Restarting
Restarting unlocks areas that you originally could not go to when you first started playing. However, the more you restart the more difficult the monsters become at the beginning. If you do not work on getting skills and spells and such, you may find yourself stuck.

Easy skills
If you have a shop in the Ant Village and proceeded far in the game, restart with all the items you currently have and fight constantly. If you fight enough, the shop will have new skills that will be useful. It is essential to get Nina's Fire Blast and Ice Blast spells along with Ryu's Status Effect attacks. This also works well with weapons for your team.

Easy battle
Use the following trick for an easy battle when ganged by Rangers after the Ice levels. If you were wise and did not use your Dragon Change during easy battles then you are in luck. Beat down the first wave and do not go into dragon form. In the second battle, you will face a machine. While it is strong, it is easy to take out as long as you use Nina's Fragball spell. In the last battle, you will face the commander. This is a difficult battle. She hits hard and fast. Become the Dragon, kill her partners, then kill her. She will die and drop a very nice sword for Ryu.

Easy money
This trick requires the Fairy Bank and the Foreign money policy of Mils. Buy Mils when they are very low (for example, 85-110Z). Then, fight a few battles and return. If the Mils are not worth over 180Z, fight more battles until they are. You can start off with 30,000Z and end up with 110,000Z.

Helping the shopkeeper
During the game you will meet a man who wants to set up his own shop. Depending on how much you give him, the shop will have different wares:

1-100: Basic weapons.
101-500: Basic skills
501-1000: Better weapons and some skills.
1001-2000: Better skills, but more items then skills.
2001-2500: Mega heal kits and such at low prices.
2501-3000: Your choice of good weapons, items, skills, armor and a mini-game.
3001-5000: Great weapons for Lin, poor weapons for Ryu and Nina, and good spells for Nina.
5001-10000: Your choice of great weapons, skills, spells, stat increasers, armor, items, but no mini-game.
Note: You will not find this man unless you replay the game around 50 through 70 tries. Even then, you will have to come far to get him. However, once you do he will be at almost every town you visit, just like the fairy.

Dead bodies
If you find a dead body, check it. Some may have a very useful item.

Bosch: Combos
Twin Wake: Snakebite + Lion Smash

Bosch: Weapon
Bosch cannot equip weapons from shops, but there is a monster that will drop a sword that he can use. It is slightly weaker; give it to him when you are about to leave his party. The weapon is difficult to find, but if you get it you will have a powerful weapon at the start of the game. The weapon has Bosch's Lion and Snake Smash on it as the top skills in the first and second block. However, you look at Bosch's skills at the start, you will see that they are not for him.

Ryu: Combos
X Slash: Sideslash + Verticalslash

Lin: Combos
Bind: There! + Stay There!
Steal: Greetings + C'mere!