Final Fantasy 8 - NO CD. Where to?

[ibkiss28]

Hi everyone,

i know that there might be some ppl who are still looking for a gamepatch.

however check the site i posted and look for the 1.2(or geforce) patch. there is one very important thing to do, which costed me almost 2 hours till i figured it out.

when you copy the 1.2ver exe from cd 2, remember to REMOVE THE READ-ONLY from the exe, otherwise the gamefix wont work. Last but not least copy every datax.pak and every datax to your game dir; copy field2.fs from the last cd to your data dir, and every thing else should work from there.

[WormTrodden]

Okay, I found that in my case, the game installed to "*:\Program Files\Square Soft, Inc\FINAL FANTASY VIII\".

The crack/nocd/patch has some trouble with that directory, so I moved the file ff8.exe and the crack/nocd/patch to the root of the drive/partition, and opened a command-prompt, and ran the crack, and it worked perfectly.

So, if you keep getting a "file is in use/cannot access file/whatever error message when you try to "fix" your exe, then you should try moving it into a more simple location to patch the file, then just copy/move it back.

It works perfectly for me, and I'm on xp sp2 with a geforce 2 mx, so I anticipated an uphill battle.

Needless to say, it worked out better than I thought it would.

The only rpoblem I'm having now is the fact that there is no volume control for the annoying in-game music.

The music is good, but I don't want music, and it can't be disabled, and the volume is permenently set at 100%.

I'm thinking of putting some zero'ed mp3s in place of the real music.

[GLH]

Originally Posted by WormTrodden

Okay, I found that in my case, the game installed to "*:\Program Files\Square Soft, Inc\FINAL FANTASY VIII\".

The crack/nocd/patch has some trouble with that directory

I think it's the "," in the directory name, why the patch has trouble with it.