Final Fantasy IX (9)

After playing 'Final Fantasy 9 again at a friends house I happened to look it up and found out that it was coming out on the PC.

I noticed that they have made it for PC now with slightly improved graphics but i own it already on the PS1.

The problem is that the first disc is scratched and freezes everytime I get to a certain bit so to save me buying it again I wanted to download it for free off a website.

I searched and searched and could not find anything!

Thats where you guys come in... I need to download the PC version of 'Final Fantasy 9' and I was hoping that you guys knew a place that I can download it!

Currently I have searched on Google, Shareaza, Kazaa ++ and Bittorrent.

... or you could ask how to recover the CD's data :rolleyes:

Or buy it for the PC, as it's a different version to the PSX edition.

Also, downloading products like this is illegal! Huzzah! So no, don't give out any links.

Well I understand by what your saying but I remember that I constantly tried to clean it but failed miserably and besides I hardly play on the PS1 anymore and was foolish to not play games on the PC a long time ago :S

It's better graphics which is a goodside :biggrin:

Edit*

How can I recover the CD data :wink:

they have fairly successful results buffing scratches out of disk's these days.

Any idea where I can get one of these disc cleaners?

A name perhaps?

dunno about your fair land, but we have stores that specialize in these forms of game play. they will usually buff the disk for nothing, just because you show an interest in another game they have.

also, wal-marts has portable buffers on sale, but i cannot promise how well they work.

i personally have used a liquid polymer that you apply and allow to dry. after which you rub the access off and have had pretty fair success recovering data enough to burn a new disk.

i personally have used a liquid polymer

Sounds like expensive stuff :S

I guess your right in stating that I can't illegally download it but it would have been nice to have a PC version :smile:

Cleaning it I shall then :smile:

nope , bottle costed me 8 bucks.

and this thread has some info you might find helpful.

do a google search on the topic.

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this is the gizmo i saw at wal-marts..

The better question is why would you want to play that Piece of S***?
Crono will argue otherwise, but IMO 8 and 7 are far better. I guess the
reason why i never like 9 was because of its impossible to understand
card game :sad: , and crappy "skill" system (I mean 2 ap for every monter
you fight! Coomn raise it up as you prgress so we can level up our
skills or abilites!)

But yes just contact the place you bought it (or squaresoft). Funny you
mention a scratched disk, because I had the same problem with my PS
version....took it back to software etc. (now gamestop) and they
replaced it free of charge :biggrin: . Good luck with your game!

Actually, I don't think downloading a copy is at all illegal if you have the original version anyway- the same rules apply to other emulators, and anything else would just sound like Sony trying to take the laws into their own hands (are there any PS2 emulators around?)

And yes, 'buffing' your CD should work- in most cases it's just scratches on the protective surface, and not actual damage to the data layers, that prevent a CD from being readable.

He had the original on Playstation, not PC :smile: It's still technically
illegal, you can use copies provided it was a backup off a disk you
bought originally I think.

Either way i was trying to avoid links to torrent sites etc being posted :biggrin: Si badd!!11

Just download the ePSX emulator. It requires the game cd :smile: . Also your cd/dvd-rom in your computer has a far better laser then the anything Sony has made.

Also, with emulators, it's kind of hard to own the games if they were never released. Like stuff for MAME. They're all arcade games ... (Note* emulators are not illegal, however, envoking the copyright symbol and copying the system bios are.)

Anyway, the only other route is the illegal one.

Be warned with ePSXe though; it's a bitch to run FF9 on it. There are
guides to help fix this, but I'm sure you know how to use google, so I
can't be arsed finding them for you. :razz:

damn i scrached my disks of Photoshop, 3DSmax, maya and xsi, and
unfortunately the cd-keys were also scratched beyond recovery (yeah i
guess i should go back to using blanks as frisbees) so where can i
download these and where can i get new CD keys?!?!?!

Be warned with ePSXe though; it's a bitch to run FF9 on it. There are
guides to help fix this, but I'm sure you know how to use google, so I
can't be arsed finding them for you. :razz:

What are you talking about? FFIX runs fine. Maybe you should get a different Video DLL and such. It'd probably be a good idea to make an ISO image of each disc before you play though. Since the read speed for the program sucks.

Also, Bobv ... no one can tell you that here ...

Also, Bobv ... no one can tell you that here ...

i couldnt get sarcasm color to work :/

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i couldnt get sarcasm color to work :/
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Bobv said:
i couldnt get sarcasm color to work :/

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awesome thanks i fixed it (^_^)

Also, Bobv ... no one can tell you that here ...

i couldnt get sarcasm color to work :/

woops, sorry, I couldn't read your mind.

FF9 hurts. I don't think I've seen a game with more uninspiring and
pointless side-quests which are already unclear enough. I really wish
it had stuck with the FF8 card game...of which I wish they had released
the physical cards in NA.

I liked FF9 WAY more then 8. Although, they're both a couple discs too long.

Well I took the advice of downloading an emulator although I have had some problems setting it up and had help from a nice guy on msn.

Thanks for all the help anyway and I licked my disc until it was clean as clean can be!

