Final Fantasy VII Remix - A compilation of FF7 Mods [1.0-2.5.1]

[BlitzNCS]

Looks like Aali's custom graphics driver isn't installed, go get it.

[titeguy3]

First, thanks to Titeguy, amazing stuff.  Replay value is through the roof now.

For Squalloffire: I'm playing on hardcore mode right now, and I would not be surprised to find that the kill count requirements have increased by a certain amount in order to obtain them!  =)  If anyone else knows for sure, please confirm.

-Cy

888 kills to get blade beam in hardcore mode.

[Ronin]

I have never played FF7, and after many discussions, my buddy convinced me to check it out....something about the greatest RPG of all time. So, I have been battling with this installer for over 4 hours, after using this website as a reference, trying to figure it out on my own, and not succeeding, i now gotta ask for help. I'm a quick learner, but I'm new to modding. So I installed FF7 fresh, it ran but i didn't start a new game yet. I then installed the Remix 2.5.1 in the same (x86) directory as the game. It promped me with the .cfg editor and i changed resolution and saved. Opened FF7 config to get sound working, i could hear the chocobo? left, right, center. Midi worked too.

Anyway, so far I have had the game run, but without sound. I have had the sound working, but without video. I have had both working, but wrong resolution. quarter screen. I just fumble through and try out different config files that edit my registry. I keep uninstalling, and retrying my settings and cant get it to work. This time I have given up after the cleanest install yet, set rez for 1600 by 900, use the ff7 config for sound, and i open the game from the FF7 Music Configuration to get the log, it crashes, "program has stopped working" then i return to desktop. I have also used the shortcuts in the  ff7 file...heres the log

