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Final Fantasy IX now out on Android and iOS
- Thread starter Martylepiaf
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If it's Android, you'll be able to stream after hooking up Play Games and YouTube. Should be options in there to do it.
I'm on iOS.
Sorry, no idea on there!
LyleLanley
Banned
Does this game have cloud saves for iOS?
deranged_666
Member
Compatible with my Sony Bravia TV running Android TV...
...But not my NVIDIA Shield TV, which also runs Android TV about 6x better...
What?
...But not my NVIDIA Shield TV, which also runs Android TV about 6x better...
What?
Smelling like SE screwed up the manifests for the game. Or they are deliberately morons.
MulderYuffie
Member
when does google play usually update or like for discount prices?
RanoNL
Member
Yes, it has.
The first 10 minutes of Final Fantasy IX on iOS. I skipped all the movies, didn't go for every item.
- Ship of Baku
- Battle (including auto battle)
- Vivi in Alexandria
- Menu screen (including max. stats and Gil)
- Rat boy
- Save Moogle
Also the sound is not there for some reason.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJc2X-HoTAM
Why do people always think a factory reset is helpful?
Wait wait, in the actual game? Or did you mean the YouTube upload?
RanoNL
Member
Saren is Bad
Member
Sorry to ask again - any iPad Pro impressions?
RanoNL
Member
True. But I love this port. I had no trust in SE after FFVI and FFVII. But they even redid the equipment icons. And the menu's look actually good.They did a fantastic job on the characters but boy, they really stand out against the low-res backgrounds
Those icons man
This might be the very first game I buy for my phone. (even if it is a port of a console game)
Adore IX, but still not sure whether I want it for Mobile or PC.
Ugh I thought they'd move past these clipart shading icons.
Adore IX, but still not sure whether I want it for Mobile or PC.
Ugh I thought they'd move past these clipart shading icons.
Grim Patron
Member
Runs great on my iPhone 6. Installing on my iPad Air 2 now. I hope they port FFVIII to iOS soon.
They're great whatswrongwithyou
SlipperyFishes
Banned
Those icons are just the smoothed versions of the originals with a black outline. They're not attractive.
It is on sale elsewhere as well - 15.99 is 20% off 19.99.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
So this is more of an actual mobile port with actual touch menus? Moreso than the VII port which just used a virtual controller and called it a day?
How "attractive" were the originals? How attractive do equipment icons need to be?
And they look more than just smoothed to me; there's no hint of smoothed pixels. They're redrawn.
And they're fine. People looking for things to nitpick...
Correct.
MulderYuffie
Member
If the store isn't updating soon I'm just gonna buy it before the discount comes.
Other than the assets that had to be upscaled, that looks fantastic. Not really a big JRPG gamer on my 6S, but then again I have every other FF game on there anyway... Might have to snatch this before the PC and inevitable PS4 versions hit.
Font looks good too, compared to some of the awful earlier mobile stuff.
Font looks good too, compared to some of the awful earlier mobile stuff.
StoppedInTracks
Member
Those screens look amazing, holy shit. Much better than what I played in ePSXe back in 2007 when I did beat the game.
To think that you can play GTA3 and FF9 on an iPhone... incredible.
To think that you can play GTA3 and FF9 on an iPhone... incredible.
App Store says Universal, as were the other SE titles I'm pretty sure.
RanoNL
Member
What do you mean? The icons look very good. They redrawn them. In stead of enlarging and smoothing here and there.
Comparison between FFIX on PS and iOS:
Look at the feathers on the hat. You only get that level of smoothing in Crime Scene Investigation.
Even better, you can play Vice City and San Andreas on your phone as well.
They can't. The assets were long gone.
I'm actually really happy about how faithful they were to the look of the UI. Since they redid the menus and dialogue boxes they could have replaced them with anything, including generic boxes with system fonts or Arial, but they went out of their way to do justice to the original look. The font's not quite exactly the same but it's handsome and it's similar enough.
I know people are going to find little things to complain about, but I'm really happy so far with the way that Thailand studio handled this port. Yes the backgrounds are blurry, but barring an expectation of them painstakingly re-creating all the art, which isn't reasonable, this is about as good as it was ever going to look.
"Upgrade" how? Do you have any concept of how much work that would have been? They most likely don't have copies saved of the original art.
They did a great job with what they had. And an emulator doesn't give you the upgraded character models or menus.
I know people are going to find little things to complain about, but I'm really happy so far with the way that Thailand studio handled this port. Yes the backgrounds are blurry, but barring an expectation of them painstakingly re-creating all the art, which isn't reasonable, this is about as good as it was ever going to look.
"Upgrade" how? Do you have any concept of how much work that would have been? They most likely don't have copies saved of the original art.
They did a great job with what they had. And an emulator doesn't give you the upgraded character models or menus.
To be accurate, some of the assets are long gone. There's a good chunk floating around out there, but presumably not all of it otherwise we would have seen it implemented.
I'm sure modders will be able to make a mod that implements the higher res stuff available or something like waifu2x upscales which can look great if that's to your taste. But for an official product this is about the best we could hope for.
I know, a 60-80 hour RPG widely regarded as among the best in its genre, for the price of a lunch for two. Where do they get off?
That's not a "good chunk", that's a couple dozen images out of hundreds that are in the game. And note that since that thread appeared, no new ones have surfaced.
Yeah, exactly this.
There's like 40+ there, I'm sorry if you disagree with the phrase "good chunk" but you'll notice I'm not advocating for them to be used so it's pretty meaningless semantics.
£12.99 for a mobile port of a nearly 16 year old game that Square Enix probably won't support past one OS update if their track record is anything to go by.