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Unlocking Each Achievement/Trophy
Obtain all trophies.
You will obtain this Achievement/Trophy automatically once you earn all the other trophies listed on this page. Read the descriptions below for more information on how to obtain each of them.
Unlock Guardian Force Quezacotl.
To obtain this Achievement/Trophy, you must acquire the Quezacotl Guardian Force, which is given to you by Quistis at the beginning of the game in Balamb Garden. You will either receive them when you open the Study Panel in the classroom or, if you skip past the study panel, Quistis will give you both the Quezacotl and Shiva Guardian Forces just before you leave Balamb Garden through the front gate.
Unlock Guardian Force Shiva.
Similar to the description for Quezacotl above, to obtain this Achievement/Trophy, you must get the Shiva Guardian Force, which is given to you by Quistis at the beginning of the game in Balamb Garden. You will either receive them when you open the Study Panel in the classroom or, if you skip past the study panel, Quistis will give you both the Quezacotl and Shiva Guardian Forces just before you leave Balamb Garden through the front gate.
Unlock Guardian Force Ifrit.
You can earn this Achievement/Trophy once you obtain Ifrit as a Guardian Force. You automatically obtain Ifrit as your third Guardian Force when you defeat it inside the Fire Cavern at the beginning of the game.
Unlock Guardian Force Siren.
This Achievement/Trophy is earned when you obtain Siren as a Guardian Force. Your first opportunity to obtain Siren is during the Dollet SeeD Exam. More specifically, after the fight against Biggs and Wedge concludes, a boss battle event against Elvoret will take place at the top of the Dollet Communication Tower. Use the 
Draw command to Draw Siren from Elvoret during the battle.
If you missed Drawing Siren from Elvoret during this battle, you have a second chance to draw her during the battle against Tri-Point in Ultimecia’s Castle. Just make sure that you have released the seal on the Draw command in the first battle against Sphinxaur at the top of the stairs; otherwise, you won’t be able to draw for this fight.
Upgrade your weapon.
This Achievement/Trophy can be earned by upgrading any of your weapons at any of the junk shops throughout the game. Check out the “upgrading weapons” page in the Tips and Tricks section for more information on how weapon upgrades work in FFVIII.
Play Triple Triad.
All you have to do to earn this Achievement/Trophy is challenge someone, anyone, to a game of Triple Triad using the 
button. You can do this quite early in the game once you pick up the free cards offered by the student on the second floor of Balamb Garden.
Alternatively, though, if you didn’t pick up these free cards, there is a chance at the end of any random battle encounter that you will receive a Triple Triad card of the enemy you defeat, which is a method you can use to store up enough cards to challenge someone to a game. Lastly, you can use Quezacotl’s Card command to turn random enemies into Triple Triad cards. Just make sure that the enemy has low HP to increase the odds of success.
Get your first salary from SeeD.
This Achievement/Trophy is extremely easy to earn, and you will earn it automatically as you play through the game. After you have completed the Dollet SeeD Exam, and Squall and his colleagues become SeeD members, they will start automatically receiving a salary from time to time. i.e., it’s just a matter of time and wandering around the map before you’ll receive your first salary (which pops up as a little notification at the bottom of the screen). Check out the SeeD Exam page in the Tips and Tricks section for more information on how the SeeD ranks and salaries work.
Unlock Guardian Force Brothers.
This Achievement/Trophy is earned after you obtain the Brothers Guardian Force. This Guardian Force is the first one that requires a few less intuitive steps to earn, and it’s easy to miss picking up Brothers if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
The primary objective of the trip to the Tomb of the Unknown King is to retrieve the Student ID number from the weapon located near the front of the Tomb. If you continue venturing through the Tomb, though, you can also obtain Brothers. Check out the Tomb of the Unknown King section of the walkthrough for the full list of steps that you need to complete, as well as some tips for defeating Brothers.
