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FINAL FANTASY VI coming to PlayStation Network (PS1 Classic)
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After the success of FFVII, Squaresoft hired TOSE to port all the golden-oldies (some being based on the recently updated Wonderswan Color versions) to the Playstation. They released them in compilations: Origins for FFI and II, Anthology for FFV and VI, and Chronicles for IV and Chrono Trigger.Pyrokai said:
Notorious_Roy
Member
So, no FFV Complete Collection remake for PSP?
Aw yea, one of my favorite FFs. Hope this gets more people to try it out who may have missed it before.
Interesting that it's the PSX version, though I guess of course it would be. But for some reason, my PS3 HATES FFV and just refuses to play it. No idea why. Don't have problems with any other PSX games.
Interesting that it's the PSX version, though I guess of course it would be. But for some reason, my PS3 HATES FFV and just refuses to play it. No idea why. Don't have problems with any other PSX games.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
I wonder who's in charge at SCE for all this? Great job this year with classic PS1 titles.
Hours Left
Member
Y-BURN
That is all.
That is all.
Professor Beef
Banned
I would slap my own mother to get Bust a Groove 1 and 2 on PSN.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
I think another good question here is: "why do they hate the Enix catalogue so much"?Synless said:
I want Dragon Quest VII, darnit.
Freedom = $1.05
Banned
It was decent at the time as the only version that existed was the snes version and find a copy of it was a pricing predicament. Nowadays, with the great DS version out there, well, yeah, it plays especially like shit. And I bet that when it gets released on the psn network it will still sell like hotcakes.vocab said:
Cataferal said:
I think Type-0 will be the last S-E PSP game or at least the last original one. What else could they remake on the platform ? FFV going on PSN and FFVI on VC (and surely PSN soon) pretty much confirm that no remake of those games is coming any time soon.
Chrono Cross has been announced for JPSN Games Archive and should arrive by next year on US PSN.
Chrono Trigger ? The PS1 version could be coming on PSN since the VC is getting this month IIRC.
Aside from a few PS1 Classics that will only see a downloadable re-release at best, I can't think of any more game from S-E coming to PSP.
AranhaHunter
Banned
Synless said:
I think CC has been confirmed for JP release.
Dark Schala said:I think another good question here is: "why do they hate the Enix catalogue so much"?
I want Dragon Quest VII, darnit.
I want it too, or IV with subtitles, but I doubt it's happening, it's more likely to show up on WW at this point to be honest.
SabinFigaro
Member
FFV is great, but this port is a pile of dog shit.
Back in the day, I salivated over the Anthology release and tolerated the ridiculous load times (almost as bad as CT PSone) and atrocious translation. Not anymore. There's really no excuse with FFV Advance on the market.
Hopefully, there is a PSP or 3DS version in the works ala FFIV Complete.
Back in the day, I salivated over the Anthology release and tolerated the ridiculous load times (almost as bad as CT PSone) and atrocious translation. Not anymore. There's really no excuse with FFV Advance on the market.
Hopefully, there is a PSP or 3DS version in the works ala FFIV Complete.
Nice, the best FF game. Too bad they can't hack in the GBA FF5 Advance translation to the PS1 version... from what I remember the PS1 translation was pretty poop. Also hopefully due to the game being a downloadable, the load times are drastically reduced.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Different sound chip, maybe. The GBA's can mess up good sound sometimes, imo. I'm one of those people who value good sound in my games, and if I've played the original version, the portable version's sound will bug me a little bit.PK Gaming said:
For example:
The Decisive Battle (SNES Ver)
vs
The Decisive Battle (GBA Ver)
and:
Clash on the Big Bridge (SNES Ver)
vs
Clash on the Big Bridge (GBA Ver)
and:
The Last Battle (SNES Version)
vs
The Last Battle (GBA Version)
and:
Battle 1 (SNES Version)
vs
Battle 1 (GBA Version)
As far as I know, the PS1 and SNES versions of FF5 are nearly the same in terms of music quality. Obviously the GBA version will differ because it's a different sound chip altogether. The GBA versions of some of the FF5 themes sound quite... busy... in comparison to the original SNES tracks. The GBA soundchip was very good for bass, imo.
This can also be slightly detrimental, though.
Undersea Palace (SNES Ver)
vs
Undersea Palace (PSX Ver)
But the DS version sounds fine to me: Undersea Palace (DS Version)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDPRvcKVjMI
There used to be a pretty good vid on youtube showing the differences, but I think you can hear them clearly. One has echo. One does not. One has more dynamics. One does not. Piano's more prominent in one than the other. Overall, one of the points against the PS1 version of CT (aside from load times) was the hit that some of the music took. I can't recall the reason why some of these pieces were changed (other than arranging the music to make it sound better, or worse, depending on how you look at it). Both tracks showed up differently on both the SNES and PS1 albums.
