Final Fantasy VII

What works

Installing from CD
Configuring
Launching the game
In-game movies/videos
Starting a new game
Combat
Sound
Music (MIDI via QSynth)

What does not

Attempting to exit the game via in-game menus; the game froze when the screen appeared asking if I'd like to quit to Windows, and I had to force quit.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Full playthrough
Did not try all keyboard commands

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

I *had* to install Aali's custom FF7 OpenGL driver. The latest version is linked from here: http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=8306.0 (note: run 'regedit' from an Ubuntu terminal window to Import the .reg file into Wine; use the regular .reg file, not the Vista 64-bit one) I also had to install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86) as per a post in the Aali thread regarding DLL issues: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=A5C84275-3B97-4AB7-A40D-3802B2AF5FC2&displaylang=en Note that running FF7Config wipes out the registry settings for Aali's OpenGL driver, so you have to re-import the .reg file after each time you (re-)run FF7Config. Also: I tried the unofficial 1.04 XP patch as well, but the in-game movies/videos don't seem to appear. I was able to see the main menu after hitting Escape, but that doesn't help much since FF7 is tightly integrated with in-game video sequences.

http://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/599-truemotion-2-codec/

Install with: wine tm20decSetup.exe

Aali OpenGL driver allow Wine to use a native OpenGL backend instead of the (old) Direct3D one.
(Works for FF8 too)

Source & Download
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1. Make a backup of the FF7Config.exe
2. Unzip it into the FF7 installation directory
3. Run the modified FF7Config.exe and pick the correct driver in the list
4. Change your settings in ff7_opengl.cfg

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Just replace files (after backup) ff7.exe and FF7Config.exe

You can apply the method describe in this Venezuelan blog (in Spanish) ->

https://inukaze.wordpress.com/juegos-wine/final-fantasy-vii-7-pc/jwff7pc-05/


On English :

now edit with root permissions , the file
" /etc/modules "

and add the lines

    #MIDI For FinalFantasy 7
    snd-seq-device
    snd-seq-midi
    snd-seq-oss
    snd-seq-midi-event
    snd-seq

if you dont have installed any soundfont , you can do the follow in a terminal

    sudo rm -rf /etc/sounds
    sudo mkdir /etc/sounds/
    sudo cp /etc/timidity/timidity.cfg /etc/timidity/timidity_original.cfg
    sudo cp /etc/init.d/timidity /etc/init.d/timidity_original
    cd $HOME/.wine/drive_c/"/Final Fantasy VII/data/midi/sf2″
    sudo cp FF7.sf2 /etc/sounds
    sudo chmod 777 /etc/sounds/FF7.sf2
    sudo chmod o+rw+x /etc/sounds/FF7.sf2

now edit with root permissions , the file
" /etc/timidity/timidity.cfg "

and just add the soundfonts and the config file

    soundfont /etc/sounds/FF7.sf2
    source /etc/timidity/freepats.cfg

now edit with root permissions , the file
" /etc/default/timidity "

and modify the line " TIM_ALSASEQPARAMS "

For this one :

TIM_ALSASEQPARAMS="-iA -B5,10 -Os1l -s 44100"

if you dont have started the daemon for timidity or timidity binary , you can run it explicit with

$ timidity -iADl -Os1 - -module=16 -cache- -audio-buffer=200%

if you wanna you can install timidity like daemon for start with the boot

if see in FF7Config , using wine , in the music tab , something like
"14:0 Midi Trought" , and you see , dont play music , you can disabled temporally

you can check in a terminal with

    $ pmidi -l
     Port     Client name                       Port name
     14:0     Midi Through                      Midi Through Port-0

if you wanna delete it , in the same terminal with root permissions use

$ rmmod snd_seq_dummy

    $ pmidi -l
    Port     Client name                       Port name
    128:0     TiMidity                          TiMidity port 0
    128:1     TiMidity                          TiMidity port 1
    128:2     TiMidity                          TiMidity port 2
    128:3     TiMidity                          TiMidity port 3

and now you can set Timidity inside the game and hear the original music from the game