New FFX Notes
7 years ago
United Kingdom

Hi guys,

I have made an updated version of the FFX notes that you can find here - https://goo.gl/nFdPyN

The bulk of the route is pretty much the same with a few exceptions, this update has mostly been to freshen up the appearance of the notes, so I hope you enjoy them!

The changes to the route are fairly minor, just some small changes to the Sin Fin and Spherimorph fights, and Sphere Grid change on Old Road to give Wakka strength (page 11).

Also on page 11 is a couple of new images for the sphere grid, I lost the image I was using to make the pictures, so I will eventually replace all the sphere grid images with this new layout. Let me know what you think of them.

The URL to these notes will remain the same as I update them, so feel free to bookmark the page. I will keep the old Google docs notes up if you prefer them, although I will no longer be updating them.

Enjoy!

Flobberworm4

Edited by the author 6 years ago
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United Kingdom

Finally got round to updating all the sphere grid images, newest version of the notes available (V2.1) in the above link!

Flobberworm4

United Kingdom

Minor updates to V2.2, added the location of FMV skips for PC HD Remaster runners, (denoted by the word 'Skip'). Re-added the key saying SD meant Skip Dialogue, etc, forgot to add it back in, also added a bit of legal stuff. No route changes!

Arizona, USA

Hey Flob. Incredible notes, got me through my first official run. However, I'm confused about something. In the previous version of your notes, in Bikanel, we got the 10000 gil chest on the way to Home after we bribed for the Sleeping Powders. New route doesn't have that so how do we make up that difference? I ask because while I was practicing I came up short by 20k gil and I just BARELY had enough gil for the Fire Gem bribes because I didn't do the Bribe for Sleeping Powders (didn't get the AP for Lulu at Seymour). I'm trying to find where it comes from.

United Kingdom

Are you selling equipment to Rin before Evrae? There's also the 10'000 gil chest in home after the long cutscene. You should average 60-70k gil in calm lands. With 80k+ you should consider bribing 2 different flame flans (40k~ each), less than that just do 1 bribe with all your gil

Arizona, USA

Yeah I did the sale. Idk Ill keep an eye out. The math is just funky for me

United Kingdom

Yeah I checked your highlight and you had 81k which is perfectly normal. You can just use it all on one bribe and steal fire gems from Grenades on Gagazet, or bribe half of your gil and do 2 separate bribes. This takes a bit more time but is generally considered worth it if you have a lot of gil

A 40k bribe will generally net you around 9-11 fire gems An 60k bribe will be around 14 fire gems An 80k bribe will be around 16 fire gems

So you can see how there's diminishing returns with amount you spend and the number you get. So typically if you have 80k+ it becomes more worth it to do 2 separate bribes for 9-11 since you need ~23 in total. Hope that makes sense

If you're still not sure, just bribe all of your money every time. The amount you had was normal and you haven't done anything wrong anyway

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Arizona, USA

Yeah. It was a practice run where I had the 60k. I have numbers swirling in my head and I'm just going "did I miss something here?" But now that I see where the logic is, I can apply it further down the line. Plus I had the 80k because I didn't have Bribe in Bikanel XD.

Edited by the author 6 years ago
United Kingdom

Yeah that's pretty normal. The extra usually comes from a Silencestrike weapon with 3 empty slots (drops from Seymour) or an Alchemy weapon with 3 empty slots (drops from Crawler). These sell for 30k each but are quite rare

Arizona, USA

Oooh da shiny gil. Awesome man, thanks for the help.

United Kingdom

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1r9ABt51Wcha3dNX0FVRTN3TWM/view Link to notes is broken at the moment, here is the long link

Davesterio likes this
United Kingdom

https://goo.gl/nFdPyN This is the new shortened link if you wish the bookmark it, hopefully it won't expire like the old one did! :)

Maryland, USA

At the very beginning of the game I cannot seem to skip the FMV of Tidus getting sucked into Sin leaving Zanarkand. Is there any trick to this skip? I see all of the top runs skipping it simply by pressing X or square on their controllers, but that does not work for me.

United States

this is set up at the end of the third fmv hitting start, but not skipping it. you have to wait until the camera shifts in the third fmv. to where the tail is spewing off the sin scales. count to 2 or 3 and hit start to bring up the skip menu. after this, let it go. don't skip etc. this will skip store, the skip. allowing you to use it on the vortex scene

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Maryland, USA

Thanks for the quick reply! Will try this out right away.

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Vienna, Austria

Isn't there a similar setup to skip the zanarkand fmv in guadosalam? Haven't run the game in a while and would like to get back into it ^^

Germany

this textfile has all the fmv skips currently known :) https://pastebin.com/SATXNKjK

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