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Final Fantasy VI

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This page is for the "old version" released in 2015. For the 2022 "pixel remaster" version, see Final Fantasy VI (2022).

FINAL FANTASY VI (Old Ver.)
FINAL FANTASY VI (Old Ver.) cover
Developers
Square Enix
Windows DotEmu
Publishers
Square Enix
Release dates
Windows December 16, 2015
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Continuous turn-based
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Direct control, Menu-based
Genres JRPG, RPG
Vehicles Flight
Art styles Anime
Themes Fantasy, Industrial Age, Post-apocalyptic, Steampunk
Series Final Fantasy
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Final Fantasy VI on Wikipedia
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Final Fantasy VI is a singleplayer bird's-eye view JRPG and RPG game in the Final Fantasy series.

Key points

The developer recommends enabling FXAA with certain resolutions to avoid display issues.
This port uses the sprites designed for mobile devices instead of the original SNES ones.[1]
PC port of the Android port of the game which uses a touchscreen-optimized GUI.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Publisher website (unavailable)
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EU region.
Windows
Green Man Gaming (unavailable)
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Windows
Humble Store (unavailable)
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Windows
Steam (unavailable)
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Windows
All versions require Steam DRM.

Essential improvements

Add missing font characters

Replace the font with one with the missing characters and symbols used in the game[2]
  1. Download FF6PC-Font
  2. Extract Arial-Bold.tff from the .rar.
  3. Go to Final Fantasy 6\obb\font\.
  4. Replace Arial-Bold.tff in the folder with the modded Arial-Bold.tff.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Steam <Steam-folder>\userdata\<user-id>\382900\local\settings.bin
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/382900/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Steam <Steam-folder>\userdata\<user-id>\382900\local\data
<Steam-folder>\userdata\<user-id>\382900\remote\data
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/382900/pfx/[Note 1]
5 save slots + 1 quicksave slot available.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

Launcher general settings
Launcher general settings

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
3:2 pillarboxed.
See Widescreen resolution for stretched.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Highest selectable windowed resolutions 1360x768 and 1280x768 share the same visible area at 1152x768.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Widescreen resolution

Includes optional vibrant ReShade mod.
Stretches out the 3:2 image to 16:9.
Add widescreen resolution by stretching the 3:2 to 16:9[2][3]
  1. Download the version for your desired resolution: 1920x1080, 1366x768, 1280x720.
  2. Extract .zip into the installation folder.
  3. Start game.
  4. Press F10 to activate the border fix
  5. (Optional) Press F11 to activate the vibrant ReShade mod.

Project Atmaweapon

Updated version of Vibrant ReShade/Widescreen Fix mod
  1. Download this: Nexusmods download link

Input

Launcher keyboard remapping
Launcher keyboard remapping
Launcher controller remapping
Launcher controller remapping

Audio

In-game settings
In-game settings

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music, Sound Effects
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Follow this guide.
Traditional Chinese
Follow this guide.
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Follow this guide.
Korean
Follow this guide.
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Thai
Follow this guide.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
OpenGL
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Interface Qt
Input SDL

Original Super Famicom sprites

Original designs of Siren and the boss "Goddess" from the Super Famicom version.[2][4]
  1. Download DesignReverter_v1-0.zip.
  2. Extract the contents and run DesignReverter.exe.
  3. Choose Yes when prompted to install to main.OBB.

Remove bilinear filter

Remove the bilinear filter.[5]
  1. Download FFVI_Defilter v1_909716.zip.
  2. Extract the contents into the installation folder.
  3. Run FFVI_Defilter.exe
  4. Press Enter to continue and wait for program to report success.
  5. Delete the files extracted from the .zip, as they are not needed after the patch.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) Vista, 7, 8, 8.1
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 950 MB


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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>/382900/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (382900) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References