[composer4hire]

Does anyone know if Final Fantasy VII and VIII will run on MAC?

[Horsepoo!!!]

Originally Posted by composer4hire

Does anyone know if Final Fantasy VII and VIII will run on MAC?

It won't. Unless you use VirtualPC...but you'd have to tolerate less than acceptable speed at the point.

[composer4hire]

Originally Posted by Horsepoo!!!

It won't. Unless you use VirtualPC...but you'd have to tolerate less than acceptable speed at the point.

Great, thanks for the help!

[Millennium]

No Mac version was ever produced for these. Back in the days of Connectix Virtual Game Station, you could use that to run PSX games, and FFVII ran quite well (I played all the way through it; there was one glitch in menus but hitting SELECT made this a nonissue). I never played FFVIII on it, but I hear that it was supposed to work.

The problem is, you can't get VGS anymore, and even if you couldf it only runs if you actually boot into OS9; Classic won't work. This, in turn, requires a relatively old machine, and if you're new then you probably don't have one. I don't know about other PlayStation emulators on the Mac (though at least one exists), but you may have luck there.

I do not recommend trying to play FFVII or FFVIII through an actual PC emulator, such as Virtual PC. I've tried it myself, and although the games do run they're so slow as to be basically unplayable.

[Horsepoo!!!]

He can try fiddling around with PCSX. He'll have to find a way to get a BIOS though. Or he can try the built-in one. FF7 works on it but it's got a few problems.

And Gil did the equivalent of a post-and-run with this thing. He released it, said he was working out some bugs with the emulator, and dropped off the face of the planet.