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Lionheart on Disc 1

By Chaos Residue

A guide to getting Squall's ultimate weapon on disc 1.

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Category: Weapons

Languages: English

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Guide Index

Overview

Items Needed

Obtaining Adamantine

Obtaining Dragon Fangs

Obtaining Pulse Ammo

Obtaining the Lionheart

Cheat Engine/Save Editor

Conclusion

Comments

Overview

This guide was made to show people the different ways to get Squall's ultimate weapon, the Lionheart, on disc 1. Because how awesome is that? It's very awesome. Enjoy.

Items Needed

Here is a list of the items you will need:

Adamantine x1
Dragon Fang x4
Pulse Ammo x12

Some people have said that you need the magazine titled "Weapons Mon 1st" in order to obtain the Lionheart. This is untrue, and those people should play the game before spreading misinformation.

Obtaining Adamantine

There are multiple ways to obtain Adamantine on the first disc of Final Fantasy VIII:

An Adamantoise that is level 30-100 will have a good chance of dropping Adamantine.
- It is possible for an Adamantoise to drop Adamantine at level 20-29, but it's such a ridiculously low drop rate at those levels (roughly a 6% chance of dropping Adamantine) that I would not recommend grinding for Adamantine with a level 20-29 Adamantoise.
- Obtaining Lionheart before the second Dream World (which isn't necessary, but it is the absolute soonest you can obtain Lionheart) will require you to use this option.
You can encounter the Adamantoise at the beach across from Dollet.
Card Mod the Minotaur card that you receive during your quest to get the GF Brothers.
- I do not recommend this as there is no way to get this card back after you have Card Modded it until disc 4.

Obtaining Dragon Fangs

There are multiple ways to obtain Dragon Fangs on the first disc of Final Fantasy VIII:

A T-Rexaur that is level 20-29 has roughly a 20% chance of dropping Dragon Fangs.

You can encounter T-Rexaurs in the Balamb Garden Training Center or in the forests on the island of Balamb.
A Grendel that is level 1-19 has about a 70% chance of dropping Dragon Fangs. A Grendel that is level 20-29 will drop Dragon Fangs roughly 20% of the time.

After you leave the second Dream World scene you can run around that same forest to encounter Grendels.

Obtaining Pulse Ammo

There are multiple ways to obtain Pulse Ammo on the first disc of Final Fantasy VIII:

Card Mod 20 Elnoyle cards to get 2 Energy Crystals. Ammo Refine the 2 Energy Crystals into the 20 Pulse Ammo.
- I strongly recommend using this option. With this option you don't need to rely on randomly encountering an enemy in a very specific area that has a low drop rate (or spending the time trying to both level your party to over level 30, as well as spending the time to learn the Mug ability) like you would with option 2.
- I would recommend getting all of the Elnoyle cards before you do the first Dollet mission. I found that after the Dollet mission they were played a lot less frequently, making them more difficult to acquire. Maybe that was just me, but I wanted to share it just in case it could be of value to someone else.
- Obtaining Lionheart before the second Dream World (which isn't necessary, but it is the absolute soonest you can obtain Lionheart) will require you to use this option.
An Elastoid that is level 30-100 will drop Laser Cannons. You will need 3 Laser Cannons as each Laser Cannon will be able to be Ammo Refined into 5 Pulse Ammo. Laser Cannons are not a common drop. There is roughly a 6% chance that an Elastoid will drop a Laser Cannon.
- If you use the Mug ability (most people probably won't have this yet) on an Elastoid that is level 30-100 there is a 100% chance of obtaining a Laser Cannon with a successful steal. Without the Mug ability this is going to be very time-consuming.
- It is also possible for an Elastoid to drop a Laser Cannon if it is level 20-29, but there is only about a 5% chance. Also, with an Elastoid at level 20-29 a successful steal with the Mug ability would only get you Dynamo Stones.
Elastoids can be found in the second Dream World when you travel through the forest to go to Galbadia Garden. Once you have three Laser Cannons you can Ammo Refine them into 15 Pulse Ammo.

For both of the above options you will need to have the Ammo Refine ability. Ammo Refine is an ability you learn from Ifrit. Ifrit must be level 10 for this ability to show up.

