/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.10564320]

It's been 25 years since I played the original US release on PS1. What's the best way to play the game now?
Is the unofficial retranslation worth it or do they change stupid shit?
PC with upgraded graphics or PS1 again on CRT?
Any recommended mods for PC?

[Anonymous No.10564343]

>>10564320
>What's the best way to play the game now?

CRT with RGB cable on original hardware. It will look like ass otherwise. This shit was BUILT for the BBCRT.

Use the modded PC version if you want to skip random battles.

[Anonymous No.10564354]

>>10564343
But why do you have so many remotes?

[Anonymous No.10564358]

>>10564320
Vanilla ps1. On real hardware, emulate or download digitally on ps3

[Anonymous No.10564363]

>>10564358
I'm leaning toward this but I've read that the original translation was bad.

[Anonymous No.10564371]

>>10564363
>I've read that the original translation was bad.

No it was better

[DaWizeWazoo No.10564376]

>>10564343
Comfy little corner you've got there. Thats really all you need for a great video game experience. Though I'd recommend that he goes with either s-video or composite on CRT. With composite the characters seamlessly blend in with pre-rendered backgrounds and you really don't lose that much detail (especially on a CRT that size)

[Anonymous No.10564441]

>>10564320
PC version with FFNx

[Anonymous No.10564459]

>>10564363
Original translation is actually pretty good, just has an almost laughable number of typos/grammar errors - the later versions fixed this but made the dialog less based

[Anonymous No.10564481]

>>10564320
Play Remake. The original game is obsolete now.

[Anonymous No.10564501]

>>10564481
No thanks, I'm not gay.

[Anonymous No.10564585]

>>10564501
>>10564481
He's literally right. I hate remix and remasters and whatever the hells, but this is genuinely one of if not the only remake I can say is definitively better in all respects to the original

[Anonymous No.10564605]

>>10564585
Get the fuck out of my thread.

[Anonymous No.10564616]

>>10564481
>>10564585
Retard, 7R doesn't replace the original because it's an AU that depends on the idea that you already know how things went the first time.

[Anonymous No.10564617]

>>10564320
7th Heaven w/ Steam version.
Ninostyle field and battle models.
Pick a graphics update you like, which is easy with 7th Heaven.
Pick a music upgrade, same as above.
Pick one of the New Threat difficulty mods or make your own.

[Anonymous No.10564631]

>>10564459
Please tell me there's at least a romhack that fixes only the mistranslations for the PS1 iso. I've only ever played the tutorial section and holy fuck how did Square ship this with the biggest translation error for a tutorial?

[Anonymous No.10564676]

>>10564631
There's a psx version of tbe Beacause retranslation, but it's full of weebshit

[Anonymous No.10564713]

>>10564676
>but it's full of weebshit
This is why I learned to avoid unofficial retranslations. The only people with the time and patience to do them are mega autists who live to push their obsession with weab shit on normal people.

[Anonymous No.10564741]

>>10564343
>playing a 90's RPG with no ability to fast forward

Actual literal torture. Ain't nobody got time for that shit anymore

[Anonymous No.10564747]

>>10564741
It works as dopamine detox therapy. You train your brain to be ok with waiting for rewards.

[Anonymous No.10564934]

>>10564320
>What's the best way to play the game now?
How many threads like this do we need? the answer is always the original.

[Anonymous No.10565193]

>>10564713
In this case Beacause is the work of some autist lolwcow who doesn't even speak Japanese and just rewrote the dialog wholesale with more swearing and had to be tard wrangled out of adding his oc donut steal into a TRANSLATION PROJECT. >>10564459 sums it up, the original is more fun but has more typos while the steam version is cleaned up but has slightly less flavor. This all said if you wanna play the game just play it, don't worry about typos that'll probably make you laugh anyway.

[Anonymous No.10565209]

I've been playing the remake and, so far, I've been pretty underwhelmed. That is to say, it ain't it.

[Anonymous No.10565248]

>>10564320
Start playing the original.

[Anonymous No.10565253]

>>10564343
S O V L

[Anonymous No.10565295]

>>10564481
Midgar was a tiny fraction of the original and Remake ends when you leave. There wasn't summoning materia in this segment in the original and why would there be? I've heard Rebirth wont even have cities you would naturally come across in order. Based on the trailers, it doesn't look like you get far in that game either. I'm not sure how they're going to fit the entire story in three games.

[Anonymous No.10565301]

Does anyone know if the PS3/PSN version is any different from the original? I don't want to rely on a file by file comparison since they might still patch some stuff in RAM.

