Final Fantasy 10 on ePSXe?

[merovaine]

the website which displays the ePSXe compatibility list (epsxe.emu2k.com) shows that Final Fantasy 10 (of coz the japanese version at the moment) is playable on ePSXe IF u have a DVD-rom of coz. I think it's bull.. wat do u guys think?

[campaign2016]

Well since FFX is a ps2 game, i dont think its playable

also, i read that there are two versions of FFX one on dvd and one cd based.

also, just cuz its a ps2 game does not mean its one a dvd. a majority of ps2 games out there still use cd's as their media since using cds cuts down on production costs they arent going to put it on a dvd unless its big enough where it has to be on one.

[campaign2016]

just remembered that ffX isnt even released in japan yet
its scheduled for a june release or maybe its a july release

some one on this board knows

[campaign2016]

i just checked this out, and i checked out the configuration of the guys system

pentium 5 2 GHz (bull)
1024 MB ram (maybe my mobo can support that much)
and a geforce 3 (last i heard this wasnt out yet)

[beckham_m7u]

hahahaa...first of all, think Pentium V hasn't out yet and considering AMD is being so rude to Intel, I think it will be a long time before we can see Pentium 5

and Geforce 3, even NVidia hasn't confirmed that this product is perfectly distributable...:D :D :D

[Raziel]

Well the GeForce3 IS out,at least VisionTek released its card based on it.
Don't expect any pentium 2Ghz before the end of the year and for the pentium 5......well I would say 2 or 3 years.
And yes of course FFX isn't even released in Japan.
It will be in July on the 13 or 19 I don't really remember.
As for this guy who tried to fool us,he's not really clever,trying to make us think that a PS2 game runs on a PSOne emu....
Anyway I'm looking forward for the PC version of FFX(guess I'll have to change my CPU:( )

[Rargh]

And me to change my old geforce 256 to the 3
;)

[Zell]

a question Raziel , you mentoned FF X for PC , does that mean Sqyare Alredy made a Offiacl Statement or did you ask them about it

[Raziel]

Square already said a while back that they wouldn't be a PC port of FFIX but they also mentionned that they would port FFX & XI on Windows.
Bye.

[Bgnome]

i heard that ff XI would be asimultaneous release on pc and ps2.

btw, anything posted on that compat list id take with a grain of salt.. :rolleyes:

[Betamax]

Yep. That and it also only lists the regions as Us, Pal or Jap. This cause no end of probles as people see that eg FF9 Pal works and wrongly assume that this means that the UK one works. The they come back here and post the infamous "I can't get FF9 UK working in epsxe" post.

:mad:

[beckham_m7u]

hmm... I read some articles on game magazines, it said that next Final Fantasy series (FF IX, FF X, FF XI) will STILL be ported to PC, Even now, they're working on FF IX Windows, but the release date is TBA (To Be Announced), hmm..anyone can give it confirmed ??

[Keith]

I wouldn't base any type of true compatibility off of that site since it is user submitted and the games are not fully tested.

[campaign2016]

Originally posted by beckham_m7u
hmm... I read some articles on game magazines, it said that next Final Fantasy series (FF IX, FF X, FF XI) will STILL be ported to PC, Even now, they're working on FF IX Windows, but the release date is TBA (To Be Announced), hmm..anyone can give it confirmed ??

hey beckham i heard that ffIX wasnt but that ffX and ffXI were
but there are so many rumors flying around these titles that its hard to know for sure

[KillerShots]

They MAY release it on PC....but who would buy it? It took me 6 months to get FF8 PC to work on my system, and I STILL can't get FF7 to work...and my system specs are WAY above what they want (T-bird 900, Voodoo3 3k, SBLive!, 128 Megs PC100)...Actually, FF7 worked for about a week, then DX7 came out and I couldn't play it anymore (constantly locked up)

[Bgnome]

yeah, those ports were handled by other companies. im assuming that square will learn from those mistakes and do their own porting. that seems to be the case at least with the ones they are planning to release simultaneously. i dunno about ff9 tho..

[jas_kidd32]

i also have ff7 and ff8 on pc and both of them work perfectly. in fact i've beaten the game a couple of times with no problem at all. and if choosing btw the pc or the psx versions of any final fantasy game i'd surely go for the pc vesion as it has better graphics (duh!!). and that's way way better graphics than the ff's in psx.

[tekwiz99]

FF 9 for PC? might consider buying it (all because of refined graphics:D )
in the mean time... WHO WANTS MY FF IX FOR PSX? (north america)

[Bgnome]

Originally posted by jas_kidd32
i also have ff7 and ff8 on pc and both of them work perfectly. in fact i've beaten the game a couple of times with no problem at all. and if choosing btw the pc or the psx versions of any final fantasy game i'd surely go for the pc vesion as it has better graphics (duh!!). and that's way way better graphics than the ff's in psx.

umm..no.
1) wtf are you smoking? :p
2) what card are you using? the graphics in the ff7 pc version are limited to 8 bit rendering i heard so they suck ASS compared to something like epsxe. you CANT even run the darn thing on a decent card nowadays. and what about the midi? sheesh..
3) refer to #1

[jas_kidd32]

ok maybe emulators these days can compare against pc graphics. i was used to the days where bleem 1.5b set the standard for psx emulation (and most of you know what that's like) and now with epsxe doing so well then it may be possible that emulation of ff's can have better graphics than the pc version. but some of the ff's games aren't 100% compatible with epsxe and there's a chance of hang ups on certain parts while on pc, as long as it starts then there's nothing to worry about. you could just sit down and relax without having to fiddle with settings and plugins.

