| Materia | Where to find |
| Fire | Wall Market, Costa Del Sol, Fort Condor, Mideel |
| Ice | Wall Market, Costa Del Sol, Fort Condor, Mideel |
| Lightning | Wall Market, Costa Del Sol, Fort Condor, Mideel |
| Poison | Kalm, Costa Del Sol, Shinra Headquarters - 68th Floor |
| Gravity | Cosmo Canyon: Appears after you defeat Gi Nattack in the Gi Tribe Cave. |
| Comet | Forgotten Capital |
| Contain | Located in Mideel village after the lifestream erupts. Give the white chocobo memett greens and scratch it's ear. |
| Ultima | North Corel. If you stop the train, a boy will give it to you. If not, you must buy it from him for 50,000 gil. |
| Restore | Midgar City: Sector 5 Slums, Wall Market, Mideel, Fort Condor, Costa Del Sol, Mako Reactor #1 |
| Full Cure | Back room of the Item Shop in Cosmo Canyon. (disc 2 & 3) |
| Heal | Kalm Town, Gongaga Village, Upper Junon |
| Revive | Costa Del Sol, Gongaga Village, Upper Junon |
| Seal | Upper Junon, Costa Del Sol |
| Mystify | Gongaga Village, Cosmo Canyon |
| Transform | North Corel, Cosmo Canyon, Gongaga Village, Mideel, Mt. Corel |
| Exit | Rocket Town |
| Time | Gongaga Village, Rocket Town |
| Barrier | Rocket Town |
| Shield | Northern Crater (disc 3) |
| Destruct | Fort Condor, Mideel, Shinra Mansion (Sephiroth throws it at you) |
| Master Magic | Kalm Town (give Kalm Traveler the Earth Harp) and Cosmo Canyon (bring all 21 mastered magic materia to the huge green materia) |
| Sense | Kalm Town, Upper Junon, Midgar City: Playground outside of the Wall Market |
| Steal | Midgar City: Sewers (before or after the battle with Aps), Kalm Town |
| Throw | Fort Condor, (disc 2 & 3) Rocket Town, (disc 2 & 3) is also equipped on Yuffie when you get her |
| DeathBlow | Fort Condor, Rocket Town, Jungle area near Gongaga Village |
| Manipulate | Fort Condor, (disc 2 & 3) Rocket Town, (disc 2 & 3) is also equipped on Cait-Sith when you get her |
| Morph | Temple of the Ancients |
| Enemy Skill | Shinra Building: 67th Floor, Upper Junon (in the Respectable Inn), Forgotten Capital, Chocobe Sage's house (talk to green chocobo) |
| Mime | In the cave on the other side of the Mountains on Wutai Island (green chocobo needed) |
| Double Cut | Wrecked Plane Gilneka (need submarine) |
| Slash-All | Frog Forest |
| W-Magic | Northern Crater (look near the plants in the stone pit area with the shiny light) |
| W-Summon | Buy from the Gold Saucer's Battle Square for 65,000 battle points. |
| W-Item | Keep coming back toward the screen on the railway system until you reach it. (during Midgar raid towards the end of disc 2) |
| Master Command | Kalm Town (get from the Kalm Traveler in return for the Earth Harp), and Cosmo Canyon (bring all mastered command materia to the huge yellow materia) |
| HP Plus | Cosmo Canyon, Mideel Village |
| MP Plus | Cosmo Canyon, Mideel Village |
| HP<-->MP | Cave on the desert penninsula near Mt. Corel |
| Luck Plus | Temple of the Ancients |
| Magic Plus | Cave area past the Forgotten Capital |
| Speed Plus | Purchase at Gold Saucer's Battle Square |
| Gil Plus | Purchase from Gold Saucer's Wonder Square |
| Exp. Plus | Purchase from Gold Saucer's Wonder Square |
| Enemy Away | Win it at the Gold Saucer's Chocobo Square |
| Enemy Lure | Win it at the Gold Saucer's Chocobo Square |
| Chocobo Lure | Puchase from Chocobo Billy, find it at the corner of the chocobo pen at the chocobo farm |
| Pre-Emptive | Purchase at Gold Saucer's Battle Square |
| Long Range | Mythril Mine after you climb the vine |
