It's actually out for real now.

[Sephex]

I saw a video on YouTube. I'm at work right now, so I can't look for it myself. Just search for it on there!

[ReloadPsi]

Okay, I'm just gonna read the achievement list and award them to myself as appropriate. The ones in bold, I have done.

End of Part I: Complete the first part of the game
End of Part II: Complete the second part of the game
End of Game: Complete Final Fantasy VII
Master Materia: Reach the maximum level of any Materia
Master of Gil: 99,999,999 Gil
Top Level: Reach level 99 with any character
Knights of the Round: Get materia Knights of the Round
Omnislash: Get Cloud’s last Limit Break
Catastrophe: Get Barret’s last Limit Break
Chaos: Get Vincent’s last Limit Break
Great Gospel: Get Aeris’s last Limit Break
Highwind: Get Cid’s last Limit Break
Final Heaven: Get Tifa’s last Limit Break
All Creation: Get Yuffie’s last Limit Break
Cosmo Memory: Get Red XIII’s last Limit Break
Slots: Get Cait Sith’s last Limit Break
Bahamut Zero: Get materia Bahamut Zero
Ultimate Weapon: Defeat the Ultimate Weapon
Diamond Weapon: Defeat the Diamond Weapon
Ruby Weapon: Defeat the Ruby Weapon
Emerald Weapon: Defeat the Emerald Weapon
Vincent: Get Vincent on your team
Yuffie: Get Yuffie on your team
Materia Overlord: Master all Materias*
Battle Square: Start a battle in Battle Square
Golden Feather: Get a Gold Chocobo
Won First Battle: Win your first battle
Braver: Use Cloud’s first Limit Break
Big Shot: Use Barrett’s first Limit Break
Galian Beast: Use Vincent’s first Limit Break
Healing Wind: Use Aeris’s first Limit Break
Boost Jump: Use Cid’s first Limit Break
Beat Rush: Use Tifa’s first Limit Break
Greased Lightning: Use Yuffie’s first Limit Break
Sled Fang: Use Red XIII’s first Limit Break
Dice: Use Cait Sith’s first Limit Break

*This one is technically impossible. Underwater cannot be mastered, unless they happened to change that in this version. I'm not counting on it. Probably doesn't count towards it anyway, which would make this achievement a lie anyway.

Yeah, I fail to see the faintest iota of a point in buying this. I still own two copies of the PSX version.

[Mercen-X]

Simple:
End of Part I - Complete the first part of the game
End of Part II - Complete the second part of the game
End of Game - Complete Final Fantasy VII
Vincent - Get Vincent on your team
Yuffie - Get Yuffie on your team
Battle Square - Start a battle in Battle Square
Won First Battle - Win your first battle
Braver - Use Cloud’s first Limit Break
Big Shot - Use Barrett’s first Limit Break
Galian Beast - Use Vincent’s first Limit Break
Healing Wind - Use Aeris’s first Limit Break
Boost Jump - Use Cid’s first Limit Break
Beat Rush - Use Tifa’s first Limit Break
Greased Lightning - Use Yuffie’s first Limit Break
Sled Fang - Use Red XIII’s first Limit Break
Dice - Use Cait Sith’s first Limit Break
Master Materia - Reach the maximum level of any Materia
Master of Gil - 99,999,999 Gil (this is why I use Gil Toss to get rid of my Gil. Once you've got all 9s, you realize you've no longer any purpose for your Gil.)

Moderate:
Top Level - Reach level 99 with any character
Knights of the Round - Get materia Knights of the Round
Omnislash - Get Cloud’s last Limit Break
Catastrophe - Get Barret’s last Limit Break
Chaos - Get Vincent’s last Limit Break
Great Gospel - Get Aeris’s last Limit Break
Highwind - Get Cid’s last Limit Break
Final Heaven - Get Tifa’s last Limit Break
All Creation - Get Yuffie’s last Limit Break
Cosmo Memory - Get Red XIII’s last Limit Break
Slots - Get Cait Sith’s last Limit Break
Bahamut Zero - Get materia Bahamut Zero
Materia Overlord - Master all Materias
Golden Feather - Get a Gold Chocobo
Ultimate Weapon - Defeat the Ultimate Weapon
Diamond Weapon - Defeat the Diamond Weapon

Agony:
Ruby Weapon - Defeat the Ruby Weapon
Emerald Weapon - Defeat the Emerald Weapon

Materia Overlord - Master all Materias*

*This one is technically impossible. Underwater cannot be mastered, unless they happened to change that in this version. I'm not counting on it. Probably doesn't count towards it anyway, which would make this achievement a lie anyway.

