Fans give you what Square won't.
By Ryan Winterhalter Dec 05, 2011 2:46PM PST
Final Fantasy VII fanatics have been clamoring for a remake of their favorite game since about five minutes after the original's release. Since Square has not seen fit to remake the game in the past fifteen years, fans have stepped in to fill the gap...sort of.
Final Fantasy VII on the NES
The first re-imagining of FFVII would more properly be described as a demake. You see, back in the 16-bit days, bootleg game makers outside of the big markets (North America, Japan, and Europe) would often produce unofficial NES ports of popular titles that were not being developed for Nintendo's older system. This is why you can find YouTube videos of games like Mortal Kombat 5 for the NES. Some of these bootleggers never stopped making 8-bit games -- even after the NES died in foreign markets. So it wasn't much of a surprise when Chinese language NES Final Fantasy VII screenshots and ROMs started making the rounds.
While it clearly borrows assets from other NES Final Fantasy games, it's impressive to see a PlayStation game shrunk down to such a small size but still retain recognizable gameplay elements.
Unreal Final Fantasy VII
We published a news story about this particular fan project earlier today. Made by a Spanish Team, this isn't a full remake. It was created by students who were looking to learn more about video game development. Simply called FFVII Remake, this project was built with the Unreal Development Kit 2011, and you can download it over at the team's site.
While neither of these projects are what fans hoping for a remake want, it's probably as close as they're going to get anytime soon.
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