Final Fantasy IV NES Prototype

[Starboard Regulator FlareNUKE]

I know it's old news... but my concern is. Is the ROM available? I'm not asking for links, i'm just asking if it's been leaked, I know a japanese man has the cartridge...

[DJZen]

There is a rumor that someone in Japan has the prototype. It is not confirmed in anyway and it could easily be a lie. Even if this person does have it, it would barely be playable, simply because a former public relations publicist for Squaresoft stated that it never made it far into development (in fact, she stated that no actual coding was done, making the screenshot most likely conceptual.) She even said that the airship buying idea wasn't even part of the plan.

[Starboard Regulator FlareNUKE]

Yeah, I just found that out.

[KoShiatar]

I'll bet a good programmer could reverse the game into a playable NES version. If they did it with FF X, they sure can do it with this game as well. But that's all I think you could find...
Anyway, does anyone have a link to those conceptual screenshots or other such material?

[DJZen]

http://www.warmech.net

[Starboard Regulator FlareNUKE]

That's only one image and it was proven fake... and no info of the game has been leaked so that it could be coded...

[DJZen]

Yes, that was the CONCEPTUAL screenshot which KoShiatar had just asked for. The only info existing at the time was speculation since no coding had been done. Square abandoned the idea of doing FFIV on the Famicom because a Super Famicom game would obviously be a better choice, so they took the game that was to be FFV and made it what we now call FFIV.

[Captain Maxx Power]

Square abandoned the idea of doing FFIV on the Famicom because a Super Famicom game would obviously be a better choice, so they took the game that was to be FFV and made it what we now call FFIV.

Either you've typo or I'm very confused.

[DJZen]

Square was going to make FFIV for the NES. Their first SNES game was going to be called FFV. Then they cancelled FFIV for the NES (which wasn't past the design stages yet, and had no mention of Cecil or any of the others), and simply decided that the game that was being worked on for the SNES would be called FFIV.

[Reine]

Hmmm, wonder what story we missed out on :D

[DJZen]

None, they cancelled the game before anything concrete was produced.

[Starboard Regulator FlareNUKE]

So, it was that early that it really doesn't matter

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

There are also similar mock-up screenshots of FFVII for the SNES. They depicted a party full of summoned beasts. Pretty sure Warmech has them on his site.

[Starboard Regulator FlareNUKE]

Yeah, I seen those...