/vr/ - Retro Games

Apparently a good chunk of the game was complete actually. Somebody posted a quote from Sakaguchi in a previous thread about it, more of the game was done than >>9031496
suggests.

>>6020217
https://web.archive.org/web/20161216181140/http://matotree.com/2012/08/final-fantasy-iv-for-the-famicom-was-80-complete/
When the SNES was the hot new kid on the block and its version of FFIV (called FFV during development) was around the corner, Sakaguchi had to fib and say the NES version didn't even get off the ground, many concepts got reused in the SNES version, and the story wasn't even finished so you weren't missing much and there was nothing to worry about. Basically, he had to make it sound as if the NES version was just a tech demo that evolved into the SNES version, despite both being developed at the same time. He was asked about it again when FFVI was in development, and he revealed that the game was actually nearly complete and essentially in beta (about 80%). It's up there with Seiken Densetsu Disk System and Secret of Mana SNES-CD as one of the lost Square classics that could have been. Who knows if Square Enix still has it or if it's been thrown away forever.

>>5806368
>FF4 is not on the NES
If only...

I want FF4 on NES....

>>4495991
FFIV definitely displays this. The game looks barely better then any of the famicom/nes games and you can tell the game started development intended for the famicom/nes.

Not exactly the same thing but Earthbound is also a sort of weird case. Development started right after Mother 1 and it was intended to be an early super famicom/snes release. However problems kept occurring and it ultimately was released later on in 1994 for Japan and 1995 in the US. The game had "bad graphics" as you would see many US magazines complain about because it started development near when super famicom/snes development was still relatively new. It's interesting though as compared to other early games, like FFIV, Earthbound would have looked amazing, or at least very impressive, had it been released early like intended.

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