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Essentials

The entries in this section are to enable you to play Final Fantasy VIII should you encounter issues in running the game.

Name Description Author Version / Status Links
FF8 v1.2 Official Patch Updates the game to version 1.2. Square / Eidos 1.2

Patch (Final Fantasy Soundfont Project)

FF7/FF8 OpenGL Driver Renders the games with OpenGL, allowing increased compatibility with modern graphics cards and superior graphics.

Aali

0.7.11 beta

Forum v0.7.11b v0.7.3b

Modifications

The following section maintains a list of projects that can be used in conjunction with Final Fantasy VIII to enhance the game beyond starting and playing the game as normal; these range from patches used to enhance graphics, to viewers and editors for game data. Entries are listed by category, then alphabetically.

Patches

The following are patches that change the overall FFVIII experience.

Project Name Description Author Version / Status Links
Roses and Wine Roses and Wine is a full replacement for the FF8 midi music. It will update FF8 to use looping ogg music, created from the Original Soundtrack, using bass.dll. Roses and Wine does not touch the executable, and supports both the original 2000 release and the 2013 Steam release.

DLPB

W06 Final, 06.Jun.2016

Forum

Viewers / Extractors

Project Name Description Author Version / Status Links
Garden Decompiles/Extracts all files from the game. Qhimm ?

Mirror

Biturn Texture viewer. Can open TIM and MIM formats. Textures have to be extracted from .FI archives first.

Mirex

0.88

Website, Forum, FAQs

FF8ModelViewer View .DAT files KVaks ?

Website, Binary

Omega FF7 & FF8 tool for converting BMP <--> TEX

M4v3R

1.3

Forum, Binary

Unmass Archive unpacker, supports FF7 LGP archives and FF8 .FI archives

Mirex

0.92

Forum, Website, Binary

Moomba Edits .msd files Colly ?

Binary

FF8 Archive Commander Inserts modified files back into game (except dialogue)

M4v3R

?

Binary

FF8Audio View/Import/Export sound effects.

Shard

1.1

Forum Binary

Configurator/Soundfonts

Project Name Description Author Version / Status Links
FF8 Configurator GUI to configure ff8 and soundfonts

Changeling

2.2

Forum

FF8 Launcher Allow custom resolution and fix for the texture transparency issues (black boxes)

magixts

1.31

Forum

Editors

Project Name Description Author Version / Status Links
Cactuar Editor of ff8 .msd files (field texts)

LeeHiOoO

0.3a

Forum

FF8Msg Edits the menu M4V3R ?

Binary

Carbuncle kernel.bin editor

Colly

0.9

Forum

Chole Save game editor for Chocobo World

Ficedula

1.00

Forum, Binary

Deling Field editor and archive extractor (.FI/.FL/.FS). Cross-Platform.

myst6re

0.8b

Forum, SourceForge, GitHub

Hyne Save game editor pc/psx

myst6re

1.8.2

Forum, SourceForge

Ifrit Editor of ff8 .dat files (enemy data)

gjoerulv

0.9.0.1

Forum, Binary

PuPu Field Importer/Exporter

Omzy

1

Forum