[FF7] Tutorial for Bootleg - Tifa's Bootleg

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user1990,
Make sure to run BFE as administrator.
Close any virus protection software.
Something is blocking Bootleg from copying files to the game folder.
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I have bootleg.exe and BFE.exe set to run as administrator
Both of my antiviruses (MBAM and Microsoft Security Essentials) are turned off
and the directories are all non-program-files folders

Running windows 7 64 bit

Could this error be related to the game files?  Or is it definitely a permission issue

Just like that other guy I quoted, the 2012 version runs fine (ff7_launcher.exe) but the old version (ff7.exe) just crashes when I run it. 
I opened ff7config.exe and under the graphics tab it said I failed 8 bit paletted textures
 
i will change my resolution later, but i already tried that but ff7 music is always crashing and ff7 without music is kinda bad :(
isn't there a way to get music without that application ?
 it appears this in my ff7.music

DataPath is c:\games\ficedula\
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This bit shows the computer where to load the sounds and i doubt you installed the ficedula folder in c:\games\ficedula\ try to direct that path to where you actually installed it  c:\games\ff7\ficedula try to locate it to load from there
 
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but i installed ff7 in c:\games and when i install ff7music goes to that path
 i don't have squaresoft,in folder
 
Based on your APP log, ficedula is installed in the correct folder. I don't think it's going to help, but you may want to uninstall, delete all the junk files in the games folder, and reinstall. I always recommend a folder path of C:\Games\FF7.

To me, this just seems to be a user error rather than a mod error. Everyone has different computers, and sometimes they run into their own issues because of how they are setup. I am afraid I don't how to solve issues for every computer setup out there.
 
ok, thx i will wait for bootleg 0040 it is out this month right ?
it might fix the problem
 
Hello. I just wanna say, what an amazing tutorial you have done, taking me step by step throughout the whole process! I'm pretty sucky with computers. Unfortunately I have run into a problem though. When I start the game, the audio... well the opening movie has no audio whatsoever. After that There is field music but no SFX whatsoever. There is also no audio for the Eidos and Squaresoft opening movies.

I'm pretty sure I did everything as the tutorial says, although here's one thing. the FF7Music installation didn't pop up automatically like the other stuff did on Step 9. When everything was done I ran it up myself and installed it. Was I wrong to do that?

Reading at other posts it seems it would help if I posted an APP log? How can I do that?
 
Well I uninstalled FF7Music and installed the 15112 one instead but no change at all. Plays background field music but no audio for sound effects or movies  :(

EDIT: Aha, on further tinkering I have fixed it now! For some reason my computer had the audio split between two devices, one I could hear and the other I could not. Now it's all set to play through one via the FF7Config. I'm so sorry for my stupidity!
 
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Hi-
Hoping someone can help me out.  First off, amazing work on this tutorial and amazing work on all the mods (to the creators).  I've got everything set up the way I want except for two issues.  The first is the more urgent one.

Game runs fine but I'm not a huge fan of the new sound effects in the battle scenes.  Also, my sound card seems to be having issues with it.  Effects will either:

a)  Come in very faintly and/or disappear.  For example, in the opening scenes the guards "Beam Gun" attack will usually work ok when the first guard uses it but subsequent usage of that attack by the guards will be silent.  Same thing with my characters attack sounds, sometimes they're fine but sometimes they don't register.  The new gun sounds seem to be the only attack sounds that always work.

b)  Spell castings and limit attack sounds by the main characters are spotty.  The casting sounds works (sometimes) with the new sound but the sound of the spell or limit hitting never work.

Initially installed the BFE configurator using Pitbrats settings.  When I encountered the issue I tried re-running the configurator while un-checking the "New SoundFX" box but it still tries to use the new sounds.

Note:  The save point  model is still FFX version even though I also had that unchecked/no change in the configurator.  So it seems like this change isn't holding through the installation for some reason.

I thought it might be a driver issue.  I have an integrated Nvidia C55-MB card, driver says it's up date.

Any suggestions?  I'd prefer to disable the new effects if I could.
 
