Galbadia Prison Rosetta Stone Farming - FF8 Guide

The Galbadia Prison is famous for the Rosetta Stone farming trick. Not only is this the earliest in the game that you can acquire a Rosetta Stone but you can also farm here as long as you want and collect as many Rosetta Stones as you want.

As aforementioned on the Galbadia Prison Walkthrough, a Rosetta Stone teaches a GF the Abilityx4 ability which allows a chracter to equip 4 Abilities at a time. The only GF that learns this naturally is Bahamut - which you won't be able to get until much later during Disc 3.

In order to get a "perfect game" where your team is as powerful as they can be you'll need to get 2 Rosetta Stones at minimum. You'll be able to very easily get one from Esthar During Disc 3 and one from Ultimecia Castle during Disc 4, but you may want your characters to be more powerful before waiting until right before the final boss.

Disc 4 is also the point of no return, meaning all towns/dungeons aside from the final one and a few random select ones are permanently inaccesible. If this doesn't bother you then you probably have no reason to spend hours farming this Rosetta Stone from Galbadia Prison since you'll get all you need more easily before completing the game.

For the rest of you, there is a trick that seems to work for people farming the Rosetta Stone - I have not tried it myself since I hate tricks like these in games but many people report good results so it's worth mentioning.

Above is a video of someone doing the trick that guarantees a Rosetta Stone. If you'd like to see another video of the same trick then follow the link provided. You can find many if you search on Youtube for them, which means this trick is probably actually worth your time to try.

 

 

 

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