Final Fantasy 12 Cheat Codes for PlayStation 2 (PS2)

It feels as if Final Fantasy 12 has been pretty much forgotten as time goes on. It’s astonishing, Final Fantasy is one of those franchises where you can find a favorite game in any of their mainline entries. However, Final Fantasy 12 seems to have the least vocal fanbase of any game I’ve ever played. Which makes even less sense when you realize that the game is great.

Final Fantasy 12 was released to critical and commercial success. The title was released on March 16, 2006, earned multiple Game of the Year awards, and sold millions of copies by 2009. Fans and critics loved this game on release. They praised its gambit system as an innovative combat system that still hasn’t been replicated to this day. The game was also the sixth game ever to receive a perfect score from Famitsu. You can read our review here!

Final Fantasy 12 Premise

Final Fantasy 12 introduced several major innovations to the Final Fantasy series. It was the series’ first open world, its first seamless combat system, and its first controllable camera. The story follows two empires waging an endless war. The main character Vaan, starts the story as a young adventurer who wants to be a sky pirate and ends the story with a great band of allies as they rise against the tyranny of the evil, Archadian Empire.

Final Fantasy 12 Main Characters

• Vaan: An orphan of the land of Rabanastre. He hopes to one day become a sky pirate.
• Ashe: The princess of Dalmasca. She lost her father and husband to the Archadian invasion.
• Basch: A knight of Dalmasca who was charged with treason.
• Balthier: A charismatic sky pirate who pilots the Strahl, his airship.
• Fran: Balthier’s partner. She is very knowledgeable about the world and its legends and myths.
• Penelo: Vaan’s childhood friend who follows him on his journey to make sure he’s okay.

Other Final Fantasy Titles In The Series

• Final Fantasy (1987)
• Final Fantasy II (1988)
• Final Fantasy III (1990)
• Final Fantasy IV (1991)
• Final Fantasy V (1992)
• Final Fantasy VI (1994)
• Final Fantasy VII (1997)
• Final Fantasy VIII (1999)
• Final Fantasy IX (2000)
• Final Fantasy X (2001)
  • Final Fantasy X-2 (2003)
• Final Fantasy XI (2002)
• Final Fantasy XII (2006)
• Final Fantasy XIII (2009)
  • Final Fantasy XIII-2 (2011)
  • Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII (2013)
• Final Fantasy XIV (2010)
• Final Fantasy XV (2016)
• Final Fantasy XVI (2023)

Final Fantasy 12 Cheat Codes

Glitches

The Immobilize glitch

Reduce your party members to two people. Then have one character cast Faith on himself and distance yourself from the other. Now cast Immobilize on the character you don’t want and go on until you encounter a monster. When you do, switch your party leader to the immobilized one, switch back and all enemies will be gone.

Unlockables

Sky Pirate’s Den Figurines

Unlockable Fishing Spots

Once the Fishing mini-game begins, you can only fish in the Lower Reaches fishing spot. However, you can unlock more fishing spots when get to certain requirements.

Demonsbane

In the Tomb Of The Great King, there is a secret door in the tomb that gives you the Demonsbane sword, which adds +59 to attack. After you defeat the two Demon walls in the main corridor there will be three teleport pedestals. The middle one takes you back to the beginning of the tomb. The others need to be activated. Take the right path and explore the area until you reach a room with a jewel on the wall. Activate the jewel. An altar will rise and give you a brief description of what it is.

Take the teleporter pedestal back to the others. Then, take the left path. Explore the area to find another jewel in a room. Activate it and an altar will lower, leading you to the room with Belias. However, do not go this way yet. Backtrack to the room with the activated jewel and teleporter pedestal. Take it back to the others, then take the first pedestal back to the beginning. If you defeated the first Demon Wall, behind where the Demon Wall was located is another jewel.

Activate it, then take either of the new stairways to the secret area that does not show up on the map which are to the left and the right. When you go through the doors you can take either way to the bottom. However, be careful as there will be many high-level elementals that fall from the ceiling. At the very bottom of the staircases, go towards the middle. There will be a chest that contains the Demonsbane.

During the first trip to Raithwall’s tomb make sure to be at least level 17 and have Quickenings. Fight and defeat the first Demon Wall you encounter. The best way is to use a Quickening chain to start. You can also set the game speed to fast because this optional Boss is not affected by it. Make sure you do at least 6,000 to 8,000 damage during your Quickening chains. If you run out of MP, either use an Ether or just change that character with another who also has Quickening(s). You will probably have to fight it out at the end of your chains.

When you defeat this Boss, go back and save. Then, continue over the bridge where you defeated the first Demon Wall and proceed through to defeat another, who is pretty easy. Once this is done, go back to where the first Demon Wall was located and you will see a glowing stone. Touch it to reveal two staircases. Go down either of them and follow the path down. You do not have to fight the enemies encountered — just run past them. You will reach a chest that has a 30 to 40% chance of being the Demonsbane. If the chest is different, quit the game, return to the title screen, and repeat. You can keep doing this until you get as many Demonsbane as desired. They can also be sold for 3,000 Gil each. Note: This requires some patience and time.

