Hi all!
I'd like to start by saying i hope you all had a good valentine's day, i hope you all treated someone and or got treated yourselves! I had a lovely day with my fiancé, she's the most amazing person ever! We spent the day watching tv together, we were meant to watch Valentine's Day on dvd but we never did for some reason, i took her breakfast in bed and she treated me to a day off cooking the dinner with a lovely Chinese and had a nice Strawberry and cream tart after :)
We watched Ghost Adventures, Hollyoaks and Fake Reaction, amongst some other less interesting things lol It was just nice to spend some time together and i didn't play any games so that we could do that.
We got each other a little something too, but the gifts didn't last until the day, they were opened a good few days ago! haha she got me the ARTFX Shadow Creeper, to go with Bahamut Sin, so i'll be showing you that later on sometime and i got a Mally Makeup set that she wanted from QVC.
We don't generally bother too much about valentine's day as such, it's more that yesterday was our 4th year engagement anniversary. What a fantastic four years it's been too! I hope you all find someone who is as special to you as she is to me! I think most of us deserve that in life. She has her own blog too and she's playing Resident Evil Director's cut on and off, so head over and check it out, it can be found HERE.
So that's just a little update about my fiancé and myself, i'll be adding more stuff to the blog soon, more figures and i'll add another section of my Final Fantasy I gameplay soon, either today or tomorrow. I'm going to start on Final Fantasy XII soon because it's bugging the hell out of me, i literally do not remember a thing about it, but i have it in my game collection, so i MUST have played it at some point. It's so weird. I remember all the other games i've played. So yeah once i have my emulator sorted for it (so i can take screenshots and don't need to hook up the ps2 slim) i'll get playing that!
I've also been playing Black Ops II lately. So if anyone is alright at it and actually knows how to play anything objective based please feel free to add me, my psn is PeachUK, just make sure you let me know you've added me because you read my post or something because i have a tendancy to decline random friend invites.lol. I generally play Kill Confirmed and Demolition, but demolition does my nut in! I always end up on the team who doesn't seem to realise that when defending the bomb, all you need to do is camp near it and make sure no F**ker gets planting the bomb! Instead i end up with fools rushing around the map trying to get kils and inevitably getting themselves killed in the process. I cannot count the times i have saved our team from a close detonation or from losing due to not planting the bomb, i often see that i've had the most plants and defuses in a game because i'm the only one trying to do the actual objective! lol So if you treat demolition like team deathmatch, please, please don't bother.
Anyway, rant over lol
What are we all doing this weekend? I hope people have something good planned. I guess even relaxing is good! I don't really know what i'm doing, probably TV and games. I want to try do something nice for my lady, she's always putting up with me on games, patience of a saint! So i'll try come up with something to make her a happy lady.
Feel free to get in touch! Barely anyone has!
And i wish you all a Fantastic Weekend!
Friday, 15 February 2013
Wednesday, 13 February 2013
More Final Fantasy I Gameplay
Between black Ops II Sessions I've been playing more of Final Fantasy I. So here is the next installment of my Final Fantasy I game. I will be posting pictures of my new addition to my figure collection soon, so check back regularly for more updates etc...
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| Well i guess I'll have to go somewhere else then, for now... |
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| Oh here's that vampire some folks were talking about... |
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| I guess he wants a fight... |
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| So this is what he was guarding... I'm sure someone told me a particular giant likes gemstones... |
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| I guess they were right! Handy... |
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| I'm sure many women will disagree with that statement! |
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| Clever man, i'm glad someone knows what to do next! |
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| I don't like the idea of probing a vampire's chamber... |
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| Right! Probing it is then... |
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| Guess I'll probe here then... |
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| Thanks for clearing that one up for me... |
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| Rude... |
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| Time to teach him some manners! |
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| That's him taught, Vivi fell asleep... |
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| Cool, a talking crystal. |
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| About bloody time i lit one of these up! |
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| Woohoo! We win, let's go through that portal behind the crystal... |
Saturday, 9 February 2013
What I've Been Playing - Final Fantasy I
As you may or may not have noticed i haven't done as much on the blog as i probably should have by now, but i've been trying to get a better knowledge of the Final Fantasy Series, however many i've played there are just as many if not more that i have not.
