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Having trouble with those movie files? Can't get past the Rocket Town, Weapon 0 or Train videos? Well here's the solution. After searching the internet for a few hours with no solution (including this website), my brother and I found a way to cheat the game (no actual in-game cheating involved). Now this is serious stuff and you could potentially screw up your pc if you don't do it right, so be warned.
First, you'll want to read EmperorSteele's FAQs that Aaron posted found at http://www.ff7-universe.com/Downloads/FF7Movietweak.txt . It details how to hack your system registry to change where your game looks for the FMV files. Now follow these steps:
1. Once you've completed all the steps from the FAQs (including copying the files onto the harddrive), it's time to cheat the game. Find the particular video file that's giving you trouble, like for example the Weapon 0 movie is called "weapon0" and is found on Disk 2. Make a copy of that file and leave it in the same folder, in case you mess something up later on and need to revert to it. Delete the original, or if you don't want to risk that, rename the file to something like "weapon0garbage" or whatever you want to call it.
2. Now that you have a copy and a renamed file, find any other movie file in your folder to be used as a substitute file, for example, I chose the Squaresoft logo intro named "sqlogo". Make a copy of the file you choose and paste it in the same folder. Now, rename that copy EXACTLY as the corrupted video file was named. So with the Weapon 0 file, I would name the logo copy "weapon0". If your system says that there is already a file named that, you've done something wrong. Once this is done, load up your game and try to go through the trouble spot. You shouldn't have any problems and now you don't have to send your save file to someone else to do it for you. Unfortunately, it does prevent you from actually watching what the file is. Unless your movie file itself is corrupted (which would probably be the case) you could always view it outside of the game in windows media player.
Key things to remember: make sure that you type in the proper name for the substitute file, and don't delete or alter that file's original either. You'll still need it for whatever it does; you're just borrowing its copy to replace a messed up video. Hope this helps.
First, you'll want to read EmperorSteele's FAQs that Aaron posted found at http://www.ff7-universe.com/Downloads/FF7Movietweak.txt . It details how to hack your system registry to change where your game looks for the FMV files. Now follow these steps:
1. Once you've completed all the steps from the FAQs (including copying the files onto the harddrive), it's time to cheat the game. Find the particular video file that's giving you trouble, like for example the Weapon 0 movie is called "weapon0" and is found on Disk 2. Make a copy of that file and leave it in the same folder, in case you mess something up later on and need to revert to it. Delete the original, or if you don't want to risk that, rename the file to something like "weapon0garbage" or whatever you want to call it.
2. Now that you have a copy and a renamed file, find any other movie file in your folder to be used as a substitute file, for example, I chose the Squaresoft logo intro named "sqlogo". Make a copy of the file you choose and paste it in the same folder. Now, rename that copy EXACTLY as the corrupted video file was named. So with the Weapon 0 file, I would name the logo copy "weapon0". If your system says that there is already a file named that, you've done something wrong. Once this is done, load up your game and try to go through the trouble spot. You shouldn't have any problems and now you don't have to send your save file to someone else to do it for you. Unfortunately, it does prevent you from actually watching what the file is. Unless your movie file itself is corrupted (which would probably be the case) you could always view it outside of the game in windows media player.
Key things to remember: make sure that you type in the proper name for the substitute file, and don't delete or alter that file's original either. You'll still need it for whatever it does; you're just borrowing its copy to replace a messed up video. Hope this helps.
tougth it would be fun to replay it. Anyways, I have installed the game found all the updates this laptop even support the 8 bit palleted textures. But when I run the game I Hear the Eidos Logo Screen is all black and then it locks up. I have tried Running it in 98 compatibility mode tried pretty much anything. So if you have any hints as to why it does not work I would appriciate it 
