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Well you don't have to apply for 2 or 3+ patches for Final Fantasy 7 (under XP OS)... WOOOOOAAA here is the link ENJOY!!!
http://animevamp.deep-ice.com/ff7.htm
Sick of Final Fantasy crashing when using XP?
Want to be able to use 4X Antialiasing on your new GeForce4 MX?
Enhances the music not only of Final Fantasy VII, but also Divi-Dead and Fatal Relations!
Then this is the solution to all your problems, Final Fantasy 7 XP!
"I hope it works for your computer... " FF7 ROCKS baby~~
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Um, slightly interesting. I'd like to see more technical details before I tried it... and um, I hope they didn't rip off Jedwin's patch.
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I will have to test this patch once I get back home... (note I said test, not try)
Well it's certainly big. That's about all I can say from here ^_^
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It works! Before I loaded it, having Cloud perform Omnislash would crash my game in the same manner as has been reporting on other message boards. Now that I've loaded the patch, there's no crash and he performs Omnislash exactly as he's supposed to. Now I can finally proceed with the ending of the game and continue to use Omnislash in the future.
Great patch, start spreading the word!
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Strange...
All the "features" mentioned are actually possible with my standard copy of FFVII if I configure things right.
Nevertheless I'll try this 9mb file later.
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I'm still waiting for word from more reliable sources on this, can anyone confirm any new functionality from this patch? It's not that I don't trust new users with heavy opinions, I just don't trust new users with heavy opinions :wink:
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I downloaded it and it does....... nothing. I even extracted the files to find nothing :evil:
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Yeah, I can understand why you wouldn't trust me. Still, all I can say is that before I downloaded the patch, Omnislash would crash my game in the same manner as described in the post here (http://216.239.33.100/search?q=cache:gZTQrNgmaRcC:www.eidosgames.com/ubb/Forum28/HTML/004784.html+%22omnislash%22+%22crashes%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8). After I downloaded the patch, I had no further problems with Omnislash. Performed beautifully and the graphics look better too.
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Alright, so it obviously does something. At 9MB it must contain something other than that home-made looking installation program. A complete FF7.exe is a good guess, but it must contain something more, FF7.exe is only 5.5MB uncompressed. But the "official" page says nothing specific about the technicalities of the "patch" (can hardly be titled as a patch when it's as large as a complete distribution). I'd prefer if the originator of this release explained what the huge file contains and roughly what it does, or which FF7.exe he's distributing. With a size of 9MB, it can contain tons of stuff to sneak onto my system without my direct knowledge. So until I know what it does, I'm apprehensive to install this thing onto my computer. Hell, it could even be malicious (judging from the l33tn3ss of the homepage). :-?
Doesn't someone know of a way to deconstruct SEAU (Self-Extracting Archive Utility) installations?
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First off, allow me to say that the homepage is definitely NOT L337. Something, like, say, Icrontic, with it's Gh3tt0 L337 "Ghetto computer" articles certainly is. </plug>
Qhimm, I think all you need to find is whatever compression thingy it uses then use a program to unzip it. Like if it's RAR or gzh or CAB or anything.
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It can't be decompressed neither by WinRAR nor by WinZip ... hm ...
- Alhexx
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Let me be blatantly obvious, then. There's a difference between "judging from it being so l33t" and "judging from its l33tn3ss". I wasn't stating it was l33t, I was merely noting that it's so horribly unl33t (commenting on its l33tn3ss). I was being diplomatic too, since it works for people who associate l33t with something bad, too (the site would be very l33t in that case, also judging from its l33tn3ss). :wink:
[EDIT: Mental note: implement a [l33t] BBCode tag. ]
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Why don't we just contact the author of the patch and ask him? Maybe he will reply ...
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hmm mines is 9meg extracted, with a tifa icon...
although i didnt replace my original exe...
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quick, tell us what happened?
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Well, it's virus free also AD(s) as well... from my point of view this patch contains Official Patch v1.2, ff7.exe, and ???? <--- yes, I really don't know~ 9.02mb?!?!
But hey it works and I didn't find any problems yet (For my computer and the game)... Fineee, I will e-mail this guy and see:
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no way... if that's official patch v. 1.2 then how did the author of this patch got to work within XP? look at all the AA... (maybe aniso too) its gorgeous 8)
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I'll have a look at it in a resource hacker, probably in a disassembler.
I'll post a reply when I find something useful...