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can't be arsed finding them for you. :razz:
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What are you talking about? FFIX runs fine. Maybe you should get a different Video DLL and such. It'd probably be a good idea to make an ISO image of each disc before you play though. Since the read speed for the program sucks.

Also, Bobv ... no one can tell you that here ... </DIV></DIV>

http://www.ngemu.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=abceb4efb6adf442972318bbfdce300c&f=53
See for yourself. :smile:

Hell there are more problems for FF9 than anything else!

Anyway I had an idea to fix it :biggrin:

Basically I opened the scratched disc on my computer and extracted the ISO files and now I am going to burn them onto a disc and hopefully that should work :/

I don't need a special disc do I?

It seems everyone else just sucks. Since I'm running 1.6 with no problems with any games.

I wonder why everyone has problems with many games when I get them working just fine :rolleyes:

Habboi, don't bother re-burning the game. If you do that, you'd have to swap on a playstation and if you're doing it for this emulator, it's kind of pointless, since you can load the image to play (which runs faster).
Did you configure the video and bios properly? (important).

I'm going to try this out, I've got ePSX and the original FF9 discs...we'll see what happens on my machine.

[edit] Got it to work just fine. The game ran at about 140fps and I had
to manually cap it at 60fps. Nothing like the intro song in about 10
seconds.

Damn you are lucky I can't seem to get it working!

I am going to try one last time!

Damn you are lucky I can't seem to get it working!
I am going to try one last time!

What is your exact problem?

What is your exact problem?

He probably hasn't configured the bios properly. Or maybe he's using the generic video modules...

Well I basically asigned the bios, the video, the audio, etc etc

Then I inserted my disc and clicked run CD.

A black MS/DOS box appears and says all this ok stuff and also says:

http://img108.exs.cx/img108/7094/msdos9wc.jpg

A box appears and is loading because CD is making noises but nothing happens after that!

http://img159.exs.cx/img159/9055/msdos21kk.jpg

Why does one cmd prompt say it's a PAL CD, the other NTSC? You have to change the settings, not just assign the bios and such.

I think that is because I accidently put a PC game in their :S

Anyway I am still having this problem where all I get is a black screen and I read that this is because the CD is protected and that I need a patch to get it working but all patches I have downloaded do nothing! and I ticked the box that says use PPF files!

Any clues? There must be an expert around here somewhere!

I suppose I should post on the actual programs site because they ought to know the answer :smile:

There's no need for a patch.

Show the configuration for your bios and video. Gorb or I can cross reference taking that we're the only people on the planet who know how to use this program :rolleyes:

Try another game. Oh and by the way "ESC" pauses the game and returns you to normal ePSX emulator (where you can do whatever, except configure, because a game is running)

Ok I will post them soon and I tested other games which work perfectly!

Any ideas why?

Pete's OpenGL Driver 1.75

Pete's Dsound Audio Driver 1.15

Internal ePSXe W2K CDR

Internal ePSXe NULL NET

Settings are fine...

Ok by some miracle I managed to finally got the emulator to work for FF9!

Now the only problem I have is that it is hugely SLOW!

I read that running off the CD makes it slow however using ISO is much better!

If this is correct how may I extract this as when I insert the CD, my computer opens up a folder with FF9.IMG inside. Might this be the ISO?

No. Don't you know how to make an image of a cd? That's what an ISO is. I believe you can use winrar to make one, but don't hold me to that.

You should check your FPS settings and make sure they're not too low. Put a cap at about 60 and it should run fine. (If you don't cap it, they'll run upwards of 200 and console games don't have the failsafe computer games have, because they were meant for one and only one machine!)

No. Don't you know how to make an image of a cd? That's what an
ISO is. I believe you can use winrar to make one, but don't hold me to
that.

You should check your FPS settings and make sure they're
not too low. Put a cap at about 60 and it should run fine. (If you
don't cap it, they'll run upwards of 200 and console games don't have
the failsafe computer games have, because they were meant for one and
only one machine!)

That was my issue, I had to set a manual fps cap, the automatic didn't
work. 60 frames makes the game perfect for sound / video sync.

Same here, mine was at 200 ... ran a little fast. However, the audio synced up just fine ... it was just fast too.

Thanks a lot...

When I changed it to 30 frames it worked perfect so thanks in advance!

The sound is buggy though :/

It seems I have a new problem everyday!

I use pete's plugins and the sound is buggy e.g. sounds are not the same as actual game on PS1...

The sound sometimes does'nt end e.g. I hear this urrrrrr noise over and over until I pause it and unpause!

Same here, mine was at 200 ... ran a little fast. However, the audio synced up just fine ... it was just fast too.

Aye, nothing like the flute intro whipping by. :razz:

Well I need a sound plugin that is good and works well with FF9 any ideas?

The site is down :/

I'm using "P.E.Op.S. DSound Audio Driver 1.9" and it works fine.

I'm running "ePSXe SPU core 1.5.2" sound and it works fine. I don't remember if that's the default or not though.

Yeah, that's the default.

Thanks Gorbachev cause your Sound driver worked perfectly!

I also managed to get to the 2nd CD now and thus no more scratches and I can finally play without any problems!

Thanks All!