Based on Deln notes, Poorscythe notes and xIceBlue 2:19:01 WR. Maps were obtained from this website

The run begins!

• First fight is a meme. Defend and be defeated.

Altair

• Learn Wild Rose from Hilda

• Menu
  • Equipment
    • Firion
      • Broadsword/Broadsword
    • Maria
      • Unequip all
      • Shield in L hand
    • Guy
      • Unequip all
      • Shield in L hand
  • Formation
    • Maria - Front row

• Overworld to Fynn
  • Auto-battle everything
  • After Firion gets sword lvl3, Firion defends so others get exp.

Fynn

• Go to pub
  • You need to go clockwise around the city, from the upmost exit
• Talk to bartender and use Wild Rose password
• Pick potions if necessary
• Talk to Scott and get ring

Altair

• Show ring to Hilda
• Learn and ask mythrill from Hilda
• Talk to Minwu
• Learn dreadnought from Hilda

• Menu
  • Equipment
    • Minwu - Remove all
  • Formation
    • Minwu - Front row

• Go outside and cross the lake with your new canoe

Paloom

• Pay for the ship

Poft

• Pay for the ship
• Pay for an airship trip to Semitt falls
• Use airship outside town

Semitt Falls

• You want Guy and Maria to level 4 Fist
  • For each fight, Guy or Maria attack and others defend

1F

• Grab the south-east chest for money (400gil)

2F

• Left-most door

3F

• Left-most door
• Talk with VIP guy

4F

• Grab the north-west chest for a Fire Tome

5F

• Equipment
  • Maria/Guy - Unequip all

• Sergeant (420 HP)
  • Firion: Defend
  • Others: Attack

• Take the Mythril
• Cast teleport
• Revive and heal

• Grab the boat next to Poft

Paloom

• Buy a boat trip

Altair

• Give the mythril to the blacksmith

• Magic Shop
  • 3 Fire Tome

• Enter the boat by Paloom

Poft

• Buy a boat trip
• Buy an airship ride to Bafsk
• Use airship

Bafsk

• Talk to south-west soldier and get into sewers

1F

2F

• Pick pass and use the teleport to get out of Bafsk
• Go back to Poft

Poft

• Learn Airship and Sunfire from Cid
• Pay trip to Salamand

• Use boat and buy it back

Altair

• Before talking to Hilda, use Minwu to heal everybody
• Talk to King and learn Goddess Bell

• Use boat and then airship

Salamand

• Item shop
  • Sell
    • Every weapon/armor but shields
  • Buy (aprox.)
    • 5 Eye drops
    • 5 Antidote
    • X Potions (do not go under 1000 gil)

• Magic shop
  • Buy
    • 1 Life Tome

• Talk to Josef on the mayor house (north-east)

Semitt Falls

• Touch secret entrance bt the weird stone at the entrance
• Pick snowcraft

• You can now go north to the snow area

Snow Cave

• Learn Life with Firion/Guy if you need to revive somebody

1F

2F

3F

• Take the Antartic Wind

4F

5F

• Grab the south-west chest
  • Use the Fire Tome with Josef

5F-B

• Notice that you will need to exit through the secret passage north-east of the first room
• Grab chest before boss fight

• Menu
  • Equipment
    • Ancient Sword on Firion
    • Maria - Equip armor
  • Heal

• Adamantoise
  • Auto attack with everyone
• Get Goddess’ Bell and get out of the dungeon

• Borghen
  • Auto attack with Maria and Guy

Salamand

• Magic shop
  • Sell
    • Every weapon/armor but Shields
  • Buy
    • 1 Life Tome
    • 3 Teleport Tomes
    • 1 Warp Tome

• Menu
  • Learn Life on Firion and Guy

• Item shop
  • Buy
    • Potions/Antidotes (do not go under 400 gil)

• Go back to Poft
  • (Auto) Flee

Poft

• Buy airship trip to Kashuan Keep
• Use airship

Kashuan Keep

• (Auto) Flee everything

1F

• Use Bell to get inside
• Backrow new team member

2F

• Grab the chest with money on your way

3F

4F

5F

• Red Flame
  • Firion: Attack
  • Maria: Attack
  • Guy: Attack
  • Gordon: Defend

• Take the Egil’s Torch

• Menu (after fight)
  • Item
    • Learn teleport on Firion

• Teleport out
• Heal Firion and get back in
• Grab Sunfire

• Grab a chocobo on the nearby chocobo forest
  • Empty spot on forest below
• Use chocobo to go further south

Dreadnought

• Use pass to get inside

• You may want to constantly quick-save. Most fights can kill you.
• (Auto) flee and never talk to soldiers!

1F

• Go downstairs

B1

• Use hidden path to chest

• Chest fight
  • Firion/Maria/Guy: Attack front enemies
  • Gordon: Item - Antarctic Wind

• Menu (after fight)
  • Equip Sleep Blade on Firion
  • Backrow everybody

1F

• Back to first floor
• Use right-most door

B1

• Grab the chest to the left of Hilda’s cell
• Equip accessory to Firion, remove armor
• Back to 1F

1F

• Use south-east stairs

2F

3F

4F

• Use sunfire on engine

Altair

• Talk to King
• Enter Throne Room
  • Talk to Gordon
  • Learn Dragoons
  • Ask Dragoons
  • Learn Wyverns

• Walk to Paloom
  • (Auto) Flee on your way

Paloom

• Talk to Leila

• Pirates
  • Firion/Maria/Guy - Fire Tome

• Menu
  • Equipment
    • Leila:
      • Remove all
      • Gold Hairpin
  • Formation
    • Backrow

• Sail to Deist Island (north-east island on the world map)

