Chrono Cross, Final Fantasy 5 and 6 all coming to PSN in coming weeks

by Griffin McElroy on Nov 3rd 2011 5:00PM

If you, like us, have felt jilted as other territories received a glut of Square Enix RPGs while the U.S. got table scraps, it's time to relieve yourself of your worries. PlayStation Blog has just announced the "Winter of RPGs" campaign, which will see the release of three much-desired PSOne Classics on the PSN: Chrono Cross, Final Fantasy 5 and Final Fantasy 6.

You'll be able to grab the character-rich Chrono Cross next Tuesday, November 8, the career-oriented Final Fantasy 5 on November 22, and the positively operatic Final Fantasy 6 on December 6. It's nice that they'll finally be on there -- though forcing them to compete for our free time with Skyrim, Batman: Arkham City, Uncharted 3 and Assassin's Creed: Revelations seems, well, kind of mean.

Source: PlayStation Blog

Tags: chrono-cross, final-fantasy-5, final-fantasy-6, final-fantasy-v, final-fantasy-vi, playstation, ps3, psn, psone-classics, psp, q4-2011, release-date, rpg, sony, square-enix

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I'm confused. Aren't FF V and VI already available on the PSN ?

Anyway, FF VI is one of the best games ever made. Play it.

@Torticoli This man speaks the truth! Also try out V. Pretty darn good as well.

@Torticoli

Only in Europe/Japan I believe, I know the NA store certainly don't have them.

@Torticoli Apparently only in Europe and Japan.

I know someone who would put Skyrim aside to play FF6 ( it's his favorite FF )

@HardBoiled2009 That's not too hard to believe. I would easily play through Final Fantasy VI again before even thinking about Skyrim.

@HardBoiled2009 But Skyrim is guaranteed to have less loading times than the PSX port of FFVI!

@Oddgirl You hope.

I will get FF6 for sure my favorite RPG of all time and I haven't played it in a while

I have been eagerly awaiting all these games.It was almost a tease browsing the JP PSN at times.

Frickin finally.

Too bad the PS1 version of FFVI sucks. The load times are really annoying. Not as bad as PS1 Chrono Trigger, but still pretty bad.

I don't remember if FFV had the same problems.

@Roto13

It did. :/

@Roto13 Somebody always has to point this out when one of these games goes up on PSN. Those games had bad loading times because they were reading from a cd. The PSN version won't be doing that, so the loading times shouldn't be as bad as you remember.

@Roto13 Of course, this isn't using a disc, which was presumably the cause of the terrible loads. One hopes anyway.

@Roto13
Somebody always reminds us that the load times were terrible.

Then somebody else tells us that the load times can be improved.

Nobody ever tells us if the load times actually ARE improved.

Little help?

@mikeburnfire They're not. Chrono Trigger is already out and it's no better. FF VI has been out in Japan for ages and it's still bad. People don't get that the load times are hard coded and reading from a hard drive is not going to make them any better.

I post this every time it comes up because it's important that people know before they buy. If I bought one of the best SNES RPGs on PSN and it turned out it wasn't actually fun to play because of a technical issue, I'd be pissed.

@Hoops
People have reported that the PSN release of the PSOne Chrono Trigger still has bad loading time issues. Fact of the matter is Tose did a crap job of porting Square's Super NES titles to PSOne. Disc or no disc, there shouldn't have been so much loading for a ported Super NES game.

If these PSOne releases are your only means to buy these games, then by all means, do so. They're still classics. However, if you have the ability to play a different release (DS, GBA, or even Virtual Console), then do that instead.

@Roto13

This may be a naive question, but why would load times of a PS1 title still be an issue on a PS3 digital download? I thought most of the the load time issues of the PS1 generation were from the slow data seek times of the CD Rom drives?

I evidently need to learn to respond faster... >_>

@Hoops

Hate to burst your bubble, but the load times were coded into the game, and seeing these are simple PS1 emulators, those load times are still going to be there.

