This is a glitch I found out myself, personally back in '97.
If you have 2 of the same spell linked to 2 different Quadra Magics (Quadra Magic + Fire, Quadra Magic + Fire), it'll cast the spell 10 times. Toss in a W-Magic and it'll double that to 20 times a spell. So if you have 3 sets of this, you'll cast a spell 15 times. I'll make another chart to help explain it. By "One Set" I mean how many of these you actually have equipped.
Quadra Magic + (Spell) - One Set - 4 times casted
Quadra Magic + (Spell) - Two Sets - 10 times casted
Quadra Magic + (Spell) - Three Sets - 15 times casted
Quadra Magic + (Spell) - Four Sets - 20 times casted
And so on like that up to 35 or 40 since you won't have anymore slot room.
By: Bahamut00001
on Jul 25, 2004 01:07:58
Continued: Quadra Magic Glitch
So you could also have it used with W-Magic in conjunction. It would look something like this:
So ideally, you could cast a spell up to 70 times ... providing you had enough copies of the materia to begin with. Which I severely doubt anyone would even WANT to accomplish. You're better off using a Gameshark to get them though (I don't recommend it).
Basically, if KOTR was able to be used with Quadra Magic in this game, you could do over 9 million damage, the most damage ever in FF history. (9999 x 13 x 70 = 9 099 090) Unfortunately in some games it just doesn't work. Its even capable of taking out 9 consecutive Emerald Weapons if it was ever able to pull off.
By: Bahamut00001
on Jul 25, 2004 01:07:33
Re: Quadra Magic
Err, can someone remove these? I just did more testing and the spell only goes up to 16 times (total 30 with W-Magic/Summon). It'll say 35-36, but will only cast it 16 times. I'll get back on details with it later. Unless someone else does it.
By: Bahamut00001
on Aug 24, 2004 01:08:18
Quadra Magic
Okay, using Cloud and equipping him either with his Ultima Weapon or Enhance Sword and a Wizard Bracelet for maximum durability (used during the testing of this anyways).
In discretion towards my previous theories on the Quadra Magic glitch. ... Well that was inveterately wrong. It wasn\'t until I did further experimenting that you couldn\'t cast a spell 70 times, but only 16 times maximum. I wasn\'t completely wrong though, in the spell screen if equipped with \"8 Sets\" it would show the spell being cast 35-36 times, but when you actually went into battle it was only cast 8 times.
All right, I\'ll make this a little easier for one of the things I\'m going to use instead of writing out/copy and pasting Quadra Magic + (Spell) all the time.
By: Bahamut00001
on Oct 16, 2004 04:10:15
Quadra Magic 2
*1 Set = 1 set of \"Quadra Magic + (Spell)\"
*#Of times cast = the number of times the spell is actually cast during the battle when you actually cast the spell (duh).
*# Of times shown (Level XX) = the number of times that the spell is shown cast on the magic screen when you go Menu (Triangle) > Materia > Check > Magic > Select Spell. Then on the right hand side of that screen, there\'s a ratio that\'ll look something like \"4x: 10x\". The 4x represents the actual Quadra Magic materia. It is there by default and will never change. Then the number on the right side of the ratio is the number of times that the spell is SHOWN to be cast, this DOES NOT actually tell you how many times the spell is cast in the actual battle (providing that your enemy survives the attack). This is where I made my first mistake.
By: Bahamut00001
on Oct 16, 2004 04:10:54
Quadra Magic 3
The \"Level xx\" represents the level that Quadra Magic is at. Different levels show different numbers. You should take notice to the pattern as the levels go up.
So now that this is cleared up, let\'s get onto another chart.
