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Bootleg Questions / Re: [Tutorial] Tifa's Bootleg

« on: 2014-05-05 03:37:51 »

Yeah I figured out the fullscreen issue. Now I have another issue, sound issue. I have my laptop hooked up to my TV via HDMI, the TV outputs all the sound effect sounds but no music except for in the opening video, my laptop outputs the music. So my TV is outputting the sound effect sounds and my laptop is outputting the music. How do I make ALL the sound output from my TV?

Also does this game/mod support game controllers? Like if I hook up my PS3 controller and use motion joy, will that work?

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Bootleg Questions / Re: [Tutorial] Tifa's Bootleg

« on: 2014-05-05 02:57:08 »

Ok so I installed it all on my laptop and its all working fine other then a couple mods, like the intro credits scene backround I chose isn't showing up. Also the most annoying thing is it won't let me play in fullscreen it says "Failed to set the requested fullscreen mode, reverting to original resolution window mode." and when I click ok the screen is a small box in the middle of my screen which is highly annoying. How do I fix this? Also I was wondering in BFE in the game tab, which FMV Cutscene do I pick for like the advent children opening video?

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Bootleg Questions / Re: [Tutorial] Tifa's Bootleg

« on: 2014-05-04 23:05:00 »

Meh I can try it anyway, I'm desperate to get this working.

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Bootleg Questions / Re: [Tutorial] Tifa's Bootleg

« on: 2014-05-04 22:11:58 »

I have tested the GC also with Win 8.0, but was long time ago.
Maybe it helps the Win7 compatibility mode to switch on...

Well I try Windows 7 compatability mode on my first install and still got FF7.exe has stopped working.

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Bootleg Questions / Re: [Tutorial] Tifa's Bootleg

« on: 2014-05-04 21:42:46 »

@ manta

I can discover nothing faulty in your FF7_GC.log unfortunately.

You can try to start FF7 with admin rights.
You can try to update your drivers for sound and/or graphics (so that it has sometimes been a problem).
You can try to start again FF7Config.

You can try to remove the Game Converter (start again and then choose 'Uninstall everything?') and then install bootleg (without GC).

If anything of these work, please get back here so we can fix the error.

I've tried the admin rights and it doesn't work, I have my video card drivers and sound drivers up to date. What do you mean by starting up FF7Config again? I can run FF7Config fine. Actually the last time I had all the mods installed I had forgotten about the game converter so that still didn't work.

I'm gonna try installing it on my laptop and see if that works. Is it maybe an issue with Windows 8? Because the only difference between my friend's install and mine is he's on Windows 7 and used a preset mod config where as I have Windows 8 and customized all the mods to my liking. Also I did not download any of the mods myself, he had all the mods 16.9GB I believe and put it on a USB stick and gave them to me. the only stuff I downloaded was the ISO, the game converter and I think that's it.

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Bootleg Questions / Re: [Tutorial] Tifa's Bootleg

« on: 2014-05-04 19:04:53 »

Anymore help with my issue? I really really really want to get this working, I wan to play with these mods so badly!

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Bootleg Questions / Re: [Tutorial] Tifa's Bootleg

« on: 2014-05-04 01:51:29 »

Yes the config came up during the game conversion one time and all the settings looked fine. Here's the log:

FF7 GameConverter, Version Bootleg Configurator
Creator: Kompass63
Editor: EQ2Alyza

Start running at    Date: 2014-05-03    Time: 15:55:01.39
Active code page: 437
ActualPath C:\Users\Eric\AppData\Local\Temp\7ZipSfx.000

You are running "Windows 8 Pro" on a 64 Bit Operating System (AMD64)
Real Management 32Bit WOW64

This patch is not yet applied.

Steam is installed in "D:\SSF_012_beta_R3\Steam\steamapps\common\FINAL FANTASY VII"

Installation path found at...

