Retro Game Cheats For
"Final Fantasy IX"
(PlayStation)

In the battle screen

Eat either a Behemoth located near Treno and Memoria, An Epitaph near Oeilvert, An Ironite in Burmecia and Mist Continent or A Mistodon in the Lifa Tree or Alexandria

If you find the Ragtime Mouse (it resides in wooded areas) and properly answer its questions, you can earn some extra Gil. Answer by choosing either "True" or "False". The mouse will then give you Gil in return for each correct answer, as well as keep track of your percentages. Some locations the Ragtime Mouse have been known to inhabit include Gunitas Basin, Lindblum Plateau, Bentini Heights, Lucid Plains, Pualei Plains, and Alexandria Plateau. The rewards for correct answers in a row are:

Question 1: 1,000 Gil
Question 2: 1,000 Gil
Question 3: 1,000 Gil
Question 4: 2,000 Gil
Question 5: 2,000 Gil
Question 6: 3,000 Gil
Question 7: 3,000 Gil
Question 8: 4,000 Gil
Question 9: 4,000 Gil
Questions 10: 5,000 Gil

Some questions the Ragtime Mouse have been known to ask include:

The 15th Lindblum War started in 1600? (False)
Chocobo Forest is located between Lindblum and South Gate? (False)
The Theather Ship Prima Vista was built in Artania Shipyards? (False)
"I Want to Be Your Canary" was written by Lord Afon? (False)
Lindblum Castle is larger than Alexandria Castle? (True)
Lindblum's air cabs operate around the clock? (True)
Some Mus are friendly and don't attack? (True)
Berkmea Cable Cars have been running for eight years? (True)
Fossil Roo is a tunnel that connects Treno and Alexandria? (False)
Theater Ship Prima Vista uses Mist as its source of energy? (True)

In Alexandria

Have Vivi approach the girls jumping rope near the ticket both in Alexandria. Talk to them and they will let Vivi join them. Press X when the symbol appears over Vivi's head to jump. Keep jumping successfully to get Gil, rare cards, and other items.

During the game

When Zidane and Blank have the sword fight in Alexandria try to impress as many of the 100 nobles as you can. Under the role of Steiner go and speak to the Queen. Depending on how many nobles you impressed she will give you one of the following items.

Under 50: Ether
50-79 : Elixir
80-99 : Silk shirt
100 : Moonstone

During fight

Have every party member with auto reflect on, then cast most magic on everyone and it will reflect 4x onto your oppenent. easy!

After you have found all of the chocograph treasures.

Use your gold chocobo to fly to the top right of the world map and land on the small island, look for a crack in the rock and use a dead pepper to open it up and enter the chococos paradise. Talk to the king chocobo and he tells you that there are still things to find so go back to the world map and look for cracks in rocks and bubbles in the sea. When you find one use a dead pepper to find the treasure there, when you have found all of the cracks and bubbles go and talk to the king chocobo, when you leave the chocobos paradise visit every beach on the world map and press O when you are standing on each one, you will hear the same sound as when you pick something up. When you have pressed O on every beach you will get a message saying "Watched the waves around the world and rested". Now whenever you press O on a beach your party will be healed.

In Game

Hold L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 + Select + Start during game play.

During Battle.

Make Vivi use Thunder on Freya. It should heal her about 300 Hp.

Throught the whole game

Forage, Raid and Search!!! Every treasure chest, hidden items and Chocographs are all essential to acheive this. Basically your treasure rank (which you can find out by talking to the woman at the Treno Inn after the card tournament or by talking to the Four-armed man in Daguerreo

Every treasure chest, Field Icon, Rare items from the Auction and Event Item earns you 1 point. Each Chocograh and discovery made while digging with Dead Pepper will earn you 2 points and you attain rank S when you get more than 151 points. When you then address the Four-armed man he will feel really ashamed that he was pretending to be so good and will then hand you the medal

During the Festival of the Hunt (CD 1)

Although you are controlling Zidane during the Hunt you can decide who wins and whether your prize will be a handy sum of 5,000 Gil (Zidane), the Valuable Coral Ring (Freya) or the Rare Theatre Ship Card (Vivi) -
If you want Zidane to win, he must deal the finishing blow to the Zaghnol, so that he has at least 150 points, or Freya will beat him. If you want Freya to win, either let Zidane idle or let Freya deal the finishing blow to Zaghnol. If you want Vivi to win, the Zaghnol must knock out Zidane and Freya, or they must KO themselves. Either way, make sure you steal the valuable Mythril Gloves and Needle fork!