Final Fantasy

[eambo]

Hi. I know this is going to sound like a stupid thing to be annoyed about, but bear with me. I've been playing FFVII the past few days on my PS3, and simple things like sounds not being the same and the 'swirly' screen before battle not working properly has made me stop playing. The PS3 just can't give the same experience. So I've been trying to play FFVIII, and it's just not working at all.

I've read similar reports all over the internet but no fixes. I have the 60GB European PS3, and a european copy of FFVIII. It boots to the 'Playstation' logo, then a black screen. To rule out it being the disk I tried booting up with disks 2,3 and 4 too. No go.

Does anyone know why this wouldn't work, or how I can resolve it? I thought that PS3 had 100% PS1 compatibility O.o

[Brewster-Rooster]

What do you mean? What sounds are different? As far as I remember the swirly screen was always there. In pretty sure it's unhanged from the ps1 version.

[revolver20]

Yep its exactly the same im still getting the same sounds and the swirly screen before battles.

[eambo]

Hi Brewster,

The sounds are much more tinny than they were on the original. And when I was playing, the swirlyness was frozen, it didn't actually swirl. It's a lot of minor things that I pick up on after playing it for x amount of hours :-P

[damntheirlies]

Seems fine to me so far...

[shooby337]

Just dust off the old PSone and use that (if you still got one/had one)

[DrTrouserPlank]

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eambo wrote:

Hi. I know this is going to sound like a stupid thing to be annoyed about, but bear with me. I've been playing FFVII the past few days on my PS3, and simple things like sounds not being the same and the 'swirly' screen before battle not working properly has made me stop playing. The PS3 just can't give the same experience. So I've been trying to play FFVIII, and it's just not working at all.

I've read similar reports all over the internet but no fixes. I have the 60GB European PS3, and a european copy of FFVIII. It boots to the 'Playstation' logo, then a black screen. To rule out it being the disk I tried booting up with disks 2,3 and 4 too. No go.

Does anyone know why this wouldn't work, or how I can resolve it? I thought that PS3 had 100% PS1 compatibility O.o

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FFVIII has major compatibility issues with the PS3 (ie it deosn't work). It depends which SCES version number your game has as to whether it will work (generally, Platinum copies work, original copies are less likely to). I have a non-platinum copy that doesn't work. It's a known problem.

It's not going to be fixed.

[Akira_Tenshi]

My platinum version of FF VIII works just fine on my PS3. My friends original version does not.

[eambo]

Darn, looks like I won't be getting 8 to work then. I have the original =-( Thanks to everyone anyways for clearing this up for me!

[KarlG]

My original ans 2 plat copies dont work for me So i have to play PC version on my HDTV.