- Alhexx
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well, you can save the trouble by not enableing aniso filter (hehe, realized that you don't need it for most of situations [except world map] :p)
if possible, modify the lighting process into pixel or vertex shading...hmm it might saves up lots of CPU usages.
er, better yet... have a new configuation GUI to incorporate today's graphic standard 8)
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the anistrpic filtering is nice to see in battles.
as i have shown before.
that AA is possible with 1.2v of ff7,
but the anistropic filtering does make a bigger diff
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I've taken a look at it in a resource hacker, however, I couldn't find anything ...
- Alhexx
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after played with the patch applied for a while... i could say "FF7 is alive" (in XP)
although, enabling aniso filter causes scenes appear to have lines everywhere. but the engine of game was never designed to be AA or aniso friendly 8)
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That's funny, I don't need a patch and it runs with 4x just fine.
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KojiroTakenashi-san how odd you must have good, perhaps you have a very decent AGP 3D card... But for my self I'm quite happy with this patch v1.3 too bad I'm not a big gamer, neee I can tell the differences from PC and PSX~ As favor of PC - much nicer graphics even speed of performances under my new computer, but poor sound quality..., besides that I think this patch is worthy to use...
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It's all so very enticing this XP patch, but I can't seem to find the link to it; I've tried the one that was given on the site by 'nayoung' but the link's dead, all I could get was an older version of the patch (1.0). Could someone PLEASE post a working link of the 1.3a patch or later?
*Begs all pathetic like*
- PS: The 1.0 patch for XP doesn't fix the error when you're playing the Snowboarding mini-game (I don't know about the Chocobo Race mini-game yet).
- PS #2: I've tried to find the latest XP patch on KaZaA and WinMX; no luck... :(
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Eeek. I just checked and it seems that all links on that page have gone dead. What a shame. I think I still have it on my computer, but I don't have enough space on my website to acoomodate that (if it were even allowed, which I'm not sure) and I doubt that would fit in anybody's e-mail...
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Well if you want you can get incontact with me and i'll host it for you guys
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Hey Agent0042, I've got an OLD Angelfire site that you could upload the file too, I'll send you a PM with the username and password.
(Note: You can't make a direct link to any downloadable file on Angelfire, so if you could please tell me where you've uploaded the file, I'll quickly make a HTML file along with it)
- PS: We could post the URL of the 1.3a patch, here afterwards.
-Thanx-
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Okay, you got it. I don't have time now, but I'll post it this evening, sometime after 5:30.
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The link works now, so no point in uploading the patch, unless you'd like to make a mirror of the file?
Well, thank you for wanting to help, and hey, you can use the Brinkster site I gave you; to put up your avatar or whatever you want to do with it.(This site doesn't have scripts which block direct links, so it's perfect for avatars)
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I just made a mirror for it ^_^
Http://smurgen.kj-soft.com/FFVIIXP.ZIP
Hope that helps
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Any one got any idea what this does yet?
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Good to hear it's back. I guess that means I don't have to upload close to 9 megabytes then.
Any one got any idea what this does yet?
Well, I don't know about anybody else, but for me, it solved the crash problem that happens when Cloud uses Omnislash. It also seemed to improve the graphics. What it claims to do is fix all remaining issues related to XP compatibility for FF7.
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I just made a mirror for it ^_^
Http://smurgen.kj-soft.com/FFVIIXP.ZIP
Hope that helps
what version is it again?
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what version is it again?
Ara..., V1.3 English patch desuyo!
I'm very sure, this is a safe patch for now ^^; I hope its nothing do with l33tn3ss LOL...
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The latest version
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I just scanned this file with the most recent release of PC-Cillin and got the file scanned as a virus containing exe!
This seems pretty bad, it seems to contain contains a Trojan Unreal A type virus. Do not get this file!
--Sir Sanjiyan
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Well i scanned it with The Cleaner ( Http://www.moosoft.com )
as well as with AVG ( Http://www.grisoft.com ) and both have the latest definitions and both say its clean.
The file i'm hosting seems to be clean. Maybe you have a false alarm?
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Norton says it's Clean too... but seriously I can't see any difference to the game.. or hear any difference with the music so I would say it's priety pointless.
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I dunno what it does either but i figured i would mirror it incase aoyone needed it
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I will be submitting it to Trend Micro for analysis. Here's hoping I get some kind of response. Hopefully, it'll just happen to detect something that looks like a virus, but isn't (sorta like what happened with Bleem).
