+ You should try to save often. You'll never know what lies around the corner.

+ Always try to keep a constant supply of items. Stuff like Cure Potions or Tents and Cabins, because most likely your magic will run dry.

+ You might not always have the best equipment on and sometimes the prices can get fairly steep. You should always stay near a save point or a town and wander around and fight enemies for gold, that way you won't be too far off from your resting point incase enemies give you some trouble.

+ Having trouble against a boss? Having the newest equipment is not always the best choice. If you are fighting against Rubicant and you so happen to have the Fire Brand sword then what good will it do you if you just keep healing him? Also some bosses might not have weaknesses and you will have to start gaining some levels before you fight the boss. Also are your rows properly straightened out? Always place fighters up front and magic users or people with low defense in the back, that way you can have more of a balanced approach when fighting against bosses or enemies.

+ If you can heal outside of battle, you should use your magic instead of your items. Items don't come back after use and you will need gold to buy more items. However magic can be replenished at save points, inns, or using your Ethers.

+ Try not to run from battle too often, incases you'll end up losing alot of gold. Also enemies that are stronger than you, you'll lose more gold from them if you run away. You might not always lose gold, but do it too often you probably won't have enough to buy yourself the latest armor or even give yourself a good night's rest.

+ Bows and Arrows are weapons that don't lose strength when your in the back row but they have a very low hit percentage. Only Rosa can use aim and successfully attack the target at a higher percentage ratio. Also if the person is left handed then put the bow on the right hand and arrows on the left hand, this way your attack power can be higher than if the bow was on the left hand.

+ Believe it or not but Bows and Arrows can be the most expensive weapons in the game. Simply because you have to buy arrows over and over again because as you can expect arrows don't have unlimited uses, so always try to keep an extra Rod or Staff in your inventory incase you run out of arrows.

+ When ever you see treasure chests, try to save before you look in them or keep your party's HP up. Sometimes there are monsters inside those treasure chests that will take quite a bit of work to defeat.

+ Keep consideration of your magic points. Using your most powerful magic to defeat opponents is not always the best way to end the battle often you won't have enough to replenish your party's HP.

+ Constantly keep your party's HP up. Unless you are a 100% sure you will be able to mop the floor with your enemies then you should always keep a close eye on your HP.

+ Whenever you bring your party member back from a swoon status always have the next available person heal that party member because your party member's HP will not regenerate themselves and the party member only starts out with 15% of their max HP, so unless you have LIFE2 then I suggest you should always have the next available person heal the party member just back from the swoon status so you wouldn't have to risk that party member suffering a blow that would put that person back on swoon status.

+ You can switch weapons during battle. Just go to your Item command and scroll up and you will see the weapon or shield in your left and right hands. Hit A on the weapon you want to replace and go over the weapon in your inventory and press A. Be sure to make your decision quick otherwise an opponent can seriously damage your party members while you were looking for the best weapon, so make sure you have the most suited weapon before you enter battle.

+ When your selecting your magic, the Active Time Battle stops so take your time to decide which magic is best.

+ Also continously attack your opponent because unlike previous Final Fantasy games you will be attacked even if you are not ready, so make sure you attack quickly. Incase you still need some time to think you can always hit the Start button during battle to pause the game.

+ Keep magic users in the magic and fighters in the front, that way your healers won't die so quickly. You can also do this during battle by hitting the control pad left on the command box, but its only for the battle. To make this permanent(or until you decide to change it again) go to your menu screen and hit change. Also you can switch the position of your characters by using the Form command on the Menu Screen.

+ When you get turned into a Toad, Pig, or Mini your stats drop and you cannot use magic. To reverse this status effect you can either sleep at an inn, use a Tent or Cabin, use your Heal spell, or you can cast that same status effect spell back on the character that was transformed. For example if a party member was turned into a Mini status you can cast Mini again to change that person back.

+ Always check pots or other things that can carry items besides treasure chests, although most of the things you find are just Potions, you should pick them up anyways because hey, they're free!

+ If this is your first time playing an RPG game or Final Fantasy game for that matter then I suggest you go to the Training Room in the Town of Baron to gather up information about the basics of the game. Learning the basics of the game will help you learn some of the more advance and complex features of the games and also most other RPGs.

+ Try to keep all weapons you find that normally are not sold at weapons shops, also armors, they can help you out in future battles or when your Bow and Arrow users run out of Bows and they need a new weapon to use in the middle of battles.

+ Riding Chocobos is a fun way to move across town to town, but if your riding Chocobos enemies can't attack you, so your better off that way right? Wrong. Riding Chocobos mean that you do not gain any expierience points or GOLD from the enemies you would have fought. So when your losing battles or when you do not have enough money for equipment then you will realize that riding chocobos is not a good idea, but however if you are low on life and your magic is out and your cure supplies are gone not to mention TENTs and CABINs then it would be a good idea to make it to the next town without fighting any random encounters.

+ If you haven't noticed it, your levels are divided among your party members. Sometimes it might take a long while to gain levels, but there is an easy way to gain expierience quickly. Say you have five party members in your group and Cecil needs to reach level 99. First off you kill the other four party members besides Cecil. Hopefully Cecil is strong enough to fight on his own, then have Cecil fight any random encounters, its best if he fights opponents like the EVIL MASK or BLUE DRAGON. Here just have Cecil win, at first it might seem like a struggle, but Cecil will gain levels 5 times faster than before because his party members' expierience points are given to Cecil because his other party members did not participate in battle.

+ Finally, last but not least talk to everybody in town, you never know what you might expect.

+ You can dash in towns and caves now, press down the "Circle" button to do so.*

*This does not work on the SNES FF2 version.