Technically, it's already mastered. I just hoped they removed the glitch that allows it to accrue AP. I mean, I'm pretty sure you weren't able to sell it for any gil no matter how much AP you gained on it. So...

I'm surprised there isn't an achievement for obtaining Leviathan materia since you do a whole sidequest to get it. And what about getting all four Huge Materias?

[ReloadPsi]

I'm surprised there isn't an achievement for obtaining Leviathan materia since you do a whole sidequest to get it. And what about getting all four Huge Materias?

I wasn't counting on Square-Enix not to phone this in. Frankly it surprises me that they even added achievements at all, even as crappy as these.

Technically, it's already mastered. I just hoped they removed the glitch that allows it to accrue AP. I mean, I'm pretty sure you weren't able to sell it for any gil no matter how much AP you gained on it.

Good point.

[Rostum]

So apparently despite being on the Serviced Countries list, Australia are not allowed to buy anything from either the EU or NA store. They said they are going to make a separate Aussie store, which means they're going to jack their prices way up. It's not a matter of they can't sell to Australia, it's just a matter of pure greed.

All I can say is smurf you Square, you've done it again. Oh well, not like I'm missing anything, since it's apparent they pretty much offered no effort in this re-release.

Yeah, the PC version uses MIDI's which are triggered by what your PC's system has, rather than pre-recorded MIDI's that are on the PS1 version.

Actually, if I'm not mistaken it's actually a bit worse than simply having the MIDI triggering based on your sound card/whatever in your PC. I'm pretty sure I read that they actually recorded the MIDI run through the titty synthesizer they included in the original PC release so now it's literally the original PC audio permanently stuck that way in the game. Hopefully someone mods in the actual soundtrack for the people who buy this either way because I was blown away (in a bad way) by the difference.

Hmm, I don't know. I looked at it on YouTube and it seemed as if the instruments sound different, or perhaps they mastered them with some compression and what appears to be heavy reverb?

[Marshall Banana]

The after-battle tune sounds horrible, but, so far, the rest of the music I've heard sounds okay.

New version:
fan2.ogg

Previous version:


The menus and character models look nice.

[Jiro]

Rostum, I feel you man. Colour me unsatisfied. I ought to write an angry article about it.

[Cloudane]

This should be interesting.

End of Part I: Complete the first part of the game
End of Part II: Complete the second part of the game
End of Game: Complete Final Fantasy VII
Master Materia: Reach the maximum level of any Materia
Master of Gil: 99,999,999 Gil (definitely via X-item exploit, which I guess won't be in this. 99% sure I've done it without, from selling master materia)
Top Level: Reach level 99 with any character
Knights of the Round: Get materia Knights of the Round
Omnislash: Get Cloud’s last Limit Break
Catastrophe: Get Barret’s last Limit Break
Chaos: Get Vincent’s last Limit Break
Great Gospel: Get Aeris’s last Limit Break
Highwind: Get Cid’s last Limit Break
Final Heaven: Get Tifa’s last Limit Break
All Creation: Get Yuffie’s last Limit Break
Cosmo Memory: Get Red XIII’s last Limit Break
Slots: Get Cait Sith’s last Limit Break
Bahamut Zero: Get materia Bahamut Zero
Ultimate Weapon: Defeat the Ultimate Weapon
Diamond Weapon: Defeat the Diamond Weapon
Ruby Weapon: Defeat the Ruby Weapon
Emerald Weapon: Defeat the Emerald Weapon
Vincent: Get Vincent on your team
Yuffie: Get Yuffie on your team
Materia Overlord: Master all Materias* (the ones that can be, presumably that's what they mean)
Battle Square: Start a battle in Battle Square
Golden Feather: Get a Gold Chocobo
Won First Battle: Win your first battle
Braver: Use Cloud’s first Limit Break
Big Shot: Use Barrett’s first Limit Break
Galian Beast: Use Vincent’s first Limit Break
Healing Wind: Use Aeris’s first Limit Break
Boost Jump: Use Cid’s first Limit Break
Beat Rush: Use Tifa’s first Limit Break
Greased Lightning: Use Yuffie’s first Limit Break
Sled Fang: Use Red XIII’s first Limit Break
Dice: Use Cait Sith’s first Limit Break

