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7th Heaven / Re: Re: [FF7] Tifa's Final Heaven - 7th Heaven Mod Tutorial

« on: 2014-11-16 00:06:26 »

That was actually meant to say without, but i was moving the text around and only copied the with bit hahaha

No problem man, the more people I can help enjoy your great work the better

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7th Heaven / Re: Re: [FF7] Tifa's Final Heaven - 7th Heaven Mod Tutorial

« on: 2014-11-15 09:03:20 »

yup, you may notice a couple of bugs here and there but for the most part it is totally.

If you do notice any bugs though please note them down as im compiling a list for Sega Chief

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7th Heaven / Re: Re: [FF7] Tifa's Final Heaven - 7th Heaven Mod Tutorial

« on: 2014-11-15 01:28:11 »

unfortunately this is the best we can get without totally messing and breaking the way 7H works.

anything else causes a desync totally messing up the game

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7th Heaven / Re: Re: [FF7] Tifa's Final Heaven - 7th Heaven Mod Tutorial

« on: 2014-11-14 15:04:35 »

the problem is to do with syncing, did manage to get round it myself and get it working.

you need to do a fresh install, then new threat, then 7H game converter, then Reunion and only the MO part, sega chief suggest using without the 9999 limit break.

Finally add "mods\Reunion" to the extra folders bit and you should be good to go

However the movies will want to load from the CD only, to make them load from the movies folder and have it to be as perfect as possible you then need to do the following

Create a back up of you final fantasy folder, then you need to install 7H game converter again to the non back, finally change your back up to be the main and the main to a back up or delete  and you should be good to go, worked for me

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Releases / Re: [FF7PC-98/Steam] New Threat Mod (v1.2)

« on: 2014-11-02 22:37:16 »

well in 7H you have limited options concerning the menu overhaul mod but the main part is doing something :/ If i choose no change but do choose to have no command box, no battle box and the 9999 break limit applied it will run fine... so not sure what menu overhaul itself is doing as this isn't my field, I don't mind trying your idea unless you already have a patch for me to try?

seems you were right, as they are working on RO2 they have took RO1 down

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Releases / Re: [FF7PC-98/Steam] New Threat Mod (v1.2)

« on: 2014-11-02 20:36:15 »

You always reply so fast you never cease to amaze me.

Ok I have done loads of testing and pretty much every mod works with your mod in 7H that I have tested, that being all the graphic increasing mods such as spell effect, models, weapons, world map textures, field textures, battle textures, sound effects and avatars so menu overhaul must be messing with something and you know it messes up pretty early on. The first battle with the two soldiers will be a battle with a high level enemy in a forest who kicks your butt in two seconds. loading a previous saying and ending up in a battle just causes a crash.

If we can crack this down maybe you won't need a 7H version? I'd be happy to help you test idea's if you want to work together on this?

BTW I had trouble with the game converter as well, specially if i FF7 installed in any form of program folder, even on my secondary drive but sticking it in \Games\Final Fantasy 7\ got it to behave and run properly

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Releases / Re: [FF7PC-98/Steam] New Threat Mod (v1.2)

« on: 2014-11-02 19:09:31 »

Hey Sega Chief,

After finally building my new pc i have got round to playing your mod, well sort of ha. I have mainly been trying it with 7H and loading other mods on top and going through which ones break it and which ones don't and so far the one i really want to work just totally breaks it which is the Menu Overhaul Mod, is there any reason why this would break it?

Also any chance you are close to releasing a 7H version so we can combine it with the HD stuff?

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7th Heaven / Re: Re: [FF7] Tifa's Final Heaven - 7th Heaven Mod Tutorial

« on: 2014-10-05 03:41:58 »

Hey EQ2Alyza,

I just wondered if you are going to be updating the game play to support New Threat 1.2?

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Releases / Re: [FF7PC-98/Steam] New Threat Mod (v1.1)

« on: 2014-09-29 22:40:41 »

Yeah, I'll make the promo stuff after the new version is uploaded, priorities and all that 

All the fixes and tweaks are cleared in my list. Last thing that's being done right now is expanding the new sidequest's interface a little more.

