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Troubleshooting / Re: Having Trouble Launching Game With Mods Enabled

« on: 2021-05-05 22:59:29 »

Having the same issue.  Same error message.

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7th Heaven / Re: Losing my mind over issues involving EasyHook

« on: 2021-05-05 22:44:53 »

Could this have something to do with Windows 10?

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7th Heaven / Re: Losing my mind over issues involving EasyHook

« on: 2021-05-05 01:21:20 »

I'm having the same issue; I tried running 20 or 30 times, and keep getting null pointer errors because of EasyHook not working.  And I don't see any Code 5 Fix options in General Settings.

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Troubleshooting / Was Working, Suddenly It's Crashing On Startup

« on: 2021-03-02 00:35:40 »

Not sure what happened here; I had it working, and then when I went back a few days later, I'm getting crashes on startup.  Here are the relevant FFNX files:

Crash.ff7 - https://www.dropbox.com/s/3w2b8htq08ny7gq/crash.ff7?dl=0
FFNX.log - https://www.dropbox.com/s/wymsxtrsbe7872b/FFNx.log?dl=0

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7th Heaven / Re: [FF7 PC] Mod Manager - 7th Heaven (v2.2.3.522 Release)

« on: 2021-02-21 17:38:29 »

Quick question.  Is there a way to have 7th Heaven open and run FF7 straight from the command line, and then shut down once the game stops running?  I'm asking because I'd like to be able to start it straight from my LaunchBox frontend without having to use a keyboard at all.

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General Discussion / Re: ATMAWEAPON (Final Fantasy VI Mod Compilation) [PC/Steam] (OPEN BETA)

« on: 2020-07-10 20:23:03 »

I'm very behind the 8-ball here, but I just tried this out for the first time tonight. However, I feel like I'm missing something here - there are no detailed instructions as to how to actually use the system. When I installed it, it downloaded a bunch of tools and mod zips, but I have no idea what to actually do with them. Not to mention that it's not always clear which mod does what. I want to change the battle UI so it's spread out, the way it is in the images above, but when I installed the AWR option, I got the "rising bar" mode, which I don't want. I'm feeling lost when trying to install the different mod combinations and need more guidance than the readme file offers.

The battle menu style is an option in FF6 itself.  Check the config menu.

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General Discussion / Re: [SPOILERS] FF7 remake discussion time!

« on: 2020-05-26 19:29:46 »

I just think he is not as good at writing stories as he is at designing characters. Whoever had the misfortune of reading Cloud's dialogue in both AC and KH seems to agree that while he can definitely make Cloud look cool he doesn't have the slightest sense of how Cloud acts and speaks.

Hence the "Emo Cloud" meme, because Nomura always writes Cloud as an emo edgelord, whereas you don't see much of that in original FF7.  As I said before, I never really liked FF7, but even I could see that Cloud's personality in later works wasn't close to his personality in FF7.

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General Discussion / Re: [SPOILERS] FF7 remake discussion time!

« on: 2020-05-16 16:22:44 »

FF4 on the DS

FF4 on the DS was a mostly faithful remake story-wise, but it was a trainwreck gameplay-wise.  A much more faithful remake of FF4 is the PSP version.

As for the whole "It's fine that there's only a few magic options in FF7R because there were only a few magic options in Midgar in the original" thing, um, NO ONE WAS FORCING THEM TO MAKE A GAME THAT ONLY COVERED MIDGAR...

You chose to take the 4h segment at the beginning and turn it into a full game.  You can't point to the original now as if they were logically equivalent, because one is now 10x as long as the other...

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General Discussion / Re: [SPOILERS] FF7 remake discussion time!

« on: 2020-05-06 18:21:31 »

I also don't see why Biggs survived, especially after his fakeout death. Imo, Biggs and Jessie should've died at the tower, and Wedge should've been revealed to be alive much later, like near the end of it. It would give us more time to let their deaths sink in a bit, but they reveal Wedge is alive not long after the plate fall.