[Anonymous No.10565303]

>>10565301
iirc it was just a PS1 copy using sony's official emulator they used for PSP and PS3. Maybe some minor text changes.

[Anonymous No.10565361]

>>10564605
No

>>10564616
Not disagreeing, I know it's an extension, but it's also better as well.

[Anonymous No.10565560]

>>10565193
>Beacause is the work of some autist lolwcow who doesn't even speak Japanese and just rewrote the dialog wholesale with more swearing
The fuck
>and had to be tard wrangled out of adding his oc donut steal into a TRANSLATION PROJECT.
No fucking way.
Jesus Christ, what a shitshow.

[Anonymous No.10565563]

>>10564320
PC version with 7th Heaven mod manager.

[Anonymous No.10565658]

>>10565301
i think the ps3 version is the pc version and the ps4 version is based off the steam version (with the 3x speed and stuff)

[Anonymous No.10565662]

>>10565658
i could be wrong about the ps3 one though, it might just be a ps1 eboot thing

[Anonymous No.10565741]

>>10565662
Yeah the PS3 version is just the original v1.0 running off their usual emu. I played it to completion on there many years ago, no fast forward or anything like that.

[Anonymous No.10565748]

>>10565193
This will never not be funny. To think at one point I was actually looking forward to this dude's retranslation being finished. That changed real quick once this gem surfaced.

[Anonymous No.10565791]

>>10565560
>>10565748
>This will never not be funny. To think at one point I was actually looking forward to this dude's retranslation being finished. That changed real quick once this gem surfaced.
Remember him sabotaging 7th Heaven development and tricking people into working on his gay modding tool?

[Anonymous No.10565806]

>>10564343
>Municipal Waste hat
Fuck yeah, I should listen to Art of Partying again, it's been a minute.

[Anonymous No.10565881]

>>10564320
>What's the best way to play the game now?
Original software and original hardware on a CRT.

[Anonymous No.10566074]

>>10565193
Watching an autist attempt to exert his naturally tiny creativity muscle is always a spectacle.

[Anonymous No.10566267]

>>10564371
That's actually the characters name, stay mad.

[Anonymous No.10566330]

>>10564320
On a handheld

[Anonymous No.10567183]

>>10564343
>>10565881
This but the original Japanese version. You can go with International if you want the extra lategame stuff.

[Anonymous No.10568112]

>>10566267
It’s Aeris, pronounced “Aeris.”

[Anonymous No.10569976]

>>10564320
leaked Beacause version with the dumb mascot character replaced by a much better fitting character

[Anonymous No.10570053]

>>10564320
PC version on Steam, played on a Steam Deck

[Anonymous No.10570218]

>>10569976
Go to bed DPLB

[Anonymous No.10570248]

>>10570053
for me, it's the homemade PS1 eboot on a jailbroken PSP

[Anonymous No.10570426]

>>10564343
Why do you have 8 remotes?

>RGB
Fuck no, for 5th gen and earlier composite is where it's at.

[Anonymous No.10570513]

>>10570426
Poorfag take.

[Anonymous No.10570529]

>>10570513
Cope tranny.

You spent hundreds of dollars for worse visuals. I spent it on booze and chicks.

[Anonymous No.10570530]

>>10570426
>composite
enjoy your blurry mess

[Anonymous No.10570531]

>>10570529
Component cables for PS2 are like $20 and a consumer trinitron with component is FREE via facebook marketplace.

In the 90s when you were a child you were poor. You don't have to settle for that now.

[Anonymous No.10570554]

>>10570531
PS2 is 6th gen dipshit.

>>10570530
Sonic waterfall, Silent Hill film grain and proper color, FF IX text boxes, prerendered backgrounds, Dracula's red eyes, etc etc.

Yes I will enjoy my PROPER graphics thank you very much.

[Anonymous No.10570561]

>>10570554
You get all this with component/rgb

You are coping.

[Anonymous No.10570578]

>>10570561
You don't.

Cope, sperg.

[Anonymous No.10570962]

>>10564320
That took me back. Hope you like the numbpad

[Anonymous No.10571038]

>>10564343
>RGB
There's a ton of dithering in FF7 that'll look like shit if not using composite.

[Anonymous No.10571050]

test

[Anonymous No.10571127]

>>10564741
There is very little to no grinding required to complete FFVII as long as you don't run away from every battle on the main path.

[Anonymous No.10571272]

>>10564459
This guy are right