Oh I'm so excited I think I have nibbled my nails clean off my fingers! This is going to seriously impact my law studies haha

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Releases / Re: [FF7PC-98/Steam] New Threat Mod (v1.1)

« on: 2014-09-29 21:11:24 »

I may as well make a new one; the old one has v1.1 written on the installer footage.

but more importantly how is that checklist going

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Team Avalanche / Re: [HD Remake] WIP Sector 5 slums

« on: 2014-09-28 17:02:34 »

There is more than enough land for both of us

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Team Avalanche / Re: [HD Remake] WIP Sector 5 slums

« on: 2014-09-28 16:48:57 »

Can i buy one of the empty plots of land please to build a house?

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Releases / Re: [FF7PC-98/Steam] New Threat Mod (v1.1)

« on: 2014-09-28 02:46:00 »

got to say i am super excited for this and once tifa adds it to the 7th heaven catalog after it comes out I shall be bashing a play through

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FF7 Tools / Re: [FF7PC] Mod manager - 7thHeaven (v1.37)

« on: 2014-09-21 06:08:24 »

Mine has also never ever autoupdated and I just checked where you said to send you my file but there is no applog, just a few .xml files

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Team Avalanche / Re: [HD Remake] WIP Sector 5 slums

« on: 2014-09-21 05:52:18 »

Hi folks!

Looks like I'm pretty much done with 5min1_2. I'll just have to import and enviro light for the final render and that will be it - unless someone has useful advice about how to improve the scene some. So, here it is:



Who is going to spot the Scottish Easter egg?

Being a British person myself how could I not notice the fact all them sexy bottles are Irn Bru!!!! Bloody love that stuff and another great reason why I am happy the No vote won! Plus my Scottish uncle just brought down square sausages for us, seriously why do you have square sausages, they look burgers?

P.S. Looks amazing!

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7th Heaven / Re: Re: [FF7] Tifa's Final Heaven - 7th Heaven Mod Tutorial

« on: 2014-09-08 04:03:29 »

Hey, just to give you an update. I have now installed all the mods and everything seems to be running smoothly.

I tried new threat and nightmare and both were fine from what I could see but I only played them up to the reactor blowing up.

Though randomly on certain scenes I got error messages at the bottom about missing palettes, also got this in my normal play through where I am now at 7th heaven.

I just wanted to say a big thank you for all your hard work though as this is truly a great set and I do love bootleg but I have to say, this is so much better as you can easily just interchange between mods and setups without much worry.

Though obviously the advantage of bootleg is true customization 

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7th Heaven / Re: Re: [FF7] Tifa's Final Heaven - 7th Heaven Mod Tutorial

« on: 2014-09-08 00:18:33 »

The game was a fresh install but I had a bootleg installation sometime ago however i deleted, uninstalled and removed everything then installed the 7th heaven way.

I had no music with it saying it could never find any of the music but I did have the default sound effects. Also a lot of other things didn't work such as high res backgrounds, avatar portrait changes and so on.

The issue was when you encountered the first two shinra soldiers every time, even if i choose no change it would still give me a battle with a random enemy and the gui would have glitches.

however since then as i posted before I have uninstalled the game again and manually removed everything from the registry and downloaded all the mods again and so far everything seems to be working that I have tested, however I am testing in bits. So far I have tested all these together with no issues;

Battle Models - Weapons
Media - Movies (though I can't actually tell the difference from the original and i chose DrLilo's)
Menu Overhaul
Media - Music and Sound
Battle Textures
Spell Textures
Menu - Background and Avatars
Battle Models - Characters
Field Models - Characters, Enemies and Objects
Gameplay - Tweaks and Cheats

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7th Heaven / Re: Re: [FF7] Tifa's Final Heaven - 7th Heaven Mod Tutorial

« on: 2014-09-07 23:06:53 »

ok ok I've got another update for you.

After getting totally annoyed with it not working no matter what I did I removed the game completely and then went into my registry and manually deleted every single reference to FFVII and then installed everything again. I've decided to test it slowly by adding only a few mods at a time but so far everything is good and the sound works!

current mods tested that worked fine.

Media - Movies
Menu Overhaul
Media - Music and Sound
Battle Textures

I should also note I downloaded the whole library again.