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DataPatch is C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\ficedula\
Init patches
Reading ini...
Parsing paths... -currently mp3\
psf\
C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\ficedula\
.\
File search paths:
   mp3\
   psf\
   C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\ficedula\
   .\
Files count: 96
Patch init done
----------------------------------------------
WM_ACTIVATEAPP
INITIALIZE DD/D3D START
DIRECT DRAW 2
TOTAL 1067663360 FREE 1061903360
DD MODE: W 640 H 480 P 640 RGB 1 BPP 8
DD MODE: W 640 H 480 P 1280 RGB 1 BPP 16
DISPLAY MODE MATCH
DD MODE: W 640 H 480 P 2560 RGB 1 BPP 32
DD MODE: W 720 H 480 P 720 RGB 1 BPP 8
DD MODE: W 720 H 480 P 1440 RGB 1 BPP 16
DD MODE: W 720 H 480 P 2880 RGB 1 BPP 32
DD MODE: W 800 H 480 P 800 RGB 1 BPP 8
DD MODE: W 800 H 480 P 1600 RGB 1 BPP 16
DD MODE: W 800 H 480 P 3200 RGB 1 BPP 32
DD MODE: W 800 H 600 P 800 RGB 1 BPP 8
DD MODE: W 800 H 600 P 1600 RGB 1 BPP 16
DD MODE: W 800 H 600 P 3200 RGB 1 BPP 32
DD MODE: W 1024 H 480 P 1024 RGB 1 BPP 8
DD MODE: W 1024 H 480 P 2048 RGB 1 BPP 16
DD MODE: W 1024 H 480 P 4096 RGB 1 BPP 32
DD MODE: W 1024 H 600 P 1024 RGB 1 BPP 8
DD MODE: W 1024 H 600 P 2048 RGB 1 BPP 16
DD MODE: W 1024 H 600 P 4096 RGB 1 BPP 32
DD MODE: W 1024 H 768 P 1024 RGB 1 BPP 8
DD MODE: W 1024 H 768 P 2048 RGB 1 BPP 16
DD MODE: W 1024 H 768 P 4096 RGB 1 BPP 32
DD MODE: W 1152 H 864 P 1152 RGB 1 BPP 8
DD MODE: W 1152 H 864 P 2304 RGB 1 BPP 16
DD MODE: W 1152 H 864 P 4608 RGB 1 BPP 32
DD MODE: W 1280 H 720 P 1280 RGB 1 BPP 8
DD MODE: W 1280 H 720 P 2560 RGB 1 BPP 16
DD MODE: W 1280 H 720 P 5120 RGB 1 BPP 32
DD MODE: W 1280 H 768 P 1280 RGB 1 BPP 8
DD MODE: W 1280 H 768 P 2560 RGB 1 BPP 16
DD MODE: W 1280 H 768 P 5120 RGB 1 BPP 32
DD MODE: W 1600 H 900 P 1600 RGB 1 BPP 8
DD MODE: W 1600 H 900 P 3200 RGB 1 BPP 16
DD MODE: W 1600 H 900 P 6400 RGB 1 BPP 32
Ramp Emulation
  Microsoft Direct3D Mono(Ramp) Software Emulation
RGB Emulation
  Microsoft Direct3D RGB Software Emulation
Direct3D HAL
  Microsoft Direct3D Hardware acceleration through Direct3D HAL
EXCLUSIVE MODE
16-BIT Z BUFFER CREATED IN HW
HAL
HEL
TEXTURE FORMATS:
  PALETTE 0 BITS 16 RGBA 5:6:5:0
  PALETTE 0 BITS 16 RGBA 5:5:5:0
  PALETTE 0 BITS 16 RGBA 5:5:5:1
  PALETTE 0 BITS 16 RGBA 4:4:4:4
  PALETTE 0 BITS 32 RGBA 8:8:8:0   PALETTE 0 BITS 32 RGBA 8:8:8:8
INITIALIZE D3D 2
VIEWPORT INITIALIZE
VIEWPORT 2 INITIALIZE
LOCK UNLOCK TEST
MATRIX INITIALIZE
INITIALIZE DD/D3D END
ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\ff7input.cfg
initializing sound...
creating dsound primary buffer
reading audio file
loading static sounds
sound initialized
INITIALIZING MIDI...
selecting device 0:Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth, mid=1, pid=27,
midi data type: GENERAL MIDI
using midi data file: C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\Data\midi\midi.lgp
midiOutGetVolume returned: ffffffff
MIDI INITIALIZED
set music volume: 127
MIDI set volume: 127
100% of 127 = 127
set music volume: 127
MIDI set master volume: 100
MIDI set volume: 127
100% of 127 = 127
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
START OF CREDITS!!!

I have a Intel Core 2 duo, 4 gigs of ram, Radeon mobility HD 4650, Windows 7 64 bit. Like it says, its installed in C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc \Final Fantasy VII. Help would be greatly appreciated. Pretty sure the problem has to do with the ff7input.cfg due to the error message.

On a side note, great work on this, good to know people are down to help the beginner out. Lookin forward to playin this game 

[sl1982]

Aali's driver is not working correctly. You might have to set it up. If i remember correctly this version of the remix uses an older version. Go to your ff7 folder and run the reg file and then try running the game again. Also you may need administrator rights.

[Ronin]

Thanks for the input, didn't work tho. So i just downloaded the new opengl.cfg by Aali, 7.8b i think. It loaded up then i got the something very bad has happened error. Hmmm, i think its progress that i ran into a well known error tho

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INFO: FF7/FF8 OpenGL driver version 0.7.8b
INFO: Auto-detected version: FF7 1.02 US English
INFO: ATI Technologies Inc. ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650  2.1.8787
INFO: OpenGL 2.0 support detected
INFO: Found swap_control extension
INFO: Max texture size: 8192x8192
INFO: Original resolution 640x480, window size 640x480, output resolution 640x480, internal resolution 640x480
INFO: Fragment shader(s) linked, vertex shader(s) linked.
 
