I remember my first time as a kid coming across emerald weapon. I thought I would beat it no problem slamming into it with my submarine only to be thought a stern lesson.
Another interesting method is my favorite: Gravity. Most bosses are immune to the Gravity element, Emerald WEAPON is not. So equip your party with W-Magic and mastered Gravity linked to Quadra Magic. Because he's weak to Gravity, even Demi1 will still do 9999 damage to him. So using Demi1 on Emerald WEAPON will, because of the Quadra Magic and W-Magic, inflict 9999 x 2 x 4, or roughly EIGHTY THOUSAND DAMAGE - per character, per round. And when he activates his eyes, just hit them with standard attacks or a powerful spell or summon OTHER THAN KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND (Emerald WEAPON will counter Knights of the Round with Aire Tam Storm if he has less than half his HP). Once the eyes go away, just resume the Gravity bombardment. Bear in mind, you can't ACTUALLY kill Emerald with Gravity. It does percentage damage, so you'll get him down to around 1000-ish damage. But once you see that he's taking damage less than 9999, just start hitting him with standard attacks. Also, a little advice for anyone trying to Morph the Ghost Ship - Use Yuffie equipped with her Conformer to Morph it. Normally, the Morph command only does 1/10th normal attack damage. However, Yuffie's Conformer actually ignores this damage penalty, and will do FULL damage when using the Morph command, so you can get items from morphable enemies much easier that way.
I just did it the other day on both weapons. If you practice, you can time it just right without even having to slow it down. The first two slot sections will blink twice back to back within a second, and the last one comes right after the second mog. Try it and you'll see exactly what I mean
That sounds like a good cheese strat, but still too grindy for Mme. I just 7777'd both weapons, and went home satisfied. (Actually, I did go back to whoop Ruby once I had Knights of the Round from Mmy ill-gotten gains, 😂)
Lucky 7 is actually the most efficient way to beat Emerald. Every single time when I see someone post a video about how they can beat emerald easy but no lucky 7, I laugh at them
I just beat the weapons recently, just spam KOTR while one character use megalixir and all-life2 for the party. It took 8 KOTR for emerald while 5 or 6 to ruby.
I know this is an old comment, but I accomplished this too with Red xiii at level 83, his hp was naturally 7,777 so just him attacking and 4 rounds of KOTR from Cloud at lvl 99 did the job for me
I had a blast watching this tutorial video! You're absolutely right about Emerald being a "Beginner trap". I had no earthly idea that a lot of the strategies you mentioned even existed. Now I'm about to go home and try.... ALL OF THEM. I look forward to seeing more!
i never thought about it, cuz the the clue, that the damage is linked through materia, never reached me. aire tam storm is an anagram for materia storm.. thing is, the german version on the psx, called materia "substance" but aire tam storm, was left as it is.. thus, no clue for the 12 year old me, that wasnt very good in english at the time. i always thought, that ability was linked via certain damage over time, that eighter you give him or that you take. or that its linked by healing amounts, like at 50k of heal, the ability of his, gets into the pool and has a 1in6 chance to activate. the way i did it back then. was to come with full limit bars on cloudl, red13 and cid, spam all the 3 limits on him right away, but only the ones, that hit multiple times, eq 4x cut on all characters, and burst him down with repeated 4x cuts and use heal materia with magic counter. that way, it got him even without the underwater materia. it took hours of grind to get the 4x cut to max and split into a new one, but thats the way it worked. i only found out about the underwater materia use later, since i had no gameguide
That two materia per character should’ve been strategy 1 which is the “Least amount of work strategy”. Seriously, that strategy is even simpler and kills Emerald quicker. You don’t even have to think about getting final attack materia
@@iam4026 Not to mention spending DAYS trying to win the randomly appearing blue Command Counter materia from Chocobo Racing... that displayed on the screen the same as the purple independent Counter materia until you actually won it. I swear I had dozens of those things in my inventory by the time I got the one I wanted.
Can't help myself... It's materia in reverse. It's also an anagram, but reverse is a more limiting description. Since "rate mira" is an anagram, but not a reverse, or palindrome. I think palindrome only works with numbers. 😳
I was really wanting to find a video detailing Emerald Weapon in exhaustive detail -- not for tips or techniques: just because I was curious to see all of its abilities and how the battle played out mechanically. Wasn't expecting to find a video like that, really. However, not only did I find it, but I also found one of the most entertaining FF-related videos I've seen in a long time! Bravo, good sir! :-)
Oddly enough I've never seen the strategy I used for Emerald Weapon when I was younger in any kind of "how to defeat him tutorial videos". So my strategy revolves around the fact that he's susceptible to Gravity. Therefore I use (W-Magic) (Gravity)=(Quadra-Magic) (Gravity)=(MP Absorb) on every character One turn deals 79992 HP per character which is 239976 per turn which should get rid of him in 5 turns (including the finishing blow because Demi deals %-based damage only) Throw on some (Final Attack)=(Phoenix / Revive) on everyone & you're good to go. Good job on the FF7 videos. Just watched them today because I'm playing the game yet again myself.
MISTRRLOVE nice. i remember back in 1998-1999 i killed him by using double cast Knights of the Round, and the other two characters would mimic it. i got to cast 6 kotr in one trun before he could hit me, and by the 2nd time throw he was dead. i did the same set up with ruby. I just used cloud by himself and would just mimc a double cast KOTR or mimc a Omni Slash over and over until he was dead.
I love how most of this video boils down to "grind materia for 1000+ hours and nuke everything." I actually wasn't aware of some of these combos, many are quite cool.
Strategy #3 worked for me! In addition I had all of my characters limits ready and then used kotrt + mime. I've been trying to defeat it for months thank you soo much!!!
Its rare to find a TH-camr who can give fun information and explain what and how to things. My siblings are so impressed as those youve taught us is something they didnt know and they've played it like 10 times or more in their lives xD please continue these and i look forward to watching you when the remake comes! More power! Ps: are you also a trophy guide maker?
