Final Fantasy VII NES Pirate Cart

Posted by Derek Yu Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:38:00 GMT

Final Fantasy VII NES Pirate Cart

Created by a shady Chinese tech company in the year 20XX, this unlicensed demake of Final Fantasy VII was actually released as a cartridge at some point (when, though?)! A play-by-play copy of the Playstation original in terms of plot, FF7 NES is apparently NOT a hack of another FF game, and is, on a technical level, somewhat of a marvel. Chinese hackers are amazing, aren’t they?

Head over here for a full write-up of the game, including nearly 150 screenshots.

And I’m guessing some of you are probably interested in playing the ROM. Well, follow the “Baidu” link in the article and you’ll get to it eventually, although apparently only “an extremely hacked-up version of VirtuaNESex supports the game through an ugly bank-switching mapper driver.” You have been warned.

Alternatively, you can just watch this YouTube video that shows some (pretty boring) gameplay from the demake.

(Source: Luke Plunkett, via Kotaku)

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  1. muku said about 1 hour later:

    So, is a “demake” a backport of a game to a technically inferior platform?

  2. Al King said about 3 hours later:

    Yep, exactly, though it needn’t be an inferior platform, it might just use inferior technology, like Goldeneye 2D

  3. Kornel said about 3 hours later:

    Nah, it can be also a backport to a inferior graphics display (DoomRL ^_^)

  4. Jonathan said about 4 hours later:

    I saw this reported elsewhere as a “premake” – I prefer that term ;)

  5. oranda said about 5 hours later:

    So if somebody did this to Metroid Prime would that be a screeeeemake?

  6. trunxkam45@gmail.com said about 5 hours later:

    Just like all the other pirates out there, this one has really skewed music.

  7. Melly said about 6 hours later:

    Ah, damnit, they stole my chinese bootleg demake idea! The bastards!

    Also, since GDC is over we should have another compo soon, right Derek? ^_^

  8. Stij said about 9 hours later:

    If someone turned a game into a comic (printed on dead trees), would that be a treemake?

    I’LL BE HERE ALL EVENING FOLKS

  9. David said about 10 hours later:

    I remember hearing news of this a couple of years ago, but it was being made by some Chinese programmer for fun. No one could find a copy of the game though, it was just screenshots on a webpage. This is basically a hack of the FF3 NES game, though with music borrowed from FF2. The dialog windows with portraits are new though. This guy knows his stuff.

  10. Anonymous said about 11 hours later:

    For those without IE / ActiveX, see here.

  11. Eudaimon said about 12 hours later:

    There’s something like this out there for FFX also. I never played it, and don’t remember where to find it, but I think I’ve got the patch lying around here somewhere. It has a sphere grid and everything.

  12. Tiktaalik said about 16 hours later:

    Gahh… that 2nd link doesn’t work either.

  13. Blueberry_pie said about 23 hours later:

    Demakes are awesome. I once remade (very small) parts of Half-Life 2 and Portal in the engine of the first Half-Life. That was pretty cool.

  14. Melly said 1 day later:

    I like how some games can be demade without loosing much, if anything, of the original game’s feel, showing that polygon crunching and orchestral soundtracks are rarely the meat of what makes a game enjoyable.

  15. Andy said 1 day later:

    How come when it’s in Chinese it’s a “shady” and a “demake” where something like DoomRL, which is essentially a demake as well is praised?

    Double standards.

  16. Derek said 1 day later:

    Well, I certainly meant no offense to Chinese people, since I am one. I called the company “shady” because they are one of many Chinese software houses that have tried to illegally sell bootleg NES cartridges over the years. Let’s face it, as much as I love China, there’s not much regulation of piracy over there…

    And the term “demake” certainly isn’t a derogatory one. DoomRL is a demake, too.

  17. Tim said 1 day later:

    hahaha

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