I've been reading this series of articles on pastemagazine.com and it got me hankering to install the game and play through it again for the first time in a wee while.
I've ran into a brick wall and no amount of googling seems to find a solution. The problem is thus: the game installs fine but when I try to run either the game .exe or the config program, I get a dialog box saying "Unable to locate midi device. Final Fantasy VII requires a Windows95 compatible midi device"
I've frantically googled this numerous times and the general consensus seems to be that no one knows - posts go unanswered to, or are about Linux, or are from 2000 and have different symptoms. Bah.
Anyway, I'm running Vista with no sound card installed. I have no idea if there's a software midi device running but I'm assuming that's parcelled in with Windows. I've got an original copy of FFVII installed with the 1.2 patch and the FF7music mod, which I thought would bypass the midi but unfortunately didn't. Running in Win95 compatibility mode doesn't work either, for either config or game .exe.
Has anyone else had a similiar problem? And if so, is there an easy solution? God, I feel like my dad asking his mates down the pub if they know why his record player wont work properly...