Deist Cave

• (Auto) flee everything

1F

• Stairs on your right

1B

• Grab the Pendant
• Teleport out and heal

Deist Castle

1F

• Talk twice to Kid

2F

• Go downstairs to your right

1F (back)

• Go to the left-most room and grab bottom row of chests

2F

• Go back to 2F and visit dragon (room with people in front)
• Get Wyvern egg

• Go back to Deist Cave

Deist Cave

1F

B1

B2

B3

B4

• Save before fight (high RNG)

• Chimera x4
  • Round 1
    • Firion: Attack
    • Maria: Warp Tome
    • Guy: Attack
    • Leila: Sage’s Wisdom on Maria
  • Round 2
    • Firion/Guy: Attack
    • Maria: Defend/Heal
    • Leila: Thunder

• Drop egg in and teleport out

• Sail to Tropical Island
  • Small island on the south of mini map

Black Mask cave

1F

2F

3F

4F

5F

• Grab the chest by the entrance

• Menu (before fight)
  • Unequip Maria/Guy/Leila
  • Maria - silver Cuirass
  • Frontrow Firion/Guy

• Quick save

• Big Horns x4
  • Round 1
    • Firion: Attack/Sleep Tome
    • Maria: Teleport Tome
    • Guy: Attack
    • Leila: Saint’s Spirit on Maria
  • Afterwards
    • Firion/Maria/Guy: Attack
    • Leila: Thunder

• Gran the Black Mask
• Teleport out

• Menu
  • Re-equip
  • Backrow everybody

• Back to Altair

Altair

• Quick save

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• Equipment
  • Strip Leila

• Lamia Queen
  • Firion/Maria/Guy: Attack
  • Leila: Thunder

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• Equipment
  • Maria
    • Gold Hairpin
  • Firion
    • Gold Hairpin

• Item shop
  • Sell Junk
  • Buy
    • Max - Hi-Potion
    • –
    • 7 Gold Needle
    • 7 Cross
    • –
    • Max - Phoenix Down

• Ship to Coliseum
  • Desert on the eastern continent
  • Middle-East of the desert, you will find the coliseum

Coliseum

• Behemoth
  • Firion/Maria/Guy - Attack
  • Gordon - Defend

• It is a trap!

B2

• Inspect door

• Menu
  • Maria/Guy - Re-equip
  • Backrow

• Go to north-east room

B1

• Save Hilda

• Back to Ship
  • Go to Flynn Castle (first destionation of the game)

Flynn Castle

• No detours, simply go to the throne room

• Menu (before Gottos)
  • Leila
    • Remove everything
    • Gold Hairpin

• Gottos
  • Firion/Maria/Guy - Attack
  • Leila - Thunder

• Grab the three keywords

• Hidden path north-east of the throne room
• Get to sewers

Flynn Sewers

B1

B2

B3

B4

B5

• Grab the White Mask
• Use teleport behind

• Go to Ship
  • South-west continent (17)

Mysidia

• Item Shop
  • Buy
    • 1 Ether
    • Max - Phoenix Down

• Put White Mask on the dungeon

Mysidia Cave

• Mysidia Cave is on the other side of the Mountain

1F

• Grab the chest near entrance
• Use Black Mask on guy in front of door
  • Equip on Firion

1B

2B

3B

4B

• Grab the Crystal Rod (top chest)
• Teleport and Heal

• Back to Ship and then Moon-shaped island

Whirlpool

1F

• Grab all chests on your way

2F

• Talk to black man blocking your path
• Continue forwards

3F

• Fight
  • Attack

Mysidia Tower

• There will be several fights against Gigas.

• XXXX Gigas
  • Attack

1F

2F

3F

4F

5F

6F

7F

8F

9F

Fynn Tower

• Grab the Cyclone keyword on Hilda
• Go to the Mirror (south-west tower, first floor)

Fynn

• South-west house
• Talk to Paul
  • Hidden door on the dorm
  • Grab Black Garb (first-top chest) and Blood Sword (last-bottom chest)

• Equipment
  • Maria - Black Garb / Gold Hairpin
  • Ricard - Blood Sword(off-hand)

Cyclone

• Royal Guards x2 - unrunnable
• Royal Guards x4 - runnable

1F

2F

3F

4F

5F

6F

7F

• Equipment
  • Guy - Remove shields
  • Firion/Ricard/Guy - Frontrow

• Emperor
  • Round 1
    • Firion: Attack
    • Maria: Defend/Heal
    • Guy: Attack
    • Ricard: Attack
  • Round 2:
    • Firion: Attack
    • Maria: Defend/Heal
    • Guy: Attack
    • Ricard: Attack
  • Round 3:
    • Firion: Attack the Golem once then Emperor
    • Maria: Hi-Potion
    • Guy: Target Golem, then Guards
    • Ricard: Target Golem, then Guards

Fynn Castle

• Equipment
  • Unequip Ricard

Fynn

• Watch Cid die
• You should go get the airship

Castle Palamecia

• Next to Coliseum

Top floor

1F

1F

3F

4F

5F

6F

7F

8F

Fynn Castle

• Equipment
  • Leon - Optimal (Blood sword + Gold Shield)
  • Backrow everyone

Jade Passage

• Dragons (unrunnable enka)
  • Firion/Leon: Attack
  • Maria/Guy: Defend

1F

B1

B2

B3

B4

B5

Pandemonium

F1

F2

F3

F4

F4 (cont)

F4 (cont)

F5

F6

F7

F8

• Menu (before fight)
  • Leon - Front row
  • Heal everyone

• Quick save

• Emperor
  • Firion: Attack
  • Maria: Defend
  • Guy: Defend
  • Leon: Attack