Nibelheim and the Shinra Mansion

Walkthrough for Rewriting History in final fantasy vii. Find Luck Sources, Elixirs, and learn how to open the Shinra Mansion safe.

Continue past Cosmo Canyon, eventually following the western coast to the north. Cross a river and drive north to find a small village nestled in front of some mountains. Exit the buggy and enter the village to find Nibelheim. Move forwards and discussion between your party members will ensue. Once the chatter is over, head into the inn, where the innkeep will tell you that your memories are bogus. Head into the back room and talk to a black-cloaked figure, whom Cloud will rob, obtaining a Luck Source in the process. Note that he has a tattoo; the number 6.

Explore the village by moving clockwise, house by house. In the shop adjacent to the inn you’ll find an item shop, which sells Potions (50 Gil), Hi-Potions (300 Gil), Phoenix Downs (300 Gil), and Tents (500 Gil). Another townsperson will lie to you, and another cloaked figure (#12) near a furnace will give up an Elixir.

Cloud’s house is uninteresting, but in Tifa’s house you’ll find another cloaked figure (#5) walking near the front of the house. He’ll give you a Turbo Ether, and another one upstairs (#4) will give you a Platinum Fist. If you want to practice on Tifa’s piano again, you can play the melody following melody:

Playstation controller
X, [Square], [Triangle], R1 + [Triangle], R1 + [Square], X, [Square], [Triangle], R1 + X, [Circle], X, [Square], X

PC controls
[CANCEL], [SELECT], [MENU], [PAGE UP] + [MENU}, [PAGE UP] + [SELECT], [CANCEL], [SELECT], [MENU], [PAGE UP} + [CANCEL], [OK], [CANCEL], [SELECT], [CANCEL]

If you play the melody successfully, you might obtain Tifa’s secret savings; one Gil!

Finally head to the last house and head upstairs to find another cloaked figure and its mini-me. The former has a Luck Source, while the latter just babbles about a “Reunion”. Head up to the Shinra Mansion, where you’ll find two more cloaked figures, one east of the mansion and one to the west, although they don’t have any goodies to impart. The one to the east will suggest that Sephiroth is in the mansion.

Shinra Mansion

From the entrance head west into a small room and search a note on the floor to find out about some “member of the Turks” who was put to “sleep in the basement”. It’ll also give clues on how to find this person, which involves opening some safe. According to the note, you have twenty seconds to enter the code, and you cannot pass the target numbers. More than that, you have to turn to the correct numbers by going in the correct direction. Read further to read three clues… and a hidden fourth clue that can be found by selecting the blank line below the third clue:

Dial (1) “The lid of the box with the most oxygen.”

Dial (2) “Behind the Ivory’s short of tea and ray.”

Dial (3) “The creek in the floor near the chair on the second floor… then to the left five steps, up nine steps, left two steps, and up six steps.”

Dial (4) “(Right 97)”

Head through a doorway to the east to find a chest in a small room, which contains a Silver M-Phone. Backtrack to the entrance area, then go through a door to the west and head into a room to the north with a piano in the south-eastern corner. Search the end of the piano near the eastern wall to find the second code for the safe: “(Left 10)“. Travel north and enter a hallway to the east. Continue east and bypass the door leading south to continue into a room to the east. From here, head north into another room with a chest that contains a Twin Viper. Backtrack to the hallway and go through the neglected door to the south to return to the entrance area.

Go up the stairs and turn east to reach the upper east wing of the mansion. You can follow the note’s instructions to find the third code, or you can just walk up the western side of the northern hallway, constantly clicking [Circle] ([OK] on the PC) to find the code on the floor, which happens to be “(Right 59)“. Continue north to the end of the hallway and enter the room to the east, where you’ll find a chest containing a Magic Source.