I gave my copy to a friend who had a compatible card.īut hey, if I'd taken the easy way out I might not be where I am today. Man, I wish I'd known they fixed the Voodoo 2 issues. Most tellingly, it only supported 640x480 and 320x240 (seriously) resolution, despite most games at the time allowing you to select any resolution you liked.įinal Fantasy 8 for PC was a giant mess too.I still needed to use VGS to play Final Fantasy 9, which was never ported to PC until 2016. They did fix it with the re-issue, but you are right, Final Fantasy VII for PC was a buggy mess. If I recall correctly they had a patch specifically for the Voodoo 2, along with a different one for Riva 128 and TNT (which is the one I needed). But the original FF7 PC release was a cheap port that didn't support many GPUs, and it just refused to run on my Voodoo 2 16GB. All to play Final Fantasy VII.Ĭouldn't you have just played the PC version?įunny you should ask, that is indeed what I tried to do.
But I was able to cobble together a half decent computer out of discarded parts from people around town, and learned how to reverse engineer software to remove copy protections from Bleem!. I grew up incredibly poor, and couldn't afford games or consoles, or even the modest cost of Bleem!. This is actually what got me into computer science. These days it would be trivial, but back then piracy was hard. I used Bleem! back in the day, and dear god was it a pain in the ass to find a BIOS file early on. One used to have to dump the BIOS/Firmware from the device as well.
Sony actually makes it easier than it was with the PS2. Once downloaded, you must install the firmware using RPCS3's built in firmware installer found under File > Install Firmware. You must download the latest PlayStation 3 firmware update file from for use with RPCS3. Due to legal reasons, we cannot distribute official PlayStation 3 firmware files.