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General Discussion / FFVIII/FF8 Mods?
« on: 2012-08-01 14:59:14 »
Hi, all!
I just beat FFVII last night, as part of my goal of playing all the FF single-player games this year in chronological order, one each month. That means onwards to FFVIII!
One of the things that led me here back at the start of July was how awful FFVII looked on my 55" HDTV using my PS1 discs in my PS3. I ended up installing Tifa's Bootleg mod for FFVII PC and, other than a few technical snags along the way, I had a blast.
Last night, I loaded up FFVIII in my PS3 using my old PS1 discs just to see the graphics qualities. I thought it might look better, since there had been a graphics update from VII to VIII on their original release. How wrong I was! It looked even worse than VII somehow -- totally pixelated! So now I'm looking into FFVIII for PC again. I poked around the forums here and also on GameFAQs -- which in turn said to just ask here, so here I am.
Is there anything similar to Tifa's Bootleg for FFVIII? Or any collection (or singular, even) mods? I saw a sticky thread about "The big list of FFVII mods" but don't see anything like that for FFVIII. I don't know if I just couldn't find them, or if they don't exist. Maybe it looks okay on PC? Not sure. I know that FFVII had different music in its PC version, so I had used an original music pack that replaced the PC version with the original PS1 music; don't know what the FFVIII situation is on this end, however.
I know I asked several questions in that last paragraph, but I'm at work now and hoping to figure out what to do regarding FFVIII when I get home tonight, so I figured I'd post everything running through my mind here and see what the deal is.
Thank you in advance for any assistance!
I just beat FFVII last night, as part of my goal of playing all the FF single-player games this year in chronological order, one each month. That means onwards to FFVIII!
One of the things that led me here back at the start of July was how awful FFVII looked on my 55" HDTV using my PS1 discs in my PS3. I ended up installing Tifa's Bootleg mod for FFVII PC and, other than a few technical snags along the way, I had a blast.
Last night, I loaded up FFVIII in my PS3 using my old PS1 discs just to see the graphics qualities. I thought it might look better, since there had been a graphics update from VII to VIII on their original release. How wrong I was! It looked even worse than VII somehow -- totally pixelated! So now I'm looking into FFVIII for PC again. I poked around the forums here and also on GameFAQs -- which in turn said to just ask here, so here I am.
Is there anything similar to Tifa's Bootleg for FFVIII? Or any collection (or singular, even) mods? I saw a sticky thread about "The big list of FFVII mods" but don't see anything like that for FFVIII. I don't know if I just couldn't find them, or if they don't exist. Maybe it looks okay on PC? Not sure. I know that FFVII had different music in its PC version, so I had used an original music pack that replaced the PC version with the original PS1 music; don't know what the FFVIII situation is on this end, however.
I know I asked several questions in that last paragraph, but I'm at work now and hoping to figure out what to do regarding FFVIII when I get home tonight, so I figured I'd post everything running through my mind here and see what the deal is.
Thank you in advance for any assistance!