Homebrew Dev Gets Final Fantasy VII Running On Sega Saturn

Did the people who decided FFVII couldn't work on N64 cry when they played ocarina of time? Or just ask where the rest of the cartridges were?

But seriously I've heard devs from both sides say things like "you couldn't have made a character this animated on ps1" and then the clever devs on ps1 go and make some pretty impressive character sprites. I don't like rpgs as a general rule, but I do wonder if FF64 not relying on a playmobil version of cloud, and prerendered backgrounds would be a game I actively love. But we will never know now.

@Poodlestargenerica

sorry but theres nothing directly comparable to ffvii on n64.

that being said OOT wouldnt have worked on ps1 without major compromises.

the major differences in hardware are what made this generation so fascinating, in my opinion! ✌️

EDIT - reading your comment again made me wonder if youve seen the early "ff7 on 64" demo videos that they made! they really do get the imagination going, and i share your dream of ff64 😊 i wish both had happened, honestly. ff tactics would have made for a pretty cool 64 game, too.

@-wc- That's sort of my point. Neither game could have been made like it was on the other system. But the way each game was made was because of the systems limitations. But the Idea that a 3d rpg wasn't possible for some reason on N64 was more indicative of square needing to adjust their methods, than of the capacity of the hardware. My point about ocarina is, that I can almost guarantee that's what they would have gone for had they been able to achieve it, and that the fact it can all fit on one cartridge shows that they needed to "work smarter not harder" so to speak. In general it's the more clever devs that do amazing things, square never pushed the ps1 to its limits like Gran Turismo or Crash team Racing did, or rare did on the N64, they were happier using it's CD format to put massive amounts of data on. But I guarantee someone on the team was like "crap, wish we could be doing that" when they saw ocarina.

I think square could have made a better game on N64, and probably would have eventually if Nintendo didn't hate them so much for the duration of the console. I imagine something like a primitive version of FF Type 0, and it makes me drool. My favorite bit about the square Nintendo relationship was that sunsoft published the reissue of FF legend in 1998 because Nintendo didn't want square publishing on their system.

On a mostly off topic aside, I want them to remake, not remaster gex 2&3. To me they really demonstrate the different capacities of the systems, but being developed for the ps1 the n64 versions had the same issues (mainly areas that were needlessly split up in order to render in full 3d), but the way those levels were made was a really impressive bit of work from the devs. I'd love to see a more seem less version that doesn't compromise the original design.

@Poodlestargenerica I recall when collecting GB carts years ago that Sunsoft reprinted a number of older Game Boy games from other publishers in 1998, not just Square's.

@KingMike That's just the story I heard, I can't verify it.