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[MadOdorMachine]

Did a search and didn't see it posted. It came from SP*NG so take it with a grain of salt.

Hot rumour from Japan enticing RPG gamers over the weekend foretells of a high-budget remake of Final Fantasy VII for Nintendo’s DS portable...

Speaking to SP*nG this morning, a Square Enix representative said, “Final Fantasy VII is one of the franchises that we aim to really explore using our polymorphic content principal. There has been talk of a remake for sometime now as you know. We are aiming to deliver such properties in many different ways and on many different platforms and FFVII will be the first to really show this strategy to its fullest potential.”

 

[Calidor]

"Speaking to SP*nG this morning, a Square Enix representative said"

:lol

 

[Wario64]

funny how this comes up when some people were discussing the possibilities of a DS remake in the other thread


and like i said before, i hope this is true to see the hilarity of fanboys bickering over a DS remake

 

[genjiZERO]

so fake. Fans want it on PS3. If it ever materialises it'll be on PS3

 

[TheJollyCorner]

I can make rumors too!

"Halo 3 to be 3rd person, sprite-based JRPG! Headed by/music composed by Yuzo Koshiro!"

Now... you can quote me.

 

[Defensor]

Make it so.

 

[Christoff Yurievich]

so fake. Fans want it on PS3. If it ever materialises it'll be on PS3

yeah and we all know what hapened to Ninja Gaiden.

 

[Bluemercury]

The thing is, ***** has been spot on on Nintendo related news lately...... :lol

 

[Zerodoppler]

Sold.

 

[bitwise]

The thing is, ***** has been spot on on Nintendo related news lately...... :lol

examples?

i dont read it regularly, im curious.

 

[AniHawk]

"high-budget" and "Nintendo DS" don't really gel well.

So yeah, I'm calling fake on this.

 

[Error]

a 2d remake of FFVII hmmm.... not interested.

 

[Odysseus]

funny how this comes up when some people were discussing the possibilities of a DS remake in the other thread

They have to make up their news from somewhere.

 

[Diablos]

God. DAMMIT.

If that's their big plan for a FF7 remake, that's just WRONG. WRONG.

 

[Odysseus]

God. DAMMIT.

If that's their big plan for a FF7 remake, that's just WRONG. WRONG.

Relax, Sp*ng stole that "news" from this forum.

 

[MadOdorMachine]

examples?

i dont read it regularly, im curious.

Well, they got the GBA Micro right. Anything else, I'm not sure.

Wasn't FF7 on multiple disks. I wonder how they would fit it all on the DS.

 

[RevenantKioku]

God. DAMMIT.

If that's their big plan for a FF7 remake, that's just WRONG. WRONG.

Interactive cut-scenes! Guide Sephiroth's sword into Aerith's body!

 

[AniHawk]

Well, they got the GBA Micro right. Anything else, I'm not sure.

Wasn't FF7 on multiple disks. I wonder how they would fit it all on the DS.

RE2 was pretty big, but they squeezed that onto a 64MB cart.

 

[Bluemercury]

examples?

i dont read it regularly, im curious.

new GB at E3
Zelda trailer at GDC
REV at TGS

all before anyone else if i remember accurately....but since its Nintendo related news, nobody really remembered.....

 

[ThunderEmperor]

Well, they got the GBA Micro right. Anything else, I'm not sure.

Wasn't FF7 on multiple disks. I wonder how they would fit it all on the DS.

all the ds needs is a 512 to 1gb cart and ff VII will be on it with ease

 

[Link1110]

a 2d remake of FFVII hmmm.... not interested.

No one said it would have to be 2d. The ff3 remake is 3d.

 

[AniHawk]

Interactive cut-scenes! Guide Sephiroth's sword into Aerith's body!

I'd buy it for that. And I'd save beforehand so I could do it over and over.

 

[Mrbob]

This is a thread about info stolen from a thread at GAF. :lol

 

[neptunes]

Hmm, a port I could believe, but a full fledged remake doen't make much sense.

unless they outsourcing it.

 

[cvxfreak]

Technology has gone very far in today's age. By shrinking the size of FF7's backgrounds and data compression, FF7 could easily appear on the DS's biggest card IIRC.

 

[TheJollyCorner]

new GB at E3
Zelda trailer at GDC
REV at TGS

all before anyone else if i remember accurately....but since its Nintendo related news, nobody really remembered.....

no offense, Blue, but those aren't exactly massive things to predict. The exception might be the GB Micro one, but I could swear I remember they were predicting the much fabled, 'more powerful than PSP' GBA2?