You can’t obtain this Guardian Force from the bosses in Ultimecia’s Castle.
Reach maximum HP.
This Achievement/Trophy is earned as soon as any of your characters have 9,999 HP. The easiest way to achieve this is to level your characters up and make use of some of the Command Abilities associated with some Guardian Forces:
HP+20%You can’t double up on any of these abilities (i.e., junctioning both Brothers and Carbuncle won’t give you access to two HP+20%), but with some of the higher level abilities like HP+80% and if you level your characters enough, getting to 9,999 HP is fairly straightforward.
Check out the Island Closest to Heaven / Hell pages if you would like more information on leveling up your characters against high-level enemies.
Kill 100 enemies.
This Achievement/Trophy is earned as soon as you defeat 100 enemies in battle. You can spend some time defeating low-level enemies to rack up kills and earn this Achievement/Trophy more quickly. Some of the lowest-level enemies are available in and around the Balamb Town / Balamb Garden area.
Capture a Chocobo.
This Achievement/Trophy is earned once you obtain your first Chocobo through the Chocobo Forest side quest. Check out the Chocobo Forest guide in the Side Quests section for more information on how to successfully use the ChocoSonar and ChocoZiner to flesh out a Chocobo.
Draw (Stock) magic from enemies 100 times.
This Achievement/Trophy is earned once you use the Draw command in battle a total of 100 times. You will earn this Achievement/Trophy naturally as you progress through the game, as you should be making a concerted effort to draw lots of magic to strengthen your characters.
Unlock Guardian Force Alexander.
This Achievement/Trophy is earned after you obtain Alexander as a Guardian Force. Alexander is another Guardian Force that needs to be drawn from an enemy using the Draw command. More specifically, you can draw this Guardian Force from Edea during the battle in Galbadia Garden at the end of Disc 2.
Alternatively, this is one of the Guardian Forces that you can draw in Ultimecia’s Castle. You can draw Alexander from Catoblepas in the Treasure Room. Check out the walkthrough section on Ultimecia’s Castle for more information.
Unlock Guardian Force Leviathan.
This Achievement/Trophy is earned after you obtain Leviathan as a Guardian Force. Use the Draw command on Master NORG when Squall and his team venture down into the basement of Balamb Garden after saving it from the Galbadia missile strike.
This Guardian Force can also be drawn in Ultimecia’s Castle if you missed Drawing it from Master NORG. Use the Draw command on Trauma in the Art Gallery to obtain Leviathan there if you missed it.
Unlock Guardian Force Pandemona.
This Achievement/Trophy is earned after you obtain Pandemona as a Guardian Force. Use the Draw command on Fujin during the battle against Fujin and Raijin in the Balamb Hotel. Fujin gets much weaker in the battle as soon as you do.
This Guardian Force can also be drawn in Ultimecia’s Castle if you forgot to draw it during this fight. Use the Draw command on the Red Giant boss in the Castle’s Prison Cell.
Unlock Guardian Force Cerberus.
This Achievement/Trophy is earned after you obtain Cerberus as a Guardian Force, which happens after you defeat it in battle. It’s fairly difficult to miss Cerberus as it’s a gigantic canine that appears in the center of Galbadia Garden towards the end of disc 2. Cerberus will only appear after you have obtained Card Key 02 during the battle between Balamb Garden and Galbadia Garden.
It is possible to get through Galbadia Garden without picking up Cerberus if you don’t challenge it to a fight before leaving the area on your way to confront Sorceress Edea. You can still pick up Cerberus by using the Draw command on Gargantua in Ultimecia’s Castle.
Unlock Guardian Force Carbuncle.
This Achievement/Trophy is earned after you obtain Carbuncle as a Guardian Force. You can draw Carbuncle using the Draw command from the Iguions that approach Rinoa inside the Presidential Residence in Deling City.
Alternatively, if you missed Drawing the GF during this fight, you can obtain it by Drawing it from Krysta in Ultimecia’s Castle.
