i use the inferno fix, its the one that has a big InF with the flaming background... the trick is, if you have the game copied to your hdd like they tell you to, or if you have a backup or illegal copy or whatever, all you have to do is update the game first... the version all you guys probably have is just plain old version 1... first, you have to update the ff8.exe by downloading the patch... i would recommend
http://www.filefront.com, thats what i use for most of my gaming needs...
don't download the first patch, download v1.2... if you have a geforce card, which you probably do, download that one, and make sure its the US version of the patch... if you don'tk now what video card you have, then i'm not even gonna bother helping you, and don't try e-mailing me...
after you have downloaded the patch, you can leave it there and patch it with the InF fix or you can copy the patch into your ff8 folder and do it there, doesn't really matter... it'll say that the game isn't in the right format, blah blah blah, but just override it, cause it'll still work even though it says it shouldn't... the CRC is just a few bits off, cause i checked it myself... after that, you should be pretty much done... don't forget to read the info file that coems with the patch that you download off of filefront, cause theres some other files that you need to copy into the directory, or it won't work...
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