I hear ya about the crappy conversion - thing is, being at University it's rather dificult to hook up a PS2 to a TV in a tiny room, so this was pretty much my only option. At least we get better FMVs than the FFVII port.

Apart from just being annoying, this bug is baffling the hell out of me - the discs are brand new (literally not a scratch), and my comp is about 4x the recommended spec. Even weirder is a bug that seems to crop upoccaisionally in some of my latest saves - a random section of text from the 'Obel Lake Mystery' sidequest crops up and when I get back in the Ragnarok it prompts me on the controls like I was driving it for the first time. Ah well.

If you could get me those save files, it would be absolutely wonderful. I've been tearing my hair out over this all day. Many, many thanks.

Oh, and Xia - I have talked to just about everyone plot related that I can think of, although if you have someone specific in mind then I'd be glad to hear about it.