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General Discussion / Final Fantasy X characters

« on: 2005-01-28 12:28:47 »

what? i thoguht they were native american (no offense)

 

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General Discussion / Final Fantasy X characters

« on: 2005-01-27 21:33:31 »

In Final Fantasy X, why do the characters have European features in-game but Asian features in FMVs? Has anybody else seen this? Rikku looks totally Asian in that FMV where she takes off her helmet.

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General Discussion / Glitches in FF7 on the PS2?

« on: 2005-01-27 21:11:18 »

Do you think you would have noticed tinted sprites back when you had your PS1? Has it been a long time? If you were less technical at the time and didn't know what a sprite was, then you probably wouldn't have spotted it.

If any current PS1 owners want to investigate, summon Ramuh in FF7 and check out his lightning. If you see a tint surrounding the lightning bolts, that means FF7 works properly on the PS2.

I tried looking at PS1 screenshots of Ramuh on the internet but I did not find any good shots. This one is too small and is against a night sky so it is hard to see if there is a tint or not.

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General Discussion / Glitches in FF7 on the PS2?

« on: 2005-01-24 22:19:40 »

I remember the box glitches on ff7 playstation.

I used to laugh at the 'inferior' graphics of the ps version compared to the pc as you could see boxes round things. Pity they had the better sound, and didn't have to suffer the upside down movies of the voodoo 2 sli.

That's real helpful. Thanks M0T!  

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General Discussion / Glitches in FF7 on the PS2?

« on: 2005-01-23 17:24:20 »

Thanks Chesso. I guess most people don't have a Playstation anymore to compare it to how it looks on the PS2. I'm going to take your word for it, so there are glitches.   Bit annoyed with Sony for that.

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General Discussion / Re: Glitches in FF7 on the PS2?

« on: 2005-01-22 13:20:04 »

Cheers for the strategies guys. But going back to my first post:

I am spotting two suspect things. 1 - The red circle button (of the controller) looks weird whenever it is shown (like during a tutorial) and 2 - transparent textures don't seem to be totally transparent. Like, when meteor is in the sky on the world map you can see a box around it, and magic effects in battle too. Are these things glitches?

Can any Playstation owners see these things when they play FF7? I’m particularly interested in the boxes seen around transparent sprites because that is not seen in the PC version and seems like a glitch for sure. Thanks.

P.S. sorry about the spoilers, shall I edit my messages and put spoiler tags in? Some of you will probably need to do that too.

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General Discussion / Glitches in FF7 on the PS2?

« on: 2005-01-21 10:27:30 »

He didn't die? But his body is lifeless at the end. I thought Rinoa was just remembering him when you see him in that bit after the credits.

You get quite a bit of insight into Squall's character in FF8. And even when he doesn't say anything, his hand gestures, body language and heavy frown continue to convey his personality and make him 'real'.

I felt we didn't get to know Cloud on a personal level that much. We are told he is cold and when he was younger he wasn't accepted by the other children. Other than that he just seems like a generic hero. But I guess 7 was more about the story (which was superb by the way).

Nothing happy like that happened at all.....

  Well he was a bit of a fool but he doesn't deserve to die.

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General Discussion / Glitches in FF7 on the PS2?

« on: 2005-01-20 20:37:24 »

Also, FF7 was my first RPG too, and since completeling it NOTHING has come close to the gameplay or feeling when you complete it, or the feeling you get when aeris dies....Sad I know, but I got really involved with this game....

I'll never know how it felt when Aeris died. Unfortunately for me, my big mouth friends decided to ruin it. They also ruined FF8...

"You completed 8 yet?"
"No."
"Squall dies in the end."
" "

And prior to playing FF7:

"Look you can browse the CD and play the movies."
"Oh."
"Watch this one, this bit is sad." (Plays the movie with Aeris' death).
"    "

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General Discussion / Glitches in FF7 on the PS2?

