Best Versions of Early Final Fantasy Games?

[Borman]

Im a fan of the Wonderswan Color versions of most of the early stuff. Japanese or not.

[NayusDante]

It wasn't Square that rushed out the PSX ports, it was Tose Ltd. They're a game development outsourcing company, and they've done nearly all of the FF ports.

I do believe CTDS has MOST of the extras you mention, Kupo. I'm not going to say all, but I know it has a menu to view things like bestiary completion, items found, cinematics, ending descriptions, etc. If it weren't for the ever so slight audio differences (could be my imagination) and the reduced resolution (again, could just be me), I'd say it's a truly perfect port.

[Jorpho]

FF4 for PSX is also the only official hard type release.

Is FF4 GBA hard type or not? I've never been clear on that.

[Arkhan]

Dont know but the FF4 on GBA has alot of input latency. Its kind of depressing.

[NayusDante]

Dont know but the FF4 on GBA has alot of input latency. Its kind of depressing.

I heard a report that this was fixed in the European release, but this certainly bothered me.

[Arkhan]

Too bad Europe has nothing to do with me over here in USA.



The sluggish menus really made the game kind of annoying to play. Im used to flying through the menus (FF4 is my favorite FF game so I play it way too much).

on the gba one you try to do that and click the wrong crap.

annoyance ensues, followed by saying screw it and turning the game off

[kupomogli]

I heard a report that this was fixed in the European release, but this certainly bothered me.

The insane amount of lag with spells was fixed but there is more menu lag. The US version is actually better because lag during spells and attacks are much better than lag when choosing options in battle. No GBA version is worth it though. It's too bad because the bonus dungeon was actually better than the FF bonus dungeon with specific character parts. Also all the other characters who joined but didn't die are able to be used(everyone but Tellah.)

[Richter Belmount]

Having played the NES FFI and Dawn of Souls FFI on GBA, I personally liked the original NES version MUCH better.

Sure the GBA version has lots of perks like great graphics, the music was enhanced (I loved it), and tons of extra stuff from the rest of the FF series. But in adding all the extra stuff it seems thay had to re-balance the core game. Some spells that I found crucial in the NES version were pointless in the GBA remake.

All the things they enhanced and added were awesome but as far as the CORE game, I perfer the NES version..

bah Play the psone origins version , much much better.

[Zoltor]

bah Play the psone origins version , much much better.

Yea Origins was pretty good, since they basically stayed true to the original game(It's how remakes should be, damn square, why can't this damned company learn what works, and what doesn't, then work around that). The item collection logs, and such were great additions as well, and don't interfere with the actual game mechanics(these are the good type of additions, adding super OPed crap or what not are bad types of additions to remakes).

[hbkprm]

ff iv on ds

[Wraith Storm]

bah Play the psone origins version , much much better.

Yeah... I need to track another copy down. The one I used to have went missing.

But yes, as I said in another part of the thread it is an excellent update from what I remember. It polished everything up without changing the old. I hated Dawn of Souls because it got rid of the "Spells per Day" type system and Origins retains that.

[Arkhan]

removing the spells per day system is like playing Mario 3 with star-mode constantly activated

[pseudonym]

I don't think it was that drastic, but would seem to take a lot of the challenge of out of the game. Being able to constantly cast NUKE/FLARE on enemies instead of having to ration them out removes a key strategy in the original FF1.