@rachelsings

Unchecking it doesn't mean it uninstalls that option. It means that it leaves it alone during the Bootleg installation. You will need to do a complete reinstall to change sounds and save points to the original.

1. Go to Control Panel
2. Uninstall FF7Music
3. Uninstall Final Fantasy VII
4. Delete the installation folder of all the junk files
5. Install Final Fantasy VII
6. Run Bootleg, keeping what you don't want unchecked
 
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Hi EQ2Alyza-
Thank you.  I did all that and that fixed the new battle sounds, thank you!

However, I'm still getting the same sound glitches with the old SFX.  Seems centered around spells.  Any ideas?

I also wanted to test something out.  I loaded the game and the mods on my Dell Vostro with Windows 7.  Sound on that one is perfect but the FMV's lag like crazy.  I don't care which system I really get it working on 100% lol, as long as I get it working on 1.  My vostro doesn't have a very beefy GPU, just the on board one.  Game play and battles run perfectly fine, just the FMV's/movies.

Anyway, any other suggestions you can make would be great.  Much appreciated.
 
Hey there,

Sorry to be a complete n00b but I'm having real difficulty making this game work.

List of problems:

- Movies don't play and instead show a red font error code
- At start-up I'm warned that Aali's OpenGL won't function and to expect serious lag
- Black screen instead of combat shown during start-up
- Custom beginning and game screen not showing

Please help me out, I'm an avid FF7 fan and have been since I was seven.
I just want to play this game to death with the modifications :-(
 
Ok I had my brother help me install this and got it working! I noticed the mods music, menu interface etc..all cool, but clouds field model was still the same..so I tried opening the bootleg and changing his field model to something different but I noticed there isn't a way to save? So after reading online a bit I think I needed to re-install ff7. So I reinstalled and tried running bootleg again and it said missing ff7.exe so my brother installed it to a diff folder ( I think J:games/FF7 was were he changed it to, and I copied the Kramer folder and pasted it into J:games/FF7 as well, like the guide said, (( keep in mind I have US 2012 version )) I then opened Kramer folder and doubled clicked the program and extracted it as well ( not sure if I even need to do that since I pasted the folder there? But then made sure to change the 32/64 to "E" and then double clicked each one to update registry. Now I made sure bootleg.exe was ran as admin. And opened BFE. I still had all my mods in J:games/FF7mods so I checked and all the files were green and yellow which is good.  ( I downloaded the entire mod list from torrent.) I changed the preset to pitbrat and I know some mods from overhaul were checked so I was thinking cool it'll be a little different. So I ran bootleg and it started the installation part. Sprinkles...Etc Etc....does say missing movie 1 files but it stilled worked last time so it didn't bother me but then eventually it gets towards the end I thinking..and it says something like "installing Aeroth revival and/or pheonix or something along those lines and it says like "copied files (0) copied files (0) and again and again etc...then it just sits there and does the ......thing I waited probably about 5 minutes thinking it wasn't going to finish...ANY HELP IS APPRECIATED, I feel like I'm doing something small wrong and I'm very close to getting this working, any help please!

Please don't cross-post the same question in multiple threads. I have deleted your other post. ~Covarr
 
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I followed the guide to the T but every time I try loading the game I get a black screen that doesn't change no matter how I wait. I thought it may have been that I was using the wrong drive for the registry but I tried every configuration I could think of but it always either gave me the black screen or the insert disk error. Has anybody else had this issue? If so how did you fix it?
 
Jreeds26: To get the current bootleg to work with the 2012 version you need to rename ff7_en.exe to ff7.exe. Once bootleg is finished you need move the files in /Final Fantasy VII/data/Movies to /Final Fantasy VII/Movies. Finally you need to open up the bootloader utility and open up the configurations and select "mount". Save then exit the config and then open it again and choose the drive that was just mounted.

For the 0 copied error, the only time I've seen that is when there is not enough HDD space for the all the files and temp files.

XxwitelitexX: Are you using the 2012 version, if so you need to mount a virtual drive using the bootloader.
 
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