The Cloudy/Celestrial Mirror:
To acquire the Cloudy Mirror, you must go to Remiem Temple in the Calm Lands. Talk to the chocobo on the right-hand side to race on the spiraling track under the temple. If you win the race, you will receive the Cloudy Mirror. To acquire the Celestrial Mirror, you must take the Cloudy Mirror to Macalania Woods. Talk to the mother and son standing near the save sphere in Macalania Woods, south. The mother will mention that her husband is suppose to meet her. Then go to Macalania woods campsite and talk to the man to the right, who is her husband. Tell him where his wife and son are and return to Macalania Woods, south. Talk to the husband, the wife, and the son first before heading up the mysterious path near the save sphere. At the intersection, head north until you see a boy standing in front of a large sphere crystal. Talk to the boy and use the Cloudy Mirror on the crystal. The Cloudy Mirror will change into the Celestrial Mirror.

Free Potions:
When you get on the boat in the beginning of the game, after Yuna joins your party, you should be allowed to roam the ship. Head downstairs. To the left of the hallway there is a door that leads to a room where there should be a seasick sailor and I believe a guy talking about clothes. There should be a suitcase there that looks like Yuna's. If you keep pressing X, Tidus kicks it and you get a potion. I believe there are at least 15, so keep kicking it.

Best Way to Get Overdrive Status:
Get haste on one of your characters and use the warrior gauge fill technique; then cast haste and keep hitting the enemy.

How to Get Overdrives:
Tidus - Sword Skill:
Spiral Cut - single enemy damage
Charge & Assault - 6 attacks at random enemies
Energy Rain - damage all enemies
Ace of the Blitz - single enemy 8+1 attacks

- Activated by stopping the moving cursor in the white area at the center of the overdrive bar.
- New overdrives are learned after Tidus uses his overdrives a certain number of times.
- Which overdrive he uses does not matter, and failed overdrive activations still count as an overdrive usage.
10 times - learn Charge & Assault
20 more times - learn Energy Rain
50 more times - learn Ace of the Blitz

Yuna - Master Summon:
Summons any Aeon with filled overdrive gauge. After the Aeon uses its overdrive once, its overdrive gauge returns to the previous level of fullness.

Wakka - Slot:
Element Reel - elemental attack slots are turned
Attack Reel - consecutive attack slots are turned
Status Reel - status attack slots are turned
Oraka Reel - Bisaido Oraka special attack slots are turned

- Match more of the the same slots to activate a stronger overdrive attack.
- New Slot Reels are earned as prizes in Blitzball games.

Kimari - Enemy Skills:
Jump - damages single enemy
Flame - fire elemental damage to all enemies
Seed Canon - damages single enemy
Self Detonate - big damage to a single enemy & Kimari disappears from battle
Rotate Kick - damages single enemy
Stone Breath - all enemies receive stone status effect
Aqua Breath - all enemy receive water elemental damage
Death Sentence - death to an enemy after 5 turns
White Wind - all allies recover HP equivalent to half Kimari's current HP
Smelly Breath - random status abnormalities to all enemies
Mighty Guard - Ba magic + Protect + Shell to all allies
Sunshine - big damage to all enemies

- Kimari uses enemy skills learned from his Dragon Sword attack.

Jump - initial ability
Flame - learn from Weraha, Grendel, Duel Horn, Enke=Ronzo
Seed Canon - learn from Gratt, Balsam
Self Detonate - learn from Bom, Grenade Pyuroboros, Biran=Ronzo
Rotate Kick - learn from Metal Soldier Type 11, Biran=Ronzo
Stone Breath - learn from Bajirisk, Hedge Viper, Enko=Ronzo
Aqua Breath - learn from Kimaira, Kimaira Brain, Enke=Ronzo
Death Sentence - learn from Ghost, Raise, Biran=Ronzo
White Wind - learn from Dark Purin, Enke=Ronzo (after using White Wind)
Smelly Breath - learn from Marlboro, Marlboro Great
Mighty Guard - learn from Behemoth, King Behemoth, Biran=Ronzo (after using Mighty Guard)
Sunshine - learn from Omega

Lulu - Temptation:
- Activated by rotating the right stick clockwise as much as possible in the limited time to increase the number of magic attacks.
- Number of attacks are gained easily at first, but the more the number, the harder it is to increase.
- As Lulu's magic attack status gets stronger, the increasing of overdrive numbers gets easier.

