Maddness on Disc 1

[Ramiel]

Here's some tips regarding how to pwn everyone, and by everyone I mean EVERYONE, on Disc 1. I have personally dispatched Brothers, Seifer and Edea in only 1 Renzokuken.
Step 1 : Water magic
Availability : As soon as the game starts.
(Note : The monsters you need to defeat are quite harder than normal monsters in the Balamb area, be careful. )
Put Shiva to learn Ice/Water Refine and put Quetzalcoatl to learn Card Mod. Go to the beach area and fight Fastitocalon-F's until Shiva learns Ice/Water refine. Refine the fish fins that the fishes dropped - you'll recieve plenty of Water magic. 20 Waters per fish fin, to be exact! So make sure Squall and Quistis have 100 Waters each. Make Shiva learn Str-J and junction 100 Waters to Squall's STR. Make your way through the Fire Cavern. Make sure Squall's HP value is yellow (critical). When you get Squall's turn, you should have access to Renzokuken - if not, press Triangle until you have. Use Renzokuken. Rinse and repeat. Have Ifrit learn Str-J and junction 100 Waters to Quistis' STR. For Biggs, Wedge and Elvoret, Renzokuken away (MAKE SURE YOU DRAW SIREN FROM ELVORET!). For X-ATMwhatever, Renzokuken. (But if you want to kill him, junction 100 Waters to Selphie's MAG and have her use Slot and Do-Over until she has Thundaga a couple of times, or maybe even stronger magic *cough*meteor*cough*. I never tried it, but I think it'll work.)
Step 2 : Curaga magic and over 3000 HP.
Availability : As soon as you get Siren, but you'll probably need to buy some tents from Balamb/Timber/etc.
Have Siren learn Life/Recovery Refine and refine tents for Curagas. Junction them to your characters' HP. You'll have a buttload of HP.
Step 3 : -aga Magic
Availability : As soon as you get to Timber
Buy Magic, GF, Draw, or Item Scrolls from the Timber Pet Shop and use Tool Refine to make them into 10 Wizard Stones each. Refine them into -aga magic. You should have 100 of each elemental -aga spell on all your characters if you have the Gil, not necessary though. Junction them wherever you like.
Step 4 : Quake magic and 1 hit kills.
Availibility : As soon as you have access to the Tomb of the Unknown King. (Note : I don't know, but I think that you can win Armadodo cards from other places before TotUK.)
Unfortunately, you'll need Diabolos for this. To beat him, draw-cast Demi on him 2-3 times and proceed with your limit breaks. Namely Renzokuken, Zell's 2-move-loop (Booya/Punch Rush/Booya/Punch Rush/Booya etc.), Selphie's Slot with powerful magic, etc. etc. You'll beat him. Have him learn Time Refine. Make sure you have Quetzalcoatl's Card and Card Mod abilities. Use the Card commands on the Armadodos in the TotUK. Card Mod them into Dino Bones, and Time Refine them into QUAKE MAGIC! Junction that to Squall's STR. Awesomesauce.
Optional step : STR Overkill
Make sure Ifrit has Str+40%. Challenge Zell's mother in Balamb to TT until you get Zell's card. Card Mod it into 3 Hyper Wrists. Use one on Ifrit. Junction Ifrit to Squall - make sure he has 100 Quakes junctioned to his STR and the Str+40% and Str+60% abilities on. Your Renzokuken should totally overkill everyone.
Optional step : VIT Overload
Win Gayla cards from TT players (I don't know what TT players have them, but heck, you'll find some). Refine them into Mystery Fluids, and Status Refine them into Meltdowns. Get 100 of them. Make sure Shiva has Vit-J and Vit+40%. Refine Minotaur card into 10 Adamantites and use one on Shiva. Junction Shiva GF along with 100 Meltdowns on their VIT and Vit+40% + Vit+60%. Did anyone say physical invincibillity? Well, at least in most of Disc 1...
Optional step : LIONHEART and 9999s flowing like water
So you got 100 quakes, a high level, some meltdowns to use on enemies, and you hit very hard... but how about a steady flow of 9999s? Yup, Lionheart on disc 1.
This video explains it all:

Want even more? Unfortunately, the only other things you can do to increase your damage is to use Meltdown on enemies for Vit 0 and to level up with Squall.
Good luck pwning everyone.

 

[Lebreau]

I have something to add to your Quake magic one You can also look for T-Rexaurs in the Training Center and kill them. They drop Dino Bones, and that's how I always get my Quake magic.

Some of your methods are quite costly >.> I'd have to spend ages getting gil to do them

 

[Ramiel]

They're only costly if you're going for total overkill. I only had 100 Blizzagas on my Squall, whereas I could've chosen to spend a buttload of gil and get 500 Firagas, 500 Blizzagas and 500 Thundagas. Naw, 100 Blizzagas are enough.

 

[Ness]

Well, the key to balancing out all that cost is maintaining the highest SeeD rank possible...which implies that you perform exceptionally on the Dollet Exam. After all, you can only take as many SeeD tests as Squall's level, so it's in your best interest to have the highest rank possible, since that's the majority of your income anyways.

On that note, I strongly recommend passing up XATMetc, rather than trying to actually kill him. He's very difficult to finish off at that level, especially since you've only got 3-4 turns to deal ~6000 HP damage. I had Queztcoatl at 1000 affinity, and that still wasn't enough...though it was close. I prefer to not risk the fight with him and not drop my SeeD score.

 

[Ramiel]

Added Lionheart on Disc 1. Didn't explain how and what, instead posted a video by the one and only king of YouTube and FF. That should be enough.
By the way, wanna hear something very interesting?

Spoiler

This is my first playthrough.

 

[ponkadolz]

i have a different method when it comes to pwning everyone in disc 1 without using limit breaks.. yeah, only a normal attack from squall.. PLAY CARDS.. you can have strong magic like flare, holy, tornado, etc. early in disc 1 if you play cards with the TREPE FANS CLUB in the cafeteria.. 10 ruby dragons can be modded into item which can be magic refine into flare.. junction flare to squall's str, and the +% str ability then you'll have 255 str early in the game.. i'm using the punishment sword btw, with items i also obtained from playing cards.. and i keep my level as low as posible, my characters' max level before disc two was 10 only... XD you can also have the highest posible hp in disc one by acquiring siren and the refine ability to refine your regen rings into fulllife then junction it to your hp.. you can get the rings by card modding 10 chimera cards that you won from the trepe fanboys.. XD