Chocograph/Chocobo Hot and Cold tip

[cb4n28]

So I just discovered that if you hit the speed boost with F1 it doesn't effect the timer for Chocobo Hot and Cold. Which makes the game way easier. It's a little harder to control Choco, but it is worth it. I just reached the spot where you unlock Chocobo's Lagoon and went through a 12 game streak of getting the extra time within 15 seconds or so and then going on to have the Moogle stop the round because I was doing so well. This also resulted in me grabbing a Chocograph each round one was available.

[Estelyen]

If you don't mind cheating a bit more, there's a way to make it even easier: You need to set the dig button to autofire (I did it with JoyToKey) so that Choco digs about 10 times a second. Then it gets a lot easier to control him in the fast forward mode because he runs only a very short distance before stopping to dig ;)

[Fli]

This made hot and cold more tolerable. It only took about 4 hours to grind it out thankfully, I remember it taking at least double that on the PS1.

[TMVanatta]

I wrote a power shell script. Just open powershell_ise.exe and paste this script in. As long as you leave the default keyboard bindings. It will press the search key once every 20 milliseconds. just walk around and collect your rewards.

$wshell = New-Object -ComObject wscript.shell
$wshell.AppActivate('FINAL FANTASY IX')

$counter = 0

While($counter -eq 0){
$wshell.SendKeys('B')
sleep -Milliseconds 20
}

[Teratus]

Does it affect the game time clock too?

These old turn based RPG's are my go too chill games a lot of the time and I'd like to 100% achievement all of them eventually.

I never ended up getting that sword that requires getting near the end of the game in a really short amount of time.. basically speed running the game (not a fan of this playstyle) so speeding up the grind etc will be pretty useful when im just unlocking skills or doing general levelling or minigames etc

But if it does affect the clock it'll make waiting out the clock reset a lot easier too so I can get the sword after that.

[HTX]

What I did, did the 3x speed boost with Memoria (F1 key) and either an AutoClicker or a controller that supports Turbo (GameSir T4 Pro is what I use for PC)...I was losing my f.ucking mind with how dog$hit this minigame is right off the bat and found this prevented me from murdering every single person in my city. Try it out and see how it goes for you. I managed to get all 9 from the Chocobo Forest (I just got here) in about 30-45 minutes or so doing that method. And to the question above if it affects the game clock, nope...it consistently goes down as-if you had no speed boost at all.

I did look for cheat engine tables and there are none that are updated/working even though I found a few.

[Redsleeves]

Originally posted by Teratus:

Does it affect the game time clock too?

These old turn based RPG's are my go too chill games a lot of the time and I'd like to 100% achievement all of them eventually.

I never ended up getting that sword that requires getting near the end of the game in a really short amount of time.. basically speed running the game (not a fan of this playstyle) so speeding up the grind etc will be pretty useful when im just unlocking skills or doing general levelling or minigames etc

But if it does affect the clock it'll make waiting out the clock reset a lot easier too so I can get the sword after that.

The game timer runs at normal speed no matter what you do. I managed to get the Excalibur II with like three hours on the in-game clock by using the speed boost!