were a boss battle in FF4 (FF2 in the states). This is an odd choice for a last summon in the game, but they are pretty strong.



Bribe commands

What I first thought was a simple toss coin attack turns out to be a bribe command that can earn you some nifty items if you have the cash. Rikku will probably be the first character you get to gain this ability.



Enemy Name: Amount to pay: Item received



Gagazetto Mountain area



Auto Commander: 7400: Ashita e no tobira x2

Grenade: 150000:Hikari no Masekix12

GarukimaseraL: 17600 LV1 Key Sphere x4

Mandoragora:620000:Return Spherex24

behemoth:460000:LV2 key sphere x30

Raising Spike:200000:Parameter Sphere x1



Inside of Sin



Antensen:185000:Either Turbo x30

Devil Monolith:900000: LV3 Key Sphere x40

Moruboru Great:1500000: Michi he no tsubasa x8



Omega Ruins

Zaurasu:160000:Rename Card x10

Deathfloat:135000:Shoubu-shi no tamashi x10

Black Element:155000:Black magic sphere

Varuna:1120000:Last Elixir x20



ETC enemies(monster that can be found in random areas)

Sandworm:9000000:Equation of Victory x15

Kimara Brain:196000:LV 4 Key sphere x 4



Sabotender mini games

First, in the Thunder Valley there are several stones with the Sabotender symbol carved into them. You can activate some of them by pressing square on them. When you have 3 of them activated, go to the southern area of the Thunder Valley. You can see a faint ghost of a Sabotender running around. Follow him and press square. You will pray at a shrine ruin and gain Kimari’s best weapon.

In the desert before Rikku’s home, there is another stone with a Sabotender symbol on it. Press square to activate it and remove the sandstorm. Now you have to catch 10 Sabotender in a mini game. Here’s how it works. After activating the stone once, go back to the beginning of the desert area. You will see a Sabotender on the right, next to the first save point. Talk to him and you will play a game of “Red light, Green light” You can only run at him when he isn’t looking at you. If you keep run
ning you lose. There is also a timer. If you catch him you get to fight him and gain a good bit of AP. Even if you fail you gain a special sphere. Take this sphere back to the Sabotender stone. You need to repeat this process, looking for 10 different Sabotender total, returning with each stone before searching for another. Here is a list of where to find them. Note that the order may be different for you. Sorry there aren’t a lot of good landmarks to go by to give better directions.



1.Near Save Point at Oasis

2.Save point inside tent (just touch the save point then cancel)

3.Search the 20% off sign near the Sabotender stone

4.2 Sabotenders running back and forth near ruins to the west

5.Save point at somewhere in the desert

6.lower left corner of save point near ruins

7.west side of the cactus statue area

8.Go back to the first save point in the desert, watch a small scene, then go to the roof of your airship

9. Inside a treasure chest to the southwest

10. Inside a whirl of sand in Sabotender stone area. 

Once you get all 10, the sandstorm in the desert will subside and you can get the 2 chests below.



No Random Encounters

There is an ability you can add to armor equipment to avoid random battles completely. The ability is called "enkaunto nashi" (no encounter). You can add it to any armor with an empty slot through the "kaizou" (customize) menu, but you need 30 "kiyome no shio" (purifying salt). You can steal it from Ebon soldiers in the Ebon Dome. I have also found a few pieces of armor for Yuna and Kimari that have this ability already.



Locked Chest in Al Bhed Home

When Al Bhed is under attack you can find a room to the right that has a unique treasure chest. This one has a combination lock one it. The trick to this puzzle is first to have enough of the Al Bhed books to know what it is saying and then using the clues to do math for the answer. Or you can just input 5633 and be done with it. Not to worry if you missed this one though, it’s just a sphere, not a super important item.



Revisit the Summon Shrines

After you have fought Sin and Seymour, return to your airship. You can now revisit most of the Summon shrines. There are small cinemas and you can gain a few extra items.