Unlock Guardian Force Doomtrain.
This Achievement/Trophy is earned after you create Doomtrain as a Guardian Force. Doomtrain, unlike other Guardian Forces, is not drawn from an enemy or defeated in battle. Instead, you need to collect several rare items, including the 
Solomon Ring from Tear’s Point, and then “create” Doomtrain by activating the items in your inventory. Check out the Doomtrain GF guide in the Side Quests section for more information.
Lose a rare card in a Triple Triad game.
This Achievement/Trophy is fairly easy to obtain. You can either purposefully lose a rare card to any random Triple Triad player or, during your playthrough, you will have to lose some rare cards to the Queen of Cards to get her to move, which will automatically reward you with this trophy. You need to lose any level 8 card or higher (GF/Player cards).
Defeat every member of the CC-Group.
This Achievement/Trophy can be picked up by completing the CC-Group side quest. The quest involves defeating the following players:
- Jack (front of Balamb Garden)
- Joker (Training Center)
- Club (backside of the circular walkway around Balamb Garden)
- Princess Diamond (the twins at the front of Balamb Garden)
- Prince Spade (2F hallway)
- Queen Heart (Xu on the bridge in Headmaster Cid’s office)
- Master King (Quistis, who appears in the dorm after all the others are defeated)
Check out the Card Club (CC-Group) guide in the Side Quests section for more information.
Complete the Obel Lake side quest.
You will obtain this Achievement/Trophy once you have collected both of the two rewards for completing the Obel Lake side quest. The rewards include the 
Three Stars and Luck-J Scroll. Check out the Obel Lake guide in the Side Quests section for more information.
Kill 1000 enemies.
Obtaining this Achievement/Trophy is not overly complicated, but it can be overly time-consuming. You can check the Battle Meter, if you have it, to see how many enemies you have defeated in total and to confirm how close you are to obtaining this trophy. There are two strategies you can use to speed up its acquisition:
- Use the PlayStation 4’s speed-up feature in the remastered version of the game (press the left control stick or F1 button on the keyboard).
- Spend some time defeating low-level enemies in quick succession, such as the ones near Balamb Garden.
Other than that, there are no specific tricks to obtaining this Achievement/Trophy other than putting in the time that it requires.
Beat the Omega Weapon.
This Achievement/Trophy is obtained by defeating Omega Weapon, the most powerful superboss in the game. You can find Omega Weapon inside Ultimecia’s Castle, and you can summon it once you have defeated all the other bosses in the dungeon and released all the seals on the way to battling Ultimecia. Check out the Omega Weapon guide in the Side Quests section for more information.
Draw magic 100 times from draw points.
This Achievement/Trophy is also quite easy to obtain. However, it can be time-consuming, especially if you have been skipping past the available Draw Points (i.e., not Drawing from them if they contain low-level magic or if your characters were already full on that particular magic spell). The best way to obtain this Achievement/Trophy later on in the game is to visit either of the two Islands Closest to Hell/Heaven and use the hidden draw points there. Check out the Island Closest to Hell/Heaven guide in the Side Quests section for more information.
Collect all Timber Maniacs magazines.
This is one of the more difficult trophies to obtain because it’s easy to accidentally forget to pick up one of the Timber Maniacs Magazine issues. Obtaining this Achievement/Trophy involves collecting all of them. That means you may be out of luck if you are at the end of the game and missed them. All the towns are locked out due to time compression in Disc 4, and it’s impossible to retrieve them at that point.
The full list of issues can be found in the Timber Maniacs guide in the Side Quests section. Here are the locations as they come up in the walkthrough pages:
- Balamb Town
- Timber Maniacs Building
- Timber Hotel
- Dollet Pub
- Dollet Hotel
- Galbadia Hotel in Deling City
- Fishermans Horizon (FH) Inn
- Grease Monkeys House in Fishermans Horizon (FH)
- Trabia Garden
- Shumi Village
- Edea’s House
- White SeeD Ship
Unlock Guardian Force Cactuar.
