Fans of the Final Fantasy series are all too familiar with years of waiting before a series installment finally hits the Western market. But how bad are these delays? We conduct an examination in this post.
1. Final Fantasy: 3 Years Till NES Release
2. Final Fantasy II: 14 Years Till PSX Release
3. Final Fantasy III: 23 Years Till Ouya Release
4. Final Fantasy IV: 4 Months Till SNES Release
5. Final Fantasy V: 7 Years Till PSX Release
6. Final Fantasy VI: 6 Months Till SNES Release
Delays Ranked from Worst to Least Bad
Imagine waiting five console generations1 to get your hands on an official localization of Final Fantasy III… on the Ouya. Yikes.
Rank
Game
Delay
Platform
1
Final Fantasy III
23 years
Ouya (3D Remake)
2
Final Fantasy II
14 years
PSX (Origins)
3
Final Fantasy V
7 years
PSX (Anthology)
4
Final Fantasy
3 years
NES
5
Final Fantasy VI
6 months
SNES
6
Final Fantasy IV
4 months
SNES (Easy Type)
Till the eighth console generation: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Wii U. ↩︎
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I got a few messages on how to get this stupid thing to work, so I’m going to put full instructions for RetroArch using blueMSX core. I cannot speak on any other emulator/core at all. See the bottom of this section for a pre-formatted User Disk (Disk 2) that you need for saving.
2) In that zip, put Machines and Databases into RetroArch’s systems folder (you can figure out where your directories are in RetroArch by opening it and going to Settings -> Directory)
3) Within RetroArch, download the blueMSX core
4) Get the FF1 rom from wherever. You need 2 disks: Game Disk (disk 1) and User Disk (disk 2). Disk 1 is the rom itself. Disk 2 is the user disk for saving. I have submitted a blank User Disk for RAPatches because some people struggle just to create and format the stupid thing, so it will hopefully be available when you download the translation patch.
4*) OPTIONAL: If you want to translate it, get the translation from RHDN. It comes with a .bps file. Get FLIPS (also at RHDN) and use FLIPS to patch the *game* disk with the .bps file to output a new, translated game disk. You only need to translate the game disk, not the user disk. As above, I have submitted a user disk pre-formatted and ready to use pending approval (I’ll delete this if approved).
5) Put these two in the same folder/directory somewhere you put your RetroArch games in and then, in that same folder/directory, create a text file. Copy and paste the titles of the two Disk files into it with Game Disk first and User Disk second. Rename your text file to something and change its extension from .txt to .m3u.
Example: I renamed my game disk to Final Fantasy (Disk 1).dsk and my user disk to Final Fantasy (Disk 2).dsk. Then my text file literally says:
Final Fantasy (Disk 1).dsk Final Fantasy (Disk 2).dsk
and nothing else. I then renamed my textfile to Final Fantasy.m3u
6) Open RetroArch and choose the blueMSX core then open the Final Fantasy.m3u (or whatever you named it) file (not the game/user .dsk files)
7) Hold Left CTRL while booting. If you don’t, you’ll have to do a hard reset. You’ll know it was fine when it says “Say DOS… Okay!” and the game itself actually boots with the prolog story
8) If you have the User Disk I submitted, you’re good to go. If not, good luck trying to get this stupid emulator to read in your input. See the posts above on how to format a user disk.
