My return to FFVII

[StanJr]

I so totally love FFVII, maybe one of the best RPG's I've ever played. Its been many years since I've beat FFVII, so in honor of it, I've decided to play it again.

 

Yet this time, I'm playing it on my PS2, not my PSone. I've noticed a bit of jitter in Cloud's movement when I'm running in a town or shop and that makes me wonder, does anyone know if there are any major problems playing FFVII on a PS2? I know most PSone games play just fine on PS2, but I know some don't (Madden NFL)

[PaulEMoz]

Interesting that you should mention it, because I've just bought The Legend of Dragoon for PS1 (which I've never played or even seen before I bought it), and there is some stuttering in the CGI on my PS2, which isn't evident on any of my other PS1 games. Must be a fault with PS1 RPGs!

[Sylentwulf]

A lot of PS1 games don't play well on the PS2.

 

The MOST annoying thing to me, is all of the cartoon-type FMV sequences in a lot of rpg's (like lunar story) end up looking like VERY VERY BAD low quality kazaa .mpg downloads. Like anime VCD's end up looking.

[JB]

... I've just bought The Legend of Dragoon for PS1 ...

I'm SO sorry.

[MegaManFan]

Is it that bad? It's a Greatest Hits title and I'd heard good things about it so I was considering copping it.

[StanJr]

Legend of Dragoon is a total stinker if you ask me, greatest hits or no. Its a sub-par RPG riddled with male-chauvinistic overtones. I think I played disc one and then lost complete interest. Maybe Paul can find fun in it, I didn't.

 

Other than the stammering walk I've not noticed any other problems, the FMV's look just as good so far.

[JB]

Is it that bad?  It's a Greatest Hits title and I'd heard good things about it so I was considering copping it.

You'll regret it. I was given it as a gift. I'd've been VERY sorry if I'd paid money for it.

[liquid_sky]

i found it a humor filled romp.. just dont expect too much from it

[MegaManFan]

Sounds like buying another of the Pro Pinball games would be a better investment.

 

Anyway.. I applaud your decision to play FFVII again Stan. Try to defeat all of the Weapons, and don't forget that magic 7's help a lot.

[RCmodeler]

FF7 is a finicky game. If you turn on the "fast load" option, it will eventually corrupt the graphics and become unplayable.

 

As for other PS1 games, I think they look great. Turn on "smooth polygons" while playing Soul Blade/Edge, and the characters look almost as good as Soul Calibur! Ditto other games. I can't imagine going back to a PSone after seeing the PS2's new smoothing function.

[chrisbid]

its too bad bleem got shut down, i wouldve loved to see what they could do with FFVII. The three games that were released for Bleemcast looked great on the dreamcast

[JB]

its too bad bleem got shut down, i wouldve loved to see what they could do with FFVII.  The three games that were released for Bleemcast looked great on the dreamcast

Bah. Bleem was lame on the PC, and lame on the Dreamcast.

 

An emulator that only supports games they say you can run... well, sucks.

I might feel diffrently if it ran anything I owned as of the final PC release.

 

As-is, Virtual Game Station was a FAR superior product.

And now, there's PLENTY of homebrew freeware emulators, most of which are more compatible than Bleem..

[chrisbid]

bleemcast improved the graphics of the three games released (which were all cheap) a great deal, moreso than the PS2. Tekken 3 runs almost as smooth as Soul Calibur... but not quite

 

VGS was a good emu, i used it on my iBook quite a bit, but since the basturds at sony bought out VGS, they stopped updating it, hence no OSX support, and i cant use it anymore

[JB]

bleemcast improved the graphics of the three games released (which were all cheap) a great deal, moreso than the PS2.  Tekken 3 runs almost as smooth as Soul Calibur... but not quite

The dozen or so games supported by the PC version did the same thing.

 

But given a modern emulator using PSEmu plugins can do the same thing, and works with more than a dozen games...

 

VGS was a good emu, i used it on my iBook quite a bit, but since the basturds at sony bought out VGS, they stopped updating it, hence no OSX support, and i cant use it anymore

Well, the Windows version still works.

And it was hacked and updated after it was killed and released as Emurayden.

The legality is more than a tad shady, but...

 

Unfortunately, by modern stnadards there's some problems, mainly that it only supports 16-bit color and I don't recall force-feedback or analog support.

On the flip side, you didn't have to fart with the settings to make it work.