This Achievement/Trophy is earned after you obtain Cactuar as a Guardian Force, which you can do by defeating Jumbo Cactuar on Cactuar Island. You can only do this after you have access to the Ragnarok ship, but you can complete it at any point in the game, including at the end of the game when access to most of the towns has been locked out. Check out the Jumbo Cactuar GF guide in the Side Quests section for more information.
Unlock Guardian Force Tonberry.
This Achievement/Trophy is earned after you obtain Tonberry as a Guardian Force, which you can do by defeating the Tonberry King GF in Centra Ruins. You can only do this once you have access to the mobile Balamb Garden ship or the Ragnarok. Check out the Tonberry GF guide in the Side Quests section for more information.
Unlock Guardian Force Eden.
You can obtain the Eden Achievement/Trophy by obtaining Eden as a Guardian Force. You can draw Eden from Ultima Weapon, which you can find at the bottom of the Deep Sea Research Center. Check out the Deep Sea Research Center guide in the Side Quests section for more information, but note the warnings on that page that you may not want to defeat Ultima Weapon, and you may wish to use the alternative method for obtaining Eden.
The alternative method is to draw Eden from Tiamat inside Ultimecia’s Castle. Whereas for more of the other Guardian Forces, you would typically only draw them from the bosses in Ultimecia’s Castle if you missed them, using this method as the preferred option for obtaining Eden allows you to retain access to the fixed encounters with Tri-Face enemies that are available in the Deep Sea Research Center. Consider both options carefully before you proceed.
Finish the game.
This Achievement/Trophy is earned automatically after you defeat Ultimecia at the end of the game.
Unlock Guardian Force Diablos.
You’ll receive this Achievement/Trophy as soon as you defeat Diablos by summoning him. You can summon Diablos using the Magical Lamp item that Headmaster Cid gives to Squall ahead of the Timber Forest Owls mission. Check out the Diablos Guardian Force Boss Battle strategy section of the Balamb Garden Walkthrough page for more information.
Unlock Guardian Force Bahamut.
Earning this Achievement/Trophy involves defeating and obtaining Bahamut as a Guardian Force. Bahamut guards the Core of the Deep Sea Research Center. Defeating him to gain entry is one of the first things that you do when you reach the area. Check out the Deep Sea Research Center guide in the Side Quests section for more information.
Find Ragnarok.
You will obtain this Achievement/Trophy automatically once you have completed the events aboard the derelict Ragnarok ship floating around in space and obtained the ship for yourself. Check out the Ragnarok Walkthrough page for more information.
Reach SeeD rank A.
This Achievement/Trophy can be obtained by achieving the highest rank of SeeD level available in the game. The SeeD ranks range from level 1 to level 30, with the top rank being “Rank A,” which is equivalent to rank 31. The easiest way to level up your SeeD rank is through the written tests that are available in the menu.
Alternatively, you can gain ranks as you progress through the game. The primary means of bumping your rank up include:
- Not being detected by any of the guards during the Timber Forest Owls mission on the train.
- Not opting to have the game port your team out of the Tomb of the Unknown King using the option available when you pull up the map.
- There are a few interactions detailed on the Galbadia Missile Base walkthrough page that can lower your score.
- Completing the tasks for the Master Fisherman in Fishermans Horizon will boost the ranking.
- Completing the Shumi Village side quest will boost your ranking.
- Defeating Ultima Weapon will boost your ranking by one full level.
You will lose 10 SeeD experience points every time your salary is paid and will gain a point for every enemy defeated. Check out the SeeD Rank Guide page in the Tips and Tricks section for more information.
Complete the PuPu side quest.
You can obtain the Achievement/Trophy once you complete the UFO & PuPu side quest and obtain the PuPu Card.