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Final Fantasy II (Famicom, Japan) instruction manual

Co., Square and Ltd. 1988. “Final Fantasy II (Famicom, Japan) instruction manual.” Square Co., Ltd.

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Final Fantasy II Famicom manual
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https://archive.org/details/final-fantasy-ii-sqf-fy-fc-jp-manual-600-dpi
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2026-10-23
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© Square Co., Ltd.; scan hosted by the Internet Archive
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Square Co., Ltd. (manual). Scan in the Internet Archive item "final-fantasy-ii-sqf-fy-fc-jp-manual-600-dpi", titled "Final Fantasy II [SQF-FY](FC)(JP) -Manual(600DPI), Box(300DPI)".
Notes
The 48-page Japanese manual packed with the Famicom game (SQF-FY). Printed p. 8 is scan leaf n7, p. 9 is n8, p. 38 is n37, and p. 48 is n47. The pinned copy is the item's OCR text, whose Japanese is poor (pp. 8-9 are missing from it), so its Japanese quotes are for a reader to confirm against the page images.

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Final Fantasy II has no character classes, experience points, or levels. The abilities a character uses are the ones that grow: each weapon type and spell has its own skill level, which rises the more it is used, and its power with it.p. 38, 成長, first paragraphp. 38, 成長, second paragraphp. 38, 成長, second paragraphManual
A character's stats change with what they do in battle, not with the number of battles: fighting with a weapon raises Strength, and casting spells raises Intelligence or Spirit.p. 38, 成長, third paragraphManual
When a conversation turns up an important word, a chime sounds and the word is bracketed; the player can memorize it, and later ask other characters about any memorized word.p. 8, 情報収集, ★おぼえるp. 9, 情報収集, ★たずねるManual
The end credits name Hironobu Sakaguchi as director and Masafumi Miyamoto as producer; Hiromichi Tanaka, Akitoshi Kawazu, and Kouichi Ishii for game design; Kenji Terada for the scenario; Yoshitaka Amano for character design; Nasir Gebelli first among the programmers; and Nobuo Uematsu for music.p. 48, Project StaffCode