"D:\SSF_012_beta_R3\Steam\steamapps\common\FINAL FANTASY VII"

If an installation path IS found, press ENTER.
If an installation path IN NOT found, TYPE IT IN and press ENTER.



Copying Registry Keys...
Removed CompatFlags from "ff7.exe"
Removed CompatFlags from "ff7config.exe"

Set own Registry Keys...

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\GameConverterkeys


Setting language to en...

Detecting drive letter for FF7 Discs...

Drive letter for FF7 Discs     G:\

Movies path found at...

"D:\SSF_012_beta_R3\Steam\steamapps\common\FINAL FANTASY VII\data\movies\"
Copying English Files...

Copying 1.02 patch for ff7.exe...

Copying Aali's Custom Driver, version 0.7.11b...

Creating Final Fantasy VII Icon...

Creating FF7Config Icon...

Adding more Registry Keys...
Adding Registry Keys to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII
Adding Registry Keys to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\1.00\Graphics
Adding Registry Keys to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\1.00\MIDI
Adding Registry Keys to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\1.00\Sound
Adding Registry Key to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\FF7app.exe

Please check over the settings for FF7Config...

1) Graphics tab should have "Custom driver" set for the Renderer.
2) Sound tab should have a Sound device set.
3) Perform the Sound and MIDI tests.

Adding UAC Registry Keys to HKCU\SOFTWARE\Classes\VirtualStore\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Square Soft, Inc.

Inserting Multi.dll, Hext.dll, and Languagefile...

Patching FF7anyCDv2...

Install the Laptop Keypad patch?
(Only necessary if keyboard does NOT have a NUMPAD)
NO

Installation complete.



called with ""C:\Users\Eric\AppData\Local\Temp\7ZipSfx.000\FF7_GameConverter_BC.bat""
Arguments: "C:\Users\Eric\AppData\Local\Temp\7ZipSfx.000\FF7_GameConverter_BC.bat"

PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE:          x86
PROCESSOR_ARCHITEW6432:          AMD64
Actual Path:                     C:\Users\Eric\AppData\Local\Temp\7ZipSfx.000
Product Name:                    Windows 8 Pro
Architecture:                    AMD64
Running in Modus                 32Bit WOW64
OS Bit Version                   64
Reg-Keyname Steam                HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Steam App 39140
Reg-Keyname Re-Release           HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{141B8BA9-BFFD-4635-AF64-078E31010EC3}_is1
Reg-Keyname 1                    HKLM\SOFTWARE\Square Soft, Inc.
Reg-Keyname 2                    HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\FF7app.exe
Reg-Keyname 3                    HKCU\SOFTWARE\Classes\VirtualStore\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Square Soft, Inc.
Steam Release is present:        Yes
Steam Release Path:              D:\SSF_012_beta_R3\Steam\steamapps\common\FINAL FANTASY VII
Re-Release is present:           
Re-Release Path:                 
Original Release is present:     
Original Release Path:           
Destination Path:                D:\SSF_012_beta_R3\Steam\steamapps\common\FINAL FANTASY VII
Source Path:                     D:\SSF_012_beta_R3\Steam\steamapps\common\FINAL FANTASY VII
Videos Path:                     D:\SSF_012_beta_R3\Steam\steamapps\common\FINAL FANTASY VII\data\movies
Original Videos Path:             
Original Language                en
Converted Language               en
Original Drive Letter:           
Converted Drive Letter:          G:\
and now clear up Variables...
Ending at           Date: 2014-05-03    Time: 15:56:13.54

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Bootleg Questions / Re: [Tutorial] Tifa's Bootleg

« on: 2014-05-03 20:06:00 »

To find out whether your problems at the GC or bootleg is, that would be helpful.
The modifications to the game are very extensive.
In order to find bugs, it is useful to make the modifications in small steps and in between to test, from when the error occurs.