INFO: FFMpeg movie player plugin loaded
INFO: FFMpeg version SVN-r19334, Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
ERROR: could not load music plugin: plugins/ff7music.fgp
LOCK UNLOCK TEST
MATRIX INITIALIZE
INITIALIZE DD/D3D END
ERROR: could not open file C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\ff7input.cfg
initializing sound...
creating dsound primary buffer
reading audio file
loading static sounds
sound initialized
INITIALIZING MIDI...
selecting device 0:Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth, mid=1, pid=27,
midi data type: GENERAL MIDI
using midi data file: C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\Data\midi\midi.lgp
midiOutGetVolume returned: ffffffff
MIDI INITIALIZED
set music volume: 127
MIDI set volume: 127
100% of 127 = 127
set music volume: 127
MIDI set master volume: 100
MIDI set volume: 127
100% of 127 = 127
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
START OF CREDITS!!!
INFO: C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc\Final Fantasy VII\movies\eidoslogo.avi; rawvideo/null 364x353, 15.000000 FPS, duration: 0.066667,

frames: 1
INFO: C:\Program Files (x86)\Square Soft, Inc\Final Fantasy VII\movies\sqlogo.avi; mpeg4/mp3 640x480, 15.000000 FPS, duration: 247.788000,

frames: 3717
WM_CLOSE

[nikfrozty]

I think you have to use 0.7.3 version of Aali's driver if you have the remix patch. Not sure though. Try reading a few pages back.

[system32]

I have a problem. I get stuck in the part where it says "Verifying presence of tm20dec.ax, setting registry keys..." and it just stays there. What am I supposed to do?

[Ronin]

Fixed it! Trial and error man, it gets r' done. So i installed Aali OpenGL 7.8 and extracted it to the FF7 folder, replaced the remix files, set rez for native, and turned on the bloom thing. Double clicked remix batch file and vioula. Some bugs, missing sound files mostly. But it works great, no more crashes 

System32, i had the same problem, just continue through that, some registry keys should be set anyways.

[system32]

The problem is that he doesn't let me do anything! What exactly am I supposed to do at that time?

[leate]

I have tried to install this software three to four times over the past week.  But can't seem to download it.  I have tried two different downloaders, and they have been unable to recontact to the download after losing it.  I have also tried to find a torrent for it, and only found one for 2.0 with no seeders.  Last of all I can't move this desktop to connected directly to the internet, and won't use the desktop belonging too my parents to just download a file.   

Could someone help me out with this with either another source to download it, or seed the torrent for 2.0?

[zfinx]

Hi!

I'd like to start off with expressing my gratitude for all your hard work, it's amazing to see what has become of this game thanks to dedicated and experienced people as yourselves. Unfortunately did I stumble onto a couple of problems and with this post I now ask for your help. 

I've been browsing the forum quite a lot the last 24 hours in hope of finding a solution on my own and perhaps learn a thing or two but without luck. The thing is; when I start FFVII and is able to recognize the "START and CONTINUE"-screen am I left with a white background. (I've seen people have Sephiroth and a model of the Buster Sword so I take it this is not how it should look like.)
As one continue on towards the "saved games"-screen one will notice that Clouds picture is white as well and these white pixels/squares/areas/whatever is a perpetual problem as I keep finding them throughout the game. Is this perhaps caused by my graphics card?

Either way am I stuck at the current position where I moments ago grabbed the keystone, went to the save point at Golden Saucer - Ropeway station and paid those petty 5 GP in order to save. I did this because my game crashes every now and then and I don't want to risk having to go through things again and again. It gets a bit tedious doing the same part of a game over and over with close to no variation, at least in my opinion. 

I believe I've provided everything necessary in the link which you can find here.
The .rar file contains:
 * Four pictures
    - Three of them showing you a few white areas, one showing an area with no faults.
 * Crash.dmp
 * APP.LOG
 * Save00.ff7
    - The first slot is where I'm stuck since the game crashes after a while when being in the same area as the white areas.