By: Bahamut00001
on Oct 16, 2004 04:10:16
Quadra Magic 4
>1 Set (of Quadra Magic + (Spell))
# Of times shown (Level 1): 4 (usable once during battle)
# Of times shown (Level 2): 4 (usable twice during battle)
# Of times shown (Level 3): 4 (useable three times during battle)
# Of times shown (Level 4): 4 (usable four times during battle)
# Of times shown (Level 5): 4 (usable an unlimited amount of times during battle)
# Of times cast: 4
>2 Sets
# Of times shown (Level 1): 5
# Of times shown (Level 2): 6
# Of times shown (Level 3): 7
# Of times shown (Level 4): 8
# Of times shown (Level 5): 9
# Of times cast: 5
>3 Sets
# Of times shown (Level 1): 10
# Of times shown (Level 2): 11
# Of times shown (Level 3): 12
# Of times shown (Level 4): 13
# Of times shown (Level 5): 14
# Of times cast: 6
>4 Sets
# Of times shown (Level 1): 15
# Of times shown (Level 2): 16
# Of times shown (Level 3): 17
# Of times shown (Level 4): 18
# Of times shown (Level 5): 19
# Of times cast: 7
By: Bahamut00001
on Oct 16, 2004 04:10:04
Quadra Magic 5
>5 Sets
# Of times shown (Level 1): 20
# Of times shown (Level 2): 21
# Of times shown (Level 3): 22
# Of times shown (Level 4): 23
# Of times shown (Level 5): 24
# Of times cast: 8
>6 Sets
# Of times shown (Level 1): 25
# Of times shown (Level 2): 26
# Of times shown (Level 3): 27
# Of times shown (Level 4): 28
# Of times shown (Level 5): 29
# Of times cast: 8
>7 Sets
# Of times shown (Level 1): 30
# Of times shown (Level 2): 31
# Of times shown (Level 3): 32
# Of times shown (Level 4): 33
# Of times shown (Level 5): 34
# Of times cast: 8
>8 Sets
# Of times shown (Level 1): 35
# Of times shown (Level 2): 36
# Of times shown (Level 3): 36
# Of times shown (Level 4): 36
# Of times shown (Level 5): 36
# Of times cast: 8
By: Bahamut00001
on Oct 16, 2004 04:10:41
Quadra Magic 6
Nothing much of change. You can have at least 1 Quadra Magic of that level and the rest of them are already mastered then you will get these same results.
W-Magic/W-Summon allows us to double whatever we have on these charts easy. ... well everything except for the 8 Sets because you need those last two slots for the W-Magic/W-Summon space.
You can cast a spell 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 14, or 16 times.
Quadra Magic does 4 random spells if you don\'t have a Mega-All equipped. Spells such as (Comet, Break, Tornado, Freeze, Flare, Shield, and Full Cure) cannot target all party members. When linked to Quadra Magic they will target the middle person in the group of Mega-All is equipped.
By: Bahamut00001
on Oct 16, 2004 04:10:46
Quadra Magic 7
Other Notes:
*No matter what, Quadra Magic canNOT work with Knights of the Round.
*If Quadra Magic + (Spell) is used along with Mega-All or you have the same spell equipped to All, then Quadra Magic will overwrite Mega-All.
*If using the above and you target any allies, the spell will target the middle character.
*Anything linked to Quadra Magic will only require the cost of 1 spell and not 4 times the original cost. So you can cast Fire four times using 1 Set at the cost of only one Fire spell.
*The number of Stars Quadra Magic has leveled up on (I showed them as levels here) is as many times as the spell can be cast per battle. I showed this on the first chart.
I apologize if you (webmaster guy) thinks this is spamming.... if so, then feel free to remove these.
If you have 2 of the same spell linked to 2 different Quadra Magics (Quadra Magic + Fire, Quadra Magic + Fire), it'll cast the spell 10 times. Toss in a W-Magic and it'll double that to 20 times a spell. So if you have 3 sets of this, you'll cast a spell 15 times. I'll make another chart to help explain it. By "One Set" I mean how many of these you actually have equipped.
Quadra Magic + (Spell) - One Set - 4 times casted
Quadra Magic + (Spell) - Two Sets - 10 times casted
Quadra Magic + (Spell) - Three Sets - 15 times casted
Quadra Magic + (Spell) - Four Sets - 20 times casted
And so on like that up to 35 or 40 since you won't have anymore slot room.
W-Magic, (some other random materia here), Quadra Magic + Fire, Quadra Magic + Fire, Quadra Magic + Fire, Quadra Magic + Fire, Quadra Magic + Fire, Quadra Magic + Fire, Quadra Magic + Fire.
So ideally, you could cast a spell up to 70 times ... providing you had enough copies of the materia to begin with. Which I severely doubt anyone would even WANT to accomplish. You're better off using a Gameshark to get them though (I don't recommend it).
Basically, if KOTR was able to be used with Quadra Magic in this game, you could do over 9 million damage, the most damage ever in FF history. (9999 x 13 x 70 = 9 099 090) Unfortunately in some games it just doesn't work. Its even capable of taking out 9 consecutive Emerald Weapons if it was ever able to pull off.