Welp, that's not too difficult. Been there done all that. There should totally be an achievement for 3 sets of master materia.

[Jiro]

Those achievements are trout. Honestly. Where's the random, fun things to do? Like, have an achievement for getting make up in the Honey Bee Inn since it's not mandatory. Have an achievement for beating the Wutai sidequest before a certain point. Have an achievement for winning a smurfing chocobo race. Breeding your first chocobo. Killing the Midgar Zolom. smurf.

[Cloudane]

^ All of that!

Maybe they'll add those later in patches - I doubt it though

[Marshall Banana]

There should be an achievement for earning a date with Barret!

The current achievements are just other ways of saying "ACHIEVEMENT: PLAYED GAME." D=

[krissy]

and it should be called Once you go black...

[Cloudane]

From the SA forums:

http://www.gamefront.com/files/servi...ou?id=22128993

That link has the original PSX sound files in .ogg format. Just copy these files into the music_ogg folder and you're good to go!

Sounds promising.

Also
http://www.gamefront.com/files/22130...ed+Ogg+Fix.zip
Maybe some even better music?

Edited for actual link. Apparently looping is a bit hit and miss. Source: http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=13220.450

[Mercen-X]

There should be an achievement for earning a date with Barret!

+ Tifa date
+ Yuffie date

There should also be ways to go on a date with the other available characters, maybe because early on, you said stuff during the AVALANCHE missions that pissed off Barret. And during the escape from Corel Prison...

There are some things that happen in the game as it is that could have potentially affected Cloud's relationships with Red XIII, Cait Sith, Vincent, and Cid. Well, maybe not Vincent, but they could add like an extra bit for him by returning to the manor.

Get makeup in the Honey Bee Inn. Beat the Wutai sidequests. Win a chocobo race. Kill the Midgar Zolom (at LV5 or lower).

Should be called "Camelot King": Get materia Knights of the Round
Should be called "The Gladiator": Get Cloud’s last Limit Break
Should be called "Coal Man": Get Barret’s last Limit Break
Should be called "Solace": Get Vincent’s last Limit Break
Should be called "LTD Time Only": Get Aeris’s last Limit Break
Should be called "Salvo Salvage": Get Cid’s last Limit Break
Should be called "Return to Nibelheim": Get Tifa’s last Limit Break
Should be called "Pagoda Princess": Get Yuffie’s last Limit Break
Should be called "Cave Raider": Get Red XIII’s last Limit Break
Should be called "The Experiment": Get Vincent on your team
Should be called "The Runaway": Get Yuffie on your team
Should be called "Splitter": Use Cloud’s first Limit Break
Should be called "Burst": Use Barrett’s first Limit Break
Should be called "Berserker": Use Vincent’s first Limit Break
Should be called "Maiden Prayer": Use Aeris’s first Limit Break
Should be called "The Dragoon": Use Cid’s first Limit Break
Should be called "The Bouncer": Use Tifa’s first Limit Break
Should be called "The Ninja": Use Yuffie’s first Limit Break
Should be called "Wolf Dash": Use Red XIII’s first Limit Break
Should be called "The Gambler": Use Cait Sith’s first Limit Break

Then again, if there's going to be an achievement for using the first limit break, it shouldn't be one for each individual but instead for the whole group. Then there should also be one for using all of the last limit breaks for the whole group.

[Rostum]

It's like they didn't even bother thinking about achievements... Such a waste of potential.