IMO, having them survive is not a great thing, period.  Although you only get to know them a bit, the deaths of the Avalanche members... That's the point where you realize that Shinra is DEAD SERIOUS about stopping Avalanche, and they don't care how many people die to do it.  It also has a profound effect on Barret that's probably going to be lost.  Anybody ask why Barret's going to turn leadership over to Cloud in the remake, when in the original he did it because the deaths of his team members made him realize that he wasn't cut out to be a leader?

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General Discussion / Re: [SPOILERS] FF7 remake discussion time!

« on: 2020-04-20 23:14:53 »

Ashe should've been the main character, not Basch or Balthier. Basch is a glorified bodyguard, filled with regret for having failed both his homeland as well as Dalmasca. Balthier tags around out of sheer curiosity up to the point where he realizes he's on a collision course with his father as well as the empire, then he's all in. As for Vaan and Penelo... Honestly, who the fern knows lol.

It's Ashe's story. They should have made her the main character instead of designing her with a hooker's outfit and going with useless characters instead.

Well, I agree, but my understanding is that the writers wanted Basch to be the main character, and they were overridden by the higher-ups, who felt that Basch was too old to be a protagonist, and they pretty much had to come up with Vaan as the main character at the last minute.  I think they wanted to do something LIKE FF10, where the main character of the game wasn't the main character of the story, and that Basch was meant to be the player avatar... And then they pretty much had Vaan pushed on them at some point.  Which is why his connection to the story is pretty much nonexistent, unlike any of the other characters (well, except Penelo, but she's there because otherwise Vaan has NO connection to anybody in the party whatsoever).

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General Discussion / Re: [SPOILERS] FF7 remake discussion time!

« on: 2020-04-20 22:15:47 »

agreed; in fact apart from story, ffx was actually fantastic imo. mechanics and endgame was top notch imo.

Sorry, but FF10 was the game that ended my streak of buying the latest FF as soon as it came out, because I didn't find it engaging in the slightest.  It was also the first in the series I never bothered to finish.  I only played the first 15 or so minutes of FF12 and realized I wasn't going to like it, either, and since then I stopped playing the new games in the series entirely.

Also...

That is the complete opposite in FFXII: The characters have little to no reason for being in this story at all(with the exception of Bash and maybe Ashe). But especially Vaan is so useless and plays absolutely no role for the story, it really dissappointed me hard the first time I played through.

Yeah, that's what the line "but it was clearly changed at the last minute to appeal to... I don't ferning know who, 12 year old girls?" was getting at.  It's pretty clear that someone over at SE ordered them to add Vaan because "The game needs a whiny emo 16 year old as the main character!"...  Really, if they didn't want to make Basch the main character for whatever reason, they really should have made Balthier the main character...

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General Discussion / Re: [SPOILERS] FF7 remake discussion time!

« on: 2020-04-20 14:29:42 »

What's wrong with it is we don't get a complete game that makes sense.  We get a bloated, cat rat quest matrix stunt weird spin off -   We don't get a quality release.  We get a money making exercise - which then reinforces the next mediocre money spinner.  So it never ends.

I prefer a game that has quality - the original game is leaps and bounds ahead of this ... thing.  We shouldn't accept mediocrity at $60 a part.

As someone who thought the original game was somewhat mediocre... This is complete trash.  The parts that I actually LIKED about it, torn out to pander to the masses.  This thing no longer holds anything positive for me.

Welp all I can say, do some research.

Now, not all of these are exact ARPGs like FF7 pr se, but still not that far off either.

The Elder Scrolls
Diablo
Red Dead Redemption
The Witcher
Dragon Age
The Last of Us
Borderlands
Mass Effect

To mention some. They have all outsold FFs, or was/is at the very least close contenders.
What turn based games outsold these, and/or is in direct contest? Not many. Pokemon perhaps.

And you have action games like Call of Duty, PUGB, GTA, Fortnite, etc, all outselling FFs and other popular traditional turn-based RPGs too by a rather huge margin.
FF as a franchise is almost caught up by Assassin's Creed as a franchise when it comes to sales (counting all games including re-releases and spin-offs). Considering FF has been around 20 years more than Assassin's Creed, that's telling SE's market team something.

