[FF7] Tutorial for Bootleg - Tifa's Bootleg

It isn't installed in a system folder(I think?). My C: drive houses my OS and a few programs, Z: is my game drive. It might say Program Files/Steam/Etc, but that was just the generic install route for Steam. Is that enough to break it?m I can try moving my Steam folder to something custom either way.

And btw, thank you so much to everyone that worked on these mods and loaders. I've beaten FF7 about 8 times, and this next playthrough is going to be awesome(just gotta figure out why its mad, heh)

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anything under program files is a system folder,you need to either move steam or final fantasy vii to the main directory of the drive. so it should either be Z:\steam or Z:\Final Fantasy VII if you move either, if you try to install into program files it won't do it correctly.

I recommend moving steam to a main directory anyway since oddly I have noticed it reduces load times and some stuttering in games on non solid state drives when it doesn't have to sort the data files from within a system folder.

the ffvii remix tracks links are working again now sorry about that

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Thank you very much,these were the last files I need.

Steam release has peaked my interest in the PC version once again, guess the Vita is getting shelved for a bit haha.

I love the Bootleg and there have been a lot of improvements since I was last here a few years back, can't thank you all the modders enough for sharing this stuff.

Onto topic, I installed Bootleg, (for anyone interested I use D:\Games\Steam\blah blah and it works perfectly, C: is my root) and was having a blast, one of the reasons I got the Steam version was for the achievements, I've never hunted cheevos in a game before but I figured I'd make an exception to this, hence why I purchased VII again even though I have the 98 edition (and 97 disc and PSN lol)

after playing for a bit I decided to try load up the original FFVII steam exe and it works, I'm currently in the process of figuring out which mods are fine and which arn't for this, was thinking if I can get some to work and still get cheevos it would be pretty cool, so far it seems the sound effects and character changes are fine but magic and world map textures are a no go.

just wondering if anyone has tested this more than me and know what can be used and what cant to still allow for these Steam achievements to pop

Steam release has peaked my interest in the PC version once again, guess the Vita is getting shelved for a bit haha.

I love the Bootleg and there have been a lot of improvements since I was last here a few years back, can't thank you all the modders enough for sharing this stuff.

Onto topic, I installed Bootleg, (for anyone interested I use D:\Games\Steam\blah blah and it works perfectly, C: is my root) and was having a blast, one of the reasons I got the Steam version was for the achievements, I've never hunted cheevos in a game before but I figured I'd make an exception to this, hence why I purchased VII again even though I have the 98 edition (and 97 disc and PSN lol)

after playing for a bit I decided to try load up the original FFVII steam exe and it works, I'm currently in the process of figuring out which mods are fine and which arn't for this, was thinking if I can get some to work and still get cheevos it would be pretty cool, so far it seems the sound effects and character changes are fine but magic and world map textures are a no go.

just wondering if anyone has tested this more than me and know what can be used and what cant to still allow for these Steam achievements to pop

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In simple terms, anything that relies on Aali's Driver will not work. These are all the files you would see in the \mods\Bootleg folder after installing Bootleg. We actually already discussed this last year with the 2012 version on the SE store. The file structures between that and the Steam version are identical, so it applies the same way.

Making the backup of the camdat files served useful, it seems they go missing once I install the mods. Not too sure why.

One more question before I get to playing: How did you get your pre-rendered background areas to look so sharp in your videos on youtube? Mine looks super blurry and muddy. All of my settings seem to match the tutorials. I actually used the EQ2Alyza.bp for the mod list, I only changed a few character models. And I also copied your screenshots for the bootloader.

Here's an example of what I'm talking about: http://imgur.com/thvABNL

In simple terms, anything that relies on Aali's Driver will not work. These are all the files you would see in the \mods\Bootleg folder after installing Bootleg. We actually already discussed this last year with the 2012 version on the SE store. The file structures between that and the Steam version are identical, so it applies the same way.

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Thanks for the link, I shall have a read over the thread just now, currently I now have 2 installations of FFVII on my system, a Steam one with some mods and a full blown Bootleg modded one lol

I'm not getting certain sound effects outside of the music, like Barret slamming on the crate after the first reactor or the alarm on the second train when you're headed to the second reactor. Any sound effects in battle are also not playing. Any help would be appreciated.

this may have already been asked but im just curious. do you have to run bootleg everytime you change something in the BFE?

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Basically, let's say you do your Bootleg install and all goes well, right? Well, there's just one problem; you don't like [insert mod here]. So you uninstall FF7 and delete everything there (BUT NOT FF7Mods, JUST FF7 FOLDER), reinstall it, then change your stuff in BFE and run Bootleg. Kind of a bitch, I guess, but you can make an install image and totally simplify all the simplification stuff.

(I couldn't find the rules to consult Qhimm's position on profanity, so sorry if that's against the rules.)

