As much as I wish it would be, I doupt there are any dumps of a proto-FF64, that would have been a big thing in the emulation world and found long ago. But who knows? Maybe some betatester from Nintendo just got laid off and he has the only carts for FF64 and needs some quick money from e-Bay...
Final Fantasy 64
Well after pondering what happened to the famousFinal Fantasy 7 that was planned for the N64, before Square and Nintendo fell out, I decided to do alittle googling.
Its amazing what you can find, it appears that the game did get some development, and a 'prototype' was demonstrated at SIGGRAPH. Obviously the game was too expensive for Square to make on multiple carts, so went with SONY (then still looking for developers) as they where using CDrom based media.
But there is conflict out there, so I was wondering if you people had knowledge / urls that can set the story alittle straighter (that and I thought at 4am this was pretty fascinating
). Some say that it was near complete, others argue it was mearly a short demo (more likely), some simply say it was a few CGI test scenes to show what square could do, nothing playable in the least. Still, it'd be fascinating to find out more on this.
Of course for the emu lovers and Final Fantasy lovers out there, it'd sure re-kindle some love of Project 64 if this cart was leaked / dumped, it'd open up a long forgotten and somewhat mysterious part of the Final Fantasy history!
Of course, you could hope that with Nintendo's new friendship with SquareEnix, they do what they did to Zelda OOT on the GC to FF64
Its amazing what you can find, it appears that the game did get some development, and a 'prototype' was demonstrated at SIGGRAPH. Obviously the game was too expensive for Square to make on multiple carts, so went with SONY (then still looking for developers) as they where using CDrom based media.
But there is conflict out there, so I was wondering if you people had knowledge / urls that can set the story alittle straighter (that and I thought at 4am this was pretty fascinating
). Some say that it was near complete, others argue it was mearly a short demo (more likely), some simply say it was a few CGI test scenes to show what square could do, nothing playable in the least. Still, it'd be fascinating to find out more on this.Of course for the emu lovers and Final Fantasy lovers out there, it'd sure re-kindle some love of Project 64 if this cart was leaked / dumped, it'd open up a long forgotten and somewhat mysterious part of the Final Fantasy history!
Of course, you could hope that with Nintendo's new friendship with SquareEnix, they do what they did to Zelda OOT on the GC to FF64
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Firstly, the graphics don't look more than the N64 could handle. Secondly, I have always told this to people...Ninty screwed up...just imagine the raw power of the N64....but, the only thing that held it back was those damn cartiridges!
What would the world have been like if the N64 was using CD's? Graphic-wise, better than PSX, game-wise (sometimes) better than PSX.
Ninty could've ruled...
r2rX
What would the world have been like if the N64 was using CD's? Graphic-wise, better than PSX, game-wise (sometimes) better than PSX.
Ninty could've ruled...
r2rX
I disagree. The best looking games on the N64 couldn't hold a candle to the best of the PSX. Lower poly counts, lower detail textures. The only things the N64 had coing for it were bilinear filtering and perspective correction.ready2rumbelX said:Firstly, the graphics don't look more than the N64 could handle. Secondly, I have always told this to people...Ninty screwed up...just imagine the raw power of the N64....but, the only thing that held it back was those damn cartiridges!
What would the world have been like if the N64 was using CD's? Graphic-wise, better than PSX, game-wise (sometimes) better than PSX.
Ninty could've ruled...
r2rX
this is meant to be a debate / discussion on FF64, not some stupid discussion on PSX vs N64
Anyhow, even if the N64 was DC ppowered with DVDrom support, it'd still lack a wide range of games due to the head of Nintendo, who knew what he likes, and liked what he knew so I doubt extra storage space would of made much more difference. Lets keep the discussion on track, rather than dragging up a particulary lame debate ;p
Anyhow, even if the N64 was DC ppowered with DVDrom support, it'd still lack a wide range of games due to the head of Nintendo, who knew what he likes, and liked what he knew
so I doubt extra storage space would of made much more difference. Lets keep the discussion on track, rather than dragging up a particulary lame debate ;pYes. Nintendo shelved it because the 3DX and Sega CD were like lead balloons. Their loss really.F-3582 said:
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