So I've been playing Final Fantasy I lately and I'll share with you a short series of screenshots to show you the journey i've made today...
So I've been playing Final Fantasy I lately and I'll share with you a short series of screenshots to show you the journey i've made today...
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| Chillin' Out in some forest bustin' up some monsters. |
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| On the way to see the prince |
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| Gave Him the Potion |
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| No, you're quite right it's the LEGENDARY warriors. |
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| Hand it over then... Not before time! |
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| Cheers pal, I'm off to go unlock some doors i missed! |
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| In one of the chests i found this... what's it for i wonder? |
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| Ohhhh, obviously to build a Canal, silly me! |
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| BOOM!!!!! I guess i'll just head back to my ship now and see where this takes me.... |
Thursday, 7 February 2013
Final Fantasy VII - Bahamut Sin Advent Children - ARTFX - Kotobukiya
Finally after waiting a week for it to be delivered it's here!
The latest addition to my figures is the ARTFX Bahamut Sin figure from Final Fantasy VII Advent Children. As i've mentioned before i don't usually go for the Advent Children figures, but as this is a monster i don't mind! I'll probably end up with he rest of the Advent children figures anyway to be honest, at some point.
This figure is absolutely fantastic, it feels like the Play Arts figures, soft vinyl. I guess it pretty much is a Play Arts figure as they are both produced by Kotobukiya. But this one is an ARTFX figure. The figure stands at about 8" it's a lot larger than the other figures i have in more obvious ways, the tail and the massive wings may have something to do with it haha. To give you a better idea of how big the figure is, i measured the base (which the figure takes up nearly all of) and it is around 8.5" wide and just under 7" front to back in an oval shape.
It's beautifully made, the detail on the figure is stunning! I sat there for quite a while yesterday just looking all around it and they really don't leave any areas undetailed. My favourite parts are the wings, it fuses amazingly between the solid grey colour into a clear orange colour at the tips, seamlessly in fact. This has to be my favourite figure, along with the Hardy Daytona & Cloud Strife. The only differences between this figure and the other ones i have reviewed so far are that it doesn't really have much articulation. It's arms move a bit and the hands turn, the legs move a little bit, but as far as i can tell, nothing else really moves. I was hoping that the wings would be movable so you could have them up or down, but i tried moving them a little bit and found they were pretty rigid, i'm not going to risk breaking anything by being too heavy handed with it, on that note, it doesn't actually feel fragile, once again because it's a soft vinyl figure, it feels very solid but at the same time has a nice soft texture.
The packaging is fairly standard, which is similar to the sephiroth advent children packaging, just glossy flimsy-ish cardboard with some pictures and lettering. Once again the back of the box shows the figure a couple of times and has pictures of the other figures in the collection. As you can tell i don't think it's anything outstanding, but what's inside the box more than makes up for the standard packaging. If the packaging looked more like the Play Arts Vol.1 packaging, it'd be fantastic!
The base for this figure slots into a couple of small holes under Bahamut's feet and keeps him very stable, to be fair he could stand up with or without the base, i just prefer to make sure he stays stood up, so i've kept the base underneath him. As you can see, the base is massive, but the figure is large too, so i guess it needs to be!
Overall this figure, as with all my other figures (with maybe exception of the Bandai set) is fantastic, very highly detailed and feels very well made. It's definately aimed at collectors and not children, just like the rest of the figures. They have taken a lot of time making sure these figures are highly accurate and detailed and i doub't they'd do that if children were going to smash them around. So definately a collector's item.
I would recommend this to anyone who loves the games, it's without one of the best ones i have at the moment. It also seems to be quite pricey, i managed to get it cheap and in perfect condition, so that's a bonus!! The only thing that's not 100% is the box, but i'd say it was more age and storage wear than mis-handling.
See if you can bag yourself one! I'd highly recommend this!
The latest addition to my figures is the ARTFX Bahamut Sin figure from Final Fantasy VII Advent Children. As i've mentioned before i don't usually go for the Advent Children figures, but as this is a monster i don't mind! I'll probably end up with he rest of the Advent children figures anyway to be honest, at some point.
