This build was apparently all that the Japanese office could lay their hands on, and initially it was up to the PC port team to bridge the gap between that and the PS1 original in order to make the PC release resemble the original as much as possible.Įventually the team got the PC version running, though it was littered with caveats and issues thanks to the way it'd been made. It turned out this wasn't entirely true: it was an older build of the game, littered with bugs not in the final release and even complete with scenes that had been cut for pacing and tone from the PS1 release. When a California-based team of Square and Eidos employees began work on porting Final Fantasy 7 to PC in 1997, the Japanese office initially dropped off what they said was the game's source code. The development of Final Fantasy 7's original PC port provides a pertinent example of this. The truth of the matter is this: back then, Square didn't have a proper system for archiving and saving its work after release. So let's talk about it by taking a bit of a Final Fantasy history lesson.Īn important piece of context to discuss here is video game preservation, and specifically how incredibly poor it was in the nineties, when Final Fantasy was in that golden age that produced FF7, 8 and 9. The answer is - well, it's complicated, and there's probably a few reasons compounding to prevent it from happening with ease. Quickly, however, a question arose: what about Final Fantasy 8? What did Squall, charismatic moody teenager and one of the series' best protagonists, do wrong?
Final Fantasy fans had cause to rejoice yesterday as Final Fantasy 7, 9, 10 and 12 were announced as coming to Nintendo Switch and Xbox One in addition to their existing PC and PS4 releases. For this meme, everyone can probably relate to both spectrums of Squall's attitude toward isolation at one point or another during the seemingly never-ending quarantine.Īnd yes, it's okay to downplay it since it will eventually pass, but it's tantamount to understand the protocols put in place because like the heroes we play in video games, real ones are keeping the world safe.If there's one thing that's true about video game fandom, it's that they're never, ever entirely satisfied. -⠀ Tags ⬇️ ⠀⠀ #pandemic #squall #ff8r #ffviiir #remastered #ff8remastered #ffviiiremastered #finalfantasy8remastered #finalfantasyviiiremastered #ffviiimemes #ff8memes #finalfantasyviiimemes #finalfantasy8memes #finalfantasyviii #finalfantasy8 #ff8 #ffviii #finalfantasymemes #finalfantasyhumor #dissidia #funny #jrpg #gamerhumor #gamermeme #gaminghumor #gamingmeme #ebgamesaus #squareenixĪ post shared by Mogster Memes on at 8:02am PDTĢ020 has been a challenging year for most people, and memes have been an outlet to make sense of an unprecedented situation through humor.