Feather Of The Flock

When in the Giza Plains during the Rainy season, there are five withered trees on the banks of the water. Knock them all down and they will float down the river and cause a path to form on the south bank. Cross it and go all the way to the southeast corner to find an urn. Open it and you will get the Feather Of The Flock. It gives you a bond with Cockatrices.

Ragnarok

To get the Ragnarok with 109 attack power, you must pass the Pharos at Ridorana. After you pass the Pharos, go to the clan hall and talk to Montblance. He will give you a special hunt to kill Ixion. Once accepted, go back to the Pharos at Ridorana. You must be at least level 66. Purchase a Golden Axe for 18,000 Gil and some Echo Herbs and Eye Drops. Equip the Golden Axe to your strongest character. It will take a ranged attack with damage of 1 to 9,999. Make sure you have three Bubble Belts to double your maximum HP. To find him, go to the lift just when you get in and take it up to Penumbra. It will require a few attempts to find and kill him. Once you do, go back to the petitioner and he will give you the Ragnarok.

Zodiac Spear

Open all treasure chests in the game except the following:

• Treasure chest in Lowtown, outside of Old Dylan’s place.
• When sneaking into the palace (before getting the Goddess Tear), there are several chests in the Cellar. Do not open the two chests in the southeast corner.
• All treasure chests are in the Confiscatory (the place where you get your weapons and armor back after being captured).
• On the Phon Coast, later in the game, there is an island with sixteen chests all near each other. The fourth chest among all sixteen must not be opened, so it is best not to open any of them. They only contain Gil.
• Then, go to the Necrohol of Nabudis to find the most powerful weapon in the game, the Zodiac Spear. It has a +150 Attack with +8 Evasion.

Adrammelech Esper

This Esper is located at Athroza Quicksands in Zertinan Caverns. The place where you fight him has many other monsters that join him. Do not attempt to fight him until you can routinely kill numerous level 40 monsters at the same time. Keep in mind he is not summoning them. If you can keep from pushing the battle to areas you have not yet walked on you should be able to stop them from springing up from the ground. One monster spawns for about every one or two square feet in relation to your character.

Cuchulainn Esper

Cuchulainn is located in the Garamsythe Waterway’s No. 1 Cloaca under Rabanastere. To get there, complete the “Waterway Haunting” and “Lost In The Pudding” hunts to open the way to get the Sluice Gate Key. Once you have the key, go to Waterway Control and follow these steps to get to the Esper:

• Begin by closing the No. 3 and No. 10 controls in the Central Waterway Control.
• Enter the No. 3 Cloaca Spur and use the No. 1 South Waterway Control at the end.
• Return to the Central Waterway control and open No. 3 and No. 10.
• Close No. 4 and No. 11, then enter the No. 4 Cloaca Spur and use the No. 1 North Waterway control.
• Return to the Central Waterway Control again open No. 11 and close No. 3.
• Enter the No. 1 Cloaca and find the Boss at the low point on the south end. Save the game before the battle.

Exodus Esper

This Esper becomes available after you battle Cid in Draklor Laboratories. Go to the Babbling Vale in the Moshphoran Highwastes. One of the villagers there by one of the shires will tell you that the shrines have started working, but he is not sure what they do. Activate the three eastern wind ones first (northeastern, eastern, and southeastern). You can only activate three at a time. Look at your map and you will see three new marks on it that indicate bridges have formed to areas you could not reach previously.

Next, move east to the Rays of Ashen Light section and find the Chocobo in the northern section. Feed him a Gyshal Green and ride him through the newly opened area to the end where you will see a path leading onward blocked by bushes that only a Chocobo can cross. This will take you to the Sky Reach Ridge section on the western side of the Vale. From here you can enter the Vale and activate a shrine that was out of reach before.

Once you have gone north of the shrine to the big boulder, you will find a section that you can break to clear a path into the Vale. You must now activate one more shrine to get access to Exodus. It is the north or northwestern shrine; check your map to be sure. It will open a place near the last shrine you activated on the northern part of Sky Reach Ridge. Next, go back to Sky Reach Ridge and fight him. Partway through the battle he will become immune to physical attacks. He is very good at keeping up his reflect barrier. Make sure to dispel it before hitting him with magic. He has some very powerful magical attacks, like a flare.

Zalera Esper

First, complete the “Dalmasca’s Desert Bloom” hunt. Go back to Dantro after the hunt and he will ask you if you can bring the “Cactus Flower” to his wife in the Estersand South Bank village. Go there and find his wife. She will reward you for coming with a bundle of needles. Exit and reenter and she will ask for some Semclan Shells. There are two sitting on the shore in the area; they are glowing glints. Next, she will ask for Nebralim. Go back to Dantro and he will say they are near crates, but they are really on top of the tall boxes. Get two of them and go back.

Next on the list is Valeblossom Dew. They are always near a white tree in the broken sands area. Get three and return. Then later in the game go back. Talk to her to learn that the patient has made a full recovery and is behind her house. He is a traveler hunter who will give you the item you need to get Zalera. It is called the “Barheim Key”.

