So many to choose from, finding me abit lost.

[Mkilbride2599]

I see Bootleg, I know it, but when I look at what it downloads, I notice alot of it is redundant.

I was just looking for a AiO package to install the latest / greatest  compatible mods / FMVS / without much of a hassle.  I remember FF7 2.5.1 Remix, which I see in the package, but obviously that's out-dated / can't be used with alot of the other mods.

I was just looking for the best Field, Battle, ect, models, the best looking FMV's, and backround images for a solid replay, updated music in terms of quality, but you know, not a total change. An all-rounder. Looking at the torrent, 4-5 things in it do the same exact thing as each other, so it's kinda unsettling.

 

[Vgr]

Open BFE.exe, Preset > Full will install all the enhancements it can. Don't forget to enter your paths in the Installation tab, and check to make sure no mod is red.

 

[Mkilbride2599]

Open BFE.exe, Preset > Full will install all the enhancements it can. Don't forget to enter your paths in the Installation tab, and check to make sure no mod is red.

And it'll work? I mean, no incompatibilities between mods, crashes, errors, ectera? Just seems staggering to see so many mods that would seem incompatible to me.

 

[Vgr]

Bootleg makes sure everything is compatible. It won't let you install two incompatible mods.

 

[Mkilbride2599]

Ah. What about that Reunion thing? It looks nice, the Re-translation would be great, I always found the default dialogue to be rather terrible.

Also, I didn't see a "last updated" thing on Bootleg, unless the torrent itself which is from April means it was last updated then? If so, that's like 6 months ago almost...I imagine more nice goodies have come out since then.

I'm not playing to play FF7 soon, maybe a few weeks or or longer, but I don't want to download 17GB for nothing, you know?

 

[Vgr]

Bootleg 040 has been out since December 31st, 2012. It has not been updated after that point. That is not to say it won't get updated ever again (it will), but it won't be too soon, sadly, due to me being the only person working on it.

 

[Mkilbride2599]

Eh? But the torrent is as recent as of April 2014. Surely it's been updated? I mean the mod pack, that is.

How do I go about that? Do I just drop them in the Bootleg 40 folder?  What about newer mods, like I saw one that re-draws the backrounds to look much better, and not is in the torrent? Can I just add that normally...or what? Do I select no Field Textures in the thing or?

It's all so confusing, I find the older I get, the less patient I get with doing stuff like this, 5-6 years ago I would've spent hours just going through each mod to configure it right, now I find myself wanting 5 minutes and done. Ahhh.

 

[EQ2Alyza]

The reason for the redundant files in the torrent package is because of the modders choice to release them that way. Many mods are large in size, and with the way hosting sites function, you have to split them into parts in order to distribute the whole release. Parts then turn into dead links over time, and so new ones are created to keep the mod files alive. I suggest you DO use the torrent because in that case, all you do is download it and point Bootleg to use its folder as the Mod source destination. Then you simply choose the mods you want from the BFE menus and run it. The tutorial explains all of this.

I understand you not wanting to spend time to set things up, but you can't say that and then ask others to do most the work instead. Since Bootleg 40's release in December 2012, I've helped more people get things together than I can bear for anymore. In the end, the people I don't know save time while sacrificing my own, and in almost every case I never hear from them again. I once helped someone three nights straight set his Bootleg install up step-by-step, only to never hear from him again until several months later where he explains some hardware failure and wants help setting it up again. It's too much, and it comes to a point where helping others just isn't an option anymore...at least not for me. I wish I could be that Santa Clause who is everywhere at once and does the job with unimaginable speed, but well...you get the picture.

The guide is there and you have to use it. If you have problems after the install, try a post then. There is also a mod manager called 7th Heaven that can be used, but you'll need to follow the guide for that one as well:

https://www.ff7catalog.com/threads/10634/

 

[Mkilbride2599]

Alright, I dumped all the mods in a folder, set the location, the thing shows green, and most mods seem to have installed without issue, though at the FF7 Enhanced_moviesP-part 1 & 2 are missing it says during install. But then it said it IS installing them?

And sorry for coming off the way I did. Thanks.

Loaded it up, seems to be working just fine. However the FPS does seem a little low. Then again, 1996, haven't played this since 2006, and my standards have gone up, so maybe that's why it seems so iffy at times. Like when I go to attack, I feel there's noticable lag. Also, Preserve aspect ratio keeps it from stretching right, I know the pre-rendered backrounds are well, pre-rendered, but there's no way to make it a widescreen with minmimal after-effects? I know I've seen something similar way back in the day. Like adding black boarders to the top and bottom, not sides, somehow made it look good.  I installed that .dll to change the games FPS, but haven't found that option. I have a 120HZ screen, and I already the game is 30FPS or so, and that doubling it may have ill effects, but at current it's kinda hard to deal with,s o I'd just like to compare.  I used the FPS counter, Battles are infact 15FPS, no wonder.

Also, about the Internal resolution, much point in changing it with the backround being static and the field / battle textures already being replaced?  Also, my controller works thankfully, but for some reason Square is the confirm button, X does nothing ectera...and I don't see a configure option in game, using a DS4. Not expecting Rumble or anything, but yeah, only the Joysticks work, not the D-Pad.

 

[Vgr]

Stretching the game to widescreen will have ill results. You can't do it and having it look good.

30 FPS in field and 15 in battle is how it's supposed to be. You can't just increase that.

I also second Alyza in that we both spend a lot of time helping users without any sort of reward. She did do a tutorial which you can follow, and you should be fine using that one. Not unlike her, I've become tired at all the people who request help and then vanish. Something that people don't seem to understand or even know is that Bootleg is a one-man job. The reason for this is that no one feels like helping, just using it. The mods are made by people who spend their time doing them, not by some big company. The scripting and reverse-engineering is again done by skilled people, who don't earn anything for their work.

It's a rather large community, with not many people actually doing modding stuff. It's not your case, but some people think the modders owe them anything at all, and want the mods and programs without looking at the rest. It doesn't work like that.

Just my 2 cents.

-Vgr