[DeV0]

I so totally love FFVII, maybe one of the best RPG's I've ever played.  Its been many years since I've beat FFVII, so in honor of it, I've decided to play it again.

 

Yet this time, I'm playing it on my PS2, not my PSone.  I've noticed a bit of jitter in Cloud's movement when I'm running in a town or shop and that makes me wonder, does anyone know if there are any major problems playing FFVII on a PS2?  I know most PSone games play just fine on PS2, but I know some don't (Madden NFL)

 

 

Stan Jr, Its good to see you have returned to ff7. I did exactly the same thing a few months back and loved it the 2nd time around. I played it for a few days on the PS2 and it played like a dog. If you have a PS1 anywhere i'd recomend getting it out just for this superb title. Alot of ps1 games play like crap on the ps2 and you've got to put up with that stupid black box wirring,, and wirring and,, etc

[Paralistalon]

Check out this topic if you missed it, and bump it if you want to spread the joy!

 

http://www.atariage.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=34370

[StanJr]

For what its worth, I just ended disc one, and relived one of the best moments in video game history.

 

Wow. What great, great stuff.

[ubersaurus]

Yeah, that girl got what she had comin at the end of disc 1. I hated her!

 

Yuffie is the best character in the game.

[Albert]

Hmmmmm, I got about two-thirds the way through FF7 (I think I was on the third disc?) before I gave up on it because I was frustrated by the constant random encounters every 10 steps. I did enjoy the game overall, though, so maybe I'll go back and play it again someday. I spent even less time with FF8, but I did play FF9 all the way through and nearly finished FFX on the PS2. As in, I got to the last (or what I think is the last) boss battle and was having a hell of a time with it.

 

..Al

[StanJr]

Albert, Albert, Albert. Equip the "Enemy Away" Materia and those random encounters will be cut in half! If you got to Disc 3 you were pretty much done. Not much left to do on 3 except pick up some final items and kick Sephiroth in the tookus.

 

Oh, and I LIKED Aeris, Yuffie's pretty cool, but Cid is the coolest character in the game!

[MegaManFan]

If you use the save state downloaded from GameFaqs (I put it on a memory card using my Dex Drive) you can unlock a "developer's room" where you can have a lot of fun tweaking stuff. I had Barrett go on a date with Cloud at the Carnival (it's doable under normal game circumstances but VERY hard to achieve) and picked favorite "scenes" I wanted to watch instead of having to work my way to them all over again; this after already beating the game twice of course.

[Nintendo Penguin]

Ahh, FFVII....

 

From day one (not counting my Apple IIe) I have been a Nintendo man. When ebayy started getting popular... maybe in about 1996 or 1997 I bought my first Atari system. But the first "modern" or modern at the time non-nintendo system that I bought was the PS1.. and I bought it for FFVII and Star Wars Master of Tetras Kai (<--- Spelling?) Anyway, FFVII had me so enthralled... I was playing it into the wee hours of the morning. The PS1 and FFVII really helped bring me back to console gaming. Somewhere between the SNES and 1999, I had decided that I just liked PC games better... I am still confused.

[StanJr]

A question for you FFVII masters.

 

I was playing and Cid skipped a limit break (LV 1 Dynamite). He went right on to LV 2. Can I still get him to learn the Highwind later, or can I some how go back and pick up Dynamite?

 

Oh, and can I get Tifa's Ultimate Limit Break if I did not "jam" on the piano in the flashback? I played the piano in the flashback, but "only a little." And now when I try to pick up the Final Heaven, I play the tune, but all I get is her secret savings of 1 gil! Is this lost to me forever?

[Raijin Z]

A lot of PS1 games don't play well on the PS2.

 

The MOST annoying thing to me, is all of the cartoon-type FMV sequences in a lot of rpg's (like lunar story) end up looking like VERY VERY BAD low quality kazaa .mpg downloads. Like anime VCD's end up looking.

 

PSX video isn't related to MPEG, but MPEG/JPEG hates large areas of solid colors, and rapid color changes. Try making an image that has three stripes, black, red, and light blue. Save it as a JPEG then reload it. Ewww..

[chrisbid]

to unlock the second limit break of a level, you simply have to use the first limit break of that level XXX number of times. To advance to a new level of limit break, the character in question has to personally defeat XXX number of enemies (except for level 4 Limit breaks, those can only be found)

 

since you have beaten the game already, id say its not cheating to find this stuff out by picking up an el cheapo strategy guide, or print out one of the 1239087234987 FAQs written on the game