U n i o n 0015
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It'd just be nice to play these games at modern resolutions. I don't even need a total remake.
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Square Enix registers FFVII PC domain, bonus evidence suggests achievements, $9.99
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If so they better include or support the mods.
alf717
Member
I would enjoy a straight up HD port of the game. Let it as is just higher resolution backgrounds and the original music.
If so they better include or support the mods.
It would be to only reason for why I'd buy it.
I still have my old PC version. But its in French. D:
(Damn I really need to replace that case...)
Prime crotch
Banned
Don't think a HD port would look that good, the original assets are pretty low res if I recall. FFIX would benefit more from a straight up HD port.
APZonerunner
Member
It's pretty well documented if you look about online, but the thing about FF7 is that Square had terrible practices about holding onto code around that time. When the time came for the PC port, they literally did not have code that was more... decompiled (probably a poor choice of word) than the final release.
As such, the team who made the PC port (which was in-house at Square Japan, NOT Eidos - they just funded/published) had to work based off basically the PS1 version of the game. For example, they ripped the CG movies from the PS1 version and re-encoded them for PC. Not exactly best practice.
The reason SE haven't just gone back and re-rendered the CG backgrounds to make a better version of the game or port it to something like XBLA/PSN easily is in part because they quite literally can't - they're stuck with the versions of all the backgrounds used in the PS1 version, which IIRC are sub-640 pixels wide. Massive amounts of the original files are lost. Same for textures, CG sequences and all sorts of stuff.
It's one reason that it's such a fucked port. It was after the FF7 PC debacle that they realized how badly they fucked up, and with FF8 they had access to the code. That's why FF8 is a much better port and much more rescuable with hacks and much less in need of the heavy modding 7 needed to be playable. Half these shots of the modded 7 aren't even running on the FF7 engine - it's a new fan-coded engine that merely pulls the assets and story and such from the PC disc while replacing others with new ones. Less a mod and more a ground-up remake. I'd guess it's a big factor in why 7's never been ported or remade since the PC, too. It'd be easier and more possible with 8 and 9, but I'm sure SE don't want to face the shit storm of doing those first and not 7.
Pretty sure you could enable the original soundtrack just by changing an option in the config.
The game hasn't aged well graphically. The super-deformed character models used outside of combat looked pretty bad even at the time. The CG scenes that once looked great also look super dated now.
It would be to only reason for why I'd buy it.
I still have my old PC version. But its in French. D:
(Damn I really need to replace that case...)
I see Eidos on the cover of that game. They own Eidos right?
As of Feb 2009 they do, not back then. ;o
So, they already had relation with SE before. Interesting.
Sapphire Dreams
Member
Now yes, back then ? no
That's not quite true. It sounded great with Yamaha DB50XG cards.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDZMqCSBg2Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-88lztWg7w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6Qmy-q6FX4
Not really.
Since they own them now, They can publish the game again on pc right? Eidos owned the publishing rights maybe? I don't know anything about this obviously.
LiquidSolid
Member
I'm pretty sure they didn't even like working with them (possibly due to the shitty ports), which is why they never even bothered with a FFIX port.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
Member
If they did why did it take over 3 years after buying them out to gain the rights? There's nothing interesting about it.
Believe.
Releasing in the year 2020.
AND finally the REAL Duke Nukem Forever will be released!
Same year as FF Versus XIII? no way.
Viola of the Abyss
Member
This looks incredible!!
The next time I'll replay this I'll do it this way!
It should hold me enough until we get the remake!
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
dark_chris
Gold Member
If so they better include or support the mods.
Im surprised not many people knew you could do this.
I remember this mod being hard to get - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZgnNn2gOkg
Thank goodness I still have my mods, this thread makes me want to play it again.
Because its Square-Enix. I'm still waiting on a game announced 6 years ago.
I'd triple-dip. Before I got a decent job in my teens and bought a Playstation, I played FF7 and FF8 on PC. Good times.
It would be nice if this set a precedent for them to put more Final Fantasy games on PC, though I continue to look at The Last Remnant on Steam and see it priced ridiculously high so I'm not too sure if I should embrace the thought or not.
It would be nice if this set a precedent for them to put more Final Fantasy games on PC, though I continue to look at The Last Remnant on Steam and see it priced ridiculously high so I'm not too sure if I should embrace the thought or not.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
Member
That has nothing to do with rights like you suggested though.
Unknown Soldier
Member
FFVII PC famously only barely worked even if you had exactly the hardware Square apparently developed the game on. That means you needed a 3Dfx video card and a Sound Blaster AWE series which support Soundfonts so the graphics and music weren't shit. If Squenix ports it now, they'll have to do a lot of work to make it run now on modern machines, and knowing Squenix's PC efforts since then, I expect it will be shit. Did people ever even get it working on Vista/7?
LiquidSolid
Member
Uh, Squaresoft didn't port VII or VIII, Eidos did.
Also, I'm pretty sure they've lost the source code to VII, so if it shows up, it'll be the old PC port.
cartman414
Member
A remake would cost a ton of money.
SuperSonic1305
Member
Final Fantasy 7: Pussy Cait
Flying_Phoenix
Banned
I actually replayed this game for the first time in years last week. Its aged surprising well.
SafeinSound
Member
Nothing is gonna come of this.
s_mirage
Member
Yeah, it's nowhere near up there with the most awkward to run games.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
Probably just re-registered the ancient domain that Eidos once used for the PC release.
I have the cool trapezoid boxed version! Never bothered to try running it. I heard "MIDI music" and never wanted to touch it.
I have the cool trapezoid boxed version! Never bothered to try running it. I heard "MIDI music" and never wanted to touch it.
AlphaDragoon
Member
This is fucking amazing. AC versions of the characters in my FFVII? Badass.
Brofist
Member
Yet is probably a safer investment than most other projects that get a green-light these days.
Yet it would print money.
Vigilant Walrus
Member
RELEASE THE CLOUD KRAKEN!
At this point... I don't even really want a remake. Part of FFVII's charm comes from the pre-rendered backgrounds, the voiceless cast, the music, the battle system.
I'd rather have a remake of Before Crisis, a mobile game that never made it to the west and was limited by phone technology even more so than PS1 tech at the time.
I'd rather have a remake of Before Crisis, a mobile game that never made it to the west and was limited by phone technology even more so than PS1 tech at the time.
They're not going to remake that, not even if it can sell on iOS/Android. They still haven't freaking made Triple Triad for mobile.