This figure is absolutely fantastic, it feels like the Play Arts figures, soft vinyl. I guess it pretty much is a Play Arts figure as they are both produced by Kotobukiya. But this one is an ARTFX figure. The figure stands at about 8" it's a lot larger than the other figures i have in more obvious ways, the tail and the massive wings may have something to do with it haha. To give you a better idea of how big the figure is, i measured the base (which the figure takes up nearly all of) and it is around 8.5" wide and just under 7" front to back in an oval shape.
It's beautifully made, the detail on the figure is stunning! I sat there for quite a while yesterday just looking all around it and they really don't leave any areas undetailed. My favourite parts are the wings, it fuses amazingly between the solid grey colour into a clear orange colour at the tips, seamlessly in fact. This has to be my favourite figure, along with the Hardy Daytona & Cloud Strife. The only differences between this figure and the other ones i have reviewed so far are that it doesn't really have much articulation. It's arms move a bit and the hands turn, the legs move a little bit, but as far as i can tell, nothing else really moves. I was hoping that the wings would be movable so you could have them up or down, but i tried moving them a little bit and found they were pretty rigid, i'm not going to risk breaking anything by being too heavy handed with it, on that note, it doesn't actually feel fragile, once again because it's a soft vinyl figure, it feels very solid but at the same time has a nice soft texture.
The packaging is fairly standard, which is similar to the sephiroth advent children packaging, just glossy flimsy-ish cardboard with some pictures and lettering. Once again the back of the box shows the figure a couple of times and has pictures of the other figures in the collection. As you can tell i don't think it's anything outstanding, but what's inside the box more than makes up for the standard packaging. If the packaging looked more like the Play Arts Vol.1 packaging, it'd be fantastic!
The base for this figure slots into a couple of small holes under Bahamut's feet and keeps him very stable, to be fair he could stand up with or without the base, i just prefer to make sure he stays stood up, so i've kept the base underneath him. As you can see, the base is massive, but the figure is large too, so i guess it needs to be!
Overall this figure, as with all my other figures (with maybe exception of the Bandai set) is fantastic, very highly detailed and feels very well made. It's definately aimed at collectors and not children, just like the rest of the figures. They have taken a lot of time making sure these figures are highly accurate and detailed and i doub't they'd do that if children were going to smash them around. So definately a collector's item.
I would recommend this to anyone who loves the games, it's without one of the best ones i have at the moment. It also seems to be quite pricey, i managed to get it cheap and in perfect condition, so that's a bonus!! The only thing that's not 100% is the box, but i'd say it was more age and storage wear than mis-handling.
See if you can bag yourself one! I'd highly recommend this!
Tuesday, 5 February 2013
Parcelforce are *BLEEP*
Hi people!
That's yet another day passed by without getting the figure that i was supposed to get within 48 hours, a figure that was posted last Thursday!! I called parcelforce yesterday to ask where my parcel was and they told me that it only left their depot not long ago and that it would definately be with me today, well... it's still not here. It costs more than £9 for that service and it's utter SHIT!
So in case anyone was thinking of using Parcelforce in the future.. Don't. It's a total ripoff and they don't even deliver when they say they are going to.
It better be here tomorrow, because if it isn't that's at least a week from when it was sent for the princely sum of £9. If it had been sent first class recorded with Royal Mail it would have definately been here by Saturday, Monday latest and it probably wouldn't have cost much more than £3.65. What an utter joke. I've never been so annoyed at paying a high postage cost for such a shite service. Anyways... Nevermind. Rant over.
So you may have noticed a large change if you've visited this blog before, i've added every game that i'll be writing about (i may have missed one or two), i've only added a logo for most of them, this is because i'll need to get playing them before i write anything. I've found that i've more to write about if i'm playing the game at the time.
I did add a small amount to Final Fantasy I, this is because i am playing it at the moment. You'll also find a tip for beating X-ATM092 for Final Fantasy VIII on the relevant tab.
Please feel to have a nosey around and if you keep an eye on my posts, i'll let you know if anything new has been added to a particular section. So you won't need to keep checking the page.
Again, please feel free to comment leave me feedback or anything like that. As of yet the only person to say anything about this blog is my own fiancé and she lives with me! So come and let me know that i'm not doing all this for nothing, it's getting depressing!
