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Title: Final Fantasy VII: Japanese Text for Steam Version
Post by: acratus on 2014-03-31 20:50:43

Hello. I'm a Japanese student and I just bought Final Fantasy VII for Steam. The game supports several language choices, but Japanese is not among them on my version despite it being the developers' native language. Would it be possible to obtain the Japanese text datafiles for my game from somewhere? I would hate to do so, but I could re-buy the game if necessary.

Thanks for any help you could provide.

Title: Re: Final Fantasy VII: Japanese Text for Steam Version
Post by: Covarr on 2014-03-31 22:25:58

Quote from: acratus on 2014-03-31 20:50:43

Japanese is not among them on my version despite it being the developers' native language.

Keep in mind, the PC version was developed by Eidos back in 1998; their native language is English. The Steam version is just that, but updated.

In fact, until last year, there was no Japanese version for PC. They did finally release it for download (http://store.jp.square-enix.com/detail/SEDL-1010?fromsearch=q%3d%26cat%3dgame%26s700%3d700), translated back from the English version. I wouldn't expect the Japanese content from this version to work in the Steam version of the game, though (I don't own the Japanese one myself, so I can't test this).

Title: Re: Final Fantasy VII: Japanese Text for Steam Version
Post by: Vehek on 2014-03-31 22:48:14

Quote from: Covarr on 2014-03-31 22:25:58

Keep in mind, the PC version was developed by Eidos back in 1998; their native language is English.

The PC version wasn't developed by Eidos, it was done by SquareSoft Inc. That's the North American subsidiary, though, so the native language would still (mostly) be English. Looking at the credits, there were at least one Japanese programmer from Square's other games.

Title: Re: Final Fantasy VII: Japanese Text for Steam Version
Post by: gjoerulv on 2014-03-31 23:00:07

Eidos ported it. The PC re-release is based on that port.

Title: Re: Final Fantasy VII: Japanese Text for Steam Version
Post by: Kaldarasha on 2014-04-01 09:25:58

As far as I know, Eidos was only the publisher, the port itself was done by a Square team in Honolulu. The re-release was done by a French company (strange I can't find it anymore on the Wiki, was something with 'E'  :-\ ).

Title: Re: Final Fantasy VII: Japanese Text for Steam Version
Post by: gjoerulv on 2014-04-01 10:07:56

Ah, that's right. Eidos bought the publishing rights for 1mill and a new team was assembled to port the game to PC.

Title: Re: Final Fantasy VII: Japanese Text for Steam Version
Post by: acratus on 2014-04-01 12:09:46

Thanks for the info, guys. It seems I can't purchase the game from the aforementioned Square Japan site because my IP has to be in Japan. Is there an off chance anyone has any ideas how to get around this?

Title: Re: Final Fantasy VII: Japanese Text for Steam Version
Post by: Covarr on 2014-04-01 14:36:11

Quote from: Kaldarasha on 2014-04-01 09:25:58

As far as I know, Eidos was only the publisher, the port itself was done by a Square team in Honolulu. The re-release was done by a French company (strange I can't find it anymore on the Wiki, was something with 'E'  :-\ ).

The rerelease was done by DotEmu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DotEmu).

Title: Re: Final Fantasy VII: Japanese Text for Steam Version
Post by: crimson1117 on 2016-03-25 08:24:04

now FFVII got ios version and there is Japanese language(those files),I think you can go ipa site()