Thanks for the support, I'm glad your siblings enjoy the show! I don't make trophy guides but it's something I would maybe like to do someday since I do trophy hunt every Monday and Tuesday on my stream.
4-8Productions i really like how you put wit and explanation in these videos ^_^ the reason i ask is i mostly devote myself on trophies for all games i play now which i think is something im sure youll do well at too. They were so amazed with your no button pressing methods. Thank you so much again! I hope for more success with your vids and games
I just found your channel and I love it. You've inspired me to delve deeply into ff7 before the remake so it's fresh in my mind. Speaking of fresh, nice dance moves!
Oh my God. How are you so good at making joke and video like this. This is literally the kind of joke I always laugh to when I was a kid. These things don't appear no where In the recent years anymore. Glad to see some talents like you. You make my love for this franchise just keep getting bigger. Have a happy new year sir
I cannot stress how GOOD you are at making these tutorial videos! They have everything! Humor, insight, knowledge and out of the box strategies I would of never thought of! It's thanks to you I managed to get the best possible experience out of FF7 just by learning how to play it right, and these videos have been educational and enlightening time and time again! Thought Strat #5 was just pure genius and typical of you to find something like that! Strat #4 is by far the coolest athestically and the most badass! But yeah, everything you said is so true! This boss made me lose sleep as a child! And it felt amazing to come back and crush him! It was bitter sweet to finish this game, and I was guttered the experience was over. This game will always have a special place in my heart and I feel your passion is second to none! For a new FF7 video, you could maybe do something about Sephiroth? And explain as to why he is the single most badass individual of any video game genre! Anyway, dont stop doing what you're doing! You deserve more subscribers for the work you put in! Stay awesome.
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4-8Productions It's the least i could do! And i look forward to it bro, that would be my pleasure! Your stream sounds like its going to be a ton of fun! I'm going to be a subscriber for sure :)
Humor? Come on... Really? Hes annoying as hell. The worst kind of comedy is when they think they´re funny, and just keep going on, and on, and on. Get to the point, please! Nice strategies, I´ll give you that. Skip the "comedy". It´s embarrassing.
Thanks for the help. I finally beat him using this: Cloud lvl 99, Ultima Weapon (HP Plus and 4x slash) Tifa lvl 99, Premium Heart (Underwater, Final Attack+Phoenix and HP Plus) Yuffie lvl 76, Conformer (Final Attack+Revive,HP Plus and enemy skill materia for White Wind) (all mastered materias^) 7 megalixirs and many many elixirs I kept Cloud at 9999 hp most of the time with elixirs and white wind. 4x slash helped take care of the eyes and so did omnislash or final heaven. When Tifa died, she cast phoenix and revived all the other members. Eventually, Emerald weapon used Aire tam storm and dealt 2222 damage to cloud, which did the 7777 trick, after that and one omnislash immediately after(that I am not sure was necessary) Now I have the master materias. yay
i literally cant get enough of strat 3. i die everytime it comes up like ive watched this just for that one alone like 10 times. congrats i cant even stop laughing at it thank you
(This turned out to be way longer than I thought, so if nothing else just know I loved your sense of humour here, made me wanna go watch all your other FF stuff.) Funny you should mention, as it turns out FFX and FFVII are supposed to be in the same universe according to the 'Scenario Writer' for both games Kazushige Nojima. It is heavily suggested in the 'Final Fantasy VII Ultimania Omega', but blatantly asserted by him in the 'Final Fantasy X-2 Ultimania' where he states that following the end of X-2 the boy Shinra goes on to try to create a system to utilise "the life force that runs through our planet". He fails to complete this in his life time, but Nojima states that in the future when traveling to other planets like Gaia is possible the Shin-ra company is founded there "about 1000 years after this story [FFX-2]..." using his technology to extract mako from the Lifestream. That theory however was said by Nojima in an interview, likely somewhat offhand so it probably can't be considered canon, which is probably for the best as it opens up a MASSIVE plot hole surrounding the Shin-ra No.26 rocket and why that what's such a big deal if they had to leave Spira to get to planet Gaia to begin with.... But whatever some fun little trivia.
Yeah I was aware of the whole Shinra business, which is why I made the joke, but I left it at that since explaining it all would have taken another 20 minutes, and as you said it's not really considered canon. That always perplexed me though, Final Fantasy to me is a collection of stories from different universes where unlikely heroes team up to save the world. It's fine that way, and I love it that way, so why try to connect them? And why make a statement like that when it puts a giant plot hole in your game, and furthermore why name the boy Shinra!? Oh well.
I didn't think I had taken too much from this video but apparently I did! Recently bought FFVII on Steam and been working on clearing all achievements in one play through. Had never beaten Emerald before, but I was taking a break from AP grinding in the crater and figured what the hell, I'd give it a shot. Went in with no real prep, just remembered the Lucky 7s cheese so threw on two HP plus and got two characters to 9,999HP, and used the third as a megalixer spammer and beat it first time. Great feeling to finally beat that part of my childhood, in one attempt no less! Ruby weapon will be next!
I used almost the same setup as we did with ruby. Kotr-Absorb HP, with mime had everyone alive and let them die after making yuffie cast Haste so I can get more attacks in Used KotR twice and mimed every time after. I found out that he actually has a chance to MISS Aire tame so equip a lucky plus materia and just spam him to death with Kotr It really did feel like RNG the entire time but I eventually got him on my 11th try and that was after a million iterations to my build.
I basically did this too. Just had Cloud with kotr-hp absorb mime-counter w-summon Then Yuffie had mime-counter And Cid had Mime-counter underwater You put your cursor to memory Have Cloud cast W-Summon kotr Have Cid and Yuffie use mime Wait for Clouds turn then use mime himself Then just hold the O button or whatever button you use for confirming an action You will only use the mp for kotr on Cloud the 2 times and after because everyone is miming it, it will be free. Also every time he hits you with a single move you will counter with an hp absorbing w-summon kotr. You can't die!
