Well that's just not cool!
Monday, April 19, 2010 by kona0197 | Discussion: Personal Computing
Well I had an urge to play Final Fantasy 7. I have the PC version. It played just fine when I was running Windows XP. So I try to play it a few days ago. Even with all the compatibility items checked and employed the pogram will not play. So I google it and find out many people have this same issue. That's to be understood as it's a game made for Windows 95.
So I install Virtualbox and Windows XP within a virtual PC. I install FF7 yet it will still not play.
Anyone know how to get old games to run over a virtual PC?
Reply #2 Monday, April 19, 2010 11:19 PM
also this forum has some more info that may get you started in the right direction as far as playing the game in windows
http://www.sevenforums.com/gaming/8568-final-fantasy-vii-2.html
hopefully these will help
Reply #4 Monday, April 19, 2010 11:50 PM
It's still possible, hoever I ended up buying the game for the Playstation after the PC Version simply ceased to function on Vista in anything resembling a playable game without fairly involved steps. The simplest way to get the game running is either a Virtual machine of a Windows 95 system or a dual boot for the same. It won't be problem free, however. If your Video card is anything close to a recent release the game will fail to detect it properly and will refuse to run at all in anything other than software mode. Even still, hardware mode requries the emulation of a older cards to enable, which requires driver downgrades and the like to actually get functional which in turn can create problems for running more recent games. Both hardware and software mode suffer the game running at insane speeds which can be addressed with further use of third party software, and then you'll need to contend with the random crashes that the modifications brings. I hope you can succeed where I failed. Best of luck.
Reply #5 Tuesday, April 20, 2010 12:10 AM
Do you have the PSX rom as well? I ripped mine with alcohol 120 and I play it on an emulator
Reply #6 Tuesday, April 20, 2010 12:41 AM
No I do not have the PSX rom. It is not needed as I have the PC version of the game.
Reply #7 Tuesday, April 20, 2010 5:42 PM
i would try the linux distro with wine then as this may be your best option 
Reply #8 Tuesday, April 20, 2010 5:50 PM
why not make a virtual with windows 95 and see what it does?
Reply #9 Tuesday, April 20, 2010 6:17 PM
Have you stumbled upon the following webpages?
Running the game (vanilla):
http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=9590.0
"Remix patcher", includes the patch, compatibility fixes plus various mods in one package:
http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=8915.0
Said mods can also be found here for instance, if you wish to install them separately:
Reply #10 Friday, April 23, 2010 1:49 AM
It's likely that wont help, as the "hardware" being used by the virtual machine when running an older OS often isn't up to the task of running games, even older ones. One of my old games, Warlords III (1998), can't run on XP or later, so I tried using a virtual machine of windows 95 and 98 to run Warlords III, and it ran into a whole NEW slew of issues due to the VM's imaginary hardware.
Reply #11 Saturday, April 24, 2010 11:59 AM
You'll have better luck running the PSX version of FF7 in an emulator than running the PC version on today's computers.
Reply #12 Saturday, April 24, 2010 2:16 PM
XP has it's own backward compatibility mode to run older games as tho you were using 95,98 etc,right click on the .exe select properties,navigate to compatibility,choose win 95,98 or whatever ?
Reply #13 Saturday, April 24, 2010 2:23 PM
Did you turn on 2D and 3D acceleration in VirtualBox?
Reply #14 Sunday, April 25, 2010 5:48 PM
Actually I got it running just fine with a couple of patches.
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Reply #1 Monday, April 19, 2010 11:06 PM
well since you have virtual box at the ready get your self a linux disc . i recomend either unbuntu or mint .. readup on wine and install the proper packages and that might be a way to get you up and running. also there is a couple commercial alternatives to wine that might give you better chances .