| Cover | Wall Market, Sector 6 Slums (near Aeris's house in the garden) |
| Counter Attack | Mt. Nibel (after destroying the materia keeper) |
| Mega All | Found in the Northern Crater (it's floating above a piece land, you'll have to press O right when you land on it, otherwise Cloud will jump on | or you can send some of your teammates that direction and take a different course... they may get it for you, depending on who goes) |
| Underwater Breath | Kalm Town (get it in return for the Guidebook... Guidebook found when you morph the ghost ship in the underwater reactor in the glass tunnel) |
| HP Absorb | Northern Crater (disc 3), in the cat house in Wutai (must complete Yuffie sub-quest in disc 2 first) |
| MP Absorb | Chest in the item shop in Wutai (must complete Yuffie sub-quest in disc 2 first) |
| MP Turbo | Ancient Temple |
| All | Fort Condor (disc 2 & 3), Sector 7 Slums, Shinra Building: 68th Floor, Cargo Ship (near the crates), Mt. Nibel, Great Glacier |
| Quadra Magic | In the cave at the end of the chain of islands near mideel village (blue chocobo needed) |
| Sneak Attack | Win at Gold Saucer's Chocobo Square |
| Magic Counter | Win at Gold Saucer's Chocobo Square |
| Counter | Press O at the shiny light in the rock pit in the Northern Crater |
| Final Attack | Win this by completing the 'Special Battle' at the Gold Saucer's Battle Square |
| Added Cut | Located on the second screen of the 'switching path' area of the mountain crossroads of the Great Glacier |
| Steal As Well | Wutai Village: Giant Statues (must draw back the fire with the levithan scales) |
| Added Effect | Cosmo Canyon: Gi Tribe Cave |
| Elemental | Shinra Building: 62nd Floor, Mt. Corel, Nibelhiem (in Tifa's Piano) |
| Choco/Mog | Listen to chocobos sing at the chocobo farm |
| Shiva | Get from Priscilla in Junon Town |
| Ifrit | After killing Jenova Birth in the Cargo Ship |
| Ramuh | Get after you come up the Elevator from Heaven's Gate in the Chocobo Lobby |
| Titan | Get it inside the Broken Reactor near Gongaga Village |
| Odin | Open the safe at Shinra Mansion at Nibelhiem) |
| Levithan | Beat Godo with Yuffie atop the Pagoda at Wutai |
| Kjata | Catch it in the second screen of the sleeping forest |
| Bahamut | Get it after killing the Red Dragon at the Temple of the Ancients |
| Alexander | Touch the hot springs at the Great Glacier, then go to the snow plains where you can set the pole... set the poles in a straight line heading west, when the wind blows your direction off course, follow the direction that the poles point to walking away from the poles... make sure to set more in a straight line so to keep your path... once you succeed, follow the path until you reach a cave... battle the ice woman and you'll recieve it |
| Neo Bahamut | At the first visit to the northern crater, you'll find it along your path |
| Pheonix | Beat the enemies at Fort Condor (disc 2), when you go up watch the FMV and the materia will be on the ground |
| Hades | Found in the large room in the wrecked plane Gelnika (submarine needed) |
| Bahamut ZERO | Take Bahamut and Neo Bahamut to the huge blue materia found in the rocket) |
| Typhoon | Lying on a large branch in Frog Forest |
| Knights of the Round | Located on a small island (invisible to the map) that is shaped like a stadium (gold chocobo needed) |
| Master Summon | Take all the mastered summon materia to the huge red materia, Kalm Town (Kalm Traveler gives it to you in return for the Earth Harp) |