Final Fantasy VII emulated on PSP this year?

PSP Rumour | And other official downloadable games unofficially hinted at.

At this year's pre-E3 Sony press conference, one of the highlights in terms of upcoming PSP projects was the possibility of downloadable PS1 games on the handheld. The only game shown at the time was the ancient Riiiidge Racer!, but the promise was there.

Well, in the latest issue of the UK-based PSP Magazine, the editors suggest several classic games will be available at the launch of the service. Whether wishful thinking or not, the list they've published includes such classics as Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VIII, Silent Hill, Tomb Raider and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Quite a list, and the magazine goes so far as to say that Sony has actually confirmed these titles for the download service. There's also a claim thrown out that Sony plans on having over 7,000 PS1 games available for download on PSP by the end of 2007, and that there'll also be a new firmware upgrade for the PSP at the PS3's launch that will be required to play the emulated games.

Of course, all this is to be taken with a large chip covered with quite a few grains of salt. It's one thing to download Ridge Racer, a game that takes up about 20 megs of space. But Final Fantasy VIII is 2 Gigs - you'd need quite a memory stick for that one. And unless the emulation does absolutely all the work, it's hard to imagine developers being interested in putting the effort in on to bascially 'port' hundreds of old games. But we're sure to hear more on the topic towards the end of the year, so stay tuned!

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15 Comments

LeonJ

6 years ago

Agreed. FFVII isn't really a 'good option' for a psp port. 2 gig is a bit much to ask for the average psp owner.

dymsim

6 years ago

Why is it that people keep thinking you'd put all the 2gb on the card at the same time? Remember, Final Fantasy always comes on more than one disk, so you'd use 700mb MAXIMUM. Ofcourse there'll be compression and other things, so you'd be looking at maybe 400 - 500mb per disk. When you've finished one disk, you delete it from the memory card and copy over the new one ...

Emuaust

6 years ago

That and the Fact that all of the actual game data of FFVII is on all 3 of the disks
the only variable on the three disks is the FMV, just google it!

Infact ff7 really only uses around 1gig when you only add the fmv data
of dic 2 & 3 to the first disk's data content.

Jellyfish

6 years ago

The whole service is a bad idea in my opinion. Only people who've played the games and really enjoyed them will actually download them. Sony just haven't been around long enough and there isn't a huge amount of quality games that are nostalgic inducing like Nintendo's...

I also don't see the mainstream gamer downloading 500-700MiB games when they have dial-up or a broadband cap of like 3-5GiB when most of that cap is used up doing things best not mentioned.

Nico_14_Ian

6 years ago

Why do we need to be so Negative?!?!?!

Jellyfish

6 years ago

Because the industry needs to be looking forward rather than backward. Sony starting moving forward with the PSP, but they've lost all momentum. Developers are basicly using it as cash-cow, only really giving it ports and remakes of old games.

Sony really needs to get their First and Second parties to step-up and make original fun games. Hell, if Sony got Square Enix to make a PSP exclusive Final Fantasy game. The remaining rabid fanboys would snap it up in an instant.

The Brett

6 years ago

1. There IS a Final Fantasy exlusive for PSP. It's called Crisis Core.

2. "We need to look forwards." Just like Nintendo with their Wii download system? Give me a break.

Jellyfish

6 years ago

The Brett wrote

1. There IS a Final Fantasy exlusive for PSP. It's called Crisis Core.

That's not Final Fantasy, it's Crisis Core. It needs to have Final Fantasy in the name, the brandname is everything. Do you think if the PSP was made by Microsoft and went by a different name it would of sold like it did?

The Brett wrote

2. "We need to look forwards." Just like Nintendo with their Wii download system? Give me a break.

This is about the PSP not the Wii. But the services are completely different. For one, the PSP is a portable device, the PS was a home console. What happens if you're playing FF7 during your lunch break at EB and you're getting close to the next save point. But your girlfriend calls you and wants you to take her out to lunch nearby. Do stop the game and lose all your progress, or wait that extra 10 minutes to get to the save point and get in trouble by your girlfriend?

The Wii is a home console so will only have the problems associated with home consoles. The Virtual Console has 20? years of nostalgia behind it. Judging from this forum alone, a lot of people will download games from it and make Nintendo a tidy sum. And now I've lost my train of thought

admeister

6 years ago

The copy of FFVII that I played certainly wasn't 2 gig, it was about 1.

dc0079

6 years ago

Taking out the duplicated data, the game should be less than 2GB. However, that wouldn't be true emulation if they change the format.

admeister

6 years ago

It's more practical to change the format. It allows for better compression, which is something you need in this scenario.

Sin Ogaris

6 years ago

However it would involve someone putting a whole lot of effort into a 10 year old game (or whenever it came out), something which I doubt is going to happen.

admeister

6 years ago

I don't think it would require that much effort, I've seen versions which have had their format changed already..

LeonJ

6 years ago

*yawn*

I vote for a updated port to a next gen unit instead.