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I'm pretty sure all the SNES Final Fantasies let you change weapons in battle. Go to Item, hit Up to select your weapon (or shield), and scroll down through your inventory to pick whatever you want to swap it with.

How on earth does anyone do the Four Job Fiesta here with no proper mage classes?

It's a pain, to be sure, and it may not be completable for all job combinations. The good news is that you don't need to beat Omniscient to beat the game. The better news is that you can probably do it, anyway... but it might take a while.

Unfortunately, the most obvious plan - items that reproduce spell effects - is ineffective; Omniscient counters them. (The game cares about the command you selected, not the attack you produced, or some such.) Still, FFV is a game which provides the player with options. Here are a few of the ones that work on Omniscient.

A) Set up at least one character with a Wall/Reflect Ring (probably all of them, Reflect is a huge help against Omniscient) and another with the Mage Masher dagger, which randomly casts the Silence spell when attacking. Have the Mage Masher wielder attack your own Reflected party members. Any Silence produced will be reflected onto Omniscient; it'll wear off quickly, but your other characters can deal some damage after each Silence.

B) Inflict Berserk on Omniscient. His physical attacks are murderous, but survivable, and this disables his counterattack. Although I think that if you use an item to inflict Berserk, he will counter that, so you'd want to use it after briefly Silencing him as per Plan A above.

C) Set up a character to be nigh-immune to Omniscient's skillset. Wall Ring and Bone Mail, generally. Start the battle, and then walk away and do something else for 6-8 hours. Omniscient begins with Protect/Shell/Regen set, so typically he won't be able to kill himself, but once he runs out of MP, he's helpless. Of course, his counterattack (the Time Mage spell "Return": undoes everything that has happened during the battle) only costs 1MP, so you have to be sure that he's spent every last one of his 30,000 MP before you start attacking. Not recommended.

If anyone playing a Four Job Fiesta rolls two or more Beastmasters, I encourage them to try a fourth tactic: whips. That's what I used in my Freelancer SCC (no character is allowed to choose a job, ever.) Most whips have a 50% chance of inflicting Paralyze, and Omniscient's not immune to that, and his counter fails while he's Paralyzed. I don't know how lucky I had to get; it's been over a decade. I do know that I tried the Mage Masher plan, said "there has to be another way", looked up his stats in a FAQ, and then let out a shocked "...he's not immune to Paralyze? Seriously?" and got it to work. But most random parties won't have multiple whip users, and the less whips you have, the more likely you are to have your progress undone by a Return.

So, if you're asking whether the game can be beaten on one tablet... well, I know from experience that you can beat the game on zero jobs. FFV gives you so many options. It's great.
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