IIRC, "World Revolution" was also different on both albums. Edit: Yep: SNES Version, PSX Version, and DS Version
Sure it sounds like a purist's argument, but again, I'm one of those people who's pretty picky about these things.
Lumpy Onion
Member
Good news, but I probably won't be buying it. I am so used to the GBA version I don't think I could go back to this one. Especially because of the translation. But, it is FF V and I hope people who haven't played it yet get to play this great game because of this.
Saga frontier 1 is a flawed classic. When I buy a PS3 I hope they have it available in the US because I would really like to play it again someday.DMeisterJ said:
I wish that another game would implement the multiple scenarios system that SF1 had. I loved how a random NPC from one persons perspective could be a playable character with a cool backstory for someone else. So much diversity in the main characters and locations too:. a vampire, a superhero, a robot are all characters you could play as.
The only modern game I can think of that has anything like it were the origin stories in dragon age origins, but in that game only the first hour or two were different between characters. In SF, the entire game would be different depending on who you chose to experience the world as.
I tried to play V years ago (Anthology version), but couldn't do anything because of the save game bug when playing on the PS3. I eventually got the GBA version to play. I was having fun with it but I ended up stopping at a certain point pretty far into the game and had to stop for several reasons. I haven't touched it since and that was around 2 years ago It's the only one out of all the FF games I've bought that I haven't finished atleast once. Even though it would be nice to have a portable version for my eventual NGP purchase, I wish it could be the GBA version instead
It's the only one out of all the FF games I've bought that I haven't finished atleast once. Even though it would be nice to have a portable version for my eventual NGP purchase, I wish it could be the GBA version insteadcartman414
Member
Please be free of load times.
kinoki
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
Are Square Enix afraid we won't buy their mediocre products if they release them after their greatest titles? Where is the Final Fantasy IV, VI and Chrono Trigger annoucements?
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
If there was a bug in the internal PSone emulator of the PS3, then it's surely been fixed in firmware updates by now to accommodate the PSN release mentioned in this thread. The game data of this PSN download should be identical to your FF Anthology FFV disc. So unless you want to play on a PSP/NGP, just play your disc.Squalltdx said:I tried to play V years ago (Anthology version), but couldn't do anything because of the save game bug when playing on the PS3. I eventually got the GBA version to play. I was having fun with it but I ended up stopping at a certain point pretty far into the game and had to stop for several reasons. I haven't touched it since and that was around 2 years ago
cartman414
Member
kinoki said:
Is that what you're saying about FFV?
Personally I preferred V to IV. (Not to mention IV is getting the Complete Collection this month.)
Relaxed Muscle
Member
I never played V but I think I'll wait until the inevitable NGP/3DS remake, also what are the chances of SE ripping 10 for this?
Professor Beef
Banned
They'll be released after Kingdom Hearts 3.kinoki said:
Blue Submarine No. 6
Member
Huzzah! As my PSN library continues to grow, announcements like this one are very welcome... now I`ll be able to replay V on my PSP Go and (coming soon!) NGP instead of using my PSX rip on my CFW 1000...
SolsticeZero
Banned
Fuck this. I want Chocobo Racing on my US PSN.
cartman414
Member
Morn said:
Rereleased in the case of everything pre-7.
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
Square, you trolls. You know people want Einhander. It's selling for over a cnote on Ebay.Stumpokapow said:
Dark Schala said:
The GBA version of FF5's final music product sounds really good, I think. It isn't identical; they changed a lot of instrument samples and such to optimize it for the GBA, but the end result is more than acceptable. As for the reason why, well... first, FF5's original music isn't particularly complex and doesn't make use of many of the SNES sound chip's extra features, so conversion to a platform without those was much easier. Also, the SNES's sound chip used 32khz samples and had 8 sound channels, as well as several effects such as echo and volume envelopes. By contrast, the GBA had only 6 sound channels, with the catch being that 4 of them are the GameBoy Color sound channels - 3 square waves, 1 noise. The other two are only capable of playing 8-bit signed PCM samples, which is fairly low quality as it is. What that means is that any game that used more than two simultaneous PCM sounds had to mix them together with the CPU before outputting to one of the two PCM channels, often reducing the sample quality further (sometimes to as low as 8khz) in order to spend less CPU time doing the mixing. In light of that, games like Mother 3 in particular are incredible, but FF5 is even moreso because the actual sound quality is quite good compared to other GBA games. The changes they made (selecting samples that sound better under the constraints) were for the better in FF5a's case.
It's fine to prefer the SNES originals, but I really don't think FF5 suffered very much, and certainly not as much as 6 did.