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Final Fantasy IX

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Final Fantasy IX
Final Fantasy IX cover
Developers
Square Enix
Windows Silicon Studio (Thailand)
Microsoft Store Guild Studio
Publishers
Square Enix
Engines
Unity 5[Note 1]
Release dates
Windows April 14, 2016
Reception
Metacritic 84
OpenCritic 84
IGDB 84
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Continuous turn-based
Perspectives Cinematic camera
Controls Direct control, Menu-based
Genres JRPG, RPG
Vehicles Flight
Art styles Pre-rendered graphics
Themes Fantasy, Medieval
Series Final Fantasy
Final Fantasy IX on HowLongToBeat
Final Fantasy IX on IGDB
Final Fantasy IX guide on StrategyWiki
Final Fantasy IX on MobyGames
Final Fantasy IX on Wikipedia
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Final Fantasy IV (3D Remake) 2014
Final Fantasy XIII 2014
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Final Fantasy IV: The After Years 2015
Final Fantasy Type-0 HD‎ 2015
Final Fantasy V 2015
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Final Fantasy IX 2016
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Final Fantasy VII Windows Edition 2020
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Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade 2021
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Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion 2022
Final Fantasy VII: Ever Crisis 2023
Final Fantasy XVI TBA

Key points

Port of the Android/iOS version.
Prerendered backgrounds are extremely low-resolution; fan-patches are available which replace them with upscaled versions.
The UI was originally unchanged from Android/iOS version, but could be modified.
An update in August 2020 made the UI smaller so it now resembles the patched console versions.
16 direction analogue movement is not supported, but can be fixed.
Features higher-definition (1280x960) CG cutscenes, and improved character models.
Includes achievements, auto-save, and various boosters such as high-speed mode for battles.
Music looping issue still present in Microsoft Store version.[citation needed]

General information

Steam Community Discussions
Qhimm Final Fantasy Mod Forums

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Publisher website
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North American store
Windows
Publisher website
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European store
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Humble Store
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Windows
Microsoft Store
Microsoft Store
Xbox Play Anywhere
Windows
Steam
DRM-free after installation through Steam client (notes may include more details)
DRM-Free when Steam is not installed or when steam_appid.txt is in directory containing any number.[2]
Windows

Essential improvements

Memoria - The FFIX Game Engine / Mod

  • Built-in Mod manager
  • 60 FPS on field, world map and battles
  • Battle HUD customizations (allows you to make the battle look like the PSX version)
  • Change Tetra Master to Triple Triad
  • Widescreen support (just select any 16:9 resolution)
  • Restore Analog Support
  • Changes Confirm button to × ᴄʀᴏss and Cancel to ○ ᴄɪʀᴄʟᴇ
  • Change Audio sampling frequency
  • Change the game font to any True Type system font (Must be installed for All Users) also includes PSX and Default font
  • Disable/Enable built-in cheats
  • Additional cheats such as Easy rope jumping, frog catching, hippaul racing
  • Fast battles (Change FPS, a Swirl duration, skip waiting or turn-based)
  • Disable Garnet's cant concentrate status
  • Change Vivi's attack to a basic elemental magic attack
  • Allow Break Damage Limit in battle
  • Save/Load anywhere (Alt+F5, Alt+F9)
  • Edit game data (look at the "StreamingAssets\Data" folder)
  • Change ability mechanics (look at the "StreamingAssets\Scripts" folder)
  • All of the characters available (Alt+F2 to show a party window) be careful!
  • Auto discard cards
  • Change audio volume (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+M to show configuration menu)
  • Export/import text resources
  • Export/import audio resources (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S to debug)
  • Bypass the Launcher
  • And many more...

Moguri Mod

Improves pre-rendered backgrounds using a specifically-trained upscaling AI. Resolution is 4x the PSX version.
All layer edges are manually redrawn.
Most textures upscaled (NPC, battles, monsters, worldmap...)
Includes non-stretched widescreen support (not all backgrounds allow widescreen).
Restores proper analog control support.
Includes the original PSX font (UseGarnetFont in Memoria.ini)
Includes a way to patch the game to increase the audio sampling rate.
Includes the Memoria mod, an engine overhaul. The engine uses files from "Moguri Mod" folder in Program Files instead of entirely from the game's root folder.
Further options and hacks can be edited in the Memoria config file in the game's root folder.
Includes an option to install 15 fanmade orchestrated music by Pontus Hultgren.

Scaled Battle UI

Modifies battle UI to make it closer to the original PSX format.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Settings.ini[Note 2]
Microsoft Store
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/377840/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\SquareEnix\FINAL FANTASY IX\Steam\EncryptedSavedData\
Microsoft Store %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\\39EA002F.FINALFANTASYIX_n746a19ndrrjg\SystemAppData\wgs\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/377840/pfx/[Note 3]
150 save slots available (10 save folders x 15 save files per folder)

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud
Must sync manually through by going to Main Menu > Cloud Data
Xbox Cloud

Video

Launcher and video options.
Launcher and video options.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Pillarboxed.[3] A Widescreen Mod exists but the output is stretched. Moguri Mod allows for non-stretching.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Enable windowed mode and use the -popupwindow parameter (or see the glossary page).
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Can be set via Driver.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Capped at 30FPS (20 while on the World-Map and 15 during FMVs and battles).[4] FMVs are an interpolated 30fps with the Moguri-mod.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unity page for more details.
Pillarboxes are a textured gray instead of pure black. However the borders are black with the Moguri mod.

Input

Keyboard bindings.
Keyboard bindings.
Controller bindings.
Controller bindings.

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Touchscreen optimised
Doesn't have much touchscreen-ability. Cannot go into menu and exit, unless you have right click mapped somewhere on touchscreen.
Controller
Controller support
8-Directional movement only.[5] 16-Directional movement restored with the Moguri mod.
Full controller support
Mouse is required for the launcher. All other menus can be navigated with a controller.
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration
PlayStation controllers
Use DS4Windows or Steam's controller configuration tool as a workaround.
PlayStation button prompts
For DualShock- or DualSense-buttons use faospark's mod (needs Memoria/Meguri to be installed).
Light bar support
Adaptive trigger support
DualSense haptic feedback support
Connection modes

Generic/other controllers
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

General settings.
General settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Sound and sound effects can be toggled on/off independently.
Surround sound
Steam version is stereo only. Microsoft Store version has surround sound.
Subtitles
Dialogue is text-based.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Fan translation by "FFRTT", [1].
Russian
Fan translation by "Children of Terra", [2].
Spanish

VR support

3D modes State Notes
Nvidia 3D Vision
See Helix Mod: Final Fantasy IX.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Background image improvement

FFIX Field Patch

Improves the resolution of the game's prerendered backgrounds through upscaling the original PSX backgrounds and manually tweaking the results.
Already included in the Moguri mod.

Moguri Mod

Improves the resolution using a specifically-trained AI for upscaling.
Gallery
Download
Mod Discussion
Mod Discussion on Steam

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) Vista
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 20 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 8600 GTS
ATI Radeon HD 4650
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectSound compatible


Notes

  1. Unity engine build: 5.2.3p2[1]
  2. When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  3. 3.0 3.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/377840/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (377840) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2019-02-26
  2. List of DRM-free games - last accessed on May 2023
  3. app.famitsu.com - last accessed on May 2023
  4. Post 30fps locked games here :: The Framerate Police, post #575 - last accessed on April 15, 2016
    "http://i.imgur.com/A9UllpU.jpg"
  5. Analog stick not fully supported. :: FINAL FANTASY IX General Discussions - last accessed on May 2023