I usually do the Wutai sidequest right after I get the Tiny Bronco b/c I can't help myself, but this time around I wanted to hurry to the end of disc 1, so I did it later. I was wondering how it would work with the highwind. Well, you just try to enter Wutai and the game pretends you entered way down south, then you're in Wutai after that scene. It was kinda fun b/c I never did it with a different leader. I should try it with Cid, too.

And how does the stealing work? I still had plenty of materia left for some reason. This happened to me once before, when Barret had one fire for some reason.