All versions contain "Cloud saving"

I've been playing Nintendo switch version as I'm stuck in a hospital room every other week usually due to leukaemia testament, so being able to have the console on TV at home or hand held mode sitting on my bed (or hospital ward) has a been invaluable for my sanity lately.

I was 22 in 97'. I remember beating this this after 80hrs. It was the first RPG I ever played. I fell in love.

NOTE: Today 17 May 2019 the game has been updated on switch and xbox one to fix some of the problems the ports had: -Music will now resume where it left off once a battle has concluded. -Transitions between cutscenes and gameplay no longer have a frame of black screen. -The flashback scene that played incorrect music now plays the correct music.

Did i just watch this guy put a regular FF7 PS1 disc into every device?

I like how you threw a disc in the dock lol.

ADDENDUM COMMENT, UPDATES TO THIS VIDEO HERE: As of December 2019, the music reset bug has been patched in the PS4, Xbox One and Switch versions. There is now NO version of the game with this bug. There were other music bugs in the PC re-release of FF7. Some are still in the PS4 version but were never in the Switch or Xbox versions. For example, during a flashback very late in the game, the main theme is suppose to play in sync with what’s going on. In the PS4 and Steam versions the main theme isn’t used at all . The correct music plays for the Switch and Xbox One versions. Another example is when you find Yuffie, her theme is suppose to play. Her theme does not play on the Steam version but it does play on all other versions The odd quirks during the transition from fmv to in-game are now fixed. This is the black frames on Switch and the disappearing models on Xbox One. DOTEMU is now credited when starting the game. That's it for the patch notes. Some other things I'd like to add about this video. First off, the ladder bug I showed I feel is misleading. It occurred on multiple ladders but after restarting the game it didn't happen anymore. Second, the PSX version of FF7 is available digitally on PS3, PSP, and PS Vita. The PS3 also plays PSX discs so you can just put the disc in the PS3. That's how I captured my footage of the game.

3:39 My face when I realize I just threw my socks in the toilet and pissed in the laundry hamper.

They all have "Cloud Saving" but no Aerith saving...

I couldn't get the CD to work with my Switch. I tried everything!

Final Fantasy VII: REMAKO

I'm considering playing the OG while I wait for ff7 remake part 2

Who are these crazy people that want it stretched? There's no additional information on screen and the image is distorted.

Well...Thanks for making me notice a mouth and weird wink on every character in my switch version.

8:25 the ps4 version has been patched a few times, including fixing the music restarting after battle thing :D

The ps1 version on a crt looks stunning, The warmth and illumination you got on the old crt tv's gives an image that can't be replicated by modern TV's, its hard to explain but the effect old crt's have on the lighting for example its like a real light coming from the tv, i miss those effects crts had i wish there was a modern version of the crt

I know that you say these videos are exhausting to make, but I honestly think a lot of people benefit from these informative videos and they're also fun to watch. You also just present the information as it is rather than being exaggerated character or taking a biased stance. I'd love the see more of this series!

Did anyone else hear the rumor that you could revive Aeris/th, by inserting the Backstreet Boys Millennium CD when you're supposed to add disc 2?

It took me 22 years to finally get around to beating this game... damn I’m a slacker.

thank you making this video even though it was exhausting to make. really appreaciate the high quality and effort you put it it does show alot.

This is the content I live for. Breaking down all differences in ports/remakes etc of a video game

I absolutely understand that this kind of video can be incredibly exhausting to make, and I commend you on it. That being said, the gaming world needs more youtube videos like this, and it'd be a shame if you stopped. Either way, you earned a sub from me.

Bravo! what a video to go into detail on. I had no idea you were going to put it on such a fine line.

00:53 - 02:45 PSX (Japan) 02:46 - 03:57 PC (1998) 03:58 - 05:56 PC (2012) 05:57 - 07:23 Mobile 07:24 - 08:25 PS4 08:26 - 09:29 Switch 09:30 - 09:55 XBox One

Well put together video. Had a chuckle when you put the disc in the dock. XD.

Xbox One version actually has a title screen! It appears before the Prelude Staff Roll. The new game/continue menu also has an option to switch profiles, even showing your gamer tag in the top right.

Hey, thank for all the info, really interesting!! It definitely helped me, while also being really entertaining! The [insert disc] parts of the video were my favorite!! 😂

Very informative. Just the info I was looking for. Thanks bud!

1:03 "in the west and in Europe" Today I learned Europe isn't in the west.

I can now flex on people. I have the mobile version and I got Vincent twice

7:04 Vincent can be obtained, the safe can be opened on android running the latest version of the game. Fun fact, since the mobile port is based on the pc version, saves are also interchangeable.

Thanks for making this! I lol'd when you dropped the disc in the Switch dock

the Magic defense stat never worked on any of the PS1 versions but its fixed for all the new ports.

I'm happy that I played it when it first came out. That train of greatness simply cannot be relieved.

Thanks for doing these series of videos, helped me a lot!

