Final Fantasy VIII

Magazines

This section contains a list of magazines, who they are for, what they do, and where they come from. Because FF8 cannot resist hiding useful things inside piles of reading material.

Weapons MonthlyTeaches your characters the recipes for modding weapons at a Junk Shop.7 entries

Name	Disc	Location	Buy	Learn	Character
WM March	1	Beat Elvoret at Dollet Tower	Esthar Book Store	Revolver, Metal Knuckle, Flail, Chain Whip	Squall
WM April	1	Squall's Room	Esthar Book Store	Shear Trigger, Maverick, Pinwheel, Valiant	Squall
WM May	1	Deling City Sewers	Esthar Book Store	Cutting Trigger, Valkyrie, Ulysses, Slaying Tail	Squall
WM June	2	Defeat BGH251F2 at Missile Base	Esthar Book Store	Flame Saber, Gauntlet, Morning Star, Red Scorpion	Squall
WM July	2	Garden Training Center after Garden Battle	Esthar Book Store	Twin Lance, Rising Sun, Bismarck, Crescent Wish	Squall
WM August	2	Trabia Garden, south of fountain	Esthar Book Store	Punishment, Ehrgeiz, Cardinal, Save the Queen	Squall
WM 1st	3	Lunatic Pandora as Laguna	Esthar Book Store (requires Familiar)	Lion Heart, Shooting Star, Exeter, Strange Vision	Squall

Pet PalsTeaches Rinoa's dog Angelo new tricks, which isn't acutally as useful as it sounds.6 entries

Name	Disc	Location	Buy	Learn	Character
PP Vol 1	1	Train to Timber	Esthar Book Store	Angelo Strike	Rinoa
PP Vol 2	1	Rinoa's bed in Forest Owls train	Esthar Book Store	Angelo Recover	Rinoa
PP Vol 3	1	After meeting Rinoa	Timber Pet Shop	Invincible Moon	Rinoa
PP Vol 4	1	After meeting Rinoa	Timber Pet Shop	Angelo Reverse	Rinoa
PP Vol 5	3	N/A	Esthar Book Store	Angelo Search	Rinoa
PP Vol 6	3	N/A	Esthar Book Store	Wishing Star	Rinoa

Combat KingTeaches Zell new Duel moves for his Limit Break.5 entries

Name	Disc	Location	Buy	Learn	Character
CK 001	2	Level 1: Prison	Esthar Book Store	Dolphin Blow	Zell
CK 002	2	Beat Fujin at Balamb Hotel	Esthar Book Store	Meteor Strike	Zell
CK 003	3	Balamb Hotel. Chick who likes Zell.	Esthar Book Store	Meteor Barret	Zell
CK 004	3	Zell beats Esthar Soldier in Esthar	Esthar Book Store (requires Familiar)	Different Beat	Zell
CK 005	3	Lunatic Pandora	Esthar Book Store (requires Familiar)	My Final Heaven	Zell

Occult FanDrops weird hints for Doomtrain and other occulty things.4 entries

Name	Disc	Location	Buy	Learn	Character
OF I	1	Balamb Garden Library bookcase	Esthar Book Store (requires Familiar)	Misc	Squall
OF II	2	Dollet Pub	Esthar Book Store (requires Familiar)	Misc	Squall
OF III	2	Master Fisherman in Fisherman's Horizon	N/A	Misc	Squall
OF IV	3	Esthar: talk to presidential aide by air station, then presidential secretary in palace	N/A	Misc	Squall

MiscCovers special one-off magazines that do not belong to a normal series.1 entry

Name	Disc	Location	Buy	Learn	Character
Girl Next Door	1	Find in stack of 'zines in Timber Maniacs headquarters	N/A	On Disc 3, give to Zone to get the Shiva card	Zone

Timber ManiacsAllows Selphie to add new stories about Laguna on the Garden computer. Whee.12 entries

Disc	Location	Buy	Learn
1	Dollet Pub (Upstairs)	N/A	Laguna Gambles?!?
1	Dollet Inn (Upstairs)	N/A	Laguna goes to Dollet to try and get into Esthar
1	Timber Maniacs Headquarters	N/A	Esthar's Secret
1	Timber Inn (Upstairs)	N/A	Laguna visits a hotel full of Galbadian soldiers in Timber
1	Deling City Inn (Upstairs)	N/A	Laguna finds his way to Esthar
2	Fisherman's Horizon Inn (tower)	N/A	Laguna gets lost on the Esthar continent
2	Fisherman's Horizon Inn (Upstairs)	N/A	Laguna visits the town of Balam
2	Trabia Garden Graveyard	N/A	Laguna visits the Shumi Tribe
2	Balamb Inn (Upstairs)	N/A	Selphie in the Centra Ruins
2	Shumi Village (Artisan's House)	N/A	Laguna stars in a movie
2	Edea's House (ruined bedroom where Cid appears)	N/A	"A pub somewhere, plus the owner"
3	White SeeD Ship	N/A	Laguna gets to Fisherman's Horizon