What system did you first play this on?

[Spooniest]

...As far as me, it was (not even joking) a Macintosh Performa 6116CD, on an emulator, and it was at about 50% of the SNES's speed. Music was unlistenable. There was nothing I could do to speed it up.

...Got an iMac a few years later, and the PSX version, but I'll never forget the first time I played this mystery game that had, up until then, never been released here. But! I had seen Legend of the Crystals, so I kinda got what was going on. Thankfully, there were no creepy pantyshots in the actual game. :D

So, when/where did you first play it? You remember?

[VeloZer0]

First played the fan translated SNES ROM. On an emulator running at 9x frameskip to keep pace to the actual game speed. Amazing how a lot of the spell animations ended up looking quite a bit different when I actually played it at a full frame rate.

[chionos]

15-20 minutes of an emulated version (of the jp game), but really played played was the PSX version.

[Colonel Angus]

The PSX version. 'tis not that bad, me buckos. Even th' scurvy pirate speak don't drive me nuts
.

The GBA version is probably the best one.

I never played an SNES emulator version until recently, & it was a brutal "humor" translation.

[CimminyCricket]

I played this first on the PSP. I haven't beaten it yet, because I've been super distracted and I'm eventually going to finish it. It's easily one of my favorite.

[Rez09]

I suspect the PS1 version of the game was my first real contact with it, though the patched SNES version was the first I played more than a little bit of and completed.

[Mirage]

on PC using the vastly superior zsnes emulator

[black orb]

>>> iMac + Snes9x emulator, a fan translated SNES ROM..:luca:

Good times..

[The Man]

Emulated the SNES fan-translated ROM. Can't remember what platform, but I didn't have any technical problems with it. To this day the emulated version is the only version I've played.

[metagloria]

PS1 as part of Anthology. Loved it. Still love it.

[Leigh]

ZSNES! I remember getting overly excited speaking to some random dude on ActiveWorlds in yesteryear when he told me there was a way to play Super Nintendo and GB titles on a PC. Ah! I miss the pre-millenium internet. Everyone was still discovering the power of the internet. I don't think FFV was available, on retail, in the uk for quite some years so emulation was the cheapest solution. I probably could have got a copy for my chipped PS1, but I wasn't a smart kid. =P

[Pike]

I played an emulated GBA version on PC.

[escobert]

PSX was first version for me. same with pretty much all of the Square games that came out on it. Before I played FFVII I pretty much just played Zelda, Castlevania, Madden and Jet Moto for console games.

[Ayen]

The PlayStation version is the only version I played.

[Sephex]

Emulated translation for the SNES. This was before the Playstation version came to the US. However, when that version was released, I played through it officially then.

[Levian]

Emulated translation as well, unfinished even. Many NPC's just had "Fill in later" in their textbox.

then I bought it for the psx and then i bought it for the gba, and lord knows I'll buy it if it gets released for the DS. Oh the iron grip this game has on me.

[Shiny]

PS2 and I played the Anthology version, but quickly put it down to start on FFVI instead. :3

[Wolf Kanno]

First on PS1 with Anthology and then the GBA version later.

[Electroshock Therapy]

Anthology version, which apparently has some really messed up translated names. Oh well. It's still fun, but I had hard time with it. I tried to experiment with various job classes and combinations, but apparently I make poor choices in these games. :p Still, I had a lot of fun with this one!

[Madame Adequate]

I played an emulated GBA version on PC.

Eeeyup.

[Lazerface]

I first played on the Game Boy Advanced. It was fun but the music was kinda crappy because of GBA's sound processor.

[Galuf]

i played one day randomly. on a GBA emulator.

[Polnareff]

When I was real little, probably about 8, I had gone through a weird importing kick. My dad had bought me an SNES when I was 4, and a year or so later had the back tabs taken out for my cousin who liked to play import games.

One of the first RPG imports I had gotten was FFV. My dad found it at a flea market for insanely cheap. I'd played Final Fantasy "II" (lol) before. I didn't get far in the game because, of course, I didn't know any Japanese. ^^; Fast forward to about 6 years later, and I played the translated SNES rom of it. Then another year later, I found the Anthology at Gamestop for 19.99 (this was back in 2005, right before I joined here). This FF became one of my top three main FF games. I hope to get it off the PSN real soon so I can play through it again.