All these years later and I never realised you could put two KOTR on one person. I had three plays with Mastered KOTR, W-Summon, Mimic, and Finalcut-Pheonix. It worked but always pushed the timer. If only I had known, it's so damn simple.
dude so good. how you can bring new fresh watchable content for a 20 yr old game, with a wife, with a house, is just amazing. whats your day job man! wish i could do what you do with a family too!
I started a website design company last year after graduating college, so that's my day job. I would like to spend more time doing this and less time on my company, which is why I decided to start a Patreon page. But since it just started we don't have much support yet. I hope to have a lot of support soon so I can turn 4-8Productions into my day job, and start releasing a lot more content! Also, thank you for the kind words, it's much appreciated! ;)
Lol I remember an old friend I used to have wanted to GameShark the Emerald fight. I was reluctant but he still lost . All all best codes on at the time too....btw, ff7 is on Switch now....OMG, it's on a Nintendo console...
I actually tested out another no button strat. Instead of FA + Revive, FA + KotR x3, just do FA + Revive, FA + KotR, FA + Mime x2. You don't even need an HP MP materia since only the first KotR per death counts as a cast.
If the Weapons only show up to defend the planet, and only showed up once Sephiroth cast Meteor, does that mean Shinra using the Mako wasn’t all that bad? Or would they have shown up sooner or later once the planet’s Mako started running out?
Either a plot hole or that Shinra draining mako is inconsequential compared to meteor about to crash onto the planet. I mean, Shinra does only drain mako in midgar
I have can’t remember how I did it but I remember managing to defeat emerald weapon within a few attempts . Amazing how my young mind could intuitively navigate such intricate tactics .
I keep trying the No Button Strategy, and I keep dying. What is going wrong? I have all the necessary materia, but it seems like I am running out of revives or something. Any tips? EDIT: KotR wasn't doing enough damage to kill in time (i.e. before I ran out of revives). Cloud was level 99, but I needed to equip Magic Plus materia(s) to increase the power of the summon.
Love the videos. When I was younger I had a fear of the ocean and the man-eating creatures that lived in the said body of water, combined with poor hand-eye coordination and handling the submarine like a brick, Emerald terrified me when I was little.
I just Want to Point Out somwthing. I really think that underwater materia is just useless, since from the moment you are actually prepared to beat emerald weapon, you will do it before time runs out. Or at least it was my experience, and you can use those AP for another materia. EDIT: Oh, okey, I was a #1 Strategy user. Good old times.
This brings back fond memories of the original ff7, 2 decades ago!! I recall it took me 45 mins to beat this boss, and relied on the chaining of the kings summons.
All Lucky 7's does a shit ton of damage but doesn't kill him. However if you have limit breaks at the ready, you can easily kill him when the effect is over.
There’s another strategy that works flawlessly. First, kill off two characters so there’s only one left to fight. On your preferred character, equip KOTR paired with Hp steal. Then pair the command counter material with mime. So you select KOTR which will steal enough HP to refill your health. After that, just select mine. You won’t need higher than rank 1 knights because you’re miming your own attack. Each time you mime, knights gets used again and steals hit points. If you get attacked, you counter attack with mime. This is such an easy strategy that the timer is irrelevant. This is still a great video. I never fully understood the mechanics of the battle. I just knew how to win. I also didn’t know the timer could be removed!
The first time I came across Emerald Weapon, I was playing the original PS1 version. It killed me in 1 hit and then my save file got corrupted. It was a most traumatizing experience as a kid 🤣
Dude! I just beat him! I fucking beat him!!!! I used your lucky sevens trick just because I wanted to see what lucky sevens was like having never done it before, but I continued to fight him once it stopped, and for the first time ever as well I beat him! 22 years later and I finally beat emerald weapon 😍
+Austin Jackson thats okay! We appreciate your support whether or not you send us money or not. Once i reach ffviii in my final fantasy lets play maybe ill make a junction video, ive always wanted to learn all there is to learn about it since its pretty complicated once you get in depth.
Strategy #6: The Black-Flag Removal Slots Exploit... STRATEGY Use Cait Sith’s second Limit Break and force the game to use Game Over. There’s a video for that on 4-8’s channel. You instantly win with funny character. Pure. Unadulterated. Funny.
9:43 spongebob is a Square enix spy that’s teleporting back and forth from the Square enix headquarters to tell the creators of the game that 4-8 productions is exposing all their secrets.. be careful 4-8
Ive used the following strat for nearly 2 decades....works like a charm. Set up Cloud with his Ultima Weapon and Mystile armor. Set up Yuffie with Conformer and Mystile/Minerva Band Set up Barrett with Missing Score and Mystile/Escort Guard. Materia Setup as follows (all mastered) Cloud: Sneak Attack-KOTR, W-Summon-Magic Plus, Final Attack-Revive, Counter-Mine Yuffie: Counter Attack x8 Final Attack-Revive, Mime, HP-MP Barrett: Final Attack-Revive, Counter-Mime, HP-MP, Speed Plus -Magic Plus. Battle begins with Cloud casting KOTR twice. Mime attacks repeatedly with all characters. If done correctly, Emerald will only attack one or two times before being destroyed. My average fight time.is.between 7 to 9 minutes
Haha, I remember grinding on Magic Pots like hell several years ago, and I mastered so many Materias that I eventually ended up with like 5 of each Master Materia and a bunch of Knights Of Round, Slash-All and HP Absorb materias etc, and I would set up insane combos like having an 80% chance of a Sneak Attack with Knights Of Round, a Final Attack combined with Phoenix, and other fun stuff. I also used that glitch (?) that allows Double Cut to absorb HP from enemies if HP Absorb is combined with Master Command.
