That first part of the post isn't very accurate. It turns out that Phoenix also knocked those out of the way with a much more empirical method than "Test and see" but by finding the data. So here's a more accurate portrayal of tile events and what and when they link to their tiles.
Phoenix's Info on Event Triggers
(*REF - Required Event Flag)
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Event Triggers Phoenix Hacks
12/22/09
(Filled out in 2012 by Grimoire LD)
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Map tile triggers reference event triggers. The pointers for these triggers are
located from 97460 to 9765F. To find where these point, reverse the bytes and
add 0x97660. The event trigger data is located from 97660 to 9785F.
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FFxx = Load event xx
FEaa = If event flag aa is set...
aa = If event flag aa is clear...
Examples:
aaFFxxFFyy = If event flag aa is clear, then load event xx, else load event yy
FEaabbFFxxFEccFFyyFFzz = If event flag aa is set and bb is clear, then load event xx,
else if event flag cc is set, load event yy, else load event zz
The event trigger data, like the NPC speech data, utilizes events numbers 01-03,
which are EE message calls: "Show message [hex data xx following event call] (from bank 2)"
For example, the Old Man wandering in the town of Baron has the following data (at 99EDE-99EEA):
FE 06 FF 03 FE 0B FF 02 FF 01 03 04 05
This translates to:
Data Meaning
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FE 06 If event flag 06 is set,
FF 03 load event 03 (i.e. message call EE 02 = message 05 of bank 2)
FE 0B (else) if event flag 0B is set,
FF 02 load event 02 (i.e. message call EE 01 = message 04 of bank 2)
FF 01 (else) load event 01 (i.e. message call EE 00 = message 03 of bank 2)
03 04 05 [Hex data following event call]
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## Offset Pntr Data
-- ------ ---- -----
00 97660 0000 FF 0B (Door)
01 97660 0000 FF 0B (Door)
02 97662 0200 FF 00 (Nothing)
03 97664 0400 FE 0B 09 FF 1A FF 00 (REEF11"0B" Baigan Battle, REF09 Kill event. )
04 9766B 0B00 22 FF 14 FF 00 (Rosa Greeting Cecil, REF34"22" Kill event.)
05 97670 1000 04 FF 15 FF 68 (Cecil Sleeping Prologue, REF04 Resting in Bed)
06 97675 1500 0B FF 1C FF 1E (Sealed Serpent Road, REF11"0B" Open Serpent Road)
07 9767A 1A00 FE 06 FF 00 FF 17 (Sealed with unknown power, REF06" Kill event.)
08 97680 2000 08 FE 3F FF 19 28 FF 18 FF 00(REF40"28"..., Finding Odin before Land of Summons, REF63"3F" Odin Battle, REF08 Kill event.)
09 9768A 2A00 0D FF 27 FF 00 (Mist Dragon Warnings - Show bank 2 message00, REF13"0D" Kill event.)
0A 9768F 2F00 0D FF 28 FF 00 (Mist Dragon Warnings - Show bank 2 message01, REF12"0D" Kill event.
0B 97694 3400 0D FF 2F FF 00 (Mist Dragon Battle, REF13"0D" Kill event.)
0C 97699 3900 0E FF 30 FF 00 (Mist events, REF14"0E" Kill event.)
0D 9769E 3E00 0F FF 39 FF 00 (Kaipo events-Rydia Joining, REF15"0F" Kill event.)
0E 976A3 4300 13 FF 3C FF 3E (Watery Cave Waterfall events, REF19"13" The current is too strong!)
0F 976A8 4800 13 FF 3D FF 00 (Octomamm Battle, REF19"13" Kill event.)
10 976AD 4D00 14 FF 42 FF 00 (Redwings bombing Damcyan, REF20"14" Kill event.)
11 976B2 5200 27 FF 43 FF 00 (Tellah fighting Edward-Edward joining, REF39"27" Kill event.)
12 976B7 5700 12 FF 45 FF 00 (Antlion Battle, REF18"12" Kill event.)
13 976BC 5C00 FE 11 15 FF 46 FF 00 (REF17"11"Rydia melting Mt Hobs Ice, REF21"15" Kill event.)
14 976C3 6300 16 FF 47 FF 00 (Yang joining-Mombomb Battle, REF22"16" Kill event.)