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7th Heaven / Re: Re: [FF7] Tifa's Final Heaven - 7th Heaven Mod Tutorial

« on: 2014-09-07 04:22:41 »

also i tried nightmares mod and again the first battle was all messed up. The first fight was the cactus thing even though it said ex-soldier and totally kicked my arse, also the battle background was the desert

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7th Heaven / Re: Re: [FF7] Tifa's Final Heaven - 7th Heaven Mod Tutorial

« on: 2014-09-06 23:53:12 »

Here ya go

Code: [Select]

# ff7_opengl-0.8.1b config file



## USER OPTIONS ##
## If you just want to play the game, these are the only options you'll want to change.

# set the window size (or fullscreen resolution) of FF7
# 0 means use original resolution in window mode, your current desktop resolution will be used in fullscreen mode
# preserve_aspect adds black borders as needed to preserve a 4:3 aspect ratio
window_size_x = 0
window_size_y = 0
internal_size_x = 3840
internal_size_y = 2160
preserve_aspect = on
fullscreen = off

# mod directory
# subdirectroy of mods/ where textures will be loaded from
mod_path = Textures

# check your Nvidia/ATI/Intel control panel settings if this option doesn't seem to work
enable_vsync = on

# allow FF7 to use linear filtering for its textures
# some things look slightly better with this option on, but alot of textures just lose their detail
# only affects low-res textures, high-res replacements will still be filtered where appropriate
linear_filter = off

# plugin used to play music, VGMstream requires a set of looping .ogg files in the music/vgmstream folder.
# If no music plugin is loaded the game will play MIDI as usual but FF7Music will NOT work.
music_plugin = plugins/vgmstream_music.fgp



## ENHANCEMENTS ##
## All the little extras that weren't part of the original game, default options include only trivial bug fixes.

# make all dialog boxes transparent, same effect as the transparent dialog boxes YAMP patch
transparent_dialogs = on

# include armor in magic defense calculation
mdef_fix = yes

# minigame fixes
snowboard_framerate=60
highway_framerate=30
coaster_framerate=60
battleswirl_framerate=60

# post-processing shader, used to apply fullscreen effects
post_source = shaders/SmartBloomAdvanced.post
enable_postprocessing = yes


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7th Heaven / Re: Re: [FF7] Tifa's Final Heaven - 7th Heaven Mod Tutorial

« on: 2014-09-06 16:56:51 »

The \/ aren't an issue. They can go either way. However, the APP.LOG is an issue. It's not recorded the first half of the process. Is this a copy/paste error on your part? Otherwise, I'm baffled as to how it could skip all of it and start recording at the FF7Config setup.

I haven't played through all the difficulty and story mods, but I don't think that is what Sega Chief intended. Is Gamplay - Difficulty and Story at the top of the Active Mods list?

New Threat shouldn't actually be there, but I forgot to take it out. Sega Chief has said it's only complete through Disc1, and after that the difficulty starts to skew and become unbalanced. He's working on version 1.2 to balance it all out.

Sorry it was early hours when I was trying this, copy and pasted it wrong. Here you go;

Code: [Select]

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FF7 GameConverter, Version 7th Heaven
Creator: Kompass63
Editor: EQ2Alyza

Start running at    Date: 06/09/2014    Time:  6:38:10.67
Active code page: 437
ActualPath C:\Users\Mark\AppData\Local\Temp\7ZipSfx.001


You are running "Windows 8.1 Pro" on a 64 Bit Operating System (AMD64)

Real Management 32Bit WOW64

This patch is already applied.
Variables are taken from GameConverterKeys.

Unpatch?
Overwrite?
End?
Selection is:   Overwrite


Patching...

Copying Registry Keys...
Removed CompatFlags from "ff7.exe"
Removed CompatFlags from "ff7config.exe"

Setting GC Registry Keys...

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\GameConverterkeys


Setting language to en...

Detecting drive letter for FF7 Discs...

Drive letter for FF7DISC1 --- K:\


Original release detected...

A "movies" folder has been placed into the data folder of your game directory...
TYPE the path to this "movies" folder, then press ENTER.

EXAMPLE: "C:\Games\Final Fantasy VII\data\movies" (parenthesis included)


Movies not found...

If custom Movies are located somewhere, change the "MoviePath" Registry Key entry at:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII


Movies path found at...

"G:\Games\Square Soft, Inc\Final Fantasy VII\data\movies\"

Copying English Files...

Copying 1.02 patch for ff7.exe...

Copying Aali's Custom Driver, version 0.8.1b...

Adding more Registry Keys...
Adding Registry Keys to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII
Adding Registry Keys to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\1.00\Graphics
Adding Registry Keys to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\1.00\MIDI
Adding Registry Keys to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\1.00\Sound
Adding Registry Key to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\FF7app.exe

Please check over the settings for FF7Config...