Just from experience, the load times on the PSN version of Chrono Trigger were just as bad as I remember.

@Roto13 It's not that the load times are hard coded, it's because the system is emulating a PS1, disc read speeds and all.

So despite being played from a hard drive, these PS1 games will still have the same loading time as they would on a PS1 system.

@KentBrockman No, a lot of other PS1 games can load faster on a PSP or PS3. These don't, for a very specific reason. They don't load any faster when played on an emulator either. These games don't say "Pause until finished loading", they say "Pause for X amount of time."

Will this stuff carry on to the next playstation?

@Timjoy Do you mean the Playstation Vita? If so then yes. If you mean the PS4 then who knows?

@Faceless Troll Actually, the word so far is that PS1 games will NOT be playable on Vita, at least not at launch. Maybe later it will be added.

http://www.neoseeker.com/news/17701-vita-wont-have-support-for-psone-classics-flash-at-launch/

@Hoops

Should be noted that that's the Japanese launch. Could very well be there by the time it launches worldwide.

This is great news now the only thing I hope Square Enix releases in the US is type-0.

@metalicplumb

Also Vs. 13.

/rabble rabble rabble

@Faceless Troll
Isn't Vs 13 vaporware at this point?

Freaking finally. Been waiting to replay Chrono Cross.

So you jackbags gave up on Dark Souls, huh?

@(Unverified)
All the titles they listed are November releases. Souls came out a month ago.

@mywhitenoise Arkham City & Uncharted 3 beg to differ.

@(Unverified)
Uncharted came out this week, you're right about Batman though.

Love that Chrono Cross is coming to PSN on my birthday.

@dtrain1183 It released on disc on my birthday, nanner nanner :P

Chrono Cross, Square's best game finally coming out.

I wish I had a PS3.

@Gnomicidal Get a PSP. Then you can play these games anywhere.

@Gnomicidal Do you still have a PSOne or PS2?

http://amzn.com/B00004TC6E

I have Chrono Cross. It has never worked right on any of my PS3s. Does this mean they've fixed the PS1 emulation software on the PS3?

@shaktazuki It works just fine on my fat PS3.

I have a fat original 60GB launch PS3, and yes Chrono Cross does freeze, especially in certain battles. If you claim it hasn't froze for you, then you probably took a different plot path that skips some of the freezable battles.

Much like Xenogears (whose PS1 disc also froze, on disc 2) and Legend of Mana, the PSN release also fixes the bugs which caused the game to freeze.

The problem was that Squaresoft figured out some undocumented tricks to pump more out of PS1 games graphics than Sony let on, and Chrono Cross was the most advanced title in this capacity, and so their games usually need to be tweaked to work right on the PS3 emulator.

@EIranzer Well, here's a question that I hope you'll have an answer to. I just started replaying Chrono Cross on my PS3 (Slim, if it matters; my launch Fat died around this time last year, sadly) just the other day. Currently about to storm Viper Manor. The last time I tried playing Chrono Cross on my PS3 Fat, it froze at the

POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT YOU HAVE WARNED AND STUFF

boss battle on the ghost ship (the giant parrotdactyl thingy). Now that Chrono Cross is coming out via PSN, do I still have anything to worry about? I mean, if it works flawlessly on the PSN version, the disc version should work as well, right? Hopefully?

Thanks in advance for any insight you may have.

Never did play Chrono Cross when it first came out.

Chrono Cross, one of the finest games ever created.

@ReadingRambo

Best soundtrack ever!

@ReadingRambo

I wholeheartedly agree with you. I started playing it again a couple days ago. I almost forgot how much content this game has. And the vast amount of content doesn't overwhelm you either, seeing as most of it is optional. The battle system is kind of similar to Final Fantasy XIII's. And the fact that there are no random encounters is pretty impressive for a PS1 game. It was ahead of it's time.

After picking up Chrono Chross, my once long wish list of PS1 games to be re-released on PSN will be down to one final game. :)

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