--Sir Sanjiyan
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CLEAN! Hmmm I have PC-Cillin too...,
But, patch works well!
PS: (Alhexx, a new A-V-A-T-A-R)!
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Just a question, does this resolve the chocobo race bug?
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I still haven't been able to send the file to Trend Micro (due to limitations on my e-mail attachments passing through my ISPs server), but I realized I haven't mentioned that the virus it is possibly infected with is TROJ_UNREAL.A
I'm really suspicious about this since the trojan was made for Unreal and not a FF game (hence the name). I'm suspecting it is similar to what happened with Bleem many months ago (main exe was detected as a virus, although it was also clean.)
Anyhow, I suggest that those of you who got clean reads on your AV software submit it to your AV's manufacturer's labs for analysis. Better safe than sorry.
--Sir Sanjiyan
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Just a question, does this resolve the chocobo race bug?
Yes.
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I just received the latest pattern file from Trend Micro this morning and it looks like this is virus free! (I knew it for sure, all this time! <g>)
We are returning you to your regularly scheduled gaming!
BTW, has anyone been able to get good quality graphics (anti-aliased) with the latest Detanator 40 drivers on a GeForce3 (non-Ti)? I keep getting some garbled up stuff. I can get it to look like it did originally packaged, but FSAA just looks so neat!
--Sir Sanjiyan
"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain."
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I have a non-Ti GeForce3 and with AA enabled I can't even get the Eidos logo to show. :(
[Edit]That's using 98SE, not XP, so I can't use the patch (which claims to enable anti-aliasing)
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I have a BIG problem, i dunno if its in the good topic but...
Ihave win xp and i cant play the chocobo racing mini-game. I tried to install ff7xp patch but the game dont start anymore. i also tried the ff7n chocobo patch 02 release 3 but it says it is unable to identify the game exe. I tried to start the game with the app compatibility toolkit but it dont work.
PLZ HELP ME!
thx a lot :wink:
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The FF7 chocobo patch won't accept the .exe from the XP patch mentioned in this topic, only the most common official FF7 releases at this time. Try reinstalling FF7 and applying the chocobo patch only, and see if it runs.
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Oh, crap -- I installed that patch and I just ruined my Microsoft Wavetable sounds :P Ive been making music for a video game for almost 2 years with DirectMusic producer and all the files sound extremely crappy now... in particular the slow strings sound extremely awful -- is there any way to revers this PLEASE?
Thanks in advance, i hope :P
~Flash
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Ok no more mirror from me. People complain about it too much. Sorry for trying to help
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This is just weird. I was able to run FF7 on my brothers machine without hitch (he has a clean WinXP pro install, runing intel integrated audio, riva TNT and a Celeron 600) the thing is that when I get to the world map, transitions get VEEEEEEEERY slow, and I haven't been able to fix that.
So I tried installing FF7 on my PC (WinXP update from Win2K, GF3Ti200 an SB Live! 5.1, Athlon 1200) and after aplying the TNT Patch, the game refuses to start (... Memory Error 0x000000005 or something like that).
Also on my comp, the game refuses to run with soundfont support (In Win98SE it ran, now, no avail :evil: )
So how do I fix my comp. ALso, can somebody send me a savefile to test the game for the chocobo races (I Tried dl'ding from gamewinners.com and the like, but the game gives me "Invalid Save" when I try to use them)
I didn't install the 1.3 patch posted here on my bro's pc, but did in mine and still couldn't make ff7 work -_-
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The fix is simple. Dont run FFVII under Windows XP. Even if you fix one problem another one pops up...
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Welcome to the Site Lichocpu. I assume you are male. Contradict me if I am wrong.
Kendrilian :wicked:
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If anyone is still following this, the problems i've encountered after installing that XP patch, was that my sound in the game had changed drastically... and not for the better.
Also, when loading the game in the beginning, I can't see the Eidos movie, or the chocobo movie.. but that's nothing compared to the IN GAME movies also not working any longer. I can hear them, but I can no longer see them. :evil: Before I did some tweaking, I couldn't get the game to progress past a movie playing point. Now, it just plays the sounds, but am able to continue with the game.