1) Sound tab should have a Sound device set. Do NOT leave it blank.
2) Perform the Sound and MIDI tests.
3) Graphics tab can be ignored.
4) Click OK when finished.

Inserting Multi.dll, Hext.dll, and Languagefile...

Patching FF7anyCDv2...

Install the Laptop Keyboard Patch?
(Choose YES if keyboard does NOT have a NUMPAD)
NO

Patching complete.

Check FF7_GC.log for details.


called with ""C:\Users\Mark\AppData\Local\Temp\7ZipSfx.001\FF7_GameConverter_7H.bat""
Arguments: "C:\Users\Mark\AppData\Local\Temp\7ZipSfx.001\FF7_GameConverter_7H.bat"

PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE:          x86
PROCESSOR_ARCHITEW6432:          AMD64
Actual Path:                     C:\Users\Mark\AppData\Local\Temp\7ZipSfx.001
Product Name:                    Windows 8.1 Pro
Architecture:                    AMD64
Running in Modus                 32Bit WOW64
OS Bit Version                   64
Reg-Keyname Steam                HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Steam App 39140
Reg-Keyname Re-Release           HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{141B8BA9-BFFD-4635-AF64-078E31010EC3}_is1
Reg-Keyname 1                    HKLM\SOFTWARE\Square Soft, Inc.
Reg-Keyname 2                    HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\FF7app.exe
Reg-Keyname 3                    HKCU\SOFTWARE\Classes\VirtualStore\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Square Soft, Inc.
Steam Release is present:         
Steam Release Path:               
Re-Release is present:           
Re-Release Path:                 
Original Release is present:     Yes
Original Release Path:           G:\Games\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII
Destination Path:                G:\Games\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII
Source Path:                     G:\Games\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII
Videos Path:                     G:\Games\Square Soft, Inc\Final Fantasy VII\data\movies
Original Videos Path:            K:\FF7\Movies
Original Language                en
Converted Language               en
Original Drive Letter:           K:\
Converted Drive Letter:          K:\
and now clear up Variables...
Ending at           Date: 06/09/2014    Time:  6:41:30.65


I can also confirm I get the same insane fight with new threat at the beginning, some really weird looking models as well. Actually thought somehow my game had sent me into some sort of radioactive nightmare mutant version of the game because of the errors lol.

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7th Heaven / Re: Re: [FF7] Tifa's Final Heaven - 7th Heaven Mod Tutorial

« on: 2014-09-06 05:31:52 »

OK I redid everything and now the movies work fine that it is linked properly however I still have no music with the same error but the vgmstream folder is where it is meant to be?

Here is my config as requested.

Code: [Select]

Please check over the settings for FF7Config...

1) Sound tab should have a Sound device set. Do NOT leave it blank.
2) Perform the Sound and MIDI tests.
3) Graphics tab can be ignored.
4) Click OK when finished.

Inserting Multi.dll, Hext.dll, and Languagefile...

Patching FF7anyCDv2...

Install the Laptop Keyboard Patch?
(Choose YES if keyboard does NOT have a NUMPAD)
NO

Patching complete.

Check FF7_GC.log for details.


called with ""C:\Users\Mark\AppData\Local\Temp\7ZipSfx.001\FF7_GameConverter_7H.bat""
Arguments: "C:\Users\Mark\AppData\Local\Temp\7ZipSfx.001\FF7_GameConverter_7H.bat"

PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE:          x86
PROCESSOR_ARCHITEW6432:          AMD64
Actual Path:                     C:\Users\Mark\AppData\Local\Temp\7ZipSfx.001
Product Name:                    Windows 8.1 Pro
Architecture:                    AMD64
Running in Modus                 32Bit WOW64
OS Bit Version                   64
Reg-Keyname Steam                HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Steam App 39140
Reg-Keyname Re-Release           HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{141B8BA9-BFFD-4635-AF64-078E31010EC3}_is1
Reg-Keyname 1                    HKLM\SOFTWARE\Square Soft, Inc.
Reg-Keyname 2                    HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\FF7app.exe
Reg-Keyname 3                    HKCU\SOFTWARE\Classes\VirtualStore\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Square Soft, Inc.
Steam Release is present:         
Steam Release Path:               
Re-Release is present:           
Re-Release Path:                 
Original Release is present:     Yes
Original Release Path:           G:\Games\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII
Destination Path:                G:\Games\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII
Source Path:                     G:\Games\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII
Videos Path:                     G:\Games\Square Soft, Inc\Final Fantasy VII\data\movies
Original Videos Path:            K:\FF7\Movies
Original Language                en
Converted Language               en
Original Drive Letter:           K:\
Converted Drive Letter:          K:\
and now clear up Variables...
Ending at           Date: 06/09/2014    Time:  6:11:04.47
However after looking at the app log more closely i think i have found the issue, mainly this line...