Swear all the peaches and cream you want.

I am trying to replace the dll file to get my configue.exe to not crash but it says its open in another program and it wont let me replace it. I go to my task manager and I cannot shut down the program using the file.

Not sure what to do.

I am trying to replace the dll file to get my configue.exe to not crash but it says its open in another program and it wont let me replace it. I go to my task manager and I cannot shut down the program using the file.

Not sure what to do.

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You should be able to do it if you log off your current user and log in as the Administrator. If you don't have the Administrator enabled, here's how to do it:

[list type=decimal]
[*]Right-click "My Computer" and select Manage.
[*]Navigate to Local Users and Groups -> Users.
[*]Right-click "Administrator" and select Properties.
[*]Type Administrator as the full name.
[*]Check Password never expires.
[*]Uncheck Account is disabled and User cannot change password.
[*]Click Apply, then OK.
[*]Right-click "Administrator" and select Set Password.
[*]Set the password as Windows SUCKS (kidding... ).
[/list]

Let me know if logging in as the Administrator user allowed you to move the file.

Hi, I was able to get the mods to run properly after installing, and it played well for the first session played in. I then exited out of the game and came back to play it, so i tried to load the game through BootLoader, and everything ran fine, but when i made it to the menu screen, the game wouldn't take my inputs. Any ideas?

Nevermind, I just needed to clear history and my browser cashe,it was still directing me to the dead link from earlier this week but it is working now.

I installed this a couple days ago and it was working fine. Now when it loads up, all I see is a black screen, WITH the sound in the back ground. I have no idea what I did or what has happened. I have tried to uninstall the game completely and reinstall it several times but each time its the same result. Black screen with sound. I have even went as far as re downloading this torrent to see if that was the problem but it didn't fix anything. I have no idea what to do and the search function for the forum appears to not be working.

So i was able to replace the dll file and all is working well so far! I did have one question though. I noticed that some of the music was overlapping. IE the music in the first reactor mixing with the music from the battles.

When I run bootleg It minimizes for a few seconds then a pop up says Unhandled exception has occurred in your application. if you click Continue. the application will ignore this error and attempt to continue. If you click Quit, the application will close immediately

Access is denied.

The details of this contain

See the end of this message for details on invoking
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.

************** Exception Text **************
System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: Access is denied
   at System.Diagnostics.Process.StartWithShellExecuteEx(ProcessStartInfo startInfo)
   at System.Diagnostics.Process.Start()
   at System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(ProcessStartInfo startInfo)
   at BootlegFE.Bootleg.StartBootleg(Int32 iFlagStart)
   at BootlegFE.Bootleg.RunBootleg_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mevent)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)


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BootlegFE
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************** JIT Debugging **************
To enable just-in-time (JIT) debugging, the .config file for this
application or computer (machine.config) must have the
jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section.
The application must also be compiled with debugging
enabled.

For example:

<configuration>
    <system.windows.forms jitDebugging="true" />
</configuration>

When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception
will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the computer
rather than be handled by this dialog box.

Please help.

Hi,

I downloaded Tifa's package and ran bootleg with no issues. I purchased the game through steam. When I run the game through bootloader, the cmd black box comes up and then just goes away. I can't get the game to start.

I have an Nvidia GPU. I also checked to make sure auto-mount was selected. Anyone have any ideas why this could be happening?

Here's my APP.Log

INFO: FF7/FF8 OpenGL driver version 0.7.11b
INFO: Auto-detected version: FF7 1.02 US English
INFO: NVIDIA Corporation GeForce GTX 670/PCIe/SSE2 4.3.0
INFO: OpenGL 2.0 support detected
INFO: Using PBO
INFO: Found swap_control extension
INFO: Max texture size: 16384x16384
INFO: Number of texture units: 4
INFO: Original resolution 640x480, window size 1920x1080, output resolution 1440x1080, internal resolution 3840x2160
INFO: FBO extension detected, using fast scaling/postprocessing path
INFO: Shader limits: varying 124, vert uniform 4096, frag uniform 2048
INFO: FFMpeg movie player plugin loaded
INFO: FFMpeg version SVN-r25886, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
INFO: FF7Music helper plugin loaded
LOCK UNLOCK TEST
MATRIX INITIALIZE
INITIALIZE DD/D3D END
ERROR: could not open file F:\Steam\steamapps\common\FINAL FANTASY VII\ff7input.cfg
initializing sound...
creating dsound primary buffer
reading audio file
loading static sounds
sound initialized


Specs: Windows 7 64 bit, Nvidia 670GTX SLI, Intel Ivy Bridge 3770k

Hi there, so I ran the bootleg and everything was installed/unzipped, however, at one stage the ff7config.exe popped up and then said it said it stopped working. So I closed it down and the bootleg carried on.

