Final Fantasy IX Coming to PC/iOS!!!!!!!!

Lex

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Finally getting a port, it's coming to PC/iOS and Android in 2016.

http://jp.square-enix.com/ff9/en/


Welp there go many hours of my life. The port footage shown in the trailer looks really good, I'm actually so stoked for this. :)

This game is gonna look really really nice on PC

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=551612

some of my favorite shots from the upscale

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Guys this is absolutely massive news. It's massive news because it was actually so unlikely to happen - IX was the only PS era FF that didn't get a PC release.

I AM SO FUCKING EXCITED FOR FAST LOADING BATTLES AND NON PIXELLATED TEXT I CAN'T EVEN
 

Lex

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Screenshots from famitsu:

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The blue menu/dialogue boxes option better still be there or I will cry.
 

Kuja9001

Ooooh Salty!
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roxas9001, Krat0s9001, DarkSlayerZero
Too bad my Laptop is complete trash when it comes to playing games.
 

Geostigma

Pro Adventurer
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gabe
I really really hope the PC port matches the fidelity from the link I posted in the other thread. SE should really deliver on that because the game looks absolutely beautiful prior to being downscaled to run on PS1.
 

Lex

Administrator
I mean if that's what you're hoping for, expect to be disappointed. They'll filter the backgrounds like they did with VII and VIII, and they'll look better than the originals but there's just no way they'll use those backgrounds (I had a read through that GAF thread btw, holy shit those are beautiful).

I mean it's the dream that they'd do something like that and I wish they would, but you can already see in the trailer that it's the original backgrounds with a filter applied.

For the record the trailer appears to be widescreen but I'd expect that's just for the trailer, famitsu screens are pillarboxed 4:3.
 

Lex

Administrator
Oh someone on GAF just pointed this out:

Old vs. new:
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spot the difference (obviously this is an oversight and will probably be fixed for the final release)
Garnet's hair.
 

Ite

Save your valediction (she/her)
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Ite
Gorgeous! Finally! I just feel 100% solidly good about this news.

Holy shit. PATCHES. MODS. Fan-games on the engine!
 

Geostigma

Pro Adventurer
AKA
gabe
I mean if that's what you're hoping for, expect to be disappointed. They'll filter the backgrounds like they did with VII and VIII, and they'll look better than the originals but there's just no way they'll use those backgrounds (I had a read through that GAF thread btw, holy shit those are beautiful).

I mean it's the dream that they'd do something like that and I wish they would, but you can already see in the trailer that it's the original backgrounds with a filter applied.

For the record the trailer appears to be widescreen but I'd expect that's just for the trailer, famitsu screens are pillarboxed 4:3.

I suppose you are right. I was just being hopeful that they had the original upscaled versions at SE and were gonna roll with that. Top tier optimism lol


That said though as pointed out on gaf even just emulated FF9 can look pretty nice. If it gets decent modders in the scene there could be some really nice texture and hd model mods coming for this in the future :)
 

Lex

Administrator
I'm willing to bet background replacement is something that can happen, especially since a bunch of the backgrounds have been found by said person in GAF thrad.

One thing to note though is that FFIX doesn't have the same data structure as VII and VIII, so I'm curious about how they're handling this port. You can already see from stills that they've used entirely new/ HD fonts (obviously) but more importantly the character models aren't the originals and neither are their avatars in the menu!

I'm worried the PC port is going to be a straight port of the mobile version, really hoping that's not the case.
 

Cthulhu

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Yop
Neat. It looks just like when I first played it, i.e. on an emulator with high resolution shit :awesome:.

There's a decent chance it's the same as the mobile versions though; I can imagine Square's perfected their porting wossname so they have one product / game which they can build for multiple platforms.
 

The Twilight Mexican

Ex-SeeD-ingly good
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TresDias
Covering up the problem instead of fixing it, huh? =P

Come to think of it, why didn't the original release of FFIX have that option? "Chrono Cross" did, and it came out the year before.
 
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Tennyo

Higher Further Faster
So glad to see IX get some love. I feel like people like to knock this one but I enjoyed it. :sadpanda:
 

Lex

Administrator
Covering up the problem instead of fixing it, huh? =P

Come to think of it, why didn't the original release of FFIX have that option? "Chrono Cross" did, and it came out the year before.

Because there's just no way the PS could have handled IX with a speedup. Mine died just trying to run normal IX and only started actually working again when I ran it on the "PSOne" model a while later. Bear in mind this was the PAL version which ran at 5/6th's the speed of yours.

The blackscreen after hitting battles was a problem =solved with the speedup. The fact that characters take 6 years to execute attacks after you command them to = a symptom of having 4 chars in battle on ps era.
 

Lex

Administrator
What the actual fuck, I never noticed that! Also recommended 4GB RAM and a Core i5 lool

If I had to guess, it's the FMV's causing it to be so large.

EDIT: Yup that'll be it:

Additional Features
・Achievements
・Seven game boosters including high speed and no encounter modes.
・Autosave
・High-definition movies and character models.

You can turn off encounters!!!!

Wait.... autosave?
 

Claymore

3x3 Eyes
That is massive. And 7 game boosters? Wow.

(Those screens look gorgeous by the way. Can't wait to play this game again).
 

Lex

Administrator
Nothing wrong with autosave, :monster:

There is in this era of FF games. I mean as long as it's well implemented I don't have a problem with it (as in, as long as the autosave doesn't occupy any of the manual slots like it does in some modern games, because that would be very problematic).
 

Strangelove

AI Researcher
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hitoshura
high speed and no encounters sound good and the font looks all nice and smooth so now i kind of want it :sadpanda:
 
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