Final Fantasy Tactics is one of the best entries in Square Enix’s flagship franchise, Final Fantasy. The game’s story revolves around Marche, Mewt, Ritz, and Doned, four children who live in the town of St. Ivalice. Even though it’s technically a spin-off, the game has a lot in common with the original Final Fantasy Tactics that was released in 1997. It is not a direct sequel. Final Fantasy Tactics Advance sold very well in its first week and by August of 2004 the title amassed 1 million units sold. Final Fantasy Tactics Advance also reviewed well with a respectable 87 score on Metascore.
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance Premise
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance employs turn-based tactical battles taking place on a 3D isometric field. There are 34 classes or “jobs” in this title and a specific job completely changes a character’s stats, equipment, and abilities. Players will organize a party and use them to battle in encounters against AI units. The gameplay loop is similar to Final Fantasy Tactics (1997) but unlike that game, character actions execute instantly.
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance Main Characters
- Marche Radiuju: The main character, who battles the dream worlds of his friends and comrades.
- Ritz Malheur: A girl who is stubborn and unafraid to speak her mind as she battles with self-acceptance.
- Mewt Randell: The one to discover the magical entity that changes the world into the world of Ivalice.
Other Final Fantasy Tactics Titles In The Series
- Final Fantasy Tactics (1997)
- Final Fantasy Tactics Advance (2003)
- Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift (2007)
- Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions (2007)
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance Cheat Codes
Unlockables
Get Babus
Clear the Left Behind mission, then enter a town and clear the With Babus mission.
Get Babus
After you have completed the game and finished some of the new missions, Babus will appear at the pub asking for Marche to accompany him to find an item Mewt had left in Ambervale. Go there and you will see a reincarnation of Remedi and two Ahrimans. Kill her and them, and a scene featuring Babus staring at Mewt’s stuffed bear will appear. Marche then offers to be clan mates with Babus, and he will then offer to join you.
Get Cid
Clear all three hundred numbered missions (not including link or reserve missions).
Get Ezel
Check your rumors often after some of your main missions. Go to Ezel and gossip with him. One time Ezel will ask you to help him defend peace talks, and he will put a job (Reconciliation mission) in the pub. Go to the pub, take the job, and go to it. When you complete the job of defending the talks, Ezel will ask to join your party.
Get Lini the Mog Knight
Lini is one of the special characters in the game. He was one of Gaol’s assistants and trusted friend. He is also shown on many mission screens. As you do mission 32: Tower Ruins, make sure you use the item “The Hero Gaol” and fight the battle against the enemies there. As you finish the battle, a recruitment box appears, and you get Lini the Moogle Knight. Lini has two great abililities, Mog Guard and Ultima Charge.
Get Ritz
After completing the main storyline missions, the Mortal Snow mission will appear at the pub. Take it, and Ritz will show up to help. After completing the mission, she will request to be invited to your clan.
Get Shara
Clear A Maidens Cry mission, then enter a town.
Secrets
Semi-secret characters
Special characters such as Lini the Mog Knight do not require that you use the item needed to recruit them in any specific mission. As an example, bring “The Hero Gaol” which is needed for Lini, or “The Wyrmstone” which is required for Pallanza on any mission except one that it is required for (which would use it up). If you do not get a recruitment screen with the character you want after the mission, just try again on a new mission. This will work with all the different kinds of missions (dispatch, clan, battle, etc.)
Losing special characters
If you have a special character (such as Ritz) in your party during a battle and they end up dying, they will leave your clan.
Copy trading
Note: This requires two games, two Game Boy Advances, and a link cable. Have both you and a friend save on each save block before trading. Then, trade your friend the item that he wants that you have. After the trade, load up your other file and you will still have the item you traded.
Easy rare items
Note: This requires two games, two Game Boy Advances, and a link cable. After you have done a link battle, or traded an item or character with your friend, go to any town and save. Go into the shop and select “Trade Items” and you will get a list of unusual items. Buy every item in stock, and if you do not get a good rare item or the desired item, reload your game from before your save and return to the shop. The items will have changed.
Powerful weapons
Note: This requires two games, two Game Boy Advances, and a link cable. Whenever you do a battle with a link cable and are victorious, you will either get an item, or power up the item you already have. If you and your friend play the same link mission repeatedly, your weapon will power up time and time again. The items you get are Arcia Hat, Sequence KnightSword, and the Sequa Rod. The Sequence KnightSword and the Sequa Rod will power up their power by +1 or +2 every battle, and the Arcia Hat will power up its Def and Res by +1 or +2 with every battle.
