As you could no doubt tell, it's been at least a year since I've played this game, and the two versions tend to merge in my head (that is, I can't tell necessarily which one I'm remembering or if I'm even remembering correctly).

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Unless you're talking about Onion Gear, which is really for elitists only in the NES version (I've never even come across a Dragon that drops it) and nowhere near required to beat the game. But if you want it that badly, there's a trick to get it at the start of the game and waltz through it all.
Definitely referring to the onion equipment, though the details of what needed to be done escaped and continue to escape me.

Maybe the "ridiculous" aspect comes from the wifi aspect of unlocking these quests in the DS version, which admittedly are a bit tedious. But later ports of the DS version (iOS and PSP, I believe) drop the Mognet and just have those quests unlock naturally after certain points in the game.
I definitely don't like any game that forces any kind of multiplayer aspect on me. To have to do such a thing just to complete things (I am definitely a completionist) is kind of annoying. It's good that they eliminated it in the later ports, but I haven't played either of those (yet).