Final Fantasy 6 GAAAAAAAAAGH!

So, I've been playing Final Fantasy 6 on my iPod the last few weeks. Cool game, trial and error at first.

But now I'm completely stuck.

I'm stuck on the floating continent with no potions or tents or even adequate weapons because I assumed that it operated like Mass Effect where you could just give everybody the strongest weapons and everything would be swell and I could sell all the rest and I didn't save any backups so I'm going to have to start all over from the very beginning and GAAAAAH!

First world problems at their finest, I know. But I just wanted to vent.