Played and fell in love with original when I first got my refurb PS1 @ Funco Land and this game...ahh, great times. Now I have the Switch physical edition of VII/VIII Remaster together. The fast forward and slight buff mods are nice touch for those who experienced story originally and want to save some time from potential grinds/random encounters, etc. Reminded me of the PS4 downloadable version, must be same port.

Graphics may not be as crisp or blocky, but can't deny that 3X speed in modern ports tho.

Thanks a lot for your effort of comparing them. Let’s hope they fix the sound bug.

Thank you for making this. I can tell it took a long time to make but, it was good and informative. ^_^

Well thanks for your hard work, really enjoyed the result! cheers

The staggering mod community surrounding the PC release (both 1998 original and re-release 2012 version) is magnificent! Everything from graphics improvements, to gameplay alterations, audio replacements, and even complete script rewrites ... simply amazing. There's even mods that attempt to normalise the framerate too, switching from 15fps battle to 30 or even high.

Playing it for the first time on my switch. Glad to hear it’s a decent version

The 60fps menu is the critical component that made the game stand out, not a lot of people know this.

Good work ! Very interesting to know the various FPS for original FFVII.

Thank you for this. I own every version but never looked into this before.

This video earned you my sub. Awesome job!

All this and I am still waiting for a Xenogears port from square.

There is just something so charming about the original psx version on an old CRT TV.

With the PC version, there are mods that COMPLETELY fix the character sprites where they have actual hands and fingers, and the mouths are actually fixed.

Dithering is really interesting. The most common and extreme example we see still being used today is with typical news paper print, which typically only uses four colors (CMYK) and uses dithering to emulate more colors or give the illusion of finer detail than the printers are actually capable of.

Thank you for this, very informative!! Downloading on Steam now x

That was actually very helpful, thanks!

Think I might pick up the Switch version at some point. The blinking issue bugs me but otherwise it seems to be the best for me since I like pretty much everything else and it being portable is such a plus for me

I remember how exciting it was when I first got my hands on an Eidos demo CD that had ff7 on it.

dude this video is fantastic...love the way u make the comparison

Super competent video dude. Thanks!

Recently got it for Switch, but it feels weird navigating with the analog stick since the original game was released three months before the PSone’s dual analog controller hit the market.

Like so many others, this was my first JRPG. I've played Fallout, Baldurs Gate, Diablo, Might & Magic, but FFVII was magical. A different culture, different rules..pure fascination. The over top guardian forces animations were mindblowing. The graphics gamechanging for its time. Immortal characters...

Thank you for this summary it really helped make my decision!

super well-made video. congrats!

Thanks for taking the time and making the effort to make this. I think you did a pretty good job :) Blah, they made the backgrounds look muddy in the PS4 and related releases IMO. If they update them with the AI improved backgrounds the community is working on then I might consider this for the switch. I usually prefer to play docked when I can. I actually played the original PC release 20 years ago, still have the disks :D One of these days I need to mod the crap out of it. Some mods I've seen look really really good.

Do you want the original Experience? -You know Japanese: FF7 International Japanese Version. -You don't: FF7 PSX. Do you want a "remastered" experience? -You want to mod your game: Steam Version (Plus Remako, plus any mod you want). -You don't: Xbox, Ps4 Or Switch. Do you want to play on the toilet? -Switch. You only had a Ps4 or an Xbox? -Ps4 or Xbox. Just for gods sake don't play this game on mobile.

The amount of research and effort here is phenomenal!

You putting the CD in the Switch at 8:27 cracked me up. I didn't even realize what happened until a few seconds later and I had a great chuckle. :D

Just bought FF7 for switch first time playing. 😅sorry. Got very curious after seeing FF7 remake gameplay. Can’t wait

I've been playing it on Xbox recently and I'm absolutely in love with it!

ok the disc thing you did was GOLD. and I only realized after the switch dock one!

This was super interesting, I never knew about the blurred backgrounds! I think one day I will play the original on an actual crt monitor

Has ANY recent version fixed the soundtrack bug? (where it loops to the beginning of the field track after battle?) Same question for FFIX

you forgot that on the switch, it lags when you enter the chocobo area in gold saucer.

Whoa! The intro to Final Fantasy VII was an FMV? I mean sure, I know the intro bit with Aeris was, but the bit where the camera pans down over the train? Crazy! I honestly never noticed

Thank you for making the video. It really helped me with my purchase of the game!

Basically anything except the mobile port and you are good. May be keen to get it on the switch for handheld.

I started playing this on my PS2 earlier as my PS1 isn’t setup, on my lovely Sony KV-21X5U Trinitron CRT. I was kinda expecting it to look a bit weird due to the horrible pixelation that is incredibly obvious with 3D 240p games when upscale, but on my CRT it honestly looks incredible and stunning. Everything looks beautiful. The FMV looks slightly dated at most, and doesn’t look compressed at all! The characters, my main worry, barely look pixelated, and the backgrounds don’t look like compressed graphics at all. It’s just so good, I love it and was barely able to stop playing even though it’s now 4AM. I do wish there were more save points though, I played for 3 hours just looking for a save point. While there might be issues, it just feels so amazing to play and looks mindblowing, I struggle to see how any other version could do it better.

