FF4 The After

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#17

From the “Japanese Mobile Phone Culture” wiki:

There is a popular trend in Japan to use the mobile phone handset to read information from special barcodes. The phone handset can scan the barcode and then take actions based on the type of content. All over Japan there are posters with the codes and in magazines and business cards. The code usually has links to a web site address or email address that the phone can access, or it might contain address and telephone numbers.

Sony has been spearheading the mobile phone wallet technology…there are many locations such as convenience stores which allow users to pay for goods using their phones; some vending machines even accept phone payments.

Services where the user holds the phone up to a source of music (such as a speaker), and, by dialing a certain phone number, the song is found in a database and identified. The user receives the song’s title, artist, and album within seconds.

#18

Japan is so far ahead in this sort of technology it’s scary.

#19

I can get behind that.

#20

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3165719

Well, it looks like a Front Mission cell phone game is being ported to DS.
Certainly any Final Fantasy game has a chance of being ported at some point?

#21

God I hope so. Before Crisis FTW?

#22

:wink:

Now, I am rereading Gamespot 2005 comment on BeforeCrisis release in the US, and that could have been a perfect April’s Fool joke.

At its pre-E3 press conference today, Square Enix announced that it will be bringing its highly successful mobile massively multiplayer online game Final Fantasy VII: Before Crisis to the United States in 2006.
According to a company representative, development of the North American version has been “coming along nicely,” and the Japanese company expects that Before Crisis will provide American gamers with “an unexpected experience” on their mobile phones.

DS port rumors have been floating for a while – I am still waiting…

#23

Those are just wishful thinking, though… to the best of my knowledge, Squeenix has never made any sort of announcement on the subject.

#24

Front Mission 2089 getting a DS release though.http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3165719

It’s a step in the right direction. Too bad there’s no word for a release outside of Japan (or even within Japan for that matter).

#25

So there are 2084 Front Mission games I haven’t played? /willful obtuseness

#26

Pic of the FF4 Gang in FF4:After. Note that Polom and Palom now wear different outfits.

#27

They look pretty cool, actually.

#28

Are you sure that pic is for “The After”? “The After” is supposed to take place long in the future, featuring a descendant of Cecil, I wouldn’t think any of the original characters would be in it directly.

I’m guessing its more likely for the FFIV remake coming to the DS (already out in Japan)

#29

No it isn’t. Its main protagonist is Cecil’s son.

#30

The original article I read, as well as the one posted here said “descendant, long in the future” and such, but I did some extra research and now I find, son, and play as many of the old characters.

You’re right, which is fine with me, Palom and Porom rocked, and Rydia was my favorite FF character ever.

Too bad its unlikely to ever be ported here. I think my phone could probably handle it, but without translating and reformatting it, it doesn’t really matter.

#31

Dark Knight: Well, here’s a BIGGER pic. Copy/Paste URL.

http://www.rpgamer.com/games/ff/ff4theafter/propaganda/ff4theafter3.jpg

#32

Damn You And Your Evil Hot Linking Ways!!!

#33

Copy the link genius.

#34

Or click on the address bar and press enter, for not-so-great justice!

#35

This game looks like it’ll be good. Shouldn’t have been mobile though. x.X

#36

IIRC, one cellphone network in Spain offered that service several years ago. I don’t know how European cellphone technology measures up against America’s but certainly we are not yet up to Japan’s levels.

Jaime