any of you really big FF nuts got any secret hints or tips that you really have yet to find on a website or a guidebook? On that same note, when playing early in the game, before getting in the world to go to Kalm, anyone have any advice on building up ExPoints really quickly, such as enemies that give you high numbers after defeating them? I appreciate all of your help. Yuffie bless you all. :)

Your best bet for leveling up in Midgar would be to go through the Sector 6 slums (you know the screen with the claw arm and the tunnel that is sort of confusing?) and face Hell Houses and the other dudes there. Other than that you can face Shinra 3rds and Custom Sweepers in Shinra Tower which give you a decent amount of EXP.

Well u just gotta rough it out and fight as many people as possible any way why the rush in levelling up

Hmm, things that are uncommon and quirky:

- If you visit an area using a gold chocobo, park your airship somewhere way far away from that area (like maybe on an island) somewhere and then engage in plot events in that area that auto-return you to the airship, you'll somehow end up in the airship magically way way far away from that town. Also, if you enter the City of the Ancients and get there via gold chocobo and then activate the event where Weapon shows up, nothing will actually happen until you go find and board the airship, whereever it is.

- To view some uncommon alternate dialogue for Yuffie's sidequest, try completing it when either Cid or Tifa are heading the party.

I don't know of many, but the ones that I know of don't seem to be mentioned yet.

- In Junon on disc one, if you go under the cannon, you can fight enemies from disc three. All you need to do is push the allarm button.

-On the train tracks at Corel, there are two caves that aren't highlighted by the aroows. One has baby birds in it and you can get 10 Pheonix Downs. The other has an old man with deveral of the source types.

-In the desert prison, there are enemies that have insane amounts of HP. I mean like millions of HP. They don't fight you, but if you kill one it's supposed to give a lot of EXP, Gil, and AP. This is only in the japanese version, I think.

Thats all that I know of for now.

I know a quick way to get two Mega- All materias in the North Cave. When you select a party, only take the 3 characters that make up your team in your party, and make sure Yuffie isn't in it.

Now choose to go up the right path, and send everyone else down the left. When you reach the bit just before the final boss, go up the left path and grab the Mega- All materia there. Then go talk to Yuffie and she will give you another Mega- All materia!

Well, I dont know if this counts as a tip or hint but here it go's.
when you go to Nibelheim for the first time in Clouds flashback
go to Tifa's room and try to open her closet in the upper corner
and you should discover Tifa's Therapeudic Underwear.