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.

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..

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.