Easy experience
Have Marche learn the skill First Aid as a Soldier. When in battle, use First Aid on Marche. He will gain 10 experience points. Keep using this until he is at a high level, such as 15 or higher. Get in an engagement and KO every enemy except for one. Make sure it is an enemy that is no threat to you. Have all the characters that you want to level up attack Marche, being careful to watch his health and healing when necessary. They will get good experience because Marche is at a higher level than they are. Note: If you attack an enemy one level lower than you are, you will get 8 experience points. If you attack one that is a level higher than you are, you will get 12 experience points, etc.
Engage in a battle. Kill all the enemies except for one. Make sure he/she is no threat to your characters. Try to box them into a corner. Then, take your highest-level character(s) and have lower levels use potions on them. If the weak character and the strong character are 10 levels apart when the little one uses a potion on the big one you should get 30 experience points. This is an easy way to level.
Make Marche a Thief with the EXP Steal item. Then, go to a store and buy lots of Phoenix Downs. Engage with a clan. When you kill someone, have someone use the Phoenix Down on the character. Then, kill them again, or steal EXP. Repeat until you are ready to quit, then finish them all off.
Expert missions
Successfully complete the game and wait for the credits to finish rolling. A screen will follow, stating that it is saving a game completion file over the most recently saved game. When you load the game, your file will have a star, marking that you have completed that file. When you accept missions at the pub now, the bartenders will offer the expert missions that they had been holding back.
Changing the missions
Once you see missions that you do not want to do, move around for a month (until it goes to Sagemoon, Madmoon, etc.). When it’s the next month, the missions will change when you go to the bar.
Zombie and ghost names
The three zombies in the Save The Prof mission are named Lyle, Colin, and Guiness, after the kids who picked on Mewt in the schoolyard. The names are also the same for ghosts in the Mortal Snow mission, where Ritz joins your party.
Change the laws
When you go into a battle or mission and you do not like the laws, reset the game and load your file. Walk around the map until the “month” changes (Sagemoon, Madmoon, etc.). When you go into battle, the laws will be changed.
Allmighty card
To get the ultimate antilaw card, clear the mission where you kill OGMA. You get an antilaw card that dispels all laws in the battle. Also, there is a mission where Ezel will ask you to get him Amber. You will get another Allmighty Law card. Additionally, there is a mission where Ritz asks you for a Blue Flower. Give it to her and you will get the Allmighty card from Ritz.
Bonus intermission sequences
There are a few intermission sequences that appear after the game is completed when you do extra missions. For example, one shows Ritz talking to you, Shara, and Babus; and after you do the missions it lets them join your team (although Ritz, Shara, and Babus are a lot weaker than when you had to fight them.
Double Swords
If a human learns Double Swords and then equips two of the same weapon to learn a skill, they will learn it twice as fast. They will gain AP for each weapon.
Completing dispatch missions
When selecting a character to send out on a dispatch mission, watch the character’s actions carefully. If they sit down or just walk, do not pick them. However, if they jump up and down, select them. You will successfully complete the mission. Note: Watch out for Moogles, as they tend not to be able to complete the missions.
Make other clan members talk
When you place your characters at the beginning of a fight where Marche would talk (any mission, but no encounters with other clans/groups), do not place Marche at all; or both Marche and Montblanc (if you do not want Montblanc or Marche to talk, because Montblanc will talk no matter what if placed at all, just like Marche). At the beginning of the fight, the character you placed first will talk and say something different than Marche would say; even Bangaas talks with the doubles.
Equipping abilities
At one job you learn certain abilities for that job, such as Marche as a soldier learning First Aid, Provoke, Speedbreak, etc. Then at another job, such as Marche as a Fighter learning the Fighter abilities, you can still use his Soldier abilities. This is the same for all the other characters such as Montblanc. Montblanc starts out as a Black Mage, and you can change his job. For example, if you change his job to Time Mage, you can still use his Black Mage abilities while also learning and using Time Mage abilities.
Stop moving on the map
When you are moving a long way on the map screen and want to stop somewhere before your destination, press B. You will stop at the next place on the map. For example, from Cyril to Ozmonfeild, when you press B you will go to the next town or place before your destination.