Ok just got a chance to sit down and try this again. I uninstalled everything again, re downloaded and re installed Final Fantasy 7 in steam, ran the game converter and it went through fine, I said No to the laptop Keyboard thing since I'm on a PC. I'm not clear where I should try launching the game from? There is a Final Fantasy 7 launch shortcut on my desktop which I tried launching from and all that does is go to a black screen and then back to desktop with no errors. If I try to launch it within the steam folder same issue black screen and no errors BUT if I try to launch the game from steam it works perfectly fine. Is this right?

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Bootleg Questions / Re: [Tutorial] Tifa's Bootleg

« on: 2014-05-01 02:12:24 »

He means to do STEP 1, then start the game before continuing. Need to see if your game starts up after converting but before modding.

Oh so I should uninstall everything again?

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Bootleg Questions / Re: [Tutorial] Tifa's Bootleg

« on: 2014-05-01 01:32:24 »

Have you tried to start the game after my GameConverter but before bootleg?

Hmmmm I'm not really sure what you mean?

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Bootleg Questions / Re: [Tutorial] Tifa's Bootleg

« on: 2014-04-30 20:12:02 »

Ok so I followed the instructions and uninstalled FF7 from steam, I uninstalled the FF7 Music from my control panel, I cleaned my registry with the tool, deleted the whole FF7 installation folder.

I then went into steam re downloaded and installed FF7. I went back through the instructions and followed everything to the T, made sure all the mods I selected we're green and ran the install, it went through the entire installation with no problems or errors of any kind. I mounted FF7 Disc 1 with Daemon Tools, made sure all my configs were correct with graphics, sound, MIDI, left all the settings in the bootloader config as default, clicked Play FF7, launches to a black screen and FF7.exe has stopped working!!!! I'm beyond frustrated as this makes no sense what so ever, I just want to get this stupid thing working!! Here's my APP Log again. It seems to be the same APP Log as before and messes up on the sound for some stupid reason. I have no idea what driver I'm suppose to update for the sound, I have my PC connected to my TV and the sound is being supplied via HDMI which goes from my video card via monitor cable and on the other end of the cable is an HDMI which is hooked up to my LG receiver which outputs my PC sound through my surround sound system. I updated my video card driver to the newest driver which is beta? Please help me get this to work.....

INFO: FF7/FF8 OpenGL driver version 0.7.11b
INFO: Auto-detected version: FF7 1.02 US English
INFO: NVIDIA Corporation GeForce GTX 560 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 4.4.0
INFO: OpenGL 2.0 support detected
INFO: Using PBO
INFO: Found swap_control extension
INFO: Max texture size: 16384x16384
INFO: Number of texture units: 4
INFO: Original resolution 640x480, window size 1280x960, output resolution 1280x960, internal resolution 1280x960
INFO: Shader limits: varying 124, vert uniform 4096, frag uniform 2048
INFO: FFMpeg movie player plugin loaded
INFO: FFMpeg version SVN-r25886, Copyright (coffee) 2000-2010 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
INFO: FF7Music helper plugin loaded
INFO: Loading external library Multi.dll
LOCK UNLOCK TEST
MATRIX INITIALIZE
INITIALIZE DD/D3D END
ERROR: could not open file D:\SSF_012_beta_R3\Steam\steamapps\common\FINAL FANTASY VII\ff7input.cfg
initializing sound...
creating dsound primary buffer
reading audio file
loading static sounds
sound initialized

EDIT: So I tried hooking my PC up where it usually is with a seperate sound source with an optical hook up to my logitech sound system and I'm still getting the FF7.exe crash and the APP log is the exact same thing, ending with "sound initialized" could this be something to do with the music i'm selecting in the BFE? I just left on the default sound choice in BFE. I'm so lost and stuck at this point and frustrated. Please help.

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Bootleg Questions / Re: [Tutorial] Tifa's Bootleg

« on: 2014-04-30 03:35:09 »

Rerun bootleg is not possible because bootleg does not reset the files to the origin.
You're probably going to uninstall the game, delete the registry and have to start over.



