Femmeworth
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VII doesn't need a remake, it needs a new translation. A lot of old JRPGs could use a new translation.
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Square Enix registers FFVII PC domain, bonus evidence suggests achievements, $9.99
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That's all I want. A better translation first and foremost, perhaps sharper graphics for the backgrounds and slightly more detailed character models, but leave it alone for the most part. I don't want ff7 to look like ff13, I don't want new cut scenes, I don't want voices. None of that.
Raonak
Banned
was just about to post the pattern with the last words all starting with a C.
but didn't realise the first words have a pattern too. very acute observation.
Im shocked. first time in a while i've seen SE games with a names that makes sense.
Viola of the Abyss
Member
About a Before Crisis 3DS remake: http://andriasang.com/compqc/tabata_before_crisis/
Let's hope this really happens...
Besides, all means of playing the original are gone now, right?
EDIT: I still want a proper VII remake though...
Syphon Filter
Member
my body is ready.please let it be FF7 on steam.
Bjoern the Smexy
Member
I read that as "FFVII: Personality Crisis" and thought "Heh, that's pretty accurate for a majority of the game".
Then I read it right and was a bit dissapointed.
If I remember correctly, the PC versions of both FF7 and 8 had some kind of midi player or something shipped with them that played the in-game music with a special soundfont that made the music sound almost the same as on the PlayStation.
viewtifulsub
Member
Holy crap, I remember reading the original thread on 4chan about the out of the job audio engineer who was uploading the entire soundtrack rendered with his Yamaha DB50XG card. But I never saved the links.
IIRC, this was what the soundtrack originally intended to sound like before having troubles with the PS1 hardware.
Thanks for the links.
Sapphire Dreams
Member
I agree, SE doesn't know how to make good FF games anymore.
s_mirage
Member
That it did. FF7 came with the Yamaha s-yxg70 softsynth, and provided you set it to run in full XG mode you could enjoy the arranged XG versions of the soundtrack (IIRC the documentation just mentioned the XG-lite mode, so I assume that they originally were just going to include the cut down version of the synth). That actually inspired me to buy some XG hardware at the time.
Also it came with a few different flavours of soundfont that the AWE cards of the time could use instead. The largest of those actually had the choir vocals that were missing from the other MIDI versions.
I'm not sure that's the case. AFAIK the XG versions of the tracks were arrangements done by Yamaha, not the original sound team.
2013 because they've secretly been working on it since 2005.
wakajawaka
Member
It wouild be awesome if someone made/linked a tutorial for the ffvii pc mods
*runs to find a pc copy
*runs to find a pc copy
In that case, I wonder what the original sound team intended for things to sound like.
Edit:
Listening to this right now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBwNa9uZlr0
There are definitely instruments and notes I have never noticed before.
Edit:
Listening to this right now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBwNa9uZlr0
There are definitely instruments and notes I have never noticed before.
Syphon Filter
Member
I don't see why would they make a dedicated site for ff7 on pc. This must be something else.
Seven Force
Banned
Wouldn't be completely unprecedented, though. I think they even have a website specifically for the PSN release of the game.
LiquidSolid
Member
Seven Force
Banned
Ah, I don't know why I thought I recalled them using a separate domain for that.
How About No
Member
dayum
Someone else held the domain. They took it back.
FF7 introduced me to terrible PC ports. It's also the reason that the entire Nibelheim flashback scene after you leave Midgar is burned into my mind, because it was a long segment of cutscenes with no saving...and the game hated my CD-ROM drive so it crashed a lot.
It did look pretty nice when I got a voodoo 3 though. I actually still have the discs somewhere.
It did look pretty nice when I got a voodoo 3 though. I actually still have the discs somewhere.
FF7 was the first game that couldn't run well on the first PC I ever bought. It was a 200MHz Pentium 1 and I may have had a Voodoo 2 stuck in there at this point. The game ran poorly, the FMV scenes wouldn't align properly with the real-time characters and there was a lot of slow down, but I could generally still play the game. Then I made it to Junon, and the game came to a screeching halt. It was literally impossible to progress. Eventually EverQuest came out and I convinced my parents to buy a new PC (AMD K6-2 running at ~450MHz and sporting a Voodoo 3), but at that point I had finally saved up enough to just buy a PSX on ebay.
edit: the music sounded okay through my SoundBlaster Awe 64 Gold, but no where near as good as it did on the actual PSX. Also.. why did we feel the need to buy sound cards back then? Was audio not integrated on motherboards yet or something? I can't really remember but it's strange that I would have ordered a sound card from Tiger Direct at the age of 12 unless there was a good reason.
Glass Rebel
Member
It'd be pretty weird to spend ressources on FFVII. IMO Final Fantasy Tactics would make much more sense with them working on retina assets for the iOS versions anyway. But SE is weird like that.
I'd also much rather play FFT but that's different story altogether.
I'd also much rather play FFT but that's different story altogether.
ZombiePlatypus
Member
I would die. I'm convinced SE won't pull through though.
I agree, but without some kind of remake there won't be an official new translation. The 3DS would probably be the only hardware on which a remake could be released that doesn't change much else.
I'm surprised there's no fan translation for this given how popular the game is (or I just don't know of any).
s_mirage
Member
Good question. I believe that this is an edit. The choir vocals were replaced by generic choir ahh sounds in the original XG midi version. I do not recall the game overlaying the choir vocals, but seeing as the softsynth that came with the game had quite severe latency compared with midi hardware, and the game had no way of knowing how lagged any midi output was from any source, doing that with any accuracy would have been a bit much to ask.
The AWE version did include the choir vocals but that was because it used a custom soundfont for that song.
SuperAngelo64
Banned
It's most definitely an edit. I remember one of the only disappointing aspects of the game was listening to One Winged Angel without vocals.
mysocksarepink
Banned
does anyone want this? It would just be a port of the PS1 version..
which I'm sure everyone who wants to play the game has played the game..
so I don't understand.. why would anyone play this?
which I'm sure everyone who wants to play the game has played the game..
so I don't understand.. why would anyone play this?
http://finalfantasyviipc.com/ site now asks for user/pass, I guess it's real then.
Dwight Schrute
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brotkasten
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Character Booster. What? I hope they do that with in-app purchases.
darkpaladinmfc
Member
I feel like they're going to put this crap in all FF games from now on.
That's what was in the PSX manual.
archnemesis
Member
What's wrong with the music? It's been a while since I played it, but I remember it being pretty good if you used the right MIDI output. Maybe not be quite as good as this, but still pretty decent.
Graphics Horse
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Cloud saves AeriS confirmed.