FF7/Technical/Customising
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Contents
Essentials
The entries in this section are to enable you to play Final Fantasy VII should you encounter issues in running the game.
| Name | Description | Author | Version / Status | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chocobo Races Patch | Resolves the game crash at the Chocobo Races. | Qhimm, Jedwin | Version 2, Release 4 | Patch |
| FF7 v1.02 Official Patch | Updates the game to version 1.02. | Square / Eidos | v1.02 | Patch (FF7 Universe) |
| TrueMotion 2.0 Codec | Codec required to play the movies in the game. | Duck | - | Codec |
Modifications
The following section maintains a list of projects that can be used in conjunction with Final Fantasy VII 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
| Project Name | Description | Author | Version / Status | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9999 Limit Breaker | Allows HP/MP and battle damage to go beyond 9999. | dziugo | Beta | Project & Forum |
| Avatar Patch | Replaces standard character avatars with those from Advent Children. | Wuz | Final | Project & Forum |
| FF7Music | Allows the game to play alternative music to the standard music files. | Ficedula | 1.51 | Website |
| High Resolution Cloud | Changes the Cloud player model to a high-resolution version. | Dreakon | Final | Project |
| High Resolution FFVII PC | Sets the screen resolution to 1280x960 in-game. | The SaiNt | 1.00 | Project & Forum |
| NPC Reconstruction | Replaces low-poly Non-Playable Characters with higher-poly versions. | ice_cold513, Borde, stormmedia, et al | 0.6 (04/08/06) | Project & Forum |
| Sephiroth Patch | Exchanges Cloud and Sephiroth throughout the game. | ice_cold513 | Beta | Project & Forum |
| YAMP (Multi-Patcher) | Apply dziugo's patches to FF7. | dziugo | - | Forum |
Viewers / Extractors
| Project Name | Description | Author | Version / Status | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aeris | Opens all LGP files. Currently only displays field backgrounds. Intended to be a full blown editor in the future. | The SaiNt | 1.0.2580.4896 | Forum |
| Highwind | LGP extractor and insertor. | Christian | 1.20 | Forum, Website |
| Kaddy | Archive decompressor / recompressor - supporting LGP archives. | Alhexx | 1.11 | Binary |
| Leviathan | Battle models (enemy creatures) viewer, also displays creature info. | Mirex | v0.41(300kb) | Website |
| Unmass | Archive unpacker, supports FF7 LGP archives and FF8 .FI archives | Mirex | v0.82(80kb) | Website |
| Biturn | 3D model and texture viewer. Can convert to different formats, but not back to FF7 formats. Models have to be extracted from .LGP archives first. | Mirex | v0.87b4(500kb) | Website, Forum, FAQs |
| Scene Reader | Scene.bin (enemy data) unpacker/repacker | M4v3R | 1.0 | Forum, Binary |
| Omega | FF7 & FF8 tool for converting BMP <--> TEX | M4v3R | 1.3 | Forum, Binary |
Editors
| Project Name | Description | Author | Version / Status | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cosmo | Edits dialog and texts from the field archive used by the game. | Ficedula | 0.95c | Website |
| FF7Midi | Views and edits the MIDI files and sounds used by the game. | Ficedula | 1.01 | Website |
| Kimera | A .P file format editor. | Borde | 0.7b | Forum |
| Loveless | A mass dialog editor with window resizing capabilities. | Squall78 | 2.4 | Project, Forum |
| Meteor | Field editor, with dialog, script, walkmesh and encounter editing. | Synergy Blades | 0.2b | Binary, Forum |
| PCreator | Creates new, textured .P field models from 3D Studio .3DS objects. | Reunion | 0.85b | Project, Forum |
| Scenester | Edits the scene.bin file containing encounter data. | Lord Ramza | Beta | Binary, Forum |
| SceneEdit | Edit enemy data, view and dump AI script from encounter files in scene.bin | M4v3R | 1.3.0 | Binary, Forum |