Now, if they had predicted the full, 3D remake of FFIII, as well as FFIV-VI being released on GBA a month or so before they became official, I might hold more credit in this.

 

[Error]

FF7 Remake... FOR DS

HAHAHA

(knows board would explode if that happened)

So would Square exec heads for taking advice from Sega.

In that case,the first vg remake worse than the original :lol

So you think putting the FF7 remake on the DS instead of the PS3 would be a smart decision?

it appears so. :lol :lol

 

[SolidSnakex]

This is a thread about info stolen from a thread at GAF. :lol

If you read the full article it does seem like they got the idea from here.

 

[FortNinety]

If proven to be true (which I'm sure it is not), screams will echo across this country.

 

[Diablos]

Relax, Sp*ng stole that "news" from this forum.

They would.

 

[xexex]

I want a FF7 remake on PS4. you heard me, PS4. not PS3 or DS.

FF7 remake for PS4 launched in 2012. that way we can have FF10 quality CG graphics in realtime, but for FF7 remake. oh hell yes.

 

[Bluemercury]

Well i can say to you that the Zelda one was theirs really.....i remember them putting it big style in the website so.....

 

[Dalamar86]

The definitive version of FFVII at last.

:lol

 

[heidern]

Ugh, ***** is just an absolutely worthless piece of shit. They always come up with theories and rumours, especially when there's a conference on the horizon. Sometimes they pull them out of their own ass(such as the DS becoming positioned as a PDA at E3) some of them is just the foul offspring of the various rumours and musings that hit the web(FF7 Remake for DS). There is absolutely no substance whatsoever behind any of the garbage they print, it's just that with all the bile that they spew, some of it does by pure chance happen to coincide with the truth to some extent.

Seriously, can we just ban all mention of ***** in any serious sense and lock any topics based off of ***** 'news' stories.

 

[Diablos]

I want a FF7 remake on PS4. you heard me, PS4. not PS3 or DS.

FF7 remake for PS4 launched in 2012. that way we can have FF10 quality CG graphics in realtime, but for FF7 remake. oh hell yes.

GTFO

 

[Xellotah]

I don't think it would make "any" sense to do a remake on the DS.. The business side of it, just don't add up.

 

[radioheadrule83]

They also got Nintendo UK's deal with BT Openzone long before anyone was running with it.

They had a decent Peter Moore 360 interview a while back.


...however, look at some of the ballsy stuff they now have in the wings to ruin what good they've done if these arguably huge things don't materialise:

Mario Paint DS next year
Revolution related showing/keynote at Dec 2 event
Redesigned DS 'months away'
Final Fantasy VII to DS


Thats just the NIntendo related stuff. I spose its worth pointing out that ***** do seem to be treating this as rumor themselves.... it really would be shocking though. Humor the thought a minute, what would this board be like?

Technology has gone very far in today's age. By shrinking the size of FF7's backgrounds and data compression, FF7 could easily appear on the DS's biggest card IIRC.

Feasability aside for a moment, I think this has been discussed before. The old PS discs repeat game world data over each of its three discs, which would have been unnecessary on one medium. I'm not sure what resolution FF7 was: something between 256x224 and 640x480 I expect, but you could save space on both pre-rendered backgrounds, save some on the audio, and you'd get more for your bink/smacker/mpg2/divx/m4a video compression now too. If they wanted to, they could do it. I think FF3 will prove the technical possibility... whether this would actually happen is another thing altogether though.

 

[Borys]

What a fucking coincidence, first the thread Wario mentioned and this one:

http://www.ga-forum.com/showthread.php?t=71262

I guess we can add another biggest fanbase betrayal now :lol

 

[Leonsito]

This would be biggest than the RE4 for PS2 by far ..

 

[cvxfreak]

Weren't there mumblings of a new GBA way back to Feb. 2005?

 

[Zerodoppler]

They should just go all out and sell the same game three more times.

2006 - OMG Handheld FF7 awesome!
2007 - OMG Superior handheld version!
2010 - OMG Beautiful FF7 remake for PS3!

 

[Reilly]

I don't think they could fit the entire game on one cart could they?

 

[cvxfreak]

I don't think they could fit the entire game on one cart could they?

See radio's post.

 

[Pellham]

if this site wasn't already the world's worst video games-related site ever, this "rumor" just sealed the deal.

 

[Dragona Akehi]

There were two strikes against this thread from the very beginning:

1) *****

2) FFVII

 

[Amir0x]

oh boy i hope it retains the hideous PSX-era 3D character models, but implements tifa titty touch screen mini games