Uploaded July 2019 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
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This is a playthrough of the Monomod for the PC version of Final Fantasy VII. This Mod was included in Gjoerulv's Hardcore Mod in late 2018 and I first played through it on stream in April of 2019.
The Monomod is a fun little gamplay mod, in which all your stats are fixed at a value of 1, hence the name MONO-mod. Your HP is capped at 270 and your MP at 88, once your each level 30. So, this mod drastically lowers all your stats, challenging you to find ways to still beat the game in spite of extremely low stats and even more so extremely low HP and MP. At the same time, this mod gives you various late-game gear, armor, accessories and materia, however not weapons, to boost your stats and incentivize unusual ways to go through the game. In this playhtrough, I actually end up not just finishing the game but also effectively 100%-ing it, killing the WEAPONs as well.
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I stream all kinds of FF7, FF8 and FF9 speedruns, among them 100%.
Watch live at twitch.tv/xerokynos
Download the Monomod: forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=6818.0
This is a playthrough of the Monomod for the PC version of Final Fantasy VII. This Mod was included in Gjoerulv's Hardcore Mod in late 2018 and I first played through it on stream in April of 2019.
The Monomod is a fun little gamplay mod, in which all your stats are fixed at a value of 1, hence the name MONO-mod. Your HP is capped at 270 and your MP at 88, once your each level 30. So, this mod drastically lowers all your stats, challenging you to find ways to still beat the game in spite of extremely low stats and even more so extremely low HP and MP. At the same time, this mod gives you various late-game gear, armor, accessories and materia, however not weapons, to boost your stats and incentivize unusual ways to go through the game. In this playhtrough, I actually end up not just finishing the game but also effectively 100%-ing it, killing the WEAPONs as well.
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Also, if you'd like to watch these things live, follow me on twitch:
twitch.tv/xerokynos
I stream all kinds of FF7, FF8 and FF9 speedruns, among them 100%.







![Final Fantasy VIII : 100% Speedrun in 11:24:01
This is my Personal Best for the 100% RTA (Real Time Attack) category, played on the French Steam PC Version, using real time. The current WR is 11:23:10, you can check out a leaderboard for this speedrun at http://www.speedrun.com/ff8#100_PC1.
This is another 6-minute improvement to my latest run of 11:30:02 (https://secure.twitch.tv/xerokynos/v/...) from less than a week ago. As I mentioned in my last run, it was found a while ago that the French version of FF8 is faster than the English version due to faster text scrolling speed by probably around 8 minutes. This is actually my first run I completed on the French version. The current WR does use the French version as well. Once again, I lost quite some time to having absolutely horrible item luck.
My next goal with this speedrun is to get it lower towards 11:15-11:20. I recently started it running more frequently again and will not stop until this is accomplished.
As FF8 does not have a proper game completion counter, one will have to define on ones own what is to be understood by 100%. Obviously, determining what to include in 100% can be controversial and seem arbitrary. Regardless, I feel that the prerequisites I have come up with for the 100% category allow for an interesting speedrun and are as close as possible to what is intuitively understood by 100%.
Here is what my definition of 100% is:
1] Defeat all bosses
2] Get all GFs
2.1) Get all 16 junctionable GFs
2.2) Get Odin and Gilgamesh
2.3) Get Phoenix (use a Phoenix Pinion in a battle)
2.4) Get Boko and MiniMog from Chocobo World
3] Finish all sidequests:
3.1) Winhill: Get a Holy Stone by collecting all vase shards
3.2) Shumi Village: Get a Phoenix Pinion and a Status Guard
3.3) Chocobo Forests: Find treasure in all 6 Chocobo Forests, then go to the Chocobo Sanctuary to watch the Chocobo Dance and get the Chicobo Card and Gysahl Greens
3.4) CC Quest: Defeat all Members of the Card Club in Balamb Garden before Disc4
3.4) Obel Lake: Find a Three Stars and a Luck-J Scroll
3.5) Ultimecias Castle: Activate the 4th Gate outside the Castle, get the Rosetta Stone and open up all closed doors
4] Have all characters learn all of their Limit Breaks
5] Have all characters have their ultimate weapon
6] Have 1 of each item
7] Own all cards
8] Have all 16 junctionable GFs learn all of their pre-set abilities, do not make them forget abilities that cannot be taught again
9] All tutorial entries are known
10] Read 12 Timber Maniacs
Remarks on my reasoning for these goals:
My general idea behind this 100% definition is to prevent missing anything permanently.
This why I specifically include getting Gilgamesh in the GF subgoal. Even though Gilgamesh is arguably by far a less useful and more annoying GF to have than Odin, Gilgamesh can be missed permanently if one does not recruit Odin before fighting Seifer at the end of Disc3.
I have Chocobo World running permanently to have Boko collect items in Chocobo World, which I later transfer back to FF8. Additionally, I use a glitch that allows me to continuously transfer the items I got in Chocobo World to FF8, in turn allowing me to duplicate and get rare items extremely fast.
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