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Final Fantasy IX Is Out on PC
Final Fantasy IX Is Out on PC
Following its recent mobile release, the ninth Final Fantasy, originally released on PlayStation nearly sixteen years ago, has finally popped up on Steam.
kotaku.com




Best FFIX in my opinion! Also don't have time to play it so I'll be passing for now, but apparently there are LOTS of improvements:
This is essentially the same version as the iOS/Android version. But no, you don’t have to install any Android software to run it, as was erroneously reported this week.
The character models have all been redrawn with more polygons and better textures. The menus, menu icons, Tetra Master card art, and other assets have been redrawn.
The background art is the same low-res art as on Playstation, with some minor filtering to eliminate the huge pixels. Yes, it’s ugly. No, they probably couldn’t have done a whole lot better. It is what it is. Redrawing all the backgrounds would have been too costly and time-consuming. I’m sure some industrious modder out there will probably produce versions with better filtering, though. And I’m looking forward to seeing what can be done with texture packs for the world map and battle scenes.
The FMVs are higher res than on Playstation. They seem to have been taken from source files before they were compressed for the PSX version. They look great.
Battle speed is better; battles load faster and menu responsiveness is much improved. Also (IMPORTANT) there is a new option under Config in the menu called “Skip Battle Camera”. If you enable this, it eliminates the opening camera pan over the battlefield for normal encounters (not boss or scripted ones) which makes battles go even faster.
Like the mobile versions there are modifiers you can enable for 3x speed, no random encounters, unlimited gil, max level, invincibility et al.
The music is pulled directly from the original; no midi versions were ever made because there was no older PC port to take them from.
I got the email about it today! I have no time to play it yet, so I'm going to wait to buy it. Stupid final projects/exams.