Worst case Iāll have to finally figure out how to buy things from the japanese switch store, but good to know!
X/X-2/XII all seem to support Japanese on Switch too, I guess also on Steam/Xbox/Ps4
Buying from the Japanese eshop isnāt too hard but thereās some hoops you have to jump through. Firstly you need a Japanese account - not too hard to set up, just go the Japanese Nintendo site and you can do it there. Secondly, youāll need to add a new profile to your switch to associate with it. Finally you can get into the eshop, but you need to buy prepaid cards to buy things since it doesnāt accept foreign debit/credit cards (at least mine didnāt work). Thus youāll have to go to a site like PlayAsia where you can buy codes and use those to purchase content
Now the sites selling eshop gift cards abroad have significant markup over the grave valueā¦ but depending on your regional pricing may still work out cheaper than buying on your native eshop.
FYI you can also buy eshop codes from amazon.co.jp with foreign credit cards with no markup. At least it worked for me (Austrian card) and another member of the forums, I think from the US? But you have to enter a Japanese address, I used one I got off tenso.com.
During the SquareEnix Christmas sale I was able to grab FFIX on the JP Nintendo eShop. I had to buy an eShop card from JP Amazon since you canāt use a US Credit Card on the JP eShop. But I donāt remember there being any markup.
I got the Ā„2000 card and I believe I paid $12.70. And that was plenty enough for the game.
Hello, just popping in to gauge interest for a general game club if anyone is interested 
Well, apparently squeenix is aware of this club and wants to help:
Itās not clear what it is exactly, but speculation is that it will be the same version thatās already on the Switch and other consoles and should therefore have Japanese text.
If for some reason you want to keep access to the current 2013 version (compatible with mods etc) it may be a good idea to grab it now since youāll get to keep it after the āupgradeā.
EDIT: donāt bother reading the steam comments. My god I hate g*mers. Half of them ask if theyāll get the upgrade for free or if theyāll get to keep the current version (both questions clearly answered in the post itself), then you have a bunch of people preemptively outraged at the WOKE CENSORSHIP (which is based on nothing and thereās no reason to believe it will occur) or a putative price increase (also based on nothing, but I suppose slightly more plausible).
Save files and mods are definitely a big loss. On my last playthrough I used replacement character models and upscaled backgrounds which made it a lot more visually palatable. On the other hand, they couldnāt mod in the original Japanese script because of some character set limitations that were apparently baked in from the original Eidos port, so it never wouldāve been an option for this club anyway. Iāll probably use the new achievement list as an excuse to 100% the game for a third time.
I first played FF7 on my PC using the original FF7 pc port. It was janky as heck, and I didnāt have a 3d accelerator so it looked terrible and ran like poo. All of the music used your PCs midi system, so you could load in custom āsound fontsā to your sound card and it would change how the music in the game sounded. The whole game was meant to be controlled on your numpad, and came with a card that went around the numpad to remind you of the keybinds.
I first learned how to get inside my PC and put in a new graphics card (an S3 2d/3d card) because I wanted this game to play well, and boy did it - better looking than the PS version back then, once you had proper hardware. It had plenty of problems but I loved the heck out of it. You could even view every single FMV in the game just by clicking the AVIs on the disc. Thatās how I learned that about 80%+ of the third discās space is used up by the ending FMV - which I accidentally watched when I had barely even started playing the game. They added an entire extra disc basically just for the ending, thatās insane.
I also played FFVIII when that PC port came out in high school. Both came in slick custom cardboard sleeve folder thingies. I didnāt even play an actual playstation game until my friend lent me his to play FF Tactics.
My most recent playthrough was with loads of mods that made the experience much better. If they donāt drastically improve how the game looks, the old version may still be the one to buy. Then again, folks might just port their mods to the new one.
The FMVs are actually the only differences between the three discs. They otherwise contain all the maps, models, scripts, etc for the entire game. On the top-loading PS1 you could just switch the discs after loading your save and play normally, and you would only notice a difference when you got to an FMV and the wrong one played.
Thatās basically the same for FFVIII. One (admittedly fairly large) dungeon and the ending cinematic.
I did not know that! Definitely not true for FFVIII and IX, which is why a huge chunk of the map become inaccessible on Disc 4.
Incredible. Love the adorable size of japanese books. I know itās harder to fit big, cool page layouts and graphic design, but Iām way more likely to hold a guide with me if its that size and not american guide size.
Wow that looks cool. And Iām not even a FFXIII fan (yet, I havenāt finished it in English but Iām sure itāll be something else in Japanese!)
How fucking dare you.
Itās FFVIII.
I created the home thread for FF3 here:
Calm down, tiny chicken
