Cloning Trick:
1. Equip W-Item (you can find it in the underground tracks the last time you go to Midgar; just keep going ALL the way down or you can dig it up in the excavation mini-game near the Sleeping Forest).
2. Use W-Item in battle. Choose an item then choose the item you want to clone (press Confirm only once then press Delete(if you’re on normal configuration then press O then X; you must have more than one of the item you want to clone for the trick to work).
*It’s best to clone Dazers to minimize the risk of Ruby Weapon attacking and to stock up on Megalixers.*
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2.) Get the Underwater Materia first. This involves going to Junon and fighting the Ghost Ship bad guy near where you got the sub on Disk 2. Morph it and you’ll receive a bonus item which you hand to the guy at Kalm searching for stuff, and he’ll give you Underwater Materia.
3.) Final Attack Materia, winnable at the Battle Square, paired with Phoenix as close to mastered as possible. This is a god send for when the git hits you with anything that kills everyone.
4.) W-Item materia, attainable from Midgar on disk 2 by running back towards where the Turks ran off to after you fight them. Go RIGHT back and pick it up to do the Item Cheat. (In battle, select W-Item, select one Megalixir, then select another but CANCEL that action. This increases the count by one. Continue this until you have 99 Megalixirs. Cheap, nasty, but effective.)
5.) After defeating Emerald somehow by combining some, all or none of the above four points, go back to Kalm and hand over the item. Receive Master Magic, Master Summon and Master Command materia.
6.) Equip Cloud with above three Materia and W-Summon. Go to fight Ruby. Kill off two characters if you wish. Wait for Ruby to bury its arms, then bring party back to life. Hades will stop Ruby from moving, and then KOTR it to pieces. This should be a piece of piss after beating Emerald.
🙂 That’s essentially what I did.