Final Fantasy VII is getting a PC rerelease

I found my PSP charger today after days of searching so I can play FFVII and you pull this on me!

I remember trying to find a PC copy of FFVII and FFVIII in 2003 with no luck, or no money.

One question: Does it support the Xbox 360 Controller for Windows?

If so I'd sacrifice a chunk of food money and buy it immediately!

EDIT: NVM I bought it regardless. DLing as we speak.

 

It's absolutely impossible to find a video of this particular release on youtube.

By any chance could you take a few screenshots of how the graphics looks?



FOUND IT.

 

The music doesn't sound like it did in the initial PC release. It sounds like a weird combination of both the PC and PS1 music.

 

To me, it's basically the same game as originally released for PC, but with some kind of filter applied to graphics and videos so it doesn't look too pixelated.
Unfortunately it did take a while to get it to work (some error when starting the game, was fixed after restarting the computer, though nothing pointed to that), and it always checks for updates, and other stuff I really don't like... the only plus is that you can use it in current PCs right away (no mod/patch required), but it's definitely far from what they could have made.

 

The models look nice, backgrounds look like ass.

The upscaled 4:3 ratio isnt the end of the world but I'm getting a little bit of black border at the bottom too -_-

Also, if you want you can stretch to fill the screen.

From the launcher go to settings, video tab, then untick "Keep aspect ratio" then click ok.



The game doesnt look too deformed at first glance, but I didnt play with it much yet, bed time.

I got an achievement for first fight and doing the Cloud & Barret limit breaks thus far. As for the booster option,

You have to click to "View Online Profile" in the game launcher:



Then click "Character Booster" in the top right of your page:



Then click boost characters:



Then click Boost



It seems like a pretty pointless feature IMO. I quite enjoyed the grind.

You and me both. Luckily I bought the original OST from Lik Sang or Play Asia or something nearly a decade ago so I can rip the tracks at will. Hopefully a copy and paste to get rid of the remixed versions will do the job. I'll try just the battle music for now though as it will be the one I hear most frequently.

 

I think everything looks like ass, but I guess that's just part of it's charm.

The black border at the bottom existed in the initial PC release as well. I'm pretty sure there are patches to fix it, but I don't know if they would work in this version.

So basically you got an achievement for doing something a 5 year old could easily do. Hardly an "achievement". I can't believe people bother with this crap on PS3/360.

It works, but it has to be an ogg file and it appears to have looping problems. Give it a week or two and I'm sure someone will release the songs in a way that works perfectly.

 

I've yet to fully give it a whirl as it took me all night just to install Windows 7 on my MBA just to play this.

Thanks for pointing out the character booster option, what a weird place to put it (it's very obviously a game save hack, hence it being irreversible). It's pretty pointless, I can't think of many times in the game where I had to grind to get money (with the exception of Cosmo Canyon where you first find HP/MP materia and Condor Fort when you donate to build an army).

Didn't notice the stretch option either.

Also this does work with an Xbox 360 pad, but sadly not a PS3 controller.

I think the big question is, can I really be assed to play through FF7 again? It is my 2nd fave game of all time and I have done a 100% (killed all weapons etc) in the past. Wouldn't mind doing that again but then life is too short to spend hours in the battle square, weeks raising chocobos and months watching Knights of the Round on loop.

 

Yes it does, or at least it should. Unless Squeenix disabled using USB controllers in the re-release, I see no reason why a PS3 controller can't work.

You have to install unofficial driver files to get it working, but you can use a PS3 controller on PC. I use one when emulating PS1 games.

 

True. But I've never once seen an LCD severely damaged by burn in, although I have heard of it happening. It would take far more effort to burn in an LCD than it would a plasma or OLED. Unless you absolutely hammer the monitor and leave it on constantly you shouldn't be too worried about it. Damage to sensetive technology like screens or electrical components is caused by carelessness and misuse, playing a game for a few hours with black bars isn't going to cause much harm, if the monitor was ever to suffer severe burn in you'd have START burned in there already. Just don't leave the LCD monitor on with the same image 24/7 like stores do and you'll be fine.

 

Actually a few hours is all it takes sometimes. You assume that it is just carelessness, but it is also material imperfections and poor engineering which have to be considered too (and you won't know if your equipment is affected until it is too late).

 

Well, your only other choice is to not use your monitor really, which kind of defeats the purpose of buying it in the first place. Even if you're writing a document, browsing the web or watching a movie for any length of time, if your monitor was going to get burn in, you'd know about it by now. Granted big black bars are more likely to make a noticeable imprint, but you'd still see it's effects from simply sitting there on the desktop. Personally I'd be more worried about stuck/dead pixels on an LCD than burn in, but that might just be me.

 

I didn't even play 4:3 games as much as I played 16:9 games, but it still happened. Took less than a year to do it too. The center image was perfectly fine and I never had any issues of image retention, but I had the sides of the screen permanently darkened by 4:3 black bars. I spent a couple months trying to fix it myself, but nothing worked. Got it fixed professionally and have been paranoid about using non 16:9 content on it ever since.

I guess I was one of the unlucky ones.

 

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New monitors/TV's with regional backlight wont do this, as it can just turn the backlight off for black - so no burn in.

 

For those of you who may be interested I've remapped my Xbox 360 controller to closely match the original PSX version controls. This should also work if you are emulating the 360 controller with a Dualshock 3 and make the minigames easier to control.

The only two buttons I couldnt map are L2 and R2 because the game doesnt recognise the trigger axis, so I mapped them to pushing in/clicking the L and R sticks.

One of the annoying things is it also wont let me move with the Dpad, I'm forced to use the Analog stick. When I first played the game, I never had an Analog or Dual Shock controller and I'm sure the situation is the same for many of you.

Anyhow Please see the attached pic for details of the remapping.

 

I dont think the sticks even worked on the original - it was dpad only (far as I remember at least, could be wrong)

 

FFVII was released before the release of the dualshock.

I believe that the DS works with the international version.

 

Hmm, I used to have the international version (the 4th disc was awesome). Can't ever remember my dual shock working with it, not on PS2 anyway.

 

What's in the forth disc?

 

Interactive map which lets you visit every location and room which a description of everything that can be touched.

Library of every item, enemy, materia, weapon with artwork and description.

Videos of every limit break.

3D model vehicle viewer.

And of course this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW1e5OauZ44