i beat them both.and sapphire too...lololol!!!^_^

ruby=puny.pretty difficult if you don't know what to do.in my first try,i was so convinced that it was bound to kill me,even though i already found a way to make him dig and put his hands behind me.so i went all out,casting every magic spell i had,even the relatively useless ones:frog,mini,silence,those kinds of things.until i stumbled upon the legendary spell,stop.ruby freakin' stopped.i tried the item,dazers.it freakin' stopped again.so i had been using dazers ever since.

it was my first playthrough of ffvii,but ffvii wasn't my first ff.it has become my habit to try puny magic and skills when i was convinced i will die anyway.

emerald was much harder,since i had no idea of the aire tam storm damage function in my first playthrough.thank god,there is mystile.aire tam storm missed often on my characters.it did 9999 damage when it hit,though (ouch!!!).