Great job on the videos. I remember my brother got the tip of using final attack and Phoenix materia together from calling the 1 800 Nintendo power phone number. Yeah, I'm kinda old lol
also, since playing my first domestic copy of FFVII with entertaining gameplay, story and it's many mini games (3 focused on racing - my favorite video game genre) which all give it maximum replay value. which is one reason why I'm majorly fan-boying for the HD Edition on the PS4! still, to each their own and nice work!
Replaying this I couIdn't be bothered grinding up high level materia, so I just used 4x cut on each character & long range materia for Cloud, stand everyone in the backrow & tranq everyone for sadness extra 30% def boost or use fury for faster limits (fury can make you miss), immediately hero drink at the start of the fight, and after that it's just chop away until Emerald dies. Use limits as they appear, and have one character megalixer everytime damage is taken. Bonus is you don't have to wait for long animations with magic or summons and Emerald will never meet the criteria to use Aire tam storm. Win.
Did u know that vincents last weapon death penalty, counts how many kills you have had with it and does damage depending of that. you could also farm emerald weapons hp with deathpenalty and 1hit kill him. Might take forever but works
Why does the Lucky 7's trick not kill it? Does it trigger only once and thus the 64 attacks are split between all characters, instead of each character getting their own trigger and their own 64 attacks?
I'm shocked you didn't post the counter-attack, counter deathblow, 4x cut combo. You kill Emerald in only a few turns with Cid. It was my favorite way to cheese him about 10 years ago when I found out that it works.
I remember my first time as a kid coming across emerald weapon. I thought I would beat it no problem slamming into it with my submarine only to be thought a stern lesson.
Lol yup me too
Sammmeeee
I learned it the hard way ;-;
I remember getting lucky 7’s on Diamond Weapon so it was basically useless since he doesn’t take physical damage.
It hurts me that this comment is 2 years old and none of the replies caught your pun.
Nicely done.
Another interesting method is my favorite: Gravity. Most bosses are immune to the Gravity element, Emerald WEAPON is not. So equip your party with W-Magic and mastered Gravity linked to Quadra Magic. Because he's weak to Gravity, even Demi1 will still do 9999 damage to him. So using Demi1 on Emerald WEAPON will, because of the Quadra Magic and W-Magic, inflict 9999 x 2 x 4, or roughly EIGHTY THOUSAND DAMAGE - per character, per round. And when he activates his eyes, just hit them with standard attacks or a powerful spell or summon OTHER THAN KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND (Emerald WEAPON will counter Knights of the Round with Aire Tam Storm if he has less than half his HP). Once the eyes go away, just resume the Gravity bombardment. Bear in mind, you can't ACTUALLY kill Emerald with Gravity. It does percentage damage, so you'll get him down to around 1000-ish damage. But once you see that he's taking damage less than 9999, just start hitting him with standard attacks.
Also, a little advice for anyone trying to Morph the Ghost Ship - Use Yuffie equipped with her Conformer to Morph it. Normally, the Morph command only does 1/10th normal attack damage. However, Yuffie's Conformer actually ignores this damage penalty, and will do FULL damage when using the Morph command, so you can get items from morphable enemies much easier that way.
This is insanely the BEST comment I have ever read on TH-cam ever
This is totally the best method though I have beat him with unlimited megalixirs and final attack phoenix as well
This is how I defeated emerald as a kid
@Jean Valjean I don't think so, but what would you even get from Emerald WEAPON other than the Earth Harp?
@@HexenMeister06 did you know Yen sid spelled backward is...
I Cait Sith'd Emerald WEAPON start of the fight more than 20 years ago and I regret NOTHING! 😼
I just did it the other day on both weapons. If you practice, you can time it just right without even having to slow it down. The first two slot sections will blink twice back to back within a second, and the last one comes right after the second mog. Try it and you'll see exactly what I mean
That sounds like a good cheese strat, but still too grindy for Mme. I just 7777'd both weapons, and went home satisfied.
(Actually, I did go back to whoop Ruby once I had Knights of the Round from Mmy ill-gotten gains, 😂)
Me either
@@christopherwheeler1420 lol video or ur lying
@@thesurvivorssanctuary6561 u can't kill either one with that nice try
"aire tam" = materia = mind so blown
Shoudn't be someone mentions it under every ff7 vid 😆
I seriously never got that until this video
That Lucky 7's Party was the best thing on the internet. You, sir, have just won my subscription.
I got lucky af and didn’t even know what it was and got it against him.
Hey death did u do the music of this video ur self if so dude it's tight I like it good beats and rhythm
One of my favorite parts of this channel
Lucky 7 is actually the most efficient way to beat Emerald. Every single time when I see someone post a video about how they can beat emerald easy but no lucky 7, I laugh at them
@@iceman4208its FF music
8:53 Just beat Emerald with this strategy. Thank you!
Wait...... how?
I just beat the weapons recently, just spam KOTR while one character use megalixir and all-life2 for the party. It took 8 KOTR for emerald while 5 or 6 to ruby.
@@carltasticdrew9633 i already done it i had to be lvl 99 and the use the no button strat
I know this is an old comment, but I accomplished this too with Red xiii at level 83, his hp was naturally 7,777 so just him attacking and 4 rounds of KOTR from Cloud at lvl 99 did the job for me
Wow, somebody actually found a good use for the HP MP materia!
I use them to build limit breaks at a high level when near mideel at the sand part thing
Truth
Doesnt matter if your summon has limited uses
@@nehuen7949 you could just use mime to repeat the summon
@@lero9900 eventually you will have to something else and that will ruin mimic Knights... so you will have to summon them again.
I had a blast watching this tutorial video! You're absolutely right about Emerald being a "Beginner trap". I had no earthly idea that a lot of the strategies you mentioned even existed. Now I'm about to go home and try.... ALL OF THEM.
