Ah, the cheap and easy way to level your guys up. Well, if you don't want to take the long road and the fair and square way when training everyone, which, believe me, WILL take you a VERY LONG TIME, then there's an easier way. As you know, the more you do something in Battle, the better one of your stats gets, right? Well, to quickly get an increase in any of your stats, do this: For HP, bash the shit out of yourself, making sure at least half of your max HP is gone. Then, win the battle and bam, you should get more HP and/or your Endurance increasing. For MP, do the same, but use up at least half of your max MP in 1 Battle to gain more MP and/or your Magic increasing.
For any of your regular stats, like Strength, Spirit, etc, attack often for strength, use White Magic for Spirit and Black Magic for Intelligence. Agility is based on Enemies hitting you and you taking damage and finally, we have the weapons/Magic levels. To easily get these up, when you confirm an option with a character, it'll go to the next character. Well, cancel out so you go back to the previous character and reselect their option and confirm it. After you do, cancel again and repeat. Every time you do this, depending on your skill level and the Enemies around at the time, you could receive anywhere from 1-4 points on your levels for each time you confirm and cancel.
If you have 4 party members, you can only do this with the first 3 in line, since confirming the 4th person automatically makes that round of combat begin. If you only have 3, well, then you can only do it with 2. This is actually a very cheap way to get weapons/Magic levelled up, but it's a blessing for those of us who don't exactly enjoy hours, even days just to get our stuff up 1 level. With enough practice and depending on how fast your thumbs are, you can easily reach 1 level in… oh, 5 minutes for one character. Not bad, eh? Also, do note that for each stat, you can ONLY increase by 1 per each Battle, same goes for HP and MP. As for the weapons and Magic, once you get to 100, you can't exceed it, so, win the Battle, gain the level, then enter another Battle and go for it again. (Just make sure you count to yourself for the weapons/Magic so you know when to finish the Battle off.)
Note: To make your characters gain weapon Levels even faster, Equip two of the weapon you want to train them in on each hand. This'll make them master the weapon even faster. This also works with Shields.
A mini game that allows you to win prizes if you beat it. I won't give a strategy out for it, since it's really not worth it, but there IS a neat trick to it that can get you a TON of Gil and some great Items. First, to play it, get on the Snowcraft and hold down the X Button and press the Circle Button 15-20 times or so, then when the game starts, write down the positions the cards are in, then, exit the game. Re-enter the game 31 times and cancel out each time, then once you enter the 32nd game, use the card positions you wrote down fast and if you're lucky, you'll end up in first place, getting the best prizes. Though, here's a list of what you can win from this:
1st: 40,000 Gil, Elixir and a Phoenix Down. 2nd: 12,000 Gil, a Phoenix Down and a Cottage. 3rd: 3,000 Gil, an Ether and a Gold Needle. 4th: 1,000 Gil, a Hi-Potion and a Maiden's Kiss. 5th: 300 Gil, a Hi-Potion and an Antidote.
Note: If you end up dead last, you just get 100 Gil.
Once you complete the game on Easy Mode, you'll unlock Normal Model, which is the original Famicom version of Final Fantasy II, minus the NES graphics. The only difference is you don't auto target Enemies this time and you can't run, plus there's only a Globe Map. If you played the original Final Fantasy, you should know what I mean. For those of you who don't, basically, if you have your entire party attack one Enemy and it dies, your other party members WILL attack that dead Enemy. They won't hit something else, so BE CAREFUL. Same goes for Magic.