Thanks for reading (if you are)
That's yet another day passed by without getting the figure that i was supposed to get within 48 hours, a figure that was posted last Thursday!! I called parcelforce yesterday to ask where my parcel was and they told me that it only left their depot not long ago and that it would definately be with me today, well... it's still not here. It costs more than £9 for that service and it's utter SHIT!
So in case anyone was thinking of using Parcelforce in the future.. Don't. It's a total ripoff and they don't even deliver when they say they are going to.
It better be here tomorrow, because if it isn't that's at least a week from when it was sent for the princely sum of £9. If it had been sent first class recorded with Royal Mail it would have definately been here by Saturday, Monday latest and it probably wouldn't have cost much more than £3.65. What an utter joke. I've never been so annoyed at paying a high postage cost for such a shite service. Anyways... Nevermind. Rant over.
So you may have noticed a large change if you've visited this blog before, i've added every game that i'll be writing about (i may have missed one or two), i've only added a logo for most of them, this is because i'll need to get playing them before i write anything. I've found that i've more to write about if i'm playing the game at the time.
I did add a small amount to Final Fantasy I, this is because i am playing it at the moment. You'll also find a tip for beating X-ATM092 for Final Fantasy VIII on the relevant tab.
Please feel to have a nosey around and if you keep an eye on my posts, i'll let you know if anything new has been added to a particular section. So you won't need to keep checking the page.
Again, please feel free to comment leave me feedback or anything like that. As of yet the only person to say anything about this blog is my own fiancé and she lives with me! So come and let me know that i'm not doing all this for nothing, it's getting depressing!
Thanks for reading (if you are)
Monday, 4 February 2013
Tomorrow Tomorrow
Hi fans!
Yet another setback for me, once again the figure that i am waiting for in the post is late! It was meant to be here today for definite, but it turns out that i won't be getting it until tomorrow now. So those pictures i've been promising will yet again have to wait another day!
But in the meantime i managed to get some stuff done on the Final Fantasy VIII page at last, the Final Fantasy VII one is by no means finished yet either, but i thought i had better start adding different games. As it happens i am playing Final Fantasy VIII at the moment, so i'll be able to give fresh tips and tricks for the game, rather than just trying to remember them or googling them!
I've added a guide for defeating X-ATM092 on your first mission to Dollet, so be sure to give that one a try if you haven't before! It was a bit frustrating but i got there today! I kept trying to squeeze as many fights in as possible but i kept finding that if i tried 8 battles i wasn't left with enough time to get to the beach. So i had to settle for 7 battles and 350 AP for my Guardian Forces.
I hope you are all well, please feel free to leave some comments and or some feedback about what you are all reading. I'll post some pictures of my latest addition when i have it myself!
Thanks for reading.
Yet another setback for me, once again the figure that i am waiting for in the post is late! It was meant to be here today for definite, but it turns out that i won't be getting it until tomorrow now. So those pictures i've been promising will yet again have to wait another day!
But in the meantime i managed to get some stuff done on the Final Fantasy VIII page at last, the Final Fantasy VII one is by no means finished yet either, but i thought i had better start adding different games. As it happens i am playing Final Fantasy VIII at the moment, so i'll be able to give fresh tips and tricks for the game, rather than just trying to remember them or googling them!
I've added a guide for defeating X-ATM092 on your first mission to Dollet, so be sure to give that one a try if you haven't before! It was a bit frustrating but i got there today! I kept trying to squeeze as many fights in as possible but i kept finding that if i tried 8 battles i wasn't left with enough time to get to the beach. So i had to settle for 7 battles and 350 AP for my Guardian Forces.
I hope you are all well, please feel free to leave some comments and or some feedback about what you are all reading. I'll post some pictures of my latest addition when i have it myself!
Thanks for reading.
Sunday, 3 February 2013
The Latest
Sooo, i've not written anything for a little while, that's because i've been playing Final Fantasy VIII quite a lot and because the internet has been cutting out so much that if i tried to do anything it'd be near impossible, then i get angry and angry isn't good! haha
I did manage to start another blog ( a bit of fun really, but nobody has contributed yet) so head over and check it out, write out the next section, its just a bit of fun, something i did with some friends in school once and thought i'd be cool to replicate, it's called the Never Ending Story, click HERE to check it out! My fiancé and i came up with the idea the other night when we were talking crap, we kept adding sections to some imaginary story, something we totally made up there and then. It was really funny and thought it'd be funnier with even more people! So please head on over and check it out and tell your friends! It should be funny.
