Cloud’s Music Collector trophy can survive a missed pickup, but wandering Midgar without the right detection cues wastes a cleanup run. This guide tracks all 31 main-story discs in Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade—not Yuffie’s INTERmission DLC—using the veteran method: follow the “???” audio cue, watch for music-note vending icons, and stop to scan.

Quick Completion Rules: Missables, Detection, and Vendor Costs

No disc is permanently missable. After the first clear, Chapter Select returns you to the required chapter, making the efficient route natural pickups first, a Chapter 14 sweep second, and endgame cleanup last. Most vendor discs cost 50 Gil; Moggie’s Moogle Emporium requires at least 1 Moogle Medal for its disc.

Disc #26, Let the Battles Begin! -REMAKE-, requires a Great rating in the Honeybee Inn dance practice. Retry immediately if the mini-game fails, and check every vending machine displaying a music-note icon.

Sector 7, Reactors, and Early Midgar Discs

Collect these during the first half of the story so Chapter Select only handles gaps:

• Chapter 3: #1 The Prelude—Sector 7 item shop, 50 Gil; #3 Tifa’s Theme—Seventh Heaven jukebox; #4 Barret’s Theme—item shop near the Sector 7 Train Station, 50 Gil; #27 Hip Hop de Chocobo—DJ beside the bar.

• Chapter 5: #28 Stamp—Corkscrew Tunnel vending machine, in the back room after the sentry fight.

• Chapter 6: #18 Electric de Chocobo—Ventilation Facilities vending machine after reaching the hidden area beyond the fans.

• Chapter 7: #2 Bombing Mission—Mako Reactor 5 vending machine after the Front Gate keycard puzzle.

• Chapter 11: #6 Let the Battles Begin!—vending machine outside the Control Room, before the Ghoul fight.

• Chapter 15: #5 Lurking in the Darkness—vending machine on the collapsed expressway.

• Chapter 16: #31 Scarlet’s Theme—Shinra Building 63F Combat Sim jukebox near the item shop and bench.

Sector 5, Wall Market, and Chapter 14 NPC Sweep

Wall Market and the slums hide the densest midgame cluster, while Chapter 14 supplies 7 discs, so speak to every NPC before leaving an area:

• Chapter 8: #19 Costa del Sol—Sector 5 Materia Shop, 50 Gil; #20 Gold Saucer—Moogle Emporium, requiring 1 Moogle Medal; #21 Cait Sith’s Theme—Sector 5 Train Station vending machine; #25 Tango of Tears—Sector 5 Community Center jukebox.

• Chapter 9: #8 Under the Rotting Pizza—Wall Market jukebox south of the Inn; #10 Honeybee Inn—Wall Market item shop, 50 Gil; #11 Don of the Slums—Corneo’s Mansion vending machine after meeting Tifa; #17 Farm Boy—girl on the balcony near Chadley; #22 Cosmo Canyon—vending machine at the end of the Expressway; #26 Let the Battles Begin! -REMAKE-—Great dance rating; #29 The Midgar Slum—Wall Market vending machine, 50 Gil.

• Chapter 10: #9 Oppressed People—Sewers vending machine.

• Chapter 13: #14 Main Theme of FFVII—Underground Lab break-room vending machine; #15 On Our Way—Evergreen Park item shop.

• Chapter 14: #7 Turk’s Theme—man by the water; #12 Fight On!—Colosseum souvenir shop; #13 The Chase—Sewers vending machine during the key search; #16 Good Night, Until Tomorrow—old man inside the Wall Market Inn; #23 Descendant of Shinobi—Sector 5 Undercity merchant near Leaf House; #24 Wutai—Entertainment District man south of the Colosseum; #30 Stand Up—girl in the alley behind Honeybee Inn.

Vendor, Jukebox, and NPC Interaction Checklist

Use a three-pass scan: check shops for 50-Gil purchases, inspect vending machines with music-note icons, then talk to NPCs until their dialogue changes. Key jukeboxes are Seventh Heaven, Wall Market south of the Inn, the Sector 5 Community Center, and Shinra Building 63F Combat Sim.

NPC triggers include the Sector 7 DJ, the man by the water, the Wall Market Inn old man, the balcony girl, the Sector 5 Undercity merchant, the Entertainment District man, and the girl behind Honeybee Inn. For ambiguous spawns before Chapter Select cleanup, cross-check Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade on Final Fantasy Wiki; community reports indicate v1.004 Streamlined Progression still does not auto-collect the 31 discs.

Completion Route and Commercial Recommendation

Follow the story route through Chapters 3, 5–11, 13, 15, and 16, then prioritize the complete Chapter 14 sweep before checking the trophy list. If one title remains, replay its chapter with the “???” cue active rather than relying on memory; no publicly verifiable data is available for automatic disc collection beyond the reported v1.004 behavior.

For players preparing for Revelation, FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE INTERGRADE lowest price & CDKey deals can help secure the foundational entry before chasing every FF7 Remake music discs trophy. Remember that INTERmission’s Yuffie collectibles, including Happy Turtle content, do not count toward Cloud’s 31-disc Music Collector requirement.