« on: 2005-01-19 10:56:15 »

I'll have to get a strategy guide or look on websites for all these secrets. Do you like Final Fantasy 8? That's still the best game I've played. Not only did it have a beautiful romantic element, but they also really developed the characters so you get to know them on a personal level. The in-game graphics and realistic cinematics also allowed for much more emotion to be conveyed. I never felt I knew the Final Fantasy 7 characters very well.

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General Discussion / Glitches in FF7 on the PS2?

« on: 2005-01-19 01:43:25 »

I haven't beaten Ruby Weapon yet. I haven't really done anything optional except for getting Yuffie, Vincent and beating Ultimate Weapon. I was kind of in a rush to finish the game so it didn't intrude on my work time. Knights of the round? A summon no doubt, I missed that one.  

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General Discussion / Glitches in FF7 on the PS2?

« on: 2005-01-19 01:10:04 »

Hi, thanks for the reply Chesso.

I would have assumed that all PS1 titles played 100% perfectly on the PS2, but I read somewhere that there are problems with a number of games.

Anyway, I completed FF7 just a few minutes ago. I loved the last battle where Cloud uses omnislash!!! And it was really cool seeing the characters faces in detail during the end cinematic. I was kind of hoping for something more special after the credits instead of the "Lion King" though. But I will definitely play it again sometime.

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General Discussion / Glitches in FF7 on the PS2?

« on: 2005-01-18 20:07:40 »

Hi, I'm playing FF7 (platinum) for the first time now. It's shameful, I know. I had the chance to play it years ago when my friend lent me the PC version, but I was put off by the graphics of field characters and plus I had FF8 to play at the time. I can't believe I left playing it for so long.

Anyway I am playing it on the PS2 and I am wondering about the compatibility of the game since it is a Playstation title. I have been searching for info about this and only managed to find one thing saying that when you turn on texture smoothing it can mess up transparent textures. So I left smoothing off just in case.

I have played up to disc 3 so far and I'm not sure if there were glitches. I have never played it before on the Playstation or PC so I don't know how things are supposed to look. But I am spotting two suspect things. 1 - The red circle button (of the controller) looks weird whenever it is shown (like during a tutorial) and 2 - transparent textures don't seem to be totally transparent. Like, when meteor is in the sky on the world map you can see a box around it, and magic effects in battle too. Are these things glitches? Does anybody have any more info or know a website that has details about PS1 title compatibility?

Thanks

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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / FF8 wallpaper .lzs converting?

« on: 2004-12-21 14:58:12 »

mirex, I have used Biturn before (it's a cool program, good work) but it didn't convert or view ff8 lzs files. But it was handy for converting other ff8 files.

Can someone help me and compile those codes bspbsp gave? I'm not a programmer and I don't have the software to do it. Would really aprecciate it. Thanks.

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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / FF8 wallpaper .lzs converting?

« on: 2004-12-21 11:52:32 »

hey bspbsp was that code meant for me or for mirex? I don't program so I don't have VC++6.0 to compile it with. But thank you very much for doing it.

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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / FF8 wallpaper .lzs converting?

« on: 2004-12-16 23:22:33 »

hi, does anybody know a program to convert .lzs FF8 wallpaper files into .bmp image files? I know you can use Qhimms 'Eight' program, view the files on there and just do a screenshot and crop it but is there a program that will convert them into bitmaps for you?

thanks

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Troubleshooting / playing ff8 pc in a window

« on: 2004-12-16 00:14:41 »

I decided to try what the guy did in that forum. So I downloaded the trial version of Microsoft Virtual PC and installed windows 98 on it. I installed FF8 and I played it in a 640 x 480 window which was good. But this isn't the best way because virtual pc has an emulated graphics card so the game is a bit slow and in software mode only. shame...

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Troubleshooting / playing ff8 pc in a window

« on: 2004-12-15 15:29:06 »

thanks for the replies guys.

I found this thread on another forum: http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/119550

I don't know if I want to do what he did though  

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Troubleshooting / playing ff8 pc in a window

« on: 2004-12-09 22:15:19 »

hi,

does anybody know how to play FF8 not in full-screen but in a window? Is there some option you can choose in windows xp to make it do this? I have been playing all my games this way recently but don't know how to do it with ff8.