Quote Originally Posted by Karifean View Post
You can lose all the huge materia.
Submarine: Fail the mission (who the f*** can't kill the submarine in 10 minutes!?)
Alternatively, you can just never go to the red submarine to pick it up.
Corel: Fail catching up to the train.
Fort Condor: Die in the fight vs CMD Grand Horn.
Rocket: Fail to find out the code within 3 minutes.
You're right, I saved a duplicate file so I could do all of this. I had forgotten about the secret loser way to acquire the Red Sub. You normally pilot the black No.2 Sub and can capture a crew total of 3. But if you allow yourself to lose the sub battle, you can get the Red Sub with a crew total of 6 plus a cute dog (if you decide to keep/capture them otherwise you just fight and kill the soldiers and maybe let the dog go.

In the Rocket, after you first approach the Device and Cid explains what it is, you don't even have to try to open it, you can just leave and go to the pod and no one will complain.

I didn't realize that if you won the Huge Materia with Cid, you actually had to collect it in order to go with the story. I won over at Fort Condor First and then went on to Corel, but when I went to visit Cloud... notta. No event. I went into the Highwind and Cid suggested going back to Fort Condor. I was a little annoyed.