Anyway as i mentioned i'm playing Final Fantasy VIII at the moment, I'm only up to the communications tower in Dollet, but i'm preparing to kick X-ATM092's ass! I know farming xp and ap isn't supposed to matter too much in this one because the monster's levels scale, but i still definately feel like i have an edge when i've done it. Other than that, i've been collecting the Triple Triad Cards. That's been fun too, i've literally spent hours just farting about on it and barely any time bothering with the storyline. I've come across some ideas for tips and things already, so tomorrow i'll probably start on the Final Fantasy VIII tab.
That reminds me, tomorrow i SHOULD be getting Bahamut Sin, that means a nice new shiny set of pictures to put on here under the Final Fantasy VII label. So keep an eye out tomorrow for my latest figure addition!
Before i finish though, i just wanted to warn anyone who buys or is thinking about buying any Final Fantasy figures from Ebay at the moment, a couple of weeks ago my fiancé ordered me the Master Creatures Bahamut figure from someone called gamestar21st, it took a week for him to send it and when i finally got it in last week i was very, very disappointed. He had advertised the figure as brand new and sealed, pristine condition, mint and all the rest of it, but when i got the figure in, the box was yellow, one of the ties that was supposed to be holding the figure in place was laying in the bottom of the box and the worst of all, the figure was actually broken. So not only had he lied about it never having been opened, he lied about the condition and he also lied to us about when he posted it. Well the worst of it is, we sent it back and got a full refund, only to find that he's re-listed the item saying that it's pristine and unopened! Now unfortunately someone else has purchased it from him and i couldn't find a way to tell them what's on the way to them! I reported him to ebay but they never took down the listing in time... (if they were going to at all), since then, we've noticed that he's had two more neutral feedback because figures he's sent other people had been opened and damaged. So please, please avoid gamestar21st on Ebay at all costs! He's a total liar and you'll regret buying anything from him!
Anyways i hope you are all having fun whatever you are doing (playing final fantasy games i hope) and enjoy the rest of your Sunday night! Feel free to comment etc...
I did manage to start another blog ( a bit of fun really, but nobody has contributed yet) so head over and check it out, write out the next section, its just a bit of fun, something i did with some friends in school once and thought i'd be cool to replicate, it's called the Never Ending Story, click HERE to check it out! My fiancé and i came up with the idea the other night when we were talking crap, we kept adding sections to some imaginary story, something we totally made up there and then. It was really funny and thought it'd be funnier with even more people! So please head on over and check it out and tell your friends! It should be funny.
Anyway as i mentioned i'm playing Final Fantasy VIII at the moment, I'm only up to the communications tower in Dollet, but i'm preparing to kick X-ATM092's ass! I know farming xp and ap isn't supposed to matter too much in this one because the monster's levels scale, but i still definately feel like i have an edge when i've done it. Other than that, i've been collecting the Triple Triad Cards. That's been fun too, i've literally spent hours just farting about on it and barely any time bothering with the storyline. I've come across some ideas for tips and things already, so tomorrow i'll probably start on the Final Fantasy VIII tab.
That reminds me, tomorrow i SHOULD be getting Bahamut Sin, that means a nice new shiny set of pictures to put on here under the Final Fantasy VII label. So keep an eye out tomorrow for my latest figure addition!
Before i finish though, i just wanted to warn anyone who buys or is thinking about buying any Final Fantasy figures from Ebay at the moment, a couple of weeks ago my fiancé ordered me the Master Creatures Bahamut figure from someone called gamestar21st, it took a week for him to send it and when i finally got it in last week i was very, very disappointed. He had advertised the figure as brand new and sealed, pristine condition, mint and all the rest of it, but when i got the figure in, the box was yellow, one of the ties that was supposed to be holding the figure in place was laying in the bottom of the box and the worst of all, the figure was actually broken. So not only had he lied about it never having been opened, he lied about the condition and he also lied to us about when he posted it. Well the worst of it is, we sent it back and got a full refund, only to find that he's re-listed the item saying that it's pristine and unopened! Now unfortunately someone else has purchased it from him and i couldn't find a way to tell them what's on the way to them! I reported him to ebay but they never took down the listing in time... (if they were going to at all), since then, we've noticed that he's had two more neutral feedback because figures he's sent other people had been opened and damaged. So please, please avoid gamestar21st on Ebay at all costs! He's a total liar and you'll regret buying anything from him!
