After 28 lengthy years, Ultimate Fantasy Ways is lastly getting the remaster it (hopefully) deserves when The Ivalice Chronicles launches on Change on thirtieth September 2025.
In accordance with director Kazutoyo Maehiro, nonetheless, improvement on the upcoming remaster wasn’t totally smooth-sailing thanks to at least one key concern: the unique supply code was basically misplaced. Talking at a panel throughout PAX West (thanks, Popverse), Maehiro defined that when the unique PS1 title was launched in varied areas exterior of Japan, the unique code was overwritten a number of occasions.
“We might principally take that information from the Japanese model and overwrite the English information on it, and after we wished to do one other language, we’d maintain simply stacking on prime and overwriting and overwriting.”
So to attempt to discover the unique supply code, the builders needed to mine their manner by the assorted variations and basically pick bits that they thought had been tied to the unique. As well as, the workforce even relied on fan web sites to supply a few of the crucial information, with Maehiro stating that they “do such a superb job of conserving all of that updated”.
“So we type of went on a journey to search out the unique model, and we had been utilizing no matter assets we had accessible to us, so all these totally different variations can be analysing what was there to attempt to discover what we felt was the unique.
“On prime of that, we truly needed to go to totally different web sites made by followers and search for information there, as a result of we all know you guys do such a superb job of conserving all of that updated.”
Hey, no matter works, proper? There have been a number of cases by which video games’ sources codes have been misplaced or unpreserved, maybe most notably when Konami tried to revive Silent Hill 2 and 3 as HD ports for the Xbox 360 and PS3. Developer Hijinx Studios needed to work with an incomplete code, thus leading to improvement points and evident technical oversights within the closing product.
So it is good that Sq. Enix has truly gone out of its manner to make sure it may work with essentially the most genuine, unique supply code when creating The Ivalice Chronicles. Hopefully it can lead to a devoted homage to the PS1 title, and we won’t wait to test it out correctly later this month.
Maehiro has additionally implied that extra remasters and sequels may very well be checked out ought to The Ivalice Chronicles carry out effectively at launch.
