Can somebody tell me a good place to level up?

Actually, my 999 mp was just fine. Only had to use about 500 of it the whole fight on Emerald Weapon and he went down with me having 9999 life on all my characters. I love w-summon and kotr, along with mime. Ruby on the other hand......I F***ING HATE THAT GUY! I can't kill him any way I try...all the strategies I follow end up in my dying in a "no way to lose" situation, as the people in the guides like to call them.

Heres the way I used to beat him, and it was rather easy.

Now this is the hard part: Get 2 of characters killed before the fight, then fight emerald, when her tentacles appear, ressurect you party members and then use Hades. Hades will stop emerald allowing you to hit it without being attacked. It only last a couple of turn so use KOTR and mime while she cannot move. Summon hades if she starts to move again.

sorry i made a mistake you dont need all the comand materias you need all the enemy skills i think

Here's an idea try fighting the weapons around the world. Start with ultima weapon and get ..well Ultima weapon. then fight the red weopon in the sand and the one under water. mini boss. those are the two words of salvation to a high leveld player.

Just something to clear upo, since one_winged_angel seems a bit foggy on it... if you're looking to get Master Command Materia (i just got it myself so i know how) you have to master the following:
Sense
Steal
Throw
Morph
Deathblow
Mime
Manipulate

i think that's it. You do NOT need to master W-Magic, W-Item, or W-Summon. (I wish i'd known that, as i went off and mastered all those buggers at 250K AP apiece. Took a LOT of magic pots and movers to do those, believe you me.) Nor must you do Slash-All, Double Cut, or Enemy Skill. Be warned, though: When you go to Bugenhagen's, if you want a Master Command, you must trade ONE of each of thoseMateria, mastered, for the Master Command. It can kind of suck when you were counting on having three Mime's and instead end up with 2 and a master command, which can't be linked with counter.

For Master Magic you have to master ALL green materia. Period. It'll take away one master from each type when you trade for Master Magic. So, it might be wise to master a couple of Ultima, Revive, Restore, Barrier, Full Cure, etc... all the good ones... so that you have some left after you trade.

Master Summon requires all summons to be mastered. Including KOTR. I don't intend to get this one, because i don't want to lose a Mastered KOTR. 500K AP, and you get a LITTLE attached to the sucker.

EOFF has a great Materia resource here: http://www.eyesonff.com/ff7/materia.shtml

And i haven't tried again since Emerald WEAPON cleaned me out last week. Once i build up the testicular fortitude once more, i'll see how i do.

Jeeze...Ruby took a while, but I did it my own way. BWAHAHAHAHAHA! Same way I took out Emerald. Plus I had master magic and master commands on Cloud. Then I had W-summon and Master summon on Vincent. Then I had final attack and phoenix on Cait Sith. All my characters had hp plus on them and mime. All my characters had mp plus on them and mp turbo. I had 9999 life and 999 mp on all 3 characters. I had ribbons on all 3. I had all their ultimate weapons, and I had mistyles...or mystiles...yeah...one of those two...well I had a that thing on each of em. Ultima missed a ton, for some reason, vincent never died in the fight. Cloud did every now and then, and Cait Sith always seemed to die right after him, bringing both the two back. Cait sith would then use W-Item and give both Vincent and himself a turbo Ether so they would have full mp, and then I would start KOTR 2 times with Vincent and mime with both cloud and Cait Sith. If one died, I just let Cait Sith die, and do the process over. Took almost 15 minutes. Kinda long fight for me. But whatever. Most of it was watching KOTR over and over. I have done this over and over now. I have beat Ruby 7 times in a row. I now have nothing left in this game. I have a chocobo that's never lost with a speed of about 170. I have 8 gold chocobos. I have beaten every game in gold saucer and got over 5000 pts on the roller coaster. I have beaten Sephiroth and he's not a challenge anymore, I have beaten Emerald and he wasn't a challenge. Now that I know how to beat Ruby, he's time consuming, but still pretty easy. And...what else is there? I got all the final weapons...I have almost 9 million gil...Is there anything left in this game? Side quest? Another game thing?

(I now have everyone at level 99 and they all have their final limits and have learned all their limits. I also checked a few websites...and I actually think I have at least 1 of every materia. I even have 2 KOTRs and 3 of a few summons. I have about 5 or 6 Mimes cause I got bored...BAH! Now I've completely completed 7, 8, 9, and 10. What FF game do you recomment next? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6? I like FF6 a lot...but how many times can I stand Kefka's laugh? I'll go insane!!!!!

*pats Demitri on the back*

you're done. congratulations. go do something else... mow the lawn, take out the garbage or something. go on. the game's over, shoo.

My way of making emerald feel like he's a piece of sh*t:
1.) have 7777+ hp.
2.) go to forest area around mideel
3.) meet the green enemies (that uses claws)
4.) let them attack until HP goes down under 7777.
5.) cast mini on all
6.) kill the ones that doesn't get small
7.) wait until a character has **77 HP (*=any #)
8.) kill off the enemies
9.) end battle
10.) open up menu
11.) use potions/hi potions so HP equals 7777.
12.) have decent charas (you should by this point)
13.) equip underwater materia (just in case, probably don't need it) ...and voila!

Explanation: when you start off the battle, the chara with 7777HP will do the lucky sevens, attacking continuously for sixty-something times. Emerald won't still die, so just do stuff to kill him.

My way of making ruby feel like he's a piece of sh*t:
1.) equip mastered "command counter" (not counter) with mime
2.) equip KOTR with HP absorb
3.) optional: equip master summon w/ turbo; and equip w summon.
3.) kill off 2 of your other charas.
4.) wait until he puts the tentacles
5.) cast KOTR... and do your homework like a good boy.
6.) come back... and ruby will feel like sh*t.

OK, i'm done.