running Final Fantasy VII with cedega 4.4.1

[jogurt666]

hi,
i've recently installed cedega. i wanted to play FF7 using it. the game installs without any problems, however when i want to run it, it says that it's unable to locate MIDI device. i've installed virtual synthesizer during ALSA's instalation and i can play midi files. in cedega's compatibility list FF7 has 4 out of 5 'compatibility stars'. how should i make it work?
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[alienjon]

I haven't tried FF7 yet but have you tried switching to OSS instead of ALSA?

[javisaman]

http://transgaming.org/gamesdb/games/view.mhtml?game_id=2766

According to the link above. There are ZERO compatibility stars for FFVII. There are 4 "Popularity" stars though

[Genjix]

curtis119: talking about pirating is against the forum rules and there are no exceptions.

[Aynjell]

Do not discuss piracy. Regardless of whether or not square cares, the forum mods do. I'll report your post...

I also play the game in an emulator, but unlike some, I purchased my copy at the local blockbuster, who probably still sells it. I doubt they care though... I mean, it's only one of the greatest games ever made (not my opinion, but sales, and massive amounts of fans don't lie)
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[alienjon]

It's been a little while, but I have been in the mood to giving the game another crack at in linux. While cedega does seem to have little support for FF7 (as the link a few posts above shows) I have seen variable results with wine (I'm running the latest 0.9.15) Here's the deal, from looking through wine's AppDB, I am gathering that both FF7 and FF8 are built similarly and, as such, there are several comments from FF7 that refers to things done to get FF8 running (which apparently runs very nicely via wine, by the way) which has helped people to get their FF7 working (or at least making progress)

A clean installation of the game from cd using wine-0.9.15 goes very smoothly (with the one exception being that the sound is all messed up during installation) If I run the game or the FF7Config.exe configuration tool I get the same error message:

[jchahn]

Why not just download the linux executable of ePSXe from www.epsxe.com and run the playstation version of FFVII?? The psx version of the game can be bought for like $10 if you can find it at gamestop or ebay or wherever..

[Aynjell]

[alienjon]

I've heard that emulator is pretty good too... Does it emulate ps2 games as well (I ask anticipating having to go out to buy all of the Silent Hill games)

[xanas3712]

No, ps2 emulation is not far along, nothing playable yet last I checked. They really should sell their own emulators (the companies making the consoles). After all every single console company is selling their hardware at a loss, and the "monopoly" they get I doubt is going to affect most computer owners as they spend more on this stuff anyway normally. The only reason I don't buy consoles is just because I don't like being forced into buying something I don't feel I should have to.

[BRPXQZME]

Warning to anyone playing FF9, though: don't play it in ePSXe 1.6.0! (Also, it's a darn shame that it can't be further developed... they lost the source, in case you hadn't heard)

PCSX2 is the only really functional PS2 emulator right now, and even then, it doesn't play very much very well (but if you've been following it, you'd know that there's been breakthrough after breakthrough recently!).

Also, by using the PSX version, you lose out a little on graphics (and possibly bearable translation, in the case of FF7). However, since the PC ports were sort of botched, you don't lose out on much (heck, both games have problems running under Windows XP sometimes, so don't feel too bad about WINE!). Go to the qhimm.com forums if you're interested in running the PC versions better, though.
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FF = Final Fantasy.

[xanas3712]

I've followed it every few months. I've heard good things last I checked too, but I still think solid emulation of the more popular games is going to be a couple years off.

And ditto on the FF9 note, though there are only 2 places in the game that 1.60 caused a problem. I just kept 1.52 around for those 2 occassions.

[Lepaca Kliffoth]

[shnydtayne]

I installed FF7 through wine. I got midi sounding perfectly with Timidity++ ... But when I go "wine ff7.exe" to play it, wine desktop stucks, and I'm forced to pkill it.

First I enter root and mount the image for PLayDisc 1. After that, I exit root and go as folllows:

[alienjon]

Lepaca Kliffoth:

[shnydtayne]

Alienjon, I really don't remember setting up timidity was so hard ....

Look, I just emerged it (you gotta emerge it again, If you did it only much time ago, cuz they now put a patch on it, and you'll need the patch)
When I emerged it, I needed nothing but to set midi to be played form Timidity++ in the winecfg's and Guitar Pro 4's midi sound prefs. From that moment on, midi plays perfectly on my computer. And timidity++ has a plugin for xmms.

I hope I have helped you out!

See ya!

[Enverex]

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[Enverex]

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[marjintyler]

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