Is there anyone who knows how to fix these two issues? (since that "patch" didn't come with an uninstall option -_- )
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Well i installed it at my WinXP and got nothing...just the colours look nicer and nothing else :P
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You could just uninstall and reinstall FF7 altogether. Then apply our Chocobo patch and get the FF7Config.exe from version 1.02, and you should be set to play,
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I've uninstalled and reinstalled 2 times now, even tried removing any registry entries to see if that might have an effect. No go. I've tried getting new synthesizers as well.... nothing has worked. Sooo.. I'm still up a creek with no paddle I guess! :lol: :isee:
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I suppose this is why I'm not about to load the patch... because we have no idea what the heck it does, pretty much. Looks like it might even make permanent alterations to your system. Bleh.
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I *did* figure out a way to get the movies going again, and that was to install the Eidos upside down movie patch, since all that does is install a codec you need.... now those work, but the sound is still all cartoony and crappy. So for anyone who wants some messed up midi/synths, and wants some random files altered, install that patch.
Anyone who is the wiser, don't. I'm just retarded and decided to try it :D
But as for the music problem if anyone has any ideas.. still open for suggestions.
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Ok.
1. What OS are you running?
2. What MIDI device do you have selected in FF7Config? Have you tried different options? Seems to me that if you're using hardware synth, or soundfonts, the XP patch shouldn't have done anything to the music... you might also try setting the MIDI to the "XG MIDI."
3. You can also select the system's default MIDI device in the "Multimedia" or "Sound and Multimedia" or "Sounds and Audio Devices" control panel (depending on your OS).
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I'm running Win2k, which may have been my first mistake (installing an XP patch), however, they run off the same kernel.. and overall are the same OS.. just XP should be called "Windows for Idiots".
ANYways..
Ok.
1. What OS are you running?
2. What MIDI device do you have selected in FF7Config? Have you tried different options? Seems to me that if you're using hardware synth, or soundfonts, the XP patch shouldn't have done anything to the music... you might also try setting the MIDI to the "XG MIDI."
3. You can also select the system's default MIDI device in the "Multimedia" or "Sound and Multimedia" or "Sounds and Audio Devices" control panel (depending on your OS).
I tried the XG Midi thing, and I tried tweaking my settings in the Multimedia (Sounds and Audio Devices) area, *still* no effect. I'd like to know if anyone knows where to find the original GM.DLS file that goes in "C:\WinNT\system32\drivers\".
I was not able to find it on my Win2k CD, but maybe I'm not looking in the right places?
Thanks to all who've helped so far, and thanks in advance..
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Well replacing the gm.dls file worked, my midis are back to normal and everything, so if anyone else has this problem I guess they'll know what to do now!
Thanks everyone for your help. :D
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I have a Celeron 550, 320 meg of RAM, a GeForce 2 MX 200, and (important to FF7) a Soundblaster AWE 64 - ISA styled. Yeah, I know, old system, but it still kicks. Running XP Professional, with SP1 (which doesn't make a difference, I think)
When I tried it the first time, it made my colors all glitchy - it'd run, but the in-game backgrounds were bad news. Upgraded to nVidia's latest beta XP drivers and... it's perfect. Everything works as I remember it back in my 98 install - down to the last MIDI. Better, even, cause I turn on 2x FSAA. :) - and I'm not using my old Voodoo 2 card like I used to.
What's funny is I kept my 98 install around for FF7 in particular. Now I question the need for it's existence.
Whoever created this patch did good work. Yay. Arigato.
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Whoever created this patch did good work. Yay. Arigato.
1. Arigatou (long-sound!) *NOD NOD*
2. Patch - Copy & Paste... *TSK TSK TSK*
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Oi, that's entirely up to the romaji variant used. Granted, you should usually show the vowel length somehow, though. Arigatou, Arigatoo, Arigatô, etc.
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Romaji *Bleee* as long as I have
Japanese/Korean keyboard *Thank U God* =3
yae yae yae gu`roku`nyo =^.^=
Qhimm-si goma`wo`a~ ~
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Does anyone know a working mirror for this patch? Looking to download it in hopes that it will stop the crashes at the submarine battle for huge materia.
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Thought that we decided this patch doesn't do anything useful?
It applies our Chocobo fix and messes up Windows XP's MS Synth by replacing the gm.dls file with a crappy one. Bleh.
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...I still want to know how to replace my own GM.DLS without windows instantly replacing it.
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Hrm. If it were me, I'd try it from Safe Mode. Or if you're on a FAT32, from a DOS prompt.
Or maybe you could find a registry key that points to the gm.dls and change it to a different file.
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Well we already debated that XP version of patch wasn't good idea...
What should I do? Apply 1.2 version of FFVII patch last, apply Qhimm's Chocobo patch or???