EDIT: Have you installed 'norton 360'?

Yeah I'm going to have to uninstall and start over again, bleh. I have AVG free installed but disabled it for the entirety of the install. Is there instructions to uninstall everything?

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Bootleg Questions / Re: [Tutorial] Tifa's Bootleg

« on: 2014-04-29 22:28:56 »

Ok well I tried changing the base models in bootleg to no change and re ran the installer and got this error now "D:\steamapps\common\FINAL FANTASY VII\BACKUP-dlpb\FF7.exe An error occurred while trying to read the source file: Access is denied. Click Retry to try again, Ignore to skip this file (no recommended), or Abort to cancel installation." I clicked retry which does nothing, so I clicked ignore and it continues installing Final Fantasy 7 Menu Overhaul and gives me more of the same Access denied error, click ignore again and get another error at the end saying "HextChanger 1.0 cannot open file "D:\Steam\steamapps\common\FINAL FANTASY VII\dlpb-mods\ff7.exe the system cannot find the file specified" So now I'm totally lost and getting very angry. Anyway I set it back to what I had before and now I'm still getting the same access denied error with that.

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Bootleg Questions / Re: [Tutorial] Tifa's Bootleg

« on: 2014-04-29 22:10:34 »

It looks as if your char.lgp is wrong or missing.
This is in the folder '[gamedir]\data\field'
You can try to find an intact version in the backup folders and copy them there.

I wouldn't even know where to begin to look for that? Any help please? I'm using the steam version of Final Fantasy 7 btw. Do I need to reinstall Final Fantasy 7 on steam or something? I'm totally lost here.

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Bootleg Questions / Re: [Tutorial] Tifa's Bootleg

« on: 2014-04-29 21:31:03 »

Well I thought I had it fixed and working great, but nope its giving me new problems now! Ok so I went back into the bootleg program and clicked on "Mod Listing" to make sure there was no red and there isn't, then I clicked "Run Bootleg" and let that install everything all over again. Once that was done I started up BootLoader and left all the config settings at default and click Play FF7 and it launched and went through the intro credits and got to the main menu where you can click start or continue, I clicked start and my screen went black and made an error noise so alt tabbed and there was an error box saying "Fail to load BVJF.yos" So I clicked ok and it told me to submit my APP LOG again. So here it is.

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INFO: FF7/FF8 OpenGL driver version 0.7.11b
INFO: Auto-detected version: FF7 1.02 US English
INFO: NVIDIA Corporation GeForce GTX 560 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 4.4.0
INFO: OpenGL 2.0 support detected
INFO: Using PBO
INFO: Found swap_control extension
INFO: Max texture size: 16384x16384
INFO: Number of texture units: 4
INFO: Original resolution 640x480, window size 1280x960, output resolution 1280x960, internal resolution 1280x960
INFO: Shader limits: varying 124, vert uniform 4096, frag uniform 2048
INFO: FFMpeg movie player plugin loaded
INFO: FFMpeg version SVN-r25886, Copyright (coffee) 2000-2010 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
INFO: FF7Music helper plugin loaded
INFO: Loading external library Multi.dll
LOCK UNLOCK TEST
MATRIX INITIALIZE
INITIALIZE DD/D3D END
initializing sound...
creating dsound primary buffer
reading audio file
loading static sounds
sound initialized
set music volume: 127
set music volume: 127
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
START OF CREDITS!!!
INFO: D:\Steam\steamapps\common\FINAL FANTASY VII\movies\eidoslogo.avi; indeo5/pcm_s16le 640x480, 30.000000 FPS, duration: 12.933333, frames: 388
INFO: slow output format from video codec indeo5; 6
INFO: D:\Steam\steamapps\common\FINAL FANTASY VII\movies\sqlogo.avi; mpeg4/mp3 960x720, 15.000000 FPS, duration: 247.533333, frames: 3713
set music volume trans: 127->0, step=60
END OF CREDITS!!!
Entering MAIN
set music volume: 127
Exiting MAIN
START OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
ERROR: COULD NOT CHANGE TO DIRECTORY D:\Steam\steamapps\common\FINAL FANTASY VII\save
END OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
Field Start
ERROR: failed to find file char/BVJF.a (LGP) (path: )
ERROR: offset error: BVJF.a
ERROR: could not open file BVJF.a
ERROR: unhandled exception