Once it was done the BootLoader popped up and I made all the configurations and went to start up FF7 and the ff7config.exe popped up again and swiftly stopped working and I had to shut it down. This stopped the game from starting. I assume the reason the ff7 config isn't working is because I have installed FF7 through steam which doesn't use the FF7config.exe unlike the other versions.

I understand the config is necessary for step 9 of the tutorial. Is there a solution for this?

Ok I ran the bootleg, got all the files, and tried to play.
The opening screen everything is black, until I hit enter then a new game starts.
The opening movie is fine however my textures are messed up.
The maps are nothing but red squares  and the game freezes as soon as barret says something.
Using the steam version, moved to my desktop
PC Radeon graphics

INFO: FF7/FF8 OpenGL driver version 0.7.11b
INFO: Auto-detected version: FF7 1.02 US English
INFO: ATI Technologies Inc. AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series 4.2.12217 Compatibility Profile Context 12.104.0.0
INFO: OpenGL 2.0 support detected
INFO: Using PBO
INFO: Found swap_control extension
INFO: Max texture size: 16384x16384
INFO: Number of texture units: 8
INFO: Original resolution 640x480, window size 800x600, output resolution 800x600, internal resolution 1280x960
INFO: FBO extension detected, using fast scaling/postprocessing path
INFO: Shader limits: varying 128, vert uniform 16384, frag uniform 16384
INFO: FFMpeg movie player plugin loaded
INFO: FFMpeg version SVN-r25886, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
INFO: FF7Music helper plugin loaded
INFO: Loading external library Multi.dll
LOCK UNLOCK TEST
MATRIX INITIALIZE
INITIALIZE DD/D3D END
ERROR: could not open file C:\Users\Tammy\Desktop\FINAL FANTASY VII\ff7input.cfg
initializing sound...
creating dsound primary buffer
reading audio file
loading static sounds
sound initialized
set music volume: 127
set music volume: 127
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
START OF CREDITS!!!
INFO: C:\Users\Tammy\Desktop\FINAL FANTASY VII\movies\eidoslogo.avi; indeo5/pcm_s16le 640x480, 30.000000 FPS, duration: 12.933333, frames: 388
INFO: slow output format from video codec indeo5; 6
set music volume trans: 127->0, step=60
END OF CREDITS!!!
Entering MAIN
set music volume: 127
Exiting MAIN
START OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
END OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
Field Start
INFO: C:\Users\Tammy\Desktop\FINAL FANTASY VII\movies\opening.avi; h264/aac 1280x896, 15.000000 FPS, duration: 119.466667, frames: 1792
INFO: slow output format from video codec h264; 12
WM_CLOSE
Field Quit
UNINITIALIZE DD
END UNINITIALIZE DD

Most of you guys that are having problems are likely having 1 or more of these 4 issues:
1)you installed the game files to a system folder
2)you do not have updated system files like .NET framework 4.5
3)not running things as an administrator (or you need User Access Controls[UAC] turned off)
4)installing a non-english version has it's own special set of problems; bootleg is designed only with the english version in mind and it will only alter the English versions of files. I'm guessing you have to rename some things if you install a French version and then use bootleg on it.1

#3&4 are fully or partially addressed by installing Kompass63's Game Converter before installing bootleg.
#1 and 2 are mandatory

*If you are playing on Steam, and you want to use bootleg you will have to install steam outside of the Program Files directory. Like C:\Games\Steam. If you don't want to because of x,y, or z I'm sorry but the Bootleg program is complex and we're lucky it works at all on STEAM. You will have to reinstall STEAM if you want to use bootleg... sorry, i know for some of you this is a slight inconvenience.

Same goes for the Square Enix store download: you cannot install it to a system folder like the Program Files directory (which is default) and then use bootleg. It won't work correctly. Use C:\Games\FF7 or something like it.

Also, if you are using the Menu Overhaul :

1. Do not install Team Avalanche menu overhaul or associated menu files.  This mod will not support it. If you have done, please reinstall our Menu Overhaul Project again.

2. Do not install ANY mod which changes the layout of the menu.

3. Do not install any break 9999HP patchers. Do NOT use aali's driver option for 9999 patch either.  Use the one that comes with this installer.

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So, that means don't check the 9999 option in bootloader, either.

The opening movie is fine however my textures are messed up.
The maps are nothing but red squares

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Plenuline (or anyone with a radeon HD card) use AMD Catalyst 13.5 beta2 to resolve red triangles/shader issue. You MUST REMOVE your current drivers using the uninstall feature before a system restart and running the install program again putting the 13.5 beta2 on.

1Perhaps this is a good enough reason to overhaul bootleg one more time, even if there is no new driver. I am sure PitBrat could fix it so that bootleg recognized the installed language and modified files accordingly, but there isn't anything we can do about the menu overhaul language incompatibilities