Combo
Note: This trick requires the Mythril Rod. Give Montblanc the Mythril Rod until he masters Black Combo. Then, change him to a Mog Knight. When you are in battle, keep Marche and Montblanc close. When Marche does a combo, Montblanc will help.
In game reset
While playing the game, press Start + Select + A + B.
Weapon references
- Save The Queen: Kingdom Hearts
- Buster Sword: Final Fantasy 7
- Lionheart: Final Fantasy 8
- Lance of Kain: Final Fantasy 4
- Tomberrian: Tonberry, famous Final Fantasy enemy
- Materia Blade: Final Fantasy 7
- Kikuichimoji: Final Fantasy Tactics
- Odin Lance: Final Fantasy 7
- God Hand: Final Fantasy 10
Summon references
- Exodus: Final Fantasy 5
- Ultima: Final Fantasy Tactics
- Famfrit: Final Fantasy 3
- Adramalech: Final Fantasy Tactics
Name references
Judgemaster Cid: Every Final Fantasy game.
When you are on the mission where you must rescue the professor, note the names of the enemy zombies. They are the same names as the bullies from school.
Game Shark Codes
These codes require the physical hardware Game Shark if you are playing Final Fantasy Tactics Advance on physical hardware. If you’re playing through an emulator then these codes should work still as long as your emulator supports Game Shark Codes.
American Version Codes
Master Code
EA995F78 808AC7FC
15354346 20E97650
Hero Codes
572905DE EC7804A2 – Quick Lvl Up
D0D63EAA FD4C724B – Infinite HP
6D9304A8 EA65A137 – Max HP
2E36CA0F FD9DBA83 – Infinite MP
B7A2F308 8FED41F5 – Max MP
81896D8C 0E6A9641 – Max Atk
CFFFFA54 E4B44369 – Max Def
25951A24 700B3CC1 – Max Magic
E5371E6A CBDD640D – Max Magic Def
246D67A5 0BB62FB6 – Max Speed
08CC7EC3 88E0AB87 – 99 JP
DF6B8F86 10AC5192 – 0 Red Cards
E090637D 5157C565 – 0 Yellow Cards
D3C3D32C 6FB077AA – Double Sword Ability Mastered
Misc Codes
0F15D58C 599AE862 – 99,999,999 Gold
1B738B5A C228D50B – 10,000 Gold after battle (For slower cheating)
24A23942 E3EE12C3 – 1000 AP after battle
74A54696 E9ACD1CA – No Laws (Both must be entered)
FCE6740A 33EDE7F8
Item Codes
F7403F2D 445E3C21 – 99 Nosadas (to learn the Two Swords Ability)
Japanese Version Codes
Master Code
EA995F78 808AC7FC
79071784 FC82C150
Hero Codes
572905DE EC7804A2 – Quick Lvl Up
D0D63EAA FD4C724B – Infinite HP
6D9304A8 EA65A137 – Max HP
2E36CA0F FD9DBA83 – Infinite MP
B7A2F308 8FED41F5 – Max MP
81896D8C 0E6A9641 – Max Atk
CFFFFA54 E4B44369 – Max Def
25951A24 700B3CC1 – Max Magic
E5371E6A CBDD640D – Max Magic Def
246D67A5 0BB62FB6 – Max Speed
08CC7EC3 88E0AB87 – 99 JP
DF6B8F86 10AC5192 – 0 Red Cards
E090637D 5157C565 – 0 Yellow Cards
D3C3D32C 6FB077AA – Have the “Two Swords” Ability Mastered
2nd Player Codes
E13D45CF 338AE33C – Quick Lvl Up
52DD5F20 9EF80661 – Infinite HP
33CCFAE8 66ECEE3F – Max HP
57C47F83 B25D45C7 – Infinite MP
E9F6E6C1 49ACC4BD – Max MP
57BFFB4A 8031EC57 – Max Atk
2C13424D 46A7635F – Max Def
EF25C724 6D6FCA87 – Max Magic
D4FE5A01 5D2ED450 – Max Magic Def
23FD87F7 B14CB071 – Max Speed