I look forward to seeing more!
That two materia per character trick is so brilliant in its simplicity, that I'm ashamed I never thought of it. 😅
i never thought about it, cuz the the clue, that the damage is linked through materia, never reached me. aire tam storm is an anagram for materia storm.. thing is, the german version on the psx, called materia "substance" but aire tam storm, was left as it is.. thus, no clue for the 12 year old me, that wasnt very good in english at the time. i always thought, that ability was linked via certain damage over time, that eighter you give him or that you take. or that its linked by healing amounts, like at 50k of heal, the ability of his, gets into the pool and has a 1in6 chance to activate. the way i did it back then. was to come with full limit bars on cloudl, red13 and cid, spam all the 3 limits on him right away, but only the ones, that hit multiple times, eq 4x cut on all characters, and burst him down with repeated 4x cuts and use heal materia with magic counter. that way, it got him even without the underwater materia. it took hours of grind to get the 4x cut to max and split into a new one, but thats the way it worked. i only found out about the underwater materia use later, since i had no gameguide
That two materia per character should’ve been strategy 1 which is the “Least amount of work strategy”. Seriously, that strategy is even simpler and kills Emerald quicker. You don’t even have to think about getting final attack materia
@@iam4026 Not to mention spending DAYS trying to win the randomly appearing blue Command Counter materia from Chocobo Racing... that displayed on the screen the same as the purple independent Counter materia until you actually won it. I swear I had dozens of those things in my inventory by the time I got the one I wanted.
Can't help myself... It's materia in reverse. It's also an anagram, but reverse is a more limiting description. Since "rate mira" is an anagram, but not a reverse, or palindrome. I think palindrome only works with numbers. 😳
are the two final attack and phoenix, final attack and bahamet, final attack and some other summons (other than knights of the round)?
I was really wanting to find a video detailing Emerald Weapon in exhaustive detail -- not for tips or techniques: just because I was curious to see all of its abilities and how the battle played out mechanically. Wasn't expecting to find a video like that, really. However, not only did I find it, but I also found one of the most entertaining FF-related videos I've seen in a long time! Bravo, good sir! :-)
I love all of your videos. They should award you a PhD in Final Fantasy 7.
Strat 1: 6:35 - 3 Final Attack Materia (Everyone)
Strat 2: 7:45 - Level 99 and Farm Sources
Strat 3 8:54 - Lucky 7
Strat 4: 9:55 - Omnislash (8 Mimes & 8 Counters)
Strat 5: 10:18 - 3 Final Attack Materia (Cloud)
I swear this is one of the best videos I have ever seen. Period
Dude, W-Summon Knights Of The Round, Mimes on the other 2, and 1 person with Final Attack Revive just in case. That's how I did it.
yep, you can have the other party members w/ only HP plus and Mime and they will trigger lucky 7777's after airetam storm
No, final attak Summon Phenix
W-summon KOTR+Phenix
Oddly enough I've never seen the strategy I used for Emerald Weapon when I was younger in any kind of "how to defeat him tutorial videos". So my strategy revolves around the fact that he's susceptible to Gravity. Therefore I use
(W-Magic) (Gravity)=(Quadra-Magic) (Gravity)=(MP Absorb) on every character
One turn deals 79992 HP per character which is 239976 per turn which should get rid of him in 5 turns (including the finishing blow because Demi deals %-based damage only)
Throw on some (Final Attack)=(Phoenix / Revive) on everyone & you're good to go.
Good job on the FF7 videos. Just watched them today because I'm playing the game yet again myself.
MISTRRLOVE nice. i remember back in 1998-1999 i killed him by using double cast Knights of the Round, and the other two characters would mimic it. i got to cast 6 kotr in one trun before he could hit me, and by the 2nd time throw he was dead.
i did the same set up with ruby. I just used cloud by himself and would just mimc a double cast KOTR or mimc a Omni Slash over and over until he was dead.
4-8 productions is as professional as it gets! Thank you for your content sir
I love how most of this video boils down to "grind materia for 1000+ hours and nuke everything." I actually wasn't aware of some of these combos, many are quite cool.
You can master a kotr in about an hour or two in the north crater, if that long, and that's the one that needs the most ap.
You could just pair Final Attack with Phoenix, meaning you only need one Final Attack.
Strategy #3 worked for me! In addition I had all of my characters limits ready and then used kotrt + mime. I've been trying to defeat it for months thank you soo much!!!
Its rare to find a TH-camr who can give fun information and explain what and how to things. My siblings are so impressed as those youve taught us is something they didnt know and they've played it like 10 times or more in their lives xD please continue these and i look forward to watching you when the remake comes! More power!
Ps: are you also a trophy guide maker?
Thanks for the support, I'm glad your siblings enjoy the show! I don't make trophy guides but it's something I would maybe like to do someday since I do trophy hunt every Monday and Tuesday on my stream.
4-8Productions i really like how you put wit and explanation in these videos ^_^ the reason i ask is i mostly devote myself on trophies for all games i play now which i think is something im sure youll do well at too. They were so amazed with your no button pressing methods. Thank you so much again! I hope for more success with your vids and games
Iv loved this game since 1997, and you've just shown me stuff i never even knew you could do !
thank you so much.
I just found your channel and I love it. You've inspired me to delve deeply into ff7 before the remake so it's fresh in my mind. Speaking of fresh, nice dance moves!
strategy number 3 is now my favorite thing on youtube
That dance party is still my favourite thing in life
Oh my God. How are you so good at making joke and video like this. This is literally the kind of joke I always laugh to when I was a kid. These things don't appear no where In the recent years anymore. Glad to see some talents like you. You make my love for this franchise just keep getting bigger. Have a happy new year sir
i lost it when the " im a firing ma lazar" part came on hahhahha
4-8Productions: *giving tutorial*
me: *just jams to motorcycle chase music*
Alright, I admit, I chucked at “Step 3: Equip Sunglasses”
dude, thank you for posting these. Brought me back to all the summers I spent as a kid pouring over guide books and grinding to get materia.