[Betamax]

Originally posted by KillerShots
They MAY release it on PC....but who would buy it?

Us poor saps who live in the UK would for one. :rolleyes:

[Quickdart]

mm, sorry jas_kidd32, but if you talked to more than 2 people who have FF7 for PC you'll see it was buggy as heck, and Square released like 2 patches for it then took down the support site.
(It locks up every 15 min for me :( )
If you're running an emulated version you can save states,increase the resolutiuon, use Bilinear filtering or FSAA with a Voodoo 5, and you know there are gonna be new versions of emulators and plugins.

[Zell]

IT LOOK'S THAT FF X WILL NEVER EVER BE RELASED FOR PC , AND THAT MAKES ME MAD , VERY MAD ! I'M STARTING TO HATE SQUARESOFT , BECAUSE OF THAT AND THEIR STUPID ANSWERS !!! ARGHHH , but what can a simple person do agains it , Nothing & Everthing

[beckham_m7u]

Zell, have you assured that FF X will not be released on pc? Definitely sure about that? :D :D

[Zell]

no , i'm not 100% sure of it, but it could happen , in my opinion it WON'T be released for PC !!!

[campaign2016]

Ive read at numreous(sp?) sites that both X and 11 will be released on the PC. 11 being released at the same time as 11 on the PS2

[tekwiz99]

if that's true for 11... let's start this online madness:D

[cluthu]

>more than 2 people who have FF7 for PC you'll see it was buggy
>as heck
Don't forget FF8PC. Though it was patched relatively quickly, an incompatability between the Yamaha SoftMIDI software and the game caused a problem whenever you entered a battle. I doubt I need to explain just why an error of this type made me think less of the porting team.

>you could just sit down and relax without having to fiddle with
>settings and plugins
I dunno, to get FF9 playing perfectly it took only a few hours (with the help of the board, of course ;) ), whereas getting the supposedly "native" versions of FF7 and 8 going took the better part of a day (two in the case of 8). Between downloading patches, changing video card, sound card, input drivers, doing a reinstall of the OS (FF7 hated the version of DirectX I had but, for whatever reason, didn't mind running under the very save version after a reinstall). I realize that some part of DX's may have been overwritten, but reinstalling the OS shouldn't be necessary to getting it working again.

>I'M STARTING TO HATE SQUARESOFT
Not to incite a flame war or anything, but why do you dislike Square just because they're unsure if they're going to bring FFX to the PC? As a business they look to make money while providing a product. If they see a demand, they consider allowing said product to come to market. If you'd like to see FFX come to the PC, why not write their local office a letter (that is, an actual physical letter) telling them as much? I'd like to see more of Square's games come to the PC also, but not if it causes Square to flounder in the marketplace. I mean, just imagine if they ultimately published FFX and it simply sat on shelves. :shrug: Just a thought.

[bachlaw]

Folks,

I think the XBox may play an interesting role here in whether more Squaresoft stuff heads for the PC. Apparently, Microsoft, Square, and Enix are on the verge of making some sort of announcement regarding the XBox, which likely means that XBox will be getting some of Squaresoft's and Enix's stuff.

Two possible conclusions: (1) XBox will be the extent of any "Windows" port of Squaresoft games; (2) Programming for XBox is close enough to porting to Windows itself that taking the extra step of sending it to the PC market will be fairly insignificant.

In any event, PS2 ports shouldn't be that big of a hardware challenge for the PC market -- I think that the mainstream gaming machine as of January 2002 can go toe-to-toe with the PS2 without a problem.

Jonathan

[Conartist]

Holy **** 5.2 GHz!!!!!!
It's problably a hoax or this guy extremely overclocked the fastest Pentium 4, got a pirated copy of FFX, and mooched a geforce 3 of a bum.

Anyways, the Xbox looks like it going pose a threat to the PS2. But in anycase, I'll just get top marks in school and tell my parents to buy me both machines. The people who are hoping for FFX to come out on PC should do the same just so we don't devalue Squaresoft's popularity. Besides, they're THE BEST rpg makers ever know to mankind!!!!

[sxamiga]

A 5.2 GHZ? No way. Even if you tried to overclock a P 4 or an Athlon-C or T-Bird that high, you would burn them up at breakneck speed. GEForce 3s are out now, but have just been released, so that guy could not have yet had one at that time.
Also, I don't care what anyone says, no PSX emulator in existance today is capable of running PS2 games. The PS2 is backward compatable w/the PSX, but the PSX is not upward comapatable w/the PS2. If it was, then why even buy a PS2? ePSXe is a fantastic emulator, but, no matter what, it will not play PS2 games, now or ever. It wasn't designed to.
I read in several reliable magazines and in various places on the internet that FF 9 is not going to be ported to the PC, Square was upset about how FF 8 did, so they are not going to port FF 9 or have it ported to the PC by someone else. FF 10 and FF 11 are slated to be ported to PC. As Bgnome said, a simultaneous release for both PS2 and PC is planned for FF 10. FF 11 may be an online game, like Phantasy Star On Line. Square has hinted at this, but nothing definate is known yet. Hope this helps clear up some of this.
sincerely,
sx/amiga

[CDBuRnOuT]

The PIV's architecture could probably hit that, but not any of the ones currently on the market will...

An Athlon 1.2GHz can hit 2+GHz with Liquid Nitrogen cooling, 5.2 is entirely out of the question..

[CDBuRnOuT]

FYI, Kazzuya, author of Kazzuya's Software GPU (www.kazzuya.com) did some work on FFVIII PC