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Dell Partners with Square
zenintrude writes "Gameforms is reporting that Square has signed a deal with Dell that will secure new Dell computers to be shipping with Final Fantasy XI pre-installed. This comes on the heels of another story involving Square partnering with nVidia, in which certain aspects/details in Final Fantasy XI will only be able to be accomplished with a geForce4 card."
Does nVidia have its own proprietary 3D api?
Nope, it's pretty much DirectX or OpenGL.
Of course it will. Probably look alot nicer on a 256 meg Radeon 9700 Pro, to boot.
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Why can't square move on from the Final Fantasy name?
Bushido Blade
Einhander
Ehrgeiz
Vagrant Story
Xenogears
Parasite Eve
Chrono Trigger/Cross
Driving Emotion Type S
The Bouncer
Kingdom Hearts
I think that Square pumps out the quality non Final Fantasy titles, and you're just not paying attention.
I can confirm that it doesn't work on newer cards (GeForce2+ and Radeon 7500+), because it claims to require 8-bit paletted textures. Which apparently newer cards don't support.
It will still run in software mode, but it seems to crash a lot anyway (under Win2000, at least). I still insist that it's one of the best console to PC ports I've seen in a long time, in terms of preserving the 'feel' of the game, and the 'feel' of the console. (Particularily when using a good gamepad, like the Logitech Wingman series)
Unfortunately it really is showing its age. I can't really blame it, considering it is just a port, but I'd love to see a patched version that works on newer systems.
Random and weird software I've written.
Don't despair. They haven't abandoned the loyal, traditional fans with FFXI. In case you missed the announcements, shortly after Square revealed the details of FFXI, they mentioned they would soon start designing FFXII which would take them back to the original single-player RPG format.
The deal was with Dell Japan, and I would imagine this is only going to happen with Dell's Japanese computers. Here is a relevant link at Dell's page, and another story in English.
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Since SlashDot doesn't automatically generate HREF's from URLs (wtf?), here's a nice link to the Dell website.
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