Final fantasy 8 for PC rerelease in Japan.Square back to PC?

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It is great on my computer too except for the menus and dialogs which looks as if they're rusty. Also, the details looks blur. Might it be DirectX 8.1 causing this? Everything was OK back with DirectX 6.
 
So, is this new J version of FF8 going to look exactly the same as the previous? I mean, are going to increase the resolution or change anything?

The first I played FF7 was on my last computer:
Pentium III 500mhz
192mb RAM
Voodoo 3 3000AGP (Like AGP ever made a difference with the V3s  -_- )
Everything ran fine, the world map does run a lot faster on a GF2 but it ran pretty fast then, hella stable too might I add.

FF8 PC's music was rather impressive I thought. I never played the PSX equivelent (still haven't) but the Microsoft Synthesiser is... er, well is was ok then! Now, I don't know what to use for FF8.
 
Yeah, but not everyone has the time or modem speed to d/l it. :P

Which is why I'm hoping the Revision2 DLS update can help people in those situations.

And, no, I'm not really trying to compete with Samuel's DLS on an instrument quality scale, but it WILL be a pretty good compromise between sound quality and download size.

Just be glad you only have to D/L a 1mb patch instead of being forced to download the whole 9.2mb all over again!
 
Samuel's DLS is pretty good (sounds better than the MS synthesizer!). And yes I downloaded the 30mb on my 56k!  :wicked: (That was before I got my DSL)  :)
 
Sigh.......

You know, most likely Samuel's DLS is being played back by the MS synth, anyway, so you really can't say it sounds better than the MS synth.

Whenever you're talking about the quality of a DirectMusic synth, such as the MS synth, the synth's quality can only be as good as the instrument samples in the DLS its using.

Which is why the MS synth can sound totally different, depending on the DLS loaded.
 
I downloaded Samuels DLS a long time ago on a 56k. I just used a download proggy called GoZilla! Now I use GetRight though, less ads. I think I'll try out Samuels DLS again, I want to challenge Omega Weapon, never done that before.
Should I use MS Synth or upload it straight to my Audigy?
 
If you've got the Audigy set up to do hardware DLS, go for it, it'll take a little bit of load off of your CPU.
 
You know, most likely Samuel's DLS is being played back by the MS synth, anyway, so you really can't say it sounds better than the MS synth.

Whenever you're talking about the quality of a DirectMusic synth, such as the MS synth, the synth's quality can only be as good as the instrument samples in the DLS its using.

Which is why the MS synth can sound totally different, depending on the DLS loaded.
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I'll keep that it mind. Learnt something new today.  :P

Thanks.
 
I like setting Winamp's midi plugin to directmusic then setting the DLS to Samuel's and playing ALL my midis with it
its keen
 
Heh I used a PII 233Mhz
64 Megs of ram
Some Yamaha Soundcard
ATI Rage Pro
back in the day. Every thing ran damn well to.. I remember back then when I first got the demo after playing the Ps version months back. I remember playing it though at least once per day to retain my sanity :D
Eventurly I convinced my dad to buy it and thats my story... eventurly I upgraded the ATI Rage Pro to a Riva TNT1. Fixed a lot of the movie crashing problems I was having but the game still crashed a bit. FFVII ran flawlessly on my next machine (Atholn 650), but I havent tried it on this one cause I screwed up duel booting to 98SE last time I tried. Oh well.
 
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