0:59 I did. I couldn‘t wait and was so hyped. I never finished it and to a week off just to finish the us version I imported when it came out.

Excellent video! Thank you so much!

FF VII is on sale right now on Switch and I want to get it, so I'm happy with the info I hear in the video AND the bug fixes you mention in your update! Only thing that is a little cringey is that weird winking issue in all versions! haha

3:13 - With a specific series of expensive-at-the-time soundcards ( models adjacent and including the Creative Labs CT2760, or Sound Blaster AWE32 ) and enough RAM on the sound card, you could indeed have the psx soundfont, and the midi files from the game would sound exactly like the PSX version.

really well made video, based knowledge on video output info

i love your videos comparing the versions of FF! :)

I've just done a playthrough on IOS in the past week that I paid for almost 2 years ago. I waited to finally redownload it and actually play it because initially there were some weird bugs and glitches that have since been patched out. I was quite impressed playing this on my iPhone SE and I didn't really encounter any bugs or glitches, plus it looks so much better than the original PC version I played two decades ago. The only minor thing was that a few times when telling the Highwind pilot to fly, instead of the screen going black to transfer to the overworld like usual, it would go black and transfer right back into the Highwind. I would simply have to speak to the pilot again and then it would work just fine. It only happened a few times and never back to back. But otherwise this port ran flawlessly!

Would be nice if you did a video on the ports of final fantasy X & X-2 like on the PS2, PS3, Vita/PSTV, PS4, Xbox One, Switch and PC

Oh man this takes me back 21 years... good times!

This channel is nice, can't believe I never saw it before

The best version is playstation 1 with a lot of nostalgic memories

Oh God I can't unsee the winking now!

It must have taken you so long to make this video man! Like.. holy shit! You had to have played through AT LEAST a large chunk of almost all of those ports to get this kind of information and footage! Not to mention the subpurb and to the point editing procuction value. Not putting anything crazy in the way and thankfully mostly showing images from the beginning parts of the game, as to be concious of spoilers for people who haven't played it before and people like me who haven't plsyed it in far too long! So, for all that, I wanted to sincerely thank you! It's given me a very useful and concise summery of the info I needed on all the ports of FINAL FANTASY VII ! Recently, I decided to finally play the game again for the first time earnestly in almost fifteen years! My experience with the game had been that I Played it on PS1 a little in the 90s Beat it on PS1 in the mid 2000's Got the PS3 and PSVITA PSN versions (did you talk about this one?) Got the PS4 version. Didn't play it. Got it for PC on Steam and Modded the hell out of it to be insanely good!...Didn't play it... Got the Switch version last week... And... I... Hate how easy it is to just cheat and speed your way through the game and just not even have the intended stress one needs to have from random encounters and almost dying to be able to release adrenaline in your body. So whenever I was in battle and I started to get really into it, sometimes I'd accidentally press real hard on both sticks in excitement and it would give me instant limit break and it immediately ruined my experience!!! ...The backgrounds look incredible though! Like holy shit!...but...they are nothing to what the PC version can do when modded.. However, on ALL the modern ports including the Switch version, the graphics just suck... they just suck!!! The characters all look totally super imposed onto the background and is worsened by the fact that the backgrounds are blurry now even though they look so good... But not just that.. I was willing to forgive the super imposition of actors until I noticed my graphical deal breaker on the Red Scorpion fight in the beginning. I noticed that the textures of all the models in the game had been blurred out. Which made everything look incredibly flat! Regardless of the small change in the shading and lighting. The mod is not using the correct texture setting (they exists and is mind blowing what they are supposed to look like). And the backgrounds are too blurry. So, that, coupled with the inability to turn off cheating, led me to just hooking up my old Playstation, bought an S video cable, hooked it up to my CRT TV and I gotta say... This just feels right

Nice Channel AustinSV! : ) love your videos

So the O-face mouths were always intended and not a glitch? But, that just doesn't make sense.

If you could choose a consistent look for ff7 characters throughout the game would it be the chibi look or the full human look?

This series of 'Which FF game should you play" have been very helpful and informative. Thanks dude!

These port comparisons are your bread and butter my guy

AustinSV you forgot the PS3/PSP/PS Vita/Vita TV download; one purchase and works on all those!

For me the best version to play is still the PSX (emu), have on Android and Steam but always prefer emulator+ISOs. I hate square-enix putting max hp/ invincible stuff on these ports, I know is optional but it completes defeats the purpose of the rpg.

You are the man. So thorough!

This guy likes this game almost as much as I do. I remember the walkthroughs and guides I uploaded that are on sites that don't exist anymore. Had pictures and maps all that good stuff.

I wish FF VII on Xbox was play anywhere like FF IX. With FF IX you can buy it once, own a Windows Store and Xbox version and you can sync your progress. Although, in FF IX you do need a keyboard and mouse to make the Jump Robe and Racing Hippaul minigame easier or if you want to wait 2 years to reset your timer(I dont even know if it still works).

How about the PSP version? I always play it on the go and it feels like the PSX version. (At least visually, haven't triggered some of the classic glitches)

Nice video!! Well done!!!

Thanks! Very useful!