Final Fantasy VII

What works

installation (with sound)

look below at "Basic install" HowTo

configuration (FF7Config.exe)

MIDI music

via Timidity++, see the MIDI HowTo

What does not

game crashs on start up (with some fixme messages) (tested with wine32 and wine64 environment)

Workarounds

What was not tested

Playing the whole game as it is currently not possible.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

CD detection: if the game cannot find the play-disk try cdemu german version ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4300 using fglrx 12.4

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

Install with: wine tm20decSetup.exe

First, note that the 'General MIDI' data (using FF7 Config) would work most of the time, especially with a MIDI device.

If you don't have some MIDI device plugged to your computer, you will need Timidity++. To use Timidity++ you must have the "Virtual MIDI soundcard" ALSA driver in your kernel (module snd-virmidi, use modprobe to load it).

Timidity++ may be packaged as" timidity++" or "timidity" depending on your distribution.

To run Timidity++ you have basically two options: in the foreground, and in the background, here are the corresponding commands:

• timidity -iA
• timidity -iAD -Os

To be sure sure that FF7 use Timidity++, run FF7 Config and set MIDI Driver to 'TiMidity port 0'.

You can use the FF7 SF2 with Timidity: the "FF7.SF2" file in "FF7 install dir/data/midi/sf2" should enable all the sounds that are necessary to make MIDI files' hearing better. Copy it anywhere then edit the "/etc/timidity/timidity.cfg­­" to add "soundfont /home/username/path/to/FF7.sf2".
You may also want to try to set MIDI Data to 'Yamaha XG MIDI'.

­­­Guide to installation:

1. Set Wine to Windows 98
2. Run setup.exe
3. Uncheck default installation options (DirectX)
4. Check 'Yamaha S-YXG70 Software Synthesizer'
5. Set driver to ALSA, you may want to set hardware acceleration to 'emulation'

The PC-Version of the 1997 game has been filled with bugs and issues since the very beginning, and official patches haven't changed much to make things run better. Thanks to unofficial fixes, it's more or less playable, but you will most likely still face problems with minigames or video playback of the cutscenes.

The PC version is, as well, poor in quality.

For best experience, I recommend playing the PSX version via emulation or taking a look at the 2012 released one, basically being identical.

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