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Final Fantasy 8 has made an imressive move from buying 'new' weapons to 'making' new weapons. Yes, in FF8, you stick with your initial weapon, however you can upgrade it throughout the game, thus making it more powerful.

The way you go about upgrading your weapons is by finding items throughout your journey. When visiting shops, you will be asked to find certain items to upgrade your weapon, then you have to pay a fee for the blacksmith to make the weapon for you.

Now, you can find you 'required' items by defeating enemies, stealing off enemies etc...and not all items are easily found, for instance the more powerful weapon you can upgrade to will mean finding 'rare' items for the upgrade.

Here is a list below of each characters weapon, items needed for upgrade and where you can get the items from