Final Fantasy VIII
PlayStation

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Beaten Game Credit
Obtain a perfect score of 600 on the Seed exam.
Beaten Game Credit
136 (120) of 2,419 โ 5.62% unlock rate
4.96% of players have earned the achievement in hardcore mode
5.62% of players have earned the achievement in softcore mode
Recent Unlocks
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Recent comments
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If you don't have Flare and only tornado in junction attack, you need the " CD-ROM read speed " set up, and Mad rush as well. With this, i did it with 25:20 at the end.
This achievement should probably be moved to the bonus set as I don't see how it's possible without changing emulator settings. Would love to see this done on the original console.
Of course if you are already at a high LV enough, the Str gain from LV cuts the need for Flare.
Ty a lot for your help @rlxldk and everyone!
I watched some videos for this max exam score, but they were playing the steam version so, stuff such as transition of screen was way faster and it's really annoying to have to modify the cd rom on the emulator to be able to keep up.
Just like you said, I think this cheevo is for a subset instead of a core one.
However, if the points for this were at least 50, that would be a different story. I mean, this achievement requires grinding, speedrunning, and extreme GOOD LUCK with RNG.
All in all, it was an amazing challenge because I had no clue getting 600 points was even possible!
It is possible to do this on a no level run as well. Tedious to kill 75 enemies as you must constantly save and reload to only get monsters as to card them, since soldiers cannot be carded and you cannot run from battles or else suffer deduction.
With learning Card fighting only Buel back in Fire Cavern, after Ifrit of course. 10 battles with Squall dead and 10 with Quistis dead and all 3 GFs only on 1 character to divide the EXP. Maybe a bit extreme but I assume no level is still possible. To just KO Squall, Quistis and unequip those GFs for the unavoidable EXP moments.
Anyway seems best to kill the boss on the screen after saving the dog and after it crushes the car. Both times I managed to finish with about 15 seconds left and got no encounters after. As well as the speeds on emulator mentioned above. x8 read and least x2 seek speed.
There are some tricks that can be used, but the main one is to have Zell and Squall only alive and their damage, added, should hit 6k+, while they individually hit enought to instantly make XATM start regenerating.
This way it counts as 2 regeneration rotation (1 on the hit that drops him, 2 for the one that makes him get up). You can kill it in 6 hits like this.
Also, in the first rotation, drop him to Regen and WAIT both attack bar to fill before doing the second attack. This way you can get him up and drop him without giving him space to attack between your hits.
I made a video on how to get this achievement with some tricks and tips, if you want more details and see it in action.
The link: https://youtu.be/Q8UrLeOZa-s
Getting 600 IS part of the base game, the problem that emulators can't do this natively is more a sign the emulators need more work to accurately reproduce the game. Changing an emulator setting is NOT the sign of a bad achievement.