In discretion towards my previous theories on the Quadra Magic glitch. ... Well that was inveterately wrong. It wasn\'t until I did further experimenting that you couldn\'t cast a spell 70 times, but only 16 times maximum. I wasn\'t completely wrong though, in the spell screen if equipped with \"8 Sets\" it would show the spell being cast 35-36 times, but when you actually went into battle it was only cast 8 times.
All right, I\'ll make this a little easier for one of the things I\'m going to use instead of writing out/copy and pasting Quadra Magic + (Spell) all the time.
*#Of times cast = the number of times the spell is actually cast during the battle when you actually cast the spell (duh).
*# Of times shown (Level XX) = the number of times that the spell is shown cast on the magic screen when you go Menu (Triangle) > Materia > Check > Magic > Select Spell. Then on the right hand side of that screen, there\'s a ratio that\'ll look something like \"4x: 10x\". The 4x represents the actual Quadra Magic materia. It is there by default and will never change. Then the number on the right side of the ratio is the number of times that the spell is SHOWN to be cast, this DOES NOT actually tell you how many times the spell is cast in the actual battle (providing that your enemy survives the attack). This is where I made my first mistake.
So now that this is cleared up, let\'s get onto another chart.
# Of times shown (Level 1): 4 (usable once during battle)
# Of times shown (Level 2): 4 (usable twice during battle)
# Of times shown (Level 3): 4 (useable three times during battle)
# Of times shown (Level 4): 4 (usable four times during battle)
# Of times shown (Level 5): 4 (usable an unlimited amount of times during battle)
# Of times cast: 4
>2 Sets
# Of times shown (Level 1): 5
# Of times shown (Level 2): 6
# Of times shown (Level 3): 7
# Of times shown (Level 4): 8
# Of times shown (Level 5): 9
# Of times cast: 5
>3 Sets
# Of times shown (Level 1): 10
# Of times shown (Level 2): 11
# Of times shown (Level 3): 12
# Of times shown (Level 4): 13
# Of times shown (Level 5): 14
# Of times cast: 6
>4 Sets
# Of times shown (Level 1): 15
# Of times shown (Level 2): 16
# Of times shown (Level 3): 17
# Of times shown (Level 4): 18
# Of times shown (Level 5): 19
# Of times cast: 7
# Of times shown (Level 1): 20
# Of times shown (Level 2): 21
# Of times shown (Level 3): 22
# Of times shown (Level 4): 23
# Of times shown (Level 5): 24
# Of times cast: 8
>6 Sets
# Of times shown (Level 1): 25
# Of times shown (Level 2): 26
# Of times shown (Level 3): 27
# Of times shown (Level 4): 28
# Of times shown (Level 5): 29
# Of times cast: 8
>7 Sets
# Of times shown (Level 1): 30
# Of times shown (Level 2): 31
# Of times shown (Level 3): 32
# Of times shown (Level 4): 33
# Of times shown (Level 5): 34
# Of times cast: 8
>8 Sets
# Of times shown (Level 1): 35
# Of times shown (Level 2): 36
# Of times shown (Level 3): 36
# Of times shown (Level 4): 36
# Of times shown (Level 5): 36
# Of times cast: 8
W-Magic/W-Summon allows us to double whatever we have on these charts easy. ... well everything except for the 8 Sets because you need those last two slots for the W-Magic/W-Summon space.
You can cast a spell 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 14, or 16 times.
Quadra Magic does 4 random spells if you don\'t have a Mega-All equipped. Spells such as (Comet, Break, Tornado, Freeze, Flare, Shield, and Full Cure) cannot target all party members. When linked to Quadra Magic they will target the middle person in the group of Mega-All is equipped.
*No matter what, Quadra Magic canNOT work with Knights of the Round.
*If Quadra Magic + (Spell) is used along with Mega-All or you have the same spell equipped to All, then Quadra Magic will overwrite Mega-All.
*If using the above and you target any allies, the spell will target the middle character.
*Anything linked to Quadra Magic will only require the cost of 1 spell and not 4 times the original cost. So you can cast Fire four times using 1 Set at the cost of only one Fire spell.
*The number of Stars Quadra Magic has leveled up on (I showed them as levels here) is as many times as the spell can be cast per battle. I showed this on the first chart.
I apologize if you (webmaster guy) thinks this is spamming.... if so, then feel free to remove these.