I came across this in a faq. I'll retype it since I lost the page. They say it works in the NES version.
Turn one of your characters invisible and then try to sketch that party member. When you do the game will mess up and you should run from battle by R1 and L1 or smoke bomb. When you do check your menu and you should have some items in you info.
Also they said that there was this spot in the world map you could fight an invisible behemoth. He'll give 10 AP. Form playing without a walkthrough I found this true my first time in the game. But its been so long I'm not sure where to find him.