Final fantasy 9 help

[OpenToSuggestions]

I have had FF9 since release and I have recently started it again....as I have never finished it!

Around 30 hours in I am in the desert palace on disk3. I have the 4 in my team that I did not want to take to Oeilvert (sp?).

I have checked a few online guides (mainly Gamefaqs) as I am stuck and don't know whether I have missed something or if the game is glitched.

I am at a part where I light certain candles on the right, then go to the left side and light certain candles so that a stairway appears in the middle.

I go up the stairs and on the next screen run away from the screen to a candle that afaik the character should have an '!' in a speach bubble....I try to light the candle and a boss should appear.

I am not getting the '!' speach bubble though and therefore cannot proceed to the boss fight

I have explained it as well as I can This is straight after the library bit and the moogle save point.
TIA

 

[Apopcalyptic]

I *think* I know where you are. I had a similar problem, and it seems that it was as simple as being in the wrong place, or not having done something else first. It's a couple of years since my last play through, and sadly I don't think that I'll have that old a save on a memory card to check anymore :/

Unless of course, you're playing on PS3 in which case you can email me the memory card

edit - The desert palace in general as I recall is a complete ****. Certainly the worst part of the game for me. It's nice to see people giving FFIX some love though. It really is highly underated...

 

[Streeteh]

Damn you for reminding me that i lost disk 3 of this game


On the candle front, i remember that bit vaguely and it is a matter of missing something else subtle before. I think that leads to the exit and there's some form of cutscene you need to trigger before you can leave? It's been years.

 

[Dutch Guy]

Now maybe I'm the
only one here but I've beaten the game more times than I can count but I still
get stuck here and figure out where to go until it finally hits me, you can
keep going further left past that Moogle in the library. To me it just seems
like one of those things in games that comes up now and then and really just
isn't indicated well enough, I'll bet people have wandered this place for
hours trying to figure out where to go. Anyway back to the game again, return
to the Moogle and head left. Light the two candles here and then inspect the
bloodstone to receive 'Black Hood.' Go through the door and around to the
other side, light all these candles as well then check the bloodstone for a
'Venetia Shield.' Now what you need to do is put out the candle on the left
(not the one under the picture though, the one that affects the shadow) so
that the statue's shadow is facing left, then go to the other side and put out
the candle on the left so the statue's shadow is facing left as well. Now a
path should appear leading up. Light the candlestick at the top and get ready.