Final Fantasy VII Definitive Edition
by mav & death_unites_us
What it is:This point of this mod is to add some quality of life changes to Final Fantasy VII while keeping the game mostly vanilla.
We have fixed and altered parts of the game that were considered the most annoying by players, while keeping all core mechanics intact.
What was changed:- New Game starts on fastest battle/field speed by default
- All movies are skippable by pressing [START] button
- Darkness status now properly applies to physical enemy attacks
- Following scenes are now skippable:
- Jessie’s train explanation
- Cloud & Tifa's flashback in 7th Heaven
- Elmyra's story about Aeris
- Nibelheim flashback in Kalm
- Cid’s backstory in Rocket Town
- Gold Saucer date
- Cloud and Tifa in Lifestream
- Fixed glitch after Schizo fight where you couldn't escape
battles afterwards
- Fixed glitch after Shinra HQ 59th floor fight where you
couldn't escape battle afterwards
- Fixed glitch after Turks fight during Midgar Raid where you
couldn't escape battle afterwards
- Chocobo breeding assistant - Billy will now tell you how many
races you need to win with your chocobos before there is
a guarantee to get higher tier (e.g. green from yellow,
black from green & blue) chocobo
- Priscilla's CPR minigame takes only one full breath to complete
- In Junon after the parade and presenting in front of Rufus you
get to choose which reward you want to get (from the ones that
match your score)
- Fixed walkmesh in Nibelheim reactor so you can’t go off screen
- GP seller in Gold Saucer would appear randomly, now he always
appears (on Disc 2 after getting Cloud back). He also can sell
up to 300 GP at a time and doesn’t disappear after
a transaction
- Temple of Ancients clock room mechanics were changed so you
can adjust hour and minute clock hands independently, making
the room easier to use
- Bone Village treasure map - lists every rare item you didn't
dig up yet and shows you where to dig for it
- Bone Village digging is now faster when you don't hire
staff - in this case it skips the bomb detonation animation
- Added Cut materia in Great Glacier is now darker and easier
to spot
- In Holzhoff’s hut you can pick up a “heat pack”, which will
make you immune to cold so you can explore the Glacier freely
without passing out
- When guessing the passcode for the Huge Materia Cid will now
give hints that are actually meaningful, instead of misleading
- Diamond Weapon approaching Midgar now walks 4x faster
- Fixed ladder scripts in several places which could cause
soft locks
- In North Crater after you send Tifa off she no longer stalls for
several seconds
- Fixed few instances of Save Points causing soft locks in
North Crater (in Sector 8 during the raid, in Rocket Town
and in the North Crater)
- Added a crew member at the bottom of the North Crater who can
warp you back up to Highwind. After that you can also warp
back down
- Fixed typos in “Received” text boxes: “Glow Lance”, “Mithril”
Installing / Uninstalling:This mod currently only works with English version of the PC Steam release of Final Fantasy VII. Support for other versions may come in the future.
To install the mod just
download and open the installer. This mod may overwrite any other mods you may have installed, so it's best to just have a fresh install of the game before installing it.
To uninstall the mod simply go to Add & Remove programs section of your Control Panel, find the Final Fantasy VII Definitive Edition item and click "Uninstall". The uninstaller will revert the game files back to their previous state.
Change Log:version 1.0 / 13.03.2020
initial release
Credits & Mentions:Field scripting, engine changes:
mav
Mod conception, ideas and planning:
death_unites_us
Beta testing:
Zuloph, death_unites_us
Darkness status bugfix, help with engine code:
DLPB
FF7 Tooling, incl. Makou Reactor and Black Chocobo:
myst6re, sithlord48
lgp/unlgp tools:
Aali
FF7 reverse engineering and engine documentation
Qhimm's community
Other tools used:
Cheat Engine - for real-time data & code inspection
IDA - assembly source code analysis
HxD - editing binary files with hex values
Special thanks to:
3ssjay - for the logo
petfriendamy - cutscene skip direction