If you're doing a low-level run you can junction Ifrit to Seifer in the Dollet mission to level him up without leveling your other characters.This should go without saying, but that means that your other characters should be dead when the battle(s) end so that only Seifer (and any GFs he has equipped) receive experience.

Obtaining the Lionheart

After getting all of your items go to the nearest weapon shop (this will be Dollet's weapon shop if you obtained all of the items as soon as they were available) and get the Lionheart. You earned it. Unless you cheated.

Cheat Engine/Save Editor

The final way to get the Lionheart on disc 1 is to use a memory/save editor for Final Fantasy VIII. I'm not going to teach you how to use any of those programs, you cheater, you.

Conclusion

There you have it. That is the extent of my knowledge regarding the different ways to obtain the Lionheart on disc 1. This game is amazing. Let me know if there is anything I left out. I hope people will find this guide to be very beneficial. Enjoy your game!

11 Comments

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LostPomegranate 17 Dec, 2023 @ 11:00am

Last note: If you rub the "left wall" facing Galbadia Garden in that forest, it nearly guarantees a Grendel encounter. Haven't confirmed this on the Remaster yet, but it was true for both the PSX and PC versions, so I doubt they removed this weird bug.

LostPomegranate 17 Dec, 2023 @ 11:00am

Worth mentioning: the players that utilize Elnoyle cards the most during early disc 1 are the two Trepe groupies (specifically the left one) in the classroom followed closely by Zell's mom. The groupies being the easier players to beat as they tend to mix in more low level cards than Zell's mom does. Yet another note: the most wasted time in this part of the guide is literally how the NPC has to turn to face you when you challenge them, so stand as close to right in front of the groupies as you can, you can't stop Zell's mom from having to spin, but she also has the positive of being in the same city as the Queen of Cards, and ideally you want the trading rule of "Diff" or "All" so you can grab as many other good cards for spells / etc. as you can while you play - special call out to Abyss Worm cards (turn to Windmills which turn into Tornado) and Marlboros (for Quistis weapons and Doomtrain later so you don't have to farm them in D3).

Fubu 13 Aug, 2022 @ 1:55am

Just wanted to include that this guide is actually perfect. You DON'T need the magazine and it IS misinformation to suggest you need it for the upgrade. Happy to see such a detailed guide perfectly explained.

Alucard 21 Mar, 2022 @ 12:29pm

@Chaos Residue, you have some nice FF stats there mate! I should start my zodiac age 100% but I'm still stuck in the best Final Fantasy ever made and am currently playing right now LOLZ though I 100% it shortly after release VIII's replayability is so astounding it's one of those games I'll still be playing when im 100 years old.

Chaos Residue [author] 3 Feb, 2020 @ 9:44am

I'm not sure what you guys are talking about. My guide doesn't need clarification. If English isn't your primary language I can't help you. The only time I mentioned the magazine was in the Items Needed section of my guide. I said:

"Here is a list of the items you will need:

Adamantine x1
Dragon Fang x4
Pulse Ammo x12

Some people have said that you need the magazine titled "Weapons Mon 1st" in order to obtain the Lionheart. This is untrue, and those people should play the game before spreading misinformation."

Everything I said was factual and accurate. You do not need the magazine in order to obtain the Lionheart. How is that unclear or misinformation of any kind? You CANNOT get the magazine on disc 1 without cheating. You CAN get the Lionheart on disc 1 without cheating. Ergo, the magazine is not necessary in order to obtain the Lionheart.

Chad Thundercock 3 Feb, 2020 @ 8:04am

not exactly misinformation if you play the game without knowing that you can get Lionheart on disc 1, so it's misinforming that you'd call a key item for the Lionheart misinformation

Chaos Residue [author] 8 Sep, 2019 @ 3:49am

To whom it may concern, I made a better guide that shows how to get all ultimate weapons on disk one here.

Chaos Residue [author] 7 Sep, 2019 @ 9:35am

@odinswill, either you don't have all of the materials or it's a bug. I'm assuming you don't have all of the materials. Record a video showing that you have all of the materials and then showing you don't have the option for the Lionheart in the weapon shop.

Thund3r 7 Sep, 2019 @ 3:14am

I have the mats, and go to the shop, the weapon is not available to make.

oh 4 Sep, 2019 @ 7:40am

Thanks

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