Oh. I have some nice tricks to do in ff8.....
To start off!
(Bear in mind though, most of my tactics consume a lot of TIME, but it pays to build the ultimate charaacters... I've managed to draw 300 Ultimas from Ultima Weapon before.. fun!)
Tactic 1:
Getting LV100 Shiva,Ifrit and Quazecotl (whatever it is!) when chars are at their lowest Level.
Go to Dollet Tower. Use Seifer and kill off Squall and Zell at the beginning of mission, then LVL up Seifer (GFs will also LVL up,don't de-equip them from dead chars, they will still LVL up even Zell and Squall are dead) .... haha Elvoret will die in one round!
Approx time needed: 5 hours minimum I think...
Tactic 2:
Beating the hell outta Diablos.
Yeah goku7 I've heard of your strat b4.... but I have an alternative strategy.......
OK now that my GFs are at LV100 after beating the Dollet Tower and my party is at their lowest LVL, Diablos' LVL is pretty low as well. And since I've stocked up Thundagas, Blizzagas, etc on Seifer and passed them on to all my chars, my Magic is decent enough. So, equip Mag+40% and Mag+20% to Selphie (since she has the highest magic amongst the three people that time).
Cast Blind on Diablos. Make sure that Diablos is BLINDED. Have fun! That time, Diablos won't be able to KILL you, as Diablos' attack are gravity-based, so the most it can hurt you is till your HP goes down to 1. And also, Diablos' physical attack will miss all the time as he is blinded.
Tactic 3:
Getting plenty of dark matters... ^_^ Neat stuff.
Only works in Disc 3 + Ragnarok. Go down the Research Sea Center. When you reach the floors where encounters are fixed (i.e. you cannot use Enc-None to avoid encounters), you'll see a save point at the first level. At the first level you will encounter Tri-Faces..... mug them for Curse Spikes!! There are 3 encounters... so deliberately encounter them and mug them for 6x curse spikes (or if you're lucky it'll be 8x). Get out from the screen after encountering them, re-enter... repeat the same trick... save if you want... till you collect 100x of them and convert them to dark matter using Siren's Tool-RF. I got around 7 dark matters after a few hours of mugging.. ^_^.
Lastly... I hate cheating. I feel that the game can only be enjoyed fully without cheating... as Joey mentioned.....
Anyway.... have fun.....