re: Do you think you could have figured out FF7's golden chocobo without a guide?

I played FF7 without a guide. I remember asking people how the hell they beat Emerald and Ruby weapon. Then I learned about Morph, Knights of the Round, Underwater, etc that I don't think I would have figured out at all without a guide (maybe Underwater since the name is pretty self-explanatory but who in the world could possibly find the KOTR without a guide ).

I learned my lesson and bought the guide for FF8 ASAP

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Before the proliferation of home internet, people didn't have a lot of other options

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You'll sneak around the Wal-Mart electronics section with the Nintendo Magazine like everyone else and you'll like it

FF7 came out in 97, I had 14k dialup via AOL. But I don't think even gamefaqs existed yet.

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always wondered how many people played FF VII once or even multiple times without even knowing about Yuffie as a party member.

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Or Vincent.

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Or Vincent.

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True. Forgot you had to go out of your way to get him as well.

I had an unofficial guide that didn’t tell you about the underwater materia. It did however tell you what you needed to do to beat emerald weapon under the time limit so that’s what I did. This guide thought the items you get for beating emerald and ruby weapon were just sort of trophies. It didn’t mention you could trade them for the master materias and gold chocobo.

I used that guide to do everything it said to do and by the end of grinding for the bred gold chocobo and levels to take on ruby and emerald, I was well over 100 hours. I remember the timer on my save file was stuck at 99:59:59

The name of the gnome in King's Quest I was ridiculous as well. A lot of that game was pretty damn hard to figure out, my cousin and I spent hours of our life trying to figure it out. We finally figured out how to get all the shite (the bad less points way) and got back to the king and couldn't ever get the game to end. You had to bow to that MF'er so his old arse would die.

Come to think of it, pops was kind of a dickhole to buy that game for his 8yo son.

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I had an unofficial guide that didn’t tell you about the underwater materia. It did however tell you what you needed to do to beat emerald weapon under the time limit so that’s what I did. This guide thought the items you get for beating emerald and ruby weapon were just sort of trophies. It didn’t mention you could trade them for the master materias and gold chocobo.

I used that guide to do everything it said to do and by the end of grinding for the bred gold chocobo and levels to take on ruby and emerald, I was well over 100 hours. I remember the timer on my save file was stuck at 99:59:59

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This unofficial guide was actually better than the official one released by Brady Games.

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I had no idea this existed

Going for about $85 pre-owned (no poster) on eBay