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Bootleg Questions / Re: [Tutorial] Tifa's Bootleg

« on: 2014-04-29 20:05:15 »

Your app.log ends abruptly with

Behind it should be something like  come.

Obviously FF7 or Aali's driver have problems, to set the volume.

Just try to update your sound driver, then adjust again in FF7Config everything.

This is normal.
'8-bit Paletted Textures' my knowledge is nowadays supported by none graphics card anymore.

Hmmmm I'm not really even sure what to update for sound, I currently have my PC connected to my TV, so I have a monitor cable with and hdmi cable hook up at the end and that's hooked up to my TV's LG sound system which is "LG-BDHT-0 (NVIDIA High Definition Audio)" So I'm not really sure what to update.

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Bootleg Questions / Re: [Tutorial] Tifa's Bootleg

« on: 2014-04-29 19:25:40 »

Did you at FF7Config also the TAB 'sound' and 'MIDI' times clicked and set everything?

I went into sound and didn't change anything its defaulted to my sound output and when I click test the test sounds work fine. In MIDI I didn't change anything either MIDI is set to the only choice which is "Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth" For MIDI Data its set to "General MIDI" with 2 other choices "Soundfront MIDI (Creative AWE32/AWE64)" and "Yamaha XG MIDI" this is raelly frustrating because I so badly want to play this mod.

EDIT: I did the rename hard drive method instead of mounting it.

EDIT 2: I was just checking out the graphics tab in the config and on the side has a list called "Required 3D Features for Direct3D" and they all pass except for the last one which says fail and its called "8-bit Paletted Textures"

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Bootleg Questions / Re: [Tutorial] Tifa's Bootleg

« on: 2014-04-29 04:49:11 »

Ok so I downloaded all the files and followed the instructions properly and everything installed fine as far as I know. Then I opened up the bootloader and went to config and changed settings to my liking and clicked "write CFG" close that and click play FF7 black window pops up and then says FF7.exe has stopped working. So I changed it from full screen to windowed, same thing. I looked at the FAQS and found the one where it says FF7.exe has stopped working and it told me to change my graphic settings if the self test message doesn't pop up. It pops up and it still won't launch. I'm running Windows 8 64-bit. I tried running in compatability mode for Windows 7 as my friend uses these mods on Windows 7. Tried launching it as admin. Always the same error so I have no idea what to do at this point. No idea what an AP log is but I went to a text file called AP in my Final Fantasy 7 steam directory and here it is copy and pasted.

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INFO: FF7/FF8 OpenGL driver version 0.7.11b
INFO: Auto-detected version: FF7 1.02 US English
INFO: NVIDIA Corporation GeForce GTX 560 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 4.4.0
INFO: OpenGL 2.0 support detected
INFO: Using PBO
INFO: Found swap_control extension
INFO: Max texture size: 16384x16384
INFO: Number of texture units: 4
INFO: Original resolution 640x480, window size 1280x960, output resolution 1280x960, internal resolution 1280x960
INFO: Shader limits: varying 124, vert uniform 4096, frag uniform 2048
INFO: FFMpeg movie player plugin loaded
INFO: FFMpeg version SVN-r25886, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
INFO: FF7Music helper plugin loaded
INFO: Loading external library Multi.dll
LOCK UNLOCK TEST
MATRIX INITIALIZE
INITIALIZE DD/D3D END
initializing sound...
creating dsound primary buffer
reading audio file
loading static sounds
sound initialized