I cannot stress how GOOD you are at making these tutorial videos! They have everything! Humor, insight, knowledge and out of the box strategies I would of never thought of! It's thanks to you I managed to get the best possible experience out of FF7 just by learning how to play it right, and these videos have been educational and enlightening time and time again!
Thought Strat #5 was just pure genius and typical of you to find something like that! Strat #4 is by far the coolest athestically and the most badass! But yeah, everything you said is so true! This boss made me lose sleep as a child! And it felt amazing to come back and crush him!
It was bitter sweet to finish this game, and I was guttered the experience was over. This game will always have a special place in my heart and I feel your passion is second to none!
For a new FF7 video, you could maybe do something about Sephiroth? And explain as to why he is the single most badass individual of any video game genre!
Anyway, dont stop doing what you're doing! You deserve more subscribers for the work you put in! Stay awesome.
Reb Thank you Reb, you always offer the nicest comments that give me the motivation to continue making videos. I'm glad you've stuck around, and I hope you continue to stick around! Especially when I start live streaming, which should hopefully start in the next month or two, I would love to get the chance to play live and chat with you.
Also if you'd like to see these videos even faster, we really need help promoting our new Patreon page. You can also support it yourself and get some pretty cool prizes in the process!
Stay awesome buddy ;)
4-8Productions
It's the least i could do! And i look forward to it bro, that would be my pleasure! Your stream sounds like its going to be a ton of fun! I'm going to be a subscriber for sure :)
Humor? Come on... Really? Hes annoying as hell.
The worst kind of comedy is when they think they´re funny, and just keep going on, and on, and on. Get to the point, please!
Nice strategies, I´ll give you that. Skip the "comedy". It´s embarrassing.
@@omni1000 dang that was kinda mean dude
@@Goosewitdajuice317 4 years ago, man. 4 years ago...
Out of my group of friends that was playing this when it came out, I'm still the only one to beat Emerald Weapon.
Thanks for the help.
I finally beat him using this:
Cloud lvl 99, Ultima Weapon (HP Plus and 4x slash)
Tifa lvl 99, Premium Heart (Underwater, Final Attack+Phoenix and HP Plus)
Yuffie lvl 76, Conformer (Final Attack+Revive,HP Plus and enemy skill materia for White Wind)
(all mastered materias^)
7 megalixirs and many many elixirs
I kept Cloud at 9999 hp most of the time with elixirs and white wind. 4x slash helped take care of the eyes and so did omnislash or final heaven. When Tifa died, she cast phoenix and revived all the other members. Eventually, Emerald weapon used Aire tam storm and dealt 2222 damage to cloud, which did the 7777 trick, after that and one omnislash immediately after(that I am not sure was necessary) Now I have the master materias. yay
I'm a firing my lasers. Killed me 😂😂😂
I was 14 when this game came out, this was my first super boss that I ever tried and finally defeated. I have been hooked on super bosses ever since
Used the lucky 7s strategy and beat Emrald Weapon! UR videos are amazing!
We love your FF7 videos. Loved the 7777's dance... and the following description for the cloud mime omnislash hahah
i literally cant get enough of strat 3. i die everytime it comes up like ive watched this just for that one alone like 10 times. congrats i cant even stop laughing at it
thank you
Same here
(This turned out to be way longer than I thought, so if nothing else just know I loved your sense of humour here, made me wanna go watch all your other FF stuff.)
Funny you should mention, as it turns out FFX and FFVII are supposed to be in the same universe according to the 'Scenario Writer' for both games Kazushige Nojima. It is heavily suggested in the 'Final Fantasy VII Ultimania Omega', but blatantly asserted by him in the 'Final Fantasy X-2 Ultimania' where he states that following the end of X-2 the boy Shinra goes on to try to create a system to utilise "the life force that runs through our planet". He fails to complete this in his life time, but Nojima states that in the future when traveling to other planets like Gaia is possible the Shin-ra company is founded there "about 1000 years after this story [FFX-2]..." using his technology to extract mako from the Lifestream.
That theory however was said by Nojima in an interview, likely somewhat offhand so it probably can't be considered canon, which is probably for the best as it opens up a MASSIVE plot hole surrounding the Shin-ra No.26 rocket and why that what's such a big deal if they had to leave Spira to get to planet Gaia to begin with.... But whatever some fun little trivia.
Yeah I was aware of the whole Shinra business, which is why I made the joke, but I left it at that since explaining it all would have taken another 20 minutes, and as you said it's not really considered canon. That always perplexed me though, Final Fantasy to me is a collection of stories from different universes where unlikely heroes team up to save the world. It's fine that way, and I love it that way, so why try to connect them? And why make a statement like that when it puts a giant plot hole in your game, and furthermore why name the boy Shinra!? Oh well.
You described my first encounter with Emerald Weapon in a nutshell.....
I keep coming back for the lucky 7's dance. It's funny and awesome in equal measure
9:32 can we get a 10 hour extended version of this dance plus the music?
I didn't think I had taken too much from this video but apparently I did! Recently bought FFVII on Steam and been working on clearing all achievements in one play through. Had never beaten Emerald before, but I was taking a break from AP grinding in the crater and figured what the hell, I'd give it a shot. Went in with no real prep, just remembered the Lucky 7s cheese so threw on two HP plus and got two characters to 9,999HP, and used the third as a megalixer spammer and beat it first time. Great feeling to finally beat that part of my childhood, in one attempt no less! Ruby weapon will be next!
I used almost the same setup as we did with ruby.
