Do not forget to save, save checkpoints do not care.

SPOILERS!

I am currently about to start Chapter 9 and I decided to do **ALL** side missions, mini games in the Gold Saucer, Queens Blood, and the world stuff before going to step foot on Chapter 9. I was doing Barret Mr. Birdie and forgot to equip assess materia/accessory for the Ice Flame and decided to restart encounter to equip the assess. **BUT** I fat fingered it into **Restart Checkpoint** [Tired af to notice] where it was **BEFORE** **ALL** of the mini games and World Progress. I tried loading into an old save file but it was 3 hours of *before* I decided to do all mini games and side quests. Luckily, I managed to speed through most of them since I now know where the loots, how to do Cactuar, kill Subject 0 etc. Just a PSA to save your game frequently. I uneqipped Assess because I died to King Tonberry frequently before learning the game plan. After King Tonberry I decided to go Chapter 9 But U turned last minute in the Gongaga to finish all World and Mini games.