Jeckt Shot

The Jeckt Shot is Tidas Father’s signature move in Blitzball. You learn it on the boat journey to Luca. The move is learned in a basic “whack a mole” fashion. I learned it pretty fast by using the smash the buttons a whole lot technique and got it on my third try. During the normal storyline, you only get one shot at learning the move. If you failed to get the move, return to the boat wioth your airship by visiting the second village (the one with Huts and docks) Get on the boat to the south an
d choose the second option (Luca) Now go to the deck of the ship. Press the O button on the Blitzball and keep at it till you get it. The move makes winning Blitzball games a lot easier.



Lulu’s Overdrive

Because many people seem to have trouble with this, here is the skinny on Lulu’s Overdrive. Simply rotate the right analogue stick clockwise as fast as you can. The number will go up the more you rotate the stick. I’ve gotten her to cast 8 times this way.



Gaining Tidas’ Overdrives

To gain Tidas’ overdrives, just keep using them over and over. After a while you will learn the next one up.



Gaining Wakka’s Overdrives

You can win new overdrive roulette types in the Blitzball Ranking mode. So far I have found 2 additional Overdrives in this way, Attack Roulette and Status Roulette.

Gaining Auron’s Overdrives

For Auron, you need to find different Jeckt Spheres laying about the world. Every time you view one of these spheres you learn more about Basaraka, Jeckt and Auron’s journey 10 years ago. Some of these will give Auron a new Overdrive.



Memory Spheres

You will notice Memory spheres in many of the game’s inns. There is even one at the first location of the game at the underwater Ebon Shrine to the left on the first map. Using these combines all of your Al Bhed Books into a Al Bhed dictionary that can be shared between other FFX saves. This way you can find all 26 books and then start a new game and understand what the Al Bhed people are saying (well if you know Japanese anyhow) Elsewhere on Gamefaqs.com is a detailed FAQ on the locations of t
he books, written by Muni Shinobu. Check it out, and make sure not to miss books 19-21 as they are one shot only with no way to get later.



Music and Movie Players

In Luca there is a theater where you can playback music and video from the game. Any music you have heard already, and any videos you have seen can be replayed as often as you like. Dolby 5.1 can even be turned on if you support it and have an optical cable attached to your system. To view the movies, you must first purchase video spheres for the movies from the short guy on the right, inside the theater. For music it’s the guy on the left next to him. After you buy the items just go to the cou
nter to go to the auditorium area and playback to your hearts’ content. Note that you can view all of the video in the game with the exception of the ending. To unlock all 50 of the videos, wait till after you finish all of the fights against Sin. Then return to the Luca Theater. I am still missing a few of the songs myself so I’m not sure how to gain the last few of those.



Can I play FFX on my American PS2?

No. There is NO WAY. Seriously. Yes, I am aware of all the different modchips on the Market. There is the OrigaChip, which is only for early model Japanese PS2s that allows US game playing, …but they have 28 wires and are buggy ass hell. There is also the NeoKey 1-3 and USB version NeoKey Chips… These allow you to play bootleg copies of Import games, and WILL NOT PLAY IMPORT ORIGINALS…. there is no bootleg version of FFX currently and if one becomes available I want nothing to do with it. Most 
Boots of DVD games have corners cut, such as degraded video and sound, allowing it to take up less space. The no version of the Gameshark CDX bypasses the PS2 country code either. 

In short the ONLY way to play the import version of FFX is on a Japanese UNMODED PS2. If you have a Japanese PS2 that has a chip installed, you will have to remove it in order to play.



Al Bhed Book Locations

Muni Shinobu wrote a great FAQ for locating all 26 of the books. Besides being able to understand what the Al Bhed are saying, collecting all 26 and visiting Lin on your airship will reward you 99 Reverse Keys. You can use these to add the Double Overdrive ability to any 3 weapons. This makes your Overdrive meter fill up twice as fast. Also note you cannot get back into Al Bhed’s Home once the missiles blow it to smithereens. Make sure you get books 19-21 on your first go through the town!!!



More to Come

That is all for now. I will revise this later on in the week when I know more.

Props to Iori Kusanagi, Mucals, MATEK, Bravni, DarkLoser, JL Lee, Muni Shinobu, Peas on Earth and everyone else on the FFX message board for info and generally making the message board fun to hang out in.

You can mail me at dokiwaku@earthlink.net  if you have trouble and I will help you out if I can.

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