SE has since the PS2 days pushed FF in the action direction to be appealing to more people.

SE has for at least a decade now gone from being one of the leaders on the RPG front, to being one of the biggest followers.  Other companies innovate, and SE simply borrows pieces from their games without understanding why people like them.  I posted this in response to how garbage FF15 is:

The problem is, when it comes to the Final Fantasy series, Square-Enix has changed the wrong things and held on to the wrong things.  FF15 LOOKS like someone wanted to create a modern-style RPG with a world somewhat like Earth, and then one of the higher-ups said "No, no, no!  This is FINAL FANTASY!  Where are the Behemoths?  The Malboros?  The Tonberries?"  They need to stop jumping on every fucking bandwagon other RPGs have done ("What's popular this year?  MMORPG's?  Let's make this game play like an MMORPG! (FF12)", "What's popular this year?  Final Fantasy 7?  Let's steal from it, but merge in terrible battle mechanics! (FF13)", "What's popular this year?  Open world games like The Elder Scrolls and the new Zelda?  Make this an open world game! (FF15)"), stop trying to turn Final Fantasy into Kingdom Hearts (seriously, was ANYONE asking for Final Fantasy to become action-oriented at any time?), and try to figure out why the original games in the series were successful.  Because they're killing this series, and have been pretty much since the end of the Playstation era.  FF10 sold well, but it wasn't a good game.  12 was better, but it was clearly changed at the last minute to appeal to... I don't fucking know who, 12 year old girls?  13 was a trainwreck.  And I'm ignoring the MMO entries, because I'm not an MMO player.
You don't need to keep the series the same and let it stagnate and die, but if you're going to change it, PLEASE put some thought into the changes you're making!  Changing it for the sake of changing it (or to add new bullets in the game description) is always fucking terrible.

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General Discussion / Re: [SPOILERS] FF7 remake discussion time!

« on: 2020-04-14 22:57:34 »

Now make a graphics overhaul and it is the perfect remake like FF7R should have been:)

That's pretty much what the Steam version is; a graphics overhaul built on top of the GBA version (the GBA ROM is even contained in the program archive).  But as Manakaiser says, most of the "upgraded" graphics are shit.  There's a pretty good rundown on it here:

https://www.fortressofdoors.com/doing-an-hd-remake-the-right-way/
https://www.fortressofdoors.com/doing-an-hd-remake-the-right-way-ffvi-edition/

As soon as he mentioned the broken graphics, I remembered what he was talking about.

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General Discussion / Re: [SPOILERS] FF7 remake discussion time!

« on: 2020-04-13 13:30:35 »

ff6 remake being great Is something i cant agree with (although I do admit they made a fair effort). They killed the grim atmosphere of the original due do the new visuals. I commend the fact that they DID give it new visuals, but sadly I think they were bad and didnt capture the originals spirit in many areas, especially the horrible towns (enemy sprite improvements were very welcome and well done btw so those are excluded from the criticism).

Sorry for the off topic btw, I wont mention ff6 any further ><

You're thinking of the Steam version; I'm thinking of the GBA version.  The only problem with the GBA version is the brightness, which was necessary for the screen, and can be fixed with patches.  And actually, the Steam version is much better if you use Project AtmaWeapon on it.  You can even get the SNES sprites back.

However I also have to note a thing I made thread about a decade ago already. Some new additions, which is not new content but was rather meant as a nice visual addition completely makes me nod my head. The avatars shown when characters talk just do not resemble their sprites IN THE SLIGHTEST....especially ppl like Galuf are just entirely different and there is really no reason why. Newer remakes carried on this trend and it makes me a bit angry, I always have to either ignore that or mod it.....

Head avatars are based on Amano's original concept artwork, though I agree they don't match the sprites well.

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General Discussion / Re: [SPOILERS] FF7 remake discussion time!

