FFVIII Remastered

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I can't believe those incompetent idiots lost both the source code AND the original high res backgrounds. Jesus Christ, the more I look at them the uglier they become, how's that even possible.
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Because 20 years ago, storage wasn't nearly as cheap as it is today.
 
They have fixed quezacotl sound fx.....that's something in this s*** storm i suppose
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i wonder if they "fixed" it like how the current fan-made fix did it... as in phoenix would also have quez's sfx lmao

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40:30 in the vid light posted earlier
 
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It was cheap enough that a multi million pound company could keep a backup on various media very easily
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Apparently not, since Square binned both 7 and 8.
 
Apparently not, since Square binned both 7 and 8.
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If I understand the story correctly, the sources for the games were made on gold discs and just misplaced when various people left the company. They probably still exist somewhere in someone's basement/attic. Might be worth a fortune now if it weren't such terrible work.
HiRes images were never kept. They were done by a third party and square only paid for the images they could use on the old PSX. I assume a similar thing was done with the FMVs, but I don't remember reading what happened with that other than they weren't kept either.

It was cheap enough that a multi million pound company could keep a backup on various media very easily
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It wasn't really common practice to save source or resources longer than a short period in case you need to make small adjustments between versions. Version control wasn't a widely practiced thing until mid '00s.
 
HiRes images were never kept.
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It wasn't really common practice to save source or resources
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Except that's not really true. Competent companies weren't losing their assets left and right - it's mostly a Square's thing. How many source codes did Nintendo lost? Blizzard? Id Software? Any other major company? If you're in business of making software, you keep backups of its source code, that's just common sense and embarrassing yourself is by now Square's modus operandi.
 
Another new video they did not replace the 2d field textures with 3d models, Balambs car got upgraded.

 
Another new video they did not replace the 2d field textures with 3d models, Balambs car got upgraded.

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Thanks to this video, I've been able to determine that the "HD FMVs" are not a new upscale. It's the same as Steam, which "upscaled" the original 2000 higher-res FMVs by applying a bilinear filter over each FMV.

2013 Steam: https://i.imgur.com/s81ZeSe.png

FFVIII Remastered: https://i.imgur.com/zFIy5cc.png

Fan-made HD upscale: https://i.imgur.com/8XcGbpc.png

(Pay attention to the clouds and wet sand in particular)

edit 1 - characters who are built into pre-rendered 2D backgrounds will not be updated. https://i.imgur.com/0ef9z8N.jpg

edit 2 - reverts to midi music at one point https://old.reddit.com/r/FinalFanta...nteresting_ffviii_remaster_music_bug_turn_on/
 
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I'm happy FF8 get some attention to Square. Sadly the remaster seems to be both hit and miss. I hope mods will work on this version since modders did wonders with the 2013 release. Thanks everyone who contributed to that!
 
thanks for posting so i don't have to keep editing.

last batch of updates: vibration hasn't returned. console ports eliminated the control config menu as well. last of my updates will be on boko. tbh i'm assuming he was cut entirely
 
It's up on steam, downloading now

They moved the in game settings to a separate toggle outside, in addition there is fxaa and SMAA AA options.
 
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Looking at the files, looks like they wrapped everything up in a... ".zzz" file? o.O
There's main.zzz and other.zzz
Language files are within folders and some resource dll within.

Edit: So tried renaming the .zzz to like .rar just because, that didn't work, but when trying to launch the game it says this:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1oD7z3c-Y7cNQVUqfW_kJEb3G4W0f0lcw

So I guess they're using some software called OpenArchive.

Maybe... this:https://www.graudata.com/en/openarchive/

Or maybe one of their functions used to extract it? Dunno. Haven't really learned any reverse engineering yet... D;
 
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All the original saves copy over fine Ultimecia looks good

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All the original saves copy over fine Ultimecia looks good

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She's a goddess! <333

Edit: Too distracted by the goddess, just noticed the error... "Kurse"

Also Maki already cracked it and will make an extractor for said files soon. xD
 
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Hope any mod for field backgrounds,cities etc because looks blurry but the new character models looks great
 
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They didn't update Ragnarok or Balamb Garden world models, but they updated the small Dollet ship from the Dollet mission on disc 1 thats seen for around 5 seconds, that makes no sense to me.
 
Wait, was paying the Queen of Cards to add a rule a thing before or is that new? I really don't recall that.

Cost 30,000 gil to add Same to the local rules.
 
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Yes that's always been there, the FH concert music got updated sounds better than original steam release, different from the ps1 version though.
 
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python2 script to unpack ZZZ files- just change path in line 5 to either main.zzz or other.zzz
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import sysimport osimport structfd = open('main.zzz', 'rb')def ReadEntry(): filenameLen = struct.unpack('<I', fd.read(4))[0] filename = fd.read(filenameLen) absPos = struct.unpack('<I', fd.read(4))[0] flag = struct.unpack('<I', fd.read(4))[0] fileSize = struct.unpack('<I', fd.read(4))[0] return [filenameLen, filename, absPos, flag, fileSize] filesCount = struct.unpack('<I', fd.read(4))[0]entries = [ReadEntry()]for i in range(1,filesCount): entries += [ReadEntry()] #print(entries[i]) for i in range(0,len(entries)): finPath = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), 'EXPORT', entries[i][1].replace('\\', '/')) dirPath = os.path.dirname(finPath).replace('\\', '/') if not os.path.exists(dirPath):  os.makedirs(dirPath) outfd = open(finPath, 'wb') fd.seek(entries[i][2]) buffer = fd.read(entries[i][4]) outfd.write(buffer) outfd.close() print(finPath + " saved.")
 
Because they don't need to be. Siren looked like she had a pubic jungle between her legs but if you look closely (or check the concept art) it's just "feather armor". Now it looks like a feather skirt and the design as a whole is clearer. Whether you like it or not, there's no other version of that particular model so you can't call it censorship. Unlike Squall, I think this model is a huge improvement.
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No, Siren wasn't in a need of redesign. Not more than any of other the GFs anyway. I can't imagine anyone being upset by siren not being redesigned.

Well, perhaps I speak too soon. Maybe more of the GFs were redesigned?

Still kinda dumbfounded on the main cast redesign though.
 
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