More of the FF7 Debug Room

Here we have Mute Tifa. Talk to Mute Tifa, and she gives you a menu with many options of nothing. Choose the third nothing, and you get...99 OF EVERY ITEM IN THE GAME!!! How was anyone supposed to know?

Now I'm in a room with a gigantic jumping Aeris, Professor Hojo, and a nurse. And the Chocobo Theme is playing...it's a wacky place. That's the message you get when you first enter the area...and you want "for those with a little time" because the other option just gives you a menu. And here's me inside the nurse, demonstrating that there's no such thing as clipping in the debug zone.

That should give you an idea of how giant the giant Aeris is. Talking to her makes her coo, "Hello, wanna-be hero. You ready for your special journey?" Ready as I'll ever be. All these areas describe a different part of the Mideel incident in one way or another....except for Hades; I don't remember going to Hades in this game. Where's that?

Talk to her twice, and she says:

Um...no, none of that interests me. I think I'll just walk around.

The bottom nurse, otherwise known as the Nurse of Transmogrification, will change you into any character you please. The catch is, she's made up her own names for everyone so you have no idea who you're changing into. "WHO YOU CALLIN' LITTLE, FOO??"

"Princess" is Aeris, but you might be thinking, "can't I choose to be that GIANT Aeris over there?" They were ahead of you, because that's exactly what her option does.

"SOOO....what's this I've been hearing about an "experiment" you want to do? Still interested NOW?? Experiment THIS!! HA HA HA HA HAAAA!!!"

Too bad Sephiroth wasn't put in this room.

Here's a scene from the Temple of the Ancients where Sepp tries to control Cloud. During this scene you see two of Cloud: his adult self and a ghost of his child self. But wait...I'm running around as the ghost kid! I've circled where I am in the first picture. In the second, Cloud is crying because I'm making out with Aeris and he can't do anything about it.

This is a room where you're wearing shiny pants. Aeris is also shiny--I mean, her entire self. I tried to capture the shot in mid-shine, but she just ended up looking "overexposed." Talk to President Shinra and he asks if you want a White Boogen with a key or a White Boogen without a key. I don't know what a White Boogen is, but I'll have to go for the offer where you get a free key; that can't be bad.

By "Key" he meant the Key of the Ancients, which if you recall you needed to get from underwater in Disc 2 to activate something. But I'm not piloting the submarine....I'm piloting the KEY; and to make things even more freaky, I can rise above the walls and travel in the extremely boxy area between canyons!

This is the "universe" CGI scene from Bugenhagen's Lab...Bugenhagen was the bald guy in the Indian city who knew Red. But....Bugenhagen and Cloud are not supposed to be standing there! What you're really seeing is a scene from Disc 2 where they stand and watch a short film of Aeris...I was using Disc 1 and it didn't have that cinema on it. Instead, it chose something else. This is the problem: I can't make a save for Disc 2 or 3; I got this debug save from someone else. I'm not complaining much; it does make things more interesting. Look what it does to the climactic battle with Sephiroth:

I didn't notice said battle had a cinema-produced background until now, when everyone appeared around Sepp as whitish blobs watching the train circle around Midgar. Barret is "Ballet" again, and when that cinema ends....

....things go back to normal, except there is nothing in place of where the cinema back would go. This makes the characters wiggle a lot faster.....the animated background must have slowed the whole scene down and the programmers compensated for that. I was hoping to see the entire end of the game messed-up, but then I had to assemble my party. As you can see, I was boned.

Here I am at Wutai a second time, mimicking Yuffie's illustration for the "change disc" screen. In both cases, that's not a place you can normally stand and you'll be stuck there until you reset the Playstation.

Toriyama? As in the Dragonball/Chrono Trigger guy? I don't really know what his name is doing there, but these interesting options are for the portion of the game where you have to jump off a train in a certain amount of time. The slower you were, the more repeating tunnel screens you would have to wade through to get to where you wanted to go. There was an advantage to being poky on purpose...at the very end was an endless supply of soldiers which you could fight for experience as long as you wanted to. Whether you'll choose "Oh, NO!!" or not depends on how hardcore you are.

....So Cid is asking me if I want to be a man or a woman? I think this tops the talking floor for impossibilities. What both of them lead to is the Don Corneo part of the game, where you had to dress Cloud as a female to rescue Tifa.

This is also the only area in the entire game where you can see Cait Sith and Reeve in the same room.

	There is someone you can talk to who will let you battle 5 triangles for 500,000 EXP. Using this over and over, you can get Cloud to level 99 in two minutes. If you start a game like this, every character that joins you will also be very high-rated. Barret was level 93 when I started a file where Cloud was automatically 99.

Leave it to a cucumber as cool as Sephiroth to give you a movie viewer option. However, he evilly short-changes you by only letting you see half the movies(and that's not just because I'm trapped on Disc 1). Sadly, there is no music player. You'll have to rip the 4-disc soundtrack from a torrent site to get that....