Anyways i hope you are all having fun whatever you are doing (playing final fantasy games i hope) and enjoy the rest of your Sunday night! Feel free to comment etc...
Friday, 1 February 2013
Back in Action
Hi there people!
Right, I've had a short break as you will have noticed, from posting things on my blog, i wish i could say i spent that time playing lots of games, but instead i spent it setting up games!
Over the past couple of days i have been experimenting a bit with getting Final Fantasy VII and VIII to work on Windows 7 and trying to make sure they run full screen and at a slightly higher resolution.
I tried the latest version of Final Fantasy 7 for the PC (2012 version) but something just didn't seem right, probably the music to be honest.
Funnily enough the new version looks the same as the original pc version but with the fan-made Aali's graphics improvements. (Higher resolution etc)
I'm still trying to work out the best way to get the music the same as the original psx version, but for now i'm taking a break.
I also got Final Fantasy VIII to work using he same graphic improvements, but i've not made any other changes, not yet at least.
Both games look great with this addition and can both be played fullscreen.
Now onto the blog , today and from now on i'll be working on the tabs, FF7 & FF8, i'll add the next figure that i get, as soon as i get it. But in the meantime, i'll be working on the static pages.
I'd like people to actually give me some feedback though.
So far in 2 weeks i've had nearly 500 pageviews and nobody other than my fiancé has given me any feedback on here. I'd like to know if you like what you see, if you don't, i want suggestions as to what you'd like to see, if you have any content you think should be added, any news you want shared, anything at all. I'd just like some feedback after all the work i've put in so far.
So get involved, this isn't just me rattling on, i want the fans of the games to interact with me and each other here.
There's a lot of great stories and experiences to be shared involving these games and it'd be great to hear them!
Later today i'll add some more to the tabs as i mentioned, i was wondering if anyone would like any simple-ish instructions on how to get a basic (slightly improved resolution) version of Final Fantasy VII and or VIII running on Windows 7 (i'm not sure if its the same for older operating systems), if anyone thinks it'll be worth adding, let me know!
Thanks for reading!
Right, I've had a short break as you will have noticed, from posting things on my blog, i wish i could say i spent that time playing lots of games, but instead i spent it setting up games!
Over the past couple of days i have been experimenting a bit with getting Final Fantasy VII and VIII to work on Windows 7 and trying to make sure they run full screen and at a slightly higher resolution.
I tried the latest version of Final Fantasy 7 for the PC (2012 version) but something just didn't seem right, probably the music to be honest.
Funnily enough the new version looks the same as the original pc version but with the fan-made Aali's graphics improvements. (Higher resolution etc)
I'm still trying to work out the best way to get the music the same as the original psx version, but for now i'm taking a break.
I also got Final Fantasy VIII to work using he same graphic improvements, but i've not made any other changes, not yet at least.
Both games look great with this addition and can both be played fullscreen.
Now onto the blog , today and from now on i'll be working on the tabs, FF7 & FF8, i'll add the next figure that i get, as soon as i get it. But in the meantime, i'll be working on the static pages.
I'd like people to actually give me some feedback though.
So far in 2 weeks i've had nearly 500 pageviews and nobody other than my fiancé has given me any feedback on here. I'd like to know if you like what you see, if you don't, i want suggestions as to what you'd like to see, if you have any content you think should be added, any news you want shared, anything at all. I'd just like some feedback after all the work i've put in so far.
So get involved, this isn't just me rattling on, i want the fans of the games to interact with me and each other here.
There's a lot of great stories and experiences to be shared involving these games and it'd be great to hear them!
Later today i'll add some more to the tabs as i mentioned, i was wondering if anyone would like any simple-ish instructions on how to get a basic (slightly improved resolution) version of Final Fantasy VII and or VIII running on Windows 7 (i'm not sure if its the same for older operating systems), if anyone thinks it'll be worth adding, let me know!
Thanks for reading!
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