04899BCD 2D203394 – 99 JP
E4C127F2 01CB3EDE – 0 Red Cards
58AE7DC8 E6B46E3D – 0 Yellow Cards
3rd Player Codes
BB90E226 9CE87CD8 – Quick Lvl Up
5F464537 631684EE – Infinite HP
ACB0581C F5B39DCF – Max HP
7D08770A D73B5483 – Infinite MP
9839C76E 8EBE6F36 – Max MP
83890218 41AEDC51 – Max Atk
D02D2AA7 46B6BD2F – Max Def
9E47920F 753DAF80 – Max Magic
4208A4F0 7A247DBD – Max Magic Def
F218A3AD F8102A2A – Max Speed
BA53257A F6177497 – 99 JP
662FB1AE B11A44A9 – 0 Red Cards
B5EE072B 9434B492 – 0 Yellow Cards
4th Player Codes
5E470844 4D192636 – Quick Lvl Up
D6EC0F9D 51CE2C5E – Infinite HP
93A22E4E 835039BA – Max HP
BC3D9C12 E3EEC473 – Infinite MP
CCEA99F6 5C4358C6 – Max MP
FFBDA19E 6C67A56D – Max Atk
BB2472A3 9B9CBE8C – Max Def
0ADACA93 870FE6FA – Max Magic
17155811 6381FD6D – Max Magic Def
F5BA1B76 2DF97516 – Max Speed
BC27754E E18EE448 – 99 JP
F8C66295 20626921 – 0 Red Cards
5971E192 5D3BDCFC – 0 Yellow Cards
5th Player Codes
03A5C065 A83DB225 – Quick Lvl Up
FA6C0BD3 28778AB9 – Infinite HP
FD73144F 91026FA2 – Max HP
0985A5B7 4E7E7FCC – Infinite MP
6C4CEB2B CFFF49E4 – Max MP
84DBAB59 292D5924 – Max Atk
DCC593F5 7D38C1D8 – Max Def
20D63436 D2BAF976 – Max Magic
2E29DCA1 366C1358 – Max Magic Def
B6B3BDF2 0CE6DBB7 – Max Speed
66C0BBC4 F2FDAEF1 – 99 JP
4CEA5333 6341E279 – 0 Red Cards
E694EC3B 132BD9DD – 0 Yellow Cards
6th Player Codes
417BC3FF 04638D06 – Quick Lvl Up
7E077D0D B8FF7FEB – Infinite HP
79B942CD 1BE90D17 – Max HP
4483A4A5 CC3BECFE – Infinite MP
6431F719 F343C895 – Max MP
33523762 03C7DBEE – Max Atk
1BD288F6 ACB913BA – Max Def
7F68E366 A6148A6A – Max Magic
C4A8645F C899EE67 – Max Magic Def
94C05CEF 6133AFDD – Max Speed
103FEF8C 6566FBC6 – 99 JP
F421D65F 5F544A69 – 0 Red Cards
1B601B5B 17ABA2A4 – 0 Yellow Cards
7th Player Codes
6EB23408 EFF23D84 – Quick Lvl Up
DF34BDDB F4836B8E – Infinite HP
A559ECCF 26C85563 – Max HP
DD6E6775 BFEBA241 – Infinite MP
69F814E8 6C7D6868 – Max MP
9AB6B01D 31227195 – Max Atk
4E289AE2 5F634606 – Max Def
15C80D46 1F2A4CDB – Max Magic
D48CE33F 69774237 – Max Magic Def
9E4DFFD0 752C961A – Max Speed
EFE13ED1 737BAF66 – 99 JP
16817C5D 59EA1D34 – 0 Red Cards
F6205828 73D6DCE4 – 0 Yellow Cards
8th Player Codes
DCBF031D BB3C47FC – Quick Lvl Up
ECF23D40 3C053C2A – Infinite HP
DD674CC0 E2D7A158 – Max HP
3AD8DD78 CC86A3A9 – Infinite MP
1C4622FD 858F0ECE – Max MP
365E3CAD 903CB855 – Max Atk
46605F7F ED7E656E – Max Def
5457B5A1 1117989A – Max Magic
71049352 32DDC61D – Max Magic Def
15C35EF0 4338037A – Max Speed
6FB026FA 39A040EC – 99 JP
3C84C25A 07A42719 – 0 Red Cards
6F207FD8 852A3705 – 0 Yellow Cards
Misc Codes
96675F6D 75E31393 – 99,999,999 Gold
7891B036 F6C1D349 – 10,000 Gold after battle (For slower cheating)
1B0E6463 4B52B64D – 500 AP after battle
973C586E 0165F7EF – No Laws (Both must be entered)
9155CA90 9918AD31
Item Codes
F7403F2D 445E3C21 – 99 Nosadas (to learn the Two Swords Ability)
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