« on: 2020-04-13 06:32:12 »

FF6 is the ultimate proof that graphics should take a back seat to script, gameplay, music, etc

games on the SNES stand the test of time

The ridiculous thing about this is, SE KNOWS how to do good remakes.  They did multiple great remakes of FF4 (excluding the DS remake and it's ports, which are shit, much for the same reasons as this; changing things that didn't need to be changed, although at least there they had an excuse), a great remake of FF5 and a great remake of FF6.  Not to mention decent remakes of FF1, FF2 and FF3.  Why the fuck can't they get the 3D remakes right?

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General Discussion / Re: [SPOILERS] FF7 remake discussion time!

« on: 2020-04-13 06:26:40 »

Yup and this is why the Final Fantasy franchise has been ruined since FFX. It’s just not even worth talking about anymore I give up on this company and all it’s new games. Square will continue to make horrible games and these idiots who support them will continue to do so and defend them to the end so it just is what it is. The true fans can only finally throw in the towel and let this company die off with time. We always have our SquareSoft masterpieces to enjoy the new age of “fans” will never understand that.

Final Fantasy died when Hironobu Sakaguchi left.  It's basically been a zombie ever since.

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General Discussion / Re: [FFVII-R] Discussion & News

« on: 2020-03-16 20:41:12 »

I also want the new FF7R to be a massive hit. Because otherwise we won't get the full story and that's what i don't like about the episodic nature of releasing the game- in my opinion they should have waited for three more years and released all three CD's at once. Because we're risking the first game to flop- resulting in us never getting the later parts. The whole game would have been better off sold at once even if that meant a longer waiting time.

Yes, i'm also worried there won't be a part 2 and part 3 if the first game doesn't do well enough..

No chance.  SE has been saving this bullet for a LONG time...

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General Discussion / Re: [FFVII-R] Discussion & News

« on: 2020-03-16 18:35:45 »

I want FF7:R to be a massive hit because I want more remakes like what they are doing with FF7:R and new titles too.

I don't, because more often than not, when SE remakes a game to this level, they fuck things up that didn't need to be fucked up.

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General Discussion / Re: Just finished playing FF1 for the first time and I really liked it ?

« on: 2020-03-16 18:24:47 »

If you get used to its limitations, the only part of the original I would define as nightmarish was the Ice Cave.  Who thought sticking one-hit death enemies as RANDOM ENCOUNTERS in a game where you can't revive dead members outside of town until after that dungeon was a good idea?

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General Discussion / Re: [FFVII-R] Discussion & News

« on: 2020-03-16 18:17:32 »

And I don't think anyone has ever made a serious argument for a carbon-copy remake with improved graphics only. Mayyyybeee 15 years ago, but not now.
Seriously, how many times will peeps spout this? I've lost count over how many times I've seen these "You just want the same game with updated graphics" claims. xD

I could probably go for the same game with updated graphics, but that might be because I'm tired of SE treating the turn-based battle systems like the ferning plague...
The whole reason there's a nostalgia wave running through gaming right now is BECAUSE so many companies ignore what worked in the past in order to chase the current leader, and SE is the WORST when it comes to that.  It's the reason there hasn't been a good Final Fantasy in over a decade...

Anyway, i do think the new FF7 Remake looks fun to play, but i haven't played the demo yet- just been watching at least five different playthroughs on Youtube. I kind of like the look of things. And i absolutely loved the original ATB-system. Unlike FF8 and FF9 i always enjoyed FF7's materia-system more.

I always thought that 9 had the best system.  It's much harder to abuse unless you absolutely GRIND for support ability gems later in the game...

Dynasty Warriors sucks because it's just slashing at multiple enemies without any thought or need of strategy..

Depends on which version you play.  And some of the anime variations are much better at avoiding the whole "hit same button to win" thing.  My preferred Warriors game, to be honest, is Berserk & The Band Of The Hawk... Mostly because when you're playing as Guts, you EXPECT to be able to mow down legions of soldiers.  They don't call him the "Hundred Man Slayer" for nothing...

Point is that FF7R is looking great- and i hate Dynasty Warriors.

I couldn't stand playing Kingdom Hearts really past the first town, because I hate mindless button mashers.  And going through the demo, that's what this felt like.  Yeah, periodically you have to cast spells or use abilities because a particular enemy won't just go down to slashing, but it never felt like I got out of the "mash attack to win" mindset.