15 976C8 6800 1B FF 48 FF 00 (Fabul Battle, REF27"1B Kill event.)
16 976CD 6D00 FE 03 FF 00 FF 11 (Cid Greeting Cecil, REF03 Kill event.)
17 976D3 7300 17 FF 31 FF 00 (Watery Cave save events, REF22"17" Kill event.)
18 976D8 7800 FF 0B (Open a door)
19 976DA 7A00 FE 1B 2C FF 52 FF 00 (REF27"1B" Discussion about Rescuing Rosa, REF44"2C" Kill event.)
1A 976E1 8100 FE 1C 1D FF 5F FF 00 (REF28"1C"Mount Ordeals Fire put out by Palom, REF29"1D" Kill event.)
1B 976E8 8800 1E FF 60 FF 00 (Meeting Tellah on Mt. Ordeals, REF30"1E" Kill event.)
1C 976ED 8D00 1F FF 27 FF 00 ((Milon's Hiss)Show bank 2 message 0, REF31"1F" Kill event.)
1D 976F2 9200 1F FF 28 FF 00 ((Milon's Hiss)Show bank 2 message 1, REF31"1F Kill event.)
1E 976F7 9700 1F FF 61 FF 00 (Milon Battle, REF31"1F" Kill event.)
1F 976FC 9C00 0B FF 62 FF 00 (Cecil becomes a Paladin, REF11,"0B" Kill event.)
20 97701 A100 FF 65 (Serpent Road to Baron)
21 97703 A300 20 FF 63 FF 00 (Second Milon Battle, REF32"20" Kill event.)
22 97708 A800 FE 06 FF 6B FF 69 (REF06 Load Shrinking Hallway (1), Load Shrinking Hallway (3))
23 9770E AE00 FE 06 FF 6C FF 6A (REF06 Load Shrinking Hallway (4), Load Shrinking Hallway (2))
24 97714 B400 24 25 FF 71 FE 23 25 2F FF 72 FF 00(Edward in Troia receiving TwinHarp, REF36"24" Returning to Troia after defeating the Dark Elf, ?REF37?"25" Kill event.)
25 97720 C000 57 FF F2 FF 00 (Watery Pass-North exiting message from Tellah, REF87"57" Kill event.)
26 97725 C500 2A FF 79 FF 00 (Magus Sisters Battle, REF42"2A" Kill event.)
27 9772A CA00 2F FF 7A FF 00 (Top of Tower of Zot events, REF47"2F" Kill event.)
28 9772F CF00 FE 0C FF 7C FF 00 (REF12"0C" Valvalis Battle-Dark Crystals discussion, Kill event.)
29 97735 D500 02 FF 51 FF 00 (Rosa Sick in Kaipo, REF02 Kill event.)
2A 9773A DA00 2D FF 7F FF 00 (Magnus cave entering Message, REF45"2D" Kill event.)
2B 9773F DF00 FE 2C 18 FF 83 FF 00 (REF44"2C" Sailing from Fabul-Leviathan attack, REF24"18" Kill event.)
2C 97746 E600 31 FE 23 FF 4A FF 00 (REF35"23"Toroia Clerics event(after obtaining Earth Crystal), REF49"31" Kill event.)
2D 9774D ED00 0C 26 FE 31 FF 66 0C FE 26 FE 31 FF 8D FF 00 (REF49"31" Boarding the Airship, entering Tower of Zot first time, REF38"26" Entering the Tower of Zot subsequent times, REF12"0C" Kill event.)
2E 9775C FC00 FE 05 FF 93 FF 00 (REF05 Load Old Waterway (In back of Baron Castle Moat), Kill event.
2F 97762 0201 07 32 FF 8B FF 00 (REF07 Entering the Underworld in the airship-being shot down, REF50"32" Kill event.)
30 97768 0801 FE 3B 3D FF C5 FE 38 3A FF A6 07 FF 8C FF 00 (REF59"3B" Talking to Giott-attaching Drill, REF56"38" Obtaining the Luca Key, Meeting Giott-Calbrena-Rydia Rejoining, REF3D"61"-REF58"3A" Kill event.)
31 97777 1701 FF 8E (Exiting Tower of Zot)
32 97779 1901 FF 67 (Resting for Free in Fabul)
33 9777B 1B01 33 FF 94 FF 00 (Dr. Lugae Battles, REF51"33" Kill event.)