So what system am I on?
 * (CPU) 2-Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 3.00GHz, 3060MHz, 1024KB (0% Load)
 * (RAM) usage: 536/1024MB (52.34%)
 * (GFX) RADEON 9000 SERIES - Secondary
 * (Display) 1024x768/32bit/60Hz
 * (OS) Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 3 (5.1 - 2600)


I believe that should cover most of it. If there are any questions feel free to add me on msn - [email protected] - as I'm fairly active there and we can discuss possible solutions and/or these errors more easily. 

Thanks in advance,
zfinx


Post Scriptum: I know that not everything is complete and works to 100 % but I'm pretty sure that this is not a common problem as I haven't seen anyone on the forum expressing problems regarding "white areas". You'll understand what I mean when you look at those pictures.

[Miseru]

I don't use that -huge and outdated- remix patch, but I guess it does change start screen to full screen which requires Aali's driver, most likely if it doesn't crash without it, then it would produce a white screen, same with every other texture that doesn't work on "normal" FFVII. Download newest Aali's driver which is stickied in this forum and config ff7 to use that custom driver, it most likely will fix your problem.

edit: oops made a typo in Aali's nick

[zfinx]

I have tried that as well actually, but it kept crashing my game either way. Although, the white areas where none to be found.

[Miseru]

 So you mean white areas are correct now after installing new Aali's driver and what's only left is game crashing? From what I see you have maxed all stats at your savegames at 4x lvl well who knows, maybe that could be possible, but love points for all characters at 255? Most if not all save game editors tend to break stuff randomly, and if it comes to love points they are used to determine which of the characters you'll have date with in the area which most likely crashes for you.

 Try playing without editing stuff with save game editors/hex editing or at least correct love points to more normal and not same values, maybe that could help. If it does help, that's a good lesson to not edit stuff you dunno about:O.

 If that doesn't help maybe some of the field mods from that pack aren't compatible with each other, I'm not really willing to download them all to check it as looking by the size of the pack I'm quite sure it have lot's of parts of the original game making it quite illegal. At least in my eyes.

[zfinx]

No, they were correct before I installed the Remix-patch. I did install Aali's new driver before the Remix-patch and it left me with a crashing client non-the-less. I will however go through this again when I return from my grandparents birthdayparty today.

Regarding the stat editing it has had nothing to do with the white areas, they were still to be found before I edited anything. I believe I should have a save without them still lurking around, I could show you later. I find the best part of learning is "trial and error", if I'd like to play the game without any mods and such I could still just turn 'em all off and I could move around freely as before. This is however a good possibility to  get to know what one should and should not do, for more people than myself.

I'll check things out again when I get back home tonight, thanks for your replies though, it's quite nice to be able to discuss possible outcomes caused by different settings. I'll let you know how things progress and if I manage to solve it.


EDIT: I actually had time to re-install and try out Aali's new driver from scratch again, but this time it didn't even let me start. I tried both quarter screen and full screen. APP.LOG and crash.dmp. I'll look into it some more.

EDIT2: I found the line "No OpenGL 2.0 support" in the APP.LOG and am currently checking out what to do about it and if that's the cause. NVIDIA had a .pdf regarding the issue but I am not able to read any further as I have to leave now. Will continue tonight. Link here if interested

[Miseru]

 Aw sorry I had hard time understanding what you ment last time. I really dunno if love stats can produce a crash or not, but surely setting them at max for every character can't do any good, so I thought that can be a reason of your game crashing when I was thinking you fixed white areas already.