[00000116] ERROR: couldn't open music file: G:\Games\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\/music/vgmstream/PRE.ogg

it seems to have some weird \/ just before "music"

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FF7 Tools / Re: [FF7PC] Mod manager - 7thHeaven (v1.36)

« on: 2014-09-06 03:08:07 »

A luxury, but definitely a nice one. I wouldn't mind this as well

Actually when you change it to compact view it does scroll fine with the mouse wheel, it is only in non compact view it doesnt

seeing as you made the packages and know what they all are you can just leave it in compact view for now and enjoy you lucky dog. I however need the pictures and descriptions lol

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7th Heaven / Re: Re: [FF7] Tifa's Final Heaven - 7th Heaven Mod Tutorial

« on: 2014-09-06 03:04:08 »

Ok I changed the load order as you stated (btw is Gameplay Tweaks before Battle Models - Weapons) as well, or literally must those two be first and then any order after that?

Either way I tried both and I am still getting the same errors at the bottom of the screen and I have it setup exactly as you say in your tutorial?

It is a completely fresh install and everything was setup up correctly with the converter?

Here is my app log for you to look at

Code: [Select]

[00000000] INFO: FF7/FF8 OpenGL driver version 0.8.1b
[00000000] INFO: Auto-detected version: FF7 1.02 US English
[00000000] INFO: ATI Technologies Inc. AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series 4.3.12618 Compatibility Profile Context 13.251.9001.1001
[00000000] INFO: OpenGL 2.0 support detected
[00000000] INFO: Using PBO
[00000000] INFO: Found swap_control extension
[00000000] INFO: Max texture size: 16384x16384
[00000000] INFO: Original resolution 640x480, window size 1920x1080, output resolution 1440x1080, internal resolution 3840x2160
[00000000] INFO: Shader limits: varying 128, vert uniform 1024, frag uniform 1024
[00000000] INFO: FFMpeg movie player plugin loaded
[00000000] INFO: FFMpeg version SVN-r25886, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
[00000000] INFO: VGMStream music plugin loaded
[00000000] INFO: Loading external library Multi.dll
[00000000] LOCK UNLOCK TEST
[00000001] MATRIX INITIALIZE
[00000001] INITIALIZE DD/D3D END
[00000001] initializing sound...
[00000001] creating dsound primary buffer
[00000001] reading audio file
[00000001] loading static sounds
[00000001] sound initialized
[00000001] set music volume: 127
[00000001] set music volume: 127
[00000001] Entering MAIN
[00000001] Exiting MAIN
[00000001] START OF CREDITS!!!
[00000001] ERROR: couldn't open movie file: G:\Games\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\movies\eidoslogo.avi
[00000001] ERROR: couldn't open movie file: G:\Games\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\movies\sqlogo.avi
[00000002] set music volume: 127
[00000003] ERROR: couldn't open music file: G:\Games\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\/music/vgmstream/PRE.ogg
[00000211] set music volume trans: 127->0, step=60
[00000276] END OF CREDITS!!!
[00000276] Entering MAIN
[00000276] set music volume: 127
[00000276] Exiting MAIN
[00000276] START OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
[00000621] END OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
[00000621] Entering MAIN
[00000625] Exiting MAIN
[00000625] Field Start
[00000626] ERROR: couldn't open movie file: G:\Games\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\movies\opening.avi
[00000690] WM_CLOSE
[00000690] Field Quit
[00000690] UNINITIALIZE DD

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7th Heaven / Re: Re: [FF7] Tifa's Final Heaven - 7th Heaven Mod Tutorial

« on: 2014-09-06 01:16:21 »

Ok does it matter what order these mods are loaded as right now I get no music and also no cutscenes as it says it can't find them but I have it setup as requested and the mods are activated?