Hey guys, i'm new to this forum.
I'm playing final fantasy 6 again (my favourite one) and i have forgotten how to keep Shadow alive and stay in the group. Can anyone help me with this?
I have searched high and low throughout the internet but just could not find anything. Thanks.

before jumping off the floating island wait.... AS the clock reaches the final seconds he SHOULD show up. Then youll have to find him later with celes and whatever gang youve mustered by that point.

Yes.

When you are getting ready to jump off, you have the option to either "Jump", or "Wait". Choose wait, and you will stand there for a little bit. Don't worry, when you choose wait, Shadow will show up in time for all of you to escape safely.

Yeah, i was doing that part yesterday, Shadow comes when there is 5 seconds left on the clock. They jump off and the world goes to hell.

One time I didn't get back in time and my party went down with the island. I was quite pissed. Quite.

Anything interesting happen when your party go down with the island?

Anything interesting happen when your party go down with the island?

The same thing that would happen if you just sat there the whole time and let the clock run out without working your way through the island. Game Over.

I once beat the entire island with time to spare, and I chose to "wait". I waited for 20 seconds and I assumed Shadow would come, but he didn't. So I thought that perhaps he was already on the ship because I'd waited for awhile and he didn't come.

I felt pretty bad when he wasn't there! Good thing Square didn't program it so that Shadow ran up riiiight as you jumped to safety and looked around for the party. ;D

What you need to do is get to the end, choose "wait" (DO NOT JUMP), and twiddle your thumbs, make a few paper airplanes... and eventually Shadow will run up to you and make your team jump to safety automatically. This will happen when there are 1 or 2 seconds left on the clock, so don't panic.

I once beat the entire island with time to spare, and I chose to "wait". I waited for 20 seconds and I assumed Shadow would come, but he didn't. So I thought that perhaps he was already on the ship because I'd waited for awhile and he didn't come.

I felt pretty bad when he wasn't there! Good thing Square didn't program it so that Shadow ran up riiiight as you jumped to safety and looked around for the party. ;D

I did the same thing my first time through. I felt so horrible because I murdered Shadow. It was even funnier because I had happened to name him after myself, so technically I committed suicide.

Haha. ;)

I just kept thinking, at the time, about how I would have felt if I was Shadow! He'd get up there, notice the airship was gone, and know he was going to die. Or maybe he saw them jump off and didn't get to them in time. Or maybe the airship was flying away from the island and one of them turned around and saw Shadow but it was too dangerous to fly back and get him so they had to watch him die.

Yeah, I was weird. ;)

Haha. ;)

I just kept thinking, at the time, about how I would have felt if I was Shadow! He'd get up there, notice the airship was gone, and know he was going to die. Or maybe he saw them jump off and didn't get to them in time. Or maybe the airship was flying away from the island and one of them turned around and saw Shadow but it was too dangerous to fly back and get him so they had to watch him die.

Yeah, I was weird. ;)
Whatever the case, Shadow had it rough if that happened.

On my most recent playthrough, I got stuck in a battle with only a few seconds left on the clock and thought I was screwed royal. But then the battle auto-ended and Shadow showed up and it turned out I was okay.

After you wait up until 5 secs on the clock, Shadow'll come and escape with all your party members, only to be lost AGAIN!!! After you organize Celes, Setzer and Edgar (maybe Sabin) go to the cave near the Veldt and you'll see Shadow half-dead on the ground. You'll have to wrestle down a couple beasts to protect Shadow. (Or Relm if you KILL HIM!!!) Take him to Relm and Strago's hometown and leave him in bed. Do something else for a couple minutes and he'll eventually go away. A person in the village will tell you that "That guy in black went to the Colosseum. You know where to go. YOU HAVE TO GET THE STRIKER WEAPON FROM THE CAVE NEAR THE VELDT BEFORE CONTINUING!!! You have to bet the Striker in able to fight Shadow. Pick up any old ally to fight him. (Even Relm can whoop his ass because he's automatically poisoned.) He'll join you if you manage to beat him. But why can Relm be the save-me-or-i'll-end-up-being-unobtainable character.

right, when i played, Shadow killed himself tryin to save Celes or someone on that part when kefka moved the statues. After i was running around trying to get off, i just saw Shadow sprinting like hell in the top edge of my screen, and Relm was in the cave instead, and i bet the Striker in the colloseum and then Shadow showed up, i beat him and he joined my party and when i was gonna switch characters, Shadow was in place with Relm and Relm was no longer there........WTF!!!!!!!!!! help me

Hmm, don't know. You should be able to find Relm over in Jidoor by fighting the portrait monster. I think.