Final Fantasy VIII PC re-release
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prudislav
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PostPosted: Thu, 15th Oct 2015 22:19    Post subject:
So which rlses should i get for up-to-date FF VII and VIII?


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PostPosted: Thu, 15th Oct 2015 22:34    Post subject:
prudislav wrote:
So which rlses should i get for up-to-date FF VII and VIII?


The biggest/best mods for FF7 are ONLY for the original 1998 version. Stuff like Bootleg and Reunion are designed for it and won't work on Steam 2012 re-release unless you convert. FFVIII doesn't matter, very few mods of worth except for Roses & Wine, which works on Steam 2013 release just fine. If you're not planning on playing Bootleg or the new Reunion mod, get the Steam version of VII.
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PostPosted: Thu, 15th Oct 2015 22:45    Post subject:
well i have old disks for both , but they gave me errors during installation (possibly too scratched) Very Happy No idea about mods


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PostPosted: Thu, 15th Oct 2015 23:37    Post subject:
so managed to get VIII thx to fellas on rin , in case of VII nobody seem to have up-to-date stamersion there and crack for it - will see about the VII then


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PostPosted: Wed, 30th Jan 2019 11:19    Post subject:
it is real bad
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PostPosted: Wed, 30th Jan 2019 11:27    Post subject:
Civ01 wrote:
it is real bad


No it's not, you are free to play with 320x240 original backgrounds if you like no one is taking that away from you but there is no way to get them to look better unless they remake them completely.
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PostPosted: Tue, 3rd Sep 2019 13:15    Post subject:
its just the same game in every regard
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PostPosted: Tue, 3rd Sep 2019 13:51    Post subject:


"Fuck Denuvo"

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PostPosted: Tue, 3rd Sep 2019 14:26    Post subject:
The same game but prettier. Which is the entire point of a remaster I would have thought. Shame they didn't do the same for 7.
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PostPosted: Tue, 3rd Sep 2019 14:36    Post subject:
A lot of characters in this game are just part of the prerendered 2d backgrounds and don't actually have a real 3d model but instead of upprezzing or using a 3d model for them SE decided this looks acceptable:




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PostPosted: Tue, 3rd Sep 2019 14:43    Post subject:
What a shitty remaster
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PostPosted: Tue, 3rd Sep 2019 15:30    Post subject:
Yup, cheap cash in it seems.


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PostPosted: Tue, 3rd Sep 2019 16:33    Post subject:
Maybe someone will AI mod the background textures to truly give it a bit more of a remaster feeling.
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PostPosted: Tue, 3rd Sep 2019 16:45    Post subject:
Ooof, yeah that is pretty nasty.
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PostPosted: Tue, 3rd Sep 2019 17:13    Post subject:
Whew thank goodness it's not the usual $60 Squeenix charges haha.


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PostPosted: Tue, 3rd Sep 2019 20:06    Post subject:
Hope someone will ESRGAN the backgrounds
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PostPosted: Tue, 3rd Sep 2019 20:28    Post subject:
spajdr wrote:
What a shitty remaster


Aww Yeah
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PostPosted: Tue, 3rd Sep 2019 20:56    Post subject:
Amadeus wrote:
Hope someone will ESRGAN the backgrounds

It's unlikely to produce desirable results on screens with characters incorporated into them. It's not magic.
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PostPosted: Tue, 3rd Sep 2019 20:57    Post subject:
tet666 wrote:
A lot of characters in this game are just part of the prerendered 2d backgrounds and don't actually have a real 3d model but instead of upprezzing or using a 3d model for them SE decided this looks acceptable:

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Right, I'll wait until some joe on the interwebs runs the vanilla textures with those supersmart AI tools or whatever, can't look worse than that Laughing


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PostPosted: Wed, 4th Sep 2019 12:38    Post subject:
Well the headmaster wasn't that important anyway...

Shame the old practice was bin it and next or a lot of these excellent source art high-res work would still exist and could make for a decent mastering without a full remake being required and inevitable leading to the team changing everything else in the process.

As for the game itself I kinda liked it though much of these PSX FF games feel like they're all going along and "LAST DISC!" and it gets rushed to wrap it all up and you get all kinds of cuts and weird rushed segments though it is known the 3D consoles did cause a number of problems for several studios and I guess the big issues happened for PS2 and the later FF games though I suppose details on the earlier ones are also more vague and kinda old by now so who knows what might have happened beyond some of the stories like Final Fantasy 7 on SNES and then N64 before moving to Playstation. Smile


Cards and GF's and keeping a low level (Or just having the non-desirable party member drag everyone else dead body around.) because odd scaling and weird mechanics and all kinds of wackiness.

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PostPosted: Wed, 4th Sep 2019 16:54    Post subject:
Reshade with the advanced crt shader can help a bit with the blending but frankly i'm still not really happy with the result this port is just a mess and the backgrounds need a proper AI upscale, this is the best i managed so far i played a bit around with the retroarch crt shaders which where ported to reshade (https://github.com/Matsilagi/reshade-retroarch-shaders) but those don't seem to work all that well for the hd models unfortunately.
preset: https://drive.google.com/open?id=10TSuBDqoJwRMS-mlPpPQB-q7o-Z-xEdk



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tet666




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PostPosted: Wed, 4th Sep 2019 17:13    Post subject:
paxsali wrote:
No amount of reshade will eliminate the discrepancy between the old school low Res myst like render backgrounds with the ultra highres low poly realtime models.

The original PSX version has a more consistent style therefore, because everything was the same resolution.


Agreed running it in 640X480 on a real crt might help but then again why bother and not just play the original version instead.
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