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General Discussion / Re: [FFVII-R] Discussion & News

« on: 2020-03-11 01:28:37 »

I just finished the demo, and I don't like it.  But then, I didn't like FF7 to begin with.  Still, was anyone asking for Final Fantasy 7 to be turned into a Dynasty Warriors/Kingdom Hearts amalgamation?  The battle system is deeper than "hammer Square until thing dies", but the problem is "hammer Square until thing dies" works WAY too well for every enemy in the demo except the boss... Who is an annoying fucker because the battle system doesn't allow for the kind of indicators the ATB system used to, meaning that most of the battle is "hang back until the boss is vulnerable, and then hit him hard for a few minutes"...
I have a suspicion that unless you prefer this kind of combat, most fans of the original FF7 are going to pull the new HQ cutscenes from this sucker and load them into the old engine...

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7th Heaven / Re: Game Converter not working

« on: 2018-03-20 14:20:24 »

Figured this one out shortly after I posted this; I have MSYS installed, and so the converter was trying to use the MSYS find.exe instead of the Windows find.exe...

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7th Heaven / Game Converter not working

« on: 2018-03-20 14:08:21 »

I can't seem to convert my copy of FF7 to use 7th Heaven.  It always worked before, but for whatever reason it's not working now.  I keep getting this:

Code: [Select]


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

Start running at    Date: 03/20/2018    Time: 10:03:37.37

Search OS-Architecture

You are running "Windows 7 Ultimate" on a 64 Bit Operating System (AMD64)

Real Management 32Bit WOW64

This patch is not yet applied.


Installation path found at...

""

If an installation path IS found, press ENTER.

If an installation path IS NOT found, TYPE IT IN and press ENTER.

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

"(Correct path)"
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FF7 Discs not found, trying again...

Please rename a drive as "FF7DISC1"
Press any key to continue . . .


I have the blank ISO mounted as FF7DISC1, so it's definitely there, but it seems like the patcher isn't finding ANYTHING...

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Misc Audio / Re: [FF6] [OPEN BETA] Dancing Mad - FF6 Audio Replacement using MSU-1

« on: 2017-06-22 04:24:15 »

I have no idea where in the hell you could possibly upload this, because each pack is 1.1 GB in size, but if you can point me to somewhere that can actually TAKE 5 GB of data, I have all four music sets.

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Completely Unrelated / Re: Anime Suggestions for Everyone :)

« on: 2017-06-17 05:10:04 »

And why drop several arcs?? I'm guessing it's due to budget and they can only do so much with it. Still... Smh...

I have no idea why they dropped the Guardians of Desire Arc (just WTF?), but they always drop the beginning of the Conviction Arc from EVERYTHING... likely because Apostle Rosine is both constantly naked, and 12.  Of course it's not sexual (unless you're into horrible violence or something), but I don't think anyone wants to risk it... There's not enough that happens in that Arc to make it worth trying.

Even the comic has changed tone drastically. I wish I could go back in time and convince Miura not do as much comic relief (or in the case of Bersek: "comic relief" as it's most of the time not funny, but awkward). I have no problem with normal Puck and Isidro. But chestnut Puck and "comic relief" Isidro can go die.

I kind of like the switchover to High Fantasy, and I really like Isma (then again, I generally like mermaids period).  But I agree that Miura is starting to run the comic relief of Puck, Isidro and Farnese's brother into the ground.  Badly.  And I'm also starting to get somewhat sick of cutting over to seeing the "wonderful utopia" of Griffith's city; come one, we all KNOW the guy's a bastard underneath it all by now, attempting to contrast it like this is starting to get really old.

As for entertaining anime, besides the aforementioned Berserk, I really enjoyed CLANNAD (though if you don't like slice-of-life animes or feeling REALLY sad, avoid); Ah My Goddess is always a good one, Higurashi was something else entirely (though don't go in if you hate horror, because it IS horror in the most visceral sense), and one great anime that everyone should really watch is, of course, Fate: Stay Night.