Auron - Secret Legendary Teachings:
Tooth Dragon [down, left, up, right, L1, R1, X, O] - damages all enemies
Shooting Star [triangle, X, square, O, left, right, O] - damages a single enemy + blow away effect
Conquest [up, L1, down, R1, right, left, triangle] - damages a single enemy + 4 break effects
Gust Wind [O, right, R1, left, L1, triangle] - damages all enemies
- Activated by correctly pressing the command shown on the screen.
- New overdrives are learned by finding Braska, Jekt, and Auron's video spheres.
1 sphere - learn Shooting Star
3 spheres - learn Conquest
10 spheres - learn Gust Wind
- These Spheres will appear in previously visited locations after you gain access to the airship.

You get automatically after the Jekt sphere event
Bisaide Village, to the right of the temple entrance
Transport Ship Rikki, Steering Room
Ruka Stadium, B1 A, in front of the Ooraka Control Room
Mihen Road, Old Road South part, at the end of a dead end road
Kinoko Mushroom Rock Road, cliff, around a save sphere
Illusion Light River, South Shore, Shipaf riding dock
Thunder Plains, South part, around mid-point between the entrance and the Travel Company, near a thunder tower to the right
Makaraniya Forest, South part, around the save sphere right after entering from the Thunder Plains
Gagazett Mountain, on the road up the mountain (this one you can get before acquiring the airship)
Rikku - Combine:
Rikku combines 2 items to make a new item of greater power. Since the possiblities are almost endless, let everybody try it out for themselves.

Overdrive Types:
Shugyou - gauge increases when you receive damage from enemies
Toushi - gauge increases when damage inflicted upon enemies
Fundo - gauge increases when allies receive damage from enemies
Ji-ai - gauge increases when you heal an ally
Gaika - gauge increases when enemy defeated
Eiyu - gauge increases when an enemy with high HP is defeated
Shyouri - gauge increases when battle is won
Taichi - gauge increases when character joins the battle
Kutou - gauge increases when status becomes abnormal
Kyuuchi - gauge increases when abnormal status is inflicted
Sakuryaku - gauge increases when abnormal status is cast on enemies
Kiki - gauge increases when HP becomes critically low
Kokou - gauge increases when fighting alone
Karei - gauge increases when avoided enemy attack
Banjyaku - gauge increases after having blocked an enemy attack
Chijyoku - gauge increases when escaping from battle
Hi-ai - gauge increases when ally gets knocked out

Book Locations:
Volume 1: Al Bhed Salvage Ship, deck, right side of screen
Volume 2: Bisaido Villiage, Patrol Soldiers Quarters, in front of the counter
Volume 3: Transport Ship Rikki, Power Room, far side of screen
Volume 4: Poruto=Kirika, Bar
Volume 5: Transport Ship Wuino, Control Room
Volume 6: Ruka, Ruka Stadium, underground Floor B
Volume 7: Ruka, Ruka Theater, counter
Volume 8: Mihen Road, Travel Company, receive from Lin
Volume 9: Mihen Road, New Road North Area
Volume 10: Kinoko Rock Road, Cliff
Volume 11: Jyoze Road
Volume 12: Illusion Light River, North Shore, Shipafu riding port
Volume 13: Guado Salamu, Resident's House
Volume 14: Thunder Plains, Travel Company, receive from Lin if you answer "MaaMaa"
Volume 15: Makaraniya Forest, Road to the Lake
Volume 16: Makaraniya Lake, in front of the Travel Company
Volume 17: Sanubia Desert, Central Part, aower to the right side of "Strong Enemy"(left)
Volume 18: Sanubia Desert, Central Part, around the bulletin beyond "Weak Enemy"(right)
Volume 19: Al Bhed's Home
Volume 20: Al Bhed's Home, Resident Area
Volume 21: Al Bhed's Home, Main Road
Volume 22: Holy Beberu Temple, Monk's Road
Volume 23: Nagi Plains, Middle Part, toward the Northwest
Volume 24: Remiamu Temple
Volume 25: Stolen Inorigo's Cave, reachable from Nagi Plains Valley Bottom
Volume 26: Omega Ruins

Also of note:

If you miss volumes 1, 3, 14 because they are limited time items whose locations won't appear again because of the storyline, you can get these three books again at the Desert Oasis. Method of re-gaining volumes 19 ~ 22 is unclear at the present point.

When Al Bhed people speak, the translated text are the red letters. The blue letters are Al Bhed letters that are yet to be translated.

After getting all 26 books, you can receive "Reverse Key" from Lin.

Using Combine Spheres in inns and other locations, you can turn your collected Al Bhed books from your previous save into Al Bhed Dictionaries in the present game. It is added to the Important Item list.

AEONS LIST: CLICK HERE

ABILITIES LIST: CLICK HERE