Kotr-Absorb HP, with mime
had everyone alive and let them die after making yuffie cast Haste so I can get more attacks in
Used KotR twice and mimed every time after. I found out that he actually has a chance to MISS Aire tame so equip a lucky plus materia and just spam him to death with Kotr
It really did feel like RNG the entire time but I eventually got him on my 11th try and that was after a million iterations to my build.
HOLY
SHIT! THAT ACTUALLY WORKS1
I basically did this too. Just had Cloud with kotr-hp absorb mime-counter w-summon
Then Yuffie had mime-counter
And Cid had Mime-counter underwater
You put your cursor to memory
Have Cloud cast W-Summon kotr
Have Cid and Yuffie use mime
Wait for Clouds turn then use mime himself
Then just hold the O button or whatever button you use for confirming an action
You will only use the mp for kotr on Cloud the 2 times and after because everyone is miming it, it will be free.
Also every time he hits you with a single move you will counter with an hp absorbing w-summon kotr. You can't die!
All these years later and I never realised you could put two KOTR on one person. I had three plays with Mastered KOTR, W-Summon, Mimic, and Finalcut-Pheonix. It worked but always pushed the timer. If only I had known, it's so damn simple.
4:57 "Nooooo!"
Dude, you help me to relive my childhood to my adulthood... love you bro
dude so good. how you can bring new fresh watchable content for a 20 yr old game, with a wife, with a house, is just amazing. whats your day job man! wish i could do what you do with a family too!
I started a website design company last year after graduating college, so that's my day job. I would like to spend more time doing this and less time on my company, which is why I decided to start a Patreon page. But since it just started we don't have much support yet. I hope to have a lot of support soon so I can turn 4-8Productions into my day job, and start releasing a lot more content! Also, thank you for the kind words, it's much appreciated! ;)
Dude! You're like the Gandalf of Final Fantasy. I will follow your videos for life.
Lol I remember an old friend I used to have wanted to GameShark the Emerald fight. I was reluctant but he still lost . All all best codes on at the time too....btw, ff7 is on Switch now....OMG, it's on a Nintendo console...
There was an issue using some together...there was a master code though
I actually tested out another no button strat. Instead of FA + Revive, FA + KotR x3, just do FA + Revive, FA + KotR, FA + Mime x2. You don't even need an HP MP materia since only the first KotR per death counts as a cast.
If the Weapons only show up to defend the planet, and only showed up once Sephiroth cast Meteor, does that mean Shinra using the Mako wasn’t all that bad? Or would they have shown up sooner or later once the planet’s Mako started running out?
or, its an oversight by the devs.. maybe they never thought about that?
Either a plot hole or that Shinra draining mako is inconsequential compared to meteor about to crash onto the planet. I mean, Shinra does only drain mako in midgar
After this video I have to subscribe!
I defeated Emerald in may ways, but the lucks seven trick and the no button were just too much fun!
this was HILARIOUS. thank you so much for this video!
Just started a new playthrough of FF7 last night, and this 9 year old video shows up in my feed. TH-cam is fucking psychic.
How do you only have 55k subs?
Keep up the good work!
So would having sadness on your characters during the battle help? Or does sadness not help defend against airetam storm?
Now I do understand why she choose you as husband .
Funny , smart, funny, with funny sunglasses .
I have can’t remember how I did it but I remember managing to defeat emerald weapon within a few attempts . Amazing how my young mind could intuitively navigate such intricate tactics .
I love this channel! Thank you! You got a new sub!
11:47 hahahaha that was actually you dancing the lucky 7 hahahahaha 😂😂😂😂
I keep trying the No Button Strategy, and I keep dying. What is going wrong? I have all the necessary materia, but it seems like I am running out of revives or something. Any tips?
EDIT: KotR wasn't doing enough damage to kill in time (i.e. before I ran out of revives). Cloud was level 99, but I needed to equip Magic Plus materia(s) to increase the power of the summon.
have you tried source farming?
Love the videos.
When I was younger I had a fear of the ocean and the man-eating creatures that lived in the said body of water, combined with poor hand-eye coordination and handling the submarine like a brick, Emerald terrified me when I was little.
I just Want to Point Out somwthing. I really think that underwater materia is just useless, since from the moment you are actually prepared to beat emerald weapon, you will do it before time runs out. Or at least it was my experience, and you can use those AP for another materia.
EDIT: Oh, okey, I was a #1 Strategy user. Good old times.
This brings back fond memories of the original ff7, 2 decades ago!! I recall it took me 45 mins to beat this boss, and relied on the chaining of the kings summons.
Kings summons?? Do you mean Knights of the Round?
Rev the scatman you are correct! Well it was 2 decades ago and all I remember it was a summon and began with a letter “K”.
wait does lucky 7777 still leave him standing?
Insanis Yea
Diego P. ohh so you cant kill weapon with luck 7
Insanis Yeah. But it's still cool as F*.
Koge -mo yeah mlg attack.
All Lucky 7's does a shit ton of damage but doesn't kill him. However if you have limit breaks at the ready, you can easily kill him when the effect is over.
There’s another strategy that works flawlessly. First, kill off two characters so there’s only one left to fight. On your preferred character, equip KOTR paired with Hp steal. Then pair the command counter material with mime. So you select KOTR which will steal enough HP to refill your health. After that, just select mine. You won’t need higher than rank 1 knights because you’re miming your own attack. Each time you mime, knights gets used again and steals hit points. If you get attacked, you counter attack with mime. This is such an easy strategy that the timer is irrelevant.
This is still a great video. I never fully understood the mechanics of the battle. I just knew how to win. I also didn’t know the timer could be removed!
The first time I came across Emerald Weapon, I was playing the original PS1 version. It killed me in 1 hit and then my save file got corrupted. It was a most traumatizing experience as a kid 🤣
Kevin Dumont F
And Obama was there. And everyone clapped.
