Final Fantasy IX Disc 3

Shimmering Island and Bran Bal

Shimmering Island

OK. Step one: Re-equip all your guys, decide on a party, then save.

When you are ready to head out, pilot the Hilda Garde III to the Shimmering Island. As you hover over the colorful area, you’ll be able to land now. Press ‘O’ to land, then tell your guys to “keep going.” Watch the cut scenes, then wake up on…

Terra

Head right one screen, then take the low road to the left. You can get to a chest with a CoronetEquipmentHead Armor for: All except Knights here if you jump right. If you jump forward and wrap around to the right, there is a Dragon WristEquipmentArm Armor for: All except Steiner in a chest. Grab those, then head back up to the main path. This time, take the road straight.

On the next screen you’ll find a chest on the left with an ElixirItemFully restores one character's HP and MP.. A little further up, you’ll meet someone who looks a lot like Zidane. Follow her. The next screen spans a long way to the upper right corner of the screen. On the next one, Zidane will ask, “Where’d she go?” Go to the far right and examine the blue net to climb down it. On the next level, take the net to the right down to pick up a RemedyItemRemove Status Effect: Stop, Poison, Venom, Mini, Gradual Petrify, Silence, Darkness, then come back up.

Go around the left corner and hop over the hole to get the chest (Mythril RacketEquipmentWeapon for Dagger AND Eiko) behind the corner. Come back toward the hole and this time “Go Down.” Open the chest there for a Demon’s VestEquipmentArmor for: All except Knights, then head left. After the conversation, follow the girl. It’s hard to see, but you’ll go toward the top of the screen on the next screen.

Go ahead and go on like she says and you’ll end up near a bunch of stairs. On that screen, go up the first flight and head directly left, then wrap around forward and right. This hidden path will lead you to a chest with a Minerva’s PlateEquipmentArmor for: Female Only inside. Head back up to the stairs and continue up to the next screen. Welcome to…

Bran Bal

Moorock and Stiltzkin

After the cut scenes, you’ll get control of Zidane. If either Dagger or Steiner are in your party, you’ll regroup. Talk to everyone in this town. Head right first, and go through the first door on your right. Examine the rocking pot to free Moorock (a moogle) so that you can mognet/tentItemIf used in battle, inflicts Silence, Darkness and Poison. If used in the field, restores HP/MP at save moogle./save (you can mogshop, but save at least 2,222 Gil). Open the chest here for a Wing EdgeEquipmentCan be Thrown by Amarant, then head back outside.

Immediately go back inside and talk with Stiltzkin. Buy DiamondJewelJewel used in side quests and Carbuncle variation. Do not give one to Gimme Cat unless you enjoy being hosed., EtherItemRestore MP (150 if in battle, 100 otherwise) and ElixirItemFully restores one character's HP and MP. for 2,222 Gil, then exit the room again. Talk to these guys, then head around to the upper left (don’t go in any buildings yet, though) and keep talking. On the next screen, keep walking around that thing in the middle, but when you get to the bottom, go slow.

There are two exits here. Both lead down and right, but the upper one is hard to see. Take it. You should end up under the stairs that lead up to Bran Bal. Go right (under the stairs) and examine when the exclamation mark shows up. Open the chest here for a Flash HatEquipmentHead Armor for: All except Knights.

The Laboratory

Go back to the screen leading to the storage area (where Moorock is) and enter the other building. Head down the stairs on the right, and go all the way to the front of the screen. There is an ElixirItemFully restores one character's HP and MP. here. Talk to these guys, then head back up the stairs and talk to the guys there. Leave this building using the lower-left exit, then enter the inn on your left. Eventually Zidane will leave and you’ll be in control as just him.

Zidane Alone

Head back inside the inn and run all the way to the back. Open the chest there for an ElixirItemFully restores one character's HP and MP.. Talk to Freya if you want to rest, otherwise head out. Head into the room to the right of the inn, where the weird crystal thing is, and go downstairs and talk to the girl. When she leaves, follow her up the stairs. Eventually, you’ll be Eiko, in charge of finding Zidane.

Finding Zidane

Leave the inn and head right. Grab Quina from the Crystal Room, then Vivi from in front of the storage room, and finally Amarant from the town entrance. Go through the glowing green doorway you couldn’t get through before (it’s on the same screen as Amarant), then follow the path and talk to the girl.