I have this same problem, i followed the sequence of patches listed below in a helpful guide (NEAT Compilation) by to the tee, but i cant seem to update the world map characters to the type of models used in battle. I expected to have achieved this effect by stage 5 but the old fashioned 'lego' cloud is still present. It is playable and i am so grateful for getting as far as i have with these amazing patches but just it is so close to being perfect.
I did get it working on one occasion (no idea how i did it, whether i did something out of sequence?) with battle characters on the world map it crashed immidiately after the a battle swirl. This is the only thread i could find.
1. ff7 v1.02 official patch
2. The SaiNt's High Res FF7PC Patch v1.00 (with integrated Jedwin's chocobo patch) by SaiNt
3. YAMP - Yet Another Multi-Patcher by dziugo
4. Higher quality Cloud mod by Dreakon
5.b) NPC Reconstruction Project for FF7PC 0.6 mod by Borde + ice_cold513 + Stormmedia
6. New Spell Patch by zero88
8.1 ff7music v1.51 by ficedula (100% working as it is)
8.2 ff7_lessdebug by Aali (usable with ff7music)
My copy is legit, and my system spec is p4, ati 9800 pro, xp sp2 ... think thats all thats relavant.
BTW, Sorry for resurecting this semi old topic (sure ill get into trouble
) i dont mean to upset anyone, but i have succesfully used this forum search for solutions to iron out several problems so far (including adding an extra slash to the regedit movies path, checking the tnt box in games settings, removing conflicting yamp patches, getting the mp3s to work from my ost and many more) without resorting to topic creation, or topic ressurection. I also reinstalled about 10 times (probably more) and applied patches 1 at a time followed by testing, to find the errors of my ways, but i am finally stumped.