Use it on the “Weather-beaten door” in the area that is left of the village going south. Make your way to Terminus 7 and just keep going through there. Soon you find there is no way to get to the next bridge. Just look for a mine cart that is on the right-hand side and press X. There will be what seems to be an endless army of the undead on your way. Save at Terminus 7 Adjunct before the fight. Defeat the Boss to get the Zalera Esper.

Miscellaneous Tricks and Glitches

Near invincibility

This trick requires two or more party members. To gain near immortality, set all party member’s Gambits to “If HP < 70” and “Cure” ~. Your party members will now constantly cure you and your MP will always regenerate. If you run out of MP, add another Gambit to use potions “If HP < 30”.

Leveling up faster

If your characters are strong, consider removing one or two from the active party list. This will enable you to get more experience from enemies instead of also going to the other characters. For example, a 300 EXP monster can turn into a 900 EXP for your character by removing two characters from the active party list.

Final Fantasy 12 Game Shark Codes

The codes below require a third-party device like Game Shark to work. Game Shark injects code into a game to alter its gameplay. This can cause unintended glitches in a game or its saved files. If used improperly, you can even completely break your game, so use the following codes with caution. If you are emulating Final Fantasy 12 then these codes should work still as long as your emulator supports Game Shark Codes.

All Accessory (CB7+)
E0055040 01780C1E
105548C4 00000030
40553CF4 00180001
11541155 00020002
4054EAD0 00180001
00630063 00000000
All Armor (CB7+)
E0055040 01780C1E
005548C0 0000008C
40553BDC 00460001
10C910C8 00020002
4054E9B8 00460001
00630063 00000000
All Arrows and bullets (CB7+)
E0055040 01780C1E
105548C8 00000020
40553D54 00100001
11841185 00020002
4054EB30 00100001
00630063 00000000
All loot items
E0065040 01780C1E
105548E4 000000D7
105544B6 00002000
405544B8 006B0001
20212020 00020002
4054EBB0 006B0001
00630063 00000000
All Skills
D1780C1E 00005040
2054EF7C FFFFFFFF
All Treasures
E0025040 01780C1E
4054EB74 003F0001
00630063 00000000
All Weapons (CB7+)
E0065040 01780C1E
005548BC 000000A8
0054E978 00000063
40553A4C 00540001
10021001 00020002
4054E828 00540001
00630063 00000000
Always Full Action Gauge
2030C6C4 AEB5070C
2030C6C8 AE150030
00000000 00000000
Amalia HP
D1780C1E 000000EC
2054ADAC 0000270F
Ashe HP
D1780C1E 000000EC
1054A314 0000270F
Chocobo Time 999
203018D0 3C01461C
Enable Code
9045C190 0C117A69
00000000 00000000
Fran HP
D1780C1E 000000EC
1054A4D8 0000270F
Have all Gambit
E0035040 01780C1E
0054EF9C 000000FF
4054EF80 00070001
FFFFFFFF 00000000
Have All Item (CB 7+)
E0065040 01780C1E
005548B8 00000016
0054E7D2 00000063
405539CC 000B0001
00010000 00020002
4054E7A8 000B0001
00630063 00000000
Have All Magic
E0025040 01780C1E
4054EF70 00040001
FFFFFFFF 00000000
Have All Maps
E00300EC 01780C1E
205495D4 03FFFFFF
2054EFA0 FFFFFFFF
1054EFA4 0000FFFF
Have All Summons
E0095040 01780C1E
0054A105 00000001
1054EFE2 00007FFC
1054A29E 00007FFC
1054A462 00007FFC
1054A626 00007FFC
1054A7EA 00007FFC
1054A9AE 00007FFC
1054AB72 00007FFC
1054AD36 00007FFC
00000000 00000000
Have All Teleport Spots
E00D00EC 01780C1E
10548CF2 00008040
20548CF4 80578042
20548CF8 80438058
20548CFC 804B804A
20548D00 804C805A
20548D04 804E8054
20548D08 80498055
20548D0C 80518056
20548D10 80448059
20548D14 805C805B
20548D18 80478048
20548D1C 80508052
20548D20 80458053
inActive Party gain EXP and LP
203EDAA4 00000000
00000000 00000000
Max Enemy Damage
203C6510 80990005
203C6514 13200004
203C65DC 17200003
203C7300 80990005
203C7304 13200004
203C73CC 17200003
Max Exp Gained (After Battle)
202EC698 00000000
Max Gil
D1780C1E 00005040
20547F08 05F5E0FF
Max HP
2030C108 2402270F
2030C10C AE620024
00000000 00000000
Max LP Gained (After Battle)
202EC6BC 00000000
Penelo HP
D1780C1E 000000EC
1054AA24 0000270F
Penelo LP
D1780C1E 00005040
2054AB6C 0001869F
Summon Bars
E00200EC 01780C1E
4054A128 00070071
00000003 00000000
Teleports Stones
D1780C1E 000000EC
1054EB70 000003E7
Vaan LP
D1780C1E 00005040
2054A298 0001869F
Vann HP
D1780C1E 000000EC
1054A150 0000270F

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