Dude! I just beat him! I fucking beat him!!!! I used your lucky sevens trick just because I wanted to see what lucky sevens was like having never done it before, but I continued to fight him once it stopped, and for the first time ever as well I beat him! 22 years later and I finally beat emerald weapon 😍
I wish you would do a junction tutorial for FFVIII I love the junction system but it is a bit hard to know which magics are best for which stat.
If you sign up for our patreon you can get your own video request! ;)
+4-8Productions I know you need money and all but I'm only 14 so XD! Sorry mate. But I enjoy your tutorials.
+Austin Jackson thats okay! We appreciate your support whether or not you send us money or not. Once i reach ffviii in my final fantasy lets play maybe ill make a junction video, ive always wanted to learn all there is to learn about it since its pretty complicated once you get in depth.
4-8Productions It is a complicated system. But beware! EXTREME GRINDING AHEAD!
+Austin Jackson You can find a lot of guides in gamefaq
Can you make in depth stories on other final fantasy 7 characters, and possibly characters from other final fantasy games?
Actually...Why would you think swimming underwater and bathing in quicksand is more useful than blowing up lakes..?
Strategy #6: The Black-Flag Removal Slots Exploit... STRATEGY
Use Cait Sith’s second Limit Break and force the game to use Game Over. There’s a video for that on 4-8’s channel. You instantly win with funny character. Pure. Unadulterated. Funny.
TIL that "Aire Tam Storm" is "Materia Storm" spelled backwards...
9:43 spongebob is a Square enix spy that’s teleporting back and forth from the Square enix headquarters to tell the creators of the game that 4-8 productions is exposing all their secrets.. be careful 4-8
i actually nearly fell off my bed when I saw the "ima fairing ma laysaaa" bit....
The number three all 7s with the music and everything just killed me,epic.
So after watching this video I’ve learned that the WEAPONS are the EDF.
EDF!EDF!!
At least the EDF would do it's job and ACTUALLY stop the alien threat! Genova's a joke compared to the Giant Insects!
1:07 This whole narration is so insanely accurate 😭😭😭😭😭😭
I've had the shittest day today and this made me smile thank you for that you've earned my sub
Glad you are feeling better! 👍
@@4-8Productions thanks! currently watching the live stream of final Fantasy 8 it's my next DL for sure
Ive used the following strat for nearly 2 decades....works like a charm.
Set up Cloud with his Ultima Weapon and Mystile armor.
Set up Yuffie with Conformer and Mystile/Minerva Band
Set up Barrett with Missing Score and Mystile/Escort Guard.
Materia Setup as follows (all mastered)
Cloud: Sneak Attack-KOTR, W-Summon-Magic Plus, Final Attack-Revive, Counter-Mine
Yuffie: Counter Attack x8
Final Attack-Revive, Mime, HP-MP
Barrett: Final Attack-Revive, Counter-Mime, HP-MP, Speed Plus -Magic Plus.
Battle begins with Cloud casting KOTR twice. Mime attacks repeatedly with all characters. If done correctly, Emerald will only attack one or two times before being destroyed. My average fight time.is.between 7 to 9 minutes
Thx for telling me Barrier does not work for this.
Haha, I remember grinding on Magic Pots like hell several years ago, and I mastered so many Materias that I eventually ended up with like 5 of each Master Materia and a bunch of Knights Of Round, Slash-All and HP Absorb materias etc, and I would set up insane combos like having an 80% chance of a Sneak Attack with Knights Of Round, a Final Attack combined with Phoenix, and other fun stuff.
I also used that glitch (?) that allows Double Cut to absorb HP from enemies if HP Absorb is combined with Master Command.
Overflow glitch!!😉
Best emerald weapon guide EVER!
8:51
Great job on the videos. I remember my brother got the tip of using final attack and Phoenix materia together from calling the 1 800 Nintendo power phone number. Yeah, I'm kinda old lol
Confirmed FF10 and FF7 same universe!
Thanks for the video man. I beat him using your lucky 7's technique then pounded him with limits and knights of the round.
Regen isnt Reagen. its short for Regenerate. Ree-jen
also, since playing my first domestic copy of FFVII with entertaining gameplay, story and it's many mini games (3 focused on racing - my favorite video game genre) which all give it maximum replay value. which is one reason why I'm majorly fan-boying for the HD Edition on the PS4! still, to each their own and nice work!
I just used the ps4 infinite limit and hp bar cheat
Yup
Free trophies
i just used the ps2 emulator hp cheat ;3
ANYONE can do it that way. Whatchu want, a cookie?
W Item bug is better
Same. But it didn’t work on emerald or Ruby weapon.
it was a blast to fight that monster without any internet guides :D
I used your materia smuggle glitch explanation to double up on the mastered materia necessary to take him down! :)
Replaying this I couIdn't be bothered grinding up high level materia, so I just used 4x cut on each character & long range materia for Cloud, stand everyone in the backrow & tranq everyone for sadness extra 30% def boost or use fury for faster limits (fury can make you miss), immediately hero drink at the start of the fight, and after that it's just chop away until Emerald dies. Use limits as they appear, and have one character megalixer everytime damage is taken. Bonus is you don't have to wait for long animations with magic or summons and Emerald will never meet the criteria to use Aire tam storm. Win.
Did u know that vincents last weapon death penalty, counts how many kills you have had with it and does damage depending of that. you could also farm emerald weapons hp with deathpenalty and 1hit kill him. Might take forever but works
For emerald weapon I used a good deal of demi casting. might consider a combination that uses mime with KOTR or an omnislash to finish.
Why does the Lucky 7's trick not kill it? Does it trigger only once and thus the 64 attacks are split between all characters, instead of each character getting their own trigger and their own 64 attacks?
This was by far your funniest video ever. Even though I havnt seen most of them admittedly
I'm shocked you didn't post the counter-attack, counter deathblow, 4x cut combo. You kill Emerald in only a few turns with Cid. It was my favorite way to cheese him about 10 years ago when I found out that it works.
I love the life updates at the start of these videos