 Your previous log show same through like I stated before I was thinking you fixed graphic error already:P. Lack of support for opengl 2.0, to fix that you would like to update your graphic card drivers. Never had Radeon but I guess Radeon 9000 is pretty old and you'll probably need to find some older drivers. But before try this - edit your ff7_opengl.cfg and set
from:
use_shaders = yes
to:
use_shaders = no

 If your game works like on your screenshots with just Aali's driver without any other mods, then maybe this will fix it, good luck. If that still doesn't help and you're having problems without any other mods installed, with just Aali's driver, try asking here: http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=10191.0

[ohthatninja]

Hey i download this patch like 40 times and finally got it working yesterday but FF7music wouldnt play and i'd only get the midis. I followed all the directions and i still couldnt get it to work ( i even muted the midis) but then i got no sound at all. I then tried to reinstall FF7 and when i did FF7music would crash everytime i press configure so then i restored my system to a previous time ( pre FF7 install) and then i downloaded the patch again..got the new aali drivers and now ff7 crashes on start up. I've tried 2 other aali drivers and it still crashes. Im at a loss as like i said it was working fine before but now its not. Here is my APP log

INFO: FF7/FF8 OpenGL driver version 0.7.8b
INFO: Auto-detected version: FF7 1.02 US English
INFO: NVIDIA Corporation GeForce 8200M G/PCI/SSE2/3DNOW! 3.0.0
INFO: OpenGL 2.0 support detected
INFO: Found swap_control extension
INFO: Max texture size: 8192x8192
INFO: Original resolution 640x480, window size 640x480, output resolution 640x480, internal resolution 640x480
INFO: FFMpeg movie player plugin loaded
INFO: FFMpeg version SVN-r21874, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
INFO: FF7Music helper plugin loaded
LOCK UNLOCK TEST
MATRIX INITIALIZE
INITIALIZE DD/D3D END
ERROR: could not open file C:\Program Files\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\ff7input.cfg
initializing sound...
creating dsound primary buffer
reading audio file
loading static sounds
sound initialized

My question is what is the ff7input.cfg? i have a file that says cfg but thats it everything else is like ff7opengl cfg and whatnot. Is that why it is crashing on start up? It keeps saying that ff7.exe has stopped working

Edit- I more or less got it back to working but for the life of me i cannot get FF7music to work properly. First when i configure it all good i go to run ff7 and the music doesnt play and i have everything in the right folders. Then after a while i press configure and it freezes...everytime.

Edit- Nevermind got it all working. FF7music decided to let me configure without freezing. just gotta fix the looping and whatnot, its starts later than i'd like

[RickJMan]

hey i have downloaded this mod and everything works fine for me except for the game will not run with the custom graphics driver. i have it all set up right im sure and i have it configured it just wont run the driver its running with the original ff7 config file. PLZZZ HELP!!!!

[ohthatninja]

for me i just use the open GL. i think u have to like backdate the drive to the 7.3? if im not mistaken. also are u running the game from the shortcut on the start taskbar?

[RickJMan]

ok ill try it. i have been going into the game directory and running it from the ff7 remix file. i actually had this mod a while back and it worked completely fine. then i my pc crashed and i had to re install windows. now since i have reinstalled the game i have been having this problem. i did everything exactly as i did before but it just wont work this time. its confusing.

[Jamister989]

Can't download the patcher, same "Forbidden" error message as people earlier. pls pls pls make a secondary upload or at least torrent, this project looks so amazing and I would really like to try it out

[nikfrozty]

Can't download the patcher, same "Forbidden" error message as people earlier. pls pls pls make a secondary upload or at least torrent, this project looks so amazing and I would really like to try it out

I think titeguy is busy. Anyways he's patch has the Apz Cloud model so maybe he's removing it from the patch?

[titeguy3]

FINALLY figured out why people kept getting that damned "Forbidden" error.

[paladin181]

Anyone know where the "Flickering Materia Fix" that was used in this compilation is or how it's accomplished? I'd like to be able to run the game without the materia flickering off and on like a bad neon sign... I don't need the whole setup because I have pretty much all the other mods I want to use.

[Leandro]

hi, i'm from Brazil
yesterday i put the remix patch to download but someone turn off the pc and today i tried to download again and i have the 403 forbidden error
how can i solve it?
i copy and paste the url without the http but the problem still persist.
can someone upload the remix patcher 2.5.1 in a different server, MU, RS, or torrent?
thank you