Junk shop



In Final Fantasy VIII characters may sometimes receive items such as rods or screws after winning a battle. These items or parts can be taken to a Junk Shop where they can be used to modify and upgrade a character's current weapon for a fee. Recipes to create new weapons can be found in Weapons Monthly magazines, but the magazines themselves are not needed to create weapons: one simply needs the appropriate components.

The Junk Shop serves as the game's Weapon Shop from previous Final Fantasy games, offering a list of weapon advancements for each character.

Junk Shop is also an ability learned by the Guardian Force Doomtrain, which allows the player to visit a Junk Shop anywhere in the game. This is useful for disc 4, as towns are inaccessible, and therefore visiting a Junk Shop would be impossible unless the player had completed the Card Club sidequest earlier in the game.

List of Junk Shops

 * Balamb Garden - CC Joker found randomly in the Training Center
 * Balamb Town - Town center
 * Dollet - Within the Nautilus
 * Deling City - Shopping Arcade
 * Fisherman's Horizon - Docks
 * Esthar City - Don Juan's Shop
 * Ragnarok disc 4 - CC Joker (only if Card Club sidequest is completed)

Items Used in Junk Shops

 * Note, some enemies need to be on a specific level to give the required items; see the enemies' individual pages for details.