Are the pc ports superior or inferior to the ps1 version?
I've never played the PC ports. The PSone version is superior.
>>3147764
After you mod it, yes.
they have their pros and their cons, their biggest pro i think are the quicker loading times. every black transition screen is like 90% faster, this includes doors and random encounters and shit. makes the game feel a lot faster than the ps1 version.
the biggest con imo is how shitty the low res pre-rendered backgrounds look on high res monitors, but i can look past that.
>>3147764
Original PC > PS1 > PS4 > Steam
>>3147856
Explain
>>3147859
Original PC has models and backgrounds that match and higher native resolutions.
PS1 has models and backgrounds that match and lower native resolution and high prices.
PS4 has mismatched models and backgrounds.
Steam has mismatched models and backgrounds and DRM.
Does anyone have screen caps from that time that turd from the FF7 modding site tried to shill his shitty literal re-translation here?
That thread was funny as hell.
>>3147910
Was this the same mod that was supposed to replace Cait Sith with a Gary Stu edgelord?
Can't find 1998 version
Some help?
>>3147924
Just get 2012 one
>>3147921
Yep that's the one lol
Anybody tried this shit?
http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=14914.msg209227#msg209227
>>3147930
but muh 98 aesthetic
>>3147936
>http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=14914.msg209227#msg209227
>>3147876
No, the backgrounds in the PC version are low res and cannot change. Back in the day, you would play it in 640x480, so they'd only be slightly pixelated, but they definitely were.
>>3147961
>"Hey, fixing things is not bad, maybe I'll check it out..."
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYHcgl0DpZM&hd=1
>"...or not"
>>3147961
>Aerith
Saying Aerith instead of Aeris makes you sound like a lisping homo, and people that do it should be shot.
>>3147764
The only good thing about the pc version is the high resolution and modability.
It's worse for one reason, and one reason only: the battle menus are locked to 15fps, which makes the spinners shit.
>>3147982
>the battle menus are locked to 15fps, which makes the spinners shit.
There's a mod for that
>>3147986
Is there one that ONLY affects the UI though? I don't really like the 60fps animations.
>>3147764
For VII, it depends if you're talking about the 1998 Eidos release or the 2012 Square Enix release.
The 1998 release was widely regarded as a poor port; it suffered significant hardware compatibility issues, used MIDI for its music (which sounded awful), and the FMVs were double encoded from the already-lossy PS1 FMVs, meaning they're of very low quality.
For the 2012 rerelease, the MIDI music was reverted to the PS1's music, the FMVs are (apparently) of higher quality than the PS1 originals, and the game runs smoothly on most any hardware. The PS4 version is largely based off of this release.
So, I would say PC = PS4 > PS1 > Original PC.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with the PS1 version of course, it's just that the new PC version offers more or less the same experience but with more options.
>>3147961
So, people hate it only because it's not the same as before?
>>3147785
This. Really the only mod you need to BTFO the ps1 version is the ps1 music. The default PC music is fucking horrendous.
>>3148009
The updated PC version of FFVII hasn't had MIDI music in literal years at this point, people just keep spreading the misinformation that it does.
FFVIII still has MIDI music though, because dotemu are fuckfaces and do the absolute minimum amount of work.
>>3147936
Is this the guy who tried replacing Cait Sith with his OC donutsteel?
>>3147973
I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think the botched translation we got may have been a blessing in disguise.
>>3148071
As far as I know he only added him a scottish accent
>>3148079
Oh. Well doesn't he actually have a Scottish accent though? I mean he had one in that shitty movie.
>>3148086
He does, yeah
>>3148101
In that case I'm curious enough to play an accurate translation and see what else we missed out on.
>>3147973
Is this supposed to be funny, like they have Scottish accents or something?
so le whimsical xD
>>3147921
That's supposed to be a separate thing, as shitty as it is, but people here will ignore that.
>>3148126
Ask Square, they're the ones who came up with it.
>>3148002
>used MIDI for its music (which sounded awful)
I remember the MIDI sounding very good on my AWE32.
>>3147961
LoL I remember this fag, he's the one who wanted to replace Cait Sith with some fan-fic shit.
Man, the day he and his team came here was hilarious, they got destroyed.
>>3148564
This.
On a PC you could do all sort of crazy things with it.
https://youtu.be/ohWsitOHdek?t=33m1s
>>3147982
>The only good thing about the pc version is the high resolution and modability.
and faster loading screens.
for some reason people here tend to forget how fucking slow PS1 loads were and how much of a quality of life increase this is in the PC versions.
>>3147876
Original pc has shit music.
>>3148801
Thats the fault of your midi player, get a better one.
For FFVII, some character models have blow up doll mouths for some reason in the PC version.
>>3148658
Emulator fastforward. Lets you skip the battle animations too.
>>3148002
semphiroth boss batle without vocal choir was amazing unless you heard original
>>3147764
PC, but don't fullscreen it obviously. For a port of a port it eventually got pretty good.Fan translation isn't bad on either one, but PC has an option to leave the name changes out. PS1 will have a Square-Enix compliance addendum soon though for taking care of shit like Moogles.
>>3147982
Also fixes bugs for you, but you can always just patch your ISO anyway.
>>3148834
No it's the fault of not just using the original music. Why everyone on /vr/ needs to justify something shitty is beyond me.
>>3148071
someone tell me more about this. I like the retranslation enough, but don't really know anything about this.
>>3148979
The MIDI worked fine for me. You must have had a bad soundcard.
>>3149112
Nothing to do with the soundcard, it's the soundfont.
>>3147961
>Off course!
No, way!
>>3148979
>No it's the fault of not just using the original music.
But it DOES use the original music. FF7 on the PS1 also used MIDI, with its original soundfont. As I recall you can mod the PC version to use those soundfonts, which makes it almost identical, if not completely.
>>3148979
It doesn't take a genius to figure out how midi works. The main factor in quality depends on the samples you use for it. Here's a video of it running on a not shit midi device.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohWsitOHdek
>>3149342
the power of midi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI_GgfCLF7Y
The only mod that ever mattered for Final Fantasy VII got canceled and now all we have to look forward to are literal weeb translations and Advent Children re-skins.
Shoot me now fampai.
http://gematsu.com/2015/03/look-cancelled-fan-made-final-fantasy-vii-open-world-sequel-psone
>>3148034
I wish I could kill dotemu.
>>3147764
Original port is inferior
Steam version is superior
>>3147764
PC version is kinda shitty. Go get the Playstation verion.
>>3148834
The PC version has awful sounds. Even on a modern machine. The Playstation is light years ahead.
>>3149721
"Modern" doesn't matter in this case because the default midi driver is the crappy one built into windows, unless you replace it with a better one.
>>3149736
>windows
breh the sound is bad. Its ok.
>>3149759
Get a real soundfont, seriously. In this day and age you can afford a few hundred MB
>>3149768
Or I can just play it on PS cause Im not a fag.
>>3149521
Shit I remember being excited for this and then forgetting all about it due to zero updates. So the creator cancelled it and not Squeenix?
Fuck that sucks.
>>3149132
I didn't even know what a soundfont was at the time, so I just had whatever AWE32 came with. I listened to a lot of MIDI music at the time, and I remember FFVII sounding exceptionally good. I didn't even realize at first that it was MIDI.
>>3148801
You have to install the Yamaha soft synth that comes with the game to get PS1-quality MIDI. With PC, you can also use custom soundfonts or hardware to get better music than PS1, potentially.
Finally after much searching, I found a clean version of the original 1998 versionI upload it later