34 97780 2001 19 FF 95 FF 00 (Super Cannon Destruction-Yang Leaves, REF25"19")
35 97785 2501 FE 19 0A FF 96 FF 00 (REF25"19" Jumping from Tower of Babil, Airship escape, REF10"0A" Kill event)
36 9778C 2C01 0A FF FE FF 00 (Visual effect 36 (Dwarves bombing Tower, REF10"0A" Kill event.)
37 97791 3101 34 FF 9A FF 00 (Edge Joining-Rubicant Battle, REF52"34" Kill event.
38 97796 3601 FF 9B (Ninjaing through Tower of Babil Wall entrance)
39 97798 3801 FF A0 (Ninjaing through Tower of Babil Wall exit)
3A 9779A 3A01 53 FF A1 FF 00 (Fighting Edge's Parents, REF83"53" Kill event.)
3B 9779F 3F01 FF A2 (Falling to the Underground)
3C 977A1 4101 FE 48 FF F5 FF F4 (REF72"48" Tower of Wishes with Yang, Cid, Edward praying, Tower of Wishes)
3D 977A7 4701 FF F6 (Load Mysidia Crystal Room)
3E 977A9 4901 FF A5 (Finding the Falcon) (So what this means is if you cheat your way back into the tower you can reacquire the Falcon again)
3F 977AB 4B01 FE 38 39 FF A7 FF 00 (REF56"38" Cid Meeting Edge-Heat Shield, REF57"39" Kill event.)
40 977B2 5201 3F FF A9 FF 00 ("I came here on my way..." Summon Monster Cave, REF63"3F" Kill event.)
41 977B7 5701 FF B0 (Climbing rope down)
42 977B9 5901 FF B1 (Climbing rope up)
43 977BB 5B01 FF B5 (Climbing rope down than up)
44 977BD 5D01 FF B3 (Climbing rope down, toggle visibility)
45 977BF 5F01 FF B4 (Climbing rope up, toggle visibility)
46 977C1 6101 FF B5 (Climbing rope down than up (repeat? why?)
47 977C3 6301 FE 40 41 FF AA FF 00 (REF64"40" Demon Wall Battle, REF65"41" Kill event.)
48 977CA 6A01 FE 40 3B FF B6 FF 00 (REF64"40" Kain stealing the Dark Crystal, REF59"3B" Kill event.)
49 977D1 7101 FE 3D 43 FF 9E FF 00 (REF61"3D" Big Whale Surfacting, REF67"43" Kill event.)
4A 977D8 7801 47 FF D0 FF 00 (Meeting FuSoYa and him joining, REF67"43" Kill event.)
4B 977DD 7D01 FF 7D (HP Restoring Pot)
4C 977DF 7F01 FF 7E (MP Restoring Pot)
4D 977E1 8101 FE 48 FF DD FF DC (REF72"48" Entering the Lunar Subterrane, "Sealed with Unknown Power"
4E 977E7 8701 FE 47 48 FF 9D FF 00 (REF71"47" Giant of Babil events, REF72"48" Kill event.))
4F 977EE 8E01 49 FF ED FF 00 (Element Fiends Battle, REF73"49" Kill event.)
50 977F3 9301 55 FF FC FF 00 (Obtaining the Ribbon, REF92"5C" Kill event.)
51 977F8 9801 FF E6 (Giant of Babil CPU Battle-FuSoYa and Golbez leaving)
52 977FA 9A01 FF E4 (Load Big Whale)
53 977FC 9C01 FF EB (Enertron Recovery "Resting for Free")
54 977FE 9E01 FF E8 (Load Big Whale-activate Baron Black Chocobo?
55 97800 A001 FF E7 (Zeromus Battle-ending events)
56 97802 A201 51 FF 04 FF 00 (Behemoth in Bahamut's Cave(1), REF81"51" Kill event.)
57 97807 A701 52 FF 05 FF 00 (Behemoth in Bahamut's Cave(2), REF82"52" Kill event.)
58 9780C AC01 FE 3B FF 00 FF 06 (REF59"3B" Kill event?, Entering Tower of Babil)
59 97812 B201 50 FF F3 FF 00 (Behemoth in Bahamut's Cave 3, REF80"50" Kill event)
5A 97817 B701 FF (Blank)