Even better, vintage Final Fantasy is coming to the Virtual Console! The Final Fantasy games will be arriving on Nintendo's download service starting later this year.
GDC09: A mess of Final Fantasy games for WiiWare and Virtual Console (that's right, Virtual Console)
by JC Fletcher 
on Mar 25th 2009 1:08PM
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Even better, vintage Final Fantasy is coming to the Virtual Console! The Final Fantasy games will be arriving on Nintendo's download service starting later this year.
Reader Comments (57)
Posted: Mar 25th 2009 1:19PM (Unverified) said
Yeah it's the original, but why would you really want to play it instead of the DS remake, or the GBA port? That's assuming they keep the SNES translation, which I hope they don't and use the updated ones instead.
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Posted: Mar 25th 2009 1:55PM (Unverified) said
@Kadamon
I wasn't talking about the sequel. I was talking about FF4 heading to VC.
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I wasn't talking about the sequel. I was talking about FF4 heading to VC.
Posted: Mar 25th 2009 2:20PM iofthestorm said
Watch them price it at $10 just because it's Final Fantasy... I mean, I love the games but every damn Square Enix game on DS does not have to cost $40, especially not the remakes.
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Posted: Mar 26th 2009 2:02AM (Unverified) said
@BM
Perhaps where it said all the Famicom/Super Famicom FF games released are coming to VC? The sequel (which you called FF4-2) is coming to wiiware.
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Perhaps where it said all the Famicom/Super Famicom FF games released are coming to VC? The sequel (which you called FF4-2) is coming to wiiware.
Posted: Mar 25th 2009 1:24PM (Unverified) said
Also Mystic Quest, if that can be counted...and I'm assuming no one really does.
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Posted: Mar 25th 2009 1:34PM dreganfyre said
That would be nice. :) They've all been translated now, so it really can't be THAT much trouble...
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Posted: Mar 25th 2009 5:56PM smcn said
Maybe I misunderstood you, but if I'm not mistaken they have all been released in the US.
- Final Fantasy II for PSX (part of Final Fantasy I & II)
- Final Fantasy III for DS (though technically a remake)
- Final Fantasy V for PSX (part of Final Fantasy Anthology which included both V and VI)
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- Final Fantasy II for PSX (part of Final Fantasy I & II)
- Final Fantasy III for DS (though technically a remake)
- Final Fantasy V for PSX (part of Final Fantasy Anthology which included both V and VI)
Posted: Mar 25th 2009 1:15PM JoshMilewski said
I never bought My Life as a King, but honestly, because now there's a sister game to it, I think I'll download MLaaK today.
Also... I really really wish the other Super/Famicom FF games would come out in North America, even not translated, but I'll take what I can get (poor localizations and all).
Yeah, and the missing VI is weird... Perhaps a DS remake is coming?
And... I've never played FFIV, so maybe now I will...Then I can get The After Years..
Finally, the VC is nearing completion, since SE has finally decided to do the right thing.
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Also... I really really wish the other Super/Famicom FF games would come out in North America, even not translated, but I'll take what I can get (poor localizations and all).
Yeah, and the missing VI is weird... Perhaps a DS remake is coming?
And... I've never played FFIV, so maybe now I will...Then I can get The After Years..
Finally, the VC is nearing completion, since SE has finally decided to do the right thing.
Posted: Mar 25th 2009 1:34PM Kabapu said
"Also... I really really wish the other Super/Famicom FF games would come out in North America"
As I just said in my other post ... they have.
Final Fantasy Origins [includes I and II] (Playstation)
Final Fantasy Chronicles [includes IV .. and Chrono Trigger] (Playstation)
Final Fantasy Anthology [includes V and VI] (Playstation)
The only one that hasn't been released is III (in it's original form at least). It has a remake for the DS.
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As I just said in my other post ... they have.
Final Fantasy Origins [includes I and II] (Playstation)
Final Fantasy Chronicles [includes IV .. and Chrono Trigger] (Playstation)
Final Fantasy Anthology [includes V and VI] (Playstation)
The only one that hasn't been released is III (in it's original form at least). It has a remake for the DS.
Posted: Mar 25th 2009 1:38PM dreganfyre said
"Finally, the VC is nearing completion, since SE has finally decided to do the right thing."
Agreed! Even if I never actually play them on the Wii, I will be buying them to show my support. :)
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... But... They're pretty awesome games... I'll probably play them.
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Agreed! Even if I never actually play them on the Wii, I will be buying them to show my support. :)
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... But... They're pretty awesome games... I'll probably play them.
Posted: Mar 25th 2009 1:21PM (Unverified) said
So that's six for Japan and two for the US.. what's the score for Europe?
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Posted: Mar 25th 2009 1:25PM Kabapu said
... I'm not understanding this sentence:
"All six Famicom/Super Famicom Fantasies will be released in Japan, while the two that made it over here -- I and IV -- will be released."
Even if you didn't take Playstation platforms into account, I, IV and VI were released here. Taking the PS into account, the only game that hasn't been released stateside is III (3).
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"All six Famicom/Super Famicom Fantasies will be released in Japan, while the two that made it over here -- I and IV -- will be released."
Even if you didn't take Playstation platforms into account, I, IV and VI were released here. Taking the PS into account, the only game that hasn't been released stateside is III (3).
Posted: Mar 25th 2009 1:30PM (Unverified) said
Although that was released on the DS a couple of years back.
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Posted: Mar 25th 2009 1:37PM therandomizer said
Still, Final Fantasy games making it to the VC at all is nothing short of a miracle. But yeah, if they added FF I, II, III, IV, V and VI, THAT would be insanely awesome (with the retranslated text, of course...RIIIGHT)?? Now, if they could only release Earthbound...
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Posted: Mar 30th 2009 8:01PM (Unverified) said
I bet that will be the opening game for the inevitable Virtual Console on DSi.
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Posted: Mar 25th 2009 1:48PM Maulok said
I would be far more excited for this if it wasn't for all the releases for the GBA and the graphically updated releases for the DS over the past several years that I have bought and finished already.
Admittedly I'm not an old school die hard for Final Fantasy. Is there a market to play original VC releases of the NES versions when other releases are so readily available?
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Admittedly I'm not an old school die hard for Final Fantasy. Is there a market to play original VC releases of the NES versions when other releases are so readily available?
Posted: Mar 25th 2009 1:51PM jaredgood1 said
Grumble. I'm super happy for a FF:MLaK sequel, but I was really hoping for a proper disc based version (more stuff, more variety, better graphics, no slowdown when a city get's more populated).
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Posted: Mar 25th 2009 2:47PM (Unverified) said
Interested in a FINAL FANTASY orchestral performance? This summer, on Friday, June 27, 2009 at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore, MD the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) will be performing Distant Worlds: music from FINAL FANTASY, by Japanese video game composer Nobuo Uematsu. The program will include compositions from games throughout the series, with video graphics from the popular game projected on a screen above the